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Captain Franklin and Captain Basil Hall were again to 

 be seen this year at the Club's table. Literature was 

 represented once more by Henry Hallam and John Wilson 

 Croker. Chantrey invited John Soane, the Professor of 

 Architecture to the Royal Academy who was gathering 

 together the miscellaneous assemblage of works of art which 

 he bequeathed to the nation and which is still to be seen 

 in his house in Lincoln's Inn Fields. 



The peerage was this year abundantly represented at the 

 Club's table, including some peers who had not before been 

 guests the Duke of Somerset, Lords Aberdeen, Brownlow, 

 Bexley, Cawdor, Darnley, Dartmouth, Macclesfield, Melville, 

 Minto, Morton, and Spencer. 



1824. The Anniversary of 1824, held on I7th June, was 

 attended by twenty-one members, with the President in the 

 chair. It was reported by the Treasurer that the expenses 

 since the corresponding meeting in the previous year had 

 amounted to 128 and that there was a balance in hand of 

 20 us. 4d., to which there would be added 7 due from 

 two members. It was resolved that the subscription from 

 each member for the ensuing twelve months should be 3. 



One vacancy was announced owing to the death of Mr. 

 Walker, and another arising from non-attendance. The 

 member who was now put out of the Club had attended 

 twice during the year before. He was a statesman of the 

 highest position, so immersed in public affairs as to 

 be unable to give much attendance at the Club. It is 

 difficult to understand on what grounds the regulation 

 should have been at once put in force in his case, when 

 other members who were several years absent were allowed 

 to remain in the Club. As the result of the ballot the two 

 vacancies were filled by the election of Lord Bexley and 

 Jesse Watts Russell. 



With reference to the resolution of 2Qth September 1748, 

 " that those gentlemen who have not attended for twelve 

 months, nor sent an excuse, be deemed no longer members," 

 it was now " Resolved that in future the attendance of a 

 member on the day of the Anniversary shall not be con- 



