Incidents and Marriages in and near London. 



1816.] 



ten, before it be too late, to tliose repeated 

 prayers of tlie people for being restoied to 

 their undoubted right of choosing their 

 o-wu Representatives. 



That a petition founded on the foregoing 

 resolutions be now read. 



That the petition now read be adopted 

 and sinned, on behalf of this meeting, by 

 tke high bailiff and 12 inhabitant house- 

 holders; and that the same be, as early as 

 possible, presented to the Prince Regent 

 by the high bailitf, accompanied by our re- 

 presentatives Sir F. Burdett and Lord 

 Cochrane. 



That the thanks of this meeting are cor- 

 dially rendered to our representative, Sir 

 Francis Burdett, for his steady adherence 

 to the true principles of the constitution, 

 and his resistance to political abuses. 



That our thanks are given to Lord Coch- 

 rane for his parliamentary conduct, and 

 particularly for his having, at a meeting 

 held at the City of Lendon Tavern, on the 

 17th of July last (his Royal Highness the 

 Uiike of York in the chair), exposed and 

 defeated the insiduons attempt then and 

 there made, falsely to attribute the present 

 sutferiugs of the nation to a mere transition 

 from war to peace. 



That the thanks of this meeting are dne 

 and are hereby given to Majoi- Cartwright, 

 for his more than 39 years steady and per- 

 severing exertions in the cause of the 

 people. 



Vauahan, Johnson, and some other 

 thief-takfrs and police-officers, were in 

 the course of the month convicted of ex- 

 citing men to commit crimes, and for 

 charging crimes on innocent persons, for 

 tlie sake of rewards paid to suborn their 

 evidence. 



A society has been established for pro- 

 moting reform and religious knowledge 

 among the prisoners in Newnate. The 

 means employed are principally in teach- 

 ing the prisoners to read the Scriptures j 

 to accomplish which, rewards of money, 

 biead, and meat, are given. Ninety per- 

 sons are at this time receiving instruction. 



Opposed to the preceding, as encou- 

 raging a spirit of riot and disaffection, 

 Me niention with extreme morlilication 

 tlie novel privations imposed on the un- 

 happy persons confined in tke Njw Deb- 

 tors' Piisiin, Cripplegute, by which it is at- 

 Icpipted to place that third debtors' prison 

 Hpder the regipicn of a prison for criminals; 

 and uselessly foicc the poor debtors to 

 pay the fees of an Habeas, to cct them- 

 selves remnvc<l to Lord Kltenboroiigh's 

 and Sir V. Gii)bs' more liber.illy I'onduct- 

 ed prisons uf the Hin|;'s Bench and 

 Fleet. 



Considerable agitation has prevailed 

 within the month in consequence of an 

 aiieuipl to throw on the pdor and acci- 

 dental holders, the loss of the immense 

 niiuutity of plan) silver in circulation, 



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But at length it has been determined to 

 exchange the whole at the Bank for new 

 coinage, though the notices, by a whimsical 

 Bull, speak of the plain coin of the 

 realm. 



An attempt was made within the month 

 to suppress the Richmond steam yatch, oa 

 the ground of its interference w'ith some 

 antiquated rights of the Waterman's Com- 

 pany, but without success. Several steam 

 vessels now pass on the Thames between 

 Richmond and Margate, and the old Mar. 

 gate hoys are actually laid aside. 



MARRIED. 



The Right Hon. J. U. Frere, to Lady 

 Errol, of St. James's-place. 



William Cowburn, esq. of Tavistock- 

 square, to Miss Catherine Rebecca Smith, 

 of Meopliani. 



John Perrell, esq. of King-street, Cheap, 

 side, to Miss Beuzeville, of Woodford. 



Edw. Bullock, esq. of Park-place, Lit- 

 tle Chelsea, to Miss Rebecca Harriet Gos- 

 pell, of Battersea. 



The Rev. J. Hatchard, A.B. to Miss 

 Ann Alton, of Dartmouth-street. 



At St. IMartin's, Ludgate, Geo. Sherlock, 

 esq. to Miss Sarah Gould. 



Mr. T. L. Stanger Leathes, of Kenning- 

 fon, to Miss Charlotte Anne Browne, of 

 Oakingham. 



Mr. Webb, of Walworth, to Miss Ave- 

 ry, of Heiileyupon-Thames. 



F. S. Mills, esq. of Lower Grosvenor- 

 place, to Miss Caroline Butticaz, of 

 Harrow. 



John Wilkins Williamson, esq. of Kep- 

 pel-street, Russell-square, to Miss Henriet. 

 ta Anne Shum, of Bedford-square. 



The Rev. Orfear William Kilvington, 

 vicar of Biignall, to the Hon. Mary Mar- 

 garet Napier. 



The Rev. T. S. Benuett, to Miss 

 Frances Wilcock. 



Mr. J. Mott, of Kingsland-road, to Eliza, 

 the second daughter of S. Thompson, esq. 

 of Plaistow; when, as Unitarian Dissen. 

 ters, and members of the church of God, 

 called " the Free-thinking Christians," 

 they presented to the minister a protest 

 ajrainst the religions part of the marriage 

 ceremony, as performed by a priest, under 

 the author ty of the established church, and 

 in the name of the Trinity. 



Lord W. Fitzroy, to Miss Georgiana 

 Rallies, of Upper Grosvenor-street. 



The Hon. J. Peiccval, to Lady Eliz, 

 Anne Biudeiiell. 



At St. Margaret's, Westminster, Robert 

 Geo. Sparrow, esq. to Miss Pennington. 



The Rev. J. H. Stewart, M.A. of 

 Percy-chapel, to Miss Mary Dale, of 

 Rose-bank. 



Mr. Tho. Ewbank, of Wood-street, to 

 JIiss Maiy Harrison, of Barnardcastle. 



J. Miiiclun, esq. of the Inner Temple, to 

 Miss Jessie Innes. of Ley ton. 



Mr. Grcgson, of Charles-street, Oros. 

 N n venon. 



