We feel that the measure HER MAJESTY'S ANSWERS TO ADDRESSES. now in progress against your The following Address has been presented to her Majesty from the Artisans, Mechanics, and Labouring Classes of the town of Manchester: "TO HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE QUEEN. safeguard of the rights and liMajesty, is subversive of every berties of the people. We believe that the design in degrading and dethroning your Majesty, by the monstrous Bill which the Ministry have introduced into Parliament, and "May it please your Majesty, which at once creates the crime, We his Majesty's loyal sub- and fixes the penalty, is to give jects, the Artisans, Mechanics, a striking and practical instance and Labouring Classes of the of the absurd claim to omnipotown of Manchester, beg leave tence, which those who sit in most respectfully to approach the seats which ought to be your Majesty with our congra- filled by the representatives of tulations on your return amongst the nation, set up over the laws us, in contempt and defiance of and constitution of our country. the artifices and threats of your If the first subject in the realm enemies. can be destroyed, without even "We beseech your Majesty an offence against the law being to accept our condolence on imputed to her, who can herethe demise of your ever-to-be-after describe the difference beJamented daughter. We assure tween such a state of things, your Majesty, that in no part of and a state of absolute despothis Majesty's dominions, was [ism, in which the will and pleathe loss which the nation sus-sure of the Prince are alone the tained on that melancholy oc- rule and measure of obedience. casion more deeply regretted or "Apart, therefore, from all sincerely felt than in this town the considerations of the grie-. and neighbourhood. We look-vous injustice which your Maed forward with anxiety and [jesty will individually suffer, by hope to the day when it should such an outrage upon the laws please Providence to invest her as that by which it is now with the authority of the high sought to deprive you of your station to which she appeared undoubted rights, we are conto be destined, as a period at vinced that, upon public ground, which not only the nation at and with reference to the genelarge would have entered upon ral safety, we are bound to raise a brighter and happier course, our voices in defence of your but this district in particular Majesty, and we do solemnly would have been delivered declare in the language of one from an odious and oppressive of your Majesty's Counsel, that local domination, aggravated by whatever may be enacted all the evils which ignorance against you in Parliament, we and folly can accumulate upon a will never consent to pay resuffering population. Ispect to any person who, in virtue of such enactment, may usurp your Majesty's situation. We regard your title to your rank to be as well-founded and perfect as that of his Majesty on the throne on which he sits for the public good, and for the public good only; and we applaud your Majesty's determination to resist the attempt to dishonour you with all the means which it shall please God to give you.' As far as our power can extend we will prevent your Majesty. from being unjustly and unlawfully sacrificed. We have no fortunes to offer, but we hold our lives valueless when justice and freedom are in danger." To which her Majesty returned the following most gracious Answer:— 66 I receive with great satisfaction this loyal, affectionate, and impressive Address, from so The artisans and mechanics numerous, so useful, and so effiof this populous and powerful cient a part of the community district partake with us in ad- as the artisans, mechanics, and miration of your determination, labouring classes of the town of and in readiness to assist you in Manchester. The true honour earrying it into effect by all the of the country has been in the means which we constitutionally highest degree promoted by possess, and which we humbly their incomparable skill and tender to your Majesty's accept- their unrivalled ingenuity, while ance. their persevering industry has so largely contributed towards the means of maintaining the dignity of the Throne and the power and glory of the kingdom. "Your Majesty cannot be unacquainted with the severe privations and deep sufferings of this immense population; and doubtless your Majesty's benevolent heart has been wrung at the 66 No time nor circumstances dreadful events of the fatal 16th can remove from my mind that of August. The same power beloved object which so vividly which scourged us is now op-excites your kind condolence, pressing you; it is not less our and still so tenderly interests my interest than our duty, there-affections. If this calamity frusfore, to stand up against your trated the fond hopes of the Majesty's enemies, who are also people, how much did it deduct the enemies of the rights and from the sum of my happiness, liberties of the whole people. and add to the number of my The deep-rooted and atrocious woes! It aggravated my other designs of this faction must be manifold afflictions, by the indefeated; or the nation sinks at vention of a new conspiracy, once into utter and hopeless which, if it was not in its origin slavery. We declare that we more detestable than the forwould rather die than live un-mer, was certainly more forder such a state of things as midable in its aspect, more artthat which our enemies are pre-ful in its contrivance; more exparing for us. This is our tensive in its ramifications, and solemn and serious resolution. I more powerful in its means. My own innocence, combined that the same hand has been with the good sense and justice our common oppressor, let us, of the people, has been at once as far as we are able, bury the my solace and my support un-past in oblivion; and trust that, der this new and terrible perse-though these things have been, cution. they will be no more! Let us "The conspiracy by which I endeavour to calm the perturb have been attacked has already ed passions and to heal the been more than half vanquished bleeding wounds of our disby the flagitiousness of its chiefs tracted and lacerated country; and the turpitude of its auxili- and, for myself, though my afflicaries. The most artful combi- tions have been many in numnations of perjury cannot long ber and long in continuance, I endure the piercing scrutiny of shall think them all amply comtruth. pensated if they should, at last, prove the means of contributing towards the harmony, the prosperity, and the happiness of the kingdom." "I am happy to perceive that the industrious classes in the town of Manchester, as well as in the rest of the kingdom, regard the unconstitutional attack upon my rights as an illegal invasion of their own. The Bill of Pains and Penalties, which threatens my degradation, weakens the security of that sacred tenure by which every Briton is protected in his liberty, his property, and his life. He who venerates a free Constitution wiil indignantly repel the introduction of arbitrary power in any of its varied forms. Her Majesty has returned the following gracious Answer to the Address from BIRMINGHAM: "I have the most unfeigned satisfaction in receiving this affectionate Address from the people of Birmingham and its vici-, nity. "The losses that I have sustained during my long absence upon the Continent, have been "We naturally compassionate irreparable. But as, in the conthe severe privations and deep stitution of the moral world, sufferings, even of the idle and there is never any evil without the dissolute; but how much some subsequent or concomitant more forcibly is our sympathy good, I have derived no small excited by such privations and degree of solace from centemsufferings, when they are accu-plating the probable benefits of mulated upon the industrious, which my afflictions are likely laborious, frugal, and virtuous to be productive to the people part of this exemplary commu- of these realms. If I had expenity! My mind has indeed been rienced no suffering, and been. often agonized by the recollec-treated with no indignity, that tion of that dreadful day, to union of mind and heart would which the industrious classes of never have been seen which Manchester particularly allude; now binds the nation from one but while we cannot but know extremity to another in the sa cred cause of legal right, and off and are productive of nothing Constitutional liberty. but misery." "To my wrongs, therefore, the nation may, ultimately, be indebted for the recovery of its rights, and the vile attempt to effect my degradation may exalt the people to a higher pitch of freedom and prosperity. ANSWER TO THE ADDRESS FROM THE "The Inhabitants of the Ward of Farringdon-without have long shewn themselves the friends of liberty and the enemies of oppression. It gives me, there "No Queen was ever the subject of so many, and such bar-fore, great pleasure to receive this animated, constitutional, and barous persecutions as I have affectionate Address from citiexperienced. But while these zens of the metropolis, whose persecutions have had littie effeet in ruffling my serenity, or principles are so congenial with in marring my happiness, they my own. have proved a bed of thorns to my adversaries. "The warm, indeed the unexampled, sympathy which I have experienced on the part of the "The spirit of malignity is British people, has not only alnever a spirit of repose. It is leviated my sufferings, but has the serpent gnawing the heart; added strength to that fortitude and if there be at this moment which the internal sentiments of one who, more than another, is integrity would never suffer to an object of pity for the suspi-languish in my heart. At the cions to which he is a victim, or same time, if I do not feel, perfor the inquietude to which he haps I ought to feel, more gratiis a prey for the innumerable tude than resentment towards vexations which he is hourly, my enemies, for the wrongs nay, momentarily feeling; for which they have endeavoured to the recollections of lost happi-heap upon me, when I consider ness and of deserted virtue; for that those wrongs are likely, the consciousness of malice that under the direction of a superhas been rendered impotent, and intending Providence, to assist of vengeance that has missed its the nation in the recovery of its aim such an object of pity is, constitutional rights and liberties. perhaps, to be seen at the head "The people of England are of my adversaries. The moral-now strongly convinced that the ist of aftertimes, when he wants selfish faction is not merely atexamples of abortive malice, or tempting to deprive me of my unsuccessful treachery, to give honour or my rights, but is, effect to his lessons, or to breathe through me, aiming a fatal blow a living energy on his page, will at the rights of every individual v not long be at a loss to know in these realms. My destruction from what part of our history would prepare the way for the to extract an impressive proof destruction of public liberty.— that cunning, malevolence, and My cause, therefore, has become perfidy,excite nothing but scorn, levery man's cause. It is, in "Let Liberty be the object of your unfeigned devotion, your deed, the cause of all classes-of ning, and the general welfare the high and the low-of the for their end. peer and the peasant-of the rich and the poor: for, to which of these classes is a free consti- unbounded love; but on the one tution not a benefit? or to whom side of Liberty place Justice, is it not a blessing to be inde- and on the other Humanity.pendent and free? But if my Without these two fair assorights are once sacrificed at the ciates, Liberty is apt to become shrine of tyranny, liberty will a devastating tempest, or soon become only a name. It consuming fire." a ANSWER TO THE ADDRESS FROM THE WARD OF CRIPPLEGATE-WITHIN. will, at least for a time, be buried in my tomb. It will, indeed, revive; for it is an indestructible essence: and, while man exists "I am deeply obliged to the upon the earth, it cannot be en- Inhabitants and Freemen of the tirely destroyed. But it may Ward of Cripplegate-Within for suffer a temporary extinction of an Address so loyal and so affec its spirit, or a paralysis of its tionate towards myself, and at powers. the same time breathing the purest sentiments of constitutional liberty. "Anarchy is the greatest of all evils; but anarchy is usually the climax of bad government. Bad "The light of liberty was government sacrifices the inte- long preserved in the ark of the rests of the many to that of the British constitution, when it was few, till the very elements of extinguished, or almost extinet, the social scheme, wanting the in every other part of the world. strong cement of the common it is from this light that the good, are so shattered and dis- people of other countries have jointed, that they can hardly be originally derived a large part held together by any principle of their present political illumifrom within, or any power from nation. Here the spirit of liwithout. The vessel of the state berty was first kindled; and is then cast for a time, like a hence its sacred heat was imscattered wreck, upon the waters parted to the bosoms of the of strife. wise, the generous, and the "If the people ask me "What brave, in other branches of the are we to do in the present peril great European family. But, of the constitution?" I answer, while other nations have been My people, my friends, my chil-indebted to us for a portion of dren-be united, be temperate, this heavenly fire, we have ourbe firm. Let justice be your selves suffered the flame to beconstant guide, your regulating come languid and weak in that principle. Suffer not yourselves temple of constitutional freedom to be hurried into the approba- which it once so splendidly illution of any measures, however minated. specious they may, seem, that "It would afford me the have not justice for their begin-sweetest satisfaction to be in |