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leak of %amenity. The 'reenact of allot:-booms
lese.the mode that seeined wrist c6e ble to hlin
ale emotion. Tilts Would plsesE the moat loyal,
and be te, 1110UtlitgrilL it) the King's' sons, and
their song aids:" teeurredlete- lAmetred
to be startled ides Ape( alitls-linuser;
but the exisetne • wodict by sad amine;
be sty great eilhel'aPprelientliht.. It was ,not
• long once iiredecessoY
ti, ewe expense. and it *as • setonishing at
how small a retests eget- liihrity was executed.
Several Wealthy coif.. ;saes wield be ready toaid
In any great plat) of this kind, end they w e4e WWI
to I,thipea, wattin:: 'the dechnon of this• &snit,
whether they ideluld tbllortheir example in
'"arsittlie
together, or apply "pert of their Niels to ti chart=
cede perpose. file Fiehitamegers' Compatti were
to Cuitsaltetiou at it'd.' fitSatete. in the turtlrer
d tail of his pled, Si! mane that it westis
twoutivit he refer the suri,..t.t to all'ard
ter. mid tip truce evict-. Yard, in turn, anti ieery
ag Company, the right of a prosetittation.
He %nee tilniereed; that they had alcody
to celebrate the 15th 'of* o;ti;lier
JAI!. aril new, both in 'awl nit of the Court, it
%yes and-stood that the • celebration would be a
ill•inee. It .4411 a day of rear r, juicing.
and nu. ht to be obsere:erliilli a dinner. A rtigiva.
lowitletten thrown on the o)9%on:wife by proposing
that city sleeted aub.crifie indtvidually with their
sinneass; Lk; a OA. ff tlwe acre to be tieiether
ut, a eorprinelou, it twist be et their corporate ex-
• penite,"eutl if rialoteri.iitions Tor tiny other perpow
afire neeesea e. let theist he peuiPtuce4i the thionet,
aild they wont.: be liberal and.ablindant.
Mt. Mewitax stated hie convictioe, that if lie
wi-re impelled to' coy other motive than that of
lea:lime the Court fairly wel.candirtly la truth, he
'should conceive himself very undeserving of their
attention. The measure of haviug a Jubilee was
first preiouleated by apumber of the tniot eespect•
able uteri:halite and Winker, in 4oatiati; the
imputation Nitwit tbeus.wite. that they were im-
pelled by anuseter views, to promote this
to semis the 3liatioriers. But this; lie doubted ;
the latter. it vies now notogious, were, at the tiew,
torn tu Metes by discoid nod becasee ow, of the
former. whout he *feel the honour to cell bit friends
(teat to who's) he had net said one syllable int the•
.object,) was on the Committee. and prewinineutly
superior to ouch paltry views. .If he might Ise per-
mitted to hoard a supposition. it was, that Hit
Niitjesty had iooked ,torwerd, for some years. with ,
Nose. of arriving at this extreordiuery epoch, and.
with a hope of living it. eslebrutioa. Ilia couvie.
then was now. sod hail hero tunas the outset, that
• the exansple of this Curposehou was of no decisive
import to the Fipple of the United gitstpinto, and
toll:I not pet roar its being a Jubilee ; and a bete
.ter pr ir eieil I telt tie Oren. how itttle their exam-
ple inffuetwed others, than by their ending that
their mixture of polities with this goertinn had
existed nowhere else. His only motive for wishing
ter a dinuer wet this their procession to the chorcn,
*ad with the addreltbs. MOIL out In rewarded as,.
to use the wurde sif a Getitleinao Oil the fl 're
antrum suuticeer." At tile tirst meeting of .the
Corporeticsii this bueiuese, they hail decieled,
sdowt tattattittioubll, that they would hate nesen.:
gitet ; at a stilorqueut meeting. uotelthatiuttling
thir en iteiry opmitm of the Cniunintees they had.
still maitifetted the same ; dud he thor)Alit, if they
reganiedilteir owu cousiitesfey; they wo,glsi perse-
vere in their °region! purpose.tilt. Jaclto'espturut-d.
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)iftr. 01,torrolo, Anowet to the last speaks:
t. Jack.), expressed hi* surprise et Atieeeyisig
thil:isiniuntee.hed been ill iseri their
• power taken from thee:a ; that they thought Ahem-
'serves insulted by beim; the power of pruvahini
the dinner at the duhilee lisktu out of their
It must lie eecolleeted, 'Visit when that Continitiee
wtyi first depleted; the expeetatien wee. thin they,
would provide a dinner-e(//ere a cry 'of *. Au!
rto'f ")--Nay (contitilied Nir. M.). there is tin de-
nyiog it ; for if that had not beesr their impression,
shy, is-their report, name a dinner Why,
state, that they limelight one " neither necessary
no; expedient ?" Now. suppose thin eetppretions
on their Airing in this report..liad said itedhem.
" We a-kid VOU not for yuer qpiuien, awl et
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not only se.ei yea back with your °inutile. but
insist tipple your providing us a dinner ;" whit
'rebid those (erode:men have said ? Certaittly, ouch
mdch, more reason cud tuanliness—." What! do
yod twee; to insult us. by insisting upon our sluing
that which we think is impraper?". lint the feet
wee. the Coipdration knew neuter than to trust
theM; if they had. probably this Cott:mitts e *tight
haste introduced them, ou the eeth, to • table, duly
spread indeed with cowered dishes. bets when aO'
covered, in the meaner of llama of dtkomo, they
might here behold 'lathing but smoke eyed hike-
warns water. Bet he thought hr kueer. the Cot.
poration better, thtu that they rhsliti imaard beiree
thus 'smoked. •
Mr. Waterway moved, that the reference to
the tete Cum:l2km theitild be teal; which, being
da:.

Weenie** win!, that lie hod liiveteed -with
Coe i4rOsteit o 1 tetitigtt tu4 All the' ohto!rwatiotte that
piettiinlarti to the cetriordinott
:perch` which had heeit jeeil rlrlirered. 01'4 the
chanteys he had ever that
WWI tiwe omit tritrent'ilinary. (4 !sigh, Ile had
I.eatid 610 GiWp:nirit.'• Nassiippesiiiir,l t.' deterintue
rftY the beef ...di crlcbistitig the tuna?. nary of
Its' Moieties% INCWIWiIia to the throne ; but, be
util# ork/irlion it via. determined the the hest
wsy was hp( iiinu ?e, if that wee determined,: why,
he *wild ett. were. Le and otheis appointed Iti that
Cutlasaitter;"'v,hte a.utuaents were itecidedls ito•-
tik nil+ s'tnensure ? He could not compliment
tbe'siorttil Gentleman mini" wpou his segerity. He
oathd not help that 1134111 whowrre not is
Cur liaint of reimilimig lii.the Court beyond rli.nher,
yet, menu tite,fm met discussion *of tiiii Aunt-.
tint. (w:.1411 reepri-tect • dniiwr), contrivol to res.,
ti;i night; and'he would do the worthy Gen.
rltrwau the juitice to ilrlPlOVliellge, titat he uprerd
pout Ii wore frequently upon ouch geminate,
then.npon any other. The *pithy Gcotleilutu bd
&site d. that the prevent was nut • polities{ questiou.
I,,trayed but little witzecity if he theoght so.
11 ( %Ir. %V.) !sever horn il motion of the link),
rrirrtil Ara not proceed originally froin.•asi.dthuittis-
triiieti. tie slid not know 'tae th.itixr!ioribrt vifti•
trcoposied ;Ltd supported 4tetu ; but it was tak.;. to

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ask. tAtbeetsblie ceDolopt of we% and if it an- t
r,peattectihikt-atich motion' were only supported by •
'fiemolons 'gm to the Administratten,
and atcte.d..will, it, he tord not think it unfair to
rewrites it it" as a political proceeding. He had
reconvert information liouel a iteluartyr upon which
he could dypetid, that, in the. present instance,
communications were wade Lkyikersous connected
with the Ministrv,"intiMating a wish that such a
question should' be brought .lortvartl—(d cry qf
" Namte, cane.") He knew what he was ophged to
state, and* wheat not; ifhe bad the information (coin
Verson, cottuecteil witb the Adtsimistratioq, he did
,not late how lie could he called aim, to tiante them.
• Whitt he had awed was the fact, and there were
:mime present who knew it to be so.
[[Here he was interrupted *by Mr.. Disoo, whe
out "produce ihent."l.
Mr. WAITRMA,N said, that he was not looking at
.the Gentleman then. be was thinking of sontetla tog
t
more importam. He would state, however,
titlrtlty that letters haul been scut to members of
;the toriitration, icqttainting qiens..thist thitig of
the kind would he acceptable; and that, both upon
ttitot, and upon the Catholic Question, such letters
were received. listing stated, this, lie thought it
:blot fair to ask his Lordship himself, whether he had
not written upon the occesion ?-ISoate evatfasign,
cries of " (lair ! Chair !")
The LORD Marna said. that ho would he very.
control isogon the occasion; um/ declared, upon his
honour. that lie never did write .ppou such..au acs.
elution.
Mr. WAITIMAX said. that he was happy he had
pat the question. lie. was attire the Lord. Mayor
could not he offended with him for so doing, as it
"safforded hips an opportnierty
.of prortintio4 un-
farouraltle conclUsions, which report might other-
wise care iucliued them to draw. Ile certainly •
had hoard that some each letters were written ; hut
he thunglit it-better, before he threw eat any Mai-
Dilution to that effect, to put the question directly.
He hall little (Lulu upon Ilia mind but that the
present motion had. the same object to v., w, and
was made for the same litigating with other motions..
a a witnilar nature. It was/Issue' to bring in the
king's name as, * screen to the Adininignittion ;
their debates were so tied ap by Well en expedient,
that those who wished to keep their conduct fraw
discassiou, found their atecount in it. Sur* wow
the motive in the case before them. The Atimigis.

strltigpwwggij*Vrafteeti ; it wu tottering ;
vciostiotat OS leeeitnees. week out this hepi
expedient. the ;amity of which they so often pray'
het'ure. The Gentlemen had f.'&l4 64 it wilt, not

political question,. and yet he mode it a
discussion. lie wished fare good dinner;
therefore, he male a first principle. Hp did,
tually say that dining was a pro"( of foysllj ;.
be said that every individual ought to celebrate the
day in such a mantle"; at the same time lie isms of.
opinion, that, if they wets to p.y each tnr his din-
ner, nobody would ettead. It' so, hr would ask.
bast they not be conaidered a very disloyal
het of Gentleifien, With re.pect to the inn-
tron of tbe morflty Alderman, lie (Ir. Wattle.
twao)wns entirely ignoring, of it, gent he heird
hie proposition in that (tiled h alit sat, that
if it was thought ,•lpf.fliffit.:tiMlC sum °SAN,-
"ey should be cite:lolW; it inittAk to heexpended in
the way thatheettrAte.mberGentleinan, proposed ;
attar of which pool& be for more liouourable
useful. thou dinar% as tame would,
have them. I 4 war that they 'night come to a
decision alien the question es soon ea, possible, he
wrialitpropose, what lie wee „rare the worthy Ai-
dermal would hale no orsieetion to, that heshontri
hive up his proposition, in order that that of that
oda-thy Gentleman should come before dips,
IMO was preferable in the main. For hie part. he
.tai one who thought that:the espeoditure - *ay
eenney, es atest of loyalty. was linnet:essay ; but
ill deb Court was of a contrary opidoidsn, We beet way
of atenig it would be, to build alms-houses, or .
delic it to the relief of confined debtors. In
the reign of , kalwardl the 'Hurd, there iv.e a aril-
upon "daub occasion prisoners were en-
lar,:ed; and eesidemil paivileges, granted to the..
people, alsoug which CAs the-ebnitrosatien of Mog-
ro Cheats. They 'bad, therefore, a rreeedent
to. bear them out.' Among other olgt ctinns.
thetexpente bad beennrgerl ; Fmk is they were re-
solved.-at alteeents, to go to expenses iie.did not
thick it could be better emplied-than to ittheritabli
'purpose ; besides, as the example **UM be felloadid
by most of the corporate towel in the kingdom,. the
advantage would be wore extensive thin:they were ,
aware. lie would ask sliethier. etAhe present Ingh
price of breed; it wa, right for theta to squander
their *bone'', iu illutninetions end entertainments '
especially as they would thereby set an example of
repeat.. which *mild be imitated by the rest uf this
people ? Such, he contended, would be the coo-
sequenee of that memare ; but the ether would pro-
mote industry, and send ',tapir to useful labour—
*would be bentficiiil to therustlyes and to the state.—
,He would say, that_however the Court might have
acted before, they bed now bent to reflect and to
utter those gotoiseuus *pintoes which they might
then have enteitaitieri. Ile knew that the Corpo-
ration Lad suffixed much from its conduct ; it itas
spoken, of much *bawl ; lie had even heard that it
was id contemplation to,eall M meeting of the Cit..
zens.Tor Ale- warpage ef.considtring the conduct Of
them, their representatives. such a step is as repined
mto be in eimteplatine, asUi he we, sure that it was
;memory. 'the cbaracttr. of the Corporation, ha
would repeat, had sinflered. it gave him ionoir
pain to read, Wide tiling ago. LI the papers, that the
East India Company had called itself the first cur.
iterate body in the kingdom); they had certain pria
'ileges, it was true, for their own particular benefit.'
list the first corpoiate body he head always coma-
direst' to lse the CorponstioLd of the city of Condos ;
which city, with its rights sad privileges, they re-
presented cud which, instead of being ran in motion
be oilier Corporations, shouldoebthesa is uinti(in,
and direct the people. They should give ilirectivne
taut bets. inditeadl of rei:rivieg (bred:bowl themselves.
It was by following, instead. of feeding. that they
had fallen into disrepute.. The Sauk of- England
was one iusteuce. It enis.m. that source also they
-need the Income Tag, thief; Ives projedardi at the
1114ansiin House, kyd.a turaii of merchant% unknown•
td" the Corporation. Sur:44sta+ the origin of the In.
.745.7 315. c Di use laude dust 3' who increased
it F-Lord Gren'ilie, who gave his *On
(4 _irr.-!!‘i.--I.lc.f4arr tadl tin puts :4 appose