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don, in which your majesty is 

 pleased to refer the petitioners to 

 the wisdom of parliament. We 

 presume to state to your majesty, 

 that we have seen for years past, 

 with the deepest concern, that at- 

 tempts to procure parliamentaryin- 

 quiry upon the subject of our na- 

 tional misfortunes, have in all cases 

 beenunsuccessfuhandinthecourse 

 of last sessions we witnessed with 

 not less astonishment than indigna- 

 tion, that a system was adopted, 

 and almost proclaimed, of protect- 

 ing public men from public inqui- 

 ry ; a system which is in direct de- 

 fiance of the uniform practice of the 

 best periods in our history, and the 

 most undoubted and invaluable 

 principles of our constitution." 



The Old Bailey sessions closed 

 when seven prisoners received sen- 

 tence of death, one was ordered to 

 be transported for fourteen years, 

 nine for seven years, two to be im- 

 prisoned two years, six for twelve 

 months, and seventeen for shorter 

 periods, eight of whom were to 

 be whipped. 



16. At half-past two o'clock, 

 the coming-house. No. 4, in the 

 king's powder-mills at Faversham, 

 blew up with a most tremendous 

 explosion. Of the six men em- 

 ployed in the building at the time, 

 tour were blown to pieces, and 

 their bodies and limbs were scat- 

 tered to a distance of upwards of 

 four hundred yards from the site of 

 the building. The 6fth man was 

 taken up alive, but no hopes of his 

 recovery were entertained. The 

 sixth man, George Holmes, the 

 foreman of the work, was found 

 alive also, sitting in the midst of 

 the smoking ruins, with his clothes 

 burning ; but he was otherwise not 

 much injured, and is likely to do 

 well. At the door of the count- 



ing house, was standing a tum- 

 bril, or covered waggon, with two 

 horses and a driver. The waggon 

 was blown to pieces, andthedriver 

 and horses were killed. Of three 

 horses employed within the build- 

 ing, two have perished, but the 

 third is living. The scattered re- 

 mains of two of the men were col- 

 lected for interment ; those of the 

 other three have not been found. 

 No circumstances have transpired 

 from which an opinion can be 

 formed with respect to the cause 

 of the accident. 



17. The Persian ambassador 

 had his first private audience of 

 her majesty. 



18. Mr. Lyon Levy (an eminent 

 Jewish dealer in diamonds) threw 

 himself from the top of the monu- 

 ment, and was killed on the spot. 



21. A numerous meeting of the 

 livery of London was held at 

 Guildhall, to consider of the rejec- 

 tion of their late petition to the 

 House of Commons. Mr. Favell 

 moved a string of resolutions, 

 which was eloquently seconded by 

 Mr. Waithman and others. A 

 new petition, corresponding with 

 the resolutions, was read to the 

 livery for their concurrence, which 

 was assented to with great accla- 

 mations, and ordered to be pre- 

 sented to the House of Commons 

 by Mr. Alderman Combe. 



L Resolved, That the rejection 

 of the House of Commons of our 

 late humble address, petition, and 

 remonstrance, appears to us a vio- 

 lation of our constitution and in- 

 disputable right to state our com- 

 plaints and grievances, and to call 

 for relief and redress. 



n. Resolved, Thatsuch rejection 

 is an additional proof of theshame- 

 ful inadequacy of the representa- 

 tion of the people in the Comroons 



