The Sun.
London, England, 1847-07-12 00:00:00

JULY 12, 1847.

ENTERTAINMENT TO PRINCE
WALDEMAR.
On Saturday the East India Company gave a most
sumptuous entertainment to Prince Waldemar of Prus-
sia, at the London Tavern, when Messrs. Bathe and
Breach displayed all the resources of that magnificent
establishment in honour of the occasion. The show of
plate, silver and silver-gilt on the tables was most su-
perb, while sideboards rising in lofty tiers at the top,
bottom, and sides of the grand hall glittered with golden
salvers, cups, and vases, which gave a gorgeous and most
dazzling appearance to the banquet. Abounding in de-
licacies of every description, the entertainment was un-
surpassed by any we have for years attended. The 101
lowing is the bill of fare:—
Premier Service—Tortue a tortuo claire.
Entrees de tortue—Calipee a l'Espagnole, calipash au
gras, escalope I l'ltalienne, pattes a l'lndienne.
Poisson—Sautnon de Glocester bouilli, saumon a la
G eaoise aux capres, turbot sauce au homard, saint-pierre
farcif a l'llorly, matelotte de morlans a I'ecrevisse, filets
de soles a la Lucullus, rougets a la Viennet, eperlans
frits, boudin de homard a la cardinal.

Entrees—Ballon de volaille aux culs d'artichauts,
cotelettes d'agneau aux concombres, ris de veau a la Ma-
rengo, filets de canard en aiguillettes, supreme de vo-
laille en demideuil, filets de pigeons Gautier a l'aurore,
filets de levraut a la St. Denis, filets de lapereaux a la
Bohernienne, grenades de veau a la Belle-vue,:boudin a
l'Assam cotelettes de mouton en languettes, tendons de
veau aux pois.
Releves—Filets de bccuf aux rocamboles, poulardes
la Santa Cruz, quartier d'agnean heros, bordures de
legumes d'ke, timbales de palais de bceuf a la Rasa,
culotte de bccuf a la Lyonnaise, oie a is Providence,
longe de veau a la Godard, aelles de mouton rOti, pou-
lettes roties, poulettes en Macedoine, chapons I

1' estragon.
Baffet—Potage purée de pois verts, potage a la Crecy,
potage jardinier, potage it la Reine, hanches de venai-
son, jambous de Westphalie aux fives de marais, lan-
gues de bceuf, bceuf rod, cromesquis de volaille, petits
patis a la Parisienne, le;umes, &c.
Second Service—Rots, cailles, leTranta, dindonneaux,
paons, canetons, oisons.
Entremets—Salade de homard, crevettes, galantine de
volaille, aspic a la Royale, petits pois a la Francaise,
artichauts a la Lyonnaise, gelee de fraises, gelea d'ananas,
gelee de Pacaret, gelee en MacAloine, gelee en miroton
de peches, epine vinette, bavaroise d'abricots a la mo-
derue, charlotte de fraises, chartreuse a la Constantine,
bavaroise a la Parisienne, creme de marasquin, peches
ou riz a la creme, tartelettes de cerises a la Napolitaine,
patisserie melec, meringues a la Victoria, d'Artois a la
Venitienzie, meringues a la Turque, vol au-vent de gro-
seilles et de framboises, Gilioises en croissants, petits
choux glaces aux amandes.
Relevi3—Babas a la Polonaise, gateaux de Com-
piegne, boudins glace's, souffles de gingembre, beignets
d'ananas, tourtes a l'Anglaise, pouding de raisins.
The Chairman of the East India Company presided,
on whose right sat Prince Waldemar, his Excellency
Chevalier Bunsen, Lord J. Russell, Lord Glenelg, Count
Oriola, the Hon. Colonel Ashburnham, the Right Hon.
Sir J. Hobhouse, Mr. Wigram, Sir Harry Smith, Profes-
sor Struve, Mr. ; and on the left, Prince Lowen-
stein, Deputy Chairman, Earl of Auckland, Lord El-
phinstone, Count Groeben, Baron de Loner, the Hon.
Major West, Sir Robert Campbell, Sir James W. Hogg,
the Right Hon. Sir George Arthur, the Right Hon.
Holt Mackenzie, Sir Charles Dalbiac, Archdeacon
Harper, Mr. Mills, Messrs. Melvill, &c.
The other company, about 100, comprised the most
opulent merchants in the city.
Grace was said before and after dinner by the Rev.
Mr. I igginson.
The health of the Queen, the Queen Dowager, his
Royal Highness Prince Albert, Albert Prince of Wales,
and the rest of the Royal Family, having been proposed
and toasted with all the honours,
The CHAIRMAN rose and said,—We are honoured
with the presence of an illustrious Prince, Prince
Waldemar of Prussia, who, in the military spirit of
his family, was lately induced to join our armies
in the field, and participated with them in the dan-
gers and honours of a glorious victory.—(Cheers.) His
Royal Highness is not merely distinguished for his mili-
tary ardour; be has claims to our notice which rest on
other grounds—a lore of science, and the pursuit of
that knowledge which ennobles the highest rank, and
gives grace and ornament to a throne itself.—(Cheers.)
lie has traversed the plains of India, ascended the
rugged fastnesses of Nepaul, and penetrated through the
Himalaya to the frontiers of China.—(Cheers.) Not
more on account of that noble spirit which led him to
the field, and engaged him in its conflicts, than for his
devotion to literature and science, do I now with confi-
dence and pleasure propose to you the health of his
Royal Highness Prince Waldemar of Prussia.
The toast having been drunk with all the honours,

The Prince WALDEMAR spoke as follows:—My Lords
and Gentlemen, little acquainted as I am with the Eng-
lish language, I am sorry to say that I feel myself only
able to express in a few short words my sentiments of
gratitude tor the highly flattering speech of your Chair-
man, the distinguished manner in which I have been
entertained by you this evening, and the kind, hospitable,
and splendid reception I met with during the whole of
my stay in India by the orders of the Hon. Court of
Directors.—(Cheers.) I cannot refrain from mentioning,
on this very proud occasion for me, bow much I was
pleased and flattered by the very valuable present I re-
ceived of two Seikh guns, captured in my presence by the
unsurpassed bravery of the army of the Sutlej.—(Loud
cheers.) This present will remain for ever a highly valu-
able commemoration to me is d to my (Cheers.)
But, gentlemen, proud as I am of the marks of esteem
and distinction shown to me in India as well as in
England, I am far from attributing them to myself alone
—every one of my countrymen, I know, is well and
kindly received in England, and I consider this as a proof
that the old ties of friendship and alliance which so long,
and even under very difficult circumstances, have united
England and Prussia are still the same.—(Cheers.)
May these ties last long—(Cheers)—may they last for
ever, for the benefit and strength of both nations.
The CHAIRIMAN—WhiIe we pay our tribute of respect
to the illustrious Prince who has honoured us with his
presence on this occasion, wo must not forget the absent.
His Sovereign left a deep impression on the people of
this country. The patriot King of Prussia, by his con-
descension, his gracious bearing, his numerous and most
munificent charities, entitled himself to the high con-
sideration of all who had observed his csreer. We all
of us know his gracious and princely conduct. He is
now gracing a throne where he is endeavouring to en•
graft upon free institutions the welfare of his people. I
hope and trust that his patriotic labours will be success-
ful, and that they will endear him still more to the affec-
tions of his loyal and devoted subjects. I give you " The
health of the patriot King of Prussia."
Drunk with all the honours.
His Excellency Chevalier BUNSEN, in acknowledging
the toast, said—" Mr. Chairman, my Lords, and gen-
tlemen,—l am proud and thankful that it falls to my lot
on such an occasion as this to return thanks, as the re-
presentative of the King of Prussia in this country, for
the cordiality with which his Majesty's health has been
proposed and received. I am sure it will afford his
Majesty particular satisfaction to learn that his illus-
trious cousin has this day dined with the Court of Di-
rectors of the Hon. East India Company in the midst of
so brilliant and illustrious an assembly ; that you have
received him here amongst you with all the marks of
esteem and affection which greeted him in British India;
and that on the same occasion you have remembered
with so much warmth the sovereign head of his house
and country, and alluded to the intimate relations exist-
ing between the two countries and nations. The stay
of Prince Waldemar in India, and the reports he sent
and brought home, have indeed contributed to increase
that interest, and to deepen those sympathies, with which
the King and the natives of Prussia look upon the British
empire in the East. But that interest and those sym-
pathies existed before. How, indeed, could it be other-
wise, when we see how much strength, and power, and
influence flows from that empire to England—to those
with whom we are so intimately connected—who have
been our best allies in the struggle for our independence
and that of Europe—with whom we have fought our last
battle and gained our most decisive victory on the field of
Waterloo ? But, besides, ask what Government, what
monarch can overlook the immense importance of that
empire which all Powers, whether they see it with the
eyes of friends, or of rivals, or of enemies, must look
upon with admiration ? The British empire in India is,
according to my conviction, the prodigy of modern his-
tory • it is the pride of England ; and, let me add, it is
the glory of the middle classes of England—of that not
only numerous and wealthy, but also enlightened, peace
and justice-loving, loyal, and liberal class of the popu-
lation on which, in our age, the strength of all modern
states must principally rest.—(Cheers.) Other empires,
in other times, have been founded by mighty or ad-
venturous chieftains, or by military orders and corpo-
rations, and they have, sooner or later, been lost by the
death of the conqueror, or by the degeneracy or tyranny
of the military aristocracy. But here you have an em-
pire, founded by merchants, formed and governed by
citizen subjects of the Crown of Great Britain, and
within less than a century grown up to a mighty empire
of more than a hundred millions—an empire for which
your nobles have fought, and bled, and died, and to
which many of your most distinguished statesmen and
judges have dedicated their lives—an empire which has
nurtured, and is still nurturing, the heroes of the age,
from the Duke of Wellington down to our days, and in
which illustrious statesmen find an ample and glorious
field fur developing their talents and serving their
country.—(Cheers.) It was with such views as these
that the King, my master, soon after he had ascended
the throne, sent a distinguished officer of his army to
British India, there to improve his knowledge and en-
rich his experience—Captain Orlich, whose report, since
published here and in Germany,
.does equal honour to
himself and to the country he visited.—(Cheers.) i
It s
therefore natural that the same monarch, some years
later, when a young prince of his houso wished to travel,
in order to become acquainted with what foreign countries
might offer to him most interesting and important,
favoured so decidedly the wish of that Prince to visit
your Indian empire. This Prince was too young to
have seen war himself, for he was born after the
happy conelusion of the great struggle of his house and
nation, in which his valiant father, Prince William of
Prussia, had fought with so much glory.—(Cheers.)
But the Prince had been brought up in all the arts and

' sciences of peace; he had received that liberal and
scientific education which in our times is most necessary
for princes, and most conducive to their own individual
happiness.—(Cheers.) Having been thus nurtured in
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all those branches of literature and knowledge which
secure and adorn peace and civilisation, he wished to
see that mighty and almost fabulous empire. He went
to India;
and just civil administration, bent upon the improve-
r
improve-
ment of that country and nation which are entrusted to
your care. He saw admirable and incorruptible courts
histo-
rical record of having ever possessed impartial distri-
butive justice, one and the same for the rich and the
poor, the mighty and the friendless and
knew by reputation your Malcolms, and Sir William
Joneses, and Colebrookes, and he was happy to find
that their successors in office were worthily emulating
their zeal and their glory. He knew your Cornwallis,
and he found Hardinge.—(Cheers.) With equal admi-
ration the Prince saw your Political Agents—that illus-
trious body of men of whom Canning is reported to have
said (and I am sure justly), that he considered it the
first of all diplomatic bodies in the world, for their skill,
and character, and accomplishments.—(Cheers.) There,
too, he found worthy successors to Mountstuart Elphin-
stone and his contemporaries. In all these branches of
civil administration, gentlemen, the Prince saw the real
secret of your strength—it is keeping your word, and
dealing with fairness and justice. I have heard from
very good authority that lately the Court of Directors
received from a very high quarter an application to
know by what means you had succeeded in conciliating
to yourselves the good-will and even the affections of
millions of your Mohammedan subjects in India. Well,
Sir, I think the answer is before the world; you hare
respected their religion, their laws, and their habits;
you have respected the sanctuaries of the temple and of
the house. Let others do likewise! The Prince was
further pleased to see that literature and science were
not forgotten by the conquerors and rulers of the
empire. He perceived that the institutions founded by
Sir William Jones and Colebrook° had continued to
flourish under Mackenzie and Prinsep. And here it is
my pleasing duty to express my gratification in having
seen how lately this Court of Directors when requested
to subscribe for a number of copies of an edition of the
Vedas, the sacred records of the Hindoos, undertaken
by a distinguished young scholar of Germany, nobly
resolved, with the strenuous support and generous
encouragement of that illustrious friend and patron of
literature, the highly accomplished President of the
Board of Control, to charge that same scholar to give to
the world, under their sanction and at their expense,
that most important book, the publication of which is so
anxiously looked for by the whole literary world.
And then, gentlemen, he saw your armies; he lived with
its officers. What shall I say he felt about this army,
when one who came to India with avowedly hostile feel-
ings, and has since written a book containing severe cen-
sures upon some parts of the Indian administration
(Count Warren), cannot help saying that there was no
more high-spirited army in the world, and there was no
more high-minded and kind hearted and hospitable body
of officers, than that of your Indian army?—(Cheers.)
And now, I ask you, after the Prince had, during a stay
of eighteen months, seen all this, and lived with your
army, and messed with its officers, how could he resist to
offer himself to serve as a volunteer and fight with his
brave friends and companions in a war undertaken to
repel barbarous invasion, and to protect and advance the
common and sacred cause of civil and religious liberty ?
—(Cheers.) He did so ; he won your admiration ; he
received the flattering marks of her Majesty's approba-
tion ; and he is now come to this country to express his
thanks, and to see again some of the heroes he had the
opportunity of knowing and admiring in India.—
(Cheers.) The King will be delighted, therefore, to hear
how kindly he has been received by 3ou on this occa-
sion, and I beg to thank you again for the expression of
your regard and your affection to himself.—(Cheers.)
The CHAIRMAN—I am sure we have all been highly
delighted by the speeches we have just heard, so honour-
able to the illustrious Prince and his Excellency the
Minister of Prussia.—(Cheers.) It is particularly grati.
fying to us to receive such testimony both in favour of
the principles by which this country is governed and our
successful administration of that great empire we hold
in the East.—(Cheers.) Their testimony is impartial,
and we should not have had it if it were not just.—
(Cheers.) The next toast I have to propose is the
"British Navy." We have a nobleman who presides over
that branch of our service well known to the Court of Di-
rectors.—(Cheers.) He has honourably served his country
in various capacities, and in none more successfully or
honourably than in India.—(Loud cheers.) That noble
service, the navy, is now confided to his care, and I am
confident from what we know of his character he will do
full justice to the charge.—(Cheers.) Let other nations
fortify their cities and coasts, our bulwarks are on the
deep. There we are unassailable, impregnable, our
honour, our character, our interests secure among the
nations of the world.—(Loud cheers.)
The Earl of AUCKLAND returned thanks. He could
not but feel conscious that upon this occasion the soldier
must he in their mind before the sailor.—(Cheers.) He
cordially concurred with them in rendering homage to
the illustrious Prince who was willing to share in the
dangers and triumphs of our army ; and he rejoiced to
see at that table his friend Sir H. Smith, who had on that
occasion led our armies to victory.— (Loud cheers.) He
and every admirer of the navy could net but be gratified
that the sister service to the army had not been forgot-
ten, and that they were willing to record their grateiul
recollections of that branch of the public service which
had se often triumphed in the country's cause, and con-
tributed so much to its safety, honour, and strength.—
(Loud cheers.) He felt proud of being associated with
the navy, and he could assure his Indian friends, what-
ever his avocations might be, his affection for India, his
interest in its prosperity, his desire for its safety, his
hope for its triumph if ever assailed by any enemy, were
unalterable.—(Loud cheers.)
The CHAIRMAN next gave " The Army," which was
responded to briefly, but most appropriately, by Sir
CHARLES DALBIAC.
The CHAIRMAN next proposed the health of " Lord
J. Russell and her Majesty's Ministers." The adminis-
tration of a mighty empire was in ordinary circum-
stances a sacred and important trust, far beyond the
strength of most men; but Lord J. Russell, with the
chivalry of his noble house, had accepted it surrounded
by unusual difficulties, aggravated by a natural calamity.
" That cloud which late o'er pale Britannia hung"

he hoped was now dispelled, and that sunshine would
gleam over our fields and gladden the hearts of our
people. He earnestly wished the Noble Lord and his
colleagues would succeed in restoring prosperity to this
great nation.—(Loud cheers).
The toast was drunk with much cordiality.
Lord J. RUSSELL, in acknowledging the compliment,
said—l am happy to have this opportunity of coming
here, in the first place to pay my respects to the leaders
and governors of an empire, which, as it has been truly
said by my excellent friend the Minister of the Court
of Prussia, is, I belive, unparalleled in the history of the
world—an empire of which the first beginnings are
most extraordinary and appear like heroic or fabulous
times—an empire which has been cemented by wisdom
and justice in later times: and which we have the hap-
iness to know, from a very recent experience, should
Ft be attacked by unprovoked, sudden, and for-
midable aggression, will be defended by as much
intelligence in command and as much bravery in the
soldier as ever it was the happiness of any empire
to command.—(Loud cheers.) I cannot fail to say this
—seeing on my right hand one of the most distinguished
of those warriors who have lately proved to India and to
the world that however ancient empires may have dege-
nerated from the luxury and effeminacy of the conquerors
themselves, our conquests are still maintained by the
same valour, the same stedfast determination, which won
the first miles of territory in India.—(Cheers.) I come,
likewise, Sir, to pay my tribute of respect and honour to
that illustrious Prince who sits on your right hand,
whose object it has been not to make a holiday tour,
not to satisfy himself with the shows and amusements of
Italy, or the vestiges of ancient power; but who has
visited in India a living dominion—(Cheers)—who has
searched the records of literature and science, and, when
the trumpet of war sounded in his ears hastened to the
camp, and showed himself among the first and most gal-
lant of those who stood on those bloody fields.—(Cheers.)
You, Sir, have done honour to my colleagues and my-
self in saying words of praise and encouragement with
respect to the part we have to boar in the government of
this great empire; and I am happy to have this, as every
other occasion, which presents itself' to me, of saying,
that though we have had to stem the tide, assdiyhnouughhavae
observed, of a great natural calamtylater history of
famine, unprecedented, I believe, in
thei
overwhelmedand
, we
a part of the United Kingdom I
have had great difficulties.tomeet from the visitations
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of Providence and the vicissitudes
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th whom I
have long differed in politics—(Cheers)—but party, any factious oppositi on the
cours
con-
trary, allowing of honest difference of opi-
nion—allowing for the heat which discussion sometimes
creates, we have been allowed freely and fairly to apply
to these calamities such remedies as we considered the
most fitting for the emergency.—(Loud cheers.) This
is not the place to argue or contend— far would I be
from arguing on such a subject—that those remedies
were the best that could be devised ; but I must add
another tribute—l must say, during a very high p Hee
of food, during the difficulties to which the lahouring
people of this country have been subjected, that both in
England and Scotland, and likewise in that part of the
United Kingdom which the calamity afflicted the most,
the patience, the resignation, the fortitude, the sub-
mission to the will of Divine Providence, on the part of
the great mass of the people, have been admirable indeed.
—(Cheers.) Therefore, while I accept the statement of
the chairman, that we have had great difficulties to
contend with, I must always admit, in the fullest manner,
that those difficulties have been much lightened by the
manner in which our measures have been received, and
by the manner in which the sufferings of the people
have been borne.—(Loud cheers.) Allow me only
further to say, with respect to a very great part of this
empire, that portion of our dominions over which
Sir, the chairman, and the Court of Directors, reside,
trust that the fortitude and energy of Lord tiardinge
has saved India from immediate and perilous assaults for
years to come, and that whoever may succeed that dis-
tingubed mall may be able, amidfrt the arts of peace