The Sun.
London, England, 1809-12-01 00:00:00

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To sink the Offal per stone of 81b.
Beef cd. to ss. od. Mutton 4s. od. to ss. 6d. Veal i s
od. top. cd. Pork 61. od. to 7s. od.
Bea:lts 450. Sheep 3,7oo.—Calvt.ts 23o.—Pits 3to.

SUITIIhELD HAYMARKET.
"Hay sl. os. od. to 51.155. od. Straw thzjs, yd. t)
ed. Clover GI. Qs. old, to GI: tc .24.

Against the principle of this dangerous ipstova-
tions the University, in the.month of. May follow-
ing, presented a Petition to the House of Lords, in
-wkiolt they declared; that: they contengslated with
co :ceru are I ,aneiety,t he alarming extent of the prayer
of tee Catholic Petisiert, and averred it to be their
belief " that the restraints and incapacities to which
Catholics were subjett, were not greater than, were
indispensably necessary to the maintenance and se-
curity of the Protestant 'Government and Church."
Lord Grenville having laid on the table of the House,
the Complaints of the Catholic Body, enforced them
in a most elaborate speech, with even more than or-
dinary measures of that earnestness and exertion, and
of these powers -of argument and eloquence whic4l
are so peculiarly his own. His motion was lost after
a full discussion, by a very great majority, Lord
Grenville insisted in the debate,: that_ the expediency.
and necessity of the measure were such, that though
it were then-lost, " the day could not be far distant
when the objet-ts of the Petition must be attained,
and that truth and reason must triumph over the
prejudice of any party." I quote these expressions
from what I believe to be an accurate report of his
Lordship's speech. Here thenis one occasion, than
which none surely can be more momentous, on
which the University of Oxford, and their Noble-
met) have publicly,' before the legislature
.and the
kingdom at large, avowed opinions diametrically
oaposite to each other, the former ascribing to the
proposed innovation consequences the most ruinous
to the fundamental interests of ,the Country, the
latter insisting that obstinacy and error alone im-
peded the repeal a. a system of laws, in
his judgment, at once oppressive and intolerae
ble. The second occasion on which an open
conflict broke out between the University and
Lord Grenville, on the same subject, took place in
the year 1807, when his Lordship, at that time
prime Minister, repeated his favourite experiment,
indeed, in bulk, but, only in sample, not in the
ithape of.a sweeping abolition of all incapacities, but
by hfiving -a-Bill brought in, by which, Catholics
Were to be entrusted with very high commends in
the army arideaff. Aesinst this Bill, alsoethe Uni-
versity presented a Petition to the He-use of Corn-
mens, and its further _progress was stopped by the
dismisSitin of the. Grenville Administration. A
third occasion on which the University have, in their
. corporate character, marked their
.aversion to this
reform, succeeded shortly afieresares when they pre-
sented an Address to the thanking his Ma-
jesty " for the signal proof he had so recently given
of his vigilant attention to the .security of the civil
:and religious establishments ;" that is to say, in
slainer • language,' for having dismissed from his.
Councils a Minister, whose notions on this subject
the University considered to be incompatible with
the public safety.
Thus did the University enter upon its Records
three successive and tinifoins Resolutipns, pointed
against the views, the cloarines, and the conduct of
Lord Grenville. But his Lordship, with equal in-
difference tri the sentiments-of a very large majority
in Parliameht, of the Public at large, of the Univer-
. shy, andiof his Majesty, still persevered,-and in the
sessions of 1808, again presented to the House of
lairds, the same requisitions of the Catholics—again
eNertVd his eloquence in their behalf—and after his
defeat, signed and placed on the Journals of this

An elopement of rather a novel.nature recently
took place in the family of a Dowager Lady of dis-
tinetion, the neighbourhood of Bedford-square ;
the Cook and Butler were both of them absent when
their fellow-servants assembled in the kitchen at
breakfast, on Monday last. It being however perfect-
ly well known in the family, that they were mutual-
ly the victims of the tender passion, and that every
preliminary had been adjusted preparatory to their.
uniting their fates VI the silken bands of laymen, no
extraordinary degree of surprise was-expressed at
their absence, it being imagined that they were only
gone to the Parish Church for-the purpose of steal-
ing a match. Not returning, however, at the Usual
time, for waking preparation for dinner, it was
thought prudent to inform the lady of the siansion
of their absence, who on inquiry soon discovered,
that-in addition to the loss of her clerk of the.pantry
and fair goddess of the kitchen, site had other causes
' of regret ; several articles of plate and table linen,
which were under the card -of the former, having
also token flight with hini and his fair partner. No
traces of the fugitives have pt. been di,covered.

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