Star.
London, England, 1806-08-06 00:00:00

CITT BUSINESS.

Yeflerday, at one o'clock. purfuant to public re-
quifition, a Common Hall of the Livery of London
war convened at Guildhall. for the purpofe of elat-
ing an additional Sheriff for London and Middlefez,
in the room of the Gentleman chofen at the IA Corn-

mon Hall, who has fincedeclined to terve the Office,

paying the Win' fees for bis mule.
The builnefi of the Hall having been opened with
the ufual formalities, the names of the following
Gentlemen were read, as put in nomination for the
choice of the Livery—

TOMAS ROWCRORT' Efq. Alderman.
J J. Sian ii, Etc. Alderinan.
S Motes, Efq. Alderman.
ioBN Po INIIIP. Efq. Alderman.
P. TiAWHIV,Efq. Aldertnan.
°SIAM &TWILL, E. Alderman.
Siiixoo s. Efq. Stationer.
—.— agaves, Efq. Embroiderer.
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•••••••••• PIARION, Efq. Glover.
W. BAR tow, Efq. Bricklayer.
. WILSON, Efq. Glover.
••.•• CLARIt, Efq.
RICHARD PHILLIPS.N. Statietter.
lAMBI BCANICOMI, Efq. Dyer.
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Mr. WAITHMAN then addreffed the Livery, and
exprefed his hope, that the objet for which they
were called forward this day was the choice of a
Sheriff for the City of London, who fhould be really
difpofed to aftume the duties of that important office,
and competent to difcharge thofe duties with honour
to hinifelf, and dignity to fo highly refpetlable a Ra.
tion in the metropolis of the Britifh Empire. There
was one of the Gentlemen whole names had been juR
aow read to the affembly, and who was fuppofed to
Rand at the head of aloft candichttes moR likely to be
the objets of their telethon, namely, Mr. Symonds.
But he could allure the Affernbly from communica-
tions now in his poffeffion, and particularly from a
letter received from Mr. Symonds's phyfician, that,
fo dangerous and precarious was his Rate of health
at this moment, as to render him utterly unable to
aflame the duties of the important Ration, fbould he
be honoured by the choice of his fellow citizens, and
therefore intreating leave to decline the elation. The
fad now mentioned would have been haled in the
more regular form of a petition to the Common
Council, but that there was no meeting of that Af-
fembly (ince the laft Common Hall day, when Mr.
Symonds was put in nomination. He trotted, there-
fore, the Gentlemen of the Livery would confider
the intimation he now gave on the part of Mr. Sy.
monde, as a full and timely notice, to prove to them
that he was totally incapacitated, from ill health, to
atume the duties of Co important an office; and there-
fore he relied, that the Livery would now think it
high time, after fo much money had been extorted
from a number of Gentlemen who were chofen,
although it was known they would not ferve, to pro-
ceed now to the elation of a Gentleman willing, able,
and eligible to airtime and to difcharge the duties of
fo important a lituation. Such a Gentleman he would
now have the honourlof propofing to their choice
a man well known, he believed, to many of them,
and whom, he was fore, they would admit to be a
man, eligible, from refpeaability, and competent.
from his well-known good underflanding, to diP
charge the funtlions of that department with honour
to himfelf, and to the choice of hi. fellow citizens..
He concluded, by propofing Mr. Richard Phillips,
Stationer.

The nomination was feeondcd by Mr. Deputy
GOOOBE II 6RII.

Mr. J. Dixon, notwithftanding the very warm pa-
negyric with which the fart fpeaker had propofed Mr.
Phillips, a Gentleman of whom, however, he knew
nothing, yet, he trulled, the affembly would do him
the favour of following his own, though a vet y dif
ferent counfcl from that of the Gentleman who (poke
laft, and, in fo doing, eonfult the dielates of their own
good fence. The Hon. Gentleman had thought pro•
per to charge the Livery with elating Gentlemen to
the office of Sheriff, for the mere purpofe of extorting
money from them. Such an imputation, he thought,
not only indecorous in the extreme, but alto totally
unfounded ; and inch an infinuation its, lie troflecl,
the; would not now infra to (way them into the pre-
cipitate choice of a perfon, who, he would not fay,
might not be very ref-I:104We, and very competent'
to difcharge the duties of the r ffice, for he knew little
or nothing about him, but who certainly had no claim
of inecedtwe to In many ierpedable Gentlemen, in
nomination before him ; his name having been pro.
-pored this moment, for the firll time. He requetted,
therefore, the whole lift might be fairly gone through,
in order that a fair feleillion might be made, and every
man have the opportunity of voting for the perfon he
fhould think molt worthy of his choice. If that choice
fhould fall upon the Gentleman fiat mentioned (Mr.
Symonds), be was confident that the reprefentation
now made by the Gentletnan who rpoke left, if urged
in the proper place, namely, before the Common
Council, would ban its due weight, is exempting
him from the fervice, withoitt any expenfe; and that
it would not appear, there was any wilh on the part
of tl.•'ie %Ira propoled him, to have him elated, merely
tor the purpofe, as bid been generally charged by
the lion. Gentleman; 3f extorting from him a fine.
Mr. WAITiIMAII, in explanation. repeated his for•
mer affertions and rai4, he could not conceive for
what other purport, except extortion, Gentlemen
were fingled oar for elpion to the office of Sheriff,
while ill health, avosAions, or dillant refidence, it
war known would preclude them from fervics If
the City of Lendoi!weittei ileney, it Ibould be elated