Celebration of the Anniversary
of French Freedom.
LONDON, JULY iG, 1790.
UPWARDS of fix hundred Gentlemen aflem
bled at the crown and anchor Tavern, 011
W ednelday. The great room was quite fall,and
many gentlemen dined in other apartments.
They all wore the national cockade.
Short and applicable invocations were made so
the Supreme Being before and after dinner, by
Dr. Ree's and Dr. Towers ; and the Earl of Stan
hope proposed the followingtoalts :
1. The Majesty of the People.
2. The Nation, the Law, and the King.
2. The glorious Revolution in France.
4. The Triumph of Liberty in the delirutflion
of the Baftile.
Wliile thistoall was drank, a ftonc, which was
a part of the Qallile, was exhibited, surmounted
by the cockade of freedom.
$. The National Alfembly of France.
Here tha following Song, written for ihc occa
sion, was lung.
I.
GALLANT Nation, foes no more f
Gen'rous Britons hail the day,
That from Gallia's cultur'd (hore
Chas'd tyrannic pow'r away.
11.
Late a band of Patriots rofc,
Firm in freedom's glorious caufc ;
Feeble Slaves in vain oppose
Rights fecur'd by equal laws.
111.
Myrtle wreaths entwine their brows,
Branchy myrtle decks the blade
While like us, they pay their vows
To each Patriot Hero's (hade.
IV.
Hampden, Sydney, names rever'd !
Uoaft of Albion's sea girt isle,
Martyr'd RulTell, (hade endear'd !
On this day propitious smile.
V.
Transatlantic spirits bend,
Pleas'd our feftive rites to fee,
Franklin ! freedom's ablest friend !
Warren and Montgomery !
VI.
Martial youths, in Britain bred,
Kindle with congenial zeal,
Freedom's path refolv'd to tread,
Jealous ot the public weal.
VII.
Should tyrannic force again
Raise her Hydra heads on high, .
Welcome, then, the hostile plain,
Freemen dauntless dare to die.
VIII.
Verdant Myrtle's branchy pride
Shall my thirsty blade entwine,
Such, Hakmodius, deck'd thy fide!
Such Arijtogiton bethine.
The Earl of Stanhope introduced the next toa.l
in a Itiort and pointed address, in which he said,
that the company was allembled together that
day io celebrate one of the greatest and moll im
portant Revolutions that had ever happened. It
had rellored to the rights of men twenty four
millions of human beings.—lt had dellroyed a
government of foul corruption, intrigue and ty
ranny—and, 011 the utter ruin of a fyltem of sla
very, it hail in the iliort space of one year ella
blilhed a government, founded on the natural
equality of men. They had even in this glorious
iy Item improved on the conititution of England,
for they had not only ellabliihed civil, but reli
gious liberty. They had 110 laws to complain of,
such as difgaaced our Statute hook. '1 hey did
not restrain their women from going out of the
kingdom, lell they ihould be converted from their
religion—nor had they any law by which their
clergy, by falling and prayer, were enabled to
call out devils. They had abolilhed tythes, and
they had made a provision, that no description of
men ihould be driven from offices of trull, be
cause they had the bad fortune or the good for
tune to differ from the eftabiilhed church.
Having concluded a very liandfome culogium
on tiieir conduct, by faying that in many things
they had given us a lesion, from which we ought,
in virtuous emulation, to improve, he gave as the
next toast.
6. An end to all jealouiles between Britain and
France—and may they vie with each other in ex
tending to all the other nations of the earth, peace,
virtue and liberty.
Dr. Price, in a ihort paper, paid an elegant
compliment to the grand fyfteni of liberty they
liad eltabliilicd. It was an union between pliilo
fophy aqd politics ; for in its spirit it not only
■went to give the people of France their just en
joyment of liberty, but it looked abroad to other
nations, and held forth peace and good will to
all people, as fellbw beings and as brethren.
The people of France particularly pointed to
England, as to the country with which, for their
mutual intereft,and for the interests of mankind,
they wiihed moll eagerly to be united. He knew
from the nioft refpecftable quarter, that they
were not only desirous of this, but that an offer
of such an alliance was likely to be made. Iffo,
what imilt not be the effect offucli an alliance on
all the nations of the earth ! Holland on this
lidc of tlie globe, and America on the otUei" ;
would join the grand confederacy, and, thus
united, they would ensure peace to the whole
world. He concluded with exprelling in a i'en
timent. what ni nit be the cordial wilh of all men
on the fubje<9i.
7. /i league between Great-Britain and France
for perpetuating peace, and making the world
happy.
8. To the memory of those Patriots 111 France
who have loft their lives in fighting for the liber
ties of their country
The Earl of Sian'.iope here read to the com
>any ihe oath which ihe National AHembly have
prepared for the King, to take on the day of the
General Confederation.
9. M. de la Fayette, M. Bailli, and M. de Mi
rabeau, M. de Rabau de St. Etienne, and the reft
of the Patriots of France.
10. M. Sheridan, and the reft ofthe Patriots of
E.igland, who have defended against prejudice,
the French Revolution.
Mr. Sheridan, in a most eloquent speech, re
turned. thanks to the numerous body, lor the ve
ry warm and gratifying manner in which they
had done him the honor to drink his health. It
was a most ample reward for his public conduct,
to oe so honored by a meeting of men, allembled
from their pure attachment to freedom ; and he
afiured them, that the sentiments he had exprefi
cd 011 the French Revolution, he should carry
with him through life. In every iituation he
should ad: on the fame principles ; for, in his
mind, though it would be a molt narrow thing to
objetft to the French Revolution, if it did nothing
more than secure to Frenchmen their jult and
natural rights, yet it was pregnant with the molt
beneficent consequences to this country, and to
humankind. We know from fatal experience,
that the old Monarchy of France, ever looked
forward to war as the means of preserving and
augmenting its tyranny. We already have a
proof in the conduct of the National Aflembly,
that they were actuated by a very different spirit.
The expressions of good will which the noble
Chairman had so truly afcribedto them, and tlie
intention which Dr. Price had slated, that they
entertained of proposing an alliance with this
country, were so advantageous to Great-Britain
and to mankind, that they demanded the most
marked return of kindness and good will from
us. It had Itruck him and other gentlemen, that
our feelings on the fubjeift Ihould be exprelledin
something more pointed than a toast, and with
the permiifion of the company he would move a
few words in the way of resolution. He then
moved that it be resolved " That "this meeting
does most cordially rejoice in the eftablilhment
and confirmation of liberty in France; and that
it beholds with peculiar fatisfacftion the senti
ments of amity and goodwill which appear to
pervade that country towards this ; especially at
a time when it is the manifeft intcreft of both
Srates that neither should interrupt the harmony
which at present subsists between them, and which
is so eflential to the freedom and happiness not
only of both nations, but of all mankind."
This resolution was received by the whole
Meeting, with the most vehement acclamations
of applause, and which were damped only for a
time by
Mr. Home Tooke representing himfelf, and
mounting the table to speak, a general murmur
ran through the room, and it was sometime be
fore he could be heard. At length he was fuf
fered to begin. He said, when he was a younger
man, he flattered the women, but he disdained to
flatter men. He was utterly careless of the ap
plause of the company. He knew of better re
wards than their favor, and he should be happy
even in their disapprobation. He desired they
would in their resolution, mark the diftincftion
between this government and that of France.
They had to build a ship from the keel. We had
a ship with a found bottom, but which had only
gathered foine concretions, and wanted to be
docked.
Mr. Sheridan then shortly animadverted on
some paflages of what Mr. Tooke had said. He
should not depart iroin what he had said, that
the approbation of a great public body.com'pofed
not of party men, but of men of all parties altera
bled from one principle, was to him the hicrheft
reward for political services that he looked to
Mr. Tooke might prefer other rewards : he did
not wish to envy him his gratification, whatever
it might be. He certainly, in his resolution, did
not point at any difference in thetwo countries
but lie was free to confefs, that though there was
much room for improvement in the British go
vernment, he should never,in any situation, coun
tenance the introduction of anarchy on the one
hand, neither should he support tyranny under
the pi etext of avoiding anarchy on the otlie.
The resolution was then put to the fhevv of
hands, and carried unanimously.
Mr. Sheridan then gave as a toast
winV-r^f^ 3 ' 1^813 " 110156 ' which was drank
with great joy. «««»•
Mr 1 T' l ' ,C ° '">>"Cl,ai r from
" P (" a ° d «™<l without
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" Ecfolvca, That the company feel equal fe.
tisfaiTtioii, that the people of England by ti?-
virtuous exertions ot their ancestors, haven t f
arduous a talk to perforin as those of France h
now had ; and that they have only to mai.S
and improve the Conftituyon which their tncef
tprs have tranfuiitted to them."
It vvas then moved and resolved, that the res
lutions be tranfmicted to the National Aflemhl°*
and be published in our newspapers.
The President jlien gave the following toasts •
12. Equal religious liberty to all mankind
1?. All equal representation to the people in
Parliament. .
14. The sacred rights of men, and may all
nations have wisdom to understand, and
to defend them.
15. May th? glorious example of France tea 1
other nations the value of the blessing, t 0 fa / 01
16. May the enemies of freedom be draWj
full length, and the gallows be the frame of th
pitflure.
17- May the glorious Revolution in France
provoke in Britons the emulation never m
excelled in liberty.
18. May our Representatives be honest and
our people free, so that Britain may nevtr'ftand
in need of another revolution.
The Earl of Stanhope informed the company
that the fragment of the Baftile on the table was
really genuine, and had been presented to the
company for that days solemnity by Mademoiselle
D'Eon.
The reft of the evening was fpenr in the high
est conviviality. We never witnefled a more ani".
niared, or a more rriumphanc display of enthu
fiafin in the cause of freedom. There was a very
large appearance of the true and genuine friends
of libei ty—the Whigs of England—the men who
were the firft to feel and establish the rights of
men. And wetruft that those of another descrip
tion, who aflifted in this meeting, will be caught
by the fervor of the day, t,o refpedi and cherish ac
home the invaluable blessing which they joined
011 Wednesday in commeinorating, on being ob
tained by others.
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