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Iht. Fan ANNIVERSARY DINNER. On Sarntday about 4cio perfons affernbletl at Shakefpeare Tavern, to celebrate the anniver . yof Mr. Fox's elation. . On the cloth being vemoved, Mr. Fox drank to The Independent Eledtors of Weftminiter. He then drank Succefs to the Preliminaries of Peace ; may they Van be fol• 1.-ed by a Definitive Treaty—and by a cordial and biting I iroidthip between Great Britain and France! Mr. Dion ust then fung a Hymn to Peace, writ ten by Mr. CHARLLS Sarre, to the Air, " Rule Brit,rnia." Mr. Easels' rate to propofe Mr. Fox's health, and took occafion to advert to the fingular coinci dence betwixt the arrival of the ratification of Pre liminaries of Peace and the celebration of the An niverfary of his Honourable Friend's Elation.— Of thefe Prelimiiraries, as reltoring to us the bleff 'logs of Peace, there was, he believed, but one opi nion ; and it was therefore unneceffary to enlarge *rn that topic. It was needlefs for him to prefs on the notice of the company a fad of which none of them were ignorant, that, previous to the com mencement of the war, his Honourable Friend had e ndeavoured by every exertion of his great talents to avert fo dreadful an evil—that he had early fore told all its fatal eonfequences—and that, at diffe rent periods of the conteft, he ufed every effort to put a flop to its continuance. He felt no difpoll ;ion to canvas the terms of the Peace. Peace was atall times a great bleffing ; but how much was its value augmented, when it put a period to one of the moil de ftrtietive and difaftrous contefts which '6c ivorld 'ever law. His joy at fo happy an event was fervent and 'cordial ; he was Pure that his Honourable Friend entertained fimilar fentiments ; and that would fup port the Peace both in and out of Parliament. Mr. Easto' finifhed by giving , The Health of Mr. Fox, Which was drank in three times three, wfth every ina‘ric of thesrarineft regard and affection. When the enthufaidlic acclamations of the com pany had at hat folifided, Mr. FOx rote, and fpoke in fuliftance as follows : This day twenty-one years, Gentlemen, after a long Ilriiggle, I had the honour to be defied re prelentative tor Weilmintter: Your exertions upon that occafion filled my mind with fentiments of , nrstitude and attachments which will never 'be ' crated from it. Ido tot conceive, however, that by your choice you intended to favour an indivi. dual, I was then lets acquainted with: you than I have fince become, and at no time can I fuppofe that tin individUal of fo little confequence as myfelf ihodld be reckoned worthy of fuch a mark of your regard. Gentleincn, you declared Tot the caufe in which I was engaged, and to fupport the prin ciples of liberty was the objelt of your efforts. You knew myripinkin to be ftrong againft the war, and you elated me in the hope that I would &Tidy refill the attempts which you taw carrying on to defpotifm and to violote the rights of man kind. Your choice was flattering to me ; but I was more flattered Rill when my poor exertions , united with thofe of abler men, fucceeded in dif. concerting the projats of tyranny • and an end was at length put to the American tyranny; This war, Gentlemen, was not lefs difaftrons than ; yet, bad our fubfequent conduft been . R Ulded'hy re fl eetron* it might have conferred upon us a fignal benefit. The refult of the American war confirmed this grand principle, that all wars, *aged againft the rights of mankind, muff be ul tikately infuccefsful. Whatever may be the dif ferent tpnns of goternment throughout the globe, hOweveV villainy may profper for a while, and ty ranny may lord it over proftrate flares, when li berty is fairly at iffue with tyrants, the event is not doubtful. Changes of fortune may mark the pro grefs of the coma; but plans of fobjugation will end in the difgrace of dick authors—the caufe of truth and juftice will uniformly triumph—{Lard Gentlemen, dot ki.A I have Rated the principle on which I conceive Inyfelf to have been choral to reprefent you in parliament. You mull have perceived many defefts in my charaiter, and errors an my conduet. Yet you mull be convinced that I have a mind fixed Iteadily on the principles of freedom, and that I am animated by a detetlation of all war ; above all, of war carried on for the parpofes of defpotifin. —What then could you expert me to do at the commencement of the prefent ? Is a man bccaufe he is an Englilliman, a Spaniard, or a German, to flint his eyes to the injuftice of dictating to an in dependent nation? Should he join in the cry with thole who fay to a great people, " You mull diorite a King : however much you abhor monarchy, however much you detell thole who haie a here ditary claim to your throne, however ardently you fr , h for the bleffings . of a free government, you mull implicitly fubmit yoiirfelves to the creature we point out, or we wage againft you a war of extermination ?" Does a plan to prevent a nation from throwing off its chains,and aliening its rights, deferve lift reprobation than the raffi attempt to tax America without her content ? Such a war I thought it my duty to oppofe. I oppofed it to the very utoeolt of my abilities be fore it began, and for years after its eciliasaame sncnt the ftrenuoufncfs of my exertions remained unabated. I had to encounter great unpopularity, but while I thought I could be ufeful, I did not aka from my endeavours to difpel the general clelulion, and to ward off impending calamity. In this city, I am fanguine enough to hope that my conduit has met with approbation. Had you been inclined, you have not wanted, opportunities to cenfure me. This war is now at an end. Preliminaries of Peace have been agreed upon, and evey lover of ereedoro, every friend to humanity throughout Europe has fubjed of rejoicing.. A war again ft the liberties of mankind, notwithftanding partial locates, difaltrous in the extreme, which has oc caficaed a lots of lives horrible to think of, and ex pences, the oppreffive effeifts of which will long continue to be felt—fuch a war, attended with rents fo (hocking to humanity li . come to a dote. will not canvas the terms on which peace is con cluded. The war was bad, and to a continuation •.1 it any peace is to be preferred. There are two -ways in. which the fubjed may be confidered :—lft. The. terms of the peace, and acily,.The time when it was Concluded. The.terms I do not think it of much importance to confider. Have we, indeed,, lived to this time, and not yet know that to retain an iffand or two in the Weft Indies, or a fortrefs or two in the EaR, cannot be compared with the calamities brought upon the country, not by a year's, but a tingle month's Cam paign ? Let the value of the objea be confidered, and the price that is to be paid for it, and no ra tional man will fay that between the two there is any proportion. I will, there were as little to be laid about the tine; not that it has arrived too foon ; you are well aware that in my opinion it might have been great ly accelerated. And I confidently afk, whether there has been a period fence the beginning of the war that Peace might not have been attained on the terms which have at loft been agreed to ? More particularly, during . the haft two years (I mean fence BONAPARTE gained the fupreme _power in France), have not the fame conciliatory difpo fition exifted in the enemy, of which we have now availed ourfelves ? You have fought but to make your comparative fitnation lefs favourable, every life you have loft has been an idle walk of blood, and every penny that you havefpentyonhave fpent only to burden yourfelves and your defcendants. You, Gentlemen, early forefaw the. fatal conic quences of the meaftues which were purfued, and petitioned for Peace and a change of miniftry. Your petition was not heard ; but had it been fol lowed up by others—had the country difplayed a becoming fpirit, Peace weight have been made on better terms than the prefent—we fhould now be free from a hundred and fifty millions of debt, and we fhould have faved lives almoft incalculablz. You rightly petitioned for a change of as the fin-eft means of putting a period to the var. From circumftances which Teem very myfierioos, and which, I for- one, molt certainly do nut in any degree underhand, a change of miniftry at lath took place. I rejoiced at the event, though I was ignorant of its cattle. While thofe men who began the war remained in power, not a hope could be reafonably entertained that it would terminate before our ruin was confummated. The down fall of miniftry I therefore hailed as a happy omen of Peace. I have not been miltaken, and Peace by that means is obtained. My opinion of :loft who fucceeded, you may believe was not high ; but in abandoning the mad fchemes of their pi ede ceffors they have fo far dcne well, and mere: ap probation. It may be raid that the Peace we have made is glorious to the French Republic, and glorious to the Chief Conful. Ought it not to be In ? Ought not glory to be the reward of fuch glorious (trunk ? France flood againft a Confederacy corn poled of all the great kingdoms of Europe ; the completely baffled the attempts of thofe who me naced her independence; temporary misfortunes and new dangers ferved only to reanimate her cou rage ; after a courfe of brilliant victories, almoft wabctut a parallel, fhe gave the law to thole who had projeaed her deftru(ion; the ha's let an ex ample which will be highly ufefol to all the na tions of the earth—and above all to Great Britain. Ought not the Peace then to be glorious to France? Some complain that we have not gained the obied of the war. The objet of the war we have not gained moll certainly, and I like the Peace by fo much the better. What, Gentlemen, was the principle on which the war was carried on ? To deny to An independent country the right to model its own conftitntion of government—to Rifle in it every fentiment of freedom, and to bring it once more under the dominion of defpotifm, beraufe it had ed under defpotifm for centuries. By the I r ie n at i this principle is given up, and I like the Peaceonthisaccountthebetter, as I think it will thus be more fintere, more beneficent, and more failing. But notwithftanding the bleffings which PCA.:e will reftore to us, it will not place us in the Elate in which wt were previous to the commencement of the war. The debt we have contraded during its progrefs, and the burdens which have been impoled on us, though, perhaps, neceffary for the payment of the interest of that debt, will be long felt by the country. But this is not the worn effete of the war. Its worn effed has been that in this conteh we, who gloried in the dillindion of being a free Commonwealth, have been in danger from that natural fentiment of patriotifm which difpofes us to with fuccefs to the caufe irtswhich our countrymen are engaged, of becoming the partizans of what is called lfonarchy, but of what is in reality a fyftem of defpotiftu inconfiftent with the liberties of man kind,hoftile to the fpirit ofevery free government ,and contrary to the principles of public ju ft ice. If fuch prejudices have been infufed into the public mind during the war, I hope that Peace, followed up by a good underftanding betwixt the two countries, Will do them away; and that we (hall return to that temper of mind which diftingnifhed us when we thought ourfelves the freeft people upon earth ; when we reckoned that period at which our an ceftors expelled James IL a molt glorious are, and when, fo far from being afhamedof cafhiering one Monarch and eleding another, who had not a dime hereditary right to the throne, we deemed it the primula period in the hiftory of our country. However we my have beheld with horror many of the enormities which were perpetrated at Paris, during the early years of the French Revolution — and no man furveyed thefe enormities with greater horror than myfelf—whatever opinion may be en tertained of the fuccefs of the French people in obtaining the bleflings of liberty, in our intercom* with them it is impotlible for us not to view them as a nation who have, by their exertions, refcued themfelves from the moil arbitrary government in Europe. For let not people imagine that becaufe the French Government favoured cultivation and refinement—becaufe it had the appearance of giv ing countenance to literature and philofphy, it was on that account lefs tyrannical and opprelhive. I believe fincerely that it was, amid theft appear ances of great mildnefs, the molt horrible fyftem of tyranny, and every friend of liberty mutt re• joice that the French have got rid of - a govern ment which was ever pmJudive of calamity to the world.—(Lveti atfialffe). I trnft the reftoratient of intkreolsrfe with the French will banifh all the prejudicesAvhich the war may have engendered, and reftore qs to a high opi nion even of ourfelves, not as we are now, but as we were a century ago—as we were in thole times when we gloried in being the grcateft friends of liberty in apy part of the globe. (Land aisp/aufe). There are other effeEts o the war, however, which I know not whether thisPwill ever be repaired.— Under the pretence of 'lingers which thp,war cre ated, our molt important privileges have been alarmingly curtailed or wholly (Upended, and during ,line years we have witneffedthe molt dread ful inroads on our conftitution. With the reftoration of Peace, know not whe ther the people will be fo anxious to recover their loft liberty, and to regain poffeffion of their vio lated rights. I doubt not of this company and of ' the Eledlaors of Weftminfter, but I know not what will be the difpofition of the country at large. I know pot whether the powers of corruption which ,the war has fo much enlarged, which the union with Ireland has fo greatly extended, and which every a6t of the late Adminiftration, who came into power with fuch profeCGons of purity, tended to reduce to a fyftenn, have not encreafed to fuch a degree that all efforts will be ineffeetual to reftore that liberty which we have loft; and whether the prejudices which originated from the war havt not taken fuch deep root that the re turn of Peace will not be accompanied with its correfpondin,g bleflings,that we fhall not regain our ancient purity of political opinion. Long expe rience has made me too well acquainted with public affairs not merely to banilh all fanguine hopes of a fiiccefsful affertion of the liberties of tha people, but almoti to give room for defpair of ever being able to defiroy the influence of cor ruption in the condutt of an unprincipled Ad miniaration. _ _ - We have loft much, which see have but a fmall chance to recover. Small, however, as that chance is, it is 11111 greater than it would have been had Peace been delayed a twelvemonth longer. If Peace had been concluded fooncr, this chance would have been proportionally greater, for every year of war not only diminithes this chance, but plunges us deeper in thole evils which we fo much deplore, and to the removal of which we look forward with anxiety and.cread, by the difficulties to which that removal is oppofed. If the late Minifters had made Peace, I would have rejoiced at it, but I was fenfible that they could not, and the change of Adminiaration is to be confidered good, at leaft in this rcfped, in having procured us a bleffing fo infinitely deferable. Let us rejoice, then, at the conclufion of Pence, with out rcrupulotifly canvaffing the terms. You,the EleCtors of Vv'eftminfter, may rejoice that, for twenty-five years, you lat:e ever fly:wit yourfelves the enemies of war, and the friends of thofc rights which, though they may be del - piled by courtiers, are of inellimable value in the eyes of every friend of human happinefs. You may re joice that, whatever may have been the evils re fulting from the war, whatever difailrous confe <peaces have flowed, nr may yet flow from it, yon have no Iharc of the blame, and are not anfwer able for any of their dreadful confequences. Mr. Fox concluded by returning the company his thanks for the honour they had done him by their pretence on this occafion. On fitting down he gave Mr. Garr and the Indrpencicnt Electors of the county of Nonhunaber!and. 'Phis toalt was drank with enthuflarm. The next waft was, The Du:te of Northumberland, and the other Stewards, Which was drank with loud wpplaufe. Lord Bsseosoucit, in a fhort but appropriate fpcech, declared that he entirely concurred in the fentiments delivered from the Chair. . Mr. Fox next gave— Mr. Erfkine and the Trial by Jar!. Which ,was drank with the loudefl applaufe. Mr. ERSKINE returned thanks to the Company ;Or the honour conferred on him by a iniciating his name with the molt valued And the mod important of their Rights. They had already heard from the Chair the fentiments he entertained of the peace and its confequences, in much better language than any which he could employ, and therefore it was now unneceffary to repeat them. One of the ef feEts of the war had been to place the Trial by Jury under a cloud, from which he trufted Peace would deliver it. They might rely on it, that as long as it pleafed Goo to continue the heahh which he had enjoyed, uninterrupted, and as long as he poll - cited aelivity fulficient to enable him to perform his profeflional dirties, he would never ceafe to make every exertion in fupport of public liberty, and for the maintenance of indivi dual proteaion. Mr. RoaiNsov fling a new ballad of great hu mour, written by himself, defcribing the tricks of the Grand Punchinello. The next toad was Mr. Byng, and t►e Independent Fledors of Wertminfter. Which was drank with great applaufe. Mr. BYNC exprefted himfelf highly fen able of the honour the company had done him, and faid that nothing was more gratifying to him than the continuance of their approbation. Dr. HODGSON fang—' How happy in my Native Land.' Alderman COMAE'S health, and the Indepen dent Livery of London was next drank, which was honoured by much applaufe. The worthy Alderman returned his acknow ledgements. In common with his fellow-citizens, he eagerly hailed peace. He would only obferve, thgt if thole who entered into the wan applauded the peace, he would be glad to know why they made war? Toait—sir William Milner, and the Independent Freemen of the City o? York. Sir WILLIAM MILNER, after thanking the com pany, faid he had oppofed the Amerman war; he had front his confcience ailed with Mr. Fox in almoft every eireumftance of that war, as well as the prefent. The prefent Adminiftration Ihould, for having made peace, receive his cordial fup port and thanks, hut in other cafes he mull be guided by a eonfideration of their traufaelions fuse their coining into the hfiaigry. ToßA—Latni VIM= Ruda, Who returned his thanks in a fhort patriotic fpeech. Mr. Fox then gave fricceffively the healths of Mr. Sheridan and Lord George Cavendilh, which were drank with enthafiafro. He •concluded by giving— The Caufe pf tawny all over tht. A waft of which the company loudly expreffed their approbation.--Abouteight o'clock be retired. followed by the moil rapturous applaufe of his Constituents. NAUTICAL INTELLIGENCE. MAILS ARRIVED. • Hamburgb, • Dubbut • Waterford, 2 Donnagba4ee, DUF. 0 • • 2 DOVER, OCTOBER ti.—Yefterday arrived the • PRINCE OF WALES packet, Captain SUTTON, hav ing been ordered (from Yarmouth for this Ra tion, be in readinell for the purpofes of Go vernment ; the other packets which forrrierly be longed to this Ration, are expeeted : the Mama, Captain Jestatzga, arrived from Calais tail night, with difpatches. . _ YARMOUTH, OCTOBER t.---Yefterclay arrived the snail from the Continent of the 6th intl. brought by his Majefly's packet PRINCESS ROYRE I , Captain liAMMONU; and this afternoon at two o'clock, the failed for Dover, to be in readinefs to attend duty : the PRINCE OF WALES, Captain HEARN, is in the Roads with the mails of the 9th inftant, and will fail with the &ft. fair wind- FALMOUTH, Ocr. 9.—The Sit SIDNEY SNITN armed brig, Uptain PATSY, arrived this day from Egypt, with difpatches; fhe has been tzweeksonher palrage, and is now put under quarantine, the dif patches after fumigating, were forwarded to Lon don. The DUKE or YORK packet, Capt. Duels, is ordered to take out the mail for Lifbon, 'of the 7th infl. and will fail if the wind (raves on Sunday next. The LADY ARABELLA, with extra difpatches for America, is waiting a fair wind. The Dust or Yi?. c, for the American mail-; and the tZly . sem CHARLOTTE, for the Jamaica mail, are detained until the Preliminaries of Peace are returned from France, when it is expeeled they will ,have orders to nil. Arrived the American (hip Fsir Virginian, Cap tain Davis, from Rotterdam for Norfolk.—Sail ed this d•tyl the LONDON PACKET, armed fhars Lieutenant FEGAN, anti ALFREI? armed brig, with a fleet under convoy for the weflward; and the Stvcdifh fhip ) xpedite, Crptain Nt ELS HAMBERG, with brandy and wine for Cowes. PLYMOUTH, Oct. 10.—Came in the Mary, Cap t.tin GALP, born Memel, with naval flores for this port ; and the MAJESTIC, of 74 guns, Captain G.IULD, from • the Channel Fleet —Sailed the OISEA LI, of 38 7 . ,tins, Captain MURRAY ; and the VALIANT lugger, of 16 guns, both on a cruise. SHIPERNESS, OCT. 11. , ---Artived the MANLPT gun-brig, Lieut. Itlnnoar, Imm Leith. Orders have be,n received this morning for ' the following veirch liing in this port to prepare immediately for paying off, viz. the MAGICIENNE, BRAAIt, DAPH NE, WAAKZAMIEFID, HEISE, and L'Rstson fri ptes ; ALCESTE and SLR APIS flaming batteries ; EXPERIMENT fire-veflel, HECKLE bomb, and BO REAS flop (hip ; with the CRASH, SWINGER, WRANGLER, PINCHER, SPARKLER, FURNACE, FORCE, TEASER, GALLANT, and CONSTANT gun brigs; SCOURGE gun-hoy, and WILLIAM and Foos BROTHERS gun-barges. Laft evening we experienced a moll dreadful norm of thunder and lightning, accompanied with a heavy fall of rain ; the lightning was the molt vivid that has been fecn here by the Weil perfon living. We are happy to hear that no damage has been done in this quarter. Arrived the ZEHR.A bomb from the Downs. The Rev. THOMAS EOMONDS, of Upton on Se vern, Worcefterfhire, has communicated to B. D. PERKINS, of Leiceßerteptare, London, the refult of his trials with the Patent Metallic Traetors.— Among thofc arc fcveral remarkable cures of Rheumatilm, Lumbago, Burns, Inflammatory Tumours ; and one cafe on an Infant, which he Rates as follows : o I have a child feurteen months old, who lately had a Bon blefonse complaint in his note and upper lip, which was highly inflamed and exceedingly fore. It had been in this hate about three week s,and which though we had endeavoured to heal,ap peared to grow worfc. 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