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whelm me with infamy by bring-| ing a mass of perjury from the Continent.

"We your Majesty's dutiful and affectionate subjects, the loyal inhabitants of the borough "Every person who can re- of Ilchester and its vicinity, beg flect upon the consequences of leave to approach your Majesty passing events, or who can read to offer you our heartfelt congrathe danger of the future in the tulations on your Majesty's safe dark aspect of the present, must return to your own country, to be convinced that the public meet your accusers face to face welfare is at this moment inti- in the presence of the British mately identified with the pre- Public, in defiance of the threats servation of my rights and dig-to induce your Majesty to renities as the Royal Consort of nounce your Crown, and in his Majesty. General tyranny spite of the disgraceful bribes usually begins with individual which were tendered to your oppression. If the highest subject in the realm can be deprived of her rank and title-can be divorced, dethroned, and debased, by an act of arbitrary power, in the form of a Bill of Pains and Penalties-the constitutional liberty of the kingdom will be shaken to its very base; the rights of the nation will be only a scattered wreck; and this once free people, like the meanest of slaves, must submit to the lash of an insolent domination."

Majesty to purchase your absence with the nation's money, at the expence of your character and your honour; which bribes, had your Majesty unfortunately accepted, your treacherous seducers would never have ceased to urge against your Majesty as a proof of your guilt, and as a justification for their own malevolent aspersions and unfounded calumnies.

"We beg most seriously and sincerely, to condole with your Majesty upon the loss of your amiable and lovely daughter, rendered still more amiable, and The deputation from the Bo-much more lovely, in the estimarough of Ilchester, accompanied tion of a gallant, generous, and by Dr. Lushington and Mr. Al-free people, from the firm and derman Wood, waited upon her Majesty with the following Ad-ways evinced, both in public and private, for her cruelly persecut

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TO HER EXCELLENT MAJESTY CARO-ed, grossly-insulted, much-inLINE, QUEEN OF THE UNITED KING-jured, though amiable and noble-minded mother. We also deplore the great loss which "The dutiful and loyal Ad-your Majesty sustained in the dress of the Inhabitants of death of our late Most Gracious the Borough of Ilchester Sovereign; a loss that must have and its vicinity, legally as-been severely felt by your Masembled in the Town-hall, jesty, from the moment he was this 24th day of July, 1820. Texcluded from the world, by

that dreadful affliction which without endeavouring, by every rendered him incapable of shield- fair and legitimate means, to ing your Majesty any longer with procure for her, at least, a fair the ægis of his fostering hand, and honourable trial, and a verfrom the malevolent blows dict by an impartial jury of her which were aimed against your Peers, before they permit her, Majesty, and which are now re- with impunity, to be proclaimed peated and aimed at once a-guilty by her calumniators." gainst your Majesty's honour, Signed, on behalf of the Meetand the last surviving liberties ing, by of the people of England.

THE HIGH BAILIFF.

Her Majesty returned the fol-. lowing gracious Answer:

"I return my grateful thanks to the Inhabitants of the Borough of Ilchester and its vicinity, for an Address in which so much affection is manifested for my person, so much zeal for my rights, and so much sympathy for my sufferings.

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We, the loyal inhabitants of Ilchester and its vicinity, therefore, cannot refrain from expressing our deep-rooted abhorrence of the attempts to vilify and traduce your Majesty, by secret evidence obtained from the most unprincipled witnesses, collected by spies, which evidence is so low that it will not bear the light, and which has therefore been thrust into a My late beloved daughter Green Bag, and submitted to a well knew her mother's injuries; secret tribunal appointed by and her noble nature made them your Majesty's accusers them- her own. Over her untimely selves. This departure from the end, if I wept as a parent, the. open course of justice, unknown whole nation mourned like an to the laws, would of itself be individual. The grief was one sufficient proof to every disinter-and the same in all. Every man ested man in the country, not felt as if he had lost a friend; only of your Majesty's complete and that friend his solace in the innocence, but also the strongest passing day, and his hope in the presumptive evidence that your time that was to come. Majesty's accusers know it.

"When I call to mind the We, your Majesty's loyal form of his late Majesty, oppresssubjects, therefore, in common ed with afflictions, and bending with the whole unhired, unpaid with age, I ought not, perhaps, portion of the community, beg to lament over that event which most earnestly to assure your put an end to his sufferings, and Majesty not only of our sympa-made him exchange his earthly thy, but our zealous attachment crown for a crown more permaand warm support. And we nent. But my gratitude will flatter ourselves that the day is far distant when a brave and loyal people shall stand silently by and witness the degradation and dishonour of their Queen,

not suffer me to forget that his Majesty was my protector in adversity; and my heart, still sorrowing, tells me that that protector is no more.

"I should, even according to the interesting appearance of the confession of my accusers, the children, for whom she left have been guilty of no sin if I a liberal donation. had never revisited this country; that was my great transgression, and that has been rendered

more inexpiable by this circum-
stance that I no sooner came
than the affections of the peo-
their
ple all circled round
Queen.

"If to possess the affections of the people be a proof of guilt,

There was a meeting of the inhabitants of Lewes, for the purpose of presenting an Address to her Majesty the Queen. It was numerously attended. The Address was carried and ordered to be signed by the High Constables, in the name of the meeting.

"Lewes, July 29.

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how can I ever show that I am innocent? Could I prevent, or was I to try to prevent, the "You will herewith receive stream of popular sympathy the result of the application of from running forcibly in favour the Constables to the Repreof Majesty insulted, and of in-sentatives of the Borough Adtegrity reviled? If the nation dress to her Majesty. Sir George could have contemplated the Shiffner declined presenting the many wrongs I have experienc- Address, on the ground that it ed, and the greater wrongs with was prejudging the case. which I am threatened, with read his refusal to the Constasevere indifference, or with bles, and then put it in his sluggish apathy, it would not pocket. Sir J. Shelley forwarded have been composed of men a written communication to and women; it would have E. Verrall, Esq. Town Clerk, of been constituted of beings withwhich the following is a correct out sensibility or intelligence. copy But the British people are made "Maresfield Park, July 27. of better materials. No nation has more right reason or more "SIR,-I was in hopes I should, ere good feeling; and this is a truth this, have been able to have answered of which I can never be uncon- your note, respecting the Resolutions scious as long as one particle of passed at the meeting of the 24th, in person; but have been prevented by life is streaming in my veins." indisposition, and as you require an After the Deputation with-early answer, will no longer defer it. drew, her Majesty went with my duty, as a member of that North-street, Finsbury-square, branch of the Legislature which may to view the School, called the ultimately be called upon to decide Royal Institution, for 1000 boys (upon the Queen's case, now in a course of trial before the Upper House, to and 300 girls, of which the take any step which may appear like Duke and Duchess of Kent were prejudging the case; I must, there patrons. Her Majesty express-fore, decline presenting the Address, ed the most lively satisfaction at and I feel less scruple in doing so, as it is not signed by a majority of my the order and regularity which Constituents. pervaded the establishment, and

to

"I do not consider it consistent

I shall be obliged to you if you

will communicate my decision to the voice of merriment was mute in Constables."

"I remain, Sir,

our streets; and the gaiety of the nation suffered a temporary

"Your most obedient and hum- eclipse. It was the unbought

ble Servant,

"J. SHELLEY.

tribute of loyalty, the spontaneous offering of love in thousands

“To EdwardVerrall, Esq. Solicitor."nay, in millions, to those bright properties of the mind, and those tender qualities of the heart, in which the people read a cheering presage of her glory, and of the public happiness.

"The hon. Baronet could not have read the Resolutions, or could not have understood them; for it was unanimously resolved that the Address should be signed by the Constables in behalf of the WHOLE meeting, and there were upwards of 500 persons present; the Address must, therefore, be considered as expressing the sense of the majority of Sir John's Constituents. The conduct of these hon. Baronets will probably be remembered on a future occa-or have neutralized their hos sion."-(Brighton Herald.)

"The machinations of my enemies are supported by a faction, that has long operated like a canker-worm upon the noble trunk of the national prosperity. If I would have stooped to become an instrument in their hands, or to have lent myself to their sordid purposes, I might have averted their vengeance,

tility. In the year 1807, this faction were eager to make use of my power as the means of Wednesday the Address from gratifying their ambition; and Lewes was presented to the when their ambition could be Queen. Her Majesty returned gratified by other means, they the following gracious answer: immediately sacrificed my ho"The High Constable, Bur-nour and my rights upon the gesses, and other inhabitants of altar of their selfishness. the ancient borough of Lewes, "That calm wisdom which is are requested to accept my cor- the result at once of reflection dial thanks for this loyal and and experience, teaches me that affectionate Address. My heart I ought never to give my sancis in perfect unison with the ex- tion to the narrow views of any pressions which they use in sect, or to the interested protheir topics of condolence. Ijects of any party. That comfelt the loss of his late venera-prehensive charity which kinble Majesty to be, indeed, irre-dles in my heart shall be visible parable: for he stood like the in my conduct; and I will never Angel of Mercy between me forget that the Queen of a facand persecuting cruelty. The tion is only half a Queen. untimely end of the late beloved good of a faction is only the Princess Charlotte seemed, for a good of a few; but the good moment, to throw the shadow which I cherish is that of the of death over the land. The community."

The

Lord Duncannon waited on a cheering confidence of present her Majesty with the Address support and of eventual triumph from the town of Wakefield and in the affections of the people. its vicinity, to which her Majes- "I have been accused of apty was pleased to return the fol-pealing to popular clamour, but lowing most gracious answer:-I appeal to nothing but to the

"I receive with heartfelt sa- good sense and good feelingtisfaction this loyal and affec- to the reason-the moralitytionate address from his Majesty's and the patriotism of the most subjects, Inhabitants of the town enlightened and most respectable of Wakefield and its vicinity.- portion of the community. If Their sentiments of congratula- I am condemned without justion on my accession to the high tice, and dethroned against all dignity of Queen of these realms, law, the liberties of every indi are a proof that their minds have vidual will receive a fatal stab, not been unduly influenced by and the character of the highest the flagitious calumnies of my judicature will be blasted to the persecutors; and I am at the latest posterity. same time feelingly alive to their expressions of kind condolence of little moment; but I do feel upon the melancholy losses of those near and dear relatives which I experienced while on the continent..

"My own personal welfare is

as a Queen for the public welfare, which is deeply implicated in the vindication of my violated rights.

"The power which the House. of Lords are assuming in their Bill of Pains and Penalties, not only of divorcing his Majesty's Royal Consort, but of dethroning their lawful Queen, may prove, in the result, productive of an age of misery to the nation. The child that is now at the

"I am sensible of the indignities with which I have been assailed, not so much because they are disrespectful to myself as because they are insulting to the nation; for the nation has been insulted in the late outrages upon the character of its lawful Queen. Though I am attacked by that malice which hesitates breast may live to rue its conat no falsehood, and by an as-sequences.

sumption of power which seems "The consciousness of rectito spurn at all limitation, I feel tude, of which no Bill of Pains

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