The Sun.
London, England, 1822-08-26 00:00:00

THE MARKETS.

• CORN EXCHANGE, Ana.
The supply of fresh. Wheat this morning was not great, in • .
consequence o. which that of good quality was acid on full
as good prices as this day week ; very little was doing irc Old
Wheat, and the price may be quoted •nominal. In Oats the
trade was dull with a fall of Is. a 2s. _Barley is ie per gr..dearer.

•
AVERAGE PR/CE OP CORNIN ENGLAND AND WALES.
Wheat, 435. 3d- ; Barley, 19s. ld. ; Oats, Ms. Od. ; Bye,
Ns. 4d. ; Beans, 245. ed.; Peas, 265. Id.
The Average Price of Brown or illuseovs.do Sugar, computed
from the Returns made in the Week ending the 21st day of
August,lB22, is 275. eid. per cwt.

SMITHFIELD MARKET, AUG. 26.
The ehange.tif weather has had some effect on the rnaziitt
this morning. Although a good Supply of all deseriptiorizi of
Cattle, the pric.= (except Lamb) are nighcr; Li to head
higher than last market day was risked for Oxesi, a.0,-,i;t4:48t0
od5S.
per head higher fur Sheep ; Pork has also rino„ in price; and
the trade appears good.
Beef Ps 6d to 30 6(1 I Veal
Ilutton. ..... ... 2s 4d to 3s Od I Pork .... 3i, fkr; to 4s Dii
Lamb 3s. Od. to 4s. M.

FlRE.—Saturday, at. one o'clock, a fire broke
out in the premises of Mr. STOKES, dyer, Gros-
venor-market, Oxford-street. Mr. S. occupies
two houses, 22 and 23, boll c,f which were con.
sumed.

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

ZWITACTS FROM Tip -17 I MORNING PAPERS;

Aug-u3L 26, 18(2`2.

[THE TIMES.•
We are gn;eved to find that the same spirit of
revengeful exultation which burst forth from the
,pe4a.ple at a late funeral, has displayed itself in
Jarious parts of the country, on the receipt of
intelligence that Lord Londonderry had perished,
and by--his own hand. For ourselves, we have
Fairly expressed our sentiments ; yet we have
felt how difficult it is to steer safe from reproach
• by both the friends and enemies of the departed
-.Minister. Because we have done what appeared to
us to be no more than justice to his private virtues,
we have been called servile flatterers on one side ;
and because, from a regard to truth, and to our
own consistency, - we have contrasted his bad
politics with his. personal worth, the Court fac=
Thin have described our praise as hypocritical,
and our censure as rancorous and vindictive.H
This is both improvident and unjust. In
gethmenting upon the feelings which the j
people have exhibited towards the manes or
the. Nobleman in question. we thought it but
humane to point out the real causes of the public
animosity. It was necessary to dwell upon
those ruinous and odious measures to which Lord
Londonderry had given his incessant co-opera-
tion for a long course of years, and to state how
naturally, as- well as obviously, they bad entailed
upon him the general hatred of the people ; be-
cause, other Wise foreigners, or ill-informed per-
sons, might have presumed—what would have
been far more unfortunate for his good name,
and infinitely more mortifying to his connexions
—that the defect was in the moral or social,
rather than in the political character of the
Noble Marquis. It is very clear, for what
reasons the hangers-on of the surviving Mi-
nistry feel sore_ at our exonerating the personal
character of the Noble Marquis, and at our
ascribing his unpopularity to his political trans-
gressions. It is because. his private virtues were his
own, and his politics divided with his colleagues.
As the virtues, therefore, are buried with him,'
but the -political principles survive, it is equally
impossible for the men with whom he acted to
transfer to- them Selves the honour of his per-
sutial excellencies, or to avoid sharing with him
Om disgrace and detestation of his measures.
We -see- with 'pain that the partisans of that
Cabinet which .had in Lord Londonderry its
eldest and most efficient member, would now
thtnw blame upon those who ascribe the out-
:ages upon his corpse exclusively to the evil sys-
tem with which he was associated ; and that his
sear and grateful friends would thus, if we had
sired them, have implicitly destroyed the
rt6st precious attributes of -hiS memory, rather
than let the bad principles of his party be painted
in-their natural colours.

[Prof Tuvits.]
The Paris Journals of Thursday and Friday
.arrived last night. They contain little besides
art account of the proceedings before the Assize
Celina against the personi charged with having
e4tinengaged in the affair of La Rochelle. To
an —Englishman, accustomed to the admirable
:014and sound principles by which our Courts
alustice are regulated, all French trials must
lose th'Er interest they might derive from their
importance through.-the -obviously injudicious
meaner in which they are conducted. The pre-
dent process bids fair to rival that of Madame
Niemen So justly notorious as a curious exhibition
onnap_ndence, perjury, and folly. The Court has
it3timeted its expectation of 'coming at the truth
thpiigh. accused parties. On the other
hiy4.,-,several of thnse individuals have positively
*tied the truth of their previous declarations.
of them thought -proper to charge the Pre-
f4ct of the Police with having held out hopes of
liberty to him if he would confess that he had
hOn. concerned in secret associations, and that
with this expectation he told. " probable lie."
1n answer this fellow, a convicted liar on his
own sheaving,the Prefect appeared in Court,and
tie Magistrate, and the prisoners were publicly
eihiblted, malting solemn affirmations cne against
titi other:, The whole business in cases of this
kind is indeed so loaded with digressions, so
brititen'off by intetiruptions, that it is scarcely
pOsSihle to understand its progress,. or to pick
out the' facts from the Miss of confusion, contra-
dictions,' recrimination, and absurdity, in which
they are buried: 7

EBRITISH PRESS
The intellikence from- the East is important.
It appears that the. remains of the Turkish fleet,
which: escaped destruction off Scio, had taken
shelter in Oliveta, in the island of Mytelene, the
ancient Leslios, its return to the Dardanelles
Laving been cut off by a Greek fleet cruizing
before that Strait. Oliveta .being an open port,
it Aces expected that the 'Forks would destroy
the ,ships, to prevent.their falling into the hands
of. the Greeks.. It is also stated that the Russian
fleet at SebastOpol,in -the Black Sea, is in a state
of preparation. .It is said to consist of fourteen
sail of the line, a force fully sufficient to overawe
Turkey, for which purpose-report states it is in-
tended. The successes of the Greeks appear to
have increased' the -fury of the Ottoman Porte.--
Letters from Constantinople of the 20th
assert, that•the Grand. Seignior had caused two
of. he imprisoned Bishops to be hanged, and that
the new Patriarch had also been put to death,
though it was not exactly .known in what manner.

[MORNING c4RONICLEI

_ .
We believe' in almost every' country, and every
agr,\it has 'been common for the people to give
expression to a feeling of hostility on the death of
any one whom they considered their oppresSor.
Tire funeral procsslon of the celebrated Colbert,
much, more able, as.well as . a much more vir-
tuogs- man than Lord Londonderry, was attacked
by the Parisiail§, m7h6 took this mode of evincing
their .hatred, of. him. No. sooner had the life
quitted the body of Lewis the Fourteenth, the
Grand Monarquo; thanithe people testified their
jof by al.l, manner of
.rejoicings. In the sober
and religiOus country of Holland, the inhabitants
of which Ipivp in all times beep distinguished.

their orderly behaviour, the scenes at the death of.'
old Barneveldt and the two De Witts were really
shocking. The remains of the latter were cut in
pieces, a traffic in which was carried on for some
time, and those who obtained any of the fragments
at considerable prices were considered fortunate.
The history of Scotland furnishes several instances
of strong expressions of gladness on the death of
unpopular individuals. Besides the recent case
of Governor Wall, there have been several others
in England which are familiar to all who are
acquainted with our history. The execution of
Admiral Byng is one of them. The truth is,
that- cruelty or ferocity is less characteristic of
the present than of any preceding age. About
the time the Riot Act passed, the Clergy used
to stimulate the mob from the pulpit to demo-
lish Dissenting Meeting Houses, and commit out-
rages on the Sectarian Ministers. The High
Church Clergy have generally shared the opinion
of Mr. Windham that the populace can never
be too ignorant, brutal and ferocious ; and the
outrages perpetrated against Dr. Priestley and
others, after the commencement of the French
Revolution, inspired the Tories in general with
the utmost joy. The Clergy of that day incited
the people even from the pulpit to the acts of
violence of which they were guilty. Encourage-
ment was• given to the mob, who sought the
Doctor's life, by a body of Magistrates, among
whom were several Noblemen. At a dinner of
alt the Prebendaries of a Cathedral Church, the
conversation turning on the Riots in Birming-
ham, one Clergyma❑ said, if Dr. Priestley were
mounted on a pile of his publications, he would
himself set fire to them, and burn him alive, and
all who were present declared their readiness to
do the same.—The Ministry of that day looked
with great complacency on these doings, which
it was generally understood were secretly fo-
mented by them ; and indeed Mr. Pitt talked
with great apparent satisfaction in Parliament of
" the effervescence of the public mind."

[MORNING HERALD.]
If any credit were due to the accounts that
reach us from the Continent, it might be suspected
that Russia has not yet quite done with the
Sublime Porte. It was stated some time back,
that the Russian Minister, Capo d'lstria, was
disgraced. He is by birth a Greek, and the
supposed head of that party in the Cabinet which
favoured the Greek insurrection. His fall seemed
natural enough upon the Emperor's abandoning
his countrymen. This Minister now re-appears
with seemingly undiminished influence. He it
is who accompanies the Emperor Alexander to
the approaching Congress. Hence it is in-
ferred, that the Empexor of Russia has returned
to his original intention of aiding the Greeks—
if indeed he ever really abandoned it. Another
circumstance which tends to strengthen such a
belief is, that Russia is fitting out a naval arma-
ment in the Black Sea, with a view to intimidate
the Divan into accepting "a new Ultimatum"
about to be presented to it. This demonstration,
by a naval force in the Black Sea, is the more
likely to effect its purpose, as the Turks are at
present without a navy, after the disaster which
they have suffered in their encounters with
the Greek squadrons. On the other side it
is repeated, that the Turks do not evacuate
the principalities, but only effect a change
of troops, leaving 3,000 men in garrison in
the two chief places of strength. These are
the statements and speculations of the Con-
tinental Journals, whose testimony on subjects
of this sort is certainly not entitled to implicit
belief. Accounts from Warsaw represent " the
Emperor and King" as by no means pleased with
his Polish subjects. He will not hold a Diet,
and it is even intimated that it is doubtful whe-
ther Poland shall not be deprived of her Diet
altogether.

[MORNING POST.]

Paris Papers to the 24th inst. reached us last
night by express. They contain intelligence,
which, if correct, will prove highly gratifying to
every man who retains any respect for humanity
and religion. Greece, so long and so cruelly
deserted by Christian Europe—Greece, calum-
niated by those who ought to have assisted her
in her glorious struggles—Greece, abandoned to
slaughter and to destruction, has at last found
an Ally ! To the disgrace of the Old World,
this Ally has been obtained in the New. Immor-
tal honour to the United States of America!
Letters from Argos, received by way of Corfu, and
given in the Austrian Papers under the date of
Trieste, August 8, announce the arrival of the
American frigate, the Constitution, and that she
landed an Agent from the United States at Hydra,
in the month of June. This Envoy immediately
repaired to Corinth, where he is stated to have
signed, on the 16th July, a Treaty of Alliance.and
Commerce with it Grecian Senate.
" This treaty was sent to Washington to be ratified. The
Greeks give up to the Americans, for a period of twenty years,
the Island of Milo, in the Archipelago, and the strong port of
Lepanto, in the gulph of that name. The-Americans, in re-
turn, are to pay a large sum of money to the Greeks mid to
supply them with arms. This is the first assistance which they
have received fpm a Christian Power."
Whilst we trust that this intelligence will be
confirmed, and rejoice that Greece should have
at last obtained sufficient aid to insure her ul-
timate triumph, we are not blind to the fact that
the Americans will have at last attained what had
long been the chief object, of their ambition, a
secure footing in the Mediterranean, and that
such a footing will be of incalculable benefit
to' the extension of their European trade.—
But it is an advantage which they fairly
deserve for being the first Christian Power that
stretched forth a saving hand to a perishing Chris-
tian people; and it is one besides which they
would not have attained had European Govern-
ments followed the dictates of humanity, we will
even say of duty, instead of pursuing a course con-
trary, in this case at least, to their real interests. If
the Americans are now to he stationed in the centre
of Europe,'and the New World begins to colonize
the Old, it will be therefore solely owing to that
timid policy which preferred supporting esta-
blished Despotism in all its acts of oppression,
*murder, and sacrilege, to aiding a long enslaved
,people, brothers in religion and in patriotic feel-
ings, in its almest hopeless struggle againot its
.destroyers, and in all, itzl. feats of courage. and