Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1850-12-21
THE BRITISH MINISTER AT NEW YORK.

On the occasion Of the celebration on the 3Oth nj
timo in the city of New York, of the Anniversary
of the st. Andrews Society, one Of the regular
toasis was as follows:
"Sir HEsnr BuLwER, and the other Representatives o
Great Britain in the United STATES I"
This toast having been drank
Sir HENRY BULwER rose and addressed the com
pany in speech of which we have the following
report:
Sir H. BuLwER said that after returning thanks to the
President who had proposed and the company who had
kindly welcomed the toast which had just been given bis
first duty was to pay just compliment the noble purpose
which inspired the institution of which they then cee
braing the anniversary 1t convinced him that if Scottish
charity began at home. did end there or, perhaps
convinced him more clearly that wherever the Scotchman
went he carried his home with him. Hear heart Yes,
that was the fact and if he had doubted it for instant the
banners which confronted him. the Patron Saint under whose
auspices the present company had assembled and above ALL
the eloquent and patriotic speech Of his friend the left
r IavIx the President Of the Society," sufficient to
show that most of those whom be collected around
him at that very moment in imagination at least, in
"Bonnie Scotland" [Applause,] Aye, gentlemen con-
tinued Sir H. BULwER- ~&
"Your hearts in the Highlands your heart is here
"Your hearts in the Highlands chasing the deer
chasing the deer, and following the roe tx. H
"Your heart'sin the Highlands wherever you CO."
But there Is one thing which Scotchman prizes more
than bis country What is that His Independence. But
that spirit Of independence which the national poet of Scot
land described so magnifcentyas
eLord Of the lion-heart and eagle-eye,"
had in those unpoetica days of gold and California very
vulgar appete-a very mercantile dgestiont requires
be fed from the pocket Laughtel The empty sack found
difficult to stand up straight and the needy found it
L.: h.
and every shore found the hardy and adventur
Of Caledonia each struggling for his ndepend
with the undyng courage and ndomtable perse
that his ancestors Of old displayed in when
fighting under that Bruce and Wallace whose glones had
been honored for the independence their native
ains Great applause. Nor were the products Of Scot
land unanspanable. On the contrary, two Of them might
be said adapt themselves to the two characteristic cond
tons Of the earth with singular popularity Wherever the
soil baIen there would grow the Scotch fir wherever
the soil fertile, there would be thrive the Scotch
man. Applause and laughter.
There seemed, indeed between his (the scotchmans)
tue and that of prosperity sort Of esmec affinity. Laugh
Often, travelling the old continent Europe said
Sir H. b. Che dared say that the thing would
this side Of the Aanc be had been struck by the
pect of town foushng and busy than any in its
vicinity and its outskirts he had remarked gentle
emnences two three very fine houses, with very fine
gardens lighthouses conservaores and those signs which
betoken the happy union Of wealth and comfort and he had
asked Pray, whose house is that " Oh, that house,
the reply, SIS Mr. John Andersons, Scotch gentleman the
proprietor Of the great iron foundry And whose is that
other fine house " sob, that Mcdonald Macleans
Their Scotch gentleman, who has the great mill down
the town there" Great applause and laughter IT,.
He had received these without being strong
y impressed with the idea that the spot which Messs John
Anderson and Donald Maclean had fixed upon for their resi-
dences under the especial protection of Providence And
if any ask him then what he thought of the
don and prospects Of New York, he should deem the
question pretty satisfactorily answered by the observation that
contained two hundred members of the Society of St.
Andrew Of those members, owed allegiance to the
Queen and obedience the laws and constitution Of Great
Britain others had their ates indissouby connected with
the fortunes of the great republic Of the United States but
all children of st. Andrew, and to say the least
nephews of St. George. All birds Of the feather
though they might roost different eesmembers Of the
family, though they might be adopted by different lands
[Appause Even their national history indvduaized
by the Who the first martyr to religious
liberty in Scotland One PArRIcK HAMILTON, (if he did
not mistake who burnt in front of the College Of st.
Salvador in scarborough by Archbishop Of st. An
drews. Laughter and applause Who was the foremost
amongst the wes because the most moderate of the early
champions of civil liberty in America Alexander Hamil
TOM who peshed beneath the cliffs of Wehawkin also a
victim to barbaous custom, and the courage with which he
indicated his opinions. Great applause] n
Nor this ALL Passing from the royal house Of Ham
ton to the prnce family Of Buccleugh, might be not
in later and recent times that if Waverley and Guy
Mannerng had made the of Scott immortal side
Of the Atlantic, Cero Gordo and Churubusco had equally
mmortazed it the other If the novelist had given the
garb Of truth to fiction, had not the warrior given to truth
the air of romance Neither Engshmen, Scotchmen
Americans could, he thought be proud Of themselves
without being proud Of each other He could not understand
those who, to crafty pary vanity to pamper the appe
te OF noisy ambition, at times willing to create dis
cord and jealousy and hostility between nations which
bound by every parental 6a and fraterna sentiment to
dwell in terms of harmony and unity together. Great
applause
How different the example of which be might be remind
ed by the gentleman him. Mr DRAPER, President Of
the New England Society," Every there present knew
the melancholy fate of Of his (Sr H. B. gallant
his counymen depIored his loss. ALL save an aeconate
and ever hopecon6ding wife, despaed Of bis Who,
IN that hour Of need came to his rescue any eve
doubted the feelings which ought to animate and did animate
John Bull and Brother Jonathan he felt that he had merely
to pronounce the Of Grinnel and FrankiR. Great
cheerng1 ....
Gentlemen, CONTINUED Sir H. B. y know that need moi
remind you Of the glorious feat of arms the British
troops performed the American continent because
amongst the most daring and dashng in that famous gh
"the Master Of Lovat's" killed Hiphlapders But
may call your recollection that on those lofty rocks where
the chvay of France and Britain that day met NAV nov
be monument, which, looking proudly down on tht
mighty river that bears the bold mariner the vast Atlantic
Commentaries in common eptaph the death and glory
Wolfe and Montcam. Ohen, when envyinp the man VII,
erected this monument bis noble thought had deemed ther
idea nober st-that of uniting in some great an,
common cause the fame and of those two rival State
which have long coended for European
which still, in spite Of all the blood and treasure prodeah
layshed in their contests stand side by side coeoual il
power and renown Much applause. But if this is ,h
sentiment which, as an Engsbmsn sincerely, WARMLY
and cordially entertain towards France as an English
man. feel it less warmly, less sincerely less cordially 10
wards the United States of America will not sneak O