[554] To this day the secretary of state for the home department requests the sanction of the lord mayor before despatching troops through the city, and when permission is given, it is on the understanding that all troops (with the exception of the "buffs," who claim to be directly descended from the ancient trained bands), march without colours flying, drums beating, or bayonets fixed. As a further token of the lord mayor's supremacy in the city, we may add that the pass-word of the Tower is sent to him quarterly. [555] Repertory 194, fos. 132-137, 150-152. [556] Journal 73, fos. 144b-145; Annual Register xxxiv, 36. [557] Annual Register xxxiv, 36, 39. [558] Annual Register xxxiv, 44. [559] At the close of his mayoralty he again received the thanks of the Common Council for having hazarded his life in putting down seditious meetings.--Journal 74, fo. 2. [560] Journal 73, fo. 218. [561] Annual Register xxxiv, 46. [562] Journal 73, fo. 237. [563] _Id._, fo. 249b. [564] _Id._, fos. 255b-257. [565] _Id._, fo. 273. [566] Journal 74, fo. 2b. [567] Committee Book, 21 Dec, 1793. [568] Journal 74, fos. 126b-129b. [569] Journal 74, fo. 172; Journal 75, fo. 33. [570] Journal 74, fos. 172b, 174b. [571] Journal 74, fos. 156b-157, 195b; Journal 75, fo. 5. [572] Journal 74, fos. 170b-172. [573] Stat. 34 Geo. III, c. 81; Journal 74, fos. 133b, 145b, 153, 178. [574] Journal 74, fos. 187-187b; Raikes, History of Hon. Artillery Company ii, 130, 131; Annual Register xxxvi, 25. [575] Repertory 199, fo. 39. [576] Journal 75, fos. 38, 239b. [577] _Id._, fos. 181, 243. [578] Repertory 199, fos. 363-366, 369-371, 387-395. Journal 75, fos. 238b-247. [579] Common Hall Book, No. 9, fo. 50b. [580] Journal 75, fos. 43b-44b. [581] Journal 75, fos. 312-313b. [582] Journal 76, fos. 25-26. [583] A proposal had previously (5 Nov.) been made in the Common Council to beseech the king "not to consider the Directory as incapable of maintaining the relations of peace and amity." The motion was, however, negatived.--Journal 75, fo. 312. [584] Journal 76, fos. 309-311, 314. [585] Journal 77, fos. 14b-15. [586] _Id._, fos. 14-16. [587] Annual Register xxxviii, 44. [588] Journal 77, fo. 16. [589] Common Hall Book, No. 9, fo. 72b. [590] Journal 77, fo. 34b. [591] Annual Register xxxix, 9. [592] Journal 77, fos. 23, 36. [593] Journal 77, fos. 83b-84. [594] Common Hall Book, No. 9, fos. 75-76, 80b. [595] Journal 77, fos. 195-196b, 353-354. [596] Journal 77, fos. 264-266, 277, 305b, 388. [597] Repertory 202, fo. 36. Journal 77, fo. 300b.