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CITY ELECTION.
UNION REFORM COMMITTEE.
IT is requested that all Claims upon the Cow-
inittee be sent in forthwith to the Secretary, Mr.
K'
4* Drury, at the London Tavern, that they may be
I!tnediately discharged ; and as it is intended that the
andidates shall not be permitted to pay any part of these
tlPences, a Book has been Opened at the London Tavern,
where Subscriptions may be received.
GEORGE GROTE, Chairman.

CITY ELECTION.
• •
T a MEETING of the UNION RE-
FORM' COMMITTEE held at the London
tavern, this 29th day of April, 1831,

The
GEORGE GROTE, Esq., in the Chair,
.the following Resolutions were unanimously adopted :
That i; is the opinion of this Committee, that the ex-
Pence)] attending the Election should not devolve upon the
Candidates.
That the Livery be invited to enter into a subscription
to enable the Committee to defray the expellees.
That Subscriptions be received by the Committee, who
I'Ml sit daily at the London Tavern, where a book is opened
to the purpose.
• That this Committee do•now adjourn, and that a Gene-
r'l Meeting of the Committee be held at the London
Tavern on Monday next, the 2d (13y of May, at Seven
o'clock in the evening precisely.

GEORGE GROTE, Chairman.

The Chairman having left the Chair, it wa; resolved,
That the warmest thanks of this Committee, being
eminently due, are hereby given to-the Chairman, George
Grote, Esq., for the unremitting attention and great ability
Which he has evinced in carrying into effect the import-
ant object of this Committee : in the promotion of which
object his zeal and disinterestedness have been pecubarly
colupicuous.

TO THE WORTHY AND INDEPENT, LIVERY

OF LONDON.

ExtriTHEit LIVERYMEN,
R. WARD has RESIGNED ! The
four Reforming Candidates, WOOD, WAITH•
THOMPSON, and VENABLES, are now your
REPRESENTATIVES.

The United Committee, in their own name, and in the
Nine of the four Candidates, congratulate you on this
"Paralleled and ever memorable triumph. Its results, not
only in London, but throughout the whole empire, will be
splendid beyond calculation. It will act with electric ra-
lldity, and with irresistible effect, on the dispositions of
the provincial Electors. They will contemplate with de-
light and admiration the unanimous enthusiasm of the
citizens of London in the cause of Reform ; their un-
bounded gratitude to their patriotic Sovereign ; and their
determination to second, with all their efforts, his gracious
'neasure. The victory, glorious in itself, is rendered still
"re glorious by the circumstances under which it has
been achieved. Tke gentleman who has retired is distin-
g:aished for every virtuous and honourable quality; en-
"ed on every ground to the respect and esteem both of
/lien& and opponents. But he has been opposed to the
Ministers on the Reform Bill, and this alone has deprived
him of your suffrages. He has been unable to contend
against Reform, and against a constituency eagerly bent on
chtaining Reform.
The Committee have reason to exult, that they were
able to succeed in uniting four Reforming Candidates, and
four only ; in order that the fate of this Election might
turn upon the single question of Reform.
Conscious of being actuated by the purest devotion to
the public cause, they have despised the strained and mis-
applied imputation of coalition. The result has demon-
strated, that the attachment of the Livery to Reform is
rooted, strenuous, and universal : it has demonstrated
that the Livery, uninfluenced by the attempts which have
been made to rouse them to a selfish, but mistaken view of
the value ofthe existing franchise, are sensibly alive to the
Interests of the country at large, and are willing to sacri-
"e all exclusive privileges at the shrine of the national
Welfare.

Liverymen of London ! Your victory of this day de-
tides beyond all doubt the success of the Reform Bill in
the ensuing Parliament. The same sun which has wit-
nessed your triumph, has also witnessed the triumph of
Reform among your neighbours in Southwark ; and the
spirit which has animated your exertions is spreading, and
Must spread, over the whole empire.

I have the honour to be, Gentlemen,
Your most obedient Servant,
London Tavern, April 29, 1831. GEO. GROTE.

TO THE LIVERY OF LONDON.

GENTLEMEN, '
SHOULD, at any period, have felt most
:4- deeply the honour of being returned to Parliament,
for the sixth time, as your Representative. But the con-
fidence which you have reposed in me, by associating my
name with the triumph of the great cause of Reform,
most peculiarly demands my utmost gratitude. My thanks
Will be best expressed by the cordial support which I shall
continue' to give to the important measure, founded upon
principles which I have ever advocated. You will have
animated the country at large by your noble efforts; and I
Congratulate you on the proud result that the Representa-
tiVea of the City of London will, on every future division
of the Bill, be found unanimously exerting their influence
to carry its principles into full effect.
I have the honour to be, Gentlemen,
Your obedient and obliged servant,

MW. WOOD.
249 Great George-street, Westminster, April 29, 1831.

To THE WORTHY AND INDEPENDENT LIVERY
OF THE CITY OF LONDON.
WHILE I express to you my warmest
' thanks for the distinguished manner in which
you this day again returned me as one of your Representa-
ti in Parliament, I beg to congratulate you upon the
triumphant manifestation of Public Opinion upon the great
measure of Reform, which has received the sanction of
our. patriotic Sovereign and his enlightened Ministers,
affording a brilliant example to the rest of the country.
I have, Gentlemen, the honour to be,
Your faithful and devoted servant,
ROBERT WAITHMAN.
April 29, 1831.

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