The National Register. — London, England, 1820-01-30 00:00:00

-Irlo `• • fel% : + 6 '- . lir . _. NOrtl4 ICU FOX DIN N bit. T fr , r Ike Not le IA Courier.) Iy our account of the la-t commemoration of Mr. tort's birth do,. we mentioned the great utility of occasionally a••embling the Ft icor,. of laherty. The political events bleb have (weltered since we made that ohservation, have turnished abundant evidence of its truth, and the rapid progress which has been made ill Inc plan fort mine ...vs rug, if not totally preventing, all public diseussion of national subjects, proves the necessity of clinging with loci eased fondness to the restricted privileges whit yet ;entrain to Its, and of cultiviniug with additional ardour the few opport tttttt ies which we still possess,et vindicating our isidep en dence. These privileges laud °Noir! tttt itirs me, perhaps, even now depart:lig Eton 11!‘, and it is . bust too probable that the power o( holdin g roil' all osilealblY tis we have this day to describe, will, ere lung, be wrested foon its. 'Cite steps ot despotism are gigantic, and his **peed ineseases wall his proximity to the goal: so mach LAS hypo recently achieved by the euensies of It eedunt, l:iat tin it confidence is become tuilimmiled, and they Salt -111,1;c1) aii.icip•rie,ist nu distant period, the overthrow or ev eiy popular pin ilege, and the vAtilletitill oh every libe ral smdiment. While each passing year renews our sorrow. for the loss of the first of modern patriots, *a feel on the present oc sion a melancholy consolation, in reflecting that lie id n ca ut endure the pails of beholding the dreadful woun d ds *Melt. w ithist the last kw weeks, have been inflicted on that fieedoiti w hich it was the business or his life to defend soil to filet ease. How bitter would have beets his lamest -I.4floris over the cheitges which have taken place in the which he loved, stud how. sleep would have koeii Isis regret for the di.ninntion of those i 1111111 l nines which he held to be essential to the welfare el' his coon te He was, however, spared the pain of secilig the • e ii iire sup p ression of popular assemblies, nor did Ls live to see rite dwellings of his couetrymen exposed Its the ouct wort visits ot the emissaries of power: he was pot couileintscil to be the spectator of is press -trogglitig • reAtrasnts which the boldest Minister of tinnier roars %sunlit not have dated to impose 11 11011 it, nor did he trodure nit:misery of hearing, the a rind shunts of the eriemies of the coustittit• • Bat still we most nut despair; we must profit by his niielity example, and amidst the deepest political gloom it a.. our duty not wily to hope, but to expect with confi dence, the realist alum of our tights. We nowt nut softer ourselves to feint in the contest, bat continue it vigour nosily until we cast let 11l ll ate it by a glorious •ietli(y. It is and only thus, that we can prove ourselves the tine disciples ot the immortal. Fox, and his worthy tot- It•se ••eli in our cause It rr Ihns,aud only tilat ore can tecov cc our natistal iittlependetive, and tiansmit to our posterity the ribrities which we derived is oo: our ancestors. from time to time, renew one exertions in neetitsgs such as this, and let us assemble un d e r the tot.. protection et our Pilllit.l'a 114111 e. His Mighty obliiie Ss la borer ustr in, stimulate true Virgil - IS, suit 011.111) Its to gruerat happiness aud constittitionat live- duo'. The ticketsVssucd on the occasion amounted o 460 ; and, sr ton room w the city was caiiab•e iiiii do large a umber of guests, the Mayor sins Isind etows,,lt to oiler the mc of toe Tubs to hall tor their 10 11t he oiler was iitytt,ll) accepted, an d rouse 114.,.. pieviolib In t no 11itieli the disitirr %s•sa hcI.I, Ilse stewards were t./1 rliitending the hoar...too, and riming% of the 1144111, and eve' honking the oilier pi ep.tral llu Stunitty eveniog toe 13.tidc of Sussex, accompanied by t.e of Alma. irk., it It. Ferioiwut, Mr. Mt. Ittetlustalu, out whets, tit Its ed at Mr. Alderman foster's. During the whole of Mmulay, strangers kept p o uring into Norwien from sitriuus art .1 ter, of the comity of Norfolk ; avid Cou.itieritilly before four o'clock, the hour appointed I a the dinner, tit. 1411 was eonipletel) tilled At a quarter pas: four, the smolt ,114 of the ltiture %%nitwit, and Ilse -LI up of the music u ithio the 14,11, announced theurrival of the Emi of Albettms le, tie Chau man of the Nleri .Y.- I{e was recciv , t l ailh the greatest. mitten:Wm Short after wards the Doke of S :.sex I:.adc lies stepeacaoce, awnd the loudest J Crlanli.l i 0000 sondi Was I eee iveo M Ili; Ilse the ulli.le phis lug " salve the hint,' niv: the col.mtity rustagtill his appina h. The tatblev were ranged in inert Imes dawn the mot, and at toe fold of them, oppossie to lilt 411141111'S of the F, ouch sloe lilt *wax, present ( tl .0 l ae Cur porattou of :s:r C. Berry ; mmther table was placed under a canopy, at is hieh sat lite Chdistnan and tar ILeotlenten iOto acted as :sir's, aids. 'llse canopy was sue mounted by a tratispairitcy of the word " Su-,ex;' nod by . the moth. or 6, Fox" :,1,1141.1 a fret .on sariestated lamps 0011"-itc this catmos it es " Mbr loathe.' similarly inns Haman . I. In she ldle of Ili' cents.• as placed a meant Not of NIT'. Fos, u h *WIC emblematic desires. Antot.g the company proleitt wise, the 140 k t .. ut Suese nti4 ',Sine folk, the I:41 I 4 , 1 Allormativ, the High Stseriti , the Nlaynt of Nora ; Veit: mint Italy ; Lord Moly note ; AirhJtacont Ilothitrat ; Ilun. (1. Kelspel; Hun. Ker. pet ; Hun. O. Walpole, M.P ; luau. (1. Anson ; C,ruretal titetoy ; Sur Itimattl Fe sedum ; S,t K. P. Jadresi, Bart.; Sir T. Recent, Kam ; Sir J. E Sail ; T. W. Coke, M.P.; It. H. Gantry, ; .1. Macdonald, 1: MX.; J. P. linuelaimd, ALP. ; T. W. Coke, jun. Esq. ;1. W. Merest. E.g. M.P. ; Mt. Slit'i Its tor, 11. Jtepisetortn, ll• Piiikes, T. 14. llsesur, Key. I.el, L K. Pratt, S. T. southaell, E. Loathe, N. Nikki,. thwaite, E. litio+ , y, J. Moseiil, .1. T. (ittrtion, B. Leh hard, I. W . Smith, P. 114 11111 l soossl, I. W. 1 liosellstesos, I (spelt, ItMre, A. llee%or, H. Nor:. W. F U N.. ter, A. Hitti,.:ll, W. I)altymple, W. 11. Lttkiti, E. Weirton, 3 . (i,„„ t i, and J F o oke, EsgnU. s ;—ltevereuti•, G. Glo ver, it. F. Llo in, J. Nae cow., 1..1i. Fvsit r, J 1). Button, R. H. Conprr, Chlyet, NV. I twines, awl C. Ho e; S. Stone, Esq. ; Aldermen, Fo.t. I, Massli, Lettish, Dot., It.ltby, mid se vet al other ~eutletneti of property and disslisselluts, liminetll4lely after Inc Moths were tennis/ J, the !Stade Clutirmair lose 41110 Said that Ile C911:411il rtll himself that day the happy gervaiit i411411(1 . 14e11, toaiuhS It) cos to: ;h. id iididuoidgf., 1... requested to lie tii. t ,peaking in the time of voice he thirst word, be Nair tisNl ly lw..aril in 4' 4 , 4.1 . part of Ifoll ; 11 •1•11tiol o nen. cry Ironkr , sir •i the bite aihrinaiit.e, ,11."1 nab', Dwaine, swig sly Setae SAISIC*I4III4IeIIIV, whir sutantcrbbsd tl.l:if services upon It a Tilt NATioNAL. TtEcusvot. thc occasion. Alter which tits Inflow's% toast; were given RBl4l drank :- 1. The King, (in solenin silence.) 2. The Prince Regent. TbeConstituticit according to the principles asserted at the Revolution. (lan% and loutl applause.) The Earl of A tatku a i.e; said, that the toast which c ame next in order, re hated inure immediately to the object for which they were that day assembled together, mat a as -7 " The Immorta l M emor y of Chalk's James Fox," a loch he should propose that they shouhl drink in respectful listener. Perhaps, upon this toast, a Chairman might be expected to offer a lebli you'd*, ;tease Ile proposed it. For hims elf, before hr proceeded to mike such observations as lie th ought it plover to haaard opera the sonject, he vi tilted. to state, that if, nit a former toccwooti, lieu he had t iijo)ed the honour of presiding, (awl lie must repeat, that he used not the word " honour " B,a nu le comity phrase, but In the boa and purest signification m !tint the tel coo id hear ; for Ile did consider it a high honour and a profoitaid distisictimi h. preside over a meeting assembled to testify aplomb:it of the ),ripe s t pies of Mr. Fox, and to pay a respectful tributi In tile memory of I al ail loved and and abuse loss to his imaitry, though Inc polimaney of grit a lnch it first excited bail subsided, according so Inc a i , c ordivanmsof Frovidetice, in the lapic of all smitildr.i time, nas at Ca• prelle moment 11111 x 1 deeply to be ii)—hedept.',r a isiped to soy, that f, when he bad tic &mom of presiding on tit t oecasiollt after being called to the chair by the wishes of hi, friends, lie had thought it in:cos:toy to call upon them for their co-operation acct indui;44 4 ll4 c, he thought it still more necessary to do ail at pre,ent, under the pectili 4rly gratifying which he wits placed, milled as lie had again been to the Chair by the partial proposal .it ins lion. Frieml, s-conet i d too us that pi opesal had been, by tile ;4.4 nrtal appi 'Amnon of those who so. rounded Imo. (Ch. ers.) The id iya ire- stance tit re( eiviog a scrim.% time bitch it distioction at their itands,deautuded of him a return, winch he na, afraid that he should not be able to Direr. (A ;Thine.) 00 tile love occasion he allowed that the meeting had pawed toil' vv. I ; but the Chairman %vita 001 at all the rouse of it. It had passed off highly hi his satisfaction ; h . 4 a hen lie considered the object fur a hieh the laterite% loud been called, and recol lee led that it haul been compost J of perwous differing indeed 141 as men of tree :mods as aay s must 04110' 041 soca topics; united, hots ever, on all great caustittstioual points—united in their a tidies to cs.tablish civil and religious liberty throughout the world —tooled hi their deiermioatiou 141 sup port by every constitutional means the rights mid pl ivtlego of the people— dun their aitnirationi of the coma outwit xs established at the revuletion —united ID their approbliion of the principles of M Fox, as best calculated to support the ovelfare, happitiess, and honour of the coma ry—united to pay a Ii mbute of r.seect to his mentor) ; and in the eloquent languai,e of his ...swotted friend, Mr John Taylor. to " Come to hi, grave, but not to weep, " But freedom's holyday to keep; and so re.i.ter it a meted aitar " rotiod a inch they were to vow It lilleily ;" when lie considered and recollected these I s 1 be felt convinced that, no matter what tile Chair man gleklit have either cone or said. toe meeting etadd not by any possible accident have mat with a failuse. Ail4l, Ito a, supported as the Chair was, on the right haul by an t tieus branch of the !louse of Ileums is k, (loud applause) ever mold:oil of the principles which seated his family no the thruee, (applause repeal( tf) ; 011 the ot het, by an individual place i iu toe first situation in the county (the High alive ill; air %V. Wyndham Dalltag,) allO high and honourable as that sit eat ion ass, did honour to it by the manner lo a 'Orli he dealt .i end its duties, (cheers), he willingly paused; foe if he 41. d not then pause, he .1 oat know o ItCu tie should, espe cially :lb lie Nat/ bilpiio4ll:4l by such a numerous and respectable asseinto as aas never before itwt logethei, 1701011 , 1crill.; the rank, the penile' , the t.,,leeit, and the tespectabilits of thaw a Ito composed it, all lootilog to the Chair nith chrei tog coutitenamcs, and all contributing to the good humour, and, a hat was a still more e-s.mtial point, to the utiii yof the meeting. lie was not going to play the hypocrite, 81141(0 bay that he regretted being placed ill the Chair; by Ito mean,; it was a subject of ;hide anti exulta tion to Il i 11l ; but he was going to my this--that a ben (1, it he ~ a, nothing a itbout !heir co-orerativiv—tle therefore callo * upon them for the it indolgence, asked thew to forgive ithy rire , s whic h Ito in i,,lit commit, (he nue': ranter to have said the many Awoke. • hie !t he stoma! commit), nail entreat lion to believe hum to he mast sincere in his wish to pay i ndivlJus lattention to :4:1 present, and anxious not to give Hai:nee by any mins:atm of iespect. (Loud clwering.)— I laviag said thus much 11*,:alliliog himself, tie should now say: a few words oil the toast he hail to propose to them. Lmt year, vs it was the Pest inoting of oily considerable ex.cia w wen nod been h. Id 'l i mn Me. subject, he had f. It it ill! 41 ty 10 enter at Ico,:th bath into line public and the titivate cat ler of t.r. lux Now that th-s meeting had beco t stab'ish d, and :is lie trusted firmly established, ,tlsal it did b conte as it at re a rallying point to the frt. - nits of the ems. stotitioa, aud an altar to liberty never to be violatcd, it • mild hr useless fur him again to enter lain I?ie,e tupieb.— Of 1 lie priv , to ciiataclel of Nlr Fox he should 11111 say a oink a 01 - 41 ; thine who knew him lost, if their te el ing* would poi init, COUlil !a) Use 1110b1; hut if they - wished to form an opstillilJ 111 his public Char:tett:4 he %%Hold say, " Look to the measure , Ut' 1114144 e 01141 %ere opposed to film; see lilt - tante to 44 1.1191 tir.*y have reduced the empire ; vie* the country as it 44.. b, mid as it ,5 consoler the cinti.ges a hit It have been made in Utr 4•01811111114.11 5111,4. 4101 1.01 1111'1 for 1110 None p.l'elise atilt lliat for a hicks sou ale now absconded, edict ;cited upon tiie resolute lilt a hie Ii lots token ;dace 111 11 once you lust Inca together in this very MIL— ( 1. 110 ,1 eneees.) It they amid coosider the general docteur tent wit 4711 %a% 10111110 a11 ,1,01.1141 Y ittlung the country, iii n, • 040 tenon disaffection— for thr people of latglitiol a• re well alit - Ord to tar IL,B 44a 41 :IA coostitat —(cheris) trot), a 444,1 A-111 411 111,4 udmiui.it of eat s aud from duo sess which could as cam ai ed to tile pressure of ov- tali , tox at —it abet ...ail iet olleet 11 sit the omits, she a shee t auto the distresses ul Ilse people Were owl by loanin ur g not toe ce, mid erc 1101 even 111111111/11 . 41 10 110 b, 1 0.41111111011 g .4141 „.11111.1111114111 —ll 1111.) 14111110 .".'114 . 4: 1 0.1 our .recut t•xlraordtnary 8 , 811140 a malt 1.4 lite .laidlits. lot, 11111 4e of 144 ace, tuna I.le dele,l.oll - It:Mile of 1110 1:414 1111 . 4,1114 14, mio tae details of 0 11, 111141 wnu id Ina 4 titer, 0' it a ;opossum a ill ailing thrill A 440181.011 of the constti Mom. since Oh, owl t,,' ,- o admitted to lie Mack by the al losteis of the t.ro ---illestsur— 414..1 Welt' Ilitibt eficiAilfe nail 1411 4 1114 IlVe e :4l , o ,4 w 0 0 ... .1 le the 0/11,1Tbm 01 Ass-la-Chap -IL. aud plead •g 141111 VI ,of the Hal) A 1111448 4., 84 111. 414 . 11° 1:111.41114tilla 1 a... a•Volli to I . li e•bon. 1%141,11111. t, —ll •1111 I'lo illg)•.-1 114 .•11.1.1 1 %%Dui./ .ink 111 o• , cowl Will 1. bells have been cum ur 4 assume jUblif) 1111: ID on the go ouud of neeelaity, could la. - - ~, necerssty for enactiug thew lutvev‘isted, turd the advice of Mr. Fori been folloued,attd Ills prolvoides steadily acted on! • (Loud cheers ) Ile had sot hi so, mote to add at pErsrat, than to eill °Vibe that they should think ill htlIClllll tekUl e " 1 be memory of I. J. Fos.'• The follow' ing Gong yips (ben sun: b}• Mr. John Tayluu warrior.claims his meed of praise. And lives io martial story But tit• the Patriot let us raise strAins of glory This day, Old England's darling child . Dame Nature Lordly gave us; Than Freedom on his cradle smilcd. And breathed the power to save us. :.wme to Its tomb. but not to weep ; There Freedom's holyday we keep; The sacred altar let it lie Round which we vow to Liberty. In manly youth what thought profound A a eloyience how ghosting ! Wools the MSC sophist to conibund, For freedom ever flowing : When were our native rights a.:sail'a , And Fox sat by unheeding Ili , potent succour never tail d 1V hen liberty lay bleeding. Cho.—Come to his tomb, &c. The Negro's galling chain he broke,. I is rights to conseienee yielded ; Corruption trenibleti while he spoke, The weak oppress'd he shielded : These laurels grace his sacred tomb, Tbus ran his race of glory ; And ages yet unborn shall c.eue Anti kindle at his story. Cho.—Come to his tomb, &c. O Sun of Britain ! set too soon : 0 race too quickly speeded ! flow to the splendour of thy now. ! las darkness foul succeeded ; Now rule a hard anti coward band, And tenor's imps proceed 'cm Ah ! how unlike that gen'rmts hand That soothed the wrongs of frectlom ! Clio.—Come to his tomb, &c. The Burl of A LIMN A six said, that he was How come in the more cwuvn.al pats of toe evenisig'* lusincitb; hots lie FllOOlll get throne% it he did not know ; he would, however, begin well. The IOWA he WOnlli give, as si ttttt as anituunced, would make the vaulted roofs of that hall resound with their acclamations, fur heNsisti going to propose the health of art tilusll.loll% freesnato of the city of Nlllnieh (loud applause)— of an illustrious blanch of the House of Brunswick (i peers), of whom, lie would repeat (for he could say i tithing . mare . pleasing to his Itoviti lin:timers Of inure gialeitil 140 Willa,'" ). that lie w..s mindful of the I iiii pact which seated his family on the throae. Ile would give them the health of a Prince. . who was grate,ul fur the tillectiou and loyalty which the people of ' , meteor,. had always thou a to Ids family, and n ho evinced his gretimde by the best mettles in his power- - • by standitte firm aid as the firm and undaunted suppoi ler of the Helios of the people. (Cheers ) Weie any thing wanting to increase the adinieutiou felt for him by the iitluthitants of IN orfrilk, it would be supplied by his conduct at the present mometit ; by the kind asaecorreet manner in %Web he was now behaving. (In his arrival yesterday at Alsh rlunli I' .stees, he received all onfocourtible ace nunt of the b. alas of his Royal II telioess the Doke of Kent. H is,Roy nlll ighuess, influenced by Hs: affection a hick hr :::to for ills Motto r, had heel' afraid that he should he obliged to forego I he goat ;heat i .. of atteed ine this men jay., a•itl pay ing a tribute of iespect lo the virtues ol the Mush iMei Inall whore memory. they air nom ci.tetniit i lig. Foi moody his Roy al Ili. burst Find that day teecived a fasoureiblr acc ttttt it of he; brother's health, nod I tiey.now bail the pride nod pleasure tit seeing his ILii)al ill ighlie:A ientilighl (Ilene (Cheers). This was so gratify inf, a theme on is huh to discourse, that lie iambi with ease Joel' (em it for a longer time; hut he knew the eagerness a InCO t!i:•y Cat 11, cheer their illustrious visitor, and he shuuld tio refere give tillerce if he detained th; ni any longer firms gratifying, i heir w ishi s. He would Tierclore IllOpOse the health nt the Duke of Sussex with three I hoes three. (loud cheers ) The Royal Duke's health was then drank with liiiii . I ffics I.ine. The Duke of Sussex said, that after the very able manner in which his noble frit nil had introdu ed the preceding t, sat, or ra ther had pro:celled to the commemoration of the day ; and after die very kind manner in which he had notictal Iris presence among them, he (the Duke of Sue•az.) felt considerable dab( ulty in hallowing their noble president, in such a manner as to com mand :he attention of so numerous an assenthly as he then saw before hint, and in explaining the satis'asaion, the pride, and the pleasure, which he experienced in meeting so numerous a laxly, tine in tileir detennination to support the principles of Mr. Fox, which iii his opinion were best calculated for the be nefit of the country. (('beers.) When lie had the honour of being elcteita citizen of Nora ich, hc felt the compliment which v. os paid to Min as he ought ; and he believed that he thed expressed the same sentiments a hien he hail just now avowed t o their worthy I.e)tor, so courteously and so perspicuously, that no per. son coukl mistake them. He wished to testily those sentiments, not only to toe citizens or Norwich, but also o the indtpentlent yeomanry of the county of Norfolk ; and any person Whu said that such piniciplea were revolutionary, ought to Le reminded that tae necessity of a revolution would lie the greatest evil wilds (.Kind befall this country. Stine we had been engaged so much in thretgn wors e we hail imbibed foreign ides., and were apt to express them in foreign terms. For himself, he had prate in boasting dial be bad been burn an h'nhitshintin and that he had ileeti an Englishman, iota he could 11-slant: them that it wax his intention also to time an Englishman. (Loud cheering.) Now, he had been told that time wont constitution was an OthellS ;tad disagreeable testy: ; but it was One of that nomenelattire winch lie mow admired ; beenuse, when be heard the wird constitution, lie recollected the word compact; and if be was to get rid of the talnli•ACl. Minell placed the lioUse 01 n.,,nswiel. on the throne ul these kiligduillii, he should not lye a where to lookfor u home, (Cheers.) Dome truths acme 1i...t ; and he Men tine ti.ad, that it (abets sere nut to bttais t ter Ciiiiip;:ft with hint, he ought to take:care not to break his compact with them. (Cheerio,,.) He was gad that they accoreed with that seta:intent, because if' they cook! •itit set out on a : if ,i , . onder• storming, they h. sir could curve at last to the sate. eeciusion. lice eIOM, as they limit ;;Leaner, Ai. lust position. :-.: ... S.O doubt but they would accrue to has las plow then dm s.• • , old. and *Dal wa • the constitutton 1. W e site told tart we ~it rights • OHO 101V114, ,, , and %OlnellAng 1110:e, Vi:.leil IOW been 14 , 1:10na. - lily tielineil ny certain high illiilialltri anaingst us, ii, such a teatime' 111.1 ii ,ne 01 us mind understand, and they ;e• toselves c..,.0f out cianpreli nit. 'They talked or one thing, a , •! c% :cently ;;; ea .. elites. In -jolt, I.,:ey mystified us: .1" , '.'• e t , cvcr I. iii ant w ati A hat sit. toUliik : u as, vicy rui.,-t', A vi:aittottt coact tear. An lenglisionan left! ! Why it is hot in our blood I (1.911 d (hers.) He maid tell lilt Majesty . * mull" ~, ~