The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-06-30 00:00:00

THE DUKE9F NEWCASTLE.

Tho following letter from the Duke of Newcastle was read at
; the Nottingham Conservative Festival, on Thursday last; his
' Grace could not attend. Several passages in the letter were
received by the company with cheers:—
London, June 17, 1835.
"Dear Sir,—Your secretary, its the name of the committee;
had signified, in a letter whiCh I received yesterday, an earnest
wish that I would be present at your d nner to-morrow. I an-
swered, that I had a strong inclination to comply with the wish;
and that if I could I would attend. I now find that I cannot
, perform what I certainly desired very much to accomplish. I
regret this for many reasons; but specially because you, ex- •
uressed a desire to see me among you, aril because I should
have derived a sincere and heartfelt pleasure, and a proud
gratification, in meeting on their first grand assemblage such a
noble array of Nottingham conservatives. As patron, too, of
the Constitutional Club; I should have felt that 1 was where I
ought to be if I were supporting you in its chair.
"You know my ardent desire to support and encourage con-
servative principles. I do so from conviction, and not front
party motives. lam a conservative in spirit and in truth.
love and venerate the British constitution; I would, therefore,
preseive it. I have known and benefited by its blessings; and
I would desire to transmit them unimpaired to my latest de-
scendants. I look with fear and trembling at the awful strides
which revolution is daily making in the shape of reform. Un-
der this guise you may pJainly perceive what lamentable inroads
"are successively making upon the institutions of the country. I
do not think that we ourselves sufficiently see the extent of the
evil, or where we shall be placed when concession after con
cession, be they even small or unimportant at first view, shall
have been granted.
" The insidious attacks upon property 'of all kinds cannot fail
to alarm every sound and loyal man. The church, the state, all
that we have hitherto loved and
.venerated, are inveterately at-
tacked.% It must be apparent to you, and All the gentlemen who
ail he assembled with you to-morrow, that a stand, a firm
stand; must be made. It must he equally apparent that you
must make_ your, stand upon tellable ground. Now, in my
judArienti-expediency is not tenable ground-.-it is a rotten cor-
rupt bog and must let you in at last, up to the chin, first, and
_o ver-km(l very quickly after. But principle will do; that is
sound ground; upon that yoif may make a firm and vigorous
stand, There is good and bad—one must not be confounded
with thenther. What is good, and has been proved to be good;
let that be maintained, and let us of Nottinghamshire be the first
to maintain it.

`• Although I cannot, on this. occaSion, have the' pleasure of
meeting you, there may be other occasions; and if my presence
can either contribute to your benefit, or promote the interests
that we have so deeply at heart, communicate your wish, and
will not be slack to attend to it. I write in great haste, and can
barely save the post; but I was most unwilling not to offer these
hurried lines, illegible as they may be.
" Believe me, deal sir, yours very sincerely,
" NEWCASI LE."