The Sun.
London, England, 1812-04-08 00:00:00

COMMON' HALL.

Another Meeting of Liverymen was held ye,-4(er-
day in Common Hall, to receive the Report of the
Sheriffs upon the answer of his Royal Highness the
Prince Regent to the Address and Petition voted by
the last Meeting.
The LORD MAYOR stated the object of the Meet-
ing in terms nearly as follows
4' GENTLEMEN OF THE LIVERY—III consequence
of your having agreed upon certain specific Resolu-
tions relative to the presenting of the Address to his
Royal Highness the Prince Regent, I have tlought
it right to call you together again to inform yob that
his Royal Highness has been graciously-pleased to
-adopt the same rule which the King, his father, has
done ever •since the year 1775, as regarding an
'Address and Petition of the Livery of London ; and
that that rule- may be distincily understood by
you, I shall desire the proper Officer to read to
you the official report of the Sheriff, made to me in
writing.

Iu discussing this determination of his Royal
Highne4s., as advised by his Ministers, it is my duty
td tell you, that I.cannot .pelmit the sacred name of
the King, or the equally sacred name of the Prince
Regent, to. be used contemptuously. You are at
free liberty to say A hat you please in decent terms
of his. Ministers : they are powerful, and able to
defend themselves; but think they need not have
a better support that the confidence of Parliament,
which they appear to the unquestionably-to possess.
lam no politician Inpell. I have enough to do to
preside over this great City, and to watch your
rights and privileges, which; I repeat, I promise you
faithfully to do; and I know no better way of doing
than occasionally asserting, in assemblies like the
present, the constitutional dodrine that I have just
now laid down,"

The Report of the Sheriffs was then read, for
which see our Paper of Saturday.
Mr. IYArTful AN recorimended the Livery to pre-
serve that decorum which the Lord Mayor enforced;
a different line of condua would, he said, give their
enemies an opportunity to say they were not friends
to social order. He then observed that he should
bring forward certain Resolutions similar to those In
efreil voted at the last meeting, and contended that
the right of petitioning the Throne, and of present-
iog their Petitions to the Sovereign seated on Ole
Throne, had been recognized down to 1775, and
that it was expedient fur them to defend that right.
The only times ;n which ti,e right was denied was
previous to the Revolution—the worst of times ; it
was then a calm, but a storm succeeded, which-
drove the then reignina family of the Stuarts from
the Throne for ever. 'c'He did not think now to tiod
men so abandoned as to advise the Sovereign to turn
a deaf e:4 to their Petitions, and thereby to trample
on then rights. He then went on to state that the
Petitions, if they hadreached the Royal ear, would
have prevented the American war and the present
war. He contended that the Livery of London were
.the Corporate Body, and consequently entitled ,0
apprOach the Throne; fur whoever was read in the
history of the City must know, that the Cnirmlon
Council was deputed in consequence of', he business
or' the City becoming too gr..at for the Livery to
tratisaet it. He denied that the Common Council
could be sued at law in any other capacity than as
the Commonalty of the City of London, awl atter
a variety of obser*atiansy similar in effett, moved.
his Resolutions. •

Mr. FAVELL, of course, seconded them.
The Resolutions were then carried, with one dis-
sent, that of Mr. C. Dunkin.

Mr. WAtrumAs: then prop-used Resolutions for
instructing the City Represen atives to support the
Petitions, and. oppose in their places all public
abuses, peculations, sinecures, Sze.; also that the
Sheriffs, attended by the City Rernembrancer, do
present to the Prince Regent a copy of the Resolu-
twits now entered into, and that they be published
in six Morning and six Evening Papers. One Reso-
lution, the Orator obs,.rved, would have a good
effeCt ; he 'meant, the one for instructing their -Re-
: presentatives, at least three of thrill, for one was
sure to do what they • bid him. He wished those
three would tell thern.wbaf they had done in respect
to the (notion abou-t Colo'nel Nl'Mahon, for one of
them on the last meeting (Sir W. Curtis) had said
he would ati_according to the diCtate of
_his con-
science, and said that he was the best judge of what
was good- for them. Another (Sir C. Price) had
made an extraordinary declaration, for he said that
he-could not sacrifice his conscience by voting against
a faction, for 'so he denominated those Members
who voted for the appointment of the Colonel, and
yet he-would not vote against it, so that in fact he
c lied the majority of the House of..commons a
fiction. If would become the Hun. Baronet to-ex-
plain- himself. The other Hon. Member (Sir J.
Shaw),was of a different opinion, for he called the
fa6tion, that is to say the present House of Com-
mons, the purest House that ever existed. He
hoped- these Gentlemen would deliver themselves
from the difficulties in w hien they had placed
themselves.
. Sir W.-CuaTts came forward amidst loud marks
of applause and disapprobation. lie was ready 'to
account for his conduct, ai•id to attend to their in-
structioos, when they seemed correct ; but to tell
hint that he was to go him the House of Commons,
and not to attend to the areumeffis which he might
hear upon a measure brought forward for the in-
terests of the public, was to tell bins what he would
not- do. He would not go there and tell the
House that such and such opinions were the voice
of his constituents. He would follow his own jiidir
'ritent, and so htf had told them over and over again.
He meant no disrespect to them ; but when the•
mover called for an explanation of his conduCl, he
gave it, and would not shrink from telling them
' what lie thought to he his duty. With resped to
the' b;asiness of Colonel M' Mahon, unfortunately
that night illness prevented his attendance ; that he
was ill was pretty generally knawn, for he was
confined to his house ; but, if he had been in good
health; he would have gone down to the House and
voted with the majority. Now he could not avoid
an observation about the orator who moved the Re-
solutions when the Prince Regent was first appoint-'
ed ; lie was loud in declaiming against the impo-
sition of•restridions—now he was as lohd in .de-
claiming in favour of' restrictions.-:—(Hisses)—lt
was so notwithstanding their opinions, for, the orator
wanted to restrain him from rewarding merit. He ,
did not like such men who blew hot and cold with

the same breath.—As to sinecures, Arc. this wo.lici
do his utmost to abolish them, but he was bound to
Maintain the Sovereign on the Throne with all ne-
cessary and just presogafives ; if the Livery wished
to cut down those preprog.itit es, they re!idered them-
selves less in the estimation of the public than they
really are. ff the Livery, did not approve of his
cowiu&, the time was shottly coming, when they
might have the opportunity of telling him so to
some purpose.—(Applauses.)'
Sir C. Prucz experienced a similar reception, and
re•-st.tt.ld his rormer opinions, which were in dired
contradidion to those of the Mover, who for the
last twenty years had been sowing the seeds of lac,
tion and discontent. Notwithstanding the great
orator talked in the Resolution of supporting com-
mercial interests, he (Sir C.) challenged him to
chew any one,instance in which he had not so
done in the HouSe. He should ad according to
the best of his judgment, whe.ther they apptoved'
or not.

Sir J. SHAW attempted to address the Meeting,
but the clamour was so great, that-
-The LOBD MAYOR came forward, and said,
" One side of the question has been so patiently
heard that I am astonished you do not preserve
order, and hear the other. What will the public
think of' your condua, in thus interrupting your
Representatives ? Sorely you will, in justice to
yourselves, belr all, and take the opportunity of
repelling the insinuations which have been made