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London, England, 1827-10-11 00:00:00

my etprestiog ►bf feelings to their MI errant: I shalt
the►efore concluded by proposing the health of SU
f-kungerfnrd Hnskyns. the father and founder of the
Herefordshire Pitt Club, in the full Assurance that tou
will show by the acclamations with which you receive
this toast. the respect in which his sons hold the hater
of this Club.

Sir HIINONNYORD HnstrTms feelingly acknowledgel
the kind manner in which hit health was proposed and
drank. and begged to give N Mr. Blakemore," whom
Ise hoped speedily to see filling his proper place in the
Great Council of the Nation.

Mr. BLAKIINIORt, in returning thanks,.observed—l
must be insensible indeed not to feel the greatest grati-
fication at the exceedingly kind manner in which you
have drank my health. We have met here this dig- to
celebrate a name which will live in thet annals of This
country for ever—when the tempest beat and the storm
raged, our medlrn patriot stemmed the torrent, and we
will continue to set forth the glory which he has at-
tained as a stimulus to future States Men. In reply
to those who ask why we continue to meet, I say
that we continue to do so to keep fresh in •ur
minds, and to show to the rising generation, how
great a debt of gratitude this kingd m owes to Mr.
Pitt, and for which we at least cannot be sufficiently
thankful—we congregate together to give effect clot d
,promulgate his principles as much as in us lies, and .0
hold up our beloved England as an example to other
nations in the career which she has so gloriously runzl
we have then a far superior object in view than merely
to assemble and pay compliments to each other; an
association like this can only exist in a flee state, and,
presents a proud triumph for Britons, distinguished and
bonou:ed as they are by the admiration of neighbouring
kingdoms; that they can thus unite and thus fearlessly
express their opinions on matters of great national im-
portance. The times call loudly on us to resist innova-
tions—atheism and deism abound I and the wholesome
restraints of that holy religion which was established
by our ancestors, are laughed at and derided! From
the present state of the Government of the country,
when men of diametrically opposite principles have
j,iined themselves together, 1 say that those who
hold our opinions are justified in keeping up associations
ta watch their public acts, and I fervently hope that the
bond of union by which we are now united may long
and.lang continue, and that our meetings may be (as
they base hitherto been) rallying points in times of
danger:

Tbe next toast given was, a Sir Edvvyn Stanhope."
Sir EDWYN rose, and thus addressed the Meeting:

Mr. PRICSIDIZNT and Germaine—Often as I have
been celled upon to ackoowledge.a similar honour to
that which you have just done me, I can assure you I
never Lose ender feelings of greater embarrassment to
acquit myself of the task which your kindness has im-
posed qpon me. I cannot attribute the toast to any
merit of my own (notwithstanding the very flattering,
but ear too complimentary and p trtial manner in which
the President has introduced me to your notice), I will
the rather attribute it to that communion of sentiments
which I am sure pervades us all, and associates me with
those around me, and I shall be proud if you will alio?,
me to consider the flattering compliment you have paid
me as arising from the attachment I have shewn to the
princilles of that illustrious Patriot and Statesman,whose
memory we are met to commentorate,ondwhich is the
only possikic claim I can have, if indeed I have any, to
the drstinction yow have shewn me. When first 1 had
the hhour of being enrolled a Member of this Society,
I then avowed my admiration of the character of Mr.
Pitt, the veneration in which Ileld his principle-, and
my determination to adhere to and support those prin-
ciples by every means in my power; I did so from the
firm conviction that they ate the only principles which
can give a permanent security to our Constitution both
in Church and State—l still maintain the same opinion,
and look forward with the hope that the day is not far
distant when " the principles of Mr. Pitt may again
animate the councils of Great Britain." Atter the
manly and •eloquent language we have heard to-day
(mote particularly from the President and Vice President)
Gentlemen more accustomed than myself to speaking in
rutrle, might naturally feel nervous; indeed our worthy
' And most excellent President has given such an able
exposition of-the character and principles of Mr. Pitt,
that it would be altogether superfluous in me to allude
further to those topics which he has so forcibly illus-
trated; not should I have consider' d myself justified in
trespassing upon your time and patience at all, was it
not froth at fining that these are times when men should
take every opportunity of avowing their sentiments.—
Since last we met for the same purpose which has
called us here to-day, circumstances have arisen, and
political changes have taken place, which I think
imperatively call upon every loyal man to be at his
post; within that short period we have seen those
men under whose administration this country at-
tained her highest pitch of glory—men who both
merited and 'possessed the confidence of their King,
and the esteem of,their country, withdraw from the'
councils of the nation ; it is true their retirement was
voluntary; supporting the principles they did, they felt
it their duty to teithdraw, nor could they as honest men
have acted nthererise. They have, hoe ever, " retired
with dignity, rich in conscious rectitude, rich in talents,
rich in character. rich in the confidence of their coun-t,
try, and rich in every quality which can -adorn men
and statesmen ;" they have by their uptight and honour-
able conduct seturetr to themselves, and will carry with
them to the grave, the esteem, respect, and gratitude of
every good man. Advocating, as we do, the principles of
Mr. Pitt, and believing them to be, from their soundness,
the principles' upon which this country might to be go-
verned jor else the toast which we drink at every meeting,'
" May the principles.pf .Mr. Pitt always animate the
Councils of Great Brihtin," ought to be expunged from
the list), we h&c a tight to inquire how far the Admi-
nistration which governs the country acts upon those
principles ; and, good Heavens l such an Administration
as we have now got—Whigs and Tories, Catholics and
Anti-Catholics, edemas.sof reform when out of power,
opeasers o 4 vermin' Oen in power, ttr.n of different
principles and sentiments, disagreeing upon questions
of vital importance to the State, and men, in a word,
who now lay the foundation -of their power upon the
prostration of the Church Establishment I Is this,
Gm:Outlet% such an Administration as Mr. Pitt would
have acted with? Would Mr. Pitt have accepted office
upon condition that such men Were to have been his
colleagues? Most assuredly be would not; nor do I
think that England can prosper under an Administra-
tion constituted as the present is; and therefore as long
as there are men in that Administration now supporting
a system of Government which they have been all their
lives opposing-.-as long as there are men in that Admi-
nistration who would by their wide wasting liberality
endanger every snared institution of our country, I re-
peat that every. man is imperatively called upon to be at
his post, and to take care thin t ey touch not that sacred
ask of our Constitution which contains at once the gospel
of our faith and thechartes ot out fieedom. lam aware
that in giving utterance to the sentiments I have just
expressed, I subject myself to be called by the liberal ad-

tiotittes of the Wont tuoifef Uflentsab7gdt io I i briline
and so indeed I meat be. If ids trs be a 14grit and d
beam to erileavout to maintain that Certistitukisr• mien
is the fountain 04 odr beat enjoyments{ her 4 mid
that religion which is the source of all Mar. Boca Web:
after. Whatever its errors may be, T for oe‘k AM Coo-
Milt with our Constituti;in as it now %tans:Lauri ads sig
tisfiesi to live under de glorious safeguarsi, add that .
Constitution, both in Church and State, I will caltitsue
to the utmost of my power to maintain as long as .
Gentlemen, I am aware that I have already trespdsitect-,
too long on your time. I cannot, however, sit doled .
without desiring to express the gratification it affords mei
to see so numerous add highly respectable an linen&
ante assembled here to-day. It affords me the gt estef
Pleasure, because I am convinced thest meetings ale ,
productive e-f much good; indeed. we cannot have sf
greater proof of it than the circumstance of limit being
held in such detestation by those who are opposed to tri ,
in principles. Tiley !mid the Pitt Clubs in the greatest
aversion, because they know that meetings of this kind
promote a spirit of loyalty and patriotism which they
would willingly extinguish. I desire further ro congra-:
tulatc this Club that it is increasing so rapidly in nuisea
bers and respectability. We have by ballot this day
added nine new, Members to the Society ; !have, myself;
had the honour of nominiting four. Before I sit down;
I shall, by permission of the President. propose the
health of the new Menshers,,with three times three. •
The following were then given from the Chair : •
" The Lord Bishop and Clergy of the Dioeese.--" The Itati
Mayor of liereford."WlLLlAll POLIAX, E.q. returned thanku-.:
" 'rise Vice-President elect', Wllliant Cockburn, Esq.—" Abrahard
Whittaker, Esq. 7•—" The Rev. Love Roberseon."—" Rev. Ar-
thin blattbews." • ..
The liev. A. MATTHSieII rose to return thanks, and
said—Gentlemen, I beg you to believe that I am gratified In no
common degree by this flattering mark of approbation and good
wW from so large and respectable a body of my fellow-citizens, and
espredany of brother Mites. The augmented nomerical and moral
strength with which the Pitt Clubs of Ragland in general have thie,
year assembled has proudly and practically repelled the taunts of
time whom these anniversaries annoy, and who may he assured that
I we find In their annoyance, knowing the tacttout feeling in which it
founded, an additiolial proof ••1 the usefulness of these patriotic als-:
ireelatione, and of course an additional motive for perseverance. Ir is,
by thus continuing to commemorate a great and faithful V.TVallt of
the State, that it becomes us to show that we are tiller: and more im-
pressed with attachment for theCoustitution of out country. Deprived
by premature death of the happiness of seeing the signal success of
his policy, in the final overthrow of the universal oppressor, there
seems a peculiar obligation to render a great act of justice to hi*
memory, and to compensate him fur contemporary calumny and
clamour, by a long and lasting posthumous homage. Short, how.:
ever, as the term of his natural existence was, his ofScial life had not •
been brief, such was the early maturity of his maj. stie faculties, and •
such their immediate devotion to the I üblic service. Endowed
with genius which might have dispensed with industry, be was la. •
defatigable in the pursuit of knowledge ; and hating rapidly armed
himself, in academical seclusion, with all the acquirements of a
statesman, he passed with little Interval from college to the Cabinet
be never seems indeed to have been a boy, and in that respect I may,
venture to apply to him that verse of Lucan, in his splendid is.
scription of the Rivet. Nile:

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Nee limit populls parvum te, Nile. videte
tie seems to have started at once into the fulness of his intellectual
strength and stature—as Minerva is fabled to have sprung forth from .
the head of Jove, equipped with all the attributes and instruments
iof war and wisdom, and p !wing at onceifrons the brain of Jupitd
into the Privy Council rat the Gods. •Power to do good, which Lord
Bacon says is the true and lawful end of aspiring, was the great object
of his pure and generous ambition ; all the ends he aimed at were his -
'country's; and assaredly,wiaatever may be the terms assigned tolls@
existence of societies like this. for a term of course they must have,
that grateful country win never forget or undervalue the services
which saved her; services which will be recorded and embalmed here-
after in the brightest page of British history. In the mean time, the
day 1 trust is yet distant ere the clubs established in his name will
cease to be the annual "herald and speakers of his living actions—
'to keep his honour from corruption!"—But, Gentlemen, these
societies, it seems, are now derided or decried, not as being dedi-
cated to the memory of a corrupt oc mistaken -Minister, deserving .
rather execration than reverence, hut as composed of those whom
he would disclaim for his disciple.!—We are no longer attacked as
pespetuating but as perverting his principles; not as advancing bat
as contravening his views. Our assumption of the name of Pitt is
proclaimed as usurpation and a forgery—and that Mr. Perceval is
the real object of our adoration when we celebrate the birth.day of
our Idol by libations to Protestant ascesidmicy. Let us set this
matter right. once fur all. I cordially coxed with the worth
Chairman in lamenting the misunderstanding it has occasion
amongst ourselves, but I agree with him also that the toast refe
to commits no man to au opinion on the Catholic Question, which
is at least u open he re as it is in the Cabinet and that as a body,
we are neutral on the subject. It may happen, to be sure, that the
opponents of further concessions preponderate in this society at pre.
sent, and whenever that is the case the sentiment est- course will find
expression, and show Itself perhaps by the ardour of reception given
to the toast, which in Itself, however, I think is susceptible of
construction inoffensive to those who advocate the Catholic Claims.
Indeed, as an Increased security for the Protestant iestablWittient,
to be derived from granting the claims, is sh arguMent relied on •
in favour of concession. lam more at a loss to understand why a
mast expressive of that security should prove of Stich difficult de.
gludtion to those who recommend concession en that ground.—
However, I will frankly acknowledge that If I thought otherwise,
than I happen to do upon that question, I should consider myself as
pro tarok a better Ptttiae, from whom undoubtedly no disciple can
dissent without profound humility, repugnance, and self.distrust. In.
making that avowal, I may ask, however, whether it can be col-
lected from any thing which Mr. Pitt has slid or written, that he'
would have granted unconditionally what is now so fiercely and pe-
remptorily demanded ?—that be would have tolerated the Catholic
Association or the Catholic Rent ? I think not : I think be would
have enforced the law for its suppression ; or not have enacted it at all.
If at a distance of seventy or eighty years. arid especially after the
'Union, Mr. Pitt did not view the admission of the Papists to
political poWer with the alarm and horror which Pulteoey or Pel-
ham would have felt, yet as little did he dream of conceding it with-
out adequate securities and safeguards—without which even Grat-
tan himself presumed not to ask it, bus which now, it seems, are
laughed to scorn. Mr. Pitt, we may be quite sure, would have •
granted nothing inconsistent with the most perfect security of Elm
civil and ecclesiastical Constitution of this country—nothing that
would endanger either, or change their relation to each other.
Is extremely easy to be liberal In matters that affect the church, to
those who have either no sense of the importance of a religious tau-
blishpient at all, or wine at least of its connection with the State—a

connection which some of the modem Whigs have openly. wad.,
rested their desire to sever.
' Mr. Marrozws proceeded with equal eioquence AtitSentli which'
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compels as to break off our report.
The Rev. Gentleman, in resealing his soot, proposed the health
of the Rev. Love Robertson, of Ltridstow, as a Gentleman distin-
guished for his soundness of godgment,ateadiness of principle, and
inflexible integrity of charketer.
Mr. ROBERTSON returned thanks, tier Chairman "gave
" Prosperity and perpete/f y to tbe liarefordsbinent Club;' atter
whick the Nesting separated.
The new Members ware--The Rev. Jobe Clutton, ion. pipers-
ley ; the Rev. Thomas ynderwood, Wellington • the ley. . Rose.
laud, Home ; the te v. John Underwood, Legwardesi; Wm.
Bridgeman, sq. Promote Cottage, Ross ; J. C. Bodges, E.g.
Softie • Thomas Ciotti, RN. New College, Oaford ; Robert
Coke, Lg. Lower Moor • Lieut. C. Price, R.N. Hereford ; and
Mr. M. 1. Bonin:ad, Hereford.

It is uncertain (says an American wt het) what is the
number cf books now extant ii all languagks. I have
used a library of 250,000 volumes, which cotittinesina
duplicate, and it was so perfect, that it was cit‘eult to
ask for an author not to be found in it. Thetsrgest
library in Europe contains near 400,000 volu Afu-
plicates not included; and perhaps it may be a
right to estimate the whole number of printed licoks in
the world at 500,000. This being the case, Americ4
furnishes about one•seventeenth of the means necessary
for extending learning to the utmost, ancraboi•
thirteenth of what the city of Paris alone
Another comparison will shew her poverty in .
equally striking. Germany contains 50,000
p ople, who hive 2,000,000 cf b. oks in
braries for their instruction, exclusive it those
sovereign Princes, which are always accessible
lars. America contains 10,0010,000 of people,
150,000 bcoks for the same purpose : but the
its Germany are moreread than the 150,000 43

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