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ASSIZE OF DREAD.

Mr. Alderman %rood called the attention of the
Court to the question of the Assize of Bread. He
bad promised to bring this Stlbject before the last
Parliansent—but he was, after repeated conversa-
tion, with Mr. Franklaud Lewis, dissuaded from
submitting the subject to the Legislature in the
course of last year. A Committee had been ap.
pointed to inquire into the mutter, and their report
entitsined much useful information. The plain
question was, *holier the alteration made in the
mode of affixing the assize had been woeful to the
trade and the public, or whether the latter had
suffered by the change ? His present object. in
touching on the subject, wa, that • Committee
should be again formed, to consider the matter, add
report bow far the alteration affected the public.—
It was highly necessary that such a Committee
should investigate the subject fully before the
meeting of the beet Parliament, fur the pnrpose of
having the whole matter brought in the fullest
manner before the Legislature, where it would re-
ceive the most extended and most effective consi-
deration. He merely threw out these hints preps:.
ratory to the formation of such a Committee as
that to which he bad alluded.
The Loin MAYOR said, that he had often talk-
ed of the matter in the Court of Aldermen; but it
was there said, that, as no formal complaint had
been made, it would he irregular to adopt any new
regulation. Whets such a Complaint! were made,
then the Court would be ready to enter into a full
inquiry.
Mr. SAMOT.L Dixon said, that the *ctestioti was
one Of tlw greatest tniportante to the community at
large, and entitled to the most serious considers-
tion.-14 Hear, hear./—The alteration that hail
beets matte was merely esperimental—l /Icor )
cod its result ought certainly to be inquired into.
.ibbithtES TO THE .ROVAL PAMILY.

The U:1111) MAYOR Mike, mid stated that he had
convened the present Court, principally to inquire
into the propriety of adopting and pretenting Ad-
&elites io the Chief Members of the Royal Fa-
roily, on the recent marriages or their Royal High-
nesses the Dukes .t Claresste and Kent.

The recitsuistioli presented to his Lordship, in
purWatice of which the Court was convened, was
diet, read in the usual form.
Mr. Alderman IlairbaTr. the. rose to move the
Addresses. Ile said that at first he f-It great hesi-
tation at taking upon himself the duty he was now
about to perform ; not that lie thought the occasion
did lint call for these congratulat or that the
Royal Personages concerned did not eminently de-

serve them, but that he feh his own general Un-
fitness to pax compliment. on almost any occasion.
When, however. he reflected diet the Addressee
were foe a .art of that illustrious Family which
had for Imre than a century filled the Throne of
this courery, nd never ceased in a sficceeision of
years to OfAIIII ind maintais the principles of li-
berty and religious toleration, for the maintenance
of which they had been called to the Throne of
these Realms—when he reflected upon this, he
could no longer hesitate to himself of the
honour of proposing the present Addresses. On
public grounds it had been often truly stated, that
the best way for a Monarch to aecurellis influence
river the heaths of hisiseople was by considering the
itseasures most likely to promote their happiness;
this was a true and good maxim—so, oil the other
hand, the people ought not to omit any proper oc-
casion of acknowledging the feelings and exertions
of their Princes when directed to the public good.
The lamented death of her Royal Highness
the Princess Charlotte left the succession to
the Crown in a state of painful uncertainty,
and it become a matter of public necessity,
to provide for the - , so as to ex-
clude the - • !._ fi

possibility of its devolving upon a fo-
reigner 'on any ,future occasion. Tins led to the
late marriages, to the result of which every Eng-
Winton of loyalty and good feeling looked for-
ward with the most confident . hope. Their Royal
Highnesses the Dukes of Clarence and Kent were
well known to the country fur their public services—
fur their private services to the community no ex-
planation was necessary. His Royal Highness the
Duke of Kent in particular, had on all occasions
sheens his eager desire to promote the best interests
of charity and benevolence, his lime, his pone,
his personal convenience were at all times sacrificed
for the public good, and not only here, but on the
Continent of Europe, there load never lived s man
more universally respected.—(Haar, hear./—His
Royal Highness the Duke or Clarence was by the
recurrence of frequent indisposition prevented from
being so mui7li before the public, but his liberal
principles and sentiments were well known. The
Illustrious Ladies to whom there august Personages
were united, were of course as yet little known to
the people of this country. Rumour, justly he
believed, spoke of them in the highest and most
amiable terms for the practice of every domestic
virtue. One of them (the Duchess of Kent), was
peculiarly endeared to the people of this country,
as the sister of that Prince (Leopold) who had by
his coliduct in this country, during the lifetime of
his beloved end busented Princess, hut above all
by the fortitude and equanimity which he reserved
under the most trying of all human affliciions,
shewn himself to he au hotrour to mankind and an
(ornament to his country.—(Hear, hear, heur.)--
The Worthy Alileiman concluded by moving a
dutiful and loyal Address to his Royal Highness
the Prince Regent. congratulating him on the
Marriages of their Royal Highnesses the Dukes of
Clarence and Kent, with the Princess of Saxe-Mei-
ningeis sod the Princess of Linsugeu.
Mr. Jacas seconded the motion.

Mr. FASELL rose nea►ly at the same time to per-
forin this office. and rand, that be was never in the
habit of flattering Kings and Princes, yet he was
'always ready to pay them their just tribute, when
they deserved well of their people. His Royal
Highness the Duke of Kent had uniformly shewn
himself to be the steady friend of the best interest*
of the people. In all public charities he was the
foremost Man, and many of them would have fallen
were it not for his fostering aid and cordial vier:
tions.-4 Hear, haw. )-1V Iworver the Princes of
the House of Brunswick acted upon sod appreci-
ated the principles of the Revolution of 1688, which
placed their august family on the Throne, they
were well entitled to the gratitude of the people.
The Address to the Print* Regent was unani-
mously agreed to.
Similar ones to the Queen and Duke and Du-
chess of Clarence were then adopted.
On the propo►ition for the Address to the Doke
and Duchess of Kent—
Mr. JACKS rose to second the motion. He had
often heard that the education of Princes tended to
corrupt the heart, but the conduct of the illustrious
Princes of the House of Brunswick was i complete
refutation of such a doctrine. He had had repeated
occasions of knowing here the humanity and active
charity of the Duke of Kent, and he had also
heard from foreigners of the acts of his Royal
Highness in the city (we presume Brussels) to
which he had for known reasons for a time retired.
He had there maintained his dignity with economy,
but with nothing lake parsimony, for his advice, bis
services, and his purse were still open to the unfor•
tuirate.—( Hear.)—He could not allow this oppori.
tunity to pass without paying this tribute to the
virtues of so illustrious a character.—(Hear.)
The Addresses—(fas which we acitertisewelit)—
were then unanimously carried, and Committers
appointed to make the iitcessary arrangement* fur
presenting them.

A Petition from several poor fishermen, who bad been
prusecosted by the proprietors of sundry oyster beds, was
read, and referred to the Navigation Committee.

Reports fur granting I lid otherwise film the City
Lauds Committee, were read and agreed to.
The Committee for Improvements delivered in a Report,
with the outstanding claims, fur completing the New Prise*
fur Debtors in Whitecroas street, amounting to upward', of
30,0001.; which was lend, and referred to the Gaul Expenses
Cummitticef and fur them to cousider the best mode of pro-
viding for the same.
_ _

Th; Navigation Committee delivered in a Report on hav-
ing directed mindry necessary repairs to tbs moorings in
Galleons, whicb was read and approved.
Vißreo coal market bonds were ordered to be paid off
and rln.charged, mid the ithaniberlaio directed to take the
IlterNlU I 1p slips accordingly.
'The Committee too the Petition of the inhabitants of the
public %fleets of the City, complaining of the prostitutes
firiipienting the same, presented a Krim, ti, which was order-
ed to be 'refuted prior to being taken into commie/mina.

COURT OF ALDSRMEN.
Tie Lard Mayor also held a Court of Aldermen it which
Lawreuce Gitynsie. Evil. who was lately elected Sheriff, at-
tended, and entered kaki Wad to take spa* him she said
office.

Mr. Alderman Wood was appointed Govermsr of the
Tackle Ht/tlffe and Tirk,•t Porters, is the room or &r
Charles Prier, Bart, deceased, sad who bad resigned this
office at Ilse last Court.

A qusisilily of 1;01.1 war swore off fur exportatioa.
The Solicitor delivered io a Report relative to readry
ruinous premises in Cripplegate Ward, which was read, and
referred to the Clerk of the Works to ioquire into the stale
of the amour, sod to report to the next Goan.
Styria! Reports from the Gaul Catainittee were presaged
and greed to.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

PARIS PAPERS.

PAM'', JULY lb.

• Yesterday morning the King took a walk in the
Park of St. Cloud. His Majesty succeitively trans-
acted business with Count Pratlel. Director of his
Household, and the Count Decakea, Minister of
General Police. At four o'clock his Majesty, ac-
companied by the Duke de etrammont, Captain of
his Body trairdr, took tin tan% in an open cha-
riot, towards the mountain of Bustard.
The Princes are expected to quit Par:s this
itiorning for ltambouillet.
The Duchess of Devonshire arrived yesterday in
this capital.
to the details which we (the Gazette de France)
have published relative to the proceedings instituted
against the Sieetr Romilly and his ailiociates, it is
added, that on the tit of the mouth General Cannel
quitted his residence e few moments after the arrest
of the Sieur Songy, who is said to have been his
secretary, and that he has not appeared since. Sum-
moned a few days after by the Judge of Instruction,
he did not obey the mandate, and his papers were
immediately seited by the officers of justice.
Yesterday the Police aerated a great iitiml*r of
hawkers, who sold and cried about the Streets 'of
Paris a printed paper reapecting this affair, in
which some details are conformable to thbse we have
published, but which contains others altogether
different, false in themselves, and calculated to
abuse the public credulity.
A private letter reteived at Marseilles front Al.
piers, states, that the territories of Algiers continue
to be infested by the plague, and that the town is
in particular a prey to a great mortality. There
die from 60 to 70 persons daily, and it is fared that
this destruction will not cease until the month of
August, the time when the great heats correet this
dreadful evil.

The Dey of Tunis has, by his wisdom and We-
sight, hitherto preserved his States from thii ca-
lamity. Some ships from Algiers were infected
with the contagious distemper, and it was with some
reason apprehended that it would spread itself in
the country ; however the rigorous and well-en.
forced orders of the Dey dissipated every donee.
and the country continues to enjoy a perfect health.
It is assuredly a great triumph for humanity to
observe wisdom exteuding itself in countries whence
it wu generally thought to be excluded. Every
thing that tends to the preservation of health has
long been adopted and followed at Tunis, and
even Wore a code of sanitary law, drawn up by a
young but experienced traveller, was know there, a
lazaretto was established, and some precautions
were taken, so simple and universally known, as to
secure the place from the contagions malady.
The Uuder-Secretary of State for the department
of the interior, being apprised that the Smut Gout-
ven-Bahan, of the Commune of Ploneaur-Trez,
had perished on the I lull of March, in carrying
■►sistauce to the English ship the Eliza, which
was in danger of foundering, and that he had left
an aged mother whose sole support he was, sent the
old woman the sum of 300 francs.

THE BRITI S PRES S.

LON DON,

WEDNESDAY. JULY 2e. ISIS.

Wh ailuded in our last number to the improve-
ment in our Revenue, in consequence of the in-
creased activity in every branch of our commercial
system. We tire now happily returning to that
state of comparative prop
interrupted by the exhaustion
turn, and by the consequent
the cessation of our war

forgotten that during that
felt and so universally I

journeymen manufacturers
struggle, to the diminution
degree almost inconsistent
porting existence. We

ever, during Hirt period
any cuinploints uttered

lecturers for yielding to
circumstances, and for .:ucing verge
of starvation labourers and their families..—
Now mark the rid4rente. Commerce has revived,
trade has become regenerate, the profits of stock
have increased, wager have remained stationary.
The workmen who, during the depression rof the
times, consented to the diminution of their wages,
now require that the price of their labour shall be
rendered proportionate to the rise in the profits of
stock) and this is authoritatively called illegal and
unjust, and punishment is unfeelingly demanded
against the refractory conspirators. There is no
branch of our laws more hostile to the spirit of jus-
tice than that which arbitrarily imposes a price
upon the value of labour, nor more subversive of
the first principle of political economy. Labour is
a marketable commodity, to be disposed of in the
same Manner as any article that ran be made the
object of the senses, and according to the same
principles will its value be regulated. It is absurd
to talk of combina►ions among the labouring classes

against their masters. Generally speaking such com-
binations must defeat themselves ; for how could the
greater part of the mess employed in any establish-
ment exist without employment for such time as
would suffice for the Huai iiiii rid of their object '
If one set of workmen struck fur wages, how easy
would it be to procure another sufficient for carry-
ing on the work ? But why, in debarring the *so k-
men from endeavouring to obtain a fair reward s,l
their labours', are the master manufacturers per-
mitted to conspire as they please against the la-
bourers ? If combinations to raise wages be unfair
in one, combinations to lower wages cannot be
fair in the other; and yet of the tso we believe the
latter is at least as usual as the former. In contests
between the men sod their masters, every thing is
on the side of the latter. They can much more
safely " hold out" than their untagoisists—they
have no starving families at home, to drive theist
with their cries from a resolution adopted abroad—
nor is the interruption of a week or fortnight iu
their gains felt as an immediate calamity.

We have been induced to utter these few observe..
lions, from perceiving that the labourers at Man-
cheeter and Stockport have refused to work for the
prevent rate of wages, hoping by their perseverance
to cutup,' their usual employees to pay them more
liberally in future. The idleness of wi great a num-
ber of persons is much to be lamented, not only
from the miseries it must cause them at the present
moment, but from the thousand evils that must re-
sult to society from the habits these persons are, in
dieir idleness, Coo likely to engender. This is till.
doubtedly a consideration of very serious import-
ance; but it is still of much greater importance
that labour should be free, and that every man not
bound by his own set, or that of his legal guar-
dians, should be enabled to sell his work to the
best advantage. On alio' principle the House
of Lords acted during the lait Session of Parlia.
menr► when the case of the labouring children
in the cotton manufactories was submitted for
their opinion. In this case, it will be remem-
bered that on the part of the children was urged
the necessity of saving their infancy from the gripe
of avarice, and protecting their weakness front
the arm of power ; that they were not free labour-
er!, Old were compelled, without any regard to
their own feelings or wishes, to labour for a time
inconsistent with even the matured strength of man-
hood. We shall venerate Lords LIVERPOOL and
FLIRROWIIV API the part they took in this discus:.
sion. The master-manufacturers, however, pre.
veiled, and triumphed upon the point that no in-
terference was admissible between the employers
and their labourers,. If ever there was a case its
which Parliament wasjustitied in interfering, it was
for the defence of these children, employed for
fifteen hours a day in the cotton manufactories.. It
was the strongest point that could be brought for-
ward by the labourers; and if they were not worthy,
in that instance, of legislative protection, we can
see no pretence for extending the favour to the
masters, under circumstances of a far less s;gra.
!Wed nature.

We have received Paris Papers of Satite.l4
last. The alleged conspiracy is again alluded to
by the Gazelle de France, but nothing further it
communicated respecting the plans or means of the
conspirators. The Sieur SONGY, one of those ar-
re►tea, is said to hase been General CANOVA pri•
vale secretary. The General himself still contrives
to elude the pursuit of the police. The permission
granted to the public newspapers to notice this
affair has, it seems, encouraged the hawkers of
Paris to distribute in the streets printed papers, al.
reefing to give " a full, true, and particular at:
count" of the conspiracy, which, as is usual in such
cases,contained as many falsehoods as the ingenuity
of the writers could conveniently heap to,:ether.
The poi however, soon put an end to this branch
y seizing the papers and committing the
prison.
ti Funds have fallen a little, but we
.ribute it to this strange and Main.

. per Cents. were on Friday 761. WC.
,ctionr, 1,6i0 f.

the Earl of LITERPOIn. and Count
' audiences of the PRINCE ItIiGENT

AttscreT has, under the Statute 38th
Gro. 111. made an order for removing to the As-
sixes at Gloucester, the trial of the actions brought
to determine the rights of the Freemeu of the City
of Worcester, in Pitchcroft Ham.
The heat for some days past has been so execss
sive, we seem to have exchanged climates with
Italy and the West Indies—the one at present de.
Inged with rains, and the other surprised with a
visit from the icebergs.
The enormous sea serpent seems to have re-sp-
peered. The American Commercial Advertiser*
of the 9th June, contains a letter from the Cap-
tain of the brig Wilson, of Salem, bound to Nor-
folk, wherein he states, that, during lus passage.
off Cape Henry, lie fell in with, us he supposed.
the wreck of a vessel, when he ordered Isis boat
to be lowered, but to his great initoilishineut
lie found it to he the sea serpent ; he ways he
then examined it, and such •i object he never
before witne►sed; he believed it to be about
feet in length, and its mouth and bead sere of au
enormous size. After returning to the snip. er
bore off, fea►ing the consequences that might oc:uit
front its coating in contact with thg teasel,

osperity which was so long The police, hov
lanstion of a war. espendi. of trade, by i4e
quent shock arising Irons venders to prim
monopoly. It cannot he The French
tat depression, so generally l can hardly stir
y acknowledged, that the sistent story.
rers consented, without • The Five pe
ation of their wages, 'to a —Bank Action
ent with the means of sup.
do not remember, how.
of calamity, to have heard Yesterday tll
spinet the master menu. MUNSTER had
a the severity of existing at Carlton Hen
Mr. Justice I
• reducing to the verge