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London, England, 1825-03-18 00:00:00

THE LONDON JOURNALS•

DAILY

Lsrructsji•om the Morning l'apers,illarch 18,1 525.

[BRITISIi PRESS.]

The intelligence received yesterday relative to
littec Greeks was as favourable as their warmest
friend could desire. Advices which may be re-
avid on, from Corfu, dated.the 2cl (14th) of Fe-
Ovary, state, that iu a naval eugagement off
ahotlez, 25 transports of the Egyptain fleet have
beep captured. Prince Maurocordato, who was
acting as .Minister for Foreign Affairs, had met
viith an accident by falling from his horse, which
had occasioned the fracture of one of his arms.
..Eight of the captured vessels had been taken to
Nydra. These vessels were laden with troops,
.borses, and provisions. The confidence and re-
solution of the Greeks have been raised by these
events, and by the highly favourable state of
their present condition and future prospects.
Certainly never did a people more nobly or de-
servedly . win their t'reedom. They have esta-
Wished their independence by a course of heroic
achievements worthy of the brightest days
of their ancient glory. But their successes,
signal as they have been, are no more than all
who knew their active energies and determined
spirit were prepared to expect. Their internal
gOvernment has assumed that tranquil form, and
is exercised with that protective moderation
which are the truest marks of its strength and
solidity. Great are the advantages that will be
derived to England and to Europe from the pros-
perous issue of their contest with the Ottoman
Power. It is an issue on which our foreign interests
were deeply involved. It-is a subject of rejoicing,
not only to the friends of freedom and science, but
to all who understand the bases on which the real
welfare of Europe rests. We do not regard it
merely as an event favourable to the preservation
cf the general balance of power—although, even
so considered, its importance is not slight; but
we contemplate the establishment of a Constitu-
tional Greek-Empire, introducing the energetic
action of liberty into the great circle of Con.
tinental Europe, and repelling et the same
time, by its moderation, all those evils which
the enthusiasm of liberty is so apt to produce
when excited by those who do not know how to
direct it :—we contemplate this as an example
which will not end- in the regeneration of the
Greeks, but will lead, in its results, to the gra-
dual ascendancy of those principles of sound and
rational freedom which can alone place the in-
Auence of European Governments on a sure four).
dation, -and relieve them from those internal
agitations which at this moment, and under their
present system, are working their inevitable
downfat, If any thing were wanting to render
certain the triumph of the Greeks, it will he found
in the accounts from Constantinople in the Ger-
man Papers. The Turkish capital is a scene of
continued. disorders. Conspiracies have been
formed amongst. the mutinous Janissaries against
the life of the Sultan, and a general insurrection
is pr(;vented only by putting to death all their
principal officers. It is easy to predict that a
Throne so supported cannot endure long.

[THE TINIES.Ii
Our private correspondence from Paris is not
without a degree of interest to-day. The ar-
rival of Prince Metternich in Paris attract:, much
attention and provokes many conjectures. Two
irotives for the Ambassador's mission are assigned
our letter—the one of a family or domestic
kind, the other of a public nature ; but both of
c:oubtful morality. It is said thet the Emperor
of Austria claims, through Prince Metternich, the
ironey l+ ft by Buenaparte to his son the young
Napoleon. But how did the father become pos-
iessed of the money ? llv a title, the legiti-
macy of which the Kiag of France disowns ;
dad if his Majesty now acknowledges that
the late Usurper could bequeath the money
thus acquired, he acknowledges the just-
ness of. that 133urper's title to the Throne of
Fiance,. without which ce ,wool I never have
had' the money to bequeath. The other object
assigned to Prince Metternich's mission is yet
.4nore doesiable. It is to interfere with !Lc- in.
'ternal aAulini,:tration of France-, to estabiish a
censorship there, which sNall regulate• the join--
11E11S according' to the taste of the Emperor of
Austria anti the Holy Al!iance, and prevent faith-
ful reports of the proceeding: i❑ the Chamber of
-Deputies from appearing, by smothering the eT-
p.tessioltz of honourable Members which may be
deemed offensive to foreign Autocrats. if France
sulicnits to this dernand-f,she will be herself as
Much degraded by foreign interfence, as she has
degraded Spain by her aggression and invasion.

[MOnNING
We can state that the difficulties in the way
of an arranq,ement of the Catholic ,Question are
uow nearly surmounted, and that there is every
prospect of a speedy arrangement, satisfactory to
71.41, parties. The .w-hole arnouut of the allowance
to- the Catholic Clergy is not•te exceed Vi'o,ooo./.
rite Archbishops are to. he a.flowed 1,0(..X.; the
41shops, 1,000‘.;- 1)7141F., 50Q4.,. With
thit•arran,gentent it is• tand-orsteod.the Catholic
Clergy will be satisfied. ft is not intended
to interfere in the slightest degree with the
independence of tire Catholic Church, as no
interference whatever with the nominations
tio.conteroplated,,the only stipul4tion,being that
they- he domestic. Whet the,. Catholic Clergy
receive fro: l their flocks shall no longer be un-
de.rstood as obligatory on the part of, the latter.
it appears, from the. evidence before. the Select
Corrinl:ttee, on Irish .distu,rbi4tces, that in several
parts of the country, tlt'e''-t-taction of fees by
the Cathnlic Clergy lias. led to deeds of
'W.e.".rejoice... exceetlinrly that matters
,
begin now to-vrevovoso:promisittg an appearance.
rktving once .di posed of the Catholic Ques-
jinn, we may•,.1,144, ourielves,to the considera-
ttidowolthe tligetases-itt the-social state sf Ireland,
iv4tti4 'view to the discovery of something like
remedy. The evil;is, Cipite, formidable enough
withoot thO; addition, of .teligious. animosity or
persecution, tirisl4 out of religious dis-
iiticilous. Dr. Doyle tinaerwent a long
.-• , .
tifithe Mi. se.; it's ›i_fwilrisi