The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1827-10-18

affords the only chance that the councils of
said country will not be thrown into the
scale Of fespotlsm, both in Europe and A.
merca. Mr.. HuskIsson, who must be his
efficient successor in the House of Com
mons, although cold and opnlonated per-
son, possesses rare talents for business,
and comprehensive mind. But he is not
quite so much Of Rberdie in political G.
economy as is usually supposed. In theory,
indeed, he belongs to the school of Smith
and Say, and can make fine speeches, OK
pOsatory Of their doctrines. But he has ta-
ken good care, in brushing away mass
Of useless and inconvcnient regulations,
not to disturb the main foundation on which
the commercial prosperity ofGreat Britain
is supposed to rest. All his changes have
made only difference of about ElG0 900
in the duties on import. AS pthe shipping
concern, he has understood their interest
better than they did themselves. On the
question Of the Colonial trade, ,he has shewn
himself sufficiently Wiberai towards US. In
short, mr. II. has acquired the praises of
the new school at very cheap rate, whilst
he really deserves lie gratitude ofthc com
pick and often conflicting trading interests
ofthis country, for the dexteriiy with which
he has balanced them all both in his legis-
lative measures at home, - d his conven.
tional arrangements with foreign nations.
In the reciprocity treaties with Prussia,
and the other northern Powers, we was
forced to choose between losing extensive
markets for British manufactures, and some
slight sacrifice Of a part of the Navigation
interests TO save the rest. His early his
tory is little curious. 1t is not truo that
he was member Of the French jacobin
club, or Convention Of 1893. But it is true,
that he was educated in France by his un
Gle, resident there, and thoroughly i'm
bued with the notions Of the French phi
losophsts, and a member of the famous in.
fidel club, who met at the Baron D'iIol-
bach's. On the breaking out Of the French
revolution, the nephew returned to this
country, and soon finding that the wind of
favor did not sot in that quarter, trimmed
his ship to the court gale.
A good deal of, think, unfounded jeal
ousy is felt here at the arrival Of Cdpo d.
lsirin in this country, on his way to put
himself at the head ofGreek affairs. The
mon, both in aud out ofpower, il seems to
me, are incapable Of estimating enthusiastic
virtue attaching itself to the fate of ones
native land. G. ID. I. is a Greek in feeling
and attachment, and gave a proof of his
disinlerested adherence TO that sacred
cause several years ago, in quitting the
Russian court, when il adopted the Aus
trlan councils upon the Greek question. |
lie then retired 10 Switzerland, and rem
dered great services tn his countrymcn |
by his enthusiastic zeal in their cause. II |
has boen hitherto sacrificed to the misera |
bic jealousy of tho great powers of Chris !
tendon, and even this country is more n
fraid Of Turkey being destroyed than it is |
anxious that the Greeks should achieve |
their liberation. Let US hope that the ter |
ror of the Russian prodominance may not |
rivet the chains Of that i'll fated people.
But truce to politics. ] have Just re
turned from visiting Chantrey, and the IL /
lustrious dead whom he has immortulized |
by his chissel. called on him, and sent
IN my card not expecting, however, upon
a self. introduction, to sec any thing but his
scorks. lie received me in l;ls studio, and
entertained mo for an hour with the mys
tories Of his divine art. He has the origl-
nal casts -models--of all his works, and |
several finished and unfinished productions,
pot yet sent away. Among these was
noble figure of Grditdn, in a speaking atti
tude, for Ireland, and a colossal statue of
UdH, for his native place, lawyers and 10.
gislotors, artists and philosophers, poets
and warriors. The model of mr.. Horner'S
statue, which is erected in
Westminster Abbey, struck me as giving |
a fine idea of the noble form and llneamentS
of one of the most highly gifted men ofhis
time, who was snatched away almost as
soon as shown to his admiring country. !
There is something soul-eXating in the |
idea Of genius thus giving and receiving |
Mr.. Chantrcy showed me
some exquisite works of Canova, but con.
fcss prefer to sec the forms OF those who !
have lived with us and for us, rather than
those ideal beings, the creation ofGrccian
superstition and Grecian art, however high |
ly wrought. Mr.. G. is q man Of great sim. |
plicity Of character and manners, .fdbre
SUE fortune, but with the honest pride of
genus, and a soul capable of feeling and
expressing those higher parts of our nature,
which shines forth in the faces and are OK.
pressed in the forms Of those who leave a
name behind them worth remembering.