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HEATREi:. Covater-Cattata.—Laft night, at this Theatre, a Comedy, the avowed production of Mr. COLMAN, wdd performed for the firit time, intitled, " who Maw a Guinea ? or, 71,e lryb Torybireigan. DRAMATIS ►PRgONX - Sir Larry M'Murragh Barford . Mr. Kimis.e. 'Torrent . Mr. MII/IDEN. Hardy Mr. CISAPMAN. Henry - Mr. C. K 'Emma. "math= Oldtkirt Mr. SIMMONS. Itiormore - •Mr . WADDT. Carrydot - Mr DAVINFOIL, Andrew Bang . Mr. EMERY. Solomon Gundy . Mr. FAWCITT. Fanny - • - Mrs GIS'S Mrs. Glaltombury - Mrs. MATTOCKS. Amy WADDY. Captain Delamere, ruined in fortune, and rendered mifcrable infidelity of his wile, and the treachery of a Mend, quits ..tiiment in the Weft Indies, leaving behind him the partner „f his bed, who bad eloped with his only child, and arriving in England, retires to a village, under the name of Buford. Some years after, Henry, in the raercife of his prolellion of a phylician, accidentally vifiting the bottle of Mrs. Delamere in the Weft In • dies, who is reduced to poverty with her daughter, and comp 1. lactating her &nation continues to OM them till the death of her mother, and then bri ngs the young Lady to England....-Upon their arrival in London be is hurried sway by a pref . ,-gang, and the procures a lofting at the hook of 1. Oldikirt, who feels a paternal affettior for the young Lady, and permits her to remain with him till the can meet with a lituation. for which purrs* he adver tires, and Fanny is hired by the agent of Mr. Torrent (a rich and benevolent merchant, who has retired to Yorklbire) as his hawk neeper,—Oldtkin conduits her to her littlation, but on their way Fanny perfuades hint to wait at an Inn;promifing to return as loon as the had fern her new matter ;--iu the theft dittance the has to gn, the Ides her way, and arrives at the honk of Lord Alamode, and is impaled wan by Bang, his Lordthip's game-keeper, and Introduced to Sir Larry M.Murrzgh (a (lathing Iriftt buck, who having loft his fortune at the Ranting-table Lord Abmode, the fortunate Winner, has given him the ufe of his hook to lie con cealed front his credltnri) Txrfaades her he la the perfon to whom !het. hired, and prevails upon har to remain in the book. During theft tranfaetions, Barford difeovers that Fanny Is his long loft &tighter, and that Torrent Is the brother of his wife's feductr—Barford battens to the manor-bode to demand his child, and there meets pkilkirt, who had !Thew& come to leek her—. Fanny not being found, it is agreed to ketch every honk in the neighbourhood, and Solomon Gundy, whom Torrent had recent ly taken into his ferriee, is difpatehed on that bufinefa;t-Solomon Teen to the houfe of Hogmore, where be meets Henry, who had. in vain, requefted a lodging ni the furly farmer, he having juft landed in Yorkfitire, after ercaping from a French prifon—ioln mon 'icing hint ready to fink with fatigue, takes him to the nearelt hook (Lord .Us -ode's) and there inquiring after Fanny, he dif rovers, through the inebriety of Bang, that the Lady. is In the Mac Torrent and Bailor.. arrive at lord Alamode's In their Trawl, and meet with Henry. Torrent °braving his fituatinn, readily offas bim hi• fcrece, and goes out in profecutlon of his reareh, leav ng Barford and Henry—the latter erquiring of Bar ford the name of the Gentleman who had fo kindly offered to rave him, upon difeoreting it to he Torrent, he immediately makes known to Barford hi• whole history, by which that Gentle film lams that his wife had died penitent, and that Henry is the who had preceded his daughter. They continue their rat, and come to the apartment of Sir Larry, where they meet him and Torrent, and at length prevail upon the Baronet to give up Fanny, which he is about to do, when Oldikirt leads in the young Lady.-..Barford embraces his daughter, and in etnifideration of the pratcAion afforded to her by Henry, eonfents to their union. The author has not difplayed his nfual judgment in developing thofe incidents. - There is little to in terelt the feelings, or touch the heart, in any of the eircumllances by which the relloration of the child to her parent is brought about. There is nothing to the curiofity of the ['senator, for the dowoondu is anticipated before much progrefs has been made in the plat. Mr. COL,!An has written, either carelefsly, or with too much hurry; his comedy now and then difcnvers fome of the marks of his genius. but its efforts are not Ls condenfed and concentered as to produce the final and great effen which, judging from his former produaions, we confidently expened.— Whatever Iterling ore there is in " Who Wants a Guinea r it has bee • fo beaten out and expanded as to Icifk all its fubflance, and the greatelt part of its brilliancy ; and the proccfs leaves us nothing but "le foible et le eliaquant." The chorale's are not drawn with much force or novelty; Jonathan °lipid is almoll the only one which can be confidered as new to the Stage. Sdoesson Gumy is borrowed from Caleb tuotem and ; and Bar• ford reminds us Ilmngly of the Stranger. The [tory of his injuries rambles elofely, in all its circundlances Of aggravation ,the affecting narrative of the German author. Thole palpable imitations created, at length, fome flight dilfatisfaaion. The pu'.lie have long tince given Mr. CULMA/4 credit for copious and , ori e inal dramatic talent., and they had a right to expel tome thing more from :riot than r tilfue of plagiarifms from bis own works. There was much to applaud in the performance. Mr. Kannt both conceived and alled Burford with that judgment and imprAve etre& that might have been expelled from him. Mr. FAWC "TT 1100 d forth as the great comic relief. He perfonated Grad,. a rat catcher, who had lived fix months with a fmuggler at Dunkirk. His wit ennfalei in a mifapplication and bad pronunciation both or Englifb and French words; and Mono's did as mach for Tarred as the author could have hoped. The churlifh Farmer was charac teriflically repiefcnted by W•DDY ; and although much praife is due tti Mr. Lewis, for having lent the aid of his pleafant and animated talents to the Co• medy, we are compelled t • oblerve, that the part of the lrifhman did not, in . is hands, afford us all the entertainment we etspcaeLl. It will coil him Come time and trouble before he can aquire that richnels and luxuriance of accent which chiefly conflitute the humour and eccentricity of Inch chara/lers. If Inc eels is to be nteasnred by applaufe, Salvatore, was the moll favoured p.tdoi mer in the piece. The female ,l'araaers had nothing in them which was ROt within i... reach of the we.ikelt per:Carnets in the Theatre. tlyle of the Comedy is fur the moll part terfe •iiid elegant; there are many fentiments jullly con ..eived, and mull IrAppill exprefFed. In the etlential qualities of wit and humour, it is not pofitively defi c'ent ; but they are fettered fn widely and fo (paring ly, that they are not to be inilautaneritifly perceived. The Comedy was very favourably received, until the latter end of the ft milt, and the middle of die latl aft, when fume dilfitisfaelion was manitefted.— flue contents, however, predvminated in the propor tion of ten to one, and it WA% announced for a fe cond rcprefentatioa by Mr. KEMal. r. The Prologue w.,5 a Inter upon Prologues, and concluded by a happy reference to fume of the au : ot% former pieces : " What tho',. Plop Gentlem. , -,' his h , srt is full, "He attics no untue favour trout • :ye liar The lipil.:lo2 pitatantly def.:66o the 'yaws of the A , i6c rce, (tone of uhoni, ikitead of c• One Guinea," rntld Watt Ic,ocol. The Houle was at crowded at the riling of the - u: - tain as it could well be. Co.innv Yenerday the LORD MAYOR, Aldermen (including the four City Members), &c. opened the Common Hall, by the ufual Proclamation made by the City Crier. After the Members had taken their refpative nations, the City Crier read the requifition for their alfembling " to confider of the meafeires neceffary to be adopted, in confequence of the refolutions which were lately voted by the Houfe of Commons, refpec ting the delinquency of Lord Vifcount Melville, the fignatures annexed to the requifition," &c. &c. Mr.Wairn MAN then came forward, and addreffed the very numerous affemblage of the Livery to the following effea ORNTLEMEN OF Till LIVIRY, i g 1 now prefent myfelf before you, for the puriinfe of fubmitting to you feveral refolutions, conformably to the meeting of the requifition that has now been read to you. Though it was the original intention of the fubfcribers to it, that this meeting (hould have been called loon after the Report of the Committee of Naval Inquiry was publifhed ; yet no injury has occurred from the delay, as it gave the faation of the Houfe of Commons to the objets which were meant to be propofed. The refolutions which that Houfe has voted on the fubjeft of the charges againft Vifcount Melville, were highly honourable to its cha railer, as the Members who concurred in the vote had I done fo, when unfettered by any inftruaions from their connituents. When I Rate this to you, Gentle men, and when you renal on the general conduit of tome of thole Members who conftituted the majority, and that the vote was paffed in oppofition to all that could be effeßed by minifterial influence, what greater proof could you have of the flagrant na ture of the delinquency The decifion of the Houfe of Commons has, no doubt, already done much, but it has not taken away the neceffity of meet ings of this kind. Confidering the extent and va riety of the manifold abufes in all branches of the Adminifiration, and the power of the adver. caries, who Rill continue to maintain them, it be comes right and necelrary for the people to Rand forward, for the purpo(e of countenancing and fup porting the Parliament, in carrying its inveiligation of abufes into all the offices of Government. It is a happy tiretunfiance, that the conviition of Vifcount Melville had nothing of party mingled wi t h i t . I t is a fubjea un which it is almoft impoffible to have any difference of opinion. There is no diffentient opinion on that Nobleman's conduit, which is now fo utiverfally condemned; that had the decifion of the Houfe of Commons been different from what it was, it would hot have Made the (lighten variation in the public fentiment. But, Gentlemen, the moll effential intends of the country require, that things &mild not be (offered to remain as they now sand. Were the prefent poniffintent of Vifcount Melville to fatisty the people, the thing would be of no great coofequence, and would even have the ap , pearahce of partial rigour towards one particular in. dividual. To avoid all appearance of a punifhmeht, merely perfunal towards his Lordfhip, and for other infinitely more important purpolesl it becomes an indifpenlible duty to prefs a full inveftigation into the fyftem of general depredation Which has pervad ed all the public offices, and to promote the further developethent of them, by that difinterefled, honeft, and independent committee, to whole labours their country is fo greatly indebted. The people of England have a right to call down puniffiment upon every violation of law, in whatever quarter it may be found, and the Livery has a peculiar right to de mand it ; for while we fee two great City Officers, late Sheriffs of the city of London, now under con finement in Newgate, for a comparatively trifling breach of law, (hall we be reltrained from demanding that jun puniihMent should be inffieed on that enor mous delinquent, who, through the courfe of his depredations, for thirty years pall, poffelled offices of the high:tl truft, confidence, and emolument, and had in his hands, all that lime, the entire patronage of India and Scotland ? If then the Minitler, with whom he conflantly ailed during an adminiftration of eighteen years, had Peen, (offered, and fupported this flagrant fyfletu of peculation, the inference is irreltitible, that Inch a Minitler, fu implicated in thefe tianfations himfelf, is far from being qualified to 1 1 look after and controul th e mil - conduit and delin• I l uency of his fociates and lubordinates. Gentlemen, it never can be amifs to promote enquiry into the public expenditure. If the Houfe of Commons has held the purfe of the nation through fo long an Ad minilfration, and has been all along contented to I vote the van climates annually laid before them by the Minitter, without any enquiry having ever been inititnted, the more incumbent it is on the people to give them every encouragement and affillance in fol lowing up their late almolt unexampled decifion—a decition which will tend more to the fupport and per manent fecurity of the Britifh Conflitution than all the atts of its fccret or avowed enemies could ever hope to do for its fubverfion. I mull once more ex prefs my fincere fatisfailion in relating, that this comes not before you in the femblance of a party meatiire. On all former occations it was the policy of your enemies to divide you whenever any public quellion was propofed, but that refource mien fail them in this infiance, which admits of no difurion. • But it behoves you to bear in mind, that the decifion fo much rejoiced at by the country, was only carried by a very imall majotity ; and that, as we mull all he aware of the rinnierous arts that will be employed to defeat the (Nat of it, the much greater is the ne• ceility for the conflituents of the country to encou rage, by their initruitions, their reprefentatives to perfevere in filch honourable and highly beneficial exertions. I do not think it needful to wane any portion of your time on unneceffary arguments in favour of the Refolutions which I (hall now read to you ; Pre de prec-ding page)—and alfo a petition to Parliament, which he alto read, to the following pur port I._ "That the Petitioners have uniformly concurred In all nu-afore"' that appeared to then; conducive to the welfare of his Majelty's dominions, and for that purpufe had chearfully fubmitted to the moR unexampled burthens ; that they have learned, with concern and Alonifitment, that the Right Hun. Henry Dundas, Vlkount hielville, late Treafitrer of the Navy, has been guilty of a gmfs violation of the law, and a high breach of duty, w hereby immenic futns of m,ney have been perverted to the purpose of private emolument; that they confider it to be a great aggravation of the offence that thefe difgraceful tranfitellions were carried on during a p• land of unprecrii-titill e'...frituity, when the very eaiftence of the country walla: Rat. , ; that the patron thus violating I.IC law R . 411 in the poif•ei. , , : high and paifitableimiScea,anil ever among the far: loan in rec.minhudiiig additional burthens to be laid upon the pcople; c: - .llirg upon them to rubs* to the atoll painfbl pr . :valiant : That Petitioners are duly impaired with a' high fen& of the virtue of the Honnurahle the Houfe of Coal mons, and participate in the general fentiment whi c h pervades the country, of the wifilorn, &muck and integrity with which it has di/charged its facred trial, by the progrefs which it has made, in proteding the public money fr om fuch mirapplication, and front fuch grofs violations of public duty. That they approach the Houle with a hope, that the Houle will do juftiee to the outraged feelings of the Public, by bringing to condign puniffirnent convia ed crime; and that it would be derogatory to Government, preju dicial to, the Public Service, and infulting to the Houk and the Nation, were Vircount Melville to remain a Member of h 6 Ma jefty's Councils, or in porkffion, under the Crown, of any place of truft, honour, or emolument That they conceive any other perfon diredily concerned in fuch abefes, or who nay have con nived at the fanw, to be equally incapable of continuing in office, atia that fuch perfons ought to be brougiit to a firiet account. The Petition concluded with praying, " That the Houle will tae the fame into confideration, and profecnte theft enquiries with vigour and effeti : That fur this purpofe the Houle will Pure the Powers of the Commiffioners of Naval Enquiry to be continued, and extended, as clrcumftancea may require; and that fuch further enquiry may be made into the management and ex penditure of the public money, and the cundudt of pulite offices, as may lead to the detediott of all abures, the puniatment of of fences, and the diabliffintent of a fyftem of vigilance ,end (eco nomy. that Run prevent the recurrence of filch abaree " Theie is only one more obfervation with which I mean to trouble you. It has often fallen to my lot to ftaad forward and arraign the votes and condua of fame of your lteprefentatives in Parliament. I always did fo with Tome pain, and it is therefore with the greater pleafure that I now appear before you to bear my teltimony of congratulation and thanks to the votes given by your prefent conflituents, in fup port of that decifion by which the condua of Vitiount Melville was condemned. I will not, on this occafion, renew any•diftuflinn refpeding the duty of reprefen tatives to obey the intiruftions of their confiirnents on particular occafions. My fentiments, on that fubjed, are already known to you, and your c)nftituents will, on this day.have themfelves the opportunity of telling you whether they will, or will nct, ae in conformity with the inftrudions you will now give them. All that I (hall add is, that I never maintained that reprefen tatives were bound, in all cafes, to obey their confii tuents' infitußiohs. In all general and incidental matters, I would allow them to be free agents, and ate upon their own opinions; but, in all great and conftltutional eueftions. I hold them bound to vote according to the inftrudions which they may rece iv e from their conftituents." He then moved his firft Refolution ; which being ready by the Crier ; Mr. GOODISH nu advanced, and informed the Li very, that though he had little to add to what had been already lard, he addreffed them in compliance with the ufual cullom of feconding a motion. On a fubjed of fuch -univerfal congratulation, it was the right and duty of the City of London to exprefs their opinions freely and without fear. Every power in the State, of Whatever dercription, originated in the people, and whenever they became acquainted with any violation of the law, their duty, at well as their intireits, required their interference ; and if the pro ceedings; on the prefent fubjea, were to flop here, there would be reafon to regret that any invefligatinn had taken place at all, as the abandonment of the fub• jedt, after fuch a determination, would tend to de- Itroy all that confidence which the people were, from the late vote, difpnfed to place in the Parliament. Mr. WADDIROTON addreffed the Livery in a thort impreffive (peach, to the following purport : " I have no with, Gentlemen, long to trefpafs on your attention, but I f ee l it necektry to trouble you with a few obfervations. It appears to me. that the Mover and Seconder of the Refolutions have not yet placed the whole matter in a proper point of view. If perfons enjoying high offices in the State are invetted with more power than they ought to enjoy, if temptations for corruption are offered to them beyond what the frailty of human nature can fupport, we are not to be furprifed if that power is abufed, and if thefe temptations are triumphant.— Human nature, you know as well as I do, is weak, and if we do give any individual great means of pe culation, it becomes a matter of ferious enquiry, how far we are to carry the meafure of vindictive punifb ment as applicable to a crime arifing principally out of extravagant conceffions on the part of the people. In Paying this, I do not mean to intimate that the enormity of the offence is at all palliated on the part of the Noble Perfon by whom it was committed ; for, on the contrary, I fnall be always ready to al low that the greater the rank and influence of the perfon invefled with high powers, the greater muff be the fubfequent refponnbitity. Allowing this, how ever. I am not fur allowing that the unfortunate Lord, who has been denounced by the Houfe of Commons, is to be tingled nut as the objeft of pecu liar vengeance.—( ;Shot murmur', andirongmarh of difopprobation. —I am finable, Gentlemen, that this is a place peculiarly difficult for any one fully to ex prefs his tenements, but with your approbation I 'hall proceed. When I ufed the phrafe of unfortu nate Lord, it was very far indeed from toying that I at all apologized for his conduct. On the contrary. I am free to confers that there has been now brought to light a fyftem of corruption and peculation more' fcandalnus than any that ever has difgraced the re cords of any country, or polluted the annals of any age. I venture to affirm, Gentlemen, that during the laft war not lets than twenty millions of money were log to the country by the fhameful and fcan dalous negligence of Minilters, and thofe whom they employed. Nay, Gentlemen, I will even go further, and declare, that if fire hundred clerks were flint up together nine years, they would never be able fat& faetorily to account for this to the nation. Indeed the tyllem of peculation which the loft twenty years has exhibited, is the moll damnable that ever was brought under the contemplation of a people pot feffing in the frame of their Government more checks against corruption than any other nation ever enjoy ed. I have, Gentlemen, wi th in there few days, feen a grofs libel on the Hate of expenditure in this coun• try, contained in the fpeech of Prefident Jefferfon to the Congrefs of the United States of America. This fpeech has not appeared in all the papers in London, and with your leave, Gentlemen, I 'hall read a fhort ;mirage, which appears to me extremely important as controlled with the expenditure of the public mo ney of this country. The following is the paffoge to which I refer :—" At home (lays Pretident Jeffer fon) your fellow citizens know heft whether we have tided well or ill. The fuppreffi3n of unneceffary of fices, of Weft eftablilhments and expences, enabled 'is to difcontinue our internal taxes. Thefe covering our land with officers and opening our doors to their intrufion, had already begun that procefs of dornici iiary vexation which once entertained is fcarcely to be reftrained from reaching fucceffively every article of produce and of property." Such, Gentlemen, is the libel which the (peech of the American Prelident contains, and I leave it to you to contreil our fiii4l.- cial fitnation with that which this piaure But let us look to the particular period when theft pe culations were going forward. Why, Gentlemen, it was at a period when we were born down byexccffive taxation—when almoll every man was afraid to hear a knock at his door, left he (hoold have to encounter a vifit from the collators of taxes. We were arnuf ed by long fpeeches, by fine tropes and figures by men of tranfcendant abilities, but in proportion, Gentle men, as men poffers fuch overwhelming talents, in the tame ratio does Goo and Nature call on them for a faithful difcharge of their duty. We were totally occupied by the ideas of invasion—but we never thought of the invafion on our property.— We were looking to catamarans, but our whole at. tention was withdrawn from thole men who while they were thus amufing the public, had their hands bufily at work in our pockets. These men of tran fcendant talents were entertaining us with fpeeches of three hours continuance, while the woi k of pecu lation was all along going forward. No one (hall go beyond me in condemning filch dirgracefut (cents of peculation, but I mull be allowed to alit, whether no part of the fault has been our own ? We look with indignation to the fcenes of iniquity which have taken place in the Weft end of the town, but are we cettain that all has been corral in our own quarter We complain that great abufes have been commit ted, but are we ready to declare that we have given no facilities for the perpetration of loch abufes ? We condemn Lord Melville, but are we, the people of England, totally innocent of there peculation, ? Have we given extraordinary powers, and ceafed to exercife a proper degree of jealoury ? Yes, we have given loch powers, and if we had exercifed a proper degree of jealoury, fuch infamous proceedings never could have taken place.—Mr. Waddington, after a few more remark s to th e f ame effal, paid fame hand- Come compliment: to the late Captain Jarvis, who fo unfortunately perished, after the moil heroic efforts to live the crew of a Ship which foundered at lea. He reprefented him as the perfon who fuggefted to his uncle, the Earl of Sr. Vincent, the neceflity of an inquiry into the Naval Department, which that No ble Lord tad Since profecuted with fo much honour to himfelf, and fo much benefit to the country. He ftrongly contrafted Earl St. Vincent and Lord Mel ville—the one was an inflexible patriot, and the other had never loft fight of fell intereft : He wifely fp.ke, and bravely fought, He fcrved the country and he laved the groat. —Mr. Waddington was proceeding to fume °brava dons on a loan of to,oool. by John Wilkes to the City, but here he was fo loudly interrupted that he withdrew. The firs Refolution was then put, when the !hew of hands was univerfal, with the exception of one, which was held np for the contrary at the farther end of the Hall. It having. however, been repte &tiled that it was held up by mistake ; the Lord Mayor determined that the quellion was carried— unanimoufly. The fecond Refolution being pot, a fimilar dilem ma occurred, from the fame hand being erected in the rear. This occafioned Itrong emotions of indig nation ; many crying to have hkm turned out ; and others aliening that he was no Liveryman. At length Mr. Warrusseta came forward on the Hutlings, and appealed them by Waving, that whether the per fon was a Liveryman or not was not worth enqui ring, as there appeared to be only one diffentient.— The queftion was declared to be carried in the affir mative. The Third, and other refolutions, were carried Unanimoufly, on account of the difappearance of the black ball which had been before complained of. The Petition was alto carried unanimoufly. Mr. WAITHMAN then Paid, there were two or three more Refulutions, which he lbould make no obfer• rations upon, as they arofe out of what had already bees agreed to ; but as an allufion had been made in . the petition to the office of Treafurer of the Navy, he thought it right to explain to them, that the Bill for regulating that office was only a branch of that nu merous code of reformations brought forward by the late Mr. Burke, and adopted when the people of this country found the abates and grievances under which they laboured perfealy intolerable, towards the clofe of the American war. The Bill in queftion, however, was not brought forward at that time, nor till the Adminifiration of Mr. Pitt, in the year :78s. When Vifcount Melville was Treafurer of the Navy, in that year, both he and Mr. Pitt brought forward this Bill for regulating the Treafurer of the Navy's Office, and took a very active part in paging it, by which they gained no inconfiderable flsare of popula rity, on account of their great promifes that fimilar meafutes fhoulsi go to the correaion of every exiiiing abufe. Yet no fooner was that ASR of Parliament paned, than Vifcount Melville commenced this (can &loin fyflem of peculation ; and even after the Re port of the Commiffioners of Enquiry had difelofed his difgrace to the public, he was continued in the ex ercife of his office as Firft Lord of the Admiralty , one of the highed fituations in the State, up to the decifion of the Houfe of Commons. Mr. Trotter alto, his accomplice and agent in all thefe tranfaaions, having been returned by him to his former fituation of Paymafter of the Nary, was retained in it by Vif count Melville's fucceffor, until the Refolutions of the Houk of Commons compelled him to dilinifs him. It was, he mutt repeat, a very happy thing, that the Houfe of Commons had come to this decifion, as it would do more for the fafety and proteaion of the Britifh Conflitution, than could be effected againa it by its enemies in the (pace of very many years. He next laid, that he hoped the Reprefentatives of the City had not In loon repented of the vote they had given, or, if they had, that they would tell the Li very what courfc they meant in future to purfue.— Carried Unanimoully. He alfo moved, that " the Petition be engrotred, and left at the Town Clerk's Office for fignature s (be tide thole of the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, &c.) every day from ten till two o'clock, until Wedncfday next." Carried unanimoufly. He moved—" That the Reprefentatives of the City of London be infirutted to prefent the Paid Pe tion in the Nettle of Commons, and to fupport the objefts of it by their Vote," which was carried una nimnufly. He moved next, that " the Thanks of the City be granted to its Reprefentatives for the votes they had come to in condemnation of Vircount Melville's con [l urn over.