The Sun.
London, England, 1825-10-31 00:00:00

THE LONDON JOUR ALS.

DAILY
Extracts from the Morning Papers, Oct. 312 l 825.

[THE TIMES.]
The Parks, we find by experience, are a tick-
lish subject. Nothing can be suggested for the
more complete accommodation of the citizens—
no remonstrance made against encroachments on
the boundaries of these wholesome pleasure-gar-
dens, or 'against, the conversion of the segments
thus cut off into private and selfish property,
without some Court-porcupine fretting and swell-
ing, and shooting its quills at every advocate of
the public enjoyments. This we have observed
in the case of Hyde-park, the improvement of
which appears to have stopped short in the
very quarter—viz., the Kensington-road—where
it ought to have been pushed with the utmost
earnestness and activity. The Regent's-park, as
we are credibly informed, demands now to be
closely watched. It may not be known to
the bulk of our readers, that a certain Mr.
Maberly has hired time Park in question for a
grazing-ground, taking in horses and other cattle
to feed there, at so much per week. Mr. %la.
berly is said to have made the public-spirited
proposal, that those who thought fit to pay him
a specific sum should have the liberty of riding
in this public park ! The Commissioners of Woods
and Forests, to be sure, had the grace to reject
this offensive and intolerable proposition ; but
still how are the inhabitants of London treated ?
They cannot venture to set their feet on the
herbage of an enclosure, for the laying out and
cultivating and adorning which, large sums of the
national treasure were given away by Parlia-
ment. High-bred horses and venerable bul-
locks are the favoured ministers of that luxriant
domain—the poor people who paid for it must
be arbitrarily excluded. Now this treatment
is somewhat supercilious, to our fancy. Be-
sides, the said park is to be cut -up into play-
ground for another description of petted ani-
mals ; villas are to be multiplied without
end ; anti the curtailment of plebeian comforts
carried to an unmerciful extravagance. The
Marquis of Hertford is to have a full-grown me-
tropolitan villa, with its dependencies ; Lord
Northesk another ; Sir Herbert Taylor a third :
—lB in all, reduced from 26. the original project.
There are villas enough already—more than
enough to shut out the citizens, and to throw the
beloved aspect of oligarchical influence over this
estate of the Crown, furnished from the national
money. Why should not the whole extent of the
Regent's-park be, like that of Hyde-park, acces-
sible to all pedestrians ? Why should the green
herbage be farmed out to a monopolist, and the
pent-up and wearied people of the metropolis
turned over to dust and gravel.

[NEW TIMES.]
'We last night received American papers to the
30th ult. They are much occupied with a cu-
rious question—will Charles X. pay the Yankees
for the robberies they suffered from their dear
friend Boney ?—Oh, no, my dear Yankees, King
Charles is not quite so soft. He will naturally
say to you—why, you were in love with this
robber; you crouched to him ; you joined him
against the English ; you thought it a fine op-
portunity in 1812, when he was marching to
uncrown Alexander, for you to fall upon your
old Master, King George ! In sober sadness,
impudence cannot well be carried further than
for the Americans to demand of the Bour-
bons, compensation for the spoliations exercised
by Buonaparte. America has a portion of the
stolen goods in her own possession, at this mo-
ment. There is Joseph Buonaparte, there are the
young Murats, and several others, who shared the
plunder made by their great relation, the Banditti
Captain. Let their property be attached ; let it
be divided, as far as it will go, among the citizens
of the United States, whom Napoleon Buona-
parte plundered. We are now told that he
" committed depredations on the high seas, and in
French ports, in opposition to every. feature of
justice, and in violation of every principle of the
Law of Nations." All extremely-true—and yet
after all this, the United States became his
lackeys, his vassals, his allies in the war ! And
would they now be paid, and by a. third party
too, for outrages which they basely put up with
at the time ?—Yoh ! poh !

[THE PUBLIC LEDGER.]

Frankfort Papers to the 24th instant, which
arrived last night, contain advice frdrn Constan-
tinople to the 24th ult. After stating that no
intelligence had been lately received from the
seat of war, they mention as a report, very current
in that capital, that both the Viceroy of Egypt
and his son, had written to the Porte, exhorting
that Power to enter into an arrangement with the
Greeks, having for its basis proposals, made by
that people themselves. The nature of these
proposals is not specified; and it is merely stat-
ed, that they had been submitted in the first in-
stance to Ibrahim Pacha, who thought them
so reasonable that he transmitted them without
delay to the Sultan, accompanied with the ur-
gent recommendation we have already mentioned.
The rumour, however, is treated as improbable,
though no reason is assigned for this opinion ; and
for our own parts we cannot help thinking that
there is some truth in it. It is well known that
Itusia, from the very commencement of this ob-
stinate and sanguinary contest, has expressed
herself strongly in favour of .a pacifiCation, which,
without militating with the priuciple of legiti-
macy, or, in other words, the indefeasible rights
of the Porte, would secure certain privileges to
the Greeks. In order to avoid every thing which
by its novelty might
excite Turkish jealousy, the
plan according to which Wallachia and Moldavia
are governed has been recommended, and
all the influence of Russia has been ever
since employed to gain over to it the ether
European Powers. In the article before us it.'is
also hinted that the Viceroy of Egypt andhisson
have been induced, by means of European in:.
trigue, to adopt it with fervour ; and amongst
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the Greeks who are said to favour it, Colocotroni
in particular is mentioned. 'This individual has
always passed amongst his countrymen as a par-