High Bailiff Of Southwark...
Several members of the Corporation held a meeting at the Ouild- hall cofhee-house, upon the subject of supporting the election of a fit and proper person to serve the office of High-Bailiff of the Town and Borough of Southwark, vacant by the resignation of John Prin. sep, Esq. It was moved- and seconded, that MAr. Holmes, the pre- sent npincipal clerk of the Court of Reqaests, was a person well qualifled to discharge the duties of the office, anrd entitled, from his long experience in the particular branch of knowledge requisite in a candidate, as well as from his long services in the Corlporation, to the siuation. After some observations upon the propriety of sup- porting the election of this gentleman, a motion to that efflect was unanimoutly agreed to. The other candilates areBoyce Combe, Esq., and4ldermanAns- lie, but it has been said that before an alderman can stand forward as a candidate he must throw aside his gown. Mlr. Hol mes, upon the former election for the same office, at the death of Sir Watkyn Le%is,.was a candidate, but his chance was trifling compared with the claim of Alr. Prinsep, who had beeo an East India merchant of the highest repectability an alderman of the city of London, and a man greatly beloved by his fellow-citizens. It is reported that Mr. Prinsep's son-in-law, a gentlenman of large fortune, upon seeing that the Court of Common Council had taken a decided part against the High Bailiff, immediately advised his father-in-law to throw up the situation altogether without ceremony; and it is also saidi that Ar. Prinsep will undergo no inconvenience whatever in consequence of his resignation. HIIG BAILIFF fP SOUTHWA RK.