The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-08-11 00:00:00

GLOUCESTERSHIRE PITT CLUB.

The smilveniary of this Club was hasten at the Bell Inn, l
Gloucester, on II edtiesday last (4th inst.), when the business of
the General Meeting. and the ballot fit' several Noblemen and
Gentlemen as new 31ernhers, having been finished, the company,
amountinF to mum than 130, sat down to dinner at fuut o'clock ;
George 7 allmt. Esq. in the ('hair.

.Imont;at. the gentlemen pres.mt were, Cl:metal Lord Edward
...4.•olersct. M.P. E. 1.11. fie.. (who regretted the ahlenee or hit
t: race t;:c Ilake of IL aufert. in consequence of a sudden attack of
t!.e gate.), the Itight Ilon. I.onl A racy, the Right lion. Chula
tlxiturst. dm lion. V. 1.. fiathurst, T. litwkru.ll I:stcourt,
/:‘,l. 31. P., H. B. l'ormen, Esq. 31. P. ; llemv Elwee, P. It. Pur.'
nel!.. It. Ilale, 1. 11. Hale, Mn,. Goodrich, E. Wilbraham, E.
IVailington, J. Chitterbuek, D. Niblett., J. If. Myles. 11. N.
Trye, W. 11. Mille, It. Itavitm, It 3lorria, J. little..(.
I:agra.; Captain P.avrea; the :ley. Dra.Conite, Itiooke;
It et. 31nort. iluntley, Pltelps, Tuberville, 3:axwell, Cooper,
16'etherell, Evans, Sa.

" Nan Millis IbUtiine" followed the removal of the cloth, with al
stir:ession of animating anti constitutional taws.
The appropriate obs:.rrations intmluctory of the toasts, and the
rr+i:tt of thanks by I.entleniert whose health. hail been Firm,
occasional 41.artuniticii for the expmsiOrt of sentiments
cmineued with the political principles and great name of him whose
memory was the olijtet of the day.
In proposing the memory of the late Right lion. Wm. Pitt, the
Chairman took a gencral and comprehensive view of the character
of that illustrious stateaman ; and considering him as the pre-
siding genius at the helm of State, s ho had brought her
thr. ugh all the %terms end tempests which had threatened her
r;rr exiv,tenev, he justly had become entitled in the chameteristir
e weitmierlted appilation of "the pilot that weathered the
storm."

The toast to the Duke of Ben•lfort was introduced by the Chair.
man with expressions of personal attachment, which always find
a mule way to the heart. lle said that though he was aware
that bz hid thus indulged himself, he was Eire, at the same time,
that those around hint fully knew how to appreciate his Grace's
undeviating conrce in the support of 31r. Pitt's administration.
the steadiness of his political life, and the virtues of his private
character. _ _ _ _

In announcing the name of Lord Edward Somerset, the Chair-
man said, that whaler..? was deficient in himself in doing justice to
the known gallantry, and military services of his Lordship, he was
confident would be made up by a grateful country. That from the
high and cricient command which be bore, and so conspicuously
executed, on the memorable day of Waterloo, he might be said to
hate large!y contributed to the important results of that triumph
which had blessed, not only this country but ail Europe. with a
peace that promised a moresettled state of things than had been ex-
hibited for r.gts, and that if his Lordship had thus a claim on the
t'rate(hl tribute of his country at Lime, lie must surely long live
the rttimotion of a county, of which he is a native, and one of the
unrest ntatives.

Hon. M . Bathurst, in naming lAwd Stowell, paid a just
and elegant encomium to the celebrity of his Lordship's Charihrtrt.
In the coilise of which he (merced, that the code of international
law, which it might weU be said had been reved by his lordship,
11 04 110 luminous, comprehensive, and just, that it had even ob.
tained the recognition and adoption clothes. countries, and that in
mentioning his Lordship's name. he could not but connect with it
that of IntyNoble Brother, who had now presided In the Court of
Char.-cry fir nearly a quarter of a century, with a depth and extent
of knowledge of the late, which could only b. eqvalled by the
purity with which he administered it.
The Right lion. (*harks Ilathurst,who had so many years shtred
in the adtufoistration of Mr. Pitt, in returning thanks upon his
health having been drunk, gave an outline of that eventful period,
with striking peraricuity. lle closed it by saying, that he had
row retired into private life, in die bosom of his family, to be
y•et useful he hoped, in the Inure hu:ited sphere of action in which
he might le engaged.