The Sun.
London, England, 1840-12-07 00:00:00

TORY INVENTIONS.

By tte following correspondence, it will be seen tha
th Duke of Wellington administers a very just rebuke
to the Standard for its hardy assertion that it was " well
known" that he had professed himself " to have been
deceived" throughout the whole affair of the Irish Cor-
poration Bill. The Duke, with his usual manliness, de-
clues, and his word never yet was doubted, that he
views such misrepresentations with the utmost indiffer-
ence, and that his sole object in addressing the Stan-
dard was " to trace a calumny" most injurious to an-
other person. He complains, justly too, of the same Jour-
nal giving garbled. extraats of his letter, and in order that
the public may judge between his Grace and the Journalist,
we give from the Evening Mail, the letter entire, together
with another on the subject, addressed to Mr. Shaw. It
is a curious fact, and shows the rabidness of the Tory fac-
tion, that the Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel,
the long-admitted leaders of the party, have never suf-
fered half so much from the attacks of their open enemies
as from those of their professed friends. The following
are the letters referred to :
TO THE EDITOR OF THE EVENING MAIL.
_K:rnmage House, Dec. 3, 1840.
Sir,—l have been honoured with a letter from the Duke
of Wellington, enclosing one which his Grace had written
to the editor of the Standard nespaper, in reference to
the Irish Municipal Bill. Iu his letter to me his Grace

observes :
My only reason for addressing the editor of the
Standard was to enable you to trace to its source a ca-
lumny respecting yourself.
" I could not doubt that the editor would not hesitate
to make known the name of the person who conveyed to
him a report for which I informed him there was no
foundation ; more particularly as I stated that my only
motive for applying to hi.n was to do you justice.
This is the obvious object of my letter to the editor. The
editor refused to comply with my request, which he had
certainly a right to do, if he thought proper. Upon this
course I shall make no comment. He likewise omitted to pub-
lish my whole letter, and leaves the public to believe that I
cared one pin about the report that I had professed that I
had been deceived, on any ground whatever, excering that
the report was connected with your name. I have there-
fete thought it best to send you a copy of my letter to
die Editor of the Standard, of the 21st instant, and I
leave it to you to do what you may think proper with
it; as my sole object in writing it was to obtain infer-
:nation for you which would enable you to discover the
person who had been your slanderer."
Under these circumstances I think that I pursue the
course most respectful to the Duke of Wellington, and best
evince my del) sense of obligation for the trouble his
Grace has taken on my account, by giving his Grace's let-
ter to the editor of the Standard for publication. I, there-
fore, send you a copy of it, and beg that you will do me
the favour to publish it in the Duties Evening Mail.
I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your most obedient humble servant,
4,4.5.te FREDERICK SHAW.

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TO THE EDITOR OP THE STANDARD NEWSPAPER.
• Strathfielthaye, Nov. 21. 1840.
44 Sir—l observe that in the leading article of the
Standard newspaper of the 20th instant, it is stated—
It is, however, well known, that the Duke of Welling-
ton professed himself to have been deceived.' 1 should
not have considered it' necessary to notice this statement
;f I had not been aware of an attempt made to connect
the fact of my having been deceived with a gentleman
residing in Ireland, and to attribute to him the deception
of which it is supposed that I complained.
" In the paper of which you are editor it is stated po.

sitively—
"' It is well known that the Duke of Wellington had
professed himself to have been deceived throughout the
whole affair.'
If this is well known, it must be known to somebody
who can be named. I request you to name the persons or
person who ever heard tue profess or say that I had been
deceived by anybody, or at all.
" I am convinced that you will admit that there is no-
thing unreasonable in asking the name of one individual
who ever heard that which it is said is well known.'
" The same leading article of your newspaper contains
several misrepresentations—l conclude unintentional—re-
garding what passed in Parliament upon the subject of the
Irish Municipal Corporation Act.
" I notice this part of it solely because I am engaged
in drawing your attention to another part of the same,
while upon the same subject. I consider these misrepre-
sentations—as Ido all such which appear in the news-
papers, and can affect my own character alone—with the
utmost indifference.—I am, &c.
(Signed)

" WELLINGTON."

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Duchess of Kent visited her Majesty and Prince
Albert yesterday afternoon, at Buckingham Palace.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended Di-
vine Service yesterday morning in the Chapel Royal,
St. James's. The prayers were read by the Rev. J.
Horsley Dakins, the lessons by the Dr. Wesley, and
the communion-serNice by the Rev. Dr. Sleath. The
iermon was preached by the Rev. Mr. Banks, from
John, ch. xvi. verse 7. The chaunt was the Earl of
Mornington's ; the 're Deum and Jubilate in C (Boyce).
The Sanctus and Responses (Arnold), the Anthem.
tt Sing 0 heavens," (Kent), was sung by Messrs.
Hawkins, Vaughan. and J. B. Sale. Sir George Smart
presided
_at the organ.
The Rev. Dr. Short was the Deputy Clerk of the
Closet in Waiting. Prince Albert was attended by
Lord Robert Grosvenor, Major-General Sir Edward
Bowater, Captain Seymour, Major the Hon. George
Keppel, and Col. Wernyss.
The Marquis of Normanby had an audience of Prince
Albert on Saturday, at Buckingham Palace-.
Among the inquirers yesterday and on Saturday at
Buckingham Palace, were the Belgian Minister and
Madame Van de Weyer, the American Minister and
Mrs. Stevenson, the Netherlands Minister and Ma-
dame Dedel, the Bavarian Minister and Baroness de
Ce.to, the Grecian Minister and Madame Mavrocor-
date, the French Charge d'Affaires, M. de Van-
deul, Marquis and Marchioness of Bate ; Lords
Southampton, Fitzroy Somerset, Monteagle, Wen-
lock, Rivers, Walpole, Leveson, Carring-
ton, F. Manners ; - Ladies Macdonald, Rivers,
Southampton, Carrington, R. Grosvenor, Wenlokk,
Leveson, E. Lowther, C. Somerset, and F. Somerset ;
the Attorney-General, Sir Robert Chester ; Lieute-
nant-Generals Sir John Macdonald and Sir Cohn
Campbell ; Colonel and the Hon. Mrs. Leicester Stan-
hope, Lieutenant-Colonel and Mrs. E. Bouverie ;
Messrs. Walter Long, M.P. ; Macaulay, Norman Mac
donald, and Wilbraham Taylor ; Mrs. Long, and Mr.
Sergeant Heath.
The Marquis of Bute, Lord F. Somerset, Dr. Glad-
stoi.e, Colonel Anson, and Cobuel Rowan, had inter-
views with the Marquis of Normanby on Saturday at
the Home-office,
Despatches from the Lord High Commissioner of
the lonian Islands, and also from the Governors of
Malta and Gibraltar, were received yesterday at the
701onial-office,

A Cabinet Council is summoned to assemble at
the Foreign Office this afternoon. It is understood that
Ministers are to meet for the purpose of deciding upon 1
the day to which Parliament shall be further prorogued.
It is also understood that to-morrow a Privy Council will
b! held at BuckinQlsam Palace, at which her most gracious
Majesty will preside,
Sir Edward Lytton Bulwer's play of Money will
certainly be produced to-morrow evening. Mr. Macready
m4:ing his re-appearance to-night for the llrst time since
hi; domestic calamity.
The attraction of the Midsummer Night's
Dream, at Covent-garden Theatre, continues unabated,
and Madame Vestris announces it for four evenings this
week, followed on Wednesday by a; new one-act farce, en.
titled Brother Ben, by young Morton, the author oF two
fir l,brce successtul trifles, and an eff-shOot of the author of
Spod the Plough. ..