thronged to excess, and so great was the interest excited amongst the inhabitants, &c. to see her Majesty, that they took their stations in the Churchyard, and were satisfied by looking through the windows of the Church, whilst hundreds of others were necessitated to leave for want of sufficient

room.

The walls and railings opposite the Church were lined by persons who had stationed themselves in situations to command a view of her Majesty, and various were the carriages which likewise were stationed near the place of worship, chiefly filled with ladies. The dullness of the morning did not seem in any degree to have lessened the numbers of the crowd.

Many females formed a passage leading to the vestry door prior to her majesty's arrival at the Church. Her majesty arrived at about five minutes before eleven o'clock, with Lady Ann Hamilton, and Mr. Austin, prior to which time Mr. Alderman Wood had arrived in his chariot,

Her Majesty came in her state carriage. She was received with cheers as she passed along to the Church.

On alighting from her carriage she was received by the churchwardens, and conducted into the body of the church through the vestry. Matting was placed over the stones, in order to prevent her Majesty's feet from receiving damp or cold. She was conducted to the minister's pew, which was fitted up in a neat style with crimson

velvet, and an elegant chair covered with the same was placed for her Majesty to sit on during divine service. Mr. Alderman Wood, Lady Ann Hamilton, and Mr. Austin, sat not far distant from her Majesty, and several of her Majesty's suite at

tended.

No alteration was made in the Court version of the Liturgy.

After the sermon and some prayers had been read, her Majesty was conducted to the altar, when the Rev. Mr. Atwood performed the sacrament service, and administered the sacrament to her Majesty, who received it with every due reverence. After joining in prayer, her Majesty quitted the altar, and passed through the vestryroom on her way to the carriage, which was at the door. Matting was placed as before for her to walk over. On proceeding along she was cheered with enthusiasm by the persons assembled, who called out, "The Queen for ever!"-" Queen Caroline for ever!" &c. Her Majesty returned the cheers by bowing as she passed along. Her Majesty entered her carriage and proceeded to Brandenburg house, accompanied as before. Her carriage was followed by a numerous assemblage, who expressed every demonstration of respect.

Parliament, which had been prorogued to Nov. 23, being further prorogued to the 23d January, the following answer of her Majesty to Lord Liverpool's last letter was made public.

"MY LORD, I have been honoured by her Majesty's commands to acknowledge the receipt of your Lordship's letter of yesterday, and to state that her Majesty cannot for a moment misunderstand its real purport.

"The Queen perceives that the King's Ministers have resolved to prevent Parliament from assembling for the despatch of business at the time to which both houses had adjourned. The justice and wisdom of the Legislature would at that period, beyond all doubt, have restored her to the full enjoyment of those rights which the constitution has vested in the Queen consort. The Ministers plainly show that such is their belief, and they are determined, for some purposes of their own, to delay the redress to which she is entitled.

“In a measure thus alike contemptuous towards Parliament and the nation, the Queen perceives a still deeper design. It is impossible to doubt that the authors of the late Bill have formed the project of trying, in some other shape, their baffled scheme of degrading her Majesty, and ruining the best interests of the august family to which she belongs. Defeated in their first attempt-disgraced in the eyes of the people-consigned to the contempt of all Europe-deserted by the most rational and respected of their own adherents-they meditate a new attack on the honour of the Queen. Their speculations must be founded on the hope that the public sentiment, so loudly and universally expressed, will at length be wearied and exhausted, and that the Queen herself will no longer have patience to resist such cruel and endless persecutions. But her Majesty owes it to the British nation to declare, that she has the firmest reliance upon their support as long as she is the victim of oppression; and to herself she deems it due to add, that no harassing treatment on the part of the King's Ministers, will ever shake the duty she owes to this generous people. She has also the strongest conviction that the King's highest interests are at the present

moment as much betrayed as those of the State, by the evil councillors who are now once more plotting her destruction.

"To the offer of money, with which Lord Liverpool has thought proper to accompany his notice of the intended prorogation of Parliament, her Majesty has no answer to give but a direct refusal. Nearly ten months have elapsed since his late Majesty's death, and no parliamentary provision has been yet proposed for her. As long as the Bill was pending, the Queen saw the propriety of accepting the advances made for her accommodation; but she will not accept as a favour from Ministers, what a due regard for the honour of the Crown would induce Parliament to grant as a right; and she is still more averse to impose upon the people the unnecessary burden of finding a palace for her, when the national munificence has already provided royal residences for all the princesses who filled her exalted station.

"The Queen expressly commands me to add, that her Majesty, as well as the King and the country, have reason deeply to regret that the persons who have involved all those parties in their present unhappy difficulties should still have influence to prevent that adjustment of differences which the Queen regards as essential to their common interests. Her Majesty has never entertained a doubt that the King, if left to the guidance of his own sound jugdment and honourable feelings, would at once listen to the Queen's claims upon his justice, and to the united prayers of his loyal people.

"I have the honour to be, my Lord, your Lordship's most obedient and humble servant,

R. KEPPEL CRAVEN. Brandenburg House, Nov. 18, 1820."

The same warmth of feeling with which all classes had pressed forward to tender their condo

lence to her Majesty, while yet the base conspiracy was but in its opening stage, was now manifest in the numerous addresses which poured in from every part of the kingdom, congratulating her Majesty in the proud triumph over a malignant attack, which, if successful, would have prostrated at the feet of any base conspirators, the life and honour of any individual in the country.

Impressed with a due sense of gratitude for this providential deliverance, her Majesty determined on returning thanks, in a public manner, in the great metropolitan temple of devotion. It was first proposed to have taken place on a Sunday; but, on further consideration, was judiciously altered to Wednesday, Nov. 29th: and the following will be found to be a correct and circumstantial detail of this most interesting and important

PROCESSION TO ST. PAUL'S.

At a very early hour in the morning of the ap-. pointed day, the whole face of the country for several miles round the metropolis, presented a scene of unusual bustle and activity, Along every road leading in the direction of the town might be seen, in hurried motion, vehicles of every description, appropriately filled with persons of every age, sex, and condition, and groupes of eager pedestrians, whose anxious looks and busy faces evinced the deep and lively interest they felt in the animated scene they were crowding to witness.