LON 
won tnille caring, The focieties formed, in order to give 
more extenfion to the new do&rinfes, were rapidly unit¬ 
ing and coalefcing into one body, under the name of “ the 
Correfponding Society.”—Since, by the fpecial favour of 
Providence, who gave our civic government ftrength 
to lave themfelves by prudential reliftance, and to fave 
others by their example of loyalty, the long rniferies of 
this revolution feem to be at an end, it will.be accepta¬ 
ble to our readers to find here the refolutions of the court 
of common-council on the 29th of November, 1792, 
where the lord-mayor, fir James Sanderfon, in a l’peech re¬ 
plete with found argument, and delivered with manly 
firmnefs, urged the neceffity of fupporting the king and 
conftitution. It was refolved as follows : 
I. That it is the duty of all corporations to preferve 
their fidelity to their fovereign, to be watchful for the 
fafety of the facred conftitution of the country, and to 
maintain, to the utmoft of their power, the peace, the 
property, and the perfonal fecurity, of every freeman liv¬ 
ing under its protection ; as it is equally the duty of every 
freeman to bear true allegiance to the king, and be obe¬ 
dient to the exifting laws of the land. 
II. That this corporation, regarding the blelTings which 
the fubjects of the Britifh empire enjoy, under the pre- 
fent mild and happy government, as ineftimable, will 
ftrengthen its exertions by every poffible means, to fup- 
prefs all unlawful and feditious aflemblies within this city, 
and to bring to juftice every difturber of the public tran¬ 
quillity. 
III. That this corporation, in the moft folemn manner, 
doth hereby call upon every good citizen to co-operate 
with them to the fame falutary end ; to difcourage every 
attempt which may be made to excite the fears of the 
metropolis, by weak and defigning men ; and each, in his 
own perfon, to be ready, at all times, to accompany and 
aftift the magiftrates of the city, in the fupprefiion of every 
tumult. 
IV. That this court doth remind their conftituents, the 
freemen of London, of the oath by which they are bound, 
to this purpofe ; viz. the firft, fecond, and lalt, claufes of 
a freeman’s oath : “ Ye (hall fwear that ye lhall be good 
and true to our fovereign lord, king George. Obeylant 
and obedient ye (hall be to the mayor and minifters of the 
city. Ye lhall alio keep the king’s peace in your own 
perfon. Ye lhall know no gatherings, conventicles, nor 
eonfpiracies, made agninft the king’s peace, but ye lhall 
warn the mayor thereof, or let it to your power.” 
V. That it be recommended to the aldermen and com¬ 
mon-council, in their refpedtive wards, to conllder of the 
belt means of preferving tranquillity, and of fecuring obe¬ 
dience to the laws. 
VI. That thefe refolutions be printed in all the public 
papers of the united kingdoms, figned by the town-clerk. 
VII. That the thanks of this court be given to the 
Right Hon. Sir James Sanderfon, lord-mayor of this city, 
for the wife and timely caution taken by him to prevent 
any breach of the peace, by the afiembling of perfons un¬ 
der the pretence of publicly debating on a political fub- 
jeCt; and that this court will, to the utinoft ol their power, 
give every aftiftance to his lordfliip, to carry into effeft 
his majefty’s moft gracious proclamation. 
The lalt rcfolution alluded to a tranlafHon which had 
occurred a Ihort time before. Among other modes re- 
forted to by the inciters of difcontent, was that of pro¬ 
pagating their infidious doctrines through the medium of 
debating focieties, political lectures, &c. where, though 
the nominal fubjeCt related to fome event in the ancient 
hiltory of Greece or Rome, or was drawn from thofe 
which had recently happened in France, fuch allufions 
were made as were evidently defigned to bring the go¬ 
vernment of this country into difrepute, Such a meeting 
was publicly announced, to be held at the King’s-arms 
tavern, in Cornhill, on the evening of the 27th ; but, 
when the orators and their auditory alfembled, they £911111! 
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DON. 
the place in the occupation of the peace-officers, who de¬ 
nied them admiffion. This occalioned fome flight tumult; 
and fit was found necellary for the lord-mayor to attend, 
with the city-marlhals, for the purpofe of difperling the 
crowd. 
The apprelienfion of fome fudden infurreclion was, at 
this time, lo ftrong, that government thought it expe¬ 
dient to make preparations for the defence of the Tower, 
by opening entrenchments, railing parapets, and mount¬ 
ing cannon on the walls. All the breaches were filled 
up; and, on the weft fide of the Tower, fome hundreds 
of old rum-puncheons, filled with earth, were placed as a 
barricade. At the fame time the Bank was doubly 
guarded ; the villages, in the environs of the capital, 
were filled with foldiery, fufficient to protect the live* 
and property of the inhabitants of the metropolis, in cafe 
of a fudden alarm ; and the court of lieutenancy of the 
city ordered a company of the London militia to be on 
duty at the Artillery-ground, night anti day, to be ready 
at a moment’s notice. 
Without entering into more particulars upon a fubjeft, 
which is Hill in the recollection of feveral of our contem¬ 
poraries, we will allfert that the city of London conftantly 
ilsowed a general difpofition to fupport the conftitutiou 
and the reigning order of things, and prudently put alide 
the poifonous cup which deluded France invited her to 
tafte. 
Preparations being made for war againft the French 
republic, the city of London, true to the profeffions 
which they had made of fupporting the king and govern¬ 
ment, took an early opportunity of proving their fincerity, 
by uuanimoufly voting a bounty of forty flaillings for 
every feaman, and twenty fhillings for every landfman, 
who would enter himfelf at Guildhall for the fervice of 
his majefty’s navy. On the 12th of February, 1793, an 
addrefs to the king was unanimoufly agreed to, in order 
to thank his majelty for his paternal care in the preferva- 
tion of public tranquillity, and to exprefs their abhor¬ 
rence of the late atrocious afts at Paris; and alluring him 
of their readinefs to fupport the honour of his crown and 
the welfare of his kingdoms againft the ambitious delign* 
of France. The addrefs was prefented and moft graci- 
oufly received on the 16th of the fame month. 
The moft trifling incident was fufficient, at this moment 
of dilfatisfaftion and turbulence, to occafion commotions 
and riots.—Early in the morning of the 23d of June, a 
dreadful affray took place in the neighbourhood of Ox- 
ford-ftreet. A large party of labouring people had been 
collefled at a lioufe in Oxford-buildings, on occaflon of 
a child’s death ; a difpute arofe among them, which ter¬ 
minated in a general battle; the victors, not fatisiied with 
their triumph over their opponents, began to commit 
outrages in the neighbourhood. The watchmen were 
beaten, and the captain of the patrole fo feverely wounded, 
that he died fhortly after. A party of the guards arrived 
about three o’clock in the morning, and were immediately 
a flailed with brick-bats 5 they, however, fucceeded in fe- 
curing fifty-four of the rioters, after which tranquillity 
was reftored ; but it was found neceflary to keep the fol- 
diers on guard at the watch-houfes in the neighbourhood 
all the following day and night. 
The whole of the warehoufes at Hawley’s wharf, near 
the Hermitage, with leveral adjoining houfes, three vef- 
fels, and fome fmail craft in the dock, and a great quan¬ 
tity of fugar-s, rum, and hemp, were entirely deftroyed 
by fire on the 2d of December. During this conflagra¬ 
tion a new and aftonilhing phenomenon ftruck every 
beholder with awe: the united mafs of upwards of a 
thoufand calks of fugar, melted by the irrefiftible heat, 
burft into a flame, and flowed through the ltreers in one 
bright ftream of liquid fire. 
On the 3d of February, J794, the eagernefs of the peo¬ 
ple to enter the pit-door of the little theatre in the Hay- 
marker* where his majefty was to be-' prefect, was the 
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