thing to apprehend, unless it be return to this kingdom. We instituted before the arrival of view with sentiments of strong those witnesses whom she will reprobation the conduct of misummon immediately, to expose nisters towards your Majesty. the whole of the machinations In their insults to you, they inagainst her. She is anxious that sult the Royal Family, at whose there should now be no delay head, conjointly with the King, whatever in finishing the inquiry; you are placed; the laws and and none shall be occasioned by institutions of the country, and her Majesty. But the Queen the sacred principles of justice; cannot suppose that the House whilst the noble firmness of of Lords will commit so crying your Majesty's demeanour, so an injustice as to authorize a worthy your exalted state, has secret examination of her con-attracted our warmest `admiraduct, in the absence of herself tion; and your Majesty may be and her counsel, while her de- assured not only of the best fence must obviously rest upon wishes of a free and loyal evidence which for some weeks people, but that, in opposition cannot reach this country. The to their sense of right, no insiinstant that it arrives she will dious machinations can prevail entreat the House of Lords to against you. proceed in any way they may May the clouds which now think consistent with the ends obscure your Majesty's peace of justice; but, in the mean and happiness be quickly distime, and before the first step pelled; and may you, in a long is taken, her Majesty desires to and prosperous life, forget the be heard by her counsel at your calamities of your earlier years, Lordships' bar, this day, upon and, as Queen of this united the subject matter of this peti-kingdom, enjoy the blessings tion." and honours of your illustrious rank. City of York Address and TO HER MAJESTY CAROLINE, QUEEN “MADAM, "We, the Lord Mayor and inhabitants of the City of York and its vicinity, beg leave to approach your Majesty with our serious condolence on the deaths of your illustrious Daughter and our late Sovereign, and with our congratulations and assurances of duty on your accession to the throne, and on your safe 66 my dear and illustrious relatives. [pressions of our condolence on Had it pleased Providence to the loss your Majesty has suspreserve their lives, I should not tained by the death of our late have now been exposed to the gracious Sovereign, your Majespersecutions that await me, nor ty's steadfast friend, King the country to the fatal conse-George the Third; and still more, quences that must always fol- on the irreparable loss your Ma low a departure from the sacred jesty has suffered by the death principles of public justice. In of your amiable and incomparathe unequal contest against those ble daughter, the Princess Char secret advisers, who are alike the lotte; on whom the hopes of enemies of my Royal Consort the country were fixed; and in and myself, I rely with confi-whose virtues were combined dence on the sympathy and sup- the surest safeguards for the loy port of every generous bosom, alty, and the liberty, of a people and feel secure that the vindi-born to freedom; and who have cation of my honour will be again complete." Southwark Address. never abused the blessings of freedom, when fairly and constitutionally dispensed to them. "We would on no account offend, by intruding, unnecessa "TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT rily, into the personal concerns MAJESTY. of your Majesty. Your Majes"The dutiful and loyal Ad-ty's interests, however, have dress of the Inhabitant become the interests of the pubHouseholders of the ancient lic. We trust, then, we shall Town and be excused, as well as believed, Borough of Southwark, in Town-Hall when we take the liberty of asassembled. suring your Majesty, that we have long beheld the afflictions by which your Majesty has been 66 May it please your Majesty, We his Majesty's faithful so peculiarly oppressed, with subjects, the Inhabitant House-the most genuine emotions of holders of the ancient Town sympathy and grief. and Borough of Southwark, in Town Hall assembled, beg leave to offer to your Majesty, our most sincere and fervent congratulations on your Majesty's accession to your royal title; and on your Majesty's safe return to the Empire in which it has been ordained by Providence that your Majesty should hold so exalted a station. "In these feelings, common, with some few unimportant exceptions, to the great bulk of his Majesty's subjects, we have been, in some degree, consoled, by the conviction that your Majesty must have seen, and known, that the sufferings to which you have been exposed, and the indignities to which you have been doomed, have been "In offering these congratu- in no way attributable to any lations to your Majesty, it is in-want of affection, or dutiful concumbent upon us to add the ex-sideration, towards your Majes ty, on the part of the British with which, (as it has been conNation. fessed even by one of the King's "But, of all the consolations Ministers) your Majesty's prewhich,under such circumstances, sence is calculated to inspire us ; we could have received, one of that your Majesty, in few words, the greatest has been afforded may possess, during the reto us, by the courage, the forti-mainder of your valuable life, tude, and the magnanimity, with such securities for happiness, as which your Majesty has oppos-may, in some measure, atone for ed yourself, in person, to mea- the unmerited ills of days gone sures which threatened, if not by; these, may it please your the destruction of your Majesty's Majesty, are the objects earnestlife, the destruction, at least, of ly wished, and devoutly prayed your Majesty's privileges and re- for, by the millions of friends, putation. The extraordinary vi- and of advocates, by whom your gour of your Majesty's conduct Majesty is at this moment surhas not only commanded the re-rounded; and by no part of the spect, the admiration, and the British community more ardentconfidence, of every liberal and ly, than by the Inhabitants of enlightened mind; but it has raised, we trust, an invincible barrier against the enemies of your Majesty's peace and honour; and has secured the transmission of your Majesty's name to futurity, unsullied by the defilements which malevolence and that large and respectable district of the Metropolis, who now presume to lay at your Majesty's feet, this humble testimony of their fidelity, their regard, and their veneration." servility might have attempted Answer to the Borough of to attach to it. Southwark. "That the advantages your The following is the answer Majesty has acquired by this wise of her Majesty to the address and dignified course of proceed-of the borough of Southwark :--ing, may not be impaired by "1 cordially thank the inhaneedless, or insidious, negociabitants of the ancient town and tions; that your Majesty's cha- borough of Sonthwark for this racter and rights may be esta- loyal and affectionate expression blished on the plain and com- of their congratulations and Inon-sense grounds, which are condolence; for their anxious evidently those of your Majesty's choice: and not be frittered away by verbal subtleties, and refinements, beyond the scope of popular comprehension that your Majesty, by continuing to dwell among us, may not only long reign in our hearts, but be an eye-witness, and a personal partaker, of the joys, solicitude for my comfort, tran- cess Charlotte, upon whom the hopes of the nation had fondly rested. many ages, and to which constitution evidence collected in the dark, charges brought forward "We have beheld with grief under seal, selected and secret tribunals, are wholly unknown the numerous insults and indig "The rights of a Queen of nities which have been offered this kingdom stand upon the to your Majesty, both at home immutable basis of the laws; and abroad, and lament that any and the inhabitants of South-persons should be found with wark may be assured, that no such unchristian feelings as to proceeding, whether insidious advise the omission of your Ma or menacing, should induce me jesty's name in the solemn sert to abandon those rights, the vices of the Church. maintenance of which is a duty which I owe to a people, whose attachment to me will ever remain engraven on my heart, and who can know neither joy nor sorrow in which I shall not fully participate." "As we have before congratulated your Majesty upon your complete triumph over a foul conspiracy against your life and honour, we have never ceased to feel the most anxious solicitude for every thing connected with your peace aud happiness, and sincerely trust your Majesty City of London Address to the will prove equally triumphant Queen. "TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT AND LIVERY OF THE CITY OF LON- 46 over the renewed attempts to vilify your character. We have felt, in common with all his Majesty's subjects, the highest indignation at the insulting and degrading propo sals which were made to your Majesty previous to your arrival in this country.. May it please your Majesty, "We, his Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects, the Lord We admire the prompt reMayor, Aldermen, and Livery of fusal of your Majesty to comthe City of London, in Common promise your honour for a pecuHall assembled, humbly ap-niary consideration; nor can wo proach your Majesty with our forbear expressing equal admiwarmest congratulations upon your Majesty's safe return to this kingdom. ration at the magnanimous and decisive conduct your Majesty has displayed, by your unhesi"We sincerely condole with tating confidence in the loyalty your Majesty upon the loss of so and honour of the British namany illustrious personages of tion, as well as the courage you your Royal House, particularly have evinced in boldly meeting that of your Majesty's guardian your accusers, protesting against and protector, our late revered all secret investigations, and deSovereign, and your amiable manding an open and constituand beloved daughter, the Frin-tional tribunal. "We felt disgust at the proposal made to your Majesty to become an exile from this land, which might afford your Majesty's enemies fresh opportunity for the calumnies which probably they never would have dared to attempt, if your Majesty had remained in England. "We sincerely hope that your Majesty will be established in the full possession of all your just rights, and reside amongst a people zealously attached to the House of Brunswick, and who feel deeply interested in every thing connected with the honour of that House, and with the welfare and happiness of your Majesty." of this warm-hearted, just and generous people, to live at home with, and to cherish whom, will be the chief happiness of the remainder of my days. "The indignation, which a long series of persecutions, plots and conspiracies, carried on against my peace, honour, and life, is so well calculated to excite, it shall be my endeavour to suppress; and while I steadily pursue the means necessary to the full possession of all my rights, privileges and dignities, I would fain bury past injuries and insults in total oblivion. "Conscious of my innocence, disdaining the threats intended to awe me, knowing that it was to Britain I was coming, it required no extraordinary degree QUEEN's Answer to the City of of courage to place me in the London Address. Her Majesty then read herself the following answer. face of my accusers. To have acted upon this, or upon any other occasion, a pusillanimous "It is with peculiar satisfac- part, would ill become a daughter tion and with most cordial of the House of Brunswick and thanks, that I receive this loyal the Queen of a nation famed for and affectionate Address from its valour in all ages, and whose the Lord Mayor, Aldermen and gallant sailors and soldiers have Livery of the city of London, so recently been crowned with whose manly support of my laurels in every part of the cause, upon a former occasion, globe." has never ceased to live in my grateful remembrance. The QUEEN's (or, rather, Mr. "No words can give utterance to the agonies of my heart, occasioned by those losses, on which you offer me your kind On Saturday, at one o'clock, condolence, and which admit of Mr. Brougham had an audience no reparation on this side the of her Majesty, to present an grave; but, in the many and Address from the inhabitants of deep sorrows and afflictions with Preston. Her Majesty returned which it has pleased Providence the following answer;- 1 to visit me, I have derived un-thank the good people of Presspeakable consolation from the ton for this mark of their rezealous and constant attachment gard. The object of my com |