The Gazette of Saturday a...
The Gazette of Saturday announices a number of trans- fers and( promotions amnong thie British functionaries at Fo- reig1. Courts. The last on the list is that wlich seems cal- culated to afford liberal-minded persons the most entire sa- tisfactioii-we mneai the appointmenet of LordI Eis xa as Envoy Extraordinary to W'urternberg. This nobleman being of opposition blood, and not redeemed by extensive conne-:ion, Parlianmentary influenice, or abunlant wealth- circumstances which are supposed to act withI more or less force in determining the favours of Ministcrs,-Mr. CAN- NING'S mnotives for thi nomination of Lor(i ERSKINE can- not well be thoughit otherwise thani kinid and disinterested and1 as such we hold it but fair to draw public attention to the fact. Passing to the other extrernity of the diploma- tic register, we findi Sir WVN. A'Coumtr promoted froin be- ir)g Envoy Mxtraordinary at Madrid, to be Ambassadlor at Lisbon. Now, in ordinary circumstances, and in re- lation te other Courts, the missiotn of Sir Wxx.t.t AM A'Couar might possibly fill us with alarn. Ile has somehowv contrived it, that all the world connlect hin as much as they (lid Lordl Lo N'DO SE rav with tbe counsels, 'he plots, aod iniquitius of the I-loly Allianlce. He haI the repiitation of acting withi skill and effect equal to that of the whole Austrian armly against the indepeni- lence of Naples ; he was in at the leath of Spanish li- berty. Wherever despotism was to be resuscitated-wherever liberty was compelled to breathe her last, andl her funtral rites were to be performed-there thte ill-omened bird was foundperching. It is not, thieni, without some show of apology that people suspect what is vulgarly calicd a black job" where this undertaker nsakes hiis unwelcomn, visit. TIhe prtk--nt scene of action, howvever, whicil has beQn marksd out for Sir W. AConutRT, relieves Us froI)m those apprehensions to which we tinght not uttherwise have felt miore insensible than the bilk of the comn uttity. I n the lirst place, tojulIgebyoutward appearances, the crisis is psis at the Court of Lisboni, andi no object se ms to be nolW itl hati! worth exercising the adrtotncse-we will not say talents- of this experienced machiiator. In tlte next 'place, ve inate that his mission may be ininoceit ; because, it is not wholly without example that act amnbassa(lor of splendid, parts should be sent to Portugal from this coutitry, an; l vitl the sanme large salary that Sir VI LLI AN A'CoetiR is to en- joy, although there was no imisoltief of anv kind to betlotte' there, saving otily the exvtenditure of to,(tOUl. per atitunIi - indleeml, althougth there was neithier King nor Court at Lis- bott, anti( the appoiitinetit itseli was no better than a sine- cure, madle by Lord LoNDONDERRn for one of his U)pIo- vidlvd friends. Balaneing. howevet I the pro auld coit of' the case, we could wislt that Mr. CANNING Would tianat hiis dliplomatic representatives frotn atnong intdividuals of' his own personal choice, rather thani from his predleeesssor's meanest adherents.