The Sun.
London, England, 1829-03-21 00:00:00

'FO THE EDITOR.

Sitt—l requegt your publication of the accompanying
Correspondence. I am, Sir, your obedient Servant,
HENRY HARDINGE.

(1. )...-...FROM THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON TO LORD

WINCHILSEA.

" London, March 16, 1629.

"My Lord—l have just now perused in the Standard
newspaper of this day a letter addressed to Henry Nelson
Coleridge, Esq. dated Eastwell Park, March 14, 1829,
signed WINCHILSFA and NOTTINGHAM ; and I shall he
very much obliged to your Lordship, if you will let me
know whether that letter was written by you, and
published by your authority.—l have, &c.
(Signed) " WELLINGTON.
" Earl of Winchilsea and Nottingham."

(2.)-•-FROSI THE SAME TO THE SAME.

" London, March 18, 1829.

"My Lord—l. wrote to your Lordship on the l 6th a
letter, of which 1 enclose the duplicate : as, not having yet
received an answer from your Lordship, I am apprehen-
sive that the original may not have reached you, although
I directed it to your house in Suffolk-street.
" I am just going to Windsor to attend his Majesty, but
I shall be in town this night. have, &c.
(Signed) " WELLINGTON.
" The Earl of Winchilsea and Nottingham."

(3.)-FROM LORD WINCHILSEA TO THE DUKE OF WEL-

LINGTON.

" Eastwell Park, March 18, 1829.

" il>iv Lord—The inclosed is a copy of the answer
which I returned, by this day's post, to your Grace's let-
ter, which only reached me this morning. I intend leav-
ing this place for London to-morrow morning, and expect
to be at No. 7, Suffolk•street, between four and five
o'clock in the afternoon.

" I have, &c.
(Signed) " WINCHILSEA and NOTTINGHAM.
" His Grace the Duke of Wellington."

(4.)---FROM THE SAME TO THE SAME.

" Eastwell Park, Ashford, March 18, 16329.

"My Lord—l have the honour to acknowledge the
receipt of your Grace's letter of the 16th instant, and I
beg to inform you, that the letter addressed to H. N.
Coleridge, Esq., was inserted in the Standard by my
authority. As I bad publicly given my approbation
and sanction to the establishment of the King's College,
London, last year, by his Grace the Duke of Wellington
becoming a subscziber to it, I thought it incumbent upon
me, in withdrawing my name, also publicly to state my
reasons for so doing.

"I have, &c,
(Signed) " WINCHILSEA and NOTTINGHAM.

(5)-FROM THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON TO THE EARL OF

WINCHILSEA.

" London, March 19, 1829.
"My Lord—l have had the honour of receiving your
Lordship's letters of the 11th instant.
" Your Lordship is certainly the best judge of the mode
to be adopted of withdrawing your name from the list of
subscribers to the King's College.
" In doing so, however, it does not appear necessary to
impute to me, in no measured terms, disgraceful'and cri-
minal motives for my conduct in the part which I took in
the establishment of the College.
" No man has a right, whether in public or in private,
by speech or in writing, or in print, to insult another by
attributing to him motives for his conduct, public or
private which disgrace or criminate him.
" If a Gentleman commits such an act indiscreetly, in
the heat of debate, or in a moment of party violence, he
is always ready to make reparation to him whom he may
thus have injured.
'6l am convinced that your Lordship will, upon reflec-
tion be anxious to relieve yourself from the pain of having
thus insulted a man who never injured or offend you.

" I have, &c.
(Signed) " WELLINGTON.
" The Earl of Winchilsea awl Nottingham."

Sir Henry Hardinge delivered the letter No. 5 to the
Earl of Winchilsea, and was referred by his Lordship to
the Earl of Falmouth. The following memorandum, No
6, contains the substance of the communication made by
Sir Henry Hardinge to Lord Falmouth :
(6.)-31EMORANDUM OF SIR H. lIARDINGE.
" March 19, Eight o'clock Evening.
" Lord Falmouth having expressed a desire to know
the extent of reparation that would be expected, two
suggestions of what appeared to Sir Henry Har-
(linge to be the most natural mode of reparation
were drawn out upon the distinct understanding that
they were not made with a view to confine Lord Win-
chilsea's explanation either as to the terms or manner
therein stated—but as suggestions as to the course which
might be pursued in bringing the matter to a satisfactory
conclusion.

" Sir Henry Hardinge, therefore, on the part of the
Duke of Wellington, expects one of the two following
alternatives :
" Either that Lord Winchilsea should forthwith write
to the Secretary of the King's College and express his de-
sire to withdraw his public letter, as one which attributed
motives highly offensive to the Duke of Wellington, and
stating also that upon reflection he was not justified in at-
tributing such motives to his Grace, and therefore ex•
presses his regret at having done so : Or,

" That Lo-rd Winchilse:t should write directly to the
Duke of Wellington himself, and make the same acknow-
ledgments to his Grace, with a similar expression of his
regret for having attributed motives highly offensive to his
Grace, relating to the occasion of his Grace having pre-
sided at the Meeting of the King's College in
last—
[" Which motives he is now sensible he was net justi-
fied in imputing to his Craee."*l
" In either case it is expected that a letter, so written,
should be published by the Secretary of the London Col-
lege, in the Standard, being the same paper as that which
contained Lord W.'s original letter.

" Thursday, half past Nine o'Clock Evening."
" Friday Morning, March 20.--The paragraph
within crotchets L] was not desired to be retained, in the
last interview with Lord Falmouth, last:night. "H. H.'