^74 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1804. 



united parishes of St. Mary, Wool- 

 noth, and St. Mary, Woolchurch ; 

 the Rev. Joseph Hughs, dissenting 

 preacher at Battersea : and the Rev. 

 Charles Frederick Steinkopfft, mi- 

 nister of the Lutherian church in 

 the Savoy. 



lOlh. A fatal event terminated 

 the life of Thomas Pitt, the second 

 Lord Camelford, (for the particu- 

 lars of M'hich see " the deaths" of 

 this month, at the end of the chro- 

 nicle.) 



17th. The members of the be- 

 nevolent society of St. Patrick held 

 their annual meeting this day at the 

 Crown and Anchor Tavern. At 

 about 6 o'clock Lord Hutchinson 

 took the chair, and the company sat 

 down to dinner ; after which the 

 children supported by the charity 

 were introduced, and walked round 

 the room. Their appearance, which 

 bespoke cleanliness and sound nou- 

 rishment, and their natui-al concom- 

 itant, the bloom of health, was ob- 

 served by the society with the most 

 grateful satisfaction. The treasurer 

 tiien reported the state of the funds 

 to the society, and the additions 

 made to them in the course of the 

 last year. Lord Darnlcy having 

 proposed the health of Lord Hutchin- 

 son, which was drank with every 

 expression of applause, his lord- 

 ship returned his cordial thanks. "It 

 was his fate," he said, "in succeed- 

 ing to his noble friend who filled the 

 chair last year, to recal to the re- 

 collection of the company the manly 

 and eloquent exhortation in which 

 his predecessor had then addressed 

 them. His noble friend had then 

 warned them, that they were en- 

 angcd in a contest for every thing 

 that was dear and valuable to a na- 

 tion. If the dangers which then 

 menaced the country were great and 



formidable, they were still more so 

 at the present moment ; they being 

 immediately over us, they were ur- 

 gent and called for the most cautious 

 preparations — the most determined 

 resistance ! It was doubtless un- 

 necessary to arouse their courage, 

 or stimulate their exertions on such 

 an occasion. His countrymen had 

 only to recollect the cause in which 

 they were engaged, and the necessi- 

 ty they were under to support their 

 ancient fame. They should also recol- 

 leCl that it was peculiar in their his- 

 tory, that they never had to contest 

 against a single rival, when their ef- 

 forts were not crowned with victory. 

 Such proud recolIeCtions should ful- 

 ly animate their hopes, and tell them 

 that, while they continue to be in- 

 fluenced by the same heroic senti- 

 ments, they must continue to be in- 

 vincible on their own shores. What- 

 ever then may be the difference of 

 opinion of those who heard him, on 

 religious or political points, he was 

 convinced that they must be all ani- 

 mated with one common sentiment, 

 in resolving to resist the encroach- 

 ments and ambition of a power that 

 seems to have sworn to embroil tlie 

 peace of Europe, and who more 

 prominently betrays his rancorous 

 jealousy of the commerce and pros- 

 perity of this country, and of the 

 wealth and strength that redounds 

 from the commerce and prosperity 

 to the British empire at large. On 

 these topics, however, he should not 

 now further dilate ; but remind the 

 meeting of the object of the humane 

 institution which they were called 

 together to patronise. Such an in- 

 stitution could alone take its rise 

 from Christian charity, which em- 

 braces the interests of all mankind, 

 and which have more particularly 

 directed its atteutiou to the rulief of 



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