The Sun.
London, England, 1826-06-20 00:00:00

CITY OF LONDON.

A Court of Common Hall was held yesterday at the Guildhall,
for the purpose of officially declaring the result of the election,--
After the usual formalities were gone through, the following were
declared to be the numbers ;----

FOr Alderman Thompeon
Alderman Waithman
Mr. Ward -
Altlermen Wood
The Lord Mayor
Alderman Clarratt

6485
5045
4992
1891
4514
3SO

The choice Of the Livery was then declared to have fallen on thd
four tirst.named Gentlemen, and they %Vete proclaimed at tinif
elected accordingly.
Mr. Alderman '.l'lloatis,ort then came forward, and was re-
ceived with general cheers, 'and expressed his sincere and grateful
acknowledgments to the Livery for the high honour they had con,
fared on him in electing him as their 'Representative, and for the
very distinguished sitnatiOn which he, throughout the election,
hid held on the poll. The Livery might depend on finding him
on every occasion, active, tealous, and independent in the discharge
of the several duties which his proud situation as their ltepresenta-
tive Would devolve on him (cheers), and eagerly using his best
endeavours for the protection of their commercial rights as traders,
and their municipal privileges as eitions. He also begged to
assure them, that at all times he would ha found easy of tic.
cess by every class of his fellow.4itizens......(Applause.)-Hd,
again most cordially thanked them for the • honour they GO
done him. •

Mr. Alderman WAITtiMAN next presented himself, and was
loudly anti generally greeted by the livery. lie began by saying
that it was altogether impossible for him to tlo justice in words to
his feelings for the distinguished honour which bad been conferred
upon him by the independent livery of London. Be' had stood in •
a different situation from some of the' other candidates. Ile had
been 'brought forward as an independent candidate, solely on
grounds of public principle, and placed in his present situation
entirely free of expense ; and he would confess .that under these
circumstances it would have been more gratifying to his feelings
to he at the bottom of the poll, than to he placed at the head of it
by means such as some of those which had been resorted to in
support of sonic of the other candidates. lle had all along said,
that the great body of the trading portion of the livery ought to
confine the • advocacy of their interests • rather to an individual
wholly unconnected with them, and the decision of the livery'
proved that they coincided with him in this opinion. No man, •
he thought, ought to go into Parliament to represent any one par.
titular class of trade or business, for it was the business and the
duty of every honest member to represent the whole interests of his
fellow-citizens. Of •-the public principles which he advocated it
was not now necessary' to 'speak. The livery bad known hint
long and well enough to be acquainted with them. They were
those which Were embraced by the Bill of Rights, those which had
been advocated by Lord Somers and Sir Williem Blackstone.—
The worthy Alderman then adverted briefly to the leading duties
of nn honest representative in Parliament, and concluded by con-
gratulating the livery on that improvement in the public. by
which so many old political prejudices were deprived of their
former pernicious influence on the proceedings. of public bodies.

Mr. WALT/ CAIIIII forward, and Wilk Warmly, received. Ile
gan by reminding the livery, that when first he presented himself
to their notice to solicit their support ass, candidate fin- the buottr
of represeitting the city in 1)1014111CW, he came fOrniard resting his
claims chiefly Mt cominercial grounds ; but, however misiotte he
should always feel to tiyhold that interest, be begged to Assure the
livery that he had no intention of disregarding the interests of his
tidlow-citizens genera:ly; and lie hoped that frequent opportuni-
ties would occur to allow the high estimation in which he held
the distinguished support whh which his friends had honoured
him. He felt happy that the opinions which he entertained on
certain public and political questions were known to the. livery,
and in accordance with their min. Had he not avowed his prin•
ciples at the outset of the struggle, and had they dift'ered from
those who supported hint, he might with justice he considered to
have deceived them.—(Applause.)—There was one topic to which
he felt himself called upon to allude. 110 meant his having re-
fused the Alderman's gown. He begged to ;assure the livery thus
openly, that in doing so, he hail not the least intention of show-
ing to the Court of Aldermen the slightest disrespect. Indeed,
such an intention could never have entered his head, for he began
life by marrying the daughter of an Alderman; and it (-mild
hardly be iniagined that in refusing the, honour. which was in-
tended
for hint, he meant to show any disrespect to the Court
of Aldermen. (Great applause.) He should now state his
reasons for declining the Alderman's gown. 'hiving the honour
of being in the direction of the Bank of England, he thought that
it' he ampted the civic honour, it might he that he should be
calks' Upon to fill the offices of Lord Mayor, Governor of the
Bank of England, and to attend, to his duties as city tnember
besides. Now, he would ask, how could it be supposed that any
one mean could adequately perform the Atoka of those three im-
portant °Ricci at the same time ?—(Applattse.)—lle now begged
have to think the livery for their distinguished support, and to
assure them that neither pains nor assiduity should be wanting on
his part to proutote the general interests of the city and the welfare
of the country at large. The hononrable gentleman," on retiring,
was loudly cheered.
Alderman Woon then came forward, end was loudly and gene-
rally. cheered. He begged to assure the livery in general how
grateful he felt lOr the distinguished support which he had re-
ceived at their hands; but his thanks were more is in duo
to those kind friends who came ore the Nat day of the election, and
when the seemingly ilaogerons situation nn which he stood cot the
poll made their support the mere valuable. lie Was aware that
there Were eiremnitauces which eperateil agaitta him, arising front
errolletnet Myrtle:lama of his past conduct ; and amongst other
things, it was imputed to him that he bad endeavoured to injure
Alderman Walthman on the occasion of the last election.
Alder-
man Waithman and his committee, however, had in the hand-
eomest manlier done all in their power to remove that imprettaion,
which was the best proof in the world that elicit a report was .
totally without foundation. With respect to the Catholic (NWs.
thin, his opiniens remained the saute as lie had always Avowed
them, and be naked any gentleman then present, he appraisal to
the whole world, whether the disabilities under which the Roman
Catholics laboured, were wise, just, or politic ?—(Applause.)—
With reapeetto the test oath, he had supported a bill to Puha-
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proper that a man who might possess sufficient property in few
different counties to entitle hint to a vote in each should be Obliged
to take fill oath against his own religion Iteltare he would be Al-
lowed to exercise the, right of voting fist much candidates AS in his
opinion were best 'nullified to btu their ditty let Parliament ?
According to the law on the subject, dissenters wet., precluded
from serving in corporations; but they contrived, notwithstaod-
ing, to belong to corporationa, and an act of indentity was actosily
obliged to be passed every year to sanction their m.410'14011, '!.Vh,nils
was the conseqnenee? Those were the very men who oPPO* ,
for the part whit+ he had taken on the Catholic trs.4streZir
could not but think that that opposition eaute..,":l Li for eivfl
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dertuan then referred to 'past services, and assured the livery
that the interests of the City of London should always be
his first care. Ht would serve them with all his strength,
with all his heart, and . with all his mind.—(Loud ap..
plause.)—There was one circumstance which in gratitude be
ought to mee:rion, which. was, that Sir William Curtis said he
would give. 'his vote to him, and but that illness prevented his at-
tendance. at the hustings, he was well assured that the worthy
Baronet would have kept his word his sun, however, Mr. Wm.
Cnatis, had promptly come forward and given him his vote. The
'worthy Alderman, after repeating his thanks to the Livery, with-
drew, and was cheered by the Meeting.
Mr. T. HALL then said, that it devolved upon him, as the
Chairman to the senior Candidate's Committee,' to move that the
cordial thanks of this Common-hall are hereby justly due and re-
spectfully offered to John Crowder, Esq., and Thomas Kelly,
the High Sheriffs of the City, for their able, impartial, and
conciliatory conduct during the progress of the late election.
Mr. Fame wooded the motion, which was carried by ac-
clanutkno tater which the Sheriffs returned thanks, and the
meeting separated. The Hall was but thinly attended.