The Sun.
London, England, 1821-02-01 00:00:00

MR. CA'NNING'S LETTER.

[Front the New 21132ah1y Maga:.inefoi• February.]

" Tuthlenhatn,lorfo'li-, Dec. 22, 1920,

" MY DEAR left town:rin'l;i7tleduestiav, a few minutes
after I had written to • you wet—thinking that I shunlif be
slobs so soon set at liberty to.amki you the connnunica,-
tinn promised in my letter of that morning. -I had _hitherto
forborne to make that communiCation, in order that I might
tint any way embarrass others by a premature disclosure; and:
I certainly expected, in return, due notice of the time when'
it might suit them that the diseliosure should' be made.- I.
have no doubt that the omission of such notice has been a
mere oversight. I regret it only, as it has prevented me,from
,anticipating, with you and the rest of my friends at Liver-
pool, the announcement in a newspaper of an event. in which
I know your hind partiality will induce you to feet a lively
inteiest. The facts stated in The Courier of Wednesday
evening, are stated in substance correctly. I have resigned
my office. My motive for separating myself Eton] the Go-
vernment. (however reluctantly, at aconjoncture like the
present) is to be found solely in the proceedings, and'pend-
ing " discussions" respecting the Queen. There is (as The
Courier justly assumes) hut this one paint of difference"
between my colleagues and myself. Those who arty have
done me the honour to- observe thy conduct in this-unhappy
affair front the beginning, will recollect that on the first oc-
casion on which it was brought forward in the House of Com-
mons, I declared my determination to take as little part as
possible in any subsequent stage of the proceedings. This
declaration.was made advisedly. 'lt was made not only after
full communication with my colleagues, but as an alternative
suggested on their part, for my then retirement front the
Administration. So long as there was a hope itf amicable
adjustment, toy continuance in the Administration might
possibly be advantageous; that hope was finally extinguished
by the failure of Mr'. Wilberforce s Address. On the same
day.on which the Queen's Answer to that Address was re-
ceived by the House of Commons, I asked an audience of the
King, and at that audience (which I obtained the following
day), after respectfully repeating to his Majesty the declara-
tion which I had made a fortnight before in the House of
Commons, and stating thwimptissibility of may departing from
111 I felt it, my duty humbly to lay at his Majesty's feet the
tender•of my resignation.
" The King, with a generosity which I can never sufficiently
acknowledge, commanded me to remain in his service, abstain-
ing as completely as I might think fit, from any share in the
proceedings respecting the Queen ; and gave me full authority,
to plead his Majesty's express command for so continuing in
office.

"No occasion subsequently occurred in Parliament (at
least no adequate occasion) for • availing myself of the use of
this authority, and I slo:10 have thought myself inexcusable
in seeking arroccasion foYthe parp4se. But from the moment
of my receiving his Majesty's gracious coannarids, I abstained
entirely from all interference on the subject of the Queen's
affairs. I did not attend any Meetings of the Cabinet upua
that subject. I had no share whatever in preparing or ap-
proving the Bill of Pains and Beim-hies. I (as you know)
absent from England (luting the whole progress of that Bill,
and returned only after it had been withdrawn.
" The new state in which I found the proceedings upon my
return to England, required the most serious consideration:
It was one to which I could not conceive thC King's com-
mands of June to be -applicable. Fur a Ministerfto absent
himself altogether from the expected discussions in the
House -of Commons, intermixed, as they were likely to be,
with the general business of the Session, appeared to me
quite impossible. To be present a 3 a il. inisttr, taking no
part in those discussions, could only be productive of em-
barrassment to myself, and of iserplexity to my colleagues
Po take any part in them was, IPJW as allows, Out of the
question. ,
" For these difficulties I saw no remedy, except in the hum-
ble but earnest ienewal to my Sovereign of the tender of my
resignation, which has liven now as graciously accepted as it
was in the former instance indulgently declined.
"If some weeks have elapsed, sines my return to England,
before I could arrive at this practical rest*, the interval has
been chiefly employed, hr reconciling, or endeavouring to
reconcile, my colleagues to a step taken by me in a spirit of
the most perfect amity, and tending (in my judgment) as•
much to their relief as to my oWn. • ,

" It remains fur me only to add, that having purchased by
the surrender of my office,-the liberty of continuing to act in
consistency with my original declarations, it is now toy in-
tn•ution (but an intention perfectly gratuitous, and one which
I hold myself completely free to vary, if I shall at arty time
see occasion for so doing) to be absent front England again,
uutil the agitation of this calamitous affair shall beat ut end.
" You may depend ur )11 my providing that the local inte-
rests of Liverpool shall not suffer from my temporary absence.
" I request you, my dear Sir, to have the goodness to ot-
mnniicate this letter to toy friends at Liverpool, as widely as
you-may think necessary, ta4ing precautions only that it 'nay
not find its way into print: It is only to my friends and my
constituents that I should feel myself either bound, or enti-
tled, to make so full and particular a communication.

. .
" I have the honour to be,
" With the greatest regard and esteem,
" My dear Sir,
" Your obliged and failhful Servant,
• ".(GEORGE CANNING."

" Robert Bolton, Esq. Liverpool.".
" P. S. I write in a pait of the country where the arrival
arid departure of the post are so incorivenicotly arranLred, that
I hardly know- when this letter will reach you, if addee.sed
directly to Liverpool. I think it heat, therefore, to send it to
Town, whelice I hopeit may be forwarded to-morrow, so as
to reach ion 00 Moodily.
•' The Newspaper which has given occasion to it only came
to my handslatelast night."

The Anniversary of MS MAJESTY'S Accession
to the: Throne was celebrated at• Brighton on
Monday, in a most splendid style, Sir MATTHEW
TIEtLNEY in the Chair.

At Portsmouth on Tuesday the funeral of Ad-
miral Sir C. CAMPBELL, G.C.B. took place at
12 o'clock predisely, wi th 'military honours, in the
Garrison Chapel. All the shops were shut in the
High-street, and.it is supposed that 20,000 peo-
ple were present. When the advanced guard,
consisting of the flank companies of the Guards
and Royal Sappers, and Miners, arrived at the
chapel door, they formed a line (the men resting
on their arms,) through which the procession
passed. The brigade of guns were formed on
the parade,• in the front of tile chapel. Minute
guns were fired from the Queen Charlotte and the
Saluting Battery, from the time the body left
the Admiralty House until it entered the garrison
chapel. When the funeral service was concluded,
tilLree rounds of 11 pieces of cannon were fired
from the brigade of guns.

FINE-ARTS:

BRITISH IN.",

[Nu. V.)

The I-email-1g of the Trojans to consult the Oracle of
at Delos, No. eo, Mr. Was. LlNToN.—There_aro,:;c*--
reral Landscapes composed from heroic Story in the 'Gallery,
and all of them wills high claims on our notice. It would
unreasonable to eicptct the artistial beauties of Claude from-
the pencils of Northern Youths, and we shall therefore leave it
to others to make invidious co,oparisons, while we . gladly
hail the attempt to rival hint in composition, and to imitate
him in effect; since those who begin •may by industry and
talent at length arrive at excellence, end bid defiance to the
malevolence of prejudiced and, unpatriotic detraction. Mr
Linton has deeply drank of the Majestic taste of the :Slantuan
Barn, and sheWn himself capable of appreciating the elegant
refinement of Claude Loraine, from the subject lie has chosen,
and the manner in which he has depicted it. Since we feel
anxious for 'the continuation and success of this %tecies of
Lit ndscape-,We shall first attempt to give an outline 'of the cora-
position then spew where we think the errors are—and after-
Waids offer some remarks on the Manner in which its effects are
iwoduecd. On the left of the Picture, built on a rock,
whose side is opposed to the ocean, are temples and ranges of
classic Architecture intermingled with trees, and though
these structures are in profusion, they are not crowded, but
seem disposed so as to add to the splendour of the scene; by the
side of them is a way cut along the rock from the place where
the Trojans are landing, that communicates with the fore-
groupd,which appears to be aspacc:wiought by art,in the rock,
diversified by places of stone, &c. on the right ; rising on the
reek, are other buildings of the same order ; this portion of
the landscape is separated by an inlet of the sea, from a rocky
promontory profusely decorated with magnificent 'temPles,
intermingled with those trees, which were cultivated amid
the courts of Heathen temples. This promontory rises on
the right, and then abruptly springs upward,•till a portion of
it is capped with cloud—its range continues gradually fading
till it is lost in distance, and here and there a temple or a
tower add their beauty to the.scene ;—underneath the nearer
part of this promontory, are some of ti* vessels, at a flight of
steps cut id the sides of the rock, leading to a majestic
temple, and sailing along the land are vessels with forms and
sails, at once classically true and picturesque.—This land-
scape at first delights us, and must ever please; but we soon
find that it is divided into too many parts, and tbatthe
eye is not left to repose on some grand and leading features,'
till at last, while it is elegant in its detail and composed upon
principle's of taste, we conclude that it fails in grandeur and
connection of general outline. The lines in the foreground
also offend the eye by their want of unison with those, which
form, :as it were, the sections of the composition. The sky is
very happily and carefully managed ; the clouding in its
forms, and the (-ether in its gradation of colour; but this lat-
ter remark more particularly applies to the left', the right
being so deep in its colour as to rather press upon the eye.—
The whole length of the promontory is delicately handled,
and feeble in its colour, except where this section of the com-
position stops, and the rock becomes in shadow, and there the
colour is perfect ; indeed so beautiful is that part, that it
would be difficult to produce any thin more true to nature;
here, too, the effect on the water is magical.—Many of the
tones on the pillars, and other parts of the rocks are well un-
derstood. The trees ire not so good as the Other objects,
being too timidly and carefully produced, until they have 19,4
their character. There is no want of shadow, but there is not
that masterly certainty in the breadth, that goes fdr.towards
ensuring effect and relief.—The colour of the sea is not true.
Those who have lived in the climate where this landscape is
supposed to be, know how minutely true tu the appearances
of stature Homer always is ; and lie, speaking of Achilles re-
tiring after the departure of Briseis says, he sat—

"et*/ Eq) ccAsc voXtric, opwv evi oviova 7:03'17'0%."

The deep toned colour here so beautifully re marked, except
in cloudy Weather," is 41 invariable -appearance of the dis-
tant ocean ; and which colour it receives front the intense,
wtherial blue above it—which is different from the weak green
hue that is spread over the sea of Mr. LINTON'S Picture. We
shall conclude our minute detail of this Artist's Picture, by
obscrrinz, that however much Ibis work .may attracr by its
clegance,ils want of fulness of colour and force, will Duly
allow us to bail it as a most laudable and promising attempt,
which we trust may be sedulously followed up with some other
Picture from the mighty Master from whose immortal work
be bas selected his present subject. We will offer hini—An-
chiscs in the Elysian Fields. pointing out to A:fleas Mareel•
lus—" Ter Marcellus eris.'

7fe Arch of 4uptstus Rimini, No. 2; Mr. M. E, ON AS.
—We are assured that this is Mr. Thomas's first attempt in
oil panning—if so, we need not set any limits to our expec.
tations from him in his line—let him not suppose because his
buildings have a cast of red, that he is to Qu his utmost to
spoil his picture by introducing it into his sky.

Dr. Sang-rad° practising Phys7c, No. 21, Mr. F; P. Sir,
PHANOFF.—Dr.Sangrado, with a mixture of :mile imbecility
selfishness, and cunning, is here seated in an arm-chair; feel-
ing the pulse a handsome youngteniale, who appears to hare
suffered from the Doctor's panacea of hot water, the effect of
which was to be accelerated by copious Bleeding•--her'atti-
aode is easy, and possesses much character ; but the picture
has too solemn an air far the subject, wiiirb is hardly en-
livened by the young smiling scamp, Gil Btas, its the rear.—
The Patient coming in on crutches, is very cleverly intro-
duced. The management of light and general tone are su-
perior; but injury has beets done to the picture by 'a want of
attention to the draperies.

Cattle, from
..\-qtartifkTio.• No. 119, 153., Mr.• H. MlL-
nouttNg.—.Mr. :\lilbotit'ne's Cattle are well drat, n, carefully
finished, with much truth in the colour to the ex:trial pints
of the animals, his landscapes prettily got in, lint all the ob-
jects too small for the size 'of the auimals ; let this tit:-
feet be remedied, and his productions will fist sink into dis-
repute by being exhibited in company with Adi lap yaoder-
velde.—The Landscape No 135, is what oar neighbours
would term " un juli morecau.'' •
A Landing-place to a Temple of Victory th:•ough the Gate
of Alinert a, a Composition, Mr. J. M. G?vsray.—Mr. Gandy's
composlions bear the stamp of emanating, from a mind
rowded with mighty masses of forms in endless variety. But

hiscoiouri,rg has so little attraction in it, that his cmposi-
tion; are not as much noticed as they certainly merit.
ROUC??, waMing from the base of Mould Cktheriue, No_
Mr. T. B. CloistE.—A iiicture of great pomise, inAyliioh the
colours are generally true, the tints boldly blended, •an d
the execution' facile. The sails are so substantial ilia t
they seem rather the work of saiidi•s than of Sall•nrikerS..
We make this remark because we think that Mr. Croide-

'could, with his knoivledge of hli3 profession, hart_
duced sails retembling canvass, instead of leather, if. it

bad pleased him

Sir John Egls4"ac.'l.,g• the Kilg-4s:o. 63. The Q:iarr,l
Letze' ,r.ery Sir J. Eq15141; Doll, ond
Cade and 111..17 Rabble cntcri.rg Lontlon-N0..2i5.--Few
have a more rapid pencil than Mr. Cawse—and his Pictures
have all something in them which excites merriment. Of
those exhibited we prefer Sir John acting the King. Though'
Mr. Cawse does not depict the lini,ght..acem ding to the cha-
racter given to him by Shakspeare ; and which, perhapi, Las.
never yet been perfectly Fit co mplis b'e4l; though Mr. Fuseli has
nearly reached the roa.xk... considerable degree of
comic humour throwm'into this attempt, and we mast do the
Artist the justice to say; that if thecouittenaDce isa failutc,t4e
air and figure of the, inimitable Sir John is above par L.-there is
considerable richness of colour and harmony in the picture—
.
ore—
and the attitude of the Prince, white it conveys a great (.4;1,
has relieved Mr. Caws'e from the arduous tack of attempting
to express the mingled feelings which at that moment occu-
pied his Mr. Cawse's Picture's • are all bordering On
caricatures, and We think that more elevation of character,
and a greater attention to drawint, would ensure Mt.('awse
that patronage his unwearied Industry deserves.

frooti Scene with Calile—Evening, No. 91.—M r. C. lr.lag-s
RET7.7-When we exaioinethis composition—the management
of light and shade--thesupgrior • character of the treti and
the beauty of the.elen and distance—we are disappointed and
vexed that so well designed a Picture shotitil lose its ranli,
by the dingy'red 'fine that pervades it, by the indefensible infe-
riority of the ()Meets called cows, and by Ills, want of patience
to produce a foreground responsive to the finer features of
this design.

c!/' a Cottage—S. W. i?4.—Thig, in
poiiit of tone, colour, effect, an2.fUrcO, may 1)c consiticreii, xa
a little bijou, worthy the notice of a eonuoisseU.r. •
• Lant-6cape—C9mposilion from Soptiocles tif:ctra, No. 134
AV. Ws i.t.E5..7-Tbisls a very grand si/l)jvct, and4ifpiir
limits ili;l not prevent its, we should ss'iltiitgly enter into some
detail of its omits and its fanits ; tnan'y of the re:Arias on

. .
Mr. Linton's pictuTe arc applicable to it. IHt, we must in

justice say, that ths errors iu suntst respects are more glat in 4

than those we mentioned in Mr. Liaton's work. The lines
the fOregrouna, and indeed every where'll:rough the Picture,
form generally obtuse angles ; there is too purple atrnt warl
debug about the lower flail's of the picture, and diminishirg
the beauty of a well understood sky; and the fissures, espec:-
aliy the female, isrc out of taste, because some masters bare
decked theirfigurvs In red or blue rags bound hbont"ihens
which custom has made many think classical: We hove an
Artist, with the ability of 1:r. Wills, will not allow such bad
taste to prevent him front studying coltnine in an hero:c.
Landscape. We hope to o:es a repetition, of this style fre..l4
the pencil of Mr. Willes. -

25---Mr. W. K 1 6.—This 1, e!ia r -
ing little Picture, full of colour, breatfth, effect, And charnc-
ter, though for this latter, Mr. Kidd is hot a little iudehted
to Mr. Wilkie. The scene is in the interior of a cottage ;
'seated in a chair with his face .nlll to the light, sits art old
fellow with it knowing. gait, smacking his palate,' to try the
taste of the contents of a glass, at u Lich he is Coiking his eve,
as he holds it tip to the light •to exandste its hue.; hit exression
is true to the lit at his elbow sty Lids his slati;e auxious.tii bear
what her." glide thinks;of the liquor; hetween her awl the
window stain Ist he figure ofa Highlander,in whose etinntrnattre
it forcibly depicted the Highland character; lie is on the point
of taking a pinch of snuff, and archly ryes the old-inan;.
is about to pass his opinion of tile liquor; the child sitting
on the ground feeding a kitten, is beautifully painted, and
the kitten, which is standing on its hind feet beneath the
chair, is touched with exquisite. feeling.

No. 247, 71/2e Stolen' 111,5.'--A rustic Lover is taising ad-
vantage of the Old Father's evening
.nap, • to steal in and
embrace his love, who. sits • at her spinning wheel, and who
r:cceives.hito with that joy which her countenance so forcibly
betrays—but they are seen by the Old Datne_ who is silontly
approaching from a door in the bark ground of the picture.
The fire and.all the subordinate parts of this picture are
ly psi ited,,and the whole effect is good—hut there is a want
of truth in the keceping, which is the must apitay erg ,on the
drapery of the young woman, and the blue seen through thd
distant wittlow is far too obtrusive. • Mr. Kidd must also at-
tend to the shadows of his flesh, which 'in both pictures are too
yellow, and study .heepitt.. - • • .
4 Conicity/gal.:l' Boy,tio. 177, Mr. A SZUF.F., ILA
clear well painted at triletive character, pout trayed.with sen-
timent and fideli,y. • • .
Dead' Game, e 37-, Nlr!l3. 131.il(E.—Eithet Cie upper or Cie
lower halt of this picture would vie with the,scurce and won-
derful little picture o: Hunclicooter.; bat as a whole t'te light
is so.distribOted as to rendei. rt spotty.• - lifirke's.other
subjects of still life ate of the same order.

• ,-71 View itt Sp7ilt, No. 145; Mr, T. Y.ottset.--,-A pleasing'
spat tiling' little picture, possessing'. firjiiHNs mol,facility of
touch.' We donor reuit whet any of this Artist's ks, hot
tititili•froto thespecinieus,: brat with labout and attention to
harinony, he way leceonie a favourite. •
Seizvere fj. Bilarj-NO. 120, Mr. E. LANnsEttl...-,-When wa
made our obsetratinlis no .Nlr. Nt'or tss,•l gli
aware of the extraordi:tary tocrit hf this piet.ore, we 'were
4 0,01,01,1, pro ternpore, to pass an opinion ofAzeneral,:pracse
uu ir,.• ‘,.7e now t\stinte the ph tising. ta•ill of. silhinitting
more pa; ; ic•lLar account cf. this Picture, which at oiler places
the school of animal painting title :, par with Sincytier's. llow-
tmr much we admire his Linn disturbed at his repast, ant
thring,t) trout
,the stthjt et xse' might sooner tais,ss It, wc,
e:innot help sayin.::, that it is our opininit.that as art iinitation
of Nat Are, it stariits,i the gallery !wage
rushing, front his reedy coyer t, is seized by 'tier. eai hr A
brindled drti, enact chose INinn,t
and rto Sci.: c the a Th. 6, sevitte sufr. ring fro!s the
bite of the dog t-hist has 1:14-elleti ore hint, and frora wlin4 j
the tiliiod is • flowing, is representeAl• as• utti riog a pletc jog
screaro.and driving forwards—fle. position .1 the ti.e.o.--1 tie,
expression of the animal, and its .gentral character :ere rte
true to life,-tinit it heciittkes frightful trelook at--I lie It: c.d:t
ltiig is in every equal to the switie,and the Llethiect
,on his shiniti. sLin st, t 1 tie that it inik,,ht he,at a
for a triotitclit fltisticlicil for the rxe:trial rel: Ot the viittrai.
The I/ICAO ut the Sivioe is to.illiiktl in such It style' torlilimist
to ,t,f); tit It is out ditty to he Candid though we
may be %%rung ; thrirfttre lay'lia4 ilit• swipe appi•al to us
ton yellow. Should ti r. E. Lantlseer produce 4.f3J.j. et,
With o,e. SA it: e :atistial Jitelit, it ii lest st:ind no a
the prodttcli.:i of any Paioter sif any entrotty in his titre. We
congratulate him on it, tit mg now the priitier''y of
who,e,digceilltllelli arid knowle4t: the I, Ica
hint ihatantly to beeoine the possrssor tut it,
evntinued.)

PARLIAMENT,

HOUSE OF LORDS, ,Ttz. 31.

The Mouse sat till four o'clock, heariug Clauses
and ordinary Appeals. The Bishop of WIN-
THESTER took the oaths and his'seat.

PRIVATE HILLS.

On the Motion of the Earl Of SHAFTERBURY7
it was ordered ,tl►at no Petition for Private Bills
should he received after the 15th day of March
next, and that no Reports from Judges on Peti-
tions for Private Bills be received after the 18th
April: The House then adjourned during
pleasure. A few minutes before five the House'
resumed.