The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1821-04-20 00:00:00

LONDON.
FRIDAY, Aries. 20, ins.
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Our Ministerial Papers are so inveterately Nib-
ble to every thing that bears the shape and meth-
blance of revolution, that they have undertaken to
patronize the government of the Sublime Porte in
Muldsvia, Wallachia, and Greece, and even the
iweinory of the administration of the wise, benevo-
lent, and human* CHIWITOPME, late Emperor of
Hayti. Revolution, or. whut is the same thing, re-
sistance to existing authority, can never in the eyes
or our Treasury writers be justified by any circum-
stances whatever; and, according to their doctrine,
mankind ought to hug the chains of slaw:ry under
'the 'ciegmdiwg pressure of the Ottoman Power, or
submit to 'the brutal caprices of a malignant and
tauguinary ':navage, for such was Cuattro rife, rather
then exert whateWr power and strengt o may re.
men' to than,'and assert the rights and privileges
Iv`hieh iippertain to them from uaturt. It seems
"thirst upon the death of Ciaberonie there occurred
in St. Domingocertain excesses, which mast upon
such an event have at all times and under all cit•
eunsstauees' have Keen repiched. Who could sup-
pose that in a country that had so 'lately been the
'scene of every speCies of the wildest 'violence, a suc-
cessful chieftain could transmit his power to his
children with the ease .ad tranquillity that ditein-
guild' the successions of an European dynasty so
that even though CIIRISTOPHZ had not fallen 'in
consequence of an irourrection among his troops,
his death must 'under any circumstances have given
occasion to much Commotion and distort:shove.
The' disturbances, therefore, that have taken; place
in that island, are not to be attributed 'altogether to
the gbilt of the revolution; they have arisen out of
the state of society from the 'form of government
there existing, arid more especially front the brutal
excesses of which the lite tyrant had been guilty.

The Treasury writers assure us, that with respect
to the initurrection is Moldavia ■od Wailes:his,
should the people be tor a moment successful iu
resisting the blind and crud tyranny of the Turk.,
their success will only tend to eerier calamities,
for that the Holy Alliance, founded, u we were
told, upon the purest principles of the Christian
religion, watches over the fate of the Turkish
power, and wilt interpose with all its strength to
prestist the disciples of the Cross from throwing off
the degrading yoke of the Mohammedan Crescent !
The Emperors of AusTata and of RUsillA kindly
take the POILTE 'Under their protection, and forget-
ting all former causes of disagreement, will save
this contemptible imbecile Government (rota falling
to piece.. And yet it is impossible to imagine any
claim th‘t ought to appear more sacred in the erg
of Christians than that of the Greeks seeking inde-
pendence frot:t Turkey. It is a disgrace to Europe
that the cradle of science, the source of the most
ennobling sentiments that ever warmed the bosom
of matt, should to this fitsor be polluted by the pre-
sence of barbarians, and that the descendants of the
heroes of Marathon end Platiest, to whom we re so
• lkitid of appealing, and over whose stories we have
often glowed with rapture and enthusiasm, should
now, in their tardy struggle to relieve themselves
from the wont tyranny that ever disgraces) the an-

nabs of mankind, should not only not receive the
sympathy of their ebristian brettiten, and espe-
cially of those who fortunately enjoy the bless-
ing of freedom, but be reproached fur their
exertions with the charge of treason, and IN even
thr,:atened with the chastisement of foreign
Christiaa Monarchs for their presumption in dar-
ing to aspire to national independency. Should
the Greeks fail in their present attempt to regain
their freedom, future ages will mourn over it, fur
if ever there was a wish in which the liberal and

enlightened of every lige and nation unanimously

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