The Sun.
London, England, 1832-10-08 00:00:00

- " A mightier monument, command

The mountains of his nati'•c
(I•nmense cheering.) With these few obsc:rt'ationst allow
~e to second the resolution which has been so ably and so
beautifully proposed to you by the Learned and Right Hon.
the Lord Advocate.

The resolution for the appointment of a Committee was
put and carried unanimously.
Lord iquAnoWEANic moved, " That the busincsa of
the meeting for collecting subscriptions, add of deciding
rip the particulars respecting the erection of a Monu-
ment, should be referred to a Committee."—lt was im-
possible that a meeting like the present could decide upon
any definite preposition with regard to the erection of the
monument, therefore there could bti no hesitation in re-
ferring the farther business to a Committee.
Sir GEORGE CLERK, in a short neat speech, seconded
the resolution, which was put and carried unanimously.
The LORD PROVOST stated, that expecting the last re-
solution would he agreed to, a list of names had been
made out of Noblemen a.rd Gentlemen *lid svzrt: to be upon
the Committee. The names of many had been put down
as committeemen at their earnest desires, that they might
have the honour of being upon such a committee : but it
was clear they would have to appoint a sub-committee to
be the acting one, The Lord Provost then read over the
names that had b. en put down.
His Grace the Duke of Hamilton, the Duke of Buccleueli,
the Most Noble the Marquis of Lothian, the Marquis of Aber-
corn, the Right Hon. the Earl of Home, the Earl of Had-
dington, the Earl of Lauderdale, the Earl of Elgin, the Earl
of Wemyss and March, the Earl of Dalhousie, the Earl of
ltosebery, the Earl of Glasgow, Lord Viscount Melville, Lord
Gray, Lord Napier, Lord Douglas, Lord Abercromby, the
Right Hon. the Lord Provost, the Lord Justice Clerk, the
Lord Chief Commissioner, the Lord Register, the Lord Ad-
vocate; the Right Hon. Sir John Sinclair, Bart.; Sir William
Day, Bart.; Hon. Lord Glenlee ; Lord Meadowbank ; Lord
Mackenzie ; Lord Corehouse ; Baron Sir Peter Murray, Bart.;
Baron Hume; General Stuart ; Sir John Forbes, Bart. ; Sir
John Hope, Bart. ; Sir John Hay, Bart., M.P. ; Sir James
Montgomery of Stanhope, Bart. ; Sir Thomas Dick Lauder,
Bart. ; Sir John Nasmyth, Bart. ; Sir Alexander Muir Mac.
kenzic, Bart. ; Sir John Hamilton Dalrymple, Bart. ; Sir Geo.
Clerk, Bart., M.P. ; Sir Robert Dundas, Bart. ; Sir James
Gibson Craig, Bart. ; Sir Alexander Keith ; Sir Henry Jar-
dine; Sir Adam Ferguson ; Sir David Brewster ; Sir Edward
Lees ; the Dean of Faculty ; the Solicitor-General ; Deputy
Keeper of the Signet; Admiral Charles Adam, M.P. ;
ander Pringle, Esq., of Whytbank, M.P. ; Wm. R. Ramsay,
Esq., of Barnton, M.P. ; James Russell, Esq., of Ashiestiel;
Thomas Thomson, Esq., P.C.S. ; William Clerk, Esq., advo-
cate; James Skene, Esq., of Rubislaw ; Charles Ferguson,
Esq., advocate; Adam Hay, Esq., banker; Robert A. Dun.
das, Esa., np,; John A. Murray, Esq., advocate ; John
Bonar, Esq , of Rath() ; William Allan, Esq., of Glen ; T.
Allan, Esq., of Lauriston ; John Robison, Esq., Secretary to
the Royal Society; William Trotter, Esq., of Ballindean ;
Dr. Hope; Professor Wilson ; Professor Pillans ; Professor
Napier ; William Child, Esq. ; Robert Ritchie, Esq. ; John
Patterson, Esq. ; Alexander Wright, Esq. ; the Magistrates
of Edinburgh ; the Rev. Mr. Williams, rector, Academy ; the
President of the College of Physicians; the President of the
College of Surgeons ; Dr. Abercromby ; Dr. Ross ; T. G.
Wright, Esq. ; John Swinton, Esq. ; Preses of the Society of
Solicitors of the Supreme Courts ; James Jollie, Esq. ; Alex-
ander Young, Esq. ; Alexander Monypenny, Esq. ; Robert
Rutherford, Esq ; John Gibson, jun., Esq. ; Isaac Bayley,
Esq. ; William Keith, Esq. ; Sutherland Mackenzie, Esq. ;
Alexander Smith, Esq., banker ; Robert Cadell, Esq. ; J. G.
Wood, Esq. ; Alexander Blair, Esq., Bank of Scotland ; John
Thomson, Esq., Royal Bank ; J. Watson Gordon, Esq., A.S. A.
William Allan, Esq., A.R.A. ; James Mackenzie, Esq.; Geo.
Joseph Bell, Esq., P.C.S.

A Committee of noblemen and gentlemen was also
named for London and Glasgow.

FUR LONDON. —His Grace the Duke of Portland—His
Grace the Duke of Wellington—The Most Noble the Marquis
of Stallbrd—The Right Honourable the Earl of Aberdeen—
Lord Montague—The Lord Mayor—Sir Robert Peel, Bart.—
Sir Coutts Trotter, Bart.—Sir Francis Freeling, Bart.—lA-it-
ham Adam, Esq.—Acceuntant-General of Chancery—W.lt.K.
Douglas, Esq., M.P.—J. A. Stewart Mackenzie, Esq., M.P.—
H. L. Bulwer, Esq., M.P.—D. Fullerton, Esq.—J. G. Lock-
hart, Esq.—John Spottiswoode, Esq. of Spottiswoode—John
Richardson, Esq., Fludyer-street—John Loch, Esq., M.P.—
James Loch, Esq.—Samuel Rogers, Esq.—J. M. W. Turner,
Esq., R.A.—David Wilkie, Esq., R.A.—Edwin Landseer,
Esq., R.A.—Wm. Jordan, Esq.—Allan Cunningham, Esq.—
John Galt, Esq.—Owen Rees, Esq.—John Murray, Esq.—
Thomas Longman, Esq.—G. B. Whittaker, Esq.
Foa GLASGOW.—The Lord Provost—Sir Daniel K. Sand-
ford—Archibald Campbell, Esq. of Blythswood—James Smith,
Esq. of Jordanhill—Archibald Bogle, Esq. of Gilmorhill—
James Oswald, Esq. of Shieldhall—Principal Macfarlane—
Professor Meikleharn—J. Smith, bookseller—Thomas Atkin-
son, bookseller—Mr. Brash, bookseller.

Sir JOHN FORBES, Banker, was appointed Treasurer.—
The appointment of a Secretary was left to the Committees.

Sir JOHN FORBES stated, that he had been commis-
sioned by the Bank of Scotland, and other Banking Com-
panies in Edinburgh, who were creditors of Sir Walter
Scott, to express their high admiration of the honourable
feeling which had induced Sir Walter Scott, under his
embarrassments in 1826, to dedicate the talents of his re-
maining life to the insuring of the full payment of his credi-
tors, and in token of their strong feeling in that respect to say,
that they had determined to subscribe the sum of 5001.
towards the erection of the monument.

Dr. CANTOR stood forward on the platform and ad-
dressed the meeting as follows :—My Lord and Gentle-
men, it may perhaps be deemed presumptuous in me to
rise after you have been addressed by individuals, so emi-
nent in rank, so pre-eminent in talent. All the apology I
have to offer is, that of my being a foreigner, and as such,
convinced of your indulgence, I cannot refraia from seizing
this melancholy opportunity to express my feelings of that
high and unbounded admiration with which my country-
men the Germans looked up to Sir Walter Scott. Genius
is of no country, of no age, of no creed—it encompasses the
world at large—(Applause)—and I am bertain, that from
pole to pose, from ea-t to west, wherever the torch of ci-
vil.zation sheds its blessed light, there will Sir Walter
Scott be mourned. But I know that no where except in
his own country, will hie loss be more regretted than in
my native country, Germany. There his works have
been in every hand, I may say in every heart. The Ger-
mans, indeed, have reason to be proud that the first lite-
rary efforts of the author of Waverley should have been
directed to their literature, from which, according to his
own confessions, he imbibed that love for ancient ballads,
which in after life influenced him to become the minstrel
of his country. Genius is the true king of the earth, the
real sovereign of mankind.—(Cheers.) The tyrant may
lot ce my body to kneel before him, but my spirit will
spurn him, and will not bend an inch ; but before the
master mind of the Author of Waverley, the whole human
race bows with respectful admiration.—(Cheers.) For,
whether we consider the fertility of his imagination, the
splendour of his conceptions, the unrivalled beauty of his
descriptions, or the number of his works, we are struck
with amasement and wonder at the powers of a mind
which, within the short period of a man's life, could ac-
complish all this. How great, how intense, bow just
must then be our grief, when we know that the lyre,
whose delicious sounds vibrated in every bosom, is about
to he tuneless; fur the hand which wrote the admirable
volumes is stiff and cold, the heart which inspired them
stands still for ever, the Author of Waverley, the pride of
his county, the delight of the world, lies a wreck beneath
a ruin.—(Cheers.) Yet, though he he dead, his name
will live to the remotest ages ; generations will rise,
generations will flourish and pass away, centuries will
roll on, yea the monument you are about to raise to him
will be a ruin, but the name of the Author of Waver-
ley will still live in the memory, in the grateful me-
mory of future generations. He, therefore, needs in-
deed, no monument, for be has erected to himself the
mast splendid, the most imperishable monument—that of
his own works. Yet we must show that the age, that the
country he lived in knew how to appr, ciate his high value.
The times are rapidly passing by, when the Caesars, the
Alexanders, the Napoleons were coneidered worthy of such
honours. The human mind is becoming of age; hence-
forth only those individuals will be found worthy of such
distinctions who have applied their genius to the benefit,
and not to the destruction, of mankind ; and however we
may differ in opinion on other topics, on one point we
agree, that the author of Waverley was one of the greatest
benefactors to his country, and one of the greatest lumi-
naries which ever brightened the literary horizon of this
or any age.—(Cheers.) I did not intend to trespass so
long on your time, but my subject has carried me away.
Permit me now to make one suggestion—it is to the effect
that the Committee should empower certain bankers, or
other known individuals on the Continent, but chiefly in
the different capitals of Germany, to receive donations and

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