The Sun.
London, England, 1827-10-06 00:00:00

After receiving the congratulations of the Mayor,
&C. the following Address was presented by John
Wand, Esq. acting as • Deputy Recorder of the
City:—

To Field Marshal the Most Noble Arthur, Duke of
Wellington, Knight of the' Most Noble Order of
the Garter, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Ho-
nourable Order of the Bath, Commander in Chief
of his Majesty's Forces, &c. &e. &c.
MOST ILLUSTRIOUS DUKE,

We, the Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty of
the city of Durham, beg leave to express to your
Grace the respect and admiration with which we
are penetrated, in contemplating your great and glo-
rious services to our Sovereign and to the country,
i❑ a war not more remarkable for violence Of con-.
tention, than for the interest dependent on its result.
We deeply feel that to the skill, energy, and
spirit, with which your brave army was conducted,
may be due, under Providence, not our present
happy condition alone, our security, our pre-emi-
nence, but that the existence of our nation, as an
independent state, may have been decided by events
which were planned by your genius, or mastered by
your address. -
If, at other epochs of our history, many noble in-
stances haie been exhibited of skilful leading, of
great and glorious daring, the sum of affairs was
never so fully hazarded as in that momentous struggle,
to the fOrtune of which you gave the first favourable
bias, and which was happily terminated by your last
great achievement.
May you long enjoy the honours awarded to you
by a grateful country, and in the
.command of the
brave army which you have trained to victory, may
you continue to afford to the Prince and to the
People a sure defence from every hostile attack on
our natural rights, our property, and hOnour.
His Grace returned the following answer:—
Gentlemen—l am highly flattered by the notice
which you have been pleased to take of me on the
occasion of my visit to my Noble Friend. lam per-
fectly convinced that neither power nor influence, or
any consideration, except that of the good to be de-
rived by the public from the notice, which a bdtly
such as ?ou may take of an individual employed' in
services such as those in which I have been engaged,
could induce you to honour me in this manner. I
beg you will accept my warmest acknowledgments
for the honour you have done me, and to be assured
that, in whateVer situation I may be placed in his
Majesty's service, it shall be my uniform endeavour
to conduct myself in. such a manner as to Merit your
approbation, and that -of the country at large. In
giving my answer tO.your address, I must, as I have
done upon former. oceasions, say how much I am in-
debted to my noble and gallant friends around me,
and the gallant officers and soldiers to whom I owe
every thing I possess, whether this honour or the
higher distinctions which have been conferred upon
me by My Sovereign.
The following address,, agreed on at a meeting of
the, inhabitants of the city .on Tuesday, was then
presented by Capt. Chipchase

To Field Marshal the Most Noble the Duke 'of Wel-

lington, &c. &c. &c.

My Lord Duke,—We, the inhabitants of Durham,
most gladly avail ourselves of the occasion of your
Grace's visit to, this 'city, to tender our warm and
most sincere congratulations on your arrival amongst
us, and to 'convey to you the expression of our
gratitude for those great and important services
which you have rendered to your Sovereign and the
country. *Nor can we, but reflect at a time when
the national character commands such universal ad-
miraticin, that to your Grace's unwearied zeal and
exalted, talent, during a war unparalleled in the
history .of Europe, attculed by achievements the
most splendid,' is chiefly to be attributed,' the high
and preeminent station which England now occupies
in the estimation •of surrounding nations.. And
whilst we. view with feelings of pride and exultation
those heroic deeds, engraved on the hearts of a
grateful Rpople,,we fervently hope that your valuable
life may be pr6trved to The latest period of human
expectation, and that you may thus be enabled to ful-
fil those various and important duties, calculated by
your Grace's exertions, to effectually promote the
national prosperity, and the best interests of the
service and the state.

To this address his Grace replied in the following
terms :—Gentlemen—l am greatly flattered by your
address. I beg to assure you that the national cha-
racter is not to be attributed to me, or any action of
mine, but to the national spirit. It is that spirit
which carried us. through all our difficulties in the
late contest, and which, I hope, will ever continue
to animate us., 'I must say, that it gives me the
highest satisfaction that you should have entrusted
the presentation of this address to a gentleman whose
services I have formerly bad an opportunity of wit-
nessing and approving, and Who, I am sorry to say,
was a personal sufferer in the conflict. . I beg once
more to return you my most sincere thanks.

His Grace then returned to his carriage amidst
the cheers of the populace, and was drawn off to-
wards the County Courts, on the green, in the front
of which the Durham Yeomanry Cavalry, under the
command of Lieut.-Colonel Tower, were drawn up.
His Grace having again alighted, and ascended the
steps in the front of the Courts, the following ad-
dress was presented by the Hon. William Keppel
Barrington, and read by him with peculiar' energy.
" To the Most Noble the' Duke of Wellington, &c.
" The Address of a meeting of the Magistrates,
Clergy, Gentry, Yeomen, and Inhabitants of the
County Palatine of Durham, held pursuant to
public advertisement.

" My Lord Duke—We, the Magistrates, Clergy,
Gentry, Yeomen, and Inhabitants of the County
Palatine of Durham, beg leave to testify to your
Grace the high gratification which we feel in re-
ceiving among us the great benefactor of his country,
the deliverer of nations' the most illustrious of those
heroic warriors, who have restored peace tp the
civilized world.

" My Lord, we do not forget—our latest poste-
rity never will forget—the awful prospect which
tof eyn
councils
sG
difficulties
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from
command.combination
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lowered around us when our beloved Sovereign first
tfde oirlooenminiii odpte pressed
ewithout,shsiforgetesdtrhoalniiel:
de sttrhoe
Britain—
which staggered the stoutest hearts—which startled,
though it could not appal, the Ungovernable spirit of
a nation.of free men.
" It was then that your brace stood forth, calm
and unmoved amidst the general dismay, confident
in the resources of your own genius, and in the
energies of that people, all whose means were freely.
and unsparingly entrusted to your prowess. You
silenced every anxious fear, and- bade us feel again
the high aspirings of a generous ambition, hallowed
‘
by sympathy, with as holy a cause as ever nerved
the arms of its defenders. You ceased not to add
victory to victory, till the last crowning achieve-
mew, which left you without an enemy to conquer,
or an oppressed country to set free.
" But we will not trespass further on your Grace's
patience.
May you long live to vindicate in arms
the rights and honour of your country, *mid they
be again invaded, or rather to be, by your very
name, a tower, of strength, repelling even the thought
of hostile aggression, and preserving and perpetuat-
ing that peace which is the noblest monument of all
your victories ! May you live honoured by the con-
fidence of the Sovereign whose throne you have
'upheld, and followed by the grateful attachment of
the country, which, under. Providence, you have
saved !"

To this -address his Grace with great animation,
replied as follows :

Gentlemen, I want words to express the feelings
which have been excited in my breast upon hearing
read your eloquent address. Gentlemen, this
country saved itself by its exertions, and by the
example of those exertions it excited the remainder
of Europe to the same exertions, in co-operation
With those of this COttlitrYk theik own delivevince.