Star.
London, England, 1810-04-07 00:00:00

" BUR DrlT-W ESTMINSTER."

" A Requistion is signing for a Public Meeting of the Elec•nrs i
of the City and Liberec, of Westminster, to adopt such measures
as may be expedient, in consequence of the House of Commons
having deprived us of one of our Representatives."
For some hours the assembled populace shewed no I
disposition to commit any acts of violence ; but about S
five o'clock they began to throw mud at those who
refused to join in their acclamations.
The carriages of several Noblemen and gentlemen ,
(among others thas of Lord Viscount HAMPDEN)/ I
who, ignorant of the assemblage, drove that way, i
were assailed, and the windows of some of them i
were broken. An officer on horseback, in full nni- 1
' form, notwithstanding the concessions of bowing and 1
riding with his hat in his hand, was pelted with mud ;
and at one time, from the spirit of his horse, his situa- I
tion was very hazardous. A carman, in a coal-wag-'
gon, who refused to pay the required salutations, ;
being assailed with a volley of mud, returned the fire
with great vivacity, pouring upon the assailants a I
discharge of coals, and with considerable effect. This'
part of the performances was quite of the comic kind ; (
but about eight in the evening matters began to as-
sume alarming appearances, nor was it long till the
populace proceeded to various acts of outrage.
1 Between eight and nine o'clock a detachment pro- i
cesded from Piccadilly to attack the house, No. 50, !
in Berkeley-square, supposed to be the residence of i
Mr. Lrrnnamcn, the mover of the resolutions against 1
Sir Famccts Busantrr, but which is now in the pos-
session of Mt. RAMS. The populaCe proceeded to
• break the windows ; but on Mr. RAIKES (whose Lady I
at the time lay a corpse its the house) making his ap- 1
pearance, the populace finding their mistake, left this
house, and proceeded to that of Lord CASTLEREAGII, I
at the comer of King-street,StJanses's-square,of which 1
the whole of the windows and window-blihds were
instantly demolished. Returning again to Berkeley-
' square,the crown attacked the Earl of DARTMOUTH'S
house, and treated it it in the same manner. They then
proceeded to the house of Mr. YORKE, in Charlcs-
street, Berkeley-square, whicli experienced so violent

k, •of glass reliiii;nf,l whole: the windows of Mr. PE-n-
-ay/Xi h .use in Downing-street, were also broken.

Shortly after these proceed:ars had com-
menced, the Horse Guards Were called out. As the
Mischief began in Berkeley-square they proceeded to
that quatter, but there the demolition of windows was
already effected. About 350 of the Guards were sent
to protect the magazine in Hyde Park ; and, it we
are rightly infoi-med, some of the guns in the Tower
of London were loaded with grape shot.
These and similar proceedings induced a few of
the inhabitants to pnt lights in their windows, in the
hope that they would thereby avert the fury of the as-
sailants. This absurdity increased instead of dimi-
nishing the Mischief. The multitude instantly, but
very inconsistently, required lights to be shewn as a
proof of concurrence in their sentiments respecting
Sir FRANCIS BURnETT. The consequence was, that
all the streets in the NiVest end of the town were bril-
liantly illuminated.

The military that were called in behaved with great
coolness and humanity, and by their whole conduct
evinced that they had received orders not to proceed
to violence till the last extremity—a line of conduct
which entitles those by whose instructions they acted,
to a considerable share of praise, for the consequences
of a different mode of procedure might have been
most calamitous and dreadful.

It is a happy circumstance that the assemblage,
which was immense, chewed no disposition to perpe-
trate acts of personal violence, but confined the expres-
sion of their sentiments to the breaking of windows,
hissing, groaning, shouting and the like, or the con-
sequences might have been most lamentable ; for we
have reason to believe that a considerable military
force was at no great distance, and ready to have been
called in had there been any actual necessity. This
we state not merely from the promptness with which
the Horse Guards reached the first scene of tumult,
but from the following letter from Woolwich, received
this morning :

" WOOLWICH, APRIL 6.
14 What can be the matter with you London people?
We cannot ascribe to any foreign cause the movements
we witness in this place. For some days we have
had two troops of the Horse Artillery under arms ;
and last night, in addition, we have had one
.brigade
of foot artillery under arms. This morning, the whole
were under orders for London ; but they were coun-
termanded after the horses were yoked to the guns—
with orders still to hold themselves in readiness to
march at a moment's notice 1"

The following is a list of the different houses that
have received injury on the present occasion :
In Grosvenor-squre, the windows of the Duke of Motcritose
and the Earl of Virs-zNIORLAND are completely broken; the
walls and doors coveted with mud : two empty houses, in the
lame square, and several in South' A.adley-strect, are al:os
broken.
In Berkeley-square the windows of Mr. PAIN and Mr. RA ME!
are partially broken : the fine plate-glass windows of the Earl
ofDatt•rmou-rn, on the east side of the square, are shivered to
atoms:
In Hill-street, Berkeley-square, the House of the Earl of Czar-
HAM is hideously disfigured—the windows broken, and the
parlour shutters driven in by the mere force of brick-hits.—
'rite parlour windows of Sir litNav STRACUY, M. P. in the

PLYMOUTH, APRIL 5.
Captain PERRY, the agent ,f the transports, who
came home in the Agincourt, states, that he never
recollects such dreadfully tempestuous weather as
they experienced for five dnvs, on their passage ; and
thinks it next to impossible for all the transports to
have weathered the storm. Only two, the Agincourt
and Helen, are as yet accounted for here. It was
impossible for the convoy to keep together; or to ten-
dir the leait assistance to each other. At one period
of the storm it presented the most heart-rending ap-
pearancemen washed overboard and drowned, in
sight of their companions : masts, sparr, shattered
boats, and pieces wreck, floating about in every
direction.—l am extremely sorry to say, that the prize
brought in lAst evening by the FMERALD frigate, was
not the Laurel sloop Or ar, but the Laurel French
brig ; she is, however, 1 very good prize ; and, from
the number of vessels that are known to be on :he
look-out after her namesake, it is next to impossible
that she should escape the vigilance of our tars.—
A large Danish merchant brig, prize to the EAU..
EALD friga;c, came in this day. The DEFIANCE sailed
to-day fur Rochefort ; but was forced to come back,
the wind having come round to the S. S. W. which
is as fair as it can blow for the arrival of new from
Cadii or Lisbon.

P. S. Arrived another large transport ship, with
French troops from Guadaloupe, one of those disper-
sed in the gale mentioned in my last. Also arrived the
Cecilia tender; from Cork, with part of the TitOMPPS
(guard-ship) men, to be paid wages.

PORTSMOUTH, APRYL 6.
Arrived his Majesty's ship CLYDE, from Lisbon ;
Elenor and Alfer, from the Downs ; and HARD] gun
brig, from a cruise.—Wind S. blows hard.