... Council Men, will ftand Candidates for tk Ward, and 'tis remarked the Contcft is like to be greater, becaufe the Majority on the Whigs Side in the Court of Aldermen is not now io great as it has formerly been. Jc was-expe&ed that the French Mail would have ...

... enfuing Year, when after agreat Struggle, and no fmall Influ- ence, Alderman Spurrel was elected by a Majority of 90 ; fo the Whigs have now carried their Point, Cho' at a vaft Expence. ...

... was moft gracioufly re- ceived. , . . . ?? . , The Fleet from Bahia is arrived at Lisbon with preat Treafnre on board. The Whig Party have not had that Majority they expected in the Eledion for Common Council Men. . ,- S. S. Stock- rc6, I halt. ...

... touching the Election pt Common Council Men in the Wards of Langburn, Vintry, Aktgate, Criplegate, &c, are not over,, vet the Whig Party boaft that they (hall gam this YCir upwards of 20 Members, which as they fay, will make thtir Number pretty equal with ...

... i - Thh Week came on the E- ?? of Common council men of this City, when a very ftvenuous Opposition was made, wherein the Whigs loft the Majority, wnich they have , ; ad for feveral Years paft : Whereupon great Rejoi- cing were made by the oppoftte Party ...

... they would name ? on which a great Body cried out Alderman Parfons', who being pot up had a very great Number or Hands, the Whigs holding up for him as the Tories had done at the Meeting at the Crown Tavern the Night before for M. Perry. Al- derman Child ...

... Nets and fifh where they pleafed under his Bri tannic k Majefty's Jurifdi&ion. We hear there will fuddenlybe a Meeting ofthe Whig Aldermen to confider ot the Affair relating to the Election of a Lord Mayor at Michaelmafs next, it being apprehended that ...

... there will be another Party- Struggle the 24th Inftant, on the Election of Sheriffs for London and Middle fex : It feems the Whigs de- fign to put up Sir John Lock and Alderman Porteen *, and the other Party, Alderman Brocasand Alderman Barber. Laft Night ...

... hasgivea him to direft him in ai! Spheres of Life. This is but too much ths Misfortune ofthe Country we live in; for let either Whig or Tory, when in Power, grow wanton in the Abufe of ic. or endeavour to mantain themfclves in it, by illegal and unwarrantable ...

... Talk as if the Bai I r>_ Macclesfield to ailift the Privy Council in Law Matters, in roc of the late Lord Har coui t. The Whigs boaft very mnch of their [nfl in the enfuing Elections, which are ca: 1 ied on tv the utmoit Application : That for !Vf iddlefex ...

... bert Baillies for Lord Mayor of this City he being next the Chair ; but notwithftanding, there was a Meeting this Day of the Whig Aldermen and Live- rymen, where Sir Gilbert Heathcote, after recom- mending the faid Sir P_obert BaiDies to thc-ir Choice, ...

... Meet- ing- There was laft Night the Meeting which I late- ly hinted, of a great Number of Livreymen atthe Crown Tavern, (of the Whig Party, where feve- ral Aldermen were prefenO who fignified, That as there was a Defign to fet afide the old Cuftom of choofing ...