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London, England, 1821-10-01 00:00:00

feigned satisfaction that we announce the choice
of civic officers, whose political principles are as
many pledges of future order and tranquillity.

a. sentence of 4att shall be enforced against a
British subject, the'Ainhap-py -individual (we
speak without allUsion to persons) may be sacri-
ficed to the resentment of a knot'of his fellow-1
citizens, clothed with Sovereign poweT.;. whereas
when the King, the common father of English-
men, is on the spot, hd, -being :a stranger to all
vindictive feelings, bi.cause above the sphere of
personal conflict and animosity, interposes the
parental hand, and executes " justice iu mercy."
If, again, the life of the criminal be spared, it is
not by an act of royal, but of deputed mercy,
and the King loses tile grace and glory of for-
giveness, the brightest jewel of his Crown.

[BRITI SII PRESS.]
The Treasury Journals assert that the friends
of Sir Robert Wilson are 44 clamouring" fora sub-
scription for that Gentleman. Two or three large
sums have been announced in some of the news
papers as the proffered gift of anonymous corres-
pondents, anxious to compensate that gallant Offi-
cer for the *pecuniary loss which he has sustained
in his dismissal from the service, and it will be
seen in a paragraph in another part of our Paper,
that a meeting of the electors of Southwark will be
held on Friday next in that borough, to take the
subject of his dismissal generally into considera-
tion. These are all the steps yet taken in this
case by the friends of Sir Robert Wilson, but we
cannot perceive in them any thing like clamou.r.
That term will much better apply to the conduct
of the writers who make this charge, for we can-
not forget the loudness and vehemence with
which they agitated the public for a 'subscription
for the Life Guards, which has been since flung
buck with contempt in their face. The present
moment is very unfavourable for making any ex-
ertion in the cause of that gallant and meritorious
Officer. Ills parliamentary and other politiCal
friends are•dispersed over the Kingdom and the
Continent, at. too great a distance to admit of
collecting their sense as to the -course fit to be
pursued on his behalf, and to second it with their
personal influence and exertions... Could- all this
influence be brought to bear. on,:nny point sug-
gested for , his relief, it would produce a voice
deep. -and loud indeed, but .i.t would not be
clamour. It would be a voice such as .English-
men never fail to raise on-behalf of the oppressed;
a voice not confined to the' Town- Hall -or the
.Borough of Sonthwark,but a voice heard through
every part of the country, and ire-echoed from
every city and Village it contains.- In this ob-
servation it is:nOt meant to question the right as-
sumed
,and . exercised by Ministers in this parti-
cular case, hut we may he allowed.to say that
smnuium jus may •becorne- summa injuria and the
dismissal of Sir R;Wilsori Without. the ossigti-
ment.of any -offence 'or the institution of any
inquiry, and •consequently without affording
him any opportunity of . saying one word
in his defence, is -a positive injury, that
it is an act - that does not accord with the
principles of 'the.—British- Constitution, or is
it at Mt' ifi *unisotr with the feelings of A free
people, Under : the ••cirtumtaitte-s Which we
have stated any effort yet made by the friends of
that gallant Qflic'er must be necessarily imper-
fect, perhapS premature ;.,but had nothing been
done, the.very same .persons who :,:complairi of
" clamour"WoUld not have failed to misrepresent
the silenee'and inactivity 'of his- friend's, and tri-
umphantly.-exclaim ..tba.t.thepublic• took no inte-
rest in his fate... : . ,-;',• • ,7.0: .. : ~ .. .

[NEW TotEs.ll
As we foretold, an abortive attempt was made'
on Saturday to effect another breach in the order
of rotation to the Civic Chair, by forcing Mr.
Waithman into the Mayoralty, two years before
his turn. His followers had calculated upon a
division of the loyal • Livery between Alderman
Magnay and Alderman Heygatc ; but he himself
was better informed : and at all events he thought
it adVisable to make a virtue of necessity, and
not incur the disgrace of an ineffectual .contest.
The shew of hands was for Alderman. Magnay-
and Alderman Waithman ; and with this
barren honour, if honour it can be called,
the unhappy Sheriff was forced to be . con=
tented. • Such is the fruit of the memorable
vote of thanks by the Common Council,. idly re-
echoed on Saturday in the Common Hall !—For
this purpose-has Mr. Waithruan 'toiled through
the degrading ekposUres of the two Funerals, and
the Inquest, tape attacked with sudden indisposi,
tion at the sight of Mr. Adolphus,and.to hide his
diminished head
:befote a rival Candidate for the
Chair! It would certainly-have .been more be-
coming in the persons present at . the Common
flail to have returned' Aldermen Magnay and
Heygate, both Oentlemen of. the highest re-
spectability, and both Seniors to the worthy
Linen;-draper ; but if the friends of Mr. Hey-
gate had attended bi overpowering numbers,
it might have been . considered as an indi-
catiOn of hostility:to Mr. Magnay .; and the con-
sequence would Sin. all probability havebeen the
demand of a' Poll, by a few Radicals, for Waith-
man and .sonar man oistraw ; which might have
disturbed the peace of the City fora week, to
no other- purpose than the showing how weak
and conteMptible .that party has now become.—
Mr.. Heygate.,: therefore, by the moderation"
of hiS conduct. on the present occasion, has
added much. to the 'claims be.before . possessed
on the respect _and attachment -of his fellow
citizens. i:111-..has paid them no more than a
proper cOMPliment, in " requesting the honour 'of
their support -as one 'of the two Magistrates in ro-
tation to 'Wreturned, according toancientusagei
to the Court of Aldermen for their choice ;" and he
has sliew, it that he -would not pursue :even this ho-
npu-r_bi.ines:•a-hich' might tend to promote dis-
union, •or to encourage the. hopes of the,factious or
disaffected.'l'n the choice between Mr. Magnayand
Mr.-Waitliman; it was impossible: that the Court of
Aldermen should entertain the shadow of a doubt.
The former not -only. possessed the .claim of §e-
niori.ty., biti the
.very honOor..!;!•,!. prPc..liples which
have actintted- his late.- conduct as a commerCial
miul, the delicacy which he Observed in not press-
ing his,cl4m, to the Chair laSt year, and the ef-
fectual ineans 'which he has since adopted to
come forward '(;)11 the ground of • perfect inde-
pendence, justly entitle him to the warmest ap-
probation and support, both in and. ont of the
Court, by whiCh:.heliasheen Ultimately elected.

-Etne I.rmes.l -
We find it -Officially Jiotifiekin Gatette o,
Saturday, that the .Lords -Justices, :appointed to
govern the kingdom during his Majesty's absence,
met on Wednesday laSt at the Council Chamber,
Whitehall, and. opened their Commission.
was in the-year 1755i.we think„.that,George IF.
returned; for the last time, from Germany, just
before the breaking out of the seven years' war ;•
and since that hour.,. Geeat Britain has never till
now been called upon to. pay obedience-to dele-
gated sovereignty of• this -descrip-tion.
.Various
naturallyreflections offer themselves on this lin- .
~
portant
.cnaoge in the condition of the empire. ACCIDENT AT- Sr: PAUL'S CATHEDRAL.—In
A number of .our fellow-subjects. have been. sud- .erecting a -scaffold for the purpose of cleaning
denly raised into the temporary exercise of the the interior of St. Paul's Cathedral; on Saturday
kingly,functions.- -Whatever_
.may be thecirdrac- morning, at six o'clock, eight of the worktnen.had
teristics of an -Executive Government lodged in incautiously assembled on on ledger, or hori-
the hands of a-single person• who was destined zontal support of the flooring, for the purpose of
from his birth teewield it,-,-Whatever may -be the drawing up a scaffold-pole. The accumulated
benefits derived to,a nation :horn !laving:, at its• weight occasioned the'ledger to break Live men
head a single hereditary Monarch, such the saved themselves by hanging on: the scaffolding
Constitution of the British -Empire acknowledges runtil assistance was given the and•three others
—those attributes and those -benefits:do not be- were precipitated from- a. height of about forty
long to, the form of Government under which feet. One was killed on the spot ; another is
nineteen Lords Justices share amongst them not likely to-recover, having broken; his, arm and
the entire prerOgative 'of the Monarch. They thigh.; and the third is little injured, and- will
cannot have the. same•interest in the welfare of probably recover,.in a feW days. They •were
the community .as he whose sole greatness is conveyed to..„St.- Bartholomew's Hospital, and
founded on that welfare, and-they are so much every attention and assistance-has. been afforded
the more likely to abuse their transient power to them by the officers of the CatliedraL One of
personal- and unworthy objects. The inconve- the sufferers hits-a ;wife, but no children.
nience resulting from. the subjection of Hanover EAaL MOIRA PAvicier.--;-The-body of a female,
to the sonic Prince who-had been called to the supposed to have been lost in the -Earl Moira
British Throne,..-was soda discovered to extend Packet, has been cast upon the shore near Work,
to the details of Administration as well as to the iegton, where she was discovered by some fisher:.
great ends of our national policy.- -It scarcely men, and taken to the- nearest-habitatio'n for a
ever happened that either of the tWofirst-Sovee coroner's Inquest.. The body presented a.pitiful
reigns of the House of Hanover left the Coasts of, spectacle, the dress-being nearly all torn away by
Britain for those of Germany, without producing the ceaseless agitation of the ruthless element.—
more or less of -temporary evil by their absence. Sufficient, however, remained to proclaim that
The public confusion'of.l72o was so much ag- she had been both .young'and genteel,. 'Her poor
_gravated by the departure of -Peorge I. for the head was. much abused ; and her arms lost from
Continent, that he waS---foreed to hurry him& the elbowi,Lthe effett,'perhaPs, of having._ clung
4gaii), to save the country from destruction. So, to some refuge; She'- had on the remains of a
the rebellion of 1745 was encouraged and black sarsenet pelisse, lined- with satinea'coloured;
ripened by George _ protracted stay -in sarsenet gown, with an under white body, two
Hanover ; and when he came back, the
.civil 'dithity petticoats, :one flannel ditto,- -with stays
war was already raging. For the minuter and chemise (very fine linen, marked E. M.—e 47,
mischiefs and- impediments to the course of in a very- neat. hand), flannel waistcoat, black
public business occasioned -.by these Royal silk stockings, and handsome - shoes. ,Perhaps
absences, we refer .to the annals- of the last these particulars may. meet the.eyes of her:friends
century. But the principle is one which can- (who are, doubtless,- deploring her-- fate), and
not be safely _overlooked. It was an express lead .to - her identity; and, at the same time,
provision of the Act of Settlement, " that the prove a-consoling assurance, that she was, on the
ccKing should not go to his foreign dominions 19th of September, peacefully interred. in the
" Without 'the. consent of •Parliament ;" and al- church7yard_of Harrington,. near Whitehaven.
though,-in subserviency to some of the Courtiers (Liverpool4dverliscr.)' .
about Geo. 1., who_ thought that it would be: a 'Mr. MATTHEW .GUISON,' formerly card-make?
humiliation to die )(ing to ask• the consent of to his late MAJESTY, and possessed of consider-
Parliament, that clanie- of ;the original compact able property, but latterly hi very reduced cire
with the House of Hanover was indiscreetly re- cumstances, was discovered drowned on Brighton
-pealed in the second year after their accession, beach, on Wednesday morning. Ile was subject
still the sound policy of the framers of the Act to fits: of despondeney,• and under mental .aliena-
of Settlement will stand recorded to .all future 'lion, it is supposed, he threw himseif into' the
times. Among the powers which the Lords Jtxs- sea. A Coroner's Inquestwas held on the body,
tices to exercise, that of life and death, and a verdict returned to the-above effect.
or of the remission of punishment, .is one A.Guardian Society is-about-tO be established
of the -most- important. The prerogative :of at Leeds, which has for its object to form a tem-
mercy is taken -away from the king, and porary retreat for those --wretched 'females who
transferred --to hands unknown to The -Con- have deviated from the paths of virtue,•and ;are
stitution. 7ti. any. Case,' therefors.!,_ where, der.; desirous of , abandoning their pre.sent vicious
ing the administration of • the Lords Justices) course of life. • •
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