The Sun.
London, England, 1801-06-12 00:00:00

CITE'' BUSINESS.

A. Court of Common Council was held. yesterday
at, Guildlu Present the -Right Hon. the 1:0 R
MAYOR, five Ahlermen, the Sheriffs, the Rec6rder,
and uywards Of 160 Commoners.
The Proceedings of the last Court were read and
confirmed.
Mr. POWELL presented a Petition of the Land
Coal-metef.,, setting,lth th the illegal praCtices of the'
Coal,Trade,l-whieh being read, was referred to the
Committee of ContrOul o er the :Coil and Corn—,
Meters, to examine- the allegations thereof, and re-
port their opinion thereon to the next Court.
The Committee for General. Purposes presented a
Report in writing, with.a Bill for transferring the
lading
,and unlading' of Goods ;it the respeetive
Wharfs 'from Berbice, Demerara, and Surinam, from
the Tackle House to the Ticket Porters.
The Bill was ordered to be read"~ first, second,
and third tint, and the Blanks for the commence-
ment were also ordered to be filled up, and passed.
'Mr. Sheriff CADELL brought forward the Busi-
ness postponed at the last Court, respeCting- the
Building of a House'ofCorrfflion, fiat. the Confine-
ment of Persons guilty of Misdemeanors, and moved
as follows;
" That it be referred to the Committee of City Lands, to
consider of a proper place for th.ebuildintt of a House of
Cor:e4tion, as recommended in their Report served in at the
last Court, and. to report theredn, together with an'Estimate
of the Evpence, and also of the probable,Expence of the
E stablishment ;"
which, after being seconded, and a shoit Debate
ensuing, was agreed to. .•
-; Mr. Alderman Hi traßai moved,

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That-the Commitrec ti-g the improv'ement of the Port
. of London, do report to the Court the whole of the Proceed-
ings relative to the questiOn of thc Right claimed by the
' West India Dock Company, to be furnished with Abstracts
of l'itfes of Lands punch red for the use of the said Coin-
' any, in order that the said Company !night submit the saim,
together With the sail ilepd of Conveyanc,e from the, City cat
jjLondon) to the' opinion ot Connsel on-their behalf."
`Mr:, WAITIMAN moved the pre.iious
.Question,
which wilt. negatived, and .the original .Motion %Vas
lost. .

)resented to

The Committee fur General Purposes
the Court a Report in writirig, stating, they bad
11.14 considered the reference relative to, the Draw...
ing. ~f the Lottery, in Guildhall, and were of opi-
nion, that no steps ought to be taken to prevent it.
A IS/lotion, being made that this Court do agree
with the" Committee in their Report, a long- con-
iersation took place, and- Mr. Deputy. Goootta..
-HERE moved an Atnendment, That all the words
in the original Motiqn after the word " That" be
left Our, and the following substituted in its stead:

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" That the Drawing of the _Lottery in the Guildhall of
this City, is totally inconvenient to the'public pusiness„ and
is attended by circumstances ofihe grt;atest itiiligni!.y to the
Honour and Consequence of the Corporation, and incompa-
tible with the Ocorum and, sejernuity that. is esiential to the
province of the Itidges• and Magistrates:
" And therefore, that. the Coturnittee of City Lands he in-
stroaed to tat& such stiis'aS to them may appear .aavislble.,
to prevent any Lottery not already contraded frir, Win& drawn
in the of this City." '
Which being seconacd, a Gentleman observed,
there were not a sufficient nuiaber of Members pre-
sent, to make a Court, on which account the Court
broke up without coining to any &termination on
the subied ; the business was therefore postponed
till the next Court,

LAW REPORT.

COURT OF KING'S 13E1V.,41, +AY, jONE
Mr. Gimps moved for leave to file a Criminal In.
formation against a person of the name of John
Roche kr, upon an allegation, that he was the an.
thor and publisher of a Libel, which was in verse,
and tending to ridicule certain persons of the name
of Garland, Grcaves, Goodman, and Coulson, who
are. Mealmen, and who, Mr. GIBBS stated to be
at the present time obnoxious to a great deal of
public -disapprobation, arising much from preju.
dice, and therefore entitled to the particular pro-
tenion of the Court. The Libel of which he com-
plained was not indeed sworn to be published by
the Defendant, hut stated in such a way,- he said,
as to leave no doubt of that filet, for when applica.
tion becri'made upon that subjea, he said he
was ready to meet the parties who complained, but
be. world note give then any information. These
verse's purpt?rted to give an account of the torments
of these parties, in Hell. He read some of the
verses to shew that they were; applicable to
the parties on whose behalf he moved, and
the Court granted him a Rule to shew Cose.

THE KING f'V GEOVVEAUX.

Mr: POOLBY molted for the judgment of the
Court on the Defendant.
Lord KENyoN reported the case as it had appear—
ed. upon the trial before him, at Westminster, in
the last Sittings. It was an Indiament against the
Defendant Francis Gwiveaux, for ill treatment of
Susannah Archer, a young girl who had been settled
with him as an apprentice, from the parish of: Green.

rich.
After his Lordship had one througl,x the Evidence
at the Ttial, he added, that he had made a note in
the margin in his note book, that both this young
Girl and one Mary Russel, who were maimed,
iv ere much emaciated, and did' not "wear to bc.any
thing like
,the..age they really were;, they looked
most miserably, and they were much stinted in

grOWth.
• Lord kENYON therf' obierved, that Mr. Serjeant
as he came into Court, had taken some
pers front the Defendant,' who had just put them
into his.hapds. He had read them over ;,;; but al_
though they contained a statement of ,kl,i whiCh
would be importmt to the. defences it proved, ho
could not offer them to 'the,Court until they,shonid
be verified by affidavit. Perhaps they might be so at
a futnre.,period, And then he should appear_ in Court
U) speak in rnitigaiion.a tiw judgincnt of the Court
upon the. Defendant. TO ;be.' sure it was: quite irn.
posi):lc- for any one to'aCt with more propriety
Than Mr,. Serjeant LVNDS clid Ppqn,this-oectision.-7
klis,L.Ordship wished..to know whether the Learned
Serieant had, received notice that this Defendant

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