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No. 12,065

LITERARY FtIND SOCIETY.

The forty. second anniversary of this benevolent society
was on Wednesday held at the Freemasons' Tavern, Great
Queen-street, the LORD CHANCELLOR in the chair.
The Noble and Learned Lord entered the hall at half-
oast six o'clock amidst as enthusiastic a demonstration of
heartfelt and affectionate respect as we ever witnessed.—
His Lordship was accompanied by the Duke of Somerse,,
the Attorney-General, Mr. Sotheby, Sir Martin Arts
Shee, the Rieht Hon. Robert Grant, the Rev. Mr. 1161.
man, &c. Ample justice having been done to an excel
lent and admirably served-up dinner, the " grace," Bene
diet us sit Deus suis, was executed by Messrs. Broadhurst
Chapman, Goulden, and Hobbes, and Masters Hopkins and
Gissing.
The Noble CHAIRMAN then rose and said that he wished
-o propose a toast which ought to be received every wher.
throughout these realms with the deepest veneration, but
which must here he hailed with peculiar satisfaction. He
then proposed " The health of his Majesty King William,
she Fourth," which was drank with four times four, and
immense applause.

" God save the King" was then executed in a very
impressive style.
The CHAIRMAN then proposed " The Queen and the
rest of the Royal Family." Drank with three times three
and loud applause.
Glee (B6hop)—" Here's a health to the King and the
Queen."

The CirAIRNIAN next proposed " The Navy and the
Army." Received with loud cheers. The novel circum-
etance of plaeing the " wooden walls " first in the toast,
gave universal satisfaction.
Air—" Rule Britannia."
The CHAIRMAN said, the toast to which he was now
about to call their attention, he was confident would lead
to that reception amongst those whom he had the honour
of addressing, which the occasion of their assembling and
its own high claim to respect, unquestionably called for.
He nye to move a toast that would express the anxiety of
the company for the perpetuation of, and their zealous
good wishes for, the prosperity of this benevolent society.
(Applause.) He was sure that he should perform a most
unnecessary, and therefore a most ungrateful task, if he de-
tained the company many minutes in sounding the praises
of that institution, because he was sure that there was nn
person, however slight the attention which be might have
paid to the objects of the society—however ignorant he
might be of the habits, merits, talents, and vicissitudes of
literary men—but must feel how peculiarly expedient, not
to say neces,ary, it was, to establish and support such an in-
stitution as this. It was an institution whose great and good
object was to relieve a class of men dignified by the most
exalted gifts of mind—possessed of the highest and brightest
capacity—endowed with virtues of the finest character—
virtues cherished in solicitude, and which, above all things,
rendered imperative their claim on the consideration of
their country and their kind ; it was to relieve such men,
when the hand of penury and misfortune pressed severely
on them, that the society was founded.—(Applause.)
Such a society was the more necessary, because the indi-
viduals to whom he had alluded were gifted—if one might
not almost say, cursed—with a spirit of jealous indepen-
dence, which not only prevented them from asking succour,
but even from disclosing their situation to those who best
knew them.--(Applause.) Seeing them gifted with such
capacities,. knowing them to be endowed with such virtues,
beingrendered
d well
nn
liawaerneoftry athend to mankind,exaltedsery
services which
no
iehthey
one
totl
would deny that they were objects who demanded deep
commiseration and active benevolence, when they were
overtaken by the shafts of adversity.—(Applause.) The
history of this institution, which had seen two-and-forty
summers, short though its date might be (and that date
had passed during times of an extraordinary nature, both
in a political and civil point of view), had shown, that
relief had been afforded, through the exertions of those by
whom it was supported, to sonie of the highest, and, he
would say, the noblest eiernes that had for a long period
adorned the annals of literature. He here spoke rather of
former times than of the present. He believed that some
of the men to whom he had referred had be-en rescued in
the most delicate manner, by the efforts of the society, from
penury and distresas and had been restored to that state of
splendour from which they had fallen, and to which
their virtues and their merits so well entitled them.
—(Applause.)—He had already observed that there ex-
isted amongst men of literary habits a jealous indepen-
dence, which rendered it most difficult to afford them any
assistance, without wounding their constitutional—their
sensitive delicacy. He therefore, as one,—and he would
say, as a most humble individual,—should reproach him-
self deeply, if he did not at once, eagerly, and joyfully, and
proudly stand forward to aid the efforts of this soc:ety,
in extending, in the most delicate, in the most considerate
manner, assistance to those whose genius des- reed admi-
ration, and whose misfortunes demanded succour.—(Ap-
plause.)—He here might, perhaps, be allowed to notice a
topic, which every succeeding anniversary of th a institu-
tion necessarily called before them, he meant the subject
of literary " patronage." He held,—without in the
slightest degree meaning to undervalue the generous as-
'istance which the powerful, the noble, and the wealthy,
afforded to men of genius,—he held, still entertaining the
greatest deference for the assistance th it was ministered
from those quarters, that the patron, the great the ap-
pointed patron of literary men, was the public.—(Cheers.)
—When the public gave their patronages it was not a
matter of charity, it was not a Matter of eleemosynary
aid—no; the public, which had a consideration for their
patronage (if a professional man might be allowed
to use a professional phrase),—the public, which
had a fine, and valuable, and good consideration, in that
which they could only receive at the bands of the literary
portioa of the community—they were, in the eye of sense
and reason, the true, the great, and he hoped they would
permit him to add, the all. powerful patron of men of
mind arid genius. Dr. Johnson had said, " that the book-
sellers were their patrons." Now, the remark lie was
about to make, he hoped would not be considered hard,
as coming from him, and would not he taken in bad part
by his Hon. Ftiends, the patrons to whom Dr. Johnson
had alluded, some of whom he saw in the room, and whose
patronage he did not by any means intend to disavow,—
he hoped they would not be offended, if, instead of speak •
ing of them, he spoke of the public, whose servants or
agents they were.—(Applause.) In his opinion, Dr.
Johnson, when he made the observation to which he re-
ferred, proceeded on the constitutional principle, which
induced men always, when speaking of public acts, to
keep the Monarch out of sight, and to refer every thing
to the Ministers of the Crewn.—(Cheers.) Taking this
view of the subject, he would contend that it was only
as the Ministers of the public that the booksellers were
said to be the true patrons of men of genius.—(Cheers.)
They were the useful, vigorous, and active Ministers
of that great Sovereign, the public, and be believed
that no body of men could serve that potentate more
nwoinslrte
ofd tseh artvti
ing,
g srahcoittillidis
blVeionaal
wrcahy,s
honestly or more faithfully.—(Applause.) He sincerely
whomas we hell a n haddfatithhefubloly-
servud by those whom he selected to sit in his councils,
as the public were served by those ministers, who were so
intimately connected with the literary world; for they,
generally speaking, acted with a strict regard for justice
towards the public on the one hand, and with a feeling of
honour and liberality towards men of genius on the other.
—(Cheers.) He meant, as he had before said, to utter
nothing disparaging to the patronage granted to men of
genius by the noble and the wealthy; hut, anxiously de-
siring to see the literary character thoroughly indepen-
dent, he could not but express his opinion that the first
patronage, the last patronage, the only patronage, by
which that great end could be successfully achieved, was
the patronage of the public.—(Cheers.)—lt was a great
pleasure to him, at a season of considerable agitation, to
see persons, connected with all parties, meeting together
and joining, as it were, in the furtherance of a sacred
cause.—(Cheers.)—This appeared to be a place conse-
crated and set apart for the exercise of the kindest and
the most beneficent feelings,—a place where they might
meet without controversy or dissentien,—a place in which
the violence of strife and of faction being unknown, they
might all cheerfully join in one common, useful, and heart-
felt union, to minister to the wants of indigent and suf-
fering genius.--(Cheers.)--The Noble and learned Lord
concluded by proposing " Prosperity to the Literary
Fund." The toast was'drank With acclamations.
The report of the society for the past year was then
read. It appeared from it that the society was in a flou-
rishing state. Many deserving individuals had been re-
lieved during the year, but the funds,ehough not so great
as in some former years, were yet considerable.
The Rev. Mr. Caeweav expatiated at some length, and