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main force, while the Auftrians were 
ranged in order of battle on the oppofite 
bank. They lot feveral ftandards, more 
than twenty pieces of cannon, their mili- 
tary cheft, and from three to four thou- 
fand prifoners of war, the number of kill- 
ed and wounded was alfo very great. 
_ The army of the Sambre and Meufe, 
under general Hoche, rendered the 19th 
of April illuftrious by a pitched battle 
and three actions, which immediately 
éftablifhed their pofitions on the right 
bank of the Rhine. Among the trophies 
of this victory were 7000 prifoners of 
war, 27 pieces of artillery, 7 ftandards, 
60 war and ammunition waggons, &c. 
Domeftic Incidents. —Praceedings of the Common Hall. 
[ May, 
This army in a few days afterwards 
pufhed their'way as far as Frankfort. 
From a ftatement which has been made 
of the campaigns of the French. and dif- 
tributed to the members of the Council of 
Five Hundred, it appears that from the 
8th of September 1793, to the 19th Fe- 
bruary 1797. the republic has gained 
261 vi€tories, including 3i pitched battles, 
killed 152,6co men of the enemy, 
taken 197,784 prifoners, 
238 {trong places, 
319 forts, camps, or redoubts, 
7,953 pieces of cannon, 
“486,762 guns, 
4;383,150 pounds of powder, 
207 itandards, 5,486 horfes. — 
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B OME salt © 
WN March the 23d, in confequence of a re- 
quifition to the Lord Mayor, 
forty-three livery-men, a common hall was 
held at Guildhall (about 5000 of the livery be- 
ing prefent) at which, Mr. F. Waddington 
moved an addrefs to the King, ‘ praying him 
to difmifs his prefent minifters from his coun- 
cils for ever, as the firft ftep towards obtaining 
a fpeedy, honourable, and permanent peace.” 
This being feconded, very few hands were held 
up in oppofition, The lord mayor and fheriffs, 
&c. were then dire€t-d to prefent the petition 
to his Majefty, on the throne. When the the- 
riffs, however, proceeded to “St. James’s, to 
know when the K Zing would receive the acces, 
they were not admitted to his prefence, as ufual ; 
but teceiveda meflage, brought by the duke sf 
Portland, “¢ that his Majefty never received ad- 
dreffes on the throne, but fromthe city of Lon- 
don in its corporate capacity.’ 
On the ift of April, a common-hall was 
held, to take into confideration the above an- 
free to the fheriffs : when it was refolved, una- 
nimoufly, “that the fheri"s be ordered to de- 
_mand “a ‘* perfonal interview of his Majetty, 
‘and to rNsisT on the right of the livery, to be 
heard by his Mojety, fitting on his throne.?— 
In purfuance of Eis) the fherifis, city remem- 
brancer, &c. had an audience (the ath of A pril, 
at the clofe of-the tevee) to know, when: his 
Majefty would receive the addrefs of the hvery 
on the throne : when the King returned an an- 
fwer, fimilar to the meflage before delivered 
by the duke of Portland: adding, that “ that 
meflage was delivered by his own defire; and 
that he would receive the addrefs of the livery, 
at the next, or any other, levee, provided the 
perfons prefenting the fame, did not exceed the 
ufual number of Ten.’ ~ Wednaiday, April 
zzth, a commoun-hall was again held at Guiid- 
hall, to confider of this laft anfwer to the the- 
riffs, when it was refolved, © that the lord 
mayor, aldermen, and livery, of London, &c. 
have, immemorially, exercifed the right of 
prefentin, petitions to the King upon the 
figned by, 
Le Cle AS) Ese 
throne,” éc. and, that “ when fuch petition 
is thus prefented, the petitioners know that 
their complaints are heard by his Majefty,” 
&c. &c. At thismeeting, Mr. WarTHMAN 
propofed a motion of ¢enfure on his Majefty’s 
minifters, for ‘ precipitating the nation into 
an unnecefiary and unjuitifiable war,” &c. The 
lord mayer, however, would not fuifer the quef- 
tion to be put on this motion, and difiolyed the 
hall abruptly, amidft fymptoms of the ftrongeft 
difa pprobation of the livery. April 22, in con- 
fequence of a freth requifiion, another common 
Se was convened by, the lord mayor, to con- 
der “ the report of the fheriffs communicated 
i the livery, and to inveftigate the caufes 
of the awful ftate of public affairs.”’ His lord- 
fhip affented to the firft part of the requifition, 
but anfwered, to the iecond, «* that he deemed 
it incomparible with his duty to aflemble the 
livery”? for the {aid purpoie, as it was $a pro= 
pofition too extenfive to admic of diicufiion in 
can affembly, confeffedly not _deliberative.’— 
Another more prefling requiftion, however, 
having been delivered to his 1$rdfhip (May 3) of 
the fame tenor as the preceding, his lordthip 
confented to call a common-hall, for ALL the 
purpoies rfentioned in the requifition. | Ac- 
cordingly, at acommon-hall, hgld on the r1th 
of May, a number \of refolutions .were moved, 
purporting to deprecate this unjuft and unne- 
ceilary war 3 to efiert the full exercife of the 
light of petitioning; and to inftruét the city 
reprefentatives, :o make a motion in the Hoxie 
ot Commons, + * that an addrefs be prelented 
to his Maijefiy, praying him to difmiis from his 
preience and councils, bis prefent weak and’ 
wicked minifters,”* <éee.. The principal fpeak- 
ers were, Meffis. Hanfon, Waddington, Waith- 
man, Gurney, Alderman Coombe, and Mr. 
Farmer, in tavour of the ‘tefolutions ;—and 
Meffis. Stonefireet, Kemble, Dixon, Aldermen 
Curtis, Anderfon, and Luthingtoa, againft them 
—Mr. Aiderman-Curtis, on afferting that he 
couls not agree to make fuch a moti.nin Par~ 
Jiament, ¢ without a furrender of his inde- 
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