The Sun.
London, England, 1827-04-13 00:00:00

SPIRIT OP •TIE PUBLIC JOURNAL

The conclusion to which we looked with.
doiibtful and timid hope ii arrived—Mr.
ning is Prime Minister, the First Lord of the.
Treasury. A new. writ was moved for him est
night by Mr. Wynn, in consequence of his
Right Hon. Friend's acceptance of the newiof-
fice. The public will now perceive whether! or
no we have directed them through the intricate
path, which has led to this result, with faithful-
ness and intelligence, as the Sybil conducted
iEneas--

" Ibant sub lute maligns!."
The light was scanty, but the guide knew !the
road.
is When, however, we say that Mr. Clan-
fling Premier, we:should add, that heri at
present almost like a- shepherd without *flolck:
better it were to be so, than to have. goats to
tend. Lord Vife.atinorland is understood to
offer, or to have offered, his resignation. e
Chancellor, Mr. Peel, the Duke of Wellin on,
and Lords Bathurst and Bexley; are s4idi to
retire also. We believe that there will be givat
difficulty in preventing some- public expres ion
of joy on the retirement of the' Chancellor. e
yesterday hinted at the probability of a lie
illumination, if the fact were certain ; and we
know that the subject has been in frequent gi-
tation during the recent discussions on th ar-
rangement of the _Ministry. When we cons der
the many years which that person has presided
in the Court of Chancery, that he has never,
during the time, either, himself introduced or
suffered to be introduced.by others, except Ivith
the. most subtle and malignant opposition, any
reform whatever ; that he has shortened' no
process ; or cleared the path to no righth—
but has, on the contrary, lengthened land
loaded with expence every form of .every
kind, till the Court itself has become the great-
est nuisance that ever existed in Any State, ,and
has ruined more families than a civil war—wei can
hardly conceive it possible that a mar; should a the
same time have deserved so ill of his country, and
been so enriched by it. Of Mr. Peers conduc his
Majesty has great reason to complain, and we are
no doubt feels himself particularly aggrieved byl it ;
because, when Mr. Peel was asked by the Kirig—
though we believe with no personal wish or the
part of his Majesty, but to do that which was most
likely to conduce to the permanent welfare oft the
State—whether there were materials to form an
anti-Catholic'Adtninistration, the reply was in
negative; and, as Mr. Peel could not and w
not be required to relinquish his own opinio
compromise his consistency on this subject,
can it be but an aversien to comply with the
pressed will of his Majesty in' choosing his
Prime Minister, that now induces this gentlem
quit his office ? •By the Duke of Wellington'
tirement must only be we should appre
his ceasing, to be a Cabinet. Minister; which, fo
same reason that the 'Duke. of York was not

Einet Minister, would be far from being itapr,
His Grace cannot mean to relinquish his CM'

situation as Commander-in-Chief,and oppose thi
nistry in which Mr. Canning has only taken the
of his friend Lord Liverpool. Of Lords Bathuri

Bexley, the other seceders, we shall say nothing,
Lord Harrowby, and Mr. Robinson, (animm gimbal
eandidiareg, &e.) And Lord Melville remain. So
for the 'weeders personally. But the secession itsel
what trammels does it move, that those who partake

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would have held the King! He may not cln
from their own body, one notoriously the most oom
to preside over the Ceuncile of the State ; if he so c
the rest quit him. Why, they were all Ministers toL
under Lord Liverpool as premier ; when this
dropped, who was to direct the King upon whoni the
choice of a successor should fall ? If there were a person
gifted by the Constitution with that right, in case of a
sudden defaillance, him, certainly, may his Majesty he
thought to have injured by exercising the powers of reason
in choosing for himself. But they are not all wronged,
except that, as a body, they think that they have alright
to prescribe what they please to the King, and that his Ma-
jesty, in breaking through the iron circle with which they
had surrounded him, has become an outlaw, whoini they
ought to pursue with vengeance, or treat with contumely.
We have no doubt the King resents their conduct, and the
more favours he had heaped upon them—the longer time
he has partaken of their counsels—the more deeply must he
feel their unprovoked defection front his person and inte-
a este.— Times. a ,:o

AD INIST RA T lON.---We were yest
enabled positively to state, that Mr. Cannin
been commissioned by his Majesty to fort
Administration ; but that the result of the

taken by the Right Hon. Gentleman for
purpose were quite uncertain. The first pa
this statement will be found fully confirinei

the proceedings of the House of Common
night, when Mr. Canning's appointment td
fijgh office of First Lord of the Treasury wad
many" announced by Mr. Wynn ; who m'
for a New Writ for the Election of a Mel
to serve in the present Parliament for
Borough of Newport, in the room of
Right Honourable George Canning, who,
his election, has accepted the situation of (
Commissioner of his Majesty's Treasury." I

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had

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steps
that
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latter part of our statement, in regard
the uncertainty of the result of the steps t
by the new Premier, was no less correct ;
such has been the nature of the proceedings all
to, that no less than seven of the Members c
Cabinet have since tendered in their resignatil
his Majesty—namely, the Lord Chancellor,
Duke of Wellinzton, Earl Bathurst, Mr.
Lord Melville, the Earl of Westmoreland, and
Bsxley ; leaving with Mr. Canning only, the
of Herrowby, Mr. Robinson, Mr. Huskisson
Mr. Wynn. Hopes, however, mar still be e
tained, that the differences which have cause

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great and truly estimable a portion of the
to retire from Office, are not altogether ii
cileable. His Majesty, we believe, hesitates to
the proffered resignations; and as it is by 110
likely that Mr. Canning should have any desire
the dangerous experiment of an Administration dive
those eminent virtues and high talents by which them
Members are so justly distinguished, and which
long irresistibly claimed for them the respect and ad
lion of the Empire, we shall continue to entertain thl
hope, that the new Premier will not push matters
tremity ; but that, on the contrary, yielding a becoming
deference to public sensibility, he will have no hesitatknin
meeting at once the wishes of his Sovereign and ;de,
people, on an occaaion in which the best feelings og both
llso naturay and so deeply
are intemited. —Morning Post.
`fie give in another part of our columns the
accounts which were circulated in the Evening
Papers of a reported change of Ministry, in icon-.
sequence of Mr. Canning having acceded to the
office of First Lord of the Treasury. If 'these
statements be correct, the public will have ;been
taken by surprise, for as far as the new arrange-
ments have been adverted to in Parliament, since
the lamented calamity befel Lord Liverpool; the
expect a completion or
country was led to the
Ministry, not a change. We have been all
along aware that a struggle was going on in the
Cabinet in respect to the Premiership, and that
the interests of Mr. Canning and the Lord Chan-
cellor were opposed to each other on that Point,
and that the result of that struggle 1
must decide
wino, infli
Cabinet for the uence
was to have the ascendant n the
the future. We confess, liowlever,
that :It
3.onr opinion, until very lately, that the
political Pl'lnci les of the Lord Chancellor, con-
nected with thl3
jesty has been
log
regard which his IlVla-
Learned Lord, would known to entertain for that
amatai for the -Pourld.
have made him more than
Secretary in this trial of
at Court their influencethat it were; and we still believe,
not for the intervention of An um-

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pire belonging to-that sex, which, hos brought.
shout :greater and more 'sudden revphitions in
States than have ever been achieved by thewisdbm;
or eloquence, or arts of the most able-•male;::politi-
cians, the veteran tactics of the Lard .Chancellor
-would have been successful. But the friendship
which the 'King 'entertains for the Marchioness of
Conyngham has, on this occasion, done more for
•Mr. Canning than any talent. which . he has ever
exercised, or any interest which he possesses,,eould
possibly accomplish: 'When this Statesman, sotne-
time ago, had•the sagacity to make the son of this
lady-his private-=secretary, ha showed the discern-
ment of a provident politician. He thus held the
key of that private and -familiar intercourse in the
highest quarter which could; at all times, enable him
to ascertain the real intentions of the Royal mind.
We do not say that he would use such influenceim-
properly ; but when it became necessary to require
its aid at all in a great• struggle of political rivalry,
it was natural that he should use it-,--ancli'using it,
we should beignorant of the history of. Courts and
celebrated women, if we wondered at his attaining
the object of his ambition.—Morning Herald. . -

The reports current in the course of yester-
day forenoon, caused the 'Meeting of the two
Houses.tO, be looked forward to with very' great
anxiety. Those who consider the prosperity of
the Country to be bound up with the continu-
ance in office of the Earl of Westmorland, Earl
Bathurst, the Earl -of Eldon, and the other
Statesmen who' share their Sentiments, were
-alarmed beyond measure with the report that
these Noblemen and four of their colleagues,
seven in all, had bolted—to use a very familiar
but very expressive phrase—and left the coun-
try to take care of itself. When the House of
Commons had assembled, the Members instantly
formed themselves into groupes, all canvassing,
with the utmost earnestness, this most astonish-
ing event. After some preliminary business, of
little importifice, had been dispatched; Mr. C.
Wynn rose to' move the necessary steps for a
new Writ for a Return for the Borough of
Newport, in the•room of Mr. Canning, who had
acepted of the First Commissionership of the
Treasury, &c. On proCeeding next to move
that the House, at its rising, adjourn over the
holidays to the Ist of May, Mr. Tierney re-
minded the. Right Hon. Gentleman of the pa-
tience which .had already been displayed' by him-
self, and those with whom. he acted,•and hoped
that the time was at length come for communi-
cating to the House some information respect-
ing the formation of the Administration. Mr.
Wynn was not prepared with a definite answer.
4‘ Dififculties (he said) had occurred in the for-
mation of a new Administration ; but such ar-
rangements were in progress that he trusted they
would soon be completed, though they required
that a certain time should be allowed to bring
them to maturity. Mr. Tierney then observed
that ‘.che himself understoOd that within the
last ten days, power had been given to a Right
Hon. Gentleman, to form a new Administration;
yet those ten days had elapsed, and instead of any
Administration being formed, it appeared that
seven of the Cabinet Ministers (at least such was
the report, and whether true or not it was irnp'os-
sible to know), had all at once run away, for what
'purpose was, best known to themselves—for what
scheme or cabal nobody knew, and when they in-
tended to come back, or whether they ever intended
it, nobody seemed to- know." But this elicited no
explanation, and every one is left to solve, as he best
can, the enigma presented by this 'strange disappear-
ance. So then Mr. Canning having been unable to
arrange matters with his Colleagues ri aintable,
is left with his Premiership and empty seats. The
old Tories have, we suppose, retreated in a body,
like Charles of holy memory, to their separate camp
at Oxford, to derive inspiration and courage from the

divisions negociations will, no doubt, be briskly carried
on during the recess, and all manner of intriguing
and caballing at the same time, with a view to watch
operations at the termination of the armistice. In
this game of intrigue, we are rather apprehensive
for Mr. Canning, suspecting, as we do, that the
Chancellor knows more accurately than any man in
England the measure of the consciences of the
House of Lords. In that quarter lies the difficulty.
Knowing how greedy and mercenary their Lordships
necessarily are, we should have no fear for Mr. Can-
ning if a little time were interposed, for the Lord
John's and Lord Thomas's must be fed, and have
money for their wives and children and mistresses,
&c.; and in a little time, Bishop after Bishop and
Lord after Lord would drop in to the Ministerial
ranks; but they may take into their heads to try a
coup de main, and thus succeed before allowhig
time for the operation of Treasury receipts. We
have no doubt that the Pope himself, if he had
a vote in the affair, would give it to the Lord Chancellor
and Mr. Peel, instead of Mr. Canning. It is remarked
by the Constitutionnel of Tuesday, received last night,
that the Apostolicals in France and Spain, at Rome and
at Vienna—that is all the ultra-moutane Catholics with
the Pope at their head, are in this Ministerial interregnum,
anxious for the defeat of Mr. Canning, and offer up fervent
prayers for the success of the No Popery men. We can
easily conceive why the Pope and the Lord Chancellor
and 'Mr. Peel should be friends at heart. They all have
pretty nearly the same views respecting religion; that is,
that the religion is best by which most is to be got. The
Apostolicals are not such fools, if they were in Ireland, as
to prefer a Church without lands and without tithes to a
Protestant Church, rich in both; and the Chancellor, who
thought that even loan-stealing must be Christian because
it was profitable, and because the Bench of Bishops had
always voted for it, would not be such a fool as to play the
admirer of Protestantism at Madrid or Rome. He is too
far north to be caught by any such simplicity. We can,
therefore, well understand why the Catholic. of every
country but Ireland adore the Chancellor and Mr. Peel,
and would clap the advocate of the Irish Catholics, and of
civil and religious liberty, into the dungeon of his favourite
Galilei.—Morning Chronicle.

THE MINISTRY.—Mr. Canning is now Prime
Minister of England. Mr. Wynn, last night,
moved for a new writ for the Borough of New-
port, " in the room of the Right Hon. George
Canning, who had accepted the office of First
Commissioner of his Majesty's Treasury." The
motion was received, by an immensely crowded
House, with loud and reiterated cheering. Mr.
Wynn was the only Cabinet Minister in the
House. The Right Hon. Gentleman after-
wards moved the adjournment of the House, at
its rising, to Tuesday, the Ist of May. On
Wednesday, Mr. Heroes gave notice, that Mr.
Canning would move the adjournment ; a suffi-
cient proof that it was not till yesterday the Right
Hon. Gentleman consented, or was required by
his Majesty, to accept the Seals of his new
office. Mr. Tierney expressed his surprise that
so lengthened a period of adjournment should
be proposed, in the actual state of the Govern-
ment. " If my information be correct," said
Mr. Tierney, " the whole of the Administration,
with one solitary exception, have gone away
and abandoned their places." Upon the strength
of this assertion, it was confidently delarcd in the
political circles at the west end of the town, last
night, that the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of
Wellington, Earl Bathurst, Mr. Peel, the
Earl of 'Westmoreland, Lord Sidmoutb, Lord
Bexley, and Lord Melville, had sent in
their resignations ; leaving, as the Colleagues
of the new Premier,only Lord Harrowby, Mr.Ro'bin-
, son, Mr. Wynn, and Mr. Huskisson. Mr. Wynn, in
reply to Mr. Tierney.i admitted that " certain diffi-
culties had occurred n the formation of a new 'Mi-
nistry—an arrangement for its full settlement was
in progress; but time was required in such
an
im-
portant matter." Thus, then, the question stands

at present:.. Mr. Canning is placed at the- hes4 Ofs
the Goverumenti hitt, *if the rep.orts ,which ire int.
circulati cm he. well .founded, he has got a teak. to per«.
form which will.demand •for its ,completion all the
firmness, Prxidence, and conciliation, which he can
' The step 'which has been taken was the,
only one, perhaps, that :could bring to an issueCon-
flicting.influence. While we unfeignedly rejoice to
see Mr. Canning where he is, we should as un-
feignedly lament, if, from any cause whatever, his
elevation involved a dissolution of the present Ca-
binet. Give us, say we, the splendid talents and
vigorous mind of Mr. Canning—but do not take
frowns, at the same time, those Councils, which,
in their several departments of the State; have contributed,
through a long. series.of years, to the glory and prosperity.
of the country. We speak now,hypothetically ; upon: the
assumption, that there is some truth in the statement Made
last night, by Mr.' Tierney. It is impossible we,should
know 'distinctly, and, therefore, we will' not affect to do
so, what have been, or what are, the difficulties, in; the
way of the desired arrangements; but whatever they !are,
we have a security in the, character of the individuals, that
they spring from no spirit of .cabalno petty schemes of
:intrigue or rivalry—and it is our fervent hope, . therefore,
that no insurmountable obstacles, will present themselves to
defeat, ultimately, the very object for whicl,t the, step. now
taken has been adopted. It is an anxious moment—a grave
and important 'Crisis" in public affair-..the final develkipe-
xnent of which may end in unexpected consequences.—
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