The Sun.
London, England, 1830-06-03 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF TIIE PUBLIC JOURNALS,.

Our readers are no doubt well aware that a cry
has been raised against Professor Mi!man's Ilistory
of the Jews contained in the Family Library, as it
the ingeblous and learned author, by endeavouring
to ottount for some of the miracles in the Old

Lament by natural means, did in effect disparage the
divine origin of that revelation, or dispute the truth
of the Miraculous interposition. Mr. Milman, in an
Appendix to the second edition of his work (we
dare say the criticisms of his adversaries will nev, r
see second editions), replies to the cavillers. Hr
cites a happy and appropriate passage from Paley on
the *abject ; but what is more to the purpose, with
reference to such theologians as those with whom
he condescends to reason, he shows, by contrast
and juxta-position, that his explanation of the mi-
Yacles in question is essentially the same as that
given by the editors of the Family Bible, published
under the auspices of the Society for Promoting
Christian Knowledge.—Times.
We have given in another part of our Paper a
number of communications on the subject of hydro-
phobia, containing suggestions for its prevention
after the bite of the rabid animal, or hints for what
we may call a system of dog-police, to protect the
public from canine attacks. It cannot be expected
that we ourselves should offer any medical opinion
tin the former, or decide on the practical merits of
the latter. Nor do we think that the present period
is precisely the fittest time for legislating on the sub-
ject. The panic created by somerecent instances
of the malady is, perhaps, too great and general to-
admit of that calm deliberation and dispassionate in-
quiry which ought to prepare the way for a judicious
and permanent measure. There can be no reason
to doubt the existence of this terrible snalady, and
if only one solitary case should occur in the course
of a season, we should still see ground for the most
vigilant precaution : but we are at the same time
convinced that the fears of the public have outrun
their dangers, and that their imagination has gone
*trd in cases where no mad dogs existed to bile
their persons. The subject is too important not to
deserve the most prompt inquiry—the evil is too
horrible not to warrant the greatest precaution against
it. but it should never be forgotten likewise, that

the sources of error are numerous, and the horrors
saf alarm may sometimes exasperate, if not produce
the. malady, and that dogs may be driven to madness
by that barbarous treatment which occasioned by
the suspicion of their being mad.--Times.
We are now arrived at the beginning of June, and
the financial measures of the Government, which
they have had the whole of the last autumn, winter,
and spring, to concoct and arrange, seem to be in as
ineomplete a state as if a change of Administration
`becitaken place, and a new set of Ministers had only
a few weeks to prepare and consolidate their mea-
sures. Witness the new Beer Bill, and that relative

to the Stamps ; in both which cases nothing so
exude and indefinite was ever presented to the Le-
gislature. In the first case—that of the Beer Bill
—the Chancellor of the Exchequer and his advisers
(if be consults any body) do not appear to have had
the least knowledge of what they were about ; and,
in the shape of a boon to the public by way of
remission in taxation, it is now doubted whether
the proposed measure would confer any. The
truth is that the details and probable COE-
sequences of the proposed measure do not ap-
pear to have been at all conceived or anticipated.
Nothing like the accuracy, wisdom, and foresight,
which ought to accompany official plans, is ob-
servable in this boasted project of the Finance Mini-
ster. It is now doubtful whether it must not be alto-
gether given up ; while a simple repeal of the whole
or part, of the Malt Tax, would have done that
which the repeal of the Beer Tax can never effect,
viz.., induce every man to brew a wholesome beverage
for his family at home, instead of holding out in
ducements to him to spend still more of his time and
substance than many do at present in the selfish

pleasures of the alehouse. Of the other measure,
the proposed Stamp Act, we have already spoken, as
we feel, in no very measured terms of condemnation.
No financial measure half so disingenuous as this
was ever attempted to be forced upon the Legisla-
ture and the public. Fornserly, whenever a Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer hail new taxes to propose,
he opened his views, whether right or wrong, in
full and explicit detail to the House; but here,
tinder colour of simplifying and arranging old taxes,
new ones arc substituted and imposed, some of which,
if submitted to by Parliament, will operate in the
most destructive way both as regards private and
public interests. We would allude particularly to
the new imposts meditated upon the Press in Ire-
land, which we are convinced will be greatly injured,
if not wholly crushed, should it be loaded, as is
now proposed, with the chains of fiscal oppression.
We are happy, however, to perceive that the people
of Ireland are stirring themselves upon the subject;
that petitions are flowing in in abundance against these
new imposts; and we trust that in this, and every
article of the new Stamp Duties' schedule in which
an increase has been surreptitiously intended, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer and his obedient ma-
jorities will he compelled to give way. At the same
time we must observe that no measure, however
unjust, with regard to the Irish Press, or any other
Irish subject, can excite our surprise, when we take
into account the exceedingly inefficient, if not dere-
lict state of the Irish reresentation. There are not
above three or four men of the least consideration
of intellect, or attention to business, among the
hundred Members who are appointed to watch over
the interests of that country ; and those who are
active are, for the most part, only distinguished for
their sycophancy and place-hunting accomplish-
ments.—Morning herald.
In the Courier of last night there is an article on
the subject of Prince Leopold's resignation of the
sovereignty of Greece, in which abuse is heaped
on his Royal Highness with an unsparing hand.
When the accusations, however, are analysed, they
amount to no more than that his Royal Highness
ought to have acted like a madman—have rushed
with his eyes open into the midst of dangers, from
which no degree of prudence or fortitude could
extricate him. " Had the Prince been of the right
kingly ore which the founders of States are made
of, he would have seen in all the difficulties of the
Greeks but bright incentives to emulation and
glory." The Ex-King of Sweden, Colonel Gus-
tafson, who DO royally disdained all calculation of
obstacles, and whose heroism: was: so extolled by
Wordsworth, would have been just the man for our
contemporary. He would have seeu in all the dif-
ficulties of the Greeks but bright incentives to
emulation and glory; and have confidently entered
on his task of civilizing and regenerating the Greeks,
by aiding the Turks in expelling them from their
homes. Leopold must have had a strange itch for
sovereignty to have rushed on such a Quixotic
business. There may be individuals "of the right
kingly ore," whose circumstances may recommend
to them the task which Leopold has declined ; and
it would be unfair to charge them with want of
prudence, because what is prudent in one may
not be prudent in another. This, however, is
pretty clear, that the man who undertakes the so •
vereignty of Greece, under the conditions pre-
, scribed by the Allies, may benefit himself, but he
will never benefit the Greeks.
" It is of the utmost consequence (says our contem-
porary) that the facts of the case shonld be distinctly
borne in mind, and that it should not, even for a momeat,
he supposed that the reasons which the Prince assigns fur
shrinking from the honours and high trusts he had so-
licited, ean be regarded as valid, or can be considered as
affording
a satisfactory explanation of his extraordinary
decision. It is not in the Greek Papers that we are to
look for the explanation ; it is, we fear, in circumstances
nearer home; but his Royal Highness imperfectly appre-
ciates the national character, if he has fallen iato the
error of imagining that the sordid virtue of such pru-
dence as he has practised will enhauce his merits with the
British public."
They who put Prince Leopold on his defence for
not attempting impossibilities would do well to af-
ford a justification of their own conduct, in depait-

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ing from the boundaries assigned to Greeco in the
Protocol of the 22d March, which has caused all the
-difficulty. In the Annex A to the Protocol of the
22d March, being a Memorandum of the Plenipo-
tentiary of France, the most cogent reasons are
given for the line subsequently departed from.
" This line of frontier (it is observed), which, taking
its departure from the Gulph of Volo, follows the summit
of the range of Mount Othryx as far as the Pindus, from
whence it descends to the Gulph of Arta, comprises an ex-
tent of only 55 leagues. It separates two portions of po-
pulation, of which the one has already submitted to tht
Porte for the last four years, while the other has never
ceased to be, and still continues, engaged in insurrection ;
and between which, moreover, the difficulty of communi-
cation has prevented the establishment of much inter-
course. It is intersected by eight principal defiles, btu
not one of the roads through these defiles is passable fot
carriages,
. . . _ .

" 1t is natural that both these portions of people thus
separated should wish to find in this line of frostier the
means of defence ; but if the Turks have reason to appre-
hend invasions which the inclinations of a people who
continue subject to them might possibly encourage, the
Greeks have even still more to fear. The nature of the
Turkish Government is well known : the Supreme and
Central Power resident at Constantinople is, in ordinary
cases, a tolerably honest and faithful observer of Treaties
in its general intercourse with Foreign States ; hut some
of the military chiefs nevertheless permit themselves to
make incursions into the neighbouring territories on their
own account, and at their own risk and peril.
"If the fontiers of so powerful a State as Austria have
often suffered from irregularities of the kind, how much
more reason is there to fear it for a weak province, with-
out any natural defence, and but just withdrawn from un-
der the dominion o‘ the Sultan ; for a province, too,
from which Alnssuliscans will be banished, after having
been dispossessed of the property which they possessed in
it ? It may be added, that by a natural effect of the in-
clinations and customs of the Albanians, the Porte will
always have the power, without the necessity of regular
armies, by the distabution of a few millicms of piastres,
to let loose upon Greece this population always ready for
war and plunder."
" In this respect, therefore, both parties will find advan-
tages almost equally balanced in a mountainous frontier,
Partially opened only by some defiles, easy to he defended,
by means of small forts costing little to be built or main-
tained.

" If the Turks on their side had not such advantageous
positions as those of Zeitonni, Coraco, and Macrinoros,
which would fall to the lot of the Greeks, they would find
compensation for these advantages on the west in the pos-
session of the upper valley of the Aspropotarnos ; while,
on the eastern part of their territory, the vast plains of
Th-ssaly, which stretch from the very mouth of the de-
files, would present to the Greeks fields of battle in which
their infantry could not risk themselves against the aume-
rous cavalry of the Turks.
" The advantages presented by the housdary which ex-
tends fromithe Gulph of Arta to that ofyulo, would by no
means be found in the adoption of the plan which would
inclose Greece within the limits of the territory provi-
sionally guaranteed by the Protocol of the 16th of Novem-
ber. By the adoption of so limited a frontier, nothing
would have been done for the safety of the Greeks, for
the tranquillity of the world, and for the security of mari-
time commerce. This is easy of demonstration.

" From the two castles which command the Gulph of
Lepanto, and which are separated by a narrow arm of the
sea—from the two banks of this narrow gulpb, the Greek
and Turkish populations would constantly be in sight of
one another.

" The Turks, masters of the best anchorages of most
of the parts of the Gulp'', with the advantage of the
winds, which almost constantly blow from the north to
the south, would have the power of attempting at any
moment a descent upon the Morea.
" The unwarlike population of that country would with
difficulty offer any resistance to the Turks, the Albanians,
or even the Roumeliots.
" The continual dread of invasion would force the
Greek Government to keep on foot a permanent army,
which would exhaust the country, and would keep alive,
together with military habits, those barbarous customs and
that spirit of piracy, which has in a great measure ren-
dered necessary the intervention of the Powers.

" This same dread of invasion would disincline the
population from employing itself in the pursuits of agri-
culture and industry, by tl.e fruits of which they would
feel that they were only exciting the cupickty of the Turks
and Albanians. Instead of haying secured peace to a
laborious and peaceable people;-- we should make of the
Morea a scene of perpetual war, and a nursery for pirates.
" The tranquillity of the country situated to the north
of the Gulph of Lepanto would be scarcely better
guaranteed. The inhabitants of it have taken a very
active part in the insurrection ; a great number of them
are eroployed among the Gre::k troops ; others have sought
refuge in the Islands. The restriction of Greece to the
territory of the Mores would thus force a great number of
Roumeliots to abandon their properties. They are too far
compromised to hope for safety under the Turks ; and the
180,000 Christians who still occupy the territory which
stretches from the Morea to the Gulplis of Arts and Volo
sacrificed to 7,000 or 8,000 Turks, who alone survived
the calamities of the war, would bear with impatience the
yoke imposed upon them, and would constantly renew a
struggle which would call afresh for the intervention of
the Powers, by causing disorder and the effusion of human
blood."

These arguments are irresistible. It is clear that
France has done her duty to the Greeks; but why
has Lord Aberdeen, with such a noble example be-
fore him, lent himself to the sordid policy of crip-
pling Greece ? The best answer to the charge
against Prince Leopold, for not consenting to sacri-
fice his reputation by an acceptance of a Sovereignty
on terms so ruinous to the Greeks, is to be found in
the arguments of the Plenipotentiaries themselves.
Let Lord Aberdeen answer the French Plenipoten-
tiary. On the 3d of February, 1830, these Pleni-
potentiariet; declare in their Protocol, section 2, that
to defer to the desire which the Porte has ex-
pressed to obtain the restriction of the frontiers
fixed by the Protocol of the 22d of March, the line
of demarcation of the limits of Greece shall com-
mence from the mouth of the river Aspropotamos,"
&c. It might have been very well to oblige the
Turks in matters of secondary importance ; bnt it is
shown by the French Plenipotentiary, and is stated
by General Church, that this change would convert
the Greeks into a horde of pirates. If Prince
Leopold bad lent himself to the plans of the Allies,
he would have been unfit for the Sovereignty. The
object of a Sovereign ought to be the good of his
people; but by accepting the Sovereignty of Greece
he would hare been lending himself to a base
scheme for destroying that country. He has de-
served well of the Greeks for refusing the proffered
honour; and he will be a bold man who, if he have
any character, consents to place it in jeopardy by
accepting what Leopold has so properly rejected.
After what has taken place, it is impossible that
any decent successor can be found. It will be ne-
cessary for the Plenipotentiaries to retrace their
steps ; and the Greeks will owe to the manly con-
duct of Leopold what they would never otherwise
have obtained from the cold-blooded school who
were so ready to sacrifice them. We repeat it, no
man, with any regard for character, will consent to
become the executioner of the Greeks, and to iden-
tify himself with the annihilation of the hopes of the
people.—Morning Chronicle.
Whatever may be the ultimate result of the ap-
proaching conflict between the Ministry and the Op-
position, on the subject of die various negociations
respecting Greece, we think that there are two
points on which no contrariety of honest opinion
can be fairly entertained—we mean, first, that in so
far as Prince Leopold is concerned, the conduct of
the Ministry is blameless in every respect, except
in that of selecting an individual to fill the high sta-
tion of Sovereign of Greece, who had neither the
energy nor the disinterestedness necessary to do it
justice—and, secondly, that however a portion of
the inhabitants of Greece may feel aggrieved at
being excluded from the new Greek state, Greece
has, on the whole, the greatest reason to be grateful.
With regard to the first point, it would be a waste
of words to add any thing to what we have observed
on former occasions. Nothing could exceed the
silliness of the Prince's conduct in giving ear to the
interested reports of Count Capo d'lstrias, if they
really constituted any part of the ground of his
final objection to proceed to Greece; and if they
did not, it would be nearly as difficult to mark the
dishonour of the whole proceeding. The subject
is altogether one, in fact, of which the Prince's ene-
mies, if he have any, might make an excellent handle,
and with which his friends, if they be wise, ought

o have nothing to do. With respect again to the 1
people of Greece, it must be quite evident to
-very one, that they have got, through the aid
,f the Allies, more than they could ever have
ichieved for themselves, and that if they have no
got all that they wished, they have at all events
got quite enough to make them satisfied, if not also,
grateful. Where would they have been if the Allies
had not interfered in their behalf ?—one-half, we
presume, sacr,ficed by the army of Ibrahim Poch—
the other half slaves to the Sublime Porte ; and is
it not, in consequence, better that the whole popu-
lation should have been saved, and an immense por-
tion of territory guaranteed as independent ? The first
idea of the Allies, in agreeing to a treaty for the pa-
cification of Greece, was, that no portion of it
should be independent—that it should be sub-
ject to a tribute—and that it should bold of the
Sultan as Sovereign. Now instead of the good
offices of the Allies being confined to these narrow
limits, they have gone the length not only of doing
away altogether with tribute, but with sovereignty
also, on the part of the Porte—they have, in fact,
erected Greece into an independent State, with a
very trifling exception, which is very amply made
up by concessions in other quarters. To conclude,
there are only two things necessary for the paeificl-
tion and future prosperity of Greece. The fist is
the expulsion of Count Capo d'lstrias, who is evi-
dently not only the creature of Russia, and devoted
to Russian interests, but the source of all mischief
in Greece; and, secondly, the appointment of a
sovereign anxious for the dignity, and enthusiastic
and determined to promote the peace and prospe-
rity of the country. Let there things he well
looked after, and the land of heroes, of literature,
and of science, will again be restored to the com-
munity of European nations.—Morning Advertiacr.

FIGHT BETWEEN BYRNE AND :lI‘KAY,
FOR TWO HUNDRED POUNDS A-SIDE.

The grand match between the Scotch and Irish Cham-
pions, Simon Byrne and Sandy 11PICay, took place yes-
terday, within two miles of the village of Hanslope, on the
borders of Northamptonshire, and within about sixty miles
of London. The combatants in this instance are well
known among the patrons of pugilism, and were once be-
fore pitted against each other, when Byrne was •declared
the victor. M'Kay having subsequently gained both ex-
perience and fame by his defeat of Paul Spencer, his
northern friends determined to give him another chance,
and hence the new match, in which lie was backed by
swells of the first water. By way of rendering success
more certain, he was placed under the superintendence of
the celebrated Captain Berclay, whose training of Tom
Crib for his mid with Molyneaux, the Black, stands dis-
tinguished in the annals of athletic exercises. A mere
judicious choice could not have been nea.le, and more espe-
cially as the Captain had the stimulus of national pride to
urge him to devote his best attention to his man. In all
the severity of labour to which M'Kay was exposed, we
understand he was studiously attentive to the maxims of
his patron ; and, in truth, as far as condition went, it
was impossible for him to Lave been better. Simon
Byrne was also backed by gentlemen of rank and respec-
tability, among whom a little national pride was also pre-
dominant. He trained under the auspices of his old
friend Tom Reynolds, principally at Brighton, and, up to
last Friday three weeks, was in tip-top order. Unfortu-
nately on that day, however, he sprained his ancle while
pl lying at ball, and, for some time, was unable to take
any exercise whatever. Such was his confidence in him-
self, notwithstanding this accident, that be persisted in
making his final deposit ; and his friends in general were
kept in ignorance of a fact which would, no doubt, have
shaken their faith in his powers. Subsequent to this he
caught a cold, which rendered it necessary to*apply a
plaister to his chest ; and with these crts tdvantages he had
to grapple till the eve of battle, when, although any thing
hut what he ought to be, he maintained his customary
flow of spirits.
The nomination of the place of fighting was left to a
gentleman long respected in the Ring, and as it was to be
within a hundred and fifty miles of London, he selected
the place which we have described, as being convenient to
the principal backers of both men. Towards this spot
M'Kay moved last week from Ury, N. B. (the seat of
Captain Barclay),under the care ofag!orge Cooper—en
his road meeting with a warm reception, and by his ad-
mirable condition and personal confidence exciting a strung
prejudice in his favour. Byrne in the same way gradually,
approached the scene of actorn—reaching London on Sa-
turday, and on Monday setting off for Hockliffe, where
he stopped for the night at the Star Inn. So close was
the secret of the place of fighting kept, that only a select
few were acquainted with it on Monday, and on Tuesday,
when it became more generally known, the distance de-
terred the general body of the fancy from encountering the
hazard of the trip. The necessary engagements of the
sporting circles in settling their Epsom accounts also pre-
vented many from joining in the throng, so that the meet-
ing, upon the whole, was rather select.
Yesterday morning found the men at their respective
head quarters—Simon Byrne at the Cock, at Stoney
Stratford, and M'Kay at the Watt's Arms, flanelope,
trot!) places in the county of Buckingham. They were
surrounded by their admirers, and were in high spirits,
though the judges who saw Byrne were fereed to admit
that he was anything but up to the mark, while M'Kay
was pronounced as fine as a star.
The place first named for the contest was Salcey-forest,
close to the estate of the Duke of Grafton, and upon the
Crown lands—both, it would seem, sacred grounds; for
the " office" having been given by some chance to his
Grace, his son, Lord Euston, sent an intimation to Bow-
street, with a request that an officer might be sent down
to prevent a trespass either upon the one or the other ;
and, in compliance with this request Ledbitter was de_
spatched to assist the Steward of the Crown lands in se-
curing obedience to his Lordship's wishes. No directions,
however, were given to " stop the fight," or to interfere
with " the sports of the people," Ledbitter and the steward,
assisted by local constables, were at their post at an early
hour ; and having pointed out the boundaries of the juris-
diction over which they presided, the Commissary took
especial care to pay obedience to the ruling authorities,
and to pitch his stakes on unexceptionable ground.
All now looked well for the fun, and the crowd began
to thicken in Hanslope, where Byrne arrived at eleven
o'clock, taking up his temporary abode at the Green Man,
Shortly after this hour a rumour was circulated that
officers were in attendance from Newport Pagnell, with a
warrant to apprehend 111‘Kay--a rumour which proved
but too well founded, and these worthy " traps" actually
took possession of the passage of the Watt's Arms, with
the intention of grabbing poor Sandy on his way to the
field of battle. This, of course, threw a damp on the
spirits of the throng ; bat all waited with patience till the
arrival of the Scotsman's backers, whose Corinthian in-
fluence, it was thought, would make " all right." In
the interim, Byrne, to avoid similar kind intentions, was
conducted by his friends, along a back road, to the ap-
pointed spot in safety, where he awaited the approach of
his antagonist. •
At twelve o'clock the expected " Nobs" reached the
Watt's Arms, and were as much surprised as mortified at
the threatened interruption. Their eloquence was, of
course, exercised to " stall off" the traps; but it was all
is vain, these gentlemen had their instructions, and ex-
pressed their determination to perform their duty. As it
was known that the power of these inexorables did not
extend beyond the county of Bucks, it now became a ques-
tion for consultation how their vigilance was to be defeated
so as to get M'Kay into Northamptonshire ; and after due
arrangement the following ruse was practised :—A stran-
ger was dressed up in a Scotch cap and rough coat, with
instructions to make a rush through the phalanx of officers,
and thus occupy their attention, while the real " Simon
Pure" bolted through a back window, down a ladder into
an adjoining meadow, and then to a post-chaise at a little
distance, in which he was borne from pursuit. This mas-
terly move was admirably effected throughout, and thereby
the Caledonian and his friends reached the ring without
further interruption, having no longer the fear of the beaks
before their eyes.
The hour of one had now nearly arrived, and M'Kay,
accompanied by Captain Barclay and George Cooper, ap-
proached the arena, into whieh
M'Kay flung a broad
Highland cap, ornamented with an eagle's feather, which
had adorned his pericraniuna. Simon Byrne at the same
moment threw in his castor from the opposite side, and
both on entering the ring shook hands with great good
humour, M'Kay again mounting his cap with conscious
pride, and no small self consequence.
The seconds and bottle-holders now busied themselves in
preparing their principals for action. Tom Reynolds and
Reuben Marten for Byrne; and Tom Cribb and George
Cooper for M'Kay. The moment the men were stripped,
their disproportion in point of size was visible to the spec-
tators. M'Kay, although not above five feet ten in height,
exhibited a frame of the most gigantic dimensions. His
weight was allowed to be fourteen stone ten pounds, while
his bone and muscle seemed, like those of Atlas, sufficient
to bear the globe, itself. His legs and arms were of pro-

ligious hulk, and his hands looked like .a pair of sledge
hammers. His chest was expansive, while his shoulders
ore a hump like that of a dromedary, although not quite
-o protrusive. In his countenance there was a hroSd cast
of Scotch humour, which, however, was intermingled
with a fierceness of aspect rendered more imposing by
livers deep scars and gashes, the effects of former rencon-
tres in the Ring, some of which had been kindly adminis-
tered by Byrne in their first battle. From his demeanour,
victory was already in his grasp; and such was the effect
produced by his appearance, that the friends of Byrne
seermd to be almost paralysed, and those who would pre-
viously have betted 5 and 6 to 4 on their favourite, now
became silent. Little betting took place, and this little
at even. This state of doubt was farther confirmed by
the unpromising features of Byrne, whose countenance
was pale and somewhat agitated, whose weight was scarcely
13 stone, and the colour of whose flesh wanted that clear-
[MSS and freshness which are the true indications of good
training. Little time was left for these comparisons before
.he seconds tossed for choice of position, and Reynolds
was the winner. The Ring was then well beaten out;
and, two Umpires and a Referee having been chosen, ope-
rations commenced.