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London, England, 1826-06-26 00:00:00

CITY BUSINESS.

Saturday being midsummer ray, a Common Hall was held, ac
cording to custom, for the de ton of Sheriffs, Chamberlain
Bridgernasters. A uditms, and other officers for the ensuing year.
The Lotd Mayor, accompan e I by several td the Aldermen, the
Recorder, Sheriffs, aid City Offi.ters, procerded to the hustings
about one o'clOck, when the ball was opened, and the Recorder
briefly declared to the Livery the purpose for which they were
assembled.

The Lord Mayor and Aldermen then withdrew, and the Sheriff's
proceeded to the election, when the following gentlemen, who had
been ;,,ut in nomination by various Lord Mayors for Sheriff., were
proposed to the Livery :-
1819, Atkins, Mayor—Robert Humphrey Marten, Esq., Cook.
1828, Bridges, Mayor.--John Woolley, Esq., Glover; Richard
Butler, Esq., Butcher; Jacob Clements, Esq., Merchant Taylor.
1821, Thorp. Mayor.—Archdale Palmer, Esq., Mercer; Ed-
mund Waller Rundell, Esq., Goldsmith ' • Miles Stringer, Esq.,
Merchant Taylor; Benjamin Cole, Esq.,Draper ; Enosh Durant,
Esq., Weaver; Joseph Pulley, Esq., We:chandler ; James Crook,
Esq.. Merchant Tailor.
1822, Magnay, Mayor.--Henry Ladbroke, Esq., Grocer; An-
drew Spottiswoode, Esq. Stationer; Thomas Gardner, Esq.,
Stationer; Timothy Stansfield, Esq., Innholder ; Henry Fellows,
Esq., Pattenmaker.
11123, Ileygate, Mayor.—William Flower, Esq.. Fishmonger;
John Turner, Esq., Gold and Silver Wiredrawer ; Charles Frede-
rick Johnson. Esq..,M erect ; Robert Makepeace, Esq., Goldsmith ;
John Addinell, Esq., Pattenmaker ; Randle Hopley, Esq., rintn; r.
And in addition to them, several Liverymen put in nomination
Charles Fordo-other, Esq., citizen and vintner, and Henry Win-
chester, Esq., citizen and cutler.
31r. SAMUEL Dixos addressed the Hall, recommending the
Livery to clear the list.
Mr. S. Jones, and Mr. Ledger, Mr. Butterworth, and Mr.
James Hunt, shortly spoke in favour of the gentlemen just no-
minated.

The shew of hods was then taken, on which it appeared that
Mr. Farebrother and Mr. Winchester were elected by a very con.
siderable majority, and the Common Sergeant made the declaration
accordingly.
ltichad Clarke, Esq., citizen and joiner, was unanimously re.
electtd Chamberlain. . _

Messrs. Lewis and Gillman were re-elected Bridgemasters.
John Bowler, James Collins, Samuel Bicknell, aid John Fox-
well, were re-elected Ale-Conners.
Mr. Robert Carter and Mr. Richard Walter having served in the
office of Auditors of the City and Bridge-house Accounts for two
years were removed from that office. Mr. Charles Btind and Mr.
Wm. Carter, who have served one year, were continued ; and Mr.
Samuel Allan, and Mr. Peter Thomas Skipper, jun. were elected
for two years.
The Sheriffs and Officers then proceeded to the Council Cham-
ber, and reported the elections to the Lord Mayor and Aldermen,
who returned to the Hall, where the Recorder made the usual de-
claration.

Mr. FAREDROTHER and Mr. WINCHESTER addressed the
Livery, returning thanks for the honour conferred upon them.
Mr. Alderman WOOD made some observations on the investiga-
tion he had been making, respecting a placard at the late election
for Members for the City.
Mr. T. Cu nv is addressed a few words in reply.
The Auditors then delivered in • report of their labours for the
last year, when the Hall was dissolved.
A Court of Aldermen was afterward' held, when the Chamber-
lain and Britigemamers were sworn into office.
Precepts were ordered to be issued fn. a Common Hall on Mi.
chselmas.day next, fur the election of a Lord Mayor foe the year
ensuing.
Messrs. Chapman, Sanderson, Betts, Lyon, Jackson, Flower,
Tumley, and Drew, were elected MlSR...Rulers ; and Messrs. Hay,
Thompson, and Denkald Lighter-Rulers of the Watermen and
Lightermen's Company.
Commissioners of the Court of Requests for the months of July
and August neat were appointed.
The thanks of the Court were unanimously voted to the Rev.
Mr. Dillon, Chaplain Ito the Lord Mayor, for his sermon at St.
Paul's on the first Sunday in Trinity Term.
The LORD Mayon informed the Court that he had appointed
the first Courts of Conservancy to be holden fur the counties of
Essex and Kent on Thursday, the 29th instant.
Thomas Finance, Esq.. Deputy, was admitted and sworn a
Coal-Meter in trust for the City for four years.
Sundry persons were sworn and others allowed to he admitted
Brokers.

The Inquest of the Ward of Billinpgate attended. with • pre-
sentment of non freeman and of a nuisance, which vu referred to
the Chamberlain and the Alderman of the ward.
The LO•D Alavo* declared a vacancy in the °Rine of Collector
and Receiver of thalkpliaas' Dues on Wine, in the room of the
late Mr. Alderman Cox, and the next Court was appointed for the
election of • successor.

The Sheriffs reported the state of the several gaols.
Thomas Thornton was admitted a Yemen of the Poultry
Compter.
The beadles of the Court of Requests were re-elected.

LOVE AND CHAMPAGNE; MATRIMONIAL. MARQUE-.
RADINO—A young lady, the daughter of a highly respectable '
tradesman. residing In St. James's-street, who attended Charles
Wright's boat Masquerade, at the Argyll Rooms, in the character
of a flower girl, so captivated the Hon. (I. S—, the son of
an Irish Peer, who had casually walked In, in domino, that having
learnt from one of bliss party, the place of her residence, he
called the neat nioming, made her an offer of marriage, and a
handsome settlement, which was accepted by the blushing fair one,
anti they were united in the bands of Hymen, at a village near
Maidstone, on Saturday last. Whether the young bride matattri-
bute her matrimonial success to the influence of Charles 1%, right's
creaming Champagne over the feelings of the enamoured swain it
is not our province to determine ; we have only to remark, if diet
be the case, it verifies the old adage—" Wine does wonders."
New PuinicArions.—The following itteresting works
are just publisl.ed by Mr. Colbum, New Burlington street, viz._
Gaston de Blondeville, and St. Alban's Abbey, Romances, by the
late Alrs. Ridclifte, 4 vols. ;—the Lives of the Right lion. Francis
North, Baron Guilford, ord Keeper of the Great Seal, under
King Chatles 11. and King James IL ; of the Hon. Sir Dudley
North, Conmiissioner of the Treasury, and, the Hon. Dr. John '
North, Clerk of the Closet to King Charles 11. • by the Hon. Roger
North, 3 vols. ;—The Primer, or Road to Public Honours,
I vol. ;—Narrative of the Four Veen' Residence of an English
Family in France, with an account of the Author's Conversion to
the Catholic Faith ;—The German Novelists, • with Critical and
Biographical Notices, by Thomas Roscoe, Esq., 4 vols. *—Miller's
Biographical Sketches of British Characters deceased, since the
Accession of George IV., 2 vols. ;—ltrjected Articles I vol.;—
Lander's Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen,
2 vols. ;—Odes and Addresses to Great People, I vol. ;_Memoirs
of the Prince de Montborey, 2 vole. ;—Adventures of a Sergeant
in the French Army, by himself, I vol. ;—and Memoirs of the
Count de Segur, vol. 2, comprising the Account of bia Residence
at the Courtof Russia.

SOMERSETSHIRE ELECTION.

lIXIIESTER, FRIDAY.
The polling having closed at five o'clock, the Sher:ll announced
that the numbers were as follow:

Mr. Dickinson - 13841 Mr. Hunt 257
Sir T. Lethbridge - 1234

Mr. HUNT addressed the freeholders from the bench. He said,
that as no other of the Candidates was present, he should address
them but for a very short time. Whatever might be thought of his
pretensions to represent the county of Somerset, he, for one, felt
perfectly satisfied at the result of this day's poll. Certainly never
had an election for a great county been attended by such a paucity
of numbers, on the fifth day's polling, is appeared upon the books
on this celebrated occasion. Ile could easily account for the cir.
cumstance. His friends came when they pleased, but his opponents
had to encounter all the difficulties of forcing the inclinations and
degrading the spirit of their dependents. He had heard of various
instances of a remarkable nature, with respect to this system of
voting upon compulsion against his cause. Many of the electors,
upon mentioning to their employers that they would vote for either
of the old Members, provided they were allowed to give one vote
for Hunt, were told that they had better stay at home.
A respectable farmer in the body of the Court said, " That is the
fart. I know, of my own knowledge, several instances of the
kind."

Mr. HURT said the inference to be drawn from this observation
was obvious. Ile had heard that a farmer, who held land of Mr.
Stuckey, was told that, if he voted for Hunt, he should not stay
much longer on the estate; and that the manly reply that was given
was, " It Mr. Stuckey does not like it, he may farm the estate him.
self as soon as he pleases." (Cheers and clapping of hands.)
Mt. ST uckzl,—Name him, name him. It is not the fast.
hir. —‘• No, I'll not name him. I'll not draw down the
vengeance of these jockira upon any poor fellow," -(Cheels.) He
regtettcd that neither of the old Members was present, as he had
something to say which was applicable to their condition. He would
not take advantage of their absence, but be would repeat what he
had often said before—when they were in the House of Commons
they totally disregarded the petitions and prayers of their consti.
tuents. lie media nothing disrespectful to either of them per-
sonally, but during the whole of the time they represented that
county they most grossly and abominably misrepresented it.
(Cheers, hisses, and laughter.) Never during his experience, and
be had closely watched them, had he heard of one occasion in
which they had advocated the interests of the county, or 'hewn the
least disposition to benefit any part of the community. (Cries of
" No, but they advocated their own ;" and laughter and h saes.)
Mr. Huss T—Yea. It was to that point their zeal was directed.
He congratulated the county upon the good humour which now
seemed universally to prevail; and he also congratulated it upo
the preparations which his friends were making for the battle.
(Laughter and cheers.) His freeholders were now beginning to
gird on their swords, and preparing in earnest for the co neat in
which they were to be engaged at the latter end of the next week.
(Laughter.) It was the hope of all the men of independent feeling
' in the county that the battle should be decided in the teeth of Mr.
Vincent Stuckey, whom he was glad to see was present, and who had
dignified the 257 voters for Hunt by declaring that they had dis.
graced themselves, and were dishonest men.
Mr. ST UCKEYLSO every one else thinks. (Cheers and laughter.)
A Farmer, in the body of the Court-1 don't think so ; and I know
him only by his actions.
Mr. Liu It y— Look at that man who contradicts you, Mr. Stuckey,
by a reference to my public conduct. It is 14 years since that man
Brat favoured me with his vote at Bristol. I here rt,t acquaintaiee
with him, but he address, d me this morning, and told me that he
now lived at Newport. in Wales, and that he crossed the water and
walked fifty miles to give his honest vote for me. (Loud cheers.)
There was testimony of dishonesty ! I should like to see any such in-
, stance of devotion from any individual to either of the other Candi-
dates. At all events this proves that my friends are not all rogues.
But Mr. Stuckey has a loop-hole. He gave them another name—
poor deluded creatures ! As to capacity, I would place the meanest
of my pollens against Mr. Stuckey, without apprehension that the
former would sink in the scale of intellect. (Laughter.) Of those
who have voted for both of the other Candidates I shall say nothing.
All voters ought to be allowed to act on occasions of this kind as
they please, according to the dictates of their consciences, without
being insulted or intimidated. Some may think well of me ; some
may think well of Mr. Dickenson ; some of Sir Thomas Leth-
bridge; and some may think well even of Mr. Stuckey. (Laughter,
and biases and applause.) Let every man exercise his judgment
upon the comparison, and I think that, humble as my pretensions
are, my sense of liberty, my knowledge of the means of fully
achieving it, and my abhorrence of those tyrannical slaves who are
daily endeavouring to shackle it, place me Infinitely above my
competitors in those qualifications, which it is necessary to poser's
in order to represent the opinions of ten thousand people. (Loud
cheers and hisses.) Sir. Hunt then made an allusion to the con.
duct of the electors of Surrey in throwing out Mr. Holme Sumner.
" That gentleman," said he, " is the prototype of Sir Thomas
Lettituidge, the advocate of all the intolerant and oppressive mea-
sures that ever were proposed during his sojoarn in Parliament,
the friend of vitiation, the bitter and determined foe to every thing
calculated to advance the condition of society. Ile is gone, gone,
gone! He is kicked out, my friends, and I trust that in a few
d ys you will kick out Sir Thomas Lethbridge, in like manner.
(Laughter, and cries of " Hunt for ever," and hisses.) Yes,
Sumner is gone for ever. The arbitrary and vexatious Magistrate-1
the resolute adversary of those principles which admitted and esta-
blished the right of all men to worship God irt their own way—the
stern and insolent supporter of those who scouted economy, re-
trenchment, and rcfotm—ia departed before the breath of an in-
sulted county. Let this Le an example to you." (Cheers and
hisses.)
Front the crowd—" Aye, he is gone, an I so shall leather
breeches." (Roars of laughter and hisses.)
Mr. HUNT—" Yes, whit the blessing of Ood, leather breeches
shall go." (Continued laughter.) lilt. Hunt then thanked
the 250 honest freeholders who had polled for him. He had,
he said, heard that a joke was to be played off upon him today,
which he hoped would not be held back, lie liked to see some
spirit of the sort during an election, and could enjoy a joke or a
squib, whether let off at hint or any other of the Candidates. The
election was getting dull, particularly as Sir Thos. Lethbridge had
ceased to give him an opportunity of 'hewing the county a little
more of the talents of their old Representative ; and be hoped that
something would be done to enliven it.
Here a person in the gallery held out a dead owl, decorated with
Mr. Hunt's colours, and said to Mr. Hunt, " Here you are."—
This produced much laughter.
Mr. HUNT said that those who had planned the joke either in-
tended him a high:compliment, or were very ill read In ancient his-
tory. The owl, although an ugly bird, was always accounted by
the ancients the emblem of wisdom, and he rejoiced to see his
colours upon it. (Cries of " Aye, and it has the white feather in
his tail." Minerva carried the Image of it upon her helmet, and
certainly would not be much honoured by the transfer to either of
the other Candidate, whatever, might be her feeling with respect to
himself. (Laughter.) But perhaps it was designed by a friend
who had crept into the enemy's camp, to mark the contrast between
the contending spirits. But there could be no fun now, unless
Mr. Vincent Stuckey would favour the freeholders by giving them
a speech.
He thus concluded a speech, which was well received in mos. of
its parts by all the Meeting, amongst whom we noticed a number
of ladies, many of whom had come from a considerable distance, in
order to witness this extraordinary contest, which it is admitted,
upon all hands, has galled the pride of Sir Thomas Lethbridge
more than any opposition or insult to which he has ever been ex-
posed in the whole course of his life. The election fury, which in
the first days of the contest seemed to exist in a very high degree,
has completely subsided. The abatement of this desperate feeling
is in a great measure attributable to the moderate and affable con-
duct of Mr. Dickinson, and to the admirable skill with which Mr.
Hunt applies his moat severe hits to the friends of his anta-
gonist.

ILCUESTEI, SATVIDAY.
The Sheriff directed the following to be announced as the num-
bers of the Poll :

Mr. Dickinson 921 Mr. Hunt .
Sir T. Lethbridge - 90
•no NEI:IAT E NC UDE all ;
Mr. Dickinson 147 t Mr. Hunt 237
Sir T. Lethbridge - 1324
None of the Candidates were present. Mr. Dickinson was here
during part of the morning ; Sir T. Letlibi idge has not appeared
since Thursday night ; and Mr. Hunt left this afteraotsu for Bris-
tol, to meet a party of freeholders there, in compliance with their
request. Mr. Oliver Hayward and Mr. Hunt's two suns were in
the Court-house, but they said nothing in the way of thanks.
THE SECOND I'HOWINO OF Talk COCK.
A New Song.
Mister Huut is come from Town,
Cock.wdondle-do,
blister Hunt is come front Town,
The Blacking-men began to frown,
And, raving, swear they'll pat hint down,
Freeholders, Vi'hat say you
The Magistrates begin to stare,
Cock.a-doodle.do,
Their Treasurer begins to swear,
And is as surly as a hear,
Because they say he's in smear,
And his Accounts not true.
The Parsons for salvation pray,
Cocks-doodle-do,
Lest all their glebes should glide away,
But every dog must have his day,
As sayeth the Sherhome Mercury,
So, Reverend Sirs, must you.
The Lawyers are turned honest men,
Cock- a-doodle.do,
At most we'll put down one in ten,
Nor mention how, or where, or whets,
Not welter it again,
And see if that won't do.
The honest men of Somerset,
Cock-a-doodle-do,
The honest men of Somerset,
Have not decided, even yet,
'Twist coal-black, raven, and black jet,
Which is the darker hue.
AN UNDELUDED FREEHOLDER.