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PRICE 5d

PUBLIC DINNER TO G. BYNG,
ESQ., MEMBER FOR MIDDLESEX.
A public dinner was given yesterday at Brentfurd. by
he Reformers of West Middlesex, to George Byng,
',sq., their venerable representative. -
A temporary building was erected for the cccasion,
vhieh was tastefully decorated with variegatel lamps,
dthflags and banners, on which we noticed .the follow-
ig inscriptions :—" The Queen and liberty"—" The
:,ueen and the people"—" Bytig, the advocate of cheap
'read, and the friend of the poor"—" Down with the
aonopolists, the robbers, and oppressors of the poor"-
- Viho taxeth the bread of the poor, the people shall
sirse him"—" No surrender"—" Peace and free trade
vith all the world."
The building was crowded to excess, and it was com-
puted that not less than 500 sat down to dinner. A space
was appropriated for the ladies, in which a great pro-
:swamu of the beauty of the county was assembled.
Shortly after four o'clock, the Chairman, Sir William
.;lay, Bart., entered the room, accompanied by Mr. Byng,
who was received with loud cheers, all the company
standing. In the seats beside him we noticed Sir T.
Wilde, M.P., Viscount Ebrington, M.P.,Hon. C. P. Vil-
liers, M.P. Mr. Vernon Smith, M.P., Sir John East-
hope, M.P., Mr. Hobhouse, M.P., Mr. Thomas Dun-
coinbe, M.P., Mr. Ewart, M.P., Mr. Ward, M.P., Sir
De Lacy Evans, Mr. Whitbread, Blunt, Esq., W.
A.'Becket, Esq., W. Coppock, Esq., and other gentlemen.
Grace having been said, and the cloth removed,
The CHAIRMAN said, that the first toast which, in dis-
charge of his office, it was his duty to propose, was the
health of her Majesty the Queen.—(Loud cheers.) To
that toast he was sure they would give a cordial welcome,
not only because they entertained that feeling of loyalty
which is felt by every Briton, but because, a:Reformers,
they could not but be sensible that no Sovereign had ever
tilled the throne of these realms who had shown that
they more respected the rights and privileges, or had
more deeply, at least, the well-being of the people at
heart. Their relations, as Reformers, towards their
Sovereign, had within a short time sustained an impor-
tant alteration. . The councils of this country were
no longer guided by members of the Liberal
party, but he was sure they would be happy
to show that that made no difference in the
feelings they entertained towards their Sovereign.
—(Cheers.) They well knew that she had submitted to
that necessity—(Cheers)—imposed upon every constitu-
tional monarch, and which no constitutional monarch
better understood than herself.—(Cheers.) But they,
the Reformers of Middlesex, should be proud to show,
on that and other occasions, that theirs was no time•
serving loyalty— (Cheers) —no divided allegiance.—
(Cheers.) He was quite certain he spoke the sentiments
of every man who heard him, when he said, that by no
member or section of that party, would ever be mani-
fested a want of that dutiful respect which was owing to
her Majesty, and which was not only due to her as the
Sovereign, but as the first lady of the realm.--(Cheers.)
With these few words of preface, he would propose the
health of her Majesty the Queen.—(Cheers, and three
times three.)
Air—" God save the Queen."
The CHAIRMAN then proposed " The health of Prince
Albert," and afterwards " The Duke of Sussex, and the
rest of the Royal Family in England," which toasts were
drunk with three times three. andlongcontinued cheering.
The CHAIRMAN then said he would call their attention
to that toast which had more immediate reference to the
object of their assembling that day—he had to propose
the health of George Byng, Esq., their venerable repre-
sentative.—(Loud and long-continued cheering.) He
had anticipated that a cordial welcome would
greet the toast, and he was quite sure that
their approbation of his Hon. Friend—the appro-
bation of his conduct which was manifested by their
cheers, was entertained by them iu common not only
with the electors of Middlesex, but also with those ('',f
the United Kingdom.—(Loud cheers.) Where was the
public man who had better deserved the approbation of
his fellow-citizens ?—(Cheers.) Where was the Member
of Parliament who had discharged with greater fidelity
the arduous duties of a representative of the people ?
(Cheers.) Others might have manifested as true a de-
votion to Liberal principles—others might have been as
consistent in their public conduct—but to what other man
had Providence given the opportunity to display those qua-
lities through so long a .career ? If he mistook not,
it was now more than half a century since his Hon.
Friend first entered upon public life; and now, after the
lapse of that long period, they still found him support-
ing Lord John Russell—(Tremendous cheering)—with
the same steadiness—even with the youthful energy—
which he displayed in following the banners of Mr. Fox.
—(Loud cheers.) And dirring that long career could
one single instance be cited in which he had been found
leagued with the enemies of popular rights?—(Loud
cheers)—in which he had not shown himself a steady
friend of civil and religious liberty ?—in which he had nut
shown himself ready to defend, confirm, and extend the
rights and privileges of the people ?—(Cheers.) Firm
and temperate, prudent and uncompromising, just as he
was in the outset, such he was—he would not say in the
close, but in the latter portion of his career.—((;heers.)
In his youth he was not rash, in honoured age he had
not shown himself timid.---(Cheers.) As iu the early
portion of his public life he did not by his advocacy of
rash doctrines alarm the prudent and alienate the wise
and good from the cause of Reform, so also in the later
portion of his career he had shown no disposition to go
over to the Tories.—(Loud cheers.) He (the Chair-
man) did not think that even during the
excitement of the Reform Bill, his Honourable
Friend was one of those who preposed to swamp the
House of Lords,--(Cheers)—but, on the other hand,
neither had he deserted the cause of the. people.—
(Cheers.) It appeared to him that the consistency of
his Hon. Friend was of that order which constituted the
merit of public men.—(Hear.) Of this he was certain,
that among those qualities that best procured for public
men that confidence on the part of the people, which
wa,”ibsolutely necessary for the healthy working of the
political system—that high amongst them must be reck-
oned that honourable consistency of public conduct, of
which the career of his Ifonourable Friend had
offered so bright an example.—(Cheers.) On such a
man, it appeared to him the public should, for their own
sake, be anxious to heap every honour which it was
in their power to offer.—(Cheers.) It appeared to him
they should raise the name of such a man to that emi-
nence which the public estimation—which theapprobation
of a :ree people—could alone confer, and where it would
operate as an incentive to honourable ambition, and
shine with steady splendour as a beacon light to cheer
the patriot in discharge of his arduous, and not unfre-
quently, thankless task.—(Loud cheers.) He would
not detain them by giving them proofs of what lie
had asserted respecting his Honourable Friend.
To those whom lie addressed, such proofs were
unnecessary; yet he could not avoid referring to a
late instance, in which ho had proved his devotion to
the cause of the people.—(Cheers.) What had been his
conduct on the last great question which had agitated
the minds of the people ? —a question on which he might
hare been expected to falter—a question on which he
musthave felt great difficulty, considering his peculiar
position. But what had been Mr. Byng's conduct re-
specting the Corn-laws ?—(Loud cheers.) He had se-
parated himself from his class, and differed from the
men whom he loved—being himself among the most
eminent landowners of the kingdom, and had shown
that he could form a judgment of his own on the
greatest of all political questions, unswayed by
bias even. by that =conscious bias by which
minds of the best men were but too apt to be af-
fected.—(Cheers.) He had separated himself from his
class, and had joined himself to that small but illustrious
band of statesmen and patriots, the Bedfords, Fitzwil-
Hams, and Spencers—(Cheers)—men already dear to
their country, and whose conduct in this matter would
endear them to th• it country still more—(Cheers)—
men too wise to believe the interests of the landowners
could be separated from the interests of the whole com-
munity ; or, if it were so, too patriotic to seek for exclu-
sive advantages to be enjoyed at the expense of the rest
of their fellow-cit'aens.—(Cheers.) He believed his
Honourable Friend had not been less diligent in giv-
ing practical effect, to his principles. He appealed to
his Hon. Friends around him if they had ever
known him absent from a division.—(Cheers.) He,
the father of the House of Commons—and, as lie (Sir
W. Clay) had called him, so he would express the wish,
that his family were more like him—(Hear)—that they
had more of a family likenest.—(Hear.) He had set
an example of diligence and zeal which the youngest of
them might be proud to imitate. However tedious the
debate—at whetever hour it terminated, no man could
say that he had not found Mr. Byng at his post.—
(Cheers.) With these few words of preface, in which
he had indulged rather to satisfy his own feelings than
from any impression that it was necessary to explain his
merits, or to excite their enthusiasm, he would propose to
them the health of George Byng, Esq., their long-tried
and consistent Member for Middlesex.—(Loud cheers.)
Mr. BYNG, who was received with great enthusiasm,
said he rose to return them his most heartfelt thanks for
the honour they had done- him in drinking his health,
but it was impossible for him to find terms sufficiently
strong to express his feelings. He was very certain, that
if he had represented any common place in this country,
he never should have accepted the trust without having
made up his mind never to betray his trust. He never
could. Perfidy was not in his nature. What could
they think of the man who accepted of a trust, and who
afterwards converted the power the constituency lied
given him to gratify his own vanity or ambition, and
nothing else ?—(Cheers.) He felt particularly obliged
to those gentlemen who had done him the honour of in-
viting hies to meet his brother Reformers. 't was time
that Reformers should meet—(Cheers)—and he hoped
that their example would be followed in every part of
the country. The cause of Reform, they must ac-
knowledge, did not then stand as it had done. Ten years
ago they were able to curry reforms beyond the expecta-
tions of the most sanguinOeformers, against the avowed
wishes of the aristocracy, and against the sec,) How
wishes
of the Crown.—(Cries of "Hear, hear.'
was their situation altered? A Reform Ministry' whloh
Ministry
had done more, ten times more, than any other
ever did for the people of this co6ntry, and which w„,,
backed most faithfully by the Sover.igtl—(ei..-
pealed to the people, and the
them. Ile had said the, _ ..ad declared against
in the not,-
Ifinistry had done more
•
d;..3 et Commons than any other Ministry ever
and he said that the last act of theirs, which had
been the cause of their dismissal, was worth any act
they could possibly name.—(Cheers.) There was no