The Sun.
London, England, 1817-06-05 00:00:00

REArns3 piTT CLUIL

After the toast." To the Memory of Mr. Pin,"
Ii O been drunk, the Rev.' Archdeacon NkitiS ad-
dressed Meeting to the followiog effect i---Ite-
colketine, as I dn, the extraordinary violence
with which the contending parties of Pitt and
Fox Fortner ly opposed each other, when both
those powerful men were living;, I have some-
titnes felt a degree of appeettensitinilest Meetings
of this kind Should seem to -have in them ;soy
thing of a factious Spirit, or to imply a wish to
perpetuate divisions and animosities among our
fellow subjects. r t With such views, I trust
there are 141 any perstins in this room, Who
would ever' meet or associate at all ; and that We
lisve much more honourable relations to give to
"taurselves,, our townsmen, anti to all the world,
"tor thus meeting anneally (es we now do for the
fourth time) to romineMorate the tattoos,. the
Virtues, and the public services of Mr. Pitt,
Mr. Pitt has a right to be commemorated, as a
most zealous and disinterested lover of his coun-
try ; as a man, who, whatever may he thought of
the means whit h lie took, wore out his streogth,
Isis health, and his lite, in his 'endeavours to do
her service. lit' my opinion, the means were
tnoct judicious, and most excellent ; and it- ap.
pears also that they were favoured by Provideoce,
since when Mr. Pitt was, doubtless for wise rea-
sons, withdrawn trom us, other men were succes-
sively raised up, to act upon his principles, and
to pursue his plans. To which perseverance we
must, under !leaven, attrilnite Our present na-
tional glOry end exterhal security.
The true light in which Mr: Pitt deserves to be '
considei'el; anti in which 1 trust lieA is considered,
,irt this, .and every other Pitt Club throughout the
Empire, is, that of the Defender and Vreserver of
the Constitutional -Monarchy of the Country.
Yes, the Constitution of this country is original,
ly and essentially a Monerchy, as a Monarchy at
was established, as,a Monerchy it has been -gra-
dually iMproved, and as a Monarchy it has been
raised to the highest pitch • of Consequence anti
glory. The country never was comniciely Miser-
able, but when for a time it became aeßeptiblic ;
nor did it theft recover its energy trod prosperity,
till the republican chief had made hiniself.in fact,
though not in, name, .0 poivertul Monarch :.thus
happily preparing the way for the restoration of
our ancient and legal forms of Governmeot. The
Dion.tichy is the happiness of 'this country I I)e7
fined,, and liMited, aud.perfectly'tindcrstood as it
is, in 'truth though the people' have nett always
coMprehended that it is. so, the best-and surest
bulwark of the Liherties.Of the Peuple•
his is toparrlox, but a great and important
'truth. • 'I he mild power at a Briii,h Sovereign is
otedlle to r,oppress tar Injure Inky one ; but it is
Able Will re3liy to protect die humblest
to agaitist the mightiest. It cannot` condemn
1166kb—without the !awl ; but it eau freely
pardon flOni it!f.owil;CilevoleOce. Iry other re-
Speets, the Sovereign can do oohing, and they

cwt► fi t for him ate always rtsilonsiLle try tt►r
s.

Power undefined may-altVels lw abused, Even
the power of n reformed Howie c f Commons May
overthrow the Constitution ; HS once it did, when
the Puritans HMI the Army had refornied it, tts
thvy professed, and perhaps intentletl gitvu it tot
undefined god unlimited strength, which swept
away every other power in the country. Butt a
power, such as the. tmwcr of the whose,
reel y step is limited, whose every 1110Ventellt
known, 'flevvr he tormidahie, even had
hawk ; and it has:been our happiuess always to
have seen it in the hest.

My opinion .as. a. private ttnin, which, however,:
I do not wis,h to force upoti any. one, is that the
Executive Government in this Countty has its
little power a can possibly be mane consistent'
4vith the confltict of any Goverument. In some
of those did-lei:lt eircuttotances in which Mr.
Pitt defended it, it yet tainly appeared not to have
enough, had it not been happily supported, at
the time, by a double confidence : a confidence
in the King, and a confidence in his Mioi•
sters. , Never WA'S confidence better placed. The
'King, though often vilely traduced (and ne-
ver snore vilely, than by th4t linking assassin Jii-
nius, whoever ise might be) was one of tbe. hest
of Kings umf best of men.. Lie was also in all
essential iAtints (I speak from, the. most comet
information). one of the wisest, and if he has now
iallen into a state of mina, which we all deplore,
there can be little doubt, that it bIIS been very
principally occasioned by his long, a..(1 unremit-
ting anxiety for the welfsne of his people. Toil
confidence, therefore, was happily plated. Nor
was that less just, which was given to Mr. Pier,'
who, whatever else
,he might lie (on. tl hick
411#111 not held' dispute) was, by e+ery
pool, it Mali the- rmist inflexible nod
rested integritvi. It has been said, autfalleged
A fault, duo be wit ain .Most tiitpeily if
iv is oriLtitik'd tis;it ihYti, %%lin totve such taiews tt)
serve the p,ddie, sli nett also have.a generous Inn-
to cificr it other\vire might their great
ielprti'itio* he hkr. mid the ihtetests of nations
committed to interior men.;

11Ir. l'itt*s ambition seems to have been chiefly'
tit it doing gooti-.-ile therct4l,, was y mai!
deserved the public ; so fiatqtativiy
for Its- he haft it ; for othei wise Joe. danger. which
threatened his lime, k:ould, hot, riy to sroni. have
need NIMTOMOteti. Hit coOfideuce in p rt lesslar
persons is ill no of our Constituti.en, tvhieli
Is 111.14 of safeguards' and !ICC:146111A agaiust all
possible dispositions, and it would be well, it in
some difficult ,situations we co:dd be enabled to
proceed without it.
The danger -of Mr. ['il'l's most- arduous time
%vas not that of toreign erietnirs,—TO tiOlf. thank
*the spirit aud energy ot t he, people Wive
befit always
.ennal • But it was the tiltrubion of
repoblicao and, republican feelings
throughout Europe, which mane ,our principal
datiger- Under these circumstances, Mr. Pitt
stood up tor, the Monarchy, and by his Wisdom.
(pat penievrratiee he proved the preserver, (l sill
;tot .4i. Saviour, as some CMlSider
that word AS COO,t'CrAl (,•ti to mita higherdcli-
%feral) ce) Our the preserver- of4he Coust
For this, all only ra ot t.,e peoplB%--owe him their
,
gratitude : for on the security of our Constitu-
tional Monarchy, e‘ery hope of rational LiaatiTY
delyeothi.
In. a :visit to the Metropolis, I hare seen with
sorrow, that in the late agitation of men's minds,
gttine have been rash enough to write upon the
walls,'' No King,"—Alas ! alas ! how severe a
seirtouce do Such deluded people write against
themselves! For it there was no King, (such at
.our happy Constitution makei the King) there
,would be no security for anyune. The loWer'or-
ders might seem to gain power, but they'would
grin: it only, as has always so happened .in such
cases, to their own inisfortuue and wriliappiness.
May, the people always he Free, and always be
happy! .Such is the heartfelt wish of every
Pittite ! But, for their own saket,• never
may they have that power which is much more
%%leery and 'Mori safely vested, by ourConstitu.
tion, in the hangs of a lititited Soverign !
The burden Of so long and arduous a war has
nroillict, at its conclusion, a distress which all
'feel, and all lament, ,yet it as ,the war concluded,
through -mercy of God, t!iumpikitatly—uot-
withstoncling which, distress has been very near
producing an extensive disaffection to the Consti-
tution What 'then must have bee* the case, it
the conclusion had heel), &s it seems that the turn
01 isillornellt might have Made it, unfortunate ?
It is too tout It fObe feared that then every -thing
would have-gone -to ruin. !fire venerable fabric of
liberty, constructed by the wisdom of successive
•tges, and cemented by Oe efforts of true patriots,
insist have crumbled into dust ; and they who sure
vived the dreadful shock !mutt have tinharked upon
aneW experiment of making something better than
the best, and happier than that under which mil-
lions 11.11Ve found_ their happiness, and the whole
nation a glory which is above all contntou glory—
, desperate and hopeless experiment ! From such-
an extremity, if we were virtually preserved by
thp Wisdom anti cotinsels. of Mr. Pitt, the :De-
k: Ntien troII:PFUSERVIiR Of otir CONSTITUTIONAL
MONARCUY, with reason do Wenteet to'celebrate
his memo; y, and to strengthen the hope, that the
,
principies on which- be acted may always bejlp.
held.

Let me not omit, before I _conclude, to,notice
that the_ co-operations into which the SoVereigns
of Europe were driven at-last by dire necessity,
was the very measure which the wisdom nt Pitt
,had planned ; and which it was his most poignant
grief to.see so often baffled. We may then assert,
that'in the Field of WATerthno the genius of -Pitt
obtuineti its fined triOntph ; and that what tk he-
toism of WeLLit.ioTot.i anti his unequalled troops
pvrtortned, was, at the same time, the finishing
aittl conatnifination of the plans'of Pitt, for the tk-
liverance of .Prrope.—May then his tnettiory
always. venerable ! Nay, It MUST be venerable,. as
itS consummate wisdom and true patrintnan
shall have tinyrvialile in the minds onnen.