The Sun.
London, England, 1828-06-19 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUtLIC JOURNALS.

The, faction so long at war with Mr. Canning
and Mr. Huskisson, loses no opportunity of

Inaking amends to those statesmen for the un-
quer.tchable fury with which it persecutes the

f'2.me of one of them, and the other's tranquil-

lity, by the admirable indiscretion of its rancour.
Notwithstanding Lord Londonderry's disrepu-
table conduct at Vienna, nobody would have
troubled themselves much about his Lordship,
since his brother's death, if he had not taken
such infatuated pains to signalize his own pre-
sumption and cupidity, by such attempts upon
the memory of Mr. Canning as drew forth from
the distinguished friends of that gentleman a
thorouPia expose of the gross injustice of the ac-
and of the recorded merits .of his
accuser. Who would now change places with
the Noble Marquis, among the whole poli-
tical world, from right to left, except, by
possibility, Lord Viscount Strangford,—an-
other of the political scorpions who sting
themselves to death in the wantonness of

blind animosity ? So it is w;:.:o the rabble
of declaimers against Mr. Canning's old friend
and colleague, Mr. Hipleasson. Most men had
taken for granted, that so far at least as the
shipping interest of the empire was concerned,
no one would again have boldness enough to stir
the question of Mr. Huskisson's policy in re-
laxing the na'igation law of England. Yet an
ancient ofß•zer of the Guards, who represents the
corporation of the town of. Liverpool, came for-
ward r,n Tuesday with certain figures and tables
condemnatory of those acts of Lord Liverpool's
Government which had succeeded in preventing
a retaliatory policy from being adopted by foreign
Powers against the ship-masters of Great Britain,
and in thereby opening to our merchantmen a
field of competition- in the carrying trade, of
which they have richly availed themselves. But,
—alas; for the. Honourable Guardsman and
Legislaraihig figures were strangely meta-
morphosech his tables were unceremoniously
turned upon him, by the legerdemain of Mr.
Charles Grant, who made out a case (though

it was little needed) for the Huskisse"nian
policy, as triumphant as that which had
long ago been esta!olished by its author,
in his celebrated speech last session. Mr.
Grant—unhapr;:ily, as we have said, for the
discontented ex-Guardsman--showed that un-
der this ruinous policy of Mr. Huskisson, Bri-
tish shipping had got hold of the Brazilian car-
rying trade, which was equally open to the
United States and to all the world ; that British

ships passing into the Baltic had multiplied in
a ratio considerably greater than that of the ships
of all other nations ; that British shipping ge-
nerally had increased within these two years by
about 300,000 tons, and British seamen above
12,000 pair of hands, while foreign ships and
seamen trading with Great Britain had increased
in no such proportion ; and all this under the
calamitous and deplorable policy pursued by
Mr. Huskisson ! Let now the instigators of
the disgraceful exhibition on the river !tames,
a few weeks back, give orders to hoist the flags
of the merchantmen " half mast high," as a
signal of mourning for the defeat of their own
efforts to stigmatize their ablest benefactor.—
Times. .