The Sun.
London, England, 1829-02-24 00:00:00

DEAN OF CHESIER.

46 DEANERY, rsTER, FELL
" DEAR n,—l have received the favour of your letter,
containing the recorded judgment of many most respectable
members of the University of Oxford, ' that Mr. Peel is
unfit to be re-elected at the present crisis,' and inviting me
to ♦ote for Sir Robert Inglis.

" On every personal and public ground, I rejoice at the
selection of such a candidate by the opponents of Arr. Per:.
Sir Robert Inglis is one of my best and most valued friends ;
a man of the highest character, and honourably distinguished
by his zeal and ability in defence of our Protestant con-
stitution.

" But I am sure you will perceive that my vote on this
occasion must be decided by one special consideration.
Those with whom you act have, in a direct and manly
manner, brought the matter to this issue :—' Is Mr. Peel
unfit to be re-elected at the present crisis ?' I do not think
that he is. I will not, therefore, assist in cashiering him.
" And now let me trouble you with a few words re-
specting myself.
" You Reports are circulated here (Oxford) in
respect to a change of your opinions on a subject on which
you have written so ably and so much. We are unwilling
to give credit to such rumours.'
" I thank you, and whoever else joins you in this senti-
ment, for your unwillingness to give credit to any thin
which you may think discreditable to me. In the present
instance, the rumours you refer to, as far as they have
reached me, arc either so vague as to be unintelligible to
me, or, if they assume the shape of an allegation of facts,
are absolutely false.
" As to my opinions, they remain unchanged : they ac-
cord with the spirit of my letter to Mr. Canning, p. ISE:
—164, and more especially with the Application of the
Argument,' in my letter• on the Coronation Oath, p.
—lBO. If any of those who have done me the honour cf
reading these works, have happened to attend to such parts
only of them as fell in with their own preconceived opi-
nions, it is rather bard that I should he made answerable
for their inadvertence. Be this as it may. I have the gra-
tification of knowing, that the most distinguished of the
names in the printed paper you have sent to me are not in
this etror. They have stated (as I doubt not you have
heard), in voluntary vindication of an absent and slan-
dered friend, that my writings had prepared them to ex-
pect that I should be favourable to an adjustment of the
Roman Catholic question, on terms compatible with the
security of the Protestant constitution.

" Whether the Bill about to be brought into Parliament
be of this character, I do not know. I shall deem. it
such (and I heartily I may see reason to do so), I
shall not be deterred by clamour, in any quarter, from
avowing my opinion : if otherwise, I shall not be back
ward in joining in any fit mode of expressing dissati6-
faction,

" For the present, I content myself with citing to you,
and to every one who may feel an interest in what con-
cerns me, a single sentence (p. 179, 180) in my letter.
published last year, on the coronation oatli,—a sentence
which Mr. Wilmot Horton has, with very good reason,
publicly treated as an invitation (he himself calls it a
challenge) to consider the matter of securities on both
shks.--

" In one word, then, see whether you' (the Houma
Catholics) can offer us any real and adequate security for
our church, if the boon you ask be granted ; or try to find
the securities which we, on our port, may devise, such as
you can conscientiously accede to.'
" Whether the writer of ibis sentence can be justly
charged with inconsistency for now testifying, or acting
upon, a wish that adequate securities may be proposed, is
a question which I will not insult your understanding by
asking you.
" You are at perfect liberty to consider this a public
letter. " I am, dear Sir, your faithful servant,

"HENRY' PHILLPOTTS.

" The Rev. Dr. Ellei ton,
" Tutor of Magdalen College, Oxford."

COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE.

A new historical melo-drama, translated like tie one at
Drury-lane from the French, was produced last night at
this theatre, and received throughout with great and
deserved applause. The plot resembles the one at the other
house of which we gave yesterday a detailed acomnt, we
have no occasion therefore to revert to it further than to
observe that it is of a light, simple, and diverting cha-
racter, full of incident and variety. Mr. C. Kemble's act-
ing as Charles the Twelfth was admirable, though it
must certainly be pronounced inferior as a characteristic
performance to Mr. W. Farren's, whose quiet stern but
easy dignity was matchless of its kind. Mr. Warde made
a respectable Czar, and Miss Coward's Pauliska was a
pleasing rustic sketch. The house was well attended.

READING Co A CHES.—Mr. HOIIC'S Read-
ing coach is engaged from London, through Reading, to
Oxford. Gentlemen intending to support Mr. Peel, and
wishing a conveyance by that line of road, are requested to
apply at the Committee Room.

Air. Lawless arrived last night from Ireland,
at the Bedford Hotel, Covent-garden.

Mr. Granby Calcraft -arrived yesterday at
Limmer's Hotel, from Leamington.

The requisition to the Lord Mayor, for a
Common Council, to present Mr. Peel with the freedom
of the Corporation of London, is signed by a very con-
siderable number of the Court, and no doubt but it will be
carried by a very large majority. The day fixed is Thurs-
day next.

On Sunday morning the Lord Mayor and
Sheriffs attended divine service at the Asylum for Female
Orphans : the sermon was preached by the Rev. Mr.
Dillon, (the celebrated author of " The Lord Ma)or's
Voyage of Discovery to Oxford,") and the collection
amounted to 1251.

EXTRAORDINARY INFLUX OF PRISONERS.
—Since the 12th instant no less than thirty-one prisoners
have been committed to gaol; among whom arc five
charged with housebreaking, five for stealing poultry,
three for'pig stealing, three for stealing coals, &c. There
are now confined and out on bail no less than 104 prisoners
for trial at our ensuing Assizes. There have also been
nineteen summary convictions to the New Gaol since the
14th. The particulars are unavoidably postponed until
Friday.—Essex Herald of this day.

Last week, a dolphin was caught here, which
was instantly purchased by Dr. Guthrie, and sent off to
Mr. Duff of Fetteresso ; the fish was 2i feet long, and very
thick.—Aberdeen Chronicle.

On man, named
coachman
oat Marlborough-
the Earl of
applied to Sir George Farrant,
street, for parochial relief. The poor fellow, who said he
resided at 33, Queen-street, Edgeware-road, and had a
wife and five small children, who followed him to the
Jon
o,
office, had lived with the above Noble and Learned Lord
far eleven years, and his Lordship discharged him some
time ago, on the complaint of his son, the Hon. H. J.
Scott, M.P. He subsequently, on being unable to obtain
employment, applied personally and by letter to the Earl,
fur some trifling pecuniary assistance, but he never re-
ceived a farthing from his Lordship. Mrs. Jones, indeed,
saw the Countess, who gave her a sovereign, at the same
time remarking, that although she (the Countess) could
dine off half a mutton chop, yet the expences incurred by
her son, Lord Encombe, at the University, and the cost
of their establishment in town, rendered it quite impos-
sible that she could afford them any further assistance.
Mrs. Jones had been employed by Lady Frances Bankes,
one of Lord Eldon's married daughters, and while she was
in her Ladyship's service she unfortunately lost the use of
•r right hand, in consequence of having been pricked by
rusty pin in one of Lady Frances's dresses. Lady Frances
I,,Avever refused to assist bee, alleging that she had under-
stood Mrs. Jones was then living under the protection of a
dissipated Nobleman. She, poor woman, protested that
she was not the mistress of any man, and Lady Frances
promised to inquire into the authenticity of the unfounded
accusation, but she had never since been able to learn any
thing further on the subject from her Ladyship. Their
goods were now under .a distress for rent, or they would
not have applied for parochial relief. Mr..Nangle, the
overseer of St. Giles's, said that Jones belonged to that
parish, and he would therefore advance him 31. 10s.,
which would enable him to pay up his arrears of rent.
The poor fellow thanked the Overseer for his humane pro-
position, and retired with his family.

r 4 PIRIT OP THE LONDON JOURNALS.

The louse of Lords was more than usually
.'rowded last night, in the understanding that the
Duke of Clarence vas to deliver his sentiments en

the subject which now engrosses the P.tttntion of
the country. A report had been for some days in
circulation that his Royal Highness Wit I; adverse to
concession; and this report caused as much regret
to the well disposrd as the report that the Duke of
nberland had thrown the weight of his reputation
int- the scale of liberality. The puke of Clarence
put Pn end last night to alt uncertainty with respect
to his Sentiments respecting concession, and also
respecting the conduct of the Opposition.
" I rise, my Lords," said his Royal Highness, " Ir?ratsr
it has beets remarked there is among his Majesty's Minis-
ters now ilk union of sentiment on this subject. I wish,
vny torrils, that the Ministers had been so united in 1826 ;
but the persons who were then his Majesty's Atititotrs

were not unite!i, and we have gone on to the t' went time.
It they bad Jaen united in 1804, it would have been a
great advantage to both Englatri. and Ireland. From that
pecied, my Lords, my opinion has been invariably favour-
able to what is falsely called Catholic concession,—llear,
hear)—which is not concession to the Catholics, but
rather an Act for altering their prr.sttlt state of degrada-
tivn—and nothing else. When the great measure shall
came before your Lordships, I pledge myself to prove that
it is net concession to the Catholics, but a removal of de-

gradation. nnti the.. surest means of cordially uniting toge-
ther vignt millions of people.—(Cheers.)—Nory that I am
on my less I shall say, that in reserving for myself to state
any opinions more tit length hereafter on this question, I
shall give that support to his Majesty's Ministers which
they deserve from every man against so unjustifiable, if I
mfr not say so infamous an attack."

The Duke of Cumberland seems to have consi-
dered himself more particularly bound to notice the
word infamous, for he deviated that " he felt it to
he his imperious duty to express his opinion de-
cidedly upon this subject, and he hoped, therefore,
that his Noble -Relation (the Duke of Clarence)
would not take it unkind in him, when he endea-
voured to give utterance to the 4*tonishment he
tell when he heard foetidly! motives imputed by
'hat Noble Person to those who were hostile to the
Catholics, and his still greater astonishment at the
=fair attack raade upon him pers4enally, and upon
others, by the applicaiekn tit the term infamous to
their opposition." 'roe Duke of Sussex very
justly observed in .answer, that " if his Noble Re-
lative applied these words of cond-2mnation to his
own conduct, that was his own taste; all he (the
Duke 01 Sussex) could say, in justice to his Noble
Brother, was, that he did not mean any personal
offence to his Noble Relative. When, however, a
Message came from the Crown, recommending to
Parliament the consideration of the question of
Catholic Disabilities, in a constitutional way, and
in such a manner as may be found consonant with
the safety and security of the Protestant
Chureh, and the rights and liberties of the
people, it certainly was not at all extraordi-
nary his Noble Brother should express his sur-
prise at the course pursued by many Noble Lords,
in their opposition to his Majesty's declared wishes
and intentions, and that he should characterise that
conduct as base and infamous," The Duke of Cla-
rence observed, in explanation, that his " Illustrious
Relative had spent so touch of his life abroad, that
he had quite forgotten what was due to the free-
dom of debate in this country —(Hear, hear, hear.)"
When strong language is employed to characterize
ordinary matters, the impression is the very opposite
to that sought to be produced. But there are oc-
casions when the language employed cannot be too
strong. To endeavour to prevent the tranquilliza-
tionof a l!terr,e portion of the Empire, by the perpe-
tuation If disabilities, painful], because degrading,
to one-third of the inhabitants of the United King-
dom, for which no intelligible ground can be urged,
tonnected with the security of the remainder, and
to appeal for the furtherance of that object to the
ignorance and prejudices of the lowest rabble, is a
course of conduct of which no good men can ap-
prove. The Government, in not bringing forward
this question before, and those who oppose the
Government, now that the question is brought
forward, are by no means in the same predica-
meet. A Government may, even when convinced
that a course is advisable, pause before entering on
it, from the dread of the power of faction, arming
itself with the ignorance and prejudices of the mul-
titude; but the faction is not in itself justifiable,
because its anticipated efforts might serve in some
sort to justify a Government. A Legislator will
always count on crime ; an Administration in criti-
cal conjunctures on faction ; but crime and faction,
though always to be counted on, are always to be
condemned. However, the Administration having
determined at length to attempt the pacification of
the empire, what can we say of the opposition
which has been so prematurely and so violently dis-
played, but that it is factious ? What can it
be called but infamous—if the object be bad, and
sought after by bad means ? If we can suppose
that the opponents of Government are not them-
selves aware of the consequences of their conduct,
then we might find in their want of understanding
the only justification which can be offered for them;
but this defence they will not thank us for.—
Morning Chronicle.
The sooner that the great measure shall be for-
mally introduced into Parliament the better, were
it only to give the other, though inferior, interests
of the nation a decent chance of receiving some at-
tention from the Legislature ; and to save the lives
of a few dozens of unhappy Brunswickers, whose
fever, if left much longer to prey upun them, will
infallibly he their death. That the question, though
not formally, is in substance carried, all the rational
part of society has long been convinced. On this
point the most ardent Catholics, and the most sober-
minded Protestants, are of the same opinion. So
far, therefore, as the " Titus Oates" gentry are con-
cerned, it is pure humanity which leads us to wish
that the question may settle down from one of eager
discussion into a subject of historical recollection,
and that the poor creatures who run about in quest or
" No Popery" meetings, may also " settle
.down"
from raging maniacs into common-place and insigni-
ficant fools. Why is it that, notwithstanding all
the brag and sputter of " No Popery," the convic-
tion has within these fourteen days changed into an
intuitive and deep-rooted consciousness, that the ful-
ness of times has come—that the event is ac-

complished and irrevocable ? Simply because things
are what they now appear—because the strength of
the King's Government, and the real disposition of
those classes in which resides all real power, are de-
veloped and are not to be resisted—because the
late arrogance, the threats and outrageous fury
of the Orangemen, were supported by no real
strength or principle of animation,—because the
bones of the faction are marrowless, and the sounds
now heard are but feeble echoes departing through
its roofless and hollow tomb. It is grateful to the
enlightened portion of society, and must be a source
of inexpressible satisfaction to his Majesty and his
faithful advisers, that while the opulent, populous,
industrious, improved, and mighty towns of the
north of England have declared themselves, when-
ever the occasion offered, in terms of strong encou-
ragement to the policy adopted by the Crown, it
proves almost impossible to get up in any quarter,
and by fair means, even the semblance of an anti-
Catholic meeting. A laughable instance occurred
yesterday in a metropolitan parish,—that of St.
Stephen, Coleman-street,—where the notable expe-
dient had been tried of summoning a certain quota
of parishioners, to be determined, not by the situa-
tion of their dwellings, or their amount of property,
or contributions to the parish rates, or other tan-
gible description as inhabitants, but by that very
clear, customary, and legitimate criterion, their sen-
timents on one political subject ! Yes, the pa-
rishioners of St. Stephen were called together by
public summons, to assemble in the vestry-room of
the parish, and from that common seat of public
business were to be excluded all such of the pa-
rishioners, should they amount to nineteen-twen-
tieths of the whole parish, who had not graduated
in the school of Titus Oates, and been admit-
ted Bachelors of No-Popery•. This, however,

would not (16. I'tr. Freeman declared indignantly
against so absurd and insupportable an abuse of
the parish summons: he moved an adjournment of
the I*l eeti hat is, a defeat of the trick. His
motion was seconded, and though the intolerants
had had full time to concoct their scheme, ah:l the
liberal party had not been eppriied of the nature of

it, Mr. Freeman').; Motion teas carried by a majority
of to IJ. We now turn to scenes more distant,
and to equally edifying results. Lord Chandos—
who aims, we suppose, at establishing for himself a
sort of fame rather different from that long enjoyed
by the living patriarch of his family the enlightened
Lord Grenville-,--has Made two attempts in Bucking-
hamshire to etasperate that class of minds which he
was more competent to inflame than to instruct, and
to bring their satellite fury as evidence of the state
of public " .Ipiiiion" (opinion !) against the Ca-
thoncs. En one of these instances, the Noble Lord

having given a public no-Popery breakfast, rode
into the town of Buckinghatcorted by hundreds of
his ovvutenartr:,,, and occupied the Town-hall in such
fern als bade defiance to all attack by mere numbers.

After some twaddle fi om three or four intermediate

speakers, Lord Nugent rose, and delivered a manly
and admirable speech in reprobation cf the means
by which these meetings had betagOt up, and of
the evils of which they it'ere calculated to be pro-
ductive. H Lordship, in reply to one assertion of
Lord Chandos, imputing certain expressions to his
late Majesty, descriptive of his extreme repugnance
to a law for relieving the Catholics, dedared on his
honour that those seoids had never been voken!

The repot has always been, that George 111. had
tota Lord Grenville that he could " lay his head

on the block, but had not courage to break his
oath," and this in reference to emancipation. To
this tale, and evidently on the authority of Lord
Grenville himself, Lord Nugent has now given a
flat cnntradletion, verified by his word of honour.
The public may form some idea of the dexterity
and diligence with which the Buckingham meeting
was packed, and of the sort of intelligence which
prevailed there, when we state that Lord Nugent
was the single individual sufficiently independent of
Lord Chandos to hold a hand up against the resc•lu-
tions. The second exploit of the r oble Marquis
was at Aylesbury, where, with views no doubt
most kind _and amicable towards his uncle, he
worked hard for a public dinner, which was ordered
for 100 persons : just 35 attended Is this enough
of Lord Chandos and his doings?—Tinies.

The plan said to be in contemplation, of pur-
chasing an estate for Mr. O'Connell, is an admirable
contrivance for disposing of the balance of the Ca.
tholic Relit; while it holds out a tempting boon to
future 'Agitators not to despair of a reward, providing
they take care to sail star enough the wind, not to
be cut off in their voyage. This termination, too,
of this " unlawful impost," as the Duke of Wel-
lington has called it, will not, we should think, he
lost upon posterity, or even upon the Irish people of
the present day, when the subsiding of the present
excitement leaves them time for reflection. Here
has ber•n a taxation raised upon the whole Catholic
community, under the shallow prete,lee of its being
for the benefit of that community, to protect them

from oppression, and such like ; nearly every farthing
of which will have found its way into the pockets of
those who suggested it. The silly sheep will find
that they have been shorn indeed, and that the
lawyers have taken the oyster, shell and all. If this
be not so, let those who have held the purse-strings
publish their accounts. If we are wrong, let us
have the figures to refute us. Till that is done we
shall continue to believe that the Rent has been,
front the first—as it is now avowed to be at the last—

an estate in fee.—Morning Herald.
We hope that, in the din of political contention
in both Houses of Parliament, the consideration of
the domestic interests of the country will not be
lost sight of, or postponed to so late a period in the
Session as to make it impracticable to effect any
good. Among other things the stale of the law
requires the most earnest attention of the Legisla-
ture. That subject has been of late years pressed
upon Parliament in a way that shows the absolute
necessity of some practical reform. Last Session
two commissions were appointed to inquire into the
state of the law, and report thereon to the House
of Commons, with a view to some measure for its
improvement. To one of those commissions was
intrusted the task of reviewing the laws relative to
real property. The other was to inquire into the
practice of the Courts, mid devise some method for
the correction of the abuses of the present system
of special pleading. It was stated, not long ago,
that one or both of them would report early in the
present Session. The earlier the better—some com-
mencement cannot be too soon made in so neces-
sary and beneficial a work as that of the reform of
our legal system. The question of the laws of real
property is, indeed, a difficult and complicated
subject, and it will require sound judgment, as well
as bold capacity, to reduce the chaos of prin-
ciples affecting the tenures and interests in land-
ed estates to .order and simplicity. But the
subject of special pleading is one of more obvious
inconvenience and of easier reformation. The ab-
surdities of this part of the administration of the
law are so glaring, its repugnance to justice and
common sense so plain to the most ordinary under-
standing, that it would be only wonderful how it
could have maintained its ground so long, if we did
not know that it is the interest of a larger class of
persons to perpetuate this great reproach to our judi-
cial system, on account of the profits that are de-
rived from it. If the most subtle and crafty lawyers
had conspired together to invent a jargon, which
should be better calculated than any other, since the
wra of the " confusion of tongues," to mystify the
proceedings of Courts of Law, and render justice
perplexed and uncertain, they could not have devised
a more effectual one than that of special pleading.
Its general tendency is to overload with the most
profuse and cumbrous verbiage the plainest cases,
and so to entangle every judicial proceeding
in a web of forms, that it is impossible to infer from
the merits of a case what the result will be, and thus
the ends of justice are defeated, to support the
"glorious certainty of the law."—lbid.
It is stated in an Evening Paper, which has oc-
casionally displayed some knowledge of passing
events, and sometimes perhaps pretended to more
than it had any good ground for entertaining, that
" the King, our true Protestant King, has declared
within forty-eight hours, that he still entertains the
sentiments which he avowed to Mr. Canning in the
month of June, 1827, and that if his faithful people
will rally round his throne, the slightest inroad shall
not be permitted upon the Protestant Constitution
of 1688." Now, we have no means of knowing
whether his Majesty has or has not given utterance
to such sentiments " within the last forty-eight
hours ;" but we do know, what evfiy one
must feel in perusing the paragraph in question,
that if his Maje2ty did give utterance to such
sentiments, they were uttered in the ear of pri-
vate confidence, and not intended for that of the
public, and that he who communicated such in-
formation to the Paper in question has proved
himself a greater traitor to his Majesty than if he
had openly conspired against his crowu or life.
But, to be brief on the subject, we do not believe
that his Majesty ever gave utterance to such senti-
ments ; for, in the first place, our gracious Sovereign
is not yet so woe-be-gone with years as to entrust
such a declaration as that which we have reported,
to those who would have made it known contrary
to his will—in the second, he deliberately, and after
much reflection, affixed his seal to the solemn
recommendation to the Legislature to Emancipate
his Roman Catholic subjects ; and in the third and
last, it is not characteristic of the illustrious line
of ancestors from whom he is descended, to
give utterance to any sentiments but those which
they actually entertain. These are our reasons for
disbelieving entirely the exclusive information of our
Evening contemporary; and were more. required,
some of a still graver nature might readily be ad-
duced. In what relation to his subjects, in fact,
would such a declaration in private, with a counter

declaration staring it in the face in public,-place the
first Magistrate of the kingdom ? Would the pic-
ture of such inconsistency gratify those who would
still have it that his Majesty is adverse to the Catholic
claims; or would it at all exalt his Majesty, either in
the estimation of his subjects, or of foreign powers.
And what also, let us ask, would be the situation
of the Duke of Wellington, Mr. Peel, and the rest
of the Cabinet, were it to be proved that they
had either extorted, by force or intrigue, a declara-
tion from his Majesty to which he was repugnant,
or imposed on the Legislature a, the sentiments of
the King, opinions which lie did not entertain.—
We leave our readers to judge both of the mea-
sure of perfidy of which the latter must have been
guilty in such a case, and of its consequences to
them both severally and individually. For our own
-part, though we have deemed it necessary to say
thin mita, perhaps unnecessarily, in defence of his
Majesty, arid his Majesty's Ministers, we consider
the assertion as a pure day-dream of some hot-
' headed Anti-Catholic, who, like a drowning man,
would catch at a straw, to support himself in his
last extremity. His Majesty is still in possession of
sufficient vigour of mind to give the lie to any such
imputation on the exercise of his undoubted prero-
gative ; and we have too much faith in his Majesty's
Ministers to suppose for a moment that they would
have taken such a decisive step as the proposal to
admit our Roman Catholic fellow-subjects, to a par-
ticipation in the rights and privileges of British sub-
jects, without not only maturely weighing the con-
sequences of the measure, but obtaining the full and
deli!ierate approbation of his Majesty.—Morning
Advertiser.