The Sun.
London, England, 1850-05-31 00:00:00

—(Cheers)—signified her intention of raising
your Lordship to the Peerage. That intention has
been carried into effect; and the successful issue of
a subsequent campaign has been the occasion of ac-
cumulated honours upon your Lordship's venerable and
venerated head.—(Loud cheers.) The two Houses
of Parliament have likewise awarded to your Lord-
ship the tribute of their thanks, and it is to this Cor-
poration a source of pleasure and of honest pride to
be permitted to place your Lordship's honoured
inure upon our municipal roll, while we cannot but
rejoice that the Court of Assistants of one of the most
ancient and distinguished of our City companies have
tendered to your Lordship's abceptance, and that
your Lordship has honoured them by accepting, the
freedom of their art or mystery, whereby I am en-
abled to receive your Lordship, not only as a citizen
of London, but as a freeman also of the worshipful
Company of Goldsmiths.—(Loud cheers.) All this,
my Lord, is but the expression of the national feeling,
and I hesitate not to assure your Lordship that there
is not an Englishman, and—l will add—neither is
there an Irishman, who will not join with us in the
sentiment which, if I mistake not, is to be found in
the motto of the arms granted to the immortal Nelson
—" Palmam qui meruit ferat."—(Renewed cheers.)
My Lord, I am quite aware that the characters of
the soldier and the politician are widely and essen-
tially different, and that it is the duty of the former
simply to carry into effect, to the utmost of his
power and of the means placed at his disposal,
the work which he is entrusted, to accomplish; still
it cannot but be gratifying to your Lordship, as it
must be to every well-regulated mind, that the result
of your Lordship's achievements in India, while it
has sustained the character of our army, European
and native, has inflicted a righteous retribution on a
daring and licentious foe, who was seeking to disturb
the quiet of his unoffending British neighbours, and
has restored peace, and secured the integrity of our
Indian possessions.—(Cheers.) My Lord, I desire to
remember that I am addressing your Lordship in the
capital of Christian England, and in the presence of
those who over the portal of their Royal Exchange
have caused to be inscribed the acknowledgment that
the "Earth is the Lord's and the fulness thereof."—
(Cheers.) To His mercy do we desire to ascribe
every blessing we enjoy ; and we would hail the pre-
sence of your Lordship amongst us, as that of an
honoured instrument of Him who bath taught your
hands to war and your fingers to fight, in doing great
and glorious things for British India.—(Cheers.) I
rejoice unfeignedly that this is a feeling in perfect
unison with that which has dictated all your Lord-
ships's dispatches, and which was manifested by your
Lordship and the Noble and Gallant Viscount, the
then Governor-General, of India, in the public ascrip-
tions of praise and thanksgiving which followed the vic-
tories referred to in the resolution that has been read.—
' (Cheers.) And now, my Lord, while with the most un-
feigned respect I offer to your Lordship's acceptance
the accompanying very= inadequate testimonial of our
gratitude, and tender to your Lordship as to a brother
freeman, the right hand of fellowship, with my
hearty congratulations on your return to your native
land, I would express a fervent hope that years of
usefulness may yet be in store for you, and that with
the calm and.quiet enjoyment of social and domestic
life may be mingled the satisfaction arising from
the consciousness that, as a peer of Parliament, you
are still rendering to your country effective service ;
and oh, my Lord, in that hour when heart and flesh
fail, and all earthly honours fade away and become as
nothing, may you, who have conquered in many con-
flicts, be more than conqueror in that warfare in
which, if we be what we profess, we are all en-
gaged.—(Loud cheers.)
Lord GOUGH then presented himself to return
thanks, and was received with loud and enthusiastic
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mation in which my services throughout a
very lengthed period are held by the Corpo-
ration of this great metropolis—a city pre-eminently
distinguished for its wisdom, its influence, and its
wealth.—(Cheers.) In common with my countrymen,
[ acknowledge the goodness of an all-wise and
merciful God in having successfully sustained British_
exertions in a just cause, and crowned with signal
success operations rendered unavoidable by
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aggression or the treachery of a powerful foe.—(abtomycl
cheers.) It has pleased Providence to decree
military career from a very early age should
ibe embrace
gracious
manifesting signal mercies.—(Cheers.) b
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Sovereign has beep pleased to mark,
y Houses
proofs of favour, iAy humble exertions—both
their
of Parliament have repeatedly acknowledged
British arms in the East,
sense of the prowess of the
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since my
as well native as European—an
return to Europe have proved that they watch with
deep interest the, exertions
of their fellow-countrymen
when engaged in their public dutiesclimes, distant
and are ready to record,
by their •
approving voice,
those exertions when honestly performed. The Wor-
shipful Company of Goldsmiths, one of the most ancient
and distinguished of your .companies, have honoured
me with the freedom of their art. Yet, with all
these manifestations of approval,
there would have
• been a void, had not the Corporation of this great
emporium of wealth and commerce evinced its sense