The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-01-10 00:00:00

SMITH, MAYOR.. •
IN a MEETING or ASiENIBLY or the
A. MAYOR, ALDERMEN, and LIVERYMEN of the (Ntropaiiies of the City of London, hi (lemmas Hall
assembled at the Guildhall of the said City, an Wade, the
9th thy of Jannary,lBlo.
Resolved Unanimously,
1. That it is the untiouhted right of the Lord Mayor, Al-
dermen, nod Livery of the City of London. to present their
Petitions t‘i the King. sittior upon his Throne that out of
persenal feelings towards their Sovereign. they did, at the last
Common Hall, wave the etercist of this right.
9. Resolved Umininiously—That it appears that the Secre-
tary of Slate informed the Sheriffs, that the. Petition of the
Livery could he received only through his office ; that they
have heen denied not only the usual access to his Majesty by a
;personal audience. hut the naloubled right of prmenting the
same when they had actual access to kis Majesty at the Le-
vee, where they attendedto present, and did present, a Peti-
tion from the Court of Common Connell.
3. Resolved Uminimously—That such denial is not only sub-
versive of the Rights of the Livery, hut a flagrant violation
of the Right of Petitioning, claimed. demanded, and insisted
upon and confirmed to them by the lIIU or. Rights.
4. Resolved Uaanimoosly—That all compldiats of the mte:."
conduct and incapacity of his Majesty% Servants' are mast
likely to be nugatory. if such complaints mast pain throw tit

' b: Resolved—Tint irlineverntivised hisirsjesty- not to t4=?
wive; the Petitifon of the Livery in the accustomed and esta-
•blished mode, have coinniitted a scaadaloos breads of their
duty, violated one of the first principles of the Coostitutios,
and Wished the confidence of their Sovereign.
6. Resolved unanimously—That this Common Hall, disre-
a:wiling all attempts and designs osf interested nod corrupt
hirelings, who derive emoluments from the national barthens,
• to impute unworthy and disloricl motives to those who resist
unprincipled rod dangerous enctonchasents upon their estab-
lished right!, are determined, to the utmost of their power.
to osointain them against those mil Counsellors. who base
thus raised a barrier between the King and the People, And
theseby prevented their just complaints from reaching the
royal ear.
7. Itesolved—That the following instructions he given to
our Representatives in Parliament :
Gentlemen—You are hereby instructed to move in the
House of Commons (or support such minion if moved), for
an humble Address to his Maleity, praying for an immediate
and rigid Inquiry into the cau-e of the anevampled failures
and disasters which have `Mended our late Expeditious to
Spain, Portugal. and Holland, whereby the blood and (rea-
lms of the country have been shamefully sacrificed, without
rendering any elfectual assistimee to our allies, checking the
progress of the enemy, or tending to the glory or security of
his Majesty's Crown and Dominions. You are olso in-truct-
ed to support all motinre which have for their object inquiry
into the violation of the rights of petitioning—into the waste-
ful expenditure of the puhlic mnaney—the carreetion of pub-
lic abuses—the abolition of nil unnecessary places and pea-
siops—the shortening of the duration of Parliaments. and re-
storing them to their constitutional purity and independence,
as the on!s me.ms of rem.-ving our public affairs, and en-
abling this country successfully to contend against surrounding
station*.
8. Remised Unanimously—That the Sheriffs, attended by
Mr. Remembrances-, do forthwith wait upon his Majesty,
and deliver into his tilairst l.'s hand, intim name rif the Majesty,
Masur. Aldermen, and Livery of London, a fair copy of
the *foregoing Resolut inns, signed b v the Town Clerk.
9. Resolved Unanimonsly—That the Thanks of this Meet-
ing he gist% to the Right lion. the Lord Mayor. for his inde-
pendent behaviour upon all occasions, and particularly for his
conduct this day.
10. Resolved Unanimously—That tbe Thanks of this Meet
be given to Sheriff' Wood. fur his general conduct, and
'.for his having requested an audience of his Majesty, agree-
able to ilk instructions of Mk
flesolved Unanisuousis—That the Resolatiaas of this day,
togelber with the Petition agreed upon en the 14th day of
December last. be signed by the Town Clerk, and published
iu the usual Morning and Eveniq Palmyra,
WOODTIIOR PE.

.To the KING'S Most Excellent 111A.TESTY In COUNCIL,
The humble nod dutiful Address and Petition of the
LORD MAYOR, Ataseamer. and Livitesr of the
City of London, In Common Hall assembled.
44 MOST Cia acmes Stivitasufsi,
" We your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal' subjects. the
Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Livery of the City of London,
in -COmnion hall assembled, mist humbly approach your
' Majesty at this awful crisis, to exercise a duty no less painful
than imperious.
" It us to represent with humility to yourl'ilajesty the pre-
sent deplorable situation of public affairs, that we hnve again
approached your Royal Person.
Attached to your Majesty's illustrious House from af.
fection and from duty, we should ill demonstrate the sincerity
of our loyalty, were we to cancel front your Majesty dint it
is not amonpt the least considernhle of our grievances that
attempts should have hem made to braid 'your Majesty's
faithful subjects with disallhetion to your Person and Governs'
inenh w believer they have exercised their indubitable riOt
to c.implithi of greet abuses in the State, or to attribute the
disgraceful failure of. expensive and calamitnns enterprises tp
the ignorance and ineapacity of those who either planned or
eeeeuted them, as if inf.thibility were the append ige of
other, and belonged of right to those who may be called itito
your .lajesty's Councils.
" With equal grief sod indignation we, have seen the dis-
astrous result of various Expeditions, in which your Majesty's
armies have beenuohappily engage I, and which 'most forci-
bly mark the disgraceful imbecility of those distracted Coon- -
cult, which have so scandalously lavished the blood and trea-
sure of ,a patient. loyal, and burtbened people.
" Towards the close of the preceding year, yogi faithful
Citizens humbly es pressedto your Majesty their deep esocern
and disappointment at the disgraceful Convent btu of Chute ;
hut we have yet Pi deplore that due and efficient inquiry has
tot been made into that disgraceful transaction.
" It is equally painful to call to ,your hlajesty's serflike-
tion the melancholy fate Gra secondarinv, assembled within
the Peninsula, under the gallant Commander, Sir John Moore.
Igeorant alike of the state and disposition of the_ Spaillatals,
and the force and designs of the enemy, this unity being sent
into the interior of Spain, was in iiaminent danger of being
captured; in this critieul emergency, and state of agonizing
perplexity, abandoned to his own tesiourc,a,this hapless, but
meritorious Officer at length discowsred that he had no safer
lust in flight ; with the loss of hlsammunition, hersesopeciss.
and baggage. and harassed and assailed on all sides, ao se-
cured tile retreat of the remains of his guilaut failowers, by
the sacrifice of his own invaltwhielHko.
" Deriving no benefit from eaperience, a third well ap-
pointed army, under the coituriand air Mr Arthur Wellesley,
was hurried into the interior of Spain, alike ignorant of the
force and movements of theenetuv, where, after as improti-
table display of British valour and a dreadful sliusghter, taiis
rams, like the former, wits compelled to seek its safety ty
a precipitate retreat, before ( •het we were led to believe)
.: vanquished foe, leaving tbussands of our sick sued winsoded.
couotrystwo in the hands of the enemy. This loss, liar sopa.
tins passed without inquiry 4 111111. as if impunity had placed
the servants of the Crown &mar the reach of justice, your
Majesty has been 'Waisted to e.utfer till sof honourable di,-
'nation on the Gettersl who hod thus cxhilated a rash nod
usteetstious display of aiiprolltithle bravery.
" After these inultipliedierrues, and in defiance of reiter-
ated experience, we have sees soother Expedittun, yet snore
expensive, more disgraceful, and inure calamitous than the
former. This armament,.delayed until the fate of Austria
was decided. lauded on the unwltolesoine shores of the
tkaeldt, where, after an watecoaniable slate of Inaction,
• tanumnds of our brave snidiers have miserably at
riously perished by; pestilence, privation. and discosul wglith-
out hsviac accomplished. owe matiowd object. oil such .8"
Expedition, planned and cioidacied by it Monier, whit it 14
now known had W pronneoced unfit for his office by his
Colleagues—au Ex peditlosi that mar snail winds w its shame,
and Ills all hearts iilsagutts, IWO painful to dilate.
" We easaut refrain firma representiag to your Majesty,
that while the attire at the Matosa have hero ers shamefully'
tatacoadoeted alwase, the aunt seassdalaus waste, profusion,
Mid fliellffinasefifts Ws prevailed at home ; sad your Ws-