The Sun.
London, England, 1854-10-23 00:00:00

ROYAL NAVAL CLUB OF 1765.

The 4D th anniversary and entry upon the 50th year,
or jubilee of the glorious victory of Trafalgar, by the
Royal Naval Club, took place at the Thatched House
Tavern, St. James's-street, on Saturday, the 21st inst.
Since the reception of Vice-Admiral Cecille, of the
French navy, then the ambassador to this country, in the
summer of 1348, when the governor of Greenwich Hos-
pital, the late Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Adam, K.C.8.,
presided especially for the occasion, as oae of the oldest
and meet distinguished members of the club, there has
not been so large a meeting of the members as took
place on Saturday. Earl Nelson, the grand-nephew of
Vice-Admiral Horatio Viscount Nelson, Duke of Bronte,
of glorious and beloved memory, was the guest on this
occasion.

Captain Hood, who served as a midshipman in the
A.chille, the seventh ship of Colliegwood's line, was in
the chair, sipported by two of the surviving midshipmen
of the same ship, who were also in the action—Captain
Richard Douglas and Commander Lardner Dennys ;
and altogether there were present the following fifty-one
flag officers, captains, and commanders :
Vice-Admiral Sir William Dillon, K.C.H. ; Vice-Ad-
miral Sir Edward Chetbarn strode, K.C.B. and K.C.H.
Rear-Admirals Sir Charles Sullivan, Bart., Edward
Collier, C. 8., J. Hollinsworth, Henry C. Deacon.
Captains—William Hood (chairman), Mark Sweeny,
William Chambers, Michael Quin, 'William Richardson,
John Sykes, Edward Stanley, Charles Rayley, Edward
Chappell, Edward Barnett, Hon. Thomas Best, John
Hudson, Charles Edmunds, H. B. Young, Sir Edward
Belcher, C. 8., Harry Edgell, Edward Anglefield, and
Richard Douglas.
Commanders--William Miller, George Howes, Henry
Rich, Danield Weld, John Brandfurd, Thomas Smith,
C. W. Jay, Edward Robinson, Henry Parry, John Mid-
dleton, H. Freestun, Lardner Dennys, J. T. Wood, G.
F. Westbrook, William T. Rivers, J. Washington,
Cave, A. N. Fairman, George Spong, H. Strode, J. B.
Crawford, James S. Lean, Henry Lancaster, George
Hand, R. M. Ward, and Samuel Rideout.
Secretary—William Allen, R.N., Greenwich Hos-
pital.
After dinner the loyal toast, " The Queen," was pro-
posed, and drank by all upstanding, with three times
three enthusiastic cheers.
The next toast, " Prince Albert, Prince of Wales,
and Royal Family," was also drank, and enthusiastically
cheered by the gallant officers.
The CHAIRMAN, on rising to propose the toast of the
day, prefaced it by the following history of that memor-
able event ii which he, as a young volunteer, acted a
part :—This being the forty-ninth anniversary of the over
memorable battle of Trafalgar, it is sot generally under-
stood that it is the jubilee ; but, nevertheless, it is so.
Front scriptural record we find that the forty-ninth
rest
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Sab-
bath of seven times seven years was the year
the land, and tillage ceased for that year
George o mar k_ the
epoch. If we go by modern precedent, r.,
of honoured memory, on the entry upon the 50th
,
year of his reign, and on the 49th anniversary of his
accession to the throne, had that event proclaimed
by Parliament, and it was celebrated on the 27th of
October, ISO 9, b; his admiring and truly attached !til,
jects. If Lord Nelson's life could have been possibly
'pared to be here present as a member of the Royal
Naval Club of 1765, how much would this great anni-
versary be enhanced lay his presence ; but instead of
that great commander, we have the representative of
the name and earldom which his valour won for his
family, in the person of the hero's sister's grandson,
and highly gratified are we all for- the pleasure and
honour he has done us in accepting our invitation.
I have just shown to our noble guest the medal which
was prese-ated (with the sanction of the Admiralty of
the day)
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action. This is the one I received, and as I wish it to
be hand(lo'. round the table at the conclusion of the toast
to those lvho have not seen one, or had their attention