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fully depend.—(Hear.) Whenever concentrated services
were wanted, as at Beyrout and Acre, there I was in
person.--(Loud cheers.) I will not trouble you more
with anything relating to myself in Syria. I have ex-
plained some points on which I thought explanation
might be expected, and I could not do so with more
satisfaction to myself than before the distinguished
company and respectable community which I have.now
the honour to address.—(Cheers.) The eulogium
which has been passed upon me I am much obliged to
the Mayor for. I also cannot forget the encomiums
passed on me by the Reverend Gentleman who last
addressed you ; but that reminds me that I shonli
end where I ought to have begun, by attributing to Al-
mighty Providence the successes which we have achieved.
(Great cheering.) The state of the weather, which
enabled us in the month of November, at a time when
the bad weather usually sets in, alone enabled us to being
our labours to a successful issue.—(Hear.) We have'
now returned to Turkey a fine, a large, and a rich pro-
vince. By good management it may add to her strength
—without good management it may, as it always does
in such cases, add only to her weakness.—(Hear.) That,
however, is no business. of mine. I did what I was or-
dered to do, and let them do the rest.—(Continued cheer-
ing.) Once more I beg sincerely to return you my
thanks for this most splendid entertainment—an enter-
tainment distinguished for its elegance—abounding in
good cheer and good feeling. Again I return you my
sincere thanks.—(Prolonged cheering)
DANIEL QUARRIER, Esq., M.D., then rose to propose
" The health of the Marquis of Anglesey, the Earl of
Hardwicke, and the rest of the distinguished visitors
who had honoured the assembly with their company,"
and in a speech of considerable length and eloquence
eulogised the great merits of the Noble Marquis as a
first-rate cavalry officer, and particularly referred to
his gallant services in the Peninsula and at Waterloo.
The Marquis of ANGLESEY rose amidst loud applause
to return thanks. He said—Gentlemen, on the part of
the visitors and of myself I have the honour to return
you my cordial thanks for the honour you have done
them and me. Gentlemen of Portsmouth, I beg leave
personally to express my gratitude for the favour you
have done me in making me your guest on the present
interesting occasion, and in thus enabling me to offer my
humble tribute of respect and to assist in doing honour
to the illustrious commander, the Gallant Admiral, whose
glorious achievements we are this moment assembled
to celebrate.—(Loud cheers.) Great, glorious, and
triumphant have indeed those achievements been. They
are such as it is impossible for the nation at large too
highly to appreciate, or for our Most Gracious Sove-
reign too highly to reward.—(Cheers.) I congratulate
the nation that we still have amongst us such able, such
gallant men as many of those whom I have the happiness
to see around me.—(Loud cheers.) I congratulate the
brave officers and men who had the good fortune and
happiness to participate in all the glories of the East ; I
congratulate the navy at large on the high and noble
proofs which have now lately been given that they have
not degenerated.—(Loud cheering.) I congratulate that
gallant corps—that useful, that invaluable link in the
chain which connects the two services of the sea and the
land, and which unites them in one common bond of
union, good fellowship, and interest. I speak,
as you may well observe, of the Royal Ma-
rines.— (Cheers.) I congratulate them on the
splendid share they have had in all those victories.—
(Loud cheers.) It is a corps which never appeared on
any occasion or under any circumstances without doing
honour to itself and its country.—(Renewed cheers.)
Many of us here have lived in times when war has been
carried on on a more extended scale than it has lately
been, but I do not believe that if we were to search the
pages of history we could .find one, notwithstanding
the glorious examples which stand recorded on it. Still
I do not believe we could find one in which this service
stands more pre-eminently conspicuous, or in which it
holds a more commanding position than it does at the
present day, as compared with the same service in other
nations.—(Great cheers.) With respect to the honour
done me by a gentleman at the bottom of the table, who
spoke of my humble services, I beg to offer him my sin-
cere thanks. lam sorry to say that I very imperfectly
heard his speech ; but I fear its subject was sadly in-
flated, and greatly surpassed any merit of mine. Such
as my services are, or such as they ever may be, they
are always at the service of my country.—(Cheers.) I
most cordially and sincerely thank the worthy gen-
tleman for giving me an opportunity of stating
that, whatever honours and distinctions I may have re-
ceived, I owe them all to the gallantry of those brave
men whom it has been my fortune to lead to the field of
battle.—(Tremendous cheering.) I might be anxious,
perhaps, to expatiate on the high merits of the late bril-
liant campaign in the East, but really, gentlemen, after
the perfectly beautiful history of the life of the Gallant
Admiral whom we are now anxious to honour, which
was given us by our worthy Mayor, and after the distinct
aid perfect explanation which the Gallant Admiral gave
of his own achievements in the East, it would be nothing
short of impertinence in me to detain you one moment
longer. I will just, however, make one single remark en
what has fallen from the Gallant Admiral. It seemed to
me that lie tried to make an excuse for not having
hini-
self been at this, that, and the other place, saying that
he could not be at all places at once. Now, it seems Co
me one of the matters of the- first and greatest import-
ance to all commanders, whether by sea or land, to place
confidence in those who are under them, and not to at-
tempt to do everything for themselves.—(Loud cheers).
J. IfostuNs, Esq., in rising to propose the health of
the Lord Lieutenant and the Magistracy of the county,
observed, that though the toast prescribed that he was to
give the health of his Grace the Duke of Wellington as
their Lord Lieutenant, he was persuaded that no English-
man ever heard the name of Wellington without recol-
lecting the great and glorious achievements which had
been accomplished by that incomparable warrior.—
(Immense cheering.) They would follow him through
all his victories and all his triumphs, and especially that
last and mightiest victory, in which the Duke of Wel-
lington, ably supported by the Gallant Marquis of An-
glesey and the rest of his brave companions, sealed the
nobility of his blood by exposing it to be shed in his
country's cause.--(Loud cheering.) After a speech of
much power and eloquence, Mr. Hoskins concluded by
congratulating the inhabitants of Portsmouth on the way
in which they had buried, for the moment, all political
differences, and met together to do honour to their dix-.
tinguished naval and military guests.—(Cheers.) He
would propose to them " The health of the Duke of
Wellington and the Magistracy of the county."—Cheers.)
W. GRANT, Esq. acknowledged the toast in a short
but appropriate speech.
T. BURBEY, Esq., proposed " The health of the Mem-
bers for the southern division of the county."—(Cheers.)
W. STIGANT, Esq., in the absence of the two repre-
sentatives, replied to the toast.

D. HowARD, Esq., then rose, and, in a few words, gave
" The health of the Members for the borough of Ports
mouth."—(Cheers.)
FRANCIS T. BARING, Esq., the Chanoellor of the Ex-
chequer, in rising to return thanks on the part of his ab-
sent colleague and himself for the compliment paid him,
assured them that he took that compliment in the way it
was meant to be conveyed—in that old English spirit
which had been so well alluded to in the course of the
evening.—(Hear.) He considered that the compliment
had been paid to the position which he occupied,
and not put forth with any political reference—(Hear,
hear)—for he should indeed be ashamed of them if they
could not put aside all political opinions on the oc-
casion of a meeting like that which had brought them
together that evening.—(Cheers.) The Right Hon.
Gentleman then observed that, whatever might be
their political feeling upon the policy of those mea-
sures which their gallant guests had had to carry
out, the public. of this country would ever honour
those gallant men who, by their valour, their energy, and
their excellent conduct, had added lustre to the British
name, whether or not they agreed in the policy of the
achievements they had had to perform.—(Cheers.) The
Right Hon. Gentleman then concluded by passing a
handsome eulogium on the character and services of

Robert Stopford, Sir Charles Napier, and their gallant
companions in the East; And said that a more•appropriate
place could not possibly have' been selected than Ports-
mouth as the scene of the honours paid to such men—
Portsmonth, which was the first naval station of the first
naval power in the world.—(Cheers.)
The healths of Admiral Sir E. Codrington, Comman-
der-in-Chief of the Dockyard ; of Major-General Sir H.
Pakenham, the Lieutenant-Governor of Portsmouth; and
of the Hon. Admiral Bouverie, Superintendent of the
Dockyard, were then severally drunk and acknowledged.
Mr. W. GRANT, jun., in a short but able speech, pro-
posed the health of " Commodore Napier and the Officers
of the Navy who served in the Syrian expedition," which
was drunk with general applause.
Commodore Sir C. NAfIER returned thanks. He said
he wished all the officers who had served under the
Gallant Admiral on the coast of Syria and of Acre were
present this night to witness the kind manner in which
they had received the Mention of his (Sir R. Stopford's)
name.—(Loud cheers.) He could assure them, as an
officer holding a high command under the Gallant Ad-
miral, that tare was not an officer or a man engaged in
that expedition along the whole coast of Syria who did
not always look up to the Gallant Admiral with the
most perfect and entire satisfaction and reliance.—(Loud
cheers.) As to those who were more immediately
placed under his orders, he could say that he never wit-
nessed during the whole course of their services more
zeal, more energy, and more determined perseverance
than was displayed, not only by officers of the navy, but
by the marine officers in the late expedition.—(Loud
cheers.) As to himself, if he had been able to perform
any services useful to his country or creditable to himself,
he owed it entirely to his Gallant Commander-in-Chief,
Sir Robert Stopford, who placed a sufficient confidence
in him in the illness of the army officer who was ap-
pointed to the command of the troops.—(Hear.) The
Gallant Admiral thought proper to give him his confi-
dence and the command of the allied troops employed in
the expedition. It was certainly a new situation for a
naval officer like himself to be placed in; butthwohuegnhtthiet
Gallant Admiral gave him that command, he
his duty to use the whole of his zeal, exertion, and en-
ergies
to carry cut the Admiral's views to the utmost
extent in his power.—(Loud cheers.) He believed the
Gallant Admiral had told them that he had done this
to the utmost extent in his power, from the moment he
received the command of the army to the thomblit he
returned that command.—(Cheers.) • The Gallant Ad-
miral had given them such a perfect account of the ser-
vices of the army :and navy on the coast of Syria. that
there was but little for him to say on the subject. But