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London, England, 1819-12-29 00:00:00

OTHERS.

The business for which the Court had been spe-
cially summoned, was to receive a RepOrt from
the Committee of Privileges, to whom it had been
referred to proceed in the prosecution of Mr.
Sheriff Parkins, and other Liverymen, for the al-
leged tumult in Guildhall on Michaelmas-day last.
Sir J. PERRINO presented the Report, which
stated, that the City Solicitor had communicated
to the Committee, that in consequence of the Re-
solutions recently agreed to in the Court of Com•
mon Council, relative to the subject of the pro-
secution instituted by the Court of Aldermen, he
felt that, as be was the officer of the Corporation,
and appointed by the Common Council, it would
not be delicate or proper for him to continue to
conduct the proceedings in such a prosecution,
continued in opposition to the wishes .of that
Court, and he therefore begged leave respectfully
to decline any further interference in that busi-
ness: The Report proceeded to state, that the
Committee had consequently applied to another
respectable Solicitor, who had also declined to
.undertake the
.business; that Messrs. Kay and
sFreshfield were, however, ready and willing to
proceed with the prosecution, and the Committee
therefore recommended that they should be em-
ployed as the Solicitors for conducting it.
• The Report having been read, Sir iOUN PER-
BING moved, that the City Solicitor's resignation
of the business be accepted, and that the Court
do agree with the Committee in the recommenda-
tion in their Report.
Sir %V. pomytt.i.e expressed his regret at the
determination to proceed in this prosecution ; he
was not aware of any goOd likely to result from
it ; on the contrary, he feared it might lead to
very serious consequences, by producing animo-
sity between the different branches of the Cor-
poration. and tend to endanger the rights, for the
establishment of which it was now so strenuous•
ly insisted upon.
Sir C. S. HUNTER disclaimed all personality,
but thought it right that the prosecution should
be persisted in. It was well known that there
bad been a riot in the Guildhall, and it was ne-
cessary that all such riotous proceedings should
.be pur.an end to ; the c...ore or CommonCOMl•
iocettered„ improperly, as he conceived,
with the rights of Gat Court, and it was fitting
they should be shown their error, which could
-.only be done effectually by proceeding in this
prosecution, which would decide the question as
to the right.
Mr. Alderman WAITHMAN •sata, the Nv army
Baronet (Hunter) had delivered his opinion with
.much decision upon a subject respecting which,
it appeired, he was totally ignorant. If be had
been present he would have seen that there was ,
nothing like a riot. That the persons charged
with causing the tumult were the very individuals
who prevented it ; and that the only tumult
.or
obstruction at all was created by those who gave
the evidence upon which these proceedings were
instituted ; and it that Court had seen the case
and the evidence, and more particularly if they
bad heard the accused parties in their own de-
fence, they must have seen, that the whole accusa-
tion was founded in falsehood and conspiracy.—
The parties contending for the right of the Livery
had, by that very act, prevented tumUltuous street
meetings, so generally and so justly deprecated.
Sir It. C. GLYN observed, that as the proceedings
of that Court 9 might
,go forth to the public, he
wished it to be expressly understood, that he
fully allowed the right of the Livery to discuss
public business: but he thought it should be done
when the Lord Mayor was present, and not in
his absence.

Mr Alderman WOOD asked the Worthy Ba-
ronet (Glyn) how the right, which he allowed to
the Livery, could by any possibility have been ex-
ercised under the circumstances, otherwise than it
Lad been ? Tile Lord Mayor had three times re-
fused to call a Common Hall, when requisitions
had been presented to him,—and,
.on two sepa-
rate occasions, when the Livery were legally as•
sembled, be had dissolved the Hall to prevent, the
Livery from expressing their opinions upon public
business. If this example should be, and it might
be, followed by other Lord Mayors, he repeated,
bow could this acknowledged right be exercised
by the Livery ?
The motion for agreeing with the Committee
in their Report was then put and carried.

RECEIVERSHIP or THE ORPHANS' DUES os,COALS.
Sir WILLIAM Dommta presented a Report
from the Committee of Finance, relative to the
Collection of the Orphans' Dues on Coals.
The Report stated the gross amount of the
sums collected annually from the year 1752, from
which period the Receivership had been in the
bands of different Members of the Court of Alder-
n►en; and also the respective balances in the hands
of each, which were as follow :

C. s. d.
Sir Thomas Chitty 4,038 7 3
Sir N. Nash

Sir James Esdaile
Thomas Wright, Esq.... 9,26:1 2 5
The Right Hon. Thomas Harley ... 7,110 5
Nathaniel Newnham, Lsq 6,986 10 4
Sir William Curtis, Bart. 11,790 0 4

The Report having been read, .
hir: Alderman WAITHMAN rose,, and observed,
that it having been intended by a Member of the
House to bring.this, business before Parliament,
he (Mr. W.) had felt it his duty some months
since to direct the attention of that Court to the
subject, and it was upon a motion of
,his that the
matter was referred, to the Committee. It now
appeared by the Report and Accounts produced,
that large balances had continually simained in
the hands of the Receivers,. Members of that
Court, from the year 1752. There might for-
merly have been some plea or excuse for retain-

ing these large balances, on account of the risk
or great trouble in the collection ; but all such
pleas had long since been done away, by the em-
ployment of a responsible person, otherwise ern-
played by the City, as a collectOr, at a salary of
1501., which is allowed to the Alderman, the re-
ceiver, in his account. The large balance appear-
ing to have been in the hands of Alderman'Wright,
was understood to have arisen solely from the
difficulty of getting the money out of the hands
of the different collectors. For the last twenty
or twenty-five years, it had been usual to pay the
receipts over to the Chamberlain, reserving only
a balance of the two last months' collection ; this
had been the practice during part of Alderman
Harley's, and the whole of Alderman Newnham's
receivership ; but from Febreary, 1310, when Sir
William Curtis first became receiver, three months'
collection had regularly been reserved as a balance
in baud, and his average balance, from the time he
took the office, appeared to have been 11,7301. 4d
He must however observe, that since he first gave
notice of calling the attention of the Court to
this business, the Worthy Baronet had decreased
his halaece, and reserved only a two months' ba-
lance, about 40001. less than formerly, thereby
evidently admitting that he had heretofore kept
back too much.—But this was not all the balance
reserved by the Worthy Baronet. The balance
he had just mentioned arose from the Orphans'
Dues of 19d. per chaldron ; but there was also a
metage duty of 4d., of which the Worthy Baronet
eeas receiver. The accounts of.this fund were not
noticed in the Report, as the management of that
was under the controul of the Court of Common
Council ; but after deducting about Id. flout the
duty, for necessary expeeces, the amount would
iucrease the before-mentioned balance by 3 • 10ths,
so teat the actual average balance in the kVort by
Baronet's hands, for several years past, had not
been less than 14,0001. ! I—Upon, what pt inciple
any Alderman Could claim to retain, or feel him-
self justified in retaining, such a balance, lie was
entirely at a loss to conjecture, especially when it
was recollected that the Corporation was conti-
nually going to Parliament for permission to bor-
row money upon this very fund, and that the
fund itself arose from a duty on so necessary au
article as coals, and was levied not only upon the
citizens,. but the inhabitants of Westminster,
Middlesex, and even surrey. The complaints,
therefore,. which had been made as to this
Fund, he concluded, were well founded, for if
all these large lialanCes had been suffered to
accumulate at compound interest, they would now
have amounted to an enormous sum sufficient
to defray all the debts upon that Fund, and thereby
,relieve the people from kvery heavy impost. He
should be the last man in that Court to refuse a
proper provision for any Magistrate whole
eir-
cumstances might be reduced ; but lie contended
that emoluments of this kind ought not to he held
out as an advantage to induce persons to come
into that Court otigivally, or to stay there when
.they were no longer able to perform the duties of
their situation, and still less ought such emolu-
ments to be presented as a gratuity to an Alder-
man of fortune and opulence. The Worthy
Alderman concluded by mo% log, That the Court
rto agree with the said Report ; and that all
Balances in future be paid into the Chamber, to
be applied in the liquidation of the debts.
Sir R. C. GLYN agreed that the balances in
hand were much too large ; but he feared there
was some mistake, which probably Sir William
Curtis could set right if he were present. He
wished to know if Mr. Drummer, the Collector,
and Sir William Curtis, hed—been examined by ,
the Committeedi at all events, he thought, in the
absence of the person implicated, they ought not
to proceed, and therefore moved, that the Report
be referred back to the Committee.

Me. Alderman IVAITH SIAN replied, Drummer
had not been examined, inairmuch as he was not
an Officer of that Court ; but the accounts had
been examined by the Chainberlain's Clerk, and
were signed by Sir William Curtis himself, and
agreed with the Return made on this subject to
the House of Commons by the %Vol thy Baronet.
This statement wall confirmed by Sir W. Dom-
VILLE and Mr. Alderman TkjORP, who stated, that
the balance was a three months' balance, exclu-
sive of the month in collection.

,Mr. Alderman ATKINS observed upon .the ex-
pence and trouble necessarily mtendant on such
an office, and remarked on the indelicacy and im-
propriety of proceeding on such a charge in the
absence of the Meniber concerned, who, he did
not doubt, would be able to explain the cir-
cnmstaricel.

Mr. Alderman Cox said, he did not know bow
it was, brit the proceedings of that, Court some-
how got into the papers ; he wished it could he
prevented, for if these proceedings should get into
the papers, he feared it would tend to throw a slur
upon the Hon. Baronet.
Mr. Alderman ‘VOOD remarked, that after what
that Court had recently done, it was a little ex-
traordinary to hear any objection to proceeding
in the absence of a Member ; he was, however,
quite sure his Worthy Friend, Mr. Alderman
Waldman, would not folloW such an example,
but afford the Worthy Baronet, every Means for
his defence, though denied them hiinself.
Mr. Alderman WAITHNIAN thought some new
lights must have broken in upon the Worthy Al-
derman (Atkins), when he talked of the indeli-
cacy„ impropriety, and injustice of proceeding
against, a person in his absence ; he did not wish
to take any advantage, and was therefore willing
to postpone the business till the next Court.
Sir R. C. GLYN then withdrew his ataendMent,
and the consideration of the Report was referred
to the next Court.

NEW PL4TE FOR THE MANSION-HOUSE.
The Committee to Whom the subject had been
referred presented a Report, recommending that
the sum of five hutidred pounds' be expended in
the purchase of New L'late for the Mansion-house.
A desultory conversation ensued, in which it
was observed, that this sort of application ap-
peared to be becoming annual, as. a sum of 6901.
had been paid for plate, without any previoui es-
timate, during the last year. No formal opposi-
tion was made to the recommendation, and the
Report was agreed to.
The remaining bUsitiesa being gone tiafough,
the Court adjourned.

THE COLONIES.

(From the Qaebec Gazette of Nov. 15)
Concluded from Monday's Paper.

PITTSBURG (Pa.), SEPT. 21.—Difficulties al-
most insurmountable occur daily in our Post-
Office Establishment. Our worthy friend the
Post-master of this city, by the orders of the
Post•master General, will take nothing in pay-
ment for letters but silver, or what Will be re-
ceived or deposited in the Bank of the U. States.
The poorer classes of people are actually unable
to procure this kind of money. - A labourer goes
to the window and asks if there be any letters
for him ; one is held up by the clerk, probably
from the '' old, country," front a father or mo-
ther, or some loved friend ; he eagerly stretches
forth his hand'with that kind of money which he
has received for his labour : it is refused, and he
is obliged to turn mournfully trnm the window,
unsatisfied, after having held in his hands the pa-
per that contained news from those " he held
most dear." That great invention which enables
us to

" Waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole,"

has almost become useless. We therefore think
it our duty to suggest an expedient, until times
change, or until the general government will
agree to take our money, or furnish us with
better.

Our plan then is, that all correspondence be
in future carried on through the' newspapers, we
Editors binding ourselves ,not to charge more
than the post-offices would, and to take any thing
in payment. This will save the embarrassment,
and at the same time will give the public an idea
'how affairs are ; fur instance, a Philadelphia or
lia!timore merchaut writes to -his correspondent
,tt Pittsburg, as follows
" August 10, 1819.

" Sir—The balance of your account with us is
5000 dollars; you will oblige., us by remitting it
immediately, as, an agent from Liverpool is press-
ing us sorely."
To which the following answer may be made;
4s Pittsburg, Aug. 20;1819.
" GENTLEMBN—Yotirs of the 10th inst. has
been received and contents noted. Times are so
hard and money so scarce that it is impossible to
collect. Not ping is doing here ; manufactures are
down and all the west ern merchandize ig going to
IVlieeling. We expect better times next winter
as the people "are resolved to attend to their own
interests, by electing such men as Col. Wilkins,
&c. In the mean time, if you push, I must save
my endorsers first. Yours,
" TIM TAPE.'
Or from Cincinnati something like this
Cincinnati, Aug. 30, 1819.
• --

" GEN rtEatEri—Yota letter has astonished us
very much,; we remitted quantity of John•H. and
Miami Exporting Co., which you have returned.
We are so engaged in building warehouies, that
we cannot attend to you at present. We had a
town meeting lately, at which we agreed to de-
nounce every body who refused our own paper ;
you have dons this, we 311011 thcrefot e deal no
more with you. Philadelphia may gn to the
devil, as we intend in future to go to Orleans for
our goods. As you may cut capers and talk of
smeing us,it may be well to inform you that your
merchandize is converted into brick houses,
which, thanks to our appraisement law, you can-
not sell. Yours, . _ _

" REUBEN RAG & Co."

iE QUEBEC DISPENSARY,
TUE IST OCTOBER, 1819.

No. of Cases.

!terns 1
Dyspepsia
Hysteria.
Vomitus 3
Coliea et Obstipatio 4
Diarrhma
Vermes
Hetnorrlices
Gonorrhoea ... - 1
Itheumatismus 4
Lumbago
Scrophula
Syphilis et Pseudo. Syp 4
Itubeola 1
Psora
Tumor
Vuinus