The Sun.
London, England, 1824-09-20 00:00:00

eyes rest with complacency and love on that
Prince who preserves in the maturity of age
the beauty and elegance of youth." One would
almost suspect that he really meant a sarcasm
on the slender debility of a man now near
seventy—or an oblique reflection on the corpu-
lency of his predessor. He recommends to
Charles X. to be anointed at Rheims, like King
Clovis ; and concludes, as he began, with Louis
X VI., at %% hose death, he says, 46 there was the
same darkness which covered Jerusalem at the
Crucifixion." Thus it is that overcharged hy-
pocrisy and hollow cant will run into impiety
and profaneness, like avowed unbelief—and with
an infinitely greater outrage upon decorum.

[TH E TIMES.]
Mr. Canning has sturdily refused to show off
before that illustrious body of the Corporation of
Dublin. This was at least prudent, if not una-
voidable. Well as the Right Hon. Secretary can
play at sight in the game of speech making, after
dinner or before it, these Dublin worthies, with
their toasts and inuendoes, might have puzzled
him ; or, if possibly, misrepresented his expres-
sions. Admitting Mr. Canning's visit to Ireland
to be one of mere friendship to Lord Wellesley,
and of " relaxation" for himself, we hardly
think that such a visit can fail to draw after it
certain consequences not wholly of a private na-
ture. It is difficult to imagine that Mr. Canning
can leave Ireland with his mind in the condition
of tabula rasa. Some impression must be 'stamped
upon it by his contact with this country. At all
events, it is as well that he should remain, during
his brief sojourn, an auditor and observer of what
passes, as that he should run the risk of being
distracted, or embarrassed, by taking a part upon
th scene.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
The grief of nations for the loss of Kings is
represented of so intense a character, that it is
inconceivable how people could survive these
afflictions were it not for the consolation which is
always found in the virtues of the successor to
the Throne. We observe that the comforting
reflection that there is a successor invariably
conies in alleviation of courtly sorrow just as it is
on the point of sinking under its regrets, and
causes it to smile through its tears—" A King'
has gone to Ileaveis,—Alas! let us break our
hearts—another King has come to the Throne—
hurrah ! let us go to Court." Such is the singular
medley of feeling to which a demise of the Crown
appears to give birth. It has been observed,
perhaps more poetically than philosophically,
that nature has planted antidotes near poisons,
and so in the social system, it would seem that
the remedy of the greatest national calamity is in
the closest conjunction with the misfortune, and
a successor is the ready and sovereign panacea to
take the smart out of sorrow for a departed Mo-
narch. From that sort of instinctive motion with
which all creaturee are wont to seek the
means of allaying their pains, the thoughts of
the most vehemently loyal men, on the death of
their King, may bq, observed, in the midst of
the.. acutest and most intolerable woe, to
• wander for relief to the successor to the
throne, the idea of whom never fails to soothe
their sorrows, and to give birth to that sweet and
hopeful resignation so desirable under heavy dis-
pensations. The King, they then reflect, never
dies ; 'tis true that Louis is no more, but the
office still survives in Charles ; a bestower of
good things is gone, but the good things remain
to be distributed by another—mortal man must
die, but pensions and places, and the thousand
uses of the public purse live for ever. These
comforting reflections are happily implanted near
the root 'of loyal sorrows and but for them we
might now see, from the Journals of our
neighbours, how intolerable and incurable would
be the sting of their calamity. The death
of Louis X VI I I. is no unlooked-for event, and
long expectation of the affliction might be
supposed to have begot some composure in
the mourners ; but the Quolidienue's grief
on the occasion " bears an emphasis " indeed,
and may be regarded as furnishing a complete
iilustration of what we have above noted. In
that Journal we lied duly set forth the greatness
of the loss, and the ready remedy for it ; the in.
tensity of the woe, and the easy cure of it,
which, by a happy moral alchymy, turns grief to
joy, regrets to gratulations. If it were not for
the comforting resource, that there is a successor
to Louis, it is manifest that good Frenchmen
would waste their lives in sighs and tears, and
grow old, as the Poet has it, " perpetuo mterore
et nigril veste," but as things are ordered, we
may remark how the sorrow of the most loyal
runs dry even in a few short lines, a pen full of
ink exhausts the whole fountain of tears, and the
lament beginning, as it were, with a miserere,
ends with a jubilate.

[MORNING POST.)
We received Brussels Papers last night to the
19th inst. They contain a letter from Paris,
which states that an expedition had just sailed
from 13rest for St. Domingo, with orders not to
attack but to blockade the ports of that island.
This statement and the intelligence received last
week from Madeira, that several French vessels
of war had been descried sailing to the West,
certainly confirm each other. The object of the
French Government, however, supposing the in-
formation to be correct, could only be to induce
the Ilaytian Executive to accept the conditions
lately rejected by its Commissioners; for any at-
tempt to re-conquerSt.Domingo,or to depri venlig ti
of it independence,must not only be attended with
failure, hut with the destruction of the force em-
ployed. These Papers also supply some interesting
intelligence on the subject of the negociations
carried on with the Porte by Lord Strangford
and the Austrian Nuncio. It is said that his
Lordship has resumed his efforts to induce the
Divan to give at. length positive orders for the
evacuation of the principalities. lie has to this
`end transmitted to the Reis Effendi a very
urgent note, in which he manifests the dissatis-
faction of the Russian Cabinet at seeing that the
Ottoman Government has not yet taken any steps
to fulfil its promises relative to Wallachia. lie
spews how weak the reasons are which the Porte