The Sun.
London, England, 1828-01-15 00:00:00

gPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

We have no fact to communicate with regard to
the forming of the Administration. But still it is
an afflicting circumstance, and we know must be
most distressing to his Majesty, that there should be
110 l'etinstry, when Parliament is on the eve of meet
inSg, and all the projects, measures, and account
'should be made out—and, in truth,swere made ow
—which should be submitted to its inspection,
Neither does the manner in which the Administra-
tion has been dissolved give less occasion for shame
and for regret. Other Ministries have sunk under CI(
distrust or opposition of Parliaments ; and such 1/1
end is not. unworthy of a body which has the Kin
himself for its constituent organ. But that Ms
Herries, during the recess of Parliament, shouls
have had the power to undo what the King hoc
Slone—to unmake what the Sovereign had made—
niUst appear to the country to be absurd and sue
-worthy. And in the observations which we nos
publish, and have previously published, upon this
gentleman, we wish to be thoroughly understood as
not speaking of him personally {that is not our con-
cern), but politically only—as a person just emerg-
ing from the subordinate ofiices of Government,
and, having so emerged, instantly capable of destroy-
ing the Administration into which he is raised
to bear a part i—Nor is this all ; it is net
tfie Administration, simply, that Mr. Herrie,
has been able to dissolve; but, sinless a si-
milar Ministry be reconstructed, it is all that
system of measures, all that plan of policy, which
Mr. Canning devised end proposed, and of which
he had commenced the execution when he died, of
which also the Sovereign and the country approved,
that this same Mr. 1-terries will have been found
capable of subverting, annihilating, and turning into
as absolute a nonentity as if it had never been called
into e.aistence. What are foreign Powers to think
of the stability of a Government that can be spur
round on its pivot by so weak a hand, and made to
point east where it had before indicated the nor{!
or the west ? We therefore must again infer am
hope, that it is not in contemplation, and that tilt
Duke of Wellington has received no order, to ex-
hibit for the Royal inspection the sample of an
Ultra Government. Still, 'however , affection foi
our own reasoning, or regard for pub] consistency,
must not prevent us from telling our coders the ru-
mours that are'in circulation, though they arc of a
nature contrary to both. It is said, that the first
directions to the Duke of Wellington in the forma-
tion of the new Administration were, to preserve
certain leading members of the old, of Whig or li-
beral principles ; but that, from some cause un-
known, instructions have been since given, in which
no such condition was inserted or implied. Other
;,%sports are endless, and hardly deserve repetition—
as, that the great financial Minister, the associate of
Mr. Canning, was disposed to join the enemies of
his late friend.—Tints:?.
It is asked, what will be the effect of the simulta-
seous Changes that have taken place in the three
Cabinets that have signed the Greek treaty ?—The
change in the Russian Cabinet (if confirmed)• can
hardly be for any purpose but the admission of men
snore energetic, and more likely to bring the .ques-
tion to a speedy issue. The change in the French
Councils is of the same description. The long resi-
dence of La Ferronays in Russia can hardly have fail-
ed to convince him of the necessity of vigorously
pursuing the execution of the Greek treaty. But
should the completion of the French Cabinet exhibit
the admission of either Ultras or Liberals, in both
cases the Councils cf France will be infused with
new vigour in favour of the Greek cause. Finally,
should the changes contemplated here end .in the
admission of the old Tories, and should these give
way to any vacating policy—any coquetting with
Austria,—tiaan the danger is still greater, and the
crossing Of the Pruth still more probable and defen-
sible., 'Whichever way we turn, it is evident that
•casty by a firm determination to carry on the execu-
tion of the treaty -jointly, and by a new demonstra-
tion before Constantinople, if necessary, and by the
invasion of the Principalities, f necessary, jointly,
will war, favourable to the schemes of Russia, be
averted. We are on the eve of it. But we suppose
that as soon as the ships engaged at Navarin shall
have been suffleiently repaired, their commanders
will act with their wonted energy. The fate of
'IE-mope depends on it, as a general war would be the
inevitable consequence of weakness or vacillation at
this tnomemjt. But the three Powers are pledged,
nisi will doubtless be faithful to each other.—lbida
The Timex, not satisfied with the numerous flat
contradictions to the several articles that have lately
appeared in it relating to Mr. Huskisson, Mr. Ha-
rms, and the Finance Committee, appears rather
determined to support them by having recourse to an
untruth of a most flagrant and glaring nature, viz.
that Lord Goderich's approbation of Lord Althorp
for Chairman of the Committee was known to Mr.
Herries so far back as November, and that. he, at
that time, did not offer any objections to it. This
we feel ourselves called upon most positively to con-
tradict. Mr. Herries not only did object, but stated
his grounds of objeCtion in November last, and
within a very few hours after arriving at the know-
ledge of the intention to nominate Lord Althorp as
Chairman. We trust, after such a contradiction,
no attempt, unsupported- by a publication of the
correspondence that took place in consequence, will
be made by the Times to re-assert this. statement ;
by adopting such a course, it will have the fullest
opportunity of justifying what it has already put
forth, of establishing its truth, if it be possible,
.and, at the same time, of undermining most
effectually our credit for veracity, if we are
not borne out in our present declarations. It
further proceeds to recount the nature of Mr.
Herriees objections, and the reasons for which they
are now advanced. This, we assert, is equally false
with the rest, and we again challenge the Times to
the production of the Correspondence; we con-
fess without much expectation that it will be induced
to meet our wishes, since in that case the falsehood
and obvious purport of the charges would be fully
confirmed, arid the public satisfactorily convinced
that Mr. Herries, so far from entertaining any
thought whatever of conducting or arranging the
Committee in an unfair and disgraceful nianner, as
has been insinuated, was detesmined, as far as lay
in his power, to construct it on the following basis,
from which we presume, ins man who is anxious for
the appointment of one at all could reasonably dis-
sent. That as the advantages to be derived from
Committees in general are but too frequently at-
tended by sericka inconveniences, it was intended
to divest it -as much as possible o
et,co
fthetin:enrflacut-
ence of prejudiced and narrow views,
the weight of any particular and powerful party, by
an impartial selection from all sides of the House,
and of those individuals,aas we before mentioned,
whose characters for business, talent, and honeity
of intention, stand most conspicuous in public rept-,
tation: above all, to fill the Chair with some per.!
son, not only of high character and respectability,
on which two points no mall could be preferred to
Lord Althorp ; but also, if not entirely, at least
as little as possible unconnected with any po-
litical party. This is the course, by pursuing which
it is expected the 'nest effectual advantages may be
reaped, and the greatest inconveniences averted.
We appeal, then, to the candour of the public, after
an opinion expressed by Mr. Herries, that such
should be its character, whether the attacks, in some
instances, we regret to say, replete with scurrility,
charging him with a desire of farming a Committee
of the moat dishonest and corrupt description, is
either creditable to the Tinies itself, honest to the
public, or Nato an individual, whom we really be-
lieve anxious to .carry into execution a system of
economy, .as tar assany honest man, whether Whig
or Tory.-2dorning Chronicle.
We have already noticed the article in the last
number of The Edinburgh Review, on the subject
of the Correspondence between Mr. Burke and Dr.
Lawrence, which is generally attributed to Mr.
Brougham. That article contains one passage
which calls for some observations :—" It is pos-
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