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minute, the complex and the simple. There
were certain topics on which heluxuriated—cer-
tain trains of thought which lie was fond of pur-
suing, and certain forms of reasoning which he
selected from preference. He was fonder of ap-
pealing to classical than philosophical authority,
and his arguments were, for the most part, ra-
.ther illustrative, than strictly logical. But, this
mode of thinking arose not, as superficial ob-
servers imagined, from his inability to manage
the coarser and more ordinary weapons of com-
mon men, but, because lie delighted to captivate
his hearers, by the splendid and the ornate. His
wit was glittering with gold, and sparkling with
gems, but its temper and its edge were not the
less true and trenchant, because of the richness
of its accompaniments. Compared with it, the
weapon of his most powerful opponent showed
like an ill-fashioned sword, whose cuts owed
their depth and deadliness to the vigour alone of
the aim that directed them. Of Mr. Pitt it was
said that he could speak a Royal Message. There
was, indeed, a stateliness and purity in the dic-
tion of that great man which has never been
equalled. • But these high attributes, though not
unessential, do not of themselves constitute an
orator. They address themselves to the judg-
ment and to the fancy, but they .leave the feel-
ings unmoved. They composed, however, the
greater part of Mr. Pitt's eloquence, and even
his satire was comparatively cold, severely cut-
ting as it unquestionably was. Of Burke it is
universally acknowledged that the wretched man-
ner completely destroyed the matter of his dis-
courses. So notoriously disagreeable a speaker Was
that great man, that he received the nickname of
the dinner bell, and his finest and most finished
effusions were delivered to empty benches.—
This was in no respect attributable to his topics;
for the same discourses when published, were
perused and admired by men of all parties, as
finished specimens of oratory. The talents of
Mr. lox were chiefly admirable in reply. He
would sit during the longest debate, half-dozing,
and at a late hour rise up, and beginning
.with
the first and proceeding downward to the last
of his opponents, untwist, and tear asunder, their
various arguments, with a force, as well as a hap-
piness, which had the appearance of the miracu-
lous. Considered in its separate elements, the
eloquence of Mr. Canning was perhaps inferior ;
but considered in its co4nbination, we have little
hesitation in describing it as superior to any of
these gifted individuals. No man ever made an
opening speech with greater' simplicity, grace,
imd precision ; no man ever answered an enemy
with more convincing power, whether he chose
to sooth down with good humouied admission—
to tease with laughing irony—or cut to pieces
with indignant satire. No man, when his case
was a',good one, could show its lights more
broadly and strikingly ; no man, when his case
was a bad one, could keep down its shades with
greater felicity of management. In the great ob-
ject of an orator—persuasion—Mr. Canning
was unrivalled. When he had a subject to
which he could give all his soul, he bare away
his hearers as a mountain torrent. Witness his
speech on the Portuguese question last Session.
No public speak-It in England, perhaps none in
the world, could have produced such a powerful
effect as Mr. Canning did by that speech. Mr.
Pitt's appeals to the House in the earlier periods
of the French Revolution, found a strong support
in the fears of the Members, and in their self-
interest ; but Mr. Canning's appeal was made
to their generosity alone, and was answered as
no former appeal ever was. Perhaps the only
other speech comparable to it was the celebrated
one of Sheridan, on a strictly analogous sub-
ject—the invasion of Spain by Napoleon.
There were many points, indeed, in Sheri-
dan's happiest efforts, that more resembled
the oratory of Mr. Canning, than most
of those with whom he has been com-
pared. And particularly did the comparison
hold in that golden thread of poetry, in its
highest sense, which ran through and embel-
lished the less valuable materials in the oratory of
each. Mr. Canning excelled in the ingredient
of oratory, which the great master has denomi- ,
nated its first, -second, and third requisite—deli-
very. His voice was clear and musical, his
carriage and action animated and graceful ; his
pauses finely measured ; his intonation distinct
and judicious. To these advantages the late
Premier added, and it is no small one in a public
speaker, a singularly manly and elegant person,
and a gracious aspect. Take him all in all, we
should be led, from the fragments that remain of
the elder Pitt, and from the description given of
the effect of his speeches, to compare Mr. Can-.
ning to him rather than to his illustrious son, or
any of the luminaries to whose peculiarities we
have briefly adverted. There was the same en-
larged and capacious views, the same courageous
determination of purpose, the same disdain of
petty prejudices, and the same carelessness for
the opinion of petty opponents. In Mr. Can-
ning, however, these qualities were mixed up
with more playfulness of humour, and more
suavity of manner, than is generally attributed to
the great Chatham.—New Times

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