The Sun.
London, England, 1869-05-12 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE " TIMES."

"Sir,—Having this day delivered into the hands of the
King the seals of office, I can, without any imputation of
an interested motive, or any impediment from scrupulous
feelings of delicacy, express my deep sense of the power-
ful support which that Government, over which I had the
honour to preside, received from the Times newspaper. If
I do not offer the expressions of personal gratitude, it is
because I feel that such expressions would do injustice to
the character of a support which was given exclusively
on the highest and most independent grounds of pub-
lic principle. I can say this with perfect truth, as I am
addressing one whose person even is unknown to me,
and who, during my tenure of power, studiously
avoided every species of intercourse which could throw
a suspicion upon the motives by which he was ac-
tuated. I should, however, be doing injustice to my
own feelings, if I were to retire from office without one
word of acknowledment, without at least assuring you of
the admiration with which I witnessed, during the ardu-
ous contest in which I was engaged, the daily exhibition
of that extraordinary ability to which I was indebted for
atdi srport, the more valuable because it was an impartial
an
discriminating support.- I have the honour to be, Sir,
ever your obedient and faithful servant,

"Whitehall, April 18, 1835." "ROBERT PEEL.
To which the editor returne3 this answer
:
"Sir, It gives me sincere satisfacticn to learn from the
letter with which you have honoured me, bearing yester-
day's date, that you estimate so highly the efforts which
have been made during the last five mouths by the Ti
mes
newspaper to support the cause of rational and whole-
some -Government which his Majesty had intrusted to
your guidance, and that you appreciate fairly the disin-
terested motive of regard to the public welfare, and to
that alone, through which this journal has been prompted
to pursue a policy in accordaneb with that of your Admi-
nistration. It is, permit me to say, by such motives only
that the Times, ever since I have known it, has been in-
fluenced, whether in defence of the Government of the
day, or in constitutional resistance to it; and indeed there
exist no other motives of action for a journalist, compat-
ible either with the safety of the press, or with the poli-
tical morality of the great bulk of its reader 3.

The Boston hotels are already receiving nume-
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modations in dune in anticipation of visiting the "National
Pence Jubilee." Efforts aro being made by the Execu-
tive Committee to secure the attendance of Strauss's famous
band from Vienna.

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