The National Register.
London, England, 1809-11-12 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

to the vigour of Lord LIVERPOOL, the Navy to the direc-
tion of Lord MULGRAVE, and Lord BATHURST at the head
of the Foreign Department t To heighten the resem-
blance. to preserve all the extravagant consistency of the
original, because GITLLIVER alludes to one man of sense
he foulid in the island, and who was an object of general
contempt and persecution, our own worthy Statesmen
were not satisfied, until they expelled from their body, one ,
solitary member, who had the misfortune to possess some
intellects. The expulsion of Mr. CANNING will be an eter-
nal ntemorial of their fortunate discrimination. If sense,
probity, independence, and genius, are thought inconsistent
with the qualifications of a real LArUTAN, no man iu this
country, we are hold to say, had less retentions to that
distinction than that very Gentleman. It is worthy of re-
nyuk, that the drudges of both parties have honour-
ed Mr. CANNING with peculiar marks of insolence and
hostility. This brutality towards a man, who,/ whilst
in place, was extolled to the skies, is a most excel-
lent illustration of the fable of the sick Lion. Even
The Times, from which we would have expected
more liberality and independence, joined in this dastardly
yelping. It may be fit to explain this general antipathy.
Mr. CANNING belongs to neither party ; and has talents
and reputation to render him formidable to both. Each
apprehends in him a very dangerous rival ; and if the fa-
vourable opinion of the country has any influence on the
advancement of a public character, their apprehension is
well founded. We are happy this opportunity offered of
explaining the motives of the persecution, to which the
character of that Gentleman,—beyond all comparison the
first Statesman in this country,—has, since his retirement
from office, been exposed. Considering the characters he
associated with, their prejudices, passions, intrigues, and
limited views, we lune not the slightest hesitation in ex-
culpating him from every share in our late disgraces.
His public career has been marked by disinterestedness,
honourable advancement and independence. In his pri-
vate life he is the model of afriend and a Gentleman. had
he not been vilely and artfully misrepresented, had he
been still in power, we should not have intruded this vin-
dication.

We will now terminate this disquisition by a solemn ap-
peal to the good sence of the Public, if it be prudent or
sale, to confide the resources of the country to the men
we have now described. The highest political- wisdom, the
roost enlarged spirit of conciliatnna, arc absolutely requi-
site on the part of our government, to efface from the
memory of the people of the Continent our late dis-
graceful, impolitic, and vacillating conduct. As long as
the present 11inistry are in power, it. would be mad-
ness to expect a change of system. Their existence is
a constant memento of their 'former extravagance and
folly. If a change does not soon take place, we shall
xce those States, which maintain an appearance of in-
dependence, embrace, with ardour, all the measures which
the hostility of France may suggest for our destruction.—
This country, in the present storm, that desolates the world,
is the only beacon to its atlrischted disconsolate inhabitants.
It is the last rallying point of the votaries of freedom. But
should our interference be marred by official ignorance, or
our liberality suspected, in consequence of the prejudiced
and contracted views of the Cabinet,
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thoutd the present helpless 'f Ir feings, lice and
endanger the country, be suffered to remain three months
longer in Ogee, it will then be unnecessary for Duos/A-
PART& tO,Lurl any more decrees agaiust our Commerce, the

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general contempt and distrust, which this cabal must ex-
cite in every Court of the Continent, will render her in-
terference rriectly unnecessary, and hermetrically seal the
Ports of the Continent against our shipping.

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