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unaitseed ? If the Const;tutioe of the State -itself is
new modelled bcceuse they require it, is it to be ;
imagined that their modesty, delicacy, or forbeer-
eace, will abstain from insisting that the neinicipal
Constitution of the University should be surrendered
to them also ? Very short-lived indeed will be the
Lex Loci of the tiniversity when every public law
which a papist objects to shall have been erased by
Lord GRENVILLE from the 'Statute Book. The
Members of the Catholic Comtnenion may, from
that moment, without difficulty, beUnder Graduates,
Fellows, and Heads of Colleges, Tutors, Profes-
sors, and Magistrates of the University; nay, a
Catholic might - even become our Chancellor : for
if my supposition of fact be true, that reli-
gious Tests will vanish at Oxford, as I say
they must do, as soon as Lord GRENVILLE has
put an extinguisher upon them in every other quar-
ter of the Empire, my deduction is indisputable, that
every place and preferment in the University ten-
able by a Layman will instantly become accessible 1
to the Lay Catholic -as well as to the Lay Proles-
taut ; for nothing as I have before !hewn- impedes
the matriculation of Catholics, except those religi-
ous tests, which, for all civil purposes, and in all :
other places throughout the whole Empire, are to be
superseded by Lord' GRF.NVILLE'S system. I have
spoken only of the Lay or Civil branch of the Uni-
versity, that is, cif those who are not bound to take
Orders by the Statutes of the different Colleges :
all these, I say, might be Papists : a pretty con-
siderable linib of the whole. Ido not stop here to
ask how the clerical branch of it will stand its
ground, " paries cum prozimus ardet." Whether
Lord GRENVILLE has thought of these things I
know not, but. if he has, they may be precisely what
he wishes; he may think perhaps, that the reforma-
tion itself is become obsolete, and ought, like an
old worn-out servant, to be put upon the super- ,
annuated liSt, in order to make way for some
fresh hands now out of employ, but likely to be a
little more bustling and active. We must pre-
pare ourselves for something splendid ; for . Lord
GREUVILLE told the House of Lords, " that the
force of reason, like the rays of the sun, was
breaking out upon them." I do indeed expect
from his- Lordship something very resplendent,
and so ought the University too : I can imagine
the illumination which is to issue forth, and beans
upon us from all the pores of his threatened Ca-
tholic Bill ; and I have (I admit but very feebly) en- '
deavoured to describe some few of its rays ; but I de-
clare that I dread the coming of this solstice of lus-
tre : -1 khOW that it will bring heat witty it; as well
as light, and I am alarmed . for myself and the whole
University, lest it be too much for us, and affeet us '
like • a coup de soleil. ``then I observe the extraor-
dinary confidence of Lord GRENVILLE, and when I
hear him treat as visionary those apprehensions
which till the present moment have been deemed
well founded.,what have I for my security but his spe-
culation ? One of his Lordship's theories is, that
the Catholic few cannot injure the Protestant many ;
that their strength is insufficient, though their de-
signs were mischievous : he ridicules the idea of
numbers being over-ruled, and supposes that the
mass of a people may repose with safety mole sua.
To this maxim of Lord GRENVILLE I shall oppose
the wisdom of our illustrious CLA II EN DON, for whose
chair his Lordship is so vehemently struggling.—
I am told by that great man, an eye-witness to
the troubles of former times, that the disasters
which he relates were not produced by a ge- •
neral combination and universal apostacy lh the
whole nation irons their religion and allegiance. I
learn from him that a country may be overthrown,
from causes limited and partial, against the real voi:e
of the people, and the preponderancy of mere nuo-
bers. Lord GRENVILLE tells us, that we want to
protection from the Catholics, no bolts or bars, to
boundaries or separations between us; that we have
nothing more to do, when his -Catholic Bill las
passed, than to go to bed. without a safeguard, in
this same security as our forefathers did with it, re-
posing in the consciousness of our own innocenct
but the Noble Historian, who has better explored
the springs of public mischief arldisturbance, iie
structs us that one main source of the commotion,
he saw was, the "permitting the innocent to be
" possessed with laziness and sleep in the most visisle
" article of danger." Against this lethargy,l,l for
one will keep my eyes very open. In the election of
Lord GRENVILLE to be our Chancellor, pod Deus
auertat, 1 can discern the buds of fhture mis-
fortune to the University, and every branch of our
existing establishments. As ter as I can, therefore,
I will resist the GRENVILLITES ; for it is the -Cies-
. viction of my mind, that if the University oncO'sub-
nuits to the dominion of GRENVILLISM, the day is
not far distant when it must stoop the head under
the yoke, of Catholicism.

From the LONDON GAZETTE, Dec. 5.

Ordaance..office, Dec. 4, rgog,
Royal Regiment of Artillery.

Major Charles Waller to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Unett,

retired.
Captain Alexander Duncan to be Major, vice Waller.
Second C:ptani Henry Stone to be Captain, vice Duncan.
First Lieutenant Samuel Scriven to be Second Captain, vice

Stone.
Second Lieutenant I ohn Spiller to be First Lieutenant, vice

Scriyeil
Second Lieutenant George B. Willis to be First Lieutenant,
vice Grattan', resigned.

Commissions in the Tower Hamlets Militia, signed by the

Lord Lieutenant.

To be Captain—Lieutenant Thomas O'Key, from the lid Re-
giment, vice Edwards, resigned.
TV be Ens►gn—Forbes Robinson, Cent.'
2d Royal Regiment.

To be Lieutenant—Lieutenant John Orange, from the Ist

Regiment.
I o be Ditto—Lieutenant John King, from the Lincolnshire
vice•O'Key, promoted.
To ue Ensign— I. L. Stretch, Gent, vice Mead, appointed
to the 2(.1 Foot.
To be Ditto—George Card, Gent. vice Little, appointed to
the 45th Foot.
Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County

of Carmarthen.

To be Second Lieutenant in the Ist Regiment Royal Car-
marthen Fuzileer Loi.al Militia— lohn Urifliths, (ienf.

BA:\KR:„PiS

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. m u, W.oininster. Aiturnies, Mebsrs. Davies and Davis,
Vidiit,,ster ; or Mr. Davis, Luthbury, London. '
ut St. Mary-Axe, Lund .n, merelrant,,Dec.
9, [2, alai lan. IN at one, at Guildhall. Attorney, air.
Weld, jun. Castle-stieet, Falcon-square.
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