The Sun.
London, England, 1852-10-02 00:00:00

PORTRAITS

OF
WELLINGTON AND SOITLT,

WITH MEMOIRS AND FAC-SIMILES OF THEIR HAND-

WRITINGS.
A PORTRAIT OF
THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON

TOGETHER WITH
THE MOST

SPLENDID LIKENESS OF SOULT
EVER TAKEN,
BY WY ON,

FOR WHICH THE MARSHAL SAT SLX TIMES,

IS THIS DAY PUBLISHED,
AT THE SUN OFFICE, 112, STRAND,

PRICE SIXPENCE.
Sim Office, Oat. 1, 1852.

WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
acs OAT _sfornale 2 min. after 4 I Evening 16 min. after 4
To- Moaaow—morning 30 min. after l I Evening 46 min. after 4

THE WEATHER,—StaI OFFICE, OcroBER 2,
TREETtaomEncE, DI THE SHADE.
56—highest since noon yesterday.
44—lowest this morning and during the night.
53—thin day, at noon.

BARONETS% 29.45.
WIND S.W.—light breeze and cloudy, with occasional
sunshine.

DAILY WEATHER TABLE.
::fate of the Wind and Weather at each of the following
paces at Nine o'clock yesterday morning.—
The stations
ar Arranged in order of latitude.
HA rrnfas—WindN.W., fresh breeze—partially cloudy.
c,GKE„TroNs—W Ind N., gentle breeze—overcast.
Tunrkinfooff,—Wind S.E., calm—partially cloudy.
BearrrasToKz—Wind W., hard wind—partially cloudy.
GREEN
fug—Wind S.W., strong breeze—overcast.
letr D—Wind S.W., hard wind—partially cloudy.
SwieDoN—Wind W., light airs—partially cloudy.
Uinta Wind W., gentle breeze—cloudless.
Yauxotrra_virind W., gentle breeze—cloudless.
The returns from the following places indicate the Mato of
the wind and weather on hurslay morning at nine
o'clock

TAW snunc—Wind N. gentle breeze —cloudless.
M ULLINGAR—VI ind N., strong breeze—partially cloudy.
lauciftrrom—Win4 W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
Cutoilicairsu—Wind S.W., strong breeze overcast.
HOLYHEAD—Wind N.W., hard wind--overcast.
LANcAsTER--Wind N.W.
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WHlTBY—UM—overcast.
Dicarartarort—Wind W., strong breeze—partially cloudy.
B:ap Wind N. W., strong breeze—gain.
13,,ArrocK—Wind N., strong breeze rain,

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It is gratifying to observe that additional proofs of
his capacity have recently been afforded by the
Noble Earl at the head of the present Government.
Unfortunately, however, these evidences of superior
judgment have referred less to the skill required in
the labours of administration, than to the discernment
imperatively requisite in the distribution of the more
coveted badges of honour, and of those offices which
are the most peculiarly characterised by the mingled
attributes of power and responsibility. Further than
this the testimonies to which we are here alluding
could scarcely go, prior to the long and anxiously
expected revelation of the Ministerial policy on the
assemblage of the newly-elected Parliament. Until
en the nation cannot look to the DEBar Cabinet for

the exercise of the more delicate and difficult fuw

tions devolving upon the rulers of England, in
obedience to the complex working of the exquisitely
balanced machinery of her Constitution. Until the
views of that Cabinet have been deliberately and
minutely explained the people of the United King-
doms cannot reasonably anticipate the commencement
of those endeavours at legislative improvement which
can alone tend to consolidate the fabric of an Adminis-
tration. All that can be required by the community, be-
fore then, front the Earl of DEBBY and his colleagues, is
the judicious regulation of those duties which con-
duce to the ordinary, or, as
them, the elementary we may correctly term
operations of government. Those
duties, we mean, of conserving the public peace
without interruption, of securing the inviolability of
the laws,
and of so conducting the intercourse of the
State with foreign powers as to assure the mainte-
nance of international tranquillity. Forinasmuch
as the existing Ministry have acted in these respects
creditably to themselves and satisfactorily to the po-
pulation, they have dissipated many of the fears en-
tertained in their regard by the conscientious and un-
prejudiced members of the Opposition. The country
is, in this manner, prepared to await the disclosure
of the ultimate intentions of the Cabinet in a mood
somewhat more encouraging than could have been
anticipated in February by even the most
sanguine among the many hopeful supporters
of the Administration. Meanwhile, in ad-
dition to the last mentioned of the Ministerial
claims upon the popular consideration, there are, as
before intimated, those recent and, as it were, sup-
plementary tokens of the capacity of the PRIME 21.1 I.•
NISTER) which are discernible in his very skilful se-
lection in one quarter of the individuals best entitled
to some honourable evidence of distinction, and in
another of those most happily suited to some onerous
and elevated appointment.
Everybody—under the very peculiar circumstances
of the case—has united in hailing with satisfaction
the nomination of Viscount HAEDIiiGE as the imme-
diate successor at the Horse Guards of his Grace the
llte Duke of 'WELLINGTON. Mere considerations of
precedence have, for the time being, we cannot but
think wisely, been forgotten. It seems to have been
admitted at'once that „the principal organizer of the
Militia Bill would be conveniently welcomed at
the present juncture as Commander-in-Chief—
while his previous elevation to the rank of
Master-General of the Ordnance appeared to have
prepared the way for his probable, if not inevitable,
promotion. Scarcely less unanimous have been the
opinions expressed by all parties in reference to the
other steps taken by Lord DERBY for the filling up
of important vacancies—vacancies for the most part
consequent upon the lamented death of the hero
whose remains the nation is about to honour ia a
signal manner by the performance of solemn obsequies
at the public expense under the dome of St. Paul's
Cathedral.

Simultaneously with the selection of worthy suc-
cessors to the appointments which we have above
implied, and which it would have been altogether
needless to have enumerated, the responsibility of
awarding two Garters lately devolved upon the First
Lord of the Treasury—the one vacant by the death of
the Duke of HAMILTON, the other by the death of the
Duke of WELLINGTON. It may now beremarked that in
these particulars, as in the others already specified, the
Earl of DERBY has acquitted himself as becomes the
leader of the British Government. Already by his
promptitude the PREMIER has rendered the requisite
number complete by awarding to two of the most
distinguished members of our nobility the dignity of
admission to the most illustrious order of knighthood
in all Christendom. Again, there are the requisite
twenty-four names enrolled under that of the
SOVEREIGN as upon the occasion of its first insti-
tution in 1348—upwards of five hundred years ago—
when the gallant and chivalric Court of the Third
EDWARD was first dazzled by the embroidered
splendours of the cloak, and the tunic, and the su-
pertionic hood, and the two jupons, all powdered
with garters—when tha varying motto of the order
was now—

" It. is. as. it. is."

worked on the border of the KING'S doublet at his
plays on the feast of the Epiphany; and now again—
" Hay, hay, the wy the swan,
By Grcle3 scee I am thy msa,"

emblazoned on the royal shield when his MAJESTY
proceeded in state to the City of Oxford ; end yet at
another time, upon EDWARD'S return from the conti-
nent, that quaint old inscription " Hony soit q.
mel y pense," which hes for five centuries glittered
in diamonds on the bosom of the English Sovereign.
The garter rendered vacant by the demise of the
Duke of HAMILTON it may now be remarked has
teen judiciously conferred upon the First Lord of
the Admiralty—eminent services to the conutty, nu
ancient name, enormous possessions and very consi-
derable influence both professional and roieistelial,
having pointed out es a fitting recipient of that high
honour his Grace the Duke of NowraustnEnnaND.
Perhaps yet more commendable, certainly still more
appropriate, is the selection of the other
recipient of the Garter the recipient of '
the Garter placed at the disposal of the
Crown by the irreparable loss sustained by the
country in the death of the late illustrious Duke of
WELLINGTON. To this extraordinary and two-fold
privilege—the privilege of wearing the Garter, and
that Garter the one rendered vacant by the demise of
the greatest soldier of England—has been chose,.) a
Peer whose services both is the camp and in
council seem to have at once pointed him out:as tue
fittest successor to the collar and the star decorating
during so many years the bosom of the conqueror of
the Iberian Peninsula. It was only what might have
been expected by those familiar with the history of
the last European war—that her MAJESTY should
now, through the First Minister of her Crown, be
graciously pleased to confer these eminent badges of
knighthood upon no other personage than the veteran
Marquis of LONDONDERRY. It cannot be readily
forgotten in England that to the brother of Lord
LONDONDERRY was in no small measure attributable
the glory of those memorable victories which gained
so much influence over Europe to this empire,
and so much renown to the career of the
Duke of WELLINGTON—for it must be re-
membered that it was Viscount CASTLEREAGH who
placed Sir ARTHUR WELLESLEY (in opposition
to the expressed wishes
King GEORGE IIL) at the
of
head of our forces in the kingdoms of Spain and Por-
tugal. It was to this judicious selection of Lord
CASTLEREAGH, therefore, that the subsequent triumph
of the arms of Great Britain must be directly trace-
able—and it appears consequently but reasonable that
now, in 1852, upon the death in his old age of
ARTHUR WELLESLEY, the Great Duke of Welling-
ton, the brother of thp Pais? Itkeinerien who first
2411,rc10d that renowned Captain the opportunity of
directing the destinies of the continent should be
chOien to succeed to the vacant Garter—among the
most cherished prizes won by his keen sword, the
guerdon of his redoubtable achievements. Added to
these remarkable claims of relationship, the Marquis
of LONDONDERRY possesses others of a more personal
character, namely, those of his own distinguished ser-
vices as a General officer in the armies of Great Britain.
What those services are the world has long since learnt
through the records of its military historian. Se-
lected by Sir ARTHUR WELLESLEY to accompany him
on his appointment to the command of the English
forces in Portugal, the brother of Lord CASTLEREAGH
the Marquis of LONDONDERRY, but then simply
s cos seees STEWART—never left the side of the
future Duke of K ELLINGTON throughout the long
and stormydays when our troops
were fighting in
the Peninsula against
some of the most celebrated
Marshals of NAPOLEON—against SOULT, who had
carried the imp ?rial crown on the day of coronation,
and against MAssENA, called by the EMPEROR him-
self the Spoilt Child of Victory. Glancing over the
luminous annals penned by Sir WILLIAM NAPIER,
the name of Sir CHARLES STEWART occurs frequently
enough to show that he took part not only in almost
every battle, but it, almost every skirmish
that illustrated that protracted and momen-
tous struggle for predominance in the Peninsu:.:.
Several times wounded, he repeatedly gave e_-
dence of his daring as a soldier, as he afterwards e.;
of his skill as a diplomatist. At the battle of A:.
buera, Sir CHARLES STEWART commanded the second
British division in the centre, at the point where the
principal attack was anticipated, and
at the head of the leading brigade when the French
hussars and the Polish lancers broke suddenly with a
terrible charge upon the rear, while the regiments

were in the act of deploying. Previously—at the
battle of Fuentes d'On9re—while gallantly leading
the Allied cavalry against the enemy, General
CHARLES STEWART took prisoner in the melee, with
his own band, LAMOTTE, the Colonel of one of the
French regiments. His ability in conducting nego-
tiations of very considerable importance was
no less conspicuously displayed than his gal-
lantry in actual conflict. It is not forgotten
by any of the historians of those stirring times, that
it was Sir CHARLES STEWART Who, in the April of
1813, on being sent to the north of Germany by the
British Government for the purpose of accelerating
the conclusion of a regular treaty between Prussia
and Great Britain, induced the Berlin Cabinet to
consent to the terms of the coalition. It was Sir
CHARLES STEWART, moreover, who with Pozzo DI
Boßao contrived in the same year, by what one
annalist has termed their "able and courteous efforts,"
to overcome the formidable vacillation of the Crown
Prince of Sweden—BERNADOTTE. It was Sir
CHARLES STEWART who, with four other diplomatists
of sufficient celebrity—with HARDENBERG, ABER-
DEEN, D'ANSTETT, and METTERNlCH—accomplished
the almost bewildering task of reconciling the con-
flicting jealousies and opposing interests which
continued for a long while rife at the
Allied head-quarters. Speaking of the deter-
mination and skill with which Sir CHARLES
STEWART and Pozzo DI BORGO combatted the evils
resulting from the changeable temperament of BER..
NADOTTE, Sir ARCHIBALD ALIsoN observes that " for-
tunately for the allies their interests were at this
juncture supported at the head-quarters of the Prince
Royal of Sweden by men whose discernment showed
them where the decisive point lay, and whose moral
courage rendered them equal to the task of enforcing
it upon the commander." Happily for the British
Envoy he was empowered at this period to speak with
more that accustomed authority—directing as he did
the disbursements of the British subsidies. Happily
for England he was capable of employing that au-
thority with more than ordinary vigour, and as was
shown by the event, with more than usual efficiency.
In testimony of the resolution and adroitness
of the course pursued at this momentous
crisis by Sir CHARLES STEWART, it is only necessary
to refer to the written remonstrances addressed by
him to the Crown Prince of SWEDEN—those remon-
strances "penned with respect but military frank-
ness, and breathing a warm but not undeserved spirit
of patriotic; indignation," which Sir ARCHIBALD
ALISON has declared " remain enduring monuments
both of the tortuous policy of BERNADOTTE at that
period, and of the clear military discernment and un-
flinching moral courage of the Marquis of LONDON..
DERRY." Additional testimonies of a similar de-
scription might readily be adduced from the pages of
history—but it is surely enough to call that one other
to the popular remembrance by which Sir CHARLES
STEWART, in preventing a capitulation being granted
to DAVOUST and the garrison of Hamburgb, secured
the Allies from the perils that must inevitably bare
resulted—perils which the annalist of Europe asserts
" might have entirely changed the fate of the war
next spring in France"—from the restoration
'of twenty-five thousand veteran troops to the standards
g
of NAPOLEON 1 It is by a graceful and appropriate
selection, therefore, which the people of England
cannot fail to appreciate, that the brother of Viscount
CASTLBREA.GH—the brother of the Prime Minister
who placed Sir ARTHUR WELLESLEY at the head of
the British forces in Portugal—has been named to
the vacant Garter immediately upon the death of the
Duke of WELLINGTON. Bearing in recollection the
achievements of that great commander, and the very
admirable manner in which those achievements were
seconded by the prowess and the abilities of Sir
CHARLES STEWART, we rest assured that the country
will receive with satisfaction the announcement that
the high badges of the first order of knighthood have
been thus conferred by the SOVEREIGN upon the
veteran Marquis of LONDONDERRY.

On Thursday afternoon, at the launch of an Aus-
tralian emigration ship, at Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
some remarks were made by Mr. W. S. LINDSAY,
M.P., the great shipowner, in which be certainly
struck the key-note of practical reform. After
glancing at certain mercantile matters to which the
Government should attend—such as the system of
Consulate abroad, the Trinity-house, and the Dover
and Ramsgate dues—Mr. LINDSAY added, " And
now that the great Ganerrl who held the office of
Warden of the Cinque Ports had gone to his rest,
he could not help expressing his surprise that Lord
DERBY, the First Minister of the Crown, who had
always said that he felt for the shipowners, and de-
sired to see their burthens removed, should have
stepped into one of these burthens himself, and ap -
pointed himself to this sinecure of 3,0001.
a year, the revenue for the maintenance of which
was drawn from the pockets of the shipowners of
England. It would have better become him, consi-
dering the professions he had made, if, instead of ac-
cepting that office, he had abolished i►."
Of all men in England, the Earl of DERBY is one
of the last who is fairly open to a charge of money-
loving. Of that everybody will acquit him. But it
seems to us that, if he has taken to himself the War-
denship of the Cinque Ports (and as yet there is no
official announcement to that effect), he has acted
without due consideration. The time has arrived
when sinecures should be done away with. True it
is that this Cinque Porta'Wardenship has been a sort
of political heir-loom attached to the Premier-
ship from a period " beyond the memory
of the oldest inhabitant." It became vacant
during Mr. PITT'S Government, and Mr. PITT gave it
to himself. So it was taken by others ; so by Lord
LIVERPOOL; SO by the Duke of WELLINGTON. But,
in these times of reform, when retrenchment is so

loudly called for, we think the Minister should pause
ere, by following the practise of his predecessor, he
perpetuate, in his own person, a sinecure of such ex-
tent. We think, however, that Mr. LINDSAY appears

to have rashly assumed that there was truth in the
rumour of the Wardenship being taken, in succes-
sion, by Lord DERBY. That is as yet only a report.
The actual salary of the office is not more than 4001.
a-year, with Walmer Castle as a residence, and we
think it very probable that if the PREMIER take
the appointment, he will not accept the fees, &c.,
which increase the income to between three and
four thousand a year, " out of the pockets,"
as Mr. LINDSAY says, "of the shipowners of
England." There is no reason whatever why
the Wardenship, moderately remunerated, should
not be taken by the Earl of DERBY. There
are responsible duties attached to the office,
which must be performed by somebody, and the high
rank and undoubted ability of Lord DERBY certainly
should not be disqualifications. Moreover, we venture
to predict—from the Noble Earl's known liberality—
that his occasional occupancy of Walmer Castle would
very materially benefit Dover and other places in its
vicinity, for his expenditure there during any one
month would much exceed his whole annual salary from
the appointment, and he would do good service to the
State, by practical example, if he accepted the mere
salary, relinquishing the additions from fees, &c.
" Nothing to do, and well-paid for doing it," is
the well-known definition of a sinecure. The time
is fast approaching, we trust, when, as every do-
nothing and receive-much office becomes vacant, it
will be left vacant. It is not by twopenny retrench-
ments in the salaries of clerks that public economy is
he actual work are, for the most part,
to be carried into practice. On the contrary, the
people who do t
very inadequately paid. The great sinecures are the
nuisances.

For example, there is the hereditary sinecure which
the Dukes of GRAFTON have enjoyed since the titre
of CHARLES IL There then was a woman,
called BARBARA Armaarts, one of his " Most Sacred
Majesty's" fair favourites, who finally
was raised
to the Peerage of England, by the title of Duchess of
CLETELAND. One of her children, of which she said
King CHARLES was the father, was created Duke of
GRAFTON, and, to support the dignity of this " illus-
trious" illegitimate, a Royal grant was made, giving
to him and to his descendants for ever the annual sum
of £7,191 125., out of the Excise, and £3,407 10°,
out of the revenue of the Post-office, making a total of
£10,599 2s. per annum. These grants were made more
than a hundred and seventy years ago, and (as we have I
shown on previous occasions), if all the public money
thus received by the Dukes of GRAFTON had been put
out at accumulating interest, the sum total would now I
have exceeded Twelve Hundred Millions Sterling