The Sun.
London, England, 1831-04-12 00:00:00

COURT INTERFERENCE AT WINDSOR.

(From the Windsor Express of Saturday.)

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The attempt to which we alluded last week, and we
regret to say the successful attempt, to suppress, for the
present at least, all expression of public opinion in this
town on the subject of the Reform Bill, has excited much
speculation, both in this town and elsewhere, as to the
" certa'n quarter" from whence the interdiction in ques-
tion could have proceeded. We have already expressed
our own sentiments regarding the measure itself too ex-
plicitly to render necessary any further observatiors on the
general question ; but, independent of the friendly feeling
which we, in common with the vast majority of our
readers, entertain towards this great public measure, we
do feel that it would be a compromise of our duty, as
public journalists, if we failed to indicate the quarter front
which such dictatitm emanated, and to expose the un-
worthy manceavring of a party, whose object it has doubt-
less been, by suppressing the sentiments of our townsmen
in favour of Reform, to encourage the inference that the
people of Windsor are adverse to the measure, and by ins-
plii.ation, that the sentiments of the Sovereign—for' it
would of course be inferred that the wishes of the loyal
inhabitants of this borough, correspond with those of the
Sovereign—that the sentiments, we say, of our patriot
King are also unfavourable to it.

TO discountenance at once such an erroneous supposition
—such a monstrous absurdity—but which, if left uncon-
tradicted, would not only compromise the character of our
own' townsmen in the opinion of the country, 'but -might
possibly prove in some degree damnatory, even to the •Bill
itself—to expose the shallow, but unconstitutional artifice
that has bei•n resorted to on the present occasion, it will be
necessary only brie fly to narrate a few interesting facts
that have come to our knowledge, and which we shall pro-
ceed
to do without further preface or comment. Towards
the latter end of February, a requisition, most respectably
signed, was presented to our worthy Mayor, calling upon
him to convene a public meet ng of the inhabitants of the
borough of New Windsor, fur the purpose of taking the
sense of the town upon a petition in favour of the Minis..
terial Reform Bill. Our chief Magistrate, as might na-
turally be expected, wished for the advice and counsel of
his constituted legal ;Adviser. This gentleman, we are in..
formed, thought it necessary to consult Sir Herbert Taylor
on the subject, wishing (it is said) to know whether it -
would be fitting and proper in the town to advocate the
Reform measure. Sir Herbert replied, that it certainly
would not be pleasant to the King for the town to put
itself forward in advocating the measure. This message
was delivered to the requisitionists, who in consequence
withdrew their names. This we understand to be sub-
stantially the history of the first requisition. The respvc..
table inhahitants, however, far from satisfied by the vague
and equivocal manner in which the public voice bad been
stifled in the instance just alluded to, were determined to
make a second attempt to give expression to their feelings
and sentiments on a subject so nearly connected with the
rights and liberties of Englishmen, and accordingly a se-
cond requisition was determined on, and actually in course
of signature, when a letter was received by William Legh,
Esq. the banker (of the firm of Ramsbottom and Legh),
and himself one of the requisitionists—requesting that gen-
tleman to suppress the requisition then in progre so, which
was 'accordingly done. To the latter requisition was
affixed the fallowing names, besides that of Mr. Legh,
naanely, Dr. Fcrgusson, M.D., Colonel Bridges, William
Randall, Esq. surgeon, W. J. Voules, Esq. solicitor,
Sharp, Esq , all influential men, and of the highest
resqectabili ty.

The last American papers contain the fol-
lowing resolution, which was passed by the House of
Representatives on the last day of the Session Re-
solved, that the PRESIDENT of the United States be re-
quested to renew and prosecute, from time to time, such
negotiations with the several maritime Powers of Europe
arid America as he may deem expedient for the effectual
abolition of the African slave-trade, and its ultimate de-
nunciation as piracy under the law of nations, by the con-
sent of the civilised world."

•
MAJOR. KEPPEL.—Among other attractive
features in this enterprising traveller's Narrative of bis
Journey across the 13alcan, may be enumerated—anec-
dotes and particulars of the Russians during their late
invasion of the Ottoman dominions, and of the Russian
Comtnander, Count DIEBITSCII-btatement of the re-
sources of the Turkish Empire—an accoant of the present
state of Constantinople, Adrianople, Shumla, and other
places of peculiar historical and political interest. The
author's researches in certain parts of Asia Minor, of
which no preceding traveller has given any description,
must prove a valuable addition to geography. Maps of
the line of route punned by the author, besides other illus-
trations, accompany the volumes.

BIRTHS.
On the 10th inst. at Palmer's-green, the lady of I. Walker,
Esq., of a daughter.
On the loth inst. in Great Ormond-street, Mrs. L. Stride, of
a daughter.
On the 10th inst. at Brighton, the lady of Captain Townshend,
R.N., of Balls, Hertford, of a son and heir.

MARRIED.
On the 9th inst. at Lambeth, R. S. Biley, Esq. of Brighton,
Sussex, to Harriet, eldest daughter of the late John Rogers,
Esq. of Lambeth.
Recently at St. John's, Westminster, George Pugh, Esq., of
Brixton-hill, to Anne, daughter of the late Mr. James Pugh, of
Lambeth.
On the S;th inst. at Loughton, Essex, W. Marsden, Esq. of
Tunbridge, to Harriet, fourth (laughter of W. Browning, Esq.
On the 9th inst. at Hackney, Mr. F. Nalder, of Leadenhall,
to Miss Emma Langrish, eldest daugh er of Captain Langrish,
of Weymouth