The Sun.
London, England, 1816-11-15 00:00:00

LORD 'CASTLEItILA.GEL

The City of Londonderry has followed the
ex-
cellent example of Belfast, presented a Congra-
tulatory,Address to Lord CASTI..ERBAGII., and in-
vited his Lordship to a Grand Entertainment in
honour of-his distinguished services, as a States-
man, to the British Empire generally, audio token
of the pride which Irishmen in particular feel in
calling his Lordship their countryman. The De-
putation appointed for that purpose waited upon
the Noble Secretary at Mount-Stewart, the seat
of the Marquis of LONDONDERRY, on Thursday
the 31st ult. and presented the invitation agreed
upon as follows :-
4‘ Londonderry, October 30,1816.

"MT Lott3,-1 have the honour of transmitting au Ad,
diess, which has been voted to yotir Lordship by the Free,
men of this City. '

" A Deputation, consisting of the Right Hon. Sir G,F.
Hill, of Brooh-hall, Bart. Sit= Robert Ferguson, of the Farm,
Bart. Robert Beeson, of Milton Lodge, Esq. and John Mur-
ray, Esq. one of the High Sheriffs, has been this day apPoint-
ed, for the purpose of waiting upon your Lordship, and pre-
senting the same.
" Permit me, my Lord, to assure your Lottlibip, that I
feel very great satisfaction in haring the honour of commu-
nicating to your Lordship this tribute of respect and ekeem.
" I have the honour to be, my Lord,
" Your Lordship's very faithful and
•' Obedient humble Servant,
" WILLIAM ALEXANDER, Mayor.

,TO TILE' RIGHT HON. Tlllt LORD VISCOUNT CASTLE-
REAGH, K.,G. &C. &C. &C.

";QTY Loan,—We, the undersigned Freemen of
the City ot Londonderry, beg leave to congratu-
late your Lordship on your return to the seat of
your revered and respected Father ; there, on
your native soil; to receive the affectionate wel-
come of your countrymen, grateful for the ser-
vices you have rendered to the British Empire.
" The wist discrimination of his Royal High-
ness the Prince Regent selected your Lordship as
his Representative for the discharge of public du-
ties, during a crisis of the deepest interest to the
general concerns of Europe.
" We fully appreciate the value of those distin-
guished talents wi►ich so eminently contributed to
the adoption of those decisive measures, by which
a contest of more than 20 years continuance was
brought to a successful termination.
" A contest, commenced under the guidance
of a firm, a virtuous, and a beloved Monarch,
supported by the willing energies of an affec-
tionate, generous, and loyal People in defence
of their liberties and religion, against the boasted
menace of the destruction of both, avowed in
every period ot the late arduous struggle, until
the final overthrow of Buonaparte, on the fief of
Waterloo.

" We owe and feel ►ouch gratitude to his Royal
Highness the Prince Regent, for his perseverance
in those Councils which have accomplished the
glorious work of securing the independance, and
of providing for the permanent peace of Europe,
whilst the unexampled renown of his Majesty's
fleets and armies has been universally established,'
and the justice and forbearance of this United
Kingdom are gratefully acknowledged both by
our Mlies and by our enemies.

" To us, who have been so long and so inti-
mately connected with your Lordship, and with
your family, it is a source of high gratification,
to observe the important part you have borne in
the great transactions of the world, and to mark
the merited Honours which have consequently
been conferred upon your Lordship, as well by
his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, as by the
Allied Sovereigns.

" Under these impressions, we entreat your
Lordship to honour us by your presence within
the walls, of Londonderry, and to accept from us
a Public Entertain►nent, on any day your Lord-
shrp may be pleased to appoint."

This tribute, so honourable co the Inviters and
nvited, le signed

Wicklow,
. .
Calf don,
• William Derry,
John 0. Itcnhoe,
George del la Parr, Kihnore,;
Geo. Thmaas
G. F.lllll, Ite.toklia,
Thomas tivott,l3(4le-hill,
Richard Maxwell, Birastowll,
and a hundred and twenty•two more of the most
respectable persons in Loodomderry. To this very
gratifying invitation his Lordship's Answers ere
annexed :

"• GENTLE:mm-1 a:knowledge, with the
warmest sentiments of gratitude, the flattering
congratulations with uhich you have been pleas-
ed to welcome my return to my native country,
after an absence employed in the public service,
and under circumstances deeply important to the
welfare, not only of this country, but of the
world,

" At the close of the arduous contest in which
we have been engaged, it must b. most gratifying
to the Government, of which I am a Member, that
their conduct should receive the apprnhation df

the Freemen of the City of Londonderry; bred
in the school of Mr. Pitt, and convinced; as be
was, from expertence, that through r resistance
alone, a Peace, deserving that name, was attain-
.;able, the Ministers of the Prince Regent did not
hesitate, however awful the responsibility, perse-
veringly to animate-and to direct the energies of
the nation, and the unparalleled achievements of
its fleet and armies, to the complete overthrow of
that revolutionary power, against which this illus-
trious Statesman had to contend in its earliest and
more delusive forms.

•" Upheld by the unqualified support of the
Prince Regent, their august Master, steadily tread-
ing, as you have well observed, In the footsteps
'Ol his King
,and Father; and sustained by the de-
termined spirit of a brave and free people, they
have at last succeeded in bringing this great strug-
gle to a termination, compatible, 'as they trust,
with the repose and liberties of mankind, and
which must hand down to the latest posterity the
Regency of his Royal Highness, as the most
splendid era in the history of this, or perhaps of
any other country.

This auspicious result, Gentlemen, is to be
mainly attributed, under Providence, to the un-
animity which has marked the Councils of the
Allied Powers, rendered effectual to their object
by the immediate pressure of so many of the Illus-
trious Sovereigns at the head-porters of their
victorious armies ; but, to no cause it is to be
traced with more truth, than tol the unconquer-
able spirit of the people of this United Kingdom,
which successfully maintained the coract at the
period of its utmost peril, and afforded to the op-
pressed nations of Europe, not less by their at ms
than by their resources, the means of triumphantly'
destroying the Tyranny under which they groaned.

" This spirit, the distingnished characteristic
of the free Constitution under which we have the
happiness to live, has been found, in all times of
public danger, nowhere to exist in greater purity
than within the walls of Londonderry; the his-
tory of your city haS rendered these principles
hereditary amongst you ; and lAm confident its
Freemen will never slegenerate froortheir ancestors,
either in loyalty to their Sovereign, or in manly
devotion to their country.
" Under these impressions, Gentlemen, and with
tz very deep sense of the many proofs of regard
which you have afforded to me,.airl to my family,
I leave you to judge how truly it would gratify
me to visit your ancient and loyal city, and to ac-
cept at your hands the honour of the public enter-
tainment which you h►sve proposed to me—but the
verylimited period of my stayinireland compels me,
most reluctantly, to forego this satisfaction for the
prerient. Permit me, however, to look for ward.tore-
visit the City of Londonderry at no distant day; and
iiighiy gratified by the manner in which your sen=
timents have been conveyed to nit on this occa-
sion, by the Deputation charged to deliver to me
your Address, I heg leave to assure you, Gentle-
men, of the unalterable regard and respect with
.which

" I have the honour to remain,
" Your most faithful Servant
" And Fellow-Citizen,
" CASTLEREAGH.
" Mount-Stewart, Nor. 2,181 G.
" To the Mayor urul Freemen of the
City 'of Londonderry."

" Mount-Stewart, 0r.:\0r.4, tam
" Sllll,--T beg to offer to you my personal thanks for the
honour of the -Addre,s I have received from you and the
Freemen of the ancient and loyal city of Londonderry. I
have delivered to the Gentlemen of the Deputation my
Answer, and regret. that I shall not have it in my poWer to
comply, at the present moment, with an invitation su con-
genial to my feelings.-

",
.. I
bare the honour to be,
" Sir, with great regard,
" Your faithful humble Serrant,
" (7.4STLERFAGH."
" Mr. W. Mexantler, Mayor of Derry,'