The Sun.
London, England, 1835-09-02 00:00:00

LOYAL ORANGE INSTITUTION

A special Grand Lodge of this Loyal Institution was held
yesterday, pursuant to the published commands of his Royal
Highness the Duke of Cumberland, Grand Master of the
Empire, &c. at the Mansion, in Portman-square, of the
Right Hon. Lord Kenyon, Deputy Grand Master of England
and Wales.
Soon after ten o'clock his Royal Highness took the Chair.
Amongst the members present were the Earl of Bandon,
Lord Wynford, Lord Kenyon, the Hon. A. Cole, M. P.,
the Hon. Randal Plunkett, M.P., the Hon. H. Bernard,
Colonel Perceval, M. P., S. C. Bromley, Esq., J. F.
Staveley, Esq., S. Tucker, Esq., the Rev. Sir Robert Peat,
J. Clement, Esq., the Rev. Mortimer O'Sullivan, Rev. Mr.
Harris, &c.
The circular convening the Lodge having been read,
His Royal Highness the Duke of CUMBERLAND consi-
dered it an imperative duty on his part, as Grand Master
of the Loyal Institution, to summon the present Lodge, in
consequence of the scandalous and atrocious manner in which
he had been libelled for sanctioning (what he never had
sanctioned) the holding of Orange warrants in the army ;
and he would take this opportunity of saying that be had
been informed the practice was not in opposition to any
published order from the Horse Guards, but merely in vio-
lation of a confidential recommendation issued in 1822,
durine the time his brother, the Duke of York, was Com-
mander-in-Chief, and of which he knew nothing. Nay, so
confidential was it that the very Generals, being Colonels of
regiments, knew nothing of it, the recommendation being
wholly confined to the Officers in command of regiments or
battalions, and not inserted in the orderly books. Taking it in
a military point of view he would go further, and say, that- the
holding of warrants, after such a confidential recommendation,
would be exceedingly improper ; but he was not prepared
to say that military men and sailors had a right to express their
political feelings in such capacities. His Royal Highness had
also to inform the Lodge that his official situation as Grand
Master of the Empire had exposed him to attacks of the most
virulent and malignant character. A Noble and Learned Law
Lord in the Upper House of Parliament had taken the oppor-
tunity on his presenting a petition from the University of Dublin
to charge him in his situation as Chancellor of t he University with
tampering with the youths belonging to Trinity College, and
sanctioning the formation and holding of a Lodge amongst them.
Now he begged most distinctly to state thut until informed by
the Noole Lord himseh, although Chancellor of the Univer-
sity, he was not aware that any such Lodge existed Had such
been the fact it was not too much to expect that the Provost
or the heads of the University would have put him in pos-
session of the fact ; and then, as would have been his
bounden duty, he would have cancelled the warrant. The
Lodge would recollect the manner in which he had met this
charge. He met it in the way he would meet every ungentle-
manly charge—with contempt, and a firm deterinieatien net to
submit to be bullied. He had received a letter only that very
morning frem a valued friend to the institution, no other than
the Rev. Charles Boyton. This Gentleman was a Fellow of
the University of Trini:y College, Dublin, who, having heard
of the attack made by the Noble Lord (Plunkett) on him,
hastened to inform his Royal Highness of the fact, that for
the last twenty-six years no Lodge of any kind whatever had
existed in the University. If they were only true to them-
selves arid their principles, the Protestant Church had nothing
to fear. With this conviction on his mind, he was pained to
think that there was an enemy in the camp somewhere—a
traitor, who was propagating falsehoods to suit his own pur-
pose, but which traitor, sooner or later, would be discovered
and expelled.—( Cheers.) Either that man or the Duke of
Cumberland should not belong to it.—( Cheers.) If ever
there was a time when the principles of Orangeism ought to
be inculcated it was the present. There was a set of men,
mortal enemies to the Church of England, who were endea.
vouring, by every means in their power, to overthrow the
Church and Constitution. He hoped their hatred proceeded
from no disrespect to the Almighty. Good Christians they
could not be, their motions being too sinister to allow of even
the supposition that they respected a Church which they alike
threatened and endangered. The executive entrusted with
the Government of the country were doing all in their power
at present, by their blind ignorance of the Orange institu-
tions, or from ignorance of what was due to the sacred altar
they were called upon to protect, or from cowardice, or self-
interested motives, to destroy all that remained and was dear
to them of the Constitution as established in 1683. Their
acts proved that they were inimical to the Church Establish-

mcnt.
Lord WYNFORD concurred in every thing which had fallen
from his Royal Highness. There never was a time when the
temporalities of the Church of England were in greater dan.
ger. He must confess that the danger arose from the fact,
that those parties who were sworn to defend the Church had
most basely deserted it. The Noble Lord then read a series
of resolutions, to the. effect, "that the Grand Lodge tendered
a vote of thanks to his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumber-
land for ordering that all warrants for holding Orange L'odges
in any of his Majesty's regiments should be immediately va-
cated, and that no such warrants should in future be issued by
any officer of the Orange Institution." The Noble Lord
also submitted other resolutions, which were unanimously

carried.
The Hon. R. E. PLC NKETT, M. P., seconded the resolution.
His Royal Highness the GRAND MASTER would mention a
circumstance, which he could do without the slightest breach
of confidence, for a breach of confidence, he considered, per-
haps, the blackest offence amongst men of honour. At the
recent Chapter of the Garter, at which there were present
twenty-four knights, when the King addressed his nephew,
Prince George of Cambridge, his Majesty said, " Young man,
you are now of an age to know right from wrong ; you have
recently been confirmed, you must understand those principles
which have been inculcated into your mind. Remember that
our family is a Protestant one ; remember, also, that you are
called upon to defend the Established Church, to maintain
inviolate the rights, properties, and privileges of the people."
These injunctions," continued the Illustrious Duke, de=
livered at a Chapter of the Garter, by King William IV.,
were repeated the same day at table, at which there were one
hundred and forty guests, on the occasion of Prince George's
health being drank." The Illustrious Duke then alluded to
the case of Colonel Fairman. In refusing his private
papers, Colonel Fairman was, according to his notions,
right ; but he held that he ought to have given up the official
documents contained in the book alluded to, or any, or indeed
all, documents of the institution demanded by Parliament.
But, his Royal Highness said, and he said in the faces of
Hon. Members of the House of Commons, neither he nor any
other Englishmen would permit the Sergeant-a:-Arms of the
House of Commons, or any other party acting under its
orders, to break into his house, ransack his papers, and carry
off what he might please, although it might be "the plea-
sure of the Honourable louse." The Noble Duke then
said he had only one thing to find fault with in Colonel Fair-
man's conduct in this affair beyond that pf his not giving up
the official matter in the book in question, and thati-was his
running away, and not allowing himself to be carried to New-
gate by the Sergeant-at-Arms. " For my part," said the
Illustrious Duke, "had I been in Colonel Fairman's situation
I would have gone to Newgate, and I would at any time go
thither under similar circumstances—that is, of refusing to give
up my own papers to the demand of the House of Commons."
After a few words from Lord \VYNFORD, the Hon. A.
COLE, M.P., Colonel PERCEVAL, and Mr. VERNER,
Lord KENYON moved a vote of thanks to his Royal High-
ness the Grand Master, for his noble, manly, and constitutional
conduct in the Chair.
Voted by acclamation.
After the usual ceremonies the Lodge terminated.