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tions, and identified itself with all our may think slightingly of these men ; but 



feelings. That interest has greatly contri- the time will come, in which the services of 



buted to make us what we are, in point of their successors will be required. If you do 



intellect and knowledge, which advantages not cherish the British navy, I can tell you 



we have imparted to otlier nations. Your what will be your fate ; you will perish, and 



Cook went round the world, carrying the you ought to perish ! The services of the 



blessings of humanity ; your merchants are navy have made you what you are, and if 



not mere traders, but carry with them, you do not support it, you deserve to perish. 



in their track, the benefits of civiliza- IVlany persons wiU object to the appearance 



tion, of knowledge, of religion, and elevate of a mihtary force among you ; they will 



in the scale of intellect the nations say it is not constitutional. But no man 



with whom they liave intercourse. The can say that the navy is unconstitutional, 



triumphs of the commercial navy of On tlie bosom of the deep the sailor finds 



England are great ; and when we add to his home ; there he cherishes none but 



to tliese the warlike triumphs of the navy of English feelings, Enghsli interests ; for 



England, who can estimate the value of which he not only frequently sacrifices his 



that interest by which they are achieved ? fortune, but is ready to sacrifice his hfe — 



What English heart does not glow with en- nay, proud to sacrifice it. I never knew a 



thusiastic ardour, when mention is made of man in tlie British navy, who would not 



the achievements of the British navy, from have been proud to sacrifice his hfe in the 



Blake, down to Hawke, Rodney, and Howe, service of his country. Gentlemen, I am 



and mighty Nelson ? — who died in the mo- ashamed of being compelled to defend the 



ment of victory, and left no anti-national British navy, the arm of our strength, tlie 



stain on liis character, but was English, crown of our glory ; but which is now sacri- 



every bit of him. In the hour of peace, we ficed to theories and speculations. 



So conclude the sentiments of a man worthy of his cause, and worthy 

 of the best days of the constitution. We should disdain to offer Mr. 

 Sadler any mere panegyric of his powers, though we are not deficient 

 in the full feeling of respect for his accomplished and intelligent mind. 

 But we pay him the higher honour of believing that he owes his chief suc- 

 cess to his sincerity — and that the torrent of his noble phraseology issues 

 from the rich and inexhaustible fount of a heart, filled and overflowing 

 with a sense of his illustrious cause. We believe that with his impres- 

 sions there can be no effort in those fine specimens of an oratory, that had 

 perished among us, since the days when Pitt rose in his strength against 

 the factions of England, and Burke hurled the thunder-bolt against the 

 evil spirit that was wasting the world. Like the great apostle, the 

 champion of these doctrines of national faith, honour, and virtue, may 

 well cast aside the enticing words of man's wisdom, and rely on 

 that lofty and unquenchable impulse which will give a tongue> not 

 to be abashed or repelled before the face of profane scoffers, or 

 tyrannical power. To him we say, Macte ! Go on in your career. 

 You will find it one of growing triumph. Your enemies may be invete- 

 rate, but your course is above their reach. You move in a higher 

 region than their paltry shafts can ascend. Your admirers will be every 

 man who takes truth for his guide, and disdains to sell his country. 

 Your panegyrists will be a whole people. 



Nor in speaking thus of Mr. Sadler, should we forget to whom the 

 opportunity of such successes is owing. The Duke of Newcastle, who 

 has a right to claim on his own account all the honours due to the purest 

 and most fearless patriotism, has increased his claims, by his connexion 

 with Mr. Sadler. Without the intercourse of that manly and Protestant 

 nobleman^ .we might still have known the member for Newark but as 

 the able writer; and however his abilities might have made his 

 way into notice, we have still to thank the congenial spirit that was the 

 first to summon them to the direct defence of the Constitution. 



We have taken the speech from the Hull Advertiser, a very able paper, 

 which we have always found in the right, and deserving, on more occa- 

 sions than one, the respect that belongs to good feeling and to good 

 literature. 



