to 1505 be dreaded with groat but unsuccessful eloquence Lord Melville, the ex first lord of the Admiralty, who was amused by Mr. Whitbread and others of having made an unfair use of public money. Pitt died In January 11506; In February there was • complete change of ministers, and Mr. Canning was succeeded by Mr. Sheridan as treasurer of the navy. In April 1807 he spin accepted office, and was appointed of state for Foreign Affairs in the new cabinet famed by the= Portland. Of all the department. of govern ment this was probably the one be was best qualified for : his despatches were lord. manly, and spirited, and many of his state-papers are models of that kind of composition. On the 21st of September 1809 Mr. eeerieg fought • duel with his colleague Lord (hastlereagh. The quarrel mainly rose out of the Welchem expedition, and led to the resignation of the Duke of Portland and Mr. Canning, as well as of Lord Castlereagh. Mr. Canning had always been in favour of Catholic emancipation, and on the 21et of April 1812 be eloquently supported Mr. Grattan, who morel that the Catholic claims should be referred to a committee of the whole house. Again, on the 22nd of Juno 1812, Mr. Canning moved that the house should take the Catholic question into consideration early in the next session and the resolution was carried by a majority of 129. The history of Cetholio emancipation above bow largely the final yuccas of that melons, was owing to the sentirieg exertions and eloquence of Mr. Canning, thoogh he did not live to Pea it Carried. • Parliament being dissolved In 1S12, Mr. Canning was elected for liverpool, which also returned him in 1814, in 1318, and again in It20. In October 1814 he was sent ambassador to the Prince Regent of Portugal, an appointment which was afterwards the subject of Dever. animadversion io parliament. In the autumn of 1816 he became president of the Board of ContreL In Juno 1820, when the conduct of goers Caroline, the wife of George IV., was brought before parlia ment, Mr. Canning rather than bear any part in the proceedings resigned his odic; and went to make a tour on the continent. In 1822 lee was named Oovernor'Genera1 of India, and haying made all his arrengroenta for leaving England, he was at Liverpool to take leave of his friends and constituent., when Lord Castlereagh (then the Marquis of Londonderry, and at the bead of foreign affairs) committed suicide on the 12th of August of that year. On the 16th of September following, Mr. Canning, who had been entreated to give up his much more profitable Indian place, was again appointed secretary of state for Foreign Affairs. Declining to interfere in the troubled state of Spain, where "the spirit of unlimited monarchy and the spirit of unlimited democracy were in fierce collision, Mr. Canning turned his attention to the New World, end came to the resolution to •end out cored* to the principal states of Spanish South America. This was a prehussinary to the recognition of the independence of those new government; which, though totally unsettled, were de facto free of Spala. Early in 152.1 be formally notified to Europe that the British government would appoint diplomatist agents to Colombia, Mexico, and Buenos Ayrea; and conclude treaties of commerce with those, states on the bads of the recognition of their independence. In
December 1526 be announced the Intention of government to prevent Spain, who bad lost her constitution, from interfering with Portugal, whom ootsatitution still lingered feebly on; • protesting at the same time that the Bridal, troops were to go to Lisbon, "not to rule, not to dictate, not to prescribe constitution; but pimply to defend and preserve the national independence of an ally." In February 1627, the Earl of Liverpool, the premier, becoming ineaperitated, on the following 12th of April Mr. Canning was ap pointed his succorer. No sooner was this appointment announced, lima Lb. Lord Chancellor (Eldon), the Duke of Wellington, Earl l'etharet, the Earl of Weattnorland, Viscount Melville, Lord Bexley, Mr. (afterward. Sir Robert) Peel, with various members of the bonen beide ranigoed in a manner which showed decided hostility to the new premier. These resignations threw Mr. Canning upon the support, of the Whip, some of whom took office with him, and others, at the heed of whom were Mr. Brougham, Mr. 'Tierney, and Sir Francis torelett, promised their co-operation. The opposition to the new 1 premier In the Bows of Common' was of a moat formidable and irritating character • but though be was labouring under anxiety and, sickness, hie rhetorical powers and his sparkling wit never railer! him. It was in those speeches that he repeated his determination to oppose parliainentery reform, and declared himself hostile to the repeal of the Teat sadCorporation Ads. On the Test Act however ho had never Wore folly delivered an opinion to the !louse; and his opposition to its repeal, or the agitating that question acen, may be said by those, who is other respect. approve of Mr. Canoimea political career, to have arisen mat of a fear of complicating and prejudicing the Catholic mseetion. Coes:edam to Mr. Canning his full share of merit for his etertieue In favour of Catholio emancipation, we cannot on it calm review of hie political bre, admit that he bad those enlarged views of social reform, or those powers and acquirements which entitle him to be considered a great statesman. Mr. Canning spoke in parliament for the last time on the 29th of June 1827, three days before a proro gation. On the 6th of Joly, a treaty combining England, ?ranee, and Russia, for the settlement of the affairs of Greece, and of which he had been the main promoter, was signed at London. This was the last of Mr. Canning's public' act.: one of the first poems he wrote io the enthu siasm of youth, was a lament on ' The Slavery of Greece.' About the middle of July, Mr. Canning retired for change of air to the Duke of Devonshire's. Villa at Chiswick, where he died on the 8th of August 1827. His rpeeches with a memoir have been published in 6 vols. 8vo. lie left a son, CHARLIM Jon; born in 1812, who on the death of his mother in 1823 became VISCOUNT CANNING. He was under secretary of state for Foreign Affairs in 1841 ; afterwards became Commissioner of Woods and Forests in Sir Robert Peens ministry; was subsequently made Postmaster-General ; and in the beginning of 1556 succeeded Lord Dalhousie as Governor-General of lodia, the post to which his father had been nominated in 1S22.