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The Rev. Daniel Mathias, the reclctt of the paridi of 
Sc. Mar)', Whitechapel, after reciting with great feeling 
a prayer prepared for the occafion, addrefled his R. H. 
with infinite energy and pathos, as follows : “ May it 
.pleafe your royal highnefs; lam deputed by the com¬ 
mittee of management for the Whitechapel Society, on 
behalf of them, of all the fubfcribers, and of the parifh 
at large, to convey to your royal highnefs their profound 
fenfe of the obligation, and their grateful acknowledg¬ 
ments for the iignal honour which you have been graci- 
oufly pleafed this day to confer upon them. Great as the 
honour is, anti no men can edimate it higher than they 
do, yet they prefume to think that the occafion is as great: 
an occafion not unworthy the prefence, fupport, and coun¬ 
tenance, even of a prince of your illuitrious birth, and 
more illudrious virtues. We are engaged in a work which 
concerns all, and is intended to benefit all :—high and 
low ; rich and poor; the private individual and the pub¬ 
lic weal ; the prince who governs, and the fubject who 
obeys. By means of this institution, we endeavour to 
draw clofer that chain of union which connefls the feve- 
ral ranks of fociety, and fitly joins together all the mem¬ 
bers of every vvell-conftituted Hate, and, by purifying and 
refining fonie of its links, to give ftrength and durability 
to the whole. Your royal highnefs has been pleafed to 
lend a helping hand to this our undertaking. May this 
building, (o defigned, long remain a monument of your 
kind condefcenfion and noble co-operation ; and of our 
wifdom, patriotifm, and humanity ! It was the pious 
•wilh of our beloved fovereign, your honoured father* 
that the pooreft of his fubjefts might be able to read the 
Bible. This wifh, fo becoming the dignity of fo great a 
monarch, fo worthy the care of the father of his people, 
fo agreeable to the piety of the belt of Chrillians, it is 
our earned endeavour to accompliih. We hope to teach 
the children of the poor, not only to read, but to under- 
Jland, the Bible! If we can but inftil into their minds 
the pure precepts of the Gofpel, they will be good 
Chriltians ; and, if good Chriftians, they will be good 
fubjeils j they will all their lives through cherifh and 
maintain thole principles which placed your illudrious 
family upon the throne of thefe realms. Our hopes of 
fuccefs are mod fanguine ; and our endeavours will be 
increafed, when we fee among us the virtuous fon of a 
mod virtuous fire, fo zealoufiy afrive to carry into effect 
the bed wifines of fo good a father, and fo patriotic a king ! 
Accept, fir, our mod cordial thanks.” 
His R. H. was gracioufly pleafed to reply as follows: 
4 ‘ Reverend Sir ; I requeft that you will offer my grateful 
thanks to the committee of this inftitution, and date to 
them that I feel great fatisfadtion in being prefent and 
adiding on this occafion. That I mod heartily concur 
with them in the important undertaking, which does in¬ 
finite honour to their parifh. I truft that their example 
may be imitated, not only in the metropolis, but through¬ 
out the country in general.” 
Theceremony concluded with a benediction pronounced 
by the bifinop of London; after which the company re¬ 
paired to the City-of-London Tavern to dinner, where 
Mr. Sheriff Marlh prefided, and where the bifinop of Lon¬ 
don, Mr. Alderman Atkins, William Mellifh, efq. fir Wm. 
Blizard, &c. &c. honoured the fociety with their prelence. 
The bilhop of London, in returning thanks on his health 
being drunk, took occafion to oblerve, that this inditu- 
tion had his unqualified approbation; tiiat the bed means 
of bettering the condition of the poor was through the 
medium of religious and moral indi udtion ; and that he 
hailed the edablifhment of this fchool as the planting of 
a tree whole branches he hoped to fee fpread over all the 
bland. 
On Monday the 8th of November, the Right Hon. Geo. 
Scholey, lord-mayor of jLondon, attended by fixteen fe- 
nior members of the livery of diltillers, and accompanied 
by leveral of the aldermen, the two fherids, the recorder, 
chamberlain, town-clerk, law-officers, &c. proceeded with 
the ulual formalities from the Manfion-houfe to Guild- 
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hall; and were followed by Mr. Aldernnn Domviile, lord- 
mayor elect, fiupported by fixteen members of the com¬ 
pany of dationers. When the feveral parties were ar¬ 
ranged on the hudings at Guildhall, the oaths of allegi¬ 
ance and fupremacy were folemnly adminiltered by the 
town-clerk, kneeling, to the lord-mayor elect; who. being 
then inveffed with the infignia of office, Mr. Scholey re- 
figned to him the civic chair, after which, the chamber- 
lain, Mr. Clark, advancing three feveral times from the 
front of the hudings to the chair of date, and each time 
.making three feveral obeilances, delivered up to the new 
chief-magidrste the infignia of his office with the cSt}»- 
purfe and feal; all which were feparateiy redored into the 
hands of the chamberlain, who retreated, bowing as be¬ 
fore, walking backward, and whofe graceful demeanour 
on this occation was much admired. The fvvord-bearer, 
Mr. Cotterell, then in like manner delivered up the city- 
fword ; whicn the lord-mayor replaced in the hands of 
one who has borne it twenty-feven years, whoalfo retired 
bowing in due form. The aldermen, city-officers, and 
members of the livery-companies, then leverally paid 
their refpects to the new lord-mayor, agreeably to ancient 
cudom, by fnaking hands and wijhing joy. 
This cudom ct Jhaking hands, and wijhing joy, is very 
ancient in the city ceremonial. It is particularly praclifed, 
in the livery-companies, when a young man takes up his 
freedom ; and at the chamberlain’s office the fpeeches made 
to the greated perfonages uniformly begin with I give you 
joy. It is remarkable alfo, that on the continent the fra¬ 
ternities of crafts and livery-companies are generally difi- 
tinguilhed, like freemafons, by a peculiar way of Oiaking 
hands which is called the fecret or mydery of the trade, 
le Jeer el du metier. 
On the 13th of November, the lord-mayor, aldermen, 
fiierid’s, recorder, common-council, and other officers of 
the city of London, waited on the prince-regent at Carlton 
lioufe, with an addrels to congratulate his R. H. on the 
profpect of the deliverance of Europe from a mod difgrace- 
ful yoke, on the re-edablidiment of the houfe of Orange 
in Holland ; on the return of Hanover to the allegiance 
of its legitimate fovereign ; on the fiuccefles of marquis 
Wellington, &c. to which the prince-regent returned a 
mod gracious anfwer. 
Thefe glorious events were to be celebrated alfo in the 
true Englifh manner; namely, by eating and drinking. 
—To commemorate the revolution, in Holland, a banquet 
was provided on the 14th of December, at the City-of- 
London tavern, at which the viands were no lefs gratify¬ 
ing to the animal appetite than the moral fenfibility ex¬ 
cited was to the liberal mind. The duke of Clarence, in 
the chair, was fupported by the dukes of York and Kent, 
the hereditary prince of Orange; the earls of Harrowby, 
Wedmoreland, Bucktnghamfhire, Liverpool, Bathurd, 
and Dartmouth ; vifeounts Sidmouth and Cadlereagh ; 
lords Reay and Atlilone ; right hon.N.Vanlittart; G.Rofe; 
fir W. Scott; F. Robinfon, lord provod of Edinburgh; 
J. H. Addington ; greffier Fagel; their excellencies count; 
de Funchal, baron Wedenberg, baron Jacobi Kleitt, count 
de Palmclla; and M. de Lorentz; under fecretaries of 
date, W. Hamilton and W. Becket; Dutch legation, J. 
Fagel, count Stirum, M. de Leleveld, and W. Ragay, 
Rev. Dr. Werninck, &c. Among the vocal performers 
who contributed to the amufement of the company, were 
Braham, Taylor, and Bellamy ; and a glee, of peculiar 
inttred was lung, compofed for the occafion. The ufual 
toads were given in compliment to the royal family ; 
and in addition—The Emancipation of Holland—The 
Sovereign Prince- of the Netherlands—The Hereditary 
Prince—The Duke of York and the Army—The Duke of 
Clarence and the Navy, See. —His ferene highnefs, in re¬ 
turning thanks for the honour conferred upon him, and 
for the fentiments exprelfed of his illudrious father, in de¬ 
licate terms adverted to the pride he felt at having re¬ 
ceived a Britifli education, and his inftrudlion in the art 
of war from the gallant commander of the allies in the 
