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M ONUMENT TO MR. W.ITT. catered *gnaw of die Intone in which his Lordship had paformed
. —esesom-- the task of presiding on that occasion. .ft was delightful to him to
hear the praises of Mr. Watt from those who were so well qualified
Verterday *Public Meeting was held at the Freemnsoe's Tavern, to judge of his gratifying peculiarities. it was the singular glory of
tq cor.sider the propriety of erecting a monument to the late Mr.
~ , the world in which they lived that the humblest individuals who had
Jame.' 'Watt. The Meeting was numerously and Ix"; re*Pedwthl loh theiraide weekend talent, might riteby the exercise of their own
attended. Among the most distinguished persons present we 0h..,. 'talents to the highest stations, and were proud aficenards to recog.
saved Lord Bexley, Sir James Mackintosh, lik• Hrlawmtht Mr, : wise the steps by which they ascended. (Cheers.) Party feeling
(Redstone. M.P. ; Sir James Graham ; Sir It. Wilson, N. ; i was here forgotten. In tire reign of seienee and of thought,
Dv Isaac Coffin ; The Chancellor of the Exchequa ; Mr. Seat. I their reelingti, „
' unmixed with hexer matter," prevailed—they ex.
earl Peel, Mr. S. Lushington. 31. P. ; Mr. Chants Grant, Itl•P•; I treated themselves froin the trammel% of polities! distinction, and
MT. leron,oham, 111. P.; Mr. Lyttleton, 51. P. 1 Mr. Frankland rase into the light and luxury of a purer region. The DOB. Gen-
Lew:vi, M.P. ; Mr. Wilberforce, 31. P. ; and the tall of I tleman concluded by seconding the resolution.
Alnn!een. I The Earl of Lie Emmet. said, that before the names of the
The advertisement convening this Meeting spoke of Mr. Watt, Committee to whom it was intended to submit the management of
and justly, as the benefactor of his own country, and of the world.'i this undertaking were read over, he was &serous of stating, that
Indeed. it is impossible to contemplate the character of Mr. Wattl public business alone prevented 31r. Canning from attending, but
withent the deepest regard for his memory. The strergth of his Ihe had that morning received a note from that Gentleman, in which
intellect, the originality of his geuine, the depth of his judgment, he stated that the object for which they were then assembled had
and the application of all these qualities to the practical purposes his cordial approbation. (Cheers.)
of life, conferred upon him an eminence far beyond any man of I The revolution having been put by Mr. Brougham was carried
his time. England has, by his death, sustained an irreparable with loud tnplarie.
loss, and we do not mean to undervalue the object of the present I The Earl of LivEstroon ecturned thanks, and the meeting then
Meeting when se say that the tribute of those, who could not have i perratA
been insensible to such merits, would have come with a more be.l n concleding our nereesseily limited notice of this interesting
oaring grace, hod it evinced itself before his removal to another meeting, we feel an anxiety to suhjetin the opinion of an enhglit.
world. ' ened foreigner, on the menus of Mr. Watt. It will be read with
tine o'clock was the hour appoioted for the Meeting, bet it was: attention, for the author from whose work it is taken has estabish-
nesrly two before the Earl of Liver el took the Chair. on the lilted his reputation for unprejudiced and sound feeling, and the
motion of the Earl of Aberdeen. Hit Lordship haw, that they language in which it is conveyed is not unworthy of the sentiments.
mew assembkd there for the purpose of paying a tribute of respect . Let the reader imagine himself at the canal which joins the Clyde
and gratitude to one of the most extraordinary person that thts . to the Frith of Forth. for there the interview occurred :
ceuntry had given birth to. It would not be denied, that among: " Here we were introduced to Mr. James Watt, an old inha-
the beveracors of mankind few hail equalled Mr. Watt in the pm- . Meant and civil engineer of Glasgow. It was with a respect (save
duce° i of those powers which contribute so match to human in.
Mr. thipin) mingled with admiration, that I saw this line old
duncy. Ile had, by his perseverance, ingenuity, and genius, aug. ; man, of 113 years of age, preserving the vigour of his mind as
men ed the resources of this country, and conferred great blessings , well as his physical strength. He informed me of a variety of
on the world. His private worth was in perfect conaistency with i particulars relative to the progress of English itirlizstry, of which,
with his genius, and his .11 y, deeply sensible of the obli-;
his more than any other individual, he has accelerated the advance-
el. as epidermis by him upon this country. had commanded that t went. It is id Mr. il'att that England owes, in a great measure,
taste should be set clown to the subscription fee 3001. (Cheers.).. I the increase of her wealth within the last 50 years.'
-Sir II n )11PlInir DAVY rose 10 repine the first Resolution. He
sail f.e ought, perbsps, to apologise for rising so immediately to
address the meeting, btu as the distinguish al individual to whose'
merits they were anxiobs to pay a just tribute, owed his fame to his
scientific acquirement", and was a member of that Institution over ,
*lnch he (Sir H. Davy) presided, he would be permitted to speak
N' his merits. The steals engine, before Mr. Watt's time. had t
been a rude machine, and his improvements were not fortuitous.
(Hear.) Hs dared to venture on the description of that
beam
power ; rib a would better become a more expericiecal
maw. That * wen written on the memory of an ancient phi.
lamps was inset' Mike appliathle to Mr. lratis—ni once is mo.
witioniestoi cfreseaspice (Hear, hear), and where was the place,
whether on the surface, or below the eanh, that did not tell of bins
and his 'senates. His memory would live as long as chinned so.
ciety existed, but it became those, who had known and regarded him,
•to crests a testimonial of their gratitude, in memory of his many
diewieings. (Hum) He should therefore move—
" That die late Mr. James Watt, by the
.profound science and
original minims displayed in his admirable meentione, has, more
than any other man of his age, exemplified the pracjeal utility of
knowle4ge, enlarged the power of man over t*. i external world,
and both multiplied and diffused the convenience and enjoyments of
butnan life."
Mr. BOLTON (son of the partner of Mr. Watt) seconded the
*evolution. Ilia intimate friendship with Mr. Watt would not jus. I
cify his addressing that assembly, hut as he was acquainted with
tbe
_philosophy sod science of Mr. Watt, he might be permitted
ill allude to deem. lie. Bolton read from a written paper a very
elaborate r imisfactory account of Mr. Watt's various inven.
amen and conclusion gave his cordial support to the resolution.
The resolution was adopted unanimously.
Me. Hnsaissox, in moving the second resolution, observed,
that if there were any individual who could doubt whether Mr.
Watt deserved to be ranked amongst the first benefactors of man-
kind, that individual, he thought, had not well calculated the in-
flame of physical science upon the moral condition of mankind.
(War.) The economy and abridgment of labour were, in his opinion,
new facilities for improving die condition of society. They atford-
ed the means of exciting, even in the most untutored minds, flesh
wants, and fresh desires; and if he wished to illustrate this he
sash. say, that not half a century had passed since Cooke was
wondered is tiered& Islands by savages, and how were those as-
tags since civilised, and how great were their mince, and how con.'
Oda:01y were they Poised in the scale of civilise) meekly ? If this
was the beneficial influence a economy and ahridgmet,t of labour
at that distance, was it net fairly inferential, that, in this country,
their benefits were much tno:e extensive. When they were led to
consider the propriety of erecting a monument to bit. Watt, let
not his unobtrusive omens while living be supposed to disqualify
him from sharing posthumous celebrity with those whose minium,
tho igh more brilliant, perhaps,' were not so substantial. (Hear.)
be moved. that the benefits cohferred by 111 r. AVatt on the whole
civilised ward, has been first and most experienced by his own
country, which owes a tribute of national gratitude to a man who
has thus honoured her by his genius, and promoted her well being
by his discoveries.
Sir J. hlace txwosat said, he had now to perform the duty allot-
ted to him, that of wonting tbt resolution proposed by the Right
lion. Gentleman. He felt it would be dnbecoining in him to de-
cline the honour of parthipating in the sentiments common to ell
who had with such ability spoken upon' this question. The name
and character of Mr. Watt might justly be presented to them in a
double point of view. Had he been known merely for his scientific
ansinmente, his time would have been handed down to a late pos-
terity—had be been merely the inventor of useful arts, his Maas'
would havemarked an epoch in the progress of mankind in the arts
of life. Hot Mr. Watt alone, as far as he had heard, combined
these two character', and having made the greatest discoveries in
science, he had applied these discoveries to an immediate object.
No man mamma entitled to the thanks of his country, and of all
mankind. The debt of science to his memory had been paid by
the President of the Royal Society. The debt of the State by the
responsible Ministers of the country, of which he was one of the
briediteet ornaments. The people generally were not deficient in
acknowledging the merit of distinguished men. It was absurd to
speak of Mr. Watt, but as one of the most illustrious bene-
factors to the world, and his achievements exceeded almost
all imagination. His discoveries were truly wonderful. He
really in contemplating such exploits could not help occasion-
ally indulging trembling hopes, that he would not willingly expose
to the eye of dwocorcenthat there were undliscovered,in the volume
of nature some mighty and magnificent projects. lie had himself,
in company with a Mend near him (Mr. Brougham) witnessed a
most delightful and interesting assembly—the Mechanics' Institu.
tines and he there saw UM mechanics listening with the deepest at-
tention to the lecture of a scientific man, upon a purely scientific and
epparesuly, to them—but only apparently—a remote subject, and
when the lecturer had concluded an intellectual plaudit issued
from that assembly. lie rejoiced that this personal was brought
under the consideration of the Meeting in the same year that his
Majesty. with a peculiar liberality, had given, not to the noble, or
the tristocracybf the land, but to the public at large, an opportunity
of improving and gratifying their taste, by witnessing some of the
noblest spairnems of the Fine Arts that had hitherto been given to
the world The Honourable Gentleman concluded by seconding
the resolution.
The question was then put, and the resolution carried with
unanimity.
Mr. Boottonam rue to propose the third resolution, and he
was received with much applause. Ile said he felt thanklnl for
being permitted to propose a resolution, embodying, in a pi eetical
form, that which he trusted would be the unanimous sere ef this
meeting. He knew that he had been selected for this euneve, in ,
consequence of an attempt which he had made, to Inen; science
Within the reach of the humblest classes of the tt ken' of this
country a and the effect of which effort, however :able, would
probably be to draw forth from the humblest classes of ameety
many men resembling him, whose name, once obscured, now
shone forth with a lustre at once brilliant and enduring. lie bad
had the happiness to be acquainted intimately with Mr. Watt,—and
they only who knew him by his public me.its, prodigious as they
were, knew but one-half of his worth. (Hear.) A mere candid—
a more skilful—a more unmanning man—one more scrupulously
just and nice in all his actions, he hail never yet known, and
ape of the most extraordinary circumstances connected with his
history was, that with the great versality and variety of his
talents, and his many accomplishments, he brought to every
subject, not merely an accuracy of expression, but a critical
exactness *et made his phrase as peculiarly felicitous as Isis disco-
veries were Moiety enginel. (Hear.) Such were some of the
distinctions ohu man whose memory they had assembled to ce-
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leb-ate, and that man's memory he had to propose that a mo-
nuntent should to raised. This was not necessafy few his fame—
his mem my would last as Img as that element which h: had
IrsL But to preserve that memory fresh In the public
ad to encourage in that class of society from which
he shone forth, a generous spirit of distinction, and for their
own gratification, they should place some testimonial to his
memory in the elace where, of all others, it was most litting
that he who In his life-time had so largely contributed to the
benefit of mankind—not by die sword of slaughter, but by
the arts of peace—should have some memorial placed in the
T. mple of that God whose religion spoke peace and good-will to
mantled. He should therefore move, that a monument be erected
to Isis memory. either in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul's or in
the Collegiate Church of St. Peter's, Westminster, and that a sub-
weription be forthwith opened for that purpnee.
Alt. DYVTILETON seconded the resolution. De was quite cer-
tain that the English public, in the natural spirit of rivnlry, would The East India Company', outward-bound ship Earl of
ever point to the neenumeut of Mr. Watt as one of the proudest Balcarres, was all well on the 6th of April, in lat. 24. SG.
specimens of her superiority. south, long. 30. 41. west.
Mr. Secretary PEEL said, that although he was perfectly satisfied
Yesterday the despatches for Bengal, hy the ship Prince
that as fat as human iagenuity was concerned, justice had been
elms to the merits of Mr. Watt • yet as he was one who owed all Regent, were eloed at the East India House, and deliveted
that be poesessed Sr Timidly wealth, to the ingenuity and intelligence to the Parser of that ship.
of such benefacton (loud cheer") and the honest industry of the Su FRWOOD Lonnr.—lt has been erroneously stetted in
people; be thought he was peculiarly interested in this subject. some of the morning papers, that Lord Darnley had put-
(Cheers.) It was with the deepest satisfaction that he gave his err.
chased. airs. } itzherbort it villa • it is true that his Lord-
dent support to this measure, not front any increase of fortune
through Mr. Watt's intelligence derived, but because he was proud ship has been in treaty, but there are many other noble-
tit having sprang from the same class of society with that distill- men who are equally anxious to become the possessors of
guishul individual. (Loud cheers.) The Right Honourable Geo. this splendid residence.
dernen concluded by giving his support to the resolution. The Bill for the reversal of the attainder of Lord Staf-
The resolution wet carried unanimously.
ford was read and passed in the House of Commons on
The Earl of ABEHDEEW mused the next resolution, that a Frida This confers the title on Sir George Jerningham
Committee be appointed for carrying the preceding resolution into i t
i and his heirs. In the preamble of the Bill the reversal is
effect.
Mr. PWANILAND LEWIS seconded Oils resolution; and the said to be made as an act of justice, whereas, in the re-
names were read user, and the resolution adopted. I vcrsal of the other attainder*, the preamble of the Bills
Mr. Went:woo', then proposed that the amens of this meeting statist them to he made and confirmed as acts of grace on
should be given to feed Liverpool for his coraluet in ths chair; ..
be
conveyed to his dis. time •part of the Crown. This is a very flattering distinc-
and that the grateful -ense of the mating
jetty for his most munificent benefaction. i lion to the family to whom the title is conferred, as it ad-
Mr. Winaxat °ACE seconded the resolution, expressing his wits the original injustice of the deprivation.

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Ve!afore, Spark (Mitehiewm), from Petersburgb.
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Unity, Scotland (Smith), from Riga.
Mater, Brady (Smith), from Petersburgh.
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Tartar, Barker (Willcox), from Leghorn.
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Rolla, Sims (Richardson), from Venice.
Argo, Brightman (Jackson), from Naples.
Jane, Brown (Bentley), front Oporto.
Liverpool packet, Bloomer (Archer), from Lisbon.
Union, Geddes (Nelson), from Riga.
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Kingston, Bowen (Parker), from Calcutta.
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Blagdin, for Oporto ; and Lord Suffield, for Archangel.