The Sun.
London, England, 1828-02-22 00:00:00

.f..PIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

Whenever a Church-of-England man, we have
observed, gets himself into a scrape by reason of any
thing that he has said, and has not the courage to
adhere to his statement, he endeavours to set him-
self free by denying the thingpoint blank. A Non-
Con. always equivocates in such a case ! The first
the honester way of proceeding; for by that you
only deceive, or attempt to deceive, man ; the equi-
vocation is an attempt to deceive God also. In the
ease of the denial, or apparent- denial, of Lord Sea-
ford's having stated that Mr. Huskisson declared,
in the presence of the King, that he never would
unite himself to-- those whom he considered as the
murderers of his friend, we do not know whether
an equivocation is meant or the braver course is ha-
zarded; hut we do know that Lord Seaford did
substantially make that statement which had been
previously attributed. to him, and we can prove it
upon him in a court of justice, if he likes. The
reason why it is now denied that the expressions of
Mr. Huskisson (let them have been- what they might)
were reported again, appears to be this—that Mr.
Huskisson thus deals with the person reporting
thetn in the debate of.last.Monday night :—" After
the declaration of the Hon. Member opposite (Mr.
T. buncombe), as to what he had heard of his
Huskisson's) pledge not to join the oppo"-
nents of Mr. Canning—words that the Honour-
able Member could only have heard ,by
some scandalous violation of confidence." And
again, in another.part—" He (Mr. Huskisson) com-
plained scarcely less of the violation of private confi-
dence, which would have betrayed his- real words,
than of their conversion into the monstrous calumny
which he had now refuted." No wonder, then, an
attempt is now:made to elude this charge of the
breach of private confidence, at which Mr. Huskis-
son is so outrageous; though, in reality, when the
generous assertion was first promulgated, Mr. Hus-
kisson was proud of it (as in reason he. ought), and
t was with a view to enhance the magnanimity of
is character that the fact of his having thus spoken
of the defamers of Mr. Canning was made known.
It is rather " too. bad," now; therefore, when; from
his junction with those people, he wo ad wish that
his late declaration against them wer !buried in oh-
to abuse those who only put, ished the de-
claration from the kindest motives to himself. How
could they foresee that within a few snort months, or
Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears
" Had left the flushing in his galled eyes,"
t4is marriage with the murderers of his friend would
,ake place ? But that there may be no mistake, in
proof which we fix upon Lord Seaford, we shall
!.ere present it in the briefest manner possible, de-
::ached from all concomitant matter or expansive re,
ports, which may contain some unimportant variety

The representation of Mr. Huskisson's declaration
ascribed, recently to Lord Seaford, was in the fol-
lowing words :—" That nothing should ever induce
him (Huskisson) to act in the same Government
with those who,. 83 he considered; had behaved so
ill to poor Canning." This was the representation
ascribed to Lord Seaford of a declaration made bv
Ir. Huskiston, not hastily and in confidence, to a
private and intimate friend, but advisedly •in his
official capacity to the highest personage in the
realm, upon-the occasion of Mr. Huskisson's inter-
view with the King, upon his return from the con-
tinent, after Mr.-Canning's death. Lord Seaford,
whilst he caviled at the word " ever," though he
would not take upon himself to deny the use of that
word, admitted the substance of the ." report"
ascribed to him of that declaration which has lately
made so much noise in the world.-461d.
'Tp' this we shall add, a mere chit-chat, what we
have rio dotibt.is also essentially ccorrect, but derived
tthril other sources. The'cireumstances of Lord Sea-
ford's, admission 'were these :=-At a' dintier .at- Sir
George Warrender', a:large mixed' party, one of the
guests- loudly 'attacked 1V1r: -1-Ittskisson's joining the
preseireAdministration 'in the teeth of his declara-
tion at Windsor. Lord Seaford then inquired upon
what:authority this declaration was assumed ft
was hinted,-on the other side, that the authority was
such as his Lordship could not resist--4t was that of
my Lord 3. himself; and it was added, as we have
heard, " On such a day, in such a house, in Paris,
you yourself informed me of the Huskissonian de-
claratiOn ! !I" The issue is stated abOve. Our
City article, in yesterday's Paper, describes the
aniuseinent of the citizens on the tickling given to
their great Leviathan, by Mr. Duneombe, in the
House of Coinmons. A friend, who was present,

took notes of his precise expressions in relation first
to•another, and then to this person, whiCh were as
follows :—" There is) Sir, deny it who ean, a se-
cret influence behind the Throne, whose form is
never Seen, whose name is` never ereatheo,whc; ha's
access to all the seeretg of the' State, and who
manages all the sudden spripgs of Ministerial ar-
rangement—

At whose soft nod the streams of honour flow,

• " Whose smiles all place and patronage.bestow."
" Closely connected with this invisible, this incorpo-
real person, stands amore solid and substantial form,
a new and formidable power, till these days un-
known in Europe : master of- unbounded wealth;
he-boasts that he Is the arbiter of peace and war, and
that the credit of nations depends upon his nod :
his correspondents are innumerable; his. couriers
outrun those of sovereign Princesi and absolute So-
vereigns.; Ministers of State -are,in his pay. Pa-
ramount. in the Cabinets , of Continental- Europe,
he aspires to the domination of our own ; even
- the great Don - Miguel himself, of WhOm We have
latily heard and seen ;so much, was- obliged' to
have recourse to the purse of this individual,
before he could take possession of: (this throne.
Sire that, such secret influences- do exist, is a. mat-

ter of notoriety ; they are known to have been but
too busy in the underplot of the recent revolu-
tion. , I believe their object to be as impure as the
means by which their power has been acquired, and
denounce them and their agents as miknovvti to the
British Constitution, and derogatory to .the honour
of the Crown," &c. &c. The rest was correctly
reported. Mr. Peel's denial of the secret influence
at Windsor, had been better omitted ; we know
what its objeet was, but it Will fail. There is a
strong personal antipathy to hint in a high quarter;
and it is hoped to overcome it by subserviency. We
hear, indeed, that this dislike has been carried to
rch a length, that it as been desired that.even on
official business the Right Hon. Secretary may be
seen there as little as possible; and that the neces-
tary, communications may be conveyed through the
Lead of the Ministry ! Who would be a.Minister
el State on such terms ? Or who would not make
sneh treatment the subject of grave and formal re-
,Tionstrance, rather than a motive for obtrusive and
officious humility ? Lord Morley's adhesion to the
I:evy Administration is not extraordinary. His Lord-
ship had been long attached to Mr. Canning. Dur-
ing their intimacy, he had borne many a banter and
witticism with great good humour; but the prac-
tical jest of leaving him without a place, when his
witty friend forted the Administration which ex-
pired with him, was the cause of much more serious
annoyance. But most incredible is it, that in the midst
of these explanations and discussions,not one word has
been said,either by himself or others, of Lord Gode-
rich's first resignation. If we recollect the scene aright,
the
manner in
which the death of Desdenwila is now
managed is this,--that the Moor first claps a pillow
on her head to .mother. her, and then, finding that
too slow an operation, he stabs her. This was the
tiouble process by which Lord Goderich destroyed
the too confiding; and betrayed Desdemona ref an Ad-
ministration of ::vhich he was Lord and Ma,:
first resignation was fatal. The Admi;: ;tration
never recovered its breath from that squee;' of its

windpipe; the life-blood wac; afterwards h out by

the second resignation, on the quarrel of rile two
Messrs. IL H. But what does his Lordsiv ,) say, or
what will he say of the first resignation y i'lli9 was
a felonious attempt on .the life of the .'•hiiistry

which he was bound to defend and prote, The
King from that moment saw that he shoui i be de-

seated oil the slightest ditliculty—he was Then in