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London, England, 1827-04-16 00:00:00


understood, that the influence possessed by the
late Duke of York, from his being a member of
the Royal Family, enabled him to put down va-
rious abuses, iiid.to observe an impartiality which
a less elevated individual could hardly hare at-
tempted with success. We have, therefore, ex-
perinnce to warrant us in ,anticipating the same
beneficial results from the appointment of the
Heir Presumptive to the chief, command of the
Navy. This first stroke of Mr. Canning's po-
licy is generally, we believe, considered a mas
terly one. One circumstance connected with it
gives, we believe, universal satisfaction in Eng-
land, namely, that the door is pretty well closed
against the return of Lord Melville to the Navy.
How his Lordship's countrymen must curse the
imprudent haste with which he quitted office,
and thus exposed them to the calamity of having
no longer a more easy access to the Navy than
other people. His Lordship probably did not
count on this movement of Mr. Canning ; but
he might have remembered the saying, that a
bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, and
that the actual possession of place is worth much
more than the best-founded expectations of it.
There will no longer be meetings to celebrate
his progress through Scotland, and toasts of
Lord Melville and the Navy. We fear his
Lordship will now experience the difference be-
tween the attachment which proceeds from gra-
titude, and that which proceeds from: the lively
anticipation of future favours. Chagrin will be
the prevailing feeling'— chagrin at his Lord-
ship's sacrificing his countrymen with all the
thoughtlessness of a boy escaped from college.
We trust that Mr. Canning will see the folly of
having what is called a Scotch Minister. The
Scotch are easily managed ; and we really do be-
lieve that there are few Scotchmen so obstinate
and inflexible as to refuse place, because the offer
comes immediately from an Englisman, and not
through a countryman. We really do not see
any ground, in the present day, for distinguish-
ing between Yorkshire or Lancashire and Scot-
land. An independent county, in Scotland,
means a county in which the Representative de-
pends on the favour of the freeholders, and can-
not command the election by his own property ;
and a Member of an independent county, who
should, for a twelvemonth running, by voting
with the Opposition, exclude his constituents
from their share of Ministerial favour, might bid
adieu to the representation for ever afterwards.
nation of the Lord Chancellor. There was no
mistaking the public feeling on this subject.
Wherever you went the language was, " Well,
thank God ! the Chancellor is out at last." The
report is that the Great Seal is to be put in com-
mission, which might give Ministers a more com-
plete command of the immense patronage wielded
by the Chancellor. The Archbishop of Canterbury
and Bishop of London had an audience of the King
on Saturday. Waithis for the purpose of announcing
to his Majesty that they could no longer conscien-
tiously support his Government ? Shall the nation
at length witness the phenomenon of a Bench of
Bishops voting against the Administration ? It can-
not be. The Church and the Ministry will soon be
on friendly terms. It is affnined that the command
has already gone forth from Hamilton-plaee to sound

the No-P-op-ery cry with might and main. But there
is a material difference between raising this cry
against -a Ministry and against an' Opposition. A
very little reflection must serve to satisfy the Clergy
that every Administration must be' friendly to the
Church, for what Minister is insensible to the influ-
We understand that the Duke of Devonshire is
to have the Lieutenantey of Ireland, and that Mr.
Abercrombie is to have the Secretaryship, These
appointments would give Ireland what it has long
been without----a unity
,of Government ; and they
would inspire the inhabitants of that country with
the most sanguine hopes. The Duke of Devon-
shire is
_greatly liked, and must possess great in-
fluence in Ireland from his immense estate. Of
Mr. Abercrombie, it may with truth be said, that
a more honourable. and upright man does not
exist. Tile Marquis of -Wellesley, between
whom and Mr. Canning there hasiong been a
connection, is, we learn, to have the Presidency
of the Council. Lord Harrowby is to remain
in the Cabinet, but to have a different office.
Lord Seaford has been offered the Home De-
partment, but we know not the result. Among
the reports, one is, that Lord William Bentinck
has been offered. the Master-Generalship of the
Ordnance. This report, however, we are .as-
sured, his Lordslii) contradicts; and we should
rather think that Mr. Canning would be afraid,
in the present critical state of things, to surround
himself with too many of his relations and
friends. Another report is, that offers have
been made to Mr. Scarlett and Mr. Brougham.
This we have reasons to believe to be unfounded.
Of all the changes, the one which has given
most general satisfaction, we believe, is the resig-
once he derives from the disposal of its immense pa-
tronage ? The Church will never be in danger
from any Cabinet,—for Cabinets are seldom dis-
posed to deprive theniselves of power. These con-
siderations will, we should think, damp the ardour
of the' Clergy for getting up No-Popery Peti-
tions. . When such ardour recommended men
to the disposers of benefices and bishopricks, it
was all very well ; but who would wish to dis-
play ardour, when the consequence may be the
closing the door to promotion ? There is a pretty
general feeling that the Chancellor's party have pro-
digiously over-estimated 'the influence they possess
divested of office. Yet they might have remembered
how few votes even Mr. Pitt could command, after
a life spent in office, against his successor, Mr. Ad-
dington. One circumstance must tend very much
to weaken them—the great age of the Chancellor,
their head, and consequently the frail tenure of the
power which they could hope to enjoy through him.
Then the most of them are, individually, insignifi-
cant. Who, for instance, cares for such men as
Lord Westmorland or Lord Bathurst ? Indeed,
nothing is more conspicuous, in this retreat, than
the parties being ashamed of each other. Mr. Peel
would not ,haVe it thOugiit for the world that he sails
in the same boat with them. The Duke of Wel-
lington is only respectable as a General. As a
Statesman, he is far from eminent ; and his talents
as a debater can confer little benefit on his associates.
The Chancellor himself is the merest twaddler that
ever pretended to discuss politics. The idea of an,
Opposition without talents of any kind (for Mr. Peel
is it seems, to be neutral) is so supremely absurd
is;
they must fall under the attempt. No Borough
interest can stand against the contempt of the Nation
Morning Chronicle.

KEW WAD, CHALKINGS.—We are told by
a gentleman, who assures us that the correctness of his in-
formation is not to be doubted, that the person who made
the chalk sketches of the skeleton figures on the wall lead-
ing to Kew Bridge, was a Mr. Samuel Ponsonby Palmer,
midshipman, 11-I\'• Our informant states, that ' Mr.
Palmer entered the navy about the year 1810, on board the
quitting it,
1824, camethis young nn mersmith, where lie
to f
years 1816, 17, 18. In the latter pe-
riod he sketched his Dance of Death on the wall On the left
side of the
laiam was unfortunately
resided daring the
road going towards Kew Bridge. On ttis Bth
of September,
drowned in the river Thames, by the upsetting of a sail-
ing boat.' The editor of The Times, who stated that
these sketches were the work of the nephew of Mr. Baron
Garrow, doubtless derived his information from a source
which he conceived might be relied on ; but the foregoing
statement amounts almost to a flat contradiction of it, un-
iehappened that both the gentlemen occupied
themselves
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