The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1822-09-03 00:00:00

TO'THE PUBLIC.
AGREEABLY to my usual custom, I hereby
stale the Scheme of the New State Lottery at length,
sad though I have, heeetofure, in the brat iaaiance avoided any
commend, leaving you to decide on the merit of the Schemes
submitted, I cantata in the p I ease help deviating from
my general risk, as I have great satisfaction in stating the
underneath Scheme has my most unqualified approbation,
and I feel coafidt tit you will sanction if and give at your sup-
port.—l have the b to be your deemed Servant,

- T. NISH, Block-Broker.
Stale Lowry omen. No. 4, CornbiB,
sad No. 11, Charing-Cross.
OLD ENOLISII SCHEME.
3..,.0f.... £20,000 Money 160,000
2 ..... .... 10,000 Money
S ......... 5.000 Money . lO 000
3 ......... 2,000 Money
10 ...... ... 1,000 Money
tO ......... 500 Wiley lO 000
20
• . .. 200 Money
Ma ........- • 40 Money
__ -.

...... 20 Mon.,. ....se—. RAMO
..... 10 Morey .... • IMMO
30000 Tickets. tlllO,OOO
Bevan droning 30th OCTOBER; Second D.y,
NOVEMBER; Third Day, 2611. NOVEMBER; Fourth
Day. Sib DECEMBER; Fifth Day, 17th DECEMBER;
Sixth Day, 23d DECEMBER.
The Tickets are numbered No. 1, to N 0.10.000, and all
wed in Ilse Wheel at once, before Ike First Day, •0.1 rack
drawn singly, each dreading its own fair. and nu other.

FAREWELL DINNER to MR. CANNING.

LIVERPOOL, AUGUrT 30.
A public dinner was Ibis day given by the ishabitents of
Liverpool, to afford them as opportunity of taking leave of
their representative, Mr. Canning, on his departure for In-
dia. None of the inns being considered sufficiently large to
accommodate the Dumber also were expected to attend, the
use of the Lyceum was given fur the occasion, hut such was
the demand fur tickets, that long before the appointed day
there was not a sigle admission left andtsposed of; sad we
are given to understand tbat as bigb as ten pouods have been
offered and refused for a ticket.

like hour of dining wa■ onmed for 6.e o'clock, before
which upwards of 400 geutlemen had seated tbeasselves at
table.

Al dye Mr. Caneieg entered, and was received with loud
and repeated cheers. He was accompasird tub the room
by Lord W. Sentinel, Lord G Bentiock, Sir R. Holt Leigh,
.1. Hope, Earl , Advocate, Mr. II Wilbraham, IL P., Mr.
Courtensy,lll.P., Mr. Kirkman Finlay, Mr. Gladstone, ALP.,
Mr. Deckhouse, Mr. Chimicry, Sir. Littleton, mid seveial
other friend,.
The dinner, which was of the moat sumptuous de.ges I ptiun.
being ended, sod the cloth removed, Non Noblt Dentine was
sung.

The CHAIRMAN (1. B. Honing-ahead, ) proceeded to
the toasts in the order in which they were set down
in the carols. •
" His Majesty, the King, Duke of Lancaster;" fuer
times four. This toast was received with loud and repeated
'heeling. Song—God save the King.
" His Royal Highness lie Doke of York, sad the rest of
re Roma Fanaily." land—Duke of York's Werth.
" The Army and Navy of the Vuited Kingdom." Band
—Whorls, strike home.
"The House of Brunswick, and may they never forget
the Principles which mated them on the Throne of them
Realms." Glee—Hail, Star of Brunswick.

Three toasts were also received with repeated cheers.—
Silence having been obtained—
The CHAIRMAN said lie perceived that the assembly
anticipated the tout which he was about to give ; mid he
also could anticipate the acclamation and entbusissis with
which that toast could be sereived.—(Applause.)—However
flattering it might be to the friends and couetituente of hia
Right Hon. Friend Mr. Canning, to see him selected to ad-
minister the government of British India, the must impair.
teat settlement belonging to this country, taking it either
is • popular or commercial point of view ; but high es that
'Ace was, sad great as were the interests depending epos ifs
pine administration, still, he would ask, woe it nut pounble to
Ax upon some other highly respectable cherneter, rather thus
take from this country Its most enlightened and experienced
Stairsonse—(Cheerel—and Gone the House of Commons its
most skewed orator and brightest °slimmest ?—(l.oud cheer-
ing.)—He (Mr. Hulling-head) still Indulged a hope, that eir-
rin.tanees would yet arise so p end retain his Right
Hon. Friend among them. With these few observations, be
begged to propose the fullowisg toner ;
" Our highly distinguished Representative, the Right
Hon. George Canning, with our cordial thanks to him for
his eminent services; our deep regret for hie separation
from us; with our •inert and heartfelt wishes for his health
sail happiness : nine times mdse."
It is impossible to describe the enthusiastic (replier with
which this toast was drank. The clieeiiiir la►ted fur several
minutes, and when, me, partial silence tiring obtained, Mr.
Canning attempted to tier, they again buret forth, Bed were
continued for • considerable tune.

Mr. CANNING rose evidently moat affocted ; he several
limes inward. to speak, but be was prevented as much by Ina
feeling*, as by the loud and reiterated cheering with which
be was greeted from all parts of the room. Silence hiring
been at length obtained, the Right Honourable Gestlem. o,
proceeded to address the meeting in nearly the followi•g
terms:—Gentlemen, often as I Ease had oceasioo to ex.
press my acloowledgmeots for the kindoessts I have received
from my comitituesits, I have never risen 'ease feelings so
suppressive as those which now overpower me. It is sot that
your kindness is strange to me, for it began at an early pet Led ;
it begat, when by your unsolicited selection I became yonr Roe
presentative, and it has grows sod strengthened with the
growth and streogi h of our acquaintance. Bel, Gentlemen, this
crowniog kiodness, at a moment when I have come to refutes
you my sincere thanks fur the past, and to terminate our
immediate connexion for At future, is truly overeoming,
and almost deprives me of the power of expressing those
ferliogs which it so naturally inspires. Let those who doubt
of the excelletiee of the British Coostitution look opals
the assembly by which I am surrounded—let them oh.
were the situation in which I stand, without nny
except to your good will, bat that of having boontly eat tied
and obtained your good opinion, and, permit me to add,
affeetios, by the conseieolioss discharge of a duty which it
was as much a pleasure as as honour to discharge.—(Cliern..)
Gentlemen, a country in which sock feelings car be roused,
• Constitution, the faithful support of which draws forth
such cheering approbation, ens sever Disk under npprebeude
ed despotism on the one hand, or fall • prey to faction or
party on the other. In such a country, no dread toed Ito
entertained of the ruin of all that is valuable its piablic,.or
deer and estimable in private life.—(Applause.)—Gentle-
men, there are other roads to popolsrity and to power
than that which I hare followed. The tenure of power may
be confirmed by undeviating subserviency mid obedieoce;
but there is still another road to the attainment of both.
There is a rued to the attainment of popularity by holdinz
out to tie country a remedy for every evil,' whether per-
assent or temporary; by attributing the woks of
vidence to the mise.ndect of Government, and by point-
ing out every visitation; however unforeseen, to their min
government and misrule.—(Applause.)—Tbere is • road
to popularity and power by inflaming the passions of the
Multitude ; •by letting theta that such and such mamma are
thecettoory to the salv•tsuit.of the country I in • wordy by
at-
tempting to ride upon and direct the whirlwind of Reform.
..-(Applause.)—To neither the our course nor the other here

1 felt it for my honour eie my duly to lead my elf. 1 know"
while 1 say this tint I am by mine considered a compro-
mising politician fur having, as has been said, lent myself
to measures of which I did not thoroughly approve, while,
en
the other haul, 1 111 TY been held to be an unpopular
Representative, herniae I disdained to feed mad Palter
the passions of she peolfle—(Chem)_/..,, Gtnslemen, the
people are open fu flattery as well as Kier.. 1 hava been
held to be au unpopular Representative, because I have
openly spoken Or truth, wisen to do so was to risk the
tenure of populatity. Poe, Groikinen, I &suit it not tw-
ceriaary to 11• vtate in soy insinsice Gnus the line of conduct
which I had follon ell et miler to °him, nod mra;„ your rood
will ; it was not tweets ny to do so in OMIT to create our at-
tschmeot or support our ecrewexion. I foiled you roar-
pawed of ',croons of ronfl.cting interest• dill...rent
opi-
aseas; but I found also 11111ddlr you a temperance and mo.
deration from which resultiel the purest loyalty, eembined
. with she striciest independence sod lure of freedom, but
cart Oleg wish it se nhboereoce of the licentsousienn aMaitig
fruni its abuse. It is by sympathising with your feel.
lags, aml acting es far as I could I. asmeeelmee with your
openness, thaP4 hare eottlieroured to esne-Nyour good will ;
but I ens awe that with all my endeavours aria, sets I have
nut siteeented in earning or deserving that excess of ktad.
saris with which you have this evening overpowered me.—
(Cheers.)..-Wilen I have had the honour of addressine my
constituents cm roister occasiens the soak has beta mire
east, because I be topics upon which I had to speak were ad-
dressed to Own. feeling.. We have had great straggles to
cheer, and emit victoria le celebrate; suit on inch urea.
lion, we all know what allowance to make fur party discos-
.ion and municipal triumph. Nut now, deeply as I feel, sad
winch as I wish to Rektioo ledge, the kiwi and enrrm' ges-
t...lions of my frieods and supporters, I cannot help feeling
that I am most peculiarly circumstanced. It is, however,
Genticmi n, n p. coliarity as honorable and as glorious to
she town of Liverpool as it is to me, namely, that in this
town I have not one political enemy—(Cheers.)-1 shall ewer
consider this day as one of the proudest is my life; for I
have in the course oft he morning,Gent limes (you will pardon
the bout, fear it it a rircuiesience which lies near tu my bears),
I Lave this morning received from the amocieted commercial
bodies of Liverpool, au acknowledgment far beyond ally thing
that I have done or endeavoured lode is favour of my constitu.
cuts. On looking over the signatures of the deputations who
represented these bodies, I find that every Si cord name at least
is that of a man who hes bean actively curetted is opposing my
election—(Cheers )—Tbst I hove deserved this high distinctiun
I cannot pretend to stale; that I have received it shall be
mg pride and boast to the latest hour of my life, and at my
death I shall transmit it to my children as a sure and con-
vincing proof, that in .this happy country, and under our
free Constitution, • man has only to discharge his public
duty fearlessly stud honourably, is order to obtain sooner or
later that reward to which • just and anxious discharge of
that public duty entitles him—(Cheera.)—l need hardly say,
that such a testimony of respect as that S. which I have
•Ilndril, while it sail.fies the doubta which I a ily en-
tertained with respect to my competence properly to dis-
charge my duty towards persona entrrtainnig, in some in.
stances, opidoes directly oppomil to mine, must disable me
from referring acrimoniously (indeed, an acrimonious feel-
ing I never est.rtained) to the conduct or doctrines of those
who have hems adverse to the cause which we have uadeviat-
hotly supported. Never have I known the miser to which our
coolest. bare gives rise nit vire the subject which occasion.
ed it. I kilos, nut whether there be now meat any person
differing politically from me, kat I wish to say that while I
steadfastly adhere to my owe opialitems. and Hier* the occa-
sion makes it necessary that I slanilil renspit•lnte those upi.
whom, I am most desirous to avoid saying any thing cake-
lilted to (offend those who differ from me, or who may have
from a feeling of duty opposed my election. It so hap-
pened, that when I came among you there existed • great
war—a war which, while its success was doubtful, gave
rise to vents's% opinions as to the policy of entering into
it; but at the seccersful termination of which d
verse opioion was drowned in acclamation mid rejoic-
ing. There were then, sad there still are, two great na-
tional questions in which I have taken • prominent part.
On the one, 1 bare had the misfortune IV differ from
the great body of my dearest and most respected friends ;
on the other, 1 have had the happluess of agreeing with
)on in opposition to our common adversaries. I allude
to the questions of' Catholic Emsnripstioo and Paella-
neeistary Refits. Oil the first subject I am well aware;
and in the first speech which I bad the honour of addressing
to you in Liverpool, I moduli, declared that I had the mis-
fortune of differing from those with whom I was its the habit
of generally agreeing oil political subjects ; aad I told my
Coostilueett, that in accepting me as their Represeotative,
they elided one who eupporltd,siol would not abate • single
jut of his anxiety or exertious for the success of that ques-
tion. Accordingly I have taken every opportunity of most
. strenuously supportieg the questionuf Catholic Emeacipstiou
in •hateeer modificatime It has bee. discussed. I dealt ho-
nourably with you on the UreCallioll; and though 1 have
rarely give. an opinioa which was not that of my cumin-
Mews also, I net pl in knowing that upon that occa-
sion I spoke the general sense of the country. I have not
in any isistsnee compromised your rights; 1 have gone for-
ward in what I conceive to hr the slinicht pall of duty, and
neither here nor elsewhere have I reason so repent of my per.
stn:ranee. Were 1 le remsiti in this country, and again
represein you in the Wyse of'Communa, 1 ellipsoid pursue the
seine course, no matter what meracuess it might give me to
differ in opioiou ;rem those friends whom I so highly n sped.
I, however, think, and as I shall nut, perhaps, have an oppor-
tunity of elating it elsewhere, t am anxious to take lids lime
to mafiosi it, that after the struggle which him been made
upon the question foe the last ten year., I 51601114, as an iir-
dividual, he iacliot d to advise that it should be treated as
queation of compromise, rather that, one of an unquali.
fied nature, as it has li:therio bees argued. I feel as deeply
and as anxiously now for the success of this minnow as I
did at any former pi riod of my life. Bet upon grounds of
political expediency, and looking to the peace of the
ceuntry, I confess I should he ready to accept what I think
by a comerersiise might be obtained, adjourning, bur
never abandoning those points which I conceive to be as
present matters of hopeless litigation. In the House of
Contemns I should perhape bare hesitated to express sheet
opinion., because these is is salutary Jealousy estertaintil by
the public at any change of opinion by • public man ; a jea.
lousy which makes it safer to pursue what is hopeless, rather
the. seek to obtain what by • compromise might be bad, and
thereby subject one's 'mischief to public riiseonstrection.
' But I say it here, for here no euspicion of improper motives
can attach to the declaration. I hinted at this in the course
of ',cent debate,. I was anxious to preserve the peace
attic country; I wished that we should have bresthiug time;
I wished to semove one great gauge of discussion and com-
plaint, reserving for a future period the introduction and
accompletheseat of that inane complete arrangemesit; of which
I, for one, shell never forego cape. tstion—(Applause.)--Gen-
tlenien, I now turn to the second Titanium, that of Podia-
watery Reform, with which, perhaps, more than the other
my name has beru connected; connected too in • way
which has drawn urn one winch popular olnerentlion, and
often much popular obloquy. They much mistake owe who
-mappese that I impute to the rupporters of reform • perfect
e„„wir,ix,.ne what the principles which they advocate would
lead tor* No! Gentlemen, it is with their doctrines I quarrel;
and I wow wish, as I have ever, dime, to discuss Muse doc-
trines argumentatively, and nut vituperatively. I wish
those persons who cry out for reform, to Piste to me, to
stale to themselves distinctly the objects they have is view,
and their means of attaining those objects. Do they ground
their necessity for reform upon the fact of our having been
engaged in expensive ware, our baying bees engaged in Wag
and protracted struggles on Om Cotangent Do they advocate
' N up she Wood of heavy taxation and severe legislative coact.
meats ? Supposing them their grown& for reform, sad grant.
Mg, for argument sake, that they are tree, the* 1 ask, is it by

the Hosts, n* Commons alone skit these sets have hero now.
timed? Du they charge them as the arts of a single body'
Has no nortion or coeflrweetioss been given by member As-
sembly to lbose easetnieuts? If there be mother. Assembly
essospersinig wish she House of Cosfisiouns, then, I say, a Re.
farm of she House of Comm..., is usigaiory, without a co-
ordinate Reform of that other body also.—(Cheers.)—l yut
'this plain question, and I have never yet met the man who
would answer it satisfactorily. If yeti reform the House of
Commove, pray whet are your intentions with import to the
House of Lorelle?—(Apolause.l—lf you wish • Reform on
the ground of the House of Commons hatetag sanci•oned
she war with America; if yen wish for a Referee on the
ground of the HO•ive of Comirions h•ving ssuctisnied the
war with Franee,sinking for • moment she fart that war with
America was the war of the people, sinking the furs that the
wit with Femme was the war of the nation. If yes weak fur
Reform, because at a later period the House of Conswesesis
fogad it Necessary to pass severe enactments fur the tepees-
sion of dangerous disturhauces' then I .4, ate the House off
Lords, who were parties to these trsasactiay, 1
gr
H .firx p—
eat, Howe Past what is the remedy Yon p me And,
if you propose no remedy fur the Home of Loeb, where
is the benefit of reforming the House of Commons' Do
you mean to peeved by reason or by compulsion ? If
by reason, then reason is m rood nut of dour* as in. Is it
by comuulsion Aye, that is what yea mean bet whet you
do not dare to say—(Cheers.)—Why, then, my qesarrel with
Reformers is not as to the rood* or the degree; I take an sho-
ji-view in Maine, that they ask that, instead el'• tripartite
graviton:eel, thine should be erected a simple instrusneut
which would do its own work by sweeping uff every obstacle
and impediment which stood is ita well. This is my ohjrc-
lion to she prope•ed Reform. Ido not object to it because
Old Sarum returns one, or two, or twenty Members to Par-
liament. I don't object to it because it would prevent this or
that Peer fro wing his iofluenre in reissuing Members
fin boroughs. For God's sake, if you eau prove corruption
in any borough, disfragebiae it, 8.1 you have disfianthised
Grampoend ; but, if by the representsiives of the People
you mean the organ of the nation (and mach confusion
has arisen from misunderstanding end canfoundiug terms),
then 1 ask, when the nation bas its organ, what room is there
for say thing more? This question of Reform is pressed
more immediately upon my attention, from the eircumStance
of a Gentleman in a neighbouring cennty—• Gentleman of
former, of character, and of great Weida, of whom I wish to
speak with great respect, having thought proper recently to
rake up the dying embers uf this unhappy question; on which
°ceasing he did in. the honour to refer to some opinion. de-
livered by me in another place. Mr. Fawkes, the gentleman
to whom I allude, and whose name I mention with honour,
thought proper to express his surprise that I, the Represee.
tative of the opulent sad commercial touts of Liverpool,
should express any anxiety about soch close boroughs as
Old Seam. Perhaps I might in return express my our.
prise that Mr. Fawkes, who commenced his exertions for re.
foes by clamouring ahoy( the inadequate represeatal ion of
his owe county of Yorkshire, should, now the( the represen-
tation of that comity bad wee doubled, discover that •
reform was more Mao ever necessary to the welfare of the
cowstrys-(Cheers.)—Had I a grimace to complain of, it
would be that which has for sorb a length of time been dinned
in my ears, I mean the complaints of the county of York,
aim, like Niete and her numerous offspring, wept ber us.
happy fate; and new that she had been gifted with two
more helpmates, seeing her unhappy ,00, comlog forward so
lenient the violation of public liberty end the destitution tit
Baglimil.—(Load elseering.)—Surprise for surplise. But
I shall Were the Gestieunan's surprise to euuviceion. It is
jest because I am the representative of the second town in
the kingdom that I advocate the cases of smaller boroughs.
I have no hesitation is declaring, that were I the remesea•
sative of Old Sarum, I should have held my tongue; bet it
is because I could not be suspected of having • shadow of
interest in the question, that I felt it my deity to say that
which, if said by others, might be imputed to question-
able motives. I did so, because I was anxious to expose
the fallacy of those doctrines, wbirh, while they pretend-
ed to remove the blots and seasolals of the cogitate.
lion, cositained principles which would go to change the
whole nature of the institution itself. ' Let any reformer
chew me that lie is only anxious to remove those blots which
exist, unit I am wish him ; but the doctrine of reform goes
further--il goes not to alter the mode, but the thing—it
would have the effect of altering. those institutions which
combined all the industry, all the property, and which ores-
ed • dour to all the talent of the country.—(Clbeeto )—Let
us
beware, Getidempo, of oisooioe the introduction of a
system which would act by power and not by reason—which
would g by authority, and toot by that salutary conflict
of opinions and of interests which at present exista-.a sys.
tem whirls to set at all most act alone. It is because I feel
this, that I find it necessary to oppose reform. Gesstitiness, it
has bees said that site influence of the Cruise operates so pow.
erfolly in she House of Commons, that it p is all its de-
cisions. My first answer to that proposition is that which I
have already given. How rarely do we find the House of Lords
dirt ring from the House of Commons, and what is the
rause of this? Is it that influence of the Crown ope.
rules on the Howse of Lords also i Take either alternative.
Hit is we, then I will ask you reform the House of Lords
also? Aod what is 114. maitre of lise Reform which you
propose? If it lased so, will you derange she whole machi-
nery of the Conatilutios by placing the whole power at the
disposal of • single body ? Rut 'oohing can be more false
than to suppose that the inflames of the 0.01141 has isms..
ed .comparatively with the growth and strengoli of public
opinion. That it has increased :numerically in ll.e House of
Lords or Reuse of Commons, I deny. Auy num who bas
watched the progress of the Constitution mast have ob.
served in the moral as is the physical worni, great
powers at work, whieh require the steady baud of an-
iho-ity to direct sod control them. What, Genteelness,
smoled you say to that philosopher who, is sitting down
to write on the theory of winds and tides, and to give a bis-
toey of Navigation, should omit ice describe that sew soul
mighty power (new at least is its application) whirh walks
opus the water, with a giant's strengtit ; which approximates
distant countries sled creates near neighbour•liips; whirl%
gives to the fickleness of the winds, and the faithlessness of
the waves, all Ilse certainty and security of a journey by
land ?—(Cheers.)-eWneld you not set him down as so igno-
rant, unnissermem,ard idle spectator; anises whose anodises
so crimped as nos to perceive that the omission to mike the
power of siesta had routed all his cslculat ions, and rejoiced his
ignorance attest of which he professed to heat ?So would It be
of an histories who, in attempting to describe the British
Constitution, were In say that the Crown had a veto which
- it seldom exercised ; list the ll&use of Commons hod the
power of wiehlooldiNg supplies which it never enforced, bet
who omitted to police that mighty power of public upiuisos
which was glinted and directed by the public press. Such
an histories would only prove hi. own confisied knowledge,
and his sitter incompeteucy for the task he had undertaken.
I asp, Gentlemen, that in all eunistries, in order to keep
that standing wheels it is it should stand, care must be taken
not to admit any partial breach on she foolish faith
that nothing shirts has not been calculated upon will enter.
Another test which I apply to all speculative schemes of
state policy, is, to inquire bow :nry will operate for the be.
uefit of the community in which we live ? Is private life I
always look with Jealousy and cantles to that dlffased gr.
Nerosity which, neglecting its donsesiic circle, preingis to
act fur the general her. fit of maiskiud. lu lo around
me I find Great Britain • Monarchy, (omeled on establish-
ments which bled sod control is ; hot still essentially a filu•
starchy, which I. as a loyal subject, am brand to support. I
do sot think it fit to cote, the lists in Order to show why it
is, or why it should be a Mmtarehy. Ido net feel booed
to Meet a priori, why the Governmeat of Raglsed is-a
mosiarcliy, nuy mom *nal am to Mew- why Eagiand davit
is au island. Safficieet for me that I find it sea—that
it has from generation to gesieratiou been commented epee,
but out alleged; that I now /tad tt itaiding, sad that l outs

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