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an act of high treason against virtue, and we must charitably,
Sir, consider it as false upon the very face of it.
'One circumstance only is there that forbids us to rest in this.
conclusion so securely as we could wish. Certain members of
the University, and some of them not inconsiderable in station,
'have, I see, by the Poll-book, declined voting in the late con-
test at all. How comes this about ? Assuredly these are not
times for any man to sink his powers in the bed of an inglorious
neutrality, and if he be as " a city set on an hill," the call upon
him for exertion is still more imperative. His influence; his of-
ficial situation ; his-care to set a sound example of integrity to
all around him ; the regard due to his own uniform principles
opposed to the Catholic claims; to his own uniform conduct in
the petitions to his Sovereign, signed and sealed under the most
solemn assurance that such petitions will be regarded by that
Sovereign as coming from the heart, and that, not so proceeding,
they can bc'looked upon as no other than a mere insult and
mockery of the throne ; all lolly demand that nothing upon
earth should turn such a mind from the straight forward course
of virtue, or palsy such efforts as virtue demands of it.
• Yet how, Sit, stands the melancholy fact ? From that
straight forward course, some, it appears, unfortunately, have
been turned ; for they have withdrawn their votes from the
very Cause nearest to their heart, and at a season when every
thing urged them with all the powers of their soul to support
it. Yes, when honour and dignity, and the altar by which they
live, and the throne by which they are secured, earnestly im-
plored them to exert in an evil hour, every nerve for the preser-
vation of a Protestant Church; they have suffered I know not
what crooked policy to weigh ck)ivn eternal obligation, and have
been content to forget the higher calls of duty in a petty reci-
procation of civilities between their patrons and themselves.
Whether this, Sir, may he considered as a sort of presump-
tive evidence of ministerial influence, I must leave my readers
to determine. Canso latet, vis est notissima. Neutrality, how-
ever, be it imposed as it may, is ever an unworthy ex-
pedient. The reproach of honourable minds is only to
be escaped by honourable conduct ; by letting the
world know that " where our treasure is, there will our
hearts be also ;" and that if men ari aware of our decided sen-
timents, they may securely reckon upon our correspondent's
active exertions. Is there, I ask, wisdom in an opposite con-
duct ? Is there virtue ? What then is this trimming, time-
serving system made up of? Of the shreds and parings of an
.open manly deportment; of all the small morals and petty
policies 'of our poor, (=king, contriving, over-shooting nature,
playing; as we think, the safe game, wliere something may
eventually be won and nothing is capable of being lost. And
truly, if steadfastness of principle be not the ornament, and ho-
nesty ever more thebest policy of the human mind, these pro-
fessors of court casuistry are perfectly correct—they do lose no-
thing.
Another good effect of this independent conduct, Sir, will
be that the strongest assurance is now given that no candidate
will, in future, be permitted to aspire to the representation of
the University who brings not with him a mind commensurate
to the work, who comes not forward the seconder of their own
sedate views, and the espouser, in all respects, of their own
standard principles. It must have been a terrible committal
\ of themselves, and a sad mortification, when their own advo-
cates in the great council of the nation wzre found regard-
less of their instructions and voting against them. It looked
as if these members cared very little about the feelings of the
University, and indeed as if she; cared very little about them
herself'. It was, in fact a virtual renunciation of duty on both
sides. The scandal of this heterogeneous proceeding is however
gone by, and the reformation begun will, I hope, stop only at
that point where the evil of so anomalous a co-partnership

ceases to exist.
How, after such a display of genuine orthodox spirit, such a
devotion to solid principle in the face of opposition from a
quarter not expected, not even thought possible, and, of course,
'not at all prepared for, how Lord PAL ISIEn STON will be able
to stand his ground at the next general election, I am altogether
unable to divine. With a demonstration so decisive before
him of the aversion of the great body of the University to the
Catholic claims, and of their determined rejection of all in-
fluence in endeavouring to force upon them a member hostile to
their views in a point of such magnitude, his Lordship can have
little expectation of being either brought in by his own merits, or
foisted upon them by improper interference. The thing will
not be borne with. It will be so little borne with, that the very
attempt to carry such a point by such means will only serve to
strengthen the powerful phalanx against him. Indeed if he
have a proper sense of what is due to the dignity of so august
a body, he will not so much as venture to solicit their suffrages.
For if he cannot change his Catholic prepossessions, how can he
expect them to change their Protestant attachments, and, those
attachments remaining, how for a moment can he flatter him-
self with being returned? Lord Palmerston, therefore, eligible
in all other respects, must, for ever, continue ineligible in this.
He cannot, he will not; be re-elected ; and, from the known
delicacy of his feelings, it is, upon the whole, perhaps, unlikely
that he will even desire it.
Mr. GRANT, I observe, in his " Letter of Resignation,"
not altogether written in a resigned spirit, has been pleased, in
a somewhat abrupt manner, to allude to this political oppro-
brium of the University. But though sore probably, in some
degree, under his disappointment, whether with so little in-
ducement, it was prudent in him, or even strictly honourahle
thus to " call her sins to remembrance" may well be ques-
tioned. 'Whatever be his interest with Alma Mater and with
reason, I confess she is proud of such a son—he has assuredly
not taken the best mode of strengthening it ; and in all likeli-
hood he will be left to look for his future support to those
friends, who, fbr the honour of " fighting by his side," have
been pleased to " sacrifice their decided individual prepos-
sessions," or, putting this courtly phraseology into a more tan-
gible form, have, it is to be feared, been unguarded enough to
evince the abundance of their zeal by the relinquishment of

their duty.
But if such men as Lord Palmerston and Mr. Grant are
likely, by the issue of the late contest, to be endangered in
their future views, much more will any \l'hig Candidate have
cause to apprehend a rejection. If the University will not ad-
mit men whO advocate the Catholic Claims against her any
longer to partake of her favours, still less will she countenance
the pretensions of those who disdain, in their general conduct,
to vindicate an established and insulted hierarchy at any
or in any manner. She will never suffer that last dis-

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grace to he dignity, a Whig representative of the New School..
cf that school which takes in " Jews, Turks, Infidels, and
Heretics," and sends them forth to instruct the people in any
thing except righteousness. Mr.' Scarlet has made his auda-
cious experiment 'upon the purity of her faith and feelings, atid
has failed. The good sense and honourable consistency of the
University have driven him away in despair—he will no more
trouble her—he may thank the unhappy division in a loyal
and most exemplary College for having been able to trouble
her at all. The phrenzy of his ambition is, however, at an
end : he has put his means into requisition for the first, and let
us be permitted to hope for the credit of all that is creditable,
for the last time.

I would beg,'Sir, to instance another advantage flowing to the
Established Church from the conduct of the University upon
this memorable occasion. For a considerable time past there
has been a vulgar crusade against the honour and character of
the Clergy, and it has been the fashion to stigmatize them with
almost every opprobrious epithet which the vocabulary of a low
malice can afford. Of this crusade the Whigs are undoubtedly
the leaders, and they have brought together, to " batter at the
peace" of the ( hurch, all whom insolence =dogs bold, and
ability, often at odds with integrity, makes formidable.

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At. the head of this phalanx may be reckoned some names
which ought not to be-found in such a calendar of infamy
as the Hones, and Carliles, and Cobbetts, with their asso-
ciated partizans, exhibit. Do not start, Sir, when I tell you
that among the most ignorant of her ignorant, the most vulgar
of her vulgar, assailants, the Church has to include Mr.
Brougham, Mr. Phillips, and that great Leviathan of the po-
litical world, the leader of the " Whigs of England," Earl
Grey. These Gentlemen, for their dastard' attacks upon her
character, deserve the severest animadversion. At a future op -
portunity I hope to be able to pay them m 32 espects ; but at
present it will be sufficient to observe, that in giving us the
late proof of her independent spirit, the University has put to
silence all those pitiful slanders that represent the Clergy as
mere hunters after preferment, as men that are performing their
duties only for " filthy lucre's sake," as drones living on the
labours of others, as oppressors in their respective parishes, and
as slaves and hirelings, devote body and soul to the support of
any administration that may happen to be in power.
These ignorant calumnies, either directly or indirectly ad-
vanced by Earl Grey, and worked up and improved upon by
the tribe of Whig and radical revilers following on his disgust-

ing track, the Clergy may at all times very justly despise, and,
under present circumstances, may more especially laugh to
scorn. The two UniverSities feel their glory and their interest
to consist in their integrity ; in their entertainment and open
avowal of constitutional principles, and in boldly acting upon
them whether Brennus, in the confidence of authority, venture
to tluow his sword into the scale or not. The solemn records of
their faith they keep in their perpetual view, and from these
they draw, and by these they sanctify their policy. The Con-
stitution of England they conceive to be a Constitution in its
spirit Christian, in its operation Christian, in all the laws and or-
dinances by which it is surrounded and with which it is conso-
lidated, purely and essentially Christian. And therefore they
hold themselves as much bound to support, by their appointed
course of education and their own consequent example, the Es-
tablished Executive Government, as the Established Protes-
tant Religion of the Realm.
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Nor, Sir, is it any slight benefit that the University has
hereby shaken off the scandal of being, in the abused sense of
the term, a Whig University. The Whig and the Tory are
truly distinctive appellations as to the parties they represent.
There is such a gulph between them as must for ever separate
their faith, both religious and political. In the Tory there is a
deep veneration for the Throne ; a solemn attachment to the
Church ; a love of order and regularity in the State ; a full,
perfect, unbounded devotion to ancient laws, institutions, and
usages ; ancient privileges and prerogatives ; ancient rights
and duties ; a generous spirit binding the heart through every
change of circumstance to hereditary honours, claims, and vir-
tues, and a disposition to make the dearest sacrifices for their
preservation. In the Whig, on the contrary, there is no one
decided expression of regard towards any of these important
objects. All here is a measured love, a suspicious attach-
ment, a broken obedience, a lax and lukewarm loyalty.
You observe nothing about the present " Whigs of Eng-
land," as they foolishly denominate themselves, but a condi-
tional veneration for the Throne, a conditional attachment to
the Church, a conditional devotion to laws and institutions,
rights, privileges, and prerogatives. The moment that Thnme,
that Church, those Laws, oppose in their letter or spirit what
they set up as the pure principles of the Constitution (and
which is a Constitution without principles), the instant the key
of their Sovereign's Cabinet ceases to be in their keeping, their
modified attachments arc at an end. They cast off the magic
garment of their forbearance, and spring up in the accustomed
costume of " All the Talents," the opposers of every Mini-
ster, of every measure, of all that is ordained for the security,
and all that is devised for the peace, and virtue, and happ-
ness of the Realm.
In conclusion, Sir, as in the late conduct of the University,
there is every thing to praise, let as hope thztt in future pro-
ceedings there will be nothing to censure. The Established
Clergy cannot be disgraced without the Established Church suf-
fering with it; nor can that Church be more seriously injured
than by a relinquishment of duty, at a time when the most cor-
rect performance of it may be but barely adequate to its preser-
vation. Examples of inconsistency in reproachful seasons like
these must be ruinous, and especially of inconsistency on
so vital a point as that of the Catholic claims. If any thhig
can make a more than ordinary claim necessary, it is the recot-
lection of the pertinacity with which these claims are advocated,
and of the strength and character of the party engaged in their
defence. They never before had so many and powerful friend,:
in a British House of Commons. And how far the accession et
only a few votes might go in procuring for them certain abate-
ments of present penalties, which would, in their nature., lend to
a future total emancipation, there is no saying.
And surely, Sir, if any description of men are more pecitliarly
concerned to maintain the Constitution, in Church and State,
(and which, certainly, by the admission of the Catholics to civil
power, must entirely cease to be maintained), it is the mereb.rs
of our University. They are the proper natural guardians of
both our established religion and laws. They have the tuition
of the mind at a season when it is prone to repose upon the fide-
lity of its teachers, and to take the colour of the instructions by
which it is imbued. The future legislators of the realm may be
said primarily to be of their creation. To them, therefore, it
more immediately appertains, that all who go from their hands
go with strong prepossessions in favour of an established Church,
a Monarchical Government, and a freedom, which, while it is
boundless as the light of heaven, must be as pure as the light
of heaven too. Reposing on these principles, the University
will recollect herself and her high destinies. She will to longer
suffer the stream to be polluted at its source, but pondering in
time " the things that belong unto her peace," will feel that if
she wishes to be revered by others, she must learn henceforth,
in the consistency of her conduct, and the choice of her repre-
sentatives, to honour and revere herself.
Dec. 20, 1822. MARCUS.
ERRATUM.—In the last letter of Marcus, first line of last
paragraph but one, for " concerns" read "censure."
N

NTEL

PARIS, DEC. 23.

If people would keep in mind the only official
publication which the Government have yel
made with respect to the affairs of Spain—viz.
that " Europe left to France the affair of inter-
fering or not with Spain," we should not see such
eagerness in hoping or fearing a positive decision
before France is in a situation to take a part—
that is to say, before the result of separate and
direct negotiations with Spain, the union of the
powers of the state, and the preparation of sub-
sidiary means indispensable on the supposition of
war, enable us to form a reasonable and well-
grounded opinion on this impcirtant question.—
The question is no longer European; it is
French : it no longer belongs to Congress, but to
-the Councils of the King of France. It falls with-
in the jurisdiction of Parliament as a matter of
finance,, and in a political point of view is an
affair of ministerial responsibility.
Those Journals which dream of nothing but
absolute monarchy, announced decisive and
hostile determinations before the opening of the
-Session. It may not be now in the power of the
'Ministers to decide any thing but peace ; but the
resolution for war is too. closely connected with
the vote on the budget to allow of its being
adopted before the meeting of the Chambers,
-and before the ascertained certainty of a majori-
ty of votes conformable to such a resolution.
We are far from fearing such a result ; there,

lore we are very cautious in collecting that sort
of authentic intelligence which certain Journals
-lavish upon those who gape for it.
All the fluctuations of the exchange, the facti-
•tious and temporary rises and falls, produced by
the insidious circulation of mere rumours, are in
face nothing more than the tricks of stock-job-
,biog, by which cunning and party-spirit lay the
•timid and the credulous under contribution. We
cannot too earnestly warn the honest speculator,
and above all, the quiet stockholder, against such
,deceptions, by begging them to consult, not the
-newsmongers of the exchange, who, in two or
-three hours, reap the fruits of the lies which they

have spread about in the morning or the preced-
ing evenirw, but the spirit of our institutions—
•the true interests of France—the wisdom of the
throne—the silence of the Congress of,Verona—
the attitude of England—the moderation of the

.Spanish Government, circumstances which to all
•reasonable men are -so many guarantees of a peace

which can cause none to despair but the enemies
.olcoutitutional monarchy.—(Journal de Paris.)
We can warrant the news that a treaty of alli-
.ance, offensive and desensive, between Spain and
.Portugal, has been signed and ratified. This
news is official.—Constitutionnel.

An English courier arrived on Saturday at the
English Embassy for Madrid, and set orr imme-
diately for London.
M. Jabat, who has been lately appointed
Minister of Spain to the British Government, ar-
rived at Paris on Saturday evening. His Excel-
lency will stay here a few days.
The Indicator of Bo' deaux of the 19th has the
following paragraph :—" We announced, perhaps
prematurely, the re-establishment of the health
of M. de Lally-Tollendal: the Noble Peer had
scarcely arrived •at the house of the Duke De
Cazes, when he found himself seriously indisposed
in consequence of a violent vomitino-; he had
then an attack of fever. Being brought back to
Bordeaux by his friend, M. de Lally is now
labouring under a severe and alarming malady."
The French funds left ot on Monday, for
money, at 88. They had been lower than 881
in the course of the day ; and at four o'clock
they were at 88. 10. fur the account.
(From the Gazette de France of Monday.)
The Revolutionary party commit the most
horrible excesses. At Ronda, as well as at Man-
resa, in order to get rid of respectable persons
who did not concur with them in their theories,
they had the villainy to infer that they %sere con-
spirators against the existing Government. They
were committed to prison, and afterwards with,
drawn on the pretence of conducting them to the
cities where they are to be tried. Scarcely had
they proceeded a few leagues, when they were
all inhumanly massacred. The reign of terror
has begun here : it differs, however, from that
which prevailed in France, inasmuch as our
terrorists dispensed even with the revolutionary
tribunals ; they do not give themselves the

trouble to disguise their assassinations by legal
formalities. All that they desire is, to allay
their thirst of blood.

Every communero is a spy, an informer, and, if
need be, an executioner. In the secret societies

the victims are fixed upon_; and some of the

members undertake •to execute them.

One of

these cannibals lately proposed to massacre in
the prisons, by assault, all who were in confine-

ment for their political opinions. The Inqui-
sition, in its worst and most terrific era, never
showed such a disregard for the laws as do these
modern Inquisitors.
The requisition for •horses is enforced with
the greatest activity in the different provinces :
two hundred have been ,collected at La Mancha.