The Sun.
London, England, 1840-06-16 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION.

PUBLIC MEETING IN THE CITY
OF CORK, TO ERECT A MONUMENT TO
RECORD THE PUBLIC SERVICES AND
PRIVATE WORTH OF THE LATE WILLIAM
CRAWFORD, ESQ , A PHILANTHROPIC AND
PATRIOTIC CITIZEN.

CORK, JUNE 9.
A proceeding, highly creditable to our city, took place
yesterday, in the unanimous response of all classes, high
and low, of all parties and creeds, to the requisition call.
lag on them to consider the propriety of erecting a
monument suitable to record their estimation of the public
and pris ate virtues of William Crawford, Esq., the best
Of citizens and the best of men.
His Worship the MAYOR presided, and in opening the
proceedings of the day, expressed his satisfaction (though
it was a melancholy one, when he reflected on the loss he
and the city had sustained in the premature demise of his
respected friend) in being the medium of congregating so
large, so respectable, and so influential a meeting of his
fellow-citizens in so necessary a purpose. After feelingly
alluding to Mr. Crawford's benevolence of disposition, his
unbounded charity, his usefulness as an enlightened citizen,
his Worship was addressed by the respective movers and
seconders of propositions, and those gentlemen who pre-
sented themselves in such capacity were of the highest
weight and consideration in our locality.
Mr. S. LANE, the eminent brewer, who proposed the
first resolution, highly c:implimentary to the memory of
the deceased, described him as a gentleman by practice and
principle, a patron of talent, and the unswerving friend of
the destitute and distressed.
The High Sheriff, HORACE TOWNSEND, Esq., followed,
and was deeply affected, in alluding to the amiable traits
of disposition of his departed frien I and relative, but ex.
pressed great pleasure and satisfaction in witnessing, in•the
crowded assemblage before him, the unanimous regard and
veneration of his fellow-citizens for the man who was the
friend and adviser of them all.
The second resolution, pledging the meeting to erect a
suitable monument, was proposed by John Moore Travers,
Esq., and seconded by Godfrey Baker, Esq.
Alderman WESTROPP, in proposing the third resolution,
alluded to the difficulties which he laboured under during
his mayoralty, in providing for the support of the destitute
port pending the preliminaries for the opening of the
workhouse by the Board of Poor-law Guardians, and to
the generous conduct of William Crawford, who, on appli-
cation, at once relieved them.
PEFROTT, Esq., of Fermoy, bore testimony to the
warm appreciation of Mr. Craw ford's character through
the county of Cork. That gentleman, in the course of
his observations, happily said, that, although the venerated
deceased had only, like the good Samaritan, done his duty
to his neighbour in distress, yet when it was considered
how few acted up to the Divine injunctions, his fellow_
citizens were right in marking their sense of the bright
example he afforded in the full and perfect fulfilment of it.
Dr. WOODROFFE hoped that the intended monument to
be raised would be a worthy testimonial to record the
virtues and high talents of their deceased friend, and that
the place selected for its position would be suited to it.
W. FaoaN, Esq. (the resolution having been passed
pledging the meeting to erect the monument) presented
the draft of an inscription for it, which nad, he said, been
approved of by several citizens to whom he showed it. It
met with a ready acceptance by the meeting, and was to
the effect that the deceased was "one of Ireland's worthiest
sons, and from his youth upwards his heart had throbbed
for the prosperity, union, advancement, and contentment
of her people ; that he was a genuine Christian ; his
principles embraced liberty of conscience, charity, a lo.e
for all mankind, without reference to sect, creed, or party ;
the leading characteristic of his benevolence was its uni-
versality, and the energies of his cultivated and enlightened
mind were directed to the public good. He died in the
prime of life. amidst the regrets of the whole community,
and men of all parties, forgetful of their differences, united
in providing this monument, perpetuating the memory of
set much worth and excellence."
Amongst the succeeding speakers Sir Thomas Deane,
after relating some instances of the amiability of the de-
ceased, expressed a hope that the monument which his
admiring fellow-citizens were about to erect to his memory,
would be in every respect worthy of him and creditable to
them ; for which purpose he should suggest that its execu-
tion should be entrusted to their eminent fellow-citizen
Hogan, the sculptor, whose previous works had well en-
titled him to rank amongst the highest of his noble art in
Europe, and whose late admission as a member of the
Pantheon, at Rome, had confirmed his high character as
an artist.
The suggestion was warmly received by the meeting,
which soon after wards separated, having been previously
apprised by the Rev. W. O'Connor, who represented the
Roman Catholic Priesthood of the diocese, that the amount
from that body towards the intended testimony of respect
and es teem to Mr. Crawford would he 60/ , a sum which
might, be increased if required. The announcement was
received with loud cheers.