The Sun.
London, England, 1827-04-18 00:00:00

derhand means, procured his elevation, and that, too,
to the disappointment_ of a competitor favoured by
them—they might, in such a case, hive had sortie
pretext for 'dissatisfaction with . the individual,
though, even then, it would have been more
worthy of the -caprice, of spoiled children, than of
the gravity of states Men, to have withdrawn, on
merely personal grounds, from the discharge of
their public functions. But they were themselves
in possession of the Royal favour till they forfeited
it by their own folly. Mr. Canning did not draw
it away from them, but they (unintentionally of
course) turned it towards Mr. Canning. The pre-
sent Minister employed no intrigues, no under-
hand means of elevation ; the arts by which lie rose
were manly arts ; the display, before Europe, of
those capacities which necessarily make one, roan the
ruler of others, and seem, when in the highest place,
to have found the station for which nature intended
them. When Mr. Canning was called upon to
form an Administration, there was no competitor in
the field with him. It was admitted on all hands,
that he was fitter than any person else for sitting at
the-head of the Government; nor was there any
individual whom even the most partial friends
thought qualified for taking precedence of him.—
His Majesty, not yielding to any private partiality,
but consulting the good and dignity of the empire,
and lending a gracious ear to the general voice of
his subjects, puts the reins of power into the
hands of him whom the nation thought fittest for
holding them. Is it not extraordinary, then, that
this act of a truly patriot
,King, should deprive him
of'the services of men to whom he had been a kind
friend as well as a bountiful Sovereign ?—NewTimes.
Our attention has been directed to an article
in a paper (The St. Janzes's Chronicle), which
does not regularly come under our observation,
but which is, we are informed, a journal of some
respectability. In the present instance, it has
this accidental claim to a passing notice, that it
embodies in the article referred to, all the abuse
which has been levelled against the Sovereign,
and against that Minister who has received the
highest proof of his Majesty's confidence. It is
more, therefore, in the way of a curiosity, than
as .ati 'expression of public opinion, that we are
induced to bestow a few remarks upon so singular
an effusion. When a man gravely undertakes to
demonstrate that all the world are wrong, and
that he alone is right,
.if we can once get over
the feeling that he ought not to be at large, there
is an exciting novelty about hispretensions which
makes the examination of them an agreeable
office. Our opinion has already been implied, if
not expressed, that the retirement of some of
Mr. Canning's late colleagues proceeded from
the mixed motives of personal :dislike and poli-
tical difference. , We may collect, from the in-
discreet advocate before its, how far the motive of
personal dislike may have extended, by the viru-
lence of the outcry which is now raised against
the Prime Minister. Mr. Canning, it seems,
according to these authorities, " is, by inclina-
tion and habit, if not by birth, a . comedian."
Mr. Canning is "he who stands least in need
of the reputation of political subtlety." Mr.
Canning is " a juggler." Mr. Canning's highest
praise is,.that he is an expert rhetorician, and the
chief of scoffers." If it were possible to forget
who Mr. Canning really is, and how intimately
his name is blended with the most.•difficult and
the most -triumphant period of our history, it
might be supposed, from language such as this,
that the " intriguer, juggler, rhetorician, and
chief of scoffers, was some new adventurer,
floated into office upon the wave of Court ser-
vility—a fortunate. minion, of whom it might be
predicted, that—
" A breath unmakes him, as a breath has made."
But it is not possible to forget that Mr. Canning
has been as&ottated with the service of his coun-
try from the earliest days of our contest with re-
volutionary France—Lthat •he Wei the bosom
friend, 'and chosen miciple, of that great
man, whose name has long been identified with
the cause of social order and regulated liberty—
that of all men living, he is the one upon whom
the mantle' of his master's eloquence and com-
manding policy has descended—that he has, as
as- the Foreign Minister of Great Britain,, stood
between the two extreme opinions,,by which the
world is, -threatened_ to ..be desolated, that o.

bigotry and .superstition on the one hand, and a
rash desire of change -on the other--and that to
him, above all, it may be ascribed, that we have
passed through a period of unexampled domestic
calamity, without the slightest agitation of the po-
pular mind,and with a universal spirit of confidence
in the wisdom and benevolence of his Majesty's
Government; And yet this is the man, marked out
as he is by his splendid talents, by his long expe-
rience, by the approbation of the King, and.by the
admiration of the people, for the hi-hest office in the
State, who is accused of having arrived there by
" intrigue and indirect influence." We have not
concealed our regret, that the country has lost the
services of so many valuable Members of the Cabinet,
and particularly of Mr. Peel. But we must venture
to repeat, that each and all of these illustrious per-
sons might have held office wider Mr. Canning
without any compromise of their real dignity. To
involve no question of comparative, talent, his
long services alone as a Cabinet Minister entitled
him to this distinction. Is it meant to be of
firmed that the first office in the country ought
to have been entrusted to some Nobleman, of
inferior or even moderate abilities, under whose
shade the real leaders might repose in con-
tented equality ? The country would not have to-
lerated this; and, as for any new and untried States-

man, whom some of our contemporaries would have
recommended to have been. hunted up, we may
safely say---" non ex gnovis ligno fit Mercurius.—
appointment of his Royal Highness the Duke
of Clarence to the office of Lord High Admiral, has
given the country the fullest confidence that his
Majesty is, identified with his Prime Minister in the

most Marked and decisive manner. Nothing less
could he expected from the spirit and dignity of
George IV. He has never bestowed,his confidence
unadvisedly, or by halves. He has, on more than
one occasion, sacrificed his private feeling to the
public good; and if the secession of so many tried
and valued servants may have cost him a pang, he
will be abundantly consoled in the universal and
unbounded trust and affection of his people.—/bid.

ON THE DEATH OF YOUNG CHILDREN_
-
Ephemera die all at sun-set, and no insect of this class has
ever i2nrtvl in the beams of the morning sun. "Happier
are• ye, little human ephemera !—Ye played only in the as-
cending beams, and in the earlier dawn, and in the eastern
light ; •ye drank only of the prelihations of life, hovered for
a little space over a world of.blossoms and of freshness, and
fell asleep in innocence before yet the morning dew was
exhaled.—Richter.

The number of persons confined in Clonmel
Gaol for trial at the late Assizes was 401; of these there
have been--
Executed
Sentenced to death
Sentence of death recorded
Transported for life 7
Transported for fourteen years 3
Transported for seven years 55
To be imprisoned for different periods 24
Postponed their trial until next Assizes
, Acquitted ... ... .
Discharged by proclamation 155! ! !
SO that by this table it'would appear, that
,for every three
confined ,there was
,one against whom no charge could be
--
substantiatedconttemned to all the horror, misery, and
contamination of incarceration in a crowded gaol, and his
wretched family deprived ,of whatever support he could
give them. Really this is not that species of activity in
our "unpaid," which we can at any time be disposed to
praise; but "more of this anon."_, Tipperary Free Press.