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Excerpt from London and Middlesex, or an Historical, Commercial, and Descriptive Survey of the Metropolis of Great-Britain<br/><br/>Another meeting of the Court of common-council to con sider of an Address to his Majesty respecting the Ex pedition to the Island of Walcheren, gave rise to a nu merous Meeting of the Livery in Guildhall, and a Second Meeting of the common-council to reconsider the Address voted before, which, when ultimately presented to his Majesty on the 2oth of December, drew forth a reply from the throne as to the Walcheren business, and other subjects of complaint connected with it in the Address, that his Majesty was the best judge 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 Walcheren, this important Island was evacuated by the British forces on the 23d of Decem ber, 1809, after they had kept possession of it, with Flushing, and several other strong posts, nearly six months....
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