The thanks of the city we...
'The thanks of the city were, it will be seen, voted ye.tcrday, witlhout one dlissentient voice, to Mr. WVAI1r{- MAN, thc Lord AMayor; not only for his general acrvices to the city, but above all fbr his punietual, able, and ini. partial adininiistration ofjustice. It is this latter clause that excites our attention and calls tbrth our approbation. Mlinor duties nay admit of a trainsfer or delegation ; but the discharge of the judicial functions, the hiighest that can appertain to the Chief Magistrate of the eity, ought never, but in'a case of extreme neeessity, to be shifted from the principal aiid to lhese, we b tieve, ihe, pr&isa LoRaX MAYOa attended In a manner worthy of their importance, and worthy, also, of the imitation of his successors. There being no ground for cavil in what tho Loa, MAYOR has done, we learn that he is now undergoing the ordeal of abuse for what he has not donci, or thought of doing. It is some praise to him that his acts are untan- gible, and that his calumniators are therefore obliged to in- vent an offeence for him, and then abuse him for their own forgery. The crime imputed is not of a very deep (lye; it is that of striving to get himself re-elected LoRD MAYOR, -a crime which we cannot say lhe never thought of, for it is beyond our power to know the lheart of man ; but of the existene6 of which in his mind we are very sure he could not give tlhe slightest indication in the city without our cognizance, and of which we can assert he has never given -the slightest indication. The whole is, ina truth, a calum- nious fabrication. Mr. WAITHMAN made his acknowledg- ments for the vote of tlhanks In an appropriate speech, ex- pressed wvith great feelin and spirit.