Star.
London, England, 1816-11-29 00:00:00

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WOOD. MAYOR
COVt‘'ON COUNCIL, holden in the CHAM-
silt or he GUILDHALL of the CITY of LONDON,
opp-DAY, the 2Rtb Day of NOVEMBRic, 1616.
tiovin-..1 hat the present distressed and exhausted state of
country far rived. all precedent, and forbudes consequences
lots Or. atlfill and alarming.
to revert tho,e consequences, requires the immediate
• 11, Ili firm and energetic measures, calculated to
dir tral causes of the evil.
pit 11. e th•tress and misery which for so many years has
Fogressively accumulating, has at length become hump-
is no longer partially felt, not limited tb one portion
&Empire; the Commercial, the Manufacturing, and the
esllnterers, are equally sinking under its irresistible
and it has beeome impossible to find employment for
laps of the population, much less to bear up aainst our
enormous burthens.
averment complicated Evils have not arisen from a
ammo° from War to Peace, nor from any temporary,
or accidental causes—nor are they to be removed by
Pond or temporary espi•iients
• ear Orievauces are the natural effect of rash and 'tuitions
.attestly consinenc-d and pertinaciously persisted in, when
Tanya object was to be obtained—of immense :Subsidies to'
• powers to deftud their own territories, or to somatic
$ •••1 those of their neighbeurs—of a delusivo•Paper
an unconstitutional and uuttrecedeittp, Military
win rime of Peace—of the tine.sampled arai iroreamingnratg.
et the Civil List—of the enormous iiunis paid for taunt.
Potions and Sinecures—and of a long courte 4 t the mist
hod improvi4cor 11,1xpentehtsre of the Public Money
heat every branch of the Government—all arising from
eernipt and inadequate' state of the Representation of the
is l'alliament, whereby all constitutional coutroul over
*MI(4 of the Crown has been lost, and Parlianumts have
. • tobersient to the will of Ministers.
y this Court has seen, with no lee.s grief than astonishment,
,trading the Pair:cc lt toe treb 6rations recommendation
tawny, at the opening of the last Sessions of Parle
redue-
iament,
Majesty% Ministers otipt,eing every prorettion for th
el the public ripen& ure; and dint they were able to obtain
. to support and %suction their cooduet, in defiance ot
oyhl Hiehneas gracious recommendation, and the (*.s-
wage of the Nation. affording another melancholy proof of
corruption and degeneracy of Parliaments, in
-ti addition
liar
to
• tads so often stated, and offered :o be prov at the
tie House of Commune, in a Petition presente• a I72:1, by
Flom C:tant.cs. now I.or 1 GREY ; whereby it appeared, that
great body to the People were excluded bum all share in the
• aof Members, and that the majority of tha Honourable
were re4trned by the Ptopr:etors of Rotten Boroughs,
influence of the Trea-ory, and a kw ',emeriti' Families—
ch shameful traffic in state has beet. since avowed in Paths-
t, in a named:in, iii which two Ministens of the Crown
implicated, Aid a motion for enquiry rejected, on the
of rite notorie:y of the notice.
That in the opittion of his C. urt. it will be Impossible to
• , out or out dilapidated resources, an ova whelining load
motion—that nt.hing but a re:ormation tit these abuses—.
.dttstonng to the Pelvis their just and consti u• Moat right in
pada!' of Mt:others to Patlialllent; 0.5 the only security
pipe their recurrence, can Lahti their appeehensions, allay
lon Irritated feelings, and prevent those tuisforcones in which
Nation must inevitably be
rtholved, by an obs:inate and in-
tuited ailhae.:ce to the itt system ot coiruptiou and

r. =game. .
'rbu this Court tktvrti if hlgh'tintrortant, for the attainnunt
do cumprel enstve and subnnuttlal Ittfornt in rar Itanunt,
tr become so t•stit::,,..ly r;!ct..-.,ary fur the safety of the Ccuu-
; nal,* to rreve:.: the nlit,chicis that may mhos from the
.enultot seal or sornc, aril hired effotts ot other% that the
...of =stint bind etierr,ks itf the Kitten, i.bunld bu dtretteti
a tbisitiett; and eat neszly invite and I..contotend all Countits,
Corpontelludirr, Towns, Vaids, and Pat ichci, to ovation is
Yam, waidnai:,nal„ and teinierate language. in kvgar 1:00:I
."rrati.e:llll Ikelirlll ; rrirreince4 'that the StIINC ot the Natlon
this isptess.d murt „eventually command due rtspuct and
aa'enll:air;l:N Court 11!;711:y ar prove and reconuutnil individual
exerto sad Sub.erptions in the attrval Ward:: ani IntArtc:a,
to toe support of rho .e v..hot.t urLent nrcvs-,it its nu y require
' ruedate rtlivf—at the sane tittle thi, Court art convinced
utach rucc:nas can be regarded only as ti mpurary attic, and
t tny ni.,ata:es %hart or thoee ILLtortuattons of National
Abuts, ay.!. of the National let restntattun, if relied uron as
penmen:, would only rrtiv;: der:Ave And iallaci,tus. and render
sur siontion, new rttritv .thlt. by-wisduat 'arid lankness, desperate
rna

sal hoptleis.
And that an humble and drtifol Petition be presented to Lis
bp, iiighnos the Pals: r, playing, the Hold!
Ilitaess will, as eat!), us poiaible, asJeittble Polienent, and
I,:tnewild !if ilt;:ir ft:lnlet/jaw cwoffleratiton these important
swan, tin. :idol. toy of antactres for abolaitig all useless
klafel,Pai,otts, one, .nteur.•,—•ur thtr.tlucuiou of our Arts"
,afleoe, Ntiimay lisfalfer.t—tor tiolkuts every ',tactic:title
hilictian in the Pub is xpenclitu: ces,tottig co the
**lug Share and Weight 111 the LegislAtute.
W 301.) FUOIt,T.