The Sun.
London, England, 1801-02-06 00:00:00

COUIZT OF COll/TMON COUNCIL.

THE LORD MAYOR yesterday held a Court.of
Comrvon Council at Guildhall, present, besides
his Lordship, sevetiAldermen, the Law Officers,
Sheriffs, and a considerable number of Comm O-
n.
ers.

After the Minutei of last Court were read and
confirmed,

Mr. Deputy BIRCH,' in a short Speech moved,
That an humble and dutiful Address be:presented
to the KING by this Court, congratulating him
on the important event of the Union of the two
Kingdoms.
This Motion was seconded by Mr. Deputy
LE EKEY.
• Mr. WAITHMAN immediately oppose he
Motion for the Address, and moved the previous
.question, «hick Mr. PHILLIPS seconded ; and
after some little Debate on the subject, the pre-
vious question was put, and his Lorchhip de.
claring it to be negatived, a Division W 23 de-
manded and granted.
AGAINST THE QUESTION. TOR THE QUESTION.

7 Aldermen.
48 Conunoners.
z Tellers.

z Alderman.
33 Commoners.
g Tellers.

36--j--Majority 21.

The original Question being put, was carried
in the affirmative.

The Court' then proceeded to appoint a Com-
mittee to prepare the Address, assisted by the
Law Officers, which being done, they withdrew
for a few minutes, and having returned to the
Court with the same prepared, it was read by the
Common Serjeant twice, and agreed to, and or-
dered to be presented to HIS MAJESTY, sitting
on the Throne, by the whole Court, and the
Sheriffs, attended by Mr. Retnembrancer were
ordered forthwith to wait on His MAJESTY, to
know his royal will and pleasure when he will re-
ceive the said Address.

Mr. Alderman CURTIS moved, that his Lord_
ship do give instructions to the City Solicitor to
prosecute all Millers Bakers, and others, who
shall be conviaed of :idulterating Flour or Bread,
to the utmost severity. This motion being se.-
conded by Mr. HARPER, was agreed to, and/or-
dered to be inserted in all the Papers.—[Ser f4ut
cf this Paper.]

A Petition was presented from the Inhabitants
of Portsoken Ward, praying the Court to take
into consideration the expediency and . necessity
of widening the North end of Somerset street,
which being read, was referred to the Committee
for Letting the City Lands to consider thereof,
and report their opinion thereon to the next
Court. _

Several other Petitions for renewal of Leases
were presented, and referred to the. same Com-
mittee to examine and'report their opinion to the
next Court.

The Thanks of the Court were unanimously
voted to his Lordship's Chaplain, the Rev. Dr.
GR ROLA Y, for his excellent Sermbn preached at
St. Lawrence Church previous to the qualification
of his Lordship, and the Aldermen, on the t Ith
of last month, and he was desired to print it,
and cause a Copy to be deliveted to every Mem-
ber of this Court.

The Court broke up at four o'clock.

The Adventure, Soutli.sea.man, whose arrival
off Dover we yesterday ilnnounced, left Sr. He.
lena the zoth of December. She has brought no
intelligence of importance. The Cape of Good
Hope, we are informed, is plentifully supplied,
and the garrison healthy ; a proper understanding
subsists with the people in the interior, who
have now learnt to respell the English Govern.
merit. St. Helena has of late had such abundant sup.
plies of stores from this Country, that every thing
was in great plenty there. We further learn, that
the Whale Fishery in the South Seas has been re-
markably prodative ; some of the Whalers are
stowed fore and aft with their freight. It is in
agitation, we hear, to grant permission for boil-
ing houses to be ereaed on the leeward side of
the Island of St. Helena, for the .purpose of giving
a convenience to the Ships employed in the Fish-
ery, by boiling their blubber, and thereby ren-
dering the stowage considerable and extensive.

The Leviathan, fiom the South Seas, was
spoke with off the Island of St. Helena on the
18th day of December, having obtained seven
fish, besides seals and sea elephants ; she reported
that a French privateer had been wrecked near
De la Goa Bay; on the 7th November, and that
some of the ships employed in this fishery had
given assistance to the crew, which were mostly
saved.

The Danish Minister, ROSIINGR ANTZ, as we
have stated, has been obliged to quit Petersburgh
for a jest. In the year 1797, at the. time that
the Emperor PAUL proscribed round but:, :he
Charge d'Afaires of the KI NG of SARDINIA,
indulging himself in raillery at this singular pro-
scription, said, that such trifles had often been
on the point of occasioning seditions in Italy.
This was reported to PAUL) and the Sardinian
Charge d'Affaires received orders to quit Peters.
burgh in twenty.four hours.

The first ships of vast bulk known in England
were the Regent, of 'coo tont, burthen, 'and the
Harry Grace Diem, of too guns, both built by
HENRY Vlll. at Woolwich. The latter was
equipped with sails of cloth of gold at the time
when HENRY went first on board of it. The
Regent was destroyed in the year Ist 2, in an en-
gagement off the coast of France. The Harry
Grace Dieu was, in the first year of the reign of
Queen MARY, accidentally burnt in the port in
which it had been built. ,

The ridiculous Decree of the Chief Consul, by
which he graciously permits the EMPEROR of
Russ lit'S Vessels to navigate the seas without
danger of being captured by those of the Great
Republic, reminds us of the permission which the
Great Chary of Tartary, used to give by Public
ProclaMation to all the other Sovereigns of the
world to go to dinner.