The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-05-16 00:00:00

CITY BUgINESS.

Yesterday a Court of Aldermen was held at
Guildhall, at which the LORD MAiron presided ;
19 Aldermen, and the City Officers, being present.
The thanks of the Court were voted to the
Lord Mayor's Chaplain (the Rev. Mr. WOOD),
for his Sermon at St. Paul's, on the first Sunday in
Term.

The following Gentlemen were ordered to be
pot in nomination to the Livery, on Midsummer.
day next, for their choke of two of them to serve
the office of Sheriffs of London ind Middlesex for
the year ensuing.
FISH, Esq. Citizen and Wheelwright.
%JOHN BLADES. Esq. Citizen and Ironmonger.
ions ItLAY, Esq. Citizen and Vintner.
All ten a EL Hoy, Esq. Citizen and ironmonger.
THOMAS FOSiti, Esq. Citizen and Ironmonger.
Axonal. JORDA IX C, Esq. Citizen and Grover.
thIHN Galtorign, Esq. Citizen and Haberdasher.
limtaxts Saran's, Esq. Citizen and blebrehant Taybir.
Jamas. BIOME*, Esq. Citizen ani Wheelwright.

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The Court ordered an increase of pay to the
Deputy Coal Meters and Coal Whippers, or
working in a certain extent down the River.
The Report of the Committee appointed to in.
Vestigate by what means, and under what circum.
stances, some persons were killed or wounded by
the military within the City, on the 9th of April
last, which was pseseiitcd at the last Court and
read, was again read.
The Court proceeded to consider the propriety
of offering a reward for discovering the person
who fired the loaded pistol by which Thomas
w4s killed in the shop of Mr. Goodeve, at
the corner of Mincing-lace.
A discossion took place upon this subject,
wherein it was proposed that a reward of 'l2OOl.
should be offered for the discovery of the man
who fired the fatal ball. A Resolution, destruc-
tive of this, was hereupon, we understand, pro-
posed by Sir Cu tat,es PRICE, returning thanks
to the military fur their greet moderation and for.
bearatice, and fur preserving the peace of the
City This prriposilion being likewise rejected,
the one which follows was finally adopted by a
majority of 9 to 6 of the Aldermen who had re.
Resolved. That this Court, after a very long and careful
examination to 4' di,cover by what Caafiti and under what
eirrumstances some persons were killed or wounded by the
military, on Mundav, the 9th of April last," have duly
weighed and compared the great body of evidence which bas
come berme theta, and end that no shot *as bred by the
holdiery on their Way with Sir Francis Burdett to the Tower,
although much provoration on the part of the populace had
discovered itself, by assailing them with stones, bricks, .aod
other cheerer, sub4lancess as they approached it, and der-
lug their stay there; and that front the general testisommy
given, the military endured this treatment with the geostest
patience and forliearance. That as their return from the
Totter, through a part of this City, the violence of the as-
benefit.' on the rear-guard became excessive. so that thidr
lives appear, i to he endanger, and that in consequence some
of theta tired; and this Court have'stost seriously to lament
that suel tiring of the rear-guard has been in two tang fatal,
by the deaths of -- Bryant and Thomas Ebrall.
'rad it appears front the concurrent testimony of many re-
spectatee witnesses, that the soldiers took no particular aim,
but for the mast part tired over the heads of their assailants
sad that. bad they been soiaelined, it was within their power
to have destroyed many of the individuals who attacked
them. That the bring is represented to have been Indiscrimi.-,
nate, sore to keep toe mob back than to slestrar. That this
COUTO, touch as they regret that a single life should have 'KW '
lust on the occasion, cannot hat declare it as their (Tinier!,
from an impartial review of the whole of the testiamoy takes
together, snot time bring was occasioned by the losswerfal avid
nattiral impulse of self-drfenee, in awe w*vot bees were he
the inos! imminent peril, from a formidable and furious po-
pa,ee, whogfailowed them up, Watling stows of great
Donde upon them, and utaer substemees, eulogised se •
or destroy.

A Reqnisition has been signed, and forwarded
to the L ,no Nlayon, requesting his Lordship to'
take an early opportunity of convening a Coal.
mull Hail, for the puryisse of taking into consi.
deration the rd-etiou of the Petition of the Li..
laymen by the House of Commons.
Mr. Matt, in his History, speaking of the
Great Charter, divides its provisions into three'
parts :—Thnse which relate to rights granted
to the Prelates ; those to the Barons ; and lastly"
those claimed in behalf of the people. It is to be
observed, that among the last of these is that
article which has been so much insisted on by Sir
FRANCIS Boaverr, as circumscribing the power
of the House of Commons to imprison at will;
namely, that 64 no Freeman shall be takes at
" imprisoned, or dispossessed of his free tenement
" and liberties, ice. unless by the legal jades-
" merit of his Peers :" and it is upon the
subjtet of these last prOvisions in behalf
of the people, comprising that which we hays-
:just cited, that 111 r. Huss, an historian b
no means partial to eivil liberty, remarks, dod,
" they involve all the chief outlines of s laid
" government, and provide for the equal client.
" bution of justice, and the tree enjoyment of
" property (the great objects fur which political
`• society was at first founded by men) which the
" people have a perpetual and unalienable right
" to reed, and which no time, nor precedent,
" nor statute, nor positive institution, ought
" to deter them from keeping ever uppermost
" in their thoughts end attention."—Houg, His.
chap. xi. ,
On the 9th inst. Allan Hart, an American she.-
man, was committed to Glasgow jail by the Mo.:
' gistrates, charged with attempting to seduce seta.'
ral recruits of the glith regiment from his Majesty's
s-rvice, Mu a merchant ship belonging to the,
United States. The prisoner says, that his real'
'tame is Thome: Walker, that he was born et ]
Lith, and belongs to the (,oust Wellington, aII
American ship, but with Spanish papers, now at
Greenock. He is a lad a little above twenty,
niiidle sized, dark complexion, and his face mark 4
ed with gun.powder. ..
AIPPRANTICES.—By a clause in the Mutiny Act
passed the ght of March last, it is enacted that
tie muter in England shall be entitled to claim soy
apprentice who shall, after the passing of this Act,
enlist as a soldier in his Majesty's land service, en.
less such apprentice shall have been bound to him
for the full term of seven years.
We have heard with moth plessure of the great
ARCMS that Mr. sad MfiI.WILLIAM, the Oculists,
of 981 High Holborn, have met with; some thou.
sands having received benefit from their simple but
avetusl application; and malty othcn have ac-
tually been restored to sight by them, after being
in a state of total darkness fur upwards of forty
pars!.

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