The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-02-11 00:00:00

LONDON, PRIDAY

FEBRUARY 11, 1820.

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" The Onto. for 'Aiello HAMPDAW fell i%

TO Tit fi, LIVERY OF LONDON.
OW South Ses-noase, Feb. 10, 1110.

TRIBUTE or REXPICCT TO run MEMORY or wu
norm. Humanise rue DUKE or KENT.
Altdoe-Ifousa, Aidorsirate-si
Wednesday. Feb. ft MI
AT a PRIVATE MEETING of the OOV
NORS and FR [ENDS of tho monstrous ell Aarr*
INSTITUTIONS patronized by Ms isto Revd Mgt
tbo Dona of lever, it was

fiersirs..
tiLLED upon by so numerous and so highly
opetable a S' 1y of the Livery, it would bwincossist-
t .1.0 of ay public life if I refused to
eldt *fir request. spin to gond forward as s Cas-
hew tbe bosour of representing this great City is Par-

Resolved unanimously.
That an ea►ly Pub it Sleeting be culled to take into coo-
Mention the best mode of perpetuating those general senti-
ments of esteems and veneration shish all ranks entertain
for the assay virtu" and universal plaUsethro of his late
Royal Highness. (glinted) JAIIIII 4,
Ilunerary neeestary.

osymienee 17 yearn of my seremitted, zealots
i bps, noels! sitontion to the trust reposed in me. nod
p flpreiatiell so nobly sad o, unequivocally bestowed on It.
roomer rent ree.lrded Whoop! of so many of my fel-
sesinses. render soy prefessioss of my Principles wholly

is;:eim WS teal of the Meeting of this day has inducted my
le samsamend to She Livery that thg.agdamma amhvn
esisasi on my part should be dispensed wlth—a
• of ompect to thet enlighteued and independent tautly
I hive at all times considered dee from a Candidate;
igheagh I ins !btu be relieved from Lids mark of alien-
•sysstf, the members of my family will most cordially
with my friend,' In this service; aad I hale only
sa thst shoald their united exertions be crowned with
wog, mr best epergith will constantly be directed to the
Agthldisthulte of move high duties which the vast and
ideal* interests of this great Coneuercial Community 'le-
wdest Mods of its Representative.
i I have the honour to be. Gentlemen.
Your faithfel and devuteul servant,
W. CI: ITN.

Tl PUBLIC and most numerous MEETING
♦ LP/ERYM KN. 111ERCHeiTS, BANKERS,
111r4WWERIS. TR IDERS. aaJ others. convesed by
Iloollslbessa. held at the London Tavern, Blebopsitte-
lied.ibls 10th day of Febrear).
WILLI %It MINN IND. Esq. 11. P. in the Chair.
I I.

A by Sir C. S. Hester. dart.--Seconded by Mr.
AgitAtkias.—itesoised unanimously, That this by
with the highest sense of the long and faith-
IMMO of Sir Wis. Curtis, Hart. as one of the Repro-
Mika of the City of Loudon, for its successive Perlis-
rwhich period he has been moat assiduous sad
promoting to Commercial Prosperity of the Me-
issiving a tutest and stiremittwl attention to the
isteretts tif uis Coestiteents. ;ad in facilitating the in-
*Nurse and good understaadlss which should ever subsist
knees die trot City of the Empire ands British House of
ileasess.
illpie L limed by George Blackman, I.:m.—Seco.rthtlity Sir
never, dart.—Resolved unsnimously., at it le
• this Meetieg, Oat the diesiti and best ie-
. Uilliui
City of London require that alb Itopreventa-
Amid ss be Citizens of high Commercial

V'iond.by
•ri4l

to offer Aimee4l' as else of toe Csodidates to re-
the of !misdate le Parllsment it the muting
11:'geti ut. sad pledges Itself to use its indi•idual In-
nl exertion to secure the rotura of the lloooorable

L Mowed by Sir Charles Flower. Bart.—Seconded by Mir
Nile Bas agra.—ltesnited amanimouslv. That this Meet-
* snakes to testify is a particular manner its respect fur
SW.. Curtis, earnestly aad respectfully recommend to
art Livery that the arduous duties of a personal canvass oa
spat should lie dispensed with.
I. Moved by Wm. Ward. Req.—Seconded by Sir M./nov-
a—Resell ed aaamimouslc, That ■ deputation, consisting
die Chairman aisia Sir CI S. Hunter. Sir Charles Flower.
lit Alderman %tipsy. Mr. Aldern:nn Atkins. and J. Hall.
wait upon sir Inrtha ills, and commuai-
r#MUa tee foregoing liesolutiidis.
The Deputation hawing conspii,l therewith, the Chairman
*limited to the Meeting tnat Sir Wm. Curtis had espressad
*Sdf to the following effect:—

Old Soak Sea-Hesse, Thursday, Feb. 10. MVO.
This distinguished and unprece•lented mark of the favour
{se (Aloe -citizens, evinced this day, cannot but he moat
httering and gratifying to me ; It is indeed a proud
whimsy that my humble evertions have wet with their ap-
rsiwticia. If I were to consult coy own feelings alone, I
will frukly confess that I siwotiii not again offer myself as
Candidate for the arduous situation of a itepreseutative
f the City of Loudon in Pei situation which, truin
the serious and complicated interests it involves, and which
'in constant attention and care, becomes one of the
sresuisi responsibility. I Lin sensible, however. that I have
t hitter and more imports nt tints to perform. superior to any
pirseaal considerations of my own, and I cannot hesitate to
wee forward at the call of so numerous aml so highly re-
IPethhir a budy of the Livery of London, as are this day

T. am. fientlen3en. is that of the City of London—in
hl elate I have laboured thirty-five years as an Alderman.
ell twenty-seven years as your Representative. and I will
, ela Inn shrink from ht!'illlng my duty to the utmost of my
Alight maintaining it.-8, your Rey°lotions, I observe
,_
.llwr seal and kind attachment hay* indueed you to ne-
w,* the arduous duty of canvassing for me, thereby
„_ll/111 se this (under any other eircumytance4) necessary
rT"ilii duty I have ever considered due from a Can-
e: an/although I mac be thus personal!) relieved from
taSlitely respeets to tar Livery individually. the mambos
fg ay homily will eor.iitil% co-oiierete urns your Committee
gier:oviag this respectful attention to that independent

..!'• Moved by Sir Charles Price, Bart.-11nrouried by Sir
wnnsia Imishioa.—Resolved tinaalmousiv.Tiott the Thanks
, t.,.. Meeting are heret,% Kirin to Sir 'William Curtis, for
se expression of his sentiments, as reported by Ens Chair-
. god the readiness with which he has complied with its
Miles.

et:Moved by Mr. Alaertnan %'l.llm—Seconded by Sir
'4l Prier' Bart.—Resolted unanimously. That this
les:
MI do form itself into a ( crunitter for conducting the
torsion of Sir William Cnrtis. a nil meet daily at the Loudon
?but That William Monolog. Hay. M.P. ba Chairman.
re Jolts Hall. Esq. Deputy Lhairman`of the same. That
ii_eftilmithre be an upon one. and all friends of the lion.
roaet cle•iroug of promoting his return. are invited to join
sot to-opetatauith the same.

[nye,' by Mir l';•arles Price. Bart —Seconded by sir
naidl, • Bunter, Bart.—Resolved unanimoush. That the
Calm of this Meeting are due. and are hereby given to
theeitbait. nu m. fur his able and judicious cutult.ct in the
Moved by Thomas Pitvnder. Emi.—Seconded by John
I.7.liter. reg.—Resolved 'unanimously. That the proceed-
's " this Niertiug b hi' bed ill the Morning aid
tsnlatt Papers. Pu
B. The Committee a iil sit daily et the London Tatters).
"41 II esioneannications relating to the Election are re-
Lisslit4 to be made to the Chairman or Deputy Chairman of
••• Mae.

AIM

arDNEY died me she arifete II"

fur Cori eel ieformathou ttttr ass sllpd riot, in dis-
h% Illeetioe of tie Lord Mayor, at the Guild-
'ha *don, en Mith••lin•Fdlly last. This was the
general complaint. On the part of his aegis. he was
Mo ladmilt, that they were exercising the right possessed
by that le common with all the Livery's's!' of the City
of London int the occasion, when the Livery were sum-
Nosed on that day. It would be necessary for hint to
submit, that whatever opinion might be tossed as to the
, ;banner in which they ezen•inad that right, yet if their
eenduct was in pursuance of the right, the Court would
pease liefore they called upon theni by criminal infor-
mation to answer fur their condact ; fur, indeed. if they
wee, to lie held criminally liable for the part they acted
onlhritith equal propriety might it be said that
ithetional the other party was alike reprehensible.
ieseasi7mTetta.9l violent* and vociferatioa marked
asell4mnour, sad the same illegality might he im-
puted to ‘sn, as that for which those gentlensee were
now called epee to answer. Not supposing there were
a doubt as to the legality of the defendant's conduct,
still if he (Mr. D.) could chew that they were boars fide
in the exercise of what they honestly and conacieutiouly
believed to be their right, and doing nothing, in the
general, bat what they thought to be a proper assertion
of theft privileges, the Court would not very narrowly
scan what was done in an assembly of 4,000 people met
togethrir is a very small plan, and composed of per-
sons lawfully assembled, although such conduct might
he considered extremely violent and improper in a Court
of Justice, or place of deliberate and temperate discus-
sion. world be the general course he should have
to pursue in relieving these Gentlemen from the pressure
of this application. If It became necessary, he should
enter into an examination of the affidavits, on both
sides, so far as they affected his clients, but also in
some degree as they affected all the defendants, with
respect to the charge of concert in this transaction.
stn to the right claimed of discussing other matters than
what related to the election of the Lord Mayor on Mi-
chaelmas-day, the affidavit of Mr. Henry Wooolthorpe
was one upon which the defendants mainly relied. I.'pon
this part of the subject the Recorder wade no affidavit,
nor did the Common Serjeaut. It was true the latter
was a deponent on this occasion, but his affidavit was
perfectly silent as to the proceed:Jigs which took place
generally at the e'er:ion of a Lord Mayor. The Town
Clerk,•in his affidavit, stated a variety of instances in
which,'on similar occasions, the Common Hall had pro-
ended not merely to tile election of the parties isefure
thew, hue brought under consideration public affairs,
not immediately connected with any corporation affairs.
Tliistienileman had been in the office of roan Clerk fur
:le years, and the instances Ise referred to were to be Maud
is the Records and Charters of the City. The first in-
stance to •which lee referred was on the 24th of June,
1774, the. occasiou of the election of Sheriffs and other
(ltlicers, when a question was solemnly propounded to
Mr. Iterueder Given, *limber in soicis an occasion the
Livery had a right to enter into tlee consideration of
public. • aces, though the 4,lonesnon Dail was dot
eve Cor strerpittse ? To this question
t:ie reed 11reoroler answe , after most 1041 sate deli-
berating, that that Livery had an undoubted right to take
public grievances into their consideration on and. occa-
sion.. Certainly he (Mr. I).) approached, with great
diffidence, the consideration of so interesting a question,
because it involved the right of the subjects of this eonn-
try to petition t lie 'throne or either House of Parliameut
for a redress of their grievances: but he ventured to
state it. as a notorious truth, which could not be contro-
verted, that the Livery of London in Common Hall assein-
Med, being the legal and constitutional organ for declar-
ing theopi Mous which might be formed by the inhabitants
of the first city in the empire, hail an undoubted right,
at all times, to discuss public grivances—it was a right
whirl they hail at all times claimed and exercised, mud
It was a privilege known and recognized by the laws
and Constitution of the realm. The usual mode of ex-
ercising this right, undoubtedly hail berm, for a certain
number of eitizeiis to present an address or requisition
to the Lord Mayor, stating their virus of public affairs,
and calling. upon 11411 to soon a Hall for the parpose
of slisenitaion—a tall with whirl, every Lord Mayor, also
has had a due regard for the welfare and peace of his
fellow-citizens, has never failed to comply. In the roil-
sideratien of the present rase, it was necessary to remind
tier Comet, under what eircnusstances this supposed
breach d the decorum of the I ttttt mon Hall its question
had oecegretL It was positively swore tie it Mr. Aid. At-
kins, titillate Lord Al ayttr, had been repeatedly !Ailed npon
by lois ftilow-citizens, in the most respectful manner, to
convenes Common Hall, for the perm- of taking into
consideration the then recent transactions of 31ancliester,
in which the public feeling of the whole empire was deeply
interested; but that the Worthy Alderman misititelv
refused to r ply with the reasonable request of Lie
fellow-citizens./ Anpposing the Lord Al trot to have a
right to exereisli the power of refusal in /ouch it CAW, he
would ask, in what eon Wiwi were the citizens of Lon-
don ? Where were their boasted privileges —their rights
as citizens of a great and imperial city ? They were
hut a pause, and it wall a 'mockery to call then free
citizens, if a Lord Mayor, of his own mere will -and
pleasure, could stifle the voice of his fel:ow-citisens.
the subject proposed fore discussion 011 that invasion
was a fit and proper une for the deliberation' of the
I'oo ttttt on Hall. Supposing, them **loud praciice to
be that which he stated, and whirls N coufirmed by
the affidavit of the Town Clerk, be tetvold ref-r the
(*wort to a current of antborities awl instances in which
it 0.4% manifest. that such transactions as were the
sosiojert of the present pheetniing Itml never been
'llene-lit it ground fior criminal prosecteion, where it
appeared *at the suppooted of ha acted improper-
le noel irregularly in the o xercise of their norms, awlplop assertion of tGeir privilefro. The la-arm-if enamel
then referred to the ease of t rionvis Jenks, 7 Statelriels,
by Hargrave, 468. 'flint person, a liurn-tiraper tot lame
don, had' en, in the year 1616, sent to Newgate ('sr a
W %ent d .u.sion at Common Hall, as to the propriety
suotiussoing a new Parliament. After malting various
attempts Habeas Corpus to procure his lilwration in
vain, he was at length discharged by the Judges at the
(lid Hailefeno attempt haring ever been made to call him
to legal account for his conduct. At this very lime Lord
Chief J slice Jeffries was the Common Serjeent, arts, it
was a curious fact, that that Jisolge•s name was more or
Ins intimately connected in every transaction at that rr
when the citisetis of London claimed and asserted
their privileges arainst the attempts to abri Ige their
rights. hop the same purpose, of showing :hat a liberal
ininlrenee had been always allowed to -roe c Inset of
priweedings in Common 11;11 and Corporate Meeting-.
he referred to Pilkington r. Shute, '3 Sr. Tr. Gm, en
and to the King e. Cleverell, at the same period,
whets, in the latter ease, Jeffries, C bief Justice, said to a
Mr. Fairwell, one of the Counsel who argued the rase,
Yon are so full yon could not be quiet until you were
mot. Snrele von •hink you are at rions.:ton Halt, At