The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-10-27 00:00:00

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.

Yester lay a Court of Common Council was held f
the special pittpo.e of presentioz the thanks of the
Court, and also the Freedom of the City Oil a fold
value one hundred guinea.), to Joseph Him,.

Est', for- his zr.slous tunl intlefiC4uhle exerti •ns in
PArliarnent, in rechwe the public expenditrrt•, and the
introiltiction of every practicable economy.
Soon after twelve ceehttli, the Lord Mayor. Sot. en-
tered, and the Court was opene,l i:i the u•nal for.::.

•FFIIAV A'r liNiGwrsnnirmc.
Mr. Ablertosn tl'Avro '.Nbe:Tged to offer!. tt•or ob.
serva:ioos. Ile was aw4re ill-At this Coort wat • sum-

utolle,l for a Special porpose, ;.'4 Ile should be,th:• Last
tnan iit it to introduce ant• iffeit•TalltCt nhiza wa•t
likely to give risP to .s di.cnseinn. !tat the sithjevt
opon whirl, he was now to Speak,-involved a
ipiestion of privi:e•ze, and w.is„ therefor", entitled t
e..eir moo s ri.tiis a•teuti.in. Ile Lill l'Sl)re propose•
I.tt• liefor" the Court tt:.• rorrecp,tnden:•e had
passed bet we 11 him and IA .I'4 Ritlittrat, and
►race 'Lil. so :►t an eir'i:r per':od, %erre it not that be
wan Oat of t•nrt:.vL 'it 11► e las: Cosirt was held, and th••
t:•onrt before hi I horn so stli:Ile:11V convened that h*
di., not hear of it until late in tit" ..venir.g of the (fly

on which it %t. as Leid. Ile wicked 'taw to lay bt fore
the Court the papers on this subject, leaving it t •
theta to set as they thought fit with respect to them.—
For himself, he was of little consequence, anti there-
fore it mattered not what he might have suffered. Hat
he was anxious for the honour, character, anti dignity
of the City of London, which f. ion the oifiee conferre I
upon him he was bound to support, and which he col-
ceived had been insulted in his person nn the o.easio,.
to which he alluded. He held in his hand two letters,
which he did not at first conceive to he of importance,
but which bad since become so from certain feet:
which bad transpired on the tti:d of a man named (i;if•
tiths, for a riot at the funeral of Haney and
Men he (Alderman complained of the pro-
ceedings of the .2titli of August, his complakt w
passed over. A ciaar!••e of regieet of tlit'v -.vas, how-
ever, made against him by the Noble Lord. It w
said that the mob were i a state of riot, and that he
did not exert himself to !tre,:erve the peace, but that a
Police AllZiStrate was HI/ll:fed to interfere. All this
Was broadly stated, and yet no inquiry had been in-
stituted. One of the letters which lee held is his hand.
had been sent to him in order to pia Mils liven to
dates, f,r the purpose of substantiating the elstrges
alleged against him. The letter, will his answer to
it, were short, and he tvottid therefore read them ;---
" Whitehall, Atwnst 34),
" SIR-At a late hour last i rel.:v.:7M your P.
ter of yesterday, in which you tie six o'clock on Stitsday
afternoon as the time when the outrage took plac,,
which you represented in soar former letter to It•v.
been committed on the Civii Power by the Life Guard 4.
" I have only to desire that you will lave the preci.,t
time, when you withdrew from littigtitsltridge, after
tranquillity hail been perfectly restored ; unless you
should leave any objection to make, such a statement.—
' am, Sir, your most oltedi-nt ituttiltie SVrV tie;,
" Mr. Sheriff Waithman. " BATIIVRST."

To this letter. though lie perceived its tendency, he
mweiliately returned tile folio•xing answer :
(viler.)
" Rriiltre-.treet, :Intrust 30, IEI2I.
" MY Lonn—l e,n have !11l ON:411(111 to give your
Lordship every infor,:iati.in i a my power, hot it is ilitli•
cult to speak with exact preei,loa as to time. I have
already stated that it was six o'c!ork whim ay., affray .t:
Knightsbridge took glare; it might Bove been a iriarter
of an hour after. I left tiv:te Park Corner, a, ilearly as
I can state, about a quarter lietorie eight n'elock. —I
have the honour to he, your Lordship's mast ohe lietit
huitible servant, (Signed) " Roar. IVarrumast.
" To the •Right Hon. Earl Bathurst, &c."
It was rather extraordinary. though by no means
unexpected by him, that after a complaint hail heeta
matte to the Secretary for the Coloetil Department
(E in Bathurst), ant after a statement by his Lord-
ship that an iariry should he set as foot, yet that •he
(Mr. Waithinan) should never haft, born calleshipoti
—should never have been allowed tb eel a single iit-
nese In support of his original 'coinplitint ! *lit
while all inquiry of this nature WAS riiiipi, an inquiry
of another nature was set on foot.. An iagoirt PIP.
fore a Police Magistrate was insti.ateti, befits valiota
police agents were examined, %V rut flake itito• the
etinduct—i it of the rioters of the* 28th of August,
hat of the S'ieriffs of :he caao6r of I.llltiblles'ex.—!llear,
liear.}-is-iThe faces stated against h';l9,.arere found inca.
pate of proof; as the contrtry. hie original mate-
meats were confirmed on this tnquiry ; scd this heist
Joinn to.bit the.calut. all inqu'rc of arsot4er nature tas
denied. If the statements e-
ur ,1 against hi.n- ware
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