Star.
London, England, 1807-12-18 00:00:00

car BUSINESS.

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Yellerday a Court of Common Conneil was held
at Guildhall, in the City, at which the Right Hon.
the Loan MAYOR, feveral Aldermen, and tt great
number of the Common Councilmen were indent,
Several petitions were heard, and determinations
were made according to their refpative merits.
A Report from the Coal and Corn Committee, re-
commending the temoval of the Corn Office, was
read, agreed to, and ordered to be carried into es.
ecution.
The Chamberlain was direlted to pay off 40,3001.
in Temple. Bar Bondi, on the sth of July next, and
to give notice to the tefpeaive parties who are inte.
felled.

The Report of a Committee relative to the office
of Common Hunt, together with the opinions of the
Recorder, Common Serjeant, and Mr. Vaillant,
thereon, were read. The report and opinions fisted
the great antiquity of the office, adding, that Ste
Citizens of Lopdon had originally a right to hunt
in tl e Royal Futeß►, for which purpofe the office of
Common Hunt was originally instituted. The Cant•
mittee, together with the City Law Officers and
Connie!, declared their ennviftion that the Corpora-
tion had an undoubted tight to continue or abolifh
any office within themfelves as they might deem es•
pedients but at the fame time obferved, that offices
of great antiquity were very feldem abolifhed,unles
upon forte very (bong and fufficient ground.
Mr. Jaces then moved, 4. That the office of Cern.
gionl-I.lnt• be cvntioned, and that *e Loan MAYO'
do proceed to fill up the fame at the nest Cout t."
The motion being duly fcconded—upon the qucf.
tion:being pur,

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Mr. MARRIOTT tefe to oppofe the motion, upon
the ground rf the inutility of keeping an officer, at
great eapence, after the funftinns nt the office bad
ceafcd to eriß. He ther.fore moved an Amendment,
putpor t:ng, that all the word• after the word" That,"
be expunged, for the pupae of inferting the wc,rds
4. That the office 4Consmon Hunt be nowabolithed."
The queflion was then put upon the Amendment;
and, after a Ilintt entivellation between Mai..
Waithm4n, SAmliel Dix ,n, Harper, Griffiths. and
Alderman Hunte., it w.is carried in the affirmative
without a divificn. A frefh difciiffion then took
place, u; in the general merits of the quefi n thus
amended.

Mr. CLARKS' N wiked to refer the cafe b,ck to the
Committee of City Lands. to teport their opinion
thereon.

Mr. MARI!' TT f brerred. that the Citizens f
Lnndnn had not for many 'ears paft been particu-
lady famous for their d:xtetity in hunting. If, in-
deed, tome officer were to be appointed, or revived.
for the purpofe of attending at fellivals or convivial
; meetings, he fit uld think it to be more congenial to
the feelings and practice of the Ci,izeas, and should
give it his fupport ; but when a motion was made for
filling up (*nett an office as that of Common Hunt.
he conleffed that he felt himfeif confiderably fur-
prised at its introdutlion at the prefent day, and
mutt give it his decided negative.
Mr. JACKS was of opinion, that the continuance
of the office was 'fret:dal to the honour and digni.y
of the Corporation.
Mr. WHEILE declared, that he timnght the office
to be as effentially necetrrry as that of the Recorder
of London—(general laugh.)
The quellion was then put, that the faid office be
abolilhed, which was carried without a divifion.

MILITIA.
Mr. Alderman Shaw, in a long and well &gene&
fpeech, brought forward a motion for allowing the
two City Regiments to v. lunteer into the line, in the
fame manner as the Militia have been allowed in the
different counties—he was warmly and ably lap-
ported by Mr. Alderman Birch, Mr. Dixon, and Mr.
Jrcks, and oppofed by Mr. Waithman and Mr. Good-
behere ; when after a debate of fix hours, the Court
became clamorous, and the queflion being loudly
called for, there appeared only fix hands againn the
mo i in. Mr. Alderman Wood propefed that a Spe-
cial Ci mmittee fhould b! named, confining of all the
Aldermen prefent, with one Commoner •it of each
Ward, which was immediately agreed ta.

The tliwmarket Courting Meeting was whol:y
impeded lull Monday on account f the irny. These
were 63 brace nt high c ,nditioned greyhounds, who
all returned without a courfe.

DR I.IIY-LANl.—raulketur was !aft ri.,,ht repeated,
with f)me few curtailments, which rendered it com-
paratively lefs objettionable than at firlt ; bat the
whole Itrufrore of the Picce is radically bad, and fo
the majority of the audieree, thinner than on Wed.
acidity night, appeared to think.

Cavalry Gaansw-h.The favourite comedy of 'obit
attradest a very refpedable audience to this
Theatre, and few pies of this nature, it mnft
be cenfeffed, afford more rational or more plea.
fent entertainment. It is inirollible to conceive
the pasts of this piece better difp fed of than they
are at Covent Garden. When fuch performers as
Lewis. FAWCITT, EMU'S', and POPS, are petted-
ly in their element. and in a fituatilo to difplay
their peculiar and charadesigic excellencies, what
detightful eCed may not be expelled Mrs. Grass,
in the fenlitive and fuffesing lifery, was extremely
natural and interefling, and in her artkfs tale,
drew down repeated plaudits. The clofe
and gripit:g Mr:. Bru'gruddlery, was alto well re-
prefented, as ufual, by Mrs. DAVS t; roar ;—but the
great novelty of the evening was Mr. HAIMMEITO/4,
from the Dublin and Liverpool Theatres, (being his
firft appearance at Covent Garden), in the ebarpder
of D'nait Brulgruddery. This pert is fo inimitably
played by Jon NSTgIN El the en iginal Brulgradery, that
it is extremely difficult for any one to follow him.
Mr. HANSIERTOII, however, appeared to be well
acquainted with the part, and by no means deficient
in the brogue and peculiar manner that has been
fuppofed neceffary to a petted reprefenration of the
charatler. He certainly ditcovered very eonfiderable
judgment and difetitnination, though lefs variety,
perhaps, than might have been expelled. He was
well received, and repeatedly applauded ; b tt, on
the whole, we 413 not think Mr. W ADDY, who excels
in feverel butt charadets, will fuffer any thing by
the crimped( tn. Mr. H. is by birth an Littman,
and therefore fufficieatly cor. ell in the brogue ; yet at
prifent we cannot confider him otherwife than as a
tolerable ftibnitute for the original Landlord of the
Red Cow !