The Sun.
London, England, 1814-05-30 00:00:00

use of their flail," followtd.
Mr. HANBU ay , Master of the Merchant Tailors'
Company, thanked themfor this liOntutr, laid ex-
pressed the happiness he felt at seeing that hall
graced with the presence of• Si) many persons of
hivb rank and 'talent assembled to commemorate
'the virtues of drat great Statesman, whose princi-
ples had saved his cound.y, and effected the email-
eipatioas of Witrope., • -
"The Duke ornacclengh and the 'Pitt Club of Scotland"
was given with three times tlaree.'
On this toast being drunk, -
The Duke of ATHOL expressed.his high sense
of the honour done the Pitt Club of Scotland,
which he was confident. wot:11 ever be animated
by the stne sentiments as that of England. He
shortly took a view of the'great benefit resnlting
to this totintry front the principles and policy of
Mr. Pitt, from the firnmess of the Prince Regent,
and from the wisdom of iris: Ministers, who had
completed the'great fabric- of which Mr. Pitt laid
the corner-stone. Had they (the _Ministers) re-
mained in the room a little longer, they would
have received from him the tribute of an inde-
pendent mind, in praise of their consistency, their
courage, and their perseverance in the principles
of that great Statesman. He was convinced the
emanations of the Pitt. Club Lad already conferred
great benefits on the_. country. Had he not been
unexpectedly detained in London, lie should pro-
bably at that moment have been engaged in alio,
dier country, in drinking success to the Pitt Club
of England. Tleio, he %VAS sure„ hgd, been (forret
in Scotland, and, be doubted not, done
Consinced of the . beneficial iniinence of these
Institutions, he concluded with expressing a hope,
that the whole of the Pitt Clubs would ever be!.
found ready with generous ardour to rally round
the Throne in dines of danger,: " to King awl
Country true."
The health of • the Wee-chancellor of the University of
Cambridge was next proposed,
Dr. CLIAPY (the Vice-Chancellor) ,was *itch
flattered by the kind Manner' in which they had
done him the "honour to drink his health. When
he looked- round, and saw at! assembly comprising
persons of the first rank,- talents,. and importance
in the country, he could not help reflecting with
pride, ' that 1.1.1 r Pitt had once been of the Uni-
versity over which he had the honour to pre-
side. He eloquently dwelt at some length on
the virtues of Mr. Pitt, and observed, he was
so beloved at the University, that no 'sooner was
it' the will of ProVidence to call him hence,
than a SubscriptiOn 'was set on foilt to erect a sta- •
tae to his memory, and n‘• sooner was this mit-
menced, than a sum more than adequate was sub-
scribed. With the superfluity a Scholarship had
been added to the University, to perpetuate the
name of Mr. Pitt, and to promote the interests of.
literature, of which he had been at once the pride
and the ornament. (Loud applauses.)-7-,This was
now called the Pitt Scholarship. The funds
which supported it had been Much increased by
the Munificence of the Club ; and he hoped it
would keep alive, to the remotest period of time,
the memory and the principles
,of that great man,
who had entitled himself to the lasting recollection
and gratitude-of his emmtry.
Lard Renton and the Pitt Club of Wales, and thel'itt
Club of Leeds, &c." were the next toasts.
Mr. HARDY (Recorder, of Leeds) returned thanks
for the honour done the Club of which he was a
member, who, in a distant part of the country,
he. was sure, were commemorating the Birth of
Mr. Pitt, with zeal nothing inferior even with that
of the present assembly. Their representative in
Parliament (for they )(now but one), who was
their President, would, in future, be as proud of
the Club as the Club was of him. He much .ap •
proved of the change made this day, in. the form
of drinking to the Memory of Mr. Pitt. They had
celebrated his birth at a time-when doubts and
fears °eel-clouded the prospect before them ; when
the Child and Champion" ofJacohinistu, having
Waded through slaughter to a throne,"
seemed about
" To shut the gates of mercy on mankind;"
when, with one • foot resting on the borders of
the Mediterranean, and the other on the shores of
the Baltic, he seemed the Colossus of the Euro-
pean world. If, at such a time, they had drunk
his health in solemn silence, surely, on a day of
glory- like this, when their fondest wishes were
more than fulfilled, they were justified in uniting
their shouts with the acclamations of the wneld,
in honour of that Statesman, through whom all
Europe had, at last, Obtained repose—supported,
as his principles had been, by the courage and
wisdom with which his successors had wielded the-
energies of this lion-hearted nation. ';here Were
persons in this city who he believed had called
themselves ' prOgnosticators of prophecies;' who
now wished their predictions to be forgotten.—
These individuals were very anxious to ascribe all
that had taken place to the interposition of Omni-
potence. They. Were right—they were right.—
(Applause).—All was in the hands of Providence,
and they paid the admirers of Mr. Pitt the greatest
possible compliment- in acknowledging the blew.
mg of the Most High was bestowed -on his po-
licy. He took -Occasion to observe, there was a
singular coincidence in the' march to-Paris, and
the consequent downfall of Jacobinism being ac-
complished duiing the administration of that Mi-
nister, on whom the vocabulary of scorn had been
exhausted, for having suggested that ineasure,,on
a former occasion, when unfortunately it was -not
adopted_. The history of eoisons furnished their
antidotes, an& the history of monsters recorded
the might by whioh they had been overthrown ;
so posterity,. in the history of;,the French revo-
lutionary hydra,. would read the greatness and
power of the principles of Mr. Pitt, by which it
had been successfully opposed, not only it-lithe
.wane of its power, but in the plenitude of its
Herculean stre,ngth.
The .I',.%es of Richmond and Athol here took
leave of the meeting (the Ministers having previ-
ously retired), wi h expressions of gratitude for
the attention with which they had been honoured.
The health of the former was drunk a second dine,
at the suggestion of the Duke of Athol.
" Mr. Atehemon the founder of the Society," was drunk
with three times aree.
Mr. ATcuesoN (who had been called to the
Chair) said he was much flattered by this re-
peated mark of the attention of the Club. After
what they had heard that day, it was not for him
to enlarge on the advantages which had flowed,
and ;night he expected to flay', from the Institu-