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London, England, 1815-06-16 00:00:00

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• tiVEP:l)P'imis c N lVi l A"' inn -MUM OF
t3te. WILLIAM
[lre insert a itepOrt at the Pli4TEtt at L.
1r):111'0",1k , anti have to direct ou'r KW t-ets to one
of thos-e'evideliCes of the aliffusion bi ability
throueli Englived, which Make the pride And (lit-
tiaction Vontii-Y. • The ',Speech Mirercd
fiy Mr. Mutot,K, a Mercharil'of Liverpotil, *dd.
`do honour Os the most practised powefs ; the
Pity Of its principle;, and the eloquence of its lan-
,
guage equallyreader it worthy Of'ddmiration.]
On Monday sennielit, the friends and ad•
inirers of the political sentimenti And conduct -of
the late Right Hon. Wit-Lamas PITT sat down to
a splendid dinner., at the Liverpool ArMs, in cele-
* brat ion of the Anniversary of the Birth-flay of that
distiagaiished Statesman. J. B. ASPINALL, Esq.
President, in the Chair —The company was -no-
inerous and highly respectable, and the evening
Was spent with great harmony and hilarity. After
the cloth was drawn, Non 11 'obis. I!- .
His Majesty the King. the Duke of Lancaster ; three times
three.—tiong, " God save the King," by the company.
His Rohl Highness the Prince Regent; three tames three.
" Hail, star of Brunswick, by Messrs. Holden,
"Taylor, and Maybrick. _ . -
Idcr Majesty the Queen and the Royal Family.—Band, the
"The Queens March."
His Royal nightiess the Doke of York and the Army; three
times three Glee, " How merrily we live."
Lord Melville and the Navy; three times three.—Song,
" Role Britannia."
The Chair-man said, that, previously to givin-g
the next toast, he must he allowed to congratu-
late them on having established a permanent
Club in the town, to commemorate the anniver-
Itaty of the Birth-day of than illustrious States:-..
inan, the late Right Hon. William Pitt. He did
this from a conviction, that, by impressing upon
the mindi hi the rising -generation the name,- the
character, the virtues,.-and, above all, the princi-
ples of Mr. Pitt, 'they were promoting the true
Interests of the country, By this means they
would have a constant succession of loyal subjects,
and firm and-independent defenders of the British
Constitatioa. He begged leave to give--
, The immortal Memory of the Right ilon..Williarn Pitt, the
illustriens ~tatesman, who made his Country tbb first object,
himself the last I—in silence. . •
Mr. MuLocti, then rose.--=Gentlemen, I feel al-
tnost a pious apprehension in violating the silence
whidb usually a•tends this toast] But, in break-
ing that silence, I am actuated, by two considera-
tions;--one of private feeling, the other of
lie duty. The first I am disposed to touch very
lightly, for it respects myself. Since the period
guided by good fortune, I became a denizen
amongst you, it has been mv happy lot to receive
snore than myshareof your kindness and confidence,
anti very recently you dispensed an additional fa-
vOur to me, by electing me a -member ottbe Liver-
pool Pitt Club. Gentlemen, I brought with,me
my political opinions ; but,. however similar- to
your-own, I felt that I owed you a public and un-
equivocal avowal of those opinions. I now at-
tempt to discharge the debt. It- is right that I
Should shetv you, that I come not as an interlo-
per amongst your loyal festivities, but as a zealous
Ilarticipator in your sentiments ; that 1 do not
areal 'as a spy intd your camp, but enrol myself-as
a fait hint and tearless associate io arms. My part
is taken. I profess the principles of Mr. Pitt. I
learned them early'--1 cultivated them long—l
shill fotget than never r. -Allow me to apologize
for having trespassed upon your attention by say-
ing so much of an individual•so humble as myself,
-anti -permit me to proceed to a subject • of Teal im-
portance:,--Gentlenien,' if there ever was a 'perrod
in the annals of• England, when her national coun-
cils were swayed by the maxims of a vigorous and
•inlightetied policy, wcare•bound by the dictates
of wisdom to recur to the principles of that policy
in the present awfuherisis'of,our affairs. On the
a...ve of another great ,struggle, there-must be anxi-
ety fur the
,future ;- but for that future there is
hope in the past. It-is—impossible io think of
:svhat England has -done without- finding in it the
tuatetials of proud and lofty augury for, triumph. to
conic. There is no feebleness in our 'eause: We
ko to ivar for all that. is -sacred, and noble, and
free,----all worth the heart and blood _of man.—
There is success and inspiration in those" things.
The cause itself is a triumph. But there is, be-
aides this; to England a physical power which has
been developed by no other people. •We owe this
cur Constitution.. If time Monarchy.of England
had been despotic, she must, to all human conjec-
tnre, have sunk under the pressure of the last war.
Where the. King is a despot, the state has-but a
siagle arm ; but where the people have an interest
in the conservation of their liberties, it is a !ninth ed-
handed 'eiant, abounding in exhaustless energy ;
the force becomes universal ; there is strength in
every part ; the state is vigorous and vital all
over, Thls phesirel power of England is born of
her fret :om ; the faculties of her. people are in
perpetual activity.. The unilinited range given-to
• gvoias, to manly industry, to mental acquire-
. • mcat,' constltutes a fund of ability immediately
tunvertible from the work's of peace, to the Ina-
teriat of power and triumph its. war. The severe
pressure of the last 20 years only showed the more
rigorous spring, and strength of repulsion. 'The
heavier descent of the temp!ost -on that mighty
ocean of the public mind, only disclosed' the
wonders of its depths, and, that those depths were
ineahaustible. The danger brought out fi•ont the
silence and unmarked -nobleness of private life,
those powers which were destined to redeem the
world's cause. • Laejlorner's hero, the form
viiicielay in its tent, covered -with the vestures
of peace, anti only touching the lyre---iistless and
unarming while the- danger was renaite—roused
itself frolll that " golden slumber" when the shout
tam, pealing, towards the camp—seized the spear
and to that panoply, which seemed of moie than
tilortal splendour,• rushed, into the field, and at
once turned the,battle. In the period of Our im-
minent danger—a danger from which we may
imin vet be.freed ; a-danger of which it may be re.
• t•erred for the purified vision of our posterity to
discern the eNteat and maiignaney—two men, as
hy the especial interposition of Providence, were
lilted up tar the safety of the nation; splendid as
two stars glittering above the cloud and darkness
tit tt loured Over the times. They have since
gone dowli to time grave. To Its a great sor-
row ; to themselves& the conshmaration of their .

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glories. 'they bad Cougli't .the gplod fight ; they
bad kept-the faith.. They,are gone to receive the
crown laid up for2tlk.M. Need n,aMe 'the silk.,
or William 'Pitt and Edelen:l. Elirke % ilOrn in
etetutries, the ; .3Ctißed l'at'ehdeo. to stand
forth tone World the lieblai VepreS'entativr'e.
what was noblest in both islands. Burke, fell-of
the gl'OWieg heart, the feed sensibility, the bnhi-
ink; imagination, the impassioded, enthusiastic,
and ektil4ratit eloqUeuce of irelanch of that
country which I exult in calling niieb ; tlll that
country which; though harassed With unhappy
dissentionk, eYehninisters to My pride, anti frill
ev'ei• be endeared to my affections. Pitt,
penetrating, indefatigable, armed all over, Alia
ready for. the perpetual combat, an unequalled
Model of the sagacity, the diligence, the solemn
rectitude, that Make the glory of the English
mind. But, unlike in genius, in cause they were
one. The phil-OStiphic trandetir of Burke gave
the force of universal truths to the rapid conclul
sions'of the great British Statesman. The counsel,
which shed illumination in the Senate by the
matchless .energy of- Pitt, was diffused over
the nation by the expansive wisdn of his
illustrious friend. Those were the Men, Whose
memories should be engravers upon our hearts.--
Those were the men who never despaired of the
fortunes of their country. Those were the men,
who, in the hour of our severest national need,
Warned us by their wisdom, protected us by their
principles, animated es by their example, and
adorned us by their 'fame. Let us worship thetas
with a Persian idolatry; which, though the lu-
minary of day be gone down,
,still with grateful
piety adores the benignant radiance which has
passed .away.. Geetlemen; we must deplore the
privation of such beings ; but we must not " sor-
rowasthose without hope." They were the product
• of danger : if the danger should return, we shall
have to commeinorate men summoned up to do as
they have done : Such men may be unknown, till
the hour that calls them into full distinction.—
Whilst I am talking of the mighty dead, there may
be some some genius starting forth with.the visible
sovereignty on his' brow : the statesman or the
warrior, it with our illustrious Wellington we
should, want a warrior:- ,We may, at this moment
of commemoration, be ministering to the spirit
that is yet to emulate the fame of the departed,:
in offering the laurel to the-grave of Pitt, we may
be twining a wreath for the temple of that man,
who is, like him, to called the ".Saviour of his
Country." 'Gentlemen., on' the decease of Mr.
'Pitt, the systematic opponents of his policy rush-
ed into power, and became invested with the full
competence of exhibiting their own •antagonist
policy.. They tried a fruitless negociation-for
peace with the Ruler of France ; they endeavour-
ed to supplicate for what Mr, Pitt sought to sub-
due; and, after a year of pompous inanity, they
retired from, office,- diminished in strength and
.sullied in character. To them succeeded the men
who had. been-schooled in the policy of Mr. Pitt,
and they followed the footsteps of their illustrious
master. They cheered and sustained the fainting
.freedom of the world. They. held out hopes to
enthralled Austria—to subjugated Prussia—to de-
luded Russia. Whilst 'pursuing this admirable
course of conduct,- the insane; ambition of the
-French Ruler urged him to convert his Spanish
Allies into subsidiary slaves : Spain called to Eng-
land, and England obeyed the call. She sent her
armies, commanded by a leader himself a host.
Success attended es, and scarce was there a
field .of Spain on which the banners of Wel-
, lington did not " fan" our foes " into de-
spair." Spain roused the rest of Europe, and
Napoleon determined to rivet. its chains. He
marched to Moscow in triumph,. attended by the
proudest array that Europe had ever gazed upon.
He retureedsa defeated fugitive, leaving the hones
of three hundred thousand soldiers to bleach on
the snows of •Ressia. The Allies' pursued
and continued their career to the walls of Paris.
And then," Gentlemen, was exhibited the noblest
spectacle that the world had ever viewed,: A hos-
tile army, composed of various nations, from
the most remote and savage barbarism to the most
refined civilization, each having a separate wrong
to avenge, and that wrong inflicted by France.
This army, so constituted, filed through the
streets of Paris without perpetrating a single injttry.
And all this charity shewn to that Paris which had
been for twenty, years the repository of ill, and
from which.all the woes of Europe had issued
Gentlemen, in effecting the liberation of Europe,
the Allies gave freedom to France. The sound
part of the French community called for their le-
gitimate Sovereign. . He came, and, during the
period' of his rule, he dispensed more blessings to
his people than the fanatics of a shallow andinfi-
del philosophy had dared to dream•of—for he gave
them- peace. Whilst, wrapped in security, the
head of the Bourbons was devising comforts for
his people, the Military Adventurer, who had
been spared by the magnanimity of the Allied So-
vereigns, landed on the, scene of his former ty-
ranny, and found a.perfidious army ready to raise
him to his " bad eminence" again. The Bour-
bons were hurried into exile, and the usurper
pollutes his throne.—Gentlemen, in this tre-
mendous crisis all. Europe looked to England
for 'counsel, and she has counselled war; eter-
nal war ; not with the French people, but
with a horde of regimental robbers, red on
by their Captain General of !Iniquity.
At the
bidding of England, France will be. environed
by a million of armed men, marshalled" by the
most gallant.,warrior of the age, who has skill
and sinew to pluck the Ruler-of France from his
already tottering Throne. Notwithstanding the
hazards of prediction, .1 am willing to risk one re-
specting the entire success of the approaching.
contest. 1 am even dispOsed to couple a wish
with my prediction, and that wish relates to the
duratiotrof the war. 1 do not wish it to be a very
short one, because I see no safety for Europe ue*.
til the military .pride and power of France he
humbled to the dust.—Gentlemen, at a- season
like this, when we might expect a perfect eon-
cutrenee in our views from all the leading art-
thorities of the State, men of great weight, and
lofty talents, have dissociated themselves from the
cause of their country, and of Europe.- I will not
for a Tnorneut venture to
impeach ,the purity of
their motives, but I nuist certainly distrust the
soundness of their judgment.
.We are told that a
new state of things has commenced ; that Napo-

leon,!tom-Tarte is cMieli to the head of Tte
French Covetainteut Jiy the will ,f the .French
people; ,drift that the line of pt licy c)reScribi.id. by
;11Stice anti I.)V is to kbsiAiii from ail inter-
ference:4:N) the internal a rra fihements rt'renall
neighbours. 1n tlree opinions 1 Callum concur;
ani wrong, I gloriously share iby error With
the conictq, arid with the Miniiters who rule it.
Centime!), in recomment.mg n s to consider Bub:.
i;apaite as begiuning to riin a fresh race, Without
reference to his former career, we are desired to
do what wisdom ever chides for doing. We are
in fact desired tei consult our imagination; andrc.,
just onr reasona-LI-We are, commanded to extii)
guiSh all the lights whii-h history holds out for the
guidance of erring and benighted man to take
no omens for the future from the experience of
the past. What do we know of Buonaparte•but
as an Unprincipled oppressor of nations ? What
circumstances have contributed to regenerate him
The poet tells us-that " sweet are the uses of ad-
versity." • Brit! to whom ? To virtue, bruised by
the buffets of an unkind fortune, and purify-
ing itself in the niidst of .severett trials. But
vice, smote down fYima its " high and palmy
state' into deserved degradation, is never lessen-
ed by misfortune. Think you, that Napoleon,
tossed upon his rock, like another Prometheus, with
the valture of a frustrated ambition preying upon
his heart, ever consoled himself by a generous
contrition for his -crimes ? Oh ! no—these things
cannot be : nature has said it. We have, then,
Buonaparte, unchanged Buonaptirte, before us
once more, and we are girding ourselves for bat-
tle once more to subdue him. And it is cheering
to consider what advantages we possess, and what
strength he has been shorn of. %ire have all Eu-
rope -.disenchanted of that-Jacobinism which so
long impeded the efforts of England for emanci-
pation. We behold the love of ancient institu-
tions, which had been chilled in So many bosoms,
fondly rekindling ; and may the pure flame never
be extinguished again !' Buonaparte, instead of
all Continental Europe, now timorously sways
divided and dis:racted France. He is labouring
to sustain his despotism by the temporary in-
fluence of Jacobinism, and he will fall under
the ruins of both.—Gentlemen, in order to make
out a case of the injustice of interfering wish
France, we are told that no European nation in-
terposed to prevent our glorious revolution of
1688. But nothing short of the most unpa-
triotic perversion of historical truth can strain the
two cases into a meagre .analogy. King James
was a lawful Monarch, exiled by the civil energies
of the English people,, for_ having violated their
constitutional rights. So far was it from being a
change effected by military violence, that the Par-
hament.would not.suffer King IViliam to retain
his Durchoiloards : every thing was done by civil
agency : Nothing by military power.—Gentlemen,
the sophistry of the peace politicians lets not
misltd the good sense of the people of Etigland ;
and the debates in the House of Commons shew
you hour that-sophistry has been refuted and re-
buked.- I will venture to assert, that even the victo-
ries which we may expect from the British armies,.
will not operate noire powerfully t ban'the victo-
rious reason poured forth in the eloquence of Grat-
tan and Plunkett-, of Lords'Castiereagh, Greoville;
and Liverpool. Whilst their adversaries have in-
dulged in visionary speculations; they have short
-that the foundations of the present practical policy
are laid wide and deep. in the nature of things. It
is, in short, Gentlemen,-- the policy which is na-
tural to those.who abide-by tl,e principles of the
British Constitution—principles which have arriv-
ed at their present perfection through a long sac-
cession of ages. 'Such are the principles which
we couple with the mime of Mr. Pitt, because be
called them into their noblest action. Such asso-
ciations as I .have the honour of addressing are the
conservatories of those principles : long may they
be held together ! 'Gentlemen, I have to thank
'you for the flattering attention with which I have
been heard, and for the applause which occasion-
ally interrupted that attention. I have not vanity
enough to.ascribe that applause to the efficiency
of my poor powers of expression. I have merely
bad time merit of awakening sentiments which
were bedded in your own bosoms. -Permit me to
convey my good wishes for the continued Fusin:-
rity of the Liverpool Pitt Club.