Star.
London, England, 1817-04-16 00:00:00

MA. W4JTHMAN.

A somber ofy Meads of Mi. Warnosasr dined
lokatier Taster& at she London Tavern, Chaspide,
for the purpose preSiating to him a Service of Plate_,
as a testimony of their high reuse of that Gendanan's
exertions in the cause of Constitutional Reform, and
inrupport of Freedom. Mr. Faysu. in the Chair.
I.)Vlsen darkish was removed, and the customary
to had beetiefeenk, the Chairman reed a letter
from the Doke of Suess*, stating that he was unable
to attend the Meeting, as he was that day called to
preside at the Orphans' Friend Society of the City of
The health of his Royal Highness was then
drank-grids three times three and loud applanse.
'Mr. -Fenix then rose and said, that he hid now
to perform the most arduous part bf his duty that
evening, and from which he had earnestly desirtd to
be excused. It was not, however,. without pride that
he performed this duty, when he recollected the pri-
vations which his worthy, Friend (Mr. Waitliman)
had suffered—the sacrifices which he had made, and
the calumnies he had encountered in the course of a
long and useful public life, and he hailed with plea-
se's the day when his fellow-eitizeht. presented him
with those laurels which he had fully won Wavier'
was called on to wear them. He was persuaded that
he stood on sate ground when be asserted, that the
ures:Meeting - was .convened by no corrupt in-
Wt....for the rupee of no particular party, nor
merely for the tumid aim individual hotiever highly
respectable) but as a testinioey in favout of those
high constitutional-principles which,. that -individual'
had always supported—(ant/cue), And which wiz
worthy to be 'even, not on silver merely, Arai
in the hearts'of citizens. Mr. • ravel) thee
turning to Mi..Waithasan said, that in the name of
the Asyembly of his Fellow-citizens, be was !Snead
to present him with a Service of Plate, on onetiece
of which was the following inscription':
.64 To Roa' WAtTIIIIMie Rp. Woo undone Ind* cause
Cenminidenal litefoon be* been ardent aid indeatigable;
when eminent taboo and energede elegem* have been Ova-
nably engaged in support of freedom and atiletanee to Oppres-
sion, especially m his prraeverlig amid sweetish' agora whin
that eilkiewaid degrading Overt the Incomil'ait o whole public
conduct fin Mere thavrity years, enswed by power, weer-
opted by MI plosives' by 4:ideality, has ealihked a
noble cornet* a( aril and lafinible patriotism. ate a Irk
huts Orkin.= and adasinsiou„,. Ertl ',pita was promised by
his grateiul !Mow Chitin% entire-istirrlsece April, ISILN
• Mr. FavaLs. then proposed s toast, " rbe health
os Mr. Waithmen, acrd may heloog live to sippgrt
the Liberties of his Country." •

Mr. WAITHMAIII aid, IN/Ugh he was prettyinitch
in the habit of addressing large assembles, he kit, in
common with others in a new situation, a degree of
embarrassment and difficulty. It was hardly neces.
sary to say, that such was the case at the present use.
meat. A proceeding so extraordinary was sufficient
to him of his self-pusession, much • more
after the Battering manner in which his worthy
Friend (Mr. Fetralt) had spoken of his past conduct,
was he unable to express his feelings in terms ade-
quate to. the Occasion. If he pretended that he
thought the soviets he had done the public entitled
him to such a mark of the esteem of his tellow-citi-
!COS, be should be open to the charge of natiehlra-
bity and presutnpikib. On• the other hand, if be as-
serted that those services gave him no claim to their
consideration, h. should not only cast an imputation
on his blends,' but should also be suspected of a want
of candour andlificetity. He should speak what he
believed to be the truth. In weighing his services
iris friends bad chars a favourable and partial view
of his public conduct ; fromtheir love to theprinciples
which had actuated him, they had overlooked many
faults and deficiencies in his actions—and with this
appiobation i f l& principles was mixed perhaps some
favourable leaning towards an individual with 'shoos
they had so long laboured. If they attributed to him
industry, penevrtance and courage, in his public ton-
duet, I.e felt they 'did him aothing but itntice—
(amiker4 He was not conscious, however ranch he
had sometimes failed in his endeavours, from skinless,
from the pressure of his own concerns, from the di-'
vi a= of those fsiendswho agreed with him on con-
stitutional matters—that even from his boyhood be'
had ever deviated from those constitutional iprinci.
plea which it was now his pride to support. In one
Or two circumstances the nate when be began public
life resembled the present day.'and in thiscooircially
—the overbearing tightest= carried egainst every
man who defended the right, of the pwoTe. On that
ground alone had he, or any ether individual, a
claim to such a mark of distinction as was now con-
ferred upon hint for performing what in ordinary
times mu- a cheap and common duty—for, Main-
taining the rights be bad received from his forefethers,
and handing them down to his children—o(the per-
secution which at that time was exerted against-every
individual who @toed up for those principles which bad
been supported by the' energy of their ancestor.--
Was it to be exkleceed. that while great public iete-
rests were under discuss*, every individual would
conduct hiflsieff with perfect- propriety, and were the
"motes; fare fo btdeprived of their libertinism an-
eeent of the nicliicreniums of a few rash 041?4,1/Aft-
ibiasu.) If that nem iiecessary, instead of tbi pine.
pries which yew prdnnunced upon the British Con-
stitution, he slionld say it was the worst Constitution
en earth. It was a thing to be shut op in a glass
-case, to be looked at, nut to be used. On the con-
,trary, be contended it was *fit for all seaeonv—forthe
protection of die Crown and the benefit of the people,
in times of danger as well as of prosperity. The
Habeas Corns Act had panted in Charles the Se-
cond's reignia time more fertile in plots than any
we read of in history. It was not from plots, but
front petitions, that the susper.sion of that Act was
intended to guard the Crown and the Parliament.—
it reminded him of a couplet which Dryden bad put'
into the month of Charles 11.
" NOM pips and tramps nurse preserve my ewe,
.4 sae saws ass inset frees my ',tidiness," •
Like tbe.C.tientry Girl in the Farce, who, when mar-
ted by a Dean, exclaisned.o What 'shell I' do with
such him Gentleman as a hatband ?--I. must has
another for world% days"--the Mistimes melted to
thidk, that it was on Sundays or Heikitys only that
our Constitution could-be el service, and owl* least
appearance of tenetgenty, they sabstittlted *lt set of
laws, for the time Kiwi, totally °Coos
boasted systeti if Government. To shear -it
blame sosittbistremilwars of the emertaldimenta
' liberty to ad-the Melds Os :enlists aseweihjai
to the coottitgiken, %Minas tent
lion to the isbabitastisi news, isited bylord Cae.i

dereagh and Mr. Edward Ward, the Candidates foil
that County:
": We will rigidly attend air ditty hi Pediment, sad be go-
mated by the 'nitration*, of ow Constituents ; we will, in and
out of the House, with aB our abilities and influence, promote
the success of a Bill for Amman' the Reptesentatkta of the
People—a Bill for proemial; Pensioners from sitting in Parlia•
meat, or suds Hammen as cannot sit hi the British House of Com-
mies-4 Bator Bookies the number of linemen and Pensioners,
and the amount of tensions—a Bill for preventing itereoue Wa-
ren hoot rutin at; or interfering at, Elections—a Bill for ren-
dering the Servants of the Crown of Ireland responsible for the
expenditure of the Public Money—a Bill to protect the personal
safety ot she subject against arbitrary and excessive Bail, and
against• tbe stretching the power of Attachment beyond the li-
mits of Constitution; and we aria, as far as in us lies, pre-
vent any renewal of the Police Act."
In a Dublin Paper of the same date ie an Adver-
tisement, alio signed by Mr. Edwaid Ward and
Lord Castlereagh, to the Electors of the County of
Down, in which the following expressions are used :
" We are embarked in • much more intertsdng and glorious
cattle than our success as indlvideals—we are called forth as in-
stringent' in your hands to emancipate the Country."
Yet men who had. gone thus fir, who had talked of .
making themselves instruments in the hands of the
People, now loaded with calumny those who viewed
with indignation their infamous traffic and barter in
seats in•Parliamay, and their waste of the blood and
treasure of the conotry. The spirit of liberty, he
trusted, was not to be extinguished, and if men of'
rank and character would assume, as. they seemed
now disposed to assume, the guidance of the people,
they might red in confidence as to their final success.
He concluded by returning thanks for the valuable
mark of their rapist, which would encourage other
public men, sod shew, that however humble the ta-
lents 451 any intfividual, if he performed his public
duty honestly ilad consistently, his motive and cha-
racter would he dole appreciated—(Lsird appasse.)
'Mr. WArtirMAta
" had Grammer, aorrelei7ods of Economy, Iterremb.
mom, and Reform M the Commies House of Parliamert."
Drank with epplause.
The health af the Hon. H. G. Bennet having been
drank with loud applause,
Mr. Szsurr,• so miming thanks, assured the As-
sembly that nothing gave him so much pride as the
applause of his feliow.countrernen. In endeavouring
as much as in him lay to make himself an useful
public servant, be bad expected no other reward, nor
could any other reward be so pure and holy as that
of sympathy and esteem. He had been greatly
to who's: a solemnity, for such it was, so
to those who pie as well as to him who
received. It gave him the pleasing assurance, that
consistency, discretion, and-above 'all, honesty in the
dischargeof public duty, met always with its doe
reward. There was no body of men better capable
of estimating those qualities than the City of London,
and to his worthy Friend the praise of them was
justly doe. There was one point in that Gentleman's
public conduct to which he should refer—his conduct
on the Income Tax—because -co that subject, and
not at a very distant period, the public attention
'Mild probably be yelled. It was 'fir the people
should know, thatin every quarter of the country it
dipuld be circulated'tbat, as the Ministers would not
requce their cspenditore to their income, they were
determined to raise their income to their expenditure
—(Near, /tear). It was non understood the Parlia-
ment was in its last Session : he should not quarrel
with short Parliaments, but he was sorry when they
were dissolved, they were dissolved on account of
their virtue: They had heard of a pensioned Parlia-
ment—a lack•learning Parliament.-the next Parlia-
ment was to be -a taxing Parliatnent. He wished
those round him, therefore, to consider, when about
to elect Members for that Parliament, whether the
Candidates contained any taxing qualities t—(bird
is lase). It they contained any of that material,
they would form a compound which could not be
satisfactory to the English public ; for though the
patience Of the people was not exhausted, the sseans
of legation
.were— (ilpplaare). He advised them,
therefore, to give their confidence to no person who
would not pledge himself, that under no circum-
stances would be give leis support to that degrading
impost, the Tax on Income, the inquisitorial powers
of which were so odious, and had been exercised in
so obnoxious a isatuitr4Leed aititleaus). Mr. Bas-
set stated, that his brother (Lord Ossulstone) had
intended to be present, bet had been commanded to
attend the Princess Charlotte of Cobourg.
The health of Mr. Brougham was drank with
'great applause.
Mr. Beautisem returned thanks, and said it would
ill become him to attempt to pay a tribute to the
"merit of his worthy Friend, after the impressive testi.
monks of the Chairman and of his Honourable
Friend (Mr. Bennet). He had, however, to corn.
niunkate, from Lord Holland, who was prevented
by indisposition from encoding, his regret at being
thus compelled to be Ostia. and his high respect
and gratitude, as one -Of the community, to Mr.
Waithman for his cfsitjoas in the public cause.-••
Ha re be should have clased, but for the expeetdon
Of his Honourable Friend respecting the exertions of
Mr.' Waithman for die.elsolition of the Income Tax.,
It cow became •:enore•piculiiirly incumbent on diced'
to refer to those centime for the purpose of .tr prac-
tical warning. They might now depend upon it;
another attempt was tube made to revive that Tax.
The present Parliiment had one sin on its head—the
repeal of that tag, for which it &add never be for-
given ; and as a punishment it was rumoured a pt.'
nod was to berg to its existence—( keer, hear, !Nor.)
The healths of Sheriff Kirby, Aldermai Goodbe-
here, Lords Holland.and Oisulstone and Mr. Brand
were drank, as also those of the Sons of Mr. Waith-
man. Some good songs were sting by professional
Gentlemen, andthe company did net sepaelite 'Mate.
SPARRING AT TUE FIVES Couare—Yesterdayfilere
was an exhibition of the art of nif-drfosse, at the
above place, for the benefit of Richmond, the man of
so/oar.. Lemnos- opened the sports with Little Gadsee.
Davis and Lazarus, the Jew, also exhibited. The
shoulder of the latter was dislocated, but it was im.
mediately restored .to its socket by the assistance of
several surgeons who attended. West Country Dick,
mariner, Painter, Richmond, Oliver,fleroggins, Pur-
cell, Turner Keegan, and mend
othermanor com-
batants, appeared as the stage, sad 'afforded ;nth
uplasamaa; toe ero,inled assembly. Eales and Ste-
*mot the black, bad• a tura, not eery acceptable
his alichead of the latter ; sad moat of the ostsorsorr
4aanad to Nates, to sacrifice at the shrine of
ispce.hes. Tih dopiest of
_mot, wee doubled. foe
• llght with TOAST - •tea the 27th of
Mirtga.o7 to ink*.