The Sun.
London, England, 1827-11-02 00:00:00

Triumvir ; but they evidently consider them-
selves quite as clever in sowing seditious senti-
ments among the multitude, while they affect to
advise the deluded people to preserve the peace,
They describe rebellion as a necessary conse-
quence of their demands being resisted ; but at
the same time they tell their auditory, that it
would be a shocking thing for them to have any
share in shedding the torrents of blood that must
inevitably flow. They admonish them to be
quiet, while they tell them why they ought not.
They state that abstaining from violence is a
duty, while they endeavour to impress upon
their minds that their sufferings are beyond hu-
man endurance. This artifice is now too stale
and threadbare to deceive any but the most
simple and unthinking people. The fact is, the
agitators think that a partial disturbance at least
—out of the dangers of which they would take
good care to keep their own persons—might do
them great service, by alarming the Government
into certain concessions of places and pensions
to themselves ; but the fact is, the great mass of
the Roman Catholic population of Ireland care
so little about what are called the " Catholic
Claims," which could have no Factical effect
upon their condition, that it is no wonder the
leaders are incessantly obliged to try and " wind
up their feelings" by exciting speeches, lest, as
Mr. Shiel expresses it, their grievances »tight
drop out of the national memory !—Morning
Herald.,
Our readers will see that the celebrated Bar-
ber Beaumont, of the County Fire Office and of
Buenos Ayres Emigration Scheme celebrity, has
obtained a shilling damages against us, on ac-
count of his character. Much good may the
shilling do Barber Beaumont ! By right
the Jury ought not- to have given him a
farthing. They ought to have saddled him
and the company to which he belongs with
the costs on both sides, and not us—fOr certainly
our readers will say, when they read the trial,
that never did a more vindictive action take place.
But we dare to say that Barber Beaumont will
never forgive or forget our showing up to the
public his Buenos Ayres Emigration Thing—
nipping it in the bud, and preventing him or his
friends from selling the Shares in that Thing at a
premiu

It is seldom that foreign States, or their sub-
jects, eulogise the Statesmen of their rivals ; and .
we will venture to say, that had any of the vari-
ous revolutionary Governments of France, from
the Directory to Buonaparte, bestowed their
praises upon Mr. Pitt, the people of this coun-
try would have ceased to look upon that Mini-
ster as the formidable opponent to France and
her revolutionary principles, which he all his life
proved himself. Mr. Canning's case, how-
ever, this view of things is, in the view of some
people, completely reversed, who are liberal—
or, we should rather say, weak enough to consi-
der the applause with which his memory is re-
ceived in France and America as proofs of the
fame he is entitled to receive at home. Now to
us this is precisely that case of the " dona fe-
rentes" which should put those among his coun-
trymen, who really admire the late Statesman,
upon their guard, and induce them to pause on
the threshold of their own judgment. We have
no doubt that there is quite as much good sense,
liberality, and just discrimination to be found in
foreign countries as in our own ; but the posses-
sion of those very qualities goes to disprove the
Get that any Minister of Great Britatn, truly,
zealously, and wisely consulting the interests of
his own country, can possess any great share of
popularity in those countries which, in the na-
ture of things, as rivals in power, in commerce,
and in various other ways, his measures must
tend to thwart and depreciate. When we
are told, then, that Mr. Canning's highest eulogy
consists in having his monument subscribed for,
and his medal engraved by the French liberals,
and his praise set forth in an article written for
an American newspaper by the President himself,
we should say that the impression which such
compliments and such applause have upon our
minds is just the reverse of that which these in-
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friends contend for. It is not with a
view of encouraging national antipathies and jea-
lousies that we say that a truly British Minister
cannot, in the nature of things, be popular in
France or America, and that the very fact of his
being so is, as far it goes, a proof of the very
reverse of what sanguine and injudicious friends
would infer upon the occasion. We would ad-
vise those, therefore, who really consult tie fame
of the late Minister, and would build a monu-
ment to his memory, not to erect it upon this
sandy foundation. That men live to receive the
applause in private life of their adversaries is very
true ; but till we live to see monuments erected
in France or America to Pitt, to Nelson, or to
Wellington, we should very much doubt, were
we admirers of Mr. Canning, the quantum of
fame which his memory receives from eulogies in
such quarters.—lbid.