The Sun. — London, England, 1811-01-10 00:00:00

C9.IIIMON HALL, Yesterday the Leon D MAYOR held a Common- Hall, which was the first at which be presided. The Loan MAyon presented filmset& to the • Livery, and addressed theni as follows Gentle men of the Livery--4 have the honour of meet ing you here to-day, for the first time an my pre sent situation, in' consequence of a Reqnisition hav ing been presented to tate, signed by set eral most retpeaable Members of The Livery, desiring me to ermiene yon at an early day: I will place that Re (ridden in the hands of the proper Officer, ,who will read it to von." The Requisition having been read by the Crier, Mr. WebrliMAN then came furward, and addreee. ed the Lit ery. He observed, that after the various discussions which the subjeet of the ir present Mect, in; had undergone in both Muses, riatnely, the . aepu:ming, by a Bill, a person as Regent,, it would not, lie conceived, be 'recess try Eta him to use many ergoments to convince them lite there o ugh t 16 b e no restrictions laid on the (levet, it had been :d -lowed, both in and out of Pei hement, that in the hi4ory of the country there was 'to exeet preie &mit; it was also agreed, that the pow!ers and pterogatives vet .ed in the !executive Government, were vested in it for the bendit at tire: people ; arid they hail now only to consider, whether, in the halals of an indivehlal who was to exercise the few. titers of the Crown, those powers arid prerogatives ought to tie dmiloished or restrieted, 'He; ant those with whom lie acted, had been accused sistency, because they now called lot the tree exer7 cite of the Royal prerogatives ; they were, however, : guilty of no ioconsisteney—t hey had inviniably con tended for the just,exereise of the prerogative of the, Crown, as warmly as they bad dune for a just re. presentation of The people le Parliament. The pre. r o e-okm had I}l - actilnes been ibuseri, and tire peoele ba ' tl complained.of abuse.; but the Ministers of the Crown were respoitsible to Parliament fur th 'ir sellout ; and if the house of Commons were the jail Representatives of the people, they would act as a check upon Ministers, sod the prerogatives could- not be abused, without being punished by P a iliameet, It Wag tUt t the people Wilt" Wed so inconsistently, but those who opposed them ; and if any thing were wanting to, convince. them what were the views of those men, the argumeuta used in the CoMMoO Council on Tuesday—such argee. monis as had net.er been beard since tire Revolotion —were convincing enough. It was clear the laeople respeCled the prerogatives of the Crown ;..but it was equally clear that those persons, by Their pre ,• tens . ° rs to. loyalty, wished to overturn the. Mu. nattily. It vat plain Iris Majesty bad been tirade an unconstitutional use of by these uteri, ,who, as one of the Royal Dukes said, in hiS speech in the Haase of Peers (the Duke of Sussex), instead of making themselves a shield for his Maje;ry, had made his Majesty a shield for Them, The question, however, had been so fay discussed already, that no person, who had the faintest idea of our Coma- . tution, could mistake it (or a minute. The present Ministers had for three months carried ou the, Go vernment without the assistance of the Royal Au thority, and in doing ro, had verified all that Tom Paine had written or preached ; and they still wish ed to perivade us that the Great Seal could do all the aets of the King, and that its assent, although it bad not a negative, could make an Ad of Parlia ment. These men were, indeed, the Jacobins they bud descriped whets !t.) be—these woe the melt who e vel e 1 0;iving ro Owe , how lung the Go. ern meat could be carried on witnout the Executive. Now they said, we want to place with the Re gent that power which we contended the King ought not to have. if, however, said Mr. %lith ium), t his power is unnecessary, wiry not do it sway altogether ? but let us . trot deprive the Crown of it to place it in the iratels of these rarer, and thereby enable them to impede and cur barrass the Executive Goternmete. It they were necessaryi how could it beexpeeled that Thu Regent should be able tO carry op toe Government without them ? How could he make a Lord Chancellor, or Chancellorrof the EXCllegtlet,i The latter offke , Ire had understood it was extremely difficult to fill up ; SO much so, .that the Sovereign was-driven to the Bar for the present Chancellor or the Exchequer; who, although, be had the reversion of places held by his brother, a Noble i.ourounounting to 40,0001. per annum, was Clerk of the Meltings; and Chan cellor of the Amity of Line:loer ; yet before he ac cented the 'Chancellorship of The Exchequer, he wanted to bargain for the last office for life. And now did this man dare to cone fort.' Arc!and say the Prince Regent could carry oirthe Government with sil this patronage against him. Mr. ViL continued--; , . lie should have the honour of submitting certain Resolutions for their consideration, which, if agreed to, be should then pt upon: a Petition to each Hotise of Ptirliament, founded on those Resolutions: after Which-he should propose to the Livery to' do what they had, sometimes done before, though with out aired, namely, to instruct those . Gentlemen who ought to represent the City of London (a laugh) how they ought to na. EutertAining, 08 he did, the highest regpeet for thosteGentlemen 10' private life, it was peintul for him thus repeatetby to Onl ine:Pt upon their' piablie condat ; sacs be would have torborne to dolt now, but the p?rilOos 'Sore of th e times 0000 it neeestetry for hum to call upon them to explAu their conduct, arid hoW they intended ter M& iniore; oni he bbpo the Livery would, for tireir'oedi titgriity,Abstainfroneinterruptiog'or'pre yetatiog their being heard, that they might net go sway arid say they were bet lairly dealt with. Mr, W. then read certant Resolutions, in effeti th e H atno et i tf u ase Come to on the picceiling clay in the Couietif Cointnen Cooed. /Vier which, ire obscp‘ed, as it, oval ti“.: first time he bad aldreAsed the Livery Hi oce eertainifesolutiohd had been ttgretfd to by them, at,d upon itioption w hid' they had been groisty A ititiekt and t.candalously traduced, 1 1 6 i m isr ttti permitted to say a word or two on the lubjem. ()a ttr t occasion, he, was sorry to see some . 1)&1 5i 41 , , ntgpitrates, of the City, who did not dire 'to inc e', the, 1 . ,,ce of Ow Livcry in the Hall, with. rEtfif.NDON t Printed by t ItICILAJ at the t•tr,o:-Out, Must look to the fundamenial , prineiple; of the Con stitution: 'Thus far, however, lie could say, that never had man lei 4 thir , t for power,' or more affec tion for his father. and - his hunily, than the Prince, of Wales. The worthy Alderman sai d, t h e Cr own must have power—it wa. 1,1. the benefit of the peo ple ; and, w his opinion, loyalty and liberty went hand in Hu concluded by supporting the Resolot Sir C. P►rct3 then cline forward, and when he had obtained silence; lie he fully concurred in what' had been said of the Prince of Wales. 'He had al.' ways at9ed Ike -a Man., and they had no reason to suppose he would nor . ao as' a Ite, ; eni ought to art ; and he trusted it would not be long before he would be waited on in a manner the Regent of this king. dom ought Lc) be (" worship the rising Sun, Sir Charles !" was exclaimed in the body of the Hall'. —He had supported ' the proceeding by Bill, be cause because he limn& it was was the only con. stitutional nn,do of proceeding ; and he hoped it would not be long before our venerable Monarch would be again s' ated on the Throne, and again acting, as he e v er bad acted, for the good of his people. Sir braes SHAW said, it in a constitutional point of view he could steer any consideration for an tadi v:dnal to have weight with him, he should feel in clined, from the known and acknowledged virtues of the. Prince of Wales, to let it carry him as far as it,would any ohe ; bin on this eueStion they must be guided by the fundamental principles of the Consti- - Union ; and 00 uo occasion of our history hada Re. gent, withonta permanent Council, been appointed - without te.trioions. 7 Mr. Alderman Wow) could not refrain from con gratulating the Lively on the result of t debase in the Common Council on Tuesday. • Fie terolleoed the time when, upon popular que,tinns iti that Court, himself, and hid worthy .Friend, 11Ir.. Winch man, were usually kit in a minority, with not more hurl four or live suppotters. He had to congratu late the Livery on the 'downfall of thit The questton of the Regency was not a que.tion be wt;en the King and the Prince, but it wai a n k•stion whether. the present Mi - nister4, Who . had addvd 200,06°,0061. to the N alum! Debt, given a vital stab to the Con.otution, and insulted the Corpora tion and Livery of bolon, should possess such trona4e as would eni'ihle thew' to continue their pre- sent sytem. It the Prince were appointed Regent, he would concede ti) the wishes os the People; he knows they wish for Rerorm ; that it is necessary 110 the preservation nit . he VrL:roga tit e ot' the Crown,' and for she Liberty of . the People, and he would griint it to them. 7 The remainder of the Resolutions were then read and agreed to. Mr. WAITILITAN moved, that. a Petition tt which was read, wended on tie Reimlotions, should be presented to the House of Lords, by a Peer of Par !lament ; and that the Petition, signed iu a similar manner, should be presented to the tiouse of Cony , MOM, by H. C. Combe, Esq.. one of their. Repre sentatives; which motions were agreed to unani mously.. On the motion of Mr. WALITIIIVIADI, it was re ! . solved that the other Representatives of the City be luso-titled to support the Petition, and to oppose any restrictions being enforced on the Regent. The Thanks of the Livery were then voted to H. C. Combe, En. for his condnA in Parliament, and more especially for his .votes on tlutreceut discussion in the House of Commons.: Mr. AlilernLat Co.ttea returned his thanks to the Litery for the honour they had done him it would his pride to support the liberty of the subject and the rights of the Crown. . . . _..._ ...... The thanks or the Livery were then voted 10 T. Smith, Eq. :the lateiord .Mayor ) to ft.. Woith man and S. Favell; Esqr3. and, to the Lord Mayor, for convening the Meeting, and for 1,14 conduct in the Chair. . After which the Meeting adjourned. OLD B4ILEY. FIRST DAY... -. W . P.DNESDAY, JAN. 9. Yesterday the Old Bailey Sessions cornn3enced before Baron MACDONALD, Mr. Justice CH4Alillt6, and Mr. Justice Lai Bt. c. UTTERING COUNTERFEIT MONEY. Anne Neshitt was indiaed on the oaths of John Cobham and others, for unlawfully uttering a piece of false and counterfeit money, made to the like ness of a shilling, as, and for a goad one, she Well knowing the same to be false and counterfeit ; and having been previously, at the General Sessions of the Peace, held at the Sessions House, Clerken well green,. in September, 1809, convicted of a similar offence, and sentenced to a year's inaprieentnent, and ordered-to find suretieci,for her good behaviour tin* two years. The charge Wag clearly substantiated. and the primmer was Leland guilty—Death. FORGERY. Gustavus Lowe, a young man of most respeet nble appearance, was indicted for uttering a email' order for money, purporting to be the draft of Co looel Ramsay, of the Queen's Itegnnenr, tier the sum of :101. on Messrs. Cox and Greenw oo d, a r ra y agents, well knowing the :wine to be forged and counterfeit. From the testimony in Support of the prdscitl- Con, it appeared that the prisoner formerly belonged to the Queen's Regiment, in which he WWI an En sign. On the day when the offence chargo was coin mitted, hp was ,at the Circus Cdffee-hoUse, 'Black friars-load, from whence he sent a man, named Parker, with the draft in question, , to Messrs. - Cox awk Grtienwocxl, for p‘ayment. On its being 'pre ben cud, a clerk,, named Downes, tliscoveted it - to be a forgery, and on consulting with some 'of the other clerks in the ofpce, they agre e d to.setid for some Police Otti, errs, who accompanied Parker back to the Circus boffee-howte, where they sass' , !Jim two 101.'notes to the prisoner, with winch he itto been provided tor that purpose. They immediate!) adfiifted 'arid accused the prisoner 4,1 the forgery, 1 Admitted having gisen the - draft to Parker, but . • D 11 , 1 akIS. of No- 4. Martigit.court, Low-stret.? ; and Wished by WI LI. IA M A ItMIGER Seuth'Mol tot: c,r, I Strand, wLare deivertisrments, (Ado . : for . the Paper. Lattrs lot. thy ggeitor ac. (past.paia),. reC s. ciri. f said It Wit; a genuine one, and that he had -- - it from Colonel Ramsay on the preceding Oxford-'street. He was: then taken into toil and condu6ted to Bow-street, wilL.l.e•-it war finally proved that the draft was a forgery. Colonel Ramsay did not appear on the trial..,,- Iris the Connie' for the pris oner urgedin is co urt,l the legal objeOtion, th a t h e h a d utt er ed the-.dol t Surrey, and was,indiited for having committed' offence in the count.), of Middlesex. This was over- r ul e d; hOwever,'by ,he the ground that the prisouer, although the county of S urrey , had procured the ut ter° . the draft through the medium of an innocent? son in the county of Middlesex. The prisoner, in his defence,' stillperstgo l ► rite bill which he bad given to Parker wasps, nuine one; whethe r it had been changer/04,4'1 was out of his custsidy or trot be could not; G He had written, he said, to (' Ilonel garl lo o. could trot attend from his being under orders lot reign sert ice. Sir SIMON Le BLANC ObserVed, that the had ample trwe to obtain the necessary evidePos subsiatiti:ite his innocence, if inkocent he 44/ 'I With resped to the absence of Colonel 1111 10.5 ' 1 1; 0 that gentleman was unable to attend hint ei4 communication from him; Might' hav made to the Court that fact, therefore, COe operate in the prisoner's favour. 1p The Learned J u d ge t h en summe d lip to (knee, and the Jury returned a verdict of• —( i ii°, Death; but recommended the prisoner to inerct k The prisoner was considerably affe - ted at Iltt graeftll situation, and shed tears duruig 111°' of his trial. - BORGLASY. 1 Ha Mary IPhit e was i n d icte d f or felonious): Hai ing and ent er i ng i nto the d well i ng- h ouse . piney Tarriall in the day-time, p,rsons be u► 6 ilia in ; and stealing, two coats , a pair . of hreeci' - : : watch, gold chain,Jlnd seals, and other artic433o' profferry of the said liumphry V.iri.ail. Tile : pros e cut or deposed, that his Lowe, itr• Vere•street, Clare,market, w a s robbed o n ite 7114 of D e c em b er, b e f ore four o'clock to ,4 noon, ot the ar ti c l es specified, in the inch jl 'r On discovering the circum s tance he gave int c 4 o lion at Bow- street, and, by the ats.tivity,of tae ° , part of the good s were'foun'd in the pi lon er a ' session, (roma pawn -broker's in Dr or) These facts were corrobora eel by the p,ovi' l ",i' i o and the Bir.v-street Ot fi cets whoa ppteho de prisoner, \Viten, the priso4ler was taken sine 0.1 . totlyN the•wateh belonging to the pro/ o ; 3°l' 4l le found in her possession, together with 50314 ., ( , 0 1 1,0 caters for the other artieles.which been and .a hey which 6i ted the lock of the r ° ` )ll3 whence the proper,ty had been taken. .1 f' The prisoner, in r civfence, sa id she to' ceived the goods f rom a ' young , 11/011 WO- b:3 sounded. Baron MACDONALD 81.1121M4 up the eviue „ .• 14 ce , the Jury retur ne d a verdict of--Guilty ; ~,-ii i to the amount Of 395. June Holliday wds next indicted for and li e d ak st i e n a ga ng t arious articles ut ' wearing ;il'V" rr " considerable amount. The prosecutor stated that he'liVed in St:' l ,:ift in the East, anti was a slopsellei, ,s 0 robbed seyeral:tirnes, he dett4alined nip ws lc f 10 1 Citristrnas Eve, if poSsible, detect tine III"' on ettrktmas mortimg, about. four () cloe!, ''' . ll „,;i alarmed by a n o ise in the kitCheti; h.tvro ,tJ a light, he followed the sound of itreiili"g the back 7 yard, and from tlsenCOC')"iiit . old house, where he found the priSolicr iII Otte a txtudle containing th e ar ti c l es specir''' indictment. He innn7diately took •11,.r 1:U 1 , and sent for an officer. She hod fiirtuqrY servant, and.hati obtained oda] Thion ' to getting over a wall Iwo the yard, and OLIO ) I ' l'* through the paritiur Window. • O k Janrr.'s \Mindy, dery officer, Corroborared 11/e : moos U~~tb ' e last witness as d e id ti i iitt'., lsPl other aticer, who produced tli possession of the prisoner. Guilty- 21), 'q ib "oy , No other trial of importa nc e oc c urred , t i :O 1,1,Z.:1 ;i'l • The King's College pr Ab r ile eil hove • Ito the degree of LL . D, on t h e R ev . H. 13. Chancellor of the CathedrAl cat "Fern::, ,and Author of several intoresthw ''.'races 'Economy. . , 1 11 ' On the zsth ult. at Walnier, near Doi. 81R1 11S. ham Harvey, Esq. was safely delivered of s vog to t a 0 , On Monday last, in Ful I •the lion. M ' , ey. p ac.e, il ip nick; ot a Son. 1. 0) 4 On Tuesday last, at Woybritlge, Sutray,•the 13. Mainwaring, hsq. of a Son. ....., the 1,24.°: • , IMAkItI&IA ,hel ir " At St. rames's Church, Mr. Anthony We 4 '," PallAl4ll, to Nli.s M. A. Spdrrow, or P,c , Mr. Leondrd, of the Bristol Theatre., to Mrs. of the York Theatre. er• , At his house at Leigh, in ret Kent, the , , quo!! ,44 rn tny years V of that On Thurbtlty evening Lit, at 77, Long•ttace, e and rr .l , l i g , t r (r ; t r n es g ,o i Irf of nes the a h t l i r A s r , p l . o ha IV •typal, wil a °I p l . til 1.0 - c a l l l e r y s , " NiirgdetYrtt , C :f ea ti rg a e lf . F N .r i e oo de n t l ic ic k. rec i i ° . ckleY' san fr eldest daughter o f wilia ttl Ott tvonday, Miss Snell, • i Aft te Esq. of Salishury.Hall, it r On Tue d'y • N e ` t4 ' • • hlo' ) ,in ew.street, Spring-get en), :‘, don, the Lady of John Proaor Anderdon, Esq. 1 09 Ott the t 7th of Oetoixr lot, at Antigua, ?" r 'p r i ito s .l)ur and on the turbot Nov.:(; r, At'y t Ol l c 1 0 ' 4 • QW )Otti 111 huth,nn, stnis of the hoe Mr . It I Theatre. COAL MARKET IANI/ARY Ships at Matket, • • etwv: ea. bilips sold , aga r Newc.litic . 2.4 431. 6d. to od; 3 . ." 0 ..d. I° 44 " Yorkblitte 0 od ' „ • 61 t°' • o . • PRICE OF STOCKS VioaTilltDAY. , India Stock, et. I India Bonds, Bbs. Ser stock. 7 1, 0 , p.t' k:xchrq 4I 61 : COLIS. Hulk Stock, 241 1 40 it Nivy per ecru 7 410i* 4ipct Cent. ver, ept—itoi i t per t!Cut. Coos. fitti 65' 4 .66 uduk L. Atm. 17 tr.ttt sum. Grwiretior rquate. [Will I be addresgad., draw to n tavern, and there agree to Resolutions de rogatory to the honour of the'Citizens of London. By another person, a Member of Parltatnent, they had on the same occasion been called pick-pecketS, and turbulent democrats; and that by an iodividual, who had gong much farther, on the popular side of the question, than ever he (Mr. W.) did. These turbulent democrats, however, were merchan s, and the relation 4 Of merchants, of IheCo y of London, honourable men, and snch 411.1tras our Army end N rvy was composed of, and upon whom the coun try must depend for defence. For himself - , he had been calumniated and abused ; but he considered from wh..liee it came, and heeded it not, whilst he felt he possessed the confidence of his fellow-citi zens, which he considered as t liegreatest honour he could enjoy. Mr, Wait bnian then mitered to the iii , 4ll character of his Royal Higlmesss the Pi ince of Wales, and said, there never was a Prince possessing snehlirtues and such intents, so vilified and so de graded as his Royal Highness had been for a number of %e :r;. What part had his Royal Highness ewer 11.1 d in the State Never` to this morneet had lie' been employed'in any way. lie woul,\ask—Had the Prince been favourable to the views an I interests of the present Administration, would they then have thought of restrictions? Would they then have prevented his loyaktlighness from bcstbwing places and pensions ?• He was convinced they wouid not. Mr. W. conclodzd by declaring, !hitt his humble abilities should ever be devoted 1J the de fence of the funditnental rtiociples of the Consti tution, and (he suppot t of Government, whilst its ell - Orts were dir , ckd lor the good of l o be People. Mr. FAVELL said, it had always been his tats till the resent (In to stand forward in support of the tights of the peoplei (the Crown had nut wanted his sup; or'), and in doing so, himself and - those who Mlles! with hint had been accused of %Visiting to overturn the Clown ; they had, howeQer, 110‘,V SI14!WII, that . they were as anxious to support the ju-t prer o ptives of the Crown, as they had Clet been to support the rights of the people. At this time, when we were preissed by a foreign foe and domestic difficulties, he conid not terbesir congra tulating them upon that spirit which hAd begOn to iwvar, not only amongst the Livery, but amongst tint Frretutn at'large of the iCity of Lond - oo ; and he hoped this circums ance would enable the City to take that place which, as the first city in the.Eut- pire, it ought to take'in the affairs of the nation, and which it Always had supperted, except at shot t intervals of our hiAtory, when the C.lty Of I.ondon l appeared as little more than ct registry of ministerial edicts. He concludal by giving• his unqualified support to the Resolutioes. The first Resolution was then put 'and agreed. to unanimously. On the second Resolution being put,. Mr. GRIFFITHS said, they were called together at a most momentous et kis, to consider whether one branch of the Constitution should be permitted to encroach on the other. We had received our Coli. stitution, with all its excellencies, as a t rust from our ancestors ; and it was our duty to take Care it did not get tarnished in our hands. The present Ministry had always shewn a dislike to the Livery and to their proceedings ; and the Livery perhaps might know them; it not, •it was time they should know who they were—they were the mu who had,shut out the Livery, and would not suffer them to lay their complaints at,the feet of their venerable Sovereign. But they had done more : they had shut out his Ma. jesty's own children--his sons and his daughters and would not even suffer t hem io see their Royal Parent. 'But What could the people exp e ct from these nten ; 'men who, in 1788', .had heated the Prince at an infant ;• had considered him for 22 years which had passed since that tune as an infant ; and who now ,would like to consider him as an infant for 2:1 years to come. He would'. ask again, what could they expeti from thew mem...4mo who had been nursed in the lap of corruption—whose pap had been the spoil of their country, and who held places before they were breeches, The second Resolution was then carried unani mously. _ _ ; • Ti; third and fourth Resolutions were then put -and carried unanimously. On the fifth Resolution being proposed, Sir W. CURTIS canse forward. rite worthy Al derman observed, ha had been called upon by the Gentleman who opened. the bosiness : of the day, to ,deliver his opinion : he hoped, therefore, the LiVery would grant him a hearing—He fully agreed in all which had been said of the virtues of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales ;. and no man had more reason than himself personally to acknow ledge them. He had known his Royal Highness from his infancy, and had always received the most marked attention from him. He was the man above all others,. • who ought to be Regent; but till no hopes remained of his Majesty's recovering that which we all lamented he had lost, .be (Sir W.) could • not consent to the Prince being appointed without some restri6tion. He hoped the Livery would suffer him to state his sentiments. He d d it wiih respect towards them, and was sorry he dif fered from their opinion..He thought a reasonable time should be allowed. for hisMajeaty's recovery'. He bad knOwn his King now more than 60 years, and never would forsake him whilst he lived.—(4. plauses). He had the honour of piesenting the last petition of the. Livery to the house of Commons;' and he then contended for the reception of the pe tition of the,good Livery 0 London, agreed to in a Common Kill, legally coovened. . He had .at that CoromwHall told them, be unfortunately differed from their in opinion;' yet be had done his duty as their. servant--he had .presented their petition,— supportealand expressed his hopes the House would receive and attend to it; and he now met them, to tell thent what be had done—and all he had done, he. would avow. Mr, Alderman , Coung said, the moment woe now arrived who') the Livery were called upon to stand forward in support• of the rights of the Crown, and they ought to defend them as they would their own tights, in considering the question how tar the Regent Should' be trusted without restrijtions, they must neither look to the Kiu nor the Prince—they i