The Sun.
London, England, 1825-07-16 00:00:00

hibited himself solely as a senatorial pugillist—a
political gladiator—and although he has not in
a single instance come off victorious, he has un-
questionably fought many battles. We have
accordingly sought- him in vain throughout the
Inaugural Discourse which "he delivered on his
installation at Glasgow, for the general lights
of knowledge with which the Head of an Uni-
versity might be expected on such an occasion to
irradiate
.the intellectual sphere wherein he- had
just risen. Alas! the Lord Rector has not less-
disappointed others than he is himself disappoint-
ed. Why, then, leave his natural domicile, the
thick fetid haunts of ignoble squabbles, for the
cool, salubrious, sequestered shades of the 'Aca-
demy ? But we rejoice the experiment has been
made. We always wish to see a performer in a
new character before we decide on his general
talents.—We are happy to have met with Mr.
Brougham as a Lecturer before we stamped him
a Statesman or a Sage.

[TTIE PUBLIC tEDGER.I
By an arrival yesterday of Buenos Ayres
Papers to the sth of May, the long-expected,
but still gratifying intelligence has been received,
that the war in Upper Peru has terminated.—
We learn from the same source, that Olaneta
perished ingloriously, as he was flying with the
wreck of his corps, after the severe defeat he had
received from General Sucre. He was try-
ing to escape with about 700 men, when he
was intercepted by a band or Patriots, who
amounted to 300 at most; and this braggart, who
had a few months before arrogantly promised in
his Proclamations that he would shortly restore
the authority of the arbitrary King, fell mor-
' tally wounded at the onset of the attack.. The fate
of this man, who had cruelly harassed the Upper
Provinces for the long space of 14 years, and
whose misconduct was only equalled by the
tyranny of his proceedings, conveys an excellent
moral lesson ; for he fell, as we said before, in
an inglorious manner, leaving the whole of the
plunder he had amassed, during a long course
of vexatious administration in the hands of
his enemies. We do not know what ho-
nours are reserved for his mer.-.ory by the pre.
sent Government of Spain ; but if it were ca-
pable of estimating men according to their
real deserts, we know the posthumous honours it
would confer on a man, who, by his insubordina-
tion towards his superiors in command, and by
his overweening confidence in his own talents,
may be justly accused of having been one of the
chief causes of the reverses by which the Royalist
Cause has been annihilated in Peru. Had he
combined his forces with those of La Serna, as
his duty as a Soldier and good Spaniard sternly
prescribed, it is doubtful whether Bolivar would
have advanced into the heart of that fine coun-
try ; and if he had, it would have been a pro-
blem if he finally succeeded. But by the un-
paralleled misconduct of Olaneta, the Roya-
lists could only employ half their strength
against the Colombian army ; and it was by a
sort of miracle that the latter triumphed over it.
We look therefore upon the manner in which
that man died, as a retribution for his desertion
of his colleagues ; and next, for the treachery
with which he violated the repeated arrange
talents he had made with the Liberating A ony.

[MORNING CIIRONICLE.I
We have long thought that the Lord Chancel-
lor was resolved, come what might, to die with
harness on his back, and now he unequivocally
intimates that such is his fixed resolution, to the
unspeakable dismay and discomfiture of all per-
sons who feel interested in the reform of abuses in
the Court of Chancery. In the cause of Barker
v. Ray, his Lordship, speculating on an appeal
at some future period, said, " that, if one
were brought, and he should happen to be
living at the time, he certainly would require
the attendance Of the Twelve Judges upon the
case."' This is plain enough. If he should be
living when a certain event should happen, he
would require the attendance of the Twelve
Judges; thus we observe that his Lordship con-
templates the possibility of death, but not that. of
being out of office. The very idea of that retire-
ment, of which he was once accustomed to speak
in a paulo-post future tense, is now altogether
dismissed ; and we see in him a firm determina-
tion to live and die in his place, which he holds,
as it were, in fe.e, and which he wilt surely give and
bequeath, in extremis, after the manner of poten-
tates of old, who appointed successors to their
possessions. It is certainly curious that the
Lord Chancellor has contemplated almost every
possible termination to his politico-judicial
career, except one. lie talked very rationally of
the Old Bailey; and has spoken of his falling
under the assaults of, his enemies as the greatest
of all calamities, and one which would just bring
heaven and earth together, break down the
whole fabric of society, and make beggars and
vagabonds of all the Lords—but in his wildest
moments he has• never, of late, alluded to re-
tirement.