The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1811-03-26
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CONTINUATION
Of extracts, by tate arrivals at .Morfolk
and Wezu- York.
LONDON, January 10.
CITY BUSINESS.

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CITY BUSINESS.
Yesterday the Lord M ,yor held Com
mon Hail, which was the hrst at which the
present Chief Magistrate had presided
AT one O'clock his Lordship, accompanied
by Aldermen CuitIs, Lombe, Atkins, rice,
Shaw. and the NO sheriffs. (Aldermen p o.
mer and Goodbehere) appeared OH the Hus-
tiBgs.
the Livery, and addressed them as fol
lows
Gentlemen of tEe LtOery--I have the
honor of meeting on here to-day, for the LIST IN
my presen situation, in consequence of d re :
QUESTION having been presumed to me, sign
Ell Dy several most respectable Members OF
the Livery, desiring me TO convene you at
an early day: l will place that Requisite
on IN ne hands of the proper Officer, who
viii read it you.
The Reanisiton was then read by the Cri-
er, and was as follows: G. We, the under
signed, Members uf he Livery OF London,
rogue 81 your Lord ship woLid, at as early a
day as possible, Cal Common Han, TO-
the purpose of adopting suci. measures as
may appear necessary, respecting hc most
con tituji nal means OF amply and efficient
ly supplying, i'll the person of his Royal
Highnrss the Prince OF Wa.es, h attic lug
incapacity of ms Nj .jesi, to discharge the
necessary duties of h regal Office" The
requisiton was signed ~ Mr. WaItham. Mr..
QGln Mr. Favell, and several y hers oil tAe
Livery.
M Waitham then came foI W ard amidst
long applauses, and addressed the Livery
He observed, that after the various discus
SONS which the subject Ut their present
MEETING had under gone in both IL use 5,
namel, the appointing BY Bill. per On
as Regent 10 I'll up " The wan, of the regal
functions, now, most un oriunately for the
Country suspended by hi M jesty's melan-
choly Indsposilion," it would not, he con-
ceiyed, be necessary for him to use many
arguments to convince them, that there
ought TO be no restrictions laid on the Re-
gent. 1t would not be necessary for him to
Cite 10 them any precedent, as none which
he could quote would afford any new illus
ration OF the subject. 1t had been allowed
on all hands, in and Out OF PaIliamenJ that
III the history of the country there was no
exact precedent; it was also agreed. that
ali the powers and prerogatives vested in
the Executive Government, were vested in
il fol the benefit OF the people; and that
agreed, they had now onll to consider, whe-
tier, in the hands of an individual who was
20 exercise the functions of The crown. those
powers and prerogatives ought to be dimi-
nished IF restricted Il IfhLauSeS. )--fiin-
self, and those with whom he acted, had
been accused of Inconsistency, because they
row called for the exercise OF the royal pre-
negatives they were, however. guilty o.
~ inconsIstency-theyh had invariably con
tend for the just exercise OF the preroga-
tives OF the Crown, as warmly as they had
done for just representation of the people
in Parliament. The prerogative had some
times been abused, and the people had com
planned OF hat abuse but the Ministers of
the Crown were responsible to- Parliament
Tor their actions and if the House of Com
mons were the jus Representatives of the
People, twould act as a check upon MIN
iSte S, and thv preTogatVes could no be a.
bused, without being punished by Parla-
ment IL was rot the people who acted in
consistently but those who opposed them ;
and il any thing were wanting TO conviace
us what were the views OF those men, the
arguments used in the Common Council on
Eucsday--such arguments as had never
been heard since the Re Olution--were con-
Nilcing enough. IL was clear the people
respected the prerogatives CT the Crown (;
but il was equally clear, that hose persons,
by their professions to loyalty, i he'd to o.
Ver'urn the monai chy. 1t vas plain that
his Majesty had been made an Infamous <
unconstitutional use of by these men who,
as one of the Royal Dukes said, IN h.,
speech 10 the House of Peer, Che Duke of
SDs,ex,) instead of m king themselves a
shield for his Majesty, had made his Ma
jesly shield for them. (.4tfiause.) The
question, however, had been so fully dis
cussed already, that no pers n who had he
Least idea of our Cons tuition, could mis-.
take 1t for a minute. The present Minis
tors had, for three months, carried on Il c
Government without The a-sIslance of The
regai authority and in doing so. had yer Fl d
All which Tom Paine had written or preach
ed and they still wished to persuade us
that t0e Great Seal could do all the acts OF
the King x hat its assent although it hid
not a negative, could make an Act Of Par
lanent. These men were. indeed, the
Jacobins they mad described others to be-
these were the men who we're striving 70
Shew how long the Government could b,
Carried on without the Executive Now
they said, we want to place with the r
g,Ht that power which we contended th,
Sins ougLt not 70 have. II, however, saic