The Sun.
London, England, 1813-12-01 00:00:00

sir.-.'ANDREW'S DAY.

THE ScorrTzsii coapon..moiv.

Yesterday being St. Andrew's Day, the Scot..
ash Corporation held a.general Court of the Go-
vcrnors; at • their Hall, in Crain!. court, . Fleet-
Street, kls usual, for the election' of their annual
-Officers, to- serve for the year ensuing, agreeably
to their charter ; when his Royal Highness the
Duke: of CLAtietice was chosen President ; the
Earl of_Atiertneeze,..Earl of ROTHES, Lord DUN-
DAS, Admiral Lord KE.ZTII, and Sir JAMES Slime,
N. P. ,were elected Vice-Presidents. ALEXANDER
tloanoN, Es.q. re-elected Treasurer.
The Court afterwards adjourned to the City of
London Tavern, for the purpose of dining, where
the friends of the Institution began to assemble
before five o'clock, and before six more than 600
Noblemen and Gentlemen had arrived. Dinner
was served up, and shortly after six o'clock .tire
Duke of Clarence and St. Antlrews entered the
great room, and was received with great applause.
His R9yal Highness .was accompanied by his
Royal Highness the Duke of Kent, the Spanish
Ambassador, the Russian Envoy, the Lord Bishop
of Chester, the Lord Provost of Edinburgh, the
Hon. W. Dundas, Hon. Captain Lindsay, Lieut.-
Gen. Sir James Leith, Mr. Sheriff Marsh, Capt.
Carter, Capt. Kinkel), &c. &c. .
Macgregor; the celebrated Highland Piper, in
full costume, preceded the procession, playing the
national air of Lewie Gor:ion i it was rapturously
cheered by the company. .
As soon us the cloth had been removed, and
Non .Nobis Domine sung by Mr. KELLANIY and
other professioual Gentlemen,
The Duke of CLAIIVNCP, rose, and after a short
and prefatory eulogiu at on the benefits resulting
from the reign of his Majesty, nosy unfortunately
obliged to- resign the • rek;al power into the hands
of his Son, proposed the health of " -The King."
He begged that it might he drunken in respectful
silence, as better evitreing the sense as well as
loyalty of - the conitiany, when they reflected on
his- Majesty's melancholy situatiOn, than the most
timnilteous applause, with - which 'the company
willingly complied.--Song, ' " God save the
King."
The next toast was that of "The Prince Re-
gent."---The Deke of CLAPIii4CE remarked, that
he felt. it necessary to say little in its recommen-
dation in the present state of the World, This
Country,. white its armies were every where trip
umphont, had set a glorious exam:mie, not less glo-
riously followed by the rest of Europe, and those
now assembled commit! not faillo receive the tonq
Of the Illustric,us Personage, under whose Govern-
ment the Nation had 'so pre-ethitiently prospered,
with great satisfaction.
The toast was received with long and conti-
nued shouts of applause.—Song, • " The Prince
arid ' Old Englaqd for ever."—" The Queen and
Royal Family " followed.
The Duke of„CLAnetlez again rose and observ-
ed, that he should now suggest a toast that he
knew would need no introduction, but he 'could
not avoid calling the attention of the assembly to
the present situation of Europe. Four yeaVs'ago
he had the pleasure of •attending ill:: Anniversary
of St. Andrew ; at that time Great 'Britain was
struggling almost single-handed against the ene-
my of liberty : what was now the happy result ?--r
Did she now contend' alone, unaided ?—No : all
Europe, by the confession of:our foe, was now
fighting on the sante-side, and for the same end.
Even , last year, promising as was the termi-
nation of, the campaign, still Russia bad to mown
over a conflagrated capital,. while she triumph
ed over kilefeated enemy. But within the last
t wo months the power of Buonaparte had received a
fatal blow ; the death stroke-had been inflicted on
his tyranny at
,Leipsic : his troopc had bet 'scat-
tered, and their letv;er had been compelled to fly.
By whose exertion's, next. to those of this country,
these events h id im,6l aceutoplishe.! it Was need-
less tO inform tile meeting ; to allude to the cheer-
ing situation of 'Pairope Was sufficient to inform
Scozelinico u hose patriotism taught them to look
at; and whose sound sense instructed, them bow
to apprecie:e the events which occurred in 'their
own and in other countries, " that this preface
could tend•to no oilier toast but that of the health
Of our August Ally " The Emperor rilez'ander of
Russia:" : • . .
The apartment-shook with enthusiastic uproar
for some minutes,' and the shouts of three times
theee were not distinguished amid time generhl
acclamation, which reviving with every recollec-
tion of the past, was long in sub Ain,
Alter a similarly appropriate preface, in which
his' Royal .Iliglowas eulogised in fi)reihle terms the
noble conduct of the King of Prussia,- anti time
immortal exertions of the people of that cottony
in rising I.!s one man to throw off-the hateful yoke
Which' had su Icing oppressed them. He con-
cluded
..by propo2nig the health of that Monarch,
cO)mpiete ..success to 'imini in• the sacked war in
Which Ise was emigaged, and a long reign of peace
Mid happiness to:him in the midst of a tree and
independent peope.. Jr is needless to say that this
lons t was also drink with enthusiasm.
' r (1" The Llinpcnor of Austria," was received -with
pearly equal ,pleastire, after 'a short atkiress ; as
well as " The Crown Prince of Sweden."
Lime Royal President apologised for having hi,
therto postponed a toast- which had been often
drank during the last five years with high ap-
plause', nor would the proposition be less on the
'resent, tiedesion : it was " The 'Health of Ferdi.
4,‘ : 4 psi!, -rend success to the cause of Liberty in
Si
e.. ti."H:, Although, -by the Wiles of our enemy,
Hi.. ''
tonna: Prince. had been torn frOUI the
,7,„.*:'..:
arn '', t,i : • • people, that people bad, during a long.
cot; r,f- n Itself arduous, but more distressing
,
be f,,, ,1771 :,'( VVas tsted ,their native soil, and de-
stryi ~! '.
te,.very homes they were defending, Min..-
lii,;f:''-'t iemselves with a fortitude which could
otly IH .411.1 ported by the justiee ot their cause,
lt waS-aceived witli three times three, as well as
the
uloe A
toifff,
b . m and
bii UOY 'bjeCtS ill i s ..merica.
,'" The Prince Regent of Portugal, and
Oe
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tta
TheM
tike of CL,AaENE was requested by
the Spanish' 'Ambassador to return thanks to
for his Royal Master.
itmilivestsl)%lei.PultallY;;:eri,i'idsraln:xkcetliiieenheyail!ri ouilittee"ctiUirilirmaeux;
The Duke of jieti'r io a short and neat speech