The Sun.
London, England, 1830-06-24 00:00:00

" AFFAIRS OF GREECE.

" PARIS, JUNE 21.—The most recent letters from
Egina and Napoli di Romania (of the 30th of May,
and the Ist of June) acquaint us with the embarrass-
ing situation in which Greece has been, in passing
from a provisional Government, whose powers
elude its grasp, to the authority of a King elected
by England, whose delegate, and perhaps slave, he
must always have remained. This transitory situa-
tion stow ceases—Prince Leopold's refusal of due
crown offered to him is known by the Greeks,—
Count Capo (nodes has just informed the Senate
of it ; these official communications have satisfied
the impatience of the Greeks, and will be for some
days at least a happy diversion to the general dis-
content which divided the people, and a still more
happy suspension of the hostilities which were
breaking out in all quarters, and threatened tie.
country with a general convulsion. But will the
letters written from London to the President for
ever stifle the seeds of the insurrections to which
Greece is a prey ? Will the reign of the laws—the
pledge of public safety—revive in the Pelopon-
nest's ? Will the refusal of the Crown of Greece by
the son-in-law of George IV. calm the minds of all,
if this Crown is ()Riled to other Princes, and still
%vitty the same contempt of the Greek nation, which
is neither consulted nor heard ?
" 'The accounts which we have before us allow
us to doubt of it the more, as, in order to neutralize
the happy effect produced on public opinion by the
communications of Count Capo dlstrias to the
Greek Senate, the British agent has immediately
published the letters which inform him that the re-
fusal of Prince Leopold brings forward as candidates
for the Greek throne, Prince Frederick of the Ne-
therlands, a Prince of Bavaria, a Prince of Saxony,.
Prince Paul of Wurtembnrg, &c. The English
Cabinet, if we may believe those who represent it,
considers as one of the attributes of the sovereignty
which it exercises over the seas, and as a dependence
of the dominion which it has usurped over the
lonian Islands, the right to regulate the future state
of Greece, to direct its destiny, to fix the form of
government which it is to have, and to impose upon,
it, in spite of itself, if British interests require it. Its
this extraordinary mission the Cabinet of London
appears to join the two other Powers, but in fact it
is entirely ticeording to its suggestions that the pro-
tocols are drawn up, and in the end nothing is deter-
mined and stable but what it ratifies. If facts did
not support the ambitious pretensions of England„
they would be unperceived by Greece as by the rest
of Europe, which suffers the Cabinet of St. James's
to act, an.l remains inert end irresolute; but the
Cheeks, enlightened doubtless by their interests,
mark with uneasiness this odious tendency of the
policy of England, to maintain the status quo of bar-
barism in the Mediterranean, and to keep down all
the people who endeavour by a generous effort to
ameliorate their condition, and to break the yoke of
their oppressors.
" It is rumoured that the Minister of Mine has
just withdrawn from Mr. Guilhem the orates for
articles with which he was to supply the navy.