The Sun.
London, England, 1822-09-30 00:00:00

people in cases of forgery. Trade and com-
merce can, or ought to be, reduced to the neces-
sity of taking care of itself. It wants not, nor
ought it to have, any such anti-Christian punish-
ment for its protection.

[THE TIMES.]
The complaint addressed by the Chamber of
Commerce at Bayonne to the French Ministry,
in the interruption of the Spanish mails, deserves
the most serious attention. It is first to be ob-
served, that it is not the constitutional Govern-
ment of Spain, however aggrieved, that makes
the remonstrance, but a constituted body of the
French nation—namely, the Chamber of Com-
merce at Bayonne. And to what a length must
that grievance have proceeded, which provokes
such remonstrants. The French nation itself is
insulted, and its commerce injured, by the rapa-
city with which the Spanish mails are seized, for
the mere purpose of conveying intelligence
to the rebel Generals in the Peninsula. We
can hardly conceive a case, in which severe
wrong could be inflicted with a view to obtain a
mare puny advantage. It is very clear that the
French Government cannot, without sacrificing
its own honour and the interests of its subjects,
hesitate one moment in repressing so atrocious a
practice. If such were the fatal prepossessions
of the present French Ministry, that it were de-
termined to make war upon the Spaniards for
their attempt to improve their Constitution,
this course of proceeding, though unwise, would
be open and honest ; but that a Sovereign
should suffer foreign agents or Generals—some
of them even residing in his own dominions—to
intercept at will the correspondence of his sub-
jects with those of a state with which he is ap-
parently at peace, for any purpose whatsoever,
and still more for the purpose of nursing a rebel-
lion in that state, seems to be almost incredible.
The French Government would in this instance
be allowing the Spanish rebels, not only to assail
their own constitution, but to make war upon the
subjects of France, or upon all those of the_sub-
jects of France who are engaged in• commercial
or other relations with Spain..

[MORNING POST.]
The accounts in the French Papers repeat the
assertion that all the Greek Isles, with the ex-
ception of Hydra, Spezzia% and Ipsara, and some
parts of Candia, had submitted to the Turkish
power, The inhabitants of those Islands are
represented as disposed to defend themselves to
the last extremity, unless they should have suffi-
cient guarantees for their lives and property, and
as determined, in, case of necessity, to emigrate
either to America or tosome other remote country
rather than trust themselves to the mercy of the
Porte, The new Greek Patriarch has been instal-
lated at Constantinople with unusual pomp and
honours by order of the Divan. So much condescen-
sion would not be displayed, towards the headOf the
Greek Church, if the Greeks themselves were
not still in a situation to inspire alarm. It is only
those whom they fear, that despots and barbarians
think it their duty to conciliate, By an article
of the 16th ult. from Smyrna% it appears that an
Algerine frigate had taken by force from an English.
vessel twenty-nine Greeks, (someof the principal
inhabitants of the Morea) whom it was-conveying to
Zante. The. British Consul having claimed them

in vain, Captain Hamilton immediately sailed in
the Cambrian frigate, in search of the Algerine
squadron, to recover the prisoners, whatever
resistance might be made. On his way he
fell in with the Capitan Bey, who gave him an
order enjoining the Algerine to surrender
his captives ; but it required the menace of
British vengeance to induce the Corsair to obey,
as he had already received an offer of five
thousand piastres for the ransom of the Greeks.
Through the perseverance and spirit of Captain
Hamilton, however, they were all restored to
liberty without paying any ransom. Though
general tranquillity was re-established at Smyrna,
occasional assassinations still took place. The
intelligence from Spain in these Papers is of the
same nature as the last, contradictory and uncle-
cisive. Whilst a guerrilla warfare is carried on
in the frontier provinces, however, the Govern-
ment adopts every means of preventing the exten-
sion of civil war throughout the country. For
that purpose the King addressed a Royal Pro-
clamation to the Spanish nation on the 16th
instant, in which he invites all classes to unite
round the Constitutional Throne, and to sup-
port those institutions which he has sworn to
defend, and which have been established for
the ha ijess of the people. Mina has taken
the . d. of the Catalonian army, and
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has a put forth a', .roclamation, announc-
ing his determinatioFiaact with vigour against
the enemies of thiting, the Constitution, and
the Country. w!..7