CANKIXO. GKORGE. 



CAKONICA. LUIGL 



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_ This union made him perfectly 

 farl* wife's fsrtaM exceeded 100,0001. On the 

 m 1M1 Cii.ru retired with the net, 

 bis declamation, wit, and 



_ to UM opposition arrayed against 

 Uo Mr. Pitt'* return to office in 1804, 

 roftbefttvy. 



at bat aneaeesMful eloquence Lord 

 tord of UM Admiralty, who WM accused by Mr. 

 ' r made an unfair use of public money, 

 lary there WM a complete change 

 succeeded by Mr. Sheridan M 



r of the navy. In April 1807 he again accepted office, and 

 r of state for Foreign Affairs in the new cabinet 



Wfctteead Md other* of baviac made aa unfa 

 Pitt 4M te Ja*mry 1606 ; taPebrauy there 



of Mfaistora, and Mr. finnhsj WM succeed* 



farmed by UM Duke of Portland. Of all" tho department, of govern 

 M*B* this WM probably UM ooe he WM bwt qualified for : his despatches 



. Maalr. sad spirited, and many of bis itete-paper* are model* 

 of that and of composition. On UM Slat of September 1609 Mr. 

 OMtaff foht a duel itb bie colleague Lord Cartwrngh. The 

 man*) mainly KM oat of the Waleheren expedition, and led to the 

 msnilln of KM Doke of PorUaod and Jlr. Canning, at well a. of 

 Lord iWJetoafh. Mr. Canning bad alw.y been in favour of Catholic 

 iswrfsnllon, and on ti.. -.'lit of April 1812 be eloquently supported 

 Mr. Unite*, who moved U>at the Catholic claim* should be referred 

 to a committee of the whole boute. Again, on Uie 22nd of June 181 2, 

 Mr i aaaiaf moved that the hoote should take the Catholic question 

 mto OMMedermtioa early in the next eeeaion, and the resolution wai 

 id by a majority of 129. The history of Catholic emancipation 

 I how largely the final mooes* of that measure was owing to the 

 i>f rxertione and eloquence of Mr. Canning, though he did not 

 lit* to m it earned. 



Pariiaawmt being dissolved in 1812, Mr. Canning was elected for 

 Liverpool, which aleo returned him in 1814, in 1818, and again in 

 UM. la October 1814 he was sent ambassador to* the Prince Regent 

 of Portofal, an appointment which was afterwards the subject of 

 severe) asumadveraioo in parliament. In the autumn of 1816 he became 

 linHiBt of the Board of Control. In June 1820, when the conduct 

 of Vixen Caroline, UM wife of George IV., was brought before parlia- 

 Mr. Canning rather than bear any part in the proceeding* 

 1 his office, and went to make a tour on the continent In 1 - j-j 



be WM named Uovenor-Ganeral of India, and having made all his 

 ans|eisU far leaving England, he WM at Liverpool to take leave 

 of his frirads aad constituent*, when Lord Castlereagh (then the 

 ' of Londonderry, aad at UM head of foreign affairs) committed 

 on the 12th of August of that yrar. On the 16th of September 

 if. Mr. famine, woo bad been entreated to give up his much 



Mlowmg. Mr. Caning, who bad been entreated to give up 

 MM profitable Indian place, waa again appointed secretary of state 

 for Farcin Affair*. Declining to interfere in the troubled state of 

 Upata, where " UM spirit of unlimited monarchy and the spirit of 

 ajUssJtod democracy were in fierce eollirion, Mr. Canning turned his 

 to the New World, and came to the resolution to send out 

 to the principal states of Spanish South America. This waa a 

 ary to the recognition of the independence of those new 

 though totally unsettled, were de facto free of 



Karly in 1816 be formally notified to Europe that the British 

 a* would appoint diplomatic agents to Colombia, Mexico, 

 * Boeooe Ayree; and conclude treaties of commerce with those 

 MM on the basis of the recognition of their independence. In 

 l"*slii 1816 ha announced the intention of government to prevent 

 fate, who had lost her eoDsUtution, from interfering with Portugal, 

 who** eoMtreotioB still lingered feebly on ; protesting at the same 

 "m. the* the llrhish troops wen to go to Lisbon, "not to rule, not 

 to dicta**. not to prescribe constitutions, but timply to defend and 

 |irsisni UM oaUoiul iadepeodrne* of anally." 



lo February 1817, the Earl of Liverpool, the premier, becoming 

 lajMajaalUtod. OB UM following ISth of April Mr. Canning was ap- 

 p*jM*d hi* eoeceaeor. No sooner was this appointment announced, 

 Una the Lord Ch.oo.llor (Kldon), the Duke of Wellington, Earl 

 lUlburst, the Kari of Weatoioriand, Viaoount Melville, Lord Bexler, 

 Mr (afterwards Sir Robert) IW, with various members of the houso- 

 kM. rMtaMd in a maooer which showed decided hostility to the 

 "** "* resignattooe threw Mr. Canning upon the support 

 of UM Whin, MOM of .bo. took office with him, and others, at the 

 f who* were Mr. Uroogbam, Mr. Tierney, and Sir Francis 

 oied Ibeir cooperation. The opposition to the new 

 UM Boose of Commons WM of a most formidable and 

 ."**"" k** though be WM labouring under anxiety and 

 Us rhetorical powers and his sparkling wit never failed him. 



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le to the repeal of the 

 On UM TMt Act however he had never 

 aaopiioiitethHo, U e; and hi. opposition to 



taraL,rt.M^to^lui.T,ut^ , may b.~aatfb, 



other ISM sita approve of Mr. Canning's political career, to 

 m arks* owl of a bar of complicating and prejudicing the Catholic 

 to Mr. Canning bis full shan of merit for bis 



-- ' fcfJWf of CwMDO MuoeipaUoa. w caoDot on a otvlm 

 minr W M. pdW.1 w>, admit UuU bt'b.dtboM *] 



reform, or those powers and acquirements which entitle him to 

 be considered a great statesman. Mr. Canning npoke in parliament 

 for the latt time on the 29th of June 1827, three days before a proro- 

 gation. On the 6th of July, a treaty combining England, France, and 

 Russia, for the settlement of the affairs of Greece, and of which he had 

 bean the main promoter, WM signed at London. This was the last of 

 Mr. Canning's public acU: one of the first poems he wrote in the enthu- 

 siann of youth, WM 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 lie died on the 8th of August 

 1827. His speeches, with a memoir have been published in 6 vols. 

 Svo. He left a son, CHAKLES JOHN, born in 1812, who on the death 

 of his mother in 1823 became VISCOUNT CANNINU. He wan under 

 secretary of state for Foreign Affairs in 1841 ; afterwards became 

 Commissioner uf Woods and Forests in Sir Robert Peel's ministry ; 

 waa subsequently made Postmaster-General ; and in the beginning of 

 18M succeeded Lord Dalhousie as Governor-General of India, the post 

 to which his father had been nominated in ]^L'-J. 



CA'NO, ALONSO, n very celebrated Spanish painter, sculptor, and 

 architect, was born st Granada, in March 1601. Ha was educated in 

 Seville, whither bU father, an architect, had removed ; and he studied 

 sculpture there, under J. Montanes, and painting under Pacheco and 

 Juan de Castillo, all men of celebrity ; but Cano's true masters in 

 design were some ancient statues in the Cata de Pilatoe, belonging to 

 the Duke of Alcalh. Cano in called the Michel Angclo of Spain ; iti 

 some respects they were similar, but the similarity is more in tho 

 extent of their abilities than in the quality. Cano, as did also Michel 

 Angelo, obtained his reputation first by sculpture. As early as 1639, 

 he had earned such celebrity, that ho was appointed painter to King 

 Philip IV. of Spain, and had the superintendence of various architec- 

 tural works in the royal palaces of Madrid and in the city. After 

 various adventures in tho principal cities of the south of Spain, Cano 

 died at Granada, in 1667, leaving a numerous school, but he hod not 

 a single scholar who approached him in ability. His works, which 

 are conspicuous for vigour of design, richness of colour, and boldness 

 of execution, are very numerous ; there are many nt Seville, Xeres, 

 Cordova, Madrid, the Kscurial, Toledo, Alcalh de Heuaree, Cuenca, 

 Avila, Valencia, Murcis, Malaga, and Granada, where, in the church 

 of San Diego, a ' Conception of the Virgin' with angels is considered 

 his masterpiece. 



Cano was of a singular disposition and of a violent temper, which ou 

 more than one occasion placed him in great danger of the Inquisition. 

 He was accused of having assassinated his wife out of jealousy ; but 

 the chargo rests solely upon the testimony of Palomino, who wrote 

 many years after the event which gave rise to tbo rumour. Cean 

 Bermudez sought in vain for a record of any process against him. Tho 

 story is, that at Madrid, in 1643, when he returned home one evening, 

 he found his wife assassinated, his house robbed, and au Italian 

 assistant who used to live with him had absconded; but notwith- 

 standing the presumptive evidence against the Italian, Cano was 

 liinuelf accused of the murder, and waa put to the rack ; no confession 

 however being elicited from him, he was released and absolved of the 

 charge. Upon his plea of 'excelleus in arte,' his right arm bad been 

 exempted from the torture. Another story is that in 1658, when he 

 was in Granada, a councillor of that city commissioned him to make a 

 small figure of Saint Antony of Padua. When finished, Cano asked 

 100 pistoles for it, and on the councillor complaining of the largeness 

 of the sum, Cano dashed the saint to pieces on the pavement, to the 

 consternation and horror of his employer, who made all haste out of 

 the house of a man who could so unceremoniously demolish a saint. 

 The act waa in fact a capital offence ; but it appears to have been 

 unknown to the Inquisition. A similar destruction of an image of 

 the Virgin caused the death of Torrigiano, who was convicted of 

 heresy, and died in prison before bis sentence wax carried into effect. 

 Cano is said also on his death-bed to have refused to take the crucifix 

 presented to him by the priest, on account of its bad workmanship. 



(Palomino, Muaco Pictorico, <tc. ; Cumberland, Anecdote* of eminent 

 Painlen in Spain ; Cean Bermudez, Diccionario Jlittorico, <tc.) 



CANO'NICA, LUIGI, one of the most eminent of Cagnola's con- 

 temporaries [CAUNUI.A], was born at Milan in 1742. He executed 

 many public and private buildings at Milan ; among the most celebrated 

 of thute aud that which is the most remarkable for its purpose and 

 character, is the so-called Arena, or Amphitheatre, which, in regard 

 to mere extent of plan, more than rivals the Colosseum at Rome, 

 being an ellipsis of about 800 by 400 feet; but it is comparatively a 

 mere spacious inclosure, surrounded by not more than eight rows of 

 gradini, or seats, rising no higher than 20 feet from the ground. The 

 principal entrance is at one extremity ; and on one side in the centre 

 of the longer axis, is on elevated pulvinare, or loggia, intended for 

 the viceroy, and adorned with eight Corinthian columns of red granite. 

 This singular edifice WM begun in 1805, by order of Napoleon, who 

 then sought to propitiate the Milanese by embellishing their capital 



Csnooica was employed on several other buildings at Milan, but 

 the beautiful Palazzo Uellotti is not his, although it has been attributed 

 to him. His chief works there are the Palazzo Orsini (the interior), 

 the Caaa Canonic*, and the two theatres, R<5 and Carcano. Ho also 

 built theatres at Brescia and Mantua ; and at Parma one was executed 

 from his designs, by Bettoli. Canonicn died at Milan in February 



