The Sun.
London, England, 1820-06-22 00:00:00

SIT,ECII

Delivered by ROBERT WILLIAM BRANDLING, Esq. the
President, at the Celebration of the Anniversary of the
Birth of the late Riglit Mott. WIL7,tAm Pt rT, on .S,(iturday,
the 27th of MAy, 1810, at the Assembly Rooms, Newcastle.

" GeNTLem eN.—lt is not m+• intention •to trouble you wi!li

many obvervaiions previous to proposing the next toast,
which %%111 he to the urturory' of that i►nn►ortal man whose
birth we are this day iuet to celebr►te. Unfoitunatrly for

this country be lias been too long dead, his memory has I►een
assailed with too much tuticnur by his and,,uage •

serous-toes, has been &tended wit!► too u►uch zeal, energy,
and succ►ss, by his grateful and eloquent fr►end,, to allow-

tote to itepe, t lob I can give the chat m of novelty to any pane-
gyric I may attempt to proloitince upon him; not that I
would have you inmeine that I Colnciee his fame to have
reach.. ttsi inerielati splenettiti ; tin It,. emulsify, I confi-
dently anttcil•ate, t hat the day Wilt at i itre. (when the ‘t g tare
suall have heaped its mounl pert eiquiteit) of iteeie
Whose vat-'ii t lahea dead boos by ht. heard," but a ho ilur-
big his tile, wit. anted .1110 silvll,e, It) IS Sloperolotts
la-
tr,tts, .ll' anisleal by till t obit:el—when Engiaiid, without It
diesentbi, emee, sit oi pity teat fittesage which he Sit justly
due ni the eclscst, tie twit. el, and assurediy the must intle•
peninuit minded et the 01 tlet:ltelllS of her history.
1111• u Is tint toy illtchtloo lit tatiglie oil atilt All!. Obi.-
' suite &realm Oat ,0.. tit evens, of w.,ieh tit toy itt )0.1 Were toe
and o ills a bath Oi.olltiess ad lit you ale well
at:guano ea, yet. 1 !lust pin will allow ate In state iu general
It l rus,. as lit .t ff 3 as I can, the eitiiiiitt• of tont ardent and
unfeigned amirn anon 1 icci, and it;wre)s hate n It. fur that
M....1im0s nicht-mi.!, alio why, instead of spin mug, 1 court
two elery tug tit le of a leititi
•‘ .1 tot,) to itilitttetott.. lute eharecte of a Minister eat this
great netien, a e oager to cohienipl'ate 111111 111 rwo distiffet
elieractere, as ill,- goat dem of itoitour obit twice
ill hie iu,teiCoorse ii Oft kurrigil :Nut es, a• o.:e it 1 helearliw,
pewees or Europe, .ltd :licit as the of lici internal
policy, the preeeerer et tilt ve.ieralior leas and ilistitatious,
awe the. prOteCtio- of that whiCi. IS So justly
the boast of Engli-inotru anti Inc rut t and admitation
tot the world. Lou:king a. the litiotortal 71"1.1 ,in the first
poon of view, anat. Was England at the lute hr ilisUllted the
tel off Out es nineet ? Si rift of her- province., battled - in
hes at ass, lino by eitei +let faction, setittee at by her ene-
mies. di serf eil loy her traeids, she had become the bye-weed
and .os:set-yr tit 1,1111,1( ; she had suitl into that stale of hupt-
fits
itt•Sittllitif tic) aid tlegiatiatioti, from which not even
his teieets coin& have raised her, had he nut heel en-
abled, by a couhdence in his iirtuts and integrity, to have
itemised the enet glee of Ills Collitttyluelt, altd to have
kept alive tinier eittrgies by the wisdom of his plans, aed
the enceese tit hie oeerations. Watch hint then during the
peried lu which he. was allowed, with little inlet ruplion from
knit:ego Towers, to pursue ill peace those plane a loch he
he" formed for his country's aggrandizenient; you will
see hire, by a rare conibivation of wisdom and inneelice,
of energy atid forbearance, gradually restoring the lust
character tit his country, restoring ColilidetlCe to toll' friends,
and teacoing our enemies respect, till at the Ineaking font
at that terrible tempest which It pleased Providence to al-
low lora quarter et it cetitury Lo dtsol.rte the fairest pro-.
vinces of the universe, ieueland hod reached such a pitch
of pioseerity, that she' wit iticatit loutieCl up to, as she
had peen in days gone by, as the erbitiess of Europe, the
nal mar enerdtan of lioerty and older. At this period, no
unjust Maine hope of Itotobliog a jealous, formniaiiie anti we-
leitioue rival, actuated his conduct; while Flatlet respected
the ihOlependenee of (Abel toil ions,—w tulle there was a chance
tit bet estahhsliug a Government the solid principles
of ilbvrta and social ord.- she slut wed the slightest
disposition to observe the relations tit peace and amity with
other long he itlftilltittl front all iuterfertneft in
her alien s ; but alien site openly excited the subjects of every
calm. to rebel aeniiist their Llot innent,—vv hen she auda-
ciously avowe. her intention et statilletnug en universal de-
g, ;wine Deseuttem, of WlllOl apt: was to he the Head, he
sass that the tenet ties of Eta tip., the glory anti independence
ui Engtaiid, were at slake, and he tit lutteer hesitated. The
events tit that satieuitiaiy and protracted coolest are welt
6itto,ll. Aticical ettigdemis overturlied couidless in,riatls oil
'built sole. pt truth the race of the tamp; valour aliti SUOMis-
soh' tillaVitiltsig to arrest the erueress of the frenzied
at wit's tit 1..al attabloats, tidily, 101 l wariii, ',Mimi; who is
Slit re that ..yeti saw without ieelings suu,ewttat allied to ter-
, full, or c<lit rival to Its imarouailoo without awe the ablest,
the st subtle, the most itivrter rite of hue toes of England,
nearer to the attaiiiiiit of tit t uiversal Empire, than tyre the
; &teem* of Louts had ever pictured to his magma-
tion; hut alto is their now Su bate, 11l k% ~,,,t; iireast ileac
feelings do not lee %tea ti, the emettens of joy elle ivansport,
;vitro tie refieets thin itum tins diemal tied .deeradtal state
Europe was ticlinef tat by the valour and colistancy tit the 10119
of toe United Kingdoms, excited aid ttept* tniee uy the ge-
nius tit the liumortai Pitt ? True it is, he slid not live to
witness tile consuunuatioti of his Lopes; but to that manly
spirit, which tie iniused Into the Nautili, and into the re:ems-
oils of oar Knees, are to be ascrilied those sp4.ticlid
acnieveuients which have stied a lustre upon our ttaallC..aed
which Wiwi:quantity concluding ate li'ratalger anti St aterieo,
secured the Luierties or Europe, atlif 101 to SUCcCetilils ages
netems exemples of berme and successful va tem, tv
they way ettieavour 11, emulate, but which it la impossible
they should surpass. Had we listened to the tirtiia Cod com-
promising councils of his uppunents, true it is, we might have
saved our wealth, but, for what purpesei io bate teen al-
lowed when our inurtel enemy had consolidated his power,
when lie had excluded us from Oil 'linen:mires? with the civi-
lized .world, to lay it at his feet, in triter to obtain permis-
sion, perhaps, to einer iiito au honourable compentiton with
Kurnr or Aineterdam, that our proud Metropolis might , be
inscribed, instead of them, as the second or third city of his
august Empire; hut, these were not the 'lmmure of Pitt.
The paltry sacrifice of our
He never despaired of khiglend,
vile dross, nay, the real and heart-renditig sacrifice of the
best blood of our country, was, in his manly estimation, not
for a moment to be weighed against the preservation of our
National Honour, and our National ledependencat and it is
to these juet and honourable principles of foreign policy,
which ought ever to warm the heart orthat loan \dale rules
the.destinits of England, that we pay the vuluntary and sin-
cre tribute of our gratitude and respect.
" Turning teem his foreign to his domestic policy, his prin-
ciples appear to have been equally deer, his conduct equally
admirable. To'preserve that balance of power between the
three estates of the realm, upon which our ancestors had so
wisely established our Goverinent—to suffer no rash innova-
tion upon those admirable laws, and venerable institutions,
which have been productive also much actual happness, ape
pears to have been the great object of his unreuaitted anew%
tiun, from which he neither seffered.hirnsell to be seduced he,
'the allurements of ambition or diverted by the violence of
teeth-in. Called upon by his sovereign to assist in the salva-
tion of his couutry, he found that sovereign fettered by the
union and cabal of twoparties, who had hitherto been in open
and inveterate hostility to each other, in one of the clearest,
and as far as the liberty of the subject is concerned, io one
of the most necessary of the, royal prerogatives, the free eiCt•
tioll of an untried Alinisler of the Crown. How did he acts?
Did he, to uromole his own ambition, endeavour to scatter
the serifs of discord amongst the subjects lit the realm ? Did
he attempt to persuade -the third estate, ur any part of the
third estate, that there ritual be something radically vicious
in that constitution which could allow the existence of a state
of things so contrary to the intention of those who framed it?
No ! he had studied that Constitution better. His pure and
lofty spirit could not stoop to baseness! He threw his, Sove-
reign at once upon the nianly spirit and patriotism .of the
country; and what was flue result I Triumphant to that
Sovereign, triumphant to his adviser, and glorious to the
memory of those who in training that system of Cidvernment,
had su wisely adjusted the counteracting powers,-.that While
virtue and petriotism continue to be the moving principle,
.we are sure of the safe, the exact, the harmonious movement
of that mighty, complex, hut. beautiful machine, the British
Constitution. Having fixed himself thus, itt the hearts of his
eruintr3inen; having established his adMinistration by-a direct
appeal to the whole body of the nation; it might he expected
that he would have been allowed to have pursued those
pane that he had formed fur his country's welfare, in compa-
rative peace, undisturbed by the violence of party, or.the eta.;
moue of faction ; hot it was'far otherwise: from the very out-
set of that eventful period, during which he was allowed to
preside over the Councils of the Nation, he was assailed by
the meet formidable array of confedureted talent, that ever
opposed a Minieter of the Crown. Untried in. Parliamentary
warfare, he had to contend with the veterans in that science;
with those great masters of eloquence, whose powers had been
metered by practice, and whose energies were increased, in
part, by the remembrance of power lost, in others, by the ir-
ritation of disappointed hope. To these noble antagienists he
()Heise(' in his own person matchless eloquence, unrivalled
financed shill, and spotless integrity. The confidence of Iris
country, instead of- beiligtlimitoished was it ugmented, and the
host of hiseipponents gradually dwiielled away. But be hadalso
te contend with a band of a very different descriptlone-=•a lac-
gun conjaised to the revs ant of the -followe.rs 9f Wilkes,

united to the enthusiastic admirers c 4 the turlinitrit demo-,
mats of former times, and the recently established Repoli-11a
of North America, together with those restless and discus'
tented spirits that exist under all Governments; who are
without any other fixed object, but the desire of change, care'
less of the 'neaps, and reckless of the end ; ionied in their
progress by the disciples of the Modern philosophy, who have
sliewn by their savi-qe, indiscriminate, and unteleating bus;
tility:against all systems, except their own wild, Made, ail
ill detioed ones, that the suns of infidelity are to the lratt as
intolerant as the must brutal tyrants of former times, arras
the roost 'furious religious bigots that erer disgraced our hell
Faith in the middle ages. 'to these, who were deaf to the
voice ot reason, and wilfully blind to the light ot eynth,
oviieseti the strong barrier of the law ; that law. whose prlll
ciples lie never violated, but whose vigour he imeeased 70;
new enac!weos to meet the new and unheard-of atrocities 0.
modern limes. The-arrogant and libellous assertion, that
they spoke the wi,hes of the third estate, or of the peoples
properly so called, he treated with scorn and contempt.
"The claim of uncoostitntional power fur the lowiestorderl
of that estate, and which the virtuous of that class, vtlio hover
the dagger of temptation, do nut wish to attain, and 01.111
whico the vicious ought not to be treated, the power of in'
vatting directly by themselves, or- indirectly 'their dell'
gales, the rights and property of successful indu,try,• he
lately denied. The balance of power, v..hich by delusive
schemes of vi,ionary reform, they attempted.impiousty to di''
tort), he happily preserved. He curbed their licentiorisness,
and he saved his country, and gave to EI/Walltl the proud Ca'
in...engin of beitig able to taast, as France is wont to do, O
the most'imioaculate of her characters, the illnstiienia cheva--
lier ilayarti;that she also in this her reat Statesman, 00'
sussed a man, who could pass, through c'u'es the must peri-
loos without fear and without reproach. -
" Ot his private character it is unnecessary for me t 0
speak—hi, generous rivals, iminedlarly upon his death, did
amply justice to the spotless imegrity and purity of his cot.'
duct. We know he was a warm and generous tr.end, a sra-
e, a zealous but a tolerant Christian—tolerant, ,t, ir,,el
the cold-I/h/deft indiffeience,of infidelity, but becau...e.oy t 0"
I. rift mil lie Was Copt weed he btst promoted the ciiiosiun
y, null coo.equeutly the best, indeed 'Le only real
and last iiig iiitereStS .4 his rellow-meo.
ith these stotiments, Gentlemen, which have not brea
lightly take!) ti, , hut which areitr.e result of all the ti.elesS
deliberation t have been able to tlrestiiw 4rii- a tae,-to =rite
ject, tic live of a trot} viitnuus patriotic enar,, I prolo4e
to you ls a Mast, Tice 'Mentory ot the nom.; tai WWI
Pitt;'i.
but as these solemn tectiogs of sorrow which we 'll
cxpe. ;towed upon his toes, tuf=t, tlildet the indolence of 1)01
and reflect ion, have given way to other emit loos; iand ;
coosider that we ate Met 11C, e LcStile omit' SatiStaCt Ihai
Stith a man was burn, rather than to it:dingy in unnianly aa"
unavailing --9011,1 W that he suffered the Cociltilotl tot of lot-
inanity, I beg leave to propose that weLtaatk oar adoiiral,o°
of the preserver of our glue loos rousltiitiomm its we do our at"
tachnirot to that Omstitution ii self, by the usual de eoostre
I 'ions of joy and gratitinte. I propose
• " The inintotal memory of the late Right nohourabit
William PAL."

LAW IN I ELLICiLNCE.

COURT OF ciIANCERY, JUNE Si.

MISS KELLY'S BENEFIT.

MORRIS AND °THEM V. MISS KELLY AND I.:g'

ARNOLD.
Mr. HRALD, Ibis day, presented the Affilftvig
ordered to he made with respect to the ass, i.meog
of. the Play of the Young Quaker, which, as "4
stated yesterday, had been ammonted for 'rept!'
scutation at the Lyceum Theatre for the Leven{
of, Miss by Mr. O'Keefe, to tile propri4'
tors of time Haymarket Theatre. The ploys
question were writ fen by Mr. 0,-Keete, fts
1781, 2,3, 4, and in 1785; the assignment of tl5
play, the sunject cat the present applicationotu°'
place in 1784.
The LORD CHANCELLOR ft ccordingly ordered
tb?
injunction to issue, and notice to be t:,iveu tiutPee
diately to the parties.
His Lord•ihip was occupied the remniortet of isl°:
day in bearing motions of no :public interest.

COURT OF KING'S 13ENCLI, 31.ilkis 21.

LEWIS V. CLEMENT.

The particulars of this carne have been befira
the public. it will be recollected it was atv.„l,
don brought against the Proprietor cat ?'he
server newspaper, for a libel., which in.4.-s,Ol
be an account ofproceed;ngs in tilt! 11..1,1seLii
Debtors' Coirt, which was headed " Shoo",i
conduct of an Attorney." The cese wa4, sfie‘4:
and a verdict had for the Plaintiff. The Vele,
dent had in ariest of judgment plea led in jo'tie
brat-ion !hat the .account published. was aI/
account. boci

The CouRT now decided that the plea w149:0f
in law, and therefore the verdict tong shinoote
the plaintiff'. At the saute time the Collt
titre
served, that the question of, allowing'a noto,oo
of the proceedings in a Court of Low to be P oe
iisite;i, was not railed by this record, beciitof
sof
publication in question t%•ars.n©t a narrative ot keit
such proceedings, the defendant having t°oo
upon himself to censure at the outset, b 1
heading " shameful conduct of an attorney.

TOE AIWG V. THOIIA4 BROOM. ni):
On the motion of Mr. Maantorr, whp,'llol,
Cr
sented•to a verdict of- guilly at the last ati'"ig,
Sittings, upon-an indictment against hint, olifice•
instance of the Society for the Suppression ,00
for publishing an obscene libel, this del-‘lO
ras brought up to receive the judgment
Court. , ti(tv
Mr. BARRY addressed the Court in nutrefi
of imuishment, and
The defendant Was. sentenced to one year fgtt
prison {Dent in Cold Bath-fields House ot
rection, and at the end of that time t" 5011
into his personal recognizance in the sent °
to be of good behaviour for three years.

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.1 BIRTH.
wool'
On Tuesday last, at .Shrubs 11111, the Lad'', of -
Bertie Mathew, Esq. of a son.
MARRIED. afiiisiti
On Tuesday last, at St. Mary's, Islington, Robert 140. ,
Esq. of llighbury Park, to Miss W. Darkly, of 1 'of
toll"
Grove. fl3a t.. of
On Wednesday, the 26th of April, MO, at ,; , oil
House, in the Island of St. Heleta, Count. nalt""to00'
missiutier of his Alajesty the Eloper(); of Rn'7,103
Charlotte Johnson, eldest d4Oghter of Lady Lover
daughter ultir John Johnson, Bart.
0
rc;i'l
DIED. C•
Yesterday, at his house in Goodman's-fields, gr. 00
aged s.ert" SO. ittg
, • et
On Sunday. last, John Fentirnan, Esq. nt 01:i
aged 73. belOng. e 'Pot
Mrs. Holland, formerly an admirable Actress ~., :..talc,ll
the Norwich. Company, but whose metits on 1,..1`
1 1"/ 0 eqda,,
iii,
little known to the mesent generation, diet, on
• cPif fe
in that cit., at the advanced age of S. few oeo to
On the 17th instant, at Blackheath. after 0: e pie we
ness, aged st , Willi,on Stanley, eldest son of " fje Ottes,,
Hawkes, Esq. both ut Gateshead Iron-works.
: ..onceet:,,,,
London to attend on 'his I,olored father (wn" :, to the
fts,l4
during his illness. and will now acciunpaoY 10,"t:cil 17 oit:
most deservedly aud: sincerely haente'd UY ~
friends. .
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