The Sun.
London, England, 1834-12-13 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The King gave audiences yesterday to the Duke of Wel-
lington, the Duke of Devonshire, and Sir R. Peel.
The Princess Sophia visited their Majesties yesterday at
St. James's Palace.
The Princess Augusta was expected to arrive at Bagsbot
yesterday afternoon from the Pavilion at Brighton, on a visit
to the Duchess of Gloucester.
A messenger with letters for Sir Robert Peel from Lord
Stanley returned to town yesterday morning. During the
day a meeting was held at Sir Robert's, which was attended
by the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Wellington, the Earl of
Aberdeen, the Earl of Rosslyn, Mr. Goulburn, and Mr.
Baring, M.P. These noblemen and gentlemen were occu-
pied a considerable time in deliberation.
Mr. Croker, Lord Fitzgerald and Vesci, Lord Granville
Somerset, and Sir Henry Hardinge, had interviews yesterday
with Sir Robert Peel.
Mr. F. Pollock, M. P., and some of the Foreign Ministers,
called upon Sir Robert yesterday.
M. Tricoupi (the Greek Minister) and the Marquis Cam-
den visited the Duke of Wellington yesterday at the Home-
office.
The Marquis of Wellesley arrived in town yesterday from
Ireland.
The Duke of Wellington, the Earls of Euston, Jersey,
Coventry, Rosslyn, and Verulam, Lords Adolphus Fitzcla-
rence and Hill, Sirs J. Scarlett, B. Stephenson and F. Wat-
son, General White and Mr. B. Currey, followed the chief
mourner in the funeral procession of the late Duke of Glou-
cester. The Generals, supporters of the pall and canopy over
the coffin, were on the one side, Sir E. Paget, Hon. Sir W.
Lumley, Sir A. Barnard and Sir W. Rooks, and on the other
Sir H. Tierney, Right Hon. Sir G. Murray, Major-General
Hepburn, and Major-General Clitherow.

SIR ROBERT PEEL AND DR. LUSHINGTON.

;‘ Whitehall, Dec. 12, 1834.
SIR-I have to request that you will take the earliest
opportunity of giving publicity to the enclosed correspon-
dence.

I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
ROBERT PEEL.
To the Editor of the Morning Chronicle.

Whitehall Gardens, Dec. 12, 1834.—Friday
morning, 10 o'clock, A. M.
SIR-I have this moment read in the Morning Chronicle of
to-day the following report of a speech attributed to you :
" When, said the Doctor, I hear people say, Oh, for God's
sake, trust the Duke I—for Heaven's sake, listen kindly to Sir
Robert Peel, who carried Catholic Emancipation!' I cannot
help exclaiming against such folly and absurdity. The man
who patiently listens to such stuff, is an idiot—the man who
avows his belief in them is a traitor. How do men act in pri-
vate life? Do you confide in those you know to be convicted
swindlers? If you seek a woman to be your companion for
life, do you take as a wife, or as a mother to your families, a
prostitute from the streets? If, then, men are governed in pri-
vate life by such feelings, should they not
.feel equally jealous of
the character of those who govern them ?"
I request that you will inform me whether that part of the
above extract which I have marked, be an accurate report of
expressions used by you ?
I am, Sir, your obedient Servant,
ROBERT PEEL.
Stephen Lushington, Esq., M.P.

Great George-street, Dec. 12, past 3.
SIR-At the time your letter arrived, I was professionally
engaged in Court, but I have taken the earliest opportunity
to write an answer. . .

It is wholly impossible for me, considering the circumstances
attending the meeting of yesterday, to undertake to say with
precision what particular expressions I used on that occasion ;
but though undoubtedly some of the words stated by you in
your letter were uttered by me, yet the whole passage is not
correct. I know well the argument I used. I intended to
support this position—that the world, in their opinion of
statesmen, ought to be governed by past experience, and to
rebut the assertion, alluding more particularly to the Times,
that it was probable the new Administration having always
opposed Reform, were proper to be entrusted with carrying
into effect the measures expected to result therefrom ; but I
did not, as from your letter I conjecture you are inclined to
believe, use or intend to use any expression purporting to
have any effect beyond this—that the Duke of Wellington and
yourself could not be expected to become zealous Reformers
in the sense in which that term was understood by the meet-
ing, any more than a great change of principles and character
would be likely to occur suddenly in any individual. My ob-
servations, if all correctly detailed, did not reflect on the cha-
racter of any one ; they were directed exclusively to the inex-
pediency, in my judgment, of employing in the cause of
reform, persons hitherto opposed thereto, and nothing was
further from my intention than to make any personal allusions
disrespectful to yourself.
1 am, Sir, your obedient servant,
(Signed) STEPHEN LUSHINGTON.
The Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, Bart.

• Whitehall-gardens, Dec. 12, 1834.
Friday Evening.
SIR--The explanation which your letter conveys, and the
frank assurance that nothing was further from your intention
than to make any personal allusion disrespectful to me, are en-
tirely satisfactory.
It is perhaps right that I should add, that for the purpose
of removing the very erroneous impressions to which the re-
port of your speech might naturally give rise, it is my inten-
tion to give publicity to the correspondence which has passed
between us.—l have the honour to be
Sir, your obedient servant,
ROBERT PEEL.
Stephen Lushington, Esq., M.P.

THE DUKE OF SUSSEX AND THE UNIVER•
VERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE.

(From the Cambridge Chronicle.)
We are induced, at the suggestion of a valued correspon-
ent, to publish two letters, which have already appeared in
print, from the Duke of Sussex, respecting the Univers4•^
offices now vacant :

" Kensington Palace, Nov. 28.
My Lord Duke,—ln answer to the letter with which you
favoured me last night, I beg candidly to state to your Grace,
that had any one of my personal friends sol cited my support
on the vacancy of the High Stewardship of the University of
Cambridge, occasioned by the lamented death of the Earl
of Hardwicke, I should have declined all interference, not
wishing to connect myself more immediately at the present
moment with that learned body, after the events which have
there so recently taken place, and which, I lament to say,
are to my feelings in complete contradiction with the opi-
nions I have ever conscientiously held and advocated, both
in Parliament and elsewhere. I trust, therefore, my Lord
Duke, that you will not attribute my adherence to such deter-
mination at the ensuing election to any unwillingness on my
part to meet your Grace's wishes, but to a desire Gf religiously
observing those principles, and of maintaining that line of con-
duct, which have been the guides of both my public as well as
private life.—l have the pleasure to remain, my Lord Duke,
with consideration, your Grace's obliged servant, &c.,
" AUGUSTUS FREDERICK.
6' His Grace the Duke of Northumberland,
K. G., &c. &c."

" Kensington Palace, Dec. 3.
" Rev. Sir,—ln answer to the letter which you have ad-
dressed to me on the 2d instant, I have to express my regret
at being unable to give the Marquis Camden that sup-
port you have solicited for his Lordship, as no one entertains
a higher respect for him, or is more anxions to show him
personal regard, than I am. When I had the honour of first
connecting myself with Trinity College and the University
0f Cambridge, I did so under a firm impression and convic-
tion, that I was joining both a University and a College
which were distinguished, pre-eminently distinguished, for
possessing liberal, constitutional, and tolerant principles, such
as I have ever advocated and professed during a Parliamen-
tary career of upwards of 30 years, and which I conscien-
tiously believe best calculated to meet the exigencies and
welfare of my country. Finding, however, by the event
which took place last session of Parliament, that the opinions
of the University are at variance with those I entertain, it is
with deep regret that I see myself under the necessity of
withdrawing my connexion with a learned body of men, for
several of whom, individually, I entertain the sincerest re-
gard and affection, but with whose principles, as a body, I
entirely differ. Under these circumstances, you will see my
inability to meet your wishes, while -I express my sincere
hope that the Noble Marquis will succeed in obtaining that
honour which can be conferred on no individual more de-
servedly,
" I remain, with consideration, Rev. Sir, your obliged,
" AUGUSTUS FREDERICK.
" The Rev. Dr. Wordsworth, Master of Trinity College."

Sir Robert Peel and the Duke of Wellington were
both closeted with the King yesterday morning for a consider-
able time.
The Earl and Countess of Burlington have been
paying a longrvisit to their estates in Lancashire. Holkar
Hall was rarely visited by the head of the family until his
Lordship succeeded to it. The Hon. Mrs. Cavendish, his
Lordship's mother, and Miss Fanny Cavendish, are travelling
in Italy. They were lately at Rome.
We have heard, but almost doubt the fact, that the
Treasury ordered lately a chapel for the accommodation of
the troops to be built adjoining to the barracks in St. James's
Park, which has been finished this year. This barrack was
highly necessary, as the troops were quartered in the worst de-
scription of public houses in Westminster ; and it is a very
handsome plain building, having also been built within the es-
timate. The chapel, however, is we think, a most unneces-
sary appendage, and is to cost between five and six thousand
pounds; it should be recollected that a very large proportion
of the troops dissent from the Church of England—that those
who are of it have ample opportunities of attending church,
and that soldiers ought to have prayers read to them when the
weather admits, in the gppn air, or within the precincts of the
barracks, es at PertFeali.street Bffr44;i Owe it is done in
the spacious kitehou. We really consider this re. mot wanton
expenditure of public money. If the troops riwst attend di-
vine service as a body, v.1.2h we allow, If done with judgment,
in
tigjt.o fittinF, why not march them to .``l.f`stminst
Pn earl .er Abbey, to
y selYipe Rpr.sly f9F them ? We hope tile Treasury
may si,;l this work, winch they has 4. 41?,dy, we believe, be-
gun upon, by the means of either the Woods and Foresp, or fhe
Ordnance.—ArPipg Clopicle.