The Sun.
London, England, 1827-10-25 00:00:00

LONDON, THURSDAY EV

J. HARGII.L, CROWN AND PUNCH BOWL
'TAVERN AND DINING-ROOMS,

. .
HEGS lemie most respectfully to return his
11J11 ~most sincere thanks to his Friends and Gentlemen in
general, for the patronage he has received since the com-
mencement of his spacious Dining-rooms, 58, RUPERT-
STREET, five clOors on the left hand from .Coventry-
street, Haymarket, where he conducts his buainess on the
principle which lie hopes will give every satisfaction to all
those who will please to honour him with their company.
or Country Gentlemen, and Travellers, will find their
comforts particularly attended to, at the above Tavern.

ALI YDRAULIC WATER. ENGINE,
11 erected by; A. BOWYER, ENt3INEER, No. 48,
RAtl-IIiONE-PLACE, that raises water to the top of a
bailie, and plays a fountain:with different devices. It will
raise water to gentlemen's houses in' the country, where
there is a runiiing•stream, with a fall of water of four feet
or upwards, at a small expence. May be seen from 10
till 4 o'clock. •

Admittance Is. to compensate for attendance.
N. B. Capt. Jekyll's Patent Vapour Baths.

CHARACTER-OF TILE LATE MR. CANNING.

(FROM THE NATIONAL. INTFII.IGENCER OF THE 15TH
SEPTEMBER-SAID TO BE FROM THE PEN OF MR.

ADAMS, TITS AMERICAN PRESIDENT.)

The death of Mr. canning naturally leads, on
both sides .of the water,, to conjectures on the con-
sequences likely to flow from an event so important.
Our impressions, under the first intelligence of it,
were, that the system of which he was the centre
would also fall; but we have less. confidence in those
impressions as we reflect upon them, and especially
if Lind Goderich should be his successor. We are
not amongst those who deem lightly of Lord Gode-
rich. From our observation of his course, though
at this distance; and other sources of information,
we believe that, if his powers be not absolutely first
rate, they place him near to that order of men; not,
indeed, as a Parliamentary orator (that great touch-
stone of the popular and historic fame of a British
Statesman, and.without which it never. gets up to
the highest exaltation), but as a clear-headed, dili-
gent, and efficient man of business. In his succes-
sive posts of Vice-President and President of the
Board of Trade, Treasurer of the Navy, and Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer (the last, beyond compari-
son, the most trying of any under the British
Government, that of Prime Minister excepted),
he has evinced these attributes, and has been
steadily gaining upon the public confidence and
esteem, both as a man of affairs 'and as a speaker,
as the orbit of his duties has increased. His fine
education and admirable 'temper fit him to bring
about, by conciliation and address,. what the more
transcendant and uncompromising abilities of Mr.
Canning would carry by. main force. But the lat-
, ter, poising himself upon his own strength, was so
ready on the, slightest excitement to hurl defiance
and scorn into the ranks, of his opponents, to launch
upon their heads such bursts of vituperation, that a
more exasperated resistance. to the system, in his
hands, might, in the end, have placed it in more
peril him may attend it in those of a successor like
Lord Goderich; who, however, may be found able
enough, with enlightened 'colleagues, to go on with
it. Lord Goderich belongs to the class of states-
men where Lord Liverpool stood, although there
are inVividtial difference* of clitractenetween them.
The latter was far from being endowed with a genius
of the first order; but Lord Liverpool, by the force
Of a •good judgment, long exercised • upon public
affairs, on a great scale ; by unwearied. pains in ac-
quiring all' the knowledge necessary to his station ;
by respectable parliamentary powers, notwithstand-
ing the slurs of Madame de Stael ; by a courteous
yet firm temperament; and by a reputation for pro-
bity. always of the highest and most unblemished
kind-rose at last to a height of influence that has
rarely if ever been surpassed by any Prime Minister
of England. It was an influence resting • upon the
weight of character, never upon .the splendour, or
upon the might of intellect. Lprd Goderich, who
has scarcely yet reached his prime, may be destined,
under the guidance of kindred qualifications, to a
career of the same distinction, though not able to
ride in the whirlwind and govern the storm like
George Canning. And who is there in England
just now, it has well been asked, who can ? For
seasons of extraordinary agitation, Lord Goderich
might be less fitted to take the helm ; but we see
nothing in the immediate situation of Britain or of
Europe to appal him from the task—a task that has
heretofore been confided to a Perceval and a Sid-
mouth.

We have spoken of Mr. Canning's system. But,
in truth; we do not know that he had a system.—
Until 1823, the public history of his country, and
its literary history too, identifies him with unequi-
vocal zealous Toryism. Like Pitt, indeed, and some
others of this stamp, lie advocated the Catholic
claims.- But here was the chief, if not only excep-
tion to his high-toned English maxims. On other
points, and those the most leading, he took the very
creed of the Stuarts, as far as it could be applied to
his own day. He openly gloried in Lord Clarendon's
illustrations of it. In particular, he held that the.
Constitution of England was essentially monarchical,
and he perpetually and vehemently beat down with
all his arguments, and ridiculed with his wit, every
idea of popular representation, or Parliamentary
Reform, wherever it came in his way, in the House
of Commons or out of it. Hobhouse and Wilson,
and even Burdett, he would scathe with his sarcasms
as often as they obtruded the topic upon his
hatred; and with Mackintosh and Brougham, when
they took it in hand, he would grapple with higher
and more earnest exertions of his strength. On the
point of the original and fundamental monarchical
character of the British Constitution, one of his
speeches at Liverpool -embodies a defence, under
doctrines some of which Hobbes himself scarcely
transcends. Nor, until the epoch mentioned, did he
spare reform, or liberalism, or republicanism, or any
popular movement for political melioration, upon the
Continent, any more than at home. But, in 1823,
a crisis came. In that year the armies of France
marched across the Bidassoa, to trample down the
Constitution of Spain. England, already out of
humour by the previous encroachments of the Holy
Alliance upon her supremacy, broke loose entirely
at this fresh and more alarming disregard of her
wishes. The lion kept under by Lord Londonderry
was now roused. Then sprung into being the libe-
ralism of Mr. Canning. Thin, on motives of his
own, and for objects of his own, was he first seen in
these lists. It was not, in him, a liberalism, devoted
to the freedom of, this hemisphere, for freedom's
sake; but it flew into sudden and indignant action
to counteract the part that'Continental and French
ambition
playing in the peninsula of Europe.
Of thatinvasion, not a whisper
of
denunciation hin
of
escaprd Mr. Canning. We
ttoetl
'are not now saying this in disparagement of the
illustrious deceased. W.
are saying it as descrip-
tive of him. We repeat it from himself. He
made it his boast—and it was cause of boast to
him--that British policy, British interests, the
hope of British sway, were ever uppermost in his
aspirations and schemes. TJ secure these, he called,
as be' said, the new States of America into existence.
Truly—he did :so far as the share that England had
in that great work was concerned, and it goes to
make up: the richest portion of his- fame; as the
.earlier forecast of Henry Clay,. acting upon an ex-
panded love of human liberty, earns for him laurels,
still richer, in the same field. If this be not the
award of justice to Mr. Clay, the part which the