The Sun.
London, England, 1839-08-31 00:00:00

TilE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 3L 183fi.

nearly in the fol:owing terms :—Mr. Chairman, my Lords
and Gentlemen, I beg leave to :aura my thanks for
the honour vou have done me in drinking my health.
I have likewise to return my thanks to the Noble
and Learned Lord, who I hope will allow me to call him
my Noble and Learned Friend—(Very great cheering)—
for the manner in which, and the terms which he has used
in recommending to you the sere ices in which I have been
employed by the Government of this countrv.—( Cheers.)
I have also to express my grateful acknowledgments to you
Inr having invited me to be your guest at this magnificent
festival. —(Cheers.) My Noble and Learned Friend has
ststed to you, with great truth, that there are times and
circumstances in which, and under which, all feelings of
party—all party animosity, all descriptions of political feel-
ings roust be laid aside.—( Cheers. ) I must do my Noble
and Learned Friend the justice to say that for years and
years there has been nothing of that description in social
life as between him and me—(Cheers)—notwithstanding
that it is certainly true that I have had the misfortune of
differing in opinion with my Noble and Learned Friend
upon many points of internal and possibly of other de-
scriptions, of policy. But lam afraid that notwithstand-
ing the cordiality in which I have always lived with you,
and notwithstanding my most anxious wish to co-operate
ith all of you in the public service in which we have all
been employed, I may happen (I know it does happen)
to differ with some of you upon subjects of political in-
terest to the country.—(Cheers.) But my Noble and
Learned Friend judges of you correctly when he states
that such feelings of difference would not prevent you—as
they have not prevented you—(Cheers)—from doing me
the honour of inviting me to this festival, and of bringing
here to meet me, not only the whole of this interesting
county, but persons from all parts of the kingdom, and
even from abroad.—(Cheers.) Therefore my Noble and
Learned Friend does you as well as himself justice when
he states that there are occasions—occasions in relation to
individuals as well as in relation to public interest
and services—in which all feelings of party politics and
opinions roust be laid aside, in order to carry on the
public service to the greatest point of advantage to the
public interest.—('.;hears.) I have had sufficient experi-
ence in public life to know that this must be the case. I
am convinced that it is that feeling which has induced you
to pay this tributes of respect to the person holding the
situation of Lord War ;en of the Cinque Ports, in order
that you might encourage others hereafter to perform their
duty honestly and conscientiously in the same honourable
office. It is true, and lam perfectly aware of it, that the
office which I have now the honour to fill is not so efficient
as it was in former times, under circumstances connected
with the maritime power and resources of the country ;
and I am likewise aware that the duties of that office do not
necessarily bring the person who has to perform them so fre-
quently into reiation with the towns submitted to his jurisdic-
tion, as was the case in former times. But lam frequently
in communication with all parts of this district ; and any-
thing which has relation to its local interest I am at ail
times ready to attend to. To every point in which any one
may think that I can render him any service, I shall be
most happy to attend ; and I trust that every man who now
hears me is convinced that that is the truth ; and that no
one willscruple, at any time when he conceives that I can
render any service to any part of the Cinque Ports, to call
upon me for assistance. I beg in this, as upon other points
that all considerations of party--all considerations of poli-
tical opinions, may be laid aside—for in all matters of
public duty of this description, holding as I do this (Ace
under the Crown, I consider it my duty to do every thing
in my power for the service of the public, and of each indi-
vidual part of the country under my jurisdiction. I once
more, my Lords and Gentlemon, returns thanks for the
honour you have done me.—(Great cheering.)
Song—Mr. Broadhurst, " And cloth not a meeting like
this make amends."

Viscount STRANGFORD—After the soul-stirring speech
of his Noble and Learned Friend ; after the transcendent
theme, rich in accumulated glories, upon which he had had
the good fortune to expatiate, and to which his mighty
and unrivalled eloquence had barely done justice, he (Lord
Strangford) felt too sensibly how faintly and feebly any-
thing which he could address to the assembly could fall
upon their ear. He should, therefore, confine himself
strictly to the discharge of the duty which their worthy and
respected Chairman had been pleased to impose on him—
calling upon him to bear his humble part it: the pro-
ceedings of this memorable day, by proposing a toast
which he was about to give, and which he most unaffectedly
wished had been assigned to one better capable of doing
justice to it. The toast he had to offer to their accept-
ance was the health of those eminent gentlemen not sub-
jects of our gracious Queen who had favoured them
with their pre-once on this intesting oceasiora—(Cheers.)
He might be al.owed to say that as an Englishmen he felt
proud and happy that there should be many of those dis-
tinguished persons witnesses to a scene which he ventured
to think could not fail to raise the country and its character
4, their estimation —( Lond cheers.) This magnificent
and spontaneous display of natural, and he would add, of
national duty towards the illustrious man who that day
honoured them more than they could pretend to honour
him—(Cheers)—this he thought set forth to advantage, or
at all events displayed in a favourable point of view the
character of Britons.—( Cheers.) It demonstrated that we
knew how to be grateful to the hand which had secured to
us the greatest, perhaps, of all the blessings we could en-
joy, the blessing of restored peace and concord with those
powerful and enlightened States of Continental Europe from
which we had been too long disunited,but many of whose dis.
tinguished subjects were with them this day, and whom they
were enabled to honour and hail as welcome and friendly
visitants to the shores of Britain.—(Cheers.) This in-
estimable blessing of peace ought to be duly prized, and,
under Providence, it should be remembered that the
country owed it mainly to him whom it could proudly
point to as its own, and who here, in the bosom of his
native land, was acknowledged—reverently acknowledged
—as the devoted and true-hearted servant of the Crown,
the just and faithful servant of the people, the pure and
spotless Statesman, the incorruptible and unpretending
patriot, the fearless defender of the nation's rights in the
Cabinet and the field, and the unflinching supporter of
those antique institutions of this glorious realm of England
under which the country had enjoyed centuries of unin-
vaded security and of unparalleled happiness and renown.
—(Cheers.) The Noble Viscount concluded by proposing
" The health of the distinguished Foreign Guests at the
Cinque Ports banquet."—Chorus, " Vivc le Roi."
Mr. RICE, M. P., then proposed the next toast—" Lord
Minto and the Navy." He felt that no one more deeply
appreciated the services of the Navy than their illustrious
and honoured guest.—(Hear.) But while the deeds of
Nelson only lived in their memories, the hero of Waterloo
still lived to enjoy the gratitude of his countrymen._
(Hear, ;hear, hear.) lie had been the foremost to lend
his valuable assistance in raising that memorial to the
honour of Nelson by which a grateful nation sought to
perpetuate his fames—(Hear, hear.) Without further
preface he should propose " Lord Minto and the Navy."
.._.( Loud and continued cheering.)
Air—" Rule Britannia," the whole company rising and
joining in the chorus.
Admiral Sir ROBERT BAKER returned thanks.
Sir JOHN RAE REID said that while they were doing
honour to the Noble Duke, he felt he should he wanting
in his duty did he fail iv proposing the health of those
gallant officers who had so materilly assisted in planting
on his brow its most illustrious laurel.—( Hear.) Ile re-
gretted that Lord Hill was not present ; and he felt sure
his Lordship would himself regret it, for never in his
life had he seen a more brilliant assemblage than the
preaent.—( Cheers.) He felt he should have been waut-
ing in duty had he not given them as a toast—" Lord 11W
and the Army."
The Duke of WELLINGON acknowledged the toast on
the part of the army, and observed that he had so lately
addressed them on his own part in the character of Lord
Warden of the Cinque Ports, thanking them for the favour-
able reception they had given him that night as their guest
at that magnificent festival, he did not and could not for-
get that he vas an officer of the army whose services they
they had just been pleased to notice.—( Loud cheers.)
Gentlemen (continued the Noble Duke), as one of the
company I entirely and heartily concur with the lion.
Gentleman who moved you to drink this toast, in his opi-
nion of the merits of the services of the army, and of their
claim to your notice ; and on their part 1 beg leave, as
well as upon my own, to return you their and my most
grateful acknowledgments —( Cheers.) There are no
men in the community more desit ous than they arc of de-
serving the approbation of their fellow-cit,zens—( Loud
cheers)—and feeling, as I think they must do, that they
have merited that approbation, I am convinced that no
men can be more gratified than they are for the mariner iii
which you have expressed your approbation of them.
Sir FRANCIS BUREIETT rose to propose the next toast.
It was his pride that he was able to lace any portion of his
countrymen, from having never deviated from the strict
line of duty.—( Hear. ) Having dwelt on the qualities of
the Noble Duke, he said he had endeavoured, however
humbly, to imitate his example, in never turning to the right
or the left during the hour of danger. Although politics
were excluded upon the occasion, he might congratulate
the country upon this—the strong position in which she
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without the great talents, acknowledged by all, of the
Learned Lord who hrd so recently addressed them, and
without the aid of the most conspicuous business man in
the House of Commons: he meant Sir Robert Peel.—
( Immense cheers.) He recollected Fox, Pitt, Wyndham,
and Sheridan, and, he trusted, truly appreciated their great
talents ; but he would say, with all his recollections of those
great men, this country never possessed a man of more
practical talent than that which was displayed in the con-
dnct of Sir Robert Peel.—(Loud cheers ) But there
was one eminent statesman whose name he had forgotten ;
as great a statesman, he would say, as any country ever
produced—the Marquis Wellesley—( Loud cheers)—but
one which the present Administration had overlooked—a
man in the full possession of all his faculties, and receiving
from age nothing but wisdom—(Cheers)—but an Admi-
nistration that had the self-confidence and courage not
to take the least advantage—not to avail itself, not to
allow the country to avaiiitself, under any circumstances,
of the greatest possible difficulty—( Hear, hear)—diffi-
culties of every description, did, he thought, incur a great
responsibility.—( Hear, hear.) He thought that Admi-
nistration did incur a transcendent responsibility in leaving
the country in the position in which she now is.--( Hear.
hear.) He would conclude by proposing to them " The
Judges of the Land."—( Hear.)
Sir F. PoLLocK said that in the presence of the illustri-
ous Duke, and in his company no man ever felt personal or
moral want, and how ever awkward he (Sir F. Pollock)
might feel in his presence, yet he had no fear in speaking
before him—( Hear)—on behalf of the profession to which
he belonged. He thanked them for the honour that had
been done to it.
Viscount CANTERBURY said that the toast he bad to pro-
pose was, " The health of Lord Maryborough and the
house of Wellesley."—( Loud cheers ) On his part, he
felt as every Briton must feel, that history would teach
publicly what marry of those present were old encugh to
know—the great aid transcendent glory of the house of
Wellesley.
Lord MARYSOROCGIi begged leave, in the name of the
house of Wellesley, to return their grateful thanks for the
manner in which the last toast had been received.
I Lord Lvennoesr rose, amidst very great cheering.

The toast which he was about to propose was that of
" General Sr• E. Paget, aryl the officers who had served
tinder the illustrious Doke." Ile must be permitted tor a
moment, though the Gallant Officer was now present, to
say a few words regarding his distinguished military career.
That distinguished officer was in Egypt, and commanded
the 28th Regiment, which distinguished itself so much in
the campaign in that remote country. In the great battle
under the walls•of Alexandria that regiment was attacked
in front by a large body of infantry, and at the same moment
they were attacked in their rear by cavalry. This distin
guished officer directed his men to form a double front, and
after a fierce combat, they attacked on the one hand and the
other, and their assailants were completely routed. The
Gallant Officer served under the illustrious Duke in
Spain. He commanded a brigade in the rear of the array,
and protected them on the retreat from Corunna. But he
came now to a more interesting period. He meant that
period when the Gallant Officer served under their Illus-
trious guest at the passing of the Douro, one of the most
celebrated exploits of the Noble Duke, at the head of a
small force, and in the face of the enemy, crossed the
river, and the passage was immediately followed by the
rest of the army in the face of the first troops of France,
commanded by the most distinguished of their Generals.
He would conclude by proposing " The health of Ge-
neral Sir Edward Paget, and those distinguished Officers
who gem' under the command of the Illustrious Duke."
—( Loud cheers.)
The toast having been enthusiastically responded to.
General Sir EDWARD PAGET returned thanks.
Sir E. KNATCHRULL would propose a toast which he
was sure would be well received—it was " The Lords
Lieutenant of Kent and Sussex."—( Loud cheers.)
The Earl of BRECKNOCK returned thanks on behalf of
his father, the Marquis of Camden.
The Duke of WELLINGTON rose and said that he had
been desired to propose to them a toast which he was con-
vinced it would be their anxious desire to honour. It was
the health of their Chairman, the Speaker of the Cinque
Ports.

The SPEAKER returned thanks.
After some other toasts had been drunk,
The Duke of WELLINGTON rose. He had been desired
to request their attention once more to propose to the
assembly the last toast, that of the health of the ladies who
had that day honoured them with their company. They
must all be sensible of the pleasure and advantage which
they had derived from their presence on the occasion.
The toast was then drunk with enthusiasm.
The Noble Duke and the other distinguished guests then
left the Pavilion, and was crowded round by a multitude of
persons, who shook hands with his Grace.
The festivities were concluded shortly before eleven
o'clock.

THE EGLINTOUN TOURNAMENT.

(From the Gia.sgetv Argus.)
WEDNESDAY.
The first day of the " Eglintoun Tournament"—the
most splendid folly of the age—has come and gone.
Noble Lords and Honourable Gentlemen have given to the
world proofs of their personal prowess ; and another testi-
mony has been added to the value of Aristocratic wisdom,
the former we never questioned —the amount of the latter
has been placed beyond dispute. In the 19th century, re-
markable for the triumphs that have been achieved in the
cause of human improvement, and the enlightenment of the
human mind, the hereditary wisdom of the nation could indi.
cate the quality of its intellect and the natere of its tastes only
by a senseless imitation of the mere tinsel and the show of
one of the vainest exhibitions of a barbaric age. We say the
tinsel and the show, for in the fooleries, which yesterday
were enacted within the compass of Eglintoun Park, the
reader must not suppose that any thing of the real cha-
racter or spirit of chivalry was exhibited—any thing that
could body forth to the eye of the spectator that proud de-
fiance, and bold and manly daring, and unbending hardi-
hood, which were the life and soul of chivalry in its
proudest aspects, and which formed the highest and most
striking characteristic of the institution. Such a revival
of the best days of chivalry might have been fraught with
danger to the sacred persons of our modern Barons ; and
therefore the courtesies of the peaceful Tournament, the
mimic representations of actual combat were chosen as
the only scenes on which their ladies might dare to look,
or unsworn knighthood dare to practise. Herein we think
the assembled chivalry of E glintoun sho wed their wisdom. If
this lack ofsympathy with the enlightened pursuits and nobler
aspiration of the age could point out to them no pastime more
intellectual than that of mimicking the barbarities and ab-
surdities of bygone centuries, they did well in selecting
that which was least absurd, least barbarous, and least
dangerous to themselves ; but here our commendation
must end. In every view, the whole exhibition, so far as
it has gone. has sustained the character we prophesied of
it—a piece of unmitigated folly—folly, it is true (and so
much the worse), on a large and gorgeous scale—hung
round and adorned with all the splendour that rank, and
wealth, and the glitter of ornament, can furnish, and
perhaps not unaccompanied by something of the romance
which the poetry of the past can conjure up ; but still,
in the broad view, unmitigated, irretrievable folly. To
inquire into the " why and the wherefore " of the
strange, although gorgeous spectacle of yesterday, is,
perhaps, needless ; but it may not be unprofitable to ask
if the present time, above all others, is not especially
unfitted for such a display of senseless pageantry? Is
not enough occurring every day already to call into play
questions affecting the privileges of the aristocracy—but
must they give additional cause of discontent, by exhi.
biting, in the face of an enlightened, though suffering
people, the wastefulness of their prodigality, and the bar-
barity of their tastes, if not the inferiority of their intel-
lectual position.
When all has been admitted, plain and sensible people
will turn aside from the glittering gaities of Eglintoun, and
a deeper shade of reflection will pass over their brows, as
they contemplate the poverty and the wretchedness which
lie unrelieved over the length and the breadth of the land.
People, who see no moral beauty in restoring barbarous
pastimes, will begin to speculate upon the benefits which
an enlightened arid well educated aristocracy might confer
upon society; they will sum up the good which might flaw
to the country from an intellectual Peerage, taking the
lead in all great and beneficial improvements, promoting
education, and encouraging the arts and sciences—taking
commerce by the hand, or rather, as matters are, letting
it alone—pointing out the way to the advancement of agri-
culture—ameliorating the institutions of the State—aiding,
by influence and example, in the spread of religion—peo-
ple, we say, will speculate upon these things, and while
they acknowledge the right of every man "to do as he
likes with his own," they will sigh over the folly which
could expend thousands on the vain and even hurtful exhi-
bitions at Eglintoun, and never pass a thought on some glo-
rious project for hastening on the enlargement of the hu-
man mind.

Nor did the vast preparations for the Tourney end here.
Not to speak of the sawdust which was laid deep, yielding
soft repose to unhorsed Knights, and which therefore natu-
rally falls to be included under the head " luxuries," it was
becoming that something should be had to grace forth the
banqueting table. For this important end, then, there
arrived at Eglintoun two weeks ago, first among all the
strangers, and therefore the " first fashionable arrival," six
turtles direct from the East Indies, attended by their
French cook (a refined species of cruelty by the way)
powdered like a Lord, and who, in passing down the ri.
ver, gave both himself and his crawling charge, the benefit
of a cabin passage, as we find duly recorded in all the
Journals of the day. Next came fat bucks and fatter bul.
locks, game in abundance, with fish of the sea, and fowl of
the air—.

" Fowls a la Conde, slices eke of salmon,
With sauces, Geneviases, and haunch of venison."
Fruiis, spices, foreign and domestic, with every produce
of garden and greenhouse, from the vulgar cabbage to the
sweetest nectarine,
" And then there was Champaigne with foaming whirls,
As white as Cleopatra's melted pearls."
In truth, the provision for the carnal appetites of the chi-
valry of Eglintoun was such as must have satified the desire
of the most thorough epicurist. A peep into the kitchen,
we have been informed, was none of the least remarkable
sights of the day ; and, in the estimation of many, much
more gratifying than the whole of the tilting in the park.
Two or three large apartments were literally stuffed with
venison, beef, poultry, and game of every description ;
spits were turning in every quarter—cooks, of all shades,
from the powdered French gentleman, already honoured by
especial notice, downwards, were, right and left, busy
with their mysteries—and the very savour of their handi-
work was almost sufficient to satisfy the cravings of tho
hungriest pauper in Ayrshire. The sight •f plenty for the
board is always gratifying, but, on looking at the abun-
dance of Eglintoun, one could scarcely help contrasting it
with the penury and want which have caused " cleanness
of teeth" in the families of thousands, whose bread has
been made dear by aristocratic legislation.
The preparations,so long and so loudly made, and so much
talked of in the newspapers, naturally led people to ex-
pect that everything would be in the most complete state
of readiness for the tournament, long before the period ar-
rived. The case was, however, far otherwise. Up to
the very moment when the pageantry was announced to
commence, nothing but confusion and disorder prevailed.
Everything had been begun, but scarcely one single thing
was finished. As a proof of which we may state, that, at
the moment the procession of the Knights, &c. was winding
through the grounds, the sound of the hammer was heard in
almost every part of the tilting-ground. The greatest diffi-
culty was experienced in fitting the Knights and their Esqrs.
with their proper pieces of armour and the fitting articles
of dress ; and we understand that in several instances gross
incongruities were the consequence. Some of the Esquires
were forced, in the hurry and confusion, to put on articles
of finery belonging to the 15th century, over costumes of
the 13th or 14th century, et vice versa, but, in point of
fact, these mistakes were scarcely observed, if indeed ob-
served at all ; the spectators and the wearers looked quite
as well, we believe, the one way as the other. We
need not say that " the gathering" on this occasion was im-
mense. Fur several days before the Tournament began,
strangers of every degree were pouring into the Vale of
Cunninghame, also into the whole of Ayrshire, as well as
into the adjoining Island of Arran, and the Great and Lit-
tle Cumbraes. The towns of Ayr, Ardrossan, Salcoats,
Troon, Kilwinning, and Irvine were, however, especially
favoured as being, in point of situation, more convenient
to the scene of attraction. But the most decided run was
made upon the town of Irvine, which, as may be found re-
corded in all the Gazttteers, is not a place to be despised,
" a Royal Burgh, the seat of a Presbytery, a sea-port, and
capital of the parish of its name." We question if the old
burgh was ever so densely peopled before ; almost every
house, high and low, from the minister's manse to the
beadle's " but an' ben," and from the mansion of the Pro.
vest to the cellar of the town-drummer, was filled by
strangers, who secured them either by hire, or were en-
joying the favour of their host's hospitality. k was
amusing, for some days before the tournament, to hear
honest and industrious burghers of Irvine exulting
over the windfalls of fortune which the immense influx
of strangers into the " gude toun" had thrown in their
way ; and good cause had many of them to rejoice, for, it.
the eagerness to procure lodgings, strangers had in m,ny
cases agreed to pay 5/., 101., 151., and, if report speaks
true, in some as high as 201., and 301. for one week ; in
numerous cases, 15i. and 16s. was paid for one night.
Indeed, for the last eight days, the borough has been the
constant scene of festivity; the Marymas fair, which, with
its attendant jollities, occupied the greater part of last
week, baring been rendered more than usually jovial by
the near prospect of the expected Tournament. The
unwonted number of gallants, who paraded the streets,
was of itself a source of no small enjoyment to the
fair sempstresses of Irvine ; and a stranger, in threading his
way along the Kirkgate, (which, by the way, the lamented
Galt described as at one period having some resemblance
to the ether world, where there was " neither marrying
nor giving in marriage,") might have seen fair faces peep-
ing curiously from the casements, scanning closely the
bearing and the countenance of every successive lounger,
whose appearance indicated that he had not, as yet, fallen
into the trap of matrimony. But gay and animated as
Irvine was before the 28th, its gaiety and animation bore no
comparison with the flood of beauty, fashion, and gallantry
which burst upon it, and the adjoining park of Eglintoun,
upon the long promised day. Leaving the rationality or
irrationality of the occasion which called them together out
of the question, it were needless to deny that Eglintoun
yesterday witnessed a truly overwhelming mass of human
beings, of all ages and of all ranks, from the peer to the
peasant, and from the grey-haired patriarch leaning on his
staff, to the rebellious little rogue of a few years, who,
setting all threats of the strap at defiance, had escaped from
the confinement of home to witness the child's play of
grown-up men.
Of course, this brilliant chimera attracted towaris
it the especial regards of the high-born of the
land, and a numerous band of the aristrocacy were,
and are accordingly assembled at Eglintoun and
the neighbourhood. The most conspicuous of
these, from the position which they hold on the occa-
sion, are the King and Queen of the Tournament—the
former high and important office being held by the Marquis
of Londonderry, and the latter by Lady Seymour, daugh-
ter-in-law of the Duke of Somerset, and a gland-daughter,
we believe, of the great Sheridan. Perhaps the third most
remarkable personage among all those who came to " vow
the service of their swords," or rather, we should say,
the service of their wooden poles,
..is the Marquis of
Waterford, the only knight who deigned to ride along the
Queen's highway in the costume of chivalry. The Noble
Marquis found Englintoun-park too small for his purpose,
and full of knight-errantry, ho, on Tuesday night, in full
armour, rode into the town of Irvine in search of exploi!s,
but returned without performing any decd at all worthy of
his former character, either for daring or devilry.
Unfortunately for the sight-seers on this occasion, the
day turned out, after twelve o'clock, exceedingly wet.
and in consequence • the effect of the pageantry was
much impaired.. • The sky had lowered a little during the
whole of the morning, but no rain fell till the hour we
have mentioned,- which was a considerable time before the