The Sun.
London, England, 1827-08-11 00:00:00

TITE SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

To the statement contained in our last num-
ber, that Lord Goderich was sent for by his
Majesty on Thursday, we have only now to add
the intelligence, that the Lord Chancellor was,
in like manner, called to Windsor yesterday, and
that after his Lordship's return a Cabinet Coun-
cil was held. These, we believe, are all the
external evidences of what is passing in the in-
terior : they are evidences of the intention that
the present Government should go on ; in truth,
they are proofs that it is going on. The pre-
cise arrangements, like the terms of a pending
negociation, are kept secret, till the whole shall
be concluded : one thing, however, may be po-
sitively stated—the Government, in its spirit,
will remain unaltered. It is worth the while to
consider the different temper with which the
Whigs and the Tories (if we may se designate
parties, neither of which now completely answer
to the original name) bear the loss of place. The
Whigs have been shut out of office,—almost en-
tirely,—for years without number ! and though
it cannot be denied but that they sometimes,
during this their exclusion from power, mur-
mured against the giver of power—" the good
man of the house,"—yet in general their lan-
guage, as a body, has been constitutional, and
their deportment respectful. It was but last
.F.aster that Mr. Canning was placed upon the
giddy eminence of power, and infused something
more of liberality and intelligence into the Coun-
cils of Government than they had possessed be-
fore ; and in this short time, during which hope
has hardly fled, it would be impossible to enume-
rate all the bitter sarcasms and malignant abuse
that have been heaped upon his Majesty by the
Tories—by that faction on which all the bounties
of Royalty have been poured in copious showers
so far back as the memory of living man ex-
tendeth,—by that faction which may be almost
said to have sat upon the throne by the King's
side. They have started papers, weekly and
daily, on purpose to abuse his Majesty, his
friends, and the society by which he is sur-
rounded. Sir William Knighton, and a lady
whose conversation and manners are thought to
be particularly agreeable to the King, are the
subjects of the vilest slander. Now " Fairly
and softly, gentlemen and noblemen Tories out
of p!ace, we should say ; " though the grati-
tude a Courtiers be a sense of favours to come,
yet it ought not to be wholly so. Think a little
of what you have had, as well as of that which
you expected to have; and, for mere decency's
sake, revere the ,giver. Pass over his friends, if
you think you have anglit against them ; for
though it may be only unconstitutional and dis-
respectful in those who have never shared the
Royal bounties to reflect upon the dispenser, in
you, the sponges, it is ingratitude and baseness."
We might add, also, to the preceding exhortation,
that the present Administration is not a Whig
Administration, lest the term should shock ears
unused to such a combination of words. Lord
Goderich is not a Whig ! The Chancellor is
not a Whig ! Lord Lansdowne is a man upon
whose shoulders Lord Liverpool would have
again and again placed the burden of Govern-
ment. If they and their friends be men whose
minds are expanded svith the expansive genius
and intelligence of the age, we should wish to
know whether the religious and politicel bigots,
who have chosen to make way and open a place
for them, have power to cramp and confine that
genius and intelligence ; and if not, whether it
be not wise to select or retain men, who, in some
degree assimilating themseive,s to the spirit of
the times, may guide it into proper courses, and
control its excesses.—Times.
TRH MiNtiTßy.—..ll is generally understood
that Lord Goderich has res:Tived his Majesty's
commands to effect such an arrangement of the
Ministry as may for the moment su,-.Tly,the
chasm occasioned by the decease of Mr. CO.-
ring. This at least is the prevalent report ; and
although we do not pledge ourselves for its ac-
curacy, we feel bound to say, that the Ministe-
rial movements, so far as they have been visible
so the world, coincide with, and thus in some
degree sanction it. The statement of course
implies that Lord Goderich is to be the Premier.
Lord Goderich is unquestionably a man of very
.csonsiderable talent, besides which he possesses
in rather an eminent degree those moral quali-
ties which tend perhaps more powerfully than
mere talent, to &cilitate the objects of an Admi-
nistration. He is conoilietory in his deport-
ment ; his manners present a happy union of
courtesy and frankness ; he is in short a very
clever and a very amiable man ; and as a fitates-
man he has had the advantage of being trained
in a most excellent school. We roust, however,
confess that we have never discovered in him
any indications of that strength of mind and firm-
ness of purpose which are the most essential quali-
fications for the head of a Cabinet, composed of
materials so discordant as the present. His very
Virtues are such as to incapacitate him for
the arduous duty which it is said be is
about to undertake. Instead of being a check
upon tho projects of the Whigs and Radicals,
who compose or surround the Cabinet, there is
too much reason to fear, from the confiding ge-
nerosity of his nature, that he will become little
more than a tool and A dupe in their hands.—
Another, and in our view an insuperable objec-
tion to him is, that, like his immediate predeces-
sor, he entertains upon the most important ques-
tion of domestic policy, opinions diametrically
opposed to those of the Sovereign, and of an im-
mense majority of the nation. Looking at the
rank held respectively by the Marquis of Lans-
downe and Lord Goderich, in the estimation of
the two opposite parties to which they are sup.
posed to belong, it cannot be doubted that the
submission of the former to hold office under .
the latter, would be a very exemplary exhibition
of humility. Whether this humility ought more
properly to be ascribed to magnanimity or to
cunning, will be seen hereafter. Our estimate
Lord Goderich's political character naturally
excises suspicion upon this bead, which our past
expersoce of the Whigs is but little calculated
to allay. With regard to the probable new ar-
rangements, the reports of last night were—that
Lord Goderich accepting the office of First Lord
of the Treasury, would be succeeded in the Co-
lonial Secretaryship by Lord Holland ; that Mr.
Sturges Bourne or Mr. Herries would fill the
_important Office of Chancellor of the Exche-
quer ; and that no alteration would for the pre-
sent take place in any of the other principal
Offices of State. These reports we mention
merely as they reached us, without of course
vouching for their accuracy in any the slightest
degrees--m-orning
Post.
The sele •
twin by his Majesty of Lord Gode-
issh, to :pr
°l.,,se the arrangements which have
been necessary by the death of Mr. Canning,
has given- gfeat and general satisfaction. The
sentiments of that amiable and- enlightened
Nobleman are well known ; and we have, in his
constant advocacy of liberal and enlightened
views, and his clinging to the Administration