The Sun.
London, England, 1833-10-12 00:00:00

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Mr. WHITMORE (the elder Commissioner) said
—The Corporation of Leicester have thought fit to
persist in disobeying the requisition sent to them by
us, by virtue of our Commission. They are acting
on their own responsibility, and it is for them to see
to the consequences of their opinion, as to the sus-
picions entertained by the public, and as to the ul-
terior consequences which must result from their
conduct.—(Applause.) There is no other course
left to the Commissioners of proceeding but
to act as they began, and to invite all per-
sons who can depose to the past conduct of the
Corporation to come forward : for that purpose they
will sit here to-morrow and Wednesday. It is pro-
per to state, that the reasons assigned by the C
poration for their refusal to comply with that requi-
sition is, among other things, an avowed dislike to
public examination. They have undoubtedly aright
to form their opinion as to the diseree , wise course
they are determined to take. Another objection is,
that their meetings and their inquiry occasion po-
pular excitement. Any apprehension of this it!nd is
a shallow pretence.—(Cheers) From what the C,m-
missioners have witnessed they are Imams to stir,,
that the good ~.erise of tr e ptioph, of Leicester
not be led astray to give countenance to such 4
prerext. The corporation have ihotigto fit to faun,-
the commission-4.s with convening public
which may end in disturb,rice, and tv!iiel they
no power to suppr,ss. Tt:ete ne- dbe no ap:,re-
liension entertained on thai score, and, even if forec,
was found necessary, the corpora:ton, through th,ic.
orgin, the town elek, knew from s,eelne a eoey
t:r commission that all mayors and penee-otlii,,,r,
Are c tnunanded rat u.sig in the executiou of
C.Onlin'4,iori. They kno,l the p,.)..vwr the C,.oimi s.
stoners have, and it walk by their du y Sitppr
aliything of the kind. We shall abstain from saying
anything fur her, and procerd to hear the ev dance
of any person present.
Mr. John Bankart then presented himself, and
deposed to the fact of the Soul) Field being sold
by auction, at ss. a yard. Mr. Reliard H arts de-
posed o having purchased property in the South
Fields of the corporation. Mt. Matthew Babington
told some wonderful tales about the electiott of
1826; and a Mr Lowrance, a surveyor, spoke to
tile quantity of land sold by the corporation in the
South Fields, and which finished the day's job.
Yesterday (Tuesday), the Commissumers met
at eleven o'clock, arid examined Mr. Brown touch-
ing the bail in Fielderi's ease. A man st tmed
Brown stated a tale about some boxers h.ing em-
ployed at the election in 1826; and the funny Mr.
Hudson had another Tale of a Tub to amuse the
Commissioners with, until two o'c,ock, when the
Radicals finding they had no more lies to tell, the
grave Commissioners shut their hooks and walked
out of Court. Warwick, we understand, is the
next place they intend visiting.

RESOLUTIONS OF THE LEICESTER CORPO-
RATION-(AIONDAY.)

" GUILDHALL, LEICESTER.
" At a Common Hall, holoen the 7th day ot October,
1833, THOMAS Coox. E-q , Mayor,
" The I ite Mayor, Mr. Alderman illaitsTost, produced
to the H .II a communication which he had received from
the Commissioners for inquiring into Municipal Corpora-
tions, and a precept from them, requiting the procluo,iun
of certain hooks, papers, and documents; and the same
Navin, been read—
" It was resolved—That this corporation discovers
nothing in the communication to the late Mayor, just read,
which differs in any material respect from the statement
made to them by their Town Clerk at their last Hall, or
which tends to impair the confidence which they repose
in that officer.
"Resolved—That such communication contains nothing
from which this Corporation can infer that the documents
sought for by the Commissioners' Precept wid be confined
to their inspection, or applied only to further the objects
of his Majesty's Commission.
That, on the contrary, it is to be collected from that
communication that the Commissioners propose the same
course with respect to the documents now n-quired, which
theyna have
nely, pursued
to
submit tsuchtowardsdocuments, those
oeumets
, heretoforeiftheyshallfutrhnhe
iniskfilt:
to other persons and upon suggestions from any source,
however hostile to the Corporation, to subject its officers
and members to public interrogations, so framed as to
extract, if possible, grounds to assail their character and
property, and to induce a false belief that they base betrayed
the trusts reposed in them.
" That it appears to this corporation, that his 'Ma-
jesty's Commission confers no power to assemble daily
within this populous town large meetings of people—to
select for inquiry before them topics of great local irrita-
tion, such as the merits of an election for 'Members of
Parliament warmly contested seven years since, and to call
before such meetings the magistrates of the town and
members of the Corporation, in order to put to them
questions which directly tend to impugn their conduct
and motives, and thereby to d -grade their authority, and
destroy their influence in the town.
" That at such meetings the Commissioners are armed
with no powers to preserve the peace or restrain excite-
ment to whatever length it may be carried, or to protect
individuals examined before them from present insult, or
future outrage.

" That at such meetings great tempta.i9n is held nut to
perjury by inviting all persons, of whatever class, charac—
ter, nr conduct, to depose to matters criminating those in
office and authority, wit out power to punish untruth, or
any mode whereby the truth or falsehood of what falls
from a witness may be fully and fairly sifted whilst his
examination proceeds

" That at such meetince, no security exists that what
pas-ea there will be fully and iait,fally reported, nor have
the Commissioners power to p event statements ening
forth to the public designedly Use and izarbled, an I pub-
lished with the express intention to sap-rce character, pub-
lic and priv ite; 01 which latter evil th a Corporation and
its Men-theta hive had, during the progr ss nt the pre4ent
inquiry, ainpl • ,xperience.

4. That from ineetings so convened and conducted per.
sons t.f respectability and intelligence n aurally shrink,
onrviriing t subject themselves to the chinour and ex-
pressions of ill wid culled hirth by any stah-tnenra which
may not he in unison with the feelings of the ass .mbled
crowd_ by which means an entirely raise imaression is
conveyed of the sense of the town, and the testimony pre-
cluded of those mast competent to speak to its real wishes
and feeling.

" That the evils consequent on this course of proceeding
wand he aggrav,ted to an int •lerahle 4egr. e, if such
examinations s'tould assume the ..ppearance of hein4 ex
parte, anJ of bring carried forward only to uphold one
polirical party in the town against the other.
" T.,at, influenced by these c mrderations, this Cur..
poration Fees nu ground to depart trout the resolution
adopted at its last Hall, or to give 'o the town clerk or itll
other officers any direction. ineon-i•tent the.ewith.
(S,gned) " THO. BURHIDGE, Town Clerk."
The above resolutions were sent to the Commis-
s;nners, accompanied by the following note from the
Mayor :--

" The Mayor of Leicester begs to enclose
Iniss,oners on Municipal Corporations a copy of the "tsh.
lotion adopted this morning at a C .11-lawn fic4,:i.;:;::
contents of which will sufficiently explain
IPfied 'in their
sioners the reasons why the docutn.-ots
tos to the Gm::
hl—Piee7c:Aledthet.,C,
that
alasistsijoupeeclesptwciallnnaolstr,beledaerinivethreed up to tin :I,
reason:
the May;,r and
resolution, and the grounds u
other Magistrates of the
public examination."
ing before the Commissioner
town
faiiren forced to decline appear..
Leicester, October 7, 1533.

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THE CORPORATION COM Ti11,1116?--__Ai-4.3
(From the Leicester Lleral .)-.4.)117-2-1,),..1., tIZ
On Monday afternoon, at two o'clock; Messrs.
Whitcombe and Cockburne arrived in this town
from Coventry, to resume their investigation into
the Corporation Funds. The Radicals were on the
move as early as nine o'clock, and the Court re-
mained in suspense until near one, when it wis un-
derstood the party had arrived in town. 0 t pro-
ceeding to the Castle, the mob welcomed the
Learned Gentlemen with a shout or two. Soon a
letter was despatched from the Mayor, together
with resolutions, refusing to give any iurther infor-
mation. After reading the document, the Com-
missioners appeared chopfallen and addressed the
Court.

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