Excerpt from London and Middlesex, or an Historical, Commercial, and Descriptive Survey of the Metropolis of Great-Britain, Vol. 3: Including Sketches of Its Environs, and a Topographical Account of the Most Remarkable Places in the Above County, Illustrated With Engravings

Another meeting of the Court of common-conan to com sider of an Address to his Majesty respecting the Eric peditiou to the Island of Wslcheren. Gave rise to n inerous Meeting of the Livery in Guildhall, and a Second Meeting of the comnon~conucil to reconsider the Address voted before, which, when ultimately presented to his Majesty on the'ioth of December, drew forthnreplyfrom the thronens to the Walcheren business, and other subjects of complaint connected with it in the Address, that his Majesty was the hestjudge of the propriety or impropriety of the measures adopted by the Executive, and, in fact, that Parliament only had a right to make inquiry. But, notwithstanding the high language used on this occasion, and the. Strenuous wishes expressed by a mem ber of the Cabinet for the retention of Walchercu, this important island was evacuated by the British forces on the 93d of Decem her, 1809, alter they had kept possession of it, with Flushing, and seyernl other strong posts, nearly six months.

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