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received abundant marks of honour and consideration
from my Sovereign, and of affection and regard from the
people of England. I have enjoyed the hospitality of
my brethren in arms in military clubs. have-also been
magnificently entertained by public bodies in the city of
London ; but the invitation with which I was favoured
from the Reform Club was received by me with especial
eatisfaction—(hear)—because I felt that it emanated
from a body of men of great eminence and great politi-
cal power, and was given to me, not in my capacity of
a politician, but simply as a soldier. To the allusions
made by your chairman to my companions in arms and
to. the brave Turks who co-operated with us I am most
happy to respond. I have on former occasions expressed,
and I cannot too frequently repeat, my grateful sense of
tbo manner in which my gallant comrades stood by me
—of not only their great courage, for that I expectsd
from them, but of their great abilities ; and if with such I had not performed the.part which fell to my
lot I should have come far short of thejust. aeticipatiens
cf those who intrusted me with their cenfidence. The
Turkish force which acted under me in Asia" Minor un-
derwent all the ptivations and terrible trials to which
they were exposed in a way which it is impossible to
praise too highly. They, therefore, deserve the generous
appreciation of the British public as well as their sym-
pathy and respect. It was.not alone the Turkish soldiers
who fought by my side at Kars who conducted them-
selves so admirably. Equal honour is due to the heroic
townsmen of that city, and even to the heroic women
—I might almost also add the children among its popu-
lation —whose patience and self-abnegation under
the greatest misery • and distress are well known to
you all. Of one fact, however, you may' tiot be aware.
On my return from Tiflis over the Caucasus:l met Gene-
ral Mouravieff at Stavropol, and almost the last thing
he told me was that after he entered Kars in one house
he found net less than 10 csrpser of these heroic men,
who, too proud to ask for that bread of whisk klaey knew
my own garrison and the vrotpen and children of the
place stood so much in need, had silently died of starva-
tion. (Cheers.) My gallant friend, as I shall always
be proud to designate General Mouravieff, further ob-
served that he found in many houses one, and in others
two bodies of persons who shared a eimilar fate. I mention
these facts as some proof of the truth of the assertions I
make, whenever I have the honour of addressing a pub-
lic audience, as to the vitality of Turkey if she is treated
by the allies in the way which she ought to be. (Hear,
hear) If a high tone is taken towards the Turks—if
they are told that they must endeavour to reform their
institutions and eradicate that corruption which has been
the plague-spot on their country—or, when the inter-
vention of the allies is again necessary, it will not take
place in the interests of the Turks only—if such a tone
is adopted towards them, I have no doubt that Turkey
will right herself, and that England and France will reap
the fruits of the treasure they have spent and the blood
they have spilt in her defence. (Hear, bear.) Above
all things, they should.be told that we can never believe
that the Central Government cannot repress assassina-
tion or the wholesale murder of its subjects in any part
of the empire. On this point I will particularly insist in
Parliament and elsewhere, for I know every portion of
the country from the cataracts of the Nile to the moun-
tains of Armenia. I can give you an illUstration of
what I mean. In the city of Erzeroum a serious rising
of the population took place, not against the Christians,
but against a certain sect of Mattometane, when an
ambassador's house was forced and his secretaries
and servants put to death. I was present when this
insurrection of many thousands of armed men occurred,
and I see opposite a gentleman who was by my side-on
that occasion. We went out and calmed the crowde--
the ambassador was rescued, and for a time the disturb-
ance appeared to be allayed. Yet the criminals remained
in the town, and doubtless the outrages would have
been repeated but for what lam about to relate. In
consequence of my representations to the central Go-
vernment, bodies of troops, no less than five months
after, were marched into the disaffected pars of the
country, and occupied and surrounded the town, when
in the space of half-an hour the whole of the culprits
were arrested and delivered over to justice. I narrate
this circurnstanLe in the hope that the people of England,
in conjunction with the French—that noble and splendid
nation—will in future insist en the Ottoman authorities
immediately marching a force into any district where
violence is committed, and require, in fact, that the 1.4,V
shall be vindicated. • If •this course be taken, and the
desired result attained, the blood spilt and the treasure
spent in the late war, I rePeat, will not have been wasted.
Gentlemen, you know that I have been returned to Par-
liament. In selecting me the electors. of Caine have
paid me the highest compliment which a stranger could
possibly receive. As I told any constituents, so 1 will
tell you, that I enter the .Hou e of Commons solely that
I may on fitting occasions offer to the country my cpi•
liens on military matters, with which I have, perhaps,
some acquaintance, and also on the affairs of the East.
On these two questions, aed on no others, do I take my
- seat. It is quite impossible that a man who has served
his Sovereign for 32 years, 27 of which have been passed
abroad, can have anything to do with the party politics
of this country—(hear, bear)—and, moreover, as I stated
to my constituente lam wholly untinged by interested
views or personal ambition. I trust that my future
conduct will bear out these professions. (Cheers.)
I hope I do not flatter myself when I say, I believe
; that I am looked upon by the people of Englsed with
a certain degree of respect and—perhaps I may presume
to add—affection—(hear, bear)—arid the expression of
my convictions at suitable opportunities may be of some
little service, (Cheers.) At the same time I fee! equally
confident that if I venture to dabble in things which I
don't understand—if I once attempt to go beyond nay
depths, that instant I shall forfeit all the influence I have
acquired. (Hear, bear.) As your excellent chairman ob-
served; we have now reached the termination of a glori-
ous war. If you had been in Russia, and had heard, as
I have done, the sentiments uttered by our late antago-
eists, you would have no room to doubt that for us the
conflict was a glorious one, and the peace equally so.
(Hear, hear.) You know how we began this struggle.
We did Eo—as I has ept eviously said—wi: lout a system,
without establishments, and, in fact, with half a sword.
(Cheers.) Instead of being able to rush into the fight
immediately after the declaration of war we had then
positively to forge our weapons. I had the high grati-
fication this day to show to a most intelligent and ami-
able prince—Prince Oscar of Sweden—before his depar-
ture from our shore, the Arsenal at• Woolwich—an es-
tablishment which he had previously visited seven or
eight years ago. It was pleasing as well as most instrucse
five to me and others to hear that illustrious personage
compare what he witnessed at the Arsenal only this day
with what be saw there on his former visit. The effici-
ency of that splendid establishment has grown out of our
efforts since the war commenced. I bring these matters
under your notice in tbo hope that the improvements
which the distinguished Prince I have named di-covered
and commented upon with such satisfaction may not, by
any motives of false economy, be suffered again to dwindle
into nothing, until, perhaps, another war shall startle
the country from a sleep like that from which it recently
awoke unprepared after a period of 40 years. (Hear,
hear.) These are the topics to which, when I have the
pleasure of addressing any public assembly, I wish to
advert. I trust that-the members of the Reform C:ub
will lend their aid in a matter in which the national
safety is at stake, to guard from undue diminution the
effective armaments and munitions which have sprung,
as it were,•from our blood and our mortification, and
which ought to be vigilantly preserved. (Hear, hear.)
Gentlemen, I might continue this strain of remark
almest indefinitely, but I fear I have already trespassed
too far on your. indulgence for an after eikkaer speech.
(No, no) Allow me,- therefore, only to add that"' thank
the chairman most sincereiy for the very eloquent and
too flattering terms in which he has introduced my name,
and this% company for the very handsome manner iii
which they have received it. (Loud and prolonged.;
cheering.) •
Colonel S. AD AIR, M.P., said he had to propose a
toast without which the proceedings of that eveniit.
would be incomplete. They had all heard Sir We -F.
Williams, in language wh 4e, became the brave leader ate
brave men, exprees the high admiration in which he heir
the gallant men who had paiticipated in his achiev
meets and his glory ; and they knew the generous s
timents which actuated him to be such that lie insist()
that in any honours paid to himself his brother officers'
should receive a share. (Hear, ihar.) The annals of
the British army abounded in brilliant examples of he-
roic bravery aid fortitude, but were is ri tribed with um •
more glorious than those of Silistria and Kars. He had
therefore much pleasure in inviting them to drink with
all the honours, " the health of Colonel Lake, Colonel
Teesdale, Dr. Sandwith, Mr. Churchill, ani Mr. Red-
house, comrades of General Williams in tee defence of
Kari." (Loud cheers.)
Col. LAKE, in acknowledging the compliment, re-
marked that, however undeserved he and Lis compa-
nions in arms felt the eulogiums passed upon them to
be, it was gratifying to them to know that their poor
endeavours to do their duty were appreciated by their
countrymen and by their distinguished hosts. With
such a bright example before them as that set by their
gallant chief, it would have been strange indeed, if they
had not striven to acquit themselves to the best of their
ability. (Cheers.)
Vice-Chancellor Sir W. P. WOOD raid that the task
had been intrusted to him of calling them away from the
tones of triumph in which they ha heretofore been in-
dulging to listen to a sadder strain, and one akin to the
solemn and muffled peals which accompanied " the Dead
March." He had to bring to t heir recollection the me-
mory of Captain Thomson and the brave men who fill at
Kars. • (Hear, hear.) That theme would not be as um!
welcome as the skeleton at the feasts of the heathen, be-
cause, to speak of no higher feeling, as patriots and Eng-
lish gentlemen, they must feel a mournful satisfaction in
pay ieg a tribute to the brave departed who had fallen in
the discharge of their duty. They could not but think
of t he hopes of renown which must, in some degree have
cheered on those gallant spirits in their heroic efforts,
far who could forget the memorable saying of Nelson,
"The peerage, or Westminster Abbey." These heroes
now no more had, in the words of General Mouravieff,
their chivalrous opponent,• added a brilliant page to the
history of civilised warfare, and having helped to heap
up that beet of all national treasure", the inviting ex-
amples of a country's bravest sons, it might be truly said
of them that—

" Ev'a in theli ashes live their wonted fires."
(Cheers.) 116 had no:wish •to draw any comparison to
the aisparnement of our allaninrm y xidgenerali in