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to the other; and I cannot help repeating that it is my opinion if we were properly represented in Parliament, which can only be by means of a Parliamentary Reform, that some salutary regulation, some modification would be adopted in respect to Tythes; as the present mode of taking them in kind, is a complete bar to the cultivation of a great deal of poor, waste ground, and often most shocking to humanity. I was lately in Essex, where the parson having some Glebe land, would not come to any composition with his parishioners, except for the small Tythes, and those, the farmer and his wife told me, they compounded for at an enormous price, for that they could not bear the moaning of the calves, when deprived of every tenth meal of milk.-As my only object in addressing you was to explain my reasons for connecting the rise of the Godalmin Tythes with a Reform of Parliament, I shall abstain from entering into your arguments at lengh, but in justice to myself I must observe, that I never meant to complain of the highway rate, or the rise in labourers wages, but to shew the various outgoings on a farm, some necessary and unavoidable; and that therefore any unnecessary burthen should not be laid on the farmer, as it must inevitably produce a rise in the price of corn, and thereby materially affect the public good.. You would oblige me by giving my letter a place in your Register, as I shall think it necessary to send a copy of this defence of my conduct, to those who had my letter concerning the Tythes.

I am, Sir,

Your obedient servant

and sincere admirer HENRY HARE TOWNSEND.

PROCEEDINGS of a SPECIAL COURT of COM

MON COUNCIL of the CITY of LONDON. Held in consequence of a Notice of a MOTION given by MR JAMES DIXON,

to RESCIND the VOTE of THANKS to Col. WARDLE, passed on the oth of April last.-(Continued from p. 223.) [Mr. Waithman, in continuation.] But it has been asked, with an air of triumph over Mr. Wardle, how he comes to complain of corruption in the Sale of Seats in the House of Commons?-Whether he did not purchase his own seat there? To which fanswer, I do not know how that fact stands; but this I know, that Mr. Wardle, like any other individual, has a right to

shift for himself in that respect, while the market, I say, while the market remains open. I have had fifty scats offered to myself in that assembly, upon certain terms: the very individual who is stated to have negociated that concern under my lord Sligo, told me he would procure me a scat, if I would procure for him a writership under the East India Company. These are indeed abuses, and they are monstrous abuses, but they are only few of the abuses under which this country labours, and which bear hard on the honest part of the community in which we live. Since they have been proved to exist; since they are admitted to exist, and are avowed by those who feed upon them, will any man lay his hand upon his heart, and say those things ought to con tinue; or say, that he who exposes them is unworthy of the thanks of the public. Will any man say that a great saving may not be made in the public expenditure of this country, by the introduction of a little more common honesty into some of the departments of the state? I believe what Mr. Wardle has said upon that subject, that the savings would be very nearly to the amount of the Income Tax.

Mr. TADDY admitted that others had known, and had talked of "abuses," but nobody had acted so efficiently towards their prevention, as well as Mr. Wardle, and therefore that gentleman was a very fit subject for the thanks of the public.

Mr. Alderman ATKINS wished the Resolution of the worthy Alderman to be withdrawn, because it embraced matter for the discussion of which the Court was not convened. He had no idea of rescinding the Vote of Thanks to Mr. Wardle, for nothing could be more unjust to that gentleman, than to condemu him before he has been heard. Mr. Wardle, said the worthy Alderman, has committed himself to the public over and over again, that he stated to his prejudice, and upon which will prove that the matter which has been the verdict of a jury has been obtained Until that be ascertained, we should sus against him, has been the effect of perjury. pend our judgments; meanwhile, do not let us withdraw from Mr. Wardle the Thanks we have given to him for his exertions in the service of the public. That would be treating ourselves, as well as Mr. Wardle, unhandsomely. If we had been unfortunate enough to place our esteem or bestow our bounty upon an unworthy object, that might be reason why

parts of the expenditure of this country, the particulars of which I am not now discussing; they are topics which we are not called upon to discuss; and the Court will pardon me if I doubt its competence to such a discussion. The great objection I have to it is, that we were not brought here for this purpose; if we pass this Resolution, it will appear to the public that we were brought together for one purpose, and have been entrapped into another. I came here to enter my protest against rescinding the Vote of Thanks to Mr. Wardle, but I must likewise protest against the Resolution now proposed.

Mr. MILLER said, that taking the whole of the conduct of Mr. Wardle subsequent to the Vote of Thanks of this Court to him, in the light of debtor and creditor with the public, there was a very large balance in favour of that gentleman.

we might regret our mistake, without being a reason for our retracting the donation. I therefore wish, by all means, that we should not rescind the Vote of Thanks which we have passed in favour of Mr. Wardle; but I cannot help recommending, most strongly, to the worthy Alderman to withdraw his proposition, because it embraces matter, for the discussion of which we were not, this day, convened; it tends to cast, unnecessarily for the present purpose at least, reflections on his majesty's ministers. We are now called upon to vote charges against persons who have not been heard upon them before us; charges upon which we ourselves have had no time for consi- Mr. CLARK admitted that the Vote of deration. We are called upon to come to Thanks to Mr. Wardle ought not to be a conclusion before we have had time to shaken, but thought the present Resoludeliberate upon a great deal of criminating|tion went to approve of the whole of his matter. Surely we should pause before subsequent conduct, a proposition to which we come to such a conclusion: speaking he did not assent, and therefore wished it for myself, I have no hesitation in con- to be withdrawn. fessing that my ability is not equal to the task of proceeding with that celerity which is proposed by this Resolution, to censure in the mass ministers who have not been heard before us. Besides, it is not the purpose for which this Court is professedly assembled; we did not come here to-day, to pronounce philippics upon the king's ministers, but to consider the propriety or the impropriety of rescinding our own vote respecting an individual. And now we are called upon, by a side wind, to Vote quite another matter. Indeed, my Lord Mayor, I cannot help asking, whether this is not a trap laid to catch the votes of gentlemen who were not aware of it? This seems to me to be running riot with things. I am ready to say, that the Vote of Thanks to Mr. Wardle ought not to be rescinded on account of any thing that has yet transpired; but I cannot assent to the proposition which goes the length of extending our thanks to that gentleman on account of his statement in the House of Commons, of matter in which there may be a saving in the public expenditure, because that matter is not, at present, before us, nor does it foliow that every saving is economy. If you diminish your establishment, you may diminish your expence, but it does not thence necessarily follow that you improve your condition. If I put down my carriage, which, as far as regards myself, I might doy because, thank God, I can walk, I might save some expence, but I do not think it would improve the condition of my family; and so it may be with some

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Mr. MAWMAN contended that this Resolution was such as ought not to be sanctioned by this Corporation under the present circumstances. He never would give his support to a Resolution so drawn ; the sense he had of the dignity of the Corporation; the regard he had for his own individual character, forbade his assent to it. He objected to the manner in which it was brought forward; it came by surprize; notice should have been given of it manfully, that the Court might have been convened for the purpose of discussing it; this was indirect and insidious; he must protest against it as an individual.

Mr. Alderman GOODBEHERE said, that the general opinion was now manifest as to the Vote of Thanks passed in favour of Mr. Wardle; that such Vote ought not to be rescinded; but, said the worthy Alderman, I have assigned reasons to this Court for thinking that it has not gone the whole length which it ought to go in favour of Mr. Wardle, for I have stated facts to the credit of Mr. Wardle, which he stated in the House of Commons to the advantage of the public, which have been verified by subsequent events, and from his conduct on that occasion, several beneficial alterations have already taken place, and the consideration of which, I say, calls on us to mark his conduct with additional

was to move an Amendment upon this Resolution, which was to move, that after the word "That," all be left out, and the following be inserted in their stead :"This Court doth not see any reason for rescinding the Vote, passed on the 6th of April last, of Thanks and Gratitude to Gwyllym Lloyd Wardle, esq.”

approbation. [Bravo, bravo! Silence, si-justice; let us encourage him to perselence!] I must, therefore, persist in my verance in his object. I therefore, with Amendment, notwithstanding the dis- that view, shall persist in recommending couragement of my worthy friend upon my proposition to the adoption of this the floor (Mr. Mawman); I esteem his Court. Here the worthy Alderman's friendship highly, and I should wish to Amendment was read by the Recorder, as court his assistance. He would, at any already stated. ume, be a very useful auxiliary to any Mr. MAWMAN then expressed his astonone whose measure he should be pleased ishment that the worthy Alderman perto espouse; but if I cannot have his valu-sisted in what appeared to him (and, he able aid, I must go on as well as I am able, hoped, to the Court) a very extraordinary without it; and he must allow me to course of proceeding. All that he had differ from him in opinion upon the pre-left to do, with a view of counteracting it. sent occasion, and to say, that it is my privilege to decide on what course I shall take now, without dictation from any quarter, however respectable that may be; and I am so well convinced of the propriety of what I now offer, that I not only trust the Court will adopt it, but I persuade myself, that if I had the pleasure of meeting that worthy member, and of discussing this matter with him in private, I should have obtained his assent to it. [No, no, said Mr. Mawman.] Mr. Alderman Goodbehere proceeded--I still retain my opinion; for I know his feelings, and I know how grateful he is to those who serve the public, and we all know that gratitude in good men is a feeling that will not bear compression; it is of spontaneous growth as well as of expansive nature, and delights in exercise. Then would my worthy friend wish to check its growth, or destroy its lustre? No. There is a beauty in deserved praise, which I am confident my worthy friend would not diminish, and yet he now appears to wish to do away the effect of those praises which Mr. Wardle has so well deserved, and this would have a very unfavourable effect on the minds of those who are not much in the habit of thinking for themselves, unless we took care to counteract it; I say, then, that Mr. Wardle stands in a situation peculiar to himself; that he came forward, and, for a while, stood alone; had no party, and hardly an individual to support him, in his endeavour to expose corruption in the management of our public affairs. I say that he has had no other reward for all his labours, successful as they were, than the approbation and esteem of the public. He has had neither place nor pension, nor the reversion, nor the promise of a reversion, of place or pension. He therefore stands before us with peculiar claims to our countenance and support; he has indeed high claims, not only on our generosity, but on our

Mr. SAMUEL DIXON said, that this Amendment was so plain, that the meanest capacity in the Court must understand it, and it had his assent in preference to that which it was its object to supersede; a proposition so long, so complex, so bewildered, such a farrago, that he doubted whether any body understood it thorough ly; and, at the same time, foreign to the avowed purpose for which the Court met. The purpose for which the Members of the Corporation came together was, to see whether there was, or was not, ground for rescinding the Vote of Thanks to Mr. War dle; and this proposition was, under pre tence of an Amendment to another pro position, to censure the whole of the Au ministration of the Country under the head of a string of assertions, unconnected with the avowed purpose of the Court.

Mr.WAITHMAN said, that the last Amend ment, under pretence of confining the Court to the purpose of its Meeting, was much more deserving of the title of a tra than the proposition of his worthy frien. Mr. Ald. Goodbehere, for the real purpose of the Meeting of the Court was, to canvass the conduct of Mr. Wardle sincr the Vote of Thanks. The Court had do so, and it appeared, in the course of tha inquiry, upon a recital of facts, that suct conduct had been highly meritorious and beneficial to the public; and the tendency of the Resolution was to express that feeling. The tendency of the Amendment was, to prevent that justice being done to Mr. Wardle, under pretence of friendship to him. I have often been charged, sai he, with being a party man, but now I am

charged with being of no party. Thus it, look for any advantage by a change of

men: That there must be a change of system. This was the doctrine of Mr. Fox himself; doctrine founded in true wisdom, and which, thank Heaven! was gaining ground every day; doctrine once maintained, even by Mr. Pitt.

The question was then put, and declared by the Lord Mayor, upon a shew of hands, to have been carried in favour of Mr. Mawman's Amendment; but, on a division, the numbers were-For the Amendment, 1 Alderman, 51 Commoners, 2 Tellers-54. For Ald. Goodbehere's Resolutions, 3 Aldermen, 54 Commoners, 2 Tellers-59.-Majority, 5.

is that we have seen party men make a
noise about corruption, until they can
create discontent enough in the Public to
turn out an Administration, and get them-
selves into it, and then they are contented,
while the people are no better off than
before; but if you attack Corruption it-
self, instead of only attacking those who
feed upon it, then you have all parties
upon your back, because you are destroy-
ing their food. Thus have I met my friend
(Mr. Mawman) at the Whig Club (for it
is not every member of the Whig Club
that is a Whig, believe me)-I am a Whig
certainly; I was taught in the Whig
School principles which seated his Ma-
jesty's illustrious House upon the Throne
of these realms. But I have met men at
the Whig Club, who came there to follow Austrian
Charles Fox, and would follow any Fox,
if they thought they would get any thing
by it; but who would not follow you an
inch on the road to destroy corruption it-
self, although they would cry out against
the thing, for the sake of turning out those
who profited by it, and get in themselves.
Nay, they would oppose you, as they do
sometimes in the House of Commons, with
professed friendship and real hatred, by
the trick of an amendment upon your
amendment. I care not for these half-
and-half men; nay, I dislike them more,
because more ungenerous than an open
enemy. [Burst of applause.]

OFFICIAL PAPERS.

Official Account of the Baule of
Wagram, (no date.)

By the 4th, the enemy had completed the new bridge from the Isle of Lobau across a branch of the Danube, in which he was much favoured both by the ground and by an immense number of artillery. The imperial and royal army was drawn up on the eminence behind the rivulet Russ, extending its right wing beyond Sussessbrun and Kagran, and its left beyond Markgrafen-Neusiedel. The centre was posted near Wagram. The enemy having, in the night between the 4th and 5th, crossed over to the left bank of the Danube, large Mr. Alderman WooD did not scruple to masses appeared very early in the mornsay that Mr. Wardle had actually saved ing, in the plain. Not long before noon this country, and it was impossible suffi- he attacked the line of the imperial and ciently to repay him; but for Mr. War-royal army in all its points. But his greatdle's exertions, the Duke of York would est exertions were directed against the have been, at this moment, Commander in Chief, and at the head of the Expedition! and then!-I say, said the worthy Alderman, Mr. Wardle has saved this country.

centre, probably with a view of forcing it. His attacks, though repeated with the greatest impetuosity, and supported by an immense number of ordnance, among which were many batteries of the heaviest Mr. MAWMAN had no hesitation in say- calibre, proved this day abortive.-The ing that the present Administration ought firing ceased at ten o'clock at night. The to be changed; but he saw great danger imperial and royal army had, on the whole in telling the people that they were to of its line, maintained its positions, and look for no good from any other party, made a considerable number of prisoners, because it was, in effect, telling the peo- among whom there are many Saxon, ple that they ought to take the govern- Badenese, Italian, and Portuguese soldiers. ment into their own hands. Who, and On the 6th, in the morning, at four what was Mr. Wardle, that he should be o'clock, the enemy renewed his attacks looked up to as the only human being who with still larger masses, and greater imcould save this country? He saw in him petuosity than on the preceding day. no such transcendant virtue. Even thus his efforts against the centre Mr. WAITHMAN Contended for the pro-and the right wing were attended with so priety of inculcating in the minds of the people, this maxim, That they are not to

little success, that the latter had even gained such advantages as to justify the

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expectation of the completest victory, when the enemy, with fresh divisions and great superiority, suddenly penetrated the left wing near Markgrafen-Neusiedel, and succeeded, after an obstinate engagement, in compelling it to retreat. One of the wings of the royal and imperial army being there by exposed, his imperial and royal high ness the Archduke and Generalissimo has directed the retreat by the way of Stammersdorf and the Bisamhill, in consequence of which the army occupies a new position, covering the communication with Bohe-edition extends; that where I have inmia. This retreat was made good in the serted fuller and better reports of any Cases, best order and without material loss. In or of any parts of Cases, the text of the the centre, as well as in the right wing, old Edition will nevertheless be retained; the enemy suffered very considerably. and that the new matter will be distinSix thousand prisoners were taken from guished in a manner not to be mistaken, him, among whom are three generals. and be distinctly pointed out in the Table He likewise lost twelve cannon, with am- of Contents to each volume.-In the last munition, and was in every respect so much Volume will also be given what I call a Paweakened, that he has not attempted since RALLEL INDEX, Consisting of two Columns; to pursue the imperial and royal army in the first of which will be inserted, in further. Gen. Lasalle is among his dead. their order, the numbers of all the Pages -The imperial and royal army has also to in the last Edition; and in the other, corlament a great loss. In gen. Nordmann respondent figures shewing in what Voit has been deprived of a very eminent lume and Page of the present Work the officer. Generals Peter Vecsai, D'Aspre, contents of each Page of the last Edition and Vukassiovitz, are without hopes of re- will be found; by means of which Pa covery. Generals prince of Hesse-Hom-rallel Index, the place in this Work of any burgh, Stutterheim, and Paar, are less passage occurring in the last Edition, may severely wounded. His imperial highness be ascertained with nearly as much ease the Generalissimo himself, and prince and expedition as if the paging of that Lichtenstein, received slight musket-Edition were preserved; which, it is obwounds, which, however, will not be vious, would be perfectly impracticable, attended with any dangerous consequences. considering the valuable mass of new matIt remains to be observed, that the whole ter to be introduced. army has again afforded such proofs of courage and perseverance, as not to cloud our future prospects with any future apprehensions.

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