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Political Events.

to the contempt of all Europe— deserted by the most rational and respected of their own adherents— they meditate a new' attack on the honour of the Queen. Their speculation must be founded on the hope that the public sentiment, so loudly and universally expressed, will at length he wearied and exhausted, and that the Queen herself will no longer have patience to resist such cruel and endless persecutions. But her Majesty owes it to the British nation to declare, that she has the firmest reliance upon their support as long as she is the victim of oppression; and to herself she deems it due to add, that no harassing treatment on the part of the King’s ministers will ever shake the duty she owes to this generous people. She has also the strongest conviction that the King’s highest interests are at the present moment as much betrayed as those of the State, by the evil counsellors who are now once more plotting her destruction.

Jan.1,

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“To the offer of money with

which Lord Liverpool has thought

proper to accompany his notice of the intended prorogation of par¬ liament, her Majesty has no answer to give but a direct refusal. Nearly the Common Council, which was ten months have elapsed since his assembled to consider the propriety late Majesty’s death, and no par¬ of voting to her an address of con¬ liamentary provision has been yet gratulation, in consequence of the proposed for her. As long as the rejection of the Bill. Notwithstand¬ Bill was pending, the Queen saw ing an amendment expressive of the propriety of accepting the ad¬ regret at her Majesty’s determina¬ vances made for her accommoda¬ tion, moved by an Alderman pre¬ tion ; but she will not accept as a sent, it was decided by a majority favour from the ministers, what a of 119 out of 153 members, that due regard for the honour of the it was the duty of the City to pay Crown would induce parliament to her due honour. The motion for grant as a right; and she is still an address of congratulation was more averse to impose upon the then put and carried. On the day people the unnecessary burden of appointed, her Majesty left Branfinding a palace for her, when the denburgh-house for St. Paul’s, es¬ national munificence has already corted by a numerous cavalcade

provided royal residences for all the Princesses who fill her exalted station.

“The Queen expressly com¬ mands me to add, that her Ma¬ jesty, as well as the King and the country, have reason deeply to re¬ gret that the persons who have in¬ volved all those parties in their present unhappy difficulties, should still have influence to prevent that adjustment of differences which the Queen regards as essential to their common interests. Her Majesty has never entertained a doubt that the King, if left to the guidance of his own sound judgment and ho¬ nourable feelings, would at once listen to the Queen’s claims upon his justice, and to the united prayers of his loyal people.

“I have, &c. &c.

“R. Keppel Craven.”

Soon after the foregoing event, the Queen gave notice to the Lord Mayor, that she wished to attend divine service at St. Paul’s, on Wednesday the 29th of November, to return thanks to God for her escape from the charges brought against her during the late proceedings. The Lord Mayor communicated her Majesty’s wish to