The Sun.
London, England, 1832-04-16 00:00:00

Radical (Journal. The Duke of Buckingham
laid that the -letter was his, that he had given a
copy of, it no one, and that he had read it
only to two of IL own family and two of his
particular friends. Earl Grey admitted the
literal accuracy of the extracts of the letter to
the King, said that he had been at a loss to ac-
count for their appearance, stated that he,-having
received the letter from his Majesty, communi-
cated it to his colleagues, but disclaimed for
himself and for them any communication with
the Journal in question. The above is the
precise state of the matter as it stands upon
the reported procceedings in Parliament, and
it suggests, in the first place, this very
obvious remark, that the situation of the King
of England is exceedingly unfortunate at
the present moment, since it is plain that,
so long as he is surrounded by his present Mi-
nisters, no communication, however confidential,
can be made to him of a nature which implies
the necessity of referring it to those Ministers
which may, not within a few days find its way to
the columns of the Revolutionary Journals, and
that an effectual interdict is thus placed upon
such communication, inasmuch as no Peer will
henceforth venture to expose his Sovereign and
himself to the degradation and insult which
such irregular and unauthorized publication
involves and conveys. Lord Grey disclaims for
himself and his colleagues having had
any thing to do with this publication, a
publication which was not merely irregular,
unbecoming, and indecent on the part of any
official man—which was not merely a per-
sonal disrespect to the King, and a certain
injury to his service—but which, if the act of a
Privy Councillor, was a direct and flagrant vio-
lation of his oath of office. And we give full
credit to the disclaimer of the Noble Earl, so
far as it can be of any validity; that is, so far as
he is himself personally concerned. But. we
have not the same, nor indeed any, confidence
in the conduct of Lord Durham. We require
strong probabilities to be in favour of the man
who has insulted, to our knowledge, a church-
man and a Queen before we can hold it to be of
any value ; and we require these probabilities to
he the stronger if we have observed in the same
man singular forbearance towards persons whom
the laws of their profession or the weakness of
their sex have not deprived of the privilege or
the power of seeking honourable redress. The
following words were spoken in the course of
the debate by a Lay Peer, and on the same
night when the supposed inuendo of the Bishop
of Exeter excited an indignation so violent
that it remained boiling for two days :
" Perhaps there might be sonic ascetic States-
man now in existence who had indeed retired
from taking an active pact in this measure, be-
cause the plots with which it was connected
were not quite ripe for execution, or who was
disappointed in his attempts to push it forward
by the means best suited to his views, and im-
patient of the scruples of the Minister into
whose hands die Government had been con-
fided by the Sovereign." Lord Durham
had surely as much right to take this
to himself, and to make it the pretence of
an angry and intemperate attack, as any thing
which fell from the. Right Rev. Prelate. But
here his discriminating Lordship thought fit to
be silent. Disregarding, then, as we think we
have a right to do, the assertion on behalf of
Lord Durham that he was not the person who
communicated to a Radical Journal, pr to its
Radiailt-Corresponiteti, the confidential letter
addressed by a Peer of England to his Sove-
reign, we beg to offer a short summary of the
facts which appear to us to favour a contrary
supposition :-
1. It is admitted that the contents of the letter were
clunmunicated by the Noble Author only to two of his fa-
mily, and to two of his political friends, persons none of
whom can be suspected of the least tinge of Radicalism, or
the least connexion with Radical writers of any clase or
description.
!2. The only persons besides the Noble Author and his
four friends who were in possession of the content+ of the
letter were the King and his Ministers. What did trans-
pile, therefore, of this letter was probably conveyed to the '
public by the act of some one of those Ministers.

• 3. Of all the Ministers of the King, the only one in
the Ilou:e of Lords who seemed morbidly sensitive to the
slight allusion which Was made in the first instance to
their supposed connexion with the Daily Press was Lord
Durbalm

4. The extracts from the letter appeared in the Times
Journal under the s;gnature of " Radical," a well-known
person, once connected with the army, and the author of a
series of articles in that Paper, while the articles which
have appeared under this signature have been overflowing
with allusions to the supposed timidity of the Premier
upon the subject of creating Peers, and with lamentations
that he did not imbibe the spirit of the wiser and more vi-
gorous Statesmen who are immediately connected with
his domestic circle.
We leave our readers to draw their own con-
clusion in a case in which these facts are on one
side, and the assertion in favour of Lord Durham
on the other.—Morning Post.