with future subscriptions, shall for the present of conduct he has hitherto pursued: then let us be vested in the funds, in the names of Earl leave it to our descendants to give another Spencer, J. J. Angerstein, T. Bonar, Esqrs. proof of their affection for, and gratitude to Lord Belgrave, and S. Thornton, Esq. M. P. him. Mr. Pitt is a young man (a fault objected, Res. that the subscription shall continue open to him some years ago by the man I could only for a limited time, to be hereafter speci- almost suspect has thrown this apple amongst fied. Res. that a gen. meeting of the sub-us). How very few of us have a chance, none a scribers shall be held on Thursday, the 3d of hope, to see the monument now proposed to June, at the London Tavern, at 12 o'clock pre- be hereafter erected at their cost? Such an incisely, to confirm or alter the above resolu-citement is not necessary to keep Mr. Pitt tions. Res. that the thanks of the meeting be steady in the path he has pursued; but surely it given to the chairman. is good policy to stimulate others by his bright example, by the hopes of a smilar honour; and the sooner that incitement is held out the better. I will trouble you no further than to enter my protest against this new and extremely unfortunate proposal, being one of your constant readers, and to an immediate statue A READY SUBSCRIBER. Statue of Mr. Pitt.-London Tavern, June 3. -At a gen. meeting of the subscribers for erecting a statue of the Rt. Hon. Wm. Pitt, convened for the purpose of confirming or altering the resolutions passed at a gen. meeting held at Lloyd's Coffee-house on the 18th of May last; J. J. Angerstein, Esq. in the chair; Resolved, that the first resolution of the last meeting, postponing the erecting of a statue till Mr. Pitt's demise be rescinded. Res. that the money subscribed, and to be subscribed, be applied, when the subscription shall he closed, to the erection of a statue of the Rt. Hon. Wm. Pitt, in testimony of public gratitude for the eminent services rendered by him to his sovereign and his country, during the course of his most able, upright, and arduous administration. Res. that the subscription be kept open long enough to afford every individual in the Brit. empire an opportunity of subscribing. Res. that on the last Thursday in May 1803, a gen. meeting shall be called for the purpose of nominating a committee to carry the above resolutions into effect. Res. that the second resolution of the last gen. meeting, purporting that the subscriptions be vested in the funds, in the names of Earl Spencer, J. J. Angerstein, T.Bonar, Esqrs. Lord Belgrave, and S.Thornton, Esq. M. P. be confirmed. Res. that the thanks of this meeting be given to the chairman. May 21, 1802. ad To the Editor of the True Briton.-SIR, dress you not as the public orator," in the language of your correspondent, “A Ready Sub"scriber," but as the reputable conductor of a public paper. "With considerable indigna"tion" I read the letter of a Ready Subscriber on Friday last; as a more wanton attack was never made, than that which it attempts against the resolution of a most respectable meeting of gentlemen at Lloyd's coffee-house. Neither the style nor the ideas of your correspondent are calculated to impress the public mind with a belief that he is a very sincere friend of Mr. Pitt; but rather, to use his own phraseology, "a Fox got among the lambs," who, with the profession of great zeal, discovers some disingenuous motives lurking at the bottom. This, "ready gentleman" insists, that if the money subscribed be not immediately applied to the erection of a statue to Mr. Pitt, it ought to be returned to the subscribers. This is not altogether so clear as the writer imagines it to be: J.J. ANGERSTEIN, Chairman. waving this, however, as it seemed expedient To the Editor of the True Briton.-SIR, I ad- (for many reasons not necessary to be specified dress you as the public orator. With consi- here) to the general meeting of the 18th, to fix derable indignation I read in your paper, that upon the demise of Mr. Pitt as the proper at a meeting held the 18th inst. at Lloyd's period for erecting the statue or monument in coffee-house, it was "Resolved, that the mo- question, it is not probable that any person, "Ready Subscriber," will ney subscribed for a statue of the Rt. Hon. except perhaps a Wm. Pitt shall be applied in the erection of wish on that account to return his subscription "a statue or monument to his memory, after into his pocket. He "hoped,” however, “to "his demise." So imprudent, so improper a see the monument," and therefore subscribproposal, could not be made by a friend to Mr. ed. But he has, and I trust will long have, the Pitt: some Fox must have got among the pleasure of seeing the original; and surely the lambs to do away the public zeal by so ill-original is better than the copy, as long as it timed an attempt, for only an attempt can I suppose it to be. Is there a subscriber but expected that his money would be immediately applied to the declared purpose? If that be so, how can any majority, assembled at any time or place, change the original intention, without returning, invidiously, to the disappointed their subscriptions, who undoubtedly hoped to see the monument of their gratitude? I have no doubt but that Mr. Pitt will, during his life, persevere in that honourable, that glorious line 66 remains in a state of preservation. Statues are commonly erected in honourable memory of great men, as a record of their eminent services, and an incitement to others to emulate such illustrious examples: but monuments of this nature could not, with much propriety, be erected to the memory of a living character. Scarcely an instance occurs in modern times, of statues erected during the life of the individuals: in ancient times, indeed, they are sufficiently frequent; but the fate of those monuNn 2 1015] SUPPLEMENT TO VOL. II. ments shews that they usually originated in cated difficulties which the French revolution flattery or fear; since, on the demise of the presented to us. Is it then because he was monarch or minister to whom they were erect- thwarted in a measure, upon the adoption of ed, they were usually thrown down, defaced, which the ablest and best intentioned men may and flung with scorn into the Tiber. With conscientiously differ in opinion-a measure life, flattery and fear expire; and nobler and approved by some of the greatest men of both juster motives of action prevail in their turn. parties-a measure which he thought essential Enough of this: but I would ask this gent. if to the safety of the empire-and which, if the he can suppose, for a moment, that a statue war had continued, some people think we now erected to Mr. Pitt would wholly escape might have found to have involved in its consea midnight mutilation from some of those ene- quences a question of no less importance than mies who have been created by those very whether Ireland should have been preserved or splendid and meritorious services for which lost to us-is it, we ask, because at a moment the statue is proposed? Buonaparte's guard when he thought this measure so important, of honour would be insufficient to secure it and was prevented from carrying it, he thought from the secret and reiterated attacks of the fit to retire, that we are therefore to forget all disappointed, the malicious, and the revenge- the services he had rendered his country for ful. Besides, what real friend of Mr. Pitt can 17 years before? Is there a man who doubts, imagine that it would be grateful to his feel- that if he had employed that period in the ings, to that genuine modesty which always avocations of that profession in which he first accompanies true merit, and which increases set out, his great and transcendent abilities in proportion to that merit, to become the would have led to the highest honours and spectator of his own statue, either in its state of emoluments? And will the people of this elevation or depression? In truth, Sir, there is country suffer such a man, the man who has such an air of ridicule attached to the propo- saved us, to retire unnoticed, because in saving sition for "an immediate statue," that I trust us he has adopted measures which some peryour correspondent, anxious for it as he ap- sons do not approve, but which they do not pears to be, will submit, with the rest of the approve only because they choose to consider subscribers, to the restraint of not beholding them abstractedly, and independent of the nethe copy while the original is before his sight, cessity in which they originated? The measures and lives in the eyes and hearts of his grateful which have drawn down upon Mr. Pitt the secountrymen. I am, Sir, An Enemy to an imme-verest animadversion of his enemies, are those diate Statue, and a Friend to the Resolution of the May 25, 1802. Meeting at Lloyd's. which have been adopted for the preservation of our independence and the protection of Mr. Pitt. (True Briton, June 21, 1802. our constitution.-The great difference, howWe never thought cur countrymen deficient ever, upon these points is not so much as to either in justice or gratitude, but we should the propriety of the measures themselves, as to have doubted the correctness of our judgment the existence of the necessity from whence on these points, if the people could have suffered they arose. Those who think that the meetMr. Pitt to retire, after his long and arduous ings of Chalk Farm, of St. George's Fields, and services, without testifying those public marks of Copenhagen House, were harmless assemblies, of approbation, which do no less honour to will not think that we required Acts of Parliathose who confer, than to him who is the object ment to prevent such meetings; and those of them. The moment which has been chosen who think that Mr. Jackson, Mr. O'Connor, for evincing this feeling is as fit as the thing Mr. O'Coigley, Mr. Tone, Ld. Ed. Fitzgerald, itself is just and becoming. To have expressed &c. &c. were good and loyal subiects, will not thanks to Mr. Pitt at the moment of his resig- think that any bill against traitors could be nation might have savoured too much of party framed with any other view than for the purspirit, might have looked even like an opposi-pose of wantonly infringing the constitution. tion to the exercise of the undoubted preroga- But the sober part of the community may per tive of the King in the choice of his ministers: haps feel that it was not a culpable act in Mr. but to have waited till all such feelings must Pitt's administration to guard against such have subsided-to have seen the effects which men; and that after the Opposition had been his measures have produced in the attainment in a body to Maidstone, on a certain memorable of peace, to have witnessed his great and disin- trial, they would have wiped away some suspiterested conduct on that question itself, is tocious stains, and would have raised their own have sought the period when every praise which can be bestowed, when every testimony of applause which can be given, is offered with additional weight and recommendation. With a great majority of our countrymen, we believe, that it is to this identical Wm. Pitt that we owe at this moment the existence of our constitution. We believe that it is to the energy of his mind that we are indebted for having been able to struggle with the compli characters, if, on their return, they had re- the subject-they tell us it was ill-collected, evaded, unequal, and oppressive; but they never tell us that any other tax to the same amount would have possessed less of these objections; nor do they venture to assert, that at the time it was imposed we could have made peace without throwing ourselves on the mercy of our enemies. Most artful attempts have been made to induce Mr. Addington to think that every compliment which is paid to Mr. Pitt is a censure upon himself. Those men know little of Mr. Addington who suppose, that they can thus work upon his passions, and set them at variance with his reason and his judgment. This attempt did not succeed in the House of Commons, nor will it succeed elsewhere; Mr. Addington knows well that there is no inconsistency in a person approving of every act of Mr. Pitt's administration, in thinking that his measures have actually saved the country, and, at the same time, not attaching so much importance to the giving or refusing the remaining privileges to the Catholics, even during a war with France, as Mr. Pitt does. Mr. Addington is not more united with Mr. Pitt by the ties of personal friendship than he is by similarity of sentiment upon all the great political questions which have been produced by the extraordinary events of the last ten years. But it was not enough for the enemies of Mr. Pitt to endeavour to excite Mr. Addington's opposition to any mark of approbation of his conduct; it was more than insinuated, that such approbation was not agreeable in a quarter where it is the grossest calumny to suppose that Mr. Pitt's services are either forgotten or undervalued. We have reason to know, that there is no man who appreciates more correctly, or values more highly, the services of which we have spoken, than the illustrious Personage to whom we allude. He will not readily forget what passed on Mr. Fox's India Bill, or what was done on the question of the Regency; but above all, he will never forget the efforts of the man who has guarded him and the nation from the dangers of the French revolution; and who, in so doing, has performed greater services than any other man had ever before an opportunity of rendering to his sovereign. The Statue. (Morn. Chron. May 22, 1802.)The erection of this monument of national gratitude is postponed for the present. Mr. Pitt has found out what it appears the subscribers could not find out-that there is some small impropriety in erecting a statue to a living character. This discovery was made by Lord Belgrave, on Tuesday, at a meeting of the subsbribers. He had been instructed by Mr. Pitt to communicate his thanks, &c. and his wish that they would drop the design for the present. The company assented; but resolved that the statue should be erected at a future period, when it should please Heaven to remove its born minister to those happy realms where services are rewarded by perpe tuity of place, and resignations are unknown. It was farther resolved, that the money collected, which exceeds 3000 guineas, should be vested in the hands of trustees for the above purpose. This way of postponing gratitude, of deferring a passion sine die, is somewhat new in the history of our feelings, and we suspect, in the case of a man who follows so precarious a trade as that of popularity, may be somewhat dangerous. The die is cast, however, and Mr. Pitt is bound over to his good behaviour for life, under a penalty of 3000 guineas! In the mean time, that the subscribers' gratitude might not evaporate, or be lost in the multiplicity of changes and chances of this mortal life, each determined for himself to refresh the memory of Mr. Pitt's eminent services, by an occasional contemplation of the national debt, the taxes, and other little traits of his glorious administration, till the period arrive when they shall be more durably recorded by the chisel. Serus in cœlum redeas, diuque Lætus intersis populo Londini! Mr. Pitt's Statue. (Morn. Chron. May 22, 1802.)-We hasten to inform our readers that the plan of subscription for Mr. Pitt's statue is wholly changed. Instead of a money subscription, it is to be conducted by a pic-nic; that is to say, the various subscribers are, according to their zeal and ability, to contribute the several parts of the work. We are happy to hear that Mr. Dundas is to take the lead. Having, with his usual caution in changes of administration, carefully weighed the probabilities in favour of each party, he finds Mr. Pitt the favourite, and, consequently, he resumes his place with all speed. His contribution to the statue is a forehead of brass. Difficulties having arisen about constructing a proper nose, three worthy Aldermen, Curtis, Anderson, and Sir Watkin, are uniting their skill to fabricate one, with due attention to the tubercles. The eyes by the Bishop of Lincoln. They look different ways, as a statesman ought to do; one earnestly surveys the palace and the church, whilst the other is equally intent on the mob. He seems hesitating which to prcfer. A strange story having been propagated, that the statue was to have a tongue, all the romance-writers were striving for priority. The thought was new, and at first pleased the conductors; but it was considered, that the tongue of the original was apt to change its shape, and therefore it was quite as well to conceal it in the statue. Mr. I. H. Browne, Sir R. Peele, and a number of country gentlemen, were for setting on his shoulders a great globe, representing the world; but the shoulders were too narrow and feeble. Besides, the only globe that could be found was marked with the word " Marengo,” which would not have been pleasing to a British spectator. But the greatest contribution of all is of hands and arms. At least a thousand have been offered, in all different shapes and forms. It is remarkable, however, that most of them are for the left 66 side. There are a few good pairs, indeed, | spicuous enough, as most men knew by exwith hooked fingers, fit for turning a pocket perience, yet they would have been nothing inside out, to denote Mr. Pitt's great skill in without his arms. The extreme length of the finance. Mr. S. Thornton would have had a fingers was unanimously agreed on; but the little Bank of England hard by, for the con- committee came to no determination as to what venience of representing the admirable dex- he should be holding in them.-On the subject terity of the great statesman in converting her of posture there were long and ingenious degold into rags. But the Bank has been too bates. Sitting and standing were respectively much exposed of late for so delicate a consti- canvassed. A good many were for lying; and tution; and therefore what relates to her will an ingenious gentleman, whose name we could be better communicated on paper.-It is asto- not learn, thought that if the figure could be nishing that nobody has yet come forward to made to move by a pivot from side to side, supply the trunk of the body. Ld. Gren- without any visible cause, it would be very ville's vigour, it seems, will not answer, and Ld. characteristic, and more like the life.--It being Hawkesbury's or Mr. Addington's vicarious generally agreed that the Colossal form is preform has not sufficient strength. Fortunately, ferable, Mr. Kemble is to sit for the flesh, of Mr. Wilberforce has presented a cloak. Ld. which, from much experience in the best cat. Belgrave likewise offered one; but Mr. Wil- tle, he is thought a very able judge.-The berforce's is thicker.-The City wished to put materials are to be contributed in the manner a drawn sword in his hand; but the Bishop of mentioned in our last, with the addition of Rochester thinks a whip will be more charac- some part in plaster of Paris, as the French teristic. From the difficulty of imitating the gov. are expected to subscribe very largely to legs, it is proposed to place him on his knees, their best benefactor.-This statue being de. "but not asking pardon of God or man."— signed, not so much out of respect, for that is The place is not yet fixed. Some would put too cold a sentiment, but for the purposes of him in one of the regal niches within the Royal adoration, it has been proposed to instruct the Exchange; others in the front of the New city members to move for a repeal of that part Prison in Cold Bath Fields. But it is believed of the second commandment which prohibits he will at last be brought to the Old Bailey. the "making of graven images," for a limited It is much to be desired that the exhibition time, to be specified in the act. This will may be early, of which there are great hopes, wisely obviate the objections of those who may the sheriffs having already provided the scaf-have some scruples as to the worship of stocks folding and ropes. | and stones, and have hitherto been disposed to pay their addreses to a Minister incarnate.— All that can be gathered of ancient statuary has been consulted, and the Aldermen who are on the Nose Committee are to examine and report on the merit of the ancients, from Phidias to the unknown artist who made Nebuchadnezzar's celebrated image. The pedestal is to have groups of little figures on each side, pointing to the principal figure, and holding out their hands. Most of these will be portraits; but of the disposition of them, no report can be made in the present stage of the business. The Statue.-(Morning Chron. May 24, 1802.) -We are happy to find that the few particulars in our paper of Thursday respecting Mr. Pitt's statue are in general correct. Every information on a subject of so much importance will no doubt be highly prized.-Many contradictory reports, however, may be expected. The subscribers hold frequent meetings, but, overpowered by the grandeur and dignity of the subject, they as frequently part without coming to any decisive resolutions.-The contributions mentioned in our paper of Thursday are pretty correct. It remains to be added, that the assessment on the noses of Aldermen Fresh Subscribers to Mr. Pitt's Statue. (MornCurtis, Anderson, and Lewes, is 2 pr. cent. ing Chronicle. )-Dr. Brodum-A bottle of his Sir Watkin at first objected to this as unequal, nostrum, in compliment to the greatest nosfor that his brother Anderson, with a freehold trum-monger of the age, and as a proper comnose of six inches, would contribute no more panion to his grand specific for paying off the than himself with three inches, renewable national debt.—Mr. Dundas-A transient blush every hogshead. This was over-ruled, how- which once passed over his cheek when he told ever, by Ald. Curtis, who thought that it a truth. N. B. This is considered doubtful. might tend to revive the memory of the In-Gov. Aris-An inside view of the Bastile come-tax; although he was willing to allow that Sir John could at present spare a greater proportion, as there would be no further occasion to smell plots, which had been the bounden duty of every magistrate for some years. Before the subscriptions came in so fast as at present, it was proposed that the statue should be made without arms, and with bands only appearing, which would be a great saving to the country. But this was opposed, as destroying the consistency of the figure; and it was urged, that although his hands were con and all its little elegancies; Dr. Glasse and Justice Mainwaring in the fore ground, haranguing on the comforts of bread and water in six feet by eight. In distant perspective, roast beef and claret for themselves.-The Swinish Multitude-An enormous penny roll sold in the year 1801.-The People of England -A list of the reforms in Parliament which this grand reformer has procured since the year 1782.The People of Ireland-An account of the Catholic emancipation, and of the gentle methods of persuasion used at the Castle to induce the Irish to adopt the principles of free- although disfiguration might still ensue; how. dom.-The People of Africa-A list of his efforts, ever, Sir, on the whole, I cannot but agree in conjunction with Mr. Wilberforce, to pro- that it would be a much more decent, and full cure the emancipation of the negroes in the as honourable a testimonial of respect for the W. Indies, and to prevent exportation from virtues of Mr. Pitt, and a more dignified motheir own country.-The People of France-A nument to his fame, as well as more grateful, map of France, shewing how she has been I should think, to his feelings, to erect the confined within her ancient boundaries.-Вuo- statue after his death than during his lifetime. naparte-A portrait of the Corsican adventurer, June 14th. A SUBSCRIBER. the child and champion of Jacobinism; a copy The Statue.-(Morning Chronicle, June 21.) of Ld. Grenville's letter; and a plan of Ma--It is not our fault that the public must have rengo. The Dutch-A view of the Scheldt, with the ships sailing to Antwerp.--The Stadtbdder-A stiver, in consideration of the indemnities procured for him.—Louis XVIII.—A complete map of his kingdom, and a print of his grand triumphal entry into Paris.-The Emp. of Germany-A reversion in the Imperial loan, and a map of Belgium, the Milanese, &c. territories gained by the wat.-The Widows and Orphans of Soldiers and Sailors, &c. killed off A mantle, dyed in the blood of their deceased relatives.—Jenky, jun.-A pair of jack-boots, accustomed to the road to Paris.-The Habeas Corpus Act-An account of her long state of suspended animation while under his care.Liberty-Her own portrait, in a deep decline. Mr. Ketch-Indemnity for the past, and security for the future. The Statue, an Epigram-Morning Chronicle.) Shall then a statue rise to Pitt, Who sunk as in despair? Our course was smooth and fair: STERNHOLD AND HOPKINS. To the Editor of the Morning Chronicle.-Sir, As you have admitted the poetry of my brothers Sternhold and Hopkins, I trust you will not refuse the following tribute to the virtues of our late heaven-born minister, though of fered by a poor parish-clerk. I am, Sir, yours. Good Lord, how happy should I be," Cries John, "could I this statue see "Erected to our Billy!" Bother!" says Pat; "why, neighbour John, "Be all your sense and manners gone, "You spake so wondrous silly? "The devil should pick me limb from limb "Before I'd wish it rais'd to him "Who caus'd our shame and sorrow." Patience, dear brother," John replies; **T will not be rais'd before he dies:-"I wish 't were done to-morrow." AMEN! To the Editor of the True Briton.-Sir, I think there is much weight in the arguments in a letter on Mr. Pitt's statue, by "A Friend to the Resolutions at Lloyd's;" but I must beg to make one remark, that a part of the objection against an immediate statue might be removed, if the figure were to be made of bronze instead of stone, which was probably intended, as the "midnight mutilation" would, in that case, be at least a much more difficult work, more last words" on this subject. The friends of the scheme have changed their minds -the statue is to be erected, without waiting for any thing so uncertain as Mr. Pitt's demise, and which, if it were not uncertain, might, when it came, overwhelm his friends with such a weight of sorrow, that, instead of erecting statues, they would be for following him to the land of Forgetfulness. At a late meeting, it was solemnly debated, and agreed nem. cor. that the present was not to be sacrificed to the future, that we did not know enough of posterity to trust them with this great work, and that the impulses of gratitude were not things to be vested in the hands of trustees. The debates, or rather conversation, were long and serious; for, as a member observed, it was no less than a question of life and death.-A Committee of Precedents had been appointed to search for statues to living characters, and enough were produced to justify the practice; and it was likewise ingeniously discovered that a picture is but a statue on canvass, and that between an engraving and a bronze, the only difference was weight of metal.-Possibilities were taken into account, and it was ob. served that if Mr. Pitt should change his opinions, it was no more than he had done before, when the only consequence was, that his friends changed with him. As to his becoming worse, none of the subscribers would allow that to be in the smallest degree probable, or possible. Some thought there was a physical, and others a natural impossibilitybut all concurred in the sempiternity of merit they were determined to discover in him in all time forthcoming.-The statue therefore is to be put in hand, but whose hand or whose head will be equal to the undertaking, it was thought presumptuous even to guess at. It seemed too vast for the common powers of human genius.-One member observed, that as the word statue had been bandied about too much, it should be called a monument; but this was over-ruled by a facetious Alderman present, who remarked that this would create great confusion to Mr. Pitt's admirers from the country, who, when they inquired for THE MONUMENT, would infallibly be shewn the way to Fish-street Hill.-The clamour and malignity of faction were properly noticed, and the danger of erecting the statue in any public place was weighed with great accuracy and eloquence by several speakers. To obviate this, it was proposed, that the statue should be erected in some very secure place, and no admission to see it granted, but to those who were |