The National Register. — London, England, 1818-06-15 00:00:00

,TITNS IS CITY ADDRESSES. Friday the Prince Regent hell a Court, for the pur pose of receiving the address of the Corporation of Lon don, on t'.e tortrriage of the Duke ant Mehra of Cam bridge: /Vaunt 3 o'clock the Lord Mayor, in the or( state, accompanied by Sir Wiiliam Curtis, Sir William Doraville, M:..Utlertuau Birch, the ttecorder, Sir F. Dasanges and Sir George Alderson, sheriffs, the cham berlain, town-clerk, city ofticers, awl about 40 members Orilla Court of Common Cuanza, with their attentlants, arrived at Carlton-house, mad were introduced to the Regent, seated on the throne, when the following Aa dress was read to hint by the ltecorderl— To his Royal iligitossz the Princ : : of Wales.flzglr.t of the United Kingdom of Great Itritain andlncur& • May it pliv-se your Royal li • We, his Majesty's dutiful and `loyal subjects, the Lord Mayor. Aldermen. and Commons, of the City of London. in Common Coon.. rd.assenibled. humbly approach your Royal Ilighneas. to offer our .sincere coagratufations on the auspicious event of the recent nuptials ofseur Royal Brother. the Duke ut Camaridgc, with the Princess of - Hesse. youngest daughtaa of the Landgrave irederiek. and niece of fire ndector of We tel July sensible of the inestimahle blessings we enjoy under ghe &di/sit:ions House. of Briiitiwielc, and cannel but rejoice in every event which strengthens our hopes fur thew preservation and coati- That this union may be productive of permanent felicity to your 'Royal. Iliganeei, that it may strevtlien the firm attachment of the 417opte of toes: realms to iris Majeure: Crown and Gower; intent, and that your Royal Highness may long enjoy every earthly bleasiag, is 418 most ardent wish and fervent prayer. (Signed by odds of the Court,) HENRY WOODTHORPE. They were all most graciously re rived, and his Royal Itighner,s was pleased' to return the following most gracious answer :- 1 thank you for this dutiful and aErticr,ite address. lltgratities ow highly to receive this: proof of your participation in the joy which la felt by myself and evely member of my family, on the occasion of the marriage of my Vother. the Duke of Cambridge, with 3 Princess of the Illustrious Hintse of tles.e. I have the most ' 1:018iLl.:18 reliance on your inn attar ment to his Majesty's Crown and Government ; and l sincerely rejoice in every circurriatoicc which • calls forth the expression of your loyal sentiments. The Lord Mayer, Aldermen, us d members of the Court, then proceeded to Cambridge-house, and were shorly introduced to the Duke and Duchess of Cam bridge ; when the following corupliments of congratu aations were presented : To his Royal Iliglinesa the Duke of Cambridge. May it please your Royal Highness. We, the Lord Mayor. Aldermen, and Ceminons, of the 'City of London, in Common aiseintilal, feel the most lively satis fatibn in approaching your Royal Highness with our sincere con gratulations on your marriage with the Princess at Moshe, youn;;est &lighter of the Landgrave Frederick. and tile niece of the Elector of II esse. Zealous as we are on every occasion to shrew our loyalty and at tachment to the Illustriet4 llottut of B. rimswiek. we teel a peculiar satisfaction in the preamt oppottnaity to visit ty our sincere joy at the union of your Royal tirstrooss with a l'rinceas so truly dis tinguished. That so auspicious an alliance may lung be a source of unintcr• .rupial tacky to your Royal Highness and your Royal Consort-is the ardent wish of the Citizens of London. ttiigiied by order of the Courts) Nu.)illy WOODTHORPE. His Royal Hig,liness returned the following an swer : This address of congratulation on my marriage from the Corpora tion of the City of London, •1s being a mark of their loyalty and at tachment to the Huu of Brunswick, cannot but afford me the sin cerest pleasure aail satisfaction. and I return you my best thanks for it ; but it is peculiarly gratifying te me, as proceeding from a body of gentlemen. with must of whom I have, at a former period. while is ceininand of the London District. been in habits of much p ersonal 'intercourse, and for whom I shall ever entertain the greaaa.: esteem .and regard. To tier Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge. May it please your Royal Highness. We his Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects, the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons of the city of Lcialon, in Ctaninon t'camcil assetnbled, tale': the Lowliest opportunity to congratulate your 'royal Highness on the happy °erasion of ,your marriage with his ro;:al Highness the D Ike of Cambridge. Truly hoppy to testify how sincerely We paracinate in the general joy or. the union of your Royal Higrinee; with :to illustrious soil of hit beloved Sovereign. we cannot but ea tress our ardent wish that - ion may king experience every degree ut felicity which can result .from so distin,;uished an alliance (Signed by order of the Court.) HENRY WOODTHORPE. To wliich her Royal 1141 mess returned the following znswer I tha:,k you very much fur this a:MI.I.m of congratulation on my ve.arriage wan the Duke of Cambridge, and for the good wishes you express to cr-zasinii. :Faulht from earliest life to seta inch v—lue on the ties of birth w'ach c onn_ct inc with this ecintrv, 1 khow how to appueLde u.ltiniony rega7.lfro.ii t. ie c,ty kit` Luiwinli. Iler Royal Uizhaess read the answer very ills- Lnctly. The Prince Regent takes frequent rides in his I ug.gy into the country, in the evenings, dressed in the fiainest manner, and generally with only one attend. ant. In a late excursion with Sir Benjamin bloom field, the heat of the weather drove him to• seek Thr some Leverage to quench his thirst, at a gardener's cottage by ti.e wayside, where his Royal Highness waited, tail his hostess .prevared tea for him, of which he partook must heartily. A letter from Brighton, data June 1.1, says— ' 14 Last night the returo ot the Pri..ce and Princess of Hesse-Ihmihnurg, from their aquatic excursion on board the Tiber frigate, was terminated by a very sin gular event, in conscquenec of the ship running off the Bla , k Roar. W are Kapp?, however, ri learn .that no injury was sustained. At high tide t• is trorn- . ing tne Sail) 11;:d gut off, and was safely stationed at her aso-riligA in the P......d5; bat, in conseauence of the se...Rent, no Royal Sal rte was given whets dia tingui gw.sts left tli.! v. ss e l" The squadron from Cadiz, destined for South Ame idea, sailed on the gist ult. with sealed 01.101. Trr NATMAL RIMISTCR. GENERAL ELECTION. Tate diesolution of Parliament by the Regent in per or. Weinesti.ty, ix the first instance of the kind since the times of the Stuarts. It was then the co .:rse, when Parh.uuents disslttisied the king, an.l was al ways considered as an act of anger; and some persons have attributed the present instuace to a similar motive or feeling, bat it is far more praable that the inferences to be drawn from it were out foreseen or cuutemplated by Ministers. The Pmelamations far calling a new Parliament, and for electing. the sixteen Peers of Scotland, have been issued. The Writs are made returnable on the 4th of August, and the 24th of July is axed for the election of the Scotch Peers. There aro tight candidates for the City of London, viz. Aldermen Curtis, Wood, Atiins, Thorpe, and Birch, Mr. Waithman, Mr. (late Alderman - . Rowcroft, and Thomas Wilson, Esq. of the mercantile house of Wilson, Agassiz, and Co. of Jeffrey Square. Mr. Waithman's friends are very sanguine of success. The election commences on Tuesday next. Sir S. Hominy, at the request of a number of the electors, has contented to become a candidate to repre. sent the city of Wegtminster. Captain Murray Max well, Esq. late of the Alceste, has also offered himself on the Ministerial interest; Sir F. Burdett, the Hun. Douglas Kinnaird, Major Cartwright, and Mr. Hunt, also put up. r. Ryng and Mr. Mellish stand again &a Middle sex. The election commences Friday the 2Gth inst. Mr. Denison and NI r. Sumner arc the only candi dates for the county of Surrey, Mr. Thornton declining the contest. The election commences on Tuesday next. • The Hon. T. Brawl and Sir .I. Sebright are unop posed for Hurts; as are also Mr. Houblon and Mr. Wes tern, the Members for Essex. Sir J. C. Honevwoed has declined Kent; Sir E. Knatchboll, Sir W. Geary, and W P. Honeywood, Esq. are candidates for that county. Lord Frederick Montage olf:rs for Huritingdonshire, and Mr. Feilowes, one ofthe late Members.—Mr. Far mer retires from the borough of Huntingdon, and Capt. Montagu offers with Mr. Calvert. I,ord Sefton offers himself for Li7erpool. There is a very .active canvass in Bedfordshire, on the part of the Marquis of Tavistack and Mr. I'm (the two old Members), anti Colonel Osborn, and is likely to be strongly contested. William Henry Whitbread, Esq. (son of the late einitteat mat esitian) has announced hitos-lf fin. the bo rough of 13,:,iftrd, in the room of Capt Walitegrave. A Deputation has arrived in town from Bristol, to invite Mr. Protheroe again to offer himself for that city. Both the late Members have withdrawn from Honi ton ; Mr. Crawley, from Bedfordshire, and the lion. Colonel Cust, are Candidates. Mr. Atherley retires from Southampton, end Sir J. C. Hippisley from Sudbury. Admiral Sir G. Cockburn has offered fir Portsmouth. Barnstaple will have their candidates:—Sir Henry Thompson, Sir Henry Wright IVilsoc, Sir Mauasscz Lopez, and Mr Otnanney, of Norfolk Street. It is said that Mr. Bethel, of Rise, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, will be nominated as a candidate to suc ceed Lord Lascelles. Lord Binning will in all probability be returned. to the new House of • ommons for Rochester, without op position, Mr. Cakat having declined a contest for that place. Mr. Harbord, brother to Lord Suffield, and Mr. Kett, of Brooke, near Norwich, have declared them selves candidates for the representation of that city, in • opp)sition te . Messrs.. Smith and Gurney. Mr. Abbot4s who has lately purchased an estate in ' the neighbourhood of Evesham, is about to otter him ' self for that borough. The Earl of Belfast bas offered himself as a candi date to represent the county of the town of Carrickfergus in 1 - arliament, at the approaching election. Mr. Moggeridge, of Monmouthshire, and Mr. Par kins, of Cuestield Lodge, are gone down to canvas Bridgewater, on the most promising solicitations from that borough. Mr. Scott, son.of the Lord Chancellor, has declined the invitation to offer . for Neweastle7upor.-Tyne. Sir Egerton Brydges and A. W. Robarts, emu inenced an• active canvas at Maidstone, last week. On Tnez•Alay evening a meeting took place at the Shepl:crd and Shepherdess, City Road. at which. Ir. Hunt presided as Chaitman, for the purpose of seeing whit strength of freemen he and his party would be able to muster for Mr. Cobbett, as a candidate for Co . ventry. The meetieg was very thinly attended, the number not exceeding a dozen persons. Amongst the st►bscriptions now raising for carrying on the contest for Cobbett, at the ensuing election for Coventry, it is said that Mr. Bryant has subscribed !val. for defraying part. of the eve ices. I)ovEn, .ItINE IC.-Our election has assumed a new and unexpected aspect. Until yesterday all went di smo►th and unruilled, and not a penol thought other wise than that our present member, Sir John Jackson, and our new candidate, Mr. Bootle Wilbraham, would be =turtle?. A few frcemenyesterday started the idea /s,r; of nominating Mr. Fector, who is absent in France, with his flintily. A Co►umon Hail was culled in the e:•ening ; between three and 400 fri..euien when it was passed u:•.animously, that M r Fector shmild be nominated and elected free of expense. A Committee was appointed to C:IIIVR^.I the town, was divided into ei L ;ht districts, aial by noon to-day the canvass was completed, and the result is perhaps unexampled for cordiality :mil unanimity; except a very trifling number, who had previously engaged both their votes, there was nut a ringle refusal. The General Election produces throughout the emu - try such a bustle as has seldom been witnessed even nn a similar occasion. It is difficult to speak of occurrenycs of this nature while they are in transitu, because it is hardly possible to predict the rejection or success of A candidate without contributing to the issue foretold ; and setting aside the close boroughs, we are tmely, s desirous of knowing what the public sentiments arc in ylaccs where there is any thing of a popular election. However, we learn from all quarters, that the canvass _ _ in support of Sir Samuel Rorui!Ty in the city of West minster has been so unprecedented, that it would lot unnecessarily squeamish to speak with any doubt of his triumphant return. A meeting of Sir Murray Max. well's friends took place on Saturday, when the pre tensions of that gentleman were inquired into, and set forth ; they are founded on profesaional merits. The Sussex election is fixed for Monday, the 22.1 inst. at Chichester. It is reported this afternoon that John Fuller, Esq. (the former representative) means to contest the representation with Sir Go tlfrcy Webster and Mr. Walter Burrell. The election at Chichester will take place on Monday next : Mr. Huskisson and . the Earl of March, will be re-eloeted. The elections fur Horsham, Arundel, and Lewes also take p'ace on Monday next. Lord H. Howard and Sir Arthur Pic:- got will be re-chosen for Arundel. Mr. Scarlett's cp position to Sir John Shelly and Mr. Shiner is expect ed to prove successful. Mr. John Smith contests Shoreham.—Portsmundli paper. We ore glad to learn that the friends of T. Rowcroft, Esq. have finally prevuile3 with that gentleman, to stand for :lie City.—From the great interest, we learn that is engaged in his cause, with his lone tried cha. racter, intelligence in all flatter of trade arri com merce, and his ever ready devotion to all acts of pubic charity and benevolence, no doubt can be entertained. of success. ELECTION FRAC A S.—Saturday morning the can vassing friends of two of the candidates to represent the city of Westminster in Parliament happened acci dentally to meet at the same house in Paeiarnent Street, the one party being attended by a man wearing a gold laced hat. Each party solicited t!ie l;Ivour of seeing the master of the house, who instantly uprearetl, and was quickly assailed by the canvassers. who crammed into his hand cards soliciting his vote and interest for particular individuals. The gentleman, after various attempts, contrived to put a , r ‘ e ,:tion, to certain principles entes•tained by one of the persons whose prenaisi,ns were so vigorously supported. TLiA led to an answer,which produced not alone a comparison of claims, but an argument on both sides so warm, that from words they got to pushing, and from pushing to actual blows. The contest isflaally, we under tand to be decided upon. the celebrated area in Westminster Hall over which Lord Ellenborough usually presides. CAUTION To ELECTORS.—Persons rated, .and not having paid the rates before the day of election, such rates having been legally denmuled, and no fraud appear.• ing on the part of the overseers, are disqualified Irons Wing. Air Bum, it seems. took• nn oath before the Lord Mayor on Friday, that he never will take a pension, should it ever be in his power to get one. The follow ing are the words of this solemn covenant 1. iietirj- Hum, do hemhy voluntarily and &acetify swear. that I will never accept or take from the King, or his Ministers.. tithe: directly or indirectly, for rupelf or any of my family, any - place or pension, at emolument. grant, cantina, title or any other gvateity whatsoevm.. I will iwver tease my endeavours to obtain for every man above the am: of 18 years. a vote fur a Helmer-m:36w in the Commons House of Parliament. I will 'lever fail to exert my most iy.renuottzi endeavours to repel the cruel. unjust, and pray ral law, the t..txnustion Act, commonly called the Corti Bill. I will keep the mill tor the City of Westminster open till ti::last moment talcared by law." Agoed. " 8, Norfolk Arect, St. suit, June It, 1818." The Hull, paper says—" Tickets, to the amount of two stone of flour mid one stone abee&were presented and distributed on Tuesday week, to cath freeman of Grimsby who would accept woo, by the theii.present Member, J. P. Grant, Esq." TifEQ F lEN.—Veiterduy, tie report•of her Majesty was, the Queen had had /I good night and continued better. On Saturday the Duke and Dc; chess of Cambridg:7,. accom p a nied by the Duchess'.; visited t h e C i ty ; they came in an open carriage, and reutait.ed ter up ' wards aim hoar at Rundel and Bridge's, .Lietime, wh o se I house an immense .concourse of people assembled. On .their return to .their Larr:itge they were.grected with cheers; and so nuttiertnis wits the crowd, that it was nearly twenty minutes livfore tat ma.= dust tdp. terrift to put ferward his I.t.:rcs. " 11. 111;1CT."