The Sun.
London, England, 1822-02-25 00:00:00

THE LATE SIR THOMAS PICTON.

The Annual Dinner in commemoration of that
distinguished officer, Lieut.-General Sir THOMAS
Ptc-ros, G.C.B. being the anniversary of the
battle of Orthes, where his talents and exertions
were so eminently conspicuous, was held on Sa-
turday, at the Grosvenor Hotel, in Bond-street,
General Sir JOHN DoYLE, Bart. in the Chai►.
An excellent dinner was served up, and the company, con-
sisting of about eighty gentlemen, amongst whom were almost
all the Members of Parliament for the South Wales counties,
sat down about seven o'clock.

After the cloth was removed, and the usual toasts, " the
King," the Duke of York and the Army," " the Duke of
Clarence and the Navy," were drank, the President, in a most
powerful and affecting speech, called the attention of the Com-
pany to the particular object of their meeting. ' Ile entered
into a most interesting detail, and drew with the hand of a
master the great military talents and accomplishments of the
lamented subject of the commemoration. He pressed upon
the company with a force and an energy which those only who
heard him can feel or describe, the great national utility
which such meetings and commemorations must be pro-
ductive of, in affording most powerful stimulus which the
human mind can receive, to the performance of great and he-
roic actions ; that this was not only a debt of honour and gra-
titude to those living heroes who had distinguished themselves
on great occasions, but became a debt of justice which a Q•al.
lent nation like this never failed to pay to those who had, like
the illustrious object of their meeting, shed the last drop of his
blood in his country's cause.
" The memory of Sir Thomas Picton" was then drank in
reverential silence, the whole company standing up ; after
which,

Mr..2tlarrseavr, M.P. addressed the assembly, and having
for a great number
_of years enjoyed the friendship and con-
fidence of the late Sir ,TIIOMAS PICTON, having had a most
extensive correspondence with, and an intimate knowledge of
all the respectable inhabitants of the particular colony over
which Sir Tit o liras had so long presided; he drew a character of
his integrity in the discharge of his various duties in the different
relations of life, with which he was, from the circumstances of
his situation, particularly conversant, which powerfully affected
the company, and concluded with a brilliant and finely turned
eulogium upon his various merits and accomplishments.
When the President gave the health of the Vice President,
LE w is FLANAGAN, Esq. that Gentleman, (whose closcintimacy
with the illustrious dead enahled him to do ample justice to
his character and talents), made a very eloquent speech, which
embraced the various and trying situations in which Sir Thomas
was placed in the course of his military career; he eulogised in
the most affecting language the groat intellectual and moral
qualities of the departed iero, and concluded with a most ani-
mated appeal to the feelings of the Gentlemen from South Wales
Districts, to follow up the example now set by this commemo-
ration. This speech was received with a universal burst of ap-
plause and approbation.
Sir JoHN-OwEN, Bart., Member for the county of Pem-
broke; Colonel WOOD, Member for Breconshire; Mr. SAAR -
FIELD, and other Members followed on the same side, all re-
cognizing the great propriety of the observations made by Mr.
Flanagan, and stating that they were ready on every occasion
to contribute every thing in their power towards perpetuating
the memory of the great object of their Meeting, and after vari-
ous toasts were given suitable to the occasion, and introduced
with that originality of manner, and peculiar vein of humour
which so distinguish the gallant officer that presided, the Mem-
bers came to a unanimous resolution, proposed by the Hon.
Colonel KING, that it should be an Annual Dinner, that Sir
John Doyle be requested a,Tain to preside, that Sir John Owen,
Bart., M.P., for Pembrokeshire, Sir Thomas Hislop, G.C.8.,
Lewis Flanagan, Esq., and Sir John Hamilton, be appointed
Vice Presidents.
A list of Stewards was then nominated, and the company se-
parated after an evening passed with a harmony and convivia-
lity. which nothing but the remembrance of the irreparable loss
which the country and his friends have sustained by the ever to
be lamented fall of the Gallant Picton, for a moment clouded or
interrupted.
It was delightful to observe two of the most eminent Artists
that now adorn this country, attending on this interesting occa-
sion, Sir W. Beechey and Mr. Shea, intimate friends of the
late Sir Thomas Picton ; the latter of whom, when the Presi-
dent, with the good taste that so eminently belongs to him, in
compliment to those Gentlemen, gave the Arts" as a Toast,
in a neat and elegant address, returned thanks for the distin-
guished compliment.

Earl FITZWILLIAM has been pleased to signify
his approbation and pleasure in the erection of a
Monument to the memory of Mr. PERRY.