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

EXTRACTS FROM COUNTRY PAPERS RECEIVED

THIS MORNING.

(From the Nottingham Review of Friday.)
We know not that it ever fell to our lot to conve\
to our readers, more afflicting, and at the same time,
more unexpected intelligence, than that which this
paper will be the bearer of. The insignia of mourn-
ing which encircles these pages, will tell at the first
view, that a great one in Britain has fallen—Not
merely a great one; no, the greatest, and most re-
nowned of the statesmen of our country, is no more !
the Glory of the present administration is departed !
Mr. Canning has been suddenly and unexpectedly
removed from the stage of life ! The sun of Europe's
freedom is hidden from our view by the dark cloud
of death !—Evanescence is inscribed upon all worldy
things ! What is the life of man ? it is but a vapour
which appeareth for a little time, and then va-
nisheth away. Last Friday, he was the King's
favourite, the Prime Minister of England ; and
was in some sense, the arbiter of the destiny of the
world ! Revered, honoured, admired, and all but
worshipped, by thousands, who, basking in the sun-
shine of Royal favour, looked up to him, as the man
whom the King delighted to honour, and as the
channel through which was showered down those
honours and preferments which Majesty only
could bestow—in one short week how great the dif-
ference ! he has been laid upon a bed of sickness,
and is now clasped in the cold arms of death.

Mourn! Britain ! mourn ! another fatal blow,
Has dashed your hops, and laid your Canning low.
Weep ! Freedom ! weep ! and, with the hallow'd tear,
Bedew his corpse, and sanctify his bier.
Let not our readers think we are saying too
much. Our hearts feel the poignant infliction, and
deeply do we lament his loss. Portugal, Greece,
South America, nay the whole world, will feel the
blow, and most of all his native country, for who will
not mourn to see—

From Britain's councils, in untimely hour,
Such useful talents prematurely torn ?
It is well known, that there were many traits in
his character—many essential points in his policy,
which we could not but condemn; but there were
many others which merited the approbation of every
Briton. We mourn Mr. Canning's loss, when we
consider the enlightened course of foreign policy
which he pursued, but, most of all,. because it puts
an end to those bright anticipation.s,
„which we were
beginning to entertain, of future benefits, which in
union with his new colleagues, we fondly hoped
he would be the means of conferring upon the
nation. Those bright prospects—those holeyon an- ,
ticipations, are dimmed, if not blaste. 'ley are
obscured, if not destroyed.
Mr. Canning lived to see his name en in the
highest list of fame; he lived to set his foot upon
the necks of his enemies; he attained the summit of
his ambition, and then—all the light of his glory is
extinguished by death ! But
The lustre of his name shall not expire,
Till tombs are bursting, and the world's on fire.
The particulars of his illness and death will be
found in our second page, at great length, together
with some observations from the London papers, on'
the probable effects of this melancholy bereavement,
and to these mournful details we must refer our
readers.

The great important question ; a question of
amazing interest, in the present situation of England
and the world, the question which is almost in every
man's mouth, is this—Who is to fill Mr. Canning's
place ? where is the Elisha that is to catch Elijah'
falling mantle ?—When Lord Liverpool's affliction
rendered him incapable of continuing to bear office;
all eyes were at once turned to Mr. Canning, the
King pronounced him most worthy, and the nation
approved the choice; but who is there now ? The
talents of Mr. Brougham point him out as the most
efficient successor to his former rival.

(From the Sheffield Tory Paper.)

We have made every effort to put our readers in
possession of the circumstances relating to the ill-
ness and decease of the Prime Minister. At a mo-
ment like the present, when death has levelled the
hopes, and blighted the glory of the Premier, all ani-
mosities, arising from political differences, ought to
be forgotten in one universal emotion of sympathy
over the prostrate energies of this highly gifted
genius.—As to his intellectual endowments, there
can only be one opinion—every man must ac-
knowledge that his talents were of the very first
order, and we cannot contemplate the extinction of a
mind so gifted with any other feelings than those of
the sincerest regard.

(From the Glasgow Courier of Thursday-)

Mental grief and anguish has accelerated this
catastrophe. So much for unnatural Coalitions !
The London Papers that were loudest in his praise,
are the foremost to point out a succcessor—the
Marquis of Lansdowne ! Whatever change is brought
about, it will be complete. While we deprecated
the coalition that Mr. Canning had formed, and
while we condemned some of the measures which
he pursued, or was forced to pursue, still recollecting
him as a statesman and as a man of the brightest
talents and the highest acquirements, we deeply re-
gret the danger which threatens Mr. Canning's life ;
but, considering the course which he has of late
pursued, we do not think his loss, as a Prime Minis-
ter, will be felt by this country.

(From the Caledonian Mercury of Thursday, Aug. 9,)
DANGEROUS ILLNESS OA MR. CANNING.-Evfry
day teaches us impressive lessons of the precarious
and evanescent tenure of worldly greatness, and the
utter insignificance of human ambition and human
power. The proud Premier of England, the highly.
gifted and popular Minister, with whose fortunes
the best interests of the civilized world had becdme
in some measure, identified, and to the stability of
whose Government the liberal and enlightened of
all countries looked forward with anxious and ani-
mating hope, has been struck with an alarming, and,
we fear, mortal disease. A heavier misfortune than
the death of Mr. Canning at the present moment it
is impossible for us to conceive; and it is with a
corresponding intensity of emotion that we regard
this unexpected and afflicting visitation of Pro-
vidence.

(From the Dublin Morning Post of Thursday.)
We do not hesitate to say, that not only these
countries, but the world, would suffer a severe loss
by the death of this Minister. We think a better
order of things was beginning to manifest itself;
and we believe it was his determination, by degrees,
to break up the desperate system under which the
country has so long groaned, and by which the
people have been brought to a state of misery and
starvation. He has, at all events, shaken it, and
we scarcely think his successor, whoever he may be,
will dare attempt to re-establish it.

(From the Dublin Morning Register of Thursday.)
The news by the mail, yesterday, spread anguish
and consternation, for which we do not recollect a
single parallel. It is not true, however, that the
illustrious Statesmen, whose mourners would include
the lovers of liberty and human happiness in two
worlds, is no more. The report of a cold-blOoded
and sanguinary paragraphist in an Evening Paper,
is without any foundation, derivable at least from
any arrival yesterday, from first to last. The packet
of this day may announce the fatal and disastrous
event—but no tidings of it were received by express
or otherwise at a late hour last night.
In the event of the extinction of this great spirit,
what will be the effect upon England—,what upon
Europe, or the two hemispheres ?—lt were hard to
tell ! The wisest are thunder-struck and in despair.
Let us, however, persuade ourselves, that there is
some ground of hope and consolation in the wisdom
and integrity of a Lansdowne. To the Noble Mar-
quis, of course, all eyes are turned, as the person
most fitted, by powers of mind and weight of cha-
meter, to take the Premier's chair. There will be
five hundred idle rumours, until the arrangements
are finally completed; but we would. venture to stake
no small forfeit, that if it should unhappily turn out

that Mr. Canning is no more, or is beyond recovery,
Lord Lansdoi be placed at the heal of the
Cabinet. The name of Mr. Peel is, of course, in
the mouths of some restless and turbulent lac-
tisnists ; but we are much mistaken if
Hon. person had not a greater chance of an in',:z-en-
tial appointment under the past, than under what is
destined to be the future directorship. of British
Councils!

(From the Freeman's Journal of Thursday.)

ALARMING ILLNESS OF MR. CANNING.-.--At en
early hour yesterday morning, an express arrived in
town from the Post-office Agent at Liverpoci, an-
nouncing the melancholy intelligence of Mr. Can-
ning's expected dissolution; and in a short time
afterwards, the regular mail brought a full confirma-
tion of the fatal change which appears to have taken
place in the health of the Right Hon. Gentleman.—
The most deep and intense anxiety prevailed
throughout the city during the day ; and up to a late
hour last night, rumours of the most disheartening
description were afloat. . .
The benefactors who have earned al-A.:won the ad-
miration of provinces, kingdoms, and empires, will
not sink to the grave_unlatnented even by those who
may have been placed beyond the sphere of their
beneficence; but, when Providence removes -from
the world men, whose genius illustrated; whose phi-
lanthropy encompassed, and whose solicitude pro-
tected the world itself, the sorrow of mankind must
be.as boundless and universal as the virtue of which
Heaven bereaves them. To Ireland the demise of
Mr. Canning would be, indeed, an occasion of pro-
found and lasting. sorrow. She was robbed of Fits-
william, when that virtuous n-ian meditated her pa-
cification and disenthralment ; but, the removal of a

Viceroy who would have made her happy had he
been allowed to remain, could scarcely have wounded
her more deeply than the termination of a life from
whose commencement and progress she had cause
to expect full,. although tardy, atonement. Mr.
Canning, although one of the people, will not
be regretted by the people alone. When those
who fattened upon the produce of national in-
dustry, betrayed and insulted the King, because
he refused with them to desert principle and
insult the nation, Mr. Canning did not hesitate to
stand in that breach to -which his Monarch called
him, and replace by aristocracy of virtue, the usurpa-
tions of an aristocracy of pride, selfishness and cor-
ruption. For this Royalty itself became his debtor,
and the obligation must have been creditable to both,
inasmuch as it was not alloyed by any compromise
of the interests—but confirmed and applauded by the
suffrages of the Nation. That which was obse-
quiousness before, soon became faction. The fawn-
ing and wily courtier, who would bait) tied the
Monarch's shoe, while the Monarch permitted him
to ride rough-shod over the people, became instan-
taneously the assailant of the Government—and he
whose application for a sinecure found its way into
the Foreign Office during the old regime, was.
singled out from amongst the discarded crew, to de-
tiounce the expenditure in Downing-street. Never
did a more cowardly, talentless, and vindictive fac-
tion disgrace the country, than that which was
spawned by the political death of Lord Liverpool.

(From the Irishman of Wednesday.)

Rumour says that this very distinguished Minis-
ter died on Monday last, at the hour of four o'clock
in the evening of that day. There is no official do-
.!ument in town of that very painful and distres-
sing event ; but we should be playing with the feel-
ings of our readers, if we flattered them with the
hope of recovery—his exhausted constitution—his
tge—and the malignity of the disease with which he
has been attacked, almost forbid hope. Perhaps it
will not be considered any departure from that re-
spect in which we hold the talents of this very emi-
:tent individual to say, that he has died when his
plitical fame had risen to the highest point of ele-
..ation, and that if it pleased Providence he should
live, such are the difficulties of the Empire,--such
the difficulties of the situation in which any Minis.,
er of England is ever placed, that the hopes so
,anguincly entertained of good and substantial ad-
:antages to be expected from his Administration
.night have been disappointed, and Mr. Canning,
in 1828 or 1829, be numbered among the common,
oxperimentalists of the day.

EXETER, (Thursday evening.)--The death of Mr
Canning has caused a sensation of the deepest sor-
:ow here. In the reading-rooms, and at the bar,
this feeling has been very strongly expressed.
Dovica.—The sad news of Mr. Canning's death
'ins created geat sensation here, and every mark of
respect has been paid to his memory by hoisting
the flags half-mast at the• public offices, and in the
vessels in the harbour.