The Sun.
London, England, 1820-04-04 00:00:00

DIED.

DEATH OF 111 E EARL OF HAREIVOOD.—EdW3rd Lascriles,
Earl of Harewood, Viscount. Laseclii s, and Baron Ha7ewood
of Harewmtd, in the county of York, departed this life yester-
day forenoon, at eleven o'cloel:, after a short illucss, at e-
wood House, PLitiover-square. Ills Lords* was horn Jan.
7,1740 ; married, in June 1761, Miss Chaltmer, daughter of
Chaloner, Esq. of Guishorough, iu tke county of
York, who died Faiirtmiy 2, 1805. His Lurdsltio had issoe,
Edward, Viscount Lascelles, horn January to, 1764, and died
June 14, 18)4 ; Henry, Viscount. Lascelles, horn December
2i, 1767; and other children. His Lord,liip will he sdc-
eredcd iu his titles au:! estate by Henry, Viscount Last:elks.
On Friday cvenin,r, ..t his house in Upper Grosvenor-street,
Mr. Cranford Bruce, lather to Mr. Bruce, who assisted in the
escape of Lavalette.
On Sunday last, at Brampton, in the 42d year of his age,
Dr. 'lllornas Blown, Professor of Moral Philosophy ill the
University of Eoinburgh.
On the ist inst., at the house of William Wilberforce, Esq.
M.P., Kinsington gore, the Very Rev. Isaac Milner, D.D.,
F.R.S., Dean of Carlisle, President of Queen's College, Cam-
itrid4e, and Lucasian Professor et .4atheulatics in that

O, Sot ii•day, the Ist inst., Carc.!ine, only daughter of the
Dean of

MR. CANNING'B srEECHES,
A 1"11-1E(;.INNING CLUB,
AFTER HIS HEALTH HAD BEEN DRUNK.

CittlslTLEMßN—Among.t the sensations excited
in icy i-nind by the wanner in which you have now
done me the honour to receive me, there is but
one that is not of the most pleasing kind It is
this—tiliat in proportion ,as these detnonstra-
tlifns of good-will increase, I find it impossible.
to matte my acknowledgments keep pace with
thent. This is the fourth time that I have come
to Liverpool ; it is the third time that I have had
the honour of meeting this association, the off-
spring of our first victory, the promise and se-
curity of all that have followed or may follow it.
Gentlemen, this association has thus been both
effect and cause. It was instituted to perpetuate
the triumph of those princlples, of which I was
selected by you as a nut inefficient, thotiO in,ade-
pidte representative. The continuance of your
and the repetHon of those triumphs,
are a sufficient guatantee, that so long as I am
faithful to ihose principles, I shalt be placed in a
ino to vindicate and uphold theist.
Gentlemen, the times when I first came amongst
you \vete times pottentaus and awful, and big
',WI the fate not wily of England, but of the
world. But the dangers and the difficulties of
those times createti in us an animating spitit,
which nerved our arms ani steeled our hearts to

oppose and overcome them. The dangers and
the difficulties of the present times are of a diffe-
rent character; and, whilst they thteaten the
cxistence of ail that is dear to ns, the strtiggle.
‘eitieh we have to sustain is one in which there
is not the saute wholesome animation, because it
is with antagoniits who dare not face the day;
and the victory, when achieved, is void of exulta-
tion, because it is. over those who ought never-to
bate been other than our friends.

But, Gentlemen, it is against the same spirit,

though exhibited different formi, though wield-

tug di tie' cut weapons—it is against the same spi-
rit that we contended abroad for our own safety
and that of Europe,' and are contending now for
our political existence at home; a spirit then as
now gfiver,;e to rational freedom; a spirit then
as now hostile to national tranquillity ; a spirit
then as now seeking to subvert society itself, by
separating the elements of which it is composed,
and settiug them in array against each other ; and
to undermine the foundation of man's happiness
iu this world, by destroying his hopes of an here-
atter.

Were I to have my choice, I confess I would
rasher have to contend with this spirit embodied
and armed ; I would rather cross the sea to com-
bat it, :vhether on the plains of the Peninsula, or
on the field of Waterloo, than have to guard
against it here, in the various disguises of affect-
ed phihnthropy and fanatical reform, in which it
is to be found every day at our elbows and by our
firesides. _ .

There is, however, one consolation 16 be derived
front the extretne degree of malignity to which this
spirit has been lately exasperated. lo the ordinary
agitations and contests which disturb society, there
is seldom any line which so distinctly marks the
boundaries of opposite opinions and interests, as to
nt:ske it quite impossible that stragglers from either
ci iss stjoidd be confounded with the other.. In
ordina7 divisions something roust be allowed for
hesitation and timidity, something for the possi-
bility of mistake or delusion ; and neutrality is the
refuge of those who have not the leisure to exa-
mine or the firmness to decide. But things are
now brought so plainly home to every man's un-
derstanding, that he who runs may read; and he
mho listens to the doctrines with which the, Con-
sti:ution of the country is assailed, with which
rite twit'sty of the Throne is insulted, with which
the rights of all orders of the people are proposed
to be sacrificed to an over.vhelming despotism
and a fierce and levelling anarchy ; he who eau
hear these things, and doubt whether there be a
design among those who speak such language, to
pull down all authority, to subvert all institutions,
and to confound the fair degrees by which a peo-
ple are a nation, must either he altogether reck-
less of all that is passing around him, or indiffe-
rent about the preservation of blessings which be
is unworthy to enjoy.
These are times which admit not of neutrality.
When the most sacred institutions of the country
are assailed with more than- foreign enmity, be
who is not for them is against them.
It has sometimes been doubted, whether asso-
ciations of the sort which. I have now the honour
of addressing be or he not useful and. praise-
worthy. But of this there can be no doubt, that
where bad men combine, the good must associate,
if they mean to stand to their defence on equal
terms.
What may he the bond of association signifies
little, provided only, that the principle of union
be the defence of all that is sound in morali-
ty, of all that is solid in principle, of all that is a
source of glory to us as Englishmen, and of hope
as hurnau kind. That such an association should
be booed together by the name of any particular
individual, must be to the individual whose name
is so honoured, matter of hornility as well as of
pride; of humility, because lie cannot but com-
pare the greatness of the things signified with the
unworthiness of the symbol ; of pride that his
name, all unworthy as it may be, should, by its
association with such rim:inks and with such an
institetion be likely to survive his own existence.
Gen:lemen, I understand you have, within

these few days, added to your number another
person bearing my name, a potion so dear to
myself, that his adoption into your society has
been, in the highest degree, grateful to my feel-
jugs. Upon being shown the book in which my
son's name has born enrolled, I perceive that,
either from inadvertence or timidity, he has sup-
. pressed a part of his denomination. His name
is Will;am Pitt Canning. The illustrious person
whose name he bears was his godfather. Gentle-
men, the political principles which I inherit from
the godfather, I shall endeavour to instil *into my
thrnugh hint I hope to transmit them to
my iale•l posteri!y.
Gentlemen, 1 have only again to thank you for
the ooit.atcd !dodoes,: with which you have re-
cc:yeti the this evening, and to assure you, that
one of the greatest pleasures which I derive from

visi►ing Licerp-pol, is the pleasure of Liming y
here asse►►ibled. and Qt expressing all ►he ackuw+.,--
ledgn►en►s which I am peculiarly bounden to teel
towards tl►is society.

Al' THE BActilioNE CLUB.

AFTER MS HEALTH HAD BERN DRUNK.

GIINTLEMEN—My first duty, as well as inclina-
tion, is to express the gratitude which 1 feel for
the manner in which you have done nie the ho-
nour to receive rue, not now for the first time,
but at each of my successive visits to Liverpool.
Gentlemen, my second duty, however, is to dis-
claim for myself personally eny part of the com-
pliments paid to me by your Society, and to set
them down to the 'account of those pri.ciples
which we hold in common, and ‘vhich you first
called upon me to defend.
llentlemen, the period at which I first came
among you was one in which the strife of political
parties ran high ; the same parties are now in vio-
lent conflict upon questions of domestic polity,
importing nothing less-than whether Englishmen
shall maintain inviolate the happy and tempered
Monarchy under which rite country has so long
flotoished ; or whethrr they shall waste their
stiength in intrstine commotions, provoked tinder
the pretence of improving the Constitution, but
riski tg, in their consequences, its utter confusion
and overthrow.

Geatleinen, the question which is pot pro-
minently forward, but which involves ail the
others, is that of a more strict and personal
representation of the people. It I wanted an il-
lustration of that species of representation,
'which I have always thought and always con-
tended' to be sufficient for the purpose of the
State, I would desite no better a one than that
which this room affords me. You are here, Geri-
tlemeo, comparatively few, when compared with
the great body of which you are a part. But does
it follow, Gentlemen, that because all the mem-
bers of the Backbone Club are not here assent-
bled in person ; that because those who are here
to-night have not been specially selected for mit
occasion by those who are absent—does it
follow that the spirit, that the sense of the
Backbone Club are not tairly collected io this
room ; or that within this room, if any thing
Were proposed, any thing could be agaiest its
feelings and its interest ? As completely do 1
believe the [louse of Commons to be identified
in feelings anti in interests with the great body
of the people, and to represent thetas as carefully
and effectually, as if there were no Member of
the House of Commons upon whom some
portion of the community could not lay its
finger, (as you Gentlemen eau on me,) and say,
" To the services of this man I have a specific and
particular claim ;" or as it there 'were no indivi-
dual in the community who could not thus point
out the delegate of his own particular selection.
They who call for a more distinct and personal
representation, do, in effect mean nothing less
than to let into the House of Commons, not the
deliberate collective sense of the nation, but the
direct and daily influence of their temporary pas-
sinus and prejudices ; wid to give a mastery over
all its votes to those who would array against pro-
perty and intelligence the physical strength of
ilutobeis.

Gentlemen, whatever may be the form of Go-
vernment, whatever the tot at of the social insti-
tutions under Which they live, the balk of man-
kind must gain their daily bread by their daily
labour. To quarrel with this condition of ❑tan,
is to quarrel, not with the devices of man, but
with the ordination of Providence. T o transfer
to those classes whose lot is necessarily cast in
penury and toil, the exclusive conduct of political
affairs, or a direct and permanent controul over
them ;—is there any one so visionary as not to
understand, or so disingenuous as not to allow,
that this would hare no other effect than to de-
lude the classes whom you pretended to benefit, to
disturb the relations of life, and to throw society
into confusion.

In the assembly now collected here, 1 see vir-
tually represersted the conunercial wealth, and
skill, and industry of Liverpool. It represents,
in a peculiar degree, that most valuable part of
the population, the middle classes of society, in
which the staple interest as well as the staple
gond sense of the community reside. In times
like the present, when the higher and the lower
ranks of society are placed, by the coiriivanees of
designing men, in a relation, 1 had almost said of
enmity, but certainly of mutual watchfulness and
jealousy towards each other ; the higher standing
on an eminence, which exposes every action and
_every • word to a scrutinizing malignity of_cri!i-
cism, such as human imperfection can scarcely
bear; the lowest, labouring (it is but too true)
under severe pressure and privation,-and taught
to ascribe their sufferings to causes which have
no concern in producing them, and the removal
Of which would not in any degree abate them ;
the best chance of safety for the whole resides
mainly in that body which is interposed between
the two extremes. On the one hand, they have
nothing to gain by contusion ; on the other
hand, the rights which they have to guard are of
the least iuvidious nature. They are those to
whom the high can look/with most confidence for
the preservation of a state of society in which
they ate as deeply interested as ,the proudest and
wealthiest Peer ; and to whom the lower look up
with confidence from the friendliness of daily in-
tercourse, and from the necessity of mutual co-
operation.
On you, therefore, Gentlemen, is peculiarly in-
cumbent the doty,and you have happily, beyond
all others, the means of reconciling and keeping
together the different divisions, whose attitude is,
apparently-, the most adverse to each other, by
steadily discountenancing I pi_nc_p.es which are
aimed at the destruction of all alit e. On the
*sober, just, and well-regulated conduct of the
middle classes ; on their attachment_ to the laws,
to the constitution of their country ;. on their
loyalty and zeal ; on their example of a courteona
but manly deference to what is above them, and
of a firm but gentle and soothing demeanour to
what is below them in the scale of society,
rests, in a great measure, the hopes of safety to
the State,

Of that most important and conservative por-
tion of society, I repeat, I 'know not where I
could lock for a bow specimen than I now 4eU

Itare me ; of these hopes I know not where I
could lied a surer asylum cl►an the p:ace in
which I now stand.

Accept, Gentlemen, once again, my warmest
thanks for your kindness ; and allow me to take
leave of you with the best wishes for your health
and happiness.
After the health of his Mmjesty's Ministers,
had been drank,

Gentlemen—The acknowledgments which a
little while ago I offered for myself, I now feel
bound to oUer on behalf of that body of which I
am one. When I shall report to my colleagues,
the honour you have done them, they will, I am
sure, be highly gratified with your unanimous ap-
probation of their labours:
Gentlemen, in upholding the Constitution
which. they are sworn to administer, they do not
deserve praise ; they simply do their duty. So
long as they receive from the country the cordifil
support which they have of late received ; so long
as in their endeavours to meet the dangers of the
times they are encouraged.by tlte approbation of
the loyal and the good ; they will, hi defiance of
factio►►, and in spite of any interested miscon-
struction of their conduct, continue to do that
duty to the best of their power ; they will de-
cline no unpopularity and shrink from no dan-
ger which may attend the conscientious discharge
of it.