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the fortitude and firmness of e and firmness of your royal highness, conviction the most decisive on the most decisive of the unblemished rectitude of your conduct, which not only dared, but courted the most rigid investigation and greatly as we we lament that your royal highness should have been compelled, by any combination of events, to claim to be considered as innocent, or proved to be guilty, yet we feel with your royal highness, that the period had at length arrived when forbearance would have ceased to have been a virtue. 0 08 916 nov mor'w fit ylimst auoirtaul We cannot, therefore, sufficiently applaud the wisdom and firmness displayed by your royal highiz ness in demanding, for the more public vindication of your own honor, that of your illustrious consort, and the safety, peace, and happiness of these realmsj† an open inquiry into the base charges of your baxx lumniators, or an unqualified admission of your ind nocence. na İnvoy woy ones of god ev

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We sincerely offer to your royal highness bur heartfelt congratulations on your complete ands happy triumph over so dark and detestablerat boner spiracy, supported as it was by subornation and perjury and we are most grateful to your ropaks highness for the proofs we have received, dins sow firmly defending your own honor, of the anxiety you feel for the welfare and happiness of these kingdoms: this conduct affords to us the surest pledge of the blessings we may expect from your

royal highness, when it shall please providence to place your royal highness with your royal consort on the British throne; and we most ardently hope that the painful recollection of your past sufferings may be lost in the pleasing enjoyment of an unrestricted intercourse with your illustrious daughter: the princess Charlotte; and that she, without the same painful occasion to exercise them, may in herit all the virtues of her royal mother, and afford us the consoling hope, that, taught to venerate the free principles of the British constitution as the best protection for innocence and security against oppression, she may, should the period ever arrive when she may be called to preside over the destinies of this empire, uphold and maintain our liberties, and reign in the hearts of a free, happy, and united peoplens zedeirodo ybɛona odɛ ɔida nedutitanoɔ tal noitoi Signed by order of courtora 794 22919 Vo its HENRY WOODTHORPE To yзub b1982 320 94) bas Jest stod ei ti to The ford mayor then presented a copy of the address to her royal highness, who, having given itto herlevice chamberlain, read the following answer fuqA ysbenniT no petanimites W 29 receive with the greatest satisfaction the con-gratulations of the city of London. No branch of the house of Brunswick can ever forget to whose exertions chiefly it owes the throne of these realms; and I have now peculiar reason to know the value

of the constitution which those exertions purchased, because I have found it a surd protection when I had no other defences bus; 9пordt deitig edt oo The extraordinary situation in which I was placed compelled me to come forward in behalf of my honor and my life. I have been rewarded, not only by the univeral acknowledgment of my inno cence, but by testimonies of affection from a loyal and thigh-spirited people, which I shall gratefully remember as long as I livedood gain an

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At the present moment, I am rather disposed} to dwell upon this pleasing circumstance, than upon any recollection of a less agreeable kind. The trials, however, which I have undergone, will, I am confident, produce one good effect; they will confirm

my daughter's mind that attachment to the constitution which she already cherishes, and impress her more and more with the conviction, that as no station can be secure except in a free country, it is both the interest and the most sacred duty of an English monarch, to watch over the liberties of the people."donw podyul fazo 19 of gaA numerous meeting was held in Palace Yard, Westminster, on Thursday, April 15th, when Mr? Wishart becamees forward with Mr. Jones Burdett, Major Cartwright, Mr. alderman Wood, and other gentlemen, and addressed the meeting on the subject for which they were assem bled, that orof ocongratulating the princess of

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Wales on the triumph she had obtained over malice and persecution, and the attempt which had been made against her life and honor

Mr. Wishart then proposed an address to that effect, and concluded by moving the two following resolutions:

"Resolved, 1st. That it is the undoubted right of every British subject to retain the reputation, rights, and immunities of innocence, until convict-. ed of guilt before a tribunal recognised by the law, known to the people, and possessing that glorious and indispensible attribute of freedom and justice, a trial by peers; and that this meeting view with deep regret any attempts to introduce tribunals unknown to the constitution, unauthorised by the law of the land, and therefore possessing no constitutional power to enforce the attendance of witnesses, no power to punish persons giving false evidence, or no requisite of a court of justice.

"2d. That this meeting feel the greatest horror at the late nefarious conspiracy against the honor and the life of her royal highness the princess of Wales; and fully convinced, from every document before the public, of her royal highness's innocence, do resolve that a loyal and humble address be presented to her royal highness, expressive of their happiness at her complete triumph over her enemies."

The address and resolutions were read amidst repeated bursts of applause, and unanimously agreed to. The former, on being presented to her royal highness, was most graciously received; and an anwer to the same effect as the one presented to the common council was returned.

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Also at a full county meeting of the freeholders of Middlesex, duly convened and held at the Mermaid tavern, in Hackney, on Friday, the 14th day of May it was moved by Thomas Northmore, Esq. and seconded by John Bentley, Esq. "That an affectionate and congratulatory address be presented. to her royal highness the princess of Wales, on her complete triumph over her enemies." And the above resolution, having been put from the ehair, was carried unanimously.

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Resolved, That this address be signed by the sheriff of Middlesex, on behalf of this meeting. "Resolved, That this address be presented to her royal highness the princess of Wales by the sheriff of Middlesex, accompanied by George Byng and William Mellish, Esqrs, members of parlia ment for this county, and by the mover and seconder of this address, fiqui, te

"Resolved, That the cold and repulsive manner in which her royal highness's letter was received by the commons house of parliament, imposes a

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