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BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR

OF THE LATE RIGHT HONORABLE

GEORGE CANNING,

PRIME MINISTER OF GREAT BRITAIN.

TO WHICH IS ADDED,

THE WHOLE OF HIS SATIRES, ODES, SONGS,

AND OTHER POEMS.

"Canning is a Genius-almost an universal one-an Orator,
a Wit, a Poet, and a Statesman."

LORD BYRON.

BRUSSELS:

PRINTED FOR J. GARDINER, No. 3, BIS, RUE DUCALE.

BODLEIA

2NOV 1948

LIBRARY

Brussels -Printed by B. CARSON,
No. 3, Bis, Rue Ducale.

BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR

OF THE LATE

RIGHT HON. GEORGE CANNING.

He was

THE late lamented Premier, the Right Honorable GEORGE CANNING, was born sometime in the year 1770. descended, by his father's side, from the Cannings and Garvagh family in the County of Londonderry. His father, Mr. George Canning, having displeased his parents by an early marriage with a young lady without fortune, but beautiful and accomplished, he repaired to London, where he lived on an allowance by his father of about one hundred and fifty pounds per annum. He entered himself in the Society of the Middle Temple, but died soon after he had been called to the Bar, and without having had an opportunity of distinguishing himself in his profession. He had, however, given proofs of considerable abilities and high cultivation, and was not only familiar with the elegant literature of the country, but the associate of Keats, Whitehead, and Cawthorn, and other men of literary note of that day, and a warm admirer of Wilkes.

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