The National Register.
London, England, 1818-10-05 00:00:00

COMMON HALL.

ELECTION OF LORI) MAYOR.
Tuesday Ischig Miehaelmas day, the Livery were assembled
in Common Hall, for the purpose of efecting. a fit person to
serve the office of Lind Mayor for the ell:0611e year.
The Common Sergeant said that the Its ery weir celled
apon to fwlect two fit and proper persons out of the Itemiser
of those Aldermen who Lad served the office of Sheriff.—
Tires.. two were to be rewriter! to Pits Cern t of Aldermen,
nto acre to choose one Or 010111 to till the ethce of Lord
Mayor,
lie names of the Aldermen were then pot ; tip according le
scnierity, Upon the name of Alderman Atkins being vides it
on thi holed, there was a large show or wink ',oh consider-
stele ; •platise, mixed, however. with neatly an enlist shale
of disan inanition. The nett 1141110 was that of Alderman
(loudly ere, upon which the show of hands 04, 11101 e 'miner.
nits, the pplanse was also greater, though not at all izei;er/I,
there hei • many who loudly ea vessr d their disapprolia i ion.
The name f Mr. Alderman 'Thorp was the neat upon sabicis
many hands were held up. The numbers were in opprars
slice not Imo 1), if at all, iufetior to those for Aides num At.
kite, hut up i this the opinions of the Livery woe set y
much divided. Some loudly insisted that Alit. Thorp had the
i,4
usajorityorlsilst -others as stoutly nasintained that it rested
with Aid. Atkin.. During this 'why rooting bean is t'• Thorp
14 nit," awl " 4 ails has it," the Sties Os spiraled to consoit
blether, and having agreed as to die successful candidates,
the Cotillion Sergeant come forward to announce their Ileitis
stem. S.lessce was instantly restored, hut the moms lit lie
reunionist' that, in the opinion of the Sheriffs, the choice of
the Livery had falten/tpun A 1,1.41111.11 MLitt% and Gooribehere,
ii tningt id 'shout of dissatisfaction and applause was set top,
which was absolutely deafening, and eontinsse.l so for sante
minutea. 'the Sheriffs immediately letired to make their
rousts to the Court of Altlettsttm, anti to it el:lnlitierelfile
time after their departure, tittle could he heard hut, opposing
cries sof " she/Re—" lit. 4 trick"— 'ad " alfsfeir"—`• dA At.
riffs floc corna." _ . • _ _ . . . .

Iu
about three quarters of an Mete the Lord Mayor, ;worm
ponied as before, returned to the beatings, when the Recorder
announced that the choice of the Gault of Aldermen had
fall-n upon Aldermen Atkins, u horn •he Rimers,' e declared
duly elected. At this thissanie mingled shouts as he fore were
set op, and continued whilst Ike Lord Mayor e Iret was in.
'seed with the chain. After this ceremony was pertin
he Game forward to return thanks, but the noise of dose w Ito
appeared to approve and disapprove was too loud to hose
soy thing else heard for some time. At leugth he nos ini-
ulerstood to express his sincere thanks for the very high ho-
nour which hod been conferred upon hint. He assured the
Livery that they should have nu reason to !egret their choice,
but that lie should at all times be f lln discharge the
duties of his high office w14:1 that zeal, integrity, amid impar-
tiality, which lie teemed hail already marked his conduct as a
Magistrate. (Applause, and soqie hisses.) lie continued to
speak foe some moments boner, but it wss impossible tu coi-
led what he said. 11'lu•n he had r. tired,
Mr. S. Dixon cattle forward to submit a motion on which
lie was certain thole would..he no ilitleience of opienuee. It
was a motion of thanks to the tale Sherif, for their very
praiseworthy conduct while in °nice. (Cries of •• Give et
only to one," and " Let the motions be St m OOw.") To him
both tile eetitlemea were strangers wheel they came into
office, but he had since known them as most. zealous and
indefatigable in the discharge of their %Tay opium's deifies.
In the late election there was none who 14W their conduct,
who had nut reason to admire their at. ict impartiality. Lit
every respect their conduct had entitled thesis to the tbetiks
of their fellow citizens, butt in nothing more thou in their hu-
mane attention to the sit nation of the prisoners in the defier-
ent prisons, every one of whom they had endeavonied to
render as comfortable as their situations would admit. lie
concluded by moving, that the thanks of the livery be given
to Sir Fr4nCiS Desanges tied Sir George Alderson, Knights,
the late Sheriffs, for the very zealous, active, and able manner
in which they lied discharged the duties of their office, for
their strictly impartial conduct .at the late conteeted election
for the City, amid fur their .humane and liberal attention to
the situation of the prisoni es. This was seconded, and
carried almost unanimously, and with tupelo applause.
Sir fl. Alderson, in returning thanks, expressed his regret
that his colleague, Sir F. Desangts, was not preseut on this
Occasion, as he would offer thanks in a lunch better manner
than he could pretend to. .It was however a ditty which lie
owed to the livery to express to them how highly he valued
the honour which they had just conferred upon him. For
this he begged them to accept his moat sincere thanks. It
was, as they would recollect, now twelve months since he had
beers called from the ranks of his fellow citizens to fill the
high and important office with which their confidence had
invested him. He had endeavoured, as far as his humble
abilities permitted, to discharge its duties wills zeal, integrity,
and a constant attention to the public interest.
Mr. Blundell next came forward with a paper in his hand,
which was iniderstood to curituin a resolution, expressing some
disapprobation at the conduct of the new Sheriffs in making
the return.; but before Ile moved it, the crier, by order of
the Lord Mayor, declared the hall adjourned.
This vas commented on in strong terms by many on and
near the hustings, who seernmi to have been ass ate of the ob-
ject of the intended motion.

After the Common Hall, the Lord Mayor held a Court of
Aldermen, at which Mr. Norton, who was on Monday last
elected Common Ph oder, in the room of the late
Watson, Esq. att,ndt tl, and was sworn into office.

FOIIGED NOTEB.—A rein:likable proof of the extensive
circulation of tuqted Bank notes was atithentieata•d on Mon-
day. A respectable I se in town having had tionsinitted
to iheinloo one pound notes to be paid into the Rank of Lug.
land, one of the partners proceeded thither for that purpose,
',dire, to his astonishment, no less than 20 of them were de'
clued to be forged. They were all taken, in the course of
his business, by a respectable mat ket gardener, of Covect
Gar.len

public will regret to learn, that the moat tierririni
frauds have been attempted on the Waterloo and Pattiotie
Funds; and that some have breit very successful. A la °man
contrived by a lung train of hornlike cosresponklem•e, aid
many lot get' eel titiente4, to eat liesself placed a 4 ,erjrant
willoworilii three children, On the Waitaki( :and. la orkltr
to a v twist!: it...two, silt, no,vt.:l e.e,y six
and at last pi.; i:l4 a vt...t to Eit.ntm!gh, was (leen cd, bit
ellidiA It is inverted, is stow
tram-4ting I,tt moldier's coutitirs, and liit• 1.1111 I. clt will)
for two of elivoi she had di a% n 151. each, 41. for the
othri , itst. 1;.1. he' t•it. I.or ;11,11,1,11,
As there waling station:tr.,' in sirs wcrld, we must not he sar
pli3:11 to hear that 31:0; Las w:ls scarcely. rositele let
L tv.:on .rio; to be

OCT. 5

DREADFUL EXPLOSION.

Nrrtristottam, SEPT. $lO.—A dreadful accident occurred
icr.erday at the Canal Company's wharf, by the explosion
of gunpowder in a boat. The vessel was lying in the bash'
under the arch Of the Company's warehouse, and some men
were employed in lundine, the cargo,. when in an instant an
explosion took place which threw the whole town into con-
eteinition, and seread the utmost devastation throughout the
neighbourhood, The report way so tretnendoes as to be
heard at a distance of many miles, and• every limise in the
town was shaken as if by an earthquake. The Company's
warehouse, with all its CUlittalbti was completely blown int*
the air, and not a vestige of the building reinains. The
fragments were scattered over the meadows to a considera-
ble Ilistasier., and the boat was in part shivered to pieces, and
the rest stink. Several roofs were carried off from the ad
joining buildings, lead and tiles torn off, window frames
blown nut, and liniolreas of windows demolished. Hut the
most dreadful part of (he calamity is the exteusive'destruc-
tion of human life, no less than eleveu persons, already
ascertained, having been precipitated into eternity, besides
two Liken to the hospital, who are not expected to stievve.
The mangled remains of eight !nee ".1.14 a boy hail been col.
lected last Meta._ .w..; in's more were known to be buried
ana..-..,gst the rains. Thu bodies presented a shocking spec-
tacle; two men were foetid lying on the edge oldie boat, with
their heads coouptrlrti tatz.l :41 two &Alter,. ;ay near the
:c way of the yard, with their skulls dashed to pieces and
otherwise disfigured; two other bodies were found in the mea-
dows, havieg been blown across the emit, one to a distance
of about one liundr,d yards, and the other more than three
hundied yards, and the limbs and flesh scattered 'shout in
different directions: another Was taken out of the twins a
complete trunk, with both leg:, and arms blown off; and the
remaining two mangled in a manner equally shocking. Most
of them were married men and had families. 'flue accident
(as related by a boatman belonging to another vessel lying
near, and who happily escaped with a few slight bruises)
originated by a youth of the Ilatnt. of Cross, the son of a boat
owner, impenitently fetching a but cinder from another boat,
and applying it to sonic louse powder which lay scattered
about, with a view of having a" flask," as lie tenet d it. The
consequence 5545, that the fire communicated instantly by a
sort or train to the cask from whence it had dropped out,
which ignited, and setting tire to five, other barrels, the
whole exploded with a most tremendous noise. The ilamag,.
Is estimated at many thousand pounds—some calculatious go
as high as 3a.0001., but certainly it is very great. Mr. Wilkes,
the agent of the company. was fortunately from home on a
jouriley, and die bookkeeper had only left the premises about
some biriiiess not mute than ten minutes before the aceltlent
happened. The expission took place about S o'clock in the
afternoon. Amongst the property destroyed was a large
quan:ity of corn in the warehouse in sacks and loose. The
papers and books were forunately detonated in a counting
vase at some distance front the warehouse, %%bleb toompea
rtsstritetioa. A. waggon belonging to Mr. Houton Wits Valid
ing tot the yard,. and the waggoner, who was near the shaft
Weise at the time, lost his life; the waggon was utterly de-
stroyed, and two of the horses in thug team killed on-the spot.
The bay that was killed was a son of Mr. Howell ; he was go•
leg; on board with the in:ent of gathering some of the loose
powder is hell the explosion took place ; his two companious
(beys),who were waiting for him at a shalt distanee, banally
escaped without other Minty than Leingslizhily struck our the
face. The other sulfereis were principelly boatmen and la.
bearers about the wharf. Mi. Wilkes's hit:rue, which stands
near the gateway, sustained compaeatively little injury ; the
windows and fel/I.OIITP iu Ili house were for the most part
deniclished ; MIS. Wilkes was thrown with great violetive
irons a table to Ilse other side of the house, but eseaped
without other injury theu what arose from die surlienness of
the /hock and the fright. Olin person crawled oat of the
rains outworn, owing to several be.sins falling crossways user
whieli fortunately ptesersett his life. The bodies of the
suterers uuw lie at the Navigation Inn for the Coroner's
ii: quest.

LIBER %LID/ OF AN ENt;LISH CIuAKER. —Dining the war
for the indriiendevre of the Uidteil Stairs of Anieriea, some
vessels belonging to the 'mettle lonise ol• Elie Lelciiure, Lao'
thein of Itinieu, were captured b% soon! hoglislt erniscis. A
pail of them: poses fell by sineve%•lutr to Mr. Fox, the falser.
v. ho oroloowil (IMaltek isn,. liav nig ascertained the goitre(' of
this sorrrsrinu, and not thinking iiiiiiselfin,titied in aeeiviing
it by the religion• psineiples lie p1,te.4,.1, Mi. Fax remitted
to tic liet,se of Jilic Lete hoe e the *line nt. SJ,OOO francs, the
Neal rx• vaination he could wale of his part iii the property
deriv. limn the captures.
Mu. Edward 1..504 Fox, resiiting at Brislingtan, near Bn•-
tol, sud s,n, of the gen. roils Quaker we have mentioned, has
evinced that Ill' iolterits nut only ilie mine of 1i.,, father, but
that he al.O possesrws the of his character. Mr.
Fox, the .011, has lately deposited in the hands of the Trea-
surer Genesits of the the rum Of
3f,440 lianca, egad' to WWI. alerting, In 'unchaise an iosrsip•
tion in the Gteat 80014 to the anionsit of this MUM, 1.11.1 In Iwve
the an tttt i!y deri,r.i 1 it distributed lo the poor Freneli
marine,. and their 111.1'01414 Mr Long Fos has iteclartil to

his act 4.f dos:atom, that this sum Was the produce of the
tu-
. Serest thaws try Alt. Fox. his tether, nithoist hi, knot% ledurt
from the prize, made of ['tench cut... ve•sels by ill
ei 11644, daring the war of indepeorte.lct..
51r. long Fos has also charged the Tiritsiiier (;rnerol of
the Invaliil• to ptare the tenth purl of this iusetiption at the
slislite4l of NI. Elie Leteb is, lo• elder, iiis) or of Konen, who
iarcometiutore of Mindy 31100g1.11.11113, 13 Chili god Willi the
liquidation of the ancient tiros 01 Eiie Lefelosie. brothels.
for the purgiete lit' !Irving this truth distritioti it 11t
:1111h;
poor Fietiefi 1114(11U:1s rod their families 111 140 district lit
Hoary.

We und.rAtand that Mr. t. Long Fox, n t3o ha. formed

ettalliml Alt to tN here he edit-es Is T,T!, large num-
ber of itscane pro&onn 10 be taken care h,is Within the.e
three lart grate tertaken a voyage lo France fur the i&ser-
pose of sibits mg ockpultisals the 'taw rib-rill& nuratto of

obtaining yeioni.l tenet' tor pettionii lelionsing tinder that
51. e t•:41, of tiullady. M. Elie it tebiii e, tlit a utliisient to the
mayor. Ur lii.licll..cositkeied the gene' Imp Qn4.er tiertissi;ll
our nnwitasv!—jourvol de flows.
J. VISITATION.—}tobett ZefFenes.• labourer. in the ser-
vice of Mr. liormorgcr. of Ciuiley, sitsysctivi of hi.ting
loinetl sou:c fut.: belonging to h.e magt:r. n w el.i.igtti by
i v hilt wo,iiril; in a tick ; Jefferies, hoitctee. denied it in the
pally, went/cr. iceoinic.nying 1313 ticelionticnii of ite.ocerce by
wiii!tng that he ui ht drop tarwo iitiad, that Lis eyes fmni
Ilia him'. into hi. but, berritl end Nasphc,::oi,rs intpreteitionr,

. . .
vox* he stia.enly tut 19 taugrotiml witEctit s;.ef v: or ry.e.z.on. lie
has I= been ma% eyed to the re s:dcoee of lii4fzicr.ds at iVheatott
Aston, titter: he row lies in a dri.lorz.ble gat* awl without hopes of
tem siy.—Catester C'c;ircrii.

TIM NATIONAL RECTSTTIR.

From the LONDON GAZETTE, Tuesday, Sept. 29.
BANKRUPTS.
JOHNSON J. E. Hyde-street, Bloomsbury. master-mariner, Oct f.
24, Nov. 10, at Guildhall. Atus. Albaton and Cc Freeman's-
ourt, Cornhill.
DAr VE it M. Whitmlister, Gllcestershire, liwmitaper, Oct. 14. 15,
Nor. 10, at Glocest:r. Att. Mr. Beckea. Bruadostreet, Golden-
square.
110 Purrs J. Worcester. hop•merchsit, Ozt. 15, 17, Nov. 10, at
Worcester. Att. Mr. Becke, Derails:lire-street. Queen-square.
DilaßeriT J. East Dereham, Norfolk, irin!creper, Oct. 23, 24, Nov.
10, at Norwich, Atts. Adlinitton and Co Bedford-row.
FOWLER W. and J. Tanmirth. Staffordshire, paper-makers, Org.
13, 14, Nov. 10, at Tamwortli. Mt. Mr. Williston, Tanswortli.

DIVIDENDS.
W. Elliott, Newcastle upon-Tyne, nurseryman, Oct. 27.
J. Eccles. Penkridge, Staffordshire, grocer, Oct. 28.
S. M. Solomon. Birmingham, peurit-maker, Oct. 30.
R. Brought' Shrewsbury, giocer, Oct. 21.
.1. Davies, Shrewsbury. flax-spinner. Oct. 11.
W. I.ovo, Hudderstield, Yorkshire. shopk•ttp.sr, Oct. f 2.
R. Pellowe, Falmouth, mer.:er. Oct. 31.
J. Trevor, and .1. Richards, Wnitchurch, S'aropshire, tranhers,
Oct. 2cl.
S. Morand, Dean street, Finshury-square, merchant, Oct. 20.
R. A inam, East Ilsley. Berkshire, brewer, Oct. 20.
J. Hush, Thatcham. Berkshire, intikeeper, Oct.. 2Q.
R. Adnain, jam. Leckhemstead, Berkshire, farmer. Oct. 20.
W. Adnam, MiJgharn, Berkshire, farmer, Oct. 20.
J. Hobson, Manchester, brazier, Oct. 24.
L. Pius, Thorpe-Abbotts. Norfolk, merchant, Oct.
A. L. Pfeil and E. A. Van Vourst, Bishops,pte-strect, Within,
merchants, Oct. 17.
J. NAton, East India Chambers, Leadenhall-street, merchant,
Oct. 31.
N. Scholefield and T. W. Kershaw, Greenwich, haberdashers,
Oct. 24.
E. Kelley, Paddington, builder. Oct. :M.
W. Bolling, and J. SAlwood, High ll,tlborn, linendrapers, Oct. 30.
W. Itoltin, Birmingham, curio:, Oct. 24.
J. and 8.. Bradshaw, Lancaster. tallistv-chandlers, Oct. 27.