American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1826-05-05
BROUGHAM AND CANNING.

.in elegant Extract from " Attic Fragments"
"Such were the rival orators, who sa: gldncing
hostility and defiance at each other during the car
" part of the Session Of S23 :-brougham as u
wishing to overthrow the Secretary oy sweeping
accusation of hasing abandoned all principle ior
The sake Of office and the Secretary ready 10 par
nv the charge, and attack in his turn. An oppo-tu
p,y at lruyih offered and 1t is the more w"ithy
of being recorded as being the last terrific person
al attack previous to that change in the measures
Of the Cabinet which, though it had been begun
from the moment Canning Robinson and HuSkis.
son came into office, was not at that time perceived
or at least admitted and experimentation that
occasion, the Grafton oil B,ougham was. at the out
set, disoined and ragged, and apparently without
aim or application. He careered over the whole
annals of the world, and collected every instance
in which geni1s had degraded itself at the foostoo
of power, or principle had been sacrificed Tor the
vanity the lucre of place but still there was no
alluson to Canning, and connexion that ordinary
men could discover with the business before the
House When, however, he had collected every
material which suited his purpose-when the mass
asd become big and black, he bound II about and
about with the cords OF illustration and argument;
when its union was secure he swung 1t round with
the strength Of giant and the rapdity OF whirl-
wind, in order that its impetus and its effects might
be the more tremendous and while doing this, he
and anon glared his eye, ard pointed his hnger
TO make the aim and direction sure. Canning him.
self was the first that seemed to be aware where
and how terrible was 10 be the collision; end he
kept @tthng his body in agony and rolling his
eyes in fear as if anxious 10 find some shelter from
the impending bolt. The house soon caught the
impression, and every man in it was glancing fear
fully first towards the orator and then towards the
Secretary. There was, save the voice Of Brougham,
whirt growled in lhst under tone OF mutered thun'
der which is so earfully audible, and Of which no
speaker Of the day was fully master but himself,
a silence as if the angel OF retrtution had been
hang in the faces OF all parties the scroll of their
personal and political sins. pen, which one OF The
Secretaries dropped upon the mating, was head In
the remolest part Of the House and The voting mem.
bers, who often slept in the side galleries during the
Debate, started up as though the FINAL trump had
been sounding them to give an account OF their
deeds. The stiffness Of Boue hams figure had
vanished his features seemed concentrated almost
10 poin, he glanced towards every part of the
House in succession; and sounding the death
knelI Of the Secretary's forbearance and prudence,
with both his clenched hands upon the table, he
hurled at him an accusation more dreadful in its
gaIl and toriurng in its effect, than ever had
been hurled at mortal man within the same walls.
The result was Observation-Disclosures electric. II
wa. as when the thunder cloud descended upon the
giant.reak-oue fash -one peal-the sublirnity van.
ished and all the remained was small and cold
pauerne OF rain. Canning started to his feet, and
VAS Only able utter the unguarded words, Il is
3asen to which followed dull chapter of apollo
gIes. From that moment the house became more
q scene oil real business than OF airy display and
angty Fituperation."