The Sun.
London, England, 1839-06-14 00:00:00

LOYAL DECLARATION.

(From the Salopian Journal.)
We have great pleasure in referring to the subjoined
letter f:otn the Duke of Wellington, forwarded to Sir
Richard Jenkins, and addressed to the inhabitants of
the town and neighbourhood of Shrewsbury who signed
the loyal declaration

" London, June 5, 1839,
I am much flattered and gratified by the opinion
of the gentlemen of Shrewsbury and the neighbour-
hood, that my Right Hon. Friend Sir Robert Peel
and I have not conducted ourselves tots Ards our So-
vereign with disioyal insolence.
" My first impression on the calumnies which you have
noticed were, as those of the gentlemen of Shrewsbury,
those of contempt as well for the calumnies themselves
as for the persons of those with vihom they originated,
and of those who circulated them.
The Ministers of the Sovereign thought proper to
resign their offices, very much to my astonishment.
I was called upon, and then my Right Honourable
Friend Sir Robert Peel, to undertake the direction of
the affairs of our Sovereign's Government. He under-
took the charge, and I was willing to serve in any way
that might be wished, in or out of office, in any office,
or without emolument or patronage.
" 1 had no proposition to submit to the Sovereign.
and submitted ❑one. But I concurred in those sub-
mitted by my Right Hon. Friend Sir R. Peel. I

thought tiat they were founded on the principle on
which all preceding Administrations had been fo!med ;
on that alone on which the afftirs of the State can b 4
conducted with honour to those concerned in conducting
satisfaction, and e% en with security to the
Sovereign.

Wehave heard much at difforent times of the exer-
eigr, and power of secret influence in the Palace, plO-
- more tl,ati was consistent with truth on
the occasolis on .c•hich such influence was cum-

plained of. But it never was pretended at an)
period that such influrnee w.is not prejudicial
to the conduct of public affairs. I li.ud, upon a former
occasion, felt the inconvenience of an anomalous influ-
ence of this description, and I was the more anxious to
a%oid noar to expose ro)sell and the public service to the
risk of soff,,ring, from the real or even supposed exercise
of such an influence.

The consequ,nce of the propositions of my Right
Hon. Friend, made with my concurrence, was that the
arrangement of an Administration as suggested, could
not be made ; and the Ministers who had resigned re-
sumed their several offices.

" The affair would there have terminated if it had
not been deemed expedient to charge my Right Honour-
able Friend and myself with insolence—disloyal insolence
—to our Sovereign, and to raise a cry against us on
that ground.
" However I may regret that these transactions
should become the subject of discussion, I cannot be
surprised that gentlemen of honour and character, such
as those resident in and in the neighbourhood of Shrews-
bury, who have signed this declaration, should be an-
xious to declare that they do not concur in the address
voted in that town ; that they consider to be calum-
nious the impution of disloyal insolence against public
men whole only faults were their readiness to serve their
Sovereign when their services were called for, notwith-
standing the difficulties of the times, and that they sub-
mitted to the Sovereign propositions founded on the
known principles of the Constitution.
" In proportion as the gentlemen who have signed
this declaration feel contempt for the calumnies which
the address contains, and for those who have thus
recognised, recorded, and propagated them, must they
feel anxious to record by their declaration their dissent
from them.
" It is very satisfactory to me to receive this declara-
tion from a gentleman who is the representative in the
House of Commons of the town of Shrewsbury, for
whom, on account of former recollections and services,
as well as on the account of the station he fills, his
acquirements and reputation, I must ever feel the highest
respect. " WELLINGTON."
This declaration and Sir R. Peel's answer have al-
ready appeared in the Sun.

The Dublin Evening Post challenges Mr.
Houghton, the Sheriff of Wexford, to produce a list of
Wexford Tories, possessing one-half the amount of landed
property, represented by those gentlemen whose requisi-
tion he refused.
The Moniteur (as we announced it would) pub-
lishes a Royal Resolution of the Bth June, appointing M.
Raekem to be Minister of Justice. The official journal
contains also a great number of nominations to the civil
order of Leopold.