., 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. (Cheers.) He was
going from that ancient and venerable city, of which while Mimoree
held her sayt, he should never think without the fondest emotion, to a
methrawpolis where the talents of his daughther were about to have full
play, and where he would watch over her like a guardian angel. He should
never forget that it was at Chatteris she had acquired the skill which
she was about to exercise in another sphere, and in her name and his own
Jack Costigan thanked and blessed them. The gallant officer's speech was
received with tremendous cheers.

Mr. Hicks, Croupier, in a brilliant and energetic manner, proposed Miss
Fotheringay's health.

Captain Costigan returned thanks in a speech full of feeling and
eloquence.

Mr. Jubber proposed the Drama and the Chatteris Theatre, and Mr. Bingley
was about to rise but was prevented by Captain Costigan, who, as long
connected with the Chatteris Theatre and on behalf of his daughter,
thanked the company. He informed them that he had been in garrison, at
Gibraltar, and at Malta, and had been at the taking of Flushing. The
Duke of York was a patron of the Drama; he had the honour of dining with
His Royal Highness and the Duke of Kent many times; and the former had
justly been named the friend of the soldier. (Cheers.)

The Army was then proposed, and Captain Costigan returned thanks. In the
course of the night he sang his well-know