The Sun.
London, England, 1825-10-07 00:00:00

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.

Yesterday a Coirt of Common Council was
held for the dispatch of a variety of public
business.

WARD INQUESTS.

Mr. SAVAGE moved, that it should be referred to a Commit=
tee to inquire and report on the nature of the duties of Ward
Inquests, and the manner in which they were executed, and
also that the Report which the Committee should make be
printed and sent to each member of the Court. He referred them
to the report of the case respecting false weights, which took
place at the Mansion-house. This was one of the most im-
portant subjects connected with the municipal regulations of the
city, and he should feel it his duty to call the particular atten-
tion of the Court to it. It would be found that the most im-
portant duties which belonged to the Ward Inquest had fallen
into disrepute, and that others were rendered perfectly nuga-
tory by the general mode of proceeding -which inquests had
adopted.
The motion was agreed to unanimously.
The LOPD MAYOR submitted to the Court a letter from
Alderman Venables, announcing his intention of accepting the
office of Lord Mayor, to which he was elected by his fellow_
citizens in Common-hall.
TIIE OFFICE OF TOWN CLERIC.-

The discussion On the report as to the salary which should be
given to the person who might be elected to serve the office of
Town-clerk next followed.
Mr. S. DIXON said he was not able to attend the former
Court, but from what he gathered of the proceedings from the
reports in the public papers, it seemed it had been proposed
to give the Town-clerk 2,0001. per annum, with various privi-
leges, exclusive of the allowance of 1,5001. for the salaries of
his clerks. Now he (Mr. Dixon) felt himself in a very deli-
cate situation as respected the gentleman on whom, beyond
all doubt, their choice would fall. For that gentleman he had
long felt the utmost esteem, and he would always promote his
interests to the uteuist of his power whenever he could do it
conscientiously. But he felt he had here a higher duty to per-
form, and he must object to the allowance proposed by the
Court. With such an allowance, he declared that he would
sooner take the office of Town-clerk than that of Lord Mayor,
because it would last much longer, and produce much more
profit than the latter office generally did.—(Laughter.)—The
Court should also consider that the allowance they now made
would probably last beyond the life of the officer whom they
were about to elect, and would become a rent-charge upon the
funds of the city, which were not likely for years to be in a
flourishing condition.

111 r. Jots-Es thought that the allowance of 1,5001. to the clerks
excessive, and moved, as an amendment, that the sum allowed
for the clerks should be 1,200/. per annum. He thought the
Court should have some' report annually of the names of the
clerks employed, and the sums given to them, in order that
they might see how the allowance was applied.
Mr. LEGGE thought the sum of 1,5001. was not too much,
but he considered that the Court should have the appointment
of the clerks. He thought that 1,800/. per annum would form
a munificent allowance, with the advantage of a residence at
the expence of the city, as he was not aware that it was requi-
site for the dignity of the office that he should keep his carriage.
He was of opinion that fees of office ought to be entirely abo-
lished. They formed one of the most ancient, and, at the same
time, grievous abuses which were maintained by prescription.
There was one of the fees to which he must particularly object.
He found that any Jew admitted to the office of broker was
compelled to pay 91. on his admission. Now, there were many
members supporting the report, who professed to be friends of
liberal principles, and lie was at a loss to conceive how they
could agree to so invidious and illiberal a distinction. They
would admit the most outrageous atheist, or a man who was
utterly devoid of principle of any kind might be admitted for
31. 10s., whilst .he man who conscientiously, though perhaps
erroneously, maintained what he conceived to be the right,
was to be charged 91.—(Hear, hear !)—He hoped that such dis-
tinctions would be done away by every body that would prove
they were actuated by Christian feelings of charity or indul-
gen ce.—(Cheers.)
Mr. FAVELL said, that the distinction was by no means
made in the feeling imputed by the worthy member, but the
larger fee was fixed on the admission of a Jew broker, because
the office was proportionately more lucrative.—(Hear, hear !)
He concluded by recommending that the Court should adopt,
with respect to junior clerks in the office, that which was
adopted in the Bank and the East India-house—namely, that
specific salaries should be given for the performance of specific
duties.
Mr. HuncomnE and Mr. PULLEN supported the report,
which after some further discussion, was agreed to.
Mr. RouTit then presented a petition from Mr. Henry
Woodthorpe, praying to be elected to the office of Town Clerk,
to succeed his father.
Mr. S. Dixosr expressed his pleasure in seconding the mo-
tion that the petition should be agreed to.
The petition stated, that die petitioner had been conversant
with the duties of the office for twenty-four years.
The standing order that the elections of this Court, and that
all elections, should be by ballot was suspended, and Mr.
Woodthorpe was unanimously elected.
Mr. Woodthorpe was then called into the Court, when the
Loup MAYott said, he was highly gratified in being able to
inform him that his election had been unanimous. His Lord-
ship felt convinced, from the able manner in which he had per-
formed the duties of the office of Deputy Town Clerk, he
would execute in an efficient and honourable manner the duties
of the high office to which he was now elected in so distinguish-
ed a manner.
Mr. Woodthorpe, with much emotion, expressed his grate-
ful acknowledgments for the honour done him. He begged
to assure them, that if their approbation of any exertions of
his had procured for him this distinction, it should only ope-
rate as a stimulus, if any were wanting, and increase his fu-
ture efforts to execute the duties of his office, and maintain all
the important franchises of this Court, and the Corporation at
large.

The Paris Papers of Tuesday received last
night have no intelligence of moment, except the

following extracts, and which refer to the war
in Greece, and the capture of the banditti which
infested the road to Naples from Rome.
The Constitutionnel of Tuesday contains the
same article, as an extract from the Austrian
Observer, is hich we elsewhere give as an extract
from the Brussels Papers. It is merely an ac-
count of the state of Greece, at the time when
it was resolved to seek the protection of England.

( From the Journal de Paris of Tuesday.)
AUGSBURG, SEPT. 27.—(Private Letter).—" The follow.
ing is extracted fiom our Letters from Trieste, received by to-
day's mail
On the 21st of August, the affairs of the Morea had not
undergone any considerable change; only the Guerillas, in the
Morea, having received reinforcements had become more
useful. The light troops, led by intrepid Chiefs, attacked all
the detachments of the Egyptian army which ventured from the
main body. Ibrahim Pacha remained on the defensive, and
had no communication with Modon and Navarin, on account
of the plague.
" The Greeks in Candia have made some progress, and, If
their countrymen in the Peloponnesus do but find them some
reinforcements, they would easily make themselves masters of
the ports of the island. The Turkish troops, who were too few
in number to make any effectual resistance, have retreated into
the fortresses.
" Redchid Pacha is still in the environs of Missolonghi. He
is evfleavouring to re-organize his army, the desertion of several
thousand Albanians having made an unfavourable impression
on the Turks, and especially on the Asiatics, who are but little
accustomed to sieges."

(From the Quotidienne.)
ROUE, SE PT. 22.—(Private Correspondence.)—l hasten
to inform you, that the band of Gaslerane, composed of 28 ban-
ditti, which infested the road to Naples and the adjacent coun-
try, has capitulated with the Military Authorities of the Police,
and that these robbers have demanded only the following con-
ditions :
" I. To be accompanied, and not carried as prisoners before
the tribunals.

" 2. To be allowed to fulfil the formalities prescribed to ob-
tain the indulgences of the holy year.
" 3. To hope, or rather to have recourse to the clemency of
the Sovereign, to whose justice, however, they entirely submit
themselves. In fact, they have all entered the fort of St. Angelo
on the train of their chief. This is certainly an important event,
and particularly interesting to travellers."
His Holiness has just been attacked by new indisposition,
but there is nothing serious in it; he complains of a weakness
in his legs.

FRENCII FUNDS.—PAIII6, OCT. 4.—Five per Cents.
99f. 55c.—Three per Cents. 71f. 40c.—Bank Stock, 2,140 f.—
Rente de Naples, ( Falconnet Cert.) 861. 30c.—Rente d'Espagne,
15f.—Royal Spanish Loan, 1823, 50if.--Exhange on London,
one month, 25f. 15c. ; three months, 24f. 95c.—(Coors Au-

The Austrian Observer received this day con-
tains nothing but a copy of a letter alleged to
have been written by Mr. WILLIAM TOWNSHEND
WASHINGTON, an American Citizen, to the Exe-
cutive Government of Greece, on the subject of

their alleged offer to place the Greek nation un-
der the protection of England. A copy of this
precious document is given in another part of our

Paper.

:his Gentleman, it seems, not satisfied with

the ridiculous farce of signing a protest against an
act in which l►e was not in the remotest manner

interested, has taken upon himself, unasked,
the task of teaching the Executive Government
of Greece their duty to the people, and so writes
them a letter, asking by what right they did so
and so. Did it ever occur to this officious
gentleman to ask himself by what right he asked
the question—by what right he interfered in the

business at all. If it had, he must have felt
assured that his interference was not only gratui.
tons, but also impertinent in the highest degree;
and If he possessed the smallest portion of good
sense; that would have taught bim to take him.

and to
self off with the least possible delay' in
spare himself the pains of writing the letter

question.
ntole'
letter, indeed, might have been
i'he
rated, did it express sentiments of a noble flat:
yeset
or were it written in a manlier that could
credit on the talents of its author. AS
however, this weak and flippant wispy was:l
stuff is only calculated to render its writer 3-t
his subject superlatively ridiculous, unless "do
feeling were restrained by regret that a ClesCell
ant of the illustrious WASIIINGTON Should tbitl
far forget his noble ancestor and birnsefiv
The letter and protest are both evident'
by hatred to England
dictated
of her ascendancy in the world, and, id
is clear from the tenor of both, that, aaa
the Greek Government installed the Unite
States, as protectress of the G reeks, neither Pr°•
test or letter would ever have been writtco'
(I,.„Js
If that • had been the case, the unhappy ("re
eOl
not now have to fear the dire effects ,0
the mighty anger of this mighty man, or to oiler:
and jealous?
plore the loss of " his military talents," 'lli
which in his wrath he threatens them. Sal%
wrath must in its effects be as mischievous t° t
modern Greeks as that of AcniLLEs was
91 old, and which was

to Greece the direful spring

Of woes unnumbered
..--- which hurl'd to Pluto's gloomy reign
The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain
Whose limbs unburied on the naked shore

Devouring dogs and hungry vultures tore. ,
The slanders against the Government of
land and the nation generally, for which this
letter is made the vehicle, we pass over as 1/f
worthy of remark, they are only repetitionsbis
the same nauseous and false libels against
country and its form of Government with
the American press for years entertained t
readers, and which the friendly relations tlia
exist between the countries, to say
not d
of right feeling and good taste, we hoped
now nearly exploded. We pass over this be:
cause they can do us no injury, and sure '4O
.
are such sentiments are not in unison with 005
of the great mass of our Transatlantic Brethreli
Mr. WASHINGTON has *only degraded his Si}
character by descending to the utterance of suc
gratuitous slanders.

Halifax Papers, to the 17th September, "":
arrived.—A severe gale was experienced at
muda on the 27th August, by which mall b°
ji
135
were unroofed, and much injury was sustan a
various ways, but the wind had iu a great we
i
d

sure abated. tke-
Quebec Papers, to the Ist Augusz, have
wise arrived.—An extensive forgery 115 :eed
discovered on the Tiloutreal Bank. it is s— d
that one forged check, drawn for 17°°/" it 6
been paid ; the individual who procured ti
cited
1/-te
ment has taken his departure for the 4.1
States.
•

It was confidently reported on 'Clianghliye
important dispatches
morning, that very ,i t
ilia.
arrived- in London from Constantinople, aa. b,
the affairs of the Greeks and Turks are the
59 a
sect of them, and hopes were thence enterteioe
that they would be speedily adjusted• r incd's
Extract of a letter from the Agents to 1)'-'ived
at Gibraltar, dated Sept. 15 :—" Information has bee,' receithe
by express by the Sicilian Consul here, of the intention 0130
Emperor of .Morocco to declare war against the States w,rtis•
have no resident Consuls in his dominions, viz. Scily,
sijO
cany, Austria, Prussia, and Hamburgh ; nothing is,„f4t Os
to Russia. At present his Imperial Majesty has "" "
armed vessel (a schooner) for so extensive an untlertaking.),...
BRAzu.„—(Ex tract from private letter7l,o
" Maranham, August 13.—The crop of rice this leff cot'
totally failed, owing to the want of rain ; and the crop
t°
ope.
ton, from the same cause, will certainly not be equal `,..„. are
half of the usual quantity. The inhabitants of the in lancer
in the greatest distress for want of provisions, and the thine
are losing the greater part of their horses and oxen. -.7,a irk
is compelling the Indians to attack the plaritations,_o'o, 0
some instances they have murdered as many. as 20 r"soria
one estate. The Brazilians from the interior are all re oli•
to the banks of the rivers to endeavour to obtain fish for
sistence." ALIP
Extract of a letter dated Pernambuco,_toof
20:—" The dry weather still prevails ; and such is the le dis:
the interior from the absolute want of water, that w_.nfretireel
tricts have been abandoned thesee inhabitants, who havtti cot;
to the coast; and amongst are some of our priaclr. oeSt:
ton districts, only 40 leagues distant from hence: (_gcieP
crop of cotton will consequently be very materially a4'iogsr
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about 500 of the inhabitants missing;
dug up from the ruins. All the
and western part of the island were I.rcii,wo F.r,..ner';floor-.,
The loss is estimated at 25,000,000 francs. at
Fat_
of oloor
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syn. , .
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sated,
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