The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1806-10-08 00:00:00

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On Tuesday, the Municipal Regalia proceeded,
with the accustomed formalities, and in usual order,
from the Mansion-House, to the Castle, where the
• Ex-Lord Mayor resigned his authority, anti Alder-
man Pemberton was sworn idol office before his
Grace the Duke of Bedford.• •
The Recoitomt somnienced a very eloquent
Charge, respelling the important trust about to be
reposed in the Lord Mayor, with a nervous and well
e applied compliment to his public spirit, good sense,
andindependeuce of mind, evioced upon many pub.
lie occasions within his jurisdiaion. ,As a Magis-
trate, he promised that his Lordship would maintain
those ardent and uaecinivocal principles of loyalty,
which, in all public situations, had marked his con-
duff, principles which embraced a co-operation with
de precepts of the Christian Religion, the first ob.
ligation of a Magistrate's duty. The strid ob-
servance of the Sabbath he would be found to en-
fp+ ce. klis exertions, in the next place, he vouched,
would bokiiirecled to put down a species of public
atrocity,in which the trading community in this city
was neor having become a viaim—he alluded to
the pernicious prevalence of combination among
jaurioymen tradesmen, to raise, by the most illegal
and tumultuous methods, the price of their labour ;
these culpable proceedings were not only fraught
•rith inexpressible mischief to the community at
large, hut Involved the perpetrators, with their fa-
. lsilies, in the most dire distresses, from which they
can never emerge, without the most utivalified, the
most rigid and radical reformation. This refolmo-
tion, he feared, could however never be effeaed
without the salnotary interference of the laws, and
the application of the punishment to which they
give a sanaione combined with that authority, with
which the Chief Magistrate is invested. The next
objea of consideration was the subversion of that
system mai- regrating and forestalling at the public
Market iit this city, and other places for vending the
necessaries of lite, particularly to the poor, to
which he pledged himself, the Lord Mayor would
pay equal and effeaual attention as his predecessor,
notwithstanding an infirm state Of health, had in-
varithly persevered in. The more minute parts of
his Lordship's duty, he would leave to the Learned
Judge, whose eloquence and ability must contribute
hugely. if any incentive were wanting, to enforce a
stria observance of 11mliaistetial duty on his Lord-
ship's mind.
fhe Recorder having concluded, and the new
Lord Mayor being duly sworn in, Mr. Baron
bourn addressed him to the following effect r—
' " In the performance of that duty, which, from
die absence of my Lord Chief Baron, and my Bro-
ther George, has suddenly and sae:pettedly de-
volved on me, I understand it has been custom-
ary to deliver a charge to the Lord Mayor, consist-
ing of au enumeration of the duties of his office, and
a recommendation to discharge them with fidelity
and retention.
" With opportunities for preparation, which the
time would not allow, I might, perhaps have been
enabled to accommo late myself to this pradice.
but, I the lets lament my inability to do so, not only
because I have been so ably anticipated by the Re-
Corder, but because your Lordship's numerous and
various duties are at this day so generally known,
that a recapitulation of them would, I apprehend,
be mote tedious than it could be useful.
a And, if the functions o: the Chief Magistrate be
knows to all, we may presume that they are espe-
cially familiar to that Body, from which he is elect-
ed, whose nearness to the Chair will acquaint them
with its jurisdittion. and who will take pains to in-
form themselves of the nature and extent of 'stations
which they are likely to be called on to per-
form.
" If it be unnecessary to enumerate the duties of
your Lordship's office, still more soperfinons, I trust,
it would be, to recommend a diligent performance of
them. In stating them to be duties, I sufficiently
enjoin a gentleman of your description to discharge
them.
" Those humble, but not, therefore, unimportant
funaions, whose ohjea is to promote the comforts
of the lower classes of your fellow-citizens, you will
not therefore neglea ; ur be tempted, on account of
their lowness, to despise. You will, on the con-
trary, rerollea, that the happiness of the community
at large is the true toundatioo, and legitimate cud
of all authority.
* Without inquiringwhether such 'recesses, though
coarser, be more culpable than those which might
be found to prevail in higher circles, you will look
to the consequences of drunkenness and vulgar
riot, and interpose your authority to prevent
them.
• Should persons employed in the recruiting ser-
vice exceed, or, which is the same thing, abuse their
powers, and kidnap, where they are only autho-
rised to insist. you will here again interpose your
authority, its vindication of the privileges of citizen-
ship and trade; and. which is more important than
either, the liberties of the subject.
I am sorry to say, that this topic has been sug-
gested by something which lately fell within my
observation.
• fw «suing yeorisice against savage and disgust-
ing cruclty, which is ceercised towards animals, in
driving them throuj;h the streets. you will feel that
ynn are not timely rescuing these from torture, but
are reforming the in:toners, indeed the morals, of
the lower orders ; and, 1 AM sorry te add, supplying
the deficiencies of the law.
enforcin* a due observance -f the Sabbath,
and steadily diseckunciancing all protanatioas of that
day, you will consider yourself as discharging a
mere sus red duty than any of those to which I have
been adverting.
ss Oa the whole, you will be proud to emnlate the
m of many of your predcaessors who have
Chair. You will not scorn that fame,
re told, .:anent be contemned, without a
'the virtues that confer it.
ae acquired on the stage on which your
about to aft. A fame may there be
aly honourable, but lasting.
lapse of near a century, the name of
filled the office ro which you have sue-
remembered with respea, or only lost
Tie good Lord Mayor.
indeed, will last. It is consigned to
my being recorded in the writings of his
';orfot. It &Lauds iuscribed oa

the self-built monuments of this latter worthy, to'
whom no memorial his 'yist been ere red by his un-
grateful country.
" Your Lordship will recelieet, that, when this
great man ►ought to reader a most essential service
to his country, and sees those rights, which 4 Court
(unlike the present) was eireckivz, in order the bet.
ter to effeet his pirrpow, he assumed the disguise of
a citizen and trader. I need not say, that L allude
to the publication of The Drapar's (Alms.
" But your Lordship has advantages, and will
Ilse them for the public good, which were wanting
to Swift, and to your celebrated predecessor. In
their days, this country was forgotten, or remem-
bered to be mocked, insulted, or oppressed.
tt Those days, I trust, are past ; I trust they ne-
ver will return ; though, if they should, I any aware
they could not last.
" These were the excuses which I had to offer to
his Grace the Lord Lieutenant, and to your Lord.
ship, for not delivering a more regular and formal
charge."
The carriages of our new Magistrates are
executed in an extremely good style, and their
appointments tasteful. The bodies are dark,
with the respective arms well emblazoned,
and the hammer-cloths, which have the owners'

arms on the sides thereof, in an embossed broidery,
produce a very excellent effea. The motto of the
Chief Magistrate's arms is, riptide ci Labore—
Those of Sheriffs Manders and Nugent, the former,
Pro Omnibus Laos Dee ; and the latter Decrevi.
The liveries are white, with scarlet vests and
small-clothes, the first laced with silver, and silver
kuee.gaiters to the latter. The coats are trimmed
with worsted lace at the seams, and silver-laced
bats.
His Grace the Lord Lieutenant, all the great
Officers of State, and such of the Nobility and prin-
cipal Gentry as were in or near the metropolis, to.
ge.her with the Board of Aldermen, Recorder, and
Sheriffs, were sumptuously entertained at dinner by
the new Lord Mayor, at the Mansion-house, which
has been for some time in preparation for that oc-
casion.

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