Star.
London, England, 1805-12-14 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR.

Saa—Permit me, through the medium of your pa-
per, to requal the Committee appointed for th:t ma-
nagement of the Patriotic Fund, to nate to the Pub-
lic what is done with the interelt which arifes from
the fubferiptions, till the money is paid to the brave
Defenders of Old England. lam induced to trsm-
ble you on this fubjed, having heard frequently a
doubt exprefred relative to the proper difpofal of it ;
and am, Sir, A CONSTANT ARAMS.

LLOYD'S, DECEMBER 13.

Sta—ln anfwer to the enquiry made .by your
Cunflant Reader, I beg to inform you, that the In-
terca which is received on the Subfcriptinn Money
for the Patriotic Fund, has been, and is regularly,
every quarterly payment at the Bank, carried to the
general Stock cf the Fund.
There is at prefent veiled, of the original or Sat
Subfetiption Money—
C.ty t,OOO Coals,
loop= Reduced,
1,800 Long Annuities;

The Interell on which has been received, and
amounted, at the Lill Qcarter in Oftober to mop'.
which fum is added to the General Fund, and ap-
propriated to its interefts and purpofes.
The fame mode will be purfued in the New Col.
!aligns now making, and the amount will be laid
out in Exchequer Bills, or the Public Funds, as may
be thought molt advifable, till called for.

I am, Sir, your's, &c.
7. P. WELSFORD.

Yefterday a Court of Common Council was held
at Guildhall, prefent the Lord Mayor, fix Alder-
men, the Sheriffs, and about one hundred Common-
ers. The minutes of the laf Court were read.—
The Lord Mayor laid before the Court a letter he
had received from Admiral Sir R. STRACtiAN, ex-
preflive of his thanks for the honour done him by
the Court in voting him a fword, and the freed-in
of the City. Alfo a letter from Mrs. DAMES, which
were read and ordered to be entered on the journals.
Several dockets were foaled. A petition, or memo-
rial was prefented from the Ward of Farringdon
Within, praying to have the Ward divided, the
fame as Farringdon Without, which was referred to
a Committee to examine and report.
The Thanks of the Court were voted to the Rev.
Airmtsw HATT, M. A. Chaplain to the Right Ho-
nourable the Lord Mayor, for his excellent fermon
preached at St. Parl's Cathedral on Thurfday the
gth instant, being Thinkfgiving Day ; and he was
requefied to print the fame, and caufe a copy thereof
to be fent to each Member of the Court. _

A Report was read from the Committee of City
Lands, recommending the fale of the office of Junior
Attorney of the Mayor's Court, upon which an
Amendment was moved, that it be fold divelled of
the Clerkthip of the • Court of Common Council,
which was carried by a great majority.
The Committee of City Lands prefented a Report
about Smithfield Market ; but the Court confidering
it only an impediment to carrying the Orders of the
Court for an immediate applicatiun to Parliament
into execution, voted that it do lie on the table.
A Report from the Port Committee relative to
the Bills ofthe Offices in obtaining the feveral As
of Parliament fur the Well India Docks, ana,,unting
to 17,6101. on account of the Court's being fo thin,
was adjourned over to the next Court.
Mr. S. thrum gave notice of a motion to vote a
fom of money at the next Colin to the Patriotic
Fund at Lloyd's. for the relief of the Seamen woun-
ded, and the Widows and Orphans of fuch Seamen,
Marines, and others, who fdl in the very important
vidory of the 2 IR of Oetoblr, by the &kith Fleet over
the Combined Fleets of France and Spain, under
command of the ever to be lamented Vice Admiral
Lord Vitcount
A Court of Aldermen will be he'd on Tuefday
next to fwear in the Searchers and Sealers of Leather
to 111ue Wardmote Precepts for St. Thomas's Day,
and to hear fundry appeals, &c.
Monday, Tuefday, and Wednefday, was held at
Bath, the Anniverfary of the Bath and Well of Eng-
land Society, for the encouragement of Agricul
cure, Arts, Manufastures and Commerce, when on
the refignation of the Duke of BEDFORD, BENJAMIN
HOBNOU se, Efq. M. P. was unanimously chofen Pre-
fident of that Inttitutios.

SMITHFIELD CATTLF•SHEW.-t—Yefterday the Ex-
hibition of Cattle, in Barbican, was attended by a
great number of the moll reffieflable Patrons of Agri-
culture t among whom we noticed,
His Grace the Duke of Bedford; Earls Darnley, Mansfield,
and Aylelbury; Lords Somerville, Wm. Ruffell, and Digby; the
Hon. Mr. Barnard Howard;' Anthony Luarhmere, William
Praed, George Talbot, Cullen Smith, Win. Child,' homas Frank-
lin Lewis, Robert BrudeneU, William Gri.fin, Edmund Morris,
F.. T. Waters, Thomas Hulcct, Henry Hort Henley, Thomas
Pickford, William Runciman, John Higgins, Thomas Lloyd,
George Bolton, William Watkins, ice. Dean udley; Alderman
Flower; Meffrs. Brogden. W. Smith, Jay, Lefton, M•Dougal.
Plat, Clayton, French, Parrot, Warmington, J. Lomas, Berge,
Fdgel, J. Vi'ellear, Giblet, R. Ansley, J. Farey, B. Farey, Ludlow,
Joblin, &c.
About four o'clock the Club received the following
additional Members at Freemafon's Tavern :

Sir John Sinclair, Samuel Whitebread, Efq. Colonel Beaumont,
Mr. Marley, William i.e Anionic, Efq. Mr. Conyers, Edward
'llamas Waters, Thomas Hußeit, Edward Ludlow, hufeby Clea-
ver, William Payne, Henry Hoft Henley, Mr. Porter, Mr. Wat-
kins, Pints Dormer, James Malcolm, John Pewitt, William
Runciman, William Mufton, Edward Platt, &c.
At five o'clock, About thirty Members of the Club
fAt clown to an escellent dinner, his Grace the Duke
of BEDFORD in the Chair.
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After the a King." the Queen and Family,"
" Patdpethy to the Smithfield Club," the ufual tou-
tire ci agricultural toalls were drark, theMatquis of
llucKittomAN, Lord SACKVILLS,