The Sun.
London, England, 1827-08-13 00:00:00

ARRIVALS OF GRAIN IN LONDON DURING LAST WEEK.
•.' k,2 0 :.,11, Hn
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Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. QTS. Seks.
Aldhorough ...... 417 6 23 40
Boston
Clay — 300 _ _
-Colchester 612 260 40 80 626
F. 2 Harwich
~1 Leigh 387 39 120 31
".4 Maldon
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635 18 175 82 317 636
Hull
Ipswich 319 30 535 75 8 436
Kent S2S 251 24 53 499 1282
Lynn 3 305 SO
Rye
Southwold
Stockton —•— --— 280
Wells 5O —.— 10
Woodbridge 393 ! 64 72 173
Yarmouth
Aberdeen 1631 213 3054
Banff — 634
Berwick
,_ _
5033 61 3928 1181 423 1246 7032
IRISH.
Yough,sll — 480 —.-
FOREIGN.
Aalborg
Altona
Amsterdam
17396
.
900
BAarnchdahnoghnel
Brake — £2O 520 159
Bremen — 39 3048 175 80
Brunsbuttel — 400
Carolienziel — 401
Dantzic 16630 0176 17520 40
Emden
Freyberg — 270
Gluckstadt
Gothenburg
Griefswald — _ 2205
Groningen
Hamburgh
Harlingen
Kiel — 1330
Koningeberg
Liebau — 880 1080
Memel
..... —. 2420
Nantes
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Newstadt 5lO . _
Petersburgh
1879
Pillau 1790 3590 15405 80 209
Rendsberg
Riga
21394
Rostock 1732 753 3510 65
Rotterdam
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Stettin . t - 712 -- 7446 -- 91 --
Stockholm — 2950 20
Stralsund .......
Tettenbull
Wefelsfleth
Wismar... — 663 8428
Total .•.!28506 16670 3928 1119164; 927 i 1780 7072

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SMITHFIELD MARKET.
This day's market was moderately well supplied, and
rather numerously attended by buyers, especially of Sheep
and Lambs; Beef met wit'a a sluggish sale at about 2d.
per stone beneath Friday's quotations, which were exceeded
about as much by Mutton and Lamb ; in prices of Veal
and Pork no alteration.
PRICES PER STONE OF SLR& TO SINK THE OFFAL&
s. d. to s. d. s. d. to s. d.
Inferior Beasts 3 0 3 4 Large Lambs ....... 4 2 0 0
Second quality ditto 3 4 4 0 Prime small ditto... 0 0 s 2
Prime large Oxen 4 0 4 4 Large coarse Calves 4 4 5 0
Prime Scots, 4 6 410 Prime small ditto... 5 0 4
Inferior Sheep 3 4 3 8 Large Hogs .......... 4 0 4 4
Second quality ditto 3 8 4 0 Small Porkers,,...,. 410 5 2
Coarse-woolled ditto 4 4 4 8 Suckling Calves 12s. to 383. each.
SouthdownWethers 4 4 410 , Quarter old Pigs 12s. to 18s. each.
SUPPLY, AS PER CLERK'S STATEMENT.
Beasts. 'Sheep and Lambs.' Calves. Pigs.
2,226 I 26,200 262 100
About
4001250 of the beasts came up the different orth from
about from the western and midland districts ; about 50
Norfolk, Suffblk, and Essex ; about 50 from Kent and Sussex ;
and most of the remainder from the marshes, sm.. in the neigh.
bourhood of London.

NEWG ATE AND LEADENH ALL MARKETS.
At per stone, by the Carcass.
5. d. toe. d. s. d. to'. d.
Beef 3 4 4 4 Veal
Mutton 3! 4 2 Pork 4 0 5 s
Lamb 44. Od. to ss. Od.

MANCHESTER CORN MARKET.—Aug. 11.
We have had occasional showers of rain during the pre-
sent week, however the purchasers have not shown much
alarm at that, the trade having been only moderate since
this day week. The attendance on 'Change to-day was
small ; we had likewise a short supply of fine English
Wheat at market; the millers wanting some to mix with
the stale Foreign, such samples sold freely, at an advance
of 2d. per bushel. Grinding Barley is 2d. to Sd. per
60Ib. cheaper, and Oats are dull sale as last noted. There
is very little doing in Boiling Pease, and Beane barely sup-
port last week'. prices. The demand for Malt is limited,
at the quotations subjoined. Flour is in moderate request,
but not dearer. Oatmeal is dull sale, except the small
parcels of New, which are in reque
Customary Bushel.
Wheat (701 b.) s. d. to s. d.
English, Fine White...—. 9 0 9 4

----. Second Run 5.,,.,,,
---- Scotch & Welch
risk, Fine VVhite

8 10
8 6
9 6
8 9

---- Inferior i 6
0 3 0
oreign, Free
.. 8 0 0 0
Barley (601 b.)
iglish. Fine .11 0 5 3
%h..-
43 4 6
40 4 3

-- Inferior for grinding-
Oats (4Slb.)
English, Fine Poland...—.
Scotch. Pi

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3 10
3 8
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3 3

4 0
4 0
3 9
2 8
3 8

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THE LATE MR. CANNING.

EXTRACTS FROM THE SUNDAY PAPERS.
(From the John Bull.)

• Ardently adMiring Mr. Canning's powerful abili-
ties, it was always with the deepest regret we found
ourselves called upon to censure his public conduct.
His last association with the Whigs was his crown-
ing fault—if he had kept himself aloof from a coali-
tion with men whose politics and principles formed
the nerer-ceasing subjects of his ridicule and con-
. tempt ; if be, had gone into retirement instead of
taking office in company with them, we should have
been able to add to our respect and affection for him
as a father, a husband, a relation, and a friend, the
tribute of our admiration of his public character.
But God's will be done !

(From the Atlas.)

The melancholy circumstance which has kept our
countrymen on the watch for the last week, and
which, in the page of history, will mark the
year 1827, will serve to show how far the
destinies of nations are influenced by the fate
of individuals. If ever a man was snatched away at
a moment when the interests of his country seemed
to depend upon his welfare, surely this may be said
of the late Minister; and yet, perhaps, a few
months will show us that the tide of public affairs
has continued to flow in its accustomed channel, and
that the star which seemed alone to guide us from
unseen rocks and dangerous shoals, was only more
brilliant than many others that will appear to answer
the same purpose, with equal usefulness, though far
inferior splendour.
The events of the life of Mr. Canning, and more
peculiarly the later incidents of it, are calculated to
invest his sudden disappearance from the theatre of
the world with a remarkable character of solemnity,
and to impress on the heart, with overpowering
force, those lessons on the vanity of human expecta-
tions, which, except in moments of excitement, fall
upon an idle ear. To conquer and to lose the fruits
of victory is hard. The whole of Mr. Canning's life
has been one arduous struggle between the energy
of his talents and the circumstances of the times.—
Among the leaders of events he has always seemed
a man too many—he has shone a meteor, brilliant in-
deed, but as if in want of a regular orbit. Just as
the force of public ()Onion and the disposition of af-
fairs had at length drawn him into a path of glorious
usefulness, his light is extinguished. The most me-
lancholy of all spectacles is to observe high aspira-
tions and great endowments struggling for a sphere
of honourable and patriotic exertion, and in the mo-
ment of attainment to see them broken down by
bodily suffering, and finally sink unde.r_ the weak-
ness and perishableness of mortality. The past week
has been a favourable season for exaggerations of all
kinds. We can easily understand and make allow-
ance for the natural expressions of a fresh sorrow;
but the language of a recent epitaph is seldom im-
partial, even when it is not dishonest. In the few
words we shall say of the character of the late states-
man, we shall attempt a nearer approach to the
calm decisions of history.
It is difficult to forsee the effects of his sudden
loss on the conduct of the national interests. Whe-
ther by the accident of the times, by the advice of
colleagues, or as the result of his own enlightened
mind and excellent disposition, the late Minister had
certainly been fortunate in establishing a good sys-
tem of things, both as respects our foreign relations
and the domestic concerns of the country. That
system will probably remain in force whoever may
succeed him, as it is most desirable it should. It is
even likely, so far from their being a change of sys-
tem, that there will be no material change of men.
Lord Goderich has been commissioned by the King
to fill up the blank; and instead of attempting to
supply the deficiency by a single individual, each
Member of the Cabinet will probably be called upon
to lend his best efforts to close up the odious va-
cuum. Collectively, they will no doubt form an
able and efficient Ministry. They may seem to want
a leader, to urge by his example and encourage by his
voice ; but should they find themselves supported
by public opinion, we doubt not that they will ad-
vance steadily and without flinching to the accom-
plishment of the great and useful measures which
were only contemplated by their late distinguished
chief.

(From the Sunday Times.)
Death has, since we last addressed our readers,
struck a noble quarry ; and exacted one of the
greatest victims which the country could spare for
his insatiable altar. George Canning is no more.
Another Prime Minister has fallen a sacrifice to the
anxieties of office, and added another to the four
who have succumbed in so short a time—Fox, Pitt,
Londonderry, and Liverpool. What an awful lesson
to ambition. Of the three last, including himself,
he was by far the most distinguished for talent, elo-
quence, energy, and liberality. He, in fact, embodied
the rising hope of the human, species; and the blow
which has been struck by his death will shake
" Earth's young Republics" like an earthquake, and
fill with mourning not this country only, but the
whole civilized world. His measures are before the
world, and have controlled the world. An emanci-
pated hemisphere bears testimony to their wisdom--

the progress of Constitutional principles among Con-
tinental States proves their efficacy—whilst the
staunching of Christian blood in the East has sur-
rounded the death-bed of the expiring Minister
with the prayers and blessings of an half-extermi-
nated people. The death of such a man would
have been a heavy loss at any time, and of such
a man, holding a high office, a national calamity;
but at this moment the loss of Mr. Canning will be
felt still more intensely. Since he last came into
office he has been distinguished as the framer of a
liberal line of policy before unknown ; and having
at length become the leader of his Sovereign's Coun-
cils, he was no doubt prepared to give the utmost
extent of practical value to what had been before
confined by circumstances to the enlightened mind
in which it was engendered. To Mr. Canning,
liberated America, Constitutional Portugal, suffer-
ing Greece, and expectant Ireland, looked with
earnest hope for assistance and support. A sum-
mary of what he has accomplished during the
short time since Lord Castlereagh's death, will best
exemplify the vis animi of the deceased Statesman,
will best demonstrate the claims lie has left to the
world's gratitude ; and best pourtray the blank
which his loss has occasioned. He detached Eng-
land from the cruel chariot-wheels of the Holy Alli-
ance, almost before the families of that body could
look round them and discover the hand which set
her free. The invasion of Spain was rendered, by
Mr. Canning's dexterity and spirit, little more noxious
in its result than it was defensible in its origin; and
the world saw contrasted an outrage by France en
the Spaniards, with a blessing conferred by England
on the Americans. Constitutional Portugual has
been upheld against the House of Bourbon, by diplo-
matic skill and military energy, so directed and
justified as to protect the civil rights of the people
of that kingdom. The spirit through which the
whole south of Europe must one day vindicate the
liberties of man, has been kept alive, and ready for
seasonable exercise, by the mere notoriety that Mr.
Canning was Minister. At home, whatever has
been attempted by his Government has been at-
tempted well. The principles which he would have
realised, had life been granted, were those under
which the poor man's food would have been in-
creased, and the national expenses considerable econo-
mised. So much for his public character as regards
the tenor of his Foreign Diplomacy. In his more do-
mestic capacity of Minister and Statesman the loss
will be equally felt. " Who' "is the general question,
"can adequately supply his place ?" " No one," is the
universal reply. We " shall not look on his like
again," is the common exclamation. He might be
called, like Cassius, one of the Ultimi Romanorum—
a relic of the great school of Burke, and Sheridan,
and Fox, one of the age of giants gone by, who sur-
vived the golden age of demi-gods to live in an age
of brass; or, to use the words of Ossian, the " Sons
of little men." In an intellectual point of view, the
deceased Statesman was one of the most gifted in-
dividuals of the present age; he was the possessor

of an almost unequalled union of grace and genius,
of powerful and brilliant imagination, and the most
correct judgment. As art orator, Mr. Canning pos-
sessed talents of the most striking and first-rate cha-
racter. Gifted by nature with an easy and elegant
flow of language, and a ready command of all the
graces and flowers of rhetoric, his speeches will ever
be read with admiration of the highly classic spirit
which breathes throughout them,the graceful figures
with which they arc adorned, and the accurate rea-
soning he adopted in arguffient. In private life and
its endearing and sacred telations, Mr. Canning
bears the repute of having been estimable and ex-
emplary. The friends of his youth were attached
and devoted to him, while he is said to have been

gaining rapidly on his friends of more recent acqui-
sition. It is stated on authority that Mr. Canning
had long been in a bad state of health, and the ex-
treme anxieties which have attended ,his career
during the last few months, must have greatly aggra-
vated the disorder under which he laboured. During
the excitement of action, he appears to have borne
up against the ills which assailed him ; but since
the closing of the last Session of Parliament, and
the comparative calm which that event occasioned,
he has been observed to have been .depressed and
drooping. It may be, as is the case of highly-
' tempered steel, that men of Mr. Canning's fine
mind are more exposed to injury than those formed
of ruder materials; but we believe that in the late
deplorable case, as in many others, the man has been
sacrificed to the Minister; and that, had the same
timely attention been bestowed by Mr. Canning on
his bodily health, which men in ordinary circum-
stances would have paid to it, elen at the expellee
of what formed by far the more prominent object of
his care—his public duties—he might still have been
spared to the hopes and wishes of the many admirers
of his genius and knowledge. Of the general ac-
count which has been given of Mr. C.'s illness, de-
tails will be found in other parts of our Paper; and
it is melancholy to reflect how liable individuals, in
exalted stations like his, are to be lost to their coun-
try from want of the necessary care of their health.
It will be recollected, that to the late Lord London-
derry no medical assistance • was summoned until a
short time before the dreadful act which terminated
his life was committed, although it cannot be doubted
that his health had been in a highly dangerous state

for some considerable time; and-with regard to Lord
Liverpool, the blow which threatened to deprive
him of sense, if not of life, actually fell on him with-
out his having had recourse to medical advice at all.
It is said openly that Mr. Canning died of a broken
heart in consequence of the calumnies lavished on
him. We do not believe it. Can it be imagined
that Mr. Canning would have cared one jot for all
the foul and putrid calumnies which the common
sewer of the Press, and the diseased and pariar
caste of society, could vomit againt the foot of the
rock of public confidence on which he stood?—
Away with such imbecility ! Mr. Canning had
been too used to an atmosphere of scorching per-
sonality, poured in all its blaze reciprocally on all
public men, during that age of giants, the French
Revolution, to more than laugh at the paper pallets
of the pigmy insects who have lately tried to attract
attention to their ant-hill by the bustle of their
microscopic motions. AVe will not degrade the de-
funct Statesman by surmising that he condescended
to any other feeling for such trash than contempt. It
is but too true, however, that be sank, like some of
the fabled demi-gods, Bellerophon or Theseus, un-
der the weight of the gigantic but glorious task
he had conceived and undertaken for the benefit of
mankind. It is but too true, we fear, that his phy-
sical powers were overwhelmed between the Allan-
lean cares of the business of the world. There is
one great satisfaction (and it is of both a political
and moral nature), that the great Statesman died
fully possessed of the friendship and confidence of the
King. It is stated, on undeniable authority, that no
friend or brother the most attached could have ma-
nifested more earnest anxiety than the King conde-
scended to demonstrate for his dying Minister. An
individual much esteemed by his Majesty was the
repeated messenger of his Royal inquiries and soli-
citudes to the sick man's chamber. What we have
further to state is, if possible, still more affecting to
us as men, and interesting to us as citizens. We
have been informed that, in some of those intervals,
when the suspension of pain, or of the insensibility
produced by the narcotic remedies resorted to, left
the mind of the sufferer at liberty, not merely did he
recal, with diligent recollection, the subjects of
public interest which had habitually occupied him,
but he recommended the prosecution of the present
system of British policy, at home and abroad, with
eloquent and affecting solemnity, to be conveyed, as
_a dying prayer, to his Royal Master. It is said that
he obtained a Royal promise to the above effect be-
fore he breathed his last, and that it contributed
greatly to the ease of his dying moments. But whe-
ther this be the case or not, the deep and irremov-
able anxiety of Mr. Canning on topics which could
never more affect his worldly fortunes, bears ho-
nourable evidence to the sincerity of his patriotism,
and to the lofty character of that ambition which
possessed and sustained him at the last. This no-
ble conduct revives the memory of Greek and Ro-
man worthies. In contemplating this deep-rooted
patriotic feeling, and especially connected with the
misgivings out of which it mainly grew, we recal
Cicero's sublime description of the death of a Ro-
man Statesman :

Vidi, etiani vidi et eam hausi dolorern vel acerbissi-
mem in vito cum Caius Marcellus abstraheretur e sinu
gremioque Patrice ; quo quidem tempore, ille moriens,
cum jam ceteris ex partibns oppresssa mens met, Extre-
mum Sens= Ad Memoriam Reipublieze Reservabat !"

EXTRACTS FROM COUNTRY PAPERS RECEIVED
THIS MORNING.

(From the Hampshire Chronicle of this day.)
MR. CANNING. —T h e loss of such an individual
to the country, at the present juncture, even his
adversaries must admit, is a calamity greatly to be
deplored, and the vacancy not easy to be supplied.
Had it pleased an all wise Providence to have spared
him to witness the effect of the liberal course of po-
licy he has introduced—to have perfected and
brought into operation his plan for reducing the
expenditure, and lightening the public burthens—
he would have enjoyed undivided popularity, as the
liberal minded portion of his opponents would doubt-
less have obliterated all former recollections of what
they termed political inconsistency, and have esteem-
ed his labours for the national benefit as an ample
atonement. Unfortunately for the country it has
been otherwise decreed. He who firmly held the
helm of state amidst the storms and convulsions of
party strife or clamour, has sunk to everlasting
rest, and the tear of public sympathy will bedew his
grave. But—
" Can storied urn, or animated bust,
":sack to its mansion call the fleeting breath ?
"Can honour's voice provoke the silent dust,
" Or flatt'ry sooth the dull cold ear of death ?"

(From the Leeds Mercury of Saturday.)
The death of the Minister will excite deep con-
cern and alarm throughout the nation. Very seldom
has any one man concentrated upon himself so many
hopes and expectations as Mr. Canning. The Mar-
quis of Rockingham, whose tenure of ministerial
supremacy was as short as Mr. Canning's, was much
inferior to him in talents and in personal distinction,
though superior in moral dignity : their situation in
some respects bore a remarkable correspondence, each
having triumphed over a bigotted Tory faction, who
had long held the reins of power, and each consti-
tuting the point of union to an Administration formed
in some degree of discordant materials : but there was
this distinction between the two Premiers, that
whilst Lord Rockingham combined under him
men superior to himself in abilities, Mr. Canning
rose above his colleagues it much in talents
as in place; and we pray Oft there may be a
still greater difference in the result, and that
the present Administration, agreed as its mem-
bers are on the most important questions, may
maintain their union, and continue to administer the
affairs of the country. We certainly shall not equal
Mr. Canning with Fox and Pitt, either in point of

talent, or in the importance which they derived from
the critical circumstances of the country; but, with
the exception of those great men, it would be diffi-
cult to name another in modern times, upon whose
existence so much seemed to hang, and whose disso-
lution created such universal anxiety.. We do not
say that Mr. Canning has not left behind him men
his equal in genius, but he has left none who ap-
proach him in the qualifications of a statesman—
none who unite so extensive a capacity with a judg-
ment so solid, and a practical experience so valuable—
above all, none who enjoy in nearly so high a degree
the favourand confidence of their king and country. It
might seem a mysterious providence, that men of
the highest accomplishments and attainments should
be so frequently cut off in the very midst of their
usefulness, if it were not obviously designed to teach
us " what shadows we are, and what shadows we
are pursuing."
Mr. Canning's character, political, moral, and in-
tellectual, is too large a subject to be discussed in
the scanty limits we could now allot to it. The
state of our columns will sufficiently account for the
postponement of our remarks on' this head till next
week ; and it may be, that a review of the charac-
ter of the deceased will be writ4cri with more calm
impartiality, when the first shock occasioned by the
news of his death has subsided.• We would now
merely indicate, that his character assumes very dif-
ferent features at different periods of his life; that
his splendid talents long lay under a clbud ; that he
was far less respected, and less entitled to respect;
when in a subordinate than when in a leading sta-
tion ; that, with a naturally generous and amiable
disposition, and with a fine perception of what was
due both to himself and to others, there were cer-
tain defects in his temper and moral qualities, which
sometimes compromised his dignity, and entailed
upon him very disagreeable consequences; but that,
when circumstances called him to the post for which
nature seemed to have destined him, and when he
was released from the trammels in which he had
before acted, the higher qualities of his character at
once developed themselves, and he entitled himself
to the admiration of his country, of Europe, and of
the world.

(From the Pottery Mercury of Saturday.)
DEATH QF THE RIGHT HON. GEORGE CANNING.
Statesman, yet friend to truth ! of soul sincere,
In action faithful, and in honour clear !
Ennobled by liiinself, by all approved,

. .. -
Praised, wept, and honour'd, by the muse he loved.
It is this week, our melancholy and unexpected
duty to announce the death of a man whose loss has
left a blank in every department of life in which he
moved, which it will be difficult to fill up ; that man
is the Right Hon. George Canning. His actions
need no eulogy from us ; there is no need of our
penning even a summary of the claims which this
distinguished and deeply lamented statesman has
upon the memory of his countrymen. His career
was too splendid not to attract the eye of all. His
genius—and his genius alone, gave hini a name rich
in honours in every civilized nation of the world.—
Never did a statesman depart from the stage of
earthly existence more beloved and more lamented;
and so long as splendid talents, united with public
virtues and private worth, are revered and beloved,
so long will the name of Canning be cherished in
the hearts of Britons.

(From the Berwick Advertiser.)
DEATH OF MH. CANNING,—The death of Mr.
Canning has plunged the country into the deepest
consternation and sorrow. The loss of a man of his
talents would at any time be a national calamity,
but it is peculiarly so at the present crisis, when not-
withstanding the'unparalleled vituperation, scurrility,
and abuse heaped upon him by the Ultra-Tory press,
he, under the auspices of a discriminating and en-
lightened Sovereign, and assisted by some of the
most intelligent Statesmen of the age, had just en-
tered upon a career of liberal policy calculated to
promote not only the best interests of the British
Empire, but of the civilized world. What the con-
sequences may be we will not presume to anticipate.
We trust his Majesty, in appointing his successor,
will display the same manly and independent spirit
that he (lid on a late trying occasion.
The melancholy tidings cast a gloom on all de-
scriptions of people here, even on those who gene-
rally take very little interest in politics. Imme-
diately after the arrival of the mail, by order of the
Mayor, the great bell began tolling.

(From the Bucks Chronicle.)
That we are among the number who greatly de:-
plore the loss of Mr. Canning, we frankly confess.
Independent of his talents, which we always ad-
mitted, even when we regretted their waywardness,
and the levity with which they were accompanied,
we have, of late, respected his disposition from the
liberal choice he made in the selection of his col-
leagues in administration. Uniting in himself
qualities of different kinds,he kept together characters
which, without him, might not have coalesced. He
was the key-stone of the arch; and we shall rejoice
if our fears should prove unfounded—and that his re-
moval may not disjoin the structure he had reared.

(From the Caledonian Mercury of Saturday, Aug. 11.)
This roost melancholy and distressing event ha%
spread a deep gloom over the whole face of society ;
and with the exception of those few base and malig-
nant spirits in whom bitterness of political animosity
is not appeased by that which extinguishes the
hatred of other men, there is not an individual by
whom this afflicting visitation of Providence has
not been felt as if it had been a private deprivation.
Never did we hear such deep lamentation, never did
we witness such sincere and heartfelt sorrow for the
loss of any public man. Every one seems struck
with dismay, and in the general grief and sorrow
which is felt all meaner thoughts and concerns have
been for the moment quenched.
A few short months have only elapsed since this
illustrious statesman was elevated to the highest place
in his Majesty's Councils, and by the firm and stedfast
support of his Sovereign, enabled to organize an
Administration composed of men prepared to co-
operate with their Leader in his great and enlightened
plans for promoting the prosperity and welfare of
his country. What difficulties he had to surmount,
what opposition he had to encounter, what ranco-
rous calumny to endure, the world needs not be told;
but he was sustained by the unalterable confidence of
his Sovereign, by the cheering support of the nation,
and by the energy of his own lofty character, and he tri-
umphed over all the despicable artifices and cabals
of his enemies. Anew era seemed to havedawned ;
•the change was hailed with acclamation by the
friends of liberty in other countries; and Britain
once more resumed her proper rank among the na-
tions, as not only herself free, but the protec-
tress of the free. But, alas ! for human hopes
and human greatness, the sky which was lately
so bright has been overshadowed by a dark
and threatening cloud, while the most resplendent
orb in our political firmament has been extinguished
for ever. A catastrophe like this reads an awful and
impressive lesson to individuals as well as nations,
and warns us, in the day of prosperity and glory, not
to forget the frail and precarious tenure by which
the noblest blessings of this world are enjoyed.
What Mr. Canning was in mind, in genius, and in
character, is known even to the humblest of our
countrymen ; to what a pitch of greatness and re-
nown he might have raised his country, had Provi-
dence been pleased to prolong his life, it would indeed
be difficult to over-estimate. But, unhappily, his
glorious race is run; and our only consolation now
is the retrospect of his splendid career, and the con-
soling conviction that his name will be inscribed in
the brightest page of his country's annals. With
that name how few are there which impartial history
can ever bring into competition ! The scholar, the
wit, the orator, the statesman, the patriot—the
beloved of his country, the friend of his Sovereign—
the stay and hope of the liberal and enlightened of all
nations—to say nothing of those kindly affections and
zealous attachments which shed a benignant radiance
on his private character;—these are an assem-
blage of qualities and advantages such as only
fall to the lot of a few of those happy natures ,