As good a plain dinner of old English fare as ever smoked on a table was prepared by Mrs.Solly; and about eighteen gentlemen sate down to the festive board.
Mr.Jubber (the eminent draper of High Street) was in the Chair, having the distinguished guest of the Club on his right.

The able and consistent Hicks officiated as croupier on the occasion; most of the gentlemen of the Club were present, and H.Foker, Esq., and Spavin, Esq., friends of Captain Costigan, were also participators in the entertainment.

The cloth having been drawn, the Chairman said, "Costigan, there is wine, if you like," but the Captain preferring punch, that liquor was voted by acclamation: and 'Non Nobis' having been sung in admirable style by Messrs.

Bingley, Hicks, and Bullby (of the Cathedral choir, than whom a more jovial spirit "ne'er tossed off a bumper or emptied a bowl"), the Chairman gave the health of the 'King!' which was drunk with the loyalty of Chatteris men, and then without further circumlocution proposed their friend 'Captain Costigan.' After the enthusiastic cheering which rang through old Chatteris had subsided, Captain Costigan rose in reply, and made a speech of twenty minutes, in which he was repeatedly overcome by his emotions.
The gallant Captain said he must be pardoned for incoherence, if his heart was too full to speak.

He was quitting a city celebrated for its antiquitee, its hospitalitee, the beautee of its women, the manly fidelitee, generositee, and jovialitee of its men.