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London, England, 1822-08-17 00:00:00

THE LONDON JOUANALS.

EXTII.AGTS' FROM Tin: D i t,ll MORNING PAPERS,
,August 17, 18.22. '
[TISE TIMES.]
We learn by our letters from Edinburgh that
his Majesty cast anchor off Leith, about a mile
and a ball from the shore, at four o'clock on
Wednesday afternoon, having been full four days
on th 1 'voyage, owing to the unfavourable state
of th weather. At the time the Royal yacht
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was discerned bearing up the Frith of Forth, it
was raining heavily, and had done so for some
hours previously ; but ap immense multitude was
'nevertheless collected, who bore the incon-
venience,cheerfully,•in expectation of being gra-
tified by, the sight Of the King's landing, and the
first to welcome him to his- northern kingdom.
An. official communication was, however, made to
the magistrates' of Leith, who were assembled at
the platform and at the Exchange, in readiness to
receive his Majesty, that the landing would not
take place until the following day. It was under-
stood that his Majesty was slightly indisposed from
sea sickness during the heavy gales of Tuesday,
but that the principal reason for his not landing
was the unfavourable state of the weather and the
consequent inconvenience to those attending on
the, ceremonial. We consider it more probable,
however, that his Majesty had then received,
though the event had not generally transpired,
the intelligence of the melancholy death of the
?Marquis of Londonderry, and that the shock it
would necessarily occasion deprived him for the
moment of the spirits requisite to support the
ceremonial of a public entry. All 'the vessels in
the roads fired salutes as the King entered, and
his Majesty,. who appeared on deck in a naval
uniform, acknowledged in the usual manner the
cheers whiCh hailed his arrival.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
It is curious that no private pre-cautionary
measures should have been taken, after.hlS-Ma-
jesty had perceived some marked• indicatiOns of
an unsettled, shaken mind in the late Lord Lon-
donderry, and had communicated with Lord
Liverpool on the subject, the Duke of Welling-
ton having also received a similar impresSion.
Any apparent mistrust of his Lordship's reason
would have been most ill-judged and inhuman ;
but surely it is strange that he should have been
left to proceed on his mission ; a little con-
trivance might have been exercised to obviate,
that. There is no saying what disarders might
not have attended such a state of things. The
nicest discretion, and the highest poweks, be
-
jag committed to one whose mind was per-
ceived to be in an unsettled state,• boding insa-
nity. We, may say, when we see such hap-
hazard work of the body politic, • as of the body
corporate, how. fearfully we are constituted and
wonder 110 that we sutfer-that things go wrong,
but that we are ever free from they
ever go right.

[MORNING POST.]
THE MARQUIS Os LONDONDERRY.--Though
no reflection can dispel the grief we feel while
contemplating the awful event which we have
had to record this week, we at the least have the
consolation of knowing that we are not among
those who, failing to appreciate the virtues and
talents of the Marquis of Londonderry while he
lived, have now to make peace with their con-
sciences, by offering their tribute of praise after
his death. Our admiration of the Minister and
the man we have proved, and fearlessly expressed
in those moments when the deafening clamour of
faction has been most vehement. While calumny
was heaped upon him from almost every quarter,
we have the-proud satisfaction of knowing that We'
spoke the language of praise, which we felt to be
that of truth. It is not therefore necessary fOr
us now to' eulogize on his general merits, but
some particular moments of his life it may be in-
teresting to recall to the recollection of our
readers.. When a charge was formally brought
against the Marquis, then Lord Castlereagh, in the
House of Commons, one of the most remarkable
features in the debate whicharose on that occasion
was furnished by the generous animation with
which the late Mr. Perceval, then Chancellor of
the Exchequer, raised his voice in favour of " the
Minister he esteemed, and the friend he loved."—
The result of that motion we shall not notice,
nor the manly manner in which it was met by
his Lordship, but one circumstance growing out
of it seemed to indicate calmness which nothing
could disturb.—Having made his defence, and
" stripped the case of the aggravations which it
had received," he tranquilly went to the Lyceum,
where the Drury-lane Company were at that
time performing, and while the House of Com-
mons were discussing the charge preferred
against him, Lord Castlereagh was enjoying the
representation of " Grieving's a _Folly."—But
if thus serene, when that was in agitation.
which concerned himself, it would be grossly to
wrong him to suppose that his conduct was
marked by insensibility, where the sorrows of
others were brought under his consideration. In
1812, when Mr. Perceval perished by the hand
of an assassin, a memorable scene was witnessed
in the House of Commons. Those who were
present then can never forget the awfully affect-
ing silence which prevailed when the House
next assembled, which was only broken by the,
appearance of Lord Castlereagh with a message
from the Prince Regent on the subject. His
Lordship addressed the House on the situa-
tion in which the family of the deceased Mini-
ster was plunged ; and the tears of anguish
which burst from him when he mentioned the
distress of the widow, proved how acutely he.

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could " feel for others' woe." The effect can-
not - be described., 'Speech was splendid, but
there was a mute eloquence in his manner which
addressed itself to every heart. What would
have been the impression made at the moment to
which we refer could it have been foreseen that
woe, not less tremendous than, that which lie. theix..l
deplored, was reserved for one so justly dear to 7.
him as the Noble Marchiont>ss,.his Lady, who
has now the affliction to survive him?

[NEW. TIMES./ .
Nothing. can more clearly prove :the salutary
effect of the verdict against the Editor of The
Durham Chronicle, than the outcries made against
it in • The .111orning. Chronicle.. Every day pro-
duce's- a new struggle—a new cry for help—a
new atteinfk.to enlist the passions and prejudices
of some class .of 'persons or other against the la‘y,
and its fair and hottest administration. We..aro .
now told that the liberties of the Dissenters
affected by it. .What liberty ? The liberty. of.
railing-, reviling, and slandering? For that
.is
what Mr. John Ambrose Williams.is found guilty
of. -The Dissenters desire religious freedom ;
but not to use it " as a cloak of malicious-
ness." They.know that " the tongue is .a
a world of iniquity ;" and that in modern days...
the pen and the press fat: outdo the tongue in
" setting on. fire the course of nature." If, there.:
fore, they, are steadily and sincerely attached-to
-what they believe to be the great truths of the
Christian Religion ;. and if they wish (as all ho 7
nest and enlightened men must do) that the
tongue, the pen, and the press shall be free to
declare religious_truths openly and fearlessly,
they are nevertheless deeply impressed with the
Christian duty of doing so charitably and meekly,
without.bitter envying and strife in their hearts,-
without malice and evil-speaking.

[BRITISH PRESS.I'
Tho accounts from Ireland represent the hat--;
vest of that country as being unusually abundant/
but Until we shall have heard the opinion of horil
Liverpool upon the subject, we cannot venture
to congratulate either portion of the United
dommpon this circumstance. For aught that \v-e
can judge, a plentiful harvest mightoccordirfg, tee-
the doctrine of the Noble Earl, 'prove a vety:
great calaMity/ for as over production has bent
the chiefipoperative,cause of the distressed'stafe'
of the empire at large/ it might now prote-a.
serious evil if food could be procured in abun-
dance for a finnishing people ! Lord Liverpool' is ,
great political economist,. and his opinions are
received • with an implicit confidence, and re-
peated with the earnestness of truth by crowds
of hoidsraffoffi eta t- admirers:- but ,v.e7sball-
alwayS':doubt
_the soundness of his 'maxims so
.-long as we`- hall: find them opposed to the ob
vious bounties of Providence,' and .to the iin
mutable'lprinciples of Nature. There is at ,
least one" undoubted advantage attending the
new liarvest';'. it gives employment to la-rge
number of persons, and enables them to
Obtain the means of sdppoct by-their own exer-*
tions. ht iS hence understood that after the 95th
Of this. month all charitable grants to disrresVed- •
disfricts will cease.. This nrithiritarling, how-
•-•
e'ver, as we' presume, refers merely to grants of
money for the purposes of purchasing provisions,
but cities not exclude the continuance of occa-
sional relief for procuring. clothes for the
serable and almost naked peasantry.

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