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London, England, 1809-12-02 00:00:00

OXFORD CHANCELLORSIIIP.

OaLod, Nov. e 6, lens.
Enienstili friend of runic, un perusing my last
letter, ebserved, " That the iiiiestion fur the Iltoversity is
not whether the Catholic measure kw a Fried or • bad one,
but whether Lord Grenville, alio supported it, be or be not
at the same time a tricot to to: Churns E.stahlishiiient
If the questions lea had one, in the sense Lord Grenville
has maiwtelated it, and the concession of farther privileges
*Catholics be iigurioes to the Church Eatahlishment ; I
meat several ily conclude that it involve. so much the rec.
titude of the tisib'e Lord's principles, as to raise a question
also opus his elegibility. But, her, as a fi tend of Lord
Gremlin., I wish to look at the naked questimi, and the
prine'..its on which it has beta tomtit otiouittly maintained :
it will Ise difficult for the opponents of Loud Grenville to
prose the illegitimacy and eusuitudnesa coucesaimia, the
yo-lice end wise policy of which have uniformly Lent sup-
ported by a Pitt, a Pox, mid a Bus he.
As immediately applicable to the pestered crisis, I will
quote the seutiments of • respected frand, as expressed in
*letter, when the same queition Was agitated, with respect
to • paitieular who, at that period, was coo-
sidered as • candsdate fur the reptesentatton of this Univer-
sity.
" The short argument !says my friend) is, that in this, as
*whet casco, you must chose between upposittlatitsgetat; and
thus the danger In * apprehended from teasing the Catho.
lies of Ireland in their present state, is greater than any that
can he supposed to mire, is whatever lesigth of time, oat of '
the ISMS'S of their prefetli privileges. If the Church be
*censers to the State. (iis it is) the State must be acknow- '
hedged to be 'quietly necessary to the Church; and what is
to become of she Church of Enriatid. should lioglauJ itself
be lust or Is..w shill England tie maintained, if the French
shou!d set a pet inanent Nudes is Ireland 'Phu condition
of Ireland is, for the greater pail of its population, that at
a sort of oraii-brilisirisin • which not only keeps that cotsntry
in a depressed state, deprived,: for the greater part, of those
advantages, winch Daises seems to have inteaded for at, but
readers it, in the present eircometauces of the world, a
sousre of cuntinned and inimiocut danger to us. This *-
premed sort disordered slate seems to have bees altogether
produced by the eysiern of laws and government adapted ori-
ginally, perhaps iiecesserily, hitt duce contorited inmates-
eerily. With r. peel to the Cinhulics, without converting
them, the only oiwratinta of these taws has been to lontaFze
and barbarize them, rendering them at the BASIC time our
iturtniest. Of these laws the greater part hare dosing the
present reign bees repeated ; and upon the sonic principle,
as also with • vette to convey to the Catholics tie rood old
yravical 4ersszlk aliebet hot already brew dareefer them. it isoaid
he right in toy opinion to repeal the remainder. The danger
of saris repent, even at tiny pet kid the most distant, I casuist
persuade myself to be any at all. If the Church of England
is ever to be overteened, sr sudermined, it will not be by'
Ibe Catholics, bat by sects of a far *Bertha descaptuto, oe
by perste,* of DO religion whnterer.
" This is the sh.orest stmetneut whiek I tun give in res-
pect to miasmal iris the merits of the p.m fun. But the
more immediate considerativits is the present Mew, is that
which relates to the merits of the posse.
" Can soy nisesuppom, looking even at the mere names of
those who supported what ore called the Cathodic claims,
that, to support thdise claims, sad to he tuditereut tour
eireless *ma the interests of the Church, are one and the
some IltitlC ! Was the Geverameut that proposed and COl-
tied the COlOO, (having in view those very elatias,) of a dee-
eription to entreat such a motion
Now, Sir, to thoar who &fee eternal motives for strife,
eternal arguments agoiost peace, reconcitiatimi, and forgive-
aces who, iu oppietitiuu to the deelsrotion of our statutes,
that such Catholic* (who are the ohjeet 4 of relief)" ought is
be eentideresi as goad cad loyal relit c!, of His ittdjeery; iu
Crown, and uarerrieniat:"....Tis'ivieli, I s.iy, who declaim in
the rice of ties salmis admission of the Legislature, sad
who preach the necessity of exclasioe. and eves of a' drivivz,
from ear flees sad wader ' souse tiro hoodred ttobsaild *rues,
by whom our Comtiition, in Chu, 'a and State, has been
so long and seceresfelle defended, in and et seals as hoar i.e.'••
To these sleet-silted des I ammo, to these maitre:tea ad-
visers I would recoirimeed the study of the Book of Er!ber:—
" And Husain said oats Kit* .fitereinee, these is • certain
people scattered abroad sod dispersed anion the provinces
•f thy kingdom, aad their laws are diverse from the people;
- therehise, it is sot for the King's profit to suffer thus' ;--•
let it be written thst thq be destroyed. And the ;Slag said
—the people are gives to thee, to do unto them as it strewth
good to thee."
Let it be rerolleried, however. that THE Kum coast:es
His FRP 1.0.111, Arlo H•N•3I WAS 11•MGID FOR HIS
• VT •—•I am, Sir, he. t)IONIENSIS.
I'. S. For the s.itisfaction of timer who may cementer this
appeal to their onderetending-o" better lifeeored," as °tress-
es* in any degree to that respiration which is euppnatil
ale:a to direct the Cidinctis ut our .41.ies Mare, itheolcres,
not less thin those of the Coett'eve itself, in a questiou of
soffenges--let rue disclaim, so the part of the noble Condi.
late ( who evidently bas • claim to my pre 'comer, any pre.
knowledge whatever of this, or my harmer address int the
Oahe silkiest

• Two young men, residing in Itirrniagliam, of the
Sncirty of Friends, haying i.ct is drawn 13 the Local
Morano,And (Agreeable to the princip:ea of that
prop le) gefip.iug to be they were, by va-
lue of M nitrenwt, gratti,tl by Sir F.. C. HAIITorr.
Bari. eniaibittrel, far the vice of . 14 any.. to S'*
c.iriaty 6atd.

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ftfOTS'Af.COVENT-CARDEN THEATRE. •
MAGISTkIITiI, last eveniug, mist to a determine.
tu) nut to recto,e any e harge from the Theatre after oice
o'clock) as those whose conduct made them liable to be
taken into cestooy, conkl he conveyed to the watch"house,
and birbtatight ap to the office a the morning fur exam.
nation. •

IT. PAUL'S WATCH MOUSY., COVFNT
Jan Th.ffle a, of Aegyle.street, Oxford-read, we: charmed
by Mr Brandou with making a owes so the pat of Coyest. •
Carden Theatre, by exhibiting • large 0. P. in the
*out of hie hat, and brandishing a large stietiover his hoot,
as it to protect it, which crested se much uoise w the
birdie, as to prevent the performers from being beard.
The Prisoner was detained in the Wirtch.hciesse.
YA lesson-Nouse, nee. t.
BENEFIT SOCIETIES.
The Stewards of a Benefit Society were surnmoneal bef •
the LORD MAYOR, by a woman unwed Wiugute, the et--
dow aunt of their Members, to stew cause why they should
not coutinue to pay her an annuity of twenty pomade rElf
annum, according to the Rules of the Sorjety.
Mr. ALLEY attended on the part of the Plaintiff, sod Mr.
BOLLANI fur the Delendants.
The facts of the cane were as follow Articles of
the Society provide that the widow of a menthes, so hint
as she continues a widow, shall he entitled le as seemly of
•ol and on her wierrytim agate, and predating the etrtiteate
of such marriage to the Stewards, she should receive twenty
pounds to advance, awl the nociety he released from all (ei-
ther claim. The husband of the Plaintiti had been dead
upwards of fire years, and she had recessed her sunnily.
during four year.. of the t time. At the end el four mars,
however, elm married a man canted Strick, whesti'uti
log to the stewards, sod prodining the certificate of the
marriage, she received sweaty pouads, as rt.:lliac& by the
articles. It afterwards appeared, howet vr, that Wrack
bad a wife livii:g at the time he married the
and that he Lad quitted the Plaintiff, and ie. urand
the fortaunte object of kis fad who tans 'st
Pea:mice, in Cornwall. di peu ;Ms ilesert.ou, Mrs. Win-
gate, alias Strict:, applied to the stewards, to be again
placed on the boobs of the soc.ety, a. • widow ; hot they
declined recognizing her in any other character, than that r,d,
Mrs Mrich; • refuial, iu who ii it a.a contended, they wile
justified, she having represented her:wit to these as a married
woman, an, as such, received „tol. sod pica a mica.., teem.
ing the society fen• faith,, elem.
Several witsiesses were called on the part of the Plaintiff ;
who, proving that strick had a wile living at the toile he
married the Plaintiff, ar.dfeliet she was still living his Lord-
ship, and the worthy Alderman C. Salvia, who sat with his
his Lordship, were of opinion. that sloe ought to he ainaLated
se the Whits of the society.

MONTIILY aualcuLtultet REPORT.

The trilling frosts which hare hitherto liken piste hews
nut Karim 11w least check to the young wheats ia ?Abe: the
rely or late soon crop., butt, of trh.ch, in general, spo,st
extremely promising to the elem.
The great milldams sod snouts' spenbets of the weather
daring the whole of the • inth, teat buted Irt keep erne
cattle stock longer est in the pas,luo,9 than is cosmic./
the cam, by which the cuossuiptitni 0 'sure expeirsite 'tot-
ter f.slJei is prevented, which is a !stator of pest sin:.
lance to the bunter.

The rations sorts of gran food employed for Ere stock as
this pi nod of the year, are taro In mgt places good aad
aloteant, Bloch, stlh the largo apply of potatoes, and
other kinds of food, must secure the Casper, in a greatnos-
sore, from the darsger of ac.t.etty of tattle fodder diming On
sinter SIM WI.

The sheep on the lern:ps, and the fattening, cattle stuck
on these and other surto of fowl, have gone on partistilaily
nail, probably front the 'lest unreah of the season.
Though much grain ho, been threshed out to ccnksegneace
of the aJvauoe in price, the supplies in the markets have nut
bitely Weis to aLuudaist, as ought have bees expected. The
granting of lieenses fur importing it front other sonutrion,
have seetn:ngly had the clic:tot IL: seeing the onerti...us of the
formers at home in getting it wi it in the nine: psaut,ty.
The prices in the tuarkets have continued eitiat this aura
this neat as in the prrecti.ag.