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London, England, 1810-05-05 00:00:00

TRANPSORT OFFICE,
THE COMMISSIONERS for CO.
HIS MAJESTY'S TRANSPORT SERB
Care of SICK and WOUNDED SEAMEN, (sad.
Custody of PRISONERS of WAR, do hereby give

That they will be ready at this Office on Thursday
May, 1810, to receive sealed Tenders, and treat with such Per-
sons as may be willing to contract for supplying the under-men-
tioned Articles, for twelve Months certain :
Coats, Waistcoats, and Trowsers ; Navy Bedding, consisting of
Hair Bed, Hair Pillow, Sheets, and Night Cap—For Sick and

Wounded Seamen.
Coats, Waistcoats, and Trowsers, Paillasses, and Bolster Cases—

For Sick Prisoners of War. -
Flannel Waistcoats and Drawers, Linen Drawers, Corerlets,

Stockings, and Curled Hair—For both Services.

Aro Tender will be received after one o'clock on the day e treaty, nor
any noticed, unless the party, or an agent for him, personally attend.
Each Tender must be accompanied by a Letter lions two respectable
Persons, engaging to become bound with Me Person tendering, in the
sum of X5OO for the due performance of the Contract.
Farther partieolars sirgy be inlwn by applying at this Office, and
Sampler may be seen at th.- korekeeper General's, Wiains's Quay.

SMITH, MAYOR.
IN a MEETING or ASSEMBLY of the MAYOR,
ALDERMEN, and LIVERYMEN of the several Companies
of the City of London, In Common Hall assembled, at the Gull&
hall of the said City, on Friday, the 4th day of May, 1$10:
1. Resolved, That the Livery of London, impressed with the
deepest sentiments of alarm, regret, and indignation, at the late
extraordinary and unconstitutional proceedings of the House of
Commons, which by the arrest and imprisonment of two of their
fellow-subjects, have, as they conceive, superseded the laws of the
land, and set up in their stead, under the claim of privilege, an
undefined, capricious, and arbitrary power—feel themselves irre-
sistibly called upon to express, at a crisis so new, so arduou,, and
so fatal to their rights and liberties, their unqualified reprobation
of measures equally subversive of the Arai principles of the Con-
stitution, derogatory to the real interests and dignity of theHinue
of Commons, and injurious to the honour, glory, aad bappineu
of the Sovereign and the People of those Realms.
. Commons Houie
G John Gale June
,o in committing to
Burdett, Bari. fer al-
which, if est:it:dialed,
Country), have been
and Bit cution,:rs
the pr,Aclacc of
jurisdiction, wiih-

S. Resolved, That the whole system of British Jurisprudence
has been thus shaken to its foundation, and a discretionary power
assumed over the liberties of t'te People, as declared and esta-
blished by the great Charter, repeated and confirmed by the Pe-
tition of Right and the Bill of Rights, and recognized, enforc:d,
and illustrated by a multiplicity of Statutes.
4. Resolved, That it has been idly and vainly enacted and re-
enacted, " That no Freeman may be taken or imprisoned, or to
be disseised of his freehold or liberties, or of his free customs, or
to be outlawed, or exiled, or in any manner destroy( d, but by
the lawful judgment of his Peers, or of the Law of the land," if
the House of Commons, which is itself but a single.branch of the
Legislature, do, to use he language of the Bill of Rights, against
the detestable tyranny of James 11. "by assuming and exercising
a power of dispensing with and suspending of laws, and the exe-
cuting of laws without the' consent of Parliament," set itself
above Parliament, making itself greater than the whole of which
it is but a part, dispensing with the laws which give to all a re-
medy against commitments by the King himself, and thus erect-
ing itself into a new and monstrous Executive, the more dan-
gerous to the lives, liberties, and fortunes of the Subject, inas-
much as It claims for its rule of action its own discretion, will,
or caprice.

5. Resolved, T!.at the true Privilege of Parliament, meaning
nothing more than a protective right, was nally designed as an
immunity and safeguard, to be wielded as a shield against the en-
croachments, usurpations, and tyranny of the Crown ; not to be
converted into an active power of violating the rights of others—
into, an instrument of arrogance, and a sword of destruction
agaithit the People.

6. Resolved, That the cordial Thanks of this Meeting be given
to that illustrious Patriot Sir Francis Burdett, for his upright and
Independent conduct in Parliament; for his truly constitutional
and irresistible argument, disproving the power of the House of
Commons to imprison the People of England; and for his legal
and manly resistance to the Speaker's Warrant, whereby be has
given a practical illustration of its inefficiency, and demonstrated
that, as there is no legal power without the legal means of execu-
tion, it could not be carried into effect without the aid of a stand-
ing Army, a violation of the ancient Laws and Rights of English-
men, and which, in his instance, was so lamentably exemplified
in the breaking open of his castle, and so fatally preceded and
followed by the murder of peaceable and unoffending citizens.

7. Resolved, That this Resolution be communicated to Sir
Francis Burdett by the Sheriffs., and a Deputation of the Livery,
who are desired, at the same time, to assure him, that, however
grateful his release from arbitrary confinement would prove to
the Citizens of London, his liberation would be nn jubilee to the
British people, unle►s obtained by the triumph of those grand-
principles which it his person have been so shamefully and lir
grantly violated.

8. Resolved, That this Meeting would become accomplices In
the ruin of their Constitution and Country, were they to decline
stating what appears to them to be the fact, that the House of
Commons, which has repeatedly rejected just and necessary, in-
quiry, screened public delinquents and peculators from punish-
ment, encouraged the scandalous traffic of Seats in their own
House, a traffic " at the mention of which their ancestors would
have startled with indiguatiosi,"--sanctioned the most profligate
waste of the public money, and approved and justified an Expe•
dition, the most numerous, formidable, and expensive that ever
left the shores of England; but the most degraded, ?isgraced,and
ruinous that ever returned, alike destructive of the genuine ener-
gies of the Empire, and holding out to the contempt and ridicule
of the enemy the folly and imbecility of corrupt and wicked
Ministers.

9. Resolved, That under an these evils and' calamities, these
accumulated and accumulating grievances. it appears to tkis meet-
ing, thu the only means left to save the Constitution and the
Country from impending ruin, is a Reform in the Representation
of the People in the Commons House of Parliament, which, to
be efficient, must be speedy and radical.

10. Resolved, That the People of the United King.lom are
hereby entreated to co-operate by Petition, Remonstrance, and
all constitutional means, in the attainment of this salutary and in
dispensable object.
11. Resolved, That a Petition, founded on these Resolutions,
bt presented to the Honourable the House of Commons.
12. Resolved, That the Petition now read be fairly transcribed
and signed by two Aldermen and twelve Liverymen, and pre-
sented to the Honourable the House of Commons by H. C. Combs,
Esq. Sir %V. Curtis, Sir C. Price, and Sir 3. Shaw, Bart. and thty
are hereby instructed, as Representatives of this City, to support
the same.

13. Resolved unanimously, That the Thanks of this Hall be
given to Alderman Cost sr, one of the Representatives of this
City, for the discharge of his duties, and for his constitutional con-
duct in Parliament.

14. Resolved unaiiimously, That the Thanks of this Hail be
given to the Right Honourable the Lotto MAYOR, fur his im-
partial conduct this day, and for his upright and honourable con-
duct as Chief Magistrate, and his constitutional endeavours to
preserve the peace of the City without the aid of the military.
15. Resolved unanimously, That the Thanks of this Hall he
given to. the Sheriff'', for th"ir constitutional endeavours to pre-
serve the peace of the City without the aid of the military.
WOODTHORPE.

CAPI I'AL ESTATES, MANOR, CORN, AND PAPER
MILLS, Ste. IN LANCASHIRE.
To be SOLD by PRIVATE CONTRACT,
THE MANOR nr LORDSHIP, or reputed MA-
NOR or LORDSHIP of ECCLESTON, within the lit WI
of Presrot, in the county nr Lancaster; with the Mansion house,
Grounds, Gardens, and Denwsuo Lands, and the corn and Piper
Mills thereon, and svv:n hundred and eighty-two Acres of Lind,
statute n:easur:•, with suitable Dwelling !louses and Outbuildings.
•l he Land is of a very superior description, and the whole of
the Prom ty is wit ;:at a Ring fence, and incircled by good Roads.
Eccleston is within Tcli MilLs of Liverpool, Warrinvon,
and Ort,:skir!t.
If the above!. Estate be not in the mean time disposed of by Pri-
vate Contract, tke same wiil he put up to Sale by Auction, at
Moult's, the Legs of Man, in Present, on Thursday, the Seventh
day of Lune rear, at 10 o'duck in the fortnoon, either altogether
or in lo.s, and along with other 17states In E.celestott.
• Applicat:on may be made to Mr. Matthew Ellam, at Eecleston
Hall, near Present, or at the Of ice of Asielen and Sleuttlewort Is,
in Preston, Lancashire, who are authorized to treat for the Sale
of all the above property by Private Crutruet, and where. Plans
a the Letate:s may IN sm.

• TRANSPORT OFFICE, April 7, 1810. SMITH, MAYOR.
THE COMMISSIONERS for CONDUCTING IN a MEETING or ASSEMBLY of t 1
HIS MAJESTrs TRANSPORT SERVICE, for taking ALDERMEN, and LIVERYMEN of the se'
of the City of London, In Common Hall assemble
Care of SICK and WOUNDED SEAMEN, and/or the Care and hall of the said City, on Friday, the 4th day of M
Custody of PRISONERS of WAR, do hereby give Notice, 1. Resolved, That the Livery of London, imp
That they will be ready at this Office, on Tuesday the 15th Of deepest sentiments of alarm, regret, and indignai
May, 1810, to receive sealed Tenders, and treat with such Per- extraordinary and unconstitutional proceedings
fCeollnlowm-onsubsiewctheichahvbey
athsethearrest and. imprisonmdean
sons as may be willing to contract for Victualling Prisoners fl
land, and set up
War, in Health, at Chatham, for six months certain, from the Ist in
their
steyadcr
acneidveer,tshurerlaisem 1
of July next. undefined, capricious, and arbitrary power—feel I
No Tinder will 6e received after one o'cloci on the day of treaty, nor cistibly called upon to express, at a crisis so new,
any noticed unless the party, or an agent for Ilia, terminally attend. so fatal to their rights and liberties, their unquali
Each Tender must be accompanied by a Letter from two respectable of measures equally subversive of the first princip
Person:, engaging to become bound with the Perron tendering, in the Sum stitution, derogatory to the real interests and dip
of £2OOO, for the due performance of the Contract. of Commons, and injurious to the honour, glory
of Further particulars may be known, by applying at this Office ;or the Sovereign and the People of those Realms.
to Captain Hutchinson, Chatham. 2. Resolved, That it appears to us, that the C
. . arliament, in committing to prison Mr. J(
TRANPSORT OFFICE, April 12, 1810.''• ln brealtligiegen tfie house.of, and. slip in
a one: Mb& Miunbersillii? Francis Bard(
THE COMMISSIONERS for CONDUCTING'
d libels *on tinmureivA ;Offence% which
-A- HIS MAJESTY'S TRANSPORT SERVICE,for 11.6ing provided againstby the sof the Coon
Care of SICK and WOUNDED SEAMEN, and far the Cat, and -once Accusers, Legtilators, s, Jurors, a
Custody of PRISONERS of WAR, do hereby give Notice, aft"- ha their t'wheamo°o4h4retig et untie:
*2- Privilege, as td EitereiSing op and stuniary ju
That they will be ready at this Office on Thursday the rOtir of out redress or appeal.