you a faith unshaken, we dare not boast an unrivalled attachment; but we can truly say, that amidst this general glow of beating hearts, nope are more loyal, none love you better, and none pray oftener for your present and future happiness than the females of Nottingham. When you were far distant we remembered the unhappy Exile; and when the accusers of your honour rung in our cars (as they fondly hoped) the death-bell of your innocence, we never for a moment believed their slanders, but felt at every charge, as we are sure we shall always feel, a more than common indignation.

"You bring with you such powerful recommendations to protection, as no generous bosom can resist-your father is no more-your brother fell in battle-the chief solace of your cares, your amiable daughter, was soon, too soon snatched away and your great protector, our late venerable Monarch, soon followed her.

"We would not wring anew your feelings, they have been too often wrung; yet when we consider this, we are not surprised that, though you are not defended by the drawn sabres of the military, you are always surrounded by your guards; thus imitating the example of the maguanimous Queen Elizabeth, trusting your defence to a brave people, who will not be deterred by any power under heaven to forsake you in the day of peril. All in whom the spirit of the days of chivalry are not utterly extinct, all who would not immolate the best impulses of our nature on the altar of modern policy, will rally round their Queen, and save her alike from foreign emissaries and spies, and domestic perse

cutors.

"We desire to assure you of our continued fidelity, and express a hope that ere long, you will defeat the machinations of your enemies, be restored to all the honours of your illustrious station, and that neither sca nor land will again separate you from an admiring people."

[Signed by 7,800 females.]

The following is her Majesty's gracious answer to the Address from the female inhabitants of Nottingham :

"I should be deficient in sensibility if I had not felt the warmest grati tude, and more than ordinary delight, when I received from the female inhabitants of Nottingham and its vicinity, an Address which is remarkable for the amiable spirit which it breathes, and for the fervour of attachment to my person and rights which it displays. I am proud of being the Queen of women of such generous sentiments; and I am happy to remark that such sentiments indicate an increased and increasing cultivation of the female mind.

To be conscious that the hearts of so large a portion of my own sex are vibrating with emotions of affection for his Majesty's Royal Consort, that they are sympathizing with her sorrows and deprecating her wrongs, and that her happiness is the object of their pious supplications, cannot but awaken in my breast the most pleasurable sensations. The same spirit of devotedness to the fair fame, to the lawful rights, and to the general interests of a persecuted Queen, which animates the female inhabitants of Nottingham, is, I trust, diffused through a large majority of their countrywomen. They will consider the honour of her Majesty as reflected upon themselves-they will best know how to appreciate the

vexations by which I have been harassed, the slanders by which I have been assailed, and the indignities by which I have been oppressed.

"With the most gentle delicacy the female inhabitants of the town of Nottingham and its vicinity have touched those springs of grief in my heart which will ever continue painfully to vibrate at the recollection of the near and dear relatives of whom I have been bereaved, and particularly of that departed saint in whose talents and whose virtues the women have lost a model of the most estimable excellence, and the nation in general a future sovereign, under whose fostering care that liberty would have flourished which gives happiness to the people and security to the throne." al 29 de

Answers of the Queen to the Addresses of the inhabitants of Rochester, Wakefield, and Berwick-upon-Tweed:

"This loyal, warm, and ingenuous Address entitles the citizens and inbabitants of Rochester to my most cordial thanks. When they make my return to these realms the topic of congratulation and my former departure from England the subject of regret, their joy and their sorrow mingled with my own.

The affectionate manner in which the citizens and inhabitants of Rochester mention my deceased, most dear and ever lamented relatives, powerfully touches every chord of sensibility in my breast. I still mouru over their graves--but not as one without hope. That beloved daughter of whom I have been bereaved was once my exhilirating delight, and his late revered Majesty my unalterable trust. Had their lives been happily protracted, I should not have now to contend against that malice, and those calumnies, by which I am so rancorously assailed.

My constitutional rights are, at present, attacked iu an unconstitu tional manner. If, in this country, the life, the property, and the repu tation of the most humble individual are safe within the sanctuary of the Jaws, surely those laws ought not to be violated on purpose to deprive the Queen of her rank, her title, and her truly legitimate rights.

"If, as a subject, I am answerable to the laws, let those laws be strictly observed in the judicial investigation of my conduct. Let me not, by any proceeding--which if it retains the form of justice, is conceived in the spirit of tyranny-be put at once out of the protecting pale of the law, and the tutelary guardianship of the constitution.

"I have no wish-I can have no wish-to leave this enlightened, this hospitable country. In what other part of the world could I find, or expect to find, a people so affectionate, friends so steady, or a home in which I have so little to fear from the machinations of my enemies.'

"I receive with heartfelt satisfaction this loyal and affectionate Ad dress from his Majesty's subjects, inhabitants of the town of Wakefield, and its vicinity. Their sentiments of congratulation on my accession to the high dignity of Queen of these realms, are a proof that their minds have not been unduly influenced by the flagitious calumnies of my persecutors; and I am, at the same time, feelingly alive to their expressions of kind condolence upon the melancholy losses of those near and dear relatives, which I experienced while on the Continent. Iam sensible of the indignities with which I have been assailed, not so much because they are disrespectful to myself, as because they are insulting to the

nation; for the nation has been insulted in the late outrages upon the tharacter of its lawful Queen. Though I am attacked by that malice, which hesitates at no falsehood, and by an assumption of power, which seems to spurn all limitation, I feel a cheering confidence of present support, and of eventual triumph in the affections of the people. I have been accused of appealing to popular clamour-but I appeal to nothing but to the good sense and good feeling-to the reason-the inorality, and the patriotism of the most enlightened and most respectable portion of the community. If I am condemned without justice, and dethroned against all law, the liberties of every individual will receive a fatal stab; and the character of the highest Judicature will be blasted to the latest posterity. My own personal welfare is of little moment; but I do feel as a Queen for the public welfare, which is deeply implicated in the vindication of my violated rights.-The power which the House of Lords are assuming in their Bill of Pains and Penalties, not only for divorcing his Majesty's Royal Consort, but of dethroning their lawful Queen, may prove in the result productive of an age of misery to the nation. The child that is now at the breast, may live to rue its consequences.-The consciousness of rectitude, of which no Bill of Pains and Penalties can ever.deprive me, will support me through all trials; and even though the force of my enemies should, in the end, prove commensurate with their malignity, the people shall never have occasion to reproach me with neglecting their happiness, with betraying their rights, or with relinquishing for one moment, the patriotic.magnanimity of the Queen."

"For this loyal and affectionate Address, I feel deeply indebted to the Mayor, Bailiffs, and Burgesses of the Borough of Berwick-upon-Tweed. The ravage which death has made amongst my nearest and most beloved relatives, since I left England, has furnished many arduous trials for my resignation and my fortitude. It is my duty to subunit, without fretful. ness or impatience, to these and to heavier afflictions, if I have still heavier to endure.

My many sorrows have been mingled with an infusion of joy, by the enthusiastic delight with which the people hailed my arrival from the Continent. I had been so long absent from England, and so artfully reviled in my absence, that it was supposed I should never return. My re turn operated like a flash of lightning upon the public mind. Those whom the accumulated slanders of my enemies had caused to hesitate about my rectitude, were instantly struck with a conviction of my integrity. But while my friends exulted with joy, my enemies turned pale with apprehension. The consciousness of their own guilt was aggravated by the irresistible feeling of my innocence. They exhibited a singular picture of inalice rendered impotent, and of rage becoming desperate. "When my enemies found that they could not operate upon my disinterestedness by a bribe, they attempted to shake my courage by threat. But I derive from the bounty of Heaven, a mind that is at once superior to the calculations of avarice, and to the impressions of fear.

"If I am a subject, I am a subject in a state of immediate proximity to the Sovereign; and certainly I ought not to be placed in a less favourable situation than that of the most humble individual. Every subject, Vol. III. No. 15.

whatever may be his condition or his rank, is entitled to a fair and open trial, by which his guilt or bis innocence may be legally established. To me, such a trial is refused. My demand for it has hitherto been answered only by Green Bags, which perjury has filled, or by Secret Inqui. sitions, over which malice presides. Every other subject has the benefit of an impartial Jury; and he may object to a certain number of Jurors, whom he may know, or believe to be hostile to himself or partial to his adversary. Can I object to any of my numerous Judges and Jurors? What individual is there who could expect an impartial trial where his adversary could influence the majority of his Judges, either by the fear of loss, or the hope of gain; either by good in possession, or in expectancy-But are my judges alone without human infirmities? I leave the question to be answered by those, who know what man is; or whọ have calmly observed the late proceedings in the House of Lords.”

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We pass over some more scraps of the law, for the book of Numbers is composed alternately of some murmuring and slaughter among them, in consequence of Jehovah's treatment, and then a repeated scrap of the law, where he calls them his chosen people, and promises what he will do for them, if they will not worship other gods. The thirty-first chapter introduces us to an horrid and diabolical tale, such as Milton could have never imagined for his pandemonium. Jehovah orders Moses to send out twelve thousand chosen men of the Israelites to destroy the Midianites, because the God of the Midianites had drawn away the affections of the Israelites from him, Jehovah. We are told that they killed all the men with five kings, not omitting poor Balaam, who had done so much for Israel at the peril of his life! They also burnt all the cities and brought away the women, and children, and cattle, captives. We of course shall expect to hear nothing more of the nation of the Midianites after this, for we shall find that there was not a male left, either man or child. Now for a specimen of the character of Moses. And Moses and Eleazer the priest and 'all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them without the camp. And Moses was wroth with the officers of the host, with the captains over thousands, and captains ' over hundreds, which came from the battle. And Moses "said unto them, have ye saved all the women alive? Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the Lord in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the Lord. Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with < him. But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves." Can any thing be conceived more horrible than this? is not the belief, in such a book as this, as sacred, calculated to fill the mind with the most deadly and brutal notions. Every warrior who destroys the unoffending inhabitants of a town or village