Near Sir W.Scott sat the Earl of Fife, Lord Meadowbank, Sir John Hope of Pinkie, Bart., Admiral Adam, Baron Clerk Rattray, Gilbert Innes, Esq., James Walker, Esq., Robert Dundas, Esq., Alexander Smith, Esq., etc.
The cloth being removed, "Non nobis, Domine," was sung by Messrs.
Thorne, Swift, Collier, and Hartley, after which the following toasts were given from the chair:-- "The King"-- all the honours.
"The Duke of Clarence and the Royal Family." The CHAIRMAN, in proposing the next toast, which he wished to be drunk in solemn silence, said it was to the memory of a regretted-prince, whom we had lately lost.

Every individual would at once conjecture to whom he alluded.

He had no intention to dwell on his military merits.

They had been told in the senate; they had been repeated in the cottage; and whenever a soldier was the theme, his name was never far distant.

But it was chiefly in connection with the business of this meeting, which his late Royal Highness had condescended in a particular manner to patronize, that they were called on to drink his health.