The Sun.
London, England, 1822-05-10 00:00:00

[NEW TIMES.]

It has been suggested by anlionourable Gen-
tleman that twenty millions of taxes might be
repealed ! The extraordinary powers of intel-
lect by which this discovery in finance has been
effected, are very far indeed beyond our weak
conception....*They border on the sublime ; and,
as a certain adventurer once said, " from the
sublime it is but a step to the ridiculous." We
can easily figure to ourselves the ridiculous part
at this scheme. We can suppose its contriver

dreaming that he is placed at the summit of 1
power as a Prime Minister of the country, and
bringing forth his wonderful nostrum to cure all
its ills. We think we see his face of distress and
despair, on perceiving the consequences of his
measure to he universal bankruptcy and ruin—all
the relations of society dissolved—all its interests
falling, in one common wreck, around him. He
had attempted this grand scheme in order to save
the rents of the landlords—and lo ! the Govern-
ment and Constitution are gone, which secured
the title of the lands. By striking off twenty
millions, he had rendered it utterly impossible to
collect a farthing of the remainder. He had
climbed to power on the applauses of a mob, and
now the same mob is yellinz, in despair and star-
vation, to tear him limb from limb. Happy the
dreamer, who can awake from scenes so appalling
as these, to the comfortable feeling that he lives
in a country whose Ministers have not learnt po-
litical economy in Bedlam !

[MORNING HERALD.]
The recent publication of an exact copy of the
Turkish Note of the 28th February, addressed
to Lord Strangford, is of some importance—not
only because it invests the document with a cha-
racter of exactness and authenticity, but from
traits of difference between it and the publication
some time since which professed to give its sub-
stance. The principal, however, if not the only
essential point in which the republication differs
from the other, is only the tone adopted towards
Russia. We have looked through it with
care, and find not a glimpse of concession.--7
A Ministerial Evening Paper of yesterday
wholly misconceives, the Turkish Note, when
it states that the Porte therein proposes to
" rebuild the Christian churches, upon the
return of tranquillity." What the Note says,
k that the Porte " will permit the rebuilding of
the churches, so far as the law (the Koran) al-
lows, upon the return of tranquillity"--which
was exactly the statement of the first version.
The other cardinal points are repeated substan-
tially to the same effect,—if we except that
Russia is not openly charged with intriguing
against the internal peace of the 'Turkish em-
pire—and that the Turkish Government re-
fuses to send an Ambassador to St. Peters-
burgh—not on the ground of having nothing
to charge itself with, and nothing to fear, as
stated in the former version, but on the ground
that Turkey and Russia stand in the relation of
friendly powers. The change of tone then is
the only difference—and that difference seems to
have had a considerable effect upon the political
oracles which profess to know something of the
secret both in this country and the Continent. i-
therto, even after the first intelligence of the note
of the 28th, and up to this new version, the hopes
of peace were represented as wholly dependent
upon the success of the mediating Ambassadors
in inducing the Divan to change its mind. And
even the intemperate language at first ascribed
to the Porte was urged as a ground for expecting
a return to a more moderate and conciliatory po-
licy. It was represented that the Turks were
the quarter against which the diplomatic bat-
tery was exclusively directed, whilst no one pre-
sumed to request the Emperor of Russia to qua-
lify his pretensions. Now, however, it would
seem that the Turks have been abandoned, the
diplomatic siege raised, and the expectations of
peace suspended, from the Emperor Alexander's
moderation and prudence—in fact, upon his ac-
ceding to the conditions of the Porte.