The Sun.
London, England, 1830-06-02 00:00:00

was taken down, while-yet in an evident state of
sensibility. ne was then disembowelled; and
the heart, wrung from its place, was committed
to the flames in his presence. During this
dreadful process, his eyes still continued to
linger on the Psalter, till, overpowered by his
sufferings, he expired among their hands with
all that passive heroism which may be supposed
to belong to so elevated a character. The body
was afterwards dismembered ; the, head fixed on
London-bridge, the right arm on the bridge of
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, the left at Berwick, the
right leg at Perth, and the left at Aberdeen.—
Constable's Miscellany, Vol. LIV., Life of
Sir William lirallace.

THE GREEK NEGOCIATIONS.

(From the Times.)

The settlement of the Greek question, and
the establishment of Greek independence (if the
former be finally settled, and the latter finally
established) have cost Greece nine years of war,
and Europe three years of diplomacy, and have
been more expensive in lives and protocols than
any similar revolt of modern times. The docu-
ments which have been submitted to Parliament
contain the most important points of the nego-
tiations which have taken place on Greek affairs
since the 6th of July, 1827, to the end of April
last. Those which contain the most recent in-
formation we have already published, and the re-
sult is generally known. But as a great portion
of these papers contain facts or incidents of per-
manent interest, ore shall make no apology for
reverting to some of an older date.
As soon as the treaty of the 6th of July,
1827, was concluded, copies of it, along with
instructions for carrying it into execution, were
sent to the naval commanders of England and
France in the Mediterranean, and to the Am-
bassadors of the three Powers at Constantinople.
The Allied Admirals contrived, even amid the
anarchy which at that time prevailed in Greece,
to obtain from an authority called (by courtesy)
a Government, a consent to the terms of the
Treaty. The Greek population, whom the
Turk« and Egyptians had threatened to exter-
minate, were the party to be chiefly benefited by
the armistice which this treaty imposed, and the
final pacification to which it was intended to
lead. Still, so jealous were the Greek Chiefs
of each other, so little were they alive to their
common danger, and so ill prepared for that
system of order which was to follow the establish-
ment of peace, that the proposition of the Allies
was coldly received by some, and all but opposed
by others. This fact is stated and proved in au
excellent letter of Admiral de Rigny to the
French Ambassador at Constantinople, dated
August 19 :
" Some Roumeliots," says the Admiral, " both
in and out of the assemblies, certainly intend to
withhold their assent ; they think that because their
prospect of being included within the boundaries is
uncertain, they have little risk to run by opposition ;
and besides their habits and their tastes lean more to
the present state of thins, because, as well in their
own country as in the IN ores, it is by this very state
of things that they live.
" Coletti, one of the members of the preceding
Government, Grivas, Tzavellas, the Suliotes and the
Roumeliots, already form this opposition. In order
to resist it, it will be necessary to assemble the de-
puties of the islands, and it is for the sake of more
readily bringing them over that it has been decided
to transfer the Government to tEgina, where it will
not be in the presence of Grivas, who has not as
yet chosen to quit the citadel of the Palamede.
Ipsilanti and Doctor Bailly left Napoli some time
since' and are, I think, at Syra.
" Some military and naval commanders, to whom
an authority almost independent of the Government
has been granted, may also, either by their personal
position or by their being foreigners, as well as by
the private assistance they receive from abroad,
create other difficulties, in addition to those of which
I have just spoken.
" We cannot well rely upon the existing Govern-
ment for overcoming these difficulties ; they have no
effective force, and can possess no other moral force
than that which, in the minds of the wearied Greek
population, they will derive from our communications
with them ; and the effect cannot be so immediate
that we can as yet talk of it."
The gallant Admiral afterwards adds—
" I do not think it possible that you can have an
exact idea of what these people are. One must
serve them in spite of themselves. It is necessary,
too, I repeat, to leave to some of them, whose life
depends on warfare, some corner to carry it on
without bad consequences, and without obliging us
to go to set matters to rights. On other occasions
lines of neutrality have been drawn. I think that
in this case some such neutral ground must be left,
where they may come into collision with the Turks
as they please."
He, however, explains the origin of this aver-
sion to peace, and shows that it did not charac-
terise the body of the people, who earnestly de-
sired repose.
" I think," says he, " that the mass of the pol
pulation, if they could be consulted by some other
intervention than that of the Greek chiefs them-
selves, mould gladly accept any arrangement what-
ever. Ask the unhappy inhabitants of the Morea
—harassed, despoiled, and plundered alternately by
the Turks and the Palicari ! Ask the islands of
the Archipelago, in every one of which a band of
land and sea pirates gives the law /. Examine what
is passing at Syra, at Tyros, at Naxos, at Paros,
at Milo, where bands of andiots, of Caxiote,
of Sphactiots, come and establish themselves as
rulers, and leave nothing to the inhabitants—some-
times not even the liberty of complaining."
The treaty was nevertheless finally accepted
by the Greeks, and a declaration issued by the
Greek Government, ordering its arrangements to
be observed. At Constantinople the result was
different. Neither the Sultan nor his Minister
would listen for a moment to any proposition of
interference between them and the Greeks, nor
attend to any demand of an armistice.
The three Dragomans of the Allied Ambas-
sadors were ordered to wait upon the Reis
Effendi with the protocol of London, dated July
12, together with a declaration on the subject
of the treaty, and the first of the following
series of papers contains the result of their in-
terview. His Turkish Excellency seemed to
be quite aware on what mission the interpreters
came, though he pretended ignorance of the
whole matter, and showed as much reluctance to
receive their message as an unwilling witness to
receive a summons to appear in Court.
When the Dragomans had a meeting with
the Reis Effendi on the 30th of August, they
found him still more decided against listening to
any proposition respecting Greece, or any claim
of mediation on the part of the Allies. The
questions which his Excellency put respecting
the means and measures of enforcing the treaty,
should the Porte prove refractory, are extremely
pertinent, and must have appeared not a little
puzzling to the Ambassadors. flow to sup-
port the Greeks, whom the Turk called rebel-
lious subjects, without opposing the Turks,—
how to be friends of the Sultan at Constanti-
nople, and his enemies on the coasts of the
Morea,—how to employ three squadrons to pre-
vent the Porte from sending reinforcements to
resubjugate an, insurgent territory, without inter-