The Sun.
London, England, 1803-04-08 00:00:00

COMM)N COUNCIL.

YESr!IDAY a Court.•of .Common Conntil 'vat
het& at Guildhall, at which tverevresent, the Lou
MAYOR, seven Aldermen, theltecorder, and 150
Commoners,

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The Proceedings of the Last Court fiver: read and
confirmed.

1116 LORD MAYOR, in a yery able_ and pathetic
Speech to:the memory of.. the late Inoch eiteemea
Comptroller of- the City's Cash, announced the,v,a-
cancy in that glfice, and appointed Thurs,lay, the.
list:instant for the Eleetion, by ballot, of another
td' succeed him.

• The LORD MAYOR -resented a • Letter he itad
received from Admiral RAINIER, dated t tilt Oa.
1802, on board the :Vie/aria/is, Madras Roads, ac+
knowledging the receipt of the Resolution of the
Thanks of this Court, in-Dec. 180 I, to Rear Ad.
miral BLANKETT, for his entinent services, in eon.
juottion with the Army in Egypt, and also to the
Captains, Officers, Seamen and.,Marines; for their
gallantry; which was read And misted to he in,.
serted in the Proceedings of this Cotirr. .
The LORD MAYOR also presented a Resolution
of Thanks from the Royal Jennerian Society_, .for
the extermination of the Small Pox), for the liberal
donation Of cool. to be paid into the hands of the
LORD MAYOR, one of the Trustees, in aid of this
Institution, which being read, was ordered to, be
'entered in the Proceedings of this Court.:
The-vacancies of City Painter and Mason were
ordered to be filled up at the next Court.

On its being reported that the FrenehAmbais'flatit
was with the Lord Mayor when hi—was
called out to-hack the Press Warrants :
WHIN the I,ord Mayer.of London with splendor they say,
Invited some Frenchmen to dinner one :14,
His Lordship was called from the room in a crack;
',What could it be for? (aside) a few Warrants to hack.
His Lordship returned .with asmileonhis face,
And beged the great folks no: to rise corn their place ;
Ask'd pardon of all—but was heard to declare, ,
tie hid been eall'd out a freitimir arrai4. •

CQURT MARTIAL.---The Report of the Trial of
the two Officers, qidotione<Fin our Papei‘of Wcdtles«
day, was laid before Fits Mnj EsTY tita day, when
the deciskOn of the Court Martial received the knyal
SArketion. C.lpi. NACI.ELLNW (t)Nther to Lord
KlRcupoo tt,iont) Who Was the aggres,r on the Oc.
cation, is dismissed His MAJISTY'S Service, anti
Epsign Lt.oro is suspended and deprived of his pay
fur six rnonths. Both these Officers belonked to the
Cqldstream Regitnerie of Guards.

• Arthur O'Connor is said to live, at present, in
the environs of.Paris,,unnoticed by the Government.
It is ,The fate of all Traiorb: to be despised by all
mankind. • .

A Gentleman lately laid a wager that he would
ride his horse across the Serpentine Rivtr, which he
lost i the' horse, riotwithstanding a., most severe
flogging, haVing refused, to plunge into,.the water.
liesides the great success whiCh has at-
tended her-vocal exertions at I3erlin, has received
many Valuahle presents:'' The Qt e N of PR uss) a.
gave her a *very beautiful CroSi,, set ‘vith fire large
.brilliants,.. The Queen-lvlotl4r gave her a pair of
Ear-rings_ richly adorned with brilliants. The Dut.
chess of WlNirl,g, and the Dutchess of Cot/ aI.AN Po
also presented her with ritiperliNteklaLe.. MAR&
WaS aiWays ,4favottrite at but sho ha's ex..
cited more admii4tiori her last.vibit, than in the.
of,hcr fame. It is indeed, probable., that
her .present musical Tiavels will enable'her to sit
downcouiftirtably, "for' life, , The colebrited CON.
lA't INI SUIT
rwith her in . the Duet composed for
her by It'L,a to, and which WJISO delightfully sung
by,MAR A and_ 11l tt.i NGTOX at the Opera..liouse,
when M R tdolc.leave of tin Citntry.
`On .the ctli inst, at his huiselOGloucestet_Piace,
the. Lady of the Hon. I,Vlajor General FoR nti was
-safely delivered of a Snn.

On Monday night, as Mr. Dleaton, or Br'oad.
street, neat: the Royal Excliange,,was returning to
Town in a post.chaise, he was stopped near Char!.
ton, in Kent, by three footptiq, armed `with cut.
lasses and pistols, who robbcd him of upwards of
301. and his much, with which they made their
escape..

, .
, A Few eveningslince, a woman went to visit a
prisoner in the King's Bench ; when drinking tea
they disagreed, and arming timiuso-veq with knives
to decide rite quarrel, the unibrtunare
.woman' re.
'eeived manrstabs.iii her body ; in the last the knife
was hroken between her ribs. assistance
was immediately hart, yet it is doubted whether her
will pot prove mortal. The.whaie.bone in
her stays broke the force-• of the severe“ blow.
The Ticket Nip. 41,696, drawn yesterday a Prize
of Two Thousand Pound,, wAs sold 'in one Half;
one Quart •r, and four Sixteenth Shares, by SIMI rr
and co, at their old State Lottery Office, No.