The Sun.
London, England, 1818-04-20 00:00:00

FOR THE SUN.

Mrt.Etivroa,—l have heard Mr. CANNINg CCrI.!
Scored for having condescended to notice the libel of
an anonymous Defamer. Ido not refer to the
madversions upon the case set forth by the Edit ors
of The Morning Chronicle and The Times, or by the
kindred and Revolutionary spawn of Sunday
beilers- The censure I speak of has arisen in a
very different qua' ter, and from a very distinct and
opposed class of persons ; men of high principles,
of education, and Gentlemen ! men who are as
little disposed to defend an assassin as to employ
one, but who consider the infamy of the publica-
tion in question a sufficient guarantee for the con-
tempt and abhorrence of every hcnest man in the
country. The fact I am not disposed to dispute,
but against the -inference that Mr. CANNING is
therefore censurable for noticing it the• man-
ner he has thought proper to do, I most decidedly
protest.

If the Right Honourable Gentleman bad de.
scended to enter the lists with such an opponent,
for the purpose of justifying himself against the
base, unmanly, and calumnious charges brought
against him, he would have acted unworthily, and
have so acted without necessity. His ability tfa,
defend himself will not be questioned by those who.
have the opportunity to assail him in open day.'
and where he is to be constantly found at hi%
post. But when he seeks to unkennel a wretch.
who entrenches himself behind a BULWARK or
LIBERTY, in order to strike more surely at the best
.interests of society, he is setting an example
which I shall not he sot-1y to see followed up, in
souse form or other, by every mats of honour in
the country, when assailed is a similar manner.
The corrupting influence of the French Revolu-
tion is only beginning to shew its bitter fraits its
this country. The mighty efforts made to sup-
press it in its first approaches to this happy land
were effectual for a time. iVe all temember its
defeat, and we cannot but also remember that
the present marked object and denounced victim,
against whom the whole reviving force of the Mon.
stet is directed, was among the foremost of the band
to whose vigorous display of intellect, to the bril-
liancy of whose wit, and the keenness of whose
satire, its obscuration and defeat were chiefly at-
tributable, Hine We ,Lachryma, !—En Crimea !
En Causa! Hence lies " the rank off,..nce," which
" smells not to Heaven" indeed, but has taken
another direction, more suited to the malignity of.
the principle, to opposition to which it was incur.
red. Mr. CANNING is most obnoxious to the hatred,
the inextinguishable inveteracy of disappointedand
retarded Revolutionists, and his name stands broad-
ly registered in the list of the PROSCRIBED ! The
threat published in the libel in question is but the
premature disclosure, by an intemperate partizan,
of a long cherished hope, warmed into existence
by the mischievous and puerile policy of a disap.
pointed faction in the State ; a faction which ab.
surely lends itself to raise a storm, in the hope
to stay its violence when it has spread desola.
(ion over its enemies !—Are such men inaccessible
to the warnings of experience ? Have they talked
all .reference to the French. Revolution out of
countenance, till they themselves'are'so besotted
as to fall into the snare they have laid for others,
and to believe that " their talents" can arrest the
march of events, or prevent the natural flow of
consequences front the madness of a people
once divested of all respect for the laws and
constituted Authorities of the country. Do they
really forget, or has disappointed ambition SP
perverted their understanding as to render them
unmindful of, the system which was prepared for
they overthrow of the French Monarchy ? Have
they lost sight of events so far as to promise them-
selves security amidst the ruin which a degenerate
abuse of literary talents to tlie vilification of all
moral and religious principle,—to the annibila.
tion of all those ties which bind men in civil
society,—to the relaxation of every duty, and the
degradation of high character whenever it rose
above the rank of the lowest order of the corn•
triunity, produced and consummated in France !
Will they, who have dared the example of tra-
ducing and calumniating the first Magistrate of
the country, because he found them ti,fit to con.
troults Councils, refer us to the actual state of
France at the pet iod of the Revolution ; will they
infer the security of our Establishments because
they are more pure in !hi ntstlyes, anti more hounur.
ably administered, when the steady object of the
Party has been to sanction and countenance even
where they hare not. originated, libels upon the
Constitution,' upon every rank of the Public Ad-
ministrators—and even upon the Throne itself
The people of France were made to believe that
their Constitution was rotten, and that their
Role.rs were Traitors,- and their impulse was to
overthrow the one and the other. The people
of England ate taught the same lesson. It
spoken iu plain Loglish by the subsidiary