The Sun.
London, England, 1833-12-16 00:00:00

ENGLISH IN HAMBURG.

PUBLIC MEETING.
(From the Hamburg Reporter.)
On Wednesday last a public meeting took place at the
Borsen Halle, in this city, pursuant to advertisement, to
inspect and arrange the accounts of the English Esta-
blished Church for the year 1833. It was also stated in
the advertisement calling the meting, that a communica-
tion would be made in regard to the building of an
Episcopal Church in Hamburg, and the terms of the con-
cession according to which the congregation would be re-

cognized by the State.
At half-past two Mr. CANNING took the chair, and
having read the minutes of the last meeting, called upon
the Treasurer to state the amount of the subscriptions for
the current year.
Mr. PAst-isti stated the amount to be 3,100 current
marks—whereupon
Mr. PRESCOTT made the usual motion, that Mr. Can-
ning be instructed to apply to the English Government for
a similar sum. _ _ _ _

The motion having been seconded and carried,
Mr. CANNING promised to make the required applica.
and had no doubt that in a few days he would be
authorized to pay the money.
Mr. CANNING then addressed the meeting on the sub-
ject of the English marriages celebrated in Hamburg since
the abolition of the factory, and on the result of an ap-
plication to the Senate. The necessary forms for granting
a Commission to the Episcopal Church, had not yet been
gone through by the Hamburg authorities, but he had
reason to know, from confidential communication., that
the result would be satisfactory, and that the business
might be brought to a conclusion before Christmas. He
188 had also ascertained, that it was the opinion of an able
lawyer of the city that the marriages hitherto solemnised
were perfectly legal according to the law of the place,
,2i02 and that the offspring of such marriages were legitimate.
‘75 Mr. Canning then left the chair, which was taken by
55 Mr. Parish, on the motion of Mr. Prescott.
20 Mr. GRIEVE then rose, and moved that the names of
the gentlemen present should be taken down (there were
about thirteen, including the chairman), and that those
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147 who were subscribers to the church should be distinguished
from those who were not. If the present meeting was to
F2O be considered a meeting of the British residents, it was
too not numerous enough for its acts to be binding upon the
100 residents at large, and therefore, if the meeting was to be
t 56 considered in that light, it was his intention to move an
adjsurntnent, for the purpose that a general meeting might
be called.
60 Mr. CANNING said, that the meeting was certainly a
meeting of the British residents ; they had been regularly
called together by advertisement, and it was not his f
cult
if a greater number had not obeyed the call.
2-
Mr. JACKSON moved, that the advertisement calling the
meeting-be read",which having been done,he proceeded to
MO argue, that upon the face of the advertisement, none but
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subscribers to the Church were strictly entitled to be pre-
— sent, and that impression he knew to have been upon the
minds of many who would have attended if they had
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known that the meeting was to be considered as one of the

British Residents.
• Mr. PARISH said the meeting was certainly one of the
subscribers
ere.to the Church, and no others had a right to
intrude
Mr. JACKSON quite agreed with the Chsirman, and it
would be delu•ion and a deception to consider the meeting
as representing the residents at large.
Mr. CANNING rose, evidently hurt at what be con-
sidered a personal charge against himself. He could assure
the gentlemen present, ihat be bad not the most remote
intention to entrap an y individual, and he gave them his
honour that when he wrote the advertisement he intended
all the Britian residents without any distinction whatever.
Mr. JAcKsON explained.
Mr. PARISH then addressed the meeting at some length,
and detailed the negotiations that had taken place between
himself and Syndic Amsinck. At the conclusion,
Mr. GRIEVE asked, with some abruptness, whether or
not be had a right to have his motion put? Were thir-
teen persons to constitute a meeting of the British
residents?
Mr. CANNING said, he had already called one meeting,
and he should not call another. Indeed he was uncertain
whether be should attend another meeting ; but it was
for the residents themselves to call one, if they chose ; at
the same time be would put them in mind, that at pre-
sent Government was disposed to assist them in building
a church, and they had, therefore, better make quick
work of it, as circumstances might otherwise change.
Mr. GRIEVE felt relieved by the explanation of Mr.
Canning, and would now move that the meeting be ad•
journed on account of the thinness of the attendance.
Mr. EOYE seconded the motion. He was not himself
a subscriber to the church, and should not subscribe till
i the church was put upon a more respectable footing. If
it had not been for the impression that the present was a
meeting exclusively of subscribers, there would have been
a very full attendance.
a Mr. PARISH—Who but Episcopalians should attend?
Ir They were assembled to regulate the affairs of the English
Church at Hamburg, and what purpose would it answer
if different sorts of sectarians were to intrude ? For in-
stance, the members of the other church ? One impor-
tant point was to ascertain whether the marriages solsm-
nised by the British chaplain were legal. All who took
an interest in the well-being of the church were welcome
to attend, but, strictly speaking, the meeting applied only
to subscribers.
Mr. EDYE—Then I am an intruder.
Mr. PARISH._Tbe object of the meeting was one which
all Englishmen should unite in promoting.
Mr. GRIEVE explained, that such was the object of his
* The adwrthi,„ent which appeared in the Reporter of
Tuesday was as follows :
TH/: Barrisn aitstmNo AT HAMMIRG.—A meeting
Of the subscribers to the English Established Church will take
placeat the ISorsen Halle, on Wednesday, the 4th of December,
at two o'clock precisely, 'to report and arrange the accounts for
the year 18,33. A communication will also be made in regard
to building an
Episcopal Church in Hamburg, and the terms
of the concession,according to which the congregation will
he recognised by the State. (Signed)
" HENRY. CANNING, Conwl•Geperal,"_