"I remain, Sir,

"Your most faithful Servant, 66. MILTON.

Samuel Thompson."

"Curzon-street, July 18, 1820. "SIR,-I have to acknowledge the

and Penalties can ever deprive should most willingly have waited on me, will support me through all her Majesty with such a document. trials: and even though the force of my enemies should, in the end, prove commensurate with their malignity, the people shall never have occasion to reproach me with neglecting reception of your letter of the 10th intheir happiness-with betraying stant, informing me of your having their rights, or with relinquish-sent to Lord Milton an Address to the ing, for one moment, the patriotic magnanimity of the Queen."

Queen, voted by the Inhabitants of

Wakefield, and requesting me to assist in presenting it to her Majesty.

The only copy I have seen of this Address, is contained in the account of

the Meeting, as inserted in The Leeds Independent, of July 6th, and if that

An animated correspondence has taken place between Sam. Thompson, jun. the constable be a correct copy, I hope I shall not

of Wakefield, and the York County Members, on the subject of the presentation of the above Address. Mr. Thompson having expressed by letter to Lord Milton and Mr. Wortley, the wish of the Meeting that they should present the Address to the Queen, he received from each of the Members letters, of which the following are copies:

"Milton, July 13, 1820. “SIR,—I am sorry it will be absolutely out of my power to present the Wakefield Address to the Queen, as I

am going into Yorkshire to-morrow, and have no thoughts of returning to town till my return is rendered necessary by Parliamentary business. trust, I need not assure you that I la ment this circumstance deeply, as I

I

be considered as acting disrespectfully to my constituents at Wakefield, if I request of them to dispense with my personal attendance upon her Majesty for the purpose of presenting it. I cannot, consistently with what I feel to be my duty, as one of that body who will have to decide upon the truth and falsehood of the charges against the Queen, do any thing which may appear in any degree to concur in a public expression of an opinion upon those charges. Lord Milton being out of town, I shall,

in case he forwards the Address to me,
send it to Lady Ann Hamilton, the
Queen's Lady in Waiting, in order
that she may lay it before her Majes-
I am, Sir,
ty.
"Your very humble Servant,

"J. A. STUART WORTLEY. "Samuel Thompson."

To which were returned the following answers:—

TO LORD MILTON.

"Wakefield, July 15, 1820.

"MY LORD,-I am favoured with your's of the 18th this morning. The Committee for the management of the Wakefield Address to the Queen regret that you cannot present it personally to her Majesty, particularly so, as we have received the following letter from Mr. Stuart Wortley, viz.:

[See Mr. Wortley's letter above.]
“As it is the particular wish of the
Committee that the Address should be
presented by a member or members of
Parliament, they will feel greatly
obliged to your lordship if you will
take the trouble of forwarding it to
some member whom you can confide
in, to present it to her Majesty.-For
the Committee,

"I have the honour to be,
"Your Lordship's very hum-
"ble Servant, ·
"S. THOMPSON, jun.
"Constable."

"Right Hon. Lord Milton."

TO. MR. WORTLEY.

LORD MILTON'S ANSWER.

"Wentworth, July 18, 1820. "SIR,-In compliance with your letter, which I received this morning I have written to Lord Duncannon, to beg that he will either present the Wakefield Address to her Majesty, or put it in the hands of some other member of Parliament for that purpose. Had I been in town, I should most

"Wakefield, July 15, 1820. "SIR,-Yours of the 18th I received this morning, and have communicated its contents to the Committee; who think your excuse extremely frivolous, and that instead of representing the freeholders of Yorkshire, you only represent your own political principles.readily have presented it, even if I had If you have the Address in your possession, you will have the goodness to retain it till application be made for it, as we have written to Lord Milton upon the subject. How you can be our very humble servant and refuse our undoubted right as our Represen

felt that I could not make myself responsible for its sentiments.

"I remain, Sir, "Your very faithful Servant, "MILTON. To Samuel Thompson, jun."

An Address from Berwick | that they could not operate upon

was on Wednesday presented to the Queen, by Lord Ossulston. Her Majesty returned the following gracious Answer:

my disinterestedness by a bribe, they attempted to shake my courage by a threat. But I derive from the bounty of Heaven, a "For this loyal and affec-mind that is at once superior to tionate Address, I feel deeply the calculations of avarice, and indebted to the Mayor, Bailiffs, to the impressions of fear. and Burgesses of the Borough "If I am a subject, I am a of Berwick-upon-Tweed. The subject in a state of immediate ravage which death has made proximity to the Sovereign; amongst my nearest and most and certainly I ought not to be beloved relatives, since I left placed in a less favourable situaEngland, has furnished many tion than that of the most humarduous trials for my resignation ble individual. Every subject, and my fortitude. It is my duty whatever may be his condition to submit, without fretfulness or or his rank, is entitled to a fair impatience, to these and to and open trial, by which his guilt heavier afflictions, if I have still or his innocence may be legally heavier to endure. established. To me such a trial is My many sorrows have been refused. My demand for it has mingled with an infusion of jo hitherto been answered only by by the enthusiastic delight with Green Bags, which perjury has which the people hailed my ar- filled, or by Secret Inquisitions, rival from the Continent. I had over which malice presides.been so long absent from. Eng-Every other subject has the beland, and so artfully reviled in nefit of an impartial jury; and my absence, that it was suppos- he may object to a certain numed I should never return. My ber of jurors, whom he may return operated like a flash of know, or believe to be hostile to lightning upon the public mind. himself or partial to his adverThose whom the accumulated sary. Can I object to any of slanders of my enemies had my numerous judges and jurors? caused to hesitate about my rec- What individual, is there who titude, were instantly struck could expect an impartial trial with a conviction of my integri- where his adversary could influty. But while my friends ex-ence the majority of his judges, ulted with joy, my enemies turn-either by the fear of loss, or the ed pale with apprehension. The hope of gain; either by good consciousness of their own guilt in possession, or in expectancy? was aggravated by the irresisti- But are my judges alone withble feeling of my innocence. They exhibited a singular picture of malice rendered impotent, and of rage becoming desperate.

"When my enemies found

out human infirmities? I leave the question to be answered by those, who know what man is; or who have calmly observed the late proceedings in the House of Lords.”

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things, intimately connected with your Majesty's own affairs, of which things, from the nature of your Majesty's late situation, it is scarcely possible that you can have been accurately informed. To give your Majesty some information with regard

adopted during her Majesty's to these, to give you also a absence-On the Designs of faithful account of what the pub

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lie think of the designs of your enemies; and, moreover, to of

the Conduct of the Nobility fer you some remarks on the towards her; not forgetting conduct of the nobility and that the Conduct of the Prince of of the Prince of Saxe Cobourg,

Saxe Cobourg.

London, 10th Aug. 1820.

MAY IT PLEASE YOUR MAJESTY,

with regard to your Majesty; to do this the writer of this. paper looks upon as his duty; and, in the performance of this duty, he feels a satisfaction great as it is possible for man to experience.

The measures pursued by your Majesty at St. Omers, and since that time, so clearly indicate sur- When we find a great mass prising strength of mind, that of enmity at work against us, the humble individual, who and a manifest desire to effect most respectfully tenders this our destruction; and when, at paper for the perusal of your the same time, we are convinced Majesty, may well fear, that that we have given no just the public may deem it pre- cause for such enmity, it besumptuous to offer any thing in comes us to seek for the real, moof advice to your Ma- tive by which our enemies are Yet there are certain actuated, and thereby to know.

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how to arm ourselves in a way fare more than I dare do; but it to secure our defence. The pro-may be sufficient, or it may, at ceedings against your Majesty; any rate, be of use to your Mamean the long series of the pro-jesty, for me to lay with all huceedings from 1813 to the pre-mility before you, a brief acsent day, are of so extraordinary count of what has taken place a nature; so apparently hostile in this kingdom since your Mato the interests of the estab-jesty's departure from it in lished order of things; so com- 1814. pletely unprovoked in outward At that time nothing but appearance; the charges against sounds of exultation and joy you are so loose, so improbable were heard in our courts and in point of fact, and even of palaces; and the nation, deluded time, so wholly unnecessary to by the sounds, gave itself up to be produced: in short, the whole all the wildness and madness of the persecution of your Ma-of intoxication. In those briljesty présents a tissue of such liant and delusive scenes your apparent inconsistencies and fol- Majesty was not permitted to be lies, as well as of cruelties, that a partaker. The maddening joy there must be some cause at was of short duration; and why work which is not discoverable should we not believe that it to the naked eye. We know was the act of Providence to that personal hatreds, and espe- preserve your Majesty from a cially in certain cases, are very participation in those scenes of strong, very powerful motives joy and revelry? The great exof action; but still, it is very perience of your Majesty will seldom that they proceed so far have taught you, that affliction as to set at nought considera-ought frequently to be a subject tions connected with our own of congratulation with the sufsafety. We must look much farther for motives sufficient to induce measures obviously likely to convulse the nation for the sake of ejecting your Majesty from our shores. Plainly to describe these motives; to men-to which I am referring, and at tion the parties by name; these which time your Majesty most

ferer; and that the very things which we are sometimes deploring, are the things most necessary to our good, to our final success, if not to the preservation of our lives. At the time