The Sun.
London, England, 1824-12-14 00:00:00

THE LATE SIR JAMES BLAND LAMB, BART.

( From last night's Courier.)
A friend who deeply regrets the loss, and highly reveres the
memory, of the late Sir James Bland Lamb, wishes to offer his
grateful thanks to the Editor of The Sun for his tribute of
praise inserted in his Paper of the 4th December to that highly
distinguished character. But, as some trifling omissions occur
in that account, the writer of this article is anxious to supply
such deficiencies, at the same time taking the liberty of ap-
plying to his own use the principal parts of that statement.
The litlitor of The. Sun expresses surprise that this much
respected character, who,. when known by the name of
Burgess, made a distinguished figure in the political world,
holding the situation for many years of Under Secretary of
i State far the Foreign Department, and whose literary produc-
tions deserve such high notice, should have sunk in silence to
the grave without a line of tribute to his memory ! This
silence sprang from the general tenor of his life. He revered his
God, and lived in peace and harmony with all men ; and the
-general feeling of high respect and esteem for his memory being
so universally acknowledged, made it appear unneeesary to
his friends to communicate to the public their high sense,
.of his distinguished merits, and their deep-felt sorrow for his
loss. It i.c singular, that, even when in public life, no pen was
ever employed personally against him. This may be accounted
for by sts.being well known that any pamphlet that appeared
from his 'hand was never instigated by, personal pique, but
slmnly inspired .by an ardent desire to aid the general welfare
of tat cause in which his party was engaged. The force and
power of his *pen, joined to the genuine truth and open manli-
ness of his character, preyental any personal reply. He was
well known to be the author of most of the extremely clever
pamphlets which appeared in that clay, such as the Whig Club,
&c. Ile possessed the private friendship of Sheridan, and many
others of his opponents in public affairs, so highly did they ad-
mire and esteem his uprightness of character.
The statement given of the cause of his having been one of
the original founders of The Sun Newspaper, under the sanc-
tion of 111 r. Pitt, is perfectly correct.—( Here follows what ap-
peared in The Sun). -
There is a mistake made by the Editor of The Sun in his
account of Sir James's literary pursuits. His first publication
WAS " The Birth and Triumph of hove," which he presented
to the public in very early life. After which he published an
heroic poem, celebrating the character and achievements of
Richard the First (not Richard the Second)' in which the bold
enterprising spirit of that Prince is finely portrayed; the verse
is harmonious, and the poem abounds with rich and beautiful
!limn .to,.—( The passages om itted here, also app 'tired in The Sun.)
Sir James was originally intended for the study of the law,
and was called to the bar; shortly after which he published
same legal works of acknowledged merit and authority. He
was, however, induced to relinquish this profession in conse-
quence of a close intirneey and friendship thrilled in very early
life with that great Statesman Mr. Pitt, and with the late Doke'
of Leeds, who, being anxious to attach to their party one whose
talents they were aware claimed such deserving admiration,
prevailed upon bins to give up his original profession, and to,
embark in political Orlin.
In later life he devoted his talents to theological writings,
some of which have been published. •
This error was corrected in The Sun the day. after. the
original article appeared.
. .

4".• In addition to the foregoing article from , co#rkr,
it hi proper to notice, that among the sprightly Article* writ;!n.
for The Sun, by Sir JADIES BLAND LAM 0, there {ei:p kV:
of humorous verses entitled The Cosirixt, in which he,PortraY :
with poetical spirit, and characteristic truth, the chief Igen4)oa
of the Opposition at that period. Ile was also the atithOr Of;
several admirable tales,; among which was The Bishop's Wig,
Indeed it may be justly said that his productions Whether
serious or gay, were marked by learning, fancy, and Sportive
satire, without party spleen or personal hostility.'

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THE.. POIVAMOUTII BRA:Neff ;z'rn►

All PSI! IR p OEN EIrAT,I EBE NE FIT SOMETY.

A Meeting was held on Monday the 6th most.
at the Beneficial : teitty's Hail, Portsea, by appointmeasof
the Right Worshipful the Mayor, in pursuance of a requbtitinn
tnost respectably signed, requesting him to convene a Meeting
" on the subject of the Hampshire General Benefit Society, .to
consider the propriety of establishing a Local Committee, Att.
for these towns, in conjunction with the Parent Institution,"
when JAMES CARTER, Esq. the Mayor having been called to"
the Chair,_

JOIIN FLEMTNOi Esq. M.P. (President of the Society),
addressed the Meeting at some length, and entered into a per-
spicuous statement of the nature anti objects of the proposed
Institution, from which, he was quite persuaded, the greatest
benefits would arise to the industrious and labouring classes of
these towns. He stated, that his observations were similar to
those which he had submitted to other meetings in the county.
Ile felt it his duty to promote the welfare and comfort of his
poorer and industrious friends; and should he succeed in fune-
Harming their condition, he would venture to hope that the
part which it had been his honour to take in promoting the
objects of the County Benefit Society, would, in some measure,
prove, when he should give in the account of his public con-
duct, that he had not altogether been an unprofitable servant.
The !Lev. C. B. BENVILLE expressed his warmest appro-
bation of the plan and objects of the Institution, which he
considered would be productive of the utmost advantage to
that class of society for which it was intended. Ile had there-
fore the highest satisfaction in proposing that a Branch of
the Hampshire General Benefit Society be established for the
towns of Portsmouth and Portsea. _

Air. HOWARD observed, that after the best consideration
which he had been able to give to the subject of the pro-
posed Institution, he felt it to be his duty to give it his sup-
port in the most unqualified manner ; and he could not but
congratulate the Meeting upon so excellent a measure being
submitted to them. He considered it to be not only one of
the noblest schemes which had been formed for the benefit
of the numerous anti important class of society whose inte-
rest* it particularly embraced, but an Institution that pro-
mised the most extensive advantages to the community in
general. Indeed, he was convinced that it was only neces-
sary to be generally known, and better understood, in order,
to obtain the concurrence and support of every benevolent
mind. He was so strongly of dust opinion, that he thought
the first duty of its supporters, at present, was, to render
its plans and objects more extensively known amongst the
class of people who would form its beoetlciel members. In
considering the subject, one question had, at first, arisen
in his mind—whether the proposed Society might not, in
some measure, militate against another. institution of recent
establishment—an 'methadon which had been, and was cal-
culated to be, of extensive utility—he meant the Savings
Bank. But, after having gone into that question, lie (Mr.
Howard) was quite satisfied that such an effect was not
to be apprehended from the adoption of the proposed
Benefit Society. They both, possessed peculiar advantages t
and would be mutually auxiliary to each other. Those who
began with depositing in the Savings Bank, might avail thitii:
selves of its advantages, until they became enabled to make a
single payment for the purpose of obutteing the, benefit of the
proposed. Institution. Or, on the other heed, they might be-
gin by their subscriptions to the County Society tor' the sake
of the advantages which it would aflbrd them to times of sick.
ness or necessity, and having thus acquired habits of eepewly,
i
they would gradually mprove upon them, so as to become
positora in the Savings Bank, for the sake of obtaining *u jute..
rest upon the amount of their savings, which .mtereatethey
might afterwards apply to a continuance of their subscriptions
in the Benefit Society. Thus, he thought, theSe two excellent'
Institutions, so far from operating against each other, Would
alike tend to the formation of good and provident habits among
the labouring classes of the community. Another question,
which had suggested itself to his mind walt—llwther, in a3arge
town, like this, it might not be better to form u local sveiety
upon. the same principles as the one proposed, rather than
for so largeyeedistriet to become a branch of the County So-
slaty. But after considering this point, he thought that
the latter Wait .the more advisenble- course. .Ther larger the
Society, the more extensive anti general Od b# its influ-
ence; and he behaved, that from thte peculiar •I?Ature. or this
'institution, it .was 'likely to be conducted tit Wititeolt.,
inaulore successful manner than it :could' possibly die .
District Society. There was, howover, one defect! be thought,'
in the present plan,,which it was not, right to cqt/c 1- at the
same time,. it was not of a nature to form an objection rtol tea
merits of the.lnstitution. Aiicortling to the present' the
Institutie
n was not of so.popular a cast AS 1t night be renapro.
by assimilating it in one respect to the Benstit Siwietie* Whies;
had been hitherto established. Man was it greeirriotie animal:
He loved soeiet
ing which characterized En
Isirtion of influence in it. This was more o.lrQcularly the feel.
Y t and he desired, more Or less, *certain pro.
Oislirpen. lie did not object to the
management of the Institution by Honorary Members ; but he

still thought it was desirable, by some public anniversary meet-
ing, or sconethi.ig of that kind, to afford the beneficial Mem-
bers an opportunity of associating with the other Members of
the Society ' • at which meeting there might be made some ex-
Planation of the principles, and a statement of the progress of
the Society. By some such modification of the plan of the
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institution, it might be identified more. with the feelings, the
habits, and the customs of the people, He thought that this,
was quite within the range of practicability, without at all
compromising any of the peculiar advantages of the plan pro-
posed. As to the particular sort of .meeting which should be
held, he would not then undertaketoirlye tor was it then neces-
sary. lie merely threw Out the suggestion for further coiiside-
ration. After: some further observations, on the excellence of
the proposed Society, anti the amelioration it ,was caleulated to
produce in the state of the Country, andalie claimait had to
the support of: every well-wisher of his Country, he coneloded
by seconding the that Resolution.
Mr. EDWARD.CAILTER remarked that, friendly as" he was
to the establishment of the County Benefit Society, he could not
be very sanguine in his anticipations of any immediate good
effects from it. He considered that its advantages might be
comparatively remote; but then they would be substantial
and permanent. There had existed in these towns, for years,
a number of Benefit Societies of different tfescriptionse
some of which, holding out very promising advantagei,.many
had been induced to enter them, who after having paid, for
some time, to their funds, were suddenly disappointed, by the
breaking up of the Societies. Is some cases, he knew, that
their fundamental rules had been formed in he very teeth of
the calculations of the most celebrated actuaries. It was not
from .any interested feeling that he made these remarks. They
were merely the result of his general observation. An effect of
the introduction of the improved plan of the County Institu-
tion watdd undoubtedly be, in sonic measure, to supersede the
lesseteSerieties to which he hail alluded ; as it embraced, he
thought, ni,ost.of their advantages, without being liable to their
abuses. But still, this would be the work of time; it could not
be immediate. The same question had occurred to him, as
had been stated by Mr. Howard, as to the expediency of funning
a Local Society upon the proposed principles, rather than a
Branch ; and he confessed that he hesitated, for some time,
upon this point ; but he now felt, that it would be snore ad-
vantageous to these towns, that they should constitute a part of
the County Society. There was one reason in particular which
he had for this opinion. It was a part of the plan of the pro-
posed Society, that its funds should be partly supplied by the
contributions of gratuitous subscribers. Now, there could not
be in these towns, so much of wealth and rank,' as would
make these subscriptions of any very material advantage, coin.
pared with the much larger proportion of Beneficial Ahem.
bets which the place was calculated to fattish. But if it
formed a Branch of the County Society, this large number
of Beneficial Members would be reaping the advantages
of the liberal contributions of the rank and wealth of
the County. He had said, that the effect of the Institu-
tion proposed, would . be, in some measure, to sups cue the
smaller Societies of a similar nature. He could not,llowever,
but express a hope that it would not so far operate in that way
as to destroy all other lesser benevolent societies. He trusted,
for instance, that.it would never injure such an institution as
that for which the place in which they were then met had been
erected. When he looked at the record which hung up before
their eyes, and saw, that the " l'ortsea Beneficial Society" had
been established just 70 years, he felt satisfied that neither it,
nor any other Society equally well-founded, could ever he in.
jured, much less destroyed, by the County Society.—Mr. C.
concluded by moving the second Resolution, which was second-
ed by the Rev. R. H. Cumyns.
Mr. SOAPEK said there were two points which had been
adverted to by Mr. Howard and Mr. Edward Carter, in which
he entirely concurred. He certainly thought with them, that,
11'14 ete4er to render the Institution more popular among those
!OS° .viere likely to be the objects of it, it was necessary to
Ree,iip something like a communication among them by an
allinYcrasu•y meeting. He thought that while, on the one hand,
it was decidedly right to get rid of that excess of social feeling
which had proved, and must always prove, injurious to institu.
tions of this nature, it was, on the other hand, very desirable to
'retain so much of that feeling as was necessary to cement it,
'and make the measure go on 'cordially and harmoniously.—
tak taking
'And, however he may object to the frequent meetings as
litany used, lie Itaughte tor' the reasons he had stated, that
an AntilVeroitahi
ays, he
advan-
tageous to
Institution.ltthl 'wools,
.dt; ni
1 d many
produce w 41.1:;*(ttiviLIcri
those
txt
an identity .betaveatc the
who were die obibettl ofp irtotrniotttearsnyoritf
don. Ho Silly Concurred in what had fallen frond Mr. Edward
of
thteetheln it dosotit,:ettriit:i,o
not,
much at firstelind being, for a time, slow in
its pregeme
thought at toot for there was nothing in which created
Carter, as , the :prod ability
or idle imaginations, or was, in any ,Way, any false hopes
,of
those
WO Om to be
ad-
dressed to the mere passions or feels Ire.
the objects pe eebut it appeared to not, as far es lie had been
able to jtafte of it,.4d of the tables and_calculatiens,:that they
ware,founded mows* solid principles, that thos ;who' ent*tio
it it, the morning of life, would not, at three gl acid ten; be
disappointed ; and it was p settled doctrine' 'hint, that
every thing substantially well grounded always made its way
it last. • • • i,.••
Dr. (tummy'', after some general remarks; in:favour :of..
the
object of the meeting, contrasted the defects, of •the sac 'u
private Benefit Societies with' time excellent plaira of the projectisl
C,mmtilnstittition. It was but fair, certainly, to says that the
Benefit Societies at Gosport, Alverstoke, and Fareittitneemd
at other platais in his immediate neighbourhood, diadebeen
as
well regulated and conducted as any other societies of a si-
milar nature. He woithl go farther and say, that they had,.
perhaps, upon the whole, been as well conducted as was pos.'
slide, considering; the defects, as he conceived, in their: origi-
nal formation. But he :feared that their. rules anti the
calculations upon which they were founded, would ,not, in
many cases, bear the lest of a mathematical examination.
The Members managed very well for a short period; but,
when it was too late to rectify :their errors, they found them
out, by bitter experience. But nothing of this kind was to
be apprehended from the County Society. Its regulations
were formed urion the minutette and most unerring calcula.
dons of Mr. Morgan, who was one of the most correct Ac.
marks that this or any other country ever produced, not even
excepting the celebrated Dr. Bryce. There was one advan.
tage in the proposed Society, which, he believed, was ern.
braced by few, it' any, of the Societies to which he had alluded.
In many of those, if a Member happened to be particularly
healthy, lie would, perhaps, personally receive no benefit, and
at his death, his family possibly looked back upon his sub-
scriptions with regret, as baying been of no use but toetraligers.
But the County Society not only secured to its benelicial
Members the usual advantages—it was also a Society for As-
surances on Lives. In certain cases, on the death of a Mem-
ber, there would be coming to his surviving family, a .sum
which would be peculiarly seasonable. The .constant feeling
of perfect satisfaction which the beneficial Members of this
Institution:would have, respecting the security of the benefits
promised by it, arising from the rank and respectability of its
supporters, was K consideration which alone would be a great
recommendation of it. After some. observations, explanatory
of the nature arid probable advantages of the plan proposed,
Dr. Q., in alluding to the remark which had been made as to
• the expediency of an anniversary meeting, for the sake of Wen-
. tifying the feelings of the different clams in connection with the
Institution, remarked, that in his opinion that was a suggestion
which deserved attention. The only probable objection which
he could see to its adoption in practice, was, the expence that
might be supposed to attach to such a meeting. But if
that objection could be removed, a meeting of the . kind al-
hided to might certainly he of some utility. No one was a
greater friend than lie to such occasional associations in con-
nexion with benevolent societies. He had spent much pleasant
time upon such occasions, and he hoped to do so again. But
of course, in all such instances, it should be apparent that the
meetings are, in some way or other, for the benefit of the In-
stitution.—dr. 0. concluded with moving the third resolution.
Mr. SNooxE said, that he fully concurred in the observa-
tions which had been made in favour of the Institution whose
plans had been explained and submit ted for adoption. He had
,no doubt, fruits what he lied hearth, that its atlYantageti
would eventually. be found to exceed the wargieet expects-
titms of his friends. Its 'fruits, should they .would• not be
iininediate, would be certain.. It had liaPPeued that he had
been itcquainted with many Benefit Societies, of different kinds,
in this place ; and, with sonie exceptionv, he must say, that
in general, they were improvident Institutions., Ile. trusted
that a remedy would now be speedily supplied. . lie much Ap-
proved of the ideteof an A n yersttrY Meeting. ,It need not be
the means of any Additional exP6"c ; and it would, no dotilttl
keep up and difthse a feeling. which, letSO 11l MC.eailifb would
,
enhance the interests of the Societi•
tl 1 "the Meeting to Mr.
Mr. SOAPED., on lerring.--te, t 11" ' to these who did ituy
Fleming, said, that If deities- Were due
he
were
objet of this Aleettmr, t
thing thing to promote the t aid still more eepechilly
especially due to those who dint
1 he had, therefore. Nreat
due to him who had done most pt :all
r the Meetin Mr'
pleasure in moving the thanks 0 • in the wish
one would join fit" ,
ming ; and he win, sure that every
1 anks of widow and
that inay long live to enjoy the t „tow, and that
nitherless, and or him that hatl none to "
feel-oie gratification
teeoegli life, and at the end of life, he may
_on this
.or having witAnly contributed to the establishment
In-
Stitution.
d that thoee who had the
, The Rev. 'Ron. flow). obsPrXe wie end private virtnee
honour an acquailitanee with the pu
„I_ vote of
4hanki
to
' 151 r. Fleming, would ghully• unite In u a
„Ire in,seconding.
that (lentleoutn, which he hati much e
}lr' upon. the attention
D. (1. lIEWF:TT, after remarking,l,:Apen who presented the
who, Alayor had paid to the (Jo-A •
to Mil for is conduct in
Requisition, moved a vote of thanksm
r. It in. Lang.
die Chair, which was seconded by

THE BURMESE WAR.