The Sun.
London, England, 1852-11-18 00:00:00

LONDON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1852.

England has on this day offered the crowning tribute
of her homage to the memory of his Grace the Duke of
WELLINGTON. She has closed, by a magnificent funeral
ovation, the catalogue of those majestic testimonials
which ARTHUR WELLESLEY received during his life,
4 time, rather from the popular appreciation than from
the national munificence. For it must be remembered
that the honours, the dignities, and the emoluments
showered upon the illustrious dead in such abounding
profusion, were his less by the grape of generosity than
•by the right of his own achievements. Everything
that the departed warrior has received, he has
—let us never forget this in his regard—" re-
ceived from the justice or the gratitude of his
country " not from the liberality of the Legisla-
*, ture, not from the magnanimity of the Govern-
. meat, not from the hospitality of the empire ; but, as it
1, were, from the conscience of the country, from its jus-
.- tice and gratitude. He was created by England—this
g (ra,t man who is dead, and who has this day been
sotmnly interred by the dignitaries of the land under
the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral—he was created by
England a Baron, and a Viscount, and an Earl, and a
Marquis, and a Duke. He was presented by her,
in two superb grants, with a fortune of half a million
• of money sterling in the aggregate. She gave him a
• home in the princely domain of Strathfieldsaye. She con-
', stituted him at different periods her Prime Minister, her
. Foreign Secretary, and her Ambassador successively at
Faris and at St. Petersburgh. She made him the Com-
mander-in-Chief of her Forces. She nominated him
tlll° Custodian of her Tower of London. She rendered
.1.
a manner the guardian of her coasts, by placing
.t him at the head of her Cinque Ports, by the titles of
4, Ward
. en, of Admiral, and of Chancellor. She selected
r.• m to act as her Lord High Constable upon three
several occasions of extraordinary and historical interest
—upon the days
li .
GEORGE IV when the eges, first of KING
and lastly ',and afterwards of KING WILLIAM IV.,
ofQUEEN VICTORIA, assembled under
the venerableiZ coronation.
of Westminster to witness the august
' ceremonies
of nation. England, by these and
$4 similar acts of grandeur, evidenced her admiration for
i. A4THErIi, the first, and
as as,:
will henceforth be called
k the Great DUKE of \\Tuma.:o Tel:)
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foremost place in her Imperial
-4' of his prolonged and memorableve
;
1 this day, after his demise, give
n bun a grave in the
r 1 noblest of her cathedrals. Yet, resplendent as have been
; these tokens of her regard for her glorious chieftain,
it
must still, we repeat, be borne sedulously in recollection
t' that, in receiving them, the deceased received them
the justice or gratitude of his country"—notfromits g omene.
• rosity or its munificence. It is
i the decree of history It
is no mere passing opinion. It s the calm and deliberated
sentence pronounced by the voice of.
the annalist—it alist is
7, the expression, in short, uttered by ALISON in the noble
introductory volume (p. 131) of that great "History',
through which, by a daring effort, he is about to bring
4 the records of civilised Europe down to the days of hi
s
A immediate contemporaries. Yes ! it is to the "justice
or gratitude "of the British nation—and not to its
":4 liberality—that are to be attributed all the splendours of
this astonishing career, as well as all the pomps of those
memorable obsequies of this morning, by which it may
be said to have been, in a manner, appropriately con- ,
summated.

Remember (and we say this earnestly to those with
whom we ourselves most peculiarly sympathise, we