The Sun.
London, England, 1803-03-04 00:00:00

CITY BUSIVESS.

A Coast of Ccamon Council was heldyotertily
at Guildhall, at which the LORD MAYOR presided ;
ten Aldermen, Mr, Recorder, the Sheriffs, and the
greater pat t of the Commoners were present.
The Proceedings of the last Court were read and
confirmed. _ _

The LORD MAYOR, in a concise speech, informed
:he Court that they liAd waited on His MA) ErrY at,

St. James's, on Wednesday last, with their Address
of Congratulation on the late villainous attempt to
destroy the Person of our beloved Sovereign, and to
subvert the Government and our glorious Constitu-
tion, and that Hts MAJESTY had received them
very graciously. His Majesty's answer was read,
arid ordered, with the Address, to be entered on the
City Journals.
Several Petitions and Reports were read and agreed
to, except one, which was from the Committee of
General Purposes, stating, that in compliance with
diretlions, they laid befote the Court an account of
the expencew in and at the Mansion.house, in the
Mayoralty of Sit JoHN Ea,meß, Knt, amounting to
53151. 7s. 6d. that 20091. I6S. part of the said sum,
was by order Of Court, 1081. t7s. by order of the
Committee, and 3031. Bs. usual charges, and which
arise every year ; the remaining sum of 28931. 6s.
was the expCnce of the State Bed, and the furniture
of the room where it is placed. This gave rise to
a very spirited debate.
Sir Joutit EAMEL explained what he fired ordered,
which 'amounted to about 601, He laid that he had
represented to the Court that a State Bed was ne.
cessary, and estimated the expence of it at 4001.
curtains 2001. and other things, in the whole, 7601.
He said, that if he had ordered a Bed, &c.amount.
ing to the sum charged, it would have been a reflec.
tion upon hii chlrader. •
Mr. PHILLIPS, the Upholsterer,, said, many
things were ordered by .Sir JOHN EANSER beyond
those given by the Court; that patterns of every
thing were shewn to the or Lady Mayoress,.
'who ordered carpets, &c. of larger dimensions.; and
that Sir JOHN particularly slid, that if -the things
sent in were not elegant, they should be sent back;
that the silk alone cost soool. it was at last agreed
that it should be 'referred' to the Committee to ex-
amine and again report.

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The Court proceeded to the elation, by ballot, of
a Collator of Smithfield Market, and the ballot
being cast np, it appeatecl that Mr. WILL' AM Tuc.
KEY had the majority, whereupon his Lordship de.
clared him duly elaled during the pleasure of this
Court.—Mr. TIICKEY returned the Court his sin.
cere Thanks for the favour he had received, and
begged leave to resign his situAtion as Collator of
Newgare Market, which the Court accepted, and
ordered the Elation of another to take place at the
next Court.

Ir is decidedly the wish of the Togvn that Mr.
ICSMIII.I and Mrs. SIDDoNs should be brought back
to the London Stage ; and it is surely, the duty, as it
would certainly be to the interest of the Manager
to comply with that wish.
Mrs. BILL I NGTotr's complaint, from Which she
is rapidly recovering, is said to have been the French
influenza, and not a brain fever.

Mis% DE CAMP has experienced much benefit
from dm change of air. She is now at Plassy, near
Paris, where she will remain for some months longer.

Coosa is at pretent so much indisposed, that Moa..
RAY has studied his part in Mr. COLMAN'S new
Comedy, and is to perform it in case Coosa should
not recover his health in due time.

Miss ST RPHINS performs Mr,. MOUNTAI N's cha.
'rafter in The Hero of the North, in constquence oI
Mrs. MOUNTAIN'S illness.

INct,aDON has returned from Bath, and resumed
his eharatler last night in Family Quarrels.
Little SimmoNs.is upon the sick.list at Covent
Garden Theatre, and his part in Family Quarrels
is assigned to DAVENPORT.
Mrs. ESTEN has renewed her engagement at the
Edinburgh Theatre. She is deservedly held in the
highest estimation there as an Adress. Why is she
not invited to perform at one of our Winter Theatres
here ? There is surely a very good opening for her
at either.
STEPHEN KIMBLE has made a golden harvest of
it this year at Newcastle. He has been not less
successful in the Spanish than his brother JOHN,
without, the trolble of travelling so far.

Moorty, the Player, went to an Auction Room,
a few mornings since, to purchase a Share of Drury.
Lane Theatre ; but being very deaf, he discovered,
when the lot was knocked down to him, that in-
stead of the Share of the Theatre, he had purchased
the Lease of a Barber's Shop in the Strand.
A Mr. WYNDlinm made his debut as a Singer on
Monday, in a Concert at Oxford, under the direr,
lion of Dr. CROTCH. We know another Mr.
WiNDFIAM who is chiefly tiireeted by Crotchets.
It is mentioned in one of the Papers, , that Mr.
PIT I's Physicians are of opinion that his health is
perfeelly re-established. In this case, as well as in
most others, his own opinion is probably the best.
The vacant office in BONAPARTE'S kitchen is not
again to be disposed of, it being the intention of
the Flan Com'. in future to cook for himself.
A Noble Opposition Lord means soon to open
his heavy battery against BONAPARTE'S Five
Hundred Thousand Men, while General Wt NDUAM
will come upon their flank with his sharp-shooters.
All the English Nobility are hastening from
Paris, whom La Grippe does not keep fast there.
We hope.M. LASNES will conduel himself with
more propriety at Lisbon than he did before, though
from the hint given him by his Principal at parting,
we have no great right to expect it. The approval
of his conduet, which appeared to all Europe so re-
prehelisible, will no doubt he understood in its
proper sense, as an encouragement to, we, wish we
could say fair trade.
The Bretom are likely to fail in the. &len of
their Petition to Parliament. Indeed it would have
been odd if they should have succeeded in such a
modest reitiest, as to, have every private house opened
to the visits of an Excise OftiCar I