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and dominions. You are also in- 

 structed to support all motions 

 which have for their object inquiry 

 into the violation of the right of 

 petitioning — into the wasteful ex- 

 penditure of the public mone)' — 

 the correction of public abuses — 

 the abolition of all unnecessary 

 places and pensions — the shorten- 

 ing of the duration of parliaments, 

 and restoring them to their con- 

 stitutional purity and independ- 

 ence, as the only means of retriev- 

 ing our public affairs, and enabling 

 this country successfully to con- 

 tend against surrounding nations. 



VIII. Resolved unanimously, 

 That the sheriffs, attended by Mr. 

 Remembrancer, do forthwith wait 

 upon his majesty, and deliver into 

 his majesty's hand, in the name of 

 the lord mayor, aldermen, and li- 

 very of London, a fair copy of the 

 foregoing resolutions, signed by 

 the town clerk. 



IX. Resolved unanimously. 

 That the thanks of this meeting be 

 given to the right hon. the lord 

 mayor, for his independent beha- 

 viour upon all occasions, and par- 

 ticularly for his conduct this day. 



X. Resolved unanimously, That 

 the thanks of this meeting be 

 given to Sherifl" Wood, for his ge- 

 neral conduct, and for his liaving 

 requested an audience of his ma- 

 jesty, agreeable to the instructions 

 of this hall. 



Resolved unanimously. That 

 the resolutions of this day, toge- 

 ther with the petition agreed upon 

 on the 14th day of December last, 

 be signed by the town clerk, and 

 published in the morning papers. 



WOODTHORPE. 



City Address to his Majesty. — 

 The following is the address from 

 "the common hall, which was in- 



tended to be presented to the 

 king : 



*' To the king's most excellent 

 majesty in council. 

 " The humble address and petition 



of the lord mayor, aldermen, 



and livery of the cityofLondon, 



in common hall assembled. 

 " Most gracious sovereign : 



" We, your majesty's most du- 

 tiful and loyal subjects, the lord 

 mayor, aldermen, and livery of 

 the city of London, in common 

 hall assembled, most humbly ap- 

 proach your majesty at this awful 

 crisis, to exercise a duty no less 

 painful than imperious. 



" It is to represent with humility 

 to your majesty the present de- 

 plorable situation of public affairs, 

 that we have again approached 

 your royal person. 



" Attached to your majesty's il- 

 lustrious house from affection and 

 from duly, we should ill demon- 

 strate the sincerity of our loyalty, 

 were we to conceal from 3'our ma- 

 jesty that itisnotamongst the least 

 considerableofour grievances, that 

 attempts should have been made 

 to brand your majesty's faithful 

 subjects with dissatisfaction to 

 your person and government, 

 whenever they have exercised their 

 indubitable right to complain of 

 gross abuses in the state, or to 

 attribute the disgraceful failure of 

 expensive and calamitous enter- 

 prizes to the ignorance and inca- 

 pacity of those who either planned 

 or executed them; as if infallibility 

 were the appendage of office, and 

 belonged of right to those who 

 may be called into your majesty's 

 councils. 



*' With equal grief and indigna- 

 tionvve have seen the disastrous 

 result of various, expeditions, in 

 which your majesty's armies have 



