The Annual Register - volume 12 - Page 139

resolutions of the city of London respecting him ; an Italian, well known in the literary world--account of his being rudely assaulted; killing a person in his own defence; his trial and acquittal for the same; and evidence produced in support of his character and reputation ; resolutions in respect of the necessity of an honest and parliamentary enquiry into the conduct and accounts of H-- L-- H--, affirmed to be the public defaulter of unaccounted millions ; the unanimous voice of the livery by which mr. alderman Beckford was called to the office of chief magistrate (lord mayor) for a second... Mehr ...