The Sun.
London, England, 1820-12-22 00:00:00

the State whith it would req;sire public confidence to
.pre, -
serve, no assembly possessing' the ordinary elements of a po-
pular meeting could withhold from the fascination of hisoro-
tory their highest approbation; often have the sportive sal-
lies of his Wit, the vivid sparkling of his eloquence, turned the '
tide of victory in fa's'our of his late colleagues, 'or base ef-
fected for them what to a curl upting Ministry is no less ser-
viceable, by givipg. to. their venal followers a plausible exat.
-
cuse for voting contrary to the general sense uf the O
body 'Of the people. It might he injurious to the honour
of the e;rown, hui tint to the dignity of Parlianmnt, and op-
posed. to the trite interests of the cAnitry, to support his.side
of any 'proposed 'political question ; but to err with Canninz
could not be periqhally -disgraceful to the understandings of
his lolloWers, for they were, shielded k,y the Want: of his wit,
and might justify themselves by his arginnents and his inge-
nuity. Ile ratikedlirplace as one of the least important Tent-
bees attic Cabinet, hut in pr",*&.t of actual weight he was the
first and greatest. tro him it 'tiers that in'tbe hour of (hu-
ger his colleagues looked for s'Opport—he was the Achilles
of their hAttle---and he now heard them at the moment when
they could least spare him:. The Treasury prints emulously,
and we doubt nut, with unfeigned sorrow, lament Mr. Can-
tlll‘i4.B depilftUre ! hut the cause they .assign for it is as sin-
gular as it is unlucky. They kay,that.h.ont the turn which the
proceed]ngs respecting the Queen have taken, odd the Par-
liamentary di-cossions that are likely to ensile °On them, he
coal() out whit honour tie himself, or advautage to the Go-
rernment;.cootimie in the Administration. So the public
thrt-ttgn't long since, hilt it is strange that the Treasury writers
silieruld consent to acknowledge the humiliating fact. ;111-
Canning forfeited every cl.rim to the rood opinion of the
. ,
poli;io when he nutted himself with the .prest;nt Ministry,
and crrtaiii it is, that no act of his.life ever liecame hint so
Will as his reOgliativn. From the tenor of tile expressions
ii..,ed by the Treasury Writers, We • are to Collect that A par.-.
7,-,..., s,:cli as we noticed .sometime since, is certainly cote(-
' iitted by the tithinet, of instituting in the next Session of
• Parliamoent, suttee" new persecution of the Qaeen. Persecui'
lOn ',e'now Milli can any hit ther procimiling3 hostile to her
Yhijosty, foe the. word prosk,ention implies a mode of pro-
. eceding,consonant to cslatilished legal usages, arid all such
proceeding ceased' When.the Bill of Pains and Penalties was
ittialutorird bY the Miiiiiluts ood throWn out liv..the Hose of
' LOrds. ..lie'th.e proposed measures Mr. Cauilitig could. not
ctiociir.; they were repugnant to his printiples of good faith;
sotind policy, and .honesty ; he' could tutu longer continue in
the Cabinet -•‘ with honour to himself;" ;end his resigno-
lion dings the severest reproach upon those who remain alio-
him, :or shall succeed hint upon conditions which he funnel it
impossible to arieept:l

Timcse3
Among the evicted attempts which bate of late been made
to impose Upon the public:, not the least wiehed :is the :isser
tisin in a posit of ;esterday morning, that " The Queen's de-
st en‘tion is still coolly meditated." It is false, and the wri •
ter knits it to be false, that the CZneti's thrilroction
'vet meditated at all. Her deg, adalion certainly was ntrdi-
tat ed on_ gronink. more than justified by bur ()Wu witnesses;
and which, accso ding tot " oat nod ingeoious!' defeoce
made for her in The Timm she herself studiously fornished
for the sake of a hoax I- Rot be this 39 it may, we Confidently
believe that, far from intending to destroy her Majesty, the
eXist t-ti.; Government will trot touch a hair of 'her brad. Let
her bear, as she can (her lot is not to he envied,) the weight
of evidence recora.d against her. Let her dwell, if she please,
arnid her vile Italian Court at Brandenhurgh House, and
even invite to grace its circle the Grand Chamberlain whose
inn:trait figures ht-side bet own in every print-shop. The Go,.
eernment, we presume, will, no longer interfere to prevent
these indulgences Of her taste. They will no longer occupy her
tieie from proceedingwith bet-Chancery suit against her deceas-
ed ,lirother's Orphans, anti clearing up the mystery which still
hangs ;:hout the Memorable tond.• he (Arent menfdotibtless
will tut oppose the liberality of Parliamtmt proriliing an al-
lowance kir her-suitable to the sep:trated wife of the King—
but. beyqnd this even Radical liberality can hardly expect
theist (0 go. The especial honours and dignities winch some
,Queens might well deserve, are certainly not to be bestowed
.on
.one, whose claim to is, to say the least of it, so Villi-
vdcal. The votes and sreeChes of so largia,majot icy ofthePeers
cannot he overlitohed by' t he other branches of t he Legislat ore ;
anti those votes and speeches certainly stand in the iFity of any
measure which would irdply a Parliamentary recognition of
her perfect purity and virtue. The Journal, above allnded to,
says t bat the Queen's destruction will he " required, as it 1;4s1;,
of Nlr. Peel." Now, though we yesterday stated, that these
was a report of that Gentlemati's being about to succeed, Mt.
Urinning, we in no deg's, pled;eed ourselves to the itCC.lNicy
of suet, report ; nor have we any particular reason to give it
greater credit, than • tic tlions.and other rumours of the same
so, t that arise and die away daily; but certain we :art-, that
it the Cabinet should receive the accession of Mr. Peel's
powerful abilities, his Colleagues would be as far front de-
ilianding as he would be ft:ow paying such a price for- his ad
mission to ounce.

•
[The TA.mes.]
The resignation of Nfr -Canhing, which we yesterday an-
nouneet4 is ungnestionably true ; but it appears tint eqoally
certain whether ?l r. Peel will he his successor, or whether
Mr. Hu4Osson, Lord Binning, stud Mr. Sturges Bourne will
continne in their respective employments under the pre-
sent Admimstration. One thing, however, is clear, from
the • retirement of the President of the Board of Control,
that the Ministers are not softened in their rancour
against the Qdeen ; that they' meditate fresh, schemes of
annoyance and insult against her Majesty, and further
attempts to inflame the indignant, minds of the ptiople.—
flow the intended attack will be made—whether by rt.repe-
tition of Italian grossness and perjury, or by the more covert
process of political influence and chicanery, a very short
time will deter Mine. But we would press upon the serious
attention of the British public a circumstance of considerable
import:thee upon this sobject. The Hanoverian Government
have it in contemplation in adopt some measure against the
Queen, said to he founded upon the late proceedings in our
House of Lords. The ',I gents-of that Government its Paris
have made no secret of this intention: for several days past.--,
It is well known how zealously, Hanoverian Commissioners
acted in procuring evidence a;ainst, and retarding or stopping
evidence for, her Majesty ; and since, in defiance of all their
esnleayours and those of their employers, the political drama
turned out to be no tragedy as they bad hoped,butonly a farce,
since tbe innocent and unprovoked oppression of tbeQueen,and
(tie consequent support isf tier enlightened subject s in thiscoun-
try fins Oared her IsCvond the reach -of attacks in England, ex-
cept front the futile abuses of hireling scribes, and the unmean-H
lug slander of the interested and malienant,--t be reene must
be Changed, the plot remaining the same. But are Minis-
ters so very' fooliSts :IS to eat Cct that the accusations which
were " false as hell" in the 'Engtish House of Lords
will, by sortie prnitiol transmutation, be " true as holy
writ," when produced before an Hanoverian Legislature?
Do they really suppose, that were they to effect-the degra,
dation of the Queen front the throne of Hanover, so shal-
low all artifice v/0l impose upon the judgmentnnd blind
the. eyes of the Britistr- nation? Why, these same .111 en
would have made her Majesty Queen Regnant• of Hano-
ver, ape, and have givember !hc.Dochy of Cornwall to boot,
if they could hate Induced het to forfeit herj est and indispu-
table Tiehis, and thereby to sign the acknowledgcs.2tst of- I,r
own ettlpribility. The Queen, boy/ever, has nothing to tear :
her clainis are founded noon the immutable principles of j us.
tice and innocence, and sapporte,d by a noble-winded and
generous peirple. But the case is different as it regards the
country, which has every thing to fear from the continuation
of these iniquitous proceedings—these reiterated acts of op-
pression agisinst her Majesty.

•
• [The. Public Ledger.].
The advi•cca. from-Vienna are not later than those by the
last arrival from Paris; but -it appears from tberiethat The
Obsentr, Which had, for some weeks, maintained a
total silence with regard to the affairs of Naples, has tecum-
mencettits task. of representing that kingdom' as in a Com- •
pie, state of anarchy. According, toils stateirents,.insnbor-
dination prerails among the troopsrembodied: no recruits are
obtained but by coercion; and in the capital of the kingdom
nothiug.but pillage and murder arc the order of the day, and
the Carhonari hid open defiance both to the Goreanment and
the Representative Body. It. is rather surprising that none
of these statements, if lonnded in fact, should find their way
into' the private letters received in.this country
team `Bplrs.
The question of peace or war between Austria and Naples, is
still said to hinge on the tensor of the answer to the propo-
sitions of the'Allied Sovereigns. But hostilities will • not, it
is said, commence, in any event, until towards .the end of
41411L110 y. The invading army will he commanded- by Gen.
Friniont, who will have under his orders the Generals of
Prince Philip de Hesse Lloinburgh. Baron de Stat.
terheim, arid Count do ‘Valruaden. The latter will uornmand
the advanced guard.

Mr. Canning's resi,:nation, we are assured, took place, ac-
Cori' ig tothe usual official forms, on Wednesday. It is as-
serted by his friends, that be coon-fornicated to his Col-
leagues his intentiOtt of resigning upwards of a month ago,
should they persist in their design, of further-proceedings
against the Queen. it is understood that an ufrer was made
to him of replacing Lord Stewart as Ambassador at Vienna,
which he declined.—(lbid.)