Star.
London, England, 1808-08-05 00:00:00

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This sumptuous Feast.. indicative-of the sympathy
which England feels in the glorious cause of Spain,
was yesterday attended by a company of Noblemen
and Gentlemen, Comprehending a very large propor-
tion of the mercantile wealth of the British metropo-
lis. No former occasion, within our memory, was
equally distinguished by the respect and opulence of
the couipany. It was not a party meeting, for men
of all parties are equally ardept and zealous in. the
cause which has aroused the people of Spain. And
we saw, therefoit, embodied the heads of all the great
companies of the first mercantile and banking-houses,
together with several Minliters of the Country, States-
men out of place, Foreign Ministers, and other illus-
trious characters---all eager to testify to the illustri-
ous Deputies from Spain, the interest which they felt
in the deliverance of their country. .
So early as three o'clock the street was crowded
with spectators of every description, anxious to see
the company on their way to the dinner, and particu-
larly the Spanish part of it. The windows of all the'
houses were filled with elegantly-dressed females, the
roofs were not visible, so great was the crowd that
covered them, and even every lamp-post swarmed
with boys. In such a crowd,agitated by so much anxie-
ty and expectation, it was not an easy matter, how-
ever laudable the sentiment and feeling; to preserve
order and decgrurn. This difficulty appears to have
been foreseen, and every proper precaution was em-
ployed to meet it. The'City Officers mustered et an
early hour in great force, and prepared a passage
through the crowd sufficient for the free passage of
the carriages. With the exception of so much open
space, the street was one solid mass of people, many
of whom fainted from the eicessive heat and pressure.
So early as four o'clock the company began to arrive,
and at five all the scats in the great room were filled,
except those at the table appropriated to the Noble
Visitors and principal Patrons of the fete. At half
past six the Spankh Deputies made their appearance.
Their approach was announced by the loud plaudits
acid huzzas of the crowd in the street. It was an ani-
mated and cheering welcome—such a burst of honest
enthusiasin does honour to human nature. On their
arrival, they were conducted into an anti-chamber,
and, at seven o'clock, dinner was served up in a most
sumptuous style. It consisted. of every delicacy of
the season. The tables were covered with turtle
and venison. Champaign, claret, and other costly
and delicate wines, of the finest quality, graced the
board. The Chair was filled by Sir FRANCIS BARING,
and immediately about him sat the Spanish Deputies,
Viscount Marenosar the Spanish Admiral, the Por-
tuguese Ambassador, Earls CAMDEN and Ballo:use,
Viscount BIDMOUTH, Lords ERSKINE and HAITKES.
BURT, SITS CUARLES PRICE and WILLIAM CURTIS,
Messrs. SHEREDANp CANNING, rERCEVAL, and WIND.
!Mk ; Aldermen Cowen and SHAW ; Messrs. Mat-
TEORNTON) &c. These Noblemen and Gentle-
men' attended by the City Marshals, and the Stew-
ards, with their wands in their hands, proceeded
through the rooms amidst the acclamations of the
company; and took their seats at the head el the table,
in the great room. The company amountad to be-
tween four and five hundred, and during dinner the
greatest conviviality prevailed over the scene—joy
'sparkled in every eye, and a smile mantled upon every
countenance: They appeared a company met to ce-
lebrate the consummation of the glorious cause, and
not its progress, which, however glorious and pro-
mising, cannot yet be Attended with that confidence
and unqualified joy Which final and happy completion
can alone inspire.
About half past eight the room's were lighted up,
and the glass lustres and branches made a beautiful
appearance; They displayed beneath, in the great
room, six tables, parallel to each other, along; the
room, with a seventh across at the head, filled Sidi
the most distinguished visitors. The princieal table
in the middle Was ornamented with six pyramids,
bearing the arms and emblems of Spain, Porteeal,
England; and Sweden, decorated with wreaths of
flowers, and the colours of the respective nations
flying it their summits. The parterre, or sand-work,
reptesaved in one place Britannia offering her assis-
tance to Spain; in another, Fame suppatiag a me-
dallion, on which was inscribed the names of the dif-
ferent Provinces of Spain, who have stood the fore-
most in resisting the common enemy ; in another, the
figure of Time crowning the Spanish Patriot's Vli:g
with Laurel ; in another, the figure of Hope leaning
on the rock of Justice ; in other parts, the Arms and
Standard; of Spain intermixed with those of Eng-
land, with different mottos, stich as a Veneer 0:

M. rr," " Success to the Spanish Heroes," Ste. 8:c
The ornaineets stood from seven to eight feet high,
p3urtraying in one part the Battle of the Nile, with
the blawing up of L'Orient ; in another, Trophici
of Flis, &c. &c. ; at the tops of all, the Royal Stan,
d rds of England and Spain, the whole finished with
,-,..rlands and bouquets of flowers,, China figures,
v s,!s, 3cc. Ste*. The colours were mixed and entwined
th each other, and the whole had a beautiful effect.
Ih2 I'ortuguese Ambassador and Viscount MATE-
ROSA sat on the right hand of Sir ErtANars BARING,
and next to them the Cabinet Ministers. On his left
were the Spanish Admiral and several distinguished
foreigners. The other side of the crust table was' Uled
by Viscount S/DMOVIII, Lord Easatxr., Mr. Sam-
DAN, and several other English Nobility and Gentry.
After dinner, Nod Nobis was sus g by Messrs. Dig-
num, Taylor, Doyle, Gibbon, Leete, Vaughan, and 1,
Sale, in a very superior style. The following toasts
were drank with three times three, accompanied by
appropriate music and songs t
1. The King. •
2: The Queen.
3. The Prine of Wales, and the rest of the Royal Fainily. '
4. His Majesty Ferdinand the Seventh, King of Spain aud of
the Indies.
6. His Royal Highness the Prince Retest of Portugal, and may
the House of Brnanza "never" ceat: to reign.
6. The King of Sweden, our Coadjutor iu the glorious cause.
7. The King, of the Sicilies.
IL The President and the United States of America.
On this toast being given, some partial disappro-
bation was sewn; but on a sang being called for
from Mr. Dignum, general unanimity was restored.
.• Sir FRANCIS Baum° next called the attention of
the company to a toast which he felt must, when
heard, awake in every British bosom the sincerest
feelings of sympathy and teal.
Toast--46 Success to the gallant Heroes in Spain, oar brave as-
sociates in libaty and arms: —Mttsic: " To arms ! To arms !"
' This glee was admirably sung by the Gentlemen undei the direc-
tion of Mr. Dismal.

The
toast Was drank with three times three, incl
(never was witnessed a more general expression of sin-
cere Mid ardent sympathy than was exhibited by
every individual in the respectable company assero.
bled. The following song, adapted to the occasion,
was rent sung by Mr. Dzostrat, amidst the loudest
pinuttits of apprthation
Long by anarchy, faction, and treason defaed,
he order and peace of the world had been broke ;
And nations, by chains of oppression disgrae.d,
Had Shrunk from their duties, and bow'd to the yoke.
By Cunning o'errearl'd,l; by terror dismay'd,
A Despot's decrees had unstrung ev'ry nerve;
And, Virtue or Courage no longer display'd,
Men sunk into slaves, and were willing to serve.
Entrench'd deep in crimes now the Despot's assn!Fd,
And his arts shall no longer his tyranny guard ;
Thine example, blest BIITAIN ! at last has prevz.:i'd—
Thy firmness at last shall obtain its reward.
Gallant Spain has her cruel Oppressor defy'd
To Freedom, Rerginn, and Glory, a friend.
Her children once more with us Britons allied,
The dame they have caught shall through Europe extend.
Thui the true sons of valour all over the earth,
By wishes long since, and by sympathies liuk'd,
Their rights Shall assert, and, with isiberty's birth.
Usurpers shalt fall, and their fame be extinct.

The CHAIRMAN then rose to propose to the coat.
pany the healths of the illustrious guests who had that
day honoured them with their presence. Before he
announced it from the Chair, it WAS his duty to state,
that through an intimate acTiaintance with the com-
mercial world, for the last fifty years, he never did see
a more, nor indeed such a respectable company, as
was that day assembled, in this great metropolis. In
addressing them on the subject of the present rant-
ing, he was uware that h= only anticipated the ge-
nuine and sincere sentiments by which they were ac-
tuated. He should, therefore, at one conclude, by
giving, as a toast,
'6 'nee heaths. of the illustrious Guests who then honoured
the company by their presence. May they, on their return to their
rative country, have the proud gratification of seeing that loyalty
and lase of country, which they have ethibital, crowned with
the success which so noble a cause descries."

this toast was drank with three times three: Shouts
of appeobation resounded through the room, and the
Spanish Deputieva'together rose, conveying to the
company, by their action and appearance, the great
and generdus satisfaction which such a mark of re-
spect excited in their bosotiris.
Mr. CANNIIIC, at the request of the Spanish Depu.
ties, rose to express their thanks—" Gentlemen, I
have the honour to be called upon by the Illustrious
Guests whom you, this day, entertain, to return; in
their names,, their sincere and ardent thanks for the
proud mark of respect and approval which the great
Commercial interest of the British Metropolis has con-
ferred upon them. Tier desire me to assure you Of
the high sense they entertain of a reception not more
gratifying to them than it is advantageous to the
noble cause in
.v...hit:h we arc all engaged; hispiting
all those incentive.; of energy and zeal, fts well LI Spain
as in Britain, and, indeed, in every country that has.
the mind and fcrtitadc to shake off the vile thraldoin
which, unforttrnat2ly foe the Lace, happiness and coin-
fort of mank4-4, has he,— lot suffered to continue.
They also dzsit" 71. e t,, .ay, that it would be not flat-
tering to this ~-.,:J!!try, and crust be dishonourable to
thernselve.. they to affirm, that Spain, unless sup-
ported ti,i; country, worth' not have engaged in its
M:o• • niggle. Fardifierent were the meti ves which
Irnr, :ti their countrymentothe awful but heroic deci-
si, "'hough alone and unai2ed, they had determined
on the exertion. The effort they 'would have made, with
, whatevet prospects either of friendly co-operation or
of ultimate success.—( Loud peals of oi,probatkrz. ) But
in the testimony which Great Britain has so promptly
borne to those efforts, in the sympathy which every
class of its people do feel for Spanish success, in its
preparations for active co-operation, and in its per-
formances to a great extent, they, whom I have now!
the honour to represent, do feel hopes the most agree-
able to arise from the assistance of the British nation.
That their country should have afforded to the op-
pressed world a well-grounded expectation of rescue,
is to their the best of consolationthe great reward
' to which Spain looks, for such efforts; is in the per-
manent friendship Of Great Britaln.--;-(Hear hear )
They have also desired me, as yonr guests, and as
their own toast, again to propose the health of yotkr
venerable and beloved Soirereign."
This toast was drank with rapturous accliMationt,
and the musical part of the company sarig
'Mid the Tempest that o'er her Horizon is spread,
'Mid the Bolts that around her in Thunder are hurrd,
Behold where Britannia raises her hooch
And stands like a Tow'r, the last hope Of the world !
The Nations of Europe, ah! where are they gone,
'rimy that shrunk from the lightning or bow 'd to the b.b.st ?
Still nearer and nearer the Deluge rolls on,
High swain with the Ruins o cr which it has past.
But tug's where at length a new promise of clay
Bryaks bright in the East, and bids Anarchy cease;
A% it rises in Splendour, the gloom shall give way
To Freedom's cam breeze, and the sunshine of Peace.
True sous of Iberia, boldly you arm,
Your homes and your altars from Robbers to save,
While Beatty excites you, and mingles her charm,
E'en in Chivalry's land, to inspirit the Brave.
"Its In proud Usurpation's and Tyranny's spite,
'Gainst Ambition mast lawless, 'rtinst Treason most foul:
'Tis for Loyalty, Laws, and Religion, you fight,
For all that can rouse or ennoble the soul.
Arad shall you not conquer ? Oh hear us, kind HEAVEN,
(1 by aid we invoke, as in Thee Is our trust,)
To Spain be the Harvest, to us be but giVell,
The Glory of-aiding tke cause of the Just.
Then think not in idle profusion we feast,
While our Hearts with our Toasts in pure unison saw.;
New hopes shall inspire each illustrious Guest,
And the story they tall shall pro: e death to the foe.
Henceforwards false Int'rest ;hall sever no more
The Queen of the Indies and Queen of the Waves,
•
They honour their King, their CLAIOR adore,
And of Tyrants the scourges, will never be slaves.
The CHAIRMAN then proposed the following toasts:
" May the united efforts of Great Britain, Spain, Portugal, and
Sweden, rescue the Continent of Europe from oppression and
tyranny." Three times three.
" May Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish, and British valour, al.
ways unite id support of religion, liberty, loyalty, and law."
The health of the Chairman was then drank with
three times three, every indivi4tial expressing to those
immediately in his vicinity the-Aligation which the
company must feel to Sir FRANCis BASING- for his
attentive, liberal, and patriotk conduct.
Sir FRANCIS, in a few words, returned thanks. He
felt that, from his state of health, it was impossible
for him to fulfil the duties of a President to such a
spectable company. However, when he was I a loured
with the application to act in that capacity, on such
an occasion, he felt the call irresistible,' and he there-.
fore obeyed it. ( Repeated apttoktiort.) lie conclu•

ded with proposing, ividsout dh4action, the heaths lee
the Noble Visitor, who had that day honoured the
Meeting with their presence.
This toast was drank with loud acclamations, and
the Chairman communicated to the company that be
was requested, by fee Noble Visitors whose health,
were drank, to propiess that of Mr. CANNING. (Crud
applause.)
Mr. Cara/um-4' Gentlemen, when last t had the
honour to address yoti, it was in the character of in-
tetpreter to your illustrious guests of the Spanish
nation—l did then feel sincerely the observations
which it was my duty to Make. In my own
I have now to return you my thanks for this
confirmed on myself,, with the strongest assurances
of sincerity and res?ect."
The Spanish Deputies, accompanied by the other
Noble Guests, then took their leave. On their de.
paqure, as on their entrance, every demonstration of
respect was paid to them. Every man appeared to
feel the value of those sacred principles and efforts
which it was the object of the day's meeting to cherish
and to comtnemorate.

Sir FRANCIS BAII/NO was succeeded in the Chair
by BEE,grox Lot Esq. Governor of the Bank of
England* who kept up_ the festivity of the night to a
late hour.