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London, England, 1831-04-26 00:00:00

and the royal bird looks down with pride over these
trophieF. !leaven itself has manifestly favoured our en-
terprise : when our army marched out it was involved in
L dense fog ; the victory was gained in the finest vernal
readier. Geistnar and Rosen hardly escaped being made
prisoners; whole battalions of Russians came. Over to us,
ni where our formidable scythe-bearers clawed them-
Ares the Russians fell on their knees, and begged fop
luarter. The people now fetch
_all kinds of things
Ls metnorials of the combat from the celebrated alder
wood at Grochow, especially balls of every calibre, with
which the ground is in a manner covered. The
tahions, fascicles, &c. left by the Russians are employed
o strengthen the works of Praga. The Russians had all
heir heavy cannon,.one hundred in number, in the'wood.
In order to bring them off they took the horses from all
he waggons, cart, &c. yoked them to the cannon and
;alloped away in such haste that of many guns only thi.
.re part reached head-quarters. On Good Friday, and
he following day, consecrated Easter cakes, buns, ergs.
Nines, and all sorts of eatables were sent-from this city, in
fifty waggons, to the army in honour of the holiday.
VIENNA, Arm 15,—Four per Cents. 70;1; Bank
stock 996. _

Lisitox.—The Gazettes from the 4th to the 9th of
April contain no political news relative to Pot tugal.

WESTMINSTER MEETING.

GREAT MEETING of the INHABITANTS
and ELECTORS of WESTMINSTER.

At half-past one, agreeable to advertisement, a meeting,
immense in point of numbers, took place in Covent-garden,
of the inhabitants and electors of Westminster, for the
purpose of agreeing upon a Congratulatory Address to be
presented to his Majesty for the decisive measure the King
adopted in 'dissolving the late Parliament, on account of its
icing hostile to the cause of Reorm, and the just rights
drid liberties of the peopt... Sir Francis Burdett, Mr.
Hobhouse, and an immense number of gentlemen of high
lespectability, occupied places on the hustings.
Mr. Moan's, the High Bailiff, was unanimously called
to the Chair. lie stated, that during the proceedings of
the last Parliament, he bad attentively observed the question
of Reform, and pet fectly satisfied he felt that Reform was
absolutely necessary. The Ministers when they came
into office, etitetel it under a pledge of bringing forward
the great Measure of Reform. They had nobly redeemed
that pledge, and had been as nobly supported in it.
by our patriotic King.—(Loud cheers.) Finding there
was no possibility of carrying the measure in that
Parliament they determined on advising his Majesty to
dissolve it, which he had been graciously pleased to do,
and which had occasioned the meeting of this day. The
resolutions to Le submitted to the meeting would be
brought forward for the approbation of 'the meeting by
the various speakers who should follow him.
GEORGE HUMC, Esq., came forward with sincere
pleasure to propose the first resolution. This was a
time at which no man ought to screen his opinions—every
one favourable to liberty was called upon to give
utterance to his fe, lings, the King h Lying constitu-
tionally exercised his prerogative for the express purpose
of affording to his people the opportunity of uttering
their sentiments.—(Loud cheers )—This was the first
time in our history that our Kim.; had done an act which at
once not only proved himself to IL! our father, but our pi os
t!ctor.—( Cheers. ) And his Majesty's appeal to the country
could not but be anSwered by one unanimous response.
This was the first moment when a trial of strength
was brought to a ttst, and it wout)l be for the
'people to show whether they and their King were or
were not to be beaten by a boroughmonger faction.—
(" Bravo, bravo.") He (Mr. H.) did not anticipate the
Ministers being defeated when Parliament met again,
but if they should he could not name the consequences.—(A
voice in the crowd, " Speak out, don't be afraid.") lie
durst not look at the green fields of his country, and ex-
press what lie thought would be the alternative. To avoid
any thing of that sort, nothing was wanted but energy
of mind on the part of the people. This once shown,
victory would he their's. lie would now read the first
resolution.

We give below a copy of the resolutions, and address,
which were all carried unanitnously.
Mr. CARPUE seconded the first resolution, and earnestly
calk] upon the people to come forward and use every exer-
tion to show their senQe of gratitude to his Majesty.

Mr. FALLON moved the address, and
Mr. BEA UmosT seconded the resolution, and also read
the terms of the address, which was loudly cheered at the
end of ahnost every sentence.
Sir FRANCIS BURDETT then presented himself amidst
crest cheering. He said that the circumstances
under which they had met this day had in them
s‘oething so peculiar and, at the same time, so
encouraging, and so animating—something offering
the inhabitants' of Westminster in particu'ar—a gratifica-
tion the highest they could receive, which was the
approaching and indispensible result to arise from their
long continued efforts, and the anticipation of their final
success. It had been often his lot to meet with large
portions of his countrymen, and especially the inhabitants
of the city of Westminster, under circumstance's of a very
diffetent description—under .circumstances in which they
had to complain of grievances, and of the tyrannical
conduct of the Ministers of the Clown. Now, however
for the first time were they met for the purpose of support-
Lig their magnanimous King—(Bravo, bravo)—in the
exercise of his prerogative in the defence of the
rights: and liberties of his people, and for the final
annihilation of that ignominious borough denotni-
nation—(Loyd cheering)—under which this country
had so long groaned, and under which accumulated
evils bad been heaped upon the heads of his Majesty's
subjects.—Much cheering.) It now appeared that
the country bad upon the throne a man whose mind
was not to be swayed by the influence of the corrupt, nor
to he intimidated by the insinuations of the interested.
—(Hear, hear.) A King who meant to be not the
King o 1 a faction, but the King of his people— a
people who he (the Honourable Baronet) hoped
would come forward with one voice to uphold
his Majesty's decision—nay, who would come forward in.
any way whatever that might be necessary to support their
Sovereign, and his determination to benefit his people._,..
(Loud the Ts, and cries of "We will, we will.") The
Hon. Baronet then proceeded, at great length, to address
the meeting. which we regret we have not time
more fully to rive. He urged, over and over again,
the necessity of union and individual as well as collective
exertion. He begged that subscriptions of even a penny
or a sixpence might be entered into throughout the
country, that the Reformers might thus also be able to
compete with their enemies.
The meeting was proceeding when we went to press.

The following were the resolutions agreed to :—.

Resolved, Ist. That this meeting, impressed with the deepest
sense of gratitude tbrth ediemcsistiivieetnoietaiseueraeutoopf Reformtetl by thaetittee
in dissolving a Parliament
just rights and liberties of his subjects, do convey to Ins Most
Gracious Majesty their sincere and heartfelt assurances of affec-
tion and loyalty to his person, in an address, signed by the
High Bailitron behalf of the meeting,which it shall berequested
of Earl Grey to present to his Majesty.
Resolved, 2dly. That the Address to his Majesty about to be
submitted to the meeting be the one adopted.
TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.

SIRE,

It is with a profound feeling of affection and loyalty to your
Majesty's Person and Government, that, on the present great
and momentous occasion,_ we, the Electors of the City of West-
minster, approach your Majesty, to tender unto you our heart-
felt gratitude, for the firm, wise, and Constitutional use of the
Royal Prerogative which it has pleased your Majesty to make in
proroguing and dissolving the late Parliament. In common with
a large majority of your Majesty's faithful and loyal subjects, we
entertain the cheering and ennobling hope, that by this grand
Constitutional deed the way is prepared for breaking down for ever
the barrier which obstructs the free course of the Monarch's
patriotic wishes in behalf of his loyal people; and that regaining
our constitutional rights, we, and our posterity, feeling deeply
that we shall be indebted for the same to the noble efforts of a
Patriot King, shall ever hold dear and sacred the name arid
memory of your Most Excellent Majesty. That your Majesty
may, however, live long, to reign happily over a free people, is
the ardent prayer of every good and loyal subject.
Resolved,—idly, That at a public meeting of the electors of
Westminster, held on the 4th May, 1807, it was unanimously re-
solved—
" That it would he to the immortal honour of the city of West-
minster, and -afford a great and glorious example to the electors.
of the United Kingdom, that they should return Sir Francis
Burdett to Parliament free from every expellee and sacrifice to
himself."

That this resolution was carried into effect.
That from that time to the present the electors of Wcst-
ininster, friends of Reform, have pursued, and are resolved
still to pursue, the same course; and they now think they may att
this important crisis, without incurring the charge of arrogance'
earnestly recommend the electors in every place where they really
have the choice of representatives, to follow the example sore-
peatedly set them, and, by scorning bribes and spurning corrup-
tion, return such men only as - will pledge themselves persever-
ingly to support the Ministerial Bill for reforming the Parliament,
and further, that the freeholders in every county, and more
especially the householders in every town and district to which
the right of suffrage will by the Reform Bill be extended, should
instantly form themselves into Societies and Committees, and
collect money for the purpose of assisting Candidates favourable
to Reform, to oust the enemies of the King, his Ministers, am,
his People.

The KING and QUEEN took an.ailiog vu
Sunday, twice round. ihe Regent's_ park and afterwart
in 110 e-park, where thy were received with crithuilastu:
acclamations. Their 'MAJESTIES were observed to be in
remarkable health and