The Sun.
London, England, 1821-03-26 00:00:00

ON SOCIAL ORDER.

Mn. EDITOR-However obvious the slow, but
certain progress of-the promoters of rebellion
may be, they endeavour, nevertheless, and unfor-
tunately in many instances with too much success,
to impress upon the, public mind a dangerous and
fatal contempt for their proceedings, and thus
hope to lull the well disposed into a state of
apathy and security, which must eventually prove
favourable to the accomplishment of their deep
laid plans. Hence we find them in their speeches
and in their writings, stigmatize the persons that
strive to expose their antisocial proceedings, and
hold them up to ridicu-le and contempt, as weak
alarmists, wi) would instill into.others the idle
and erroneous notions of their own prejudiced
and timid minds. According to these men no-
thing can .possibly be more innocent than the
doctrines which they preach ; never did there
exist less disposition to riot among the lower or-
ders'; never, was the genuine spirit of loyalty
more strong and more generally disseminated
never were respect for religion, a spirit of obe-_
diepce to the laws, and veneration for the Sove-
reign,.inore clearly expressed, and more securely
established !—Should assertions, such as these, be
readily believed by the great mass of the British
nation, dangerous indeed will be the situation of
the country. But, happily for the State, they
are belied by the events that daily happen, and
by the libellous and antisocial productions" which
daily emanate from ,a licentious and seditious
press.
The number 'of individuals who prosecute the
overthrow of social order with a zeal as steady as
it is indefatigable, is, indeed, comparatively In-
significant. It consists only of men of ,desperate
fortunes, who hope to, benefit by the confusion
which 'theadoption of their pernicious doctrines
must inevitably produce. These persons are,
however, indirectly, though powerfully, assisted
by some men of far greater consequence. in so,
-ciety,• whose wish to obtain. popularity, and whOse
desire- to supplant the Ministry, either blinds
them to the mischief they, are doing to their conn-
try: or would lead them to procure the.gratifica-
tiOn of their own ambition at the expence of-pub-
lic tranquillity. If the low-born and factious
demagogues, who preached the subversion of the
most sacred and the most estimable_itistitutions ;
if the' deluded and unreflecting wretches. who
adopt' these pernicious principles, be justly repro-
bated by every truly_patriotic mind; and be de-
servedly punished as the declared enemies of
their country, as the avowed foes of social order,
and of the happiness and tranquillity of mankind,
what fate- do those persons merit, who, possessing
all the advantages of rank, fo'rtune, and know-
ledge, turn a deaf ear to the suggeStions of pa-.
triotism, and.lend the powerful aid of their elo-
quence, of their name, and of the weight attached
to their opinions, to the men whose object is to
bury their fortunes beneath the ruins of.. the
crumbling State ? •It is,• indeed, not very difficult:
to understand why those who have neither rank
nor wealth should wishlor some change in the
present state of.things : but among the higher
class, such a disposition, however carefully it may.
be concealed under the very convenient mask of
patriotism, can originate :only in the deluding
dreams •of. the. .blindest ambition.. Should. the
plans of the radicals succeed, what most be the
almost inevitable consequence ? , The destruction
of the Throne, the erection of anarchy upon . the
ruins of social order,the-annihiiation of large for,
tunes, the. transfer of . property ,frOm, its present
possessor to the successful demagogue, who . will
secure it to himself by sending his troublesome
competitor tothe.scaffeld. Are :those of whom
We co:nplain.prepaTed for
.this probable conse-:
quence of their present: conduct ? 11-eavenforbid
it! If. their ear be. deaf to the accents of patrio-
tism and of honour, let them not close it to the
accents-of humanity and of domestic 'affection.—
Let them not suffer the loud Voice of passion to

drown that of truth, and they will hear that the
flames they are .fanning will consume their fame
as patriots; their titles as members of society,
their properties as citizens; the dear and valued,
objects of .their affections, as men. 'These are
serious considerations, they are not the fearrul
suggestions of a timid mind, nor the i:ontemptible-
forebodings of a weak. alarmist; they are the
possible, nay the probable, consequences to
which the conduct of the Whigs must lead. That
they are not mere imaginary possibilities is prov -
ed by what happened in France, in circa*•
stances nearly similar, when the destructive and-
_ antisocial doctrines of Jacobinism were firmly
established. The terrific example set ~by the
French Revolution must wit, cannot, be lost, to
posterity, and should be taken into the rest'se-
I roes consideration by :,very
Providence, in its inst..-utab!e designs,. setne,tieu es
visits mankind in the terrific garb of ruin, desc'i-
latiOn, and death, its ultimate object is the:ad-
vintage of the human race. The crimes and the
errors of generations that are past, are intended -
t- serve as friendly beacons to the long succession
of ages yet unborn. Considered under this •
point of view, what solemn and warning. voice'
arises out of the tomb, into -which the inflamer•
able victims of Jacobinism and rebellion were
precipitated ? In awful and terrific -acceuts 'it
proclaims to the world, not only- the danger -of
all innovations in existing forms of Governmens,
but the natural course of Radicalism, and the
fatal but inevitable fate- that awaits those _whose
wealth and titles are crimes which levellers can-
not forgive, which they punish with death, and *
for which no concessions on the part of the pos•
sensors can make the least possible atonement.
In the blood-stained scroll of its victims, which
the genius of Jacobinism unfolds to our view, it
points out the names of most of those who, born
the natural defenders of the Throne, proved,
either through treachery or pusillanimity the !nest
zealous of its destroyers, but, whose momentary
popularity could not save them from the scaffold,
to which they were brought by the low-bora
wretches, whose plans they meanly seconded,
but who employed them only as useful tools,
without the assistance of which their
tionary labours could not have been, so easily
completed.

Far be it from me to attribute" to. the lealing
men among the opponents of Government any
inclination hostile to the peace and welfare of
their country. laM moreover willing to allow
that their professious of patriotistit may be sin-
cere, and that their only object is the recto.
ration of the Constitution to its original purity.
Waving, for the present, all discussion upon the
practicability or impracticability of attaining au
end so desirable in itself, I would have them
consider whether the lengths to which they are
too frequently carried by the excess of their pa-
triotic. zeal, -may not furnish weapons to the..
avowed enemies of social order, into whose ranks
they will thus find themselves unexpectedly en-
listed. - Amidst the loud votiferatious or popular

demagnguet,atnidst the threatenim; bands •of
rebellious subjects., and of the sanguilary parti-
sans of anarchy, where shall the d'stricted coun- •
try seek a safe asylum—upon which of chil;
dren shall it rely for protection from-the,danger
by which its very existence -is threatened—if :*
its natural (.11:fenders, if those ‘ylio,se welfare. is
intimately connected with its own, those whose •
affection, gratitude, and support it sought to'_
secure, by lavishing on.them wealth and honours;..
desert its sacred standard, neglect its "hest
rests, .e-Ntinguish their bosom the halloweC
•flame- of .patriotism, and forgetful of :.every poi-,
sib a "tied and deaf to the Voice of honour, join'
the thickening phalanxes of the determined fo'es
who have sworn to accomplish its. total destruc-
tion.?
Paddiugtoe House.

A. P.

To, the FREEHOLDERS of the COUNTY of OXFORD.

GENTLEMEN-It i 8 gtelt -concern and F,larm.' that I
witness your:apparent apathy and indifference, theriti-
t4n Catholic Bill in the Conn nons House of initiantent,
if. carried; will Suritiantentally alt2r,:. and in nly sincere belief
will tend uttsrltio destroy our happy Constitution:
I would sprOpcse two questions. to your inapati3l. and, an-
b : sctl indgment • - -

I. :Cs it safe or fitting, that lose who acknowledge fae.autlo-
thy of any Foreign Potentate, whether in spiritual or -temporal
treaters should be allowed to sit in the
.I!riti-;h Paellainer.t2and
to l?gisfat,..' for this Protestant.Chureh and Nation ? .
Is it or fitting, that those who are taught by-their re-
ligion to consider all ProLstants as herekks, and without the..
pale of the. thuich,and. the ho7e of saWation, should sit. as
Judges. over •the porsons ard property of Protestants; and
should• be appointed. to adrninister justice--between the. B.,onlart -
Catholic and Protestant subjects-of .
But these, amongst nther cone-Fs:ons,, are proposed to'- be
made to the Itcho4n Cat;—)lics, in the DOW 1,401ng.
Ycu have repeateilly met on ocerv.ic. s like the
have unanimously decl:l‘ed your. eon, n, o,further
concessiors can he !iiatie sifety to
the Cons:it-a:ion. Be consiq,ar,t--1 t the High r.
quested to coavene a 2.lletting of.tbe Freeholders el' I tee Co;.i
to petition airu the Lill, and.if unfortunately it be 't to
late io, ystition the lionse of Cornmoris on the, sil-ijcet,
prayer he a;:ifires3c.il to *he Manse. of Lords, and also be la cl at
the foot, or the Throne. I am, Ger ,'-r.- en , .
\V ith great, respcct. ai d attachment,
A BROTHER FP-EEIIO4_,DER:

,:,:; -

BRIGHTON, I'VlAttcn =4,22.—W0 have the mrit7s-
faction to announce; dia. his MAJEsTy,
panicil'hy Sir B.- Bloolni..ltl ami Andrew •
Barnard j arriveil at the Palace, at ten
after three o'clock this -nNra.oen.. A c14ee.rfu1....,
peal ,fitno the chordi be!ts.itrid thes-:0-
spiring return of thi Mtlje,so
ueighhourhoW this afternoon, 2.lyd:the fiag -is can
more ul~.irr en' the steel:lt:. Sir •Nr.• Reppei
expvcted .to return te4nerrOl4:-. •

Sir TIMMAS rittiVßENd.: has painted a fire For.
trait of iir \VALI-Ea Scorr,. Nitich is, it is said,
illtetrcled for his NrAJLST

COURT OF CHANCERY,
'LINCOLN'S-INN IL4LL, 'l'Vl Dal, aLtucu 20,121

THE NIATTEit Or QUEEN'S Cor.L.F.c.E, CAmEnInGE.
Loan en aoseE anon—ln the matter of Queen's Colleges
Cambridge, I had entertained a hope that I should be able to
travel through the whole of this case to-day—my engagements
ha-re been such as to render that absolutely impossible, and to-
morrow and Friday I cannot attend this Coart. I know of an
etsgay,enient on 'Thursday that will prevent my betting to the
cad et' this A-35e on that v_ay, but I should hope that if I enter
upon it 'pirtly- now I may be able, by giving a portion of this
scorning and Satnnlay, to conclude it on Saturday. -
The .matter comes before me on two petitions, one presented
hY.the Reverend William Mandell and others, against the elec-
-sein of Doctor •Gollfrey, and the other is presented by a Gen-
tleman of the name of King. There is this difference between
-fen two petitions, that the petition of Mr. Mandell-represents
that he ought himself to be considered as the party duly elected,
anet et course that hooter Godfrey ought not to be.deemed
saresit.ent of the College. Mr. King submits by-his petition
• eaat Doctor Godfrey ought not to be considered as duly elected,
anti be beirs.that this King would be pleised to declare, that the
beee of Prideint is vac ant ; that Doctor Godfrey should be
• - iemoved thereftorn, and that a new election should take place
• to ;ill the same, or he case it shaill appear, under the cirtann-
- e:solces of the case, that the -right of uorninafing or appointing
is the said offiee brelorfi•,s to the King as visitor, then that his
laiajesty would be graciously pleased forthwith th nominate or
•.• aaraerint to the same, oathilt he would be pleased's° cause imeh
ether order -to be• made in the premises as. to him may appear
• jest and pro`pen and that the book of the Statutes of the College.
• • wfsght.be prodneceda e •
application, you neretive, is made to the as visitor,
and the mistake, Yelskti has' arisen out of the circumstance, that
in becomes -my duty humbly. to advise his Majesty upon the
•-aUbjeet, that incase I- should be bound to represent to his Ma-
,:sty that the office was vacant, I had the disposal of it myself,
taas-.ed to a communication which, according. to the postamark
ear-a:fro:li Cambridge, Which I will now read to you, and which
• i 4e eimply for the pitrpose of desiring it to beunderstood, that
sae honourable feelings of a Eritish Judge are moat extremely
ia estimated indeed by parsons who can ont.ltain such senti-
ment• as these ; it is apparently in a feigned band, but I think
- that if there are any persons who are acquainted with the pro-
. bahle writer of• it, they will:have very little difficulty to distin-
guish between what is the feigned hand and what is the ordi-
• slaty writing of the party. "My Lord,' this University rings
•: -with a report highly derogatory to-your honeur and justice ; it
la known that there is au appeal before you respecting Queen's
College,-and it is generally and confidently affirmed, that you
' mean to appoint a: person 'Who has recent:needed hirnielf tel you
and your Colleagues, by an article in " The British Critic,"
, ten one half of which was composed Icy him ;,' doubtless. you
-a-trs complete this job; but mark so fraudulent an act, if perpe-
teated, shall bernade the subject of public aniritativersio'n. Is
it to be borne that you should violate the rights of a College to
azoomplish such vile ends by,sueh base-means ?" .1 have vein-
tared to mention this,
,and I hope those who know me after 1
have sat in this seat foe so many years; will know I can have
• -no anxiety about it, except an anxiety to communicate to those
whom it may concern, and who, I hope, have observed, during
I
nry hearing 'of this petition, that at least Ido not deserve such
a representation to be made to me,- that wish it to be under-
stood that ricemah who has the honour of sitting in the higher
seats of justice in-this country is capable of such an act as that,
that the public may rely on their fidelity as placing them far
GibCVe such dishonourable practices. If I have rightly understood
F.. 7 own situation in this matter, it is -this, that it is my duty,
the King being visitor, humbly to advise his Majesty upon the
subject, but that I have not those rights which I inould have,
if I were visitor myself, and that the King,. being the visluir, the
judicial part of the husiness• devolves upon me; .if there be any
•i•tronage I have imagined that it belongs to the King, and that
it is my duty particularly to advise him in the disposal of it.
I shalt, by and by, .state it to be a matter of very conside,
raTale difficulty, supposing it to be vacant, whether the Col-
• lege has the right of electing, Or whether it deVolves upon
ena Crown ; but, if I had the right of disposing of it mr-
. eelf, I sincerely believe I could have trusted myself with
the decision of that point, without fear of favour or aftee-
eion, but I shatild not have done it; I should have followed the
precedent of my Lord Thurlow,- where it was a question, whe-
ther he had the right to the patronage of aliving, he would not
-decide it himself, though the decisioo in truth must be his; but
,he called. upon one of the Chief Justices and the Chief Baron
to hear the matter for hen,' and to state their opinion where the
seght waseand then he. acted upon it. I hope' ,therefore, that
venotiver may or may not be affected by my. .decision in this
-s .tier, will be pleased to attribute my mistake, it I am wrong,
act to my being actuated by a motive tending-.to mislead me,
but by my real judgment upon the aiictates of which I am
oUined to act.
• 'The questions arise out of the circumstances of an election
which took place upon the death of the late Doctor Milner; it
was the duty of the Fellows of the College, within a limited
time, to elect a new President ; we must, of course, have re-
coarse to the statutes, to ace wnat diameter and what qualifica-
lions the person to be elected must have,
.in order to make his
election effectual; and in order to determine who shall elect, we
must Bee Who are entitled to be considered a's Fellows, with re-
•ference to the election of a President, which is to be made with-
in a certain time. The qualifications is to be found in those
wards which I am now about to read:—" Injungo vobis in vir-
tuteJesu Christi, et sub periculo animaruns vcatraruni, ut virum,
magic idoneum vestro judiciopartialitate remote in praesidentein
Collegii, eligatis secunduin Deeim, qui sit vir providens,
' diecretus, cornpetenter literatus in Ijniversitate, aliqua hujus
regni Doctoratus titulo insignitus- vel ad .minus in liachalau-
revrum. Theologhe ordine eo-optatus in spiritualibus, et tem-
poralibus, cireumspectus honestate, nioribus preeclarus, conver-
uatiools laudabilis, atque fames redolentis, qui et melius scive-
rit atque potent negatia Collegii promovere, don tarnen sa-
ne:dos fuent, et expenders poterit annuatim ad minus viginti
L?seas."
ett tlte time this elecEon took place, there were, As I under-
stand, four Candidates: Mr. Farish, Mr. Barnes, Doctor God-
frey, and Mr. Mandell. With respect to Mr. Barnes, his quail-
tendon was explained; with respect to Mr. Mandell, his
• I' collect from the affidavits; with respect to Mr. Farish,
he had a paper in his pocket which would have shaven
what his alleged qualification was ; with respect to Mr.
Gerdfrii, he did not shelf, what his qualification was. What
that alleged qualification is, has since been communicated
to me ; it has been contended, and it will be a question on
Which I shall give my opinion on Saturday; for in the extent to
wchel• propose to proeced this morning, it is not necessary for
Stssto give it this morning ; that the qualification must be a
qualification of a real estate; or something in the nature of a real
selate; and it has been contended on the other side by these at-E.
dav:ts that it was not; that the estate moat be of a real nature,.
and, on the contrary, that personal estate would do ; it has tor-
ture- beer:contended, that these words, "vigintilibra.s;" whether
Ley are to be tnleen to mean property or a..real nature, or of a
Frational nature, are not at -this day to be understood to mean
-fiend libras, but twelve times viginti libras, and that that is
to De understood by an analogy to the amouut of property which'
loans the qualification of a Fellow to hold his Fellowship
sag ronger, with the exception, L think, of some Senior Fel.
lows, I wished the Gendemen tot state to me in my room,
what was the nature of the property, and the amouht of
tite property, which they conceived to be the qualification
to be elected.. I did so, because I thought it not a very
&forceable thing to have cases of
.that kind discussed in Court,
and this matter is communicated to me rather as a visitor
than- a Chancellor; but if the construction of viginti libras
is to be made with reference to the construction put upon
dle qualification, I do not go a great length in disclosing that
neither-Gentlemen is qualified ; I do not now discuss whether
either of the Gentleman was qualified ; but if it was necessary
tie-se 5'..0u1,l have twelve. tithes -viginti libress, then neither of
them was qsailified. it was further insisted before me, that the
be bad, whether it was an election favourable to
to Mr. Mandell, or an election favourable to Doctor Godfrey,.
it the quantization was not produced And proved at- the time of
eiecObn:- I before stated that I think there would be a
great convenience in that being done, hut Uthought at first, and
I retain that opinion, that that was not absolutely-necessary ; so
-1 cinch of the ease, therefore, think it to declare ony opi-,
nines upon at present...
Then the statute goes on to state the ceremonies that were
• to take Iris
the election-of a President e -each individual is
take his pen aed write " Ego," such a one, " eligo," such a
one, " ad officium Prxsidentis-hujus Coilegri qiiiblis sic con-
-scrps ire one seliednlasprmfatis senior, vel allis quisquam
trium suffragia eadem aperte et destinete legat comm
emnibussisciis pemsentibus, et ingnem major pars Sociontin
cmrzinna tam praisentiam quam absentiem consens;:rint Me pro
elect° habeatur abque- contradiefone cujuseunque. •Quam
' election= dirties senior anteq it am recedat sub hae forma pronim-
tiara teneatur. In noinine Patris, et et Spiritus •SanetS
• Ego," such a one, " senior S3ZiLLi hajus no:nine me°
et nomine otnnium Sociorure meorum, sive. ruejoris partis' eons
uhdem, eligo et eleettirn pronuncio" such one; " prTsiden-
tun hujus Collegii." You observe from this passage it is no..
c -i.lsary-that some one
.of those who are proposed to 'oe Pregis
dean, shouldhave the major part of-all the FelloWs to vote for
tun, present and absent ; the Senior Fellow of the whole body, ,
if he has the major part of'i the whole .body, is then -to pros
nounce him elected, taken along with that, that ia-this paraiage •
there is nothing about aintitting, but he is-to ptonounce'him
aiectid ; but if no party have-the major part, then theie is no
election made by, that scrutiny, and if that-happened to be the
char., the statute then proceeds to state what is io be done,
.till
at-length the niattn- is to conclude by the five Senior Fellows,
I tbin nuking tae elwtion. Air. Mandell atitm, that in the