The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-10-10 00:00:00

POLATICAL CHARACTEM.

'MR. CANNING.
This westleosso.. who is a o Secretary of State fee
ForoiKa AffMrs, is not, whatever other disadmisaspem
may Sod him to lobos, sailer. caned with any d thst
pretensions to high•bleoar. by which preemies, se was,
mimeo Save been rendered ocjirets or rahlirsears sof

costebspt. Is what taste of life his father wits I lase
sever heard. His mother appean to beer issntets
Mr. Ruin after the death of his father; for wried bps,
sods daughter of the same name is the Pussies Liss,
INS, in these words :—•• d peissies. grated es MetiltA.
" Ma,. 1799, to WA LTV' BURROW*. RR*. ra trutfor
" MART esi Mama Hums. daring. /A/irking,* tas.
" survivors of thaw.••

Mr. Canning's age 1 do not know; get; is nit be
little short of fifty. if not rather older. Milft that he
woe a Member of Parliament in the early pan of the
And-Juobie war, nod has, for sow .sowarsl, of mop
two years. helosgesi to that " grave s.J reformd maw
bly," called the Privy Commit. lk was one of a little
knot of youthful politkians, who were called " Hr.
" Psn's otter friends bet, he atom, of the whole
bunch. muss to have boon meek ofs favorite ink Pril. •
who very Boos made him a oloyears planmeas. sole, tie
some of Receiver General of dllionetioa-Pines, Walk •
has, frees that Jay to this, gives blob a salary 'efMe
pounds a-year. Having enjoyed this Once •
mealy thirty years, he has, of nem, rseekedlMMis •
source. from twelve to fourteen thousand moths set
it, therefore, Is a matter very little surprising that he
should be so strenuous an advocate he the sidetesasto
of the system. aecordi ng to wit; els and acesediagto kens
wartime &viol the last Smoke of Parlisawit, these, as
be calls them. "voted inerresto."are noel Is equine =
titfek so many freehold mutest which, by the by, is
net so very false io point of fact, at this assusestrwhis
the landholders, the "deed orrigkl," and the wt, of
the las-eaters, have so large a claim .pen the pro-
duce of freehold estates. Ile may possibly Me
kept It throughout his whole career of office and
I emolument, sot so mach for the gain as for the pejo.
oiple of the this,. and. perhaps, ton, from nal.
lecting, that Troinees the poet, Otonox the histseisa.
Anew Sinn the sesstoasid, Dr. Jonwsot the siorelk.
Bunts the politician, and that. In sheet, all the chits
spirits of those latter does, had inrasiably hem sits.
Imre Oarsmen. or pensioners.
In the year 1799, I think It was, he mania a UM
SCOTT, whose sister, shoot On some time, was insnied
to the then Marquess of Ttrenetsus, sow Mint
pORTIMID. These ladies, who had very largo kraus
Were the slaughters of a General Scott, of whom I hate
sever heard any thing other than that be get his mosey
the Eastlodies. 1 saw Mrs. CANKIKO tot lest al*
bee marriage. sod emplelessily believe, that her fortunes
imp as it was, had not pined her her husked; for,
was s very pretty. gentle and amiable wow's. To
he sun there did require mesething is mussl merits
is Meet these of the Minn/ s tow he, monk/gm my
joicseet. was Owl very haodsomest man ton mkt
my life. Kota "pretty man," sot e "*such." Iffier
doll-fatted dandy; hut, 'efficiently tall. ssilkimoilresinett •
Ws 114, all it. classed, his step sista Ilew
his .terse easel tied harm:aloes, his iMerasie •
quiet 411 ed ilktlect. his emphasis strong withal
J on. jig hali dark. his eyes bright without %ski eel;
sod, what above All thiags I admire, a set of feats.'
every Mlo of which perfortned its part is telling yea
what was passiog in the mind.
How often bare I, when reading his speeches, brought
him bark to my neind4,,,loa about twenty-too years!
bare semi him bet =rime once In 1917, and once lately.
He is grown stouter, and somewhat stiffer is his mom
=esti; he has lost the hair on the top of his heed ; bet
his eyes and all his features are nearly theists' se ever t
his voles is what it was ; his habits of sobriety give
him vigour, sad. in all probability, will give hies keg
life, which I am by so means,disposed to regret. twist
certain, that it is now become impossible for him to
do any considerable additional mischief to his country.
Which of two towns, In opposite directions, yon shall
arrive at, depends in which of two roads you tun tear
horse's head towards at staling. Whets we csusider
well the circsamtancesundet which Mr. Canning started,
we ens byno means wonderthat he took the road which
Maid take: it was the road to favour, the road to
uses the rood to power i and, besides the enchantieg
,rasOmess it held forth, it was also the smooth and sale
Med. To do hionisstiee, it must be observed. that them
was, besides the =dime, motives in such caws, quite
stones to lead him into this road. Tien was the
',Jb.seolPtrr, which.thotigh false, :as events have proved,
was dassling ; there was the prosperity. which, though
equally false, was acknowledged even by Purr's °pro.
nests : then was the rage of ahnost the whole nation
oks' "Jacobite sod Levellers"; there was at ems,
Idris= with which casting old sconnilreh bad =strived
'to load every 111•11 that opposed the war; thereto,'" the
4loody deeds of the French revolutionists, a dear+ to
imitate which Untie conning villains had caused to be
imputed to all those who sought redress of grist-
awes at home; there was the national jests*" of
the Retch, inepired by their early Stet centre 00 the Goer
I dsestU there was (elf the real gronade of the contest
being wholly overlooked) that I o•i: of country, which,
without a amen as to the consequence, sought slily
the triumph of Ragloid. tier, in the long mine et
this contest, there was plenty of time for observed°,
sad re/actiont ad these Ale. CANNING appears sever
Ito have employed for the purpose of arriving at truth.
It is notorious, and it long Ins been notorious, that
the war against France, or, rather, Igainst the Freoch
lonia's, was undertaken fur the express purpose of pre.
vesting such a rrfinn in England as would hays greatly
lessened the power and ensolntnents of the Aristocracy
by petting an end to the rotten boroughs. Whim Par
talked of the 4 fkredliag bre., of the French revels'
den." fie resit the force of rumple in producing re-
form is England. All the nnt•eri es shoat the Adrian awl.
about the other vagaries of the French had the same ob.
jest to Vial,. Ur. CAN:VINO was not a sea al monis
keg this dor is • men" lake this. He most at the
bottom of Ina heart, have slespi,ml the cast of old Ewe,
who called open the people to rag mre e freefy,ener4.l
to enable the. Hamill:mut w preserve to them f*