The Sun.
London, England, 1809-10-06 00:00:00

ready well\ known that :the regular expenditure of
the City would soon snore than exhaust them.
Mr. Sheriff WOOD said, he would wish to have
the pocr prisoners set at _liberty, but he thought the.
King himself would effect that, as had been tor-
merly done. Then the next objea of their be-
neficence ought to •be provision tor the old and
decayed. .As his Majesty would enter the 50th
year of his reign, he thought it might be apposite
to erect as many alms-hou,es ; and if that should
be agreed to, he bad no doubt of the contri-
betions of other people to ...he same beneficent ob.
jeet, as .he knew many Members of the different
Livery Companies who were ready to concur in any
grand plan which the Court mtlit adopt. He
therefore suggested !hal it should be referred to a
Committee to call on the different Companies for
their e-sistance, provided his motion should be car-
-, and that they should all have presentations ac-
a, to their suscriptions.
Mr. HERNE said, that when the celebration of the
2.eth was first mentioned, he believed every Mem-
ber concluded that it would end in a ntier--and
so he thought it ought. Christmas was a very so-
lemn day throughout the Metropolis ; the Citizens
* shut up their shop., and went ,to church ; but did
they not aficrwards go out to visit their friends, and
enjoy a good dinner? and why should they be now
restrained at the approaching Jubilee He wished to
have the day celebrated with a good dinner, and
then he believed all would cheerfully subscribe for
the distressed; but if they went without a dinner, it
would disgrace the Corporation beyond any thing.
" Mr. MAWMAN said, that a *olemn procession to
church, and then to bia Majesty, had no appearance
of -a Jubilee, unlesi they agreed to spend the re-
mainder of the day in festivity. He did not think
the subject had its origin with Ministers, nor that it
was to. answer any party purpose, consequently he
cooldnot treat it as a party question. He had it from-
good anthorit y, that his Majesty had himself frequently
expressed a wish that he might live to see the cekbra-
lion of the 50th year of his reign ; that period. had
now happily arrived, and lie thought the country
ought tc. congratulate him upon it. He said it was
the convidion of the Court, that on that happy oc-
casion there should be a tease (Cries of "No! no !)"
They had, in the course of the debate said, that they
did not think a dinner necessary or expedient; if
they had not thought of it, why mention it ? He
tleeight it inconsistent with their dignity to dispense:
with a dinner, and he was sere that there would be
a hotral subseripton.
Mr:Whirl-I:4m, after ordering the instrudions
to the Committee to* be read, observed,: that the
Gentleman's speech which they had last tieard was
the most extraordinary of all extraordmary speeches,
as-the instrudions of the Committee went only to
carry the intentions of the Court into execution : but
there was' no decision for a dinner. It such had
been the intent ion of the Court, why appoint him,
and a number cif other Gentlemen, Members of the
Committee, who were known to be averse to the
dinner ? Some Gemlemen seldom spoke but upon
subjeas of dinner, and it they did, they never waited
beyond their dinner hoer. But what surprised him
most was, that the last Gentleman should have said,
thst the subject did not- originate with Administra-
tion. • He was cons iced that it did for it it
springs from men connected with Administration,
and supported by the dei:endents of Admnui,tration,
he had no doubt but they were thoinovers at it. At
the time of the " No Policy" business, he knew
that the present Administration commenced by get-
ting certain Members to bring it into that Com Le--
(Ctirs of Name ! name!) He would net name, but
he had it from a good source, and he knew his duty
betterthan to disclose it. The same authority told
him of persons applying for situations under Govern-
ment,. and people were present uho knew t hat to
be the faa. He had documents in his pockets to
prove it. (Here Mr. Dixon said, " produce
them.") Mr. W. said he was not even looking at
the Gentleman, but was thinking of something
of greater. importance. , He knew• that letrers had
been sent to members of corpprate bodies, sayin:,
that an illumination would be acceptable to the AZ
ministration, and he woOld then ask the Lord Mayor
whether he had written a letter about it ?
LORD MAYOR. " I assure the Court, upon
my honour, that I never wrote a hue upon the
subject."
Mr. WAITHMAII was happy to hear
.it, as that
open declaration would prevent him and others from
drawing conclusions derogatory to his:, Lordship's
character on that subject, and for that reason he
. thoUght it the most candid way to put the queStion
to his Lordship, It had always been the praCtice to
bring the King's name forward when it was wanted
to screen his Ministers. That was deemed a good
way to divert the attention of the people from the
national calamities. He saw none of the, proposi-
uons which had been Made till they were before the
Court, but, if the Corporation were deterinined,to
spend a part of their funds, he would advise theM to
appropriate it towards aims-houses or poor prisoners,
instead of feasting and drinking, and the Court
would thereby be freed from a deal of odium, which'
it has already incurred, and their money would be
mote usefully and honourably employed, than ori-
ginally intended. In Edward's time the Jubilee was
kept in the 50th year of his age (not his reign) and
good laws were made, and prisoners were denvered;
and he wished the same would take-place now.
the City of London would betake themselves to
toasting, , other Corporate Bodies would adopt their
example, whether they regaled themselves, or set
a number of useful hands at liberty to support their
families, and benefit the Country. The Court had
already suffereddegradation in the eyes of their Con-
stituents, and he had heard it said that they -were
about to meet, to take their conduct into considera-
tion; what could they be thought of, if they suffer-
ed themselves to be put in motion by people less
worthy than themselves ? He was sorry to see a
newspaper lately call the East India Company the
first corporate body in the kingdom. ' The Direetors
of the Bank had likewise been considered of more
• importAncethan they, which was entirely their own
fault, by not asserting their lust dignity as Citizens
of ;aondou, and trading for the general good' of the
country, while the two former traded for their own
interest, and benefited by the national calatnitya—
The Bank, he observed, had doubled its capital, by
-au Act which had been the ruin of ethers. 'He re-

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