The Sun.
London, England, 1805-02-23 00:00:00

SMITHFIELD MARKET.

The Printed Report of the Committee for let-
ting the City Lands, in relation to the enlarge-
ment of Smithfield, was next taken into consider-
ation.

Mr. 'VVAITHMAN adverted to the inadequacy of
the. present Market at Smithfield, to the increased
number of Cattle brought there for Sale, and.intro.
duced a plan for the enlargement thereof, which had
met with the concurrence mid approbation` of the
principal persons conneOed with• the said Market,
whom he had consulted on the subjea ;. it would
afford accommodation for above ten thouiand-stieep
more than the Market now contained ; it could be
carried into died in. less time, and at less expence,
than any plan proposed. He then stated,. that there
,being double the quantity of Cattle in the Monday's
Marker mote .than the Friday's, it would tend to
render them more equal if the Market:now:held
on,Friday. was, in future, held on Thursday ; the
cattle brought on the Friday were kept several
days at great expence, or obliged to be. killed' in a •
heated state, which was the cause of the present
inequality of the Market, and which had been ably
stated in a Petition presented yesterday, and sign.
4d by upwards of four hundred Salesmen, Butchers,
&c.

Mr. \VAITHMAN then moved the following Re.
solutions; which were carried unanimously :
Resolved; That it appearing to this Court, that
Smithfield Market is not sufficiently extensive to
contain the increased number of Sheep and Cattle
necessary fur the supply of the Metropolis, applica.
tion be made to, Parliament fur an MI to enable
this Corporation to enlarge and improve the same,
anti to purchase such grounds, houses, and 9ther
buildings, as may be necessary for that purpose.

Resolved, That in the opinion of Court, the
most speedy, pradicable, and least expensive mode
of Orating the improvement and enlargement of the
said ,Market would be, by taking in a space of
ground, now in part vacant, and in part covered
with houses and decayed,buildings, to the Westward
of the North side of Smithfield, and on a line with
Durham-yard.

It appearing to this Court, That Cattle purcha.
sed at Smithfield on a Friday are frequently obliged
to be killed in a heated state, which occasions great
lose, and causes a greater number to be brought to
the Monday's market :
Resolved therefore, That it would, by rendering
the Market; more equal, greatly remedy the present
inconvenience; and be highly advantageous to the
Dealers and to the Public, if the said'Market were
in future held on a Thursday instead of a Friday:
Resolved, That the Committee on City Lands be
direfied to cause, without delay, a Plan and Esii.
mate to be made of the said improvements, agreea-
bly to the foregoing Resolutions.
.MT., WAITHMAN then introduced the Draft of a
Petition to. the .1-16 n. the House of Commcins which
was unanirri,ody agreed to, and ordered to be pre_
rented forthwith, by the Sheriffs, attended by Mr.
Remeinhraneer.-

The Report of the Standing Committees of the
Court, rebtiVe to making an addition to the Salary
of the Tow„ Clerk, which was ordered to be print.
ed at a previous Court, was taken into consideration
and agreed to.

'The Ship-Owners presented a Petition, praying
to be heard, tespetling the Bye.laws for regulating
the Port of London ; which was referred to a Port.
Committee, to consider and report.

Advises have been received at the Admiralty of
he capture of the -French Qun.brig, No. i 93, by
:he Gro,utler.

Brigadier-General Morcralsest is about quit the
comtnarkl of the East-Kent Brigade of Volunteer In-
fantry, in consequence of an appointment on Foreign
Service.

The place of holding the Court. Martial on Colo.
nel COCHIANg JormsTor.re has been changed from
Canterbury to Chelsea.

Capt. jouti GORE, the gallant Commander of
His. Majesty's Ship Medusa, received the Honour of
Knighthood on Thursday, at 'the Queen's House, •
and afterwards kissed bands on the occasion at the
Drawing-Room.
• The feelings the Dutch, with respen to their
Corsican Oppresser, arc strikingly manifest in the
following faet :—a considerable Dealer in Prints of
this Capital has received an order to send large
quantities of all the Car;cattirts that may be publish.
ed in England against B3NAPARTE, more particularly
those which relate to his assumption of the Imperial
Dignity in France. As the poor Dutch arc in the
most miserable state of bondage, and must not receive
the Mpufi.taures of this Country, it is hardly possible
to.supposa that they .would give an order for these
graphic satire; on BONAPARTE unless they had
reason to believe that there are many staunch Demo.
cr,'tts among the French Soldiery in Holland, who
will not be displeased to sec that Usurping Upstart
held out to contempt, ridicule, and abhorrence, who
has dared, after all the sacrifices which France has
endured in patiuit of a visionary freedom, to con
Vefi a Rribm6lll: into a Dripltii Pfixterrt,7„r.