The Sun.
London, England, 1807-05-12 00:00:00

LORD gRENVILL

insert Sri .Lord G gF.NV I L Letter on the Roman
Catholic 1.3,11, and the excellept Answer to it, we
.think it
proper top :Ohso Also a secOnd Letter to his Lordship,
from the sane able Writer, which our Readers will find
to beas pointed and forciule as the former.-J,

MY LORD—I hope the Society to which we be-
long will show indulgence to' my inadequate exer-
tions in their defence, and that my friend Dr. GAS-
KIN will forgive me, if in pleading his cause I should
havi.- used r gurnents and adduced topics which his
better judgment would not have selealed. , But Dr.
GASKIN,Iti too sincerely and too constantly employ-
ed in attention to his professional duties to enter
into a controversy with, Newspaper Writers, even
when Lord GRENVILLE assumes that charaCter.—
Your Lordship, on the contrary, has no longer any
duty or employment whadoever to distraCt you from
the full and undivided exertion of your talents on
the field of diurnal polemics.. He must constrain
himself to the laborious, bin pleasing, duties of his
Christiah- occupation ; whilst your Lordship engages
your idle hours in illustrating Ehe pages of a Party
Journal. He has a superior duty to perform : your
Lordship is at leisure. to give yourself up body and
soul to a Party Editor. I trust yoti. will, prove a pro-
fitable, ornament to its pleasing vehicle of
gence, the columns of which will with pleasure be
yielded to your luminous Essays.
Exce tibi jura bruchia contrabit ar,lens
Scorpius & pista plus.parte

The inh'abitaut of the cellar resigns his paragraph,
and the crarreteer his purl; without a sigh, to admit
your Lordship as a competitor in their efforts- for
the approbation of the'cOffee-house, or the applause
of the tea-table.

. But I see - you, are -treated with double honours,
and in hopes of creating a continuation of your con-
tributions, your letter is re-published.
time placttit sethel lime duces repetau placebet.
• Ths pleases once, hut this ten times will please.

I trust your Lordship is f not angry that
,I should
treat-you in a sfrain, however alien to your humour
and unknown to your habits, with jocularity and
pleasantness; as when one a-second time adverts to
your letter; irascibility is entirely disarmed by its pe-
culiar absurdity.
The inimitable ridicule of the Tale of a Tub is
constantly in the mind of every man whenever the
mention of Popery, or of any thing that can be con,
netted with. Popery by the most distant relation,
crosses the mind.—When Lord Peter takes a slice
of his ten-penny loaf, and tells M-AtyriN and JACK,
that if they do not believe it to be jhe quintessence
of beef, mutton, venison,. and partridge, they may
be damned to all tternity,—th.e ridicule is irresistible.
I am sure. youi Lordship can say the passage by
heart, and corre& my irregular quotation but what
could induce you, knowing ,the ridicule, and possi;
bly feeling it, to adopt-Lord Peter's tone, • assume
his very language, and play the part to the exatauess
of imitation

There is but one possible gro,und on which your
Lordsh'rp's and Lord HOWICK'S Bill can be resisted,
viz, that it is an innovation dangerous to the Church
Establishment. It is upon this ground, and this
ground only, that the repeal of the Test, Laws has
been opposed for a century. And what then is your
Lordship's condua ? In the true style of my Lord
Peter, you proclaim that your Bill was produced for
the purposes of peace, union, and public safety and
that whoever says it is a dangerous •innovation is 4
calumniator of the living and the dead, a libeller of
the Laws, of the Parliament, and the King—and
suppose, in Lord Peter's language, may bedallin2d
to all eternity ; and so you. bid them heartily fare-
weU.

Now I fairly submit to your:Lorthhip, ifyou have
any sense of ridicule, whether it is possible -tier any
passage to be more ridiculous. Your Lordship hav-
ing recently, been Prime Minister of the Country, it
was_ not very wise of you to become a Newspaper
:Writer; but when you engaged as a Jburnalist, you
ought not to have immediately indulged yourself,
not only in the liberties, but in the licentiousness of
the Press. Having becoMe a Newspaper Writer, I
think you should have endeavoured to, manifest a
correaness of sentiment, and a temperance of style,
asst: you meant, in becoroing'a daily author, to re-
fine the pages of a Newspaper, and to give them ,a
classic chaste purity. The Editors of the Public
Prints are so pressed and, hurried that they really
have not time to criticise. and correa al[the _letters
and paragraphs that are heaped on them by the ar-
dent impatience of scribblers. Ent when they get
a recent Prime Minister, and ,Auditor of the Exche-
quer, a. Peer of Parliament, and a first-rate 9rator, to
engage in their service, they feel .secure, and con-
ceive there can be no occasion for their superintend-
ing corre6tion. Is it not then 'singular that_ you
should have set an example of indecorum and licen-
tiousness, which the Press, ill its loosest and most
unbridled hour, never surpssed ?

I ask your Lordship, whether at any period you
can recaett, either during the, remarkable sauciness
of WII.KES, or the malignancy of JuNtus, any per-
son had the hardihood to represent the 'Monarch as,
a Libeller of Himself, and thus in the most wanton
termi to accuse his Sovereign„in a public Paper, with
Lis name affixed to the accusatiou, of ridiculous or
criminal inconsistency ?
I will allow your Lordshipi has not done this in a
dull, stupid, direa, positive charge, saying The King
is a libeller of hmself, the King is guilty of criminal_
inconsistency. No, my Lord, if you bad dobe `sO,
even the Party Editor would not have published your'
Utter. But your Lordship being an adept in iar-
liamentary trick and evasion, and understanding how
to convey abuse according to the forms of the House,
has conttived to state the sentiment in such a way,
bat it should be equally felt, as if it were spOken di-
redly 3 and equally free from indieiment, as if it had
not been spoken at all.
,Let me put seriously and home to your Lordship's
breast this single question.—Upon what ground doeS
your Lordship believe that his • Majesty resisted Mr.
Pitt's Cabinet suggestions in 1800, and your Lord—
ship's and Lord- Howiek's Bill in 1807 ? Do,yoU
not, as an hbnest.man, believe that his nijesty re-
sissed them as innovatias, in his conscience, datwer-
ouslo the Church Establishment Your Lordship
must one day appear before a.higher tribunal, where
you cannot either deny or equivocate, and lask you,
as you know you. must appear before that tribunal,

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