The Sun.
London, England, 1825-10-12 00:00:00

EN EW TIMES.]

French Papers Of Sunday,and the Mode dated
Monday morning, arrived last night. They are
chiefly filled with declamatory articles on the Eng-
lish Proclamation of Neutrality. Here is a new
turn—We can never please these Gentlemen !
Not a fortnight ago they were abusing os for our
ambition. It was clear that we had ordered
Commodore Hamilton to support the Greeks, in
order to induce them to throw themselves into
our arms : we had intrigued to bring about this
measure, and had succeeded ; and of course the
rest of Europe would take alarm at our schemes,
and join in opposing our giving any assistance
to the Greeks. These topics sufficed till the
King's Proclamation appeared ; and then it was
equally clear that England was guilty of a cri-
minal apathy ire no., assisting the Greeks. We
were more anxious to conciliate Austria than to
assist a people struggling for their liberty. The
Greeks, who, but'a week ago, were " barbarians
and pirates," are now become our fellow Chris-
tians, with every possible claim on our fraternal
affection. What are we to infer from all this ?
Simply, that our Government ought to proceed,
as it undoubtedly will proceed, on its own just
and equitable principles, with an utter contempt
and. disregard alike of the praise and dispraise of
foreign politicians. We have already shown that
the Proclamation has conferred an• incalculable
benefit on the Greeks, by recognizing them as en-
titled to all the rights of belligerents. It rests with
themselves to profit of this important•recognition.
It rests with them to prevail on other European
Powers to follow our example. If the Greeks
succeed in this, and if they discharge faithfully
the duties which are correlative with those rights,
they •will render it impossible for Turkey ever
to re-establish her dominion over them. Mean.
while it must not be forgotten. that England is
the first, and hitherto the only, power' which has
formally and distinctly recognised•the Greeks
entitled to the same belligerent rights as the
Turks. ' We have incalculably benefited their
cause, without any violation of principle, by de-1
daring ourselves neutrals : we should violate

our principles, and act with great inconsistency,
if we were to become their Allies.

[MORNING lIERALD.]

There prevails, we are informed, at present
throughout France, a panic terror or Jesuitism,
somewhat resembling the dread of Popery, which
has sometimes scared people in England. Of all
topics, it is the most awkward or perilous that
could be touched on in a mixed company. The
word "'Jesuit," instantly excites fear and trem-
bling—or a violent sortie against the crimes and
dangers of the order past and present. Such is
the hatred and terror with which the Liberals are
inspired by the Jesuits, that contrary to their own
theories of government, they take part with the
Anti-Catholic side of the British Cabinet, and jus-
tify the fears of Catholic Emancipation. There are
even those who go the length of anticipating an-
other revolution from the incursions and pretensions
of the Jesuits. It must be admitted, that there is
in all this something too disinterested to be hy-
pocritical—something too far above fanaticism
and ignorance, to be pure delusion. The utmost
that can be said is, that the prevailing sentiment
is exaggerated. Leaving out of the question the
influence which the reverend Fathers in Jesus
have regained in the interior of society and of
families ; they have even to- the eye of a common
passing observer greatly increased in numbers.
Persons in clerical costume, and especially
frirs and students, have within a few years
increased vastly, both in the capital and the
principal towns of the departments. In Paris
they are met in the streets at every turning, and
seen grouped, like rooks, with their black sordid
uniforms, in the fields outside the barrier. At
Rouen they have multiplied excessively, under
the auspices of his Eminence the Cardinal Arch-
bishop; and at Amiens they have a large College,
in which there are some English pnd Irish stu-
dents. Another curious circumstance relating to
the Jesuits, is the hatred borne them by the
rest of the French clergy. The priests can-
not keep their tempers, if the Jesuits be but
named. The latter were so well aware of the
odium attached to their name, that they abandoned
it, and assumed that of Peres de la Foi—Fathers
of the Faith. But the old name sticks to them,
and will not be allowed to drop. Even the cos-
tume has been materially changed by them-,-hut
it will not do.—Sir Edward Coke's quaint in-
stance of leonine verse, as it is called, seems ex-
pressive of the general feeling towards them—

" Cor tibi restat idem,
Non tibi przesto fidein."
The two objects upon which they seem particu-
larly intent at present, as far as their designs are
public, are getting the education of youth into
their bands, and recovering and acquiring pro-
perty ; both, certainly, very usual and advisable
modes of obtaining power over their fellow crea-
tures.