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(From the NothWarn Mercury.)
DEATH OF THE RIGHT HON. GEO. CANNItit.:.
Canning is no more ! and every lover of his ccl:ntry
mourns the untimely death. Even his enemies must
pay a tribute to his brilliant merits, though with the
bitterness which has destroyed him, they may exult
over his fete. The intense anxiety which for some
time past'pressed on this great statesman's mind—
, the difficulties and perplexities he had to encounter,
and, above all, the heart-breaking cruelties struck,
' with a more certain aim, by those whom he was ac-
customed to rank as friends—these things conspir-
nig together have progressively undermined his
health and brought him rapidly to the grave. It may
be said that Mr. Canning was ambitious—we grant
it—but his ambition was of that noble nature which
had love of country for its foundation, and the
esteem of his monarch for its support. hen he
first took the reins of Government in his hands, arid
like a skilful charioteer curbed those fiery steeds
that would have hurled him from his seat, we then
proclaimed him a bold and daring man, and one
whose existence would meet probably be sacrificed
in t'he struggle. Events have proved the augury
just. His unremitted application to undo the ill
that had been done—his incessant labotir fo dis-
charge a conscientious duty to his King, and the
People, by whom that King is supported on the
throne, have hastened on the dissolution of a frame
which otherwise might have endured for many
years. But this is not all—human nature has( its
frail points under which the strongest minds are fre-
quently bowed down, and the assassin-like malignity
which has been levelled at Mr. Canning, while the
strength of his body was enfeebled by exertion and
fevered by constant irritation—struck its deadly in-
fluences on the heart; the wound has become fatal
to the man, and we fear will long be felt in the very
vitals of the nation at large.

TILE L

(From the Devonport reivrapA.)
With none of the feelings of the partisan, to snake
the sorrow we feel at the death of Mr. Canning of
that selfish nature which is anything but patriotic,
we lament the extinction of this great man as a cala-
mity of no ordinary kind. Men of his caste are not
moulded in a day; and if we look at the necessities
of the world, we 'shall find that Canning, like
Chatham and Pitt, was born for the age—that like
these great men, he was admirably suited to meet
the wants, to lead the passions, and to improve the
character of the times. He was one of England's
brightest ornaments, and most worthy sons. With
a liberality of mind sufficiently expansive to under-
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stand and appreciate the fluctuating principles of
human character, he was at the same time firm and
•decisive in his actions, resolute in his enterprises,
and faithful to the system of policy which he had
adopted. His moral courage was great, for though
his body has sunk under the influence of mental .ex-
citement, and the action of an acute sensibility, he
has never for one moment shrunk from the mighty
struggles into which he was thrown. He carried
himself well through the late political storm, and if
he has suffered in spirit, his bearing, juitified by his
superior talents and unquestionable patriotism, was
always high. In speaking thus of Mr. Canning, we
are merely performing an act of public duty—we
think we speak the sentiments of nine-tenths of the
population of this extensive neighbourhood, when
we say, that however they might differ on the com-
position of the Ministry, towards Mr. Canning him-
self they entertained nothing but respect and confi-
dence—respect for kis uniformly upright character,
and confidence in the unbounded resources of his
mind. But he is dead,-and it remains for the nation
to endeavour to fill up the gap caused by his disso-
lution.

(From the Manchester Guardian.)
Never, since the days of Lord Chatham, at least,
never for an equal space of time, has the Foreign
Department of the Government been administered
with such consummate skill, or conducted in so ir-
reproachable a manner. It is the honour of Mr.
Canning to have dissociated his country from all
communion with the Holy Alliance—to have put
the seal of British recognition to the independence
of the South American States—to have interfered
promptly and magnanimously, though with what
ultimate effect remains yet to be seen, for the main-
tenance of constitutional liberty in Portugal—and
lastly (for to him this merit also is owing), to have
initiated the negociation of a treaty, the result of
which, we trust, will be to secure freedom and
tranquillity to heroic and long-suffering Greece.
We will add, that we perused the state papers writ-
ten by him during the recent discussions with tha
Ambassador of the United States of America, with
pride, at the ground taken, and the language used,
by the Minister of our own country, but not, with-
out regret and mortification at the manifest and
striking inferiority of the representative of a truly
popular Government.

The ferocious bitterness with which Mr. Canning
has lately been assailed by a malignant and disap-
pointed faction, we trust there are none, except the
members of that faction, who do not now disap-
prove and lament. Of the estimation in which he
vas held by the country, and the advantages- which
were (anguinely expected from his Administration,
the deep and almost universal sorrow which, in this
town, as well as elsewhere, his death has excited,
affords an ample evidence. We trust there is no
reason to suppose the event has been accelerated by
the irritating hostility of which he has latterly been
the object ; yet, we fear, he has fallen a victim to
his public duties.

(From the Bath Jourta4L)

The death of Mr. Canning is an'event which, in
the existing state of ciritumstance*, may be truly de-
signated a national calamity: as a man ands scholar,
his splendid talents-and acquirements were too well
known to the public to require any detailed descrip-
tion ; and as a statesman, he may be said to have
enjoyed a greater degree of popularity with.all parties
than usually falls to the lot of an individual, filling
the high, and, at the same time, the delicate, sites-
tion he did. Mr. Canning, during the principal part
of his political career, attached himself to the
high Tory party, and supported every measure
which, in the estimation of the opposite party,
was calculated to embarrass his country, and
abridge the liberty of the subject. It is impossible to
disguise from ourselves, great as our admiration of
Mr. Canning's talents may have been, and greatly as
we estimated his private virtues, that he has, for the
greatest portion of his political life, acted zealously
with that party to which the country is indebted for
all the difficulties under which she is now strug-
gling. It is true, that during that period Mr.
Canning was under the influence of the Tory fac-
tion : he was under the necessity of either acting
with them, if not under their.direct dictation, or of
breaking with them ; the latter alternative was one
which it was not likely that a man, who sought the
political arena as a proper field for the display of his
talents, with the view of advancing his fortunes,
would ehooSe. Political adventurers are not likely
to advance their interests by attaching themselves to
aamparbainutieddideath of Lord Lon-
that party whose avowed principles favour the pros-
perity of the people, in opposition to the tyrannical
overbearing of aristocratical tyranny. Mr. Canning
plainly saw this, and, we believe, by the advice of
Sheridan, enlisted himself under the banners of Mr.
Lon-
donderry, we find him directly opposed to the real
interests of his country, contrary (as his friends say)
to the natural dictation of his feelings and the con-
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