The Sun.
London, England, 1860-12-14 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, DEC.EMBER 14, 1860,

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DEAM OF TUE EARL OF .ABERIMEN,

K.G.

The last of the leading diplomatists who took
part in establishing the imaginary European "set-
tlement" of 1814.15—a blameless, honourable man,
on whose integrity not a breath of doubt ever
rested, hut on whose sagacity and ability opinion
woo and will be rudely divided—has passed away.
After some months' failinr, health, unaccompanied
by pain or suffering, Lord Aberdeen died this
morning at half-past one o'clock, wanting only a
few weeks of having completed his 77th year.
The mind of the deceased statesman, naturally
refined to the verge of fastidious sensitiveness, and
endowed with an exquisite appreciation of the
beautiful in art, received an elaborate process of
cultivation which, in his case, was probably never
wholly discontinued. The tastes which he had im-
bibed in youth he cherished with unimpaired
attachment in the busiest days of his public career.
'Whilst the energies of his intellect were devoted to
the bureau and the council-room, his heart lay in
the studio and the gallery. Eminent as were the
positions which he held in the public service of his
country—having almost in youth been promoted to
a conspicuous rank among the high negotiators of
Europe—his opinions upon points connected with
antique or modern art would have been received
with more deference than any expressions upon
the subjects which engrossed his labours, if not his
affections. It is as a statesman, however, that we
havo now to regard him.
To Lord Aberdeen an observation would pro-
bably apply which has with less accuracy been
used in reference to other public men. He was,
in truth, the last link that connected, however
feebly, the present generation of English poli-
ticians, the present system, and especially the
foreign policy, of Great Britain with a bygone
generation, with 'a system and policy emphati-
cally of the past. He was himself, far more
than many of his seniors by several years who sur-
vive him, a man of a bygone age. Even when,
some five or six years ago, he occupied the most
prominent Ministerial position in the world—that
of British Premier—he was almost involuntarily so
regarded, and it was superfluous for him to enforce
this impression by reminding his fellow-peers that
he had reached the allotted limits of human
existence.

The impression itself was in a great degree attri-
butable to the circumstance of his lordship having
been brought in very early life into immediate con-
tact and association with men who are nDw remem-
bered as the constructors of a political, territorial,
and dynastic scheme of polity, vainly intended to
be permanent, but founded on quicksands, and
from which we are already separated by events so
momentcus that its very significance has departed.
All his contemporaries in the memorable transac-
tions of 1814-15 have passed away. They were all
much older men than their English colleague.
Metternich—himself the impersonation of a system
which he saw grow, triumph, and collapse into
annihilation—was one of the last survivors. 1830
and 1848, with their interminable mid still advan-
cing train of portentous consequences, rise up as a
wall of utter separation between the thoughts and
maxims of today and those of the school of states-
men with whom, perhaps too hastily, Lord Aber-
deen has been classed.

For although the first conspicuous appearance of
Lord Aberdeen was in connection with the reac-
tionist party who were combining for the over-
throw of Napoleon and the re-establishment of
stringent legitimacy, his still earlier associations
found him a sympathiser with the aspirations of
Greece. If at the age of 29 the then all-important
functions of Ambassador at Vienna were entrusted
to the young diplomatist, we trace him, nine years
before this, an ardent philo-Hellenist, founding the
"Athenian Society," and thus earning the epithet
afterwards applied to him, partly in spite, partly in
jealousy, and partly in compliment, by Byron—
" The learned thane, Athenian Aberdeen."

$ Circumstances, rather than predilections, as-
signed his position and defined his career. In
Europe, at the end of the French war, there was no
thought of anything but a return, as nearly as pos-
sible, to the position of the status quo ante. No allow-
ance was made for the changes which the revolution,
though baffled, had necessitated. Even in Eng-
land, the hereditary home of free thought and free
expression, there was scarcely a whisper against
the propriety and expediency of treating national
sensibilities as a phantasm, and ordering terri-
torial arrangements by the rule of line and plum-
met. The position of Canning was still subordi-
nate, and himself suspected and depressed. He
could scarcely indicate the outlines of that pro-
gramme of true English policy which it was
reserved for „Lord Palmerston to interpret, enlarge,
and realise in the face of difficulties which might
well have appalled a mind of average courage and
vigeur ; and which it is no injustice to Lord Aber-
deen to say his temperament did not qualify him
to confront. It required a Parliament to meet
and deal with the accumulation of obstructive in-
fluences in face of which the foreign policy of
England has attained a dignity and elevation
worthy her old renown.
It was at Toplitz, in November, 1813, that Lord
Aberdeen, as Ambassador to Austria, effectuated
the negotiations which included the father-in-law
of the Emperor Napoleon in the general combina-
tion against Imperial France, and precipitated the
catastrophe the first scene of which closed at Fon-
tainebleau. In the conferences, negotiations, trea-
ties, and compacts preceding and following the
sojourn in Elba, and those again which, after the
battle of Waterloo, were presumed to place on a
basis of unassailable strength the designs of states-
men in the interest of their respective masters,
Lord Aberdeen took part, and acquitted himself
with creditable ability within the line prescribed
for him by the Cabinet which, as if in retri-
bution, began soon to feel the overshadowing
predominance of the great captain whom its chiefs
had been so slow to appreciate. It is now well
known that, for a considerable time before his
appearance on the arena of general politics, the
Duke of Wellington possessed great influence in
quarters where such influence was certain 'to be
efficacious, and that it was usually exercised mere
in accordance with official and dynastic traditions
than with the new state of things—moral, social,
and political—which was born of the revolutionary
era. It would be inexact to say that in his diplo-
matic capacity Lord Aberdeen initiated a line of
policy, but he adequately represented and sup-
ported .that with which he was charged. In
justice, too, to Lord Castlereagh, and to the
memory of the greater man whose opinions hence-
forward entered so largely into the inspirations of
the British Government, it must here be noted that
the foreign policy of the period, although far from
being governed by the large, independent, and
fearless spirit which in after years characterised it,
was, when compared with the maxims prevailing
on the Continent, a policy of republicanism itself.
It would be a true description of it to say that it
acted as a check and temperer to those hereditary
plans of unqualified despotism and repression which
after the Bourbon restoration, were favoured in
some of the leading Cabinets of Europe. If England
had not been England—if English sentiment had
not been to some extent represented, and let it be
added, for the sake of truthfulness, if the Duke of
Wellington had been less wise and moderate, and
Lord Castlereagh less sagacious and observant—the
progressive destinies of nations might have been
indefinitely postponed.
In the year 1828, after the brief Administration
of Canning and Lord Goderich, the Duke of Wel-
lington, disregarding, in deference to the claims
of duty, his celebrated—and conditional—denun-
ciation of madness against himself, undertook to
form a Government, in which Lord Aberdeen was
nominated to the Foreign-office—a post always of
high consideration, but not of such paramount mo-
ment at that juncture as it had been before, and has
since been. Public interest in foreign affairs was
almost suspended by the evidently approaching
climax of the Roman Catholic agitation and the in-
creasing vehemence of the call for Reform. It was
understood that Lord Aberdeen fully agreed with
the Duke in regarding the affair of Navarino as an un-
toward event. It is certain that the principles laid
down by Mr. Canning, and illustrated by that
statesman in his attitude with respect to the inva-
sion of Spain under the Due d'Angouleme, and
the question of South American independence,
were neither avowed nor maintained by Lord
Aberdeen. His personal intimacy, not only with
the statesmen, but with the very highest per-
sonages at some of the absolutist Courts of the
Continent, cannot for a moment be supposed to
have been permitted by him to interfere with. the
performance of what he conceived to be his duty to
England. Nevertheless, it is indisputable that the
tenor of his foreign administration evinced in some
respects differentviews to those sincetaken respect-
ing the measures most compatible with the honour
and interest of this country. But it would be un-
justrtoocaeessdein s
assert that altf either suffered
fault
could
materiallyb eimputed
fr om
his p
to this statesman's general management of his
department, it would, beyond question, be a fault
rather of omission than of comrmssion. It has ofte