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WESTMINSTER LLECTION.

APUBLIC MEETING of the ELEC-
TORS of WESTMINSTER will he held at the
CROWN and ANCHOR TAVERN, STRAND, on
TtiuitsDAY next, tie 22d instant, at Seven o'clock in the
Evening, to adopt measures to secure the Return of Lieu-
tenant-Colonel EVANS.
The Chair will be taken at Seven o'clock precisely.
A. MICHIE, Hon. Sec.
Committee Room, Salopian Coffee House,
Nov. 20, 1832.

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LONDON,
TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 20, 1832.

It is reported that the Vernon frigate, Captain
COLLIER, has been taken off the coast of Hol-
land by two Dutch men-of-war. The account
Is said to have been brought by a fisherman, who
has arrived at Deptford, who witnessed the en-
gagement, and who has in his charge communi-
cations for the Admiralty. We need scarcely
add, that we do not believe the report. The
Vernon is commanded by some of the best
officers in the service, and her crew is most
excellent. Our opinion i., that it would puzzle
the two best frigates, of equal size, in the Dutch
navy to take the Vernon. She would sink first.

It is stated in the Brussels correspondence of
a Morning Paper that the French army now in
Belgium is not likely to return to France when
the object for which it entered that country shall
have been attained. As we do not happen to
be gifted with the powers of discernment which
the foreign correspondents of some of the Papers
pretend to the possession of, and cannot under-
take to gather the intentions of a Government
from the peculiar look or shake of the head of
any of its agents, we shall not take upon our-
selves to contradict the prophecy in question,
although we shall presume to examine the degree
of probability to which it is entitled. In the
first place, the French were not allowed to enter
Belgium without the most solemn pledges and
guarantees for the speedy evacuation of it when
the immediate object for which they were put in
motion should have been gained; and, as the co-
operation of this country in the coercive measures
against the Dutch was only given on the receipt

of such pledges and guarantees, we do not
think the French would venture, if they were
even so inclined, to detach Great Britain from
its alliance with them, and force it by a breach
of faith to abandon France to her own resources
' against the Powers of the continent, if our
Cabinet should not be unwise enough to go so
far in the indignation which such a breach of

faith would cause as to join other Powers against
France. In the second place, we would ask
what the French are to gain by remaining in
Belgium after the object for which they entered
has been settled, even supposing that their re-
maining in that country should not offend us ?
It has been said that they want to annex Bel-
gium to France, and to attack Prussia. Now, as
Belgium is open to France and can be overrun
by French troops at any future time as well as
now, the mere permission to enter that country
is of no importance to the French, and therefore
they can lose nothing by retiring, and thus fulfil-
ling their pledge to England, though they should
hereafter attempt—we do not see why, having by
a family alliance as much counted on Belgium
for any useful purpose as if it were their own—
to annex the Belgian territory to that of France.
Then, as to an attack upon Prussia, can any
man be so weak in intellect as to suppose that
the French Government would choose the pre-
sent moment for such a proceeding, without
any overt act of hostility on the part of Prussia—
without any funds provided by the Chamber—
and without those means of prevailing against
so extensive and powerful an army as that of
Prussia, on her own soil, which the French
would possess, if the Prussians were ever to
make an attack upon them ? Is it likely that
France will try war against the Holy Alliance by
a breach of faith to England, on the offensive,
when by remaining on the defensive, she will
have such a command over her resources as to
defy the united power of the continental des-
pots ? We think not. Whatever may be the
wishes of the French Government, or the nation,
there is too much good sense in both for so
quixotic a scheme. France will, probably, have
occasion to curb the insolence of the absolute
Powers, but she will be able to do it under cir-
cumstances more favourable and honourable
than would present themselves were she to break
the covenant under which her troops have en-
tered Belgium, and rush, without previous pre-
paration, into an European war. It would be
well, we think, if the politicians who correspond
with the London Press would borrow a little
common sense from the experience of others, or
the facts which come immediately under their
own eyes, instead of attempting to alarm or
juggle the credulous people in this country, who
set down every speculation from abroad as a
piece of real news.

Extract of a letter from Captain BALL, of the
Everthorpe, dated Downs, Nov. 19 :

" Yesterday afternoon I passed the Talavera, 74 gun!,
with her cutwater carried away, and much damaged, ap-
parently having run on board of some ship, and the French
frigate Calypso, with the appearance of shot holes in her
sides, both in the Queen Channel bound to Sheerness.

Late in the day the following letters from the
Custom-house were received at Lloyd's :

" Custom-house. Nov. 20, 1832.

" Sir,—ln reply to your letter of this date, signifying
the request of the Committee for Managing the Affairs of
Lloyd's, to be informed whether orders have been received
by the Board of Customs fur giving permission for all
Dutch vessels which had clearances outward., previous to
the embargo, to sail for Holland, I have it in command
to acquaint you, for the information of the Committee,
that the Board has not received directions to the above
effect ; but that orders have been issued to the officers of
this department not to stop any British ship or vessel
which may have cleared out previously to the date of the
Order in Council of the 6th instant, and I herewith trans-
mit a copy of the order issued upon the subject.
(Signed) " C. SCOVELL, Secretary.
" To John Bennett, Esq., Lloyd's.
" To the Collector and Comptroller at —."
" Gentlemen,—With reference to the Order in Council
of the 6th instant, directing that ❑o ships or vessels be-
longing to any of his Majesty's subj• cts be permitted to
enter and clear out for any of the ports within the do-
minions of the King of the Netherlands until further
orders, the Commissioners direct that no stop be made of
any British ship or vessel cleared out previously to the
date of the said Order in Council, but that the Masters of
such vessels, after being warned of the probability of their
detention in the Dutch ports to which they may be bound,
be forthwith permitted to proceed on their voyages.

(Signed) " C. SCiArELL.
" Custom house, London, Nov. 19, 1832."

The following are Extracts from German and
Frankfort Papers received this morning :

FRONTIERS OF POLAND, NOV. I.—The Russian Go-
vernment has for some time past dropped all judicial in-
quiries against subjects of the kingdom of Poland, impli-
cated in the revolution, and proceedings are now continued
or commenced only against those members of the two
Chambers who voted the deposition of the House of Ro-
manow, against the members of the late Government,
and the leaders of the military party. A great number of
Poles, who have been residing in foreign countries, returned
home, without any notice being taken by the authorities.
All this passes without any notice being issued by the
Government, of this kind of amnesty, and it seems that
political considerations have influenced the Govern-
ment in making this omision. In the Grand Duchy
of Posen, on the contrary, all persons who went
to the kingdom of Poland are subjected to judi-
cial proceedings on their return, though an amnesty has
long been expected in that province. The penalty of con-
fiscation is indeed now in fact abolished with respect to all
those persons, though the tribunals are properly still bound
to pronounce it. But the penalty of imprisonment decreed
against those who went to Poland remains, and it is there-
fore asked, if an amnesty is not published, how more than
4,000 persons are to suffer the penalty of imprisonment
pronounced against them ?