The Sun.
London, England, 1822-02-01 00:00:00

[BRITISH PRESS.]

There are some persons trembling for the safety
of the present Ministers, who have the hardihood
to deny the existence of the distresses under
which the agriculturists labour, and who even
presume to sneers at the sufferers, as if they now
complained solely for the pleasure which the'
act of lamentation is ridiculously supposed to,
yield. . The Noblemen and Gentlemen who have
attended the meetings lately held in various
parts of the country;prove, however, that they en-
tertain too lively a conviction that the complaints
of the agriculturists are founded in truth; and
a large number of them have given a substan-
tive assurance of their sincerity by the genero-
sity; justice, and wisdom with which they have
consented to remit a considerable proportion of
their rents. These great landholders have been
the strongest supporters of the Ministers, and
may indeed be said to hold in their 'hands the
legislative authority of the empire. They ap.

pear almost unanimonsly in the ranks of the pe-
titioners to Parliament for relief, and -seem to
agr-e with those who hold that Parliament
grant no relief but by remission of taxes. An
opportunity will immediately be granted to them
of carrying into effect their own suggestions, and
we shall soon see what projects the landholders
are capable of devising and executing when they
wield the power of the Legislature for their own
assistance.

[MORNING lIERALD.I
The accounts from the principal marts of
Turco‘Russian intelligence are as vague as ever.
They rather, if any thing, incline to the side
of peace—of which, indeed, the very duration
of the negociations affords a presumption. The
accounts from Odessa and Saint Petersburgh
state that the Divan did profess to accept the
Russian Ultimatum, but in an evasive manner,
amounting to the non-acceptance of it. The evasion
appears to be some counter demands which the
Divan had coupled with its agreement to the
Russian proposition, one of which is, that the
rebellious Chiefs should be yielded up to the
Porte. Considerable alarm was excited at Con-
stantinople by a tumultuous movement among
the" Turkish students," a class educated in the
particular study of the Koran, for the purpose
of becoming the expositors of Islamism. It ap-
pears their spiritual studies did not exempt or
exclude them from the use of arms, with which
they 'paraded the streets of Constantinople. The
accounts from the Archipelago represent the
Turkish power in that quarter as reduced to a
'nullity. The Greek cruizers exercised an unre-
sisted dominion in those waters. In the Morea,
too, the Greeks had gained a complete ascend-
ancy, and Prince Ypsilanti had his head-quarters
at'Argos. It would appear, however, that Turkish
garrisons still occupied Athens and the fortress of
Livadia, though Attica and the country of Li-
vadia were in the hands of the Greeks.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.)
The Chancellor of the Exchequer urged as one
of the reasons (certainly not one of the least in-
fluential) for keeping up a large standing army
after the conclusion of the war, that the popula-
tion of the country was much increased. The
same reason is repeated in the late Ministerial
Manifesto, the State• of . the Nation. There are
two purposes for which armies are required, one
to defend a country against foreign enemies, and
another to set the opinions- and feelings of the
people themselves at defiance.—When the object
is defence against a foreign _enemy, the in-
crease of population is a reason for diminish-
ing instead of augmenting a standing army, if
a standing army is deemed at all necessary. The
greater the population the less it is exposed to be
attacked from abroad, and the more easily and
speedily, in cake of attack, the means of efficient
defence can be organised. It might be necessary
that Frederick of Prussia, with his four or five
:millions of subjects, should retain a large mili-
tary establishment in time of peace, because with
such a limited population, the men necessary for
the formation of a large army could only be ob-
tained with great difficulty; but a country like
France, for instance, can always obtain from her po-
pulation a large army without much delay. or difficul-
ty. It is only when asystem of government involves
a defiance of the opinions and feelings of a people,
that their increase in number can form a reason
for augmenting the standing army. When a go-
vernment discharges its duty in any thing like a
bona fide manner, all that are sound in the com-
munity are tacitly leagued with it, and cheerfully
support it. Nothing but the grossest misgovern-
ment can ever inspire the great body of a people
with hostile feelings towards the State. They
are naturally interested in the preservation of
order, and, when u government answers its
proper purpose, they defend it on the same
principle that they defend their lives and
properties. An increase of population does not
alter the state of things, for it brings with it a
corresponding increase of the number of the well
affected. The inhabitants of the United States,
for instance, seeing to demonstration that their
utility and advantage are the objects which their
public functionaries have in view, never think of
opposing themselves to these functionaries ; and
should the population amount to a hundred
millions instead of ten, the handful of an army now
kept up would probably be diminished rather than
augmented.—A President of the United States
might say here is a thinly peopled frontier, and it is
necessary that forces should be stationed along it
to prevent the incursions of savages ; but when
the population of the frontier increased, he would
withdraw the troops, because the savages would
no longer dare to make incursions. The Govern-
ment of such a country would indeed no more
think of setting the feelings of the people at de-
fiance than it would think of preventing the
waters of the Mississippi from mingling with the
ocean. arnmaxi; ,etwommirzoomel

•
A. WOMAN Wilo SPOKE WELL without a Tongue.
This woman was a native of Monsaray, in the
territory of Elvas, in Portugal. The case was
attested by WILCOX, Bishop of Rochester, then
Chaplain to the English Factory at Lisbon, in
a letter dated from that city, Sept. 3, 1707, and
was laid before the Royal Society in London.
The following is an extract from the letter:—
" The Conde d'EiticEvitA, a Nobleman of letters, and cu-
rious in natural knowledge, brought from the frontiers of this
country a woman without a, tongue, who yet speaks very well.
She is seventeen years of age, but in stature exceeds not one
of seven or eight. I was with her at the Count's house, and
made her pronounce every letter of the alphabet, which she can
do distinctly. She has not the least bit of a tongue, nor
any thing like it, but the teeth on both sides of her under jaw
turn very much inwards, and also meet. She finds the greatest
want of a tongue in eating, for, as others when they eat, move
their meat about with their tongue, she is forced to use her
finger. She praends to distinguish tastes very well, but I be-
lieve she does it very iniprfectly. Her voice, though very dis-
tinct, is a little hollow, and like that of old people who have lost
their teeth."

ATTEMPTED SUlClDE.—Yesterday, about 11
o'clock in the forenoon, the attention of the pas-
sengers in Goswell-street was arrested by the
extraordinary conduct of a respectable, middle-
aged man, who paraded the middle of the road
in a very singular manner. At length, he sat
down at a door, and pulling a razor from his
pocket, was in the act of cutting his throat, when
a young woman rushed on him, and seizing his
hand, rescued the weapon from his grasp. The
unhappy man refused to give any account of him-
self; and walked off.