The Sun.
London, England, 1827-08-08 00:00:00

lieve that the gross and .vulgar. attacks to which
. he has been, without a day's intermission, ex-
posed, and which made the nation blush to think
that her high places were polluted by men who
could condescend to such unworthy means of
warfare, were the work of cool malignity, aware of
the success with which it would be attended. 'We
'cannot believe that the titled ruffians who poured,
out day after day their coarse abuse on one who
must, more than any one circumstance, have felt,
the mortification of having to be considered as
opposed to enemies so unworthy of him, aimed
their blows in the guilty consciousness of their
effect on their enemy. But if we admit that
ithey betook themselves to calumny and rnisrepre-
-I:;entation, if they fabricated the constant lie with
la less fiendish design than that to which we
have alluded, it is not the less true, that they
have murdered Mr. CANNING. He has been
as much destroyed by these wretched creatures as
if they had held the poisoned cup to his mouth,
or struck their victim with a dagger to the heart.
In his full vigour and strength Mr. CANNING
might have treated their efforts. with contempt.
but enfeebled by , a long illness, from which it
was obvious to the most superficial observer he
had never sufficiently recovered, he was in that
state of morbid excitability which left him pecu-
liarly open' to the attacks to which he was neces-
sarily exposed. He has thus fallen under the
blows of his. mean. and wtorthless enemies, who
have now the satisfaction f.4nowing that they
deprived the country of tim,frwhose elevation
was such a humiliation to them: p ving, as it
did to the nation, the low estii hich was
taken of their capacity. 4111

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When we think of th s the nation has
sustained, and of the caus o which we are to
attribute it, we cannot restrain our indignation.
It is grievous to know that a life so valuable to
England and to Europe should have been thus
taken. But the hour at which we write forces
us to pauie.--Sye must reserve to another time
what we have to say on this event.

CHISWICK, TwO O'CLOCK THIS DAr.
(FROM 017 R CORRESPONDENT.)

The intense anxiety excited among all the
household at Chiswick House, and the neigh-
bourhood, by Mr. CANNING'S illness, seemed,
if possible, to deepen towards its close. A short
time before his death he became compa-
ratively collected, and free from pain.—
Mrs. CANNING was with him throughout

the night—indeed she hal scarcely once left his
bed-side since the commencement of his illness—
and towards.morning, about ten minutes before
his dissolution, became so overpowered by tthe
result of a few broken sentences, addressed at
intervals to her by Mr. CANNING, that she
fainted, andwas removed insensible from the room.
She had scarcely quitted it, when her husband,
whose energies appeared to have rallied for an in-
aant, suddenly relaxed, stupefaction ensued,and he
died without a struggle. There is one truly
affecting circumstance connected with the closing
moments of Mr. CANNING'S life; he expired, it
seems, almost on the instant that his wife had
quitted the room, yet, up to this hour, she
knows not that she is a widow. At prisent the
answer to her almost momentary enquiries is,
that Mr. CANNING is still in the same state:
Every stratagem, in short, that kindness or inge-
nuity can suggest, is made use of in order to
prevent her from resuming her station beside her
husband's bed.

As soon as the fatal event had occurred, mes-
sengers were dispatched in every direction.--
It appears, however, that Prince LEOPOLD was
not apprised of it, as a servant of his arrived
early this morning to inquire after Mr., CA N-
N I NG'S health.

The Duke of PORTLAND was the first ac-
quainted with the melancholy intelligence, on
hearing which he instantly set out for Chiswick,
where he still remains. The shock throughout
the neighbourhood and to the numerous visitors,
when it first became generally known, vas incon-
ceivable ; many disbelieved the fact, so compa-
ratively flattering were the accounts of last night;
besides, it was remembered by some that even
Mr. CANNING himself had shared in the defu-
sion ; and as late as three o'clock yesterday,
had been heard to say, " If I get over this day,
I think I shall do."—would to GoD it had