The Sun.
London, England, 1808-09-30 00:00:00

ELECTION OF LORD MAYOR.

Yesterday being Michaelmas-day, aCconmon Hall
was held at Guildhall, for the Election of a Lord
M?yvr for the year ensuing. •
The RECORDER stated to the Livery the•purpose
for w' ich they were convened, and the COMMON
S ERJ LA NT afterwards stated.the names Of the several
candidates proposed for their choice, viz.

CHARLES FLOWER, Esq. Alderman and Frame- work-
knit ter.
1. Sst IT it, Esq Alderman and leather-seller.
Sir MATTHEW BLOX AM, Kilt. A iderman and Stationer.
(.F.ORG& SCHOLEY, Esq. Alderman and Distiller.
‘VI 1.1. z Ata th tv Esq. Alderman and Stationer.
CHRENTOPHER SMI is, Esq. Alderman and Draper.
The question being then put respectively on each
name for a show of hands, the Sheriff declared;the
choice of the Livery to have been in favour of Al-
dermen FLovvER and SMITH : both of which names
being returned to the-Court of Aldermen, Alderman
&owns vs returned, and he was accordingly de-
clared by The Recorder as Lord Mayor for the -en-
suing year.
Alderman FLOWER then came forward, and re-
spettfully addressed himself to the Livery in nearly
the followini.woids:-
- " GENTLEMEN OP THE LIVERY,
" Permit the to return you my grateful thanks for
the very great honour you have conferred upon me,
be electing me Chief Magistrate of the first city in
the world.
" Be assured, Gentlemen, my first object shall be
to protect the tights and privileges •'of my fellow
Citizens ; and I have no doubt by a steady attention,
and with the assistance of my brethren the Alder-
men,' I shall be enabled to discharge the duties of
the office to your satisfaction, and with some degree
of credit to myself. I ant well aware of the-great
necessity there is, in this arduous undertaking, of
punt:hulk), and diligence in my attendance; and seal
and impartiality in the exercise of its various-duties.
You may rest assured, Gentlemen, of my devotion
to its service, and of my full determination to pro-
mote the Welfare and preserve the tranquillity of this
metropolis; and it in the course of the year I should
have the good fortune of announcing to you the joy-
ful tidings of a glorious and honourable Peace, I
shall be highly gratified; but rather than have it on
any other terms, I am ready to spill my last drop of
blood in defence of my beloved Sovereign and.our
glorious Constitution."—(Loud and reiterated ap-
anus. e.) ,
Mr. QuiN, of the Common Council, th@n-stepped
forward, and apologised to the Livery for 'presuming
to occupy a moment of their attention lifiproposing
a motion for their adoption, which he shouldaiot
base dotie, if be did not feel himself impelled by
motives he felt it unnecessary tioW to explain, when
others more competent to the task had thought
proper to decline it. The object of his motion
would be to return the thanks of the Livery to their
late worthy Sheriffs, fur their adive, conscientious,
and honourable discharge of their duty in the
high and important office, they had' lately filled;
an office to which they had been elected • by the
Livery of London, and in which it became, in' so
peculiar a degree, their duty to maintain the laws of
their country, and the rights and privileges of their
fellow-citizens. This.eonsidetation, he was sure, must
operate as a stimulus to that body whose peculiar pri-
vilege it was to elect their own Sheriffs, on this oc-
casion to express either a marked disapprobation, if
their conduct had been wrong, or their just meed of
approbation and applause, had the duties of the °thee
been discharged conscientiously and honourably: lie
felt that 'he was addressing himself to an Assembly,
who, witnessing, as they had, the conchtd•of those
iorthy persons for the last twelve mouths, would
concur, he was sure, with him in arifiSt tribute of

approbation to their services. It might be said, per-
% !taps, that sometimes public men were actuated by
vanity, by ambition, or by views of personal popula-
rity, in the ads of their public duty, rather than
from a conscientious sense of their duty alone. He
would not now stop to discuss the motives which
might actuate men under a fair and laudable
ambition for just and well-founded popularity.
He would only say, that if the condual of the
late Sheriffs was in itself correct. and praise-wor-
thy in every respect, their motives Mad nothing
to do with the question. It was the dutyiyf their
fellow-citizens to eceive and applaud atstippCiliteeted
for the public good, upon public grounds; and he
believed there was nut a man of candid and honour-
able feeling in the city of London, or in the United
Eingdom, who would not cheerfully concur with
'him in the sentiment of thanks he was about to ex-
press to our late worthy Sheriffs, for the condud
which had uniformly dkinguished them in the past
year ; whether he adverted to their humane and inde-
iatigable attention to the distresses of prisoners in the
difierent gaols committed to their care, and their zea-
lous endeavours to the promotion of a fund tor re-
lieviug the wants of the confined debtor, procuring his
release froM imprisonment, and sending him home
to his family with means' of avoiding in future the
miseries of captivity ; or whether he adverted to
their laudable and -spirited endeavours to maintain
that inestimable branch of our happy Constitution,

the right or trial by Jury : in sGort, to whatever
branch Of their public duty he turned his eye, he
- found 11:eif condudt marked with a zealous-and con-
scientious attention to the high trust reposed in them.
There were sometimes men who glidecti:into public
Stations, like the shadowy figures of 3`llglianL4sinago-
ria, and vaukiied wiirtiom their mittations " like
the baseless labnc-ot a vision," without leaving be-
hind them any monument in the public memory,. to
record official existence—men, who like, a Gold-
stick in Waiting, or an Usher of the Black Rod,
were mere c.) phers in office, to swell the train of a
state procession, orfill up the numbers in a pageant,
but equally useless and insignificant as regarded the
public good. This, however, was not the Case with
the men to whom he now alluded, and for whom
" " he now presumed to demand the thanks of the Li-
- - -very who had eleeted them. If there was any
man in that Assembly who thought 17e had just
cause to refuse' bi 4 concurrence, let" him come tor-
warßi manituty and declare it. [" None! -none !")
—H(.t was glad to Lind his conjecture so well
founded ; ants he thought the Assembly could not
too highly praise the conduct of those who had so
honourobty ot4chatge,. their duty. When he looked

to the new Sheriffs, and considered. their well-known
worth and character, he was convinced they wanted
not the stimulus of example to prompt them to an
honourable and conscientious discharge of their du-
ties; but if such an incentive. was necessary,• he
would refer them to the example of their predeces-
sors. He concluded by moving a RA-solution of
Thanks to Alderman SMITH and Sir RI cm AIM PHIL--
Las, Knt. the late Sheriffs, tbr their landablit and
conscientious discharge of their -high and impdrtant
duties, •

The mOion_ was cordially seconded by Mr. MAii-
MATT,. and carried unanimouslj,.
Mr. Alderman SMITH, in a short address, thanked
the Eivery for the honour of theirl approbation of
his conclatt in the discharge of his duty. He added,
that their approbation this day gratified his highest
ainbition ; and in whatever station fortune should
place him, he should alwayS be found the‘zeahms
friend of the City of London, and of the rig its and
privileges of his fellow-citizens.
• Sir Rfca.tan PHILLIPS was not present

On the motion of Mr. WAITHMAN, the Resolu-
tion was ordered to be &Wished in the usual News-
papers.

IRELAND.

• LIMERICK-, SEPT. 23.—Outrages, probably long
since planned, and in contemplation to be committed
by the execrable Miscreants who infest the environs
of ,this city, and of which their forotier atrocities
might be deemed an earnest, are likely to be prevent-
ed by the meritorious and spirited conduct of our
worthy Recorder, who,.at one o'clock on Wednes-
day morning, attended by Mr. Sheriff WESTROPP,
JOHN HARRISON, Esq. High Constable, and a eonsi-
derable party of the Kilkenny Militia, commanded
by Capt. MURPHY, went in quest of some of thoie
noaturnal disturbers, of puhkc tranquillity, against
whorlinformations were lately lodged.
The judicious arrangement of the troops, and dili-
gent searches made by the above Gentlemen, in seve-
ral direations for miles about Anacotty, produced a_
consequence as alarming to the vicious as it must be
satisfactory to the well-disposed ; the party paving re-
ttarned to town about seven o'clock, with the follow-
ing persons in custody, who were immediately corn-
mnf ed, viz.—Thomas Hayes, James Magrath, Darby
Heffernan, John Godfrey, Thomas Halloran, Jbhn
'Hartney', Patrick Corbett, Patrick Hayes, and Wil-
liam Hayes.
Last 'night some off' Captain RIGHT'S party attaikii
the. herdsman of MINIS O'BRIEN, Esq. and floggett-
. him in a desperate manner; the only cause assigned,
was his being a stranger in that neighbourhood.