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London, England, 1846-06-18 00:00:00

JUNE 18, 184 G.

TUE LA .TE MR. CANNING.

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The following letter has been addressed to the editor
of the Times :
Sir,—lt may perhaps be of some interest to recal the
attention of your readers to the circumstances of the
opposition which was raised by the " violence of the
young Members of the Tory party," according to a pri-
vate letter of the late Lord Eldon, against the Adminis-
tration of Mr. Canning in 1827.
On the 12th of April Mr. Canning accepted the office
of First Lord of the Treasury, and in consequence
vacated his seat in the House of Commons. An ad-
journment of the House took place on the same day, to
the Ist of May, for the purpose of giving Mr. Canning
time to fill up the subordinate posts in his Ministry.
On the Ist of May Sir H. Peel explained the reasons
which had induced him to secede from Mr. Canning,
and in his exposition avowed that " he had no personal
objections to his Right Hon. Friend," and that " he was
not actuated by any feelings of rivalry towards him."
He gave Mr. Canning credit " for being actuated by the
utmost honesty, sincerity, and zeal, in his efforts to pro-
mote the success of the Catholic question ;" and-ex-
pressed his deep regret that he must " separate from
one with whom be had formerly acted with so much
cordiality."
In the course of the debate Mr. G. Dawson, the
brother-in-law of Sir Robert Peel, and his Under-
Secretary in the Home-office, indulged in the bitterest
sarcasms against Mr. Canning, for having formed with
some of the Whigs " the basest coalition that was ever
formed." Though at that time a strenuous opponent of
the Catholic claims himself, he observed that if Sir
Francis Burdett and his Whig friends did not " insist
that the Cabinet should propose the granting of the
Catholic claims as a Government measure, they would
be parties to one of the basest, one of the most unna-
tural, coalitions that this country had ever witnessed,
and would exhibit the grossest abandonment of prin-
ciple." After showing that the Protestants of Ireland
, could have no confidence either in Mr. Cimning, or in
Lord Lyndhurst, his Lord Chancellor, he proceeded to
contend, that " if the Roman Catholics of that country
should be deluded by the prospect then held out to them
by those in power, he should hold the Government and
the Ministers of the Crown, and them alone, responsible
for every calamity that might overtake that country and
be thereby entailed upon this." .
For this ebullition Mr. Brougham administered a severe
castigation to Mr. G. Dawson, and advised him to indulge
in future, as he hitherto bad done, "in silent votes"
rather than " in petulant sneers."
The debate was closed by a speech from Mr. Canning,
in which he admitted that during the adjournment of
Parliament for the Ministerial negotiations he had kept
up with Mr. Peel the most constant and confidential in
tercourse, and had found in him throughout the same
candour and sincerity, and the expression of the same
just feelings and a uniform exhibition of the same high
principle to which he had laid claim in the address
which he had that night delivered. He also made use of
the following language relative to Mr. Peel and. his late
colleagues in the Administration:—
"Between my Right Hon. Friend and myself it is almost
unnecessary for me to observe, that upon every subject, in
every discussion I can call to mini, upon all great questions
of foreign or domestic policy and legislation—this one =-
happy question of Catholic Emancipation excepted—there
has been that sort of general agreement, that I do not be-
lieve there exists the individual with whom my opinions are
in more complete accordance. * * • But as to others
of my late colleagues, I am not prepared to express an
opinion on the proceeding they hare adopted, because of its
motives I am not aware.
On the 3d of May Mr. George Dawson renewed his
attack on Mr. Canning; spoke of " the political farce
which the Right Hon. Gentleman had been carrying on
with wonderful success for the last five weeks;" declared
that " Mr. Canning and his new allies had equally lost
sight of every principle which ought to have been sacred
to them; and denounced the conduct of the Premier
(Canning) as dictated by no other motive than the grati-
fication of his own personal ambition." He added, that
Mr. Canning "had not been over scrupulous as to the
means by which his ambitious course had been pursued."
Mr. Brougham said that a more violent and unhesi-
tating and unscrupulous party could hardly have been
gathered together, than that which had broken ground
two evenings before. He charged Mr. Dawson with
urging on the tried friends of the Catholic question to do
that very act which every rational man must see would
be fatal to the Catholic cause at that moment. He who
accused Mr. Canning of betraying the Catholics was
their ancient and avowed enemy. Such advice as Mr.
Dawson gave to the Catholic was the thinnest disguise
he had ever seen thrown by a virulent faction over its
naked depravity.
Mr. Peel then made a speech in defence of his own
policy, in which he again disclaimed all personal ani-
mosity to Mr. Canning.
Sir Francis Burdett remarked, in reply to it, that it
appeared to him that Mr. Peel was inoculated with the
virulence of the same spirit. He spoke at considerable•
length in reprobation of the course pursued by Mr. Peel
and his personal supporters.
Mr. Canning, in rely to Mr. G. Dawson (and not, as
Mr. Disraeli asserted in his speech of Monday night, to
his Right Hon. relative), observed, that " he rejoiced to
find that the standard of opposition was at length raised.
Such an act is to me worth a thousand professions of
qualified neutrality. In whatever mind the feeling of
hostility lurks, let it come boldly forth, end boldly will
I meet it.
Mr. George Dawson closed the debate by declaring
that—
" Had be thought proper to go into all the details which
had been elsewhere alluded to; he might have recollected
some passages in the past life of Mr. Canning which would
justify some suspicions of that Right Hon. Gentleman as a
political character—some suspicions touching the manner in
which he had got his present office." He added, that " after
what had passed he must observe, that if Mr. Canning looked
back upon his experiences in past days, his reflections on
what had taken place in those days would be of no gratifying
description."
Mr. William Peel, on the next day, spoke strongly
against the new Administration, and Mr. Canning as the
head of it : _ _ _

" The appointment of Mr. Canning as First Lord of the
Treasury increased his apprehensions. He did not know how
the coalition was effected, but he thought there must have
been a sacrifice on one side or the other."
Of the effect produced by these debates I will give the
opinion of Lord Eldon, as stated in a letter quoted by
Mr. Twiss, in his life of that Nobleman, vol. iii.. p. 1 :
" The violence of the young Members of the House of
Commons who are attached to the late Government has
done the ex-Ministers, as I feared it would, some damage.
John Bull don't like to see anybody too hard pressed, and
his pity sometimes leads him to inclination which his judg-
ment would not have approved, if commiseration had not
been excited."

Shortly after the recess of Parliament Mr. Canning.
died ; and the public impression at the time certainly
was that his death was hastened by the personal attaclis
so incessantly made upon him by the near connexions
of Sir Robert Peel—whether with his approval or not,
others will decide. It is qUite evident, from a letter of
Lord Eldon, inserted in the 3d volume of his life by
Mr. Twiss, that the family of Mr. Canning considered
him hunted to death by his political enemies ; for in a
letter addressed to Lady F. Bankes, on the 25th
January, 1828, his Lordship writes thus : •
" Viscountesis Canning has written a strong letter, as Lord
Ashley tells me: to Hwhisson, strongly reproaching him for
joining (I use Ashley's own expression) her husband's mur-
derers." _ _

The charge of being privy to these attacks has been
repeatedly preferred against Sir R. Peel ; Out he has
always most indignantly repelled them. In his speech
on the second reading of the Catholic Emancipation
Bill he used the following language in denial of it :
" Allusions have been made to the memory of my Right
Hon. Friend, now no more (Mr. Canning), which have been
most painful to my feelings. An lion. Baronet has spoken
of the cruel manner in which my Right Hun. Friend was
hunted down. Whether the Hon. Baronet was one of those
who hunted him down, I know not ; but this I do know,
that whoever did join in the inhuman cry which was raised
against him, I was not one. I was on terms of the most
friendly intimacy with my Right lion. Friend down even to
the day of his death ; and I say with as much sincerity of
heart as man can speak, that f wish he was now alive to
reap the harvest which he sowed, and to enjoy the triumph
which his exertions gained."

Having thus furnished the public with means of de-
ciding on the point recently raised in Parliament as to
Sir R. Peel's connexion with the party who are charged
with this cruel treatment of Mr. Canning, I shall not
make any comments, or draw any conclusions of my
own from it, but subscribe myself
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