The Sun.
London, England, 1818-08-05 00:00:00

CITY BUSINESS.

In thus introducing. Mr. Waithman to the notice of this
Honourable Court, your Lordship and the Court will per-
ceive I do not present' to you a Gentleman unknown, but
one who, for many years, held a seat in the Common Coun-
cil of this great City, wherein the talent and abilities of that
Gentleman have been inotl conspicuously displayed, and uni-
versally acknowledged.
Under these circumstances, my Lord Mayor (as a Deputy
of the Ward of Farrintzdon-Withont), I present to this Court
Mr.-Waithinan, rkiderman Elect, for that great and extensive
ward, to become a Member of your Honourable arid Wor-
shipful Cowl, in being sworn into the Jlagistrncy of this
great and opulent City; and we are fully assured he will
faithfully discharge the various ditties of that high office with
strict justice and impartiality, and with equal honour to him-
self and satishctioii to his fellow-citizens.
Ai'ter d,livertne. till, Ad tress, D• pnry
Herring', and the Grenilenten attending with him,
wit hdrew.

The usual oaths ‘eere then administered, Hfl(
?.Ir. Waitinnan, cinthed in the Aidern►anic gown,
took seat in the Court.

\Vhen the Conti broke lip. Mr. Waithman ac-
companied the Lord Mayor in the state carriage
to the Alansion house, where an elegant dinner
was given to the Court of Aldermen, as is usual
on Reach nerii,ions

Upwards of 1,600 minces of g„1(1, and SO 000
nun e.4ifsilver, in bars, were Produced and swot')
.11 for • xl►.irfatiun

Nlessrs. Fossert, and Hay, were
sw!.rn Rule is ot the 14,Itcrnien's Company,
The umilt otd:Jed that the houridary stones,
!narking the city j,,risdicrion in the liorongis
Suntow4rk, hr re9laced under the ditections of
Loifi Alay,/r.

SUSSEX ASSI Z , LEWES, AUG. 3.

CIVIL SIDE.

BAKER V MAXFIFLD.
This was an ac mu against the,defendant for as-
Adulting and falsely imprisoning tile plaintiff's
dangu,. r, a girl tell year. old
Mr. Gurney and Mr Andrews conducted the
plaintiff's ease, and Mr. M trryat and Mr. Chitty,
the defendant's.
The circumstances opened were these:—
The plaint ti's (laughter Went to time schoitl of
the Misses Pawson, of Lewes, and received her
educatian gratuitou.ly ; but in return for time
benefit receked. performed certain domestic
work. 'lite detrndant had also a daughter at
the smile school, and on the 18th of February
last, had sent her to his banker's in the town

to get cash for a ten pound cheryte, which she
was to bring home on dicr return trout school in
the afternoon.. She received the mnury, and nut
it irto a Ii tie hag, but while at school it was
suddenly missed. and omit' not be toand,
Every search was mrde, and at length suspicion
tell upon the plaintiff's daughter, who, upi,n
being taxed with the theft, after some pet suasion,
conttssed the robbery ; she was charged in
custody of a constable, and taken before a Ma
eistratr, Inv at 'he interces..ion of the defendant,
she was discharged. It turned out, however, that
the id-dotes .itatighter was not the thief, but ano-
ther pupil in the school, who had laid out part of
the mow yin trkke.s. '
firt.ire !he pl ;hues case was gone through; it
was a l'erd nn hot h sides to withdraw a Juror,
upon a so4rgestion, that the def,ndant's ease wa§
capable of a %et v favoorahle impression.

BROOKI,II V. WOOl/1-IAMS.
g AU 4ct,i)ll for follS %VOT(.IS spoken
by the (14-frrilant \of the plaintiff, imputing to him
a charge of trinity.

() , the (welling ot the pleadings, the defend-
ani's Counsel int;rnosed, and after making: an
apology ~1) behal# ot his client,. who disclaimed
any intuntion such as the declaration complained
of, it was a; reed on bo:h sides to withdraw a
Juror, and a Juror was hdrawn accordingly.

The Privy Council, on Monday last, determin-
ed that the Council of Aberdeen 1816, last le-
gally elected, shonlil meet on. toe 23d of Septem-
ber, anti fill up a Council, who, again on Michael-
mas day, should proce,-d as if they had been he
Council of the present year, to an election of Ma-
gistrates and Councillors of that City for the en-
suing year.

On Friday forenoon, about half-past eleven
o'clock, a party consisting of three ladies and two
gentlemen, who were travelling in a carriage be-
tween Tarhert and Luss, were overtaken by a
violent thunder storm near Inveruglas A very
vivid flash of lightning, folio' ed instantaneously
by a clap of thunder. seemed to surro,iod the car-
riage, and make one of the horses tall down as if.
shot through 'he heart. The animal, however,
recovered so far as to he able to go on, though
much enfeebled. One of the gen.lemen felt him-
self sick for halt an hour alter the accident ; but
providentially no other injury betel the vary
About the same time, the livhtning struck the
sentry-box on the rwit side of 1).11111)mq/in Catok,
shivered the cope-stone and (hove it to the dis-
ranee of some hundred yards, and made a remark-
able rent in the remaining start of the roof. The
electric matter proceeded aloo2 the raikw ay to
the master-goauer's house, where it broke pit
of the window-glass, and so sensibly affee,rl
man standiog at the door, that he ..vas for :om
one tillable to walk.—(Greettock Advertiser, July ,
31.)

Yesterday the Right lion. the Lonn MAYOR
held a Conrt'of Aldermen at the GuildhAll, for the
purpose of swearing hi Mr. WAITIIMAN, the new
Alderman for the %Van! of Parrin4:don-Without,
in the
,ruom of Sir CHARLES PRICE, Bert. de-
cea,,ed.

The Consrt was very numerously attended.
Among the Aldermen present were—
Sir Richard Carr Glyn, Bart. Sir J. Earner, Tint. Sir J.
Shaw, Bart. Sir W. Leighton, Kitt. J. :Insley, Esq. J. J.
Smith, Esq. G. Scholcy, Esq Sir W. Domville, Bztrt. M.
Esq. M.P. Sir M. Bloxam, Rut. S. o,,odbehere,
C. Magna., Esq. G Bridges, Esq. W. Heygate, Esq. R. A.
Cox, Esq.: J. T. Thorp, Esq. M.P. &c.
On the Court being formed, Mr. Deputy Her-
ring, attended by several Members of the Cnm-
mon Council, introduced Mr. Waithtuan in the
following Address :
My Lord Mayor, and Gentlemen of the Court of
Aldermen,
Allow me, my Lord Mayor, to present to this Worshipful
and Honourable Court Robert Waithinan, Esq. a Gentleman
unanimously elected, at a numerous and ,ost respectable
Wardinote, held for that purpose at St. Bride's Church, Al-
derman of the Ward of Farringdon- Without, ire the room of
the late much-lamented Alderman, Sir Charles Price, Bart
at which Wardmote your Lordship did us the honour to
preside.