The Sun.
London, England, 1839-11-06 00:00:00

ENGLAND AND GREECE.

(From the Morning Herald.)
Not having observed any allusion in the English
papers, or any foreign journal, except the Augsburg
Gazelle, to the present state of relations between Eng-
land and Greece, I think it right that it should be
known, as generally as possible, that Greece has refused
to give the satisfaction demanded by the British Go-
vernment for the atrocious wrongs and insults inflicted
upon British subjects by Greek functionaries. Five
months have this day passed since King Otho addressed
a circular to the Cabinets of Europe, which concludes
in the following manner :
" Notwithstanding the state of facts set forth in the
above exposition, and notwithstanding the explanations
given to Mr. Lyons up to the 22d of March, upon all
the various affairs respecting which he had thought
proper to make remonstrances, this minister, never-
theless, has finally addressed to the department of foreign
affairs a note in form of ULTIMATUM, dated 12th April,
1839. He received, on the 22d and 27th of April, an
explicit and definitive answer on the part of the Greek
Government, relative to the demands of England for the
immediate arid direct payment of the interest and sink-
ing fund of the loan guaranteed for Greece by the three
powirs, • 'and as to the demands of the British Cabinet on
the subject of lonian affairs, the definitive answer which
the Greek Government has thought proper to give to
Monsieur Lyons, bears date the 10th of May."
From that time to this hour the might of England
has been defied by this contemptible State, and her just
demands treated with insolent refusal. Europe is in-
formed in a State paper, which for wilful perversion of
truth is without parallel or example, that the demands
of the British Cabinet have been definitively rejected by
the Greek Government. How much longer is this in-
dignity to be patiently endured ? Will Englishmen
look on tamely while their countrymen pine to death
in loathsome dungeons, to which, in violation of all
law and justice, they have been consigned at the
capricious will of some upstart functionary, who
hopes to gain favour with his superiors by heap-
ing wrong upon British subjects? And will Englishmen
submit to see the demands of their Sovereign for redress
scornfully rejected P Gratitude it is hopeless to expect
from the despicable Government which England has
helped to impose upon this miserable country, a Go-
vernment which has violated every pledge given in its
name to the Greek nation by the Allied Powers, and
every engagement which it contracted with themselves

—a Government impotent for all but evil--dead to
all sense of shame—making a jest of public faith,
the sacredness of treaties, and the rights of humanity.
But if it is impossible to hope that such a Go-
vernment can be induced by arguments and friendly
representations to act according to the principles
which regulate the conduct of civilised societies,
it must be taught by a severer mode that it cannot be
permitted to violate these principles with impunity ; it
must be made to feel, that the power which was chiefly
instrumental in calling it into existence, can annihilate
it with equal facility, if it be found to have produced
evil instead of good, and therefore not to have answered
the purpose of its creation. It is true that a kind and
generous nature will leave the meanest creature undis-
turbed to exercise the functions and indulge the pro-
pensities natural to its state ; but when such reptiles
become offensive, there is but one way of dealing with
them—they must be crushed.
Athens, Oct. 10, 1839.

The consequences of the derangement of the
paper bubble are, that, at this moment, and for more
than two weeks past, from 500 to 1,000 weavers are
out. of employment in Paisley. Those who are obtain-
ing employment are getting only inferior work, and the
accounts from every merchant are of so gloomy a na-
ture, as to give no other prospect but of that state of
things going on for a time to come, still making worse.—
Paisley Reformer.
LAMENTABLE ACCIDENT.—On Mondayafter-
noon an inquest was held before Mr. Payne, at the
Steelyard Coffee-house, Upper Thames-street, touching
the death of Israel Dawson, aged 33, whose body was
picked up in the Thames. It appeared that the de-
ceased had been many years clerk to Mr. Rhodes, soli-
citor, at Rochdale, Lancashire, and on Thursday had
come to London to manage some business affairs. On
Friday and on Saturday, up to one o'clock in the after-
noon, he was under examination at the Exchequer
Court, after which he went to view the Tower, and at
half-past twelve o'clock at night his body was found
alongside a barge off Steelyard Wharf. On his person
were found five sovereigns and ten shillings. He had
no doubt got into the water from accident. Verdict—
" Pound drowned."