The Sun.
London, England, 1839-10-15 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TtTESDAY, OCTOBER 15 1839.

and if Admiral FLEMING have served long, and have
always attended to his duties: he is as deserving of
his recent •ArN'Ci►,rment as any of his competitors,
if any man of distinguished services had been
overlooked or slighted, if any Admiral had applied
for the situation and been refused, much more de-
serving than Admiral FLEMING, there would have
been some reason for all the fine writing which has
been wasted on an ordinary occurrence ; but no
such great man has been overlooked or slighted.
We know that the Tories* point to Sir GEORGE
COCKBURN, the hero of Washington, the de-
stroyer of a defenceless city, their manager,
not to say jobber,* of the Navy ; but though it galls
them that this thick-and-thin partizan should be
set aside, that the berth he coveted and designed
for himself, should it be vacant when his party was
in power, should be bestowed on another, his
grievous disappointment, and the disappointment
of the hungry crew he is associated with, much
rejoices us. The whole secret of the Tory wrath,
gentle reader, consists in this, that the Whig par-
tizan Admiral FLEMING is preferred to the Tory
partizan Admiral COCKBURN. How much of the
virtuous indignation is blown up by the disap-
pointed Tory Admiral, we must leave those behind
the curtain—alias the broad sheets of the Times
and the Standard—to tell.

4' These two words were incorrectly printed " Times'
and "robber" in our Morning Edition.

Without giving credit to one-tenth of the ru

mours in circulation about the unanimity of the
views of Great Britain and Russia respecting the
settlement of the Oriental question, we may be
permitted to intimate an apprehension that there
is more truth in them than is likely to meet with
the approbation of the people of this country.
The manner in which the foreign policy of Eng-
land has been conducted for the last six years
would not certainly justify us in lightly question-
ing either the patriotism or the sagacity of Lord
PALMERSTON. By the humane and inexpensive
substitution of protocols for cannon balls, he suc-
ceeded in spite of the Tories, in giving stability
to the Throne of Belgium ; the share which he
has had in the pacification of the Peninsula, and
the extent to which he has contributed to po-
pularize the British name in every part of
Spain, are national services never to be forgotten ;
while his able exposure of the designs, and spirited
denunciation of the conduct of the Cabinet of St.
Petersburgh at Teheran, Herat, and Cabul, lately
submitted to Parliament, prove that his vigilance
is not restricted to the political aspect of Eu-
rope. But Lord PALMERSTON has committed
some blunders in the course of his Adminis-
tration, and, as in the settlement of the question
between Turkey and Egypt one false step may
may lead to the most fatal results, without a possi-
bility of retrieval, we cannot sufficiently express the
anxiety we feel, lest England should be betrayed
into being an accomplice to the destruction, while
intending only to figure as a supporter, of the in.
tegrity of the Ottoman Empire. Statements
have gone abroad, to the effect that the CZAR,
zealous on all occasions to render unsolicited ser-
vices to his faithful allies, and desirous, if possible,
to spare the pockets of JOHN . BULL, of whose
dislike of taxation he professes to have the most
accurate knowledge, has proposed to transport at
once from twenty to fifty thousand Russian troops
from Odessa to Constantinople, and thus, at his
own charge, defend the Turkish capital against
IBRAHIM PACHA and the army of the VICEROY.
It is further stated, on we know not what autho-
rity, that his Imperial MAJESTY represented that
the adoption of this plan would leave the British and
French fleets at liberty to proceed to Alexandria, and
either compel MEHEMET ALI to restore the fleet or
blockade the coast, and if they pleased bombard the
town into the bargain. This would be defending,
the Ottoman Empire with a vengeance. Let Rus-
sia once be permitted to constitute herself sole
guardian of Constantinople, and there is an end of
the power of the Turks in Europe. NICHOLAs
may then, when he chooses, remove his Court from
the banks of the Neva to the shores of the Bospho-
rus. We do not here contend that a Russian army
in possession of Constantinople would enable the
CZAR to set the hostility of England and France
at defiance. To make sure of the ultimate downfall
of the power of the Porte in Europe, it would be
enough for Russia to rendir her visible and sole
protection of that power familiar to the Turks
themselves. Her main design at present is o
establish her influence at Constantinople—to tami-
liarize the Turkish populace with notions of her
'greatness, her friendship for the SULTAN, and her
invincibility. To do Oils effectually, she knows that
she must contrive to get there without the presence
of an English and French squadron in the Sea of
Marmora. It is not possible that designs so ob-
vious, so entirely consonant with the whole oriental
policy of Russia, can escape the vigilance of our
Noble Foreign Secretary. Lord PALMERSTON
knows right well that to commit the SULTAN to the
protection of NICHOLAS would be to commit the
lamb to the care of the wolf ; and we feel assured,
notwithstanding the rumours alluded to, that he will
not, on an occasion so important, lose sight of what
is due to the honour and interest of this countr

The Morning Post has, we perceive, after
taking due time for consideration, resolved that it
ought not to be satisfied with the statement lately
published by Sir JAMES CLARK. That state-
ment seems, in the opinion of all right-thinking per-
sons, to have set the question so indelicately, so in-
judiciously, and—with respect to Lady FLORA
HASTINGS—so unfeelingly agitated by the Morn-
in°. Post, at rest for ever. Of Sir JAMES
CLARK'S own conduct, to which it mainly relates,
it is also considered, on all hands, a most satisfac-
tory defence.
That the daily labours of our Contemporary for
so many months should have been thus rendered of
none effect, by a single stroke of Sir JAMES
CLARK'S pen, cannot be to him a subject of very',
pleasing contemplation. Still less agreeable, We`
apprehend, does he find the reflection that he must
in future be regarded in the light of a convicted
slanderer of the very worst description, namely,
the suborned instrument of other slanderers,
against whom there now lies a strong presump-
tion that they have fabricated written evidence,
and even tampered with the oaths of foreign menials,
to give the semblance of truth to their infamous
attacks upon the reputation of innocent and un-
offending persons. It is, we repeat, by no means
an enviable thing for a public Journalist to be
placed in such a position as this, and we are there-
fore not surprised that he should endeavour to re-
move some portion of that load of obloquy which he
has heaped upon his own head.

That the efforts of our Contemporary will be
confined within the bounds prescribed by truth
and justice, it would be idle to expect. He has
given too many proofs of late, of the readiness with
which he can set both at defiance, to leave any room
for the hope that he will in future be guided by their
dictates. Indeed the manner in which he has com-
menced his tardy operations against Sir JAMES
CLARK'S plain, truth-disclosing narrative, while it
indicates the little dependence he has for success on
the weapons he employs, shows also that in the use
of them he is bound by no scruples of conscience..
He devotes a whole column on Saturday last to tl'ic
task of examining the reason assigned by Sir
JAMES for not sooner noticing the calumnies whir h
he had circulated against him, and of pouring c 'tit
upon him the most unmeasured abuse. Yesten lay
and to-day he vainly occupies himself in nibbT ing
and carping at a sentence. here and there in the
statement ; but so far from Invalidating any pant of

it
it, he has given additional strength by the miser-
able feebleness of his word-catching criticism.
The reason of the delay with which he finds so
much fault, must appear to every unbiassed mind
completely satisfactory. The intercourse which takes
place between medical men and their patients,
particularly in such cases as that in question, is,
and ought to be, strictly confidential. No medical
man, therefore, is justified in removing the veil of
secrecy, from that intercourse, but under circum-
stances of the most pressing urgency. This Sir
JAMES CLARK felt, and as long as the calumnious
attacks to which he was subjected in the Post,
were " anonymous or unauthorised," he preferred
suffering all that such attacks could make him suffer
to repelling them by a disclosure, which might have
been construed into a violation of professional duty.
When, however, the statement of the Marquis of
HASTINGS appeared, the case was altered. Then,
not vague insinuations, but specific charges, were
made against him ;and these charges, sanctioned by
the authority of a man of high station, and the
nearest kinsman of Lady FLORA, he took the li-
berty of viewing in a different light from the anony-
mous scurrility of the Morning Post. He then
judged, and most people will think that he judged
rightly, that he was no longer bound in honour to
conceal the circumstances which had come to his
knowledge in his professional capacity, but the dis-
closure of which had become necessary to the vin-
dication of his professional character.
The Morning Post will not allow that there is
any truth or probability in this assertion of Sir
JAMES'S as to the cause of his delaying his justifi-
cation, calls him all the names it can cull from the
vocabulary of Billingsgate, and swears that his real
reason for not noticing sooner the accusations
'brought against him, was the consciousness that he
could not do so with safety while Lady FLORA
was alive ! We are not informed, however,
why Sir JAMES'S statement was not published im-
mediately after that Lady's death ? Why it should
have been delayed so long beyond that period,
our Contemporary does not condescend to tell us,
and here there seems to be a little gap in his logic.
The complacent conclusion at which he finally
arrives is, that not a word of Sir JAMES CLARK'S
statement is to be believed where it is not corrobo-
rated by other testimony ! Were this charitable
conclusion a sound one, there would remain, as we
shall probably take the trouble of showing, enough
to vindicate him, and more than enough to exhibit
some of the principal actors on the opposite side
neither in a very amiable nor very estimable point of
view. In the mean time we direct the attention of
our readers to a very able article on this subject
from our Northern Contemporary the Scotsman,
which will be found in another column.

In another part of the paper will be found an
interesting letter on the tyrannical system which
prevails near the Castle of Clumber. The Noble
owner boasts that he can and will do what he likes
with his own, but it appears that neither innkeepers
nor schoolmasters, nor even bellmen, are allowed the
same privilege at Worksop, and that a stranger who
could claim the liberty of speech to dispel ignorance
would, in the heart of England, be subjected
to Lynch law. Hdd Mr. PAULTON persisted in
addressing the crowd, he would to a certainty
have been treated as the slave-holding republicans
treat emancipators in Virginia and the Carolinas.
Could there be a better proof than this that the
landlords and their vassals are afraid that reason
would prevail, and that they see no chance of
preserving the monopoly except by brute force ?

The Augsburg Gazelle of the 9th inst. contains
a letter from Alexandria, dated the 16th ult., in
which MEHEMET ALI is represented as more
than ever resolved not to abate one jot of his pre-
tensions. The letter states that one of the
Pasha's couriers arrived on the 14th at Alexan-
dria from Constantinople, bringing letters to the
Viceroy from the SULTAN, the Sultana VALIDE,
the Grand Vizier CHOSREW, and HALIL PACIIA.
The two Ministers in their letters earnestly en-
treat the Viceroy to restore the fleet, and over-
whelm him with titles and compliments. • They
style him the father of the Turkish Empire,
faithful servant of Allah and the Prophet, sword
of Islamism, defender of the Caliph and the
Caliphate, whose patriotism will never permit the
dismemberment of the
Empire, which would in-
fallibly take place were he to persist in detain-
ing the Ottoman fleet at Alexandria. The
writer further states that the letters of the
SULTAN and his Mother satisfied MEHEMET
ALI that they both detested CHOSREW, his
old enemy, and convinced at last that the whole
Turkish Empire was in his favour, he sent off
couriers on the 16th with orders to IBRAHIM to
march at once upon Constantinople. IBRAHIM,
it was said, had issued proclamations setting forth
that he fought under the banners of the Prophet
to restore the glory of Islamism, and that all
Europe was consequently against him. The
Suabian Mercury, of the 10th, has a letter from
Trieste, which states that MEHEMET ALI
has succeeded in bringing over to his side
nearly all the Turkish Governors of the
Asiatic Provinces, and that the sudden appear-
ance of IBRAHIM at Constantinople was dreaded
by all classes of the people. Still it was rumoured
that they would rather see IBRAHIM in possession
of the Capital than owe their deliverance to the
presence of a combined British and French squa-
-dron in the basin of the Golden Horn. This is
not improbable, as the Moolahs, Imaums, and
Dervishes, fill the heads of an ignorant and fa-
natical people with the notion that the Government
forfeited the favour of Allah and the protection
of the Prophet by entering into alliances with the
Christians, and accepting favours from them.
Though MEHEMET ALI is at heart no more a
Mussulman than he is a Jew or an Arminian, lie
is too clever to peril his popularity by shocking the
prejudices of the least enlightened of the true
believers.

A letter from Tenedos of the 27th ult. states
that the Austrian Admiral had sent letters to Ad-
mirals LALANDE and STOPFORD, informing them
that he had received orders from his Government
to join them with his squadron, consisting of
two frigates, two corvettes, two brigs, and a
steamer, and to act in concert with them for the
settlement of the Eastern question. The same
letter states that Admiral LALANDE had received
orders by the Ranvier steamer to proceed to Con-
stantinople, and take some steps to induce the
Porte to allow the combined fleet to winter in the
Sea of Marmora.
This is the sum total of the news from the
East received this morning. We give the sub-
stance of it without comment, and without holding
ourselves responsible for its correctness.
The discontent of the Biscayan provinces is daily in-
creasing, In spite of the fueros, the preservation of which
his been guaranteed to them, Espartero appoints ayunta-
mientos chosen by himself, and (what perhaps causes
still more irritation) he declares all the ordinations made
by the Bishop of Leon to be null and void, so that the
exercise of the sacredotal functions is suspended in a great
tni.ny places. It would be difficult, says our correspondent,
to express the indignation which these violent measures
have excited among the inhabitants of Biscay and Na.
varre.

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The Madrid journals publish the most inconsistent ae-
, counts respecting the Count de Morella and the move-
ments of his army. Some pretend that he has entered
Catalonia to join the Count d'Espagne, and probably to
attempt with him some grand military operation. Others,
and these are doubtless the best informed, affirm that Ca-
brera is fortifying himself in Aragon, and that he has in-
spired his soldiers with extraordinary enthusiasm. This
last statement agrees with the accounts which we have
ourselves received and published. "—Gazette de France.
" TOULON, OCT. B.—lt is said that orders have been
given for the greater part of the men-of-war stationed on
the coasts of Spain to return to the port of Toulon, and
that they will be disarmed. The crews will be landed to

be incorporated in the division, and then embark on &;a-101
the ships of the line which are now fitting out. This
measure will make it possible to complete the crews of
these ships, two of which, the Alger and the Marengo,
are to be ready to put to sea at the end of the month. —Le
Commerce.

King LOUIS PHILIPPE, like a priicient father
of a large family, takes advantage of every favour-
able circumstance to settle his children comfortably
in the world, and we are therefore not surprised to
learn from the French journals received to-day, that
the settlement of the Spanish question has inspired
him with hopes of providing a Royal Consort for
one of the little Dukes at the Tuilleries. His first
move in this business was to unite his second son,
the Duke of NEmoun,s, with one of the daughters
of the Infante Don FRANCISCO DE PAULA ; but
though the QUEEN REGENT highly approved
of this alliance, the Commerce states that something
or other has happened to prevent it for the present.
Whether this disappointment will interfere with the
designs of the KING upon the hand of ISABELLA
the SECOND of Spain, we know not ; but judging
from experience we may be allowed to doubt the
benefit to a nation of matrimonial alliances, though
deemed of such importance by Sovereigns. The ties
of consanguinity rarely influence the policy of great
nations ; and a Prince who would wisely govern
his subjects would be stronger, and his friendship
more sought after, were he to choose a washer-
woman for his consort, than if he governed ill, and
could boast of matrimonial alliances with half the
great Potentates of Europe. Kings avoid a tot-
tering throne as expeditiously as rats run from a
falling house. Besides, family compacts and
alliances are very apt to beget jealousies among
other Powers, which more than neutralize their ad-
vantages even at the best. Of this truth the his-
tory of no country furnishes so many examples as
that of France.

The accounts from Madrid are of the 6th inst.,
but they are unimportant.

THE MARKETS-(THIS DAY.)
HUNGERFORD MARKET.
The supplies were equal to the demand, and prices steady.
Turbot, bs. to 30s. ; Cod, 2s. to 10s. ; Good Salmon. Is. 6d.
t• 2s. per lb. ; Lobsters, 10d. to 3s. Beef, 7d. ;o 80.;
Mutton, 70. to 80. ; Veal, id. to 9d. ; Pork, 7d. to 80.
per lb.

CITY FISH MARKET.
The supplies were fair, and the demand good; prices much
as last quoted. Turbot, Bs. to 30s. Good Salmon. Is. 6d. to
2s. per lb. Lobsters, lOd. to 3s. 6d. Oysters, 12s. to 40s.
per bushel. Whitings, 6d. to Is. ; and Haddocks, Is. to
2s. 6d.

HAYMARKETS.
The supplies were fair, and the demand brisk, rather than
otherwise; prices unaltered. Hay, 50s. to 955. ; Clover, 803.
to 120 s. Straw, 325. to 425. per load.
SPIRIT MARKET.
But little passing in any kind of Spirits. Proof Leewards
Rum is 3s. 7d. ; G.iod Jamaica ss. 6d. to 6s. ; Brandy 10s. to
ss. 6d. ; Geneva Is. 10d., and Britisl4 Corn Spirits rather
lower, the price being 10s. 2d.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.--(THIS DAY.)

DEAL, OCT. 14.—Wind S. S. W.—Arrived the Folk-
stern, Balls, from New Zealand ; Woodmanstern, Hind.
marsh, Mauritius; Countess Durham, Stowe, Newfound-
land; Report, Gibbons, Oporto; Dee, Westward. Ar-
rived from the River and sailed the Java, Duthee, for
South Australia; Hertsey, Lonsdale, Cape of Good
Hope; Halcyon, Lochlan, Jamaica; Egham, Finlay,
Gibraltar; Torn, Westward. Sailed the whole of the
outward bound, except the New York packet, for Monte
Video ; Laura, Algoa Bay.
PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 14.—Wind S.S. W.—Sailed the
Reliance, Howell, for Honduras ; Susan King, M'Larem,
St. Vincent's; St. Nicholas, Kradsdorff, Kamschatka.
PLYMOUTH, OCT. 14. —Wind S. S. W —Arrived the
Vulture steamer, from Cork, for London ; Hercules
steamer, from London, for Cork ; Devonshire steamer,
ditto, for Dublin.

FALMOUTH, Om 13. Wind S. S. W. to S. strong breezes.
—Arrived the Aquaforte, Cherburg, from Newfoundland,
with loss of foremast; Freedom, Cox, Meganissey,
Venice; Eliza Thomas, Asman, Swansea; Henry, ditto.
Put back, the Experiment, Christofferm, Pernambuco.
BRISTOL. Ocr. 14 —Arrived the Actif, from Nantes;
Betsey, Odessa. The Jane and Barbara, bound toOdessa,
was spoken 20th ult., about 100 miles east of Gibralter,
by the Betsy, arrived off Bristol.
GLOUCESTER, OCT. 14.—Arrived the Rosa, Bulwer,
from St. Petersburg ; Diligent, Bessock, Nantes; Vin-
cent, Vilet, Maranbaln

SWANSEA, OCT. 13. Arrived the Cockermouth,
Castle, from Cuba ; Melantho, ditto.
LIVERPOOL, OCT. 14.—Wind S., fresh.—Arrived the
Sheridan, De Peyston, from New York. Sailed the 4th
ult. the Camperlign, Pritchard, bound to New South
Wales, has put back leaky, with loss of foretopmast, &c.