The Sun.
London, England, 1818-07-20 00:00:00

the same spirit, he reformed the unsocial habit
of superseding, upon all occasions of diso,der,
the civil with the military power. He put down
all undue violence in remedy ; and he aimed not
at a temporary palliative to last for the season of
his official residence, and to smoothen the pro-
gress of his personal d+►tirs to the public, hut at
a radical and permanent removal of those evil
habits and dispositions, which rendered one of
the finest, countries in the wot Id a place of pre.
carious existence, rather than a place of security
or enjoyment.
"A Memoir of Mr. Peel's Administration would

be the only just enlogium upon his conduct, and
that deserves to be communicated through a less
perishable medium than a daily Journal. But,
however that conduct may deserve to be preserved
among the actions of honest and able men—even
in this place it cannot lessen its value to recal
to the minds of our readers the aspect which this
country presented before Mr. Peel's arrival bete,
' and during the course of the last six years—the
desperate conflicts engendered by the collision of
religions rivalry—the disheartening effects of
scarcity which followed—the embarrassments re-
sulting from opposite opinions and contending
sentiments, where the fears of the public, and
the speculations of individual avarice, and the de-
signs of discontented factions, were all at work,
to advise and topropound—and especially the great
calamity which followed, when contagion came to
clo,e the series of public sufferings, andswept off its
victims in thousands. All fair and impartial men,
who may bring those subjects to their con,empla-
tion, cannot fail to admire the firmness and poli-
tic wisdom—the calmness and self-possession—
the liberal anxiety and generous labour—the ar-
dent humanity and effective
.ability, which those
deep and awful conjunctures respectively exhibit-
ed in this distinguished object of our remarks ;
and convinced we are, that there is not one ho-
nourable mind in this nation, who %yin turn over
the events of the period we have mew ioned, who
will not admit, that it required talents of the first
description—qualities of character of the most
eminent kind—in any Minister—to have led the
country through such a course of contention, fa-
mine, and pestilence, with the incomparable suc-
cess which crowned ail Mr. Peel's labours. By
the judicious application of the powers of Govern-
ment—pnlceres exigui jactu—in every specific
case—by unconquerable resolution—by good-tem-
pered vigour, all those evils have been surmount-
ed—and even the most vehement preachers of in-
subordination have been subdued into silence,
awl the must turbulent spirits allured into sub-,
mission.

" Iu real talents, qualified for the paramount
avocations of Government, there is something by
which they stamp their own peculiar impression
upon the very events which they create or go-
vern. Not only is the work well done, but it is
done in a peculiar way—as-no other person could
do it—in a wAy which carries the mark of a mas-
ter's hand upon it. Turbulence, has been often
repressed, the Laws justified, and Justice assert-
ed—and many disorders have been overpowered,
from time to time, in this country ; but it was
reserved for Mr. Peel—for that Minister, who
we are to lose in so short a time, and for ever—
to erect something of advantage upon the founda-
tion of the evils which he had displaced—not
only to suppress rapine, but to establish securi-
ty—not only to reduce insurrection, but to pro.
vide for tranquillity—not only to labour in the
cause of misery and sickness, but to take care
that the sphere of both, in future, should be con-
tracied. it was further peculiar to his honest
wit! manly spirit to cleave to this country with
the affections of a native—to admire, unbound-
edly, the national character—to extol, and to
m4intain it—and to set up claims in its behalf,
exceeding those of the most national description
of Irishmen.
" We have greatly outstepped the limits which
we bad proposed to ourselves when we began
thiesubject—but still we have left our own feel-'
inks ungratified at having said so little. The
country is about to suffer a great loss—And we
are convinced that an universal consciousness to
the same effect prevails. This is a grateful na-
tion—remarkable for quick sensibility, and some-
thing of a tenderness united with its highest mas-
culine tone. Nu doubt, upon an occasion which
addresses so much to its gratitude, as well as to
its regrets, it will not be wanting. It will speak
as it thinks and feels—and there will be no libe-
ral or loyal spirit in the land, in such case, that
will, not have a share in publicly testifying the
general sense entertained of the transcendant me-
rits of that Minister, who is so immediately to be
withdrawn from us."