The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-11-02 00:00:00

MEDICAL. MEETING.

Tne,...dey was the anniversary Festival of the So-
ciety for the Relief of the Widosss and Orphans of
Nivel:cat Men in London and its vicinity. It was
held at the Albion Tavern, in Aldersgate.street,
Ili:4ltores the OAP of KENT in the Chair,
who 114 S beTti for years the Patron of the 111Sti•
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Attor the ticttal toasts, his Rot al flightless, with
th, ‘‘arrnth of I.oling which he constantly manifests
In MP CAUSP of benevolence, stated the nature and
ohjectc of this Society. It was begun by Dr. Squire
and Mr. Climbed:line in 1788, and had for iteln.

Irwin's the relief of the widows anti orphans of a
profession, Whose liberal conduct towards the com-
triunity at large de,ono,led the most grateful return
ftetrt mankind. The Medical Practitioners thenifelves
kusht certainly aft to feel it a bounden duty to sup.
rut by their subscriptions a Society whose end it was
to solace the widows and orphans of those who
night not by their 0%911 exertions have been able to
provide for the ohjoets of their tenderness and affec7

lion; and he was sorry to learn that their fund
ismoottted only In shoot 6001. per annum, and the
claim. upon it for the last twelvemonths had been
shore 4001. Flr understood that there were above
I'2oo Medical Practitioners resident in London and
its viciniiy,"and yet of those, not. above one-third
were contributing Members to the Society. 41e
trusted that this reproach would not contitrutk—bst
that, as he had the pleasure to see, that day, a much
more numerous nssembly than he had had the goqd
fortune ever to meet before, he trusted the veldt
and hentfils of the Society were now properly 'op.
pra,ilterl, ant! that every Medical Practitioner would
feel it his duty to promote its; welfare. They had
liiifortuisatelv, since their last Meeting, lost their
President, Mr. Ware, whose eulogium the Royal
Duke matte in a short and elegant address. His iO6B

would be more severely fell—bot that his amiable
d excellent friend, Dr. Matthew Baillie, had most
kindly yielded to hip and other solicitations, to take
upon himself the important task. If Dr. Baillie had
not beets present, his Royal Highness said he would
have felt himself at liberty to express, in terms equal
to his feelings, his sense of the high and incompa.

table talents, worth, and benevolence of that excel.
lent person ; but in his presence he must abstain
• from the ltstimony which he would delight to give,
and in which he was sure every heart in the room
would acgoiesce. His Royal Highness co,ncluded
with proposing as a toast, " Success in the Society,"

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end afterwards proposed the health of Dr. Baillie, its
President. This was detik with three times three,
and with tits warmest entkasiasm.
Dr. BAILLIE returned th'ireks in a short address,
in which Tt was manifest, that the very kind recep-
tion which his name had received made a deep im-
pression on his heart. Ire said, he could not express
bis gratitude in adequate terms, not merely for the
gracious manlier in a hick the illustrious Patron had
proposed his health, but also from the flattering
kindness with which it had bees received by his
brother practitioners. The Royal Duke, their illus.
ttious Patron, had so emphatically and with such
eloquence explained the objects of this Institution,
that it was impossible for him, And needless, if it
were possible, to add to his benevolent statement.—
If war Tire uniform, and, he might alinott say, the
daily enjoyment of his Royal Highness, to devote his
high influence, and to exert hii zealous, unwearied,
-and irresistible powers in the service of every Insti-
tution that had, like this, the soothing and relief of
• the sufferings of his fellow-creatures in view. That
'Society possessed the means, more perhaps than any
other, of observing the extent of human misery in
this great metropolis, and consequently were more
capable of estimating the value of the attention
which his Royal Highness paid to wretchedness in
all the forms in which it presented itself to his eye,
as well as the benefit of 'the impulse which a person
of his exalted rank gave to the benevolence of the
community below him. It should be his earnest en-
tl2avour to' devote as much of his time as possible to
the welfare of a Society so desersing of all their
etertions ; and to whirl' the conduct of their illus.
*sinus Patron gave them so animating an'example.—
lie with proposing the health of his
Ito j etlii3Onen the Duke of Kent, which was re.
ceived with the most lively Beni t) of gratitude and
applause.

The Duke of KENT, in returning thanks, said,
that in sympathizing with the distresses of those in
'he industrious ranks of society, hits not merely gra-
tified the best feelings of his nature, but felt that it
was a duty which every member of his family owed
to a country whose loyal and affectionate attachment
they had so largely enjoyed : and he could truly say,
that the happiest moments of his life had been those
in which mixing with Isis fellow-subjects, he had been
aisle in any way to contribute, through their beam-
fence, to assuage the sufferings or to relieve the wants
of she poor. Ile earnestly urged the %hole body of the
Medical Practitioners ,to exert themselves In sup.
port of an Establishment which must so sensibly in-
terest the best affections of their hearts ; and before
his Royal Highness quitted the Chair, he gave a
number of applicable toasts, which were all received
with plaudits, and drew answers front Dr. Lathan',
Dr. Stone, Dr. Warren, Mr. Chamberlains, &c. &c.
Dr. BAILLIE took the Chair on his Royal High-
ness's departure; and the warm welcome with which
his commencing the Julies of President was received,
had tlfe most evident effect on his sensibility. It was
certainly delightful to observe the cordial and instan-
taneous expression of respect which all the members
of the profession paid to its leader ; and the man-
eer iu which he received the flatteiing compliment
l'id.lsonour to Lis feelings. The Doctor kept up the
st irit of the ,Meeting for some time, and gave leve-
ls! toasts.
" Thr toowntrabic and liberal practice of Medicine in all Its
lio; 'The,"
•' The College of Phjsicians."
. ".The Cuiira of Surgeons," &e. '«c. &c.

We never witnessed a more animated Meeting.—
'The dinner, as it always it at this excellent Tavern,
eas'uncommonly well served ; and though the Meet.
rittwatpamerous, thr-snom was kept to a comforts.
ble:Ooglpess sod purity of air, by the new apparatus
of the rEolion pump.
There was no sebscription propoeed at the Meet.
itr4 swot were any .other than the. medical. practition.
eta Invited.to 'support the Society; bat we cannot

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