The Sun.
London, England, 1829-03-23 00:00:00

DUEL BETWEEN THE DUKE OF WEL-
LINGTON AND THE EARL OF WINCHILSEA.

[Txu FOLLOWING LETTERS WERE INSERTED IN PART OF
OUR IMPRESSION OF SATURDAY:I

Li order to make the subject referred to in the
subjoined correspondence perfectly intelligible, we
preface it by extracts from a letter addressed by
Lord WINCHILSEA to Mr. COLERIDGE, Secretary to
the Committee for Establishing the King's College,
London, dated March 14, 1829 :
" I was one of those who, at first, thought the proposed
plan might be practicable, and prove an antidote to the
principles of the London University; I was not, however,
very sanguine in my expectations, seeing many difficulties
likely to arise in the execution of the suggested arrangement;
and I confess that I felt rather doubtful as to the sincerity
of the motives which had actuated some of the prime
movers in this undertaking, when I considered that the
Noble Duke at the head of his Majesty's Government had
been induced, on this occasion, to assume a new character,
and to step forward himself as the public advocate of reli-
gion and morality.
" Late political events have convinced me that the
whole transaction was intended as a blind to the Pro-
testant and High Church party, that the Noble Duke, whe
had for some time previous to that period determined upon
breaking in upon the Constitution of 1688,' might the
more effectually, under the cloak of some outward show of
zeal for the Protestant religion, carry on his insidious de-
signs for the imfringement of our liberties, and the intro-
duction of Popery into every depat tment of the State."

TIIE EDITOR.
request your publication of the accompanying
Correspondence. • I am, Sir, your obedient Servant,

HENRY HARDINGE.

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

WINCHILSEA.

" London, March 16, 11329.

"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 WINCHILSEA and NOTTINGHAM ; and I shall be
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.)---yßom TIIE SAME TO THE SAME.

" London, March 18, 16;29.

"My Lord,--I wrote to your Lordship on the 16th 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. —I have, &c.
(Signed) " WELLINGTON."
" The Earl of Winchilsea and Nottingham."

(2.)_rao LORD WINCHILSEA TO THE DUKE OF WEL-

LINGTON.

" Eistwell Park, March 18, 1829.

" My 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, Sutfolk•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, 1529.

"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 had 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 subscriber 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.

" Londan, March 19, 1829.
"My Lord,—l have had the honour of receiving your
Lordship's letters of the 19th 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.
" I 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 offended you.
" I have, &c.
( Signed ) " WELLINGTON."
" The Earl of Winchilsea and 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 Fahnouth :
(6.)—SIEMORANDUM 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-
dinge 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-
cbilsea'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.

.
" Su. 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 Coflege 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 Lord Winchilsea 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, relatinc, 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 Grate."4l
" In either case it is expected that a letter, so written,

" Friday Morning, March t o.—The paragraph
within crotchets 1] Was not desired to be retained, in the
last interview with Lord Falmouth, last night. H. IL"