The Sun.
London, England, 1827-05-10 00:00:00

THE RING.

SPARRING BENEFlT.—Whiteheaded Bob toOIC his con-
solatory benefit-at the Tennis-court yesterday. The Court
was very respectably attended ; all the setting-to was not
Of the first order. There were several first-rate fists in
attendance, but "excuse" was the order of the day.
These men forget that it is their own interest to mak(
the exhibition attractive. The amateurs cannot alWays be
drawn by promises, which are never fulfilled. Among
the best displays of the day, was a set-to between Toni
Belcher and Jon Burns, in which both did their best, and
afforded the highest satisfaction. Another between Young
Spring and Toni Reidie ; and as a closer, Bob himself
and Tom Oliver. Bob, in returning thanks, ..aid be
hoped to prove on the forthcoming fight, that he had been
taken by surprise, and that his late defeat was entirely owing
to holding his antagonist too cheap—a mistake into which
he would not be led a second time.
YOUNG DUTCH SAM AND DAVIES OF MANC:r ESTER.--
The second deposit for this fight, which is to take place
half way between London and Manchester, on the 19th
of June, was made good last night at the Magpie and
Stump, in Fetter-lane.
NED SAVAGE AND WALLACE.-.-The third deposit for
this affair was duly posted at the Castle Tavern, on Tues-
day night. The men fight 04 the first day of Epsom
Races.

A letter from Sir James Graham, Bart., to J.
Dixon, Esq., announces the refusal of the Lords of the
Treasury to make Carlisle a bonded port, according to the
request contained in the Memorial lately presented.—Tyne
Mercury.

A most miraculous and providential escape
from fire occurred a few nights back in the
family of Captain Boys, of Upper Deal. The
housemaid bad, it seems, given way to that most
unpardonable practice of working in bed with
the candle on her lap ; on the night in question
she unconsciously fell asleep while in this posi-
tion, nor did she awake until the greater part of
the bed clothes were reduced to ashes, the
candlestick partly red. hot and melting, and her
thimble completely black. How she herself es-
caped unhurt, it is impossible to say ; luckily,
however, she did so, and had sufficient presence
of mind to extinguish the fire without alarming
the family,

PORTUGUESE HOSPI TALITY AND
MANNERS.'

From Santarem, we proceeded to Pernes, a
small town among hills, about 12 miles distant,
to which we had been invited by a Portuguese
gentleman to pass the night. lam glad that we
accepted the invitation, for the kind reception
we met with, and the delightful picture of do-
mestic happiness which we witnessed, gave us
more insight into the Portuguese character, than
we might otherwise have obtained in a journey
of two hundred miles. On arriving at the man-
sion, which is the only respectable house in the
town, we saw, at a balcony, reconnoitering the
party, the mother and two sisters, who, I dare
say, were not a little astonished at seeing such
a strange cavalcade and so many visitors. No
reception, however, could be more gratifying.
The son ushered us up stairs, the mother was
on the landing, and welcomed ue With the ut-
most cordiality. One daughter was at the room
door and another inside ; all formality was then
over, and a stranger found himself as much
at home in five minutes as he would do in Eng-
land in five days. There was no lack of conver-
sation, and that too in such a free, easy, engag-
ing manner, and so natural and unrestrained, that
one saw at once the habits and manners of the
company. The room to a foreigner had a sin-
gular appearance. There was not an article of
new or even modern furniture in it. The chairs,
were old-fashioned and crazy. On one side was
a table with gilt feet, at leaSt 100 years old ; on
another was a sofa, apparently of the same age ;
the floor was without a carpet, and patched in
different plaCes—all, indeed, was quite in cha-
racter with the owner of the house—a venerable-
looking old man of 92 years of age. Ile seldom
said a word, and hardly paid the least attention to
what was passing. A kid of the goat's had been
dressed for dinner, with a variety of other dishcs
not et all differing from those of England, and
wine of the best quality. The great topics of
conversation were the invasion of the French,
and the hardships and cruelties to which they
had subjected the inhabitants. On their ap-
proach,- all the family, except the old man, fled
to Lisbon. The youngest daughter recounted
with great naivete her flight to the capital, on
foot, when only nine years of age, and did not
seem to think or care that we might add sixteen
to thrt, which would make her age twenty-five.
In justice towards the French officers, it is ne-
cessary to state, that they in general conducted
themselves well towards the inhabitants, though
they would not, or could not, perhaps, restrain
the common soldiers. When the family returned
all was one scene of desolation ; almost every
house was unroofed, and hardly a human being
to be seen. In their own house they found the
bodies of two aged nuns, who had been forced from
their convent to seek food, azid had supported life
for some time on Indian wheat. Two stones were
found beside them, which they had ust.'. in
bruising the corn. The people of this country
will not soon forget or forgive the conduct of
the French in Portugal. I cannot give a better
idea of the amiable, affectionate. disposition of
this family than by relating one circumstance
which occurred during our stay in it. The
eldest daughter, who has been a widow for many
years, and is still handsome, had, for some rea-
son which was not explained, fallen under the
displeasure of the rest of the family. All, how-
ever, had, become reconciled to her but her bro-
ther, who had not gone to her house for five
years. The mother and daughters, who had
long endeavoured in vain to overcome his
dislike, applied to one of the party to intercede,
and contrive to take him to the house in the course
of a morning's walk. After much reluctance
and many objections, he at list consented, and
was reconciled to'his.sister. .The'rnother as vvell
as the sisters, on our rituin, were overpowered
with joy and gratitude, and hardly krew how to
return sufficient thanks. - " She behred ill on
one occasion," said the old woman, " but she
has admitted her error, and she is my daughter."
The tears came into her eyes, and she was un-
able to say a word more. These minute de-
tails of domestic scenes may appear to some
trifling, to me they afford the greatest relief; and
I turn to them with delight from the jargon of
politics and the eternal bubble about Constitu-
tions and Charters, and Liberals and Apostoli-
cals. Next morning, at parting, the old woman
embraced each of her visitors (not the French
embrace), by clasping them in her arms, and
said with great sincerity, " Whenever you pass
this way, you will find my house open and friends
ready to receive yon."

Thursday two young gentlemen were found
drowned in a mill-pond, in the parish' of Hart-
field, near East Grinste&d, and are supposed to
hive been swimming. Their names were Mel.
huish.--Bath Chronicle.

CONVERSIONS TO THE CATHOLIC CHURCH.
—Last Sunday three Protestants, Thomas Price
and his two sons, James and Samuel, publicly
Register.
embraced the Catholic Religion at the FranfZrzcaa
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deleur took their seats, Sergeant Blackburne
moved for a Conditional Order for a Criminal
Information against Michael Staunton, Esq.,
Proprietor of The Morning Register, for pub-
lishing two libels against the Association. for
Discountenancing Vice ; one contained in. the
report of a speech of Daniel O'Connell, Esq.,
(riven in The Morning Register of the 6th of
March last, and the other in an article in The
Register of the 23d of March, purporting to
be a letter from Daniel O'Connell, Esq.—Judg6
Burton—Take a Conditional Order.--Dub/in
Evening Mail.

The Times Journal, with its countless adver-
tisements and circulation of two millions and a
half in the year, (the return made to Lord John
Russell's motion) is certainly a very princely pro-
perty, and we may have some idea of the in-
creased demand for., newspapers, as well as the
increased liberality of their proprietors, when we
compare the wages said to be given t Mr.
Moore with the pittance offered to *Robert
Burns more than 35 years ago. Burns, at that
time, was in the full blaze of his fame ; and the
late Mr. Perry, who had read and admired his
productions, wished to enlist his services in
favour of the Morning Chronicle, at a salary of
521. per annum. The proposal was made to
the poet through the medium of Peter Miller,
Esq. who was then. Member for the Dumfries
district of burghs. All that was asked was a
poetical contribution once a-week, and no stipu-
lation, we believe, was made 'as to the nature
of the subjects; yet even with these qu ifica-
tions the offer was rejected—sternly tejc:ted.
Burns had an idea that it would be servile so to
tax his muse ; but had he liVed in these days of
rhyming and scribbling right and left, we
question whether he would have been half so
surupuious.—.Dumirm Courier,

'MALT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

The affairs of Portugal, and the interests of '
England combined with those of general free-
dom and humanity which they involve, require
at this moment the sedulous attention of the
British Government. A division of the British
army was not despatched to Portugal to fulfil
the mere letter of a treats, the spirit of which
was to be lost sight of in all the subsequent acts
of this Government. Sir William Clinton and
his troops were not sent out to fight with sha-
dows, or for them ; or if the words of a treaty
were binding on Great Britain, surely the sub-
stance, which conferred all its force and value on
that treaty, was worth something when we came
to settle the circumstances under which, and the
end .for which, it should be executed. - When
Mr. Canniit . explained and justified the inter-
ference of Britiali troops,- he took pains to strip
the queatiOn of its disguises, and to prove that
Portuguese rebel's, eqUipPed, and paid, and en-
couraged by the Court 'of Madrid, could not be
said to carry on a civil war against their own
Government, but to perpetrate 'a foreign invasion
of its territory. This argument was a wise and
spirited substitution of things for names ; and
seemed an earnest of the vigour and dis-
cernment with which the joint rights of
England and Portugal, would be maintained,
without caring for artifices or pretences. It
was further a gauntlet thrown down to Ferdi-
nand, which challenged him to go to war for a
criminal object if he durst. Starting on this
manly principle, we were among those who felt
some confidence that Mr. Canning would follow
up the supply of troops by the enfOrcement of
direct and -straight-forward. counsels upon the
Princess Regent and her advisers : but we. do
not know that there ever yet appeared a Govern-
ment so imbecile or incompetent to a great crisis,
as that-of the present Portuguese Regency, since
England identified her intereste With those of
the Charteis which she engaged to defend. • It
is manifest that she had 'only to speak, and her
will would be a law to the Regent. What; then,
has been the political advice which, judging
from facts, we must presume that his Majesty's
Government has tendered to that of our ally ?
To encourage rebellion by leaving one and all
of the insurrectional y leaders unpunished in
person aid estate. To constitute a Cabinet of
which the most prominent member should be
a partizan of Don Miguel, the sworn enemy
of the Charter and of England. To chill, and
repel, and treat with contumely, all the unhappy
Spanish exiles, who represented the Constitu-
tional cause of Spain in other countries ; and
even when they sought the soil of Portugal
as that of a nation bound to Spain by the sym-
pathies of common suffering, and by the hopes
of it congenial freedom, how have these merito-
rious and miserable men been received ? They
have actually been driven like wild beasts from
the shelter in which they had crouched from
the storm which every where pursued them,
and told that because they 'had fled to Portugal
without passports—when passports were refused
to them—they must fly from it with greater
speed, though their own country was closed
against them, and they had not within their
reach the means of foOd, or raiment, or convey-
ance. And why has all this been ? Because a
timid or treacherous policy left hopes to Miguel
that he would soon be Regent of the kingdom ;
the partisans of Miguel, who made open war
upon the Government, were to be treated with
respect. Because the Ministers of the Holy Al-
liance, who all distinctly declared their approval
of the Constitution on behalf of their Sovereigns
—because these men threatened to complain, if
libiril-IVlinisters should he employed to realize
for Portugal the .advantages.of liberal institutions;
Ministers, forsooth, like the BishoP of Viseu,
must betaken from among the. enemies of the chat-
tel, mud frarra talc pautibans of the saiage Miguel,
for the sake of undermining the system they
were sworn to uphold. Again, that man must
be absurd or dishonest, who denies that the
constitutional spirit in Spain is the best card in
Mr. Canning's hand, if he seriously meditates
to maintain the influence of England, and the
Portuguese institutions. Whatever policy tends
to preserve and strengthen the attachment to
England in the mind of liberal Spaniards, ought
to be industriously pursued by an able Eng-
lish Minister. Every body knows that the con-
stitutional spirit is growing rapidly in Spain.—
Mr. Canning's assertion of its weakness, and his
assumption of pity or terror for the Liberals if
the French troops had been withdrawn a few months
ago, imposed upon no man who understood what was
really going on throughout the Peninsula; but the
exiled Spaniards who proceed to Portugal are the
only thread of communication, and the kind and
friendly encouragement of . them is the sole bond of
union between this country.and the immense body
of friends to a national regeneration in. Spain. Yet
have we, or the Portuguese Cabinet under our
guidance, rejected them with barbarous impolicy
and folly from its shores If we encourage the Con-
stitutional party in Spain: we make the defence of
Portugal to ourselves a snecure ; if not, we s icri-
fice td the audacious demands of Ferdinand upon the
Pot rague;4 Government, whose destruction he has
all along been planning or attempting, the very
weapon, and the only weapon, by which we, in con-
junction with Portugal, can most effectually resist
his plots. But this is to be done " for the sake of
peace !" Shall we, indeed, make peace more dur-
able, or war less certain, by a mean, and truckling,
and pusillanimous system of concession? Will Fer-
dinand remain at pease with " Constitutional" Por-
tugal on any terms ? Can he do so ? Manifestly not.
e give Mr. Canning full credit for his wishes; but
wishes, however praiseworthy, will not always exe-
cute themselves England strenuously supports an
honest and unbending protection of the Portuguese
Charter, and of the policy of -Don. Pedro, as contra-
distinguished from, that of his wretched brother and
of the incorrigible Queen.—Our Portuguese .corre•
spondence is full of alarming interest.—Timer.
The Common Council of London yesterday
passed a series of Resolutions, expressive of the
opinion of the Corporation in favour of the re-
peal of the Test and Corporation Acts, but ab-
stained from presenting a petition to Parliament
urging the immediate discussion of the subject.
-The Test and Corporation Acts are at present
(taken separately and in their practical effects)
insig,niticant ; they are, however, parts and par-
cels of a system of intolerance, the whole of
which ought to be swept away together. The
best mode in which relief could be given to all
the classes of dissentients from the Established
Church, would be by a general Act: to remove all
the disabilities which have been imposed upon
them. The false principle which has been ap-
plied to all of them is the same—the relief
should be the same, and simultaneous. If a
Dissenter or a Catholic be a less loyal subject
than a Churchman;- it is only because he is a
less privileged subject. The law has made the
discontent, which now is made a justification for
the law. We are anxious for a repeal of the
Test Acts, in common with other laws of the
same kind, and we should continue anxious for it,
even if the mass of the Protestant Dissenters we're
(which we believe they are not) anxious for the

continuance of laws for the oppression of the people
of other sects. It i - an :absurd maxim to " perse-
cute those who are disposed to, persecute," because
the world, if it were acted upon, would be divided
only into those who persecute from disposition, and
those who persecute frOM retaliation. The malig-
nity of weakness is better put down by the tempe-
rance and justice of strength. We believe the mass
of the old Dissenters of England to be the best
friends of civil and religious liberty• A few of them
may be unreasonably alarmed, but the howlings which
are set up in their names against freedom of religion,
come chiefly from fanatics who have not reason
enough either to assent to, or dissent from, any doc-
trine; and who call themselves Dissenters merely
because they disgust all regular worshippers by
their noise and absurdity.—Morning Chronicle.

When that portion of the Press which now
devotes its columns to the unmeasured flattery
of Mr. Canning, and the virulent abuse of all
who cannot unite in their fulsome cant about a
man whose virtues .they ,never discovered until
his fortunes seemed to be ascendant—when that
portion of the Press made a charge of cabal and
even of conspiracy, against the late colleagues of
Mr. Canning, and that, too, in the coarsest lan-
guage—what step did the parties thus vilified
take to vindicate their conduct in the eyes of
the public and the Sovereign ? Did they bring
actions at law, or apply for criminal informations,
as we have often known men who pretend to
greater liberality of political sentiment to do on
slighter occasions ? No—the charge. was one
which affected their honour, and it appeared to
us to be a strong proof of conscious innocence
that they had not recourse to those legal pro-
ceedings in which technical forms too often ex-
clude the investigation of truth—but came for-
ward in a manly way, and, confronting their
political adversaries, stated their case, and ap-
pealed to the public judgment. Having vindi-
cated themselves in this manner, it now becomes
matter of inquiry, how far those through whose
agency it is said such statements got into the
Press, were qualified to make such changes—or,
in other words, how far. they came into Court
with clean hands. It is asked whether there
was no cabal at the other ride ? and in the
House of Lords, the Marquis of Londonderry
has made a statement, which, if not satisfactorily
answered very soon, must be taken as conclusive
of that question. We now deem it a duty, with-
out charging cabal or conspiracy on any set of
men, to inquire whether a Barrister of great
practice and celebrity did not,- when upon cir-
cuit, send a written communication to the
sent First Lord of the Treasury, which
conveyed by a Gallant Knight distinguished
in Peninsular affairs, and in which communi-
cation it was stated that not only the Bar-
rister's political friends, but the Marquis of
Lansdown and his adherents would join Mr.
Canning in the formation of his Gpvern-
ment, if certain preliminary arrangements could
be agreed upon ? We ask if Mr, Canning
did not, receive this communication, or some-
thing to this effect, eight or ten days before his
last visit to Windsor ? If it should be the case
that such an overture was received, we then ask the
Right Honourable Gentleman, whether he informed
any of hii colleagues of it ? We ask whether, in-
stead of informing his colleagues, he did not make
use of it at Windsor, to satisfy a certain high quarter,
that if any of his colleagues retired upon principle,
he had another party at his command. We ask the
Right Honourable Gentleman whether, upon his
hearing that the secret had transpired and an intima-
tion having been given that the proceeding would be
made public, he did not go to the Secretary of State
for the Home Department, and show him the com-
munications ? .We ask whether his colleague (lid
not immediately inquire as to the time of his having
received this overture, not being then aware that it
had been shown in the highest quarter ? If these
questions are not fairly answered, we need not ask
what indignation the colleagues of the Right Ho-
nourable Gentleman must have felt when apprised
of these circumstances; nor need we inquire whether
such proceedingar if true, indicate a case of common
cabal or one of deep intrigue. So .far are we from
wishing to find these things true, that we hope the
Learned Barrister and the Noble Martini* may be
able to prove, to the satisfaction of the country, that
they did not offer the services of themselves and
party to Mr. Canning, before he had received his
Majesty's commands to re-construct the Govern-
ment; and we also hope that, if the Right Hon.
Gentleman received such a communication, he will
be able to show that lie did not conceal it for eight
or ten days from his colleagues, or make an in-
triguing or improper use of it—otherwise the public
will draw their own conclusion.—Morning Herald.

We fear Mr. Canning will find great difficulty
in keeping his new troops in any tolerable order.
Mr. Brougham, we perceive, thus early in his
career as Deputy Leader of the Ministerial Party
in the Commons, shews a disposition to play
tricks of which the chief or nominal Leader can
hardly be supposed to approve. Mr.-Brougham,
it appears, feels himself entitled to be King of
the Treasury Benches ; and this is not very un-
reasonable, considering that much the greater
part of their present population have long been
his subjects. He may, however, for some time
longer recognize - Mr. Canning as King, upon
condition that he shall be Viceroy over him.—
This mighty potentate of the coalition thought
proper on Tuesday night to express his high
displeasure at the conduct of certain of the
Election Committees which have sat this Ses-
sion, accusing them of having outraged law,
and common sense, more than insinuating
that they had violated even common honesty,
and threatening them that he would call for
the minutes of their proceedings, in order
to found upon their delinquency a measure
to repeal the Grenville Act, and substitute for it
some device of his own. Now, when we recol-
lect that Election Committees are ballotted for
impartially, and that the Members are sworn to
do justice between the parties, that the Grenville
Act up to this moment has been understood suc-
cessfully to assimilate Election Committees to
-the form and character of juries, we cannot suf-
ficiently wonder that a person standing upon such
an eminence as this Learned Gentleman has
attained, should have been guilty of thisimpru-
dence and indecency. Are Members of Parlia-
ment who have been performing a painful and
laborious public duty, and performing it under the
solemn sanction of an oath, to be thus branded and
reviled by a political intriguer, even although that
intriguer happens for the moment to be asso-
ciated with the Prime Minister of England, and
to tower over him. Mr. Wynn, we imagine,
must feel a little uncomfortable in the com-
pany of this strange confederate, who in the
glory of his new-born greatness, and.rthe pride
of imaginary superiority, evidently thinks
himself entitled to regard all others with contempt.
That Right Hon. Gentleman long announced his
intention of bringing in a Bill to consolidate and
amend the laws relating to Elections—he has
baen studying and toiling upon the measure ever
since—and now, when he has just elaborated it to
what ha believes its highest possible state of perfec-
tion, up starts this new confederate, and, 'without
deigning a consultation or communication of any
kind, in the all-sufficiency of his greatness, in the
proud consciousness of his unmeasured superiority,
anticipates or obstructs the well-considered project.
This, we anticipate, is a pretty good specimen of the

discipline which is• likely to prevail in the Minis-
terial camp. These transient_ and desultory dis-
orders are not, however, the greatestdanger to
which Mr. Canning is exposed. Liberalism is
the basis and the watchword of the. coalition ;
and we piofess we do not see how, in the
march of liberalism, Mr. Canning and hii new
confederates are to keep together. So long as
the enemy hovers around their army, the con-
seioasness of a common interest and a common
danger may keep it tolerably compact—but whenever
this ceases, we expect to see the Commander left
a long way in the rear. Mr. Canning, when acting
with his former Colleagues, was generally supposed,
although we think unjustly, to be the advanced
guard of modern liberalism in•the Government. He
humoured this, which, if any judgment is to be
formed either from the most splendid of his parlia-
mentary efforts, or from the general tenor of his po-
litical life, we are entitled to call a mistake, and thus
acquired much noisy popularity, and- at the same
time obtained the advantage (we now see how great)
of having two strings to his bow: .All is now, how-
ever, changed. - The.advaneed guard of modern li-
beralism. in .the -English Government is now com-
posed of Lord Lansdown and -Mr. Brougham.. If
Mr.-Canning can at all keep ,pace with them in their
March--if all the noisy popularity; is not speedily
transferred from him to them, it will be abundantly
prOVed either that he or that they have contrived
hitherto to keep us in the dark as to their true prin-
ciples and character.—Morning Post.
In the connected narrative of facts, which we
yesterday submitted to our readers, respecting
the late 'Ministerial negotiations, we mentioned
that Mr. Canning, " early in April, stated to the
Duke of Wellington, that. one of the schemes
which had occurred to him, in case the King
should desire him to reconstruct the Govern.
ment, was, to make the present Lord Goderich
First Lord of the Treasury." 'We have reason
to believe, that our impressions upon this. üblect
participated in the error into which his Grace
himself fell, in the declaration
-which he made to
the I-louse Of LOrds. It has been generally
supposed, that vvhoeVer possessed the office of
the -First Lord of the Treasury, was, ipso facto,
the Prime Minister of .the Crown. It is true
that, for a long series of yYears, the notion has
prevailed, that such is the fact : and it was upon
the assumption of tins generally received opinion
that his Grace proceeded, in the sentiments he
delivered on the occasion referred to. It seems,
however, that there is an important distinction,
which has, we understand, been satisfactorily ex-
plained to the Duke of Wellington. The First
Lord of the Treasury is not necessarily the
Prime Minister. It is only when the pa-
tronage which attaches to that high function
' happens to be combined with the patronage
which belongs to the Crown, that the hold-
ing of the office of First Lord of the Trea-
sury carries with it the influence and authority
of Premier. The reason why the two have been
commonly united appears to be, that, as they
frequently flow in the same channel, or must
otherwise come into inconvenient collision, it
has been found desirable that they should be
vested in the same individual. How, then,
stands the case as regards Mr. Canning and the
Duke of Wellington ? When there no longer
existed a reasonable ground of expectation that
Lord Liverpool would be able to re-assume his
functions in his Majesty's Government, it be-
came, we believe, a question with Mr. Canning,
whether he might not unite, in his own person,
the office of Foreign Secretary with that of Prime
Minister ; and it was in reference to .a pmsible
arrangement of this kind, that the suggestion
was thrown out, of Mr. Robinson becoming
First Lord of the Treasury, and of Mr. Canning
retaining the seals of the Foreign Office, in con-
junction with that dispensation of the patronage
of the Crown, which would essentially constitute
him Prime-Minister of England. Hence the suppositon
that Lord Goderich might fill the one office, and
Mr. Canning the other, with this implied condition
annexed to it;• and hence the very natural error. into
which his Grace fell. It was not to be supposed
that Mr. Canning, filling the station which he did
fill in Lord Liverpool's Governinent, could.contem-
plate the transfer of supremacy to any other bands;
and this leadsus to a consideration,, which we do
not remember to have seen urged in any of the dis-
cussions that have arisen out of the late Ministerial
crisis. We believe we may assert, without fear of
contradiction, that, had such a catastrophe occurred
during the period when the late Marquis of London.
derry directed the Foreign Policy of this Country,
as we have witnessed within the last two months,
that lamented individual would have, unquestion-
ably, expected that the highest office in the State
should have devolved upon him ; yet he was
as decidedly an advocate of Catholic Emancipation
as Mr. Canning can be ; and we beg leave to ask,
whether, under such circumstances, the late Col-
leagues of Mr. Canning would have refused to con-
tinue in office with . the Noble Marquis ? We
firmly believe not. Surely, then, we are justified
in coming to the conclusion, that there were other
reasons than those which have been avowed, which
induced the seceders to determine upon retiring
from his Majesty's Councils. Our object, however,
in stating what we have, is to show, that, in the
proposition made to the Duke of Wellington, or
rather intimated to his Grace early in April, -there
Was no departure from that course which Mr. Can-
ning had, from the first, prescribed to himself.—
New Times.