The Sun.
London, England, 1822-09-04 00:00:00

'donderry however this may be, such a quail.
fication may well bear canvassing,*at a time when
report states that it is indispensable kir outs
Foreign Minister, in the opinion of the highest
authority, to possess the aristocratical accident
of nobility ! Were talent as well as title
hereditary, something might be said 'in favour
'of such an exclusive claim ; but as Lords
may be both very indolent and very stupid, and
the accident of -talent may not at all times be
found in connection with titles, the public advan-
tage might occasionally be promoted by the ap-
pointment to the foreign office of a Commoner of
active habits and high endciments. Whether or
not the disinclination to a certain Commoner
may have led ,to the entertainment of this opi-
nion, we pretend not to say. We suspect, how-,
ever, the interests of the Nobility will hardly
be promoted by running a wall of separation be-
tween them and the untitled Aristocracy. And
we think we may safely say, that if they were
to he consulted on the ,subject, they would
declare against an innovation so pregnant with
danger to themselves. God forbid that we
should be thought to insinuate that a Peer may
not be an excellent foreign Minister. This is
one thing, and the idea that at all times all Peers
must necessarily be possessed of all knowledge,
is another. A few inquiries into the manner in
which business has been conducted at the Co-
lonial Office, might assist in the forming a cor-
rect judgment respecting this last position.

[MORNING POST.]
H We received last night, by express, Paris
Papers to the 2d inst. • They have brought some
further confirmation of the victory of the Greeks,
but the official accounts are still wanting, which,
we trust, will place the fact beyond the possibility
of a doubt. A n article from the Augsburgh Gazette,
given in the Constitutionnet, says: 46 Couriers ar-
rived at Belgrade on the 14th August with letters
from Salonica,Serrhes, and various parts of Mace-
donia, which confirm the total defeat of Chour-
schid Pacha, at the pass of the Thermopylm.—
It appears nearly certain that three Pachas,
amongst whom Choarschid himself and Diam
Ali are named, have been taken prisoners and
conducted to Livadia. The Turks make the
greatest preparations for defence. The Go-
vernor of Salonica causes all men, young-and old,
to work actively to increase the fortifications of
that town. The Greek official Bulletin has,
however, not yet reached Germany, Italy, nor
France." The same Gazette states, that the di-
plomatic visits and interviews which were to pre-
cede the opening of the approaching Congress,
had already taken place at Vienna. The first
occurred as early as the 28th of June last, when
Prince Metternich, M. de Tatitscheff, Marquis
de. Caraman, and Mr. Gordon, had a meeting.
Prince de Hatzfeld, the Prussian Ambas-
sador, attended the second on the 17th of
July, and the third took place in the first
days of August. The objects taken into consi-
deration at those different interviews are those
which are to form the topics of discussion in the
Congress."—The only intelligence from Spain is
the result of the census of the population lately
taken by orders of the Government, and in-
cluding that of the Balearic Islands. The whole
amounts to 11,248,626 souls; a population too
strong, when the nature of the country is consi-
dered, to allow either France or the other Allied
Powers to entertain any serious hopes of being
able to reduce it to subjection.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
The Congress which will shortly be opened at
Vienna excites an increasing degree of interest in
the political circles of Europe as the time of the
Meeting approaches. The Emperor of Russia
was to leave his capital on the 16th of last month
for Warsaw,, whence he was to proceed to
Vienna, and we read occasionally in the various
foreign Journals of the departure of several
Ministers from their respective Courts for the
purpose of repairing to the same scene of delibe-
ration. Our. Government has not been backward
in recognising the projected assembly as the
representative of European power, and Earl
Bathurst has been commissioned to express,
upon all subjects of general interest, the sen-
timents and principles of the British Cabinet.—
A Ilamburgh Paper which arrived yesterday at
our Office, puts forth an article of intelligence
from " the Russian Frontier," which announces
" that in the approaching Congress important and
very comprehensive measures will be proposed
against the Liberals or Carbonari in all the
countries of Europe." We cannot doubt that in
an assembly of Kings, or "the Representatives of
Kings, a question so fraught with deep and anxious
importance to all, as the most effectual means of
upholding theirauthority without reserve or limit,
would, under any circumstances, occupy a large
share of their attention ; but there are circum-
stances in the present aspect of public affairs
throughout the world which may well justify a
more than prdinary concern. There is a spirit
stirring throughout the world, which teaches the
people every where that Governments ought to
exist solely ror their good, and that where this
object is obviously neglected, the character of the
Government ought to be modified or changed.—
This is a principle of policy far more ancient than
any which would sanctify by usage alone the ex-
istence of a cruel and capricious despotism; but,
with a few bright exceptions, it had not influ-
enced the conduct of nations until within the
period of our own memory. Of these exceptions
England offers the most remarkable instance, and
who can be so enamoured of despotism as not to
acknowledge that it is to the liberal action of a
system of government coinciding with the wishes
and the wants of the people that England owes her
career of glory and prosperity ? The people ottEu-
rope every where feel this,and since the close of the
revolutionary war, the progress of publicopinion
has been rapid and decisive. It is easier now, in
looking at the map of Europe, to point out the
countries 'which are not blessed by representative
Governments, than to specify those where libe-
ral principles prevail. The immense extent of
the western hemisphere offers ao instance of ar-
bitrary government, and it is the march of public
opinion such as this vie*" of the world presents,
,that the Congress of Vienna proposes to check.