The Sun.
London, England, 1827-12-18 00:00:00

his acquittal not so much to the goodness of his
cause as the accidental circumstance of the Sheriff

having. given him a fair Jury. " The Jury (says
the:Morning Register) were indiscrintinately chosen,
thanks to the new Sheriff, Mr. Roose." If the
Sheriff had not been impartial-7if_ he had allowed

party feeling to prevail, he could have procured his
conviction. The Sheriff might have given him a
bad Jury, instead of an indifferent Jury. Wretched
country, where it is a subject of congratulation that
one Sheriff has proved himself an honest man ! The

acquittal was followed by rejoicings; and up to a
late hour on Friday night, the streets were crowded
with people enjoying the scene. The Morning Re-
gister says, that a few windows were broken ; but,
according to letters we have received from Dublin,
nearly all the houses in Sackville-street, from the
Post-office to the end of Rutland-square, have

had their windows broken. The large Club House,
the Dublin Institution, the Bible Society Institu-

tion, &c. have been. , it is said, much disfigured.—lbid.
Among the on dits of yesterday were the follow-
ing :—That Lord Goderich had virtually resigned,
and was gone into the country to avoid being mixed
up in the new arrangements consequent thereupon ;
that Lord Lansdowne bad expressed his determina-
tion not to remain in the Government without Lord

Holland ; and, lastly, that the Chancellor of the
Exchequer would not sit in the Cabinet with the
last-named Noble Lord. We give these reports as

we heard them—not vouching—for their liecuracy ;
but knowing that they were current in channels
usually well informed in such matters. A wag, on
hearing them, said they proved at least that the
thirteen members of the Cabinet were at sixes and

sevens. " No," rejoined another, " only at sixes, if
one of the thirteen has resigned."—Morning Herald.
Soon after Lord Goderich left town on Saturday
for the seat of his Lordship's aunt, the Countess De
Grey, at Silsoe, in Bedfordshire, Mr. Huskisson
despatched a courier with a letter to the Earl of
Harrowby, at his scat at Sandon, in Staf-
fordshire. The Noble Earl came to London in con-

sequence; and yesterday morning his Lordship had
a long interview with Mr. Huskisson, at his resi-
dence in Somerset-place. Shortly after Mr. Hus-
kisson left London, and proceeded to the King at
Windsor.--L/bid.

The greatest vice of modern " Statesmanship" is,
ndoubtedly, the practice of loading future genera-
ions with the burden of debts incurred by the ex-

travagance of existing Governments. It is the fa-
cility of putting off the day of reckoning to a remote
posterity, which the modern system of finance
teaches, that makes Statesmen, when in power,
lavish public money without conscience or considera-
tion, and enter rashly into wars without sitting
down to calculate the cost. It was this system

which, creating fictitious resources while it under-
mined the solid foundations of national prosperity,
enabled Louis XIV. to pursue his Quixotic game of
" military glory,' until he encumbered the State
with debts, which he left as the legacy of his ambi-
tion to his successors, who, with similar improvi-
dence, heaped burden upon burden, by every spe-
cies of financial trick and exaction, until the whole
machine of Government, borne down by the exces-

sive weight of accumulated debt, was broken to
pieces by the first shock of the Revolution. It was
not long before that dreadful event, which, as an
historical example, ought to be more instructive
than it has been, that France abounded with persons
who suggested all sorts of schemes to support the
tottering system, except the only honest and effec-
tive one—of bringing the expenditure of the Govern-
ment so far within its revenue as to allow the
existence of a real surplus fund to be applied
to the gradual extinction of the principal of the
debt,• and the consequent reduction of the public
taxation. This plain suggestion of common
sense was lost in the cabalistic jargon of affected
financiers, whose plans had no other object than to
delude the public for the present, and make them
believe that the embarrassments which extravagance
had produced could be remedied without having re-'
course to the disagreeable corrective of real economy.
Hence project upon project, scheme upon scheme,
were multiplied—like some of the hocus pocus con-
trivances which we ourselves have witnessed—all of
which were, like the mania to discover the philoso-
pher's stone, to be the sources of countless wealth
to the nation, and, like that mania, reduced the po-
verty which was thus deluded to still more despe-
rate circumstances. It was under the infatuation
that boasting projectors in the art of finance could
easily obviate the unpleasant consequences of a pro-
digal expenditure, that the Government of LouisXV.
had so little compunction in adding to the debts of
the formet reign. It was under a similar delusion
that the Ministers of his unfortunate successor in-
duced their Sovereign to aid with troops and trea-
sures the revolutionized colonies of British America,
and thereby added irretrievably to the embarrass-
ments of France, then itself approaching the brink
of a revolution. With a change of names, the his-
tory of the past is pretty mach the history of the
present, and ought not to be read in vain.—lbid

The fact of Lord Goderich having tendered his
resignation is no longer doubted, although the mo-
tives which have induced the Noble Lord to take
this resolution are yet involved in considerable ob-
scurity. The state of his health is one of the causes
assigned by the Ministerial Journals, and the un-
prosperous condition of the National Revenue ano-
ther. Neither of them, however, seem to us to
afford an adequate or satisfactory solution of the
question ; for with regard to the first, we are
now informed for the first time, that the Noble
Lord's health has in fact suffered from his
application to official duty ; and as to the se-
cond, it conveys a reproach upon his political
firmness and courage which we can scarcely think
well fotmded. There is nothing unprosper-
ous in the financial situation of the country
but what Lord Goderich, with but an ordinary
portion of sagacity, might have known or foreseen,
when he accepted his present high office ; and no-
thing but what any Minister possessed of only an
ordinary portion of vigour and resolution, and asso-
ciated with a competent and well organized body
of colleagues, might confidently hope to remedy.
The fact of the tender of his resignation is, how-
ever, undoubted, and the most natural explanation
of it unquestionably is—the conviction having gra-
dually been forced upon his mind, in the brief
pe-
riod during which he has held his elevated station,
that the body of colleagues with whom he he has
been associated is not competent and well-organized.
Whatever may have been the causes of Lord Gude-
rich's determination, we are very far from consi-
dering it as an event which the country has any
reason to deplore : but in saying this we should be
sorry to be understood as intimating any opinion
personally disrespectful towards his Lordship. In
all respect as a man, in many as a, statesman, the
character of Lord Goderich is highly estimable—
yet such was the unfortunate position in which
he was placed, that his great and excellent qua-
lities could have been productive only of calamity
and disappointment to the nation. He was the
bond of union of an Administration composed of
the most discordant, and as we believe he found to
his intolerable disquiet, of the most intractable ma-
terials—of an Administration which must have left
the country at every moment in doubt whether for
another moment its conflicting particles could be
kept together ; and which so long as it maintained
a shew of union, must have left the country equally
in doubt upon what principles any political ques-
tion that might arise would most probably be de-
cided. Such an Administration is an injury to a
country like England, greater than can be com-
pensated by the virtues of any individual Mini-
ster. The energy and public spirit, the mercan-
tile enterprize and well-directed industry of Eng-
land, depend in a great degree upon her hav-
ing a Government whiise principles are con-
sistent and intelligible to the great body of the
community—whose conduct in any given circum-
stances the people can calculate upon with consi-
derable accuracy—and whose permanency is not the
subject of daily and hourly discussion. Supposing