Star.
London, England, 1811-01-10 00:00:00

SMI.TH, MAYOR.

IN a MEETING or ASSEMBLY of the Mayor,
Aldermen, and Liverymen of the several Companies of this
City of London, in Common Hall assembled, at the Guildhall
of the said Cub on Wednesday, the 9th slay of January, len,

Resolved unanimously, That the end and design of all Govern•
ment is, or ought to be, the good of the People—that the Prero-
gatives of the Crown are vested in the King, as a sacred trust for
their benefit.
s. Resolved unanimously, That it is, thetefore, equally their
duty to jlard, by every constitutional means, against all encroach-
mentsond innovations upon toe just and necessary Powers and
Prerogatives of the Crown, as to oppose those encroachments
and innovations whish have so notoriously been made span the
Representative branch of our Constitution.
3. Vtesolred unanimously, That, anxious as we are to remove
from the Government every species of unjust influence, equally
Injurious to the King and People, and to promote a system of
ge.netal reform, especially in slut brands of the Legislature, the
corrupt state of which has been thereat source of all our na-
tional calamities, the Conunoni House of Parliament ; we, never-
theless, feel equally anxious to maintain the real splendour and
Dignity of the Crowu, and all he just and necessary Powers and
Prerogatives._

4. Resolved unanimously, That, deeply lunenting the afflict-
ing incapacity of our most gracious Sovereign, by which the
Functions of the Executive Government have been suapended,
we derive a cheering consolation in contemplating the many
amiable euziities of Isis Royal Highness the Prince of Wales,
and the altar:anent hr has invariably evinced for the Rights and
Liberties of Cie People, affording the Nation the best grounded
confidence of seeing the Royal functions wisely and ably ex-
ereised.

5. That, impressed with these considerations, we cannot but
view all attempts to abridge the koyal Authority, and impose
itettric:ions upon the Regent, in the person of his knyal High-
ores, as highly dangerous and unconstitutional, establishing a
new Estate in the realm, to eontronl and counteract rite Execu-
tive Government, and tending re render it feeble and inefficient,
at a time when the state of the nation peculiarly requires its full
energies.
6. Resolved, That we, therefore, view with concern and in-
dignatitin the attempts which are made to degrade the Kingly Of-
flee, and to render it dependent upon those Ministers, who have
so ►ong abused the confidence of the Sovere.gn, who have ucie
formly shown a marked contempt for publte opinion, whose'whole
career has been a series of incapacity, misconduct, Sod violation I
of the Constituent) ; who have added to the Caminito of their
crimes by usurping the Royal Authority, and who, not content
with having engrossed patronage and emolument, and secured to '
themselves end adherents a profusion of pensions and sinecures,
are now endeavouring to retain an enconstitutionil posv=r and ir'
fluence, which would enable them to emharrassaad impel! the'
Ex?cutive Goverment in all its operatious, and render it subject
to their controul.
7. Resolved uusalmously, That the eownsoad owe lds