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THE BRITISH PRESS.

LONDON,
MONDAY. Sgrrimoss 16, 1822.

A Privy Council is summoned for this rhiy et
Carlto* Palace, at which Mr. CANNING will I,e.
11110.11 into Othrll as Secretary of State for Fureigu
Affairs. The public mind has been (ally prepared
for this result. It has been confidently anticipated
mdainnnaenr,nuautocewdhichhimtsbeen Rresd;igh
sHinoestaouthrzebiLe
ivGerepoot°lei
to devote his talents in any way that might be coon.
dered useful to his country—and, he might have
added, most agreeable to himself. Ministers has.
ing resolved not to look for a recruit out of their
own ranks, we do not know soy ether subject
for promotion. It was flobson's choice with them.
But -although Mr. CANNING be the most eligible
of the ministerial party to succeed the Marquis of
LONDONDERRY in the Foreign Office, and as
leader of the Treasury Bench in the House of
Commons, it does not follow that he is fit for the
duty. When he formerly filled the office of
Foreign Secretary, he did not appear to great
vantage in that department. His language is his
correspondence with the United States of Ame-
rica astonished the diplomatic corps by its pro-
lixity and want of clearness and precision. In spirit
it was petulant and provoking. and displayed
nothing of the depth and comprehension of a
Statesman. Any deficiency in this department is
perhops, however, of comparatively inferior im-
portance at the present moment. It is as
Ministerial Leader in the House of Commons
his talents are principally wanted. That is now
the field of battle that excites the greatest
interest. The military campaigns in Rassis,
in Germany, in France, have passed away, and
their place is supplied in the public mind by
the battles between the contending parties in the
House of Commons—between economy and pro.
fusion—between retrenchment and extravagance—
between reform and corruption—between the spirit
of liberty and intolerance—between those who fatten
upon the industry of the country and those who are
ground into the earth by the weight of taxation to sop.
port them. He may be the most eligible of the minis.
terial party as a leader in this war; the great question
comes, is he fit for the task altogether, sod may we
expect to find him of only half the proportions of the
Hercules, be his faults and failings what they mat,
whom he denounced iecopabk, and yet under
whom be meanly submitted to receive office, place,
and pension ? Mr. CANNING has spirit, life,
and vivacity to figure as a Guerilla Chief. As
Captain of the `'elites he might skirmish with
success in front of the Roman legion, aye, mud mix
with it in battle with effect, but he wants the
strength, the temper, the judgment, and the firm-
ness necessary to conduct and direct an army. He
will have all the corrupt influence that the Treasury
affords to facilitate the workings of the machine
of Government, but he does not possess the moral
influence, which is not less requisite for his place.
Mr. PITT and the Marquis of LONDONDERRY, his
immediate predecessors, it is true, abandoned
the cause of Reform, in which they commenced their
career, but from the time of their desertion they
continued consistent in their course to their deaths.
Mr. CANNING, always shifting and changing, has
acknowledged the influence of little and paltry mo-
tives, utterly inconsistent with dignity or greatness
of mind.

We have ►eceived the Paris Papers up to Friday.
They continue to announce the arrival of important
diplomatic personages at Vienna. Their foreign
intelligence is uninteresting, with the exception of
the announcement of the taking of Saragossa by the
Trappist, which is published on the authority of a
private letter.
The Court of Poitiers had nearly terminated 01
labours. The 11th was appointed to be the duai
sitting, when the President was to sum up the en•
deuce. From a review of the proceedings it may
be anticipated that the cause of justice would not
suffer from the influence of any partiality infirvi.ur
of the prisoners in his charge to the Jury. Vie
French Funds are steady. The following or
extracts :

PARIS, SEPTEMBER 14.
Yesterday the King preluded at a Cuui 1 •f
Ministers.

M. Schruler, the Husain° Charge d'Affriiri ,1.,•
ing the absence of General Porto di Bo! go.
been presented to his Majesty in that
On the 30th of July I.ist the Sieurshien end
Conder, both condemned to fire years illepribon-
malt for not hosing given information of the roc•
apiracy of Sountur, succeeded in making t),r,t
escape from the prison of Montaigii. HYMN,
turnkey, and Bonder Appert, director of t!?
school of mutual instruction without the rriEw.,
were yesterday brought before the Tribunal
Correctional Police, charged with having sided t!,'
prisoners iu their escape. A great number of P.;•

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