others with silk coloured neckerchiefs, but the} whole exceedingly clean. By the time the crowd arrived at Knightsbridge it joined the rear of the cavalcade, which had previously advanced with the Middlesex Address, and before this time, several carriages, containing the gentlemen with. the Shoreditch Address, who were attended by their parochial officers and maces, had joined the throng, so that the road from Hyde-Park corner to Hammersmith then presented one continued line of persons on their way to address the Queen.

About eleven o'clock, the pedestrians began to arrive at Hammersmith, and their numbers gradually thickened until the footway on the sides of the road, more particularly that from Kensington to Hammersmith, became completely crowded. The whole scene was at this time extremely interesting, and business of all sorts appeared suspended.

As the day advanced and the people accumulated, the regularity which had been observed in the movements of the people was no longer visible. Besides the footways, the centre of the road was strewed with passengers, and as soon as the deputations had united and begun to proceed together, the whole breadth of the way was for a great length nothing but a moving aggregate of carriages, and every other description of vehicles. Horsemen and pedestrians all commingled-each endeavouring to get forward in a cloud of dust, with the most speed, and the least annoyance to himself or others. A promiscuous

throng of persons of both sexes closed the line. All the windows of the houses at each side of the road were filled by persons of respectability: among them were clusters of elegantly-dressed ladies, who waved their handkerchiefs as the procession passed; and the groups of persons who were stationary in different parts of the road loudly cheered the most popular characters as they recognized them in the line of march, and repeatedly shouted "Long live Queen Caroline!"

In this way the processions reached that part of Hammersmith where the road, leading by the church to Brandenburg-house, turns off. The Union Flag had previously been hoisted on the steeple, and flags with various inscriptions waved from some of the houses in the town, as well as from several along the road. A merry peal had also commenced before this time, and, with the firing of guns, was continued until the business of the day closed

Many of the gentlemen who composed the preceding deputations were with difficulty able to regain their carriages, and drive off from the house in the direction kept open for them. While they were in the act of driving off, the large pedestrian body of artisans and mechanics entered the grounds, and were loudly cheered; a select part of their number had the honour of being admitted to the queen to present the general address. Her majesty received them with her usual grace and dignity, and they retired highly gratified with their reception.

London, Published by Thomas Kelly, 17. Paternoster Row, Aug $26.1820

The following was her majesty's answer to the address of the artisans:

I am much gratified and unfeignedly obliged by this warm and affectionate address from the industrious classes in and about the great.metropolis of these realms. It affords me unspeakable satisfaction to find that this mighty city contains myriads of such persons, among whom there is a large stock of virtue and intelligence, who condole with my sorrows, and who kindle with indignation at my wrongs. The industrious classes have shewn that they still retain that independance of mind which is inflexible to external circumstances, and which was once the proud boast and the characteristic property of every Englishman Though the gangrene of corruption has engendered a debasing venality and a fawning obsequiousness in detached portions of the community, yet Britain still retains a large portion of that heart of oak which for so many ages has made its name glorious and its annals bright.

The industrious classes of the nation constitute the vital energy of the state. In the great fabric of society they are the strength at the bottom which support the ornaments at the top.

The productive powers of the country are its real powers. For out of what other source is consumption supplied? What else is it that multiplies gratifications of all kinds? To what else is affluence indebted for its splendour, or beauty for its decorations? Where rank is measured by usefulness, no reflecting mind will say that the industrious classes occupy the lowest step in the ascent of honourable ambition or of estimable fame. There have been times, and perhaps those times may still be, when the hard-earned bread of the long-toiling peasant or mechanic is insufficient for his numerous family-when the