The Sun.
London, England, 1802-04-22 00:00:00

THE SHERIFFS OF LONDON,

THE Public are already informed of the dispute
which has arisen between the Sheriffs of London and
the LORD MAYOR, on account of the former not
bving received the number of Tickets usually given
to the Sheriffs for the Dinner at the Mansion House
on Easter Monday. _

The sherifFs of London not wishing to be thought
disrespeftful 'by the PRINCE of. WALES, -}ldVe,o-
- the following Letter to His Royal-Highness
on occasion of their absence from the City Feast.

" May it pleaie Your Rgal Highness,
4 respectDeeply as it would grieve us to appear wanting in that
and affection so justly due to Your Royal Highness's
Person, and your Illustrious Family; a respect and affection
we most fervently feel in cominon with every good Subject:
we consider it a duty we owe ourselves, as Sheriff's of London
and Middlesex, to account to Your Royal Highness tbr not
appearing in our places, on Your Royal Highness's conde-
scending to honour the. City with your august presence at
the Festivities of Easter Monday.
" When our Fellow-Citizens called us to the high office
we have now the honour to serve, we thought it our first
duty and our greatest pride to maihtain its consequence with
splendour while we held it ; and to ieturn it into their h'inds
again, its dignity unsullied, and its rights unbroken.
" It cannot be necessary to obtrude on your Royal,lligh-
ness's attention the minute circumstances wherein 'we ima-
gined that the LORD MAYOR intended to sully that dignity,
and to abridge those rights: but only *to .observe 9 that we
Conceived him to have abated of that proper respe6l due to
the Established Church of England and Ireland, in the per-
son of our Chaplains ; who, in their official capacity, repre-
sented it; and, in our own persons, to have neglected those
honours which custom had authorized us to expel. which
oer ltigh office entitled. us to demand, and ivhielf, as repre-
senting our Sovereign, it was his duty to pay us.
We,, Royal Sir, with the whole civilized world, have
seen and deplored the fatal etteds of those principles, which,
in another nation, in destroying resped, ceremony, and ve-
neration for place, office, and rank, had nearly destroyed
with then; all that was great and good; and threatened to de-
prive Society of its noblest blessings.
—**--I.lndet this impression, Your Royal Highness will not
be surprized that we resented what we considered indignity
to-our station.; that we refused to be mere puppets in what
he presumed to be his private pageant; that we consented to
14c4iitl,the, unbounded pleasure we ought to have enjoyed,
in dumbly receiving, and dutifully waiting upon Your Royal
Person, ty the feelings of, public propriety. . .
" We trust, theretbre; that your Royal Highness will not
only exercise vour usual goodness to pardon our seeming tio-,
glbd, but will .extend it to an approbation of our conduct,
that, in having accepted our high office from the hands of our
Fellow-Citizens, and holding it under the influence of our
Gracious Sovereign, .we feel jealous of its.honours, and de-
fenders of its rights.
" Webeg leave to subscribe ourselves with the greatest de-
ference and veneration, your Royal Highness's most dutiful,
most loyal, and most huinhle Servants, •
(Signed) " " WM.. RAWLINS, Sh •
enirs' "
ROB. ALB. COX,
Easter-Tuesday, 'April 2.0, igoz.

We are not Sufficiently acqyinted with the cere-
monies of the City, to decide as to the question of
:their right ; but we understand the Lord Mayor,
wishing to avoid all dispute, sent each of the
riffs four dinner. tickets on the preceding evening,
which were returned.