The Sun.
London, England, 1854-01-19 00:00:00

REPRESENTATION OF THE UNIVERSITY

OF OXFORD.

The following is a copy of the letter of Sir R. H.
Inglis, tendering his resignation :
My dear Mr. Vice-Chancellor,—lt is my painful duty
to request your permission to retire from the service of
the University iz the House of Commons—a service
which I have found to be alike honourable and delight-
ful ; and in which I should have rejoiced to have been
enabled to continue longer; but a warning in the state
of my health, since my return from the Continent in
October last, compels me, according to the judgment of
my medical adviser, formally delivered to me a few days
ago, to withdraw from the labour of the post in which
the favour of Convocation has placed me in nine succes-
ewe Parliaments.

I still enjoy, thank God, that measure of strength
which may be equal to other duties in other stations. I
have even well considered before making this formal
communication whether I might not have lingered as
one of your burgesses in my place in Parliament, with-
drawing from every work there except that which was
directly connected with my immediate share in the re-
presentation of the University. But the distinction is
often so fine between the obligations which might de-
volve upon me in that character and the obligations
which must belong to me as one of the general body of
the house, that, having undertaken the whole, I cannot
now deceive myself into the belief that I could consis-
tently retain the one portion, and systematically neglect
the other.

Though a vacancy cannot literally take place till the
House of Commons shall be re-assembled, I feel it to be
my duty to intimate thus early my respectful wishes and
intentions.
I will not affect to deny that I abandon the House of
Commons with considerable reluctance. I have receutive!
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the University. While I live I hope ever to remember
with the deepest gratitude the unabated indulgence with
which you and your predecessors, and the whole con-
stituency, have accepted my endeavours to discharge the
trust confided to me. To the fulfilment of that trust I
claim to have brought nothing except watchfulness and
labour ; I may, perhaps, add, an adherence to those
principles which, as already set forth by me in my pre-
vious course in Parliament, originally induced the
University, a quarter of a century ago, to place me
where I have since continued to sit.
The experience of this unexampled confidence, while
it increases my gratitude to those who have conferred
it, increases also my regret at my separation from them ;
and if I could have hoped hereafter to serve them, as in
the long period of my previous engagement, I should
not now have felt it necessary to place at the disposal of
Convocation the greatest honour and one of the greatest
enjoyments of my life—my seat as one of their burgesses
in the House of Commons.—l have the honour to be,
my dear Mr. Vice-Chancellor, with the greatest respect,
your most obliged and most grateful servant,
(Signed) ROBERT HARRY INGLIS.
7, Bedford-square, Jan. 13, 1854.