The Lord-Mayor having fummoned a CommonCouncil to meet on that Day, recommended to them, before they enter'd upon any other Bufinefs, to confider of, and agree upon an Addrefs to the King, to condole with his Majefty upon the Death of his Royal Father our late moft gracious Sovereign, and to congratulate his Majefty on his happy Acceffion to the Throne.

Which Propofal of his Lordship being unanimously approved, a Committee was appointed to draw up an Addrefs for that Purpose, which confifted of four Aldermen, and eight Commoners, viz.

The faid four Aldermen as well as the eight Commoners, were elected upon the Nomination and by the Votes of the Commoners only; the Aldermen not interpofing.

The Committee, thus chofen, withdrew, and in an Hour or two returned, and reported their Draught of an Addrefs, which confifted of fix Claufes, or Paragraphs, (See the faid Addrefs in the Political State for June 1727. pag. 569.)

This Addrefs being read a fecond time, Objections were made to feveral Parts of it, as infinuating Reflections on the Conduct of his late Majefty, and containing Matters not fit to be offer'd to his prefent Majefty, especially by that Court, or upon that Occafion.

The second Claufe was particularly objected to, as containing not only what was unfeasonable and improper for that Court to concern themselves with, in an Addrefs of Condolance and Congratulation; but alfo as implying very extravagant Infinuations, viz. That the Nation's Right to Gibraltar and Port Mahon,

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had been intended to be left at the Mercy of our Friends, and that thofe Places were defigned to be provided for only by dark and doubtful Expreffions, and not be acknowledged and confirmed, in a strong, plain, and authentick Manner.

The fourth Claufe concerning the National Debt, was alfo objected to, as infinuating what was well known to be contrary to Truth, and upon this Head. Sir Peter Delme particularized fome of the Reductions of the National Debt, which have been actually made by the Sinking Fund.

And the latter part thereof, relating to Públick Credit, was objected to, as implying an Infinuation of what is not only falfe in Fact, but alfo of a very pernicious Tendency, viz. That our Credit has been hitherto imaginary only, and establifhed on falfe and unnatural Principles; it being, on the contrary, well known, that the Nation's Creditors have the best and most fatisfactory Securities that can be obtained, or even defired.

The fifth Claufe was objected to, not only for the Incoherence between the former and latter Parts of it; but alfo as containing a most indifcreet Defiance. of all his Majefty's Allies, and of all the Powers in the World, in that romantick Affertion, in the conclufive Part of it, that his Majefty, of himself only, is fufficient to promote the Interefts of other Princes and States, without ftanding in need of their Affiftance for the Security of his own.

The Committee-men and their Adherents, instead of offering any thing particular, in Anfwer to hofe Objections, ftrenuofly infifted that the Draught ought not be altered in any Part whatsoever.

After fome Time had been thus fpent, the Lord Mayor, with great Calmnefs and Temper, did earneftly endeavour to bring the Sticklers for thofe Claufes to Reafon; aud exprefs'd his Hopes of being happy in a Propofal he was about to make, of an Expedient which might be to general Satisfaction. And he thereupon caufed to be read, the firft, third, and fixth Claufes of the Address, as reported by the Committee, viz.

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I. We your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal Subjects the Lord Mayor, Aldermen and Commons of your City of London, in Common-Council affembled, prefume to approach your Majefty's Royal Prefence upon this folemn Occafion; and whilst we congratulate your Majesty's happy Acceffion to the Throne, we beg leave to express the deep Senfe we have of the Lofs which this Kingdom fuftains by the Death of your Royal Father, our late moft gracious Sovereign. So great and fo unexpected a Lofs in fo critical a Conjun&ture would fill our Minds with the justest Apprehenfions, if we did not find in the Love and Affection which your Majesty bears to this Country, to the Church of England as by Law established, to our Laws and to our Liberties, and in those great Qualities which enable You to affert their Honour, and support the Intereft of the Nation, so many Reafons for affwaging our Grief, for preventing our Fears, and even for raising our Hopes.

III. As your Majesty's known Refolution and Courage gives us juft Reajon to depend on your Care of our Intereft abroad, fo when we refled on your great Wisdom, and the Mildness of your Government during the Time of your Regency, we make no Doubt of enjoying at Home all thofe Bleffings which a just, a pradent, and a frugal Administration can procure to any People.

VI. Be pleafed, Sir, graciously to receive the Affurances which we, your moft dutiful and loyal Subjects, humbly prefume to give your Majefty, that we will, to the utmost of our Power, and at the Expence of our Lives and Fortunes, Jupport your Majesty in the prefent happy Establishment in Church and State, against all your Enemies what foever.

Which three Claufes being read his Lordship propofed and earnestly recommended, that all Debates about the other Claufes fhould ceafe, and that they would all agree that the whole Addrefs might confift of those three Clauses: But this falutary Propofal of his Lordfhip, the Committee-men and their Adherents, would not acquiefce in; their general Cry was, ALL OR NONE.

Then the Committee's whole Draught was again read, and confider'd Paragraph by Paragraph; and the Queftion was put upon each Claufe, whether it should ftand Part of the Addrefs.

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The firft Claufe being fo read, and the Question fo put, was unanimously approved.

The fecond Claufe being then read, and the Que ftion being put, whether it fhould ftand Part of the Addrefs; and there being a great Number of Hands on each Side of the Queftion, his Lordship directed the Commoners to divide ; and upon the Divifion there appeared to be feventy fix for, and fixty against that Claufe.

The Majority of the Commons having thus voted for the fecond Claufe, it was infifted on the Part of the Aldermen, that fince the Addrefs was to be in their Name as well as that of the Commons, no Part of it ought to pafs without their Confent, agreeably to their Right: The Exercife of which Right they apprehended was, upon this Occafion, highly neceffary.

The Question being thereupon put to the Aldermen, whether that Claufe fhould ftand Part of the Addrefs, it appeared that only the four Aldermen of the Committee, and one more, were for it and all the reft of the Aldermen prefent, being twelve befides the Lord Mayor, were againft it.

The fecond Claufe beiug thus rejected by the Disagreement between the Aldermen and the Commons, fome of the Committee-men and their Followers, declared as before, that they would have ALL OR None, and that fince the Aldermen had put their Negative to that Claufe, they themselves would put a Negative to all the rest. And they were herein as good as their Word, which appeared from their Conduct, upon the putting of the feveral Questions relating to the fubfequent Claufes.

For, after reading the third Claufe, upon putting the Question, whether that Claufe fhould ftand Part of the Addrefs, the Aldermen and Commons feverally divided; the beforementioned Majority of the Aldermen and Minority of the Commons voting for it, and the Committee men and their Followers voting against it.

And which is more extraordinary, the fourth and fifth Clauses were feverally rejected unanimously; the Committee men and their Followers, joining with

their Opponents in voting against those two Claufes, not withitanding they had before expreffed fuch a Fond nefs for them; fo tenacioufly did they adhere to thei, former Declaration, for ALL OR NONE.

But there was another Divifion upon the fixth Claufe.

This Paragraph had the fame Fate with the third, in being rejected; the Majority of the Aldermen and the Minority of the Commons voting for it, and the Cons mittee-men with their Followers voting against it.

The five laft Claufes being thus rejected, there rea main'd only the firft Claufe, which had been voted to ftand Part of the Addrefs; whereupon it became a Queftion, Whether that Part fhould be the Whole of the Address?

The Committee-Men and their Followers infifting upon the putting of that Question, the Lord-Mayor éndeavour'd to diffwade them from it, and earnestly re commended to them to agree, either that the Whole fhall be recommitted, or that it fhould be ad journ'd to another Common-Council, which, in fuch Cafe, his Lordfhip would call the next Day: But this healing Propofal of his Lordfhip was not hearken'd to the All or None Men ftrenuously infifting to have the Matter then determin'd: And fo the Question being put, Whether the first Clause fhould be the whole Addrefs, it pafs'd in the Negative; And thus this whole Addrefs was voted out, by the very Men who brought

it in.

About a Week afterward Twelve of Common-Coun cil-Men figned a Paper, which was deliver'd to the Lord Mayor, demanding of him to call a CommonCouncil, to confider of an Addrefs to his Majefty, and, afferting fuch Demand to be according to ancient Right and Ufage; His Lordship thereupon immediately call'd a Court of Aldermen and laid this Demand before them, who unanimoufly refolv'd, that there was no Right for any fuch Demand. The Lord Mayor, however, ask'd the Advice of the Aldermen, whether they thought it proper to call a Common-Council? Whereupon the Court confidering the Circumstances of the Cafe, and what had already pafs'd in the Common-Council, on this Occafion; and that no Satisfaction was given either

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