ABSTRACT
To break down the reverence for hoary-headed established abuse, the independent portion of the Livery are making a stand for the right of choosing their Lord Mayor, and this has irritated the Conner. The present Lord Mayor uniting honesty to ability, has eminently stood forth the People’s friend; and the Livery ought to return him and Mr. Alderman Goodbehere for their Magistrate, without regard to rotation, or any other pretence set up to lull those easily to rest, whom the knavish wish to rob of their privileges without opposition. The People must also be aware how liable the authority of a Magistrate was to gross abuse, from the case of Oliver, whom a Magistrate had permitted to escape, while he committed the unhappy victims of that ministerial spy’s nefarious artifice to the horrors of a dungeon.
