The Sun.
London, England, 1801-08-25 00:00:00

CITY BUSINESS.

YESTERDAY the Right Honourable the Loto
MAYoRt held a Court of Aldermen, at Guildhall,
at which were present twelve Aldermen and the
Sheriffs.

GEokpr C 1.1? RIT., Esq.. Banker, was made frect-
the City, in order to qualify him for th 2 ofiFce of
Alderman of the War&of P,assishaw, previous to
the holding of the Wardmote for that purpose,
The Court having received intelligence of the
death of. WiLLiam Rix, Es.q. Town Clerk, who'
died at his dOuntry house, at Clapton, on Sunday
evening last, ordered Mr. BoxLEy, his principal
assistant, to sign,all orders of the Court until allev
TOW') Clerk is elected.

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The Thanks of the Court were unanimously'voted the LoaD MAYOR (for .which,, see
,front 01
our Paper).

Mr.- DAvis, the Clerk of the Cocket Office/
Mansion-House, delivered into the Court.an account
of FlOur-sold to the %Bakers from sth of June to the
21st August, ainountin,,o., to 152997 sacks, which
is upon an average of one week's consumption
12,7494 Sacks.
At three o'clock his Lordship held a Wardmot
e
at St.. Michael's, Basstshaw, for the eleaion of art
Alderman of that Ward, in th-: room of Sir Wm.
PLOMER, deceised, when Gr ottot CLARK, Esqr
Banker, being the only Candidate, was unanimously
eleaed.

When the 'Official journal.. of the French Go.•
vernment pays - a compliment to the virtues of
our beloi•eci sovertign, or. the respeambility or
his Minister, we may reasonably exile t' an in-
sidious motive. S.uott an artifice in a late pub...
lication, in the Monittur of the 19th instant, oc;
ifvets
eo arol
of
onoTe.is most
individualau (i
nationala c ioctthsoa
gnoyrfe,Ea t notegs t
rsmieLpreen(tlty.
bon,
, atrocious aspersion imputes not merely ro'Englist
:journalists the intention of suggesting, but
English-People a capability of executing so, base a.
crime as Assassination—and the pretext on' which
-this imPlAtqfion is made, excoeds the bounds of
ordinary.. impudt,;e.:i't is, that the murder of the
French Ambassadors Rastadt was undertaken
as the :instance of the
h Government. Est
the public mind so debased by despoti,a) in France,
as to endure this insult ? Was not the late French
Government cOnvided of this horrible and un-
natural crime ?• What does the Widow of jaA:st
DE BRIE say ? Was not the bloody deed under-
taken for the purpose of justifying an aggression
on the Austrians, and,with the view of inflaming the
hatrtd of the French People against that Nation ?
Yet the Official Journal of a lifo;7grrh who aireets'
something of decorum, has the shameless effrontery
to reviye the recolledion of a crime which has it-
deliblystained the charaderof France (which;at the
time, for, the worst 'motives, it had charged to Au-
stria) with the novel and malignant. view of assi-
milating the-charaaer of Britons to that of French-
men, and debasing our manly and humane uha-
taCier to,a' level with that- of a country which
has disgraced Nature; to whose People . the crime
of Assassination was Income .not merely familiar,
but a source of savage exultation and delight. But
it would insult the British feelings, to notice any
further this disgusting imputation of a crime which
is riot ~Only . abhorrent to, but unknown in, our •
Country, •

No
iess,than twelve : thousand • and eighty-eight
quarters)of Wheat were imported on Saturday last,
We are happy to. state, that bread ,and evert
other necessary of life continues,, falling in •prico
throughout the country. At Newbury market 4711
Thursday, bread fell 6d. per gallon ; at Salisbury,
on Saturday, iod. ; 'at Andover 7d. ; at Abingdon
6d. ; and from the abundant cropsland fine weathel:,
every kind of sustenance may be expected to be yet'
considerably low Fr. •

A Correspondent from Farnham- "the oldest '
man living can scarcely remember such a plena,'
shew of hops as there is at present in this town and
neighbourhood. There is not the least appearaPcc,
of inset, but health and plenty universally prevail
in every garden without' distinction.- There Will
be near eight thousand pickers wanted here this.
season. The picking commences in eight or ter'
days.", •

The Oxford Subscription for the Importation of
Grain, •in order to retail it to the Poor at reduced
prices, had. to the iSth irsst,. amounted to 24901'
los, with which the Committee was enabled to buy
‘,Vheat and Flour, which they sold at 20d. per
Pecit-Loaf, bloW the legal Assiie of the City for
44821. I Is. 2d. •-So
_that, after d'efrnying every
itridental cxpence, as ,fieighit,, sacks, loss by
baking, .bad money, printing, ezc,• and repaying'
the,
,Original Subscription, there remains • a balance
in favour.. of the Co'nunittee of Six Shillings and
Sixpenc. •

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