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

OXFORD ELECTION.

To the Rev. THOMAS WINTLE, 8.D., Chairman o
the Committee at Oxford;

To C. J. FYNES CLINTON, Esq., M.P., Chairman of

the Committee in London,

For Conducting the Election of Sir Robert Harry Inglis,

Bart., for the Uoivereity of Oxford.

My dear Sirs, London, March 2, 1829.
I thank you gratefully and respectfully for the honour
which you and my other friends have conferred upon me
by your support at the late Election- of a Representative for
the University of Oxford. The trust to which lam thus
suddenly called is one which 1 have always regarded as the
most veinal le to which an English Commoner could attain.
That trust reflected honour even upon such men as Sir
William Scott and Mr. Abbott. It was the object of Mr.
Canning's early and late ambition ; and in the discharge of
it Mr. Peel for many years faithfully and honourably re-
presented the opinions of the most enlightened body of
constituents in the empire. To succeed any one of these
distinguished individuals in such a station is a prize for
which any other man might well feel it his highest honour
to contend ; but I regard not my success as any matter of
mere personal gratification, because I cannot attribute it
to any personal preference in my favour. I value the re-
sult of the election as recording the high-minded consistency
with which the great majority of the first University in
the world has refused to listen to every ordinary and sordid
motive of personal interest—l value that result still more
as recording deliberately the opinions of the most intellec-
tual and most influential holy in England on the Roman
Catholic Question, the great trial which was practically
submitted to them in the persons of the two candidates—l
value it because it has proved that in the judgment of so
many entitled to guide public opinion in so many ,parts of
England the Constitution of England ought to be preserved
fundamentally and exclusively Protestant ; that no infring-
ment ought to be made upon the great Settlement of 16548,
under which, by the blessing of God, this country has
become the greatest, the most free, the happiest of nations;
and that, in order to promote the continuance of these re-
sults, we must continue the operation of the same causes,
and must remain a Protestant people, with a Protestant
Legislature, the only security for a Protestant King.
With an earnest desire to support the municipal rights
and privileges of the University, with an ardent determina-
' tion to uphold by all the means in my power the cause of
the Established Church, and to promote in Parliament the
best interests of the Country, which are identified with
that Church,
I have the honour to remain,
With great respect,
Your obliged and faithful servant,
ROBERT HARRY INGLIS.

DR. PHILLPOTTS AND THE CHAPTER

OF CHESTER.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Stu,—l am sorry to differ from you in opinion
that the letter addressed by the Dean of Chester to
the Rev. Dr. Ellerton, exculpates the former from
the charge of inconsistency. On the contrary, I
am not surprised at the incredulity of his Oxford
friends, when they heard it rumoured that the Dean
had become an advocate for conceding the Catholic
claims. The Dean attempts to prove his consistency
by quoting the following sentence from his letter on
the Coronation oath :—" In one word, then, see
whether you (tlie Roman Catholics) can offer us
any real and adequate security for our church, if the
boon you ask be granted; or try to find the securi-
ties which we on our part may devise, such as you
can conscientiously accede to."
If, Mr. Editor, this single, unconnected sentence
is to be understood as implying in good faith, that
the Dean adverted to some day (however distant)
when he himself might become, with due con•
sistency, an advocate for concession, there is no rv,
liance, no confidence to be placed in any writings,
either sacred or profane, that the world ever saw.—
I would ask the Dean of Chester whether very
serious errors, very great perversions of the Holy
Scriptures, have not arisen from selecting single
isolated passages, without reference to the context.
in order to maintain certain opinions which are in
fact opposed to the general tenor and spirit of the
sacred volume?

And so among profane authors, would it not ha
easy to select passages which would appear to be 'at
issue with the whole scope and tenor of their writ-
ings ? For instance, in Dr. Phillpotts' # celebrated
letter to the late Mr. Canning, page 165, we find
him schooling that eminent statesman thus, " that
you are incapable of wilfully betraying any course,
we well know ; but inconstancy, if not so base as
treachery, is often not less mischievous." This pas-
sage is to be found, not indeed among those pages
to which he has referred his correspondent, to prove

lie is not guilty of inconstancy himself, but in the
page which immediately follows. I wish to remark,
that in the sentence the Dean hus chosen to quote
from himself, the following words are printed in

italics, " the securities which we on our part may
devise." Rumour, says the Dean, has had a hand in
the forthcoming Bill; and certainly the Newspapers
told us lately that he has had an audience with the
Duke of Wellington. If this be a fact, perhaps the
Doctor's motive for referring his Oxford correspon-
pondent to pages 158-164 is apparent; and the
Bill about to be proposed to the Legislature may con-
tain the Dean's substitute for the oath against
transubstantiation. But if, again, this should
turn out to be the case, what are we to think of his
affirmation in this same letter to Dr. Ellerton, that

lie is ignorant of the character of the intended Bill ?
To have done with conjecture, which, with refe-
rence to such flexible materials, is altogether vain, I.
ask the Dean if he can conceive for a moment that ,
the dying Statesman, who was harassed almost in
his last moments by this wily letter, so officious too,.
and so uncalled for, could, by any application of his
own acute mind to the matter of it, have anticipated
the day when his Rev. Correspondent would him-
self become the advocate of concession, on p►tinciples
as liberal and unshackled, probably, as those of the
Bill in 1825 ? Can he believe that any individual now
~
living could augur these pleasing day dreams? Shall
,s 1
I tell the Rev. Gentleman, as a plain-reading and
plain-speaking man, in what sense I read the passage
quoted to prove his consistency ? It was as
follows :—not that the Dean ever thought or expected
any measure could actually be devised, equally recog-
niz'ng the claims of the Roman Catholic and the
Protestant Church, but that the passage, in con-
formity with the sprit and obvious purport of

the entire letter, was written in the Ws/
of taunt or challenge, as " shew us any real
securities if you can ;" and, as Purcell's song sap,
" Come if you dare." t This was the sense in
which I read it, and I must plead guilty to the
charge brought against some of his readers, in not
discovering any subterfuge, by which the Dean
might, some fine morning, under the excitation of n
rising Sun, turn round and say, "It is rather hard
that I should be made answerable for their inadvert'
ence." But why am I so anxious to bring horns
the charge of inconstancy and inconsistency to the
Dean of Chester ? Because I am more afraid of
him as a friend than an enemy. I would not flatter
him, however, so far as to admit, be his present
opinions what they may, either theological or poli-
tical (the former I have no means of knowing)►
that people in general are at all concerned in them
and I beg to assure him that, individually, 1
should feel somewhat indignant to be catechized or
instructed by him on any subject. I should prefer
listening to the consistent, unchanging, and un-
changeable opinions of another member of the same
Chapter of Chester, who has lately made so eloquent
and so powerful an appeal to the clergy of his Arch-
deaconry, on declining to call them together in the
East Riding of Yorkshire, for the purpose of peti-
tioning Parliament to grant no further concessions
to the Roman Catholics. I will conclude, Mr.
Editor, with one more extract from the Dean of
Chester's letter to the late Mr. Canning, in the

truth of which I heartily acquiesce :—" It matters
little what shall be thought or said of him or of his
puny labours." Your's, Sir,
SURRIENSIS.
N. 8.—1 think the Clergy of that Establishment
may employ their time more usefully and creditably
than in composing a discourse for next Sunday, to
inveigh against the gracious recommendation of his
Majesty to the assembled Parliament of this united
empire, according to the recommendation of the
Morning Journal.

• A profane author.
t The song goes on to say,
" The gods, from above, the mad labour behold,
And pity mankind, that will perish by gold."

The following Noblemen had grand dinner
parties on Saturday :—The Marquis of Salisbury, Ha-
nover-square ; Earl Bathurst, Great Staahope-street; the
Hon. Agar Ellis, Spring-gardens; Sir Geo. Clerk, Bart•
Admiralty.
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The Countess of Sefton entertained a large
party of fashionables yesterday evening, at her house Iss
.Arlington-street, but had not a ball as had been stated.

Mrs. Mitchell has issued cards, at home every
We,lnesday this month, at her house in Charles-street,
Berkeley-square.
Mr Spence was yesterday to be returned for
Ripon free of any expence whaterer.
A caravan, containing 90,000/. worth of
plate, the property of the Duke of Northumberland, has
passed through this county on its route to Ireland ; it
was escorted by a small body of soldiers.--Staffordshire
Advertiser.
•Stet a

The Duke of Wellington has addre:.
most polite letter to the Rev. Mr. Groves, in acknowledg-
ment of the petition (the offspring of the great Rotunda
Meeting) forwarded to his Grace some short time ago
The noble Duke pledges hitnstlf to present it at the ear-
liest opportunity.--Dublin Freeman's Journal.

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