Star.
London, England, 1819-09-20 00:00:00

COURT OF ALDERMEN.

An extraordinary Court of Aldermen was sum-
moned for Saturday, in order to proceed upon the
complaint of the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor against
Mr. Alderman Waithman, for conduct higlily dis-
graceful in his official character as an Alderman, and
tending to degrade the office of the Chief Magistrate
of the City of-London.
The Court was summoned for one o'clock, and the
Lord Mayor, who is always more than punctual in
appointments, took his seat twenty minutes before
that time—he was soon joined by Sir Matthew
Bloxam, who was followed shortly afterwards by
Sir James Shaw; Alderman Waithman, the offend-
ing culprit, was also early in attendance ; and by the
regular hour, there were present, exclasive of the
three Aldermen already named, George Scholey,
Esq. Robert A. Cox, Esq. George Bridges, Esq. Jo-
' shua Jonathan Smith, Esq. William Heygate, Esq.
Richard Rothwell, Esq. and Sir John Earner, Knt.
Not a single Alderman attended besides those who
were present at the last Court, and of that number
three were absent on Saturday, viz. Sir Wm. Curtis,
(who had a motion upon the subject of the complaint
before the Court), Mr. Alderman Wood, and Mr.
Alderman Christopher Smith, who, it was under-
stood, were both out of town.
The presence of twelve Aldermen, exclusive of the
Lord Mayor, being required to form a Court, no bu-
siness could be proceeded in every endeavour was
used. and officers were dispatched in all directions,
to procure the attendance of two more Aldermen,
but in vain, and after waiting upwards of an hour,
and the return of all the Messengers, the Meeting
broke up.
Previously to their separating a conversation took
place upon the subject of calling another Court, for
which the Lord Mayor suggested Wednesday next;
but, upon some of the Aldermen present declaring*
their inability to attend on that day, his Lordship
seemed to relinquish the idea as hopeless ; nothing,
however, was decided upon, when the Aldermen
parted, and the business, we suppose, will therefore
stand over to the next regular Court, which will be
to-morrow week.

CORPORAL PUNISHMENTS IN SCHOOLS.---The horrid

case of cruelty lately recited at the Mansion-House,
could not have occurred if. Blair's School Reipsters
'had been adopted in the seminary in question. fhcse
!Registers produce the same application, by exciting
'emulation, which heretofore has been excited by fear
of ignominious punishments., and they have been
adopted with great success in hundreds of our-first
Academical Establishments.
Bow-STREET.--Mr. BIRNIE, on Saturday, received
a letter, signed T— It , and dated Lambeth,
informieghim that a diabolical plot had been formed !
to destroy two active officers oh this Establishments
who were considered, by a certain class of indivi-
duals, as the two principal spies of Government.—
The writer, after naming the officers marked oat for
destruction, conjured the officers to take care of them-
selves. The communication was regarded as a hoo.r,
and no further notice was taken of it than to acquaint
the individuals mentioned with their danger.
MA ur.uortouou-sTassr.—illary lti‘Nallyl an ur-
chin eight years old, but whose depravity shocked
all present, was Friday charged with enticing a
boy, named Fodder, three years and a half old, from
his play-mates, and stripping him of part of his
clothes. The prisoner was remanded, until her mo-
ther can be found, to ascertain whether her parents
are privy to her guilty transactions.
rent.—Sunday se'nnight a fire broke out in an
oasthouse, at East Sutton, is Kent, belonging to THOU.
Botictisa, jun. which burnt the the hopy on the kiln.