Star.
London, England, 1820-01-26 00:00:00

COURT OF ALDERMEN.

The Lon') M'Ay.)rt held a Court of Aldermen at
t:.c ye,:erday, which was very numerously
alLer,d-d.

The Lor,D MlYc,ll, on taking the Chair, informed
tl:e Court that he had received a Letter fluff) Lord
n, the Serretal y of :.,Lat.e fOr the Home .De-
ka;tment, the lar.;erltible intelligence of
the o':lns Royal tile Duke of KENT.
A Coirimic..-ee was immediately appointed to draw
lte,olutions expressive of the iceings of the Court
ypon that melancholy occasion, whicti woe shortly
;epo.te.i, a:ld agreed to, and ordered so be
rublislied in the Newspapers for uhic.h see Adver-
tiovmeat.

PCIILICATIO!; OF REPORTS OF THE COURT OF

A EN.

Sir WiLLIA7,I CUR fIS rose. and said, before his
Lordship and the Court proceeded upon the regular
busi less of the day, he should wi.h tip make an ob-
s.:iva,ion or two upon a subject which he considered
of gre,! t importance. The Court was a close Court,
a:ld he onside; ed it highly improper that reports of
their p::iceedings should be communicated to the
Public, and appear is the l'u one Newspapcis; he
chi not know \N hat they could do to prevent it, but
he thought it very improper, :old that it was high
time that Court should adopt some measures respect-
ing it; an-1 with that view he Nad felt it his duty to
caii the :tttention of the Court to the subject.
Mr. Alderman BIRCH said, he agreeA mot fully
in the sentiments of the worthy Baronet, that this
subject demanded the serious attentiom of the Court,
and that they ought to inzerferc in every way in their
power to put a stop to the publication of the pro.
ccedings of that Court, or at least to let the Public
know that the publication of those proceedings had
not originated with the Court itself, and was not
sanctioned by their authority. The worthy Alder-
man concluded with moving a Resolution to that •
effect-46r which sec Advertisement.
Sir CLAUDIUS HUNTER approved greatly of the
Resolution.
Mr. Alderman WAtrnstAx did not believe the
Reports complained of to be talse ; he should there-
fore oppose the n:otion, and should at no very distant
period again call t:-.e attention of the to the
balances in question.
_ .

Mr.Alder.man 1-11:YoATE would not.say anything

as to the accuracy of these Repo:; ; but, even admit-
• ting their accuracy, they xvcre published by unknown
hands, over which that Court had no controul ; and
if, thee efore, they should be garbled or mutilated,
that Court had no rr eans of ccrrecting the state-
ments even for the future. It was for this reason
that he thought it of great importance that the Public
should know that they were unauthorized by the
Coml.

Mr. AldermAn Btxcu in reply said, he doubted
not bet thut the object cf the publishers of these re-
ports was to drive th.Lnt to open their doors, as had
been done in the Court of Common Council, but he
trusted that Court would never submit to any such
nleaures.

The worthy Alderman then propoed some few
verbal alter:cions in his m..tion, which was put and
carried by a great inaji r:ty, two or thiee hands at
most being held up against it.
• Some conversaticn then ensued relative to the pro-
ceedings of tLe Court of Common Council, respect-
ing the non-attendance of the Aldermen to their
Magisterial.duties, which ended by referring the sub-
ject to a Committee of Inquiry.