The Sun.
London, England, 1816-06-06 00:00:00

MR. CANNING.

Very ere of 'the world, since the world was
first softened out of the vigorous roughness of the,
natural state luta the feebleness Of civilization,
hits been pestered, in a greatc'r or lesser degree,
'by those pretenders, happily fen- in number, who,
leaning only upon themselves, 'Outstrip the steady
Pare of the honest intiltittole. The insulting su-
periority of those imposers, who fly as it were
through men'S mouttas--virUra pro ora—has al-
Ways been it poptdar annovunce. A Virtuous an-
cient immortalized himself by exposing this arro-
gance his mune was Zolds, and the name of the
rpttist whom he pulled down was flouter---against
which floater it was the wdnt of Zoilus to pAlish
choice paragraphs, Well leaded, in a Morning
Newspaper at the Olympic Games..
Of the blood without bastardy Which owetl in
the veins of his Grecian Ancestor, tt true-born des-
cendant of that great man, sets himself in a Morn-
lag Newspaper of our day, to pull down Mr.
CANNING—who, whether he " Spouts" urn the
Thames, or the Tagus, or the Garonne, seems
Oyer-run with a constant conceit for exalting his
Country. Nothing can be more praiseworthy than
the attempt to curb the career of this " *Ovens
curer," who appears in more .thittr one way, to
tread in the footsteps of another of these pests,
called Demosthenes. This Demosthenes was also
an egregious " spouter" in his day: He did not
" spout" accidentally at Boardeaux, but he went
abort by design as an " itinerant," " spout-
ing " at Thebes, and in other foreign States,
which had been as hostile to his own country,
Athens, as France too often proved herself to the
country of Mr. CANNING. With the vanity usual
to such prattlers, the Athenian " spouter" strove
to rouse in the neighbOuring nations a common
resistance to their common enemy PiIILLIP. The
English " spouter," big with the past and +nixie-sus
for the future, takes occasion at a French festival
to sow the seeds of peace and good-will between
England and France—how infinitely to his oWn
disgrace, and to the detriment of the two king-
doms, he who runt may read. Athens swarmed
rail the race of Zoilus. A batch of his former
babblings %l as served out to Demosthenes for his
daily breakfast. There was an oppression in his
name, which would have been intolerable ro flesh
and blood, ,without the relief afforded by those
" diurnal reminiscences." Good old human
Stature seldom requires a motive to this apes
cies of assault. Profound, indeed, is the philo-
sophy by which logo solves his rancour to
chaet Cassio—

" He path a daily beauty in bis
4. Which makes me ugly."
Had good haters and bad lovers-4; those
who maintain, upon system, the subserviency of
friendship to convenience, and that discord should
be immortal, reprobated Mr. CANNING'S resump-
tion of i place among the connexions of his
whole adult life. Such a duetrine would be
notable chiefly lot its anomaly--.but the inge-
guity of the reproach, in this instance, is mark.
ed by Its issuing from a quarter In which
(albeit not quite without • reason) blintitia pla•
iabiles, innieitiat sempiterna heeatni‘ a practical
aphorism. The wonder is not the richness or the
rarity of the accusation against Mr. CANNING fur
rejoining Lord LIVERPOOL, his first Parliamentary
as.oeiate (with whom and with whose colleagues
Mr. CANNING at all times agreed upon almost
every great measure of Government).-the proper
marvel is " how the Devil" such an impeachment.
should shoold come from the, blazoners of the alliance
between Lords GREY and GRENVILLN—wito, as
ell the world knows, never, had occasion to forget
any political discrepancy, so Melodious had been
their concord up to 1804. Not to shreds and
patches, as in the case of Mr. CANNING'S
'speeches at Liverpool—not to implifiations or
inferences. Would lie resort, who should des-
cant upon the league between the two Nobles
,a'ore.matned. Materials inexhaustible by all the
Mums of all the morning reminders from Grub-
-street to Addle-hill, present themselves in the Par-
kfiamentary Ilegister—all possessing every critical
requisite, front proem to peroration. And thitvis
;the '' regard" which makes the charm of the ar-
raignment. judging better than Mr. Catorr;o
of what Tor Mr. CANNING is best, his consistent
monitors inculcate upon him that wholesome
axiom of which their own annals furnish such
memorable demonstration, to wit—that every
tbullit ion of party asperity in a free state, should
*Apply hi right honest ruttiest----with universal,
literal unchangeable fitness—am all circumstances,
anti to ail eternity.
Au itinerant prater,' of times not long past.
loss recorded an opinion upon this point. This
sponter'--.lipon f chairs and tables '—at ' Man-
chester' anti ekewhere.....tunneely, CHARLES Fox,
thttS delivervit himself. 5* If former differences
'ware held ilecisiVe against coalitions, it would be