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Jt is announted that Mr. CANN1NG'S Visit to Ircland was to have been tcrminated sooner tlhani lhe had at hirst pro. posed ; the Right Ifon. oiGentleman having fixed to sail for England last Sunday, aftcr a stay of onily three clear days i; Dublin, not including those of hiis arrival, and of his deI- parture thencc. Trhe approacbhig deatlh of Louis XVIII. was Alleged as the cause of this alteration in the movements of Mr. C(ANNIN(;. But suchl an evenit, it is natural to suppose, had bcen foresecn and prepared for previously to the Right Hoin. Gentleman'sjouriley from lhome. The only apparent ground, therdfore, on which hiis consistencv can be defended is, that public objects-tlose at least in whlich Ireland( might be immicliately conerned--had little or nothing to to with Ailr. CANNING'S travels; an;d that the jealousy here, and the sangiine confidenec of tlhe Irisli in the intentof them, were equally withou t foundation. For if tilc Foreign Secretary mcant an!y thing by this excursion beyond the indulgence of idle curiosity in viewing the Hill of Howth, tlle Wicklow AMountains, and tile College- green Statue,' or the gratification of vanity as idle, in raising a multitu(de of surmises with regard to his motives, plans, anid so tortlh, we- caninot well guess how any purpose, so grave as every purpose hnust be which is at all connected with the interests and affairs of Ireland, could have been promoted by a sojourn of three short days in the country, or could have been overturned by any intelligence or occurrence which those three days had. produced. If the latter were the case, we are bound to believe that the latter half of last week was a period among the most eventful of Mr. CAN- NING'S life; sikcc hc must have experienced something in th course of it, whichi rendercet the continuance of his visit either needless in relation to Ircland, or insupport- ablc to himself. lVas he, thnc, miraculously enlightened, or preternaturally terrified? Did he find that he had learned too many alarming truths from Lord WELLES- LEY, or that 5he had raised (for it is common enough in Ireland) expectations wvliin his compromisinig spirit would not permit hin to satisfy-or enemies whomi the same spi- rit woul(l lead him, as it had done alPeady, rather to crouch to than oppose ? It is of high benefit to an honest states- rnan to let the world see dlearly what he is doing-what he drives at; for his ends being fair and manifest, he is sure, to the extent to which they are so, of obtaining auxi- liaries among the better portion of mankind. Where, on thc other hand, people are induce(d to suspect their neigh- bour of a concealed purpose, they always ad(ld the further suspicion, that it is not a man's best thoughts whichl he studies to conceal fronmthe world.