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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 14TH MAY, 1879.
I am now about to propose, is the most illustrious
guest that ever sat at this table. I do not refer so much to the military achievements which will for ever rank the name of ULYSSES GRANT with those of WASHINGTON, WELLINGTON, and NAPO- LEON, but to those other achievements, indicated by Lord BEACONSFIELD, when he truly said that the future of civilization is indissolubly bound up in the future of the United States those other achievements, accomplished by the tolera- tion, resolute strength, and love of justice of the statesinan, when the sword of the soldier was laid aside. Two years have gone since he first saw, at Cork harbour, the shores of the British Empire. During that time he has visited the Old World, breathed the Scotch air of his ances- tors, and passed on from point to point of QUEEN VICTORIA'S dominions; and now, on leaving this Island and crossing the Pacific to his own home, he is about to part with that Empire, throughout the whole of which he has been received with one long ovation of respect and affection. As the
QUEEN's representative, and in the name of every
one in this Colony, I thank him for giving us
this opportunity of showing him that we all ap- preciate his character and career.
Will you forgive me, ladies and gentlemen, if
I presume to add that there are one or two per- sonal reasons also why it affords me peculiar
pleasure to see General GRANT at my table. During the whole of those ever-memorable
years,
from the day when he drilled his company of volunteers at Galena, to the capture of Richmond and the surrender of the rebel army, I was in a small way mixed up in public affairs in England, as a member of that assembly, the power of which, for good or evil, is not confined within the bounds of England's Sovereignty. It is now a matter of history that in both Houses of the British Parliament "there were friends and foes of Freedom, but we may recall with pride the fact that two men so diverse in person and dispo-. sition and party relations as JOHN BRIGHT and BENJAMIN DISRAELI, were sagacious enough to know that the honour of their own Country and the welfare of the World were associated with the cause for which ULYSSES GRANT was contending. Whilst BRIGHT was repairing the blunders of one or two eminent men of the Liberal party, the great Conservative Chief was, to my own per- sonal knowledge, labouring night and day to counteract unreasoning prejudice amongst his own followers, and it is ever to me a source of intense satisfaction that, though in a very hum- ble way no doubt, I was one of those members of the House of Commons who loyally supported his prudent and patriotic policy. But this is not the only personal reason that is present to my mind to-night. I am a citizen of Cork. come from that corner of the Old World nearest, and not least dear, to the United States; and on behalf of my fellow citizens I now assure General
GRANT that in no part of the civilised globe would he have received a heartier welcome, if he had honoured us with a visit, than in my native eity. I now invite you to drink his health, and
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