The National Register.
London, England, 1821-07-01 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER

tile present circumstances, nothing remained for them
Inn to proceed to the poll as soon as the other business
of the day was dispatched.
The present Lhantherlain and Bridge Masters were
re-elected.
The present Aleconners were re-elected. J. Collins,
citizen and lorainer, was chosen in with them.
Mr. STEPHENS and Mr. GALLOWAY proposed Mr.
Richardson and Mr. Wetherstone as candidates Mr the
office of Auditors, in lung speeches, which they repre-
sented that as the office was at present executed, it was a
incre sinecure ; that the Auditors signed the accounts
with Out understanding theta; that it was proper that
retrenchment should begin at home, and that the Livery
should appoint men who would examine into every item
before they passed it, and keep a sharp eye over jobs,
contracts, Scc.
A show of hands was then taken, and Mr. Richardson
and Mr. Wetturstone, were declared duly elected by a
considerable mzjority, to c,crve as Auditors with the two
wlto remain in office. _

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Whilst the Sheriffs were e.otie to make a report of the
proceedings to the Court of Aldermen, Mr. Galloway
addressed the Hall, and cautioned them that the business
of the election was about to commence. The circum-
stance of Alderman Garrat dematulnig a poll, compelled
him to state who he was. lie was not a one guinea, or
a two guinea, but a five guinea member of the Bridge-
street association. (Hem a ;bison on the hustings said
the A Iderman was Mr. Galloway continued, that
he would undertake to prove he was, and he would do
so on the authority of the return made in the Court of
King's Bench, in which he was s.t down as one of those
not digit le to sere the office of Juror in a case where
that society i rovecined, he being one of the prosecutors.
Such being the case, he could not be a fit person to elect
as an officer to return such Jury.
The RECORDER, cm declaring the several candidates
returned to the diderent others to be duly elected, excited
much mirth, by toeing his address to the Hall
with " Gentlemen of the Jury," instead of" Gentlemen
of the Livery."
The accounts for last year hlvin:r been read, the elec
of Sher:ffs was proceeded in. A little before the coin-
mencen ent of tfie Hall, Alderman Garrat came forward
and stated, that although be certainly had become a
member of the constitutional associatum front a consci-
entious conviction of its utility, yet he had subsequently
upon more mature reflection, withdrawn 'fiftieth from
under the consideration that it was incompatible with
his situation as a magistrate, there being a possibility
that let might be called 1111011 to act judicially in cases of
prosecution at the Instance of the association.

At the close of the poll, which began at hailing
three, and coded at half-past tour, the numbers were
declared, amidst loud applause, to he, for—Alderman
Vet a'iles, Pa—For Mr. Crook, 87—Pur Alderman
Garrat, 6ti—Majority for Nit. Crook,
Alderman Wks:A.Bl.Es returned thanks in an appro-
priase speech.
AlderlOAO GARRAT said, it was natural to expect that
those in the Hall would make a point of setting up their
favourite as high as posstrile: He hoped that the livery
at large would hare an opportunity of knowing him
better than they
sought the Court nor the common favour, and that it
was his determination to kr ep the poll open to the latest
hour, as he was ih-terniiiied to see of what materials the
Livery were made 01'; and if he fonad that it appeared
to be their sense that ire was unfit to serve them, he
guild retire into that Fit AC life from whence he f.ad
been drawn by his fellow parishioners.—Cries of •• Go
now."—" No," said the worthy Alderman, " 1 have
not vet made the trial 1 propose.
The Court of Aldermen was afterwards held, at which
Mr. Alderman Wood laid before the Court his appoint-
ment as locum leneno to the Lord Mayor, which was read.
The summons I r lie Deputy Earl Marshal, for the
attendance oldie Lord Mayor, Aldermen, Recorder, and
Sherills at the ensuing coronation, was laid berme the
Court and read.
Mr. Alderman WOOD laid before the Court two
letters the Lord Mayor hail received from the Town
Clerk of Oxford, requerting, on behalf of the Mayor
and Recorder id Ox hod, that they !Mali( he permittt d to
accompany the Lord Mayor, &e. in the city s ate barge
on the ensuing CORMADOO, attended by eight citizens of
Oxford, which being read was complied with.
Richard Clark, li,q. was sumo into the office of
Chamberlain, and Nl,ssrs. Galabni and Thodey Imo the
office of Bridge-masters.
Several of the oilers of the company of watermen and
lighternien were sworn.
Precepts for Michaelmas-day were directed to be issued.
The several officers of the Lind Ni,iyor's household
attended, amid took the rise, according to tile resolution
of the last Court.

We understand that no less than four regiments
of cavalry, in addition to the three regiments of
Foot Guards, with the regiments of Horse Guards,
and the Oxford Blues, are to attend the approach-
ing coronation ; so that this solemn religious eere-
-mouy will also be a grand military spectacle. The
procession of his Majesty, however, from West-
minster Abbey to Westminster-hall, will not be a
spectacle for pedestrians, as the whole of the plat-
form upon which the procession moves is to be lined
by a double file of Foot Guards, who are to stand
upon a small platfortn, which is raised about three
fixt on each side. Behind those soldiers there is
also to be a double file of cavalry.
Lodgings in Dublin have risen full 50 per cent.
since it was known that his Majesty would visit
the capital of Ireland, and a royal box is preparing
in the theatre, under the impression that his Ma-
jesty will honour it with his presence during his
,stay there!