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ET ON MON TE3l.—( T HIS DAY.)
An adjourned meeting of the gentlemen who had been
educated at Eton College was held to-day, at the British
Coffee-house, Cockspur-street, for the purpose of supporting
the old custom of Eton Montem, which it is the desire of the
provost and head-master to abolish.
Lord John Manners, on the motion of the Earl of ELLEN-
BOROUGH, was called to the chair.
Lord JOHN MANNERS said that very few words were
necessary to inform the meeting of the object for which they
met to-day. Some time ago a meeting had been held,
at which it was resolved that a memorial to her Majesty
should be drawn up and presented to the Queen, praying her
interference to prevent the doing away with the good old
practice of the Montana. That memorial had been drawn up,
and had since been revised, and as he believed amended.
This would shortly be read by Lord Falmouth. He had also
received a letter from the Provost of Eton, deprecating
the object of the meeting, which his Lordship read.
The purport of the letter was that the calling of
these meetings was calculated to do injury to old
institutions, and that the object which they were in-
tended to support—the collection—had been injurious rather
than beneficial to the captain, likely to benefit only inn-
keepers and money-lenders. The letter was received with
the most manifest disapprobation, and with something very
like derision by the meeting. His Lordship then went on
to say that, having complied with the request of the
Provost, he felt it was unnecessary to make any
apology for the course they bad pursued, for it was evident
that nothing but their love for Eton and Etonian associations
could have induced them to meet in opposition to the will of
the two leading authorities of the institution. His Lordship
then read letters from the Earl of Caernarvon, Lord Sand-
wich, and several other gentlemen who had been educated at
Eton, approving of the object of the meeting, and requesting
their names to be subscribed to the memorial.
The Earl of Faestourn, after stating the circum-
stances under which the memorial had been
modified, the chief of which was, the omission
of what might be called the money clause, said that
clause had been left out, because, in the !rat place, the col
lection had been but insignificant, and it was not judicious to
urge this collection as a stimulus to the exertion of the
captain. With respect to the reasons which had been urged
by the Provost in his letter, he conceived that they stood as
much for the Etoniane, who were in favour of the preserva-
tion of the custom as for the Provost himself. His Lordship then
read the memorial, the object of which was to show that the
memorialists did not believe that the abolition of this custom
was in consonance with the wishes of her Majesty; and
further stated, that the existence of an abuse was no sufficient
reason for the doing away with a custom which had allow-
edly been of us-. The -Noble Earl then moved the adoption
of the memorial.
T. LLOYD, Esq., was called upon to second the motion, and
in doing so said, that ever since 1800 he kad, without a single
exception, attended the Montem, and during the whole of that
time he had never seen anything more than merely
juvenile offences, and at the last Montem only two instances
of inebriety had occurred. lie had a number of names to
add to the memorial, and only wished he could add more.
After an allusion to the festive meetings and the youthful
sports of Eton, Mr. Lloyd seconded the motion.
Mr. BEE said that he had letters from the Vice-Provosts
of King's College, and other gentlemen connected with the
institution, all of which conveyed assurances that the abuses
might be abolished, an opinion in which he perfectly coo.
curred.
Lord CAITLERKAGH thought that it would be advisable
that every gentleman then in the room should sign the me-
morial, in order to show what was the strength of
the. Etonians opposed to the abolition of the custom.
Alter several strictures on the letter of the Provost
(Dr. 'Hodgson) he spoke of a letter which Dr. Haw-
trey had
received from the Duke of Newcastle,
approving of the
abolishing the custom. Of this letter he
knew
nothing, but
dut theyan might, at any rate, set a Manners
against a
Doctor had so precipitately
deeply regreeted that the ;Rev.
After several ely rushed into print.
observations indicative of respect for the
celebrated
was adopted. master and provost: of the college, the memorial
His Lonnsdie then read a letter, dated 21st July, 1687,
of Lyttleton, 'l3hi
written to Mr. Wood,
, on the eve of
m;eting, on
a vacation, which was much relished by st 7
account of its peculiarity of style and the baed
it was pervaded. After stating that thienglisyh
by
Which
selected to make the college oration at Oxfordboatv;h:
coronal ion of William and Mary,
The CHAIR3fAN then put the memorial, which was adopted
with acclamation.
His LORDSHIP then left to attend important
Earl of Falmouthbusine.ll at
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took the
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l'.-;:Attl:•;%. '..- be MO. by the gentlemen before they left the room. This
Uri -"7--iforaa' - tided by Sir Walter Riddell, and unanimously
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4-;-'`.fidocited
- - --- iti /412.4 e motion of Lord Cum it was resolved that the Earl
,El2hborough, the Earl of Falmouth, and Lord J. Manners,
v.,.id be deputed to present the memorial to her Majesty in
way as they might think best; either at a levee or

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