The Sun.
London, England, 1808-10-28 00:00:00

ANNI'/RIZS.,:fly

OF T E
BATTLE OF TRAF.4LGAR.

Friday being the Anniversary of the glorious
tittle of Trafalk'ar, was celebraktd by a numerous
yid respeclable acsomblage of Gent;emen, whq.rnet
o dine 'at Mr. it'Am's,...White Hart Inn. tnrtht-
of the first quality was served up on the-occisi9R,
accompanied with every deii.cacy the 'season could
per::duce;• and the whole' was Ctanaducied in a style Of
elegance and regularity highly cretlitable to the
'house. The dining-room was ornamented with tfid
Union Col Ours, and also with emblematical trans'
parent painring-, by that' admirable artist Mr- MA,*"
LAURIN, and in his very best style. 'ln one.F7,olste
was represented ; itt her tight hand watt Inspendefi
a medallion encircled with a wreath of laurel, an
Coneaining a striking likene4 of Lor.l Net,wNA :-
trumpet occupied her left hand; which she was-r-
-presented sounding, and the word "Trafalgar" issu-
ing out of it; she appeared in the ad of Acending
to Heaven ; at her feet the adverse Fleets in close
anion. Another represented the ocean strewed
with French and Spanish- Ensigns, and Neptune., lit
his coral shell, drawn by sea horses; they appeared
trampling the colours beneath their feet. In
right hand he ;held a trident, surmounted with tLt
British Flag, and in his left Britannia's shield; lwar
his head the last signal the gallant .IVdinizaa evor
hoisted, " England expels that every 111311 win ei*'
his duty."—Mr. KEMBLE was Called to the Chair
by the unanimous voice of company, and 'dal
moment the cloth was drawn, delivered an Eutb-
gium on Lord NELSON, to the following etfeCt.:

GENI.LEMf
The importance of-Greenock as a commercial and sea red.
town hat been long since felt and acknowledged throughoute
the British Empire, and it rejoices me to see so many of '
worthy and respectable inhabitantS assembled to coname'
: morittez Naval Vie:tory, achieved by British courage, and t
proudest that ever yet adorned the page of history. Accus-
tomed as 1 am to speak in public, I feel on this • occasion 411
timidity I know holt how to accoant for, unless it be that I
am about to deliver my sentiments and feelings upon.a Cha-
rader, assuredly not a .fidtitious one, engendered by a teCl/1'
4p g imagination, but one who performed all that ;idiot' ..S.t
imagination have asc•ibed to their most daring Heroes.
Whilst the enemies of Great Britain were bearing befog
them on land the downfall of her hopes, and the ciesolatittot
of hia Allies; whilst Flanders, Holland, Spain, Austriss
Sarvlinia, Naples, Switzerland, and the Germanic EinpiAl
were ,inking in succession before the uplifted arms of It evii'•
lutionary France, the security which we vainly sought f0r.032
the solid earth, was afforded to us by the uncertain sell;
an element, which. though
.proverbially false to the fir'
man race.at . large, has been to us a bulwark of salvation*
and a tide of Only: for, as the waves have divested thean
selves of their terrors, they have entered into an alliance
protection witri• us ; and British Honour, like attot her Venice.,
has risen smiling from the billaws ofthe Atiantic.--Britoofa ,
you owe much of this to one who was bred from early you tll
in your service. His attachment to his native country 4.
the noble profession which protedts .us, grew with -111
growth, and strengthened with his strength. Animated Ley
this generous impulse,. the gulphs of, the yawning deep were • -
to him the flowery paths of greatness ; and when he defeat
the fury of the elements,, could he dread the thunder 0f
the foe ? Who was it, at Copenhagen, that prostrated air -
warlike Dane beneath the British Ensign I—NELSON. Wl5
was it, at the Nile, that defeated the hostile Fleets and se-
cured your tottering Possessions in the East ?—INJ stsor;
Who was it that, off Cape Trafalgar, by a promptitude °t:
decision and novelty of enterprise that astonished the oldest
seaman, attacked and - annihilated the Combined I'deet
.France and Spain?--Why NELSO,N, immortal NELseN
Friends, Britons, Brothers, you all know what lie had suai'r-
ect in your cause, previous to this last adtion. The 1051.°t
art Arm, an eye,,and various other w0uruir....12,0-I.o4airl i„,
to hint almost an insupportable burtiien. Such a lit;' de-
-
served a death of honour, and kind Providence ordained
his' undaunted soul should be upborne to Heaven -on ,the
wings of G4ory, in the very momet of Triumph and V tldory!
and that his remains should beernbalmed by the -tears SM
grateful Nation:— that

Time,- at whom Nature shudders with dismay-,
Before whose scythe whateer of human skill,
Though mountain strong, fast mouldert to decay,
Dependent on the T) rant's ruthless will
Time may destroy the mansions of the deal,. •
The rushing course of raging oceans turn; •
Awl yon grand Planet's last convulsive red,
consuming Time to squalid aslieslourn4
hi, So thn lov'd relics of the marbled urn, _
By Time divested of its mantling stones,
The Peasant's rude uututor'd heel may spurn,
4nd play at loggets with a NELSON'S bones.
• But thou, Great NELSON, to thy country lost,, ,
Thy glory shall survive his fading frame ;
And last till Time, in dying spasms tost,
- Restore to Heaven thy still enduring fame.

The. above Eulogy. was received •with „rag's
Many loyal and patriotic songs aril
werwgiven, and the company continued till ,1,
la,-
hour ogether enjoying the feast of reason, 014" '—
flow of souli fully sensible of the blessings they c 7;
perience under the mild auspices -of the ,best
Kings, and a. Constitution the admiration of t-11%
world.—(Greenack Advertiser, 061-. 24.)