The Sun.
London, England, 1853-10-25 00:00:00

THE-SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 25, 1853.

implore my countrymen to withdraw for a time
their attention from Turkey and fix it nearer home,
and to endeavour to escape from the embroilment
of futile and blind negotiations in which they have
been artfully involved, in order that they may
apprehend coming events. There is yet time for
safety, would they but reflect. They have seen,
they have judged, they ought to know, by what
has happened in Turkey, what their Ministers are,
and, unless they seize this time to arrest them,
Europe will speedily be plunged in barbarism.
There is no danger if England withdraws her
emissaries.

There is no danger if Turkey refuse to listen to
their counsels.

There will be no war in Europe, no revolutions,
and no partitions if you leave the Turks and the
Russians alone.

There Will be no war in Turkey if you suffer the.
Porte to maintain her declaration of war.
If Russia had purposed that war, of which she
has made herself believed in Europe so capable and
desirous, the event would have occurred, as on former
occasions, before youwere apprised of herintentions.
She has neither the purpose nor the power to make
that war. She is at present risking everything from
the necessities of her position, and in reliance on
her command over the Cabinets of Europe, and
especially on the composition of that of England.
The occupation of the principalities is profitable
to her, as exhausting their resources, and driving
back the corn trade into her own territory. It is
necessary to her for operating upon Austria and
Turkey, when these empires have been internally
convulsed. But that convulsion will depend upon
her imposing upon Turkey a state of peace, and on
that of Austria one of co-operation. In all other
respects it is ruinous. In 1828 and 1829 she lost
there, almost entirely from the climate, 150,000
men, and 50,000 horses.
The right bank of the Danube is healthy, the
Turks suffer from no miasma. She is further ex-
posed to a danger of the greatest magnitude, of
desertion. This is no longer an anticipation of
mine, it has already been proved by results ; we
have learnt by the public news of repeated execu-
tions for unsuccessful attempts, but this has not
sufficed to stop the evil, and she has had to with-
draw her cavalry, which was composed of Malo-Rus-
sians, from the neighbourhood of the Turks, and to
replace them by the dull tribe of serfs who compose
her infantry regiments. The Turks, by the state of
war, recovering their freedom of action, her commu-
nications by sea are imperilled, and, unable by the
local circumstances and defences, and the strength of
the Turkish army to make any impression upon Bul-
geria, she would be confined to sitting in inaction
in the Principalities. The Turks might quietly
now disband their forces, re-assembling them for
the spring. Diplomacy apart, as far as the Porte
is concerned, this state of things might endure for
years, without sacrifice or danger. Russia, if she
persisted, would only see her forces, whatever their
amount, melt away while the Turks sat and ob-
served them from their entrenched camps along
the banks of the Danube. Meanwhile Georgia
would be escaping from her hands, and an invasion
threatening along the Terek and the Cuban.
I conclude with pointing to another great and
determining motive for raising a commotion in the
East, and that is, to call public attention away
from the diplomatic proceedings by which, again
through the instrumentality of England, she has
secured the succession of Denmark, and the virtual
possession of the South.

- Besides the points to which I have adverted,
there is at stake the food of Europe, the dominion
of India, and the commerce of the North, the
South, and the East ; all to be saved by recalling
your squadrons and ambassadors—all to be sacri-
ficed by " sympathy with Turkey" and toiling to
preserve the " peace of Europe," that is to say, by
continuing to suffer squadrons to navigate and
ambassadors to write.—l remain, sir, your obedt.
servant, D. URQ UHART.
Oct. 21.