The Sun.
London, England, 1809-12-09 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE, SL'

SIR,
A great many rumours' have prevailed respeEting
the cohtents of Lord trehviiie's Letter to the Prin-

of Brazen-nose College, and many positive as-

,
sertions have been Made on the subled. It seems,
however, on all bands to be admitted that Lord

Grenville has •a wally fiiritten to the -person" in
question. Why, then, Sir, is trot; his Letter given
to the world, to► prevent all false reports and all idle'
conjeCtures ? -I am an impartial member of
.the
University, and disposed to give my vote.according
to my conscientious convietionof the superior merits
of the candidate. • I am a zealous friend 'to the
orthodox 6iahlis‘timent in Church and State', and I
would exert the full scope of my huMble powers to
support that establishment. • Bur, Sir, lam a friend
to toleration also, and would readily make every
safe and liberal concession to the Roman Catholic
body, but I cannot consent to extend the:principles
of toleration to any measures calculated- to weaken

the bulwalks of the Constitution. 'With the 'utmost
deference I say, 'that I feel as our good King ob
viously feels upon this subjea. The whOie of his
reign has demonstrated his sacred' regard to his Co.
ronation Oath, and it it were possible'for a Monarch

of this Country to Violate such a solemn obligatiOn.
in one point, it might be equally possible forlmu to.
trample upon it in others, and then with what, opi7
nioii would the peopie in general look upon him
It must be Sir, with fear and trembling, as to all the
most valuable privileges of Englishnien. But to re-
turn to Lord Greuville's Letter,- If its gen,r4l.tenof
be such as must satisfy the University that he has
gbandoned, all measures caltAtlated to weaken

establiShmeni and to wound the feelings of our
venerable Monarch, there can be no earthly reaSon'
why this Letter should be kept in mysterious secresy,
and his friends would be impolitic indeed in with-
holding what might promote-his pretensions to the
Chancellorship. But the concealnret of that. Let-
ter is, on the other hand, enough to justify 4. sulpi-,
cies), that it is not what, if submitted to open tlis7,
cespion, would tend to serve his Lordship's cause.
No such mysterious condu6l appears on the side of
Lord Eldon. After havieg, by the most honourable,
Course of life; risen to- the head of the Law, he is
naturally desirous to give an additional grace to his
character, by being at the bead of one of the first
:Universities in the world. This-is a fair_objett of
ambition,-and places 'his Lordship in anew point of
view, as it shows that he is alive to the honours of.
literature as well as to the interests of justice and
morality. A Writer in a•Morning Paper of this day
says, he 'hopes that " the 'Principal of Brazennosei
College will not condescend to shew it -(the Letter)
for the snake of grittffying curiosity." It Ts-not ex,
peeted that the Principal will sheW it for such a ptir-'
pose merely,but when curiosity is intimately conne6i-
ect with a sense of pubfic duty, and a regard fur the
CoUstitutioti, as well as of the hOrzemr and consistency/
of .the University, it is, in fact, a duty in. the Prin.-
cipal; as well as an a& of friendShip,-if the Letter-is
such a one asst ought to- be, to let it be fairly and
openly submitted to the Members. We'are, indeed,
told by the Newspaper Correspondent, with an'air
of authority, that "any individhal who has not made
tip his mind on the 'approaching election, and who
wishes with that view to have a sight of the Letter,
is at liberty to see who can be sure that on
application,-.he-may not ,he repulsed with an intinia-
tion'that the Letter is not to be exposed for the put,
pose-of " gratibtugxuriosity
Sir, if the Letter is still with-held, I -beg
leave: to contend that, the members of the University
have reason to conclude that it will not bear the
light.
AN OXONIAN.
December Bth,

MR. EDITOR,

Through your Paper I' beg to inform the Principal
of Brazen-nose, that the Friends of Lord GRENVILLE
.have,canvassed for and obtained votes, :asserting'to
.those to whom they apply that Lord GRENVILLE has,
Oven an assurance that he will not again move_the
Catholic Question.

Will the Principal of Brazen-nose condescend to
inform. the Members. of Convocation whether: the
Letter to him contains any such assurance?' Can he
deny that the Letter does not contain any such as,
surance ? This is not asked to gratify curiosity, but
as Voteis may have been misled by such.assertions,.
he is requested to do justice. Surely. the Publics-
(ions which inform us that Lord GIZENVILLE has
not said; he will persevere in moving the Catholic
Question, but which carefully avoid informing :us
what he has said, are somewhat Jesuitical.
OXONJENSIE. ALTER.

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SATURDAY., DECEMBER 9. 1809.

Tuis tnorning we received Dutch Papers of a very
recent date ; the only article of any importance th 4
contain, 'is the Address of the Legiilative Body
.to
Louts 13uoNAFARTE, on his departure for Paris,
and hs Answer. The Address, after lamenting
the necessity of fresh financial burthens, expresses a
hope that LouiS would speedily return to his king.
dom ; in -his Answer he promises to
,return time
enough to terminate the business of the finances for
next year, before the ist of January. There is
nothing in the Address or Answer, which indicates
'any intended c►iange in the Dutch Constitution.

As there have been several ails-statements, and some
of them calculated to wound the feelings of the rela-
tives of the unfortunate sufferers on board the lost
and missing East Indiamen; we publish the follow-
ing corre& statement of the 16st, missing, and taken,
frUrri the commencement of the present year to this
•
day