The Sun.
London, England, 1820-11-21 00:00:00

EARL SHEFFIELD.

Although we are convinced that every member
of those numerous classes of the community
whose interests have been protected and secured
by the writings of this excellent and patriotic
I.ohleman, must have rea4 \kith indignation the.
attack upon his Lordship by The Morning Chro-
nicle, which we noticed yesterday and on Friday
last, and though we are, convinced that such
base and unfounded insinuations can never in
the least degree detract from that high character
which Lord SHEFFIELD bears in the country, we
cannot deny ourselves the pleasure of contrasting
the terms of respect in which the late Mr. Gin-
BON, the Historian, mentions the abilities and
literary acquirements of his Lordship, with the
calumny attempted to be propagated by The
Morning Chronicle. The following is an extract
from Mr. GIBBON'S Journal:--
" The character of my friend (Mr. Holroyd)- had -recom-
mended him to a Seat in Parliament for Coventry, the com-
mand of a Regiment of Light Dragoons; and an Irish Peerage.
The sense and spirit of his political writings have decided the
Public on the great questions of our Commercial Interest with
America and Ireland. The sale sif his observations on the
American States was diffusive, their effect beneficial ; the
Navigation Act, the Palladium of Britain, was defended, and
perhaps saved, by his pen; and he proves, by the weight of
fact and argument, that the mother Country may survive and
flourish after the loss of America. My friend has never cul-
tivated the arts of composition ; but his materials are copious
and correct, and he leaves on his paper the clear impression
of an active and vigorous mind. His " Observations on tl e
:frade, Manufactures, and present State of Ireland," were
intended to guide the industry, to correct the prejudices, and
to assuage the passions of a country which seemed to forget
that she could be free and prosperous only by a friendly eon.
'action with Great Britain. The concluding Observations
are written with so much ease and spirit, that they may be
read by those who are! the least interested in the subject."—
(Gibbons Misc. Works, I vol. p. 25G, Bvo. Edit.)
In a Letter from Mr. GIBBON to Lord SUM*
FIELD, dated Lausanne, July 29., 1786, he says,
that his Lordship's " Treatise on the American
" Trade has been read, judged, approved, and
" reported."—Again, he observes, 44 All that I
" have seen must do you honour, and might do
44, the Public service : you are above the trifling
" decorations of style ; but your sense is strong,
" your views impartial, and your industry laud-
" able. I find that your American Tract is just
44 translated into German."

We have already mentioned the fact, that Col.
HoLnoyn never did publish a Pamphlet on the
Commercial Treaty with France, and the above
Extracts from the Miscellaneous Works of Mr.
GtunoN chew, that in the estimation of the first
Scholar and Writer of the age, such works as Lord
SHEFFIELD did publish, were calculated to do
him honour, and the country service; and, indeed,
Lord SHEFFIELD'S efforts in support of the Navi-
gation Laws, and that system of Colonial and
Commercial polioy which has been the main-
spring of all our wealth and prosperity, it is uni-
versally acknowledged have gained him the re-
spect and gratitude of every well-wisher to his
country ; and, from our personal knowledge, we
can assert that, amongst several of the most Ira•
luable classes of the oommunity, his Lordship is
deservedly held in the highest esteem. How
base, then, must that Writer be who travels out
of his way to malign the charadter of such an in-
dividual, and to rob him of the reward of his ex-
ertions in the public cause, by Insinuating that he
had assumed to himself the credit of a Work to
which he was not entitled
Ilow the Writer in The Chronicle connects
any circumstances which he supposes attended
the publication of any Work of Lord SIIEF-
FIELD'S on a Commercial Treaty with the manner
in which his Lordship thought it right, on a late
occasion, to exercise those privileges which 1w
enjoys as a Peer of Parliament, we are at a loss
to conceive ; but we are tempted to believe that
this ungenerous slanderer is influenced by other
feelings and motives, than that zeal which he
pretends to feel in the cause of injured Majesty
and persecuted Innocence ; and that he has fa-
bricated this story about Lord SIIF.FFIELD'S Essay
on the Commercial Treaty with France because
his views have been thwarted, and speculative
theories and visionary schemes of his have
been confuted and exposed 44 by the weight of
fact and argument" adduced by his Lordship,
and that hence only springs the virulence and
acrimony with which he has attacked the late
conduct of the Earl of SHEFFIELD. We repeat
that we consider the attack as impotent as it is
malicious, and that we are only induced to refer
to it that we may have the pleasure of shewing
that the high opinion which we in common with
every man connected with the Shipping and Co-
lonial Interests entertained of the services which
Lord SHEFFIELD has rendered the Country by
his writings, sanctioned by that eminent and ele-
gant Historian, Mr. GIBBON, than whom no man
was ever better qualified to form a right estimate
of the abilities and characters of his contempo-
raries.
21st November; . K.
OW

TO THE READER.
As several of our Readers have advised us to allot our last
Page to the Daily Extracts from Tree Losnox .louftNiti.of
we shall, as often as, possible, comply with their
mendation, and endeavour to render them at all ti nee
copious and impartial. •

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