The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-06 00:00:00

cud where I ought to have begun, by attributing to Al-
mighty Providence the stvcs.3().3 which we have achieVed.
—(Great cheering.) The state of the weather, which
=bled us in the month of November, at a time whe►

the bad weather usually sets in, alone enabled us to being
uur labours to a successful issue.—(Hear.) We hai
now returned to Turkey a line, a large, and a rich pro-
vince. By good management it may add to her strengtt.
—without good management it may, as it always duek
in such cases, add only to her weakness.—(llear.) That.

however, is no business of mine. I did tvhat I was or-
dered to do, and let them do the rest.--(Continued cheer-
ing.) Once more I 11q.,r sincerely to retura you my
thanks fur this most splendid entertainment—an enter-
tainment distinguished for its elegance—abounding in
r,ood cheer and good feeling. Again I return you my

sincere thanks.-(Prolonged cheering.)
DANIELQUARRIER, Esq., M.D., then rose to propose
" The health of the Marquis of Anglesey, the Earl ol
Hard wieke, and the rest of the distinguished visitor:-
who had honoured the assembly with their company,'
and in a speech of considerable length and eloquence.
eulogised the great merits of the Noble,Marquis us a
first-rate cavalry officer, and particularly referred te,
his gallant services in the Peninsula and at Waterloo.
The Marquis of ANGLESEY rose amidst loud applause
to return thanks. lie said—Gentlemen, on the part of
the visitors and of myself I have the honour to return
you my cordial thanks for the honour you have done
them and me. Gentlemen of Portsmouth, I beg leave
personally to express my gratitude for the favour you
have done me in making me your guest on the present
interesting occasion, and in thus enabling me to offer my
!tumble tributo of respect and to assist in doing honour
to the illustrious commander, the Gallant Admiral, whose
glorious achievements we are this moment assembled
to celebrate.—(Loud cheers.) Great, glorious, and
triumphant haveindeed those achievements been. They
are such as it is impossible for the nation at large too
highly to appreciate, or for our Most Gracious Sove-
reign too highly to reward.—(Cheers.) I congratulate
the nation that we still have amongst us such able, such
gallant men as many of those whom I have the happiness
to see around me.—(Loud cheers.) I congratulate the
brave officers and men who had the good fortune and
happiness to participate in all the glories of the East ; I
congratulate the navy at large on the high and noble
proofs which have now lately been given that they have
not degenerated.—(Loud cheering.) I congratulate that
gallant corps—that useful, that invaluable link in tin
chain which connects the two services of the sea and the
land, and which unites them in one • common bond _of
union, good fellowship, and interest. •• •I- speak,
as you may well observe, of the Royal _Ma-
rines.— (Cheers.) I congratulate them on the
splendid share they have bad in all those victories.—
(Loud cheers.) •It is a corps which never appeared on
any occasion or under any circumstances without doing
honour to itself and its country.--7(lienewed cheers.)
Many of us here have lived in times when war has been
carried on on a more extended scale than it has lately
been, but I do not believe that if we were to search the
pages of history we could find one, notwithstanding
the glorious examples which stand recorded on it. Still
I do not believe we could find one in which this service
stands more pre-eminently conspicuous, or in which it
holds a more commanding position than it does at the
present day, as compared with the same service in other
nations.—(Great cheers.) With respect to the honour
done me by a gentleman at the bottom of the table, who
spoke of my humble services, I beg to offer him my sin-
cere thanks. lam sorry to say that I very imperfectly
heard his speech ; but I fear its subject was sadly in-
flated, and greatly surpassed any merit of mine. Such
as my services are, or such as they ever may be, they
are always at the service of my country.—(Cheers.) I
most cordially and sincerely thank the worthy gen-
tleman for giving me an opportunity. of stating
that, whatever honours and distinctions I may have re-
ceived, I owe them all to the gallantry of those brave
men whom it has been my fortune to lead to the field of
battle.—(Tremendous cheering.) I might be anxious,
perhaps, to expatiate on the high merits of the late bril-
liant campaign in the East, but
_really, gentlemen, after
the perfectly beautiful history of the life of the Gallant
Admiral whom we are now anxious to honour, which
was given us by our worthy Mayor, and after the distinct
and perfect explanation which the Gallant Admiral gave
of his own achievements in the East, it would be nothing
short of impertinence in me to detain you one moment
longer. I will just, however, make one single remark on
what has fallen from the Gallant Admiral. It seemed to
me that he tried to make an excuse for not having him-
self been at this, that., and the other place, saying that
he could not be at all places at once. Now, it seems to
me one of the matters of the first and greatest import-
ance to all commanders, whether by sea or land, .to place
confidence in those who are under them, and not to at-
tempt to do everything for themselves.—(Loud cheers).
J. Hosanas, Esq., in rising to propose the health of
the Lord Lieutenant and the Magistracy of the county,
observed, that though the' toast prescribed that he was to
give the health of his Grace the Duke of Wellington as
their Lord Lieutenant, he was persuaded that no English-
man ever heard the name of Wellington without recol-
lecting the great and glorious achievements which had
been accomplished by that incomparable warrior.—
(Immense cheering.) They. would follow him through
all his victories and all his triumphs, and especially that
last and mightiest victory, in which the Duke of Wel-
lington, ably supported by the Gallant Marquis of An-
glesey and the rest of his brave companions, sealed the
nobility of his blood by exposing it to be shed in his
country's cause.—(Loud cheering.) After a speech of
much power and eloquence, Mr. Hoskins concluded by
congratulating the inhabitants of Portsmouth on the way
in which they had buried, for the moment, all political
differenees;.and met -together to do honour to.their dis-
tinguished. naval and military guests.—(CheerS.) -He
would propose to them " The health of the Duke of
Wellington and the Magistracy of the county."—Cheers.)
aW. GRANT, Esq. acknowledged the toast in a short
but appropriate speech.
T. BURBEY, Esq., proposed " The health of the Mem-
bers for the southern division,og. Use. couniy."—(Cheers.)
W. Sno.may.Esq., in the absence of the two repre-
sentatives, replied to the toast. •
D. HOWARD, Esq., then rose, and, in a few words, gave
" The health of the Members for the borough of Ports-
mouth."—(Cheers.)
FRANCIS T. BARING, Esq., the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, in rising to return thanks on the part of his ab-
sent colleague and himself for the compliment paid him,
assured them that he took that compliment in the way it
was meant to be conveyed—in that old English spirit
which had been so well alluded to in the course of the
evening.—(Hear.) He considered that the compliment
hid been paid to the position which he occupied,
and not put forth with any political reference—(Hear,
hear)—for he should indeed be ashamed of them if they
could not put aside all political opinions on the oc-
casion of a meeting like that which had brought them
together that evening.—(Cheers.) The Right Hon.
Gentleman then observed that, whatever might be
their political feeling . upon the policy of those mea-
sures which their gallant guests had had to carry
out, the public of this country would ever honour
those gallant men who, by their valour, their energy, and
their excellent conduct, had added lustre to the British
name whether or not they agreed in the policy of the
achievements they had had to perform.—(Cheers.) The
Right Hon. Gentleman then concluded by passing a
handsome eulogium on the character and services of Sir
Robert Stopford, Sir Charles Napier, and their gallant
companions in the East, and said that a more appropriate
place could not possibly have been selected than Ports-
mouth as the scene of the honours paid to such men—
Portsmonth, which was the first naval station of the first
naval power in the world.—(Cheers.) •
The healths of Admiral Sir E. Codrington, Comman-
der-in-Chief of the Dockyard ; of Major-General Sir 11.
Pakenham, the Lieutenant-Governor of Portsmouth; and
of the Hon. Admiral 13ouverie, Superintendent of the
Dockyard, were then severally drunk and acknowledged.
Mr. W. GRANT, jun., in a short but able speech, pro-
posed the health of " Commodore Napier and the Officers •
of the Navy who served in the Syrian expedition," which
was drunk with general applause.
Commodore Sir C. Namun returned thanks. He said
he wished all the officers who had served under the
Gallant Admiral on the coast of Syria and of Acre were
present this night to witness the kind manner in which
they had received the mention of his (Sir B. Stopford's)
name.—(Loud cheers.) lie could assure them, as an
officer holding a high command under the Gallant Ad-
miral, that there was. not an officer or a' man engaged in
that expedition along the whole coast of Syria who did
not,always look up to the Gallant Admiral with the
most per-fixt and entire satisfaction and reliance.—(Loud
cheers.) As to those who were more immediately
plaCed under his orders, lie could say that he never., wit-
nessed during the whplc- course of their services more
zeal, more energy, and more detormined perseverance
than was displayed, not only by officers of the navy, but
by lie marine officers in tho late expedition.—(Loud
cheers.) As to himself, if he had been able to perform
any services useful to his country or creditable to himself,
he owed it entirely to his Gallant CommOder-in-Chief,
Sir Robert Stopford, who placed a sufficient confidence
in him in the illness of the army officer who. was ap-
pointed to the cemmand of the troops.—(Hear.) The
Gallant Admiral thought proper to give him his confi-
dence and the command of the allied troops employed in
the expedition. It- was certainly a new situation fur a
naval officer like himself to be placed in; but when the
Gallant Admiral gave him that command, he thought it
his duty to use the whole of his zeal, exertion, and en-
ergies to carry out the Admiral's views to the utmost
extent in his power.—(boud cheers.) lie behoved the
Gallant Admiral had told them that he had done this
to the utmost extent in his power, from the moment he
received the command of the army to the moment he
returned that command.—(Cheers.) The Gallant •Ad-
miral had given them such a perfect account of the ser-
vices of the army and navy on the coast of Syria. that
there was but little for him to say on the subject. But
there was one thing he must tell them, as the Gallant
Admiral had adverted to it. When he landed in Djouri
Bay he found himself surrounded by innumerable diffi-
culties—in an inaccessible c:amtry, with deep gorges,
high mountains, and a powerful army to contend with.
—(Hear.) To meet all those difficulties they had but a
small force, bat from the energies displayed by the ma-
rine officers and by the Tnrkisli troops, he found himself
in a state to combat all the difficulties opposed to them,
and he was happy to say that, during the short cam-
paign there (done month, the services of the-marines, of
the Turkish and of the Austrian troops, overcame diffi-
culties greater than he believed had ever been overcome
before, and were the greatest feats of the service since
1784.—(Loud cheers.) The Gallant Admiral was good
enough to allude to his having even some land service in
be in
Portugal in the time of the illustrious Duke of be He well remembered, in his boyish days, gat
the battle of Busaco, when the Gallant Duke commanded
a newly-levied army, but then his troops were British.—
(Hear.) They had now been tried betbre them, and it
must have been a most anxious time for the Duke. lie
well remembered the British troops were attacked on one
side and the Portuguese on the other, and he saw that
illustrious General near a particular point watching the
effects of this terrilso attack ou his WI and right. lie