The Sun.
London, England, 1830-09-29 00:00:00

DINNER TO MR. WAKLEY.

Yesterday about 100 persons, friends of Mr.
`Vakley, sat down to dinner at the Crown and
Anchor Tavern, to celebrate his able and manly ad-
vocacy of justice in the late contest for the Coroner-
ship of Middlesex.

After the usual loyal toasts were drunk,
Mr. HUNT proposed—"'The people, the only
source of legitimate power."--Drunk with three
times three.

The CHAIRMAN (Dr. King) then proposed the
health of Mr. Wakley, whose whole life, he said,
had been devoted to the public cause, and the be-
nefit of his country.—((,bent applause.)—Of all men
he knew none more fitted for the office of Coroner,
whether his sound knowledge, his unbending inde-
pendence, or great activity, were considered. He
therefore proposed the health of Thomas Wakley,
Esq., whom he hoped he might call the futui e Co-
roner of Middlesex.—(Applause.)
Mr. WAKLEY, in rising to return thanks, said he
should be something more or less than man if he did
not feel deeply impressed with what he had just
heard. He said that from the first moment be hail
entered on public life he had endeavoured honestly
to discharge his duty to the public, and he had
never, on any one occasion, from private interest,
swerved even for a moment train the path he had
kid down to himself to follow.—(Applause.)—Mr.
Wakley then .proceeded to notice the negligent at-
tendance of surgeons in the hospitals, end the im-
portance of placing medical men in the office of Cc-
roner, as the only means of making the surgeoes
pay that attention to the inmates which their cases
demanded. lle complained of the misrepresenta-
tions which had been circulated with respect to him
by his opponents at the late election. He had been
said to have called the medical profession " Blood-
stained scoundrels," and to have stated that the
Judg, s were paid for the perversion of truth. But
the fact was, that with respect to the medical profes-
sion he had only put an hypothetical case, and said
if men do so and so, they would be so and so; and
with respect to the Judges, ,he had said that it was
unfortunate that they were chosen from a clips of
men who had been all their lives paid for the per-
version of truth. He concluded by thanking the
company for their kindness, which he assured them
he should ever remember and endeavour to deserve.
—(Applause.)
" The 3,531 independent freeholders, who re-
corded their votes in favour of the principle that
Coroners should possess medical as well as legel
knowledge," was the next toast.
Mr. WALLIS, the Chairman of Mr. Hume, the
Member of Parliament's Committee, proposed that
gentleman's health. his character, he said, was so
well known, as to require no eulogium to be put on
it by him.— ( Applause.)
Colonel JONES, as a friend of Mr. Hume, rose to
return thanks. He said that it was not from private
friendship, but purely on public grounds, that he
had supported Mr. Hume. With respect to Mr.
Wakley he begged to say, that his mind had once
been prejudiced against that gentleman. He had
heard some calumnies to his disadvantage, but be
now, upon his honour, believed them to be wholly
without foundation.

On the he+ilth• of " Mrs. Wakley and the Ladies
of Middlesex" being drunk,

Mr. WAKI,F,Y returned thanks. Ile would take
the opportunity, he said, to show the company how
stories to his prejudice, which had not the slightest
foundation, got about Four or five years ago a
gentleman dined with him and his family at his
country-house; and took • particular notice of his
children. The next day the gentleman dined at one
of the hospital dinners, and the Lancet was brought
under discussion. His neighbour asked him how
lie could read such an infamous publication ? He
replied, that he saw nothing infamous about it.
" Why," said the other " don't you know► it is con-
ducted by an infamoui scoundrel who has turned
his wife out of doors, and his children into thy •work-
house ?"—(Laughter.)
After several other toasts were given, the com-
pany separated at a late hour.