The Sun.
London, England, 1826-05-11 00:00:00

LITERARY FUND.

The Anniversary (37th) of the Literary Fund Society was
Dead yeiteiAl at the Freemasons' Tavern; his Grace the Duke of
Sumers,,q,,the president, in the Chair, supported by. Lord Glen.
orehy, Sit/Williatn Clayton, Sir John Sir John
burue, Mr., Thomas Moore,, and several other persons of diatine-
,
ass.

" Non unbis, Dornine," having been sung in the usual excel-
lent,
style:: by Messrs. Atkin*, •Colpeper, and Brolulhuret, and
Masters Bayley and Nichols;'
Tice Citaiectix propocel the " Health of the King;" drank
with three " God save the
Next proposed the! "f Health of the Duki-of - York, r, and the
Army ;" drank. Witle.,threo times three.—Song, ' Hark, hark !
the Lark,. &c. Tbinext toast was, " the Duke of Clarence, and
the Navy ;" draulr'ilio With all the honours.—Song, " Rule Ini
tanni4."--'-" The Heath of the 'Nike of Somerset" being given,
with high tommendationslif the support which he ,had given to
the Inatitation, was drank with, ell the honours.
The Duke of Sosexasirr, jtt z few words, returned thanks, and
stated, that he was proud to pay every attention in his power to an
lnatitutioq of so very useful a, nature as this, whieh had derived its
great success from the exertions of many other' Men, who foul de-
sioted much of their means iind'of their valuable time and talents
to its support.--Song, " All a sheep,shenring."
The Cnetectax then proposed the ".ltealtlt of the Vice-Pre-
sidents " which was received with all the usual honour*.
Sir Wii.Liact CLAYTON returned thanks in his own name, and
the navies of the other Vice-Prgilgriii. The `'ice-Presidents
had certainly promoted the interests of the Institution to the ut-
most of their power. He hoped • the Viets,Presidents would con-
tinue to do so, and m long as he lived he could answer P: No. I.
It was quite unnecessary for him to dwell upon the_ great success
which had attended this Society under the' patronage of Ma-
jesty, or upon the great good which theldstftlitioh 'Was calefilated
to do, hail„ "had done. proposed the.".lieulth of'olr., nob-
house, !11,31..t sChuirurau of the Committee.", This Was 'drank
with all th.e honours.
The Rey.. ,Dr. YAM, aTle of the Treasurers, stated that he had
aliote frena, Mr. Ilublitise, mentionin that he (Mr. IL) was
unable to-LIEN:id front 'indisposition. lie their gave a brief acs
count of the Fonda of the Institution, as follows

ABSTRACT. of the CASH 'ACCOVN"f, audited according to
the Charter: Presented to .the General 'Meeting, March S.
1828., •
Want* in the Treusureet hands on the Slat Dec. 1824:
At Messra. it autotne and Cu. - £ll6 13 3
)1144 Co. - 105 8 4

SubJcriptioL,

dandy on Stock, &c.

222 1 7

- 1,839 3 0

Paid by order of th?Cnnunitiee, upon applications
for relief, including purchase of Stock and inci-
dental expenctw

4, 7

'1,668 9 6

Balance in Treasurer's hands Slat Dec. 1825 - an 15 1
'The House ,Fund is now incorporated with the preceding Ge-
neral Accounts of the Society.
The Permanent Fund consists at present of
per Cent. Consols ..£18,638 4 2
The Stock of the Newton Property, now avail.
able to' the Society, formerly consisting of
three Accounts, has been transferred to one
Account, attiounting, in the Reduced Three
per Cent. Annuities, to.
Three per Cent. Reduced (Dividend not yet
payable to the Soidety) - 1,800 '0 0
The Newton Estate produces annually 60 0, 0
So that the Society bad in the whole about 20,0001. in the
per Ceptto, 1910 of the 1,8881: which he bad mentioned, 57
eases luipletsk relieved, many of which were very interesting, and
which would uve been communicated to the meeting, were it
net for ehilitacteriitie of the Institution which prevented the
disclosure Orthe names of those who were relieved.—(Applause.)
He thintstateth.,that the usual donation.of 2101. had been sent by
his Majestv,;(4ppituse)—sSeveral other donation' of 20 and
JO guiferf, from Verunts individuals, were also mentioned.
Mr, I.4,lrxsensit4) recited the following address in praise of the
lustitutibn, which Was received with great applause
Whin barbarous Nations sack'd'lmperial Home;
And the World's Mistress yielded to her doom,
Oblivionn'er that land her poppiLet Hung,
Where Vatriot gages taught, and Poets sung!
Science dePlor'd her Tot.t.ir's prostrate bust,
Add Genius droped a tear on Matto's dust !
Etiropeli,fitee a gloomy darkness spread,
And Learning deep in Cloisters vein' her head.
A pothin age no Patrons could afford,
piec% every. Man was Vassal, or was LOrd;
,ree,wag the temper, barren was the wind,
Anti War'the only business of mankind:
'Altleo rose to foster every art,
That clams the fancy, or delights the heart !
(ti, hill,' "ilk Muse was eager to attend,
Anti Learning found a Patron, and a Friend :
gO when stern Winter reigns, all Nature sighs,
The ,cheerful green of vegetation dies ;
One dreary waste the eyes of men behold,
Deluged with ruin, or Masted with the cold; _
But when the glorious Sun ralumes the sphere,
The trees bud forth, the tender plants appear,
Nature no longer dreads the Winter's storm,
Olieerld'hf the rays that ripen while they want.'
Enlighten'd Science soon her radiance bore
From fair Italia to our Northern shore,
Where Genius breathed his soul in SHAEXPICAReII page, .
And Mwron shone the Homes of his age!
Yet in this soil, where all the Virtues grow,
And ere the Poor can ask, the Rich bestoti—
Authors have often mourned their hapless lot,
Their works remembered—but themselves forgot!
(Jo, and explore the Prison's gloomy eel!,
...Where pelts Disease, and hopeless Misery dwell,
you find the Man of Letters there,.
.Torpid with grief, or frantic front despair !
Mudd his children meet his ghastly eye, .
Asking that broad he has not to supply;
While,dike 1114 bending to the shower, '
The cherished iartner of his happier hoar,
With all a wife's and mother's cares oppresiml,
Lana her pale cheek upon her husband's brew.
Can Fancy charm the Poet's leveed brain,
When Thought servos only to engender pain?
Can Passion animate his tortured mind,

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Lost to himself! abandoned by mankind ! ' ' • ' • •
Some have advanced opinions which would dry
The source of all your generous sympathy i
That I.earning wants no Patron' to aucceed, ' `
And works of polo always find their weed---
Delusive thought i-esunworthy liberal met,-
IM MILTON reap the harvest of hit pen -,,, ~ ~ '..
.;
104 smiting comfort blest poor Orwais
a days,: „
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Or Wealth reward the loyal flunitiel layliir ',
.. His Kix°, who humour loved, and relithed,w44 : -,
With pleasure quoted every line he writ;
And While gay Courtiers filled the sparkling glass,, - ~, ;
Still *as their mirth the wit of Ilifinalutii,! :-
Ail °Wised big pen had served the Royal Cause,
WffeAthe'sWird failed to vindicate the laws ; '
Iroit'litrriAlt found, too oft the Poet's lot,
Life titit reinembered but hie worth forgot !
And while Paste culled a chaplet for hit head,
Hie country's Gratitude denied him bread !
Such are the objects whom we wish to save
Prom Misery's last retreat—a timeless grave :
fa this pod cause the Itoyal bounty flows
Its streams perennial, to assuage their woes;
Hein Truth and Justice prompt the Aline to bring
Viable to our PATNON, homage to our KING ! •
'Wlmee feeling heart has ever wished to illy
' The silent teat that dims iniefortune's eye ; • ''
Who more there share* his poorest sohjeet'a Krig;
And, result, wherever want prevails, relief!. ' - ' '"
Who, with a polished two, aid liberal hand, ' ' ' ' •
Spreads wide improvements through liis, native land,
And, like Anattsrus, who embellished Rome; •
,Ssiikes.,Grcipiari arts his denizens at home 1
.97lipi-ininnuitli buildings met the public'ies; '' • ' ; '-'
.
Loop Anacleto litretta, and Palaces arise;
jilifirbAinspp will Sooti'llebold, with consciouii'pridi,' i
'1"--- ,'l-;;Li',Viliens rising by his aide ! , '
, , .
~..- ' , not arot Per Sciences despyr, . • .
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2 1. ,i-O' siiittrins fifokAucii'mekes their tunic hiss .sire ;
t.. 711 - Ow, ii 4 titaOlekleefed; and alone,
'' ' WI 'I, P TitON on the Throne 1
~:74Sict,;(1111f; s!f ' 'At
I and h 14 a `f I
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,''' us.:,.—li.res,,,-onourei., __is _For wag 4mrttr i
'''''.lii .vtir'ifolisailinif sad in Peilife revered.
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his, govvray, also, highly praised the Institution, which.
"41116" all c'tl etki. was tiAcroughir competent for its purposes. Ii

penetrated into the. darkest places, and lighted up the fire of
genius, when on the point of being extinguished by despair.
Sir. JOHN, MaLcoLlt stated, that he had the permission of
the Noble Chairman to propose a toast. They had all heard'
Of the great _progress which had been made by the Institution,
that administered relief in the delicate manner in which genius
ought to be relieved. No Institution could be more calcedated to
room all the generous and benevolent feelings of our nature,
and to allay all. angry passions. It was another characteristic
pf the Institution, that it often afforded relief to those who had
thenieelves eoutribpted to its funds iu their more prosperous
days, , This was a peculiar feature of this Institution ; and
it was - LIN) it remarkable feature in it, that its applause

and admirationP might be 'valuable to genius, when its inoney
wrs not. wanted, Ile t►lluded to one , now present among them,
wl►om he , had not the honour perSonally'to knOW, but *hose
fa►ue was well known all,over the world. He now claimed the

liberty to pity his tribute of adiniration,to-the individual in goes-
tior ; Ibr, ulthowrli he (Sir J. M.): hail vent a gre:4 part of his

life in distauteliMes,,hi; fame had reached him ; and the merit of
one of his works (continued Sir J. M.) I am myself well able to
appreciat-I mean Lallah Roohh.—(great applause)—in which
the author has combined the truth of the historian with the ge-
uhia of the poet, and the vigorous classical taste'd his own coun-
try with the fervid imagination of the east. I propose " The
Health of Mr. Thomas Moore ;" this was received with all the
honours.

Mr. MooKE—I feel highly flattered by the, compliment now
paid me, although there are others who might more justly have
laid claim to it-. 4 allude particularly to the translator of Oberon,
whose genius instructed, enlightened, and delighted the world,
long before a lay of mine appeared before the publie. I cannot,
however, but feel myself highly honoured by the manner in which
my health has been received in such sr, assembly So the present.
The soldier is delighted with the applause of his companions in
anus; the sailor loves to hear the praises of those who have ericoun-
tered the perils of the deep, and of naval warfare ; so 1 cannot help
feeling somewhat like a' similar pleasure from the approhntitin' of
those who haVelahoured With me in the same field. This is the
highest honour which they can offer or I can reeeive,---(Applause.)
AS to the Ben; Baronet who has proposed my health in so flatter-
lag and eloquent a Manner, I feel that much of what he has said
in. my praise may arise from the influence of the sparkling' glass
which has been circulating among us (a latigh). I do not by any
means say that we have, yet reached the state of double vision (a
laugh), but it is well knowu, that objects seen through a glass ap-
pear magnified, and of a higher elevation. There is an anecdote in
the history of literature, not unconnected with this topic. When
the art of printing was first introduced, the types with which
the first works were printed, were 'taken down and converted
into drinking cups, to celebrate the glory of the invention.—
To be sure, there have been other literary glasses, not
quite so poetical; for it has been said, that us the war-
riors of the North drank their . mead, in the hall of Odin,
out of the skulls of those whom they bad slain inbattle4-so
booksellers drank their wine out of the skulls of author* (laug,htet.
and applause). But differeat times .haVe now arrived ; for
authors have got their share of the aurum potabile, and book-
, sellers have got rather the worst of it. There is one peculiarity
attendant upon genius, which is well worth mentioning, with re-
ference to the great objects of this admirable Institution. Men of
genius, like the precious perfumes of the East, are exceedingly
liable to exhaustion ; and the period often conies when nothing
of it remains but its sensibility ; and the life which long gave

light to the,world, sometimes terminates in becoming a buideit to
itself.--(Great applause.)—When we add to that the image of
Poverty—when we consider, the situation of that man of genius,
who in his declining years and exhausted resources, sees nothing
before him but indigence; it Is then that we can only esti-
mate the value of this Institution, which stretches out its
friendly aid to save him_froin the dire calamity.—(Applause.)—
This is a consideration which ought. to have its due effect up-
on the minds of the:.easy and opulent, who may themselves be men
of genius; butlthere 'limy be others who may have no property
,except that little light Uf• talent which God ban been pleased to
bestow upon and the person who sow midi-mks you speaks
the more feelingly,..beeanse be, cannot he sure that the fate of
genius, which he haS':jUstAleen.depieting, may not, one day, be
his own.--(lmmense apPliniie.)
Sir Jouw MAX.COLM adverted to the importance of acquiring
accurate knowledge -respecting the population of. :our eastern do-
minions, and proposed drink ." Prosperity to the Asiatic Su..
eiety." The
,toast was received with applause.
About 10 o'clo the Ville of Soinerset retired, and Sir John
Malcolm having taken the Chair, the conviviality of the Meeting
was kept up for sonie time longer.