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fioin his Majesty on this most important ques=:l
lion, and whether that promise was graciously
. Canning excites strong feel- given, are points which it is probable that a little'
We hinted, and we repeat the time will explain ; but the deep and irremovable
Ise and calumny which have anxiety of Mr. Canning, on topics which could
never more affect his worldly fortunes, bears ho-
him may have had some share
talth, and aggravating his ma- nourabi- evidence to the sincerity of his pa-
It is replied, " that calumny
trictism, and to the lofty character of that ambi-
must in 'sing case have had an undue power upon 'lion which possessed and sustained him to the
ct
his mind : Mr. Peel, Lord Eldon, and the Duke, last.—/bi .
of Wellington have been as bitterly abused as' On this regretful occasion we cannot help ob-
that every man whose feelings Mr. Canning, and yet they have survived with serving, ings are not
constitutions unbroken." Now, even were the . altogether brutalized, must be sensible that upon
facts as here stated, is the-re no difference, we'. the stroke of mortal disease or of death, political
ask, between Men of proverbially strong nerves hostility ought to cease. Such has been and is
and unfeeling natures, and one who, when first .. the maxim by which our conduct has been rebau-
lated ever since the disease of Mr. C •
constrained, through respect for his deserted, aiming was
Master, to accept of the high responsibility of r known to threaten a fatal termination. We
the Preeniership, brought with him, no doubt, would at the present moment recall to recollec-
to the arduous task, a mind of transcendent '
s tion only the splendour of his talents, and forget
rowers, but a body enfeebled by previous'
the clouds by which that splendour has been too
•
-:
'disease, and therefore but too liable to become frequently obscured ; and we will do this, not-
the victim of acute mental sensations ? How_ withstanding the efforts made by many of our
ever, the truth is, that the perscres e'sove-men- ! cotereperanes to distort the creditable expression
tioned were never subjected to a twentieth part of humane sympathy for an a ic es fir t I,
perhaps an
of the abuse which has been lavished upon Mr. expiring individual, and his immediate connec-
Canning, and therefore their feelings are not to i
tions, into a manifestation of political o ; i p_n_on.—
be compared with his, even were their organs' We shall deeply and sincerely lament the loss o.
of perception equally sensible. Mr. peel, l' Mr. Canning, even politically, since we are
indeed, may be almost said to have had a driven by the conduct of
others
thus prema-
privileged exemption from those freedoms turely to speak of that too probable event in
of remark to which busy-politicians are ge_ • connection with polities. It is not however as
nerally exposed ; for which the chief eause', a Minister that we shall lament his loss ; for we
to be assigned is, that his talents are not off know that a Minister of the King of England
that first-rate quality which excite the dread -he could not 'Ong have been. The glory and
of opponents, and perhaps even the envy of the welfare of the country forbad it. But we
friends. Such, also, it may be observed, has lament his loss, if he is to be lost to us, as that.
been the secure and stable success in life which sof a man whose talents were eminentt • • y calcu-'
the other two have been enabled to attain, that lated to shed lustre and to confer importance
it may well support them under much more viru- upon the future Opposition in the British Par-
lent attacks than any with which they have been t liament. A Parliamentary Opposition is in a
assailed. But the writer to whom the reason .. certain sense essential to the due working of the
which we have assigned for the aggravation es' British Constitution ; and the whole world were
Mr. Canning's sufferings appears so unsatisfac-; agreed that the degradation of the Whig Opposi-'i
tory, must needs himself hazard a solution of the ' tion was so complete as to constitute it a stain and'
cause of that gentleman's unhappy malady and . an opprote ism upon the national character. From
dangerous situation ;•—, He is the victim, it is this stain arid opprobrium the country would
said, of that mortal alliance with the refuse of have been redeemed in a great degree when-
society in morals and in rank, which none dis- e ever Mr. Canning was, as inevitably he
tingsnished by rank or talent ever vet embraced ",
would have been at no distant p • emsl , swept
without expiating their error by a broken heart." away along with his new confederates to
" Fatal contact," to be sure, " with the refuse the only position which is natural to the
of society," to have accepted of a situation which latter. Our English feelings revolt at the idea
brings the possessor into almost daily personal . of any English party being so thoroughly con-
intercourse with the Sovereign ! Unhappy con- - temptable as the Opposition will once more be-
tamination, resulting from a league and union , come, now that it is destined apparently to be
with the canaille faction, composed of Lord led by a Lansdowne in the Lords, and by a
Lansdowne, Lord Harrowby, Lord Dudley, the Brougham in the Commons. It is in this point
Duke of Devonshire, Earl Fitzwilliam! How of view that the loss of Mr. Canning is really a
could Mr. Canning hope to exist, when exposed , national calamity. It extinguishes the last hope
to so mortal a contagion ? Perhaps while we -of a respectable Parliamentary Opposition. Ati
write this he sinks under it. If so, we pray that ' such a moment as the present, we are most de-
the spirit of the leader may be transfused into ' sirous to spare the character of Mr. Canning ;
the surviving members of the faction, if such it nor would we be needlessly severe upon the cha-
be, and that they direct the councils of the So- ratters of those who, fatally for him, have been
vereign with equal zeal and talents, and a hap- recently his colleagues. If he mistook the true
pier issue.--Times. road of ambition, and allied himself with men
A few brief sentences will henceforth suffice, only fit to be impediments and obstacles in his
we fear, to bring to a conclusion the melancholy career, he has paid a heavy penalty for his error,
narrative of which the Prime Minister of Great in his spirit broken and his frame destroyed ;
Britain has for some da •ys past been the subject ; while they are to be adequately punished by re-
ceiving mortification and discomfiture, as the
and these supplements to the history of his
disease and its progress will be found in the bid- merited consequences of their political tergiver-
letins as they are successively issued. That Mr. sation. But we cannot remain silent when we
Canning terminates the bright career of policy
hear the foulest calumnies cast upon men incom-
on which he entceed, not until, its principles, ma-
parably superior as statesmen to Mr. Canning
tured as they had long been in his own mind, and the whole of his colleagues. A paper of
y
were fully developed and defined for the general yesterday insinuates, amidst a torrent of coarse
meditation of his countrymen—that he has not
and brutal invective, with a repetition of which!
inatin
mere' achieved the honour of owe cannot pollute our columns, that all the late
noble planson
of national, and further of Euigropean
Ministers have been drawn to town by the
g policy, and further still of a phe most nagolic influencing 1
alarming indisposition of the Premier. It isl
evert nation in the world, ty
true that most of those distinguished statesmen'
- •
are now in town ; but it is equally true that they
nific'ent, and the most beneficent in its
character and results, but of putting them
either have not yet left town for the season, or
-
into a course of action, and of obtainin as well were i n town long before the illness of the Pre-
g'mier was publicly known ; and we may safely
for the conception as for the prospective execu-
venture to assert, that the insinuations thus
Lion of them, the grateful applauses of all gene-
rudely expressed are at once utterly unfounded,
rous and enlightened statesmen, is to say that he
atrociously calumnious, and infamously unjust.—
has lived long enough for the fulness of his own
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fame. But in the' exact proportion in which a
life so prolonged and so distinguished affords Judging by the violence of the principal of
consolation to the friends who loved him, and the Whig organs at the present moment, we
whose interest in the object of their tenderness should imagine that the serious and lamentable,
state of Mr. Carmine- has thrown the whole of
was of a personal and domestic nature, in the
same degree must be the sorrow of his Sovereign that part of the Administration into despair.
and cc,untry, for a loss which, to them at least, Those who use the language of bitterness on the
is leremature—for the departure from this earth ' one hand, and of fawning obsequiousness on the
of a liberal statesman, who, in witnessing the other, judge erroneously of the power which in-
accomplishment of his patriotic enterprises, fluences public opinion, if they think it is to be
would have lived to place the fruits of them be- led away, or in any material degree influenced
gond the reach of hazard, and to exempt those by such appeals as those to which we allude.
for whose welfare they were designed from the We have not been ourselves among the admirers
fear that, in hands less resolute and skilful, Mr, of the way in which Mr. Canning has obtained
Canning's policy may serve no cause but that of ' his last station in the Government, nor of the
its author's reputation. This mingled sentiment principles upon which his Administration has
of rief and alarm must now inevitably spread it-
hitherto been conducted, if it can as yet be said
self throughout the empire, and affect, in every
to have assumed any fixed principles at all ; but
quarter of the globe, the friends of freedom—we our opposition has been carried on upon public
grounds alone, and we should blush for ourselves
ought to say of legal aovernment, as contradis-
to and for the press of England, could we, now that
tinguished from despotic power. That collateral . .
life is parting from a man of acknowledged ta.
circumstances may, for a short time, tend to ag- ,
lent, like Mr. Canning, degrade our pages by
gravate such apprehensions, time present as-
pect of parties in England furnishes some' one unkind remark towards him. But sickness
and death, which level all distinctions, should
cause to suspect. The moment of Imr. ,
likewise close the avenues of wrath, on the part
Canning's decease will be caught at, as .
of those who profess to be admirers of departing
the proper crisis for a new, and (since
we _
any
must, therefore, more than doubt
his appointment to the Ministry) an unexpected
talent ; and
the attachment of • Canning, or
man to Mr.
effort to replace the beaten faction in power.— -
The heads of it will doubtless beset the King, to his fame and memory personally, who prosti-
tutes that supposed attachment to a base and de-
and by a due admixture of threats and insinua- •
Lions, make one more attempt upon his Majesty't, grading attack upon those who were till yesterday
prejudices or teaks. On the other hand, from .. as it were, the colleagues and friends of the very(
the unremitting attention and generous and touch- , man whose sad fate they, we will venture to say,l
ing kindness which his Majesty is known to have as sincerely deplore as any of his present new and
evinced towards . Mr. Canning throughout the . ardent eulogists. What effect the too certain
whole of this last distressing scene, it may be loss of Mr. Canning to the Government may
conjectured that so much personal regard could produce, we are unwilling at the present moment'
not have existed in behalf of a Minister separate to anticipate. There is a sacredness about mis-'
from a great political confidence and concord, • fortune, which should close the curtains of the
No friend or brother the most attached, could bed of death, against the unhallowed approach
anxiety than the
have manifested more earnest of mundane objects. We wish this feeling in-
King condescended to demonstrate for his dying fluenced those who have called forth those re-'
Minister. An individual much esteemed by his : marks ; but it does not follow that heartless in-
Fonsideraemeess should not be allowed to triumph
Majesty was the repeated messenger of' his Royal
in,. its own ii,:artlessness, or presume on the better
inquiries and solicitudes to the sick man's chain- .
, eelings of others to scatter firebrands either in
ben. In some of those intervals, when the sus- t
:, earnestness or inns port.—Morning Heald.
pension of pain, or of the insensibility produced
by the narcotic remedies resorted to, left the Should Mr. Canning be now torn from his.
mind of the sufferer at liberty, not merely did he t family, when time shall have mitigated theirl
recall with diligent recollection the subjects of , grief, it must be highly gratifying to them to re-1
public interest which had habitually occupied ' fleet on the, feeling entertained by the nation to-
him, but he recommended the prosecution of the wards this distinguished Minister. His brilliant
present system of British policy at home ; talents, his virtues, and' the liberal and enlarged
and abroad, with eloquent and affecting i views on which he has constantly acted,, from'
solemnity, to be conveyed as a dying prayer." his accession to the late Ministry up to the pre
to hi*:
~. Royal Master. Nothing could cx-sent hour, obtain for him a fervency of regard,,
teed' die
exemplary and manly composure with ,which to mere rank and power would have been
which Mr. Canning regarded his own approach...! denied. Mr. Canning is beloved by the people,
ing end. He has regretted nothing but the pos- because he had the welfare of the people sincerely,
sible misfortune of a change in the Royal Coun- .at heart, and because they know that he posses-;
eils, and the consequent sacrifice of a train of sed too much elevation of mind to regard power'
measures which he had himself deliberately as valuable, except as affording the means of beE
adopted, as those which involved the honour and nefitting mankind. If we turn to the period o.H
happiness of England. with the well-being of •,7 fierce political hostility and party bitterness, Mr.'
Europe. Whether he supplicated a pronuseiCanning's speeches will always be found.to be,
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