Star.
London, England, 1809-10-13 00:00:00

COMMON COUNCIL.

A Cqurt of Common Council was held in their
Court Room yesterday, on several special matters.

ADDRESS TO lIIS MAJE•TN.
Mr. Sheriff Wool) informed the Court, that ag.-eea-
bly to the Resolution of a former Court, he had yes-
terday waited cu his Majesty, to know on what day
his Majesty would be pleased to receive the Address
of that Court on the occasion ~f the 50th anniversary
of his Majesty's Accession to the Throne, when his
Majesty had been most graci, ..isly pleased to signify
it to be his Majesty's pleasure to receive the Lord
Mayor, Aldermen, and Corporation of the City of
London, on Wednesday, the Ist day of November
next, at two o'cloLk, at the Queen's Palace.
Mr. S. DIXON 1'05.2-
Mr. Alderman 'Noon continued—that in conse-
quence of the day fixed far receiving the Address,
some alteration in the wording of it might probably
Ix come nue:sary.
Mr: S. DIXON said, this was exactly the re.tson of
his rising. The Address would require some altera-
tion, having been framed on the presumption that the
Corporation would have proceeded from the Church
to St. James's, or Buckingham-house, and would
thus Live had an opportunity of presenting their Ad-
dress on the same day on which they went to Church
to celebrate the Anniversary of its return. These
alterations would be best made in a Committee. He
should now move, " That the Committee who pre-
pared the Address do retire, make the necessary al-
terations, and report the same to the Court."

It was then ordered, that his Majesty's most gra-
cious Answer to the request of the Sheriffs be entered
on the Journals, and that the Committee who pre-
pared the Address do retire, make the' necessary al-
teraliops thereon, and report the same to the .:ourt.

After retiring for' some time, the Committee re-
turned, when the alterations made by them o'i the
Address were agreed to.
It was ordered, on the motion of Mr. S. DIXON,
that the same Committee be instructed to make the
proper arrangements for carrying the Resolution of
the Court, as to the Procession to St. Paul's, on the
25th current, into effect.

Meal to detain the Court long, upon Many what
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sisi.bc be inclined to term a ridiculssai paragiaph,
whoa had appeared in a Morning Paper; relating to
him as a Member of that Court. The paragraph
stated, that the. editor *as in possession of the sub-
stance of the motion which he intended to make in
that Court to-day, but which, out of compassion to
him he would not state:. It called on all the friends
of good order to attend andopposeso atrocious a libel.'
Now, he declared solemnly, that he ha.d not either
written or communicated his mdtion to any one,- and
so it was impossible fit the editor of -the paper in
question to know it. He was the last man who would
wish to influence the press, as he thought liberty of
printing was equally valuable with liberty of speech.
'With respect to calumnies every man could vindicate
his honour, and he thought he was now doing his
duty to the Court, by publicly declaring the whole
paragraph a falsehood. There was another paragraph
which stated that the Lord Mayor had issued an order
.for the exclusion of strangers, in consequence of
some insults offered to some Members of the Court ;
this he was convinced, was equally unfounded. He
could not, of course, trace the author of the para-
graphs, but if he thought they clandestinely origi-
nated with any Member of that Court, he would not
belong to it.
Mr. WAITHMAN declared, that he thought the pa-
ragraphs in question gross and scandalous libels, faith
upon the Court and the Lord Mayor. On his coining I
into *court that day, he had questioned both the
wo Alderman and his Lordship on the subject,
an ey had both, he was sure truly, denied the alle-
gations. Editors might, to be sure, insert what lies
and libels they chose in their papers, and this was not
the first time they had done so.—Something of this
kind was done on the question in that Court relative
to Sir Home Popham ' • and he had seen a paragraph
very late*, imputing the origin of the Jubilee to a
Mr. James Dixon, of Walworth—(4 itot,±). Put
he had little doubt such paragraphs came from a
Member of that Court, and he,thought he had the
very man in his eye—(he looked full at Mr. Dixon—
(! loud laugh). If such proceedings could be brought
home to any man, he could not be sufficiently repro-
bated by that Court. He was convinced the worthy
Magistrates had spoken truth, when they denied haw-
ing given any foundation for such paragraphs ; they
were too open for such. He thought some future no-
tice of the business might be necessary.
Mr. J. DIXON said he had been grossly insulted
as he was passing into the Court. on the last day of its
sitting.
Mr. WAITII74AN said he had not denied the para-
graph.
Mr. Dixon reprobated the introduction of names
into their debates, and said he should be ashamed to
remain in the Court if it was allowed. Many gross
paragraphs had before appeared in other papers, and
the Hon. Member had not noticed them. Indeed, it
was notorious, that no person put in so many para-
graphs as he did himself. [Here" there was a loud
cry of Order, and no motion appearing before the
Court, the business Was concluded.]
Mr. Deputy KENIIII.I4 at the late hour of the day,
which it then vas, would not enter into his motion
for expunging from the minutes of the Court the Re-
solutions of the Ist of August, relating to Colonel
Wardle, but he did hope, that another day the sum
monses of the Members would not by. filled with other
business, put over the head of his motion.
It was referred to the Committee for General Pur-
poses, to consider and report to the Court, in respect
to what steps are fit to be taken, for obtaining an effi-
cient Magistrate for the town and borough of South-
wark.

NAVAL IN773.LIGENCE.

PLYMOUTH-DOCK, OCTOBER 11.

Owing to the severity of the weather, there hare
been no arrivals or sailings this day.
. . .

- Remain in liamoaze— l'onnant, Scipittn, Yorlc, Captain, In-
trepid, Acasta, Unite„lniazon, Armitle, Amethyst, la
Niemen, Hussar, Plover, Partrike, Thais, Swallow, Scylla, In-
solian, Sandwich, and Snapper.
In the Sound, ac.—The Dolphin, Naiad, Amelia, Albicore,
Orestes, Gleaner, Arrow, Weazle, Mariner, Harlequin, and
Whiting.