The Sun.
London, England, 1819-11-10 00:00:00

BANQUET AT GUILDHALL,

which was held will unusual pomp, and with
degree of interest stdl more unusual. The public
are acquainted with the circumstances which might
make this Meeting a test of the general opinion,
and we shall not now repeat them ; hot it was
perfectly obvious that the conduct of the retiring
Chief Magistrate, and the promise of his succes-
sor, had ,net with approbation in the highest.
quarter. The expectation of the populace too
was not cv-..hout its eXcitement, and the streets
towards Guildhall were crowded to a formidable
degree ; the constables however were numer,ns,
and the train of earl iages gradually succeeded in
making their way. Across the immediate court
of Guildhall a birtier was thrown, which, thickly.
liued by peace officers, sufficiently repelled intru-
ders. The Hall was illuminated with gas, three
large chandeliers in the centre, lust rev round tbe
sides, and along the cornice festoons of burners
threw a rich and powerful light over this fine
building, and the general aspect was magnificent.
The hustings were laid out in tables for the im-
mediate visitants of the Lord Alayor, for the
Members of Administration, and for distinguished
foreigners, The lower part of the HAIL inuatertd

its multitude not less brilliant, and perhaps nn
Public Meeting in the world could exhibit more
opulence in combination with more beauty.
Something of the same arrangement occurs in
all the celebrations of this day, but we write as
well to those by whom they have not been seen
as to those who are familiar with them, and we
describe for the majority. About five o'clock the
Gentlemen of the, Committee who received the
admission tickets at the door; announced the
Duke of York. His Royal Higliness was re-
ceived with much applause in his passage through
the Hall:, he was in his Field Marshal's uniform.
Lord Liverpool was soon after ushered in with
Ai•r. Vansittart, and received with great interest.
Lords Sidmouth, Harrowhy, Westmorland, and.
bithnrst, came soon after ; Lord Castlereagh
Avas applauded, and the coming of the Duke of
Wellington was known, by long and distant ac-
clamation, Which accumulated till he had passed
through the Hall. A go-at number of Ladies,
handsomely dressed, passed along occasionally to
the reception room, which by six o'clock was
crowded with a striking collection of Persons of
public eminence. With the exception of the
Lord-Chancellor and the other Chancery JUdges,
all the Heads of the Lave were present—

'rho Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench, the Chief
Justice of the Common Pleas, the Chief Baron, the Judge of
the. Admiralty, Justices Holreyd, Park, and Best, Serjeants
Blos,ett, Firth, Cross, and Doyley. There were besides a
Considerable number of public characters, civil and military,
the Right Hon. C. Arbuthnot, Messrs. Lushington and Clive,
Sir H. Torreasl Sir C. Halkett, Sir G. Warrender, Mr. Peel,
&c.

The Lady Mayoress, in a Court dress, received
'her visitors under a canopy, and she did the ho-
nours very gracefully. About hilt-past six dinner
was announced ; the men in armour, preceded by
trumpets sounding, made their entrance, and took
their places, one in the centre, and the others in
the angles behind the Lord Mayor's chair ; and
soon after the Duke of York, handing the Lady
Mayoress, led the procession round the hall to
,he tahle. The arrangements for the dinner had
been mile with great dexterity, and all confusion
was avoided ; the tables were covered with every
thing that could constitute a sumptuous entertain-
ment ; Champagne and pine apples were in abuts-
dance, and civic feasting was fully sustained in its
reputation ; for those guests who could not fiud
room in the Great Hall, the King's Bench Court
was laid out in tables. At eight o'clock grace
was said, and the toast of 4' The King " given
by the Lord Mayor. This was followed by God
save the King, played by the Orchestra. The
Lord Mayor then gave the Duke of York's health,
prefaced by a brief. but neat eulogium ant the
skill and discipline by which lie had 'trained
the British Army to unexampled triumph.—
The Duke returned thanks in a few words.—
The speeches throughout the day- were in
general extremely succinct. Guildhall is ob-
viously unsuitable for public speaking from i:s
height, its length, and as the result of both, the
waste of sound. The natural defect was yester-
day increased by !be multitude, and in the miogled
and perpetual murmur no voice could be heard a
dozen yardeifrom the speaker. The usual toa'ts
of the Army and Navy, &c. were given io succes•
slots, and drank with thsee times three. The Duke
of Wellington's name was announced by the Lord
Mayor, and received with immense applause.
The Deke returned (batiks in a few winds. Lord
Liverpool's health was next drank, and his Lord-
ship proposed the health of the Lord Mayor iu a
neat speech, expressive of his personal gratifica-
tion, and the pleasure whirls he was convinced
he was giving to that Meeting, in proposing the
name of a citizen so capable of doing the arduous
i!u yof his office. The Lord Mayor proposed the
health of Lord Sithnouth ; the Ladies were., by
this time retiring with the Letly Mayoress, and
his Lordship; in returning the toast, entered more
largely into his subject than it appeared the eti-
quette to have indulged in before. He expressed
" his great satisfaction at receiving a mark of
such attention from such an assembly; lie pro-
fessed to believe, however, that they were ap-
plauding only the common principles of the great
hotly of well-disposed anti sober-minded English-
oleo, and he felt it rather his fortune than his
merit that he stood in a situation to enforce its
any degree those principles, without which nei-
thsr they nor he could have the privilege of a
Constitution, the most glorious of all others, and
he would believe the most stable." He thee pro-
posed the health of the late Lord Mayor, " as a
Man who, in a trying situation, had exhibited ass
honourable intrepidity, a manly good sense, apd
a steady determination to do his duty."
Alderman ATK Ns ruse up its the midst of uni-
versal clapping of hands, and returned thanks.--
He disclaimed all personal merit for the course
which he had adopted, for it was tire com se
teoftited out by the law of the land ; he erprOly
disclaimed all merit for its success, for that was
due to the zealous co-operation of his brother
Magistrates. He had found the Civic Body
sound, vigorous, and active; and if he had set
himself steadily and at once against the insolence,
the folly, and the guilt of vulgar faction, •it was
beestise he felt it to be the duty of his situation,
and because he knew that he team.( be sustained
it' exercise by the manly loyalty of the Ma-
gistracy. It was obvious that there were distur-
bers raking up every means of mischief in the
commenity, root it was equally ohs ions that they
tains( he pet down, or left to involve the roils of
the Constitution. When they had placed them-
selves within the exertion of legal punishment,
he had assistediu honouring the laws of his coon-
ity, awl he felt confidtnt that, in disturbances
kindled by the base passions of political inceu-
diaries, the speediest extinction was the safest,
the easiest, and the most befitting the spirit of the
British Constitution. Those who made a practice
of insulting the law, Must learn it •to be aworog
their first necessitiee to obey the law.
We do not profess to give this animated speech
%void tor word, for the tumult of apPlause was
ryo loud for distinctness, but the substance is
and delivered with energy and manliness.—
The effect was extremely popular. Loral Castle-
r.:agh brit fly proposed the health of the Foreign
mbassadors present. The Ambassadors of
Spaitt and France, the Doke of San Carlos, and
tee (MUM Limpur Manbourg rose, and howed
their thanks. The health of Lord Bathurst, and
leveret other per 50115 of distinction, was drank

till about 11 o'clock, when the tables thinned,
and the younger part of the company gathered to
the ballryoom. The romps of the day were well
sustained, but its politics added highly to the
attraction of the entertainment. Many years have
passed since so many :nen of public:- eminence
have honoured a City festivity. The Lord
Mayor's table presented a stately, and from the
variety and richness of their costumes, a rich
and picturesque assemblage. On the left of
the Lord Mayor sat the Judges, and other
heads of the Bar, whom we have already
mentioned, in their robes ; the Aldermen, who
sat at the opposite side of the table, %Vete
also in their robes. On his right the table
was filled in the following order :—The late
Lord Mayor, the Duke of San Carlos, the
Count Latour Mauboarg, Lord Ilarrowby, the
Duke of Wellington, Lord Liverpool, Lord West-
moreland, Lord Bathurst, Lord Sidmonth, Lord
Castlereagh, Mr. Vansittart, Mr. W. Pole, Lord
Lowther, and Mr. Lusbington ; all, with the
exception of Lotd Sidmouth, in the Windsor uni-
form. As a mete indulgence to the eye, this pro-
fusion of scarlet and gold embroidery was height-
ened by a perpetual line of the ladies, who had
left the tables below to walk round those on the
hustings. The day, of romance has died, but there
was much of old magnifience in the adjuncts of
this superb feast. On one aide of the hall stood
pursuivant covered with his escnteheotted coat,
and under an emblazoned standard. At theaend,
the three knights, towered in the splendours of
burnished mail. The healths were announced by
trumpets, answered by trumpets troin the extre-
mity of the tables, and all this was seen and done
in a vast gothic hall, surrounded with monuments
of men the first in glory in their day, and among
the first in memory until the name of Enos.nd
shall, like them, have gone down to the grave.

FOR THE SUN.

CIVIC FETE.

" The funeral baled meats.
" Did coldly furnish forth the roarriage supper
HAMLET.

MR. EDITOR-4 observe with concern, that you
seldom make my mouth water with luscious de-
scriptions of the various delicious viands, and in-
vigorating Wines and Liqueurs, that adorn our—
I tneao, the festive boards of this great City, or of
its courtly Sister, Westminster.'
Lord, Sir ! you ought to take example from
your neighbour The Chronicle—l mean when the
Whigs were in office. Why, Sir, its columns
actually smelt of turtle and Madeira, delightful
to the olfactory nerves of me and many others,wbo,
not being able to make a fourth on the crowd-
ed couches of the Patriots, who were content to
lie three in a bed for the good of their country,
were forced to feast at second hand, adding
those luxuries to our customary ones of casting
passing glances at the cookshop windows, where
rumps and sirloins smoked most invitingly,
though we (11(1 not always accept the invitation.

O ! Mr. Editor, I wish we could have a re-
print of the Beauties (f the Morning Chronicle,
(faring that year, month, week, day, hour, mi-
nute, and second of Whiggical Office—a short
time indeed—but the true " Tempos edax re-
rum" of the Poet. In fact, Sir, the happiness of
a life concentrated in a moment. Then, indeed,
if we should have that reprint published with
?totes in a tarty way, with a due proportion of
aqua. fortis and aqua tint—bat, alas ! Sir, we are
more in the line way, as you may have observed
in such specimens as have been framed and hung
up to public view.

I shall therefore close old regrets, Tnd proceed
to give you, Sir, an account of tk►e feast, how
those were dressed who were there, and how some
were dressed who were not there, together with a
few of the dishes that adorned the board.

The OLn Lotto MAYOR roasted until hissing hot;
but judicious gourmands all declared him • tr/1
done, and sound to the bone.

Tile NEW LORD MAYOE, cooked very nicely,
was to have been garnished with two she reeues,
but there was only one i❑ the dish ; for the bill
of fare expressing roughs and reeves, fte roughs
were found not fit for dressing,
ALDERMAN MUSLIN, with sotne of his friend-s,
had been dressed and dished a few weeks before,
and were now in a slew ; it is thought what is left
will he curried.

HUNT was spite!) cooked in a harrier of calve's
Some thought he looked more natural
when dressed a la daube at Westminster ; others
spoke of him CoLLARED and a la tremblant at the
British Coffee-house ; some recommended bamboo
pickle; but he-called for mint and cater!, .sauce
The CORPORATION were in BROILS, with a little
mushroom catch-up.
ALDERMAN FOREST was in a fry between calve's
aend and goose au bourgeois.'
Then came a RUMP hashed in hodge-podge, and
garnished with pigeons. Besides which there was
no scarcity of jam, cakes, Intl's, and macaroni; but
there was no occasion for force-meat, as appetite
was not wanting, and we know that the Livery
can be. made to swallow any thing.
In short, Sir, as far as I saw, there was nothing
kvnuring but a link
Blows! adder-strecto loth Nov. WHIG CREAM.

pluck.

THEATRICAL REGISTER.
Performed Last Mght.
THEATRE ROYAL, Ditu KY-La:ca.—The Road to Ruins Old
Dornton, Mr. iViunden ; Henry Dornton, Mr. El!iston ;
Sophia, Miss Kelly. After which,Two Strings to your Bow
'fIicATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN.—Tainerlane riajazet,
Mr. Islacready; Arpasia, Mrs. Bunu. After
,which,
Beard.

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