The Sun.
London, England, 1839-06-07 00:00:00

ADDRESS TO THE QUEEN.

The following Address was presented to the Queen at
the Levee, on Wednesday, by Lord Kensington:—
To the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty,—
We, your Majesty's loyal and dutiful suljects, the inha-
bitats of the parishes of Kensington, Chelsea, Hammer-
smith, and Fulham, in public meeting assembled, are desi-
rous of expressing our gratitude to your Majesty, for the de-
cidid manner in which you have been pleased to resist the
recent attempts made by the Tories to impose conditions
upon your Majesty—derogatory to your dignity—an in-
fringement upon your prerogative, and disrespectful as re-
gards your Majesty's personal comforts. For we are of opi-
nion that had not your Majesty thus resisted these unprece-
dented attempts—the rights of the people, as well as the
prerogative of the Crown would have been alike trampled
under foot, and the nation, in all probability, precipitated
into the horrors of anarchy and civil commotion. We,
therefore, for the tranquillity of the country, the
prosperity of the people, and the safety of the
Throne, most earnestly implore, that your Majesty will
not place your confidence in any Ministers who do not pos-
sess the confidence of your people, and who are not deter-
mined to provide against these evils by a speedy removal of
all the remaining obstructions to a full and fair representa-
tion of the people in the Commons House of Parliament.
( Signed) KENSINGTON, Chairman.

THE CZAREVITSCH AND THE

WELSH MSS. SOCIETY.

We have to record one of the last munificent actions of
his Imperial Highness the Hereditary Grand Duke of
Russia, which took place only a few hours before his de-
parture from Mivart's hotel on Friday last, on occasion of an
application from the Rev. Mr. Evans (the Secretary of
the Welsh MSS. Society, in behalf of the Committee, for
permission to place his Imperial Highfleas's name as a
patron of the above Society, and explaining the laudable
object it has in view—viz., the translating and publishing
numerous Welsh MSS. which yet exist, containing matter
both poetical and historical of great value and interest—
and we subjoin an extract from the letter with which
the honorary secretary was favoured, written by the Coon-
seillor Joukovsky by the command of the Czarevitsch
Sir—His Imperial Highness the Hereditary Grand
Duke of Russia has directed me to acquaint you
that he accedes with much pleasure to the wish,
expressed by the Society for the Translation and
Publication of Welsh MSS. that his name should
be placed as a patron of the said Society, to whose la-
bours he wishes all the success which from their very in-
teresting nature they may fairly anticipate. His Imperial
Highness has further directed me to inform you that he
has ordered one hundred pounds to be placed at the dispo-
sition of the Society, to be employed by them for the ad-
vancement of their objects. For myself, Sir, I can only
express my deep sense of the honour the Society would
confer upon me, and I shall be proud of being associated
with a body of gentlemen united for so laudable
a purpose as that which the Royal Welsh Literary So-
ciety have in view.—l have the honour to' be, Sir, your
most obedient servant, " JOUKOVSKY.

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" Mivart's Hotel, May 31, 1839." _ ___
The eminent writer of this letter is well known to be the
Byron of Russia, as far as poetical genius is concerned,
and is selected by the Emperor, for his superior learning
and moral qualities, as the companion of the Grand Duke
on his travels, and whose name will henceforth be enrolled
among the Honorary Members of the Welsh Manuscripts'
Society.