The Sun.
London, England, 1825-08-23 00:00:00

EBRITISTI Pit ESS.J

The Paris Papers of Saturday arrived yester-
day. The French. Rentes are slowly recovering
from their late depression. The Three per Cents.
clesed on Saturday evening at 72f. 60c. The
news from Greece is still uncertain and contra-
dictory. A letter from Corfu, dated the 20th
nit., mentions the arrival of a British cutter from
Napoli di Romania, with news which is said to
confirm the statement of Ibrahim Pacha having
been taken prisoner by the Greeks. On the
other hand, reports were circulated of successes
gained by the. Turks. The correspondence from
Spain draws much the same picture of that
ill-fated country. The Government, feeble and
distracted, and factions rising insolently to
domineer over the royal authority. The
Etoile quotes, from the Memorial Bordelais, a let.
ter dated Madrid, August 8, in which it is stated
that negotiations for a loan have been opened
With some Englishmen in that capital. The
latter, however, does not offer money, but pro-
poses to procure Austrian ships of war now
Tying at Trieste, for the purpose of protecting
the Spanish ports from what they call " the
Colombian and other pirates." From this state-
ment it is of course impossible to guess what has
really taken place, if indeed there have been any
proceedings at all lately with respect to the sup-
ply of the Spanish court with money. The non-
official part of theMonitcur,under the head of Royal
COurt of Paris, contains the application of the
Attorney-General to the President of the Royal
Court, displaying at great length the insidious
tendency of various articles in. the Constitutionnel
and Courier Francais, and. calling on the Pre,:i-
dent. to assign the responsible editors of these
journals to appear at the day and hour which the
President shall think•fit to hear, that on account
of the spirit of their journals, resulting from a
series of articles tending to violate the respect
doe to the religion of the states, the said journals
are suspended, viz. the Constitutionnel for one.
month, and the Courier for three mont.;ts, this
not being the first offence.

{THE TIMES.]
We received last eight from Park the French
morning• and evening Papers of Saturday, to-
gether with private letters of the same date. We
bad previously heard that proceedings had been
instituted against the two best known and most
esteemed liberal Journals, for their attacks on
the Ministry and the Jesuits, whii.li of course in
the indictment are declared attacks on the
Church and the Government o( Francp. By the
last law on the press, the public prosecutor in

attacking a Journal is not hound to present any
specific article as containing the libel, but may
collect, the political discussions of a whole
year, and ask the Court to decide on their
tendeocy.l If the Cour. Royale in its wisdom
(and we. :think the assistance of a Jury) thinks
that tlie.tendency of the cited articles is either
anti-monarchical, anti-religious, or anti-moral, it
may suspend the publication of the accused jour-
nal-for a certain period (left .entirely to its dis-
-cretion or its passions), ordecree its final sup.
.110 this
.case the regisisitoire, or juror-
' 4mation, of .the kttorney.G.eneral', Bellart, which
is given in a supplement to the Etoile of Saturday,
demands.frotn,the\Court the. suspension of the
ConstitutionnitiAtpd- Courier Francois for three
montlilrron9extent of suspended animation in a
daily journal which,in this country at least, would
iofer an utter extinction of life, in spite of all the

efforts of any humane society instituted in favour
of the Press in such extremities. The two journals
in question have been of late hold in their poli-
tical speculations and censures to a degree which
can only be accounted for on two grounds—the
popularity of opposing Ministers • among the
great body of the nation, and the belief that, in
an appeal to the Courts, the Judges would like-
wise be found among the critics and censurers of
the Cabinet. With a law of tendency such us
e have mentioned above, and a subservient
bench of Judges, there•could:be no protection for
the press. Vague charges, vaguely supported on de-
tached phrases picked from the columns, of for-
gotten papers, might lead from the suspension to
the suppression of every liberal journal ; and as the
Ministry, without assigning any reason, can re-
fuse their sanction to the establishment of any new
periodical publication, publicopinien might be left
without the means of instruction or direction.
Happily the tribunals have for the last 12 months
participated with the press in the alarms which
the Jesuits have excited, and have, consequently
.opposed themselves to the intended Jesuitical
prosecutions. If the public prosecutor succeeds
in this case, fanatical and arbitrary principles
will gain a g-reater triumph than they have hither-
to obtained ; and if he fails, the censorship will
most likely be again established. It is stated
by our Paris correspondent, that the two liberal
`journals in question are thus dragged before the
court for opposing M. de Villele in the affair of
the renter, and some of his colleagues in their
'support of the Jesuits. M. de Villele, the same
correspondent adds, is still as much in the good
graces of his ringer as ever.

[MORNING POST.]
French Papers to the 21st, and the Etoile of
Sunday, reached us last night by Express. They
contain letters from Corfu to the 21st ult. which
assert confidently that Ibrahim Pacha had been
taken by the Greeks. The report gained ground,
because though no official confirmation of its truth
was received, nothing had yet arrived in the shape
of contradiction. And it is indeed remarkable that
if Ibrahim had been able to extricate himself,
he should have transmitted no account of his
situation and successes to any of the Turkish
Commanders in various parts of Greece. What-
ever the ultimate result of his rash enterprize
may he, there can be no doubt that he had been,
and continued at the date of the present advices
to be, so closely hemmed in, that no intelligence
could be received about him except from the
Greeks by whom he was surrounded. His de-
struction or capture would at once decide the
fate of the Morea; for he had carried away with
him most of the troops which occupied Coron and
Modon,• and left such weak garrisons in those
places, that it was not expected they could de-
fend themselves if seriously assailed. As to the
4 or 5000 men landed at Navarino by the Cap-
tain Pacha, they excited no alarm, as it was
known that they would not dare to quit Nava-
rino to penetrate into the interior, and that if
they attempted it, they could not proceed far.
The intelligence from Missolonghi is of a mixed
nature. Redschid Pacha, who had raised the
siege, and retired to Vrachori, had returned on
hearing of the approach of the Captain Pacha,
with the Turkish fleet, and had resumed his ope-
' rations. His trenches were already within
twenty toises of the first moat, and he was pre-
paring a general attack, which the Greeks, how-
ever, were ready to repel. His force amounted
to 12,000 Albanians, and that of the garrison in
the city to near 6,000. But the latter were
good, resolute, and experienced troops, com-
manded by the ablest Greek Chieftains, such as
Noto Bozzaris, Macri, Stournary, Zongas, John
Lucca, Nicetas, the Turk-eater, and Rangos.
Under their direction a sortie had been made, in
which 200 Turks had been killed, and 100
taken. The enemy had 9,000 men at Solona, and
the Greek General Goura, 8,000, besides 3,000
at Lidoriki. There had been some skirmishes
lately in that direction, and the Hellenes
were preparing to march to the relief of Mis-
soloughi. With respect to _the conduct of the
Greek fleet, much obscurity certainly prevail-
ed. Some accounts say that the naval divi-
sion from Hydra had returned to that island to
repair the damage which it had experienced, and
that the other had fallen hack into the Corin-
thian Gulf at the approach of the Captain Pacha,
who had landed arms and arnintmition at Patras.
It would almost appear from this that the fleet
had really allowed the Captain Pacha to proceed
without any interruption from Suda to the coasts
of the Morea. Other accounts, however, state
that it was contrary winds, and not disunion
amongst the Chiefs, which had prevented the
; fleet from opposing the landing of ammunition
and troops.