The Sun.
London, England, 1831-01-24 00:00:00

BRIGHTON, JAN. 23.

The Duke and Duchess of GLOUCESTER arrived yester-
day evening on a visit to their MAJESTIES, and will be
present at the grand entertainments which will take place
on the 27th and 28th inst.
His Grate tilt Duke of WELLINGTON and Lord HILL
arrived on Friday evening on a visit to their MAJESTIES.
The dinner party yesterday was very select. Their
Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of GLOUCESTER,
his Grace the Duke of WELLINGTON, and Lord IT'LL were
of the Royal party. The QUEEN'S private hand was in.
attendance in the evening.
Their MAJESTIES gave a spl.,mlid dinner on Friday to
the following distinguished persons :—viz. his Grace the
Duke of WELLINGTON, Lord and Lady Martvnottouctr,
the Marchioness WELLFSLEY, Lord HILL, Lord GEORGE
BERESFORD, Sir JAMES KEMP, Major-General Sir
'l'Hoaias M‘MAFION, Major-General Sir CHARLES
PRATT, Major-General Sir RUrANE DONKIN, General
Sir THOMAS BOWSER, Sir GEORGE BERKELEY, Colonel
Sir A. DALRYMPLE, Sir GREGORY WAY, Lieutenant.
General RIALL, Lieut. General EGERTON, Major-General
UPTON, General CROSBY, Colonel DOWNMAN, Colonel
ELPHINSTONE, Colonel MUTTLEBURY, Colonel TRENCH,
C:donel MACLEAN, Colonel and Mrs. KENNAH, Colonel
CAMAC, Colonel WALLACE, Sir WILLIAM PEACOCK, and
Miss BAGOT.

His MAJESTY gave audience, on Friday, to Sir JAMES
KEMP, Master-General of the Ordnance, and Colonel
DOWNMAN. Orders have been issued for enlarging the
Barracks. The Cavalry Barracks, which is calculated to
accommodate four troops, is to be enlarged to contain a
regiment. The Infantry Barracks, which is the worst in
England, and only capable of accommodating about 400,
is also to be enlarged to cont tin a regiment.
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General STEPHENSON has arrived at the Palace.
The calls hive been very numerous within the last
two days.

THE FEELINGS OF A NOBLE POLE ON THE
APPROACHING STRUGGLE.
BY EDMUND READE, ESQ.,
AUTHOR OF " CAIN, TIIE WANDERER,"" REVOLT OF THE ANGELS.'

Why should we shrink ?—say what have we to lose ?
Our lives! Why, what are they in the great scale
When weigh'd with Liberty ?—We CAN NOT fail;
Power and the arm of Tyranny subdues,
Ave, and annihilates—but still we choose
The bright path left, and nobly we dtpart,
The unconquer'd Lords of our own destiny'
Is it not better thus to greatly die
Than live and wear the fetters of the heart ?
So deem'd the Spartan at Thermopylte
So the wild Switzer on his hills when fell
The Austrian pride beneath the shaft of Tell!
Have we not match'd them, glorious as they were ?
Have see not prov'd what courage and despair
Can do when plunging in the desperate strife ?
Look on our wrongs, avenging Heaven :—we swear
Never to yield our Weapons but with life;
Our challenge-word is war—. war, even to the knife."*
* The well-known answer of Palafox at the siege of Saragossa
on his being summomd to surrender.

BRISTOL REFORM MEETING.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,—A most glorious meeting in the cause of Reform
was held in the Guildhall, in Bristol, yesterday, which I
hope you will take some notice of in your Paper. The
presentation of the petition to the Commons is not to be
entrusted to our Whig Member (Mr. Baillie), because he
would not pledge himself to support that destroyer of
corruption at elections—" the Vote by Ballot," and our
other worthy thick and thin Member (Mr. Hart Davis)
was treated with three tremendous groans, for his late
speech in Parliament on Reform. The Bristol Papers of
this day give a very partial account of the meeting, but I
have no doubt we shall have et correct one in the Mercury
on Tuesday morning next. Felix Funky says the majority
of the meeting was composed of Annual Parliaments anti
Universal Suffrage men, Republic ins, anti Infidels, and yet
in his account of the speeches he says, that when one of
the meeting, Mr. F. Jones, spoke in favour of " every
male having a vote," he met with so much opposition
that he was obliged to withdraw his proposition; and in
respect to Republicanism, I can most positively declare
that only one person in the whole meeting raised his voice
in favour of it—on the contrary, three most deafening
cheers were given for our patriotic King and Queen. He
also says three cheers were given for Mr. Henry Hunt. I
believe some person did call out " Three cheers for Mr.
Hunt," but not above half a dozen people joined them,
if so many.
The Guildhall was crammed to suffocation, and hundreds
could not get in at all. After it was known that Mr.
Baillie would not pledge himself to support the Vote by
Ballot, Lord Althorp was proposed, and the majority in
his favour was full ten to one.

The Ballot ! the Ballot ! we must, we will have the
Vote by Ballot !

I am, Sir,
Your Constant Reader,
Jan. 22, 1831. A FREEMAN OF BRISTOL.
[We have also received letters from other respectable
Correspondents on the subject of this meeting, to all of
whom we reply—that we have not yet received the
Mercury, but if we find any thing in it that we have not
got in our report, we shall readily give it insertion.—
En. SUN.]

We are utterly unable to keep pace with the
time in an account of the numerous Reform Meetings held
every day. County after County, City after City is meet-
ing to petition, and but one feeling seems to animate the
whole population. At Norwich, on Wednesday last, in a
numerous meeting at St. Andrew's Hall, a series of reso-
lutions, recommending the Repeal of the Corn Laws, the
application of Church Property and Crown Lands to the
Public Service, Universal Suffrage, short Parliaments, and
the Ballot, were carried unanimously.—Morn. Chronicle.

REFORM.—M. D. BELLEW, Esq., High
Sheriff of the county Galway, has convened a meeting of
his bailiwick, to petition Parliament for full and effectual
Reform in the House of Commons, and for the repeal of
that remnant of the penal code which effects the rights of
the inhabitants of Galway. A meeting is to be held in
Ennis to-morrow, to petition Parliament for Reform, and
to bring before Parliament the peculiar grievances of that
borough.—Dublin Morning Register.

No small degree of excitement and anxiety
has prevailed throughout this town during the week, in
consequence of a report that his Majesty's packets are, in
future, to be placed under the direction of the Port Ad-
miral at Plymouth, which office is at present held by Sir
MANLEY DIXON. Such a measure, should it take place,
is looke:i upon as calculated, at once, to destroy the com-
parative state of prosperity which this port now enjoys,
which has grown up principally, if not exclusively, with
the packet establishment, which was first instituted here
in 1668. The proposed change is supposed to have its
origin in the system of retrenchment which has been
forced on, and partially adopted by Ministers....Falaiouth
Packet.