The Sun.
London, England, 1827-04-06 00:00:00

employed in torturing, that Gentlemen may
at length bring themselves to enjoy exceedingly the
diversion of blowing their fellow-creatures to atoms
by such ingenious inventions. Grevitis, an Armi-
nian Clergyman, who in his confinement had oppor-
tunities of witnessing persons put to the torture,
says, that what gave most pain to the•poor victims,
was the savage looks of the Judges, and the bitter
laughter and mirthful gesticulations of the torturers,
eager to begin their work—" judicurn terribiles mine,
truculenta verborum fulmina, acerbi risus, carnificum
etium lretabundorum et gestientium, quasi ad has
operas, torvi in miseros vultus, et dux ac crudeles
i
means, ante ipsa cruciatuum nitia, miseros pene
enecant." The countrygentlemen have acted wisely
in consenting to a restraint on themselves in these
horrid indulgences. What might at first be resorted
to as a means of protecting game, or taking ven-
geance on a poacher, would soon come to be relished
as an excitement. In the middle ages, Barons used
to amuse' themselves with letting men fall through
treacherous parts of floors into vaults, filled with all
manner of spikes, which entered their bodies, and
produced the most exquisite suffering. The inge-
nious friend of Lord Suffield would have been a
great man in those days, and even yet would, per-
haps, be an accession to the Inquisition.—Morning
Chronicle.

The best proof that nothing is actually known
as to the final arrangements of the Administra-
tion, is the variety of reports which are afloat
upon the subject. Among others, it is stated,
that Mr. Canning is to have the Premiership, but
shorn of the Church patronage ;—another, that
a Noble Duke has represented to his Majesty a
decided objection, on behalf of himself and other
powerful borough-owners, to Mr. Canning being
the Minister ;—and a third, which is rather a
conjecture, is, that when a certain Learned Lord,
who has not yet seen the King, obtains an au-
dience, the thermometer of Mr. Canning's hopes
may still fall to the freezing point. There pro-
bably is not the slightest foundation for any one
of these reports,
.with which political quidnuncs,
who generally think themselves wise in propor-
tion to their ignorance, amuse and play upon the
credulity of the public. We have all along ex-
pressed our hope that the secession of Lord
Liverpool will not deprive the country of the
services of Mr. Canning ; but we have also all
along thought, and still think, that those services
are of most value in the office which he now
holds, and that to remove him to another would
only be to increase the difficulties and embar-
rassments of the country. And this is the very,
ground upon which his continuance in office was
at first so strenuously urged by those who now
wish to see him placed at the head of the Trea-
sury. " How important is it," said they, " that
the various negociations now on foot with Fo-
reign States should not be taken out of the
hands of the person, who is alone acquainted
with their intricate details, and therefore alone
capable of bringing them to the desired termina-
tion." Now, however, we find them advocating
a totally different arrangement,—one which must
necessarily remove Mr. Canning from the Fo-
reign Office ; and because we do, so far,
not worship the god of their temporary ido-
latry, as to prefer the gratification of mere
ambition to the welfare of the country, we
are assailed by a portion of the Party Press,
in a manner which we consider the best com-
pliment which it can pay to our independence
and consistency. They mistake their object, too,
if they seriously imagine that Mr. Canning can be
for a moment caught or misled by the kind of ser-
vile flattery in which they deal. That praise is the
ambition of great minds cannot be doubted; but
:praise is only valuable as it is just; and no mind
can be truly worthy of praise which cannot so far
resist its influence, as first to weigh both its justice
and the motives of those who offer it. Treating
seriously, for argument sake, the reports we have

[not believe for a moment that Mr. Canning would
consent to take office upon the terms there stated.
Instead of gratiting ambition, or placing him upon
the eminence he is supposed to aspire to—an eleva-
tion coupled with such a condition, would be, in
fact, a degradation, the submitting to which would
cast a stain upon his character and honour, by im-
plying a distrust of the soundness and integrity of
' his principles equally groundless and unjust. ,Of
the second report (viz. the object of thek4M,
Rutland's visit to Windsor) we should be ratlier:in-
filined to believe that it had no political object, but
cx
-as merely to give,his Majesty an opportunity of
pressing to the Duke,his Majesty's sense of the
uke's kindness and deVoiion towards his deceased

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Aristocracy as unconstitutipnal., The Peers are, in fact,
by the Constitution, the hereditary counsellors of the
Crown : and every Peer of the realm has a right to solicit
an audience of the Ling, and to represents to him his,
opinions upon the state oLpublic affairs. It is true that.
such a step is seldom resorted to ; though there have beeN,
precedents of it, on more than one occasion.during.the later
King's reign. Of the last report, cr rather conjecture—
viz. as to the effect of the hitherto dormant influence of
the Lord Chancellor, little need be said. Between that
venerable personage and Mr. Canning, it is pretty well
Understood that there can be no very warm sympathy or
accordance. Hitherto, however, that difference has been
powerless or immaterial on all State subjects except the
Catholic question ; and we do not see how Mr. Canning's
merely changing his position in the Ministry need or can
affect either the attachment or the smothered antipathy
which may exist between him and his venerable colleague.
That the general wish of the country is that Mr. Canning
should continue in the Cabinet we have no doubt; and it
,ip one of the advantages of our free Constitution, that pub-
lic opinion tan never be without a weight and influence,
which no spirit of intrigue, or other motive, can long
have the power to countervail.—Morning Herald.

The King arrived in town yesterday evening,
and is expected to hold a Council this day at
St. James's Palace. When the pleasure of his
Majesty in the appointment of a successor to
the Earl of Liverpool is made known, it will not
only show the wisdom of the selection, but fur-
nish a new proof of that earnest desire to meet
the wishes of the country, which forms so pro-
!
mment a feature in the character of the present
Reign. The public will then see how gratuitous
the alarm is which the factious portion of the
Press affects to feel, and how malignant the sur-
mises are in which it has ventured to indulge,
whenever it has vented its venom in the discus-
sion of this most interesting subject. We do not
regret this new effusion of factious rancour, much
as we detest the motive, as it will add, if pos-
sible, to the respect and confidence which the
nation must ever continue to entertain towards
its Sovereign. No one would have less cause to
feel offended at this display of malignity than
the King hiinself, if he merely consulted his po-
Pularity, because it never fails to draw more
closely round him the affections of his_ subjects.
To' a wise and good Monarch, faction, except in
very rare cases, serves merely as a foil to show
the benefits resulting from his Government to
greater advantage ; andithough the factious have
had abundant proofs of this in the present
Reign, yet the lessons of experience seem wholly
lost upon them. We once thought they were
only vulgar, noisy, self-important agitators, with
ai greater admixture of knavery than folly in their
cbmposition ; but we must now alter this
opinion; for an instance of greater folly and extra-
vagance than their attempt, by rude clamour, to
dictate to the King in the choice of his chief ad-
visers is certainly not anywhere upon record. In
the first place, it betrays such an utter ignorance of