Letter from Prime Minister Lord John Russell to the Bishop of Durham, denouncing the aggression...

known as the 'Durham Letter'; Lord John Russell (1792-1878) (Prime Minister of Great Britain 1846-52 and 1865-66) states that 'no foreign prince or potentate will be permitted to fasten his fetters upon a nation which has so long and so nobly vindicated its right to freedom of opinion, civil, political and religious'; Edward Maltby (1770-1859) Bishop of Durham (1837-1859); letter also expresses Russell's anxiety about the 'Romish' tendencies of some clergy of the Church of England, writes of the 'glorious principles and immortal martyrs of the Reformation' and condemns the 'mummeries of superstition' of Roman Catholicism; facsimile from 'Facsimiles of Royal, Historical & Literary Autographs in the Department of Manuscripts', British Museum, 4th series, printed for the Trustees, 1898; Add.MS.35068,f.3.;