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distinction et limitation. It was his lot; es the se- '
nior Alderman present, to be placed in the chair t-,
und he called upon any man, either in Of out of
that Committee, to assert that he had either pub-
licly or privately recommended the ballot. But
even arguing the merits or demerits of that Mea-
sure, he could feel no hesitation in delivering it as
his opinion, that notwithstanding the honest pre-
judices entertained by 1 number of respectable
men, the ballot was a wild measure, easy in its ope-
ration, and certain to be effectual in the object.
What was it but a money measure ? Take a survey
of the counties and places where it has been in
force, and the Court would find that scarce once
in one hundred times did the person actually drawn
ever serve. It was almost universally conducted
by substitution, and he did not see where the Citi-
sent of London could suffer by the adoption of a
immure, which, though not nominally, was really
upon a pecuniary principle. Where hardship
• would ensue, he was prepared to rem it, by ro-
posing to that Cold the necessity ' Wg
with substitirtes, ant Citisen of . n on, who
should he drawn, whose income was at or under
one guinea per week. A clamour was endeavoured
to be raised against him, upon the ground that he
was a friend to the ballot. Such an opinion lie
bad never given, and if he had, he would never
shrink front it. In support of the rights and pri-
vileges of his fellow-estizens, he would go as far
as any man ; nor upon a review of his public life
did lie fear a compentionwith any of his colleagues,
either on that Bench, or in the [louse of Coin-
moos.
Mr. Deputy GOODBEHERE thought it necessary
to allude to the expression of a worthy Commoner
r. Dixon,) who had deprecated ally party inter-
in this discussion. He did not understand
the nature of that admonition. nor did he feel its
application to himself, because Int knew that he
drietwsed every public measure not upon party but
independent principles; upon principles of mile-
pendenee, not alleged, but proved. But he would
ask what feeling or view of independence must that
man entertain, who, after having courted the sup-
port and suffrages of the livery of London, upon
the grounds of public opinion and approval, thinks
it necessary, upon a question materially involving
their interests, and where he himself was unde-
cided, not to call for the opinion. or solicit the
judgment, of his constituents, but to volunteer a
conference with the King's Minister, and to ac-
itaawileiti himself a convert to whatever opinion
that Minstar Mould think proper to give?
The LORD Mxvoa called the gentleman to or-
der, and desired him to confine himself to the

subject.
Mr. GOODBEHERI resumed, and observed, that
he was convinced he was in order, and that the ad-

monition of his Lordship should not have the effect
of disjointing his observations, in the way that a si-
milar interruption was supposed to have had on
the speech of the worthy Alderman who introduced
this discussion. With respect to the principle of
the measure, it was positively subversive of' the
chartered privileges of the city of London. The
spirit and letter of that Charter were, that the city
of London was adequate to its own protection, and
thereforarelieved from the imposition of a military
cess. It would seem, front the recommendation of
this measure, to have been inferred, that the city
of London had'done nothing towards the defence
of the country. Let any man look to its military
array, and SW opposite conclusion was the truth.
It was degrading to destroy those proud barriers,
obtained by their ancestors as the distinctions of
the inetroplis, upon an uncalled-for and unneces-
sary occasion.
Mr. hats defended the report of the Com-
mittee, and asserted, that the measure was called for
by the necessities of the country.
Mr. WAITHMAN declared, that silence would be
almost criminal upon such a measure, connected as
it was with the discussion of that day. lie was ap-
prehensive, that in his observations he would not
be considered within the novel system of order laid
down by his Lordship. and that he might provoke
the irritability of the worthy Alderman (Shaw)
who seemed to take a lead on the occasion. I fow-
veer, he would proceed in contradiction to the 1115.
Ur, and number of the impediments. It was fre-
trendy the subject of regret, that in the discus-
sions of this Corporation there was too much of a
stel a, or of an undue influence; but it was re-
for that day to find such an influence not
may insinuating itself, but absolutely swaying its
Committees. Could not the worthy Alderman
find, either amongst his colleagues, ottamongst the
Corporate Body, any person to clear his doubts,
without being under the extreme necessity of ap-
plying to the Chancellor of the Exchequer? But
it was net only his doubts he was anxious to dissi-
pate by this Ministerial conference. No ! he was
endeavouring to ascertain the siaLure of the sup-
port that Government would give to the measure.
Where was the influence to be exerted ? Its Par-
liament. Really this was language the most un-
constitutional, and conduct the most reprehen-
sible. It was censurable in any private mem-
ber, but particularly so in • Gentleman filling
his high public character. He could not ex-
cuse the worthy Alderman for suffering, on this
occasion, his political prejudices to warp him
from the adherence to his public duties The
worthy Commoner took a very comprehensive view
of the chartered privileges of the City of London,
and impressively asked the Court, whether it was
ready to encroach upon them for an unnecessary
and contemptili!e measure? one uncalled (Ur by
any
convinced the present Administration, bad as he
thought them, and no man had a worse opinion of
them, were even too high-mintleil not to despise.
1-11 e concluded by moving an amendment, !‘ That
he Report should be referred to the Committee,
lirecting them to consider whether the adoption of
such u measure was either necessary or agreeable to
the ancient and acknowledged privileges of the City
of London ?"

Mr..l.olrs BREWER was as alive as any man to
the duty of preserving tinunnuired the rights and
priiileges of the Ci•y of Loudon. Ile valued them
as a sacred legacy bequeathed to his fellow-freemen,
tild was anxious to preserve them nriditninisheii fur
in children. With thnt feeling. he gave his vote
or the Report of the Committee, bemuse it was
afgliflttd to meet the object of the resolution ie •
nay was at all sibjectionable. ILE was roach sue.

THE BRITISH PRESS.

LONDON,
THuitsDAY, J.u. 21.

COUNT STAHREMBERp.

His Excellency Count STAHROMBETIR., the .Aus-
trian Ambassador, left town last night it 7 o'clock;
for Dever, on his way to Paris. Part of his ezse-
lettcy's establishment preceded him, having -left
town at 4 o'clock. His departure was the Conse-
quence of peremptory orders brought by M. !PILE-
GLE, the Austrian Meshenget., who arrived in town
on Monday, from France. This geatlenviin set
out again on his return, after a stay of not
many hours, and arrived on Tuesday, at t o'clock,
at Dover, when he immediately embarked in
a Flag of Truce, and sailed for Calais.—lt would
appear from an Advertisement in the front of this
paper, that Count STAHREMBF.RO did not expect to
be called away so soon, as he has left his private
affairs unsettled ; but his departure being deter-
mined upon, it was perhaps desirable on our part
that he should not have the benefit of the information
which the business of Parliament this day might
afford. His Excellency has not given up his house
in Portland-place, nor discharged his domestics ;
and, it is raid, that at his departure he expressed a
hope of his speedy return to this country. • His
Excellency was expected at Dover since Tuesday
morning, and will, no doubt, sail front that place
in the course of this day. tl hatever may he
his personal feelings, he certainly could not,
under the present circumstances, have remained
here a moment longer with a good grace, his Court
having been forced to enter completely into the
views of BONAPARTE, as appears in the following
article, dated Trieste, Detem her 14, extracted from
one of the numbers of the. Monet err, received on
Tuesday :

" Agreeably to the tenor ash, new orangetnents
made by our Gorerionent with that of France, all
commerce, direct and indirect, with Trieste and
Fiume is prohibited to the English; and that we may
not fear an expedition similar to that of Copenha-
gen, most vigorous measures of defence continue to
be taken. An immense number of workmen have
been pot in a state of requisition, to complete the
works, and to erect batteries in the neighbourhood
of our city. We are assured that a geuerakmbargo
will soon be Lid upon all English merchandise,
also upon the property of the English, Sicilians,
and Maltese.

"The English no lonzer respect the Austrian
flag, since they learned the political system which
our Court has adopted with regard to them.
" We see continually arrive here numbers of
English froM \ ienna, who embark for Malta or
Siuly ; within a few weeks there will not be any
English in the Austrian States."

We yesterday announced the surrender of
Me-
d ra to the British forces under Sir SADUSL HOOD
and General Bs asseonn, in trust for the Qneen
tf PoiILTUG•I---I.Tpoo the arrival of our Expedition
off the blend, the Governor proposed tertns of

Capitulation, wl.ich were acceded to, and the Island
was immediately delivered up. By the terms of tl-e
Capitulation, we understand that we are to retain
possession until the restoration of Peace bet% ern
France and Portugal, and, of course, till the French
evacuate the Portuguese territoric3,

As soon as the Island had bee.t put in ouillOi.
session, • detachment of 'iliumll troops, about
3000 men, proceeded with the Captain, Intrepid,
and York, to the West Indies.

The Princess Charlotte Packet is arrived with
IWails from the Windward Islands, in 31 duyi
from Tortola. She brings an accatiOt, that fill
MAJESTY'S brig Le Heureux has had an engag..-
meat off Barbadoes, with a French privateer
of superior force, in which Le Hereux wet
beaten off, after a sharp action, with a loss of 21
killed and wennded, including the Captain.

Captain BAYNTUN, of the Africa, and Rear.
Admiral MURRAY, with several other Officers st
Portsmouth, are ordered up to town to give evi-
deuce on the trial of General Wit ITELOCILZ. Tlie
trial is postponed until Thursday the 28th instant.
On Tuesday, at one o'clock. all the Cabinet
Ministers, except the Duke of PORTLAND, togs.
ther with the blasesa of the Rotut, the JUDGE
of the ADMIRALTY, the litse's ADI :KATIE, the
ATTORNEY and Sorictroa GENERAL, and Sir
WILLIAM WYNNE, met at the Cockpit, White..
ball. The business was said to be upon the im-
portant They
respecting the prizes at Buenos
Ayres. They continued *eir deliberations till
two o'clock, when the Cabinet Ministers adjourned
to the Foreign Office, a meetijig being appOinted
for that time upon special national bushier.:
Yesterday, a.Court of Directors was held at the
East India [louse, when the following Celt
manners took their final leave of the Court, pre-
/iglus to departing for their respective destinations,
viz:—.
r•spe. Homy Meriton, Exeter ; Capt. Jobe Locke, km.
:‘Pterid Seen; Copt C. E. Prescott, Alowick Caxtle ; Capt.
• It. H. Bromm, Lanetabire; ('.apt. Juba C. Lackner, Omuta;
Clat. William Danalbrd, Ceres% and Capt. Jean John
Williamatt, Oceas ; for Medea and atlas • Capt. VI.„
ell, Odeon& • It. W. C. Hates, Ldiedxialena ;
T W7lFaiefax,Allt ladle; and Cep.. H. ati/04;
lot; ; for Madras Bez4ml. ^ • • • '4
1,„,„,,,•" e uudrithentinhed tuptahis were Vi*Otillato
i:
jibe command of their resrelive ships, iiint.- • •
AI ' Capt. Jam Daisy literalism; tape. Geereitfouper, 'Sir
William Whaley t sad .earl. Alexander Campbell, soy,.
algal for Noah& :pa wive? c'4o.• )I•Ar e.S.w•rsa• tat*
.illga of Goolooltor glee sod !ledger ' '-
Court' adjoittiesk at.. sig o'etoek tale-
morrow. • - • 4:: . • : _ .
Yesterday tebellot Alit taken at the'East In
tu, to' 'denier/eel th: Resolution submitted to
last General Chilitt.estiu;ttirig the owners and
Oghtisander of the t..";uiges, freim all imputatibn
it neglect or sniaeonduce in respect ,to. the loss )1.
11litit ship.' At stz o'olock the- were dna/
idesed, and delivered to W. IL SUILOILIM wali .
, 11
, laillITON, E4tITI, tiill,actutineers, who declared hat
litiestion to hive beirarmnried in the affirmative.
• 'General Lord Lima had an interview, yesterday,
with the Board of Admiralty.
' • Older: were sent on Monday to Admiral Ntranr
say. at Portsmouth, to strike his flag, as he will
be a necessary Witness on the trial of General
WAITELOCRE., at Chelsea. The gallant Admiral
bad not arrived in town last evening.
Dispatches were received,yesterday, at the Admi-
ralty, from the Downs, containing an account of s.-
meal captives; the particulars of which sill appear
in The Gaulle of Saturday.
Several of the papers of yesterday affected to give
. the substiurce of' Ills Illiaarrire Speech to hw de-
livered thii day af .the opening of the Seminar of
Parliament, in which they have very astutely stated,
that the Speech totiche's upon the seizure of the
Danish Fleet, the emigration of the ROYAL Falsity
of PORTUGAL, and other leading political events
since the last Session !!!

Mr. Poisr4a air is expected` to take his sell in
the !Towle of Cornriiims, this day, for Tavistock.
- Private letters from Flushing state, that the
late storm, which did -so much dunnage on the
Kentish coat, was atteaded with still more die-
R. 4111114 CollieCilietWeill ad the opposite shore. At.
Flushing, and the neigbbOuring ports of I lolland,
the sea overflowed to a great.ea tent. spreading dew
'traction far and wide in its progress. Cattle.
corn, and houses, were swept away. and many
persons were drowned. The number of persons
lost is supposed to be very considerable. There
are some instances in which whole families perished
in their houses.

An Amenean vessel from Holland arrived on
Monday at Dover, sod landed novae passengers._
The boatmen, who briught them ashore, declared
them all Englishmen; but upon examination two
of thein were discovered to be foreigners, in conse-
quence of which the boat was seised by the Custom-
houre Officers.

A paper of yesterday states, that " Ministers have
granted a pension of 2001. a year to Mrs. HILL,
.wife of PRINCIPAL. HILL, of St. Mary's, St. An-
drews, with the reversion to her daughter."
Hu Grace the ARCHDPIROP of DUBLIN has
pletr.erl to appoint Malt Ilea`, al. L. L. U.
Chief Seneschal of his thsce's Alston. of St. Se-
pulchre Dublin, in the isisee of. Dr. Mint:N.lh.
who has resigned.
At the close of the Scrutiny fo+ Cripplegate
Without, the numbers stood thus :

Dims. nbl Deers
Loony a64 I Brown as
Mr. H. Baoww ems, in coasequence, thrown out.
A Vote of Thanks was moved by Mr. Caouc cc, slid
seconded by Mr. BROGDGX.
Letters to the 13th instant hare reached town
from Holland. They here brought in an Ame-
rican ship, which is arrived in the Downs. If we
may ._c-1:t the intelligence contained in so.ne of
those letters, the Dutch Government has comidei-
ably relaxed from its severity in the execution n$
their late Decrees. It is stated. that colonial pro-
dnce is to be admired into Dutch ports in future.
on the cousignea's payirnz • duty of Is per cent.
and these letters assert, abut lids al-eisdy been re-
Trolled here, that vessel,: slid Larirwm cleutmed
he giien up' to the cla:m•ate, ou the paymest
00 per cent.