The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-08-16 00:00:00

MONMOUTH GRAND ClrIC BANQUET.

This great and highly interesting feast, to comma•
morate the late Election of Mr. Heath, as the Mayor
of the Borough, took place on Wednesday last. All'
classes of persons vied with each other in procuring
the most costly presents on this most happy occasion.
in celebrations of a■ asseient custom of the Borough ;
which enabled the Mayor to provide fo► the entertain
ment of nearly four hundred persons at the Anger on
Wednesday, and for upwards of one thousand three hun-
dred of the lower class and poor on the following day.
The Mayor also sent to the County gaol a hot dinner
of mutton and lamb, and a quart of old cyder, for
each of the prisoners there. The occasion of this ce-
lebration was of no ordinary kind. During a great
many years prior to the late happy change, there have
been only three persons elected to tile office of Mayor
of this Town and Borough, and those three by rota-
tion. Each of these three self-elected worthies, there-
fore, thus usurped the °dice of Mayor every third
year. It was an occasion, therefore, of rejoicing, not
only of a personal and local, hut of a political nature,
as connected with the general cause of independence
and freei:om. When the cloth was removed, the
health of the King being drank, it was followed by
the air " 6:ni save the King !" and as soon as the of-
ficer said " Gentlemen, charge your glasses for the
Queen," the company expressed their feeling's as by
an electric shuck : tables and glasses were made to
echo the voices, and three times three were given in
the most cheering and rapturous manner.
M. Pittu.eore in a lung and very able address, in
• which he took a luminous review of the local and po-
litical circumstances that atten•led the celebration, and
to which we regret our limits will not permit us to do
justice, proposed the health of the Mayor. This n•as
drank with enthusiasm, and the Mayor, in an appro-
priate speech, returned thanks for the honour that was
done him. The next toast was Mr. Banbury Leigh and
the Independent Interest of the County of Monmouth :
Which was drunk with repeated cheers and the most
marked approbation. Sir John Brigges, in a neat
speech, w/tiellt, boa the low tone of vette in which it"
, was delivered, we regret we cou►d not distinctly hear
at the other end of the room, made a distiect profes-
sion of his independent and political principles, and
concluded by giving the health of Nlr. Moggridge:.
which being received with the must tumultuous s).unts
of applause, that gentleman add d tile company in
one of the most inn, restive, constitutional, and manly
Appears n•e ever heard ; in the course of which he was
repeatedly and most enthwdastically cheered ; and in
the conclusion, iii which he proved that the friends of
Constitutional Reform were the real fricaels of the
peace and tranquillity of the country, as the Aristo-
cracy, when it usurped the rights of the Common-,
and in any way interfered with the election of the
leutbers of the Commons' own Muse of Parliament,
were the 1 (al enemies of that peace and tranquillity,
was received with the most rapturous appiaase. The
House of Lanarth, rout and branch, was next drunk with
three times three; J. L. Sewlamore, Esq.:and next tl e
Vicar of Abergaveny, who addressed the company in
terms which drew forth repeated and lasting. plumlits
The Rev. Gentleman contended that the Cergy of the
Establishment onght neither to be, nor to he considered
to be, inimical to Liberty. With great force and point
he asked, Who was the tirat to sign the Greit Charter
of our Liberties ? and reminded his auditors of the
opposition of the Seven Bishops to the tyranny of the
Stuarts; on occasion of whose a:quit:al the 'troy,
brought into the immediate neighbourhood of the me-
tropolis, in order to overcome public opinion during
their trial, having expressed by loud shouts their joy
at their acquittal,—!he King asked cf. Lord Ferersharn,
What was the occasion of that noise? to which his
Lordship replica, " It is nothing but the troops shout-
ing for the acquittal of the Bishops.•". And call yon
that nothing," said the King? The health of Doctor
Samuel Parr, the t learned and oneof the best men
in Christendom, Chaplain to the Queen of England,
.vas next drunk with high honour ; and afterwards the
Members of the Lantillio Association, with thanks to
them fur their friendly remembrance.
On the next day all the waiters, furry in number,
were put in requisition to prepare the Hall for the re-
eeption of the working classes and pour, and all the
:Wes were neatly laid out in the same manner as on
the preceding day. These were now made capable of
•ntertaining -MI persons at a time. As soon as the
irst -itiU were plenteously regaled with roast and boiled
oe.if and mutton, and a quart of old cider each, thee•
peaceable retired, and 400 others took their places
old retired in the seine manner, and so un. Xekri,
1,41.10 perons were thus regaled.

The presents sent to the Mayor fur this cir:r7 loan.
'net consisted of two whole bucks, two noble barons of
oeef, one fine large turbot, three uncommunly large
talmon, a baron of veal, three whole sheep, four lambs,
-ire large fat haunches of inutton, seven rumps °Meer,
hreu sirloins of beef, four saddles of mutton, fifteen
rip of mutton, 30 couple of docks, 2t4 couple of fowls,
ix geese, 12 large gammons of prime baron, three sacks
.f green peas, one sack of turnips, tin bushels of pota-
oe•, six bags of fine dour for pastry, three hundred
pares it bread, fifteen dozen of Port wine, eight dozen
•f sherry, three dozen of Claret, four hogsheads of
ider, thirty gallons of brandy and rum, may baskets
f fine frnit for the dessert, and pay for the expenses of
ookinf, arc. &c.

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