objects, it will slip through the legislature as quietly as the annual Mutiny Bill; and we shall all wonder what we have been so long and so obstinately contending about. Whether it will still be of sufficient endurance to place the mitre on the brows of the Rector of Stanhope, I will not hazard a conjecture; but even that event will in no degree increase the respect with which I subscribe myself, His very obedient, humble Servant, T. GISBORNE, JUN. P. S.-The foregoing sheets were already in the press when I first heard of Mr. Canning's fatal illness. I am thankful that I have said nothing of him while living which I could wish to retract now he is dead. The words I have used, faintly express the admiration in which I held his character and his talents; and, should I speak of him now, my feeble voice would be drowned in the full swell of lamentation which has burst forth, in an unexampled degree, from every corner, not only of our own, but of neighbouring kingdoms. If any of those who assailed him during his life, should now feel that they were led by unworthy motives to overstep the bounds of objects, it will slip through the legislature as quietly as the annual Mutiny Bill; and we shall all wonder what we have been so long and so obstinately contending about. Whether it will still be of sufficient endurance to place the mitre on the brows of the Rector of Stanhope, I will not hazard a conjecture; but even that event will in no degree increase the respect with which I subscribe myself, His very obedient, humble Servant, T. GISBORNE, JUN. P. S. The foregoing sheets were already in the press when I first heard of Mr. Canning's fatal illness. I am thankful that I have said nothing of him while living which I could wish to retract now he is dead. The words I have used, faintly express the admiration in which I held his character and his talents; and, should I speak of him now, my feeble voice would be drowned in the full swell of lamentation which has burst forth, in an unexampled degree, from every corner, not only of our own, but of neighbouring kingdoms. If any of those who assailed him during his life, should now feel that they were led by unworthy motives to overstep the bounds of moderation and fairness, I would rather leave them to the correcting influence of such reflections, than take advantage of an excited state of popular feeling to turn against them the tide of public indignation. |