The Sun.
London, England, 1825-09-13 00:00:00

TILE LONDON JOURNALS:

DAILY
Extracts from the Morning Papers, Sept. 13,18'25.

ITUE TIMES.]
The French Papers appear to deny with great
earnestness that any difference had occurred in
the Bay of Cadiz between Captain Rodney, of
the Active frigate, and any officers of the French
squadron stationed there : but they mention that
the master of alv English packet-boat had disre-
garded' the notice given him by repeated signal-
guns from the French brig appointed to enforce
the quarantine regulations, and had attempted
to violate the sanatory law. Now,-as there has
yet , been adduced no reason for supposing that
the old Pyrenean humbug of a " cordon sani-
" faire"" has been revived on this occasion, and
transferred from the military to the naval service
of France,.-we are or opinion that Captain Rod-
ney acted with temper and judgment, and with a
due regard to the dignity of his profession and
his nation, in submitting at once to the quarantine
laws of 'Spain, no matter by what flag they
were enforced, taking it for granted that it was
a bona fide law of quarantine, and not a mea-
sure' of general policy„ to which he was called
upon to .manifest his obedience. A quarantine
regulati.• deliberately adopted, is one which
ought to be treated with the utmost reverence.—
I t does not seek to promote the interest of one
country at the expellee of another : the safety of
Christendom is obviously meant, to be provided
for by the maintenance of those guarantees
against plague, which have been established
(whether in all respects wise and proper regula-
tions is another point) in a seaport placed at the
threshold of Europe. The man of war stationed
to prevent the breach of those securities, was
properly speaking under a medical, not a national
Slag; and we might as soon think of raising a
point of national honour about the obedience re-
quired by the physicians and surgeons from
foreigners about to enter a public hospital under
their management, as defend on such grounds the
resistance of an English frigate, or an English
packet—for in that respect they are precisely
on a footing—to an official order conveyed to
either, as it was in the instance under consideration.
According to our feeling of the question, any flag,
if Spanish vessels were not at hand, might be justly
authorised by the King of Spain, or even by the
Governor of Cadiz, to defend the people from a
visitation so tremendous as the pestilence. It is
a case of supreme necessity, to which all partial
impulses of sovereign pride and independence,
-whether in English, French, American, or Rus-
sian, are religiously bound to give way. The
Captain of the packet, therefore, must have mis-
taken his duty in disregarding so sacred an au-
thority. But we repeat,- that to justify these ob-
servations tl►ere must have been no fraud nor
trickery intended—the trickery must have been
bona fide a quarantine case, and not a " cordon
sanitaire," like that- of Louis XVIII. of blessed
memory.

[MORNING POST.]
French Papers to the 11th inst. and the Biala
of Sunday arrived last night by express. The
attention of the whole country has been suddenly
diverted from the contemplation of Spanish af-

fairs, by a statement that the Government of
Greece at Napoli di Romania had published an
act of submission to England, invoking its Pro-
tectorship on the same conditions as the lonian
islands, and that this appeal had been succeeded
by conferences between the Greek Chieftains and
Commodore Hamilton, who commands the Bri-
tish naval force in the Levant. This statement

. isgiven in different shapes and with various modi.
cations by all the papers, so that it is difficul
to believe that it is altogether without founda
tion. The Eloile declares that in the man
ner in which it is worded by the Quotidienne,

is.entirely destitute. of truth, and the Etoile is in
the right ; for England has certainly not " granted
its Protectorship to -the Greeks," or agreed to
establish " an Anglo-Greek Government in the
!Vlorea and the Islands of the Archipelago," • But
then the Etoile adds, that the circumstances are
given with more accuracy in other Journals,
which is admitting that the offer of the Greek
Government to throw itself upon our protection
is authentic. It even argues upon that offer as a
fact, and consoles itself with the idea that this re-
solution wa-s taken previously to the raising of
the siege of Missolonghi and the defeat of
the Turks before that place, " which are
now certain," and that - if the- Greeks • of Napoli
had. no other means of escaping the frightful
dangers which menaced them, the Greeks at other
places not being urged by the same necessity, had
not imitated the same example. It cannot, how-
ever, wholly disguise a sentiment of alarm, while
it endeavours in the following appeal to our con-
sistency to make a show of confidence, mingled
with something which we will not attempt to
qualify. cc England, which has proclaimed the-
principle of neutrality,,knows too well that she
cannot release he-rself from it and -act upon her
own policy, without uniting against her the,whole
of Europe. The art of the Greeks of Napoli di
_Romania may be considered as an act of de.
spair, &c. but it 'cannot, in any way, change the
~relative situation of England with respect to]
the Greeks." We quote these expressions'
and sentiments of the Etoile, not to combat them,
for we are also of opinion that E gland will not
act in opposition to her Allies in this business ;
but as proofs that the fact of an offer of submis-
sion having, been made to us by the Government
of Greece is considered aSauthentic. What may
be the results of such an offer we shall not pre-
tend to decide. The question is one of the
greatest importance, and will be duly weighed in
the quarter where alone the right of decision be-
longs. To combine policy with humanity may
difficult, but not impossible. On the present
• occasion we are even inclined to believe that the
task has been facilitated by the act of the:Greek.

Government. That act having sl►ewn the pos.:
sibility of a separate arrangement with an indi•
v?dual. Power, if Greece should continue to be
abandoned and unfairly treated, a disposition
will be felt by all the arbiters of her fate to come
to at general understanding, and to adopt an