The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-09-22 00:00:00

CANNING IN RETIREMENT

The period which he spent at Hinckley, during the inter-
val which elapsed between his retirement from office after
the duel with Lord Castlereagh, and his entrance Upon the
Lisbon embassy, was a remarkable epoch in his life. It was
with him undoubtedly a season of comparative seclusion, but
it was one also of great and successful preparation. He lived
at Burbach, a little village distant about a mile from town,
which he had sought mainly for the benefit of his eldest son,
whose health was in a most precarious condition, and whom
he had placed under the care of the well-known Mr. Ches-
shyre.

This son—he died at the age of nineteen, and Mr. Can-
ning's tribute to his memory is the most touching of all his
writings—was a youth of remarkable promise, and indescri-
bably dear to his father. He Was indisputably his favourite
child. In all his plans for the future, in all his visions of
ambition, this son occupied a foremost place. He was an
embryo statesman. His genius, discernment, quickness,
and judgment were topics on which Canning delighted to
dwell. The opinion and expectations which his father had
formed of him may be gathered from this single fact, that
whenever he had spoken at any length in parliament, the
best and fullest report of the speech was sent down forthwith
to George, who was required to write his father an elaborate
and lengthened criticism upon it, pointing out where it was
forcible and where it was defettive, where the language was
happy, and where it was common-place, and distinguishing
between what was mere declamation and what solid argu-
ment.

" Can I think too highly of that child?" was the remark
addressed by Canning on one occasion to his son's tutor,
Mr. Hay.

" You not only can, but do," was the honest and unhesi-
tating reply. Your second son is but little inferior to him
in point of capacity ? and after all it may be that this infant"
—pointing to Charles, who was born at Burbach—" may be
the child destined to carry down to the succeeding genera-
tion your name and honours.

" 1 am persuaded he will not," was Canning's quick re-
joinder. He was wrong. The random remark has proved
prophetic. Captain Canning's career closed early ; and upon
Charles, the infant referred to and scarcely noticed, have
devolved the honour of his name and the association it recals.

Most prominent among the vegetable oils is that pressed
out of the nut of the crab-wood tree (Carapa Guianensis, ;
it is used in the colony for burning, but at present small
quantities are only manufactured by Indians, who anoint
their hair with it, and the strength and fine gloss which dis-
tinguish it is ascribed to the use of that oil. They press like-
wise a sweet oil from the fruits of certain palm trees, chiefly
from the Acuyuru (Astrocaryon aculeatum), and Cucurit
palm (Maxiliana regia.)
The number of woods which furnish valuable dyes is con-
siderable. I allude to the Brazil wood, the fustic-tree, the
black dye of the Lana (Genipa Americana) and Serada, the
red dye of the Maparakuni erythroxylum, different Malphig-
hidoe, and the useful dye Arnatto or Roucou, which thrives
without care.* The Bignonia chica affords a dye similar to
the Arnatto. The plant possesses it in such abundance, that
it exudes like resin when the wood is wounded : it dyes a
bright orange. To the same family belongs the Manariballi
Jacaranda ovali and acuti-folia), which affords an excellent
remedy against that dreadful disease; the yaws. A decoction
of its leaves is given to the patient inwardly, and he is like-
wise directed to wash his body in it.

Guiana possesses several trees, the bark of which'affords
the principle of tanning. The bark of the Avicenuia tomen-
tosa, and a species of Malphighia, which is abundant on the
savannahs in the interior, is much used by the Brazilians for
that purpose. The heart of the mora tree is considered as
valuable for tanning as oak.
There are many fruits grateful to the palate, and whole-
some withal, which are the productions of the forests.
Among a great number I mention only the pine-apple, the
Guava, the Marmalade fruit, the delicious fruits of the Anona
tribe, the Sapodilla, several species of Passiflora, the Brazil
and Suwarrow or Sonari nuts ; the latter, which are the fruits
of Cariocar tomertosum, and various others of the same ge-
nus, may be considered as some of the most delicious of the
nut kind, and would furnish a sweet and bland oil.

The leaves of some of the Bromilite which grow on the arid
savannahs, furnish a fibre, of which the natives make thread
and ropes : it is uncommonly strong and durable. The fibres
of the Agave vivipara have been used for the same purpose,
and those of the young leaves the Ita palm (Mauritia flexuosa)
are woven into hammocks, ropes, and baskets, by the War-
ran and Arawaak Indians: these ropes do not, as at present
manufactured, sustain long exposure or damp situations.
The cultivation of the Piazabi palm (Attalea funifera) might
prove of great importance. This palm is indigenous on the
Rio Negro and the Cassiquiare ; and of its petioles

:ordage

is manufactured, which is extremely light: and floats upon
the water, and is more durable in the navigation of rivers
than ropes of hemp. It is extensively used in the Brazilian
navy, and large quantities are exported to Para, and to many
of the West India Islands.

* It will scarcely he believed, that the Arnatto, which is
so extensively used for colouring, is at present imported from
France via New York, to avoid, like the slave-grown coffees,
the foreign duty. It is in indigenous plant in Guiana; the
banks of the Upper Corentyn are covered with it, but there
are not sufficient people to render the natural productions of
the colony of use.

VARIETIES.

The editor of the New York Dispatch and Tattler has been
sued for a libel by a lawyer whose conscience he had compared
to boiler iron. The suit ought to have been brought by the
iron.

DRAMATIC LONGEVITY.—Madame Lange, the sister-in-
law of Mozart, for whom he composed many parts, is still
upon tie stage of Vienna, and lately acted to celebrate the
fiftieth anniversary of her debut. A Mr. West, who was a
dancer with Garrick nearly seventy years ago, lately took a
benefit at the same theatre.

PEARLS.—A letter from Vienna says, that the
pearl fishery in Bohemia and Moravia has been very produc-
tive this year. These pearls, known by the name of Bohemian
pearls, are found in the Moldawa. from Krumon to below
Fnrenberg. This river furnishes every year from 300 to 400
pearls, athe purest water, and. very well shaped, besides
several hundred imperfect pearls. The house of Schwartzen-
barg is proprietor of the greater parts of the banks. The
Tae shells which produce the pearls are of a peculiar species,
which it would be advantageous to increase. Besides the
Moldawa is another small river, called the Wattawa, which
produces a few pearls. They are not fished up, as in the
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