NOV. 1. VIE LORD MAYOR El ECT. ..A:1 •Dill EDITOR. flt—Attempts have been made for several weeks past to It'a ken the character of the LORD MA YOlt Elect. 'Whe. the charges preferred against him are true or false, I laiow not. I have looked anxiously over your columes, in ( r opes of seeing them refuted, but in vain. It has been stated, sir, that one liEr.s JONEs, a hop porter, some yeas ago, made oath that 1I r. "'cuot.LY, having se viral coturacts with the Victualling Board, sent in hops of a very b.,d quality. To make them pass with the receiving orlicer: for good hops, Fart of the bad were taken away, and good put in their place, and this was done to the extent of several hundred bags. In older to make them gain in we Ott they were put in water all the night before delivery. It is fwther stated, that Mr. ScnoLEY admitted, under his o wn hand, that he had given his asses/ to such a practice, and a letter has been puldished, dated Victualling Office, V. - 26, 1796, in which it is stated, that, though by his un dertAing to pay 401)1. on account of the breach of his eon tile', the proceedings in the action commenced a,ainst him had keit staid, yet, as he acknowledged that he bad a, , sented to such breach in the contract, tle.! Board regarded him as a paw) no longer entitled to confidence. 'llk letter appears signed with the names of G. Cu ER It V, G. P. Ton RV, .1. SrEPUENS, G. RODNEY, and W. lloscAwrY. if this statement be false, those with whom it co iginated wil!, I trust, be brought to condign puni,lurtent; if true, I • s':6tdd hope, even now, that Mr. ScHot. cv will decline the . civic chair. I wi:l not comment on the indecent srectaele which would be presented to the world, if a noto-1 rious swindler were to pretend to administer justice it) this city, as its Chief Magistrate. , I by no means wish to say ' that Mr. ScHot.Ey is such a character ; but, I trust, from your impartiality, that this bt ief abstract of the charge made against him, will be inserted in your useful Paper, in order to draw forth a satisfactory contradiction. I am, with respect, Your most obedient, J. D. We have in ser t e d th e a b ove as we rece i ve d it. Imme diate insertion will be given to any answer that may be for %arded to us. Perhaps we ought here to state that we have head the fact has been distinctly denied by thc Loft I,IIOR Elect. CONSISTENC AND GRATITUDE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE NATIONAL TIMMER. Sut—ln a patriotic Paper of last Sunday, an article pal t i cu. tarty attracted my notice, Which appeared in the fot nr of a Let ter from a Correspondent. The object of 'his production was to throw obloquy on the memory of the late Sir FRANCIS BOURGEoig, and from its style towards the end, I was led to view it as a begging advertiseL:ent, when, to a most pathetic picture of distress, the following lines succeeding tilled me amazement and perplexity.—" Such a situation wag a , (ale too agonizing for the feelings of a husband, who has OW only to return thanks to you, Sir, for the insertion of the explanation, and to subscribe himself, &c." Now, Sir, syou must ;,now I am much punted to g11C36 ; ow this very grateful Geotictnan happened to be in " le nt lime with his thanks t How did it happen that he I new " the present explanation" would be inserted at e lime he sent his letter, and knowing it, how did it Pee that he sent his thanks fur the insertion of his corn- 65 tnuricatios before its actual insertion. Did the EDITOR write this Letfer for thefrelin. , hatband, and in the charauter of an atnannensi, make the blonder of writing down those thanks, %Welt, intended to he merely vethal, were given by the poor man after it was written and insertion promised. Did he receive the Letter in the usual war, and add to tt this bit of gratitude hitnself? or had he really a Correspondent posse,srd of stich extraordinary prudence anti good manners, as to send his thanks fir the favour he solicited at the time he applied for it? Four's, te.Tectfully, QUE n y, THE NATIONAL REGISTER. OLD BAILEY. On Wedoeiday the Sessions commenced, before the Right Hca. . the Lord Mayor. Baron Thompson, Mr. I u•tiee Chambre, the Re corder, &c. Sec. when ten prisoners were trio:', five of whom were con victed of felony, and five were acquitted. Thursday, James Kenyon and G. Gree were indicted for robbing William Amos, on the * King's hi►;hway, and taking from him six 0112-F,UIII A mos the prosecutor, stated, t hal cm the evening of the Eith inst. as he was w liking about half past four, in Oxford street, near the %Von:ester CoWee-house, the two prisoners came up to bin), and stilt, '' What, you d---d informer, are you aliVe ?" He replie lird never infurnwa against any enc. and did not k:Mw what they me:mt. Kenyon swore he should fight him, but be re ; upon which he wrs knocked down three times. He at . tempted to get into the Green Man and Still, but Kenyon dragged him back by the waistb Ind cf his breeches, and he lost the Monty from his peck,:t.—A lad of the name of de la Boucher, who was pasting awl saw the scidile, also saw the notes drop from the pro_ secutr ; be picked them up, but Kenyon seized his hand, and took • them front bun,-swearing they were his companion's. lie made on' whh th•nt, but w stopped and taken into custody.— The .Jury found a verdict of Gu t i.r Di:: Tit—against Kelly Gll, and acquit: zit Green. TIORBERY ON THE MIMES. Filthy, net. 30. Joseph Simmons lA'inter, getijintin Alen, antl Taller. were intik:tea for stedlingon the 18th of July, fro% out of a hoy itt t:le R fiver Thones. ten biles of silk and two cases of vidue, alai. and George fLuris and Robert Cooper were for receiving the :tame, knowing it to have been tvolen. Joseph Knox and Thomas joy were air, la:tit:red accessariei bef.l4 the fact. !dr. Ceatee Y. at loading Corn-el, detailed the circumstances. of this extraordinary robbery, as they were proved by three of the accomplices, Brown, Ballroom and Fenwicke, and confirmed by other Witnesses. The silk which was stolen was shipped at Gibraltar in May last, and arrived in this country in the mend; of bane. — Hampton, one of the witnesses, was ,meter of .1 boy ; awl W inter, the ptioner, was also master of another boy. The vessel which ay. rived with the sill: and feathers, lay at Sanci,;:yte, anl Bamoton waa ed to go with his toy to fetch the silts f.fatbers, to bring I them 11 the Custoins at London. Ile, knowing what a valutib'w: carg.' he w:.:* ab..ut. to receive, entered into a conspiracy with the se.. ,real p.isoners, and others not in evis:otly, to rob his own vessel With this view it was agreed, that Winter, vvho Was toaster of another hov, should follow B unpton's, and that Barnron would anchor his hoy off Dagonham Bleach, and in the night the former of them were to come on board and fasten down the hatches, and carry off the cargo into Winter's boy ; while others were to be stationed on shore to get it (II by land. It was also :weed, that if the wind and tide were sir fair that Bampton could not stay at Dagenham Breach without incturing the suspicion of the of!icer Who was on board, that he was then. to run his hay a-ground as it by mischance, end he would then be obligcd tir . wait until the e..xt tide before he could get her otf. • The scheme being settkl, Pompton. pursuant to the di rections of his emplii)ers, went to San.ket: to fetch the silk and tinihe r i to bring them to the Custom louse, having cwt board linetable, a Cwitoin Ilonie Officer. Winter, as had been agreed, cl:,se after Bainpton with hie hay. It, however, so bar. pelted, that the wind and tide wsre to fair thr reaching the Custom Unuw, that Batiapton sent Knox, iii , mate, on board Winter's hoy, with the bey, to site that 1w tom tt it impossible to stay et Dag 31- ham, and that the Otiker on bosrd tes boy was an cid Inheini.n, and knew the river as well as he did himself: and therefore he south rot run the vcs.iel a.giound, ae was, intended—hut that they might do it at the Cuatom House Tier, a, he meant tf., anchor on the outside of, it. raj; clewed some d si:ontent amen.< the parties, eTeciaily these shore ; they cursed and swore at what they considered the cowardice of Winter, het after sore further censultation it was agree.4t that the fact should b: tkne on the :debt of the :th of July. And on that night, Rust-dale the officer hearing a none on deck, came op and ballowei out " is that you Tcm (meaning Winter) what a = yon abut r' Some one answered they were re:nevrng the ve.nel to the fonder D:;ck to be rely for the morning, and the otPc:r suppos g he .y, to