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I . # 141 t I : lii: COURT OF ALDERMEN. The.flight Hon. the‘oan Maros held his last Court of Aldermen, at the Guildhall, on Saturday. No bwiness beyond that of the ordinary routine ap► peared ol the summons, nor was any thing of pecu liar interest er importance expected to be brought forward, it being generally understood to be merely his Lordship's farewell Court. The LOKI) Mayon took the Chair a little before one o'clock. Some small difficulty at first occurred in making a Court, but in a very short period the attendance was more than usually numerous. Mr. Sheriff PA RKINS was not in the seat usually appro priated for the Sheriff, nor was be observed to be in attendance at all. The reading of the Minutes of the last Court hay ing been g one through, a letter received by the Right I ion. the ' Lord Mayor, from Mr. Alderman Waith man, dated from Winchmore-hill, the Alderman's country residence, November the sth, was read in nearly the following words: tiv Loan AND Gr..‘rcrssEN—Being prevented by severe indis position from being present at the Court of Aldermen to be held to-morrow ; and as certain proceedings, in which I and others have been personally concerned, have been entered upon at re cent Courts without any previous notice, should it be intended to resume any such proceedings to-morrow, I beg to submit to your Lordship and the Court, the justice, fairness, and pro priety of postponing the consideration of the same, until I may be sufficiently recovered to attend in my place in the Court. I have the honour to he, my Lord and Gentlemen, To the Rt. lion. the Lord Mayor I Your obedient servant, and Court of Aldermen. It. WAITHMAN. Mr. Alderman WOOD moved, that the letter then read be entered on the Minutes. A short conversation ensued, in which it was urged that the letter was a private communication to the Lord Mayor, and not of that importance to require being inserted on the Minutes. The Town Clerk also suggested, that it was not usual to enter on the Mi nutes every communication made by the Lord Mayor to the Court of letters received by him. On search ing the Journals, entry of similar communications was found, where the same were addressed to the Court ; and it appearing that the letter in question was addressed, not only to the Lord Mayor, but to the Court of Aldermen also, it was held to be a re gular communication to the Court, and the worthy Alderman's motion for entering the same on the Mi-, mutes, was agreed to. Sir WILLIAM CURTIS then presented a Report from the Committee of Privileges, to whom it was referred at the last Court to inquire into the circum stances which took place in the Guildhall, on Mi chaelmas Day, at the Election of a Lord Mayor for the year ensuing; to take such legal advice, as they might dean necessary, and to report, whether any, and what proceedings, should be had thereon. The Report was then read by the Clerk ; it stated generally, that the Committee had examined evi dence as to the transactions which occurred in the Guildhall on Michaelmas Day; that statements of the circumstances of the case had been submitted for the opinion of several learned Gentlemen thereon, all of whom agreed in opinion, from the circumstances submitted to their consideration, that the occurrences which then took piece were improper and illegal ; and that proceedings at law might be instituted against all the parties implicated therein. The Com mittee therefore recommended to the Court to file Criminal Informations against Mr. Alderman Waith man, Mr. Sinn iff Parkins, Mr. Hurcombe, Mr. Bum stead, Mr. Thompson, Mr. Fearon, Mr. Stevens, and Mr. Hunt, for the tumult, and for obstructing the Electon of a Lord Mayor. This Report was signed by the LORD MAYOR, Sir WILLIAM Coats, Sir WILLIAM LEIGHTON, Sir CLAVDIUSSIEPHEN HUNTER, and Mr.AldermanCox. The Report having been read, Sir WILLIAM CURTIS rose—He regretted exceed ingly the highly improper and illegal proceedings which had taken place in Common Hall oa the occa sion alluded to, and the necessity which existed for the interference of that Court, which he considered as imperiously called for under the circumstances, in order to hold out an example to others, by the pro secution and punishment of the actors and abettors of those tumultuous and improper proceedings, and thereby prevent a repetition of such disgraceful scenes in future. He lamented to find among the number of those who were accused, the name of a Member of that Court. He declared he entertained no feel ing of animosity against the worthy Alderman, nor against any of the parties implicated, many of whom he personally knew, and believed to be highly re spectable ; but he felt he had a public duty - to per form, and it was from a sense of that duty alone that he now called upon that Court to interpose their authority, to protect their own rights and privileges, and to insure the peace and regularity of the public proceedings of the Citizens at large. The worthy Baronet concluded by moving— mat this Court do approve of the Report of the Committee, and.that the same be referred back to them, to carry the same into execution, by proceeding against the parties named, by In formation, Indictment, or otherwise. Sir C. S. HUNTRR, in a short speech, seconded the :notion. Mr. Alderman WooD deprecated the hastiness of such a proceeding, and called upon the Court, by every consideration of justice and fairness, not to de termine upon the prosecution of a Member of that Court without any previous notice or intimation to him of such a business being to be brought forward, especially as the Honourable Member had appealed to their candour not to proceed against him in his al)• sense, and at a time when illness alone prevented his appearance in hi: place to defend himself. No Mem ber was more regular in his attendance than that worthy Alderman, nor more ready on all occasions to justify his conduct ; nor could he perceive any reason whatever for precipitation in a business of so serious and important a nature. He confessed he was lzritself taken somewhat by surprise, and had no ex- P• -ctuinn• till within the last hour, that this business would come under the consideration elf the Court that day ; no notice whatever of that fact was in serted in the summons, nor did he know, though he w as• one of the Committee of Privileges, that the Committee were prepared to make their Report. He had received no summons to attend the Com mittee for that purpose, but happening to be at the Guildhall that morning, he lea, nt by accident that the Committee were sitting ; he went instantly to the Committee Room, and found there, not indeed all the Gentlemen whose wanes were to the Report, though he took it. fur granted they had been in attendance, Some of the Law Omcers here intimated to Mr. Alderman Thorp, that even if that fact were ascer tained and allowed, it could make no difference what ever in the law of the question. Mr. Alderman THORP was not enabled to decide what difference it would make in the law of the case; but he conceived it ought, and would have great weight in the decision of the Court upon the ques tion. Even admitting the correctness of the facts stated in the Report, he had great doubt as to the right of that Court to interfere with the privileges and conduct of the Livery in Common Hall ; for which reason, and also upon the former grounds he bad urged, he should feel it his duty to vote for the adjournment of the consideration of the Report. ' Mr. Alderman BIRCH rose, with some warmth, and insisted upon the propriety of the Court's pro ceeding immediately. He disclaimed all party feel ing, nor was he actuated by the slightest sentiment of hostility or animosity towards any one of the indi viduals implicated in these transactions; but the right of that Court to interfere on such a business had been publicly questioned, and even denied—it was, therefore, of the utmost importance to the dignity of that Court, and to the Citizens at large, that that question should be determined as speedily as possible ; that it should be ascertained what were the rights and privileges of the Court of Aldermen, or whether they had any rights and privileges at all? , He con sidered, that on the legal issue of this case depended that decision, and he could see no reason whatever for delay. He should, therefore, support the motion for approving the Report, and for proceeding upon it forthwith. One or two of the Aldermen made observation; .but more in the nature of •desultory conversation than open discussion, and, on the question being put, the Amendment was negatived, and the original Motion, for referring the Report back to be carried ' into execution, was agreed to. I l'he Low Moron called the attention or the Court to tile but only the Lord Mayor, Sir William Curtis, and e . trerTisttnce of the o recent publication rces of. hi th s e Proceed:few tea a Alderman Cox, from whom he learnt that the " Itcpo rat co r u wi rt y ra Iwo o r w r ritt r en ee l ate ut ri s an the . sobje Lo ot. rd bot p tea business Will already concluded, that a Report had been agreed to, and would' be presented to the Court himself with a verbal statement of the facts as they occurred.... He considered the publication as a breach of the privileges that Court, and thought it of importance that inquiry Should be that day. made by what means, and by whom, such communications had It was here explained to the worth y Alderman been made? As this infringement on the Privileges - of the Court that a summons to attend the Co mmittee that morn- had commenced during his Mayoralty, he should have whited ine had been sent to him, and the shortness of the that some decision on the subject could have been come to before notice was accounted for from the circumstances that he left the s Chair ; and be had, wit d h that to the view, bad felt it his duty to make the tatement one Court. the' opinions of the Learned Counsel had not been Mr. Alderman Cox coseurred us the importance and name. procured till late on the evening previous, and that sky of ascertaining through whom, and in what manner, their the instructions of the Lord Mayor for summoning proceedings bad got before the Public? That Court was not as the Committee were not delivered to the proper Of- open Court, and their proceedings must therefote have gone hoer till eleven o'clock on Friday n i g ht. through some improper channel; he thought every Alderman ought to be called upon to declare upon his honour whether or Mr. Alderman Woo], .said, he would not under- not he had any participation in causing the said proceedings to be take to deny that a summons had been sent to him ; made public ? he must, however, declare, that he had been at his This proposition or Mr. Alderman Cos's occasioned several remarks, and one or two of the Members declared their inno ceueresreioun, t h o n h w a e tn r g m w ad s e n ai ot iy fo comn l i l unicat counting-house, and had neither seen nor heard of any t ion ea e c n h th A e ld stibject ; the such summons. He contended, nevertheless, that the Committee were not in a situation to make their ci sent, and, after some aconversatioan,yth put o tter droppe r :w a ll:l7c Report, and that he had a right to conclude that any precis he Court e motion. The other regular business being gone t adjourned. such Report would not be made , and could no t with through. propriety be made, until certain Papers, for which he had moved, and which he considered of great im• portance, as to the proper decision of the case, were before thein.--EThe worthy Alderman, we under stand, had moved in the Committee for the produc-1 tion of Precedents, to prove the right of the Court' of Aldermen to interfete with the privileges of the Livery, and aho to shew the right of that Court to direct prosecutions to be instituted at the expense of the City.J—These Papers, the worthy Alderman said, for reasons unknown to him, had not been laid before the Committee; and he insisted that, withput a due consideration OR those particular points, they ought not to have adopted the recommendation for instituting criminal prosecutions. One of the officers saki, the papers moved for and i;rrdered by the Committee were in preparation, but there had not been sufficient time to make the neces sary search, and get the documents completed. Mr. Alderman Woos urged that this was a good and sufficient reason why the Court ought not to pro ceed further on the business at present-it might turn out that they were interfering where they had no right, and incurring an expense which they were not authorised to defray out of the funds of the City. At all events, in his judgment, the Report had been prematurely agreed to, without the proper docu ments before them, and as there could be no occa sion whatever for precipitation, even if the recom mendation of the Committee was ultimately'adopted, as there had been no notice of this business on the summons ; and, above all, as the Honourable Member accused had thrown himself on their justice, not to be condemned unheard, and, in his absence, he shoul move as an amendment, that the consideration of the Report be adjourned to the next Court. - 11Ir. Alderman Toone seconded the motion for the adjournment of the proceedings, and dwelt with touch force upon the want of candour and feeling in thus directing a prosecution against one of their own Members, who was absent through unavoidable and unforeseen illness, and who appeared to rely that they would not resume proceedings against him, much less come to an ultimate decision in his absence, and without hearing what he might have to urge in his defence. There was one point respecting this business, which did not appear to have occupied the attention of the Committee, but which he considered as of much importance in the case. It was well known, and had been publicly intimated, previou* to Michaelmas Day, that an attempt would be made at the Common Hall to go into the consideration of other business previously to proceeding to the Ekes tion of a Lord Mayor. If, therefore, his Lordship knew of such an intention—if he thought such a roceeding riotous, and an illegal obstruction of the Election—if, as had been asserted, the mover on that occasion had informed his Lordship what he was about to do, and tendered to him the motion he was ' about to propose, before he quitted the hustings, it was his duty, if he apprehended riot, to have stopped to prevent it, and not, by retiring from the Hall, to leave it in doubt, at least, whether he considereti such proceeding improper or otherwise? He con ceived, therefore, that it was of importance that the fact should be ascertained, to the satisfaction of the Committee and the Court, whether his Lordship was aware of the proceedings about to be adopted, as should it appear that his Lordship was fully inform ed upon that subject, his quitting the Hall without interfering to prevent it, might have been construed by many to sanction the opinion, that such proceed ings were neither irregular, unusual, nor illegal. THE EVENING STAR. 'LONDON. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1819. THE FUNDS. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAT AT ONE O d CLOCK : 3 per Cent. Reduced sei 671 67; . 3 per Cent. Consols 671 614 67i k per Cent. 84iii 5 per Cent. Navy 1054 latt 104 Bank Long Annuities 1711 Imperial 3 per Cent. Anns. 651 ludia Bonds 7 S pre. Exchequer Bills (2d.) par, 2s. dis. Commercial 22 discount Otnniam ltf dis. Consols for Acct. 67i 68} 67i 68. A Dutch Mail arrived yesterday, and this morning a Mail from Flanders. Their contents may be sum med up in a few words: Lows BONAPARTE, the ci-devant King of HOLLAND, is prosecuting the pre sent King of the NETHERLANDS for the value of a Palace and Estate, which the former had purchased from Mr. Hove, the Banker, at Haarlem, of which the latter took possession as being a demesne of the Crown, on his coming to the Throne. By the last accounts from Cadiz, the total num ber of deaths by the fever was upwards of 12,000. A letter from Stockholm mentions a curious fact, respecting a whole basket-full of letters, sent to Baron CHARLES WILLIIRSTEDT, at Marseilles, by the French Consul at Marseilles, but which nobody at the Laza retto would venture to touch, as they had come from Tunis. It was proposed by the Directors to consign the whole to the flames ; but as many of them were known to be from the Consuls of different European Powers, the Baron insisted that they should not bel disposed of in this summary manner, without first opening them to see which should be preserved and forwarded. He actually undertook the task himself, having first anointed his hands with a pomatum coin. posed of wax, oil, and sulphuric acid ; and was oc cupied for two days in the task without receiving in jury, to the great surprise of the people belonging to l the Lazaretto. An article from Berlin presents some curious no tices respecting the Constitution to be proposed for Prussia; and the Nasremburg Correspondent enters into an explanation, which, if we were Germans, we confess would alarm us, of the searching functions and enormous powers to be exercised by the far-famed Committee of Police-officers at Mentz. They write from Vienna, that a courier from War saw has arrived there, bringing news that the Em peror ALIMANDER had acceded to the Resolutions passed by the. Congress at Carlsbad; but that his Majesty would postpone his decision relative to the territorial arrangements for Poland, and for the se condary States of Germany. By an order of the Aulic Council of War, the whole of the Austrian Landw•ehr are to be disbanded. The Paris Papers of Thursday have arrived since our last. It is doubted whether the KING will be able to open the Chambers on the 15th in person. The state of his MAJESTY'S health, however, is not such as to give cause for any serious alarm. The nuptials of the KING and QUEEN of SPAIN were celebrated at Madrid on the 20th ult. in pre sence of all the great Officers of State, Foreign Mi nister•, icc. Such is the dread of the fever entertained at Ma drid, that individuals, whether provided with pass pores or not, who come from the infected provinces, or those suspected of being so, and not having been examined. by the Health Commissioners, nor pre sented themselves to the Officers of the cordon of qua rantine, are declared irrevocably liable to suffer death. Prince SCHWARTZENBRRO is dangerously ill at his country seat in Bohemia. A rumour of his death was even circulated, but happily is not conflz med. French Fire per Cents. 71 fr. We have received this morning Boston Papers to the 2d October, from which the following are extracts: NEW YORK; SRPTEMBE,R Our readers will learn, with inexpreslible pleasure, that no case a malignant fever was reported to the Board of Health yesterday. Mr. Cobb* did rot go out in the ship Hector, for • , ItiTerPP f ei reßoled •yc:sterday. A/Gentleman from Bermuda iticirms us tlfat the • fever was very bad at St. Georr s ani i; nearly. one-fifth oldie garrison and inhab j fallen victims. A Bermuda Paper of the sth snys,tlie ft has been raging at St. George's Las slh: considerable degree, although there are bad cases. A severe earthquake was experierced Trinidad, on the 12th August, at tw o A . :4 , HALIFAX, SEPTEMBha to. We are much alarmed at the Negress oft at Bermuda. Ahirady Lave the prin c t rz y Officers and chief Engineers fallen vicO ls , Officers, and about 104), out of the gurri t 500 soldiers : the inhabitants have sufferer portion, and all is dismay and confusion 11 1 A Letter from Buenos yres•of AugnstS, Chilian privateer brig, Congress, lying at has been run away with by the crew; it ii provided with Artigas' commission. , Lord Cochrane having made an excursion the coast of Peru to the Northward, left : part of his squadron at Callao. The greatest vity prevails to supply the fleet, and to renew the blockade, while Admiral Blanco rested to be tried by a Court-Martial. Cod made a number of captures, and taken _ of money (Spanish property) out of neutral The American commerce to Buend Ayres value. British imports have bceu very market exceedingly depressed. Yesterday the following Bulletin W2S St. James's Palace: " Windsor Castle, November " His MArtsrr has passed the last month in great but without any diminution of Es disorder. I/ bodily health continues to be good undcr Cot his advanced age." (S:gned as usual.) Saturday his Royal Highness the PRTN accompanied by Sir BENJAMIN BLOOMEIEI at Carlton House, at five o'clock, from ail Of HERTFORD'S seat, at Fudhurn, in Suir Yesterday the Loan CHANCELLOR had : of the PRINCE REGENT, it CaritOß Houst Yesterday their Royal ilighi.esq.s tl YORK and Prince LEOPOLD visited t:-.e GENT. at Carlton House. After POLD, accompanied by Colonel ADDED: Dr. STOCKMAR, left town for Claremont. Colonel St. LEGER, Chamberlain to t!'. , of WALES, has received a letter from Highness, desiring the necessary prepay made for her reception, in Kensington P Royal Highness names the early part cf the probable period of her arrival. Friday evening the Duke of YORK am House, from Chevely Hall, the Duke of seat, near Cambridge. On Saturday his ness left town at ten o'clock, for Windsor, The Duchess of MONTROSE IS serious] at his Grace's scat, Buchanan House, Su The Countess of JLIISEY, and infant son, fair way of doing well. Her Ladyship , r stairs yesterday, tor the first time since ' went. TANGIBLI Box Mor.—When the . Cuntemt was last in Scotland, he learned officiating . Priest of the Hymeneal Tempi no longerforged the chains of wedlock, as now a blacksmith, but a tobacconist. ," better," said Mr. CURRAN, " for he wi happy couple give quid pro quo!" Letters Patent have passed the Great pointing a fourth Archdeaconry to the . Establishment in India, in addition to thi dras, Bombay, and China. The County Fire-Office and Provident are removed to Regent-street, Piccadilly, COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE.—LoVe r or, The Fop's Fortune, was revived of CHA RUM liemsca, as Carlos, was ext transition from the student to .the love book-worm to the man, was finely marks dnced thunders of applause. The levit was made irresistibly laughable by Joi sensibility awoke by the loss of his sin the indifference manifested on account posed death of a man (though no very a in the character of the fop), were made prominent. FARRRN'S DOS Lewis was ceived, and furni)hed a treat to the lovi humour. The father was well sustained BLANCHARD ; the female characters four presentatives its `tics BRUNTON, Miss _ Mrs. Etym. ; and the Comedy was altogether well received by a numerous and elegar' The reconciliation between Mr. H. HA C. KEMBLI, brought about by the kinc tion of the Marquis of WORCESTER, has not correctly stated. We understand that considered some words of Mr. K ruBLI the Green-room, the night before the though not addressed to him, as intender The substance of the words was—that of an actor was become a bad one, and that he belonged to it—or words to that Mr. HARRIS interpreted as meaning that sion was rendered disagreeable or bad, management; and, under this impresuat irritated to the warm language which outrage of which the Public has heard, upon reflection, he lamented. in a cony, the Marquis of WORCESTER, he expressed . for a reconciliation, and wished his I.ordbhi mediator between them. To this the ui:h some reluctance consented, and he Mr. K TNIBLE to leave the matter also. cordingly the parties met in Mr. FAwcerr the Theatre (not in the Green-room) and I I ARRIS made Mr. KEMBLII a warm and . after which Mr. KEHRLS declared, that spoken by him relative to th e profess i on,' tended by him as an insult, either to M: to his brother actors. The latter did not _ as such, and, as Mr. HARRIS had so interpreted he was sorry that he had used them. Thu' ter was settled ; and the kind conduct of of Woncrsrot on the occasion has pra . ...cd by ail. tai 11 :otar,ts er y had the fever n• ber, tw o ; en, arri are stills town ; • ituddt ' d at Porto ..ty ; 1° e.:4. point 01 • W. ibeir se! ;ress of the I . i Vitia::l*lanlitses::::rx.miiicascinlrasctrrrtct:heir;o}rpl:a'.l'l;.',e acti . b:btd.:i e e dl.:ti.°'j. i e': p Cil a l:i°lt:lb l' . r trePl C P4i° s leeiie r (4!l: s me greatest s. Drag ° enl ikon faeo,t,ast. very Ayresrs n .e h e c v e. great;. g s s o c' c s4 : Tc es je u'llr , l4 G of hin , oat A . neutral is d -boos, ..•rs ar o to svo 10) ed, t iII3IY venal Siovember e, deer. 114 Mar th u Ira the the other e PRINCE Paz, keep' DONIFIELD, a ,e Sa from the local in Suffolk. 111101 la had an ou r :. licuse. o last esses the Duke sells d t e Patxce tle Prince , er it A DD ENIMOSE a :erncat. in to the Pm.. bel r from her P.. ati preparatlcn:.to un t alon Pahtce. o art cf Decembe sect • RK arrived at?. 'Pn Luke of Rump. t,} ay his Royal ' cc Windsor. noo seriously : adispc . ; use, Stirlingf!lin. nfant son, area ma Jyship dined d. since her =oil the celebrated.. e learned thzt oo Temple at G • Mock, as he war • fn Sr„ "So unt, he will make Great Seal, for,. :o the Ecclesiastic oc m to those cf • ovident Life OE cadilly. • Love makes a MCI rived on Saturia, vas excellent; • e le lover—from y marked, and a he levity of ac.: by Jones, and • his snuff-bc , x, ccount of the r very aniab l ,e tr e made ludicrotul, 's was happily cc,, ti the lovers of corm su.tained by MT tern found able Miss FoorS, - vas altogether elegant audience- o 11. HA RRIS and* w. he kind intermed t, has not been q .1 I that Mr. ]l au' • KEMBLE, Spokes e the open mon, ;trended for his cr. -that the profession se, and he 12.ment ed to that effect. 'lin l i ng that the prefer r bad, owiag to di impression, ' he r<y, rhich endod in th heard, bat whics, a conversation witi x pressed his anxiel its Lordship to be° 'is the Noble Lard and he prevailed ' ll r also to him. AP FA in err's renm oom) and there gr. m and full apologlo cd, that the wads were not ill - taso r i md e t t li s o .cid s nt i° M t nooennfrilpt.islotedAtmanhniciatdrhogoitse ran] has been l' Sl'l7