Star.
London, England, 1809-12-08 00:00:00

EAST-INDIA SHIPPING.

An account has been received at the India(House,
by the Purser of the LORD CASTLEREAGH, Of
c,i!•:l:re of the Ilunery S raEATii.AII early in
pi June last, by the French frigate Caro-
-1 ship, v '6.11 the OCEAN, extra ship, sailed
73011.4:il (it is said) the `.(3th April.

Oc-EA: escaped, and procre&d to Prince of.
T... 1: .'s's i siand vith the intelligence.
it :s midld, that the Caroline, with both her prizes,.
47iven on shore at the island of Bourbon by
;:. block;:ding squadron off the Isle of France.
was lost in Bengal River.

NEPTUN I, TRUE BRITON, CunBERLANn, and
S.• Al rn CASTLE, arrived at Bombay the 25th June,
;,11
The WARLEY arrived in the Downs the 7th inst.

Tile LORD MELVILLE, PERSEVERANCE, LORD DEN-
CARNATIC, NoTTINGIIAM, and BARING, arrived
at rila.!ras en the 3d and sth July last.

L'XIVERSITT OF OXFORD.

A ¶}:f ONI) I.F r! I.FI 10 THE MEMBERS OF CONVOCATION,

',NOM ihN INDEPENDENT MASTER OF ARTS.

Oxford, December 5.

Mr. Eutren— in rry letter, inserted a few days
s:nce in your Parer, I requested the attention of the
Members of Convocation to the remonstrances of the
University against the doctrines of Lord GRENVILLE.
It appeared evident frcm them, that he and we were
cer:pletely the ant prides of each other. That when
elontrht it our duty to travel one road, his Lord.
s'pitt took another, and directly the opposite. M)
(Lief reaqm for the publication of that letter was,
twcanse T was satisfied, as I still am, that many hun-'
atreds of ()Is absented Members were not fully in-
!Ormcd ot these pra r eeding% They are now brought
under no;:ce, and the weight will be justly appre.
.'att.d. It will be remembered that a nontibrcet has
1„..•n three times expressed against the principles of
Lot.: 6usNvit.LE, by three solemn and unanimous'
passel in the Public Convocation 1-1,-use of the I
Whoever thinks of this will pause a few,
rrinrtes, ar must feel himself under the urgency cf.,
ra:thini; short " of immediate and uncontroulahle,
vcces:,:tv", (such are Lord GEENVILLL'S words), if
I:e can be induced to enter the walls of the same
....rtvocation Nonse, and declare that man deserv.
of the confidence of the University, against
such resolutions tre recorded. What has hisi
Lor:ishin done to redee.n himself, and work out the
o!. this academical attainder ? He refund to,

tl.? INC: a pledge not to renew the Catholic
Has he given us that pledge ? No, for I
> publicly a:.sert, that his letter to the Principil of
:a.:ca Nose most positively rtfuset it. What is
is i orchlip's merit then at this moment ? That of
,til,born inflexibility ;—a whimsical reason this for
is submission. After giving ycu this cauticn not
yorrender your consistency and character to the
KEN VII.Y. ITES, let me intreat you next to take care
;t they seize and run away with your privileges.
explain what I mean. I rather think that many
-.v,t quite apprised of the powers belonging
the ()Tice of our Chancellor. I have not time
examine into P:11 of them : but I will select one
a specimen ;-0;:r Chancellor, be it recollected,

the Reeper of our Seal, the right of possession
. .

ad dominion over which belongs exclusively and;
%Lit, to him, though he may delegate its use rf he'
Should Lord GletNvteer. be raised to this
•.sf.ce, only consider how the privilege of addressing
td petizioning will be effected. Do you suppose his
ordship will allow the Seal to be affixed to a peti-
-a directly and personally le yelled against himself ?
1, no, will his Lordship say, you have petitioned
already, and until you understand good
7eeding better, and are brought a little more to your
nses, f shall lock up the Seals in my strong box at
-ronnock. in the mean time, what becomes erf this
of thinking and speaking ? Are you certain
'it can get the better of his Lordship ? Be not
conkident of this. Ent if relief may be had, how I
't to be get at ? Tierfttineli the medium of a strug-
eith your own Chanceller inkVestrrinster llall ;
:;it, to rescue from violence that first article in
tdetrical Bill of Rights, the right of declaring
ni.imenrei ; an action
‹;ainst the Keeper of the:
aye,l* the University tor running away with j
ynet deilv!,- your then, to Lord CIIEN-i
for ti.e peipose only of die-If:fling yourselves
oely -,et..i:oti of defence •igainst his attacks ?
rein de to s, oh ithitios rout under-gra-
app:euil for zinispheriireceeou.
proccei rn t.., the examination of .t point
ereei mince to the interests of the Univer-•
wetiki in reality be the effect of
and the operation of the
of the Catholic Test La-.vs, no far as the Uni-
ceneerred, for :he chscussion of this measure
weilid require twenty letters in-
e one,. Let us look therefore at its peculiar
our,elecs. Yon ale aware that at pre-
., re:cited bar:lees which prevent the admis-
Ca:holies into c mploymeias under Govern-
?, the necramental test, and the oath of ah-
, netli eorne others of the striae
d C!1:`;%-ti r.t vernp.:,,cs to ab(lsh, Pr d in
:e Sl:bh:l'ute en oath or protestation,
to the taste of the Catholic:, which
!.tipposed to he a renunciation of the
power of the See of P.ory.. in this country.
;ley/ etialificatien the Catholics are to be
Zhe Members of the fetablished
.I.lreissibLity to the legislative, as well as
and executive fimction what-
?. Jet: alco well await that at present the
eec:s, ;0;1 the oily t Jl7, which by local Sta-
U;ll:er,ity ;.tand in the way of Catholics,
.-.:tee Dail: of abjuration, and the subscription
.. articles. Now I will ask any man,
e. et. C. possibly believe that these religious
ceielfeaticns can be kept on foot in the
y, when the very same, and all others of si-
••7ite rt, have been suppressed and abolished in
partnieat of the state ? Will Lord GREN.
allow the Catholics to be pricked and teased
f. se Le iars ard thorns at Oxford, which he has
root and branch in every other pa;t of the

King's dominions ? Do
you really think that after ]
his Lordship has taken down the doors of all the
Courts of Justice, of the Horse Guards, the Admi-
ralty, the Parliament House, the Council Chaniber,
and the Closet ofehe Sovereign, for the introduction
of Papists, that the University alone will be indulged
with their exclusion ? When this public Equaliza-
tion Law has passed, your College gates will tumble
from their rusty, crazy hinges with a single kick.—
The Catholics will not take the trouble of picking the
lock, though in the reign of JAMES 11. they were not
inexpert at that work, and, as we recollect, got pos-
session of the cloysters at Magdalen. I assert it then
to be a consequence directly and necessarily flowing
from Lord GRENYILLE's equalizing principle, that
Catholic Laymen will obtain a right of matriculation
in the University. How can it be refused to them
by Lord GRENvILEE, consistently with his own hy-
pothesis ? Put if it should, will they put up with a
iefusal ? No, they will read to his Lordship, his own
protest, and possibly they may throw it in his face, as
a voucher to prove that whatever they demand they
must have. If the public law is sacrificed to their
whiles, will the private law remain unaltered ? lithe
Constitution of the State itself is new modelled be-
cause they require it, is it to be imagined that their
modesty, delicacy, or forbearance, will abstain from
insisting that the municipal Constitution of the Uni-
versity should be surrendered to them also ? Very
short-lived indeed will be the Lex Loci of the Univer-
s;ty, when every public law which a Papist objects to
shall have been erased by Lord GRENVILLE from the
Statute Book. The Members of the Catholic Com-
munion may, from that moment, without difficulty,
be Undergraduates, Fellows, and Heads of Colleges,
Tutors, Professors, and Magistrates of the University;
nay, a Catholic might even become our Chancellor :
for if my supposition of fact be true, that religious
Tests will vanish at Oxford, as I say they must do,
as soon as Lord GRENVILLE has put an extinguisher
upon them in every other quarter of the empire, my
deduction is indisputable, that every place and pre-
ferment in the Univetsity tenable by a Layman, will
instantly become accessible to the Lay Catholic as well
as to the Lay PrAtestant ; for nothing as I have before
shewn impedes the matriculation of Catholics, except
those religious tests, which, for all CIVIL purposes,
and in ALL other places throughout the whole Em-
pire, are to be superseded by Lord GItENVILLE's sys-
tem. I have spoken only of the Lay or Civil branch
of the University, that is, of those is ho are not bound
to take Orders by the Statutes of the different colleges:
all these, I say, might be papists : a pretty consider-
ahle limb of the Whole ! I do not stop hereto ask how
the clerical branch of it will stand its ground "tariet
cum proximus artist ?" Whether Lord GRENVILLE has
thought of these things I know not, but if he has they
may be precisely what he wishes ; he Iliay think, per-
haps, that the reformation itself is become obsolete, and
ought, like an olcl worn out servant, to be put upon
ihe suferanr.uated list, in order to make way for some
fresh hands now out of employ, but likely to be a
little more bustling and active. We must prepare
ourselves for something splendid ; for Lord GRES-
vILLE told the House of Lords that the force of reason,
!.ke the rays of the sun, was breakiq out upon them. I
do indeed'expect from his Lordship something very
resplendent, and so ought the University too : I can
imagine the illumination which is to issue forth and
beam upon us froth all the pores of his threatened
Catholic Bill ; and I have (feebly I admit) endea-
voured to describe some few of its rays ; but for one,
I declare that I dread the coming of this solstice of
lustre: I know that it ve ill bring heat with it, as well
as light, and I am alarmed for myself and the whole
University, lest it be too much for us, and affect us
like a coup de scleil. When I observe the cors:LT:ll-
- confidence of Lord CRENvILLE, and when I
hear him treat as visionary those apprehensions which
till the present moment have been deemed well found-
ed, what have I for my security but his speculation ?
One of his Lordship's theories is, that the Catholic
few cannot injure the Protestant many; that their
strength is insufficient thotigh their designs were mis-
chievcus : he ridicules the idea of numbers being
over-ruled, and supposes that the mass of a People
may repose with safety mole sua. To this maxiM
of Lord.GRENVILLE I shall oppose the wisdom of our
illustrious CLARENDON, for whose chair his Lordship
is so vehemently struggling. I am told by that great
man, an eye-witness to the troubles of former times,
that the disasters which he relates were not produced
by a vmeral coidination and universal allartacy j the
whole nation frcm rfligion and allesiance. I learn
from him that a country than be overthrown, from
causes limited and partial, against the real voice of
:he people, and the preponderancy of mere numbers.
Lord GRENVILLE tells us, that we want no protection
from the Catholics, nor bolts or bars, no boundaries
or scearatiens between us ; that see have nothing
more to do, when his Catholic Bill has passed, than
to go to bed without a safeguard, in the same securi•
ty as our forefathers did with it, reposing in the con-
sciousness of oar own innocence; but the Noble His-
torian, who has better explored the springs of public I
mischief and disturbance, instructs us that one main
source of the commotions he saw was, the " januit-
ting Me innocent to he possessed with laziness and sleep in
the most visible article of danger." Against this lethargy,
I for one will keep my eyes open. In the election of
Lord Gime:nue to be our Chancellor, quod Deus
avertat, I ea,. discern the seed plot of future misfor-
tune to the University, and every branch of our ex-
isting establishments. As far as I can, the:•efore, I
will resist the CRENVILLITT:S ; for it is the conviction
of my mind, that if the University once submits. to
the dominion of GRENVILLISM, the day is not far ois-
rant when it must stoop the head under the yoke Of
Catholfc:sin. AN INDErk;NDENT :kIAsTER.

Mr. I-Ittrat Ixnrs has been returned for Ross-shire,l
after a warm contest, in which the candidates were'
nearly on a par.
The Rev. DANIEL NiunnAv was last week e onseL
crated Archbishop of Therapolis, an ancient See in
Phrygia. The ceremony took place in Liffey-street
Chapel, Dublin.
At no period has our Indian Commerce suffered'
greater losses than within the last 12 months; 15 or'
16 vessels having been captured or lost within that
time.
-1
The footpad who has committed so many rob:
beries of late, in the neighbourhood of Corbam, in,
Hampshire, was shotin the thigh, and taken by an
Officer belonging to the ath Regiment, on Tuesday
night last. •

LAID INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY.
GOMPURTY V. GOMPERTY•

This was a question on the, construction of a will,
The testator divided his property into fifteen share;—
two shares to each of five sons ; one share each to
four daughters ; and one share to the children of a
daughter deceascd ; velth an option to the sons to
pay to each of the diughters £3000,, in lieu of their
shares—but giving the father of the deceased dati:_th-
tees children an Option whether to accept of this
.£3OOO or take his share. The sons paid the daugh-
ter's 4:3000 each for their shares—khe Lather of the
children of the deceased daughter insisted upon his
share. The daughters were to have the interest far
life—the capital at their deaths to. go to their lawful
heirs. There were two qu-estions here—) st. 'Whe-
ther the surplus of the shares of the daughters, after
paying their £3OOO each, belonged to the brothers
only, or whether the children of the deceased daugh-
ter had not a right to an llth share of it-2d. VYbe-
ther the words ' lawful heirs' did not give an abso•
lute property to the daughters in their shares, and of
course to the sons who purchased them, notwithstan•
ding the limitation ?
The CHANCELLOR decided, that the surplus be.
longed to the sons only—that in the daughters' shares
they had only a life estate—remainder to their lawful
heirs—and thatlAwFtm heirs are here meant children.

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