THE QUEEN AND THE LATE CANON LIDDON.

Press, Volume XLVII, Issue 7731, 10 December 1890, Page 5

THE QUEEN AND THE LATE CANON LIDDON.

An English paper publishes a highly interesting letter -from the late Canon Llddon. It was addressed to a Melbourne gentleman, who had brought under the Can'du's' notice, a gossiping, letter about himself from a London; correspondent of one ot the'Melboiirne T 3, Amen Court. St. Paul's. B.C. , J ~*"" * '".. June3,_S3o. Dear, Sir,--€erifalhly I should advise you to believe very Uttle of the personal, gossip whiclr Is ■, retailed from London, it is true, when" Mr Mac Coll was attacked on'the score ofhls account of the Impaled man who m he $aw on the Save, I thought ,it my duty to bear witness to hia accuracy, by writing* tb But I have no reasba to*suppose that the correspondence, which fqllowed ever attracted the notice r of the Queen. The correspondent speaks of, my preaching before the Queen as '• subsequent to this correspondence. The; only occasion on; which I ever preached before her Majesty was eight years previously. On that occasion • I did not V. imitate Bpssuet," or use any such words ■ ■*»"-:"; And, you,, madam, must also die;' nor did the Queen leave her seat beforethe conclusion of the service. I have ho : means of knowing what her Majesty have said to the late Dean of Windsor. :j But I was. staying .with the Dean^at..the.] time, and what he said to mc was quite inconsistent with the, words the correspondent qjibtes as ; having been used by the Queen. I have the best, reason for knowing that the Queen does not entertain towards mc any feelings less kindly and-gracious; than towards others, of her subjects, and the correspondent Has probably discovered before this that since he wrote his letter her Majesty has offered mc the See of St. Albans, and* t.have had to declipe it,oh the jsrounda of healtb.' I do not authorise you to publish thisletter, because! think it is better never to noticepersonal gossip ''of this sort in the newspapers. people attach no weight to it. Nobody is exactly responsible for the, shapeß takes,; It grows up in the atmosphere of a great capital, and Is necessarily added to by passing from hand to hand. But left to Itself it soon finds its level, while any, public discussion of its merits,may secure for It an undeserved importance.—Believe mc, dear sir, yoors tn4y ' ' "__.F.,Ln>DO_*.*