no one can be more sincerely grateful, than the humble individual who now addresses you." Mr Jeffrey then alluded in the most handsome manner to his predecessor, Mr Finlay, and expressed his conviction that all prejudices against him were groundless. He concluded with impressing on the younger part of his auditors the importance of diligence and attention to academical discipline. 29th. This day the Queen attended Divine service at St Paul's, according to appointment. Her Majesty's carriage did not draw up before the great western entrance, until the clock had struck twelve, as she had been detained on her way up Ludgate-hill, by the excessive pressure of the crowd. She was handed up the flight of steps by Mr Alderman Wood, and Mr. K. Craven. Within the doors of the cathedral the Queen was received by the committee of the corporation, with white wands and favours, and by sixty ladies dressed in white, and decorated by a profusion of white ribbons. The Queen was conducted by the proper officer in his robes, and by Dr Hughes, in his canonicals, to the principal stall in the choir, where she took her seat. Lady A. Hamilton was placed in an adjoining stall on the right of the Queen, while Sir Robert Wilson, Mr Hume, and Mr Hobhouse, (the latter in full court dress,) sat upon the left. Alderman Wood, (the only Alderman present, with the exception of Alderman Waithman,) took the usual situation assigned to persons filling his corporate capacity. The Lord-Mayor sat in his usual situation, opposite the Queen. The service concluded soon after one; but her Majesty, in consequence of the multitude both within and without St Paul's, was unable to quit her seat until about half past one, and even then, a considerable time elapsed before she could reach her carriage, although the utmost exertions were used by the committee and peace-officers to separate the crowd, and open a passage. The Queen ascended with the same ceremonies with which she had alighted. The whole front of the church was at this time one solid mass of people. The surrounding windows were all filled, innumerable handkerchiefs were waved, and continued shouts raised on the re-appearance of her Majesty under the grand portico. The carriage of her Majesty was greeted as it proceeded by the loudest shouts, as her Majesty had ordered that the covering should be let down, so as to give the spectators a full view of her person. The Queen bowed frequently in return for the cheers. The Lord-Mayor and Sheriffs went no farther than Templebar. Mr Alderman Wood, Mr Hob. house, Sir R. Wilson, and others, accompanied the Queen on her way to Hammersmith. DECEMBER. 4th.-DECLARATION." We, the undersigned inhabitants of the Ward of Cheap, deem it an imperative duty at the present crisis, when wicked and factious men are insidiously, as well as openly, attempting to subvert the laws and liberties of the country, to declare: "That we perceive with the greatest regret the daring efforts which are made to mislead the uninformed, and to eradicate all feelings of religion and loyalty; for which purpose the country is inundated with blasphemous and seditious publications, and other libels, sent forth in the most reprehensible forms, evidently intended to excite a disregard for the Christian religion, and to bring his Majesty's sacred person into hatred and contempt. "That we are fully sensible of the blessings and protection we enjoy under the incomparable constitution of our country, which is the gradual result of the wisdom of ages. "That our sentiments of loyal and dutiful attachment to our gracious Sovereign and government are unabated; and that we are determined strenuously to support those venerable in stitutions in church and state, from which, under divine Providence, our national character and domestic comfort are mainly derived." 8th.-The Lord-Mayor, accompanied by Sir William Curtis, Sir William Leighton, Sir Charles Flower, Mr Alderman Birch, Mr Alderman Heygate, Mr Alderman Bridges, Mr Sheriff Williams, the Recorder, and city officers, proceeded from Guildhall to Carlton-palace, and presented the following address to his Majesty, pursuant to the resolution of the last court: "TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY, "The dutiful and loyal Address of the Court of Lord-Mayor and Aldermen of the City of London. "Most gracious Sovereign,-We, your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Lord-Mayor and Aldermen of the City of London, approach your Royal presence with renewed assurances of our most inviolable attachment to your sacred person and go vernment. "Impressed as we are with veneration for your Majesty's crown and dignity, we view with horror and detestation the unprincipled efforts of the disaffected, in every direction which infatuated malice can devise, and a li VOL. XIII. PART II. centious press promote, to withdraw the unwary and timid from their allegiance to their Sovereign, and, in the result, to overwhelm this free and happy land with anarchy and confusion. "For this base purpose calumnies of the most mischievous tendency have been circulated against all the constituted authorities of the realm with restless and unabating rancour. The Parliament, the Courts of Judicature, the Altar, and the Throne, as established by our envied and glorious constitution, have become the objects of the most profligate abuse and insulting derision. "We feel, Sire, that in order to avert the devastation threatened by such a torrent of impiety and sedition, it becomes the bounden duty of all the liege subjects of the realm to stand forward without delay, and avow their determination to support the principles of the British constitution in the true spirit of British loyalty; to rally round the throne, and guard the religion and laws of the country from outrage and insult. "The Lord-Mayor and Aldermen of the City of London are therefore most anxious, Sire, to testify to the country at large, in this evil hour, their resolution to defend the Monarchy, as well as the other branches of the Constitution, against the attempts openly and industriously made by the instigators and abettors of sedition and infidelity; and to their utmost endeavour in their respective stations, as magistrates, under the sanction of the laws, to transmit to their children's children the blessings they have derived from the wisdom and bravery of their ancestors, and which they enjoy under your Majesty's paternal sway. "We beg to add our most fervent prayers to the Almighty Disposer of all events, that your Majesty's reign may be long, prosperous, and happy, 2A in the affections of a faithful, grateful, and loyal people. "Signed, by order of Court, "HENRY WOODTHORPE." To which address his Majesty was pleased to return the following most gracious answer: "I return you my warmest thanks for this loyal and dutiful address. "It is peculiarly gratifying to me to receive at this time such an assurance of your unshaken attachment to my person and government, and of the feelings with which you regard the attempts so unceasingly made to extirpate all that has hitherto been held sacred amongst us, and to destroy all the sources of British freedom, prosperity, and power. A spirit similar to that by which you are actuated, happily predominates throughout the king dom; and I well know the implicit confidence which is due to the virtue and loyalty of the great body of the nation, who are manifesting their just sense of the blessings they enjoy by the most decisive proofs of their zealous determination to defend and preserve them. "You may rely on my constant support in the discharge of the duties which arise out of the present extraordinary conjuncture. "We are engaged in a common cause, and I feel most deeply that the honour of my crown, and the happiness of my reign, are inseparably interwoven with the maintenance of our established constitution, and with the true interests and welfare of my people." -The King received the Cambridge loyal address on the throne. The deputation was less numerous than usual, there being no more than 229 mem. bers, whereas, on the two last occa. sions, there were upwards of 400. The Duke of Glocester, the Chancel lor, was not present; but his absence was compensated by the Vice-Chancellor, Dr Wordsworth, late chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury, and now Master of Trinity. The Archbishop himself and the Bishop of Ely also accompanied the deputation; to their names we add those of the Earl of St Germains and the Solicitor-General (Sir J. Copley.) "TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. "The dutiful and loyal Address and Petition of the Lord-Mayor, Alder. men, and Commons, of the City of London, in Common Council assem bled. "Most Gracious Sovereign,-We, your Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects, the Lord-Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons, of the City of London, in Common Council assembled, feeling ourselves called upon by the exigen cies of the times and country, beg leave most humbly and respectfully to approach your Majesty, to express to your Majesty our profound regret at the measures pursued by your Majes ty's ministers, so contrary to the spi rit of the British Constitution, and to the principles of universal justice, while they are subversive of the liberties and true interests of the nation, and of the honour and security of your Majesty's throne. "The war which exhausted the wealth and resources of the country has long since terminated; yet, during a period of profound peace, we have seen no effectual retrenchment in the public expenditure, but loan after loan again resorted to for the support of use. less and preposterous establishments, affording the means of the subjection of Parliament by the influence of ministerial patronage, and the overawing of the people in the exercise of their just rights by unconstitutional military force. "The discontent thus created, we lament to state, has not been counteracted by your Majesty's ministers, either by just concessions, or by such a liberal policy as is due to a free people from their governors; but, on the contrary, the laws have been enforced with unprecedented severity, to the disgust and alarm of your Majesty's faithful subjects; and, instead of obtaining redress, coercive laws have been introduced into the legislature by those very ministers to uphold their own mal-administration. At the same time that the conduct of ministers has tended to excite the dissatisfaction of your people, and to exasperate that dissatisfaction into acts of treason, those ministers have so neglected the commercial and agricultural interests of the nation, that it is at length become difficult to determine which of these sources of national prosperity is most impoverished; and, although numerous petitions of your Majesty's distressed subjects, from almost every class of industry, have been presented in successive years to the several branches of the legislature, yet the people remain without relief, or even the prospect of relief; and your Majesty's ministers seem as unwilling from indifference, as from want of political skill, to apply the necessary remedies to such complicated evils. "It is with pain and reluctance that we allude to a subject which ought never to have been forced upon public attention; but the unjust and demoralizing proceedings adopted by your Majesty's ministers, relative to your Royal Consort, having drawn forth the reprobation of the great body of the people, we should be guilty of a dereliction of our duty to your royal person, and the interests of the coun try, if we restrained our expressions of indignation at this flagrant outrage upon the moral and religious feelings of the nation, and forbore to represent to your Majesty this prominent instance of their utter disregard of public justice and of the honour of your royal family. "The corrupt inducement offered to her Majesty to remain abroad in the state of alleged criminality falsely ascribed to her-the submitting to the House of Peers after the House of Commons had pronounced the measure "disappointing to the hopes of Parliament, derogatory from the dignity of the crown, and injurious to the best interests of the empire," the results of the disgraceful subornations procured under an odious commission;—the attempt to degrade her Majesty, and in her the whole house of Brunswick, by an ex-post-facto law, unconstitutional in its nature and operation ;-the mockery of justice, in uniting on the one hand the functions of accusers, judges, and jury, in the same persons, and withholding, on the other, the means of defence and all the preliminary steps leading to these disgraceful proceedings;-the employment of foreign ministers and agents;-the hiring of spies, and corrupting of menials, and the prejudging her Majesty by the omission of her name in the liturgy, and the withdrawing her from the public prayers of the people; and, lastly, after the defeat of their malignant efforts, the arbitrary assumption of the right of continuing to her Majesty, on their own authority, an allowance out of the public money during the sitting of Parliament, and the advising the abrupt prorogation of that Parliament, to prevent inquiry into these iniquitous proceedings, and to obstruct her Majesty's appeal to the representatives of the people, are, severally, acts of perfidious and mischievous policy, which we feel persuaded never could receive your Majesty's countenance but through the abuse of your royal confidence, and which demand the immediate dismissal of those unworthy ministers, the contrivers and conductors of so foul a conspiracy. "We beg leave humbly to assure your Majesty, that these representations are dictated by our sincere attachment to that constitution which seated your Ma jesty's august family on the throne of these realms, by a sincere devotion to your Majesty's person, and by an anxious desire to promote the future glories of your reign; and in this spirit we conjure your Majesty, by an auspicious change of councils and measures, to reunite the great family of the British people, who have long been divided, insulted, and oppressed, and which would continue your Majesty on a throne, secured by their just affection, and rendered no less glorious by the boundless resources of their industry. "We therefore humbly pray your Majesty to dismiss from your presence and councils for ever, those ministers whose pernicious measures have so long endangered the throne, undermined the constitution, and blighted the prosperity of the nation. "Signed, by order of the Court, " HENRY WOODTHORPE." To which his Majesty was pleased to return the following answer : "It has been with the most painful feelings that I have heard the sentiments contained in the address and petition now presented to me by the Lord-Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council of the City of London. "Whatever may be the motives of those by whom it is now brought forward, its evident tendency is to inflame the passions, and mislead the judgment, of the unwary and less enlightened |