The Sun.
London, England, 1824-03-06 00:00:00

INDIA.

CALCUTTA, AUGUST 9.
JOHN ADAM, ESQ.
" Our readers will perceive that the Committee appointed to
wait on Mr. Adam completed the object .yesterday,.-and that
Mr. Adam has consentad to sit for his portrait. A sub-com-
mittee
.has been appointed to carry the public wishes into
execution ; Mr. Palmer is the treasurer, and any surplus sub-
scription is to be devoted to such charitable institutions as the
sub-committee shall direct. The portrait. is, to ha full-le,ngth,
and is to be taken by Mr. ChnnerT. feel happy in
being made the medium of subscription from the Mot-pied.
The Committee, consisting of the fallowing GenOemen,
viz., Mr. Fergusson, Chairman : aMr. Pattle, Mr. Hogg, Col.
Paton, Mr. Sudierland, Mr. IL Mr. PlOwden, Hen.
C. R. Lindsay, Mr. Ainslie, 14i..111`Fitrlane Mr. Paton .
•
W Prinsep, Mr..Larkins, Mr: TiQwer, Mr. Palmer, Mr.
Alcop, Mr. Atkinson, Mr. ll.,Shakespeare, Mr. J. Colvin,
Mr. Sargent, Mr. A. Colvin, Mr. G. Sy/It:lion, and several
other Gentlemen, appointed by the general meeting to wait on
Mr. Adam, .to request him to gratify the public . wishes by
sitting for his picture in full length,. to be placed in some con-
spicuous place in Calcutta, had' an Antervew. with 4iM.77eeter-
day morning,, at half-past o'clock, ,if the house of .W. 8..
IlaYleY, tig•
The committee, on Teaching the house, were introduced, to
Alr..Adam, who stood.aurrounded by.sereral of big personal
.
friends.

FERG (MON immediately addressed hien on the subject
of their visit

" Mr. Amsat.—We have the honour,to wait oniy.ou,at the
desire and on the bebalf of a very numerous ~neeting,of the.
Aritish inhabitants,of C,alcu tta„ Who aye. availed -theinseivo pf
rhe.oreasion which
~bas presented, itself;Ao..repird the sense
,which, they cutplain..9(3be lrfir,K44 ,pr,yqur Ptricirnt
seivices,,and,artdeArovs pf phtainim,

ll.—That in order to carry into effect the preceding resolu-
tion in the most suitable manner, a Committee be appointed to
wait upon Mr. Adam, and request that he will be pleased to
sit for a full length Portrait to be placed in some conspicuous
public situation, as a permanent memorial of his public services
and private worth.
If, Sir, the earnest solicitation of myself and other private
friends, whom you see around you, and by whom I need not
tell you how much you are beloved, could add any thing to
the force of the request conveyed from so large a body of your
countrymen, that solicitation would not be wanting. But we
are as:oared, that you will feel no hesitation in complying with
the wish which has been publicly expressed, and that you will
be pleased to give effect to the object in view in the manner
which has appeared to be the most honourable and pure, and
therefore the most suitable, and which it is believed will be the
most acceptable to you.
If I were permitted, Sir, upon this occasion, to allude to any
thing which is personal to myself, I should not be disposed to
conceal how much I have felt gratified in being thought worthy
of taking the part which has been allotted to me in these pro-
ceedings. You, Sir, are the oldest friend I have in India. I
have not forgotten the warm and cordial reception which I met
with from you on my arrival in this country ; but I was pre-
pared for that reception, and all,the kindness which followed it,
by what I had experienced from one whom you, as I well know,
in no ordinary degree love and venerate. Your excellent and
much respected father extended to me his countenance in early
life ; and indeed 1 may say that attachment to the name of
Adam had come to ins as an inheritance from one, now no more,
whose memory I am bound to cherish, and from whom in my
' childhood I had heard the expressions of regard and esteem
which lie entertained for " William Adam" with whom from
his younger days he had been united in the tics of friend-
ship. Need I say, Sir, that the interest of these proceedings
will not be confined to this country, or to those who have taken
a part in, or been witnesses of them ? Of the feelings with
which their tidings must be received by your valued parent,
I can in some degree judge from knowing the affection which
he once bore towards you, and which cannot surely have abated,
y
because in the fullness of your reputation you have realized to
the utmost the hopes which he had fondly cherished of you.
The honours which arc paid to you are his as well as ours.
I trust with my own lips not only to communicate to him the
earliest intelligence of these proceedings, but also to impart
something of the feeling which pervades my bosom, and the
bosoms of all who, on this occasion, have soaght to do justice
to the merits of a Son so honoured and beloved.
Allow me, Sir, in conclusion, to request that you will accept
from your friends who now surround you, wishes as ardent and
as sincere as can have place in the human heart, for the happi-
ness, welfare, and prosperity of yourself and your family.

PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION TOR THE PORTRAIT or TES
HONOLTRABLX MR. JOIIN ADAM.
Mr. Fergusion - 1200 Mr. W. S. Boyd -
Mr. Larkins - 200 Mr. It. Graham .
Mr. I'almer - . - 200 A sincere Admirer of the
Mr. Colin Shakespear - 100 private character and
Mr. C. Plowden •- 150 public measuresof Mr.
Mr. Bailey - - - 150 Adam -
Mr. I'. Plowden - - 160 M. Larruletta
Mr. J. Colvin . 100 J. Gordon, Esq. for an
Mr. TroWer - - 200 equal share of expence
The Hon. Mr. Lindsay 100 One of the Public, im.
Mr. Pattie - - 100 pressed with the value
Mr. Mackenzie 150 of his Public Services
Mr. H. Shakespear - 100 Mr. John Storm - .
Mr. Hogg - - - 200 Mr. D. H. ltenny .
Mr. G. Swinton _ 200 Major Streattield - •
Col. Paton - _ 200 Captain Buxton . •
Mr. A. Colvin _ 100 Captain 1). Ituddell .
Mr. Lushington - 200 An Old Inhabitant, per
Mr. Atkinson - - 100 the Editor of the John
Mr. J. H. Barlow - 60 Ball
Mr. Hobhouse - 200
Mlr.
J. Macdonald, 3
- 200 r.. C. iSla.r(gler-fteenntialw
F.'l'. - -• 100 Mr. It. Saunders -
E. A. Newton - - 100 Mr. 11. I'. l'rinsep
William Primp - - 100 Mr. T. J. Dashwood
.1. C. C. Sutherland - 100 Hon. A. Ramsay _
Joseph Baretto and Sons 300 Mr. L. Clarke
- 200 Mr. J. A. Dorin -
(I;rßrgryee3elack_illop
- 100 Mr. W. D. Brodie
Mr. 1). Clark - - 200 Sir Harry Darell -
Mr. John Smith - - 100 Mr. W. Ainslie -
Mr. W. J. Clark - - 100 illy. It. M'Clintock
Mr. C. Barwell - - 100 Mr. W. Morton -
Mr. It. Walpole - - 100 31r. 11. Hamilton Bell -
31r. J. Shakespear - 100 Slr. J. A. -
Mr. J. M‘Fienzte - - 100
Subscriptions are received

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ly Messrs. Palmer and Co.

Mr. Anast, evidently overpowered by the sensations pro-
duced in his mind by the flattering manner in which the Reso-
lutions had been passed at the town-hall, and overcome by the
pathetic and affectionate address of the Learned Chairman of
.the committee, replied---
" I shall endeavour, in the best manner my feelings will
admit, to express the deep and grateful sense which I do, and
must ever, entertain of the high honour conferred on me by my
countrymen, the British inhabitants of Calcutta,—an honour
which, however great and gratifying in itself, is much enhanc-
ed, in my estirnanon, by its being conveyed to me by a body of
Gentlemen for whom I have ever felt . the highest respect and
esteem, and with many of whom I hive passed a long term of
years in the most cordial intercourse of intimacy and uninter-
rupted friendship: and even the grateful feelings_ which these
circumstances are so well calculated to produce, are encreased
by the manner in which my kind friend, your Learned Chair-
man, has announced to me the flattering intentions of the com-
munity of Calcutta. Indeed, these united powerful incite-
ments, while they convey the proudest and deepest sensations
of delight that my merits should be deemed worthy of such an
honour, Create at thesame time an uncontroulable agitation,
increased by the alluaions of your worthy Chairman, which'
absolutely incapacitates me from returning any adequate tribute
of acknowledgment for the high and inestimable mark of favour
and distinction which has been manifested towards me by the
British inhabitants of Calcutta. With the most heartfelt plea-
sure shall .I comply with the flattering request which has been'
so handSomely conveyed to me by you."
The agitation alluded to was, we understand, very conspi....
cuous, and may be readily conceived. The committee break-.
fasted with Mr. Bayley, and the following arrangements after-
wards took place
TO:Wit-HALL, CALCUTTA, ARO. 11, 1823.
At a meeting of the committee apiiointed by the general
meeting held at the town-hall on Saturday, for the purpose of
considering the best means of paying some suitable . mark Of
pnblic respect andattachment to the Hon. John Adam, on the
occasion of his retirement frOm the office of Governor-General,
It was reiolved—That a sub,cOmmittee, to consist of the
undersigned Gentlemen, be nominated to carry into effect the
resolutions of the general ;fleeting of :the British inhabitinti of
Calcutta; held at the town-hall on Saturday the Sith instant.
Mr. lArkins,, Cairman. *
Mr. 11. S. Shakespear.
' I Mr. Atkinson.
Mr. Palmer, Treasuiei•
The eub-committee haling met,. It .was Resolved—That it
be the diity of this sub-comMittei to circulate, thitiugh the tree-
sliver, a book among such Gentlemen
,as -may be'disirous of
subscribing to the fult-lengthPortrait the'liopourable John
Adam, an, to make.. the necessary arrangernente with , Sr.;
glinoery,:,the artist, for the execution Or tbe fame.
st:reciefilVezedc.iedfirthint— pthat equired:,to meet tifietheeiparpoeuento,tsuthb;
portrait it e left to;the . suh.counittie to, epply • the'
' " - able= • h• • ' d fp:9 u. to, such. !Fputpose_as. t ey. May, eep)
efpcgdiciit. (airman.o

Mr. Hogg,
Mr. Palmer,