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NOrtl4 ICU FOX DIN N bit.

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Iy our account of the la-t commemoration of Mr. tort's
birth do,. we mentioned the great utility of occasionally
a••embling the Ft icor,. of laherty. The political events
bleb have (weltered since we made that ohservation, have
turnished abundant evidence of its truth, and the rapid
progress which has been made ill Inc plan fort mine ...vs-
rug, if not totally preventing, all public diseussion of-
national subjects, proves the necessity of clinging with
loci eased fondness to the restricted privileges whit yet
;entrain to Its, and of cultiviniug with additional ardour
the few opport tttttt ies which we still possess,et vindicating
our isidependence. These privileges laud °Noir! tttt itirs
me, perhaps, even now depart:lig Eton 11!‘, and it is. bust
too probable that the power o( holding roil'all osilealblY
tis we have this day to describe, will, ere lung, be wrested
foon its. 'Cite steps ot despotism are gigantic, and his
**peed ineseases wall his proximity to the goal: so mach
LAS hypo recently achieved by the euensies of It eedunt,
l:iat tin it confidence is become tuilimmiled, and they Salt-
-111,1;c1) aii.icip•rie,ist nu distant period, the overthrow or
ev eiy popular pin ilege, and the vAtilletitill oh every libe-
ral smdiment.
While each passing year renews our sorrow. for the loss
of the first of modern patriots, *a feel on the present oc-
sion a melancholy consolation, in reflecting that lie id
ncaut endure the pails of beholding the dreadful woundds
*Melt. w ithist the last kw weeks, have been inflicted on
that fieedoiti w hich it was the business or his life to defend
soil to filet ease. How bitter would have beets his lamest-
-I.4floris over the cheitges which have taken place in the
which he loved, stud how. sleep would have
koeii Isis regret for the di.ninntion of those i 1111111 l nines
which he held to be essential to the welfare el' his coon-
te He was, however, spared the pain of secilig the
• eiiiire suppression of popular assemblies, nor did
Ls live to see rite dwellings of his couetrymen exposed Its
the ouct wort visits ot the emissaries of power: he was
pot couileintscil to be the spectator of is press -trogglitig
• reAtrasnts which the boldest Minister of tinnier
roars %sunlit not have dated to impose 11 11011 it, nor did he
trodure nit:misery of hearing, the a rind shunts of the
eriemies of the coustittit• •
Bat still we most nut despair; we must profit by his
niielity example, and amidst the deepest political gloom
it a.. our duty not wily to hope, but to expect with confi-
dence, the realist alum of our tights. We nowt nut softer
ourselves to feint in the contest, bat continue it vigour-
nosily until we cast let 11l ll ate it by a glorious •ietli(y. It
is and only thus, that we can prove ourselves the
tine disciples ot the immortal. Fox, and his worthy tot-
It•se ••eli in our cause It rr Ihns,aud only
tilat ore can tecov cc our natistal iittlependetive, and
tiansmit to our posterity the ribrities which we derived
is oo: our ancestors.
from time to time, renew one exertions in
neetitsgs such as this, and let us assemble under the tot..
protection et our Pilllit.l'a 114111 e. His Mighty
obliiie Ss la borer ustr in, stimulate true Virgil-IS, suit 011.111)
Its to gruerat happiness aud constittitionat live-

duo'.
The ticketsVssucd on the occasion amounted o 460 ; and,
sr ton room w the city was caiiab•e iiiii do large a
umber of guests, the Mayor sins Isind etows,,lt to oiler
the mc of toe Tubs to hall tor their 10 11t he oiler was
iitytt,ll) accepted, and rouse 114.,.. pieviolib In t no
11itieli the disitirr %s•sa hcI.I, Ilse stewards were
t./1 rliitending the hoar...too, and riming% of the 1144111,
and
eve' honking the oilier pi ep.tral
llu Stunitty eveniog toe 13.tidc of Sussex, accompanied by
t.e of Alma. irk., it It. Ferioiwut, Mr.
Mt. Ittetlustalu, out whets, tit Its ed at Mr. Alderman
foster's.
During the whole of Mmulay, strangers kept pouring into
Norwien from sitriuus art .1 ter, of the comity of Norfolk ;
avid Cou.itieritilly before four o'clock, the hour appointed
I a the dinner, tit. 1411 was eonipletel) tilled At a quarter
pas: four, the smolt ,114 of the ltiture %%nitwit, and Ilse
-LI up of the music u ithio the 14,11, announced theurrival
of the Emi of Albettms le, tie Chau man of the Nleri .Y.-
I{e was recciv,tl ailh the greatest. mitten:Wm Short after-
wards the Doke of S :.sex I:.adc lies stepeacaoce, awnd the
loudest J Crlanli.l i 0000 sondi Was I eee iveo M Ili; Ilse
the ulli.le phis lug " salve the hint,' niv: the col.mtity
rustagtill his appina h. The tatblev were ranged in inert
Imes dawn the mot, and at toe fold of them, oppossie to lilt
411141111'S of the F, ouch sloe lilt *wax, present( tl .0 lae Cur-
porattou of :s:r C. Berry ; mmther table was
placed under a canopy, at is hieh sat lite Chdistnan and tar
ILeotlenten iOto acted as :sir's, aids. 'llse canopy was sue
mounted by a tratispairitcy of the word " Su-,ex;' nod by.
the moth. or 6, Fox" :,1,1141.1 a fret .on sariestated lamps
0011"-itc this catmos it es " Mbr loathe.' similarly inns
Haman. I. In she ldle of Ili' cents.• as placed a
meant Not of NIT'. Fos, u h *WIC emblematic desires.
Antot.g the company proleitt wise, the 140 kt.. ut Suese
nti4 ',Sine folk, the I:41 I 4,1 Allormativ, the High Stseriti,
the Nlaynt of Nora ; Veit: mint Italy ; Lord Moly note ;
AirhJtacont Ilothitrat ; Ilun. (1. Kelspel; Hun. Ker.
pet ; Hun. O. Walpole, M.P ; luau. (1. Anson ; C,ruretal
titetoy ; Sur Itimattl Fe sedum ; S,t K. P. Jadresi, Bart.;
Sir T. Recent, Kam ; Sir J. E Sail ; T. W. Coke,
M.P.; It. H. Gantry, ; .1. Macdonald, 1:
MX.; J. P. linuelaimd, ALP. ; T. W. Coke, jun.
Esq. ;1. W. Merest. E.g. M.P. ; Mt. Slit'i Its tor,
11.
Jtepisetortn, ll• Piiikes, T. 14. llsesur, Key.
I.el, L K. Pratt, S. T. southaell, E. Loathe, N. Nikki,.
thwaite, E. litio+,y, J. Moseiil, .1. T. (ittrtion, B. Leh-
hard, I. W . Smith, P. 114 11111 l soossl, I. W. 1 liosellstesos, I
(spelt, ItMre, A. llee%or, H. Nor:. W. FUN..
ter, A. Hitti,.:ll, W. I)altymple, W. 11. Lttkiti, E. Weirton,
3. (i,„„ti, and J Fooke, EsgnU. s ;—ltevereuti•, G. Glo-
ver, it. F. Llo in, J. Nae cow., 1..1i. Fvsit r, J 1). Button,
R. H. Conprr, Chlyet, NV. I twines, awl C. Hoe; S.
Stone, Esq. ; Aldermen, Fo.t. I, Massli,
Lettish, Dot., It.ltby, mid se vet al other ~eutletneti of
property and disslisselluts,
liminetll4lely after Inc Moths were tennis/ J, the !Stade
Clutirmair lose 41110 Said that Ile C911:411il rtll himself that
day the happy gervaiit i411411(1.14e11,
toaiuhS It) cos to: ;h. id iididuoidgf., 1...
requested to lie tii. t ,peaking in the time
of voice he thirst word, be Nair tisNl ly lw..aril in 4' 4,4.1.
part of Ifoll ; 11 •1•11tiol o nen. cry Ironkr, sir •i
thebite aihrinaiit.e, ,11."1 nab', Dwaine, swig sly Setae
SAISIC*I4III4IeIIIV, whir sutantcrbbsd tl.l:if services upon

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thc occasion. Alter which tits Inflow's% toast; were
given RBl4l drank :-
1. The King, (in solenin silence.)
2. The Prince Regent.
TbeConstituticit according to the principles asserted at the
Revolution. (lan% and loutl applause.)
The Earl of A tatku a i.e; said, that the toast which came
next in order, re hated inure immediately to the object for
which they were that day assembled together, mat a as-7
" The Immortal Memory of Chalk's James Fox," a loch
he should propose that they shouhl drink in respectful listener.
Perhaps, upon this toast, a Chairman might be expected to
offer a lebli you'd*, ;tease Ile proposed it. For himself,
before hr proceeded to mike such observations as lie thought
it plover to haaard opera the sonject, he vi tilted. to state,
that if, nit a former toccwooti, lieu he had t iijo)ed the
honour of presiding, (awl lie must repeat, that he used not
the word " honour" B,a nu le comity phrase, but In the boa
and purest signification m !tint the tel coo id hear ; for Ile
did consider it a high honour and a profoitaid distisictimi
h.
preside over a meeting assembled to testify aplomb:it of
the ),ripest pies of Mr. Fox, and to pay a respectful tributi
In tile memory of I al ail loved and
and abuse loss to his imaitry, though Inc polimaney
of grit alnch it first excited bail subsided, according
so Inc a i,c ordivanmsof Frovidetice, in the lapic of all
smitildr.i time, nas at Ca• prelle moment 11111 x 1 deeply to be
ii)—hedept.',r a isiped to soy, that f, when he bad tic
&mom of presiding on tit t oecasiollt after being called to
the chair by the wishes of hi, friends, lie had thought it
in:cos:toy to call upon them for their co-operation acct
indui;444ll4 c, he thought it still more necessary to do ail at
pre,ent, under the pectili 4rly gratifying
which he wits placed, milled as lie had again been to the
Chair by the partial proposal .it ins lion. Frieml, s-conetid
too us that pi opesal had been, by tile ;4.4 nrtal appi 'Amnon
of those who so. rounded Imo. (Ch. ers.) The id iya ire-
stance tit re( eiviog a scrim.% time bitch it distioction at their
itands,deautuded of him a return, winch he na, afraid that
he should not be able to Direr. (A ;Thine.) 00 tile love
occasion he allowed that the meeting had pawed toil' vv. I ;
but the Chairman %vita 001 at all the rouse of it. It had passed
off highly hi his satisfaction ; h. 4 a hen lie considered the
object fur a hieh the laterite% loud been called, and recol-
lee led that it haul been compost J of perwous differing indeed
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as men of tree :mods as aay s must 04110' 041 soca topics;
united, hots ever, on all great caustittstioual points—united
in their a tidies to cs.tablish civil and religious liberty
throughout the world —tooled hi their deiermioatiou 141 sup-
port by every constitutional means the rights mid pl ivtlego
of the people— dun their aitnirationi of the coma outwit
xs established at the revuletion —united ID their approbliion
of the principles of M Fox, as best calculated to support
the ovelfare, happitiess, and honour of the coma ry—united to
pay a Ii mbute of r.seect to his mentor) ; and in the eloquent
languai,e of his ...swotted friend, Mr John Taylor. to
" Come to hi, grave, but not to weep,
" But freedom's holyday to keep;
and so re.i.ter it a meted aitar " rotiod a inch they were to
vow It lilleily ;" when lie considered and recollected these
I s 1 be felt convinced that, no matter what tile Chair-
man gleklit have either cone or said. toe meeting etadd not
by any possible accident have mat with a failuse. Ail4l,
Ito a, supported as the Chair was, on the right haul by an
t tieus branch of the !louse of Ileums is k, (loud applause)
ever mold:oil of the principles which seated his family no the
thruee, (applause repeal( tf) ; 011 the ot het, by an individual
place i iu toe first situation in the county (the High alive ill;
air %V. Wyndham Dalltag,) allO high and honourable as that
sit eat ion ass, did honour to it by the manner lo a 'Orli he
dealt .i end its duties, (cheers), he willingly paused; foe if he
41. d not then pause, he .1 oat know o ItCu tie should, espe-
cially :lb lie Nat/ bilpiio4ll:4l by such a numerous
and respectable asseinto as aas never before itwt logethei,
1701011,1crill.; the rank, the penile' , the t.,,leeit, and the
tespectabilits of thaw a Ito composed it, all lootilog to the
Chair nith chrei tog coutitenamcs, and all contributing to
the good humour, and, a hat was a still more e-s.mtial point,
to the utiii yof the meeting. lie was not going to play the
hypocrite, 81141(0 bay that he regretted being placed ill the
Chair; by Ito mean,; it was a subject of ;hide anti exulta-
tion to Il i 11l ; but he was going to my this--that a ben (1, it
he ~ a, nothing a itbout !heir co-orerativiv—tle therefore
callo* upon them for the it indolgence, asked thew to forgive
ithy rire,s which Ito in i,,lit commit, (he nue': ranter to have
said the many Awoke. • hie !t he stoma! commit), nail entreat
lion to believe hum to he mast sincere in his wish to pay
i ndivlJuslattention to :4:1 present, and anxious not to give
Hai:nee by any mins:atm of iespect. (Loud clwering.)—
I laviag said thus much 11*,:alliliog himself, tie should now say:
a few words oil the toast he hail to propose to them. Lmt
year, vs it was the Pest inoting of oily considerable ex.cia
w wen nod been h. Id 'limn Me. subject, he had f. It it ill!
41 ty 10 enter at Ico,:th bath into line public and the titivate
cat ler of t.r. lux Now that th-s meeting had beco
tstab'ish d, and :is lie trusted firmly established, ,tlsal it did
b conte as it at re a rallying point to the frt.-nits of the ems.
stotitioa, aud an altar to liberty never to be violatcd, it
• mild hr useless fur him again to enter lain I?ie,e tupieb.—
Of 1 lie priv,to ciiataclel of Nlr Fox he should 11111 say a
oink a 01-41 ; thine who knew him lost, if their te el-
ing* would poi init, COUlil !a) Use 1110b1; hut if they- wished
to form an opstillilJ 111 his public Char:tett:4 he %%Hold say,
" Look to the measure, Ut' 1114144 e 01141 %ere opposed to film;
see lilt- tante to 44 1.1191 tir.*y have reduced the empire ; vie*
the country as it 44.. b, mid as it ,5 consoler the cinti.ges
a hit It have been made in Utr 4•01811111114.11 5111,4. 4101 1.01 1111'1
for 1110 None p.l'elise atilt lliat for a hicks sou ale now
absconded, edict ;cited upon tiie resolute lilt a hie Ii lots token
;dace 111 11 once you lust Inca together in this very MIL—
( 1.110,1 eneees.) It they amid coosider the general docteur
tent wit 4711 %a% 10111110 a11,1,01.1141Y ittlung the country,
iii n,• 040 tenon disaffection— for thr people of latglitiol
a• re well alit-Ord to tar IL,B 44a 41 :IA coostitat —(cheris)
trot), a 444,1 A-111 411 111,4 udmiui.it of eats aud from duo sess
which could as cam ai ed to tile pressure of ov- tali,
tox at —it abet ...ail iet olleet 11 sit the omits, she
a sheet auto the distresses ul Ilse people Were owl by loanin
ur g
not toe ce, mid erc 1101 even 111111111/11.41 10 110
b, 1 0.41111111011 g .4141 „.11111.1111114111 —ll 1111.) 14111110 .".'114.4:1
0.1 our .recut t•xlraordtnary 8,811140 a malt 1.4 lite .laidlits.
lot, 11111 4e of 144 ace, tuna I.le dele,l.oll- It:Mile of 1110 1:414
1111.4,1114 14, mio tae details of 0 11, 111141 wnu id Ina 4 titer, 0' it
a ;opossum a ill ailing thrill A 440181.011 of the constti Mom.
since Oh, owl t,,',-o admitted to lie Mack by the al losteis
of the t.ro ---illestsur— 414..1 Welt' Ilitibt eficiAilfe nail 14114
1114 IlVee:4l,o ,4 w 00... .1 le the 0/11,1Tbm 01 Ass-la-Chap -IL.
aud plead •g 141111 VI ,of the Hal) A 1111448 4., 84 111.
414.11° 1:111.41114tilla 1 a... a•Volli to I.li e•bon. 1%141,11111. t,
—ll •1111 I'lo illg)•.-1 114 .•11.1.11
%%Dui./ .ink 111 o• , cowl Will 1. bells have been cum
ur4 assume jUblif) 1111: ID on the go ouud of neeelaity, could la.

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necerssty for enactiug thew lutvev‘isted, turd the advice of
Mr. Fori been folloued,attd Ills prolvoides steadily acted on! •
(Loud cheers ) Ile had sot hi so, mote to add at pErsrat,
than to eill °Vibe that they should think ill htlIClllll tekUl e
" 1 be memory of I. J. Fos.'•

The follow' ing Gong yips (ben sun: b}• Mr. John Tayluu

warrior.claims his meed of praise.
And lives io martial story
But tit• the Patriot let us raise
strAins of glory
This day, Old England's darling child .
Dame Nature Lordly gave us;
Than Freedom on his cradle smilcd.
And breathed the power to save us.
:.wme to Its tomb. but not to weep ;
There Freedom's holyday we keep;
The sacred altar let it lie
Round which we vow to Liberty.
In manly youth what thought profound
A a eloyience how ghosting !
Wools the MSC sophist to conibund,
For freedom ever flowing :
When were our native rights a.:sail'a ,
And Fox sat by unheeding
Ili, potent succour never tail d
1V hen liberty lay bleeding.
Cho.—Come to his tomb, &c.
The Negro's galling chain he broke,.
I is rights to conseienee yielded ;
Corruption trenibleti while he spoke,
The weak oppress'd he shielded :
These laurels grace his sacred tomb,
Tbus ran his race of glory ;
And ages yet unborn shall c.eue
Anti kindle at his story.
Cho.—Come to his tomb, &c.
O Sun of Britain ! set too soon :
0 race too quickly speeded !
flow to the splendour of thy now.
! las darkness foul succeeded ;
Now rule a hard anti coward band,
And tenor's imps proceed 'cm
Ah ! how unlike that gen'rmts hand
That soothed the wrongs of frectlom !
Clio.—Come to his tomb, &c.
The Burl of A LIMN A six said, that he was How come in
the more cwuvn.al pats of toe evenisig'* lusincitb; hots lie

FllOOlll get throne% it he did not know ; he would, however,
begin well. The IOWA he WOnlli give, as si ttttt as anituunced,
would make the vaulted roofs of that hall resound with their
acclamations, fur heNsisti going to propose the health of art
tilusll.loll% freesnato of the city of Nlllnieh (loud applause)—
of an illustrious blanch of the House of Brunswick (i peers),
of whom, lie would repeat (for he could say i tithing . mare .
pleasing to his Itoviti lin:timers Of inure gialeitil 140 Willa,'" ).
that lie w..s mindful of the I iiii pact which seated his family
on the throae. Ile would give them the health of a Prince. .
who was grate,ul fur the tillectiou and loyalty which the
people of ',meteor,. had always thou a to Ids family, and
n ho evinced his gretimde by the best mettles in his power--•
by standitte firm aid as the firm and undaunted suppoi ler
of the Helios of the people. (Cheers ) Weie any thing
wanting to increase the adinieutiou felt for him by the
iitluthitants of IN orfrilk, it would be supplied by his conduct
at the present mometit ; by the kind asaecorreet manner in
%Web he was now behaving. (In his arrival yesterday at
Alsh rlunli I' .stees, he received all onfocourtible ace nunt
of the b. alas of his Royal II telioess the Doke of Kent.
H is,Roy nlll ighuess, influenced by Hs: affection a hick hr :::to
for ills Motto r, had heel' afraid that he should he obliged to
forego I he goat ;heat i .. of atteed ine this men jay., a•itl pay ing
a tribute of iespect lo the virtues ol the Mush iMei Inall whore
memory. they air nom ci.tetniit i lig. Foi moody his Roy al
Ili. burst Find that day teecived a fasoureiblr acc ttttt it of he;
brother's health, nod I tiey.now bail the pride nod pleasure tit
seeing his ILii)al ill ighlie:A ientilighl (Ilene (Cheers). This
was so gratify inf, a theme on is huh to discourse, that lie
iambi with ease Joel' (em it for a longer time; hut he
knew the eagerness a InCO t!i:•y Cat 11, cheer their illustrious
visitor, and he shuuld tio refere give tillerce if he
detained th; ni any longer firms gratifying, i heir w ishi s.
He would Tierclore IllOpOse the health nt the Duke of
Sussex with three I hoes three. (loud cheers ) The Royal
Duke's health was then drank with liiiii. I ffics I.ine.
The Duke of Sussex said, that after the very able manner in
which his noble frit nil had introdu ed the preceding t, sat, or ra-
ther had pro:celled to the commemoration of the day ; and after
die very kind manner in which he had notictal Iris presence
among them, he (the Duke of Sue•az.) felt considerable dab( ulty
in hallowing their noble president, in such a manner as to com-
mand :he attention of so numerous an assenthly as he then saw
before hint, and in explaining the satis'asaion, the pride, and
the pleasure, which he experienced in meeting so numerous a
laxly, tine in tileir detennination to support the principles of
Mr. Fox, which iii his opinion were best calculated for the be-
nefit of the country. (('beers.) When lie had the honour of being
elcteita citizen of Nora ich, hc felt the compliment which v. os
paid to Min as he ought ; and he believed that he thed expressed
the same sentiments a hien he hail just now avowed to their
worthy I.e)tor, so courteously and so perspicuously, that no per.
son coukl mistake them. He wished to testily those sentiments,
not only to toe citizens or Norwich, but also o the indtpentlent
yeomanry of the county of Norfolk ; and any person Whu said
that such piniciplea were revolutionary, ought to Le reminded
that tae necessity of a revolution would lie the greatest evil
wilds (.Kind befall this country. Stine we had been engaged so
much in thretgn worse we hail imbibed foreign ides., and were
apt to express them in foreign terms. For himself, he had prate
in boasting dial be bad been burn an h'nhitshintin and that he
had ileeti an Englishman, iota he could 11-slant: them that it wax
his intention also to time an Englishman. (Loud cheering.)
Now, he had been told that time wont constitution was an OthellS
;tad disagreeable testy: ; but it was One of that nomenelattire
winch lie mow admired ; beenuse, when be heard the wird
constitution, lie recollected the word compact; and if be was to
get rid of the talnli•ACl. Minell placed the lioUse 01 n.,,nswiel. on
the throne ul these kiligduillii, he should not lye a where to
lookfor u home, (Cheers.) Dome truths acme 1i...t ; and he
Men tine ti.ad, that it (abets sere nut to bttais t ter Ciiiiip;:ft
with hint, he ought to take:care not to break his compact with
them. (Cheerio,,.) He was gad that they accoreed with that
seta:intent, because if' they cook! •itit set out on a : if ,i,. onder•
storming, they h. sir could curve at last to the sate. eeciusion.
lice eIOM, as they limit ;;Leaner, Ai. lust position. :-.: ... S.O doubt
but they would accrue to has las plow then dm s.• • , old. and
*Dal wa • the constitutton 1. W e site told tart we ~it rights •
OHO 101V114,,,, and %OlnellAng 1110:e, Vi:.leil IOW been 14,1:10na.-
lily tielineil ny certain high illiilialltri anaingst us, ii, such a
teatime' 111.1 ii ,ne 01 us mind understand, and they ;e• toselves
c..,.0f out cianpreli nit. 'They talked or one thing, a,•! c% :cently
;;; ea .. elites. In -jolt, I.,:ey mystified us: .1", '.'• e t,cvcr
I. iii ant w ati A hat sit. toUliik :u as, vicy rui.,-t', A vi:aittottt
coact tear. An lenglisionan left! ! Why it is hot in our
blood I (1.911 d (hers.) He maid tell lilt Majesty.* mull"

eters, that there was another word mu eat more
thconstitutioghtnato
l.
dud much more beneficial to the country, which ey ou
be afraid to call into use—he meant jealousy. conttitunenai
jealousy. We and they ought not to poach on each other's
property. We ought not to give them cause for
.alarm, nor
they us just cause for jealousy. How far this principles had
been observed since lie lead last the plea lure of vision,- the;
City, ,it did not behove him then to state—that is, it did not
behove him to express all the indignation which he felt at certain
Infringements recently made on the constitution. That hi,
protest had been entered against them, wont be known us well
by them as by others in the country. That he Mel not raised
his voice SO loud in reprobation of Meta as others, arose from a
conviction of the great ability with which the countatution had
been defended, and from a tear that, if lie had said any thing,
he might have weakened the force of the arguments so ably
urged by the political hiends with whom he was m tic habit of
acting on all political questions. It was impossible that any
toast could be given that night without adverting to the pur-
pose for which they hind met; and in adverting to tic memory
of Mr. Fox, they weie certain to derive considerable benefit,
because it was only hoot drawing a comparison of the merits
and consistency of political characters he could kliow how to
entimate the virtues et wine statesmen, and condemn the faults of
bad ones. Its generally preferred measures to men ; but if men
were consist,nt in their measures, and combined with them the
evei:,lit of stmt personal characters, then they were so united,
that it was impossible to separate Such at least was his •
'den, and in observing upon the character of the illustrious
- statesman in whose honour they were now assembled, be would
• say, without emanating him to others, (for he would not rake up
the ashes of the devil, except it were to show how the difficul-
ties into which they laid led the country could he avoided ;) yet
the consistency aids charactet was evinced by tit that when
he was satisfied of the expediency and efficacy of any measuhosre,
he away., carried it into Alma. without yielding to any of te
little amiable weaknesses which had .:ow become so fashionable
in eatam quarters. (Cheers and laugh.er.) With the tun who
prided themselves or the .e little foibles he cuuld nut act ; but if
they would act as Nis. Fox acted, Omagh their protennions soul
not create confidence, their actions might; but, unless they
first esaublished their principles, lie Willa never yield to them
for a single moment. 11n the grated principles of liberty, kat-
glishmen ought nut to differ ; and if they would only now act
firmly, he had no doubt but they would noun recover those pri-
vileges which hail lately been invaded. lie hoped that he
ir iglu be forgiven far stating, and as he had the High Shcritf by
Wde, lie was, even as things now stood, speaking coestitutt-
innally, that lie had a mertal dislike to vestry meetings. They
were not liritis4 ; they innate nut canstitutional—anti it was only
at meetings like the present, attended by men of rank and
weight, anti property in their respective counties, Mat a man
could now feel gratification in speaking, or pleieuire in bei..g
listened to (cheers). lie should now du himself the honour to
eeturn deem hi: be.t thanks for the compliment which they had
paid him, and should cow:bide by observing, the t though ilia
noble friend had called him forward on a painful occasion, owing
to the duiiiuus stile of health iu whichau illustrious relative of
leis te.vn was lying. be felt it his duty to conic forward, because
• when a public man once uttered a promise, it ass his duty to
perform it, unless prevet•tisl by an overpowering necessity.
were was also another reason which induced hint to attend ;
it
was that the Duke of Kent coincided w ith him in political it?i-
--• nion, and would say. if he knew all Ma eireutnstancss, of Huw.
• ever ill I may be. do you go and imct diem." (cheers). In
doing so he was sure that he was concurring 111 the wishes of his
illustrious !dative. and eementing that Mention), which ought
. always to exist between the Throne and the people of Coglantl.
(f:beers.) We had all, it was true, our separate interests to
defend, but front the lowest to die highest, and from the high
est to the lowest, not one Of us could do without the other. A
muntal payment of setvlCC was always necessary, KO for his own
put he wished always to owe a debt to the petiole. and trusted
that he nhinild never forget that debt winch he had :Meade con-
stricted. The royal duke tier. zat down :Mild loud 4:heeling.
the Earl of Amiss:it AIS NLn. Sonde toast., are applauded from
the sentiments they convey ; others from the gunnels whence
they conic. The present would be applauded tor both reasons.
• tor it came from the !hike of Sussex, and was .6 The respect-
abnity of the Crown, the durabany of the Constitution, and the
prosperity of the people."
The toast was drank with three times three.
The noble Chairman acid here, that he would suggest to the
aompany. whether it would not ke. expedient to limit their testi-
monies of applause to time gentlemen who were present, and
receive with cheers the name of any gentleman wief Might.
be t
absent. To this regulation the Cullipally unli..sied their

anent.
Toe earl of ALBEiteterti.r. said, tlvit his next toast was
certain to meet with general appeohation ; it way the health
set
toe High Sheriff of the county. (Cheering.) It must he
gratifying to hem (the High Sheriff.. woo was'-'.dmits! a atranger
amou”st Mein, to observe the applause with which the toast was
received by the freeholders of loriolk. lie (Lord Ailiewarle),
who knew of what stuff' tlicy were made, and how much they
respected Ilt6ll (the litsll Sheriff) Mr lies ready azquicseenee
in
tolling a county ineeim;;. knew how to appreciate the value of
their applause. ((•heers ) lie was not aware who the slientik
for the next year might be, but he was certain, that leo loupes
the pr.ssent system, lasted, they would not he Whi;;s. Whoever
they might lie, lie hoped that they would tellow the glorious
example act them by his (the lbw' Siletitl'e) pIeIIeCeSSOID. Mr.
I.outbe and Mr. Tr:oiliest 5U1111164,41, who had afforded the
people every facility for exercising what he could no longer call
toe inaliehahle right of petition, but whit he Ititt,t Call t'.e whole •
%elle practice—lie Lou neatly again said, ligitl 01 ilLti:6oll acel
rzenonstiance; because whenever the tulle should wow when it
would not be allowed rile any individual to stand in the gap
between the Government and the people: when there was to be
no middle order; when the eounitunety was to be reduced to two
classes, the governors and the goveined, and when Muse who
governed knew only how to govern Ly three, over a people
paying sullen oliedience to the -laws, the day of calamity couldd
not be tor distant. (Cheers.) lie would nut, however. procee
with such dismal foreboditegs. Little as he had been accustomed
to Athena to the loss of this right, he wouid yet sumeitt to it ar
present in the hope of having. it soon restomi. noble
Chairman ham concluded by giving tilt: health of tie High
sberiti,
The Ilittit Suen tFP shortly returned thanks, and declared
that nutheng could ever iiiiktee bin. to rctu-c calling a meeting
-wheu requtsMon W. 1., presented to (cilia signed, as the last haft
been, by so touch consequence in the remote, so roanY
nobility and gentry, SO many of the dignitat kb of its church, and
so many of its worthy used liedependettt yoneiatery. (Cocchi.)
lie awate ut' the necessity it such meetings rand it be OKI
ever any doubt of toe eweateiley, lie should always give the
boleti; of that doubt to the people. (Cheers.)
The Earl of AI.IISMAIi LS, in sexing Ike next toast,
" The May or 41111 pfuloulity to the coy of Noe week," apt).
logised on his own behalf, aeol tin the behalf ut Ilene
iriendsaviile-whom lee was politeraly e •eted, fur then
. inadvertence in MA hasiug passed .6 vole of thanks to the
Nay or tier his ace latit,„; Ihrtii elie es-a of the
•TIFINII-116111 rut the late comity meeting; bud said, ilia!
they hail now to Maul. him lot the luau of the Hall uu
tips
present occasion.
fhe !tiAS ON Plaid, it would be presumption MI to say
meets; for It every one In Ike room %vole to speak of the
great man whose memory they were met loreit•blaw, each
Night Well lied ewltlewewrillklcctof rialse.ho adverttog to

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

the object of the meeting, he Wise, weds that the calatiliCts
under which the country WKS now lAhouring ivutild newel
have occurred had attention been paid to Ilse warning
voice of :air. Fos. His .;,eat rival had been called by
shallow people, " the pilot who is thered the storm "
lie had, however, taken the vessel out of the hail
*Whit the storm was raping, where Ali. Fox advised that
it should remain till the storm was liver. Those who head
in Mr. Pitra foutstepa, had indeed brought her bark
into port, but in a stalls seerecly sea-Aim thy . and if slit
conliiiiteil under then ntanagemeso, she %mild not liaig
tie enabled to sappin t the beatiog of the waves.
The noble Cam emon said, he Was now going fn dice a
toast, which would lee received wills raptures of ;reel:iota-
non—'. The Duke of Norfolk; and Illay the Ancient here-
ditary nubility of this kingdom ever cutisider it their high-
eat honour to support the rights and privileges rit the peo-
ple." He hoped that his wort by vice•prezadeut (Mr. how-
ler) would be a little more pet lea in the sepetaitin of nos
toast than he had been last year (lough,er). 13y the bye,
Mr. howler might return the laugh upon Min now, as he
felt considerable difficulty in proceeding with his eologium
on the Duke of Norfolk, because, knowing bins as be did,
lie knew him to be as mild and gentle and 'mired in private
life, A. he was stout and resolute, and deternmwd iii public
life: and lie (Lord Albemarle) was therefore aware that,
if bespoke 01 his (the Dave of Norfolk's) character in that
language act WiliCil alone he could speak of it, and which
alone they would hear, he should greatly distress the feel
ings and wound the delicacy of his noble and illustrious
friend. The gratification of his own pride, however, pre-
vented him from being silent on one .abject. It was t los
that the Duke of Norfolk, being at the head of that order of
%chit!) he hiiii,elf happened to be a *heather, had explicitly
stilted, that he thought it his duty to stand manfully for-
ward in the cause set his people. ik.eheers ) Under thew cir-
cumstances, he expected that this toast would meet with the
most rapturous approbation.
'lite toast was then drank amidst loud cheers.
Tne Duke of NORYOLIC said, it was impossible for him
to find words its which to express tits tliaoks fit the honour
conferred upon him. '1 he neb,e Liaerinan hail coupled his
name with that cut the ancient holiday. beeaaw to di,' r ex-
ettions in destroying despotism we owed the birth of our
early liberties. He trusted that the extriluos of their de.
sceodants would mit be welding in the present day to maiu-
tam those liberties should they ever see endangered. He
was unaccustomed to puotic sprokiiig, and should therefore
confine hianselt to expressing his attachment to the cause of
liberty and Mr. Fare. On seeing such a nice ing as the pre-
sent he left his hopes revived, and he auguital that the de-
testohle measures which had been lady passed, for detest
able lie must call them, would shortly be rei.ealed. and that
we should again be able to discus, our grievances with-
out being lett to the mercy 01 spies and iinuriners (cheers).
'Die next toast was, " elite tweedy and Eliot extinction of
all laws, wheresoever they exist, which tend to obstruct the
sacred right of liberty of conscience." it wee drank Atintlat
considerable applause.
The noble Lltairitiati then said, that he was reduced to the
situation et being the first to break a resolution which he
Is .ti himself proposed ; tor, having enacted a rule that the
aliamit should be dratikwithout cheers, lie was now going to
propose that an absent person should be drank with cheers.
Phis toast was, the health of the respected and beloved Bi-
shop .of the diocese- (cheers.) The leeliuga which he en-
tertained with respect to that distinguished individual—the
mixed feelings of affection and veneration, of love and awe,
ni naturally united together by the comeniplation of h $
character, disqualified him from speaking of him in any
terms that would he satisfactory. He should therefore pro.
pose his health, without saying more than that it was the
health of a mall Wlt:loUt guile, of one whose whole ti,e `.Vas
a milee illustration of that religion of which he Was so
sliming all ornament. Breaking, therefore, through his for-
mer rule, he should propose the health to the Bishop of Nor-
wich, with three times three.
ihe toast was then drank with the greatest enthusiasm.
Mr. Bo c he est', after a short preface alluded to the con-
formity which Lord Albemarle lead observed in the conduct
tit the Bishop of Norwich with the dictates of true religioh,
trout which Mr. B. said that the principles of mercy, and
general (enevolence, and patriotism wets casentially inse-
parable, and winch principles wee hiseimralily blended
with those upon which the company were that day abse,ll.
hied. He then alluded delicately to the peculiarly painful
situation in which the. Bishop had been placed all along
by the public avowal of his sentiments. kie said, that a
IIIIL:Ittlee in politieed opinion with his friend and pupil
tineminig Lord BA- burst, to whom the Bishop was tutor)
gave a peculiar feature to the public services of the Bishop,
'headwall as while nu man was more attached to a trend and
neuetoctur than hinuretfoir was less destitute 01 thiLitt inladble
let:1111V UlllOl, it he had consulted nalueuces perhaps, it
ever, in this case, which might have been pardonable, And
wiricti generally in such eases olivine, yet the coaviction of
the proomety set his own early principles, acid the love of
that country under which name lie ItAd leArin to compre-
hend every legitimate object of human atlection, had hi-
'lured hint to make what might be tairly deemed a great
personal sacrifice. 'That the hishop's deeposition was al
ways to think must favouratity of Olen and timings, and to
take the ()rigid vide of every questiou. That therefore no
suspicious or tear. unlovourable to human nature could he
allowed to operate upon his warm of the general rights tit
mankind, or induce min to support any nice-ores of seve-
rity, while any 1111:14/1s of kiiittneas were tett untried That
upon this ground the Dimity disapproved of the public per '
hey at present pur-ued by /athletes:is, and wouol never con-
scut, upon no better ground., than those at preaunt 'gown,
to the sibridgehtelit tit liberty—that Ilhelly W.LII ail its in-
convert:mice. waa better than despotism l'h.st " fair free-
dont" tie knew to be doomed, nut oily to feel the rabale's
I rage," Out alto '• the tyrant's angry steet:'— l'hat the Bi
shop fully agreed welt a beAutitul assertion of tail Fitz
without's, VIA. that " it is not by a violaters' of the feuds-
mental principles of thee constittiotal that ate constitution is
to he saves! and Illallatailleti." V 1 ith these eentainehts, said
the nevereud speaker, Las the &Atop lived; with these Am-
timents will he (may Heaven avert the-est:lu to a very die
Lila period)—with these ,elll.lllleht, will lie die."
Tne acct toast was. ".The cause tit clvii add religious li-
berty all over the world " scheers.)
Inc made CHAIRMAN, in proposing the next toast said,
that tic timid I
should *ay. lie was going lo.prOptlse the n:aitit tit their
worthy mealier Mr. Cote. (Ictig, loud, And reiterated
cheers.) The meentig were kiwi itoth to nun (Lord .Sine
matteortnd to hi. worthy friend, toe It had given tnein both
1 finis to consider what they should say. lie (Lord Airie-
r i mark) had stud the other do to use: et Ilia nit:ads, " You

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don't know what trouble Mr. Coke gives me; I have pr..-
posed his heath so often snot that I complain of it) that I
can say nothing new on the subject." He should not at-
tempt to say ally thing new at prc,ent, because all who
heard him knew Mr. Coke, and luvcd Mr. Coke so well,
that would be quite unnece,sary. The friend whom he
had before mentioned had once said to him, when complain •
rug of his lack of words in specking of Mr. Coke, wide
great ingenuity, " Get up and begin; you'll not :ay any
thing amiss." "Amiss of Mr. Coke'," exclaimed the noble
Chairman, " I have not ingenuity enough to do it." His
very ener.:iet can't do it, and political enemies lie always
must have, whil,t lie contemn!, his determined opposition to
the cleinies of liberty. To praiw Mr. Coke ► must barrow
my language, and I will do it *ruin the words of hien w hose
memory we ate now c‘lubrating. They were words user! of
Francis, the great duke of Beeltord—eiii bad compliment,
the way ,to Mr. Coke, nor will Mr. Coke dislike the com-
parison Never did nun labour to learn the trade tv
which he was to gain his bread, the prolesion by which he
was to acquire honour And dignity, or the nobler arts of po-
etry and eloquence by which he wit' to (Anion ininiortality„
with more zeal or ardour, than that with which he labour-
ed in die art of doing good to his fellow creatures."
Ilc should detain them no longer, but would give tlicin elm

toast.
The health was then drank with rapturous applause.
Mr. Cue e, after thanking his noble friend fur the do.
quent and flattering manner in which he had iutrctioced
his health, said, that all those who had the hippinco of
knowing Mr. Fox as intimately as he had done, could not
help spending this day in mixed lettings of pain and plea-
sure. In priv.tte life, Mr. Fox was the delight of all who
knew bins ; and in public life, he was the warn) and mice •
vi ding friend of the people's liberty. It he had chosen to
eive himself up to the Clown, he might hare reacted
the
highest rank and dignity in the state; hut by refusing to
sacrifice his principles, he had acquired the esteem of ail
who loved humanity and their country, and who theretore
could never cease deploring his great and irreparable
loss. Now that lie was loileakill4 of the poNtical conduct
of Mr. los, lie could not hp alluding to tho political cha-
racter of his day. He Roelyal Highness had well said, that
every public man ought to be true to his promise; but was
this the case with the great rival of Mr. Fox ? Did not Mr.
P.tt promise hem Parliamentary Reform, and use his pros
inise as a meaus of acquiring place and power to defeat his
professed object ? Did he eut posiniae the repeal of the
test-act ? he net, when the union with Ireland was in
agitation, promise emancipation to the Catholics, as their
reward fur effecting it ? Did lie no: year after year make
fine speeches in beta I of the abut tioa or the- Sias eorade.
And yet, with all the power of Goveinniein at his CUI11.11:1U41,
did he ever take a step to accomplish one of those objects?
And yet, in the very year „tier his death, Mr. Fax cat rued
the latter measure Oleo s ) When Mr. Fox carried the
abolition, only lo meailiciis voted against It Whereas is
that very same Parlianient, whilst Mr. Pitt was on power,
the abolitionists were in a ciiiisnletable trinotity—fi
fact
which proved at once the differeuve of the men, and the
(what scarcely wanted prossai—the cotrupt state of the
House ot Commons. linteed, every man who w s not paid
could not help seeing how deep its corruptioa was. In the
last short session of Parliament more had beets done by it
against the liberty of the subject di:1311ml ';,e4L,lietnle .a all
the worst reigns of our worst nionatchs. Cloud cheering-)
'Flue bills w. re bills of blood ; tor, it acted up to, they could
not tail to produce the mint lamentable cotocquences. The
job, however, was done; nod the principal
spy of Government, who hid proposed the partition of
Lord Filzwilliam'e, estate, in order to give them a justifi-
cation tor such measures, was now otr, :OA iuu where to lie
timid 'flue magistiates in Lancashire had been active
about nothing ; but there was a goctl reason for them to
be active when one day's work could produce such a
spanking remunerat AS 2 SuJO . a year to a clerical and
stipendiary magistrate. (loud cheering) -Could any one,
after such a circumstance, doubt of the ministry being
identified with the maeistritcy on the iGth of August ? lie
for one could ns.L. He had said so ia the House, sod he
said so ouw.---The lionaiurithle Nienther then alluded to the
various meetings that bad taken place tur deinainling ioquiry
into the transactioas of the into of August, and said if they
had nut been so MIIIICCOUS, the silence tit the cuontry would
have been coustroed into en approval of the escesses which
were then commitied. Ile likewise alluded to a repisitiou
• tor a comity meeting in Statfordshire, which had been re
fused by do. High filieritf, though tionatiard fur a chari-
table object. Alluding to the view of political e,elit•
whaii had been taken by the Non: .4 G•til, Off, he spoke sa
the hipbest terms of that journal, and said that he hoped
to see its leaoing articles collected ions one pamphlet, and
published fur the litmour of the. comity. lie Is td now
only to return' tl.cm thanks tor tile honour done him, which
etnisoled far all the obloquy which had been attempted to
bet
thrown upon his poliacal coneloct. lit fns oppositioa to
the American war he had been called a rebel ; in his Oppo-
- to the French wsr, a Jactibm; and now, in has op•
positiots to the late use isures, he had been styled a Radical.
No reproach of this kind would, however, prevent hina
from doing his duty: If he had his life to live over again.
he would not change a single vote that he had ever given.
He wished to curtoil the inerogative x7l the Crown;
tie
wished to destroy all undue influence; he wished to red ace
the burden of our almost intolerable taxation and if a
time ever should come when au Englishman's house should
cease to be considered as his castle, he hoped the country
would rise to a man, and resist
" The right divine of kings to govern wrong."

(loud applause i
His -Royal Highness the Doke of SUSSEX then, in It
highly complimentary speech, proposed the health of the
uoble Chairman, and lamented that, with Lord Mbimarlc's
powers of elotiumwe and highly constitutional principles, he
did not come lurward in Patliament. His Royal nighties*
Sit d, if he would ranee forward and use the same spirited
ianguage in the House which he had used in that Hall, he
would nut find bim fthe Duke of btatiitx) backward in sup.
porting the same sentinteuts, and using similar language.
The toast WAS then drank with every testimony of ap-
Ptlit4ee noble CIIAIRMAN in a short good- litz monied speech
retunrc.l thanks for the hotwee dune and exl,re•wit his gra.
'nude to the Royal Duke for the layout Ceit,e• ....d nit hint
uy tits attendance un the oz.. is DJ.
I ova Is —" OW cause. tor which Hampden died in the
field. and Russell and Sioecy on die .eallad."
" The worthy inheritor of the o.tioe and virtue of the
I louse of Russell the Duke of lied ord."
. " May the example of rue revolution prevent the twee►
,ity of another."
( Eor continuation set' l'a,se JS.)