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

DEATH OF MR. CANNING.

At Four o'clock this morning the following
Bulletin was issued

" CHISWICK, AUG. 8, FOUR O'CLOCK A.M.

" We lament to state that Mr. CANNING ex-
pired this morning, without pain, at ten minutes
before four o'clock.

" M. J. TIERNEY.
" J. R. FARRE.
" H. HOLLAND.

(From the Morning Chronicle.)
The event for which the whole nation has been
but too well prepared, has taken place—G EORGE
CANNI,NG is no more. He died this morning at
about a quarter before four o'clock.

The country has thus been deprived of this
distinguished Statesman in a few short. months

after his elevation to the highest seats in his
es y
Maj t '
8 Councils, of which he had long been
the great stay....4ong before the term which years,
and the original strength of his frame seemed to
claim for him. AT he was born some time in
Yesterday morning between the hours of nine
the year 1770, he must have been about 57 at '. and ten o'clock, the following desperate act of self-destruc-
his death. , tion took place at the house of Mr. Thomas Lubbock, the
sign of the White Hart, Butcher-hall-lane, Newgate-
We are unwilling to believe that the mean and street. A fine young man, aged about 24, named Ne-
vindictive men, who were excluded from power thercot, the son-in-law of Mr. Rees, (formerly well-known
teietory ofthe
of the
because, by their own admission, they themselves t eaeoffaeen aaentlreanatidngmhimouicse),atththeereCornetarbolfe thega
; house about
Inn,h tWhLef,ll-stree t, St. Clement's, entered the above
were not of consequence enough to form SUch
past nine o'clock, and requested the land-
an Administration as the country would sup_ lord to give. him a glass of gin and some cold water. On
; receiving- it, he went intotenthe parlour, taking with him
port,, speculated on the effect their incessant • the newspaper. About
the parlour, Mrs. LubTqueku,testheafterdhl e
,had en-
anldanknoard.s
knowing that,
heard a noise like scuffling in the room,
calumnies would have in destroying the man
who, so much overshadowed them, that they con..
shee gentleman was alone, she was induced to entwerm
;,
man
ownasthehgrororournruweikth aatdrdeiscadofurlerwinegunitheinufortunate
sidered his very proposal to the Sovereign to
and weltering in his blood; she instantly left tisheth;oonamt,
form a' Cabinet—of which he himself should bel
and called her husband, who went into the room.--
no Paq—in the• light of an insult, knowing as f,lTesshe. wretched.
ryoung, man was by this time motion-
they did the reduced state in which a severe- ful act,
was w nwhich he had perpetrated the dread-
illness had left him,of
.Newgete-street, im' mediate', attended,
Hay, a surgeon clinched in his, right hand. Mr.
.47 but wasuf no.
and the extreme
g,we ssaeyn,sibility,
was
so
of his nature. We, are unwilling, to be-''. determineer',' *6.4 appears, the unfortunate Mali
- and indeed the whole of th 4
• determined, in his • •
pose, that the windpipe,
lieve,,, that there are Ministers in human form, , principal arteries of the neck,
were severed. The unhappy.
who could coolly contrive the end of a political' is in a state of preguaacy.-,- domed
Y had not been married
a wife who
°l3P"eut by such assassin like means, and mark, , more than
commenced a
nod
but then
alwayshad
day aft '
er day, the success of their efforts with a,. of the unhappy
wiTuTerkce they
jfailed ; and
The body
Batilifution. •We are unwilling to bei
now awaits the decision of the ---
I'llaqUeSti
batwtustinelhveeLtilmnynnoetblees' during
thneilhichilatainii;

been so.
It is singular that Mr. CANNING died in the same
room as the late CHARLES JAMES Fox.