The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-07-07 00:00:00

DINNER OP
TUE FRIENDS OF MR. THORP.

Yesterday a numerous and ninst respectable
!fleeting of the Citizens of London celvbrated. be
* public distort. at the London Tavern. the elec-
tion or M. Alderman THORP, as one of the %pre-
stlittitthrsos Tor the City iii I'arliam►nt.
Sion, •Tier six o'cloek his feu el Highness the
Duke rif Sugars entered the room. areetripanierl
6e Lnrei liot.t.siso. Mr. Swett (~f Middlesex).
Mr. WAVIIIVIA M. Mr. FAVELL, NIA resent oth-r
f :efitlemesi of the independent interest of the City
of London.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Sossax stated,
that he we called upon 'nest unexpectedly to fill
the Choir, omit g to a very melancholy circuits-
stance—the death of Mr. Harvey Comb,r an lung
Their faithful Representative, whose brother was to
have pre.pled on the present occasion. This flintily
catastrophe made a new arrangement neces-ery, mod
)e (the &lel Doke) regretted that the earnest
entreaties of utlwrs induced him to undertake an
Wier a. President of the Meeting, which would
have been more suitably and constitutionally eget-
Voted by the individual for whom the honour was
bi.t intended.

The company then fat down to a memptuour
"'honer.
The. woad health, of the Royal Family were
wren from she Chair—.

The King."
God save the Wag"
S' The Priory Ritmo. awl *ay be sever forget the !e isw
tildes width arsitril the Noose of lhawawiek ow the Threat"
—three HOMO three...Meese orwat.J
Air--" Hall Star of Browny .••
1" The green awl Royal eaesity."—rApperariel
Thw Roe" t. CNAIRNAII thee theibreh re he
'called the ettesstmes of tbe'peeseut ewe y to the
particular !minims die dey.-he would first
propooe...-
" The City of Londe., sad *runty Mils Cosnineree~
A bixi #### sly alive as he felt fur the commetwe and in-
depesideoce of the City, he moll use snow this
Inert to be put wittiest the pediesimuy expression
of
Isis warm approbatiors..—f4pletme./
The toast was given with throe theses three.
The HOY A I. CH AIRS. AN. in rising to particularise
Inure ediatrly the buineiis of the diy. regretted
In a poignant sense the absence of the worthy
• 7liairinen, who was prevented by • domestic efffic-
Vino rum perf.rming the duty allotted to
rod the peculiar predicament in which he (the
Loyal Chairman) was placed to the injury of that
cause, of which he declared himself so sincere ass
advocate.—((:rest applerse.)—His Rayed High-
er's stated, that he come to the Meeting on public
kmlllllll4 and merely as an individual, milieus to
'congratulate his worthy Friend. Mr. Aldermen
Thorp, ote the success of his cause.—(Applause.)
He inteisded to have been !present merely es an indi-
htleal participating in the sentiments to which the
%evasion gave birth ; but accident had, on this ne-
Casio% throen him into a more prominent situation,
said lie could assure the Meeting that no anon more
deeply felt for the interests of the country at large
than he did, or more cordially rejoiced in the tri-
umph of that great question on which they had pro.
stitinieed so 'cutistltutionol and effective ass opinion.—
wu a man of few words, though
one who generally rellected so those which
tell from him before their utteritice. lie had
entered, so far as his jidgmeut guided him,
deep into, the interests and welfare of his
Country. They lead been of late times let vital int-
im/Neer, mod such es well deserked the fair end un-
biassed opinion of the people of the country ;
io-
Ileed doy . were of that nature that it became a mat.
eer of impoitance, say, of Ail.; rov lib holiest man
1.. pronounce his opinion upon thkin."?Apjitaitre.)
This was as. occasion in Which • man would,
'generally speaking, be inkliised to sit down as his
triumph, and not revert to the political measures
thst were so needy connected with it. He wootd not
enter ie.° the details of the acts of the lust
Went ; but as a man issisious, end entitled. at bait; lb
lament the multi of these acts that had arisen frnill
a long and protracted war, on the merits or delierits
hf which he would not now touch. But the coun-
try knew and felt thee after a long and ardivoiis
Waggle. when the Ministers., by their own de-
Climbing hid trieespNed—when the country had
condoCted t its War toile tortellisien id en unpaml:
Ivied expense, and whed.ell the maili pledges of
economy had been left unrulfilled—when in time of
peace • standing army was maintained. and 'ti
ititetienel reduction resisted—whets every eftrt was
Lindy made for a reduction of taxation, and when
ell the promised results of the war had failed in the
hands of the promoter. of it, it was high time that
the people should look at the conduct of those who
supported the war, sod at that of those who opposed
it. It was then from • review of the acts of their Le-
gislators, the duty of the people, whets die hoot Of
the coustitutional exercise of their pewee cense, to
examine specifically the claims of thk Caodidatri
fur their support. The Chilies" of Landow hod, in
his opinion, made a wise elettien, -end he now
most heartily eongmtulated them bpi* 11—(Ap-
pause. )—ele Would not, by a retrospect of tee
cusinees of their Blectiou, touch upon the deed.—
( Lagghter)—he would not unnecessarily enter
upon invidious comparisons. No mon more loved
freedom than he did. yet be would not 61111,11cithed.
illy interfere in the choice et an Election—di a
Peer it would he unconstitutional. Now. however,
that the thictiou was over, he *es free to say,
that as he had heard many votes had been sole-
r.ted for on the ground of private friendship, he
begged, on this account, to declare hie epusiose
lie hail his private friendships and his predilectiotue
Lot he would most positively declare, that on no
grounds of private friendship, unaecompeuied by a
public claim. should his vote, if hie had one, be
given.— Grum applisase. j—The confidence and
disposal of public purser constituted a different
trust from that of private frieudship; where the
rem union of the claims of With was apparent,
then the task was as easy m it was grateful—where
the claims were merely of a private nature, sod op-
posed to public principle, then in vain would the
doings of friendship be pleaded to him—public
duty should hen parestunitit swey.—/feerst op.
/dowse. —lie emignitulated them on this good feel-
tug in the late Elaidias. They had Cheerio, oolong
other iudepeodeist men, a worthy A 141111116.1
(Thotp), shone his Royal Highness had known
ei.ce the time of his Shtievalty, and whose kind

eiel-t tuft he had often f end in the muse 0. As.
city sod lettProleure —((;rent app/ease.)—He bed
atm given pledges of ha future public conduct
those, nutesak were weessory, when they ma-
*Wired that the worthy Alderman'. father bud been
the constant fairnd of 11w revered Charles Fox.—
(App/am'.)—The Royal Chairman concluded by
pnnming--
" Tler health of Mr. Atacama Tleaep, sat may he Wog
live in the olfewahato of his fellow-eithava."--D.uak with
three titan there, tool great applase.
Mr. Aldermen Tans, roar and expressed him-
eelf its the highest degree sensible of the
favours that had been conferred upon him.—
Were he fur a moment to conceive they had been
personelle applied to him, he shonl4l 111 vans seek
powers of utterance to express the weight of the
obligation hr fell • but hr knew that the compli-
ment was confern:(l en public `rounds; hr knew
it was the cisti-e of independence, and not the hum-
ble individual who had been the means of bringing
it into action, that called forth their mryouhation.
He therefore *ills pride acknowledged the favours
they had dune him. There were miters who could
give better effect to their cause. lout lie kart-
,rd when he saw that villaiic spitit ass olive,
and only wanted a direction to receive proper
Jct. Their opponents had indeed Illiewu
strong Wing, reshape one of isoliwation, for
they had poncareitly lamented the fate of their
friend, and in such a manner as to rep eree a regret
that the people had the power to change those who
were, or ought to be, their Representative.._
(Applarse.)—Tlwy ba.l laird from the Royal
Chairman of the drools of Mr. I larvey Cumlw, whose
consistent, honourah,le, and faitlaltal public life,
furnished his best ruloginist.—((:rear applanse.)—
To imam Ow career of such • man would- he his
moot strenuous effort. Its had given solemn
pledges, end he would faithfully redeem tlwm—
he pledged himself to continue she firm ad-
versity of the Interests of the City, the Era.
haus guardian of the riglia and liberties of the
pimple, and the most uncompremisittg opponent
of any suspension of those rights whirl' acre sa-
credly consigned to them by the free Cutotnution
of their eountry.-.-.(iirplaage.)
The worthy Alderman, after the applause sub-
sided, begged to propose the health of their Royal
Choienten. lie (the Alderman.) had to p tttttt ise
whet he RIPIIIII to do but ilw Ronal Chairman
had slimily performed --(Great upguote.)—Ting
illustrious Doke bad hang sheen that he was the
uneocurnatui.isog friend or the liberties of mankind,
and more particularly of the freedom of F:stglish.
men—and I ist, not Iron, the steady protector or
those clarifies which formed at once the honour
and solar, of British huisiateity.—(4ppbacie.)
The health of the Illustrious Duke was drank
with great applause.
The ROYAL (.11AIRMAK Mid, that be would not
display so much lad taste as to meta upon the
toast which hadjust received horn them such flat-
tering masks of appruhattion. His politics were
dictated by his cortacienet*-tlwy a err at least honest,
if they were not ellicitist.—(Applutste.)— As to his
efforts iu the cause of chanty, he only blared diem
with alder and snore efficient men. and exercised
them, as lie was bound to 4141, for the benefit
of the community at large. Ile had no par
Isneal psofesnour to intake to any public meet-
ing ; lie would only say. that Ire umlerstuod
and appreciated the prim•iples which placed the
Honor of Bounswick no the Throw.. They were
principles of (*mellow, the maintenance of which
were alike inaperatire eel the Crown and the people.
—(Applustse.)
The next tout from the Chair was—

" Refutes in Parhareeet. end lint its speedy 0144181,W
integre the people i• Abe tejmymiesil 14 elicit eumititeii 111 l al
eights nttd liberliem."--(three limits three ■nd veal sp-
pliiiiiie.")

The ROYAL CHAIRS. Att then rwe to propose the
health of Lord Holland, uoo w hoin his Relit!
Highness pronounced an elatiartst unit
kited eulogium. Hr load its early life ktioatu hie
Noble Friend abroad. stool that acquaintance had
n subsequently mattered awl cemented by the
wikenest recipti*ity of feeling on general pultilcal
Orations.— begged leave to 'no-
pose the health of—
Lewd Willaad, the adeneste of Civil as iteliitious
and Ilse timeworn; opim.fr Ike sn,pen of
Min Ana arbitte frivlll the treat balnark of the British

This toast, hit Royal Highness observed, needed
no tOmment—lib the Meeting to give it
with three times 'hive.
Lord 1101 J-sew MK' timid loud and friterattd
h.heers. Ile thanked Sleeting for the flattering
Mannerist iii11:11 they had b. en pleased to d►ihk his
hhalth, and model, the e 44444 titms w Inch t he OM p !intent
ricked be felt it diniehlt to express his iel ttttt lents.
He felt, however, that the rohophoured ass isdt pro.
poised to him as an M 111,61081, but as the descend-
ant of filet great man (Mr. Pos), v.huse principles
had so klurtuusly triumphed in the late Electibli
for the City, viltush ptsuciples had endeared &Ka
land to Europe Mod the woad, ailid which, if ful.
hawed up a. Mr. Vox imentlid, would have beau
operaiire id the only way in whirls the kind heart
that greet dud good man would have wished hes
principles to have been realited, namely, in the
improved hdppineell tit Iris fellow-creature%, and the
stability of their belt loiterksts.—/(.reef upplutive.)
—lt sits fur a &Torture f those wise prin-
ciples this Eurbpe, anti the intbecile Missis-
ten of England; had td trace the miseries of
the people over whom they ruled.—(..lppinese.)
He felt howvineetl that he Geed 1111.4 kind notice
to his relationship with that ulluttnods end revered
personage whose whole life had bees, devoted to the
promotion Of the liberties and huppidess of
Royal Chairman lied
expressed the regret he felt at the absence of the
Gentlthum who was to have taken the Chair. Ilis
Royal Highness took care. as he usually did on all
public occasions, to supply die place of the intrud-
ed Closirstutoo (when accident prevented his Nursed-
cure) so well, that he was floe only individual in
the room who was displeased at tl.e telrery
of his presiding care.—/(,rout applunse.)—The
absence of the intended Chairman was, Ituaever,
connected with circumstances whirls is was

Bible oat to dwell •pou—the etrath of his relativr.
Mr. Harvey Coombe, was a •udanchuly recut which
o,lfreemaucould brae of without Ili* mina huigeaut
feral. its the course of a long and steady public
career the late finery Combe had breu the wally
supporter of that hue Euglbh art, w which em-

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