The National Register.
London, England, 1818-11-30 00:00:00

CITY BUSINESS.

The Lord Mayor held his first Court of Aldermen at
Guildhall, on Tuesday, which was attended by 13
Aldermen, the Recorder, Sheriff, and City Oi
The unanimous thanks of the Court were voted to the
late Lord Mayor, for his conduct during the Ft riAll he
filled that arduous and important situation ;
were ordered to be presented to him, and also to be
published. A small quantity of gold and silver in
bars, was sworn off thr exprtation.—The several Com-
mittees of the Court were appointed, and the usual
New-year's Gifts, and sundry Bills, were ordered to he
paid.
ELECTION OF AN ALDERMAN.

Wednesday a very numerous Alerting of the inha-
bitants of the \\'ard of 'Cheap took place in St. Law-
rence's Church, for the purpose of electing an Alder.
man in the room of S. Goodbehere, lisii. deceased.
The Lord Mayor took the Chair at two o'clock.
Mr. James, after a warm eulogium on the deceased
Aiagistrase, proposed R. Roth well, Esq Citizen and
Fishmonger, as his successor. The grounds on which
hi recommended him were, that he had been long
known in the %%rani for his steady attachment to the
King and Constitution ; and at the same time a sup-
porter of the Rights of the People.
Mr. Gibbons, in a short speech, propoo Sir T. Bell.
Bart.

Sir Thomas assured the Meeting that had he known
Mr. Rothwell would have become a Candidate, he
would not have oecred himself; and that, being now
assured of that Gentleman's concurrence with the views
of those who proposed him, he should, without hesita-
tion, withdraw his pretensions. Sir Thomas then re-
fir:A amidst the approbation of the meeting.
The Lord Mayor then put the question, when al-
most every hand %vas held up fin. Mr. Rothwell, on
which his Lordship declared that Gentleman duly
elected.

Mr. Rothwell, who had just arrived front Yorkshire,
then said, that feeling it was the prevailing sentiment
or the Ward that he should be put in nomination, and
having made up his mind to attend to the duties that
Avould necessarily devolve to him, with a seal that
would supply an excuse thr deficiencies in other respects,
he now presented himself—He knew that his Athrts
would fall short of those which rendered the character
of Alderman Goodbehere so estimable; but be knew,
at the same time, that all pomade assistance would be
rendered to him by the Lord Mayor and Aldermen,
upon occasions which his experience might not reach,
and he most heartily thanked those who now supported
for the manner in which they received him, and
still more for their conduct during his absence. This
speech was received with great applause.
Mt. Gibbons naiued a Resolution, that tb►e Ward l►ad
sustained a severe loss by the death of Alderman Gra►l-
behere, whose judgment, liberality, industry, and ur-
banity of manners, endeared him to the inhabitant►► of
the Ward ; and that his death was not only a loss to
the Ward, but to the Nation. The last observation
was, hap/ever, objected to; on which Mr. G. l►mited
the extent of the loss to the City of London ; when the
Resolution wns put and unanimously agre►d to.
Thursday the Lord Mayor held his first Court of
Cammon Council, which was numerously attended.
Atter the proceedings of the last meeting had limn

Mr. Deputy Hanman moved a vote of thanks to the
late Lord Mayor, which was seconded by Mr. Dixon,
and unanimously agreed to. Ordered to be fairly
t .inscribed, signed by the Town Clerk, properly em.
blazoned, and presenad to his Lordship.
The customary present of a purse of fiflyguineas was
unanimously voted to the Rev. I. J. Cory, Chaplain to
the late Lord Mayer, in testimony of the approbation
of the Court.
THE DEATH OF THE QL'EEX.

DAvtrs rose to move an Address of condolence
to the Prince Itt.:,ent upon Her Majesty's death. It
ke--,e that Court, he said, which had been always
ei,tinguished for loyalty, to express at this period the
sez:se it entertained of the loss with which the nation
had Lecn aiHiiited by the death of the Queen. From a
city ancient and loyal like the city of London, the Royal
I:n:161y had elitims to sl:ecial ctten ion. All ranks
oinsd in this sentiment, which had been so frequently
exhibited in cur sympathies at times of triumph and
exultation, and which could net slumber upon occasions
of mourning and regret. All political questions which
might arise under other circumstances were wholly
merged in the powerful claim to esteem which our lute
Queen had supported for so many years. Considered
in all respects, she was calculated to mike a deep im-
pression upon the hearts of a loyal and affectionate peo-
ple. As.a wife and mother her character was equally
praiseworthy. The tender solicitto!e with which she
had watched over the illness of his Majesty, and the
scrupulous example she exhibited to her children in the
whole tOUISC other lifc, were part:• of a character which
for limits, and duty %vas the atiuUration of as descrip-
tions of persons. The dignity, too, with which she
had tilled her high station was no leas rei,aliable, her
Court hying aphice.ilcan which all 1: ere ClUdl I.llobe

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conduct was der:ring of reproach. Mr. Davis con-
' eluded a speech, which he deliverk.d in a vay low tone,
by moving an address to the Prince Regent and the rest
of the Royal Family, upon the subject of the death of
Her Majesty, who had been for so many years au ex-
ample to the nation.
Jacks seconded the motion. He agreed in all
that bail been sail, but was particularly struck with
that point which described tier Mujesty us an example
not only to the British nation, but to all nations on the
Continent. He had, in difkrent countries, heard decla-
ratimss both public and private, that the Queen of
England was one of the press characters; and that,
under such an authority, it could not but be expected
that her Court should participate in that remarkable
distinction. The reign of George the Second, which had
been advancing in murals with respect to the Court,
hore no comparison to the purity of the highest ranks
of this day. Her example was to be considered as the
cause.—The motion was carried unanimously.

On a report from the Gaol Expellees Committee, the
Court granted an annuity to Mrs. Kirby, widow of
Mr. Edward Kirby, late keeper of the Debtor's prison.
Another report from that C.ommittec.., recommending
7091. to Mr. Piper, in lieu of his loss front not having
finally obtained the situation of keeper of the Debtors'
prison, to which he had been elected by the Court of
Aldermen, was presented and read, and a considerable
discussion ensued thereon ; and upon a motion being
made to wee with the report, an amendment wtis moved,
for adjourning the consideration, and requesting the
Court of Aldermen to communicate infiirmation upon
the subject, which was negatived ; and a division then
ensued upon the report, the numbers being
For the report—tt Commoners, 2 "I'Alers
Against it-7 Aide:nun, 31 Commoners. 2 Tellers

Majority t
The Lord Mayor declared a vacancy in the situation
of one of the fruit meters ; and it was referred to the
City Land Committee to dispose of the place in the
usual manner.

The Secondaries were directed to lay befare tke Court
a general account of the ices taken by them.

The 10th volume of a work, published at Paris,
under the title of " Flekires d Conquels des Francois,"
contains the Details of the poisoning of the French
troops at Jaffa. The writer, a General Beauvais, gives
an account of the first proposal made by Buouaparte
to 1/r, Desgenettea, in nearly the same terms in which
that transaction has frequently been described. Royer,
the apothecary of the army, at last willingly performed
the horrid task which Desgenettes had firmly rejected.
Opium was administered to thirty soldiers, who were
ill of the plague. Several of them who had a favour-
able crisis recovered, and fifteen or eighteen died. This
Royer is stated to have been a man of very bad cha-
racter. lie was on the point of being shot at St. Jean
d'Aere, for selling adulterated liquors to the army. He
did not return to France, having entered into commer-
cial speculations which induced him to stay in Egypt,
where he was finally strangled in consequence of its
being discovered that he had acted the part of a spy
both to the Turks and the Man►elukes. Berthier was
present at the conversation with Desgenettas and
on being questioned by Buonaparte, expressed his entire
concurrence with the opinion of the physician, adding,
that he had often felt his own deficiencies in the qua-
lities necessary to make a great man, and was now
more than ever convinced on that point—a noble senti-
ment erroneously ascribed by Sir Robert Wilson to Des-
genette.
The Archduke Maximilian, during his stay in Edin-
burgh, in the very slight interconse he was able to
have with any .of the men of science, evinced a much
more intimate acquaintance with natural philosophy
and other scientific pursuits than generally fitlls to the
share of Princes. Excepting his cousins, the Archdukes
John and Lewis, none of that class who have visited I
England have shown half so much talent as the late
visiter. Eitort as his stay in Edinburgh was, he ma-
nnged to steal from the other more important avocations
of attending military reviews, examining custom-
houses, wet docks, Ste., to some scientific visits. Among
others, he was twice at the house of Dr. Brewster,
where he inquired most minutely into the progress and
management of the many beautiful experiments by
which the nature and action of light have of late been
so wonderfully elucidated by ilia various experiments
The Prince evinced a knowledge of all those subjects
for superior to most men who have even given their
minds to the subject, and communicated a variety of
information to Dr. Brewster relative to the experiments
of Professor Amici of Modena, no account of which
has as yet reached this country.
The last letters from Calcutta mate, that the cholera
morbus still raged there with great fury. Its attacks
• are sudden, and very speedily final : it is not an un-
common circumstance for u person to die within six
hours after his that seizure by this >hueking malady
From Vienna it is announced in the most positive
manner, th.t all the reports which had been so sedu-
' lensly propagated by certain prints, of thy Emperor of
At:stria having used any means to get Buonaparte re-
moved feen St. Helena, are " absurd tables," and do
nut merit the least attention.