a8 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1797. 
increafe of public debt; an alarm- 
ing diminution of our trade and 
manufactures; an abridgment of 
our rights and privileges ; a fhame- 
ful profufion of our national wealth, 
by fubfidizing allies abroad, and 
fupporting a fyftem of corruption 
at home, to the deftruction of pub- 
lic credit—thus evincing a difpofi- 
tion to facrifice the blood, treafure, 
and liberties of the kingdom, in 
fupport of meafures repugnant to 
the principles of the conftitution, 
derogatory to the dignity and fafety 
of the King, and ineonfiftent with 
the happinefs of the people ;”” di- 
recting their reprefentatives in par- 
liament to move for an addrefs to 
the King, “ to difmifs his prefent 
miniiters, as the moft likely means 
of obtaining a fpeedy and perma- 
nent peace ;” and concluding with 
acenfure on the Lord Mayor, who, 
“by diffol¥ing the laft common 
hali on a frivolous and unfounded 
pretence of the irrelevance of the 
refolution which was moved to the 
occafion on which the hall was af- 
fembled, by refufing to convene 
another common hall, for all the 
purpofes fpecified on a like frivo- 
lous and unfounded pretence of 
the livery of London, not being a 
deliberative body; and, by con- 
vening the prefent common hall 
for purpofes fhort of thofe which 
are fpecified in the requifition, has 
violated the rights of the livery, 
has fuffered his politicalattachments 
to warp his official conduct, and 
proved himfelf to be utterly unde- 
ferving- of the confidence of his 
conftituents.”’ at) 
Thefe refolutions, having been 
carried by a large majority of the 
perfons prefent, were ordered to 
be publifhed once in all the newf- 
papers in Great Britain. 
13th. Tuefday laft, his Moft Se- 
rene Highnefs the Hereditary Prince | 
of Wirtemberg came to the apart- 
ments prepared for the reception 
of his Moft Serene Highnefs at St.’ 
James’s. 
14th. A dreadful fire broke out 
yefterday morning, at three o’clock, | 
at a tobacconift’s {hop in the High- 
ftreet, in the Borough, oppofite the 
Marfhalfea prifon, which raged with 
great fury for fome hours, and was 
at length, by the exertions of the 
firemen, got under with the lofs of . 
the Black Bull public-houfe, a pork- 
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fhop, a paftry-cook’s fhop, and a ~ 
mercer’s; befides doing confider- 
able mifchief to two rows of houfes, 
one in Maypole-alley, the other in 
Redcrofs-alley, both immediately 
adjacent. Verily happily no lives 
were loft. 
A fquadron under the command 
of Rear Admiral Curtis, arrived at 
St. Helen’s, from Torbay, and the 
crews of feveral of the fhips imme- 
diately declared themfelves in a 
ftate of mutiny, and fent feveral of 
their officers on fhore; but on being 
informed by the delegates of the 
Channel fleet that Government 
had complied with their demands, 
they returned to their duty tho- 
roughly fatisfied. — 
By the report of the Secret Com- 
mittee of the Irifh Houfe of Lords, 
it appears that the firft profcribed 
lift made out by the confpirators, 
contained the names of 30,000 per- 
fons, moft of whom were to be put 
to death ; and that a traitorous cor- 
refpondence has been carried on 
between the leaders of the United 
Irifhmen and the French govern- 
ment. 
The following article appears 
among the papers lately feized at 
Belfaft — 
Rerorrs 
