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The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph
·
Henry M. Field
357
This
surely
was
all
that
could
be
expected
from
the
government,
but
some
there
were
in
England
who
felt
that
there
was
still
a
debt
of
honor
to
be
paid,
which
required
some
public
testimonial.
Accordingly,
on
Mr.
Field's
return
to
London,
in
1868,
they
prepared
for
him
an
imposing
demonstration
in
the
form
of
a
banquet,
given
at
Willis's
Rooms,
on
the
first
of
July,
at
which
was
assembled
one
of
the
most
distinguished
companies
that
ever
met
to
do
honor
to
a
private
citizen
of
any
country.
It
embraced
over
four
hundred
gentlemen
of
all
ranks:
ministers
of
state,
members
of
parliament,
both
Lords
and
Commons;
officers
of
the
army
and
navy;
great
capitalists--merchants
and
bankers;
men
of
science
and
of
letters;
inventors,
electricians,
and
engineers--men
eminent
in
every
walk
of
life.
The
Duke
of
Argyll
presided,
and
speeches
were
made
by
three
members
of
the
government--Sir
John
Pakington,
Secretary
of
State
for
War;
Sir
Stafford
Northcote,
Secretary
of
State
for
India;
and
Sir
Alexander
Milne,
First
Sea
Lord
of
the
Admiralty;
by
John
Bright;
by
the
venerable
Lord
Stratford
de
Redcliffe,
so
long
the
British
Minister
at
Constantinople;
and
by
M.
de
Lesseps,
the
projector
of
the
Suez
Canal,
who
had
come
from
Egypt
expressly
to
be
present.
It
was
a
tribute
such
as
is
rarely
paid
to
any
man
while
living--such
tributes
being
reserved
for
the
dead--and
is
still
more
honorable
in
this
case,
alike
to
the
givers
and
the
receiver,
in
that
it
was
paid
by
the
people
of
one
country
to
a
citizen
of
another,
who
was
regarded
in
both
as
their
common
benefactor.
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