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Y ~~~/ .., c • _ i 1\ T: 7 • • s rl l 3 ll . r f/kj NUMBER 9466. FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS• --- THE-ANNIVERSARY DINNER in Honour of the BIRT-H-DAY of His Royal Highness the I URE of SUSSEX, Most Worshipful GRAND MASTER ENGLAND, will be celebrated at FREEMASONS. CALL, LONDON, on MONDAY, the 27th January next, for which Tickets may be had of the Steward, and of the ' Grand Secretaries. BRITISH FIRE OFFICE, STRAND and CORNHILL, ESTABLISHED Houses, Buildings, Manufactories, - GoOds, and Mer chandize, Ships, Vessels, and other Property, on the most equitable terms, and on principles affording solid and per qratient security to those insured. DIRECTORS, &C. Hon. DOUGLAS KINNAIRD, Chairman. • CHARLES FREEMAN, ESQ. Deputy Chairman. Rt. Hon. the Vice Chancellor Francis Freeling, Esq. - Nir John Cox Hippisley, Bart. William Marsh, Esq. Sir Robert- Wigton), Bart. Thomas Mamie, Esq. William Agnew, Esq. George G.'Mills, 4 - P. Auriol, Esq. John Soane, Esq. John Bebb, Esq. G. H. Sumner, Esq. M.P. S. P. Cockerell, Esq. Robert Taylor, Esq. ' , lames Henry - Deacon, .Esq. RICHARD BARNES, Scc. PROPOSED CHURCH or CHAPEL, in the - PARISH o' WHITWICK, in the COUNTY of LEICESTER.' - HE above measure (the particulars of which have been sufficiently detailed to the Public before) has been suspended from'the difficulties that have occurred respect ing the proposed• Site ; but these through the aids afforded, and to be afforded, by " His Majesty's Commissioners appointed under the Act for the Building and promoting the Building of Additional Churches are now on the eve of being removed : and there is every prospect of the Buildings being begun very early in the ensuing Spring. There is yet, however, notwith standing a grant of Four Hundred Pounds from the Church Building Society, and the aid of very, liberal Contributions, as stated below; a want •of sufficient Funds for completing the arrangements connected with the intended Edifice ; cape-' eially as a farther addition of accommodation has been sug gested ; towards which, as well as to an improvement in the elevation, Additional Subscriptions have been given, as will be seen below. The assistance from the Parish itself certainly has not been what the measure might reasonably have been expected to produce. On the other hand, the peculiar poverty of the, parish.deserves in fairness to, be taken into the account. Under these circumstances as from its extent, poverty and po pulation it is conceived that there is not any Parish in Leices tershire (with one exception in the County Town) where a Church or Chapel is equally wanted ; it is hoped that the No bility and Gentry of the County, who are well affected to the National Church ; will, in common with the Clergy, assist a measure that promises locally to be conducive to its welfare. The sum now wanted is calculated not to exceed Two Hundred Pounds. Subscriptions are received at the Banks of Messrs. Snow and Co. 217, Strand, London : and Messrs. Mansfield and Co. Leicester. At the Banks in Hinckley, Ashby de la Zouch, Loughborough, and Melton Mowbray ; and by the Rev. F. 3lerewether, Cole Orton, near Ashby de la Zouch. Nantes `with those who have already Subscribed. Those marked with an * are Proprietors in the. Parish, those with t are Occupieri, and those marked with l't are both Pro Prietors and Occupiers. The KING, as Duke of Lancaster - - £lOO 0 '-Sir G. H. Beaumont, Bart. Lay Impropriator of Whitwick - - - - - 56 0 't Ditto - ditto - 2d Subscription 100 0 His Grace the Duke of Rutland, Lord Lieutenant of the County of Leicester - - - The Hon. and Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Lin coln - - - - - - Earl Howe, Go sal Hall - - - George Moore, - Esq., Snarestone - - The Venerable the Archdeacon of Leicester . *tThe Rev. F. Merewether, Vicar of Whitwick. The Rev.' Dr. Wordsworth, Master of Trinity Col lege; Cambridge - - , - - 5 5 Ditto - - --2 d S upscription 10 16 Joshua Watson, Esq., Clapton . - - - 10 10 Ditto - - --2 d S'apscription 10 10 The Rev. L. Way, Toppesfield, Essex - 2 2 George Gipps, Esq., as. r. Howletts, Kent -. . , 5 5 Sir Frederic Fowke, Bart. Lowesby Hall, Leicester shire - - - • - - - : rhe Rev. H. H. Norris, Hackney - - John Leech, Esq., Crescent, Bridge-street, Black Friars, London - - - - 5 0 H. A. Merewether, Esq., 51 Chancery-lane, London 2 2 The Rev. H. V. Bayley, Sub-Dean of Lincoln 5 5 The Rev. Charles Way, Great Yeldham, Essex 2 2 tThe Rev. George Wyatt, Curate of Whitwick 5 5 'Mrs. G. Wyatt, Whitwick - - - 1 1 Mrs. Mereweather, Caine, Wilts - - 1 1 The Rev. Robert Wetherell, Newton Longville, Bucks - - - - - 5 5. 0 *Robert Sayer, Esq. Halstead, Esq. - - 50 0 John Bowdler, Esq. Eltham, Kent - • - 10 0 0 - *The Rev. J. Piddocke, Ashby-de-la-Zouch - 5 5 0 The Rev. Dr. Madan, Rector of Ibstock ' . - 10 0 0 The Rev. Spencer Madan' Curate of Seale - 2 2 0 *The Rev. W. M'Donal, Vicar of Ashby-de-la-Zouch 1 1 0 - Mr. E. B. Knight, Cole Orton - 1 1 0 *Thomas Pars, Esq. Hopwell Hall, Derbyshire 10 10 0 The Rev. H. alter, Fellow of St, John's, Cambridge 5 5 0 William Jones, Esq. Ringwooi, Hants - 1 1 0 The Rev. J. Walton, Rector of Birbrook, Essex 5 0 0 The Rev. Dr. Hawes, Salisbury - - 1 1 0 The Rev. Dr. Hardy, Rector of Loughborough 5 0 0 Richard Cheslyn, Esq. Langley Priory - 2 2 0 The Rev. W. Madan, Vicar of Polesworth - 2 2 0 The Rev. T. Buckley, Curate of Kegworth - 1 1 0 The Rev. R. Roberts, Vicar of Haverhill, Suffolk 2 0 0 The Rev. E. W. Estcourt, Rector of Newton, Glou. cestershire • - - . - 1 1 0 Baker Morel, Esq. St. Giles, Oxford - 2 2 0 The Rev. Dr. Lloyd, Appleby - . 2 0 0 The Rev. T. Adnutt, Rector of Croft - - 2 2 0 Mrs. Abney, Ashby-de-la-Zouch - - I 1 0 'The Rev. T. Slade, Vicar of Auftrey - 2 2 0 The Rev. R. Marriott, Reetor of Cottesbach 5 5 0 The Rev. W. Cleaver, Rector of Waulip - 10 0 0 The Rev. T. Rose, Vicar of Rothley - 2 0 0 Sir George Crewe, Bart. Caulke Abbey - 5 5 0 Wm. Dewes, Esq. Ashby-de-la-Zouch - 1 1 0 Robert Greene Creswell, Esq. Ravenstone - 22 0 R. E. Cresswell, En . ditto 11 0 The Rev. M. Babington, Minister of the Forest Chapel ---- 2 2 0 The Rev. W, Easton, Vicar of Barrow-upon-Soar 5 0 0 I `.l - -. Piper, Esq. Breedon Lodge - - 55 0 .. :Miss Cresswell, Ravenstone - - - 1 1 0 Miss C. Cresswell, ditto - - - 1 1 0 Sir •C. T. Palmer, Bart. Wanlip Hall - 2 2 0 ,**Mr. Grundy, Swanningfon - - 5 .5 0 "t3lr. E. Handford, Thringstone - 1 0 0 * l - Mr. It. Cox - ditto - - 10 0 The Rev. C. Allsopp, Vicar of Sheepshcad - • 2 2 0 -The Rev. T. Prior, Ashby-de-la-Zouch •- . 22 0 The Rev. A. Hobart, Rector Walton on the Wolds 5 0 0 The Rev. T. Jones, Rector of Appleby - 2 0 0 Rev. T. Dalby, Vicar of Castle Donington 1 0 0 Robert Cresswell, Esq. Ravenstone - 2 2 2 . Edward Green, Esq. Odstone Hill - 2 0 0 AV. Horton, Esq. London - - - 10 10 0 --Mr. Joshua Harrison, Leicester - - 1 1 0 Clement Winstanley, Esq. Braunstone - 30 0 Anonymous, by the Rev. C. Chews Vicar of Lockington 2 0 0 *The Rev. 'l'. Selwyn, Master of Wigston's Hospital 5 5 0 3liss Darby, Tamworth - - - 05 0 The Rev. T. Bosvile, Castle Donington - 10 0 0 The Rev. Dr. Valpey, Reading Bucks - 11 0 The Rev. N. Morgan, Rector of Rearsby - 22 0 Mrs. Barker,' Clare Priory, Suffolk - 1 1 0 '.Mrs. Conyers, ditto ditto - - - 11 0 Mrs. Way, Spencer Farm, Essex - - • 11 0 Miss Way, ditto ditto - - NI 11 0 26 5 20 0 0 15 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 10 10 0 5 5 0 5 5 0 a.:0 2 ( I 1 l'7l MORRISON'S PRESERVED PORTABLE TURTLE, Sent in Jai's, (hermetically sealed) to any part of the World, and warranted to retain its good qualities for years. PLIE TURTLE in these Jars consists of the prime parts of the Fish, killed in the West Indies, when in the highest health and condition, and will be found to excel in richness and flavour, the produce of the half-starved Animal, hitherto used in this Country, after a voyage of several months. The TURT LE will also be found infinitely cheaper than that sold by the great Dealers, not merely from the obvious dif ference in price, but from its consisting of nothing but pure Turtle, and no such refuse as White Meat, Tripe, or Liver. To Families residing in the Country, and to Hotel and. Tavern Keepers, this TURTLE cannot but be a great con venience,_ as affording, at almost instant notice , the necessary supply of exquisite Soup, without the waste and loss attendant on dressing a whole Turtle. Certificates of its excellence from Personages of the highest distinction and best taste may be seen ; but a single trial is requested in preference, as more certain of insuring appro bation. To be had Dressed or Undressed, at the rate of 10s. per Quart Dressed, or )2s. 6d. per Quart Undressed ; which last makes nearly three times its own quantity of the former. The Dressed requires only to be warmed up, and with the Un dressed a Receipt will be given, by which any Cook may make it into excellent Soup. N. B.—A liberal discount allowed to those who purchase to. Dress, and Sell again to Customers, taking a-certain quantity. FOR READY MONEY ONLY. WARE HOUSE, 3, CHARLOTTE LON ROW, MANSION HOUSE, DON ; WHERE HAY BE HAD Portable Soups of all kinds, Dressed Meats, Fresh Salmon, Vegetables, &c. TOOTH-ACHE AND EAR-ACHE. 19ERRY'S ESSENCE has received the sanc tion and support of-the most Distinguished Person ages in the kingdom, together with the united Testimony of the first Physicians in Europe, and numerous favourable com ments in highly respectable Medical Journals, where it. has been declared to he the " Best thing ever discovered for the Tooth-ache and Ear-ache."—lt instantaneously relieves the most excruciating Pain, preserves the Teeth sound and firm, prevents further Decay, effectually cures the Scurvy in the Gums, fastens loose Teeth, and renders them Firm and Ser viceable to the latest period, and effectually Prevents the Toot h-ache . Sold in Bottles, at Is. 14d. and 2s. 9d. by Butlers, Chemists, No. 4, Cheapside, St. Paul's, and 220, Regent-street, (near the Argyle Rooms), London; 20, Waterloo -place, Edinburgh ; 34, Sackville-street, Dublin ; and by the principal Perfumers and Booksellers throughout the United Kingdom. CHRISTMAS FESTIVITIES. We are indebted for the following extract to a very amusing and instructive annual work, in tituled TIME'S TELESCOPE:— • CHRISTMAS DAY. This is named Christmas Day, from the Latin Christi Missa, the Mass of Christ, and thence the Roman Catholic Liturgy is termed their Missal, or Mass Book. About the year 500, the observation of this day became general in the Catholic Church. At this once hospitable season there was "a run of merry days" frOm Christmas-eve to Candlemas, and the first twelve in particular were full of triumph and innocent pleasure. But " every thing is altered" now. The celebration of Christmas, in modern times, is scarcely worth a record. The middle classes make it a sorry business of a pudding or so extra, and a game at cards. The rich invite their rich friends to their country houses : but the poor are left out entirely, or presented with a few clothes and eatablesthat make up a wyetched substitute for the hospitable intercourse of old. To those who have the power (would that they had the heart !) to do it, we would say—Every face that you contribute to set sparkling at Christmas is a reflection of that goodness of nature which generosity helps to uncloud, as the windows reflect the lustre of the sunny heavens. Every holly bough and lump of berries with which you adorn your houses, is a piece of natural piety as well as beauty, and will enable you to relish the green world of which you shew yourselves not forget ful. Every wassail bowl which you set flowing without drunken ness, every harmless pleasure, every innocent mirth, however mirthful, every forgetfulness even of serious things, when they are only swallowed up in the kindness and joy which it is the end of wisdom to produce, is • Wisest, virtuousest, discretest, best. The 'divine Milton, though a stern reformer, saw nothing to quarrel with the natural joys of humanity, or in the customs which they gave rise to. In a Latin epistle to his friend Deo dati, he countenances all the merriments of Christmas. He is recorded as having kept "gaudy days" (holidays) himself; and in his affectionate elegy on the death of the same friend, does not disdain to regret the pleasure they used to have in roasting pears and chesnuts during the long winter evenings, while the wind was thundering through the elm-trees out of doors. Many of the amusing Christmas ceremonies of olden tyme' in England are described in our previous volumes. Mr. Weistle-' craft afibrds us a delightful picture of the substantial entertain ments given in the days of good King Arthur, which is deli neated with all the minute accuracy and high finishing of a Mieris or a Gerard Douw : The great King Arthur made a sumptuous feast, And held his Royal Christmas at Carlisle, And thither came the vassals, most and least, From every corner of the British Isle; And all were entertained, both man and beast, According to their rank, in proper style ; The steeds were fed and littered in the stable, The ladies and the knights sat down to table. The bill of fare as you may well suppose) Was suited to those plentiful old times, Before our modern luxuries arose, With truffles, and ragouts, and various crimes ; And therefore, from the original in prose I shall arrange the catalog* in rhymes : They served up salmon, venison, and wild boars By hundreds, and by dozens, and by scores. Hogsheads of honey, kilderkins of mustard, Muttons, and fatted beeves, and bacon swine ; Herons and bitterns, peacock, swan, and bustard, Teal, mallard, pigeons, widgeons, and in fine Plum-puddings, pancakes, apple-pies, and custard : And therewithal they drank good Gascon wine, With mead, and ale, and cider of our own; For porter, punch, and negus, were not known. The noise and uproar of the scullery tribe, All pilfering and scrambling in their calling, Was past all powers of L anguage . to describe— All sorts of people there were seen together, All sorts of characters, all sort of dresses ; The fool with fox's tail and peacock's feather. Pilgrims, and penitents, and grave burgesses ; The country people with their coats of leather, Vintners and victuallers with cans and messes; Grooms, archers, varlets, falconers, and yeomen, Damsels and waiting-maids, and waiting-women. The Christmas ceremonies at Naples are described at some length in our last volume, pp. 303-305. To this account may now be added the following custom on the day preceding Ch-ist mas-day. The city then makes a present to the King of fruit and birds ; this oaring, which consists of every fruit that the country produces, and of every bird which supplies the table, is arranged on several pyramids, and cirried in procession down the principal street to the palace. The fruits are the most ex cellent of the kind, and the quantity is generally enormous. . . - •:,... ..„.. A?. :., -fs - :- ...i. , ,- ; „--:--- - ..- - -„4 0 ~, ...t , ,,-- : ::: .....,,, .•,;.;,, . -,..., - 0/ 4 ' 4 ; ft,rottP-- ~,, , 404,pr 1v .:,-... ir•T u . / /42 I°', i ll 404 '-- CI 4 j , . 0 an act of high treason against virtue, and we must charitably, Sir, consider it as false upon the very face of it. 'One circumstance only is there that forbids us to rest in this . conclusion so securely as we could wish. Certain members of the University, and some of them not inconsiderable in station, 'have, I see, by the Poll-book, declined voting in the late con test at all. How comes this about ? Assuredly these are not times for any man to sink his powers in the bed of an inglorious neutrality, and if he be as " a city set on an hill," the call upon him for exertion is still more imperative. His influence; his of ficial situation ; his-care to set a sound example of integrity to all around him ; the regard due to his own uniform principles opposed to the Catholic claims; to his own uniform conduct in the petitions to his Sovereign, signed and sealed under the most solemn assurance that such petitions will be regarded by that Sovereign as coming from the heart, and that, not so proceeding, they can bc'looked upon as no other than a mere insult and mockery of the throne ; all lolly demand that nothing upon earth should turn such a mind from the straight forward course of virtue, or palsy such efforts as virtue demands of it. • Yet how, Sit, stands the melancholy fact ? From that straight forward course, some, it appears, unfortunately, have been turned ; for they have withdrawn their votes from the very Cause nearest to their heart, and at a season when every thing urged them with all the powers of their soul to support it. Yes, when honour and dignity, and the altar by which they live, and the throne by which they are secured, earnestly im plored them to exert in an evil hour, every nerve for the preser vation of a Protestant Church; they have suffered I know not what crooked policy to weigh ck)ivn eternal obligation, and have been content to forget the higher calls of duty in a petty reci procation of civilities between their patrons and themselves. Whether this, Sir, may he considered as a sort of presump tive evidence of ministerial influence, I must leave my readers to determine. Canso latet, vis est notissima. Neutrality, how ever, be it imposed as it may, is ever an unworthy ex pedient. The reproach of honourable minds is only to be escaped by honourable conduct ; by letting the world know that " where our treasure is, there will our hearts be also ;" and that if men ari aware of our decided sen timents, they may securely reckon upon our correspondent's active exertions. Is there, I ask, wisdom in an opposite con duct ? Is there virtue ? What then is this trimming, time serving system made up of? Of the shreds and parings of an .open manly deportment; of all the small morals and petty policies 'of our poor, (=king, contriving, over-shooting nature, playing; as we think, the safe game, wliere something may eventually be won and nothing is capable of being lost. And truly, if steadfastness of principle b e not the ornament, and ho nesty ever more thebest policy of the human mind, these pro fessors of court casuistry are perfectly correct—they do lose no thing. Another good effect of this independent conduct, Sir, will be that the strongest assurance is now given that no candidate will, in future, be permitted to aspire to the representation of the University who brings not with him a mind commensurate to the work, who comes not forward the seconder of their own sedate views, and the espouser, in all respects, of their own standard principles. It must have been a terrible committal \ of themselves, and a sad mortification, when their own advo cates in the great council of the nation wzre found regard less of their instructions and voting against them. It looked as if these members cared very little about the feelings of the University, and indeed as if she; cared very little about them herself'. It was, in fact a virtual renunciation of duty on both sides. The scandal of this heterogeneous proceeding is however gone by, and the reformation begun will, I hope, stop only at that point where the evil of so anomalous a co-partnership ceases to exist. How, after such a display of genuine orthodox spirit, such a devotion to solid principle in the face of opposition from a quarter not expected, not even thought possible, and, of course, 'not at all prepared for, how Lord PAL ISIEn STON will be able to stand his ground at the next general election, I am altogether unable to divine. With a demonstration so decisive before him of the aversion of the great body of the University to the Catholic claims, and of their determined rejection of all in fluence in endeavouring to force upon them a member hostile to their views in a point of such magnitude, his Lordship can have little expectation of being either brought in by his own merits, or foisted upon them by improper interference. The thing will not be borne with. It will be so little borne with, that the very attempt to carry such a point by such means will only serve to strengthen the powerful phalanx against him. Indeed if he have a proper sense of what is due to the dignity of so august a body, he will not so much as venture to solicit their suffrages . For if he cannot change his Catholic prepossessions, how can he expect them to change their Protestant attachments, and, those attachments remaining, how for a moment can he flatter him self with being returned? Lord Palmerston, therefore, eligible in all other respects, must, for ever, continue ineligible in this . He cannot, he will not ; be re-elected ; and, from the known delicacy of his feelings, it is, upon the whole, perhaps, unlikely that he will even desire it. Mr. GRANT, I observe, in his " Letter of Resignation," not altogether written in a resigned spirit, has been pleased, in a somewhat abrupt manner, to allude to this political oppro brium of the University. But though sore probably, in some degree, under his disappointment, whether with so little in ducement, it was prudent in him, or even strictly honourahle thus to " call her sins to remembrance" may well be ques tioned. 'Whatever be his interest with Alma Mater and with reason, I confess she is proud of such a son—he has assuredly not taken the best mode of strengthening it ; and in all likeli hood he will be left to look for his future support to those friends, who, fbr the honour of " fighting by his side," have been pleased to " sacrifice their decided individual prepos sessions," or, putting this courtly phraseology into a more tan gible form, have, it is to be feared, been unguarded enough to evince the abundance of their zeal by the relinquishment of their duty. But if such men as Lord Palmerston and Mr. Grant are likely, by the issue of the late contest, to be endangered in their future views, much more will any \l'hig Candidate have cause to apprehend a rejection. If the University will not ad mit men whO advocate the Catholic Claims against her any longer to partake of her favours, still less will she countenance the pretensions of those who disdain, in their general conduct, to vindicate an established and insulted hierarchy at any or in any manner. She will never suffer that last dis- time, PRICE SEVEN PENC grace to he dignity, a Whig representative of the New School.. cf that school which takes in " Jews, Turks, Infidels, and Heretics," and sends them forth to instruct the people in any thing except righteousness. Mr.' Scarlet has made his auda cious experiment 'upon the purity of her faith and feelings, atid has failed. The good sense and honourable consistency of the University have driven him away in despair—he will no more trouble her—he may thank the unhappy division in a loyal and most exemplary College for having been able to trouble her at all. The phrenzy of his ambition is, however, at an end : he has put his means into requisition for the first, and let us be permitted to hope for the credit of all that is creditable, for the last time. I would beg,'Sir, to instance another advantage flowing to the Established Church from the conduct of the University upon this memorable occasion. For a considerable time past there has been a vulgar crusade against the honour and character of the Clergy, and it has been the fashion to stigmatize them with almost every opprobrious epithet which the vocabulary of a low malice can afford. Of this crusade the Whigs are undoubtedly the leaders, and they have brought together, to " batter at the peace" of the ( hurch, all whom insolence =dogs bold, and ability, often at odds with integrity, makes formidable. , . At . the head of this phalanx may be reckoned some names which ought not to be - found in such a calendar of infamy as the Hones, and Carliles, and Cobbetts, with their asso ciated partizans, exhibit. Do not start, Sir, when I tell you that among the most ignorant of her ignorant, the most vulgar of her vulgar, assailants, the Church has to include Mr. Brougham, Mr. Phillips, and that great Leviathan of the po litical world, the leader of the " Whigs of England," Earl Grey. These Gentlemen, for their dastard' attacks upon her character, deserve the severest animadversion. At a future op - portunity I hope to be able to pay them m 32 espects ; but at present it will be sufficient to observe, that in giving us the late proof of her independent spirit, the University has put to silence all those pitiful slanders that represent the Clergy as mere hunters after preferment, as men that are performing their duties only for " filthy lucre's sake," as drones living on the labours of others, as oppressors in their respective parishes, and as slaves and hirelings, devote body and soul to the support of any administration that may happen to be in power. These ignorant calumnies, either directly or indirectly ad vanced by Earl Grey, and worked up and improved upon by the tribe of Whig and radical revilers following on his disgust- ing track, the Clergy may at all times very justly despise, and, under present circumstances, may more especially laugh to scorn. The two UniverSities feel their glory and their interest to consist in their integrity ; in their entertainment and open avowal of constitutional principles, and in boldly acting upon them whether Brennus, in the confidence of authority, venture to tluow his sword into the scale or not. The solemn records of their faith they keep in their perpetual view, and from these they draw, and by these they sanctify their policy. The Con stitution of England they conceive to be a Constitution in its spirit Christian, in its operation Christian, in all the laws and or dinances by which it is surrounded and with which it is conso lidated, purely and essentially Christian. And therefore they hold themselves as much bound to support, by their appointed course of education and their own consequent example, the Es tablished Executive Government, as the Established Protes tant Religion of the Realm. _ Nor, Sir, is it any slight benefit that the University has hereby shaken off the scandal of being, in the abused sense of the term, a Whig University. The Whig and the Tory are truly distinctive appellations as to the parties they represent. There is such a gulph between them as must for ever separate their faith, both religious and political. In the Tory there is a deep veneration for the Throne ; a solemn attachment to the Church ; a love of order and regularity in the State ; a full, perfect, unbounded devotion to ancient laws, institutions, and usages ; ancient privileges and prerogatives ; ancient rights and duties ; a generous spirit binding the heart through every change of circumstance to hereditary honours, claims, and vir tues, and a disposition to make the dearest sacrifices for their preservation. In the Whig, on the contrary, there is no one decided expression of regard towards any of these important objects. All here is a measured love, a suspicious attach ment, a broken obedience, a lax and lukewarm loyalty. You observe nothing about the present " Whigs of Eng land," as they foolishly denominate themselves, but a condi tional veneration for the Throne, a conditional attachment to the Church, a conditional devotion to laws and institutions, rights, privileges, and prerogatives. The moment that Thnme, that Church, those Laws, oppose in their letter or spirit what they set up as the pure principles of the Constitution (and which is a Constitution without principles), the instant the key of their Sovereign's Cabinet ceases to be in their keeping, their modified attachments arc at an end. They cast off the magic garment of their forbearance, and spring up in the accustomed costume of " All the Talents," the opposers of every Mini ster, of every measure, of all that is ord ained for the securit y , and all that is devised for the peace, and virtue, and happ ness of the Realm. In conclusion, Sir, as in the late conduct of the University, there is every thing to praise, let as hope thztt in future pro ceedings there will be nothing to censure. The Established Clergy cannot be disgraced without the Established Church suf fering with it; nor can that Church be more seriously injured than by a relinquishment of duty, at a time when the most cor rect performance of it may be but barely adequate to its preser vation. Examples of inconsistency in reproachful seasons like these must be ruinous, and especially of inconsistency on so vital a point as that of the Catholic claims. If any thhig can make a more than ordinary claim necessary, it is the recot lection of the pertinacity with which these claims are advocated, and of the strength and character of the party engaged in their defence. They never before had so many and powerful friend , : in a British House of Commons. And how far the accession et only a few votes might go in procuring for them certain abate ments of present penalties, which would, in their nature., lend to a future total emancipation, there is no saying. And surely, Sir, if any description of men are more pecitliarly concerned to maintain the Constitution, in Church and State, (and which, certainly, by the admission of the Catholics to civil power, must entirely cease to be maintained), it is the mereb.rs of our University. They are the proper natural guardians of both our established religion and laws. They have the tuition of the mind at a season when it is prone to repose upon the fide lity of its teachers, and to take the colour of the instructions by which it is imbued. The future legislators of the realm may be said primarily to be of their creation. To them, therefore, it more immediately appertains, that all who go from their hands go with strong prepossessions in favour of an established Church, a Monarchical Government, and a freedom, which, while it is boundless as the light of heaven, must be as pure as the light of heaven too. Reposing on these principles, the University will recollect herself and her high destinies. She will to longer suffer the stream to be polluted at its source, but pondering in time " the things that belong unto her peace," will feel that if she wishes to be revered by others, she must learn henceforth, in the consistency of her conduct, and the choice of her repre sentatives, to honour and revere herself. Dec. 20, 182 2 . MARCUS. ERRATUM.—In the last letter of Marcus, first line of last paragraph but one, for " concerns" read "censure." N THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1822 CAMBRIDGE ELECTION We hardly need say that we feel much plea sure in copying the following letter from The Bury Gazette of yesterday, as It is obviously written with that sound judgment, moral energy, and constitutional rectitude, which have marked all the preceding compositions from the same va luable Correspondent : TO THE EDITOR OF THE BURY GAZETTE. Sin—You will now permit me to speak upon some topics connected with the conduct of the University in the late election of Illr.Bankes. They will be found .in part strictly in unison with the ,subject—in part, in some degree, perhaps, irrelevant ;, but altogether I hope, in this day of ecclesiastical rebuke, not wholly unnecessary. _ We may, I think, Sir, venture to predict that many valuable effects will flow out upon society from the example which the University has now afforded of her independent spirit. One of t hese will be the redeeming ofher character, so much, and, I fear, so justly reflected upon up to this period. Whatever sus picions may have been entertained of the orthodoxy of her sen timents and views, the result of this contest must have con- ;Anced i all that she is wanting in neither. With every favour able propensity towards Lord Harvey and Mr. 'Grant, she has yet had firmness enough to reject them both ; and if she have done this, as the report currently circulates, against not only the persuasions of friendship, but in the Very teeth of Ministerial influence," sound principles (to use the words of a zealous and able defender of the establish ment) must have had a very magnificent triumph in deed." Nothing could have tempted her to such a 'noble conduct but the conviction• that, as a Protestant University, she had no alternative in the rejection of a Catholic advo cate, and would have been faithless to her charge and false to her principles, if, for a moment, she had hesitated at such re jection. Mr. Bankes, amiable in his character, and literary in his pursuits, had yet no peculiar claims of preference. He had not bound her to him by any ties of a domestic, or of a public nature. The sole' ground of his election was, that he enter tained those opinions, religions and political, which, as the re presentative of her loyalty and orthodoxy, it was essential he should entertain. This Gentleman then, Sir, in the face of no mean opposition, they have chosen by an appalling majority ; and having thus redeemed their fame from past omissions of duty, will, I trust, have thereby sealed and consolidated it too for the time to, come. But let it be carefully remembered, that though the University have, in this business, acted gloriously, they have not gone an atom beyond their bounden duty; they have only followed that firm line of conduct which to have deserted would have been the death blow of every virtuous hope. If the cause of pure and reformed Christianity—if the union of Church and State, which the nation bath evermore felt as a blessing—if the principles of the British Constitution, as they were settled at the period of the revolution—if the laws of the land as they, are now administered—the prerogatives of the Crown as they are now exercised—the liberties of the people as they are now enjoyed—the concessions of privileges to dis senters of every denomination, as they are now extended to the very utmost latitude of estaLlishal forbearance—if these im portant objects were warm at the heart and commended them selves, as I am sure they must, to the affection of the mem bers of the University, not he who too, young for the ,sugges tions of experience, yet apparently too fixed and confirmed to wait for them ; not he who too tolerating for their security and a little too evangelical, perhaps, for their orthodoxy ; not especially he who, in every political principle hitherto promul gated, must haVe offended against all doctrines, civil and reli. gious, by which, in their opinion, the common interest and the common peace of the empire are best secured ; but he who declares openly and without reservation that his principles are in unison with their own ; his will, his voice, his course, commen surate with the will, 'voice, and course of an Englishman faithful alike to the altar and to the throne, must, of necessity, become the accredited object of their choice; his professions demanded such a preference, and his virtues, fixed and steady to their point, I doubt not will be found to deserve it. Another good effezt resulting from the issue of this contest, will be the total discomfiture of all improper, interference in the election of future representatives. Whetheethe late victory of the University was achieved in defiance of Ministerial influence exerted against her, may, however, admit of a doubt. lam sure such a report ought very seriously to be weighed, and very firmly sustained before it is admitted into the mind as credible. For on the supposition that Ministers themselves have exerted their power to bring in a Catholic advocate as the Parliamentary representative of a Protestant University, we are called upon to believe in such a mass of dissonance, in so many things that contradict our reason and do violence to our feelings, as to render incredulity, in some sort, even a virtue and a duty in us. For my own part, Sir, I confess I am on this head inclined to be perfectly faithless. For if I must believe that an English Minister, hr times like the present, could really act in this man ner, I must believe too, that he can calmly aid in covertly over throwing the very Constitution he palicly professes to support. I must believe that he secretly abets the violent opposition, in all dissenting and radical quarters, to the established religion of the realm, which every sound member of that religion is persuaded he is daily and nightly exerting his great powers to put down. I must believe that the Catholic claims can never be founded in inch Constitutional injustice, nor the concession of them productive of such Constitutional danger, when the very men, affecting to array all the authority of the Legisla ture against them, are endeavouring to bring in those who they know will exert all their Parliamentary Influence for them , - nay, what is worse, are actually soliciting where they are aware that the heart and soul are adverse to such claims and such candidates ; and, what is :beyond all enduring, and which no length of time can erase the insanity of, are preferring these solici tations at the very moment when the Catholic question is so strongly supported and so near being carried, and on the very spot where all such solicitations to the desertion of duty'must be attended with effects fatal beyond every calculation. In the con templation,. therefore, of designs so deplorable, and results so unnatural,, to believe in such reports, would be to believe in a deeper destitution of principle, a sadder dereliction of policy than most minds could bring themselves to. The accusation is uit ited rec-