The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1810-03-19 00:00:00

ANNIFERSARV OF ST. PATRICK.

• Saturday, being the entrivervary of St. Patriolr, $
knot numser of the Nobilit♦ and neatry dined a►t
the .New London Tavern, triehopsgste.street, the
esti of Motaa in the Chair. There were Upward.%
of9oo persons present. At half-rent seven o'clock,
the Earl of Moira, Pribillent, attended by the
Stewards. entered the room, the Duke of Kent'.
Bald playing the nit mini sir of Pa(rick's Day.
He was fuliowert by the Marquis of t)uwnshire,
Lord George Grenville, Lord Henry Moore, Mr.
Sheridan, Mr. Parnell, Mr. Henry Grattan, Jun..
and several other persons of distinction. When
the cloth was removed. Nuts Naha Dosaime was stunt
•by Me.srs. Spray, Diguutn, Taylor. Wehbe, and
Master Bugglns.
The following toasts were given, from the Chair,
with three times three—

The Limy.
The /Mild 'domed " Cod Save the King."
TIN Qseeu cud litryal Finally.
The Navy sad Artery.
After which ti!e band played tt Rule Britannia."
The Earl of Motes then rtne to propose the
health of his fteysl Highness the Prince of Walri ;
he cud, the ibustrious individual was so well kisowis
to them all, it was unireee•sary for him to enter
Men a detail of his qsahries and virtues. • Ile hail
to inform them, t nal vim ihustrious Prince had, on
that day, added 1001. more to his former contribu.
nuns. However delic ite he was iu giving the praise
so justly due, he coul I as•ure them, vial the Mutt-
triou• perannagr b id Ireland near his heart. and
would never lose sight of its interests.
The health of the Prince of Wilts was titan
drunk amidst the loudest acclamations.
The chi:fret' sui•mrted by the Society then
entered the room, to the heartfelt satisfaction of
all present. I tie entered in pellet. nes th, and
their eyes glowed with ,; eattitide to thei, benefactors.
When they *Wadies,, and the was over,
his Royal Highness t 1 e Duke of Kent's beads
was drunk, es the Patc•u .1 the S.
The Treas.ire:, Mr. ilst a nstout, then read the
subeeriptio..., mumps -theca em his Roca( High-
ness the Pince of Walt • tool. vie AI Irvin of
Dowushire IOU!. the Argot Hon. Richard ii. She-
ridan SIM Ste.

The Alartvis Down...tax then prepooed the
henl:h of Lord Moirn, wroth wio. drool with en-
thiradoiss.

• Lord Mont--As I ouch grstifi.il by the ho-
nour which 1 hare reee.tcd tram so situriaeruUS and
rehi.uousble an issisau4.lly. I do nut addreas Sou lu
• state of ordinary feeling% I addre-s you at a taint,
and u eso-circuinsoinces, which etioviuer me, that.
that lat. I bat. received is not else ..ictate of
Cold' cooijilticset.-. not of generous feeling. The
rrawsnee in tibiae ii hes been conferred, is uo
gratifyin4 thaa the honour itself. It partook at all
the geueroits warmth with ehareeterises me Voila-
:re,lleo.—(Hear! hoar .1)---1 .'o not anode to the
spec ache yoo imam. pat witnessed, sail ellself, I
am ninade... has Ks toted its proper effect twins
your I will not expatiate on the b. petit.
of the loititutioo. nor atte,not to add a sU-
mulus to your seusihility ; b,•eause I am not
capable of thiuking i• at your orotundity re,jotre..
it. I undo ratand its nature too well to handle it
so rudely.—(Heoe, hear.)-4 know it was impos-
sible for you .0 b. bol I a tineetscle so intetesttne.
without lain4ing h.Line to yourselves such a psrtion
of self applause. as must render the t-etimony of
0, hers ilia 4-tpiate Had s .i.,rfluous ; (hear, hear.)
What sensations dual )ou feel. n. r. fleeting .hat
those childreti, who are to become the future men
and women of [rebind, have torn sustained by your
bounty. and educat d under your aurpiees ? What
must you led, when, at a future .1111,-, in the
feelings said completion of their tilts-, they
reflect back upon their bs!.efactc..., .11 th..e
national caractenstics, which i• i. the pride and
glory of their eintitry to display T Bat it is not
to this that I sin it noxious to call your attell
Cum. a• 'co that which forma the pre-einineut fea-
ture ot this charity. Its tendency to promote and
extesid the growth of patriotism in the heart—
( Hear ! hear !)—Wltea the be :.efaetors and the
benefitted meet together to enjoy the I:.!erchesige of
gratitude and benevolence, it is inip.osiine the,
should not be drawn, by our common imp.ils , io
unite in one love for their common parrot--; -e r
native soil—f Loud gad coatiared cheers!)—Vhe
love of country is, perhaps, of all passions, the
noblest of which our nature is capable. It results
from no calculation of retson, bnt from a feel-
ing inoplauted by the Anther of our being.—
It is a higher order of instinct—en ettaelituent
which forms the best bond of society, and contri-
butes, with msst effect, to whatever is great. and
good. and digodied, in nations. It is that which
raises individuals above the consideration of self—
sod, by making them generous, makes their coun-
try irresistible. It is remarkable, if you trace the
history of all countries. you will find the period
mandistinguished for importance and exploit, is
that its stitch the love of country is most predomi-
nant. Among all the dispensatiosi of Providence,
there is, perhaps. none more beautiful than this—
that, in proportion as a people stoop to grovel in the
mire of sordid objects, ne the mum proportion do
they lose the spirit of resistance. and the Olean* of
stational defence--as if the Almighty had deter.
mined that there ass no correetios for this vice bat
the iron rod of a conqueror. When self is every
thing. and country nothing, they iuvite the yoke,
they bow the neck, and ate trampled and de•graited
in the dust. If then this' servile spirit is of such
detriment to states. how important is it that it
should be opposed, and how can it be more suc-
cessfully prevented than by eberirloing national spi.
rit 1 It is, therefore, that I hail the return of this
day—.tad of all such days.--(Loed ilppioeurs-)
It is, therefore, that I rejoice in those dtstiuctions
I.etweeo us and En land, which hate a tendency
not to entire irritable feeling, but to promote a
competition for the common benefit of both. Once
more I return you my thanks for the honour you
have conferred on nee, and beg leave to drink your
health in return; in so doing. it is my pride. not
merely that yon are my countrymen—not merely
Metres are Irishmen, but men that are anxious to
stack* the front of the battles of the empire; and,
when ilex necessary that the tight should he fought,
to bear the bract of the day."—(Load and reite-
rated opplamtetl.
Lord Mona then proposed ties health of Mr.

Sheridan, which was ieetived with a general btrrst
Rt. applause.
Mr. Secular then addressed the company,
much to the followiug Gent:eines.
return you thanks. in the sincerity of toy heart. for
the honour you hare done me. I was surprised
that the Chairman should ropose my health,
but suppose he was induced to do it fawn an
capthisna of my attachment to our Catiolall
coort-
try, an attachment- be feels toit warmly
in himself. not to "pprvelatte and approve in others.
I um grater& to OA fur burial done we the hooey,
to propose uly health, awl to you, for the very
flattering and cordial dimmer in whirl' you have
drunk it. With respect to him, 1 feel it hut jos.
tice to say, that there is no man, either Irish 'or
English, a a well qualified teethe *qua( Which he
at prevent holds, as the illustrious and noble
iaidivi-
dud who now filly the chair.;—(Lord applause.
—lt •• 'staid ill become me, ge,tlernen. to recall
to your minds the speech which he addressed- to
you but a few momenta since—a speech, in which
every word Came, as it were, red from his beast—
(loud applauseel—and which commenicated in a
Moments stud by an impulse as strong as it was in-
staataueons, the patriotic warmth, the charitable
ellosion, the generous feelings, and sublime duties
of which he was the advocate—(Lord applause).—
He has uttered such sentiments, with respect to Ire-
lintel, that it is unnecessary for me to signify my
acquiescence in them—they are those which I have
always professed myself, and, I hope, the conduct
of my life has been such us to prove that I have
been sincere—(Lard applayse).—With the utmost
propriety and delicacy, your Noble Chairman has
avoided the introduction of politics; he under-
stood the object of the institution too well, to con-
descend to the petty. sad frivolous. awl irritating
discussions attendant upon such pursuits. it.. 7a.
uot 'Oct here for party purposes--we are met f.ir he
purposes of charity, which knows no party, wares
it he that party whose object as humanity, anal
whose conteutinn is to promote the imolai:ll,oc of
benevolence—(Load applauses.) Your Noble
Chairman her toasted a Prince whose mune I caw-
not hear mentioned without offering a few worth;
awl this 1 will say, that' if ever there was a man
worthy of a close intimacy with has heart, it is the
illustrious individual uow in the Chair; and if ever
there was' a Prince quitlified to rule a free people,
I *siert it in those notes when flattery to thrones is
contemptible. it is that Prince whose servant I also
am, and whose service is perfect freedom-slime,
applauses)--a Priuce whose talents and va tWS ren-
der him a .rthy of such a,counsellor as your Noble
Chairman. I deprecate this idea of party in such
a place a% thus, need on such an occasion. At one
tittle I recollect that politics were introduced.
took a part in the observations, mud, perhaps, sheanld
take blame to myself for so ClOhlg ; without mtuo-
mg to repeat the error, I think I may allude to a
song of Mr. Llignuni, whiell savoured uniethiug
iiepolilles, but to which 1 alludes for the purpose
of allayaing, uot irritating such discossiou. The
sen.ialicit to the sot, , to which i allude, ex-
pressed a wish, that the shamrock might cine-
matic to Could) %vier the shelter and protec-
tiou of the proud British yoke. 1 am sure, my
musical friend will take in good humour what
is mewled in rod part; but 1 cannot, even in a
song, allow a seutinient whiiM goes to repareoent the
Irish shamrock, as less necessary. leas capable. and
less itielined than the British oak, to maintain the
arduous c stalest in which both countries are cow-
euitied.—(,lpplaases.)—Peruh the man who would
:attempt to separate their rfrurts, is a cause where
• their ihterests are so united, as that of resistance to
the usurper by whom Europe is enslaved—look to
your witty and your navy. to those who have shed,
and err willing to shed their blood in the de-
fence of their country; how ma :y of them will
you lied here?-1 Load applamses)-1 do not pre.
tend to dictate to my musical friend. but I would
selvage him. as I am sue he consults the taste of
Irishmen. to leave out that doleful canto, (a
hargai ); and if toy poetical talents are not gone, I
think I can famish him with a better, at (east with
one tome adapted to kith taste and Irish spirit ;
instead of w:iiusiig about the British Oak, I would
••y,•that the natural" palisa,!oe of the Shaturoc, is
the Irish Shiite's," (laughing midland applesauce.) I
have been led by the warmth of my fading% arising
fawn die errs flattering expression of your kindness,
to trespass opts,' your attention loaner than I in-
tended. I can only sae, in return. t hut I sin actuated
with toe best wisnes towards the people of Ireland;
that every thhig which sit Inds* idual. humble ain,
an do, they may command ; and that the appro.
batiois of my countrymen ever has been, and ever
slid' be, the tirst object of my political ambition.
.1 do not see how Iran better cona•iude then by giv-
ing you a toast. which is at all times near to my
heart, Prosperity to Ireland."—(Load and cells-
rated applauses.)
The toast was then drunk with enthusiasm.
Lord Moran. then proposed the health of Loci
Henry Moore, Vice-President for the ensuiwi year.
Lod Hasar,llonaa returned thanks. and regret.
ted, that, on loonier occasions, he was obliged to be
absent. He hoped that, in future, uniting would
inserfere with his atteoalancr.
The Paimenene nest gave the health of Mr.
Bainhrul4e, Treasurer. whole euthuoiasm in the
cause of the institution, he said, ass at great as if
he had been born in the Emerald isle. Ile next
proposed the health of the Marquis of Downaliire,
whom he recommended as President fur the en-
suing year.
The Marquis of Dowuntet returned thanks
for the honour they had dour him by aitickii.4
his health, and app aiding him to that high situa-
tion. The sum which he had given to the charity
was small, hut it was given with the greatest •iii•
eerily ; and it was his fixed intention, to Cameral,
by every means in his power, the objects of the in-
stitution. coucluded by drinkin4 the health of
the Comps!!! • _

.
Lnrd GKORGII GesestrAt.'s health being then
drunk, It. Lur.l.hip returned thsakt ; he thanked
God that he wa. l.orro in Ireland. and hoped that
his conduct would he a. strictly Iri‘h es his birth.
/4pp/raiser./ The shamrock which be had worn
in hi. bmwt day wns fatted, blot it had seat its
shoots into ~cart, where they found a congenial
soil.

Lord Moira, Mr. Sheridan. and ntlicrs, haring
withdrawn aLoist one o'ciwit, Lord Cr ...ta Gren-
ville was called to the chair.

In the course of the evening, several soar ar-e
tung—liiithless Emma. by Mr. Srray —The Sprig
iff iltelak , by Mr. Webb; and, besides' serrr..l
Ores, two. appropriate 50n,..1, by Mr. Diguktui and
Mr. 7 aylnr.
The coutpatty clitl not tart • late hour.
ALA oNfAC; FIRE.

i3etween one and two o'clock, this morning. an
alarming fir 'Hoke Ontiit tar innate of Air. Cooke,—
lry, the dimistrutor of 'rah stamps., in New Um..
well-court, Carey-stie.t. Strand; wli:cli, with the
hott4: adjoining. was in a short woe Itro.,' to the
Rummel. The fire coati:toed to rage wait g,..at
violence, anti threatened deoruction to the whole
neighbourhood, non' the arrival of the Lisitroin'o-
Inn engine. which threw au immense body of
wator.and contributed materially to ahate the tu..ir
of the lames. When tibia paper went to pre.s,
the fire had just nat. bed Surgeon erowdet't house ;
but, from the great activity of the fire.nen, there
was ground to hope that they would he able to 'II
red its progress. The immediate neighhourimod
presented a frightful spectacle. Men. %amen, art
Children, half-naked, were atom Hying in every di-
rection. The fire, we understand, look e out
in the lower part of Mr. Coolteal..e'e brit
we could not aseettam whether .olty lives were bat..
Mr. Hartshorn's cow-house adjoin, the .Dirt;
and bis fine dairy of cows were, tor infery. driven
into the open apace at St. CI, ulent'sCle rch, wia. it
they added to the melJneholy of the scene, b) the r
looong and otbet de it onstratioreof terror and ularin.
One cow remained in the house, an wtcontinunly
fine aaitusl, wheh renveito I motionless and pauic-
struck, as no force could drive her oat of the house.

i.Vglih.q T.
On Thursday morning an Ini,sest was enrnmeated
by J. Gatti°, Esq. one of the C.•rouers f..r !lamp-
shire, to literdiode the circumstances iit tend mg the
death of Me.. Ulloek, waft ut At. Thomas Ullork,
parser of LI s Majesty's ship Ap3l/o, who was found
dead in her bed oti N'edoewilay nits!, at Spriog
Gardena, near Gosport, the conte..ts of a pietni
haring passed through her head. Mr. Ulla.. k
and his wife went to bed the preceding night,
in apparent good temper with each other.—At
day-light. the next morning. the unmet-maul
heard a report; Ind mos after Mr. Ullock called
out to the maid to curve dorm stairs. as her mis-
tress had shot herself. The *errant soon cawe
down, found her ruistiess dead, wide a pistil lying
on the bed-clothe•, which were covered with blood.
The Jury continued their investigation the whole
of Thursday, when Mr. Grier a adjourned their
proceedings WI quiturdar. Tiley met according:!.
and, in Ille he again adjourned them till
Sunday rimming, Ve it was expected they would
decide on this cat sterious rase.