The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1822-10-29 00:00:00

PLY.Vourn NAVAL CLUB.

On Monday last the members of this highly re-
spectable lad convivial institution met at Whirl-
don's Royal hotel, to ce!ebra'e the anniversary of
Lord Nelson's last glorious victory. The party sat
down to dinner sibout six o'clock. Captain Ro-
therham, who commanded the fiord Sorereiga on
The memorable occasion, was in the chair, with Cap-
tain Wolf as Vice-President. After the usual loyal
and patriotic toasts, followed by appropriate airs
from the royal marine bind, the veteran chairman,
Upon " like Heroes if the day" being proposed, rose,
and addressod the company :
Gentlemen, I am more sentible than I ran eX•
press of the honour you hive done me, in coupling
my name with the commemoration oh a day which
must ever stand distinguished in Britain's annals
while Britain continues worthy of the day. Happy
should I have heen to have seen the chair, which
I have now the honour to occupy, graced by one
more tit for the occasion, and who might here done
justice to the toast by a more elegant address than
my poor abilities enable me to make. But, grid lemon,
"good wine needs no bush," and the battle of Tra-
latest requites not the embilishmenis of oratorical
powers to decorate it in troy cllouri but its Owl/.
Long had the hero sighed for the crash which was
now about to take place—long hunted the foe in
the old world and in the new; and who can describe
the fire of his eye—the testacy of his heart—when
he beheld their double crescent formed to receive
him ? Confident of the tact wan which his general
spirit had inspired not only every Captain, but
every man in Ins little host, lie threw out the em-
blem of the sublime emanation of his mind—
's England expects ercry was to do his duly."
Nothing more was wanting, owl even that was not
necessary ; for if ever hearts harmonised with their
b. loved Commander's, it was on that occasion.
When, Gentlemen, it man like this—the pride of
his country, and the admiration of the woild—could
at such a moment rapturously express his own ad-
miration at the style in which his lainerited second
in command (a second worthy of such a chief), led
the lee division of his fleet into llw tight—humble
as my steed may have been towards such a distinc-
tion, con you blame a feeling of pride in the recol-
lection ? 1 hope 1 am lio egotist, but there are
occasions when a man may feel gratified, and not
blush to own it. The humblest individual in the
fleet may be pardoned for thinking himself a hero;
fur the thought would inspire him in ufter hardships
and dangetr, as the memory of the brilliant achieve-
ment will be a beacon to light future generations
to glory. The fleets of nor enemies had been
awn beaten separately, and in rotation, as encoun-
tered, but here they mustered their force together,
and the hopes of France and Spain were in n
few momenta swallowed up in one common roils !
Their gorgeous crescent waned before it. full, and
glorious was the death of the hero, whose soul fled
to [leaven on the wings of victory! Nerd I tell
you his heart was warm, and kind as it was bevel
Forgive, forgive the tear for him who blended the
hero with the friend ; and, permit me to say, I here
more heartfelt pleasure its these recollections than
can be bestowed by fleeting distinctions and gaudy
decorations; and I thank my God, that nothing
can take Gem me the hamar of hawing beets one of
those who placed an unfading lanrel on Britannia's
brow on the memorable day of Trafalgar. The
heru's spirit fled, but it emitted sparks that will
kindle the hearts of a tltousaud Nelsons ! lu soar-
ing to the skies he left his mautle—and the mantle
of Nelson will be the palladium of Britain. Gen-
tletnen-1 leuve it to others to expatiate on the
grand Halloosl effects which resulted Iron this (Joy's
victory. Our enemy's wings were clipped, mud his
fig was swept from the ocean ; our companions
in arms approached his shores unmolested, and
grappled hint on his own territoriro, till of !cowl]
the battle of Waterloo, a day worthy of Trafalgar,
laid the monster on his back, and the sworn nod in-
veterate foe of England, whose motto had been
" Delemda est Britommia." crouched to her lion
for the boon of a miseruhle• existence. Gentlemeii,
again I thorik you for the honour you have dune me,
aid with the solemnity dile to the occasion, I be.,
a silent toast " To the immortal Memory of /Ver-
son."

The company retired et a late hour. after an
evening spent in great cheerfulness and sociability.
—(Plymositla Telegraph.)

The Sherborne Mercury says, u some indicdtion
of that tierce and intractable spirit which has been
the occasion of such de...traction among •grieulioral
property in Norfolk and the adjoining counties,
has, we regret to state, made its appearance in this
neighbourhood. About a fortnight since several
placards, in a feigned hand, were posted in the
village of Charlton florethorne, ccotaining the fol-
lowing words iroe to the Foragers that use
%hrashinr; Machinrs.l—Ots the night of Saturday
week, about eight o'clock. a hie. was discovered in
the rick-yard of M'. TOOP, who tents a consider-
able farm of the Maigais of Atiat.Esey, is that
neighbourhood, and who employs * thrashing ma.
chine. A barley-rick was speedily destroyed ; and
it was only by the unremitting caribous of the in-
habitants, that the coutiagration was prevented from
extenditig tea ravages. While the flames were at
their height, a voice from the crowd was heard to
repeat the words inscribed on the placards. IVe
regret to add, that when the fire was first discovered,
Mrs. Tool., in hastening to the spot, fell, and dis-
located her shoulder. A reward of fifty pounds
having been offered for the discovery of the in-
cendiaries, a man named Barnett give intOrmation
that himself. and u father and son, named Talbot,
were concerned tit the transaction. An examitia-
lion of these' persons took place on Saturday las.,
before the Rev. JAMES SIONICHOUSE, When Bari.ett
stated that about a week before the tire the
elder Talbot proposed to him to vet Mr. 'loop's
premises no lire, but that he refused to have any
thing to du with tl ; and that on the night of Satin -
day week lie met both the father soil son in the
Barton, when the latter held a lantern, while the
farmer applied a candle to the barley•rick. The
younger Talbot moat satisfactorily proved an alibi:
and so improbable did Bartiett's evidence against
the father appear, that both were discharged, and
Burnett comn.itted to Ilchester gaol. This man's
ications were so gross that little reliance can
he placed upon his evidence, and much iny.tcry
continues to bang about the transaction."