The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-07-30
MIR. JAY AND HIS LITTLE SPEECHES.
CAPTAIN COSTIGAN OUTDONE.

OAI lain COOllUAN ~
From the n. Y. Sun.
States at Vienna, Austria, has forwarded to
this city for publication an account of a
dinner which he gave at Vienna, in celebra-
ton of last Fourth of July. The account
appeared in the Tribune of Tuesday, and
fills a column and a half of that dull and
usually false-reporting Journal. However, as
this communication emanates from Mr.. Jay
himself, it may be assumed to be as near the
truth as the modesty of its distinguished au-
thor would permit.
Under the exhilaration occasioned by the
contemplation of the celebrities around him,
to say nothing of the heap of regrets from
the aristocratic individuals who were reluc-
family compelled to deny themselves the plea
sure of eating his dinner and drinking his
wine, Mr.. jays speech-making powers, which
were SO long the JOY, the admiration, and the
pride of the Union League Club here in New
York, came out in full force.
First of all, MIR. Jay rose after dinner, and
proposed the health of the President of the
United States in a little speech which occu-
pies about half a column of the 1aybune's
smallest type, and is chock full of historic
lore about the Revolution and the late war.
This speech having been received with
warm applause" Mr.. Jay again rose, and in
another little speech proposed the health of
his Imperial Royal Majesty, Francis Joseph,
Emperor of Austria, Apostolic King of Hun
gary.
Count Won Beust having responded for his
august master, and proposed in return Mr..
jays own health, Mr.. Jay made a third little
speech, and proposed the health of the
Austrian ministry and Count Potocki.
This last-named nobleman having re-
sponded to the compliment paid him, Mr..
Jay, in a fourth little speech, proposed the
health of his honorable and distinguished
friend, his Excellency the Count George
Festetics."
After the response of Count Festetics, Mr..
Jay for the fifth time made a little speech
and gave as a toast: -''Peaee to the nations
of the world and health to their representa-
tives at Vienna" His Eminence Mgr. Falci-
nelli Antoniacci acknowledged this compli-
ment on behalf of his colleagues, and pro-
posed in response, ''The great Republic of
the United States" which the company rose
to honor. And then Mr.. Jay again, for the
sixth time, made a little speech, and proposed
the health of the army and navy of the United
States; and with this toast, he says in his
report, ''the proceedings ended" or, as it
might be expressed in the American vernacu-
lar, he dried up
This extraordinary succession of after-din-
ner speeches by Mr.. Jay is paralleled only by
those of the celebrated Captain Costigan, in
Thackeray's "Pendennis, at the dinner given
to him by the Chatteris Buccaneers on the
occasion of his departure with his daughter,
the distinguished Miss Emily Fotheringay,
for London. At this dinner, as we are told
by the lamented novelist
'The cloth having been drawn, the chairman said,
'Costigan, there is VINE, If you like but the Cap.
tain preferring punch, that liquor was voted by accla-
nation. The chairman gave the health of the
king which was drunk with the loyalty OF Chatteris
men, and then, without further circumlocution, he
proposed the health OF their friend, Captain
Costigan.'
"After the enthusiastic cheering which rang
through old Chatteris had subsidized, Captain Costi
gan rose In reply and made q speech OF twenty
minutes, in which he was repeatedly overcome by
his emotions.
mi. Hicks, Croupier, in a brilliant and energetic
manner, proposed Miss Fotheringay's health.
'Captain Costigan returned thanks 10 a speech
full Of feeling and eloquence.
"Mr. Jubber proposed the Drama and the Chatte.
ris Theatre, and Mr.. Blngley was about TO rise. but
was prevented by Captain Costigan, who, as long
connected with the Chatteris Theatre, and on behalf
of his daughter, thanked the company. -4
"The Army was then proposed, and Captain Cos
tigan returned thanks. In the course OF the night
ne sang his well-known songs, THE Deserter, THE
Shan Van Voght,' The Little Pig under the Bed,
and The Vale OF Ayoca.' The dvening was a grea
evenings end"
And so, too, Mr.. jays dinner and speeches
had an end.