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CO. 111110 N HALL. YPsri,finkt, pursuant to public notice; a. Corn.; mon Hall was ronirened at Guildhall, for .the pur pose of electing a Sheriff for London, in the room of P. MESTAEKS, Esq. who 'oeing.eleaed at the last Common Hall, had refused to give bond to serve the office.. The business being opened with the usual form , by the Public Crier, the Recorder, and Common Serjeant, the names of the following Gentle Men were announced by the Public Crier, as those of the Gentlemen put in nomination, and from whom the Gentlemen of the Livery were now requested to seleat one : THOM AS -ROWCROFT ! Esq. Alderman. i• 1. SMITH; Esq. Alderman. STRE.HEEI HUNTER. Esq. Alderman. Toils, PR I NSEP, Esq._Aldernmt. P. NKEY, Esq Alderman. OSI AH BOYDELL, Esq. Alderman. SIMrMo N s. Esq.' Stationer. Rk£ V ES, Esq. Embroiderer. PEARSON, Esq. Glover. W. BAR LOWE, Esq. Bricklayer.. WILSON, Esq. Glover. ••••—• CLARKE, Esq. • RICHARD PHILLIPS, Esq. Stationer.' IMAMS BRANSCOMB, Esq. ~y er„ Mr. WAITHMAN came forward td express an earnest hope • that the Livery -Were now called to gether for the purpose of eleCting, in good earnest, some Gentleman, willing • and competent in all eligible views, to assume and dischSrge the im portant office of a Sheriff of the City , of. London ; for after so many meetings for the like purpose, the choice of so many persons in succession, incompe tent or.' unwilling to serve' the office, and sdnimch money (Hisses in the Assembly) extorted from the pockets of the persons So chosen, without . having yet effsaed any thing towards the real choice of a Magistrate to fill the important office, it was now high time to proceed seriously, to the ele4ion of some Gentleman really willing to fill the arduous station. Before the Livery should proceed to make their.eleaion, he felt it necessary to give them an additional precaution in reveal .to a- Gentleman in favour of whom, it was generally, understood, their attachment preponderated, and who stood at the head of those the most likely to becbme theob jeas of their preference this day. He alluded to Mr. SIMMONS. But he could, from the best author rity, namely, from the letter of Mr. Simmons's Phy sician in the country, now in his possession, as sure the ASsembly, that the health of that Gentle man was in , a state so precarious as to render his !Acceptance of the office utterly impossible, however grateful he might be for the honour intended him by his Fellow-citizens. The Gentlemen of the Livery would therefore be aware how futile must be the choice of Mr. &mum's on the present occasion, and' that it could only create the necessity of proceeding to another ele&ion, and protract still longer the di lemma under which the City of London laboured, of finding a person willing to fill an office heretofore sought with rival avidity as - a post of honour; but the singular and unprecedented backwardness to ac cept which of late seemed to evince a very equi vocal estimation of its honour and dignity. Hoping, however, that it was really the objea and the sincere wish of the Livery of London to find a Ci tizen, whose character, whose respeaability, 'and whose understanding recommended him as a fit ob . - jea, for their choice, he wai now prepared to offer 1 to their approbation, a man Who must be well known to many of them, and whose activity, intellea, and charaaer would be found to jestify, • their selection. He concluded by proposing for their choice Mr. RICHARD PHILA.:I'S, Statiouer. Mr. J. Dtxox - .—Notwithstanding the high pane gyric in which the Gentleman who last spoke had 'introduced the name, of Mr. PHILLIPS (of whom he really knew nothing), and the very zealous man ner in which he had pressed upon the Livery:the imMediateeledion of the obje& of his own recom-' mendation, yet he, Mr. D: hoped the Livery would do him the favour of attending to his recommenda tion, and to the di&ates of their own good sense, in adapting a .quite different condua. 14-e did not mean to insinuate that Mr. PHILLIPS might not be a man who merited all the commendations his friend had just laVished upon his charader. He could not say that he was not a person every way fit to fill the important office to" which it was now proposed to elect a fit candidate ; for of Mr. PHlL mrs he knew scarcely any thing., He could not however admit t•he propriety of choosing . a per son now, for the first time put i n nomina tion, without allowing the assembly any preVi.:! ous opportunity of considering the prOPriety of the sele&ien ,they were thus suddenly called on . tti make, in preference to many respeaable names already before ; them; and of the nom i na ti on o f which they were already apprised. The Honourable Gentleman had beetr pleased to support. his argu ment in favour of a choice so sudden and incon siderate, however peeper it might intrinsically be, by charging on; the Livery the elealon of men to the office of Sheriff who were ineligible, incompe.= tent, orunWilling to serve, merely for the purpose. of extorting money from them. But he could not tacitly listen to 'such an unfounded charge against that respe&able Assembly, and must therefore con tradiet the Imputation. He would -now earnestly re •cominend'to the Assembly to exercise its privileges, by going through the whole list ofnames proposed to them, and to decide distinaly in their order, so that every man might have the opportunity of exercising Ns free vote for the man he best approved ; and should the choice ultithately fall upon,the Gentleman Iwho was this day alledged to be incompetent, unable, and unwilling, from ill health, to assume the situa tion, he would Venture to pledge himself that the same alledgMents, properly made in the proper . place,, namely, by a representation to the Common Council, would immediately exempt him from all tlaims of service, free of any expellee. Mr. WAITHMAN explained, and repeated his former, assertion with regard to the . extortion of fines. He could not, he said; imagine for' what 'giber purposes than thoe of extortion men were eleaed against their will to fill an office for which their avocations, their health, their age, or infirmi ties, rendered them unfit, or how it could be just • to muld them in large sums for not serving. It might be a very desirable thing to increase the finances of the :City, - biit it should be done by very different means from these, which were, in his opi nion, too severe and, unjustifiable. He hoped the Livery would now conic to a decided ehvic6. ; of an , . . . . aetito at; Ciiiibki iierscm, if3Aead of Proccoding ici elect. perstiiis incompetent to sere, and thereby creaiiio; a ilew . successicin of deli s , 1,-; ( l3ich w!)old probdiy le;:ive th e Ci t y Of L on d oh withnnt tintklier Sheriff od the commencement Of the new o':1:cial year. , . Mr.,TATLocx was at some tyss to acco - iiiitfor the condua of his friend, Mr. WAiTTIMAN,. in pl'o posing this day, as a new Candidate,.the name of Mr. PnILE.ITS ; a Gentleman certainly against w!i0 , , , „ eligibility, in all respeets, he had nothing to oi,j,:e't, but that his friend had, .on a former day, seemed to give his warm approbation to the name of . Mr. BR.NscoMn, of WhO3C character and "eligibility to the office no man had ventured to urge a doubt, who was re:ie{y and willing to assume the duties of it, and to discharge them with honour to liituelf, advantage to the Public, and credit to the choice of hts fellow-citizens. It it w::S . on political grounds •that his . friend had proposed a preferenceto Mr. Pitit.ups, he saw no good reason for the change, as both were tue,n of the satne principles : but, on the ground of seniority, Mr. BRANSCOMB certainly . had a decided claim to the choke, to which he beg ged leave most earnestly to recommend him. Mr. GRIFFITH very warmly seconded the recom mendation of .Mr. TATLocx ; and the question was then put successively on the several names. The slim of hands was not at all numerous until the name of Mr. Pnrwrs was proposed, but the Majo rity beino• evidently in favour of Mr. BItANsCoMB, he was declared to be duly elected. The Assembly was thvn adjourned sine die. Thus has the City of London at last obtained a second neritf.for the ensuing year, after So many . successive Ele&ious. The fines in consequence, since Midsummer , day alone, amounted to no less a sum than 91501. On Friday last the foundation Stone of. the Mo nument to be ere6ted in the Green i ,Glasgow, to the memory of Lord NELSON, was laid by the Worship ful Sir JOHN STUART, of Allan Bank, Bart. Provin cial Grand Master Mason of the Under Ward of Lanarkshire. The Members of the PthcessiOn, to gether with a numerous . assemblage of Ladies and Gentlemen, met in the High Church, at twelve o'clock, where a very .excellent and appropriate Ser.• mon was preached by,the Rev.. Dr. Wm. Ilvrentu, of, St. AndreAv's Church, The procession was closed by the Glasgow .Hkh land Regiment of Volunteers, and the streets w:•re lined by the Trades' Corps, the sth Lanarkshire Vo lunteers, and the Anderton and, Canal Volunteers. The length of the procession was considerably more than. a mile. It took about half an hour in passing the Cross,' and was nearly two hours in reaching the Green. Its route was High-street, George-street, Queen-street, Trongate, Saltmarket. During the procession the Vessels in the river, at 'the Broomielaw s displayed their flags; and the Har mony, of Liverpool, Capt. WILKIE, fired 4.7 guns, being one for every year of Lord NE.LS 0 N'S' age at the time-of his death. When the fimn.:Jtiun stone was laid, Capt. Wit.KtE also fired a Royal Salute of 21 guns. Notwithstanding the immense concourse of spec tator,q, supposed attog - ether at upwards of 80,000, the greatest good order was 'preserved, and nu acct . dent happened. •. _. . In the afternoon the Lord Provost and Magi 'strates, and the Committee of Management, gave an elegant entertainment to Sir. Jen N STuART and suite, in the Tontine. At a meeting of the Officers of the First liegi meat of Glasgow Volunteers, held there on Thurs day, they unanimously resolved 'to tender their re • signation, conceiving it impossible to continue tlicir• services on, the new allowanceS, without subjeEting them Selves to great individual expellee: It has been recently reported that Miss . AiLft.toN, the Aaress, had a prize of ten thousand pounds in the last Lottery. We should be glad to hear that this - .news is true, as she possesses a respeelable and amiable charader in private life, but it.is somewhat inwrobablethat if such an event had athially taken place it should not have transpired before. The Birmingham Theatre on 'Friday was opened for the benefit of the General Hospital at.that place. The house was so mnch crowded as to produce some disturbance ; but the Manager, Mr. M'CRPAnT, adroitly as I.ve)l as liberally, signified that they who could not be comfortably accommodated should" be adMitted the following night. Many persons in con sequence of this hanclsbme proposal quitted the Theatre ; all discontent Was suppressed, and up wards of two hundred pounds was' secured to the Charity: Miss DUNCAN IS engaged foi• sim nights at the Mr minbltatn Theatre upgli very liberal tertils. The Farce of Animal IVagnetism was revired last night at the Haymarket Theatre, and soledierously supported by . FAWCETT and MATnEws, that the Audience wc: kept in a continual laugh, though their risible -muscles had previously been very freely exercised by the new Comedy of Fire Miles 011: Of six hundred Podts who nave died within the last century, only twelve are known to have-nlade a will, according to the estimate of a German Writer. We know not whether the -Writer limited his ac- count to Poets of Germany; but it. may be easily con ceived that the Poets of any other C oun t r y h ave as little occasion to m a k e a bequest qf property. King Louis may have pledsed the people of Am, sterdam by removing, the naval trophies of V, TROMP and DE RUYTFR from that place to the Hague; but what will the people of the Hague say on. being thus deprived of the relics' of heroism which they have so long . beheld with laudable pride and exultation ? .The next proof of royal reforma- Om in Holland ,will, perhaps, be the removal of the Statue of ERASMUS froni Rotterdam, but-tke.cere =my attending it will probably require more guards than he can conveniently spare to escort the venera ble effigies of learning and genius. It has been said, that As the new King of liolland. has thought proper to . include in the lloya.l Arms the Lion, which is the ancient emblem of that Country, it. should be exhibited without teeth and claws. There is some humour in this . suggestion,' and too much reason for the remark ; but it should be observed, that these_ deprivations are, indicative of the Lion in love,. which cannot be -supposed spep . o. lice] of the present national feelings in 1-f(liancL rr fiRLYCE OF 111:•: . SSI; kir!. The followimr account of the biave deferidtir of . i'Gaeri is giYer'.- . ,itt a Gerioan Rq er. •" He i the son. Ot the Tresent Lim(igraye of ~.. zss.*:. Pat LLIp&THAL.T.:; IR! e ‘vns brirn'on the :3!1).6f Oa. 1766.. Ire began t is ezireer Dutch se rviOe as a Captain in is latfier's' Regiroent of Dragoons. In the com e me.nec..ment of the. year 1791 he was Married to the 13:tronesS'VoN ri:s, a Baroness' in hek owti This connenion Was Thrmed without the knowledge Of the parents of either party, the marriage cere-• moO having been privately performed by a Dutch - Soon after, however,. he went to re side' witn' a - rehti - ;;e: of his wife, who lived near Coln. t!iere he .spent the Autumn of the year 1791, and afterward, pa,sed into the Neapolitan ser— vice. Coh1;;e1 ACTON, the brother of the well known Minister Of that irme, and who was him self afterwards Minister of War, had about the same time married a Lady of the family of TRIPS. This family conneakin, added to the gr ea t mer i t o f t h e Prince, proctired him a speedy promotion. He was. soon ,appointed Governor of the fortress. of Caseria, and the PrinCess, his wife, was about the same time plaCed in a distinpished situation in the service of the Queen of Naples. At the time of the former conquest of Naples by the French, this Lady re= tired to Munich, where she died about a year ago. In the year 1799 the Prince of HEssE . PHIL LIPSTIIALL was raked to the rank of Fiel4l Mar shal at . the same time he was appointed - Governor of • Gaeta, and Inspcaor of all the Frontier Ford. tresses of the Neapolitan Dominion's. In the year . 1803 his Neapolitan Majesty conferred on him. the Order of St..Januarius:' • The following are the particulars . which attended the restoration of H ENRY CRANMER, Esq. an unfor tunate vidim of insanity, whose cases we have re ported, to his friends, RIVETT and PARKES, two of the.Bow-”itreet Officers, were entrusted with the LORD CHANCELLOR'S Order to.secure Mrs.WrNsToN, who had brought the unhappy Gentleman to London. They went iti pursuit of her during Thursday, Fri day, and Saturday, and at length traced her and the old , Gentleman to a house in Camden Town. Ater _endeavouring in vain to get admittance by fair means, they broke open the. door, and served Mrs. W. with a copy of the Lord Chancellor's Order. She persisted in asserting that Mr. CitA N NKR was gone front her, and that she did not know • where he was. The Officers, hOwever, insisted up . onsearching the premises, which she refused, and - a very novel scene ensued---it being • completely dark, anti- the Officers not knowing the premises, they frequently fell over the furniture, while Mrs. W. was scratching their faces, biting them, and - tearing their clothes. The Officers not being able • to search the premises in the dark,.one of them en • .countered Mrs. WiNsToN's scratehes and bites, , while the other went to a public-house and pro cured a light; they then managed to search, and found the old • - Gehrlernan hiding himself behiad a door on the first : floor.. He appeared much fright ened,' and discovered several symptoms of insanity, as threatening to knock the Officers down and fight them, although he is near go years of age, at;d so infirm that he could hardly stand.. The Offi cers succeeded in convincing him they were not go ing to, do. him any injury,. and he went qUietly with them to the house of Mr. MouNcmr, his Attorney, Charlotte -street, Bedford-svare. On Sunday the .Officers conveyed the old Gentleman in a •post ehaise.to Quendon Hall, Essex, his residence, where Captain GOIWON, his relation, was ready to receive him. Two young heifers, about a year and a half old, .in the possession of a person at Denby, have been brought up together, and have been in the habit of sucking one another. The consequence is, that one of them now gives a considerable quantity of milk, though she has hitherto produced no calf, nor is even at this time pregnant. The east window in Guildhall is undergoing an entire repair: The iron work will be all new, and the glass and, gothic archite&ural - ornaments-placed in a handsome situation. The fine colledion of our Islitig;. , and their Consorts have been removed until the work is finished. CORN - EXCI.TANGtj AUG, 6.—To-day at the new Market, the fresh arrivals of Wheat are few, the' sup plies chiefly rat Monday, and sales nearly at that day's currency ; Barley and Malt,. likewise White Pease, from the thinness of the crop, continue rising articles and Rape Seed this Week fet c h es a b etter pr i ce ; Oa ts of second and inferior qualities are in plenty ; Flour and other articles have no particular variation. wheat szs a 7os a.Sos oft !leans •- 42s a 47S od Fine ditto - 82 S a 853 of; Tick Bean: 33s a 39s od kye. - -38 s a 2.s cd ()3ts 22 4 s a 26s a ;os od mat e y - - 34 s 3 39S o‘l Ppl:Illd ditti) 32S a 323 od Malt - - ”S a 74s 6(1 . }gape Seed -. 281 - 321 White l'e3se 68s a 73 5 od f/ine Hour 68s 4 725 od Gtey ditto 435 a 435 od Seconds - 6os la 68s od RELIC OF' A NTIQULTIT..-,..111 digging a foundation at the lxtck of thc. ,London cotfe,c- House, Ludgate hill, where London Won fortnce.y stood, a stone of a sextagon terra was lately found, with the following inscription :' D. 0. M. C. L. MA RTI .114 A -P. ANX I A:N 0(: L I T t/ S PftOVINC CONGRESS! PIETISSINIg c , H. S. E. . • btn OPTI MO MAXI =lO. CLAunr.t MANTik.e, A nno undecinio ANONdr.ir us Provineiaiis Congress?, Pictissrme Hoc Sepulchrum Erexit. " l'O THE ALL GLORIOUS DEITY. ANONCLITITA, In the Eleventh Year of his Provincial Government, . , Has moit piously erected this Monument To the Memory of his ‘Vik, CLAUDIA MARI INA." This Stone is to be seen at this time at the back of the 'London c:offee-house. Mr. &outs has had the honour to present, at Windsor, .to Her Majesty. the Queen -and the Prin cesses, the First VOlurne (just pkublished) of his Se leEtion. of a Hundred favourite Scottish Airsi har monized by him for the Harp or Piano Forte during his residence in Scotland, and dedicated to the Right lion. Lady MorrroomEittE. This Work, which is printed and engraved on fine wove paper, and is spoken of in terms of the highest approbation by the first pane,3sional judges, is•svlrl 'at H. BIR CHAU:Sp Musid-seder, No. 123, New "end -street, London, Titg „ • , • 'Me conquests of the. French arellot ti, ore td te A• regretted in a political view tha refnenee to the prOgress extensioii of Liteature and the-Ylne Arts. In the course of the \vtir thejr raniacked the galleries and libraries both 4fitaly and Ggrifiany; ‘ robbed them of the mast antient manuscripts, of the happiest efforts of the peheil, and the finest Monti nientS of sculpture, and carried them to I'ariS, where they now lie Crowded and negleEted, inaccessible to the Antiquarian, and 'shut up alike from the Artist and the Amateur. More rapacious than the Goths ; the Vandals, or the Huns, in' their incursions, they were not contented, like their predecessOrS, With the plunder of the precious metals : they attempted to efface all the traces of genius, and by obliterating hi the minds of the 'people the reballedion of what their ancestors had been, remove the only existing stimulus to efforts at future eminence. What is worse, they impoverished Italy without enriching . France. Paris never can be a school of arts. The spoils of the capital and the Vatican cense to - inspire enthusiasm, heaped up in the I,outra. It was the air, the sky, the calm of the antient Metropolis of the World, the recollection of past times, the assn.; ciations suggested by the surrounding scenery, which lent to the inomutnents of art halt their charms. It was this ,circumstance of favourable locality which put the mind of the spectator in unison with the kids of his contemplatien, and which tired tile stu dent' with the sacred zeal of emulation. There is no sympathy, no alliance hetwein the clas s ic a l an d chaste elegance whiCh gr ac ed thc produations of golden ages of Greece and Rome, and the tawdry gaudy :sinsel.of Parisian speaacle. • - These considerations . „ however, are little calculated for impression upon a mind lik l e that of BoN . Ar.a RTC, who suppose.; that the amount of his gains are ways in proportion to the extent of his pillage, and that his sword confers .new qualities oh all it con quers. We have little doubt theretOre, that he will prosecute the same system at Vienna on which he' aded when in Italy, and t:':at his contributions there will not be confined to money and articles of mili 7 tary use. . We have indeed been infiamed that DE NON, the traveller, has been sent for from Paris, to make a.sele6tion from among the objets of taste with which the Austrian capital is so amply provid ed. • The Imperial Library at Vienna is one of the first in Europe, • It contains, besides some fine statues in marble, and a.very large colleelion of prints, above 300,000-volumes, and from 1 . 2 t014,00u of th e r irest manuscripts. In the Cabinet of Manuscripts there 'is an Itinerary chart of the antient World, by PEI./.. TINGER ; a Mexican Manuscript, in coloured charac ters, quite unique in its kind, written upon human skin ; a Manuscript of Livy, of the 'tit century ; a number of Chinese Manuscripts a small Koran, upon vellum, taken fr om a T ur kb y P r i nce EUGENE; a Se . natus Consultran respeaing the Dacchanals, is sued in the year 186, btqore elitist, in the original upon bronze. Thi s pi ece i s re t ere d to b y LIVY in th‘e 9th l..)1: of the 4th Decade, and was found in Ca labria, at the house of Prince CIGA LA rr. s To 'these `shay be added a fragment of 'the Gospel of St. Mark and St. Luke, written in characters of gold and sil er. „ Seven thousand volumes, printed before the year 1500, form one of the most striking - curiosities of this "magnificent coil-Mien. Among these is- the fust Psalter ever printed ..in moveable charaelers, it. is upon vellum, by FAUST, at Mayence, 457.—.-Specu lum Humans Salvationis r bought at the sale of the Duke .De La Valai3e, without date, and printed up in wood. No other copy .ex.ists.—A Gothic Virgil, by AIENTELIN, at Strasburgh7—.A.Juliuseresar, printed on velluM, at Rome, 1469, in perfect - preservation. —Caii Valerii Flacci - Argonanticom Liber, Boulogna, 1474.—Marci Mantii Poeta Opera, Boulogna; 1474. A Bible printed' at Mayence, by FAUST, 1462.—A German Bible printed at Strasburgh, b MENTELIN, 1466. A Mzizarine Bible, in beautiful preservation, upon paper, 1455. . . - The Imperial Library is open to the public every fore-noon, except Sundays, and any person may go thereeither to read ...or to make extraias, in a room adjoining, which is fitted up for the purpose. The Cabinet of Medals; Coins, and Intaglios; is' one of_ the most complete existing. It contains no less than 24,000 antique medals, among which are per 10'61 sets of the Consuls and Einperors. And - the ca binet of Natural History, besides an admirable col kft of Stones, shells, petrifliaions and mineral's, is enriched by 69 pictures of antique mosaic, or of mosaic composed of precious stones. In the Itnpe rial Palace called the Belvidere, which was built by Prince EUGENE, is deposited an immense colleaion of piEtures, by the first masters of the Italian, Dutch, Flemish, French, and German schools. There are in this palace near 1100 pieces, a great proportion of Which may be considered as chef-d'uawres of art. - - The Palace of Prince LicurrENsi‘FlN aloneis enrich eel with 660 pictures, among w hi c h are many ' of great valUe .; 'and Duke Antuti', of Saxe TeSchen, has perhaps the largest and mos t prec i ous seleEtion . -of prints m Europe. In these vast depots • of the finest predus..tions of, art and taste, and of what is most curious in History and Literature, M. DENot-will no doubt find some thing worthy of being possessed by the Great Nation. And. should they, on being brought to Paris, be heaped up like corn in a granary, or be thrown aside to rot; like rubbish in a lumber-room, still the objeft - Of the illUstrious patron and friend. of every ?tale and generous sentiment u ill be attained. His admirers say that ALEXANDER was a driveller to him in the field : surely M/EcEbtAs never cut such a figure in the Aca demy. • At a meeting of the Commissioners of the-Pro perty Tax, heki at Leeds Rotation Otlice, on Satur day last, a pertou in the neighbourhood wasiined• in treble the amObt of the duty on the. interest; , of 7001. in consequehe of his having refused to make the mortgager any allowance, agreeable to the 441. On Monday - last John Clarkson, horse breaker • lbetter kndwn by the name of Jumper), undertook, for a trifling wager, to draw a cart, without leaving the shafts, or the assistance of harness, containing cwt. - from Sow-bridge, to Mr. Shaw's, theWttite Bear Inn, Barnsley; being a distance of 200'yards, - and up a very steep ascent, which he performed in ore hour and 57 minutes.—The cart weighed 5 cwt. and - behind it was a fixed•pie'ce of wood, fir the purpose of acting as , a burr, I.khich weighed Y cwt. making altogether a, weight of ;91 cwt. ►l*