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London, England, 1822-10-31 00:00:00

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

ItXTRACTS FltOM THE DULY MORNING PAPERS,
October 31, 18'2'2.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]

The Greeks long cast their eyes towards Eng-
land as the tutelary power under which they
might hope most successfully to rise superior to
the difficulties that they should have to encounter
in their outset ; and we have no doubt that it
would he a work of little 'difficulty to inspire
them again with confidence in us. They are
aware that they can obtain from us what no other
power can give them, and they have not to dread
- from us, as they might have from immediate
neighbours, an incorporation which ,would at
once deprive them- of their name and political
existence. The Turks, on the other hand, are
only jealous of Russia, and provided they could
secure themselves against.her encroachment,. they
might be brought to renounce, at our solicitation,
the title to sovereignty over a portion of their em-
pire,the reality of which they have lost. The extent
of the Russian claims is known,and an-arrangement
which should withdraw the Greeks from the
Turks, and place them under our protection,could
not be said to interfere with them. Austria,
embarrassed as she is with Italy, would not think
of opposing herself to the arrangement. Under
our protection the G reeks would, in a short time,
be able, by the proper development of theiv re-
sources, and the organization- and connection of

file diderent provinces, to-bid defiance to hostile
neigl►hours.—The Russians would be met by a
more active and intelligent people, who would
know by that time how to avail themselves duly
of the natural strength of their country. It may
be said, why should England burden herself with
a protection of this nature ? This question might
indeed be asked with some justice of England,

has she not already burdened herself with the
protection of the Seven Islands, and if she did
not appear to be in perpetual apprehension of the
occupation of Turkey by the Russians, or its
partition between Russia and Austria. We have,
in fact, already in the neighbourhood, an organiza-
tion which might easily be made to embrace the
rest of Greece., Of course it would be absurd
in us to attempt to mix ourselves up with the
affairs of the lonians. The direction of their
municipal concerns should be left entirely to
themselves.

[TIII:• TIMES.]

Rumour says, as we mentioned in our paper of
yesterday, that the foreign troops are to be with-
drawn from Piedmont,. and are not to be with-
drawn from Sicily and Naples. The first or
most obvious inference from these opposite deter-
minations would be,, that Piedmont was more dis-
posed to acquiesce in the old despotic Govern-
went:-and Naples less inclined to so 'de-basing an
acquiescence. It must be recollected,- however,
that Piedmont is nearer the Milanese than
Naples, and therefore the domestic agents and
instruments of the foreign - tyranny have aid,
nearer at hand in the former country than
in the latter, should danger arise : for as to
the state of feeling respecting the existing
Government in each country, and- the means
by Whin it is supported, hatred in the utmost
extreme prevails alike in the North and in the
South of Italy. It is not, perhaps, so remark-
able that Austria should be content to govern on
such terms, as that native Sovereigns should be
found capable of so governing under her : for
they are not her own subjects—they are not
Germans whom Austria sends her military to.
trample into submission; but they are Italians—.
ihey are the subjects of Ferdinand IN., and
-Victor Emanuel, over whom those Sovereigns
exercise the hateful and precarious rule imposed
by foreigners. These are paternal Governments—
mild Administrations—legitimate Sovereignties !

[IIIOItNING POST.]

We received French Papers yesterday to the
29th inst. They are barren of military intelli-
gence from either Greece or Spain, but contain
communications which are of considerable im-
portance to both those countries and to the world
in general. Those respecting Greece confirm
tile change stated to have lately taken place in
the intentions of the Emperor Alexander.—
Count Capo d'istria,. the author of the work in
favour of Grecian emancipation and still a Minister
of State, though whilst the enemies of his country
triumphed in the Cabinet he retired for a few
weeks to the country-house of a friend in West-
phalia, is said to nave received a courier with
dispatches of the most agreeable nature from the
Emperor Alexander. But what is still more de-
cisive is the statement that orders had been sent
to Baron Strogonoff to join his Sovereign imme-
diately at Verona. The intelligence from Spain
relates to the proceedings of the Extraordinary
Cortes, who voted unanimously and by acclama-
tion the addition proposed to be made to the
army by the Minister at War.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
The Paris Papers of Monday have arrived.
The fear of foreign invasion has called forth the
energies of &pain. The Cortes have voted the
extraordinary levy of 29,000 men, proposed by
the Minister at War. It is also presumed that
they meditate reprisals against France for the en-
con ragemen t and protection which she has afforded
to the Spanish rebels. These Papers contain a let-
ter from Verona, in which it is confidently asserted
that one of the first acts of the Congress will be to
decree the evacuation of Piedmont by the Aus-
trian troops, and that this measure will excite
no discussion, the determination having been
taken in the previous conferences. The same
justice, however, is not to be done to the Neapo-
litan people, notwithstanding the recommenda-
tion of England, who is represented as having re-
Burned her character as the advocate of the
rights of independent nations. The proposal
made at Vienna to withdraw the Austrian troops
from the territories of Naples and Sicily is said
to have been outvoted, and was expected to meet
with the same fate at Verona, if it should be re-
newed. It is. even asserted that Austria will
augment her force in that quarter, and that a

corps of observation wilt be formed at Ancona,'
on the coast of the Adriatic. These resolutions
having been communicated to the King of Na-
ples, that Monarch is said to have tnanifessted
his displeasure by refusing to come to Verona,
where he was expected, and directing Prince
Ruff° to attend in his place.

[NEW TIMES.
The letter addressed by Mr. Bowring to Mr.
Canning, which appeared in our Paper of yes-
terday, does not seem to require much re-mark ;
yet to dismiss it entirely without notice would
perhaps be improper. The only peculiar feature
that we observe in Mr. Bowring's epistolary
effusions is a peculiar self-complacency. in a
former letter he informed the world that he was
" calm and energetic ;" he now assures it, that he
has " a mind stronger than all the strength
of tyranny." These are very pretty sound-
ing words, especially when a man applies them
to himself ; and we are glad to find that
Mr. Bowring is so much of a Philosopher; but
we really cannot compliment him with being an
innocent object of dislike" to the French Go-
vernment. It may be true that their suspicions
went beyond his criminality ; but he had volun-
tarily put himself in the way of suspicion, by
taking letters clandestinely, and those probably
either from or to persons whose loyalty might
not be altogether unimpeached. Besides it must
be remembered that The Chronicle took care
to whet the edge of French suspicion by trumpet-
ing him forth as the friend of a Journal, which,
as The Times says, (the Devil reproving sin !)
" has been made the medium of the most violent
and seditious attack on the French Government,
and on the Bourbon Family." No, no ; it
is very unreasonable in Mr. Bowring to be using
all the abusive slang of the Liberal school, call-
ing the French Government a " tyranny"—a
" despotism," and so forth ; and yet expecting
from it such an excess of candour, as to dismiss
him, until every possible suspicion has been
fully examined, and found groundless. It is
admitted that he has offended the French laws
in taking a large number of letters clandestinely.
I'Ve hope he will be lightly punished, if this be
all his crime ; but he must not expect the French
Government easily to believe that it i 3 all his
crime.

[MORNING nca.x.L.o.-1
SpeCulations begin to thicken round the Con-
gress, as the period fixed for the dispatch of
business approaches. No great reliance can be
placed upon- the intelligence in the foreign Jour-
nals, where there is doubtless a strict ob-
servance of secresy. Some light, however, is
thrown upon the matter, by the scintillations
that are permitted to escape through the con-
tinental papers. Every arrival tends to con-
firm that the Emperor of Russia seems dis-
posed' to resume his hostile position to-
wards the Turks.—Several circumstances are
mentioned in support of this opinion ; his recall of
MM. Capo d'lstria and Strogonoti to his Councils
—the former a zealous adviser of war against the
Turks, and himself a Greek—the latter a person
most obnoxious to the Porte, from the line of
conduct he lately pursued as Ambassador at
Constantinople. That, however, which seems
most worthy of notice, is the probability that this
relapse of his Imperial Majesty has arisen from
finding himself checked in his designs upon Spain.