The Sun.
London, England, 1823-05-29 00:00:00

THE DUKE OF YORK.

" In mind and manners, princely;
Brave, noble, generous, and compassionate :
Feeling high birth exacts high duties from him,
And acting as befits a Monarch's Son !"

To record the virtue, and to do justice to the
talents, of great and distir.guished Characters, has
ever been an object of emulation to noble minds ;
and a generous nation is always anxious to trans-
mit to posterity its grateful sense of the eminent
services of those whose exertions have secured
honor to themselves, and advantage to their coun-
try.—No Monument of human art can do justice
to the merit of his Royal Highness the DUKE
of Yana, and no tablet can amply record his in-
defatigable exertions, during, his long service as
Commander-in-Chief, by which the British Army
attained to a state of
.di►scipline that enabled it in
every quarter
,of the globe to achieve an impe-
rishable renown, and finally to obtain a peace as
glorious to itself, as beneficial to our country--•-
It is however but right, that an opportunity
should be afforded to the Public in general, and
the Army in particular, of embodying the senti-
ments of respect for his Royal Highness which
pervade all classes of the community, and of
leaving to, posterity a proud evidence that they
are not unconscious of his virtues, or ungrateful
for his services.

To accomplish this object, it is proposed that
a COLOSSAL EQUESTRIAN STATUE of HIS ROYAL
IlionnEss, may be erected .by SUBSCRIPTION, in
the front of the Horse Guards; hi St. James's
Park, to be raised upon a Pedestal composed of
English, Irish, and Scotch granite, bearing on the
Entablature a suitable INSCRIPTION, recording to
the present generation, and to a grateful and ad-
miring posterity, the Benevolent Military, and
other Institutions, which have acquired a de-
signation for his Royal Highness, the dearest
to his generous and patriotic heart, that of
the Soldiers', the Widows', and the Or-
phans' Friend.—That a COMMITTEE OF GEN..
TLEMEN be immediatery formed to give effect
to this proposition, and an Appeal be made
to the Commanding Officers of each Regiment in
the British Service, and to all those who value
the honour of their country, calling upon them to
unite their Subscriptions, that the required
amount may be speedily raised, to complete the
undertaking in a style worthy of the magnitude
and importance of the occasion.
To General and Field Officers, and those who
have had the honour of transacting Official busi-
ness personally with his Royal Highness, little
need be said ; they have seen, in his Royal
Highness, united, the dignity of the. Prince with
the condescension of the Gentleman,—the firm-
ness of the Soldier with the mildness of the Mau ;
and proud will they be to enroll their names
among those who are anxious for the opportunity
of putting upon record a testimony of their grate►
ful respect.—To those Officers who, though- they
have " shared the honors of the hard-fought field"
I have not had such frequent opportunities of wit.
.nessing his Royal Highness's personal exertions
in the discharge of the duties of his high situa-
tion, it is requisite only to point to the uniform
kindness and liberality which hai characterized
his attention to the Army—to the justice of his
regulations, and the impartiality of his decisions;
and the support of this honourable and meritori•
ous class of Officers will, not, it is presumed, be
withlteld.—The Non-commissioned Officers, and
Privates of his Majesty's Army can never forget,
that to their Commander-in-Chief they owe many
of those regulations which, in inhospitable climes,
and in services of peril and hardship, have given
to the British Soldier comforts that would be
looked for in vain in other ranks; and to his
Royal Highness are they indebted for the selec-
tion of those Officers who shared nith them their
difficulties, privations and dangers, and led them
to the temple of peace and over the plains of
victory.—The mite of the Private Soldier cannot
fail to be as acceptable a tribute to his Royal
Highness's feelings, as' will be the more splendid
subscription of the higher ranks; and he, whose
kind solicitude has extended to all,—whose ge-
nerous, warm-hearted feelings have taught him to
look" upon every Soldier as his friend and his
brother (and their orphan children as his own),
cannot but be gratified to find among his brethren
in the Army, from the highest to the lowest rank,
a generous emulation, to give each an earnest
proof of their sincere attachment.

The Public at large (by the voice of their re-
presentatives)have already declared their gratitude
for his Royal Highness's exertions; and in July,
1815, the House of Commons unanimously ex-
pressed their gratitude, and that of the country,
to his Royal Highness, " for his indefatigable
exertions during a period of upwards of twenty
years, in which the British Army had attained a
state of discipline and military science hitherto
unknown ; and which, under Providence had in
a great degree contributed to acquire. for this
empire its present height of military glory among
the nations of Europe."
It is now only left'to that Public to confirm
the opinion so properly expressed by their repre-
sentatives, and by the Erection of the proposed
Monument to signify their gratitude and respect
for his Royal Highness, to whom is due the higk
state of 'discipline that distinguished the British
rmy during the late war; without which,
though valour might have nerved the arm of the
soldier, and wisdom have presided at the coun-
cils of the camp, this country might still have
been waging a protracted war---or else have sub-
mitted to an ingjorious peace.
The following Suggestions are submitted for
the consideration of Ladies, Noblemen, Gentle-
men, and the Public in general :

at. That Noblemen and Gentlemen (Military and otl3ers),
and all those desirous of forwarding the proposed Plan, meet.
at the Freemasons' Tavern, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-
inn-Fields, on Wednesday, the 21st clay of May, at Two
e'Clock precisely; for the purpose of taking into consideration
the most desirable and speedy mode of carrying it into effect.
2d, That the Equestrian Statue maybe erected by the cele-
brated Artist Charles Rossi, Esq. R.A. that Gentleman having
at 'this' inatant 'ready, the Model of-his- Royal Highness the
Duke of York on horseback, by which the proposed Plan will
be veryconsiderably expedited. - -
3d, That One Day's -Pay from eich*Officer belonging to the
different Regiments in the British Service, desirous of sub-
scribing, together with Subscriptions from the numerous Friends
of his Royal Highness the Duke of York, Ladies (and Noble-
men and Gentlemen not belonging to the Army), of any sum,

in no instance to exceed Ten Pounds, will prove fully adequate
to the undertaking.
4th, That Books may be immediately opened, and Subscrip-
tions received by every Banking-House in England, Ireland,
Scotland, Wales, Guernsey, Jersey, and Isle of Wight, &c.
and by every Army and Navy Agent in the United Kingdom
(and by no other person), and on receipt, be forwarded to the
House of Messrs. Greenwood, Cox, and Harmersley, Craig's-
Court, Charing-Cross.