The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-03-14 00:00:00

CITY BUSINESS.

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A Court of Common Council was bold yesterday, for the
despatch of public hosing's.
The LORD MAYOR laid before the Court the Resolutions
of the General Public Meeting lately held at the Mansion
House upon the subject of Tithes in London, and the opera-
tion of the Act of the filth of Henry VIII. which were read,
and ordered to be printed, and a copy sent to each Member,
together with a pamphlet recently published on the subject
of Tithe!.
The commissioners of sewers presented a Representa-
tion of the necessity of an application to Parliament for
an Act for the more equal accessing end levying the con-
solidated Rate on the Inhabitants of the different Wards ;
which, after a protracted discussion, was agreed to, and a
Petition to the House of Commons adopted accordingly.
A petition from Mr. Mesnard, one of the parties who
sentin designs for a proposed new London Bridge, convey-
ing his suspicion that the seal on the letter which accompa-
nied his proposed plan for a new bridge, presented to the
Bridge-house Committee, had been violated, whereby the
plan was known to be his, and consequently rejected ; and
preying to be heard at the bar of the Court, to state his
grounds for such suspicion.
The petitioner being called in, stated that his ground for
entertaining‘the suspicion mentioned in his petition was, that
the seals of the letter and the box when returned to him,
were not of the time wax. He did not himself seal them.
knowing from the opposition Odell he had received all
through the businoss—(Disspprobstion.)—He would con-
fine himself to stating, that a friend had sealed both the let-
ter sad the box within two or three minutes of etch other,
and he told him when he saw them afterwards that the seals
were not the same. •
Mr. Dixon said, that after such an impression as must be
crested by what had now passed upon this subject bad gone
abroad, it was right that it should be removed; for which
purpose be moved that the petition be referred to the commit-
tee of city lands.
The motion was then put, and carried unanimously:
A petition Was presented from Mr. Thompson relative to
* proposed mode of delivering the colliers in the river,
instead of the laborious coarse It present in use. *Melt was
referred to the Coal and Corn Committee to examine and

report.
A petition from sundry Coal Merchants and others, be•
log the Committee of the inhabitants of London and parts
adjacent, relative to the present Duties on Coals, and pray-
ing the aid and contribution of the Court towards the mea-
soresthey are pursuing for the reduction, of the same was
referred to the Coal and Corn Committee.
Mr. D. Richardson was elected to the vacant Mace
of Clerk Sitter, and Clerk of the Papers of the 011tspur-
street Compter, to the room of Mr. John Hicks, resigned.
The LORD MAYOR declared a vacancy in the situation of
the Marshetmen for the Borough of Southwark, by the
death of the late John Wise, and it was referred to the
Finance Committee to consider of continuing that ap-
pointment.
A petition from the inhabitants of Donate, Queentabe,
end Vintry Wards, for widentng and improving Upper
Themes-street, was referred to the City Lands to examine
and report.