The Portland gazette., 1823-10-14
MISCELLANEOUS.
MEssRs. BROUGHAM AND CANNING

d the head /" Gleanings" II is drawn up with tast
J and discrimination; and it will be perused wit
Z peculiar interest in Liverpool, where the origin
: ais Of the portraits are SO well known.
d [LiUerpOOE Mercury
Ask any one who lounges and listens in tb,
gallery of ST. Stephens, who are the prominen
men in the two great parties which contend fo
Il the honor and advantage of their country. anc
; the answer issure to be "Br0ugham and Canning
But though these orators resemble each othel
IN standing foremost and alone, each in his party
and species of eloquence, they are, in every 9th
er respect, the antpodes of each other and per.
T haps no two mea could be chosen, who, in their
2 appearance, the structure Of their minds. the
: style and management Of their elocuence Or IL
= the expression and manner by which they act Il
forth, form more perfect contrast. Canning's
appearance is rather soft and prepossessino
BrOuqhams is hard and stern, if not absolutely
repulsive. The air Of Canning's head is elegant.
that OF BroUgham is exactly the reverse but
still view it on what side YOU will il indicates
terrible power Cannings features are hand
some and his eve, though well set, and shelter
ed under his eyebrows, is lively and sparkling.
and his complexion is fine Brougham's features
lare harsh in the extreme his forehead il i'm
mense, his chin square and his nose. mouth and
eyes huddled together in the centre of his face
and his ewes absolutely retire amid folds and cor
rugations and while he sits listening, they seem.
ed yelled by flmy curtain, which not only con
ceals their appalling glare but renders the mind
OF their pOssessor inscrutable to the keenest oh
server. Cannpg's passions sit upon his face IN
ready array, and its hues come and 60 with ev-
/ cry nOint OF his own speech, and every return
| by his antagonist: Broughams mantle within :
and, while every ear is tingling at what he saws
and the Immediate object Of his invective writh-
| ing in helpless and indescribabe agony, his vis
age retains a cold brassv hue, and he triurnpbs
over the passions of other men, bv appearing to
be wholly without passion himself The one
seems as if he were to strive merely for the eclat
OF the lists the glory Of the other appears TO be
wholly in the fight. The one seems as if he had
always lived among men, entered into their
sports and festivities, and fed upon their praise
the other looks like son Of the desert and seems
to come among men only to MAKE them trembIe
at his strength
Their appearance does not differ more than
the structure and furnishing Of their minds
Canning is scholar, an elegant and exquisite
scholar we allow ; but still merely a scholar
Brougham on the other hand, is a philosopher.
In the most comprehensive meaning Of the term
Canning's Illustrations are, accordingly, all clas-
sical while, Brougham presses all the elements
ature the other mn
the Encyclopedia. Their first starting into no
tice is perfect key to their minds Canning
shone in the pages Of the .9nti-JdCObin Broush-
am registered his juvenile powers in the Trans
actions of the Royal Society Of Edinburgh
Canning's political squibs We're excellent in their
kind but they We're personal in their appLca-
ton, and ephemeral in their value Brough-
ans paper on pOrisms will be read with interest
while geometry is a science. Canning goes
forth as lapidary, picking up gems OF great
value, giving them an exquisite polish, and ht-
ting them for the diadems Of Kings Brougham
goes forth like giant, with an iron mace, dash
| inc the rocks in pieces. and preparing pathway
| for the people, over the stubborn and untowarc
parts of the earth You are delighted with the
| sparkle of the one you admire the power OF
| the other but, at the same time, you trembe at
lit
| The style of their eloquence, and the struct-
ure of their speeches are Just as different. Can
ming selects words, on account OF the smooth-
mess Of their flow, and the music OF their sound
with Brougham, the longer, the crooked, and the
more unavoidable, the better Canning forms
lhis sentences like master of language and OF
sound Brougham, like a master OF ideas and
confederation. Those Of the one are OF mod
crate length, and always quadrble by the classi-
cal formula those of the other can be squared
only bv the higher analysis Of the mind and
lthev rise and swell, on and on, till each Is often
a whole oratiOn within itself but still, the near
Ter can see that it carries the weight OF all that
, went before and prepares the way Tor what IS to
come after. The style Of Canning is like a con-
vex mirror, it scatters every ray which falls up
on it, and sparkes in whatever position 1t Is
, Viewed the stvle of Brougham is like a con-
leave mirror il sheds no general brilhancy, but
{ its light IS concentrated into one focus, and the
heart which that focus cannot soften must bt
pure clay Canning marches straight on, in
clear and bold track every individual para
graph Is perfect in itself and every corrusca
ltion Of wit and of genius, neither need nor re
ceives any aid from the others the antthesls I
sure to be pointed the quotation most happy
. or the Joke exquisite you feel it all, and yoV
feel it at once Brougham, on the other hand
twines round and round in spiral, sweeping al
the contents of a large circumference before hln
and pouring them towards the main point OF IL
attack When he commences, you wonder q
the width and obGquity OF his course, and yo
can hardly comprehend how he Is to dispose Q
r such a mass of heterogeneous matter as he is1
es up in his way but, as the curve lessons, an
the pole is in view you find out that the Who'll
is to be efficient there Broughams diatrib
against the continental despOts delivered on tn
first night of the nresent session, was a hne spt
cimen Of this power The bosom OF each despC
was literally torn open and you could imagln
that you saw the evil spirit there laying plots tC
brutality, tyranny, and parricide. Had the mas
unanimous Autocrat OF bears and baTbarlans pee
upon the treasury benches, it is probable tha
when the 4" blood, and the murder III palace
were put in so direct, so concentrated, and s
overpoweringa manner, that Autocrat would,
be had happened to possess as much mainline
and pride as Mr.. Canning, have fallen into
similar breach of order The effect upon Il
House was most spirit-strring and perhs
Brougham was never more powerful, or mo
free from that whitening superiority which max
some of his hearers feel their own ittleness.
Delightful, however, as is this group, al
long as we could luxuriate in the contemplate
of it, we must draw to a close and 50 we sh'
only cast one other longing, lingering look
upon those masters, whose forms haunt the ey
and whose words vibrate upon the ear long
ter the Grafton has ceased and the orator wit
drawn. The fine, frank, candid, and gentlema
like form and expression Of Canning, as