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London, England, 1821-09-12 00:00:00

THANKS TO MR. SHERIFF WAITHMAN.

Mr. Fauet.t. presented the Report of the Com.
snifter appointed to inquire into the steps taken to
preserve the peace of the City during the passage
of the Queen's funeral through it.
The Report approved of all that had been done
on the occasion. It was read, and ordered t, bt•
entered on the Journals.

Mr. FAYELL was then proceeding to notice, in
terms of approbation, the conduct of Mr. Sheriff
Waiihnian, when he was interrupted by
Mr. F. N. WILLIAMs, who observed that no
notice had been given of any motion on the sub.
jrct which the worthy Gentleman was now proceed-
ing to discuss.
Mr. FAVELL allowed that no notice had been
given, but contended that on extraordinary occ.k.
lions ►t had been dispensed with.
Mr. OLDHAM wished to know the precise nature
of the Hon. Gentleman's motion.

Mr. FAYEI.L said this was an extraordinary
in which Mr. Sheriff Waldman had prevented
bloodshed, and in which he might have lost his
own life.

Mr. F. N. WILLIAMS submitted that this was
entirely out of order.
Mr. FATELL reamed, and was •b.,ut to pro-
ceed, when

Mr. OLDHAM rose to order. He contended that
previouc to a vote of thornlike a notice should have
been given.

The LORD M.tYwt said the Court might dis-
petire with the standing order.
Mr. Sheriff WAITHMAN said he knew not the
nature of the motion of the worthy Gentleman, and
have withdrawn, but that he had u question
of privilege to submit to the Court.
Mr. FAVELL thought the Corporation had been
insulted in the person of one of its highest officers.
With respect to the required notice, he should have
imagined that without it the Court would have
uoaniruou•ly thanked Mr. Sheriff Waithinun for
his conduct.

Mr. F. N. WILLtAws again rose to order, and
after a few words from Mr. Sheriff W•ictunsw.
Mr. FAVSLI. proceeded. He raid his minion
would uut allude to the general conduct of the She-
riff, but merely to hi• hehsvimir on the ilarof
Hooey's funeral. He ihi.n read his motiou,
declared that it was the duty of the Court to sip.
port the Sheath' in the performance of his high do-
ties, and concluded with thinking Mr. Sher:ll
Wsithman for his conduct in preventing the effu-
sion of blood at Knightsbridge.--(tor which ate
Adrersisenient.)

Mr. Sheriff IVAITHSIAN said he should have re-
tired if he had not had a statement of facts respect-
ing the circumstances of that day to submit to the
Court. He did not consider this as a matter per.
sonal to himself, but a gross violation of the rights
of the City in the person of their Sheriff. He com-
plained of the employment of Police Magistrates.
whilst no communication had been made to the She-
riffs. Mr. Sheriff Waithinan then proceeded to state
the transactions which had taken place at Knights-
bridge, on the occasion of floney's funeral. He
described the way in which lie had expostulated
with the life guards, and the vioksice which he had
there sustained. one of them having presented a
carbine at him, whilst other) laid hold of his

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book'. and menaced hie. All thetrecif•
asenstaoceetie hid represeoted to Goverameat, and
so theanswer which he had received regret was ex-.
pleated thlst the Sheriff of Middlesex had not been
la hie place to want a hirrd paid Police
pate. but no *mice Wale taken of his baring been
run at with swards, and carbines prcefoted et kat.

- • - [ieggv-Timir • igiriln/WiTyi Ur tITWW or. nu]
aurtinetre-iO4he matter, tecrpt that Mr. Conant
1114 viamiued omit voitiresses to gee if the place tad

.-! MtstrOPahatr's)- thrporttitto,'"i. **Pk ar-
• •lohneli'•loat notilhog toad 'if trite Sheriff Whig in-
visited; and his life 'tiottlangerea. The whole of. this
CCticeived •to be pen t f a iyatein to place the.
. mpautry master a tuilitary goveriunetit. The sc-
,.
• Ittoetors published in Me• urerapapers all agreed in
IdlitiO statements, and mate persons who were on
• horsehnek could confirm Tiis account of it, if it
wore neersaary, to oppose the conflicting accounts
t&ivh Lord Bathurst spoke. It hitd been asked
• why the'Sheriff had not quelled the riot at Curls.
berland-gate?. But the Government had not coudeo
atotitted to communicate with lain, and 'kin)/ is.
• ifie'procession, he declared to God he knewol
• eiot till he heard the firiug.
.s.t Mr. OLDHAM paid, this had nothing to do with
• :011ie transactions at Knightsbridge.
Mr. Sheriff WAI rilm AN thought it Magistrate.
ao. 'I" 41.44 to he heard in his defroce. The great ques-
L. 5...
.t.ols undoubtedly was, whether these proceedings
„„, were not an attack on. the privileges of the City ?
.
Mr. Sheriff Waithman was about to retire, when
it Mr. Sheriff WILLIAMS rose---He said the speech..
". they hart just heard seemed iuteuded to draw down
e
a rote of thanks on site speaker...-04 No, No !"
Ho observed, that unfortunately there had not been
that cordiality and eoromuisication hetweet, himself
and Mr. Sheriff Wootliman which was so highly de-
atrable. lie hod asked Mr. Sheriff Waithinan what
conduct he intended to pursue, and be had mold
hum iii reply that it was nut his iiitentiou to ins
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tertere.
Mr. Sheriff Weirtistao—'4 That was on the fts•
tend of her Majesty."
Mr. Sheriff WILLIAMS said, he had on that day.,
be" out, and went to Tottenham-court-road, and
-..'afterwardis attended the Lord Mayor at Temple-
bar (a circumstance which had been omitted in all .
the newspaper's), and had done every 'Wog which
t-, su antiuus desire to preserve the peace of the City
could soggest.
Mr. Sheriff WAITHMAN now withdrew.
.Mr. F. N. WILLIAMS objected to the motion
proceeding without nonce, that it would be liable
-Tearia hereafter rescinded, as bring the work of u
party. Beaides which, he asked, could the Court
...If'''. it* thanks to one Sheriff, on his own staretnent,
which would be tacitly to censure the other ?
Mr. OLDHAM, though he hail as great n jealousy
of the interference of the military as others, and
though lie might hereafter think Mr. Sheriff
Woithman deserved the approbation of every man
. for ins csooduct at the funeral of Hooey, yet 'for
- has conduct at the ii4piest lie certainly deserved
teprobation.
Mr. Ilvocossas suggested that Mr. Sheriff
. NVaithinali might to be present if a new subject
sw•te grate moo.
.Jr. Mims, resumed, and contended that the
whose of the Stielift 'a couduct ought to-be takeu
ion consideration together, and he cusiteuded that
14elerilt Waithanan's condo. t in attending as an ads
• voeate at the ikon', was inconsistent with he do-
tes as a injoisteriel officer or the Crown, whose
• leafy it would be to riurirtnouitbe Jury to try the
• *Webers, if illy of them acre lout tors their trial fur
t'•is matter.
• • Mr. Sheriff Waithman hawing now returned,
• Mr. Ottioam recapitulated what he had raid 111 hi.
111/14•FICe, lie c lotted by, ettlog.sing the cooduct
a'Mr. Wiliiains,. as being discre, t, and
every wet worthy of the tharike of the Court ; and
he objeCted to the thanks to Mr. Sheriff Waith-
omit, as being ill-tuned, not that he would say they
were undeserved.
Mr. Shrlifr WAITHMAN said, the worthy Gen-
Ceuta's', observations were nothing hut what had
"ppm-4d ha the ministerial papers, which hod dis-
played great ignorance out the occasion. Br io.g in
possession of .(4ttaiu vs:Weser, be should not have
done his duty' rithet,us a Sheriff or a mum, if he
' hart'OM girds the'ersinei to the imminoailig officer;
ohlrowirhout for hod dtrichouted 'toy advocacy, but it
• Seas lisri of the duty of the Sheriff, as conerrsator
of the palate peace. to promote inquiry where these
• hid' been any breach of and that was all he had
door..
Mr. Gat.i.oliat conceived that a gross outrage
hod been committed On a great poLlie LSlicer. vial
the mune it was investigated the more monstrous it
' would aPpear; and ill that view lie hoped the wor-
th/ Meer would withdraw bis prevent motion, and
give a hotice; in Order Shut tile matter might be
folly goo! into,
. • fib. FaVaLL replied. U. denied that any cen-
ser* was impfsed on Mr. Sheriff Williams.
F. N. WILLIAM. now moved, mi au amend-
ar- merit. that the matter lie referred tv a Committee.
Ou a slew of hoods the acne t was netpt-
tired hut the-woriny Gentleman demanded a divi-
sion. When the aintoridment was negatived, and the
vriklmal slimiest was afterward* carried by a con.
siderable majority.
' Mr. Wm Kerl, of the Ward of Crioptegate, was appointed
s Governor of Dridrwell sou Bethlem Mt/spits!, in the loom
of H. Kay, Kul deceased.
The Lord Mayor declared the y in the office of
• Hall-keeper, occasioned by the death of Mr. Geo. Temple.
The executors of the late Hall-keeper were desired to
✓apertstend the execution of that office until the further
order sif ILe Court, and it was referred to the City Lands
Cormiliteee, to consider whether any and what alteration it
.n he expedient to make nl the ruuductios that office in
Glare.

It appears by the twenty-seventh Report of the
London Missionary Society, that the great change
produced at Otarbeite, by the introduction of Chris-
tianity, is gradually becoming known in the other
islands of the vim Southern Ocean. Adetees, ju't
rective.il from America, state, that the chiefs and
people of three of the Sandwich !skint-, learning
the important and beneficent effects of this change.
had totally renounced idolatry, and committed to
the flames every ve►tige of it. TamoaEa, King of
the Isldnd of Awn. had expresiiiii a strong desire,
that persons should come and teach his people to
read and write, as had been done iu the Georgian
and Society Islands.

"OR E lON iIITE WC INC'S.
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mils' PAM'.
rms. sernwasa e.
Yesterday the King transacted immures with the
Presideut of the Council.

Tic =Austria 'Wu priarmited to his
Milner the Pope a collection of impressions of the
most beautiful antique cameos. Amongst titers_
• irthreettbaited idpoihroris of A u guSt us.
The Vienna Gbeette of the 28th of August states/
that the Austria's loterouticio sod the English Am.
bismuth)/ at Conmatnittople, continue to exert them-
selves with a view to rtrevent a rupture.
Intelligence from Frankfort tut. s, that accord-
ing to recounts, from Turkey no successor would
be provisitmally appointed to Baron Strogonoff. The
Austrian Interupudo, M. de 1.1.1120111 is charged to
receive the reply expected from St. Petersburgh.
to the answer given by the Porte to the
Russian vitinattext, and in the mean time to conti-
nue the diplomatic negociatious between the Russian
and Turkish Cabinets,.
A great 'mintier of artists and workmen
actively employed in the amens, of the Palate
}Optic-Boothia). and the belief is still eussertainsd
Oast the King of England will lodge there on his
testssige through Paris.
. .
(From the Conslitrtioonsel.)
(111114„RCT OP A PRIVATE !ATTU PROM TRA/111..i
FORT.)
It spitesis certsiq, says our Correspondent, thk,
at the same dire that Rinses dispatched an whiz
;Ilan to the Porte,/ she. :also-addressed a diploma,.,
rote to the Great Powers, which explained and d
Moped the curses and motives of her conclude
towards the Turkish Government, and it was pot'
concealed that in the event of the said wltinialann
being rejected by the Divan, Russia was prepated
to maintain it by force of arms. •
• Rueria suppoited the negotiations of her Ambotio
-bailor, the Baron de Strugonoft; by preparing f*
a campaign. It was with this view that the okra*
numerous corps of Generals Witigesisteia and
l'ermoloff, stationed on the frontiers ofßesitrabia
''and Moldavia, were considerably reinforced.
Commercial letters, however, from Odessa, Brody,
vLernberg, and Warsaw, which have recently been
received in Fresikfort, state that, up to the lime at
which they were written, iv, change had taken plat*
to the array or positions of the other corps of the
Russian army, which are, nevertheless, almost com-
pletely upon a war footing.
It is affirmed that the Emperor of Austria has ht.. I
the Emperor of Russia to meet him at P 'I
burg, in the heeiniting of September. If facts-,
should !Jut destroy conjectures, it may thence hlr
inferred thiAt Austria bay not rem:mimed all hope of '
aii tiecomniodai ion of the affairs of Turkey.

The letter goes on to review the immense military
resources of Ru.sin, sod the Mail, quacy of her
finances to maintain her vast army on u war foot.
ing. After observing that the opposition of Eng-
land to the invasion would be powerless, it
concludes by stating, that the departu.e of Ba-
ron de Strogonoti had wholly changed the face of
thiligt.
French Funds.—Five per Cent. Consols, 85 fr.
63 c.— Bank Stock, 1,548 fr. 75 e.
onus*, •UGUsT 14.

No person here has any doubt that hootilities will
spVedily commence ; it is even thought that the
couriers, which hove been dispatched to the fleet
and lir:id-quartets, were hearers of the necessary
tustructions. A formal declaration by our august
Sovereign is now looktd for.
AUGSBURG, SIEPTEMBER 2.
(EXTRACT OF A PRIVATE LETTER.)
The Russian Minister, Baron de Strogonoff, re-
fused to receive the last note which the Porte ad-
dressed to him thiough the Reis Effendi ; he de-
clared that it ought io be v-tit direct to St. PrlClS-
burgh. It appears that the English Ambassador
took upou himself to forward the said note to its
destination. by addressing it to the English Mi-
nister at St. Pettrshurgh. Ott its side the Porte
dispatched a duplicate copy to the Russian Cabinet,
accompanying it at. h 'rush complaints inmost
Baron de Strugonoff.
I.PSIBERG, AUGUST 22.
On the 6.1 i instant the (ieuerul•in-Chief Osten-
Sicken arrived at Zvromierz to review the second
division of his corps &armee. This division, which
ought to have been cominanded by Count Nlicharl
Worotiz4E, at present in England, will he put
under the orders of Lienteuant•Geocral Rah.

The Cossacks stationed in B bia, and along
the frontiers of N!olelavis, have received orders to
march. lii general. war between linveis and the
l'otte appears inerit.tble. The formal declaratios
of Russia is daily expected. Admiral Colint
Orloff; who is at Sebastopol, owl General Wittgen-
stein, in Bessarabia. have already swerved usetrucee
Lions relating thereto heat Odessa, which were dis-
patched to them imme.hairly on the arrival of
Baron de Strogonuff at that putt.