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LONDON. 
William Staines found this neceffary article of life at 
75. 5^(1 the quartern loaf. During his magiftracy, it had 
a great increafe, for it arrived at the exorbitant price of 
is. lojd. but, at his leaving the civic chair to fir John 
Earner in November 1801, the quartern loaf was reduced 
to jold. 
The, long-depending caufe between the parithioners of 
St. Gregory, London, and the warden and minor canons 
of St. Paul’s cathedral, was determined in the court of Ex¬ 
chequer, on the 27th of April, in favour of the latter. The 
parithioners contended? that from time immemorial they 
had been accudomed to pay no more than ninety pounds 
per annum as a compofition in lieu of tythes, and that, 
therefore, they were not within the provifions of the fta- 
tu.te of the 17th of Henry VIII. The jury, however, de¬ 
cided again ft their plea, and that they were liable to the 
payment of two (hillings and ninepence in the pound, 
making in the grofs about thirteen hundred pounds per 
annum, from the year 1795, the time at which the claim 
was fet up. 
A court of common-council was held at Guildhall, on 
the 14th of May, to receive the report of the committee 
of ways and means, on the return to be made to the com- 
miflioners under the income-aCh The report ftated that 
the income of the city, for the laft year, had amounted to 
92,062k 93. 8d. and its expenditure to 87,828k 7s. 4d. leav¬ 
ing a balance of 4234I. 2s. 4d. on which it was ordered that 
the fum of 423k fhould be paid to the commiffioners, for 
the income-tax of the city. 
The Paddington Canal was opened on the morning of 
the 10th of July, with a grand proceftion of boats, to Bull’s 
Bridge, near Uxbridge, where they arrived about noon 3 
and, being joined by the city-fhallop, with the fub-com- 
mittee of the Thames, and feveral pleafure-boats, the pro¬ 
ceftion returned to the great dock at Paddington. 
Preliminaries of peace, between his majefty and the 
French government, were figned at lord Hawkefbury’s of¬ 
fice, in Downing-ftreet, on the 2d of OCtober, and on the 
10th general Laurifton, Bonaparte’s firft aide-de-camp, 
arrived with the ratification. In his paffage through the 
town to Mr. Otto’s reiidence, his carriage was followed 
by a numerous concotirfe of people, who afterwards took 
the horfes from it, and drew him and Mr. Otto to Down¬ 
ing-ftreet, with exprefiions of the moil tumultuous joy. 
On the ratifications being exchanged, the Park and Tower 
guns were fired; and at night there was a general illumi¬ 
nation through the metropolis, which was repeated on the 
following evening. 
Peace was proclaimed in the cities of London and Weft- 
minfter, on the 29th of April, 1802 ; and, notwithftanding 
the ardourWith which the preliminary articles had been 
received, was confiderably abated by the infidious conduct 
of France, during the interval that had elapfed fince that 
period ; yet, generally fpeaking, the moil lively fenfations 
of joy were excited on the prefent occafion. The ftreets 
were crowded at a very early hour, by perfons of almoft 
every rank, impatiently waiting for the proceftion; and 
the vaft number of ftrangers from the country, whom cu- 
rioftty had attra&ed,' added much to the buttle of the feene. 
The proceftion was formed at St. James’s Palace ; and the 
ceremony commenced at twelve o’clock,by Francis Townf- 
end, efq. Windfor Herald, reading the proclamation of 
peace for the firft time; after which the proceftion moved 
forward along Pall Mali to Charing Crofs, where it halted, 
and the reading of the proclamation was repeated by an¬ 
other herald. It then proceeded along the Strand to 
Temple Bar, where it arrived at one o’clock. On its ap¬ 
proach to the Bar on the Weftminfter ftde, the horfe- 
guards filed off, and lined both fides of the way. The 
beadles and conftables of Weftminfter, and the officers of 
the high-bailiff, did the fame, and made a lane for the 
knight-marfhal and his officers to ride up to Temple Bar, 
the gates of which were fhut. The junior officer of arms, 
Francis Martin, Blue-mantle purfuivant, then coming out 
of the rank, between two trumpeters, and preceded by 
two horfe-guards, rode up to the gate, and, after the truitt- 
pets had founded thrice, knocked with a cane. Being 
afked by the city-marfhal from within “ Who comes 
there?” he replied “The officers of arms, who demand en¬ 
trance into the city, to punliffi his majefty’s proclamation 
of peace.” The gates being opened, he was admitted 
alone, and the gates were fhut again. The city-marfhal, 
preceded by his officers, conducted him to the lord- 
mayor, to whom he fliowed his majefty’s warrant, which- 
his lordfhip having read, he returned, and gave directions 
to the city-marfhal to open the gates, who attended the 
officer of arms on his return to them, and, on leaving 
him, faid, “ Sir, the gates are opened.” The trumpets and 
guards, being in waiting, reconduCted him to his place 
in the proceftion, which then moved on into the city, the 
officers of Weftminfter retiring as they came to Temple 
Bar, and the city-proceftion fell in behind the kings of 
arms in the following order: 
Four Conftables together. 
Six Marfhalmen, on foot, three and three. 
Six Trumpeters, three and three. 
Two City Marfhals on horfeback. 
Two Sheriffs on horfeback. ~| Sheriffs 
Sword and Mace bearers on horfe- > Officers 
back. J on foot. 
(”Lord Mayor on horfeback, bearing^ 
Sheriffs 
Officers 
on foot. 
Porter 
in a 
Black 
gown 
with a 
Staff. 
{ 
1 the ancient feeptre of the city, which j 
j is of gold and glafs, ornamented with [ 
Beadles. 
pearls and precious ftones round the f 
{ coronet, and furmounted with the na- 1 
^tional arms. J 
Houfehold on foot. 
Six Footmen in rich liveries, three and three. 
State Coach, with fix horfes decorated with ribbands, See. 
Aldermen in feniority, in their coaches. 
Carriages of the Sheriffs. 
Officers of the City in Carriages according to feniority. 
Horfe Guards. 
The Volunteer Corps of the City. 
The Artillery Company. 
The Eaff India Volunteers. 
The proclamation was read at the bottom of Chancery* 
lane ; after which the proceffion moved on through Fleet- 
ftreet, Ludgate-hiil, and St. Paul's-church-yard, to Cheap- 
fide. At the end of Wood-ftreet, the cavalcade halted 
till the proclamation was again read; and, when the pro¬ 
ceffion reached the Royal Exchange, it was read for the 
laft time. The proceffion then paffed along Cornhill and 
Leadenhall-ffreet to Aldgate ; and doubled back along 
Fenchurch-ftreet, Gracechurch-ftreet, and Cornhill, to the 
Manfton-houfe ; from whence the horfe-guards efcorted 
the heralds to their college in DoCtors 3 Commons ; and 
afterwards proceeded to St. James’s, with the knight-mar- 
fhal and his men. 
Illuminations of the moft fplendid nature fucceeded the 
ceremonial of the day. The Manfton-houfe, the Bank, 
the India-houfe, the public offices, and theatres, as well 
as the houfes of many individuals, were particularly dil- 
tinguiffied, for the tafte and fplendour of their decora¬ 
tions ; but the object of univerfal attraction, was the 
French minifter Monk Otto’s houfe, in Portman-fquare, 
which was moft brilliantly illuminated with coloured 
lamps difpofed in the form of a temple of the Ionic or¬ 
der, and having in the centre a large tranfparency, repre- 
fenting England and France, with their various attributes, 
in the aCt of uniting their hands, in token of amity, before 
an altar dedicated to Humanity, above which appeared 
the word Peace, with olive-branches around it. It may 
be worth while to mention, as charaCleriltic of the na¬ 
tional feelings, a circumftance which occurred here a few 
days before the illumination. Immenfe crowds were daily 
attrafted, by the preparations for the magnificent difplay 
which afterwards took place. At length the word Con¬ 
cord was formed in coloured lamps, on the entablature 
of the temple, the reading of John Bull was, however, 
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