The Sun.
London, England, 1836-12-28 00:00:00

they will have none of him. In this capacity they
utterly repudiate him. Such being the just and fitting
distinction which the influential Glasgow citizens make
between the man and the statesman, where, let us ask,
is Sir ROBERT PEEL'S triumph ? It is as a politi-
cian that his party recognize his chief claims to public
applause, and yet it is as a politician that the Glasgow
Town-Council refuse to acknowledge him I Here is
re-action with a vengeance I A few more such proofs,
and where will be the Tory faction ? We predict
that the dinner on the 18th of next month

will be a very shy, spiritless affair—the more
so, that it has been announced with such a pre-
posterous flourish of Tory drums and trumpets. It
may possibly be well enough attended in point in
numbers, for the very word " dinner" has a magic
in it that the loaves and fishes-hungering Tories have
seldom been able to resist ; but there will be no show
of energy—no sincere rejoicings—for the recollection
of the Town Council decision will be sure to act as
a damper on the spirits of the whole assembled
company.

The last published number of the Portfolio prefers,
in its correspondence from Athens, a serious charge
against Sir EDMUND LYONS our Ambassador at the
Court of Greece. Without authentication we cannot,
in justice to the reputation of a gentleman holding the
high rank of representative of our SOVEREIGN, insert
this charge in our columns ; but we should be wanting
in our duty to the public, to the Government, and in re-
spect for the character of our Ambassadors, did we
omit all reference to an affair which promptly de-
mands speedy elucidation. We beg it to be distintly
understood that we offer no opinion upon the subject ;
and that we should be sorry to learn that our remarks
tended in any way to lower the character of Sir ED-
MUND LYONS in the estimation of the humblest indi-

vidual in this or any other country.
In substance, then, the writer in the Portfolio•

whose letter of the Ist of November, 1836, is dated
from Athens—charges Sir EDMUND LYONS with
having entered into a conspiracy with Count D'AR
MANSPERG and his faction, to ruin the character and
destroy the political influence of JOHN COLETTI,
Envoy Extraordinary of Greece at the Court of
France, " one of the most respectable and esteemed
citizens of Greece," and one of the most ardent sup-

porters of British influence in his native country ; that
to effect this object,' Sir EDMUND LYONS caused it to
be reported in Greece, that Lord GRANVILLE, the
British Ambassador at Paris, had informed him that
JOHN COLETTI had laid before the French Govern-
ment a memoir against the Government of Greece.
The writer adds, that on being applied to with respect
to this charge, Lord GRANVILLE denied having ever
made such a communication to Sir EDMUND LYONS
with respect to JOHN COLETTI, and that his Lord-
ship never heard of the presentation of such memoir.
Again : That during the disturbances of Acarnania,
Sir EDMUND LYONS ordered an English ship of war
to sail to the Gulf of Patras, to co-operate with the

Royal forces against the insurgents ; at the same time
giving the commander of the vessel a draft of a letter,
to be addressed to himself (Sir E. LYONS), from the
seat of the insurrection, in which letter COLETTI was
accused of being the fomenter of the insurrection.
And lastly : That Sir EDMUND LYONS, with the
concurrence of Mr. GRIFFITHS, his Excellency's at-
tach 6, wrote to the Government here, representing
JOHN COLETTI as having forfeited the good opinion
of his countrymen—of being the tool of Russia,
—and a variety of other charges, all untrue, but
which have had the effect of wounding the reputation
of COLETTI in the most cruel and undeserved manner.
The writer further asserts, that the injury of which
COLETTI complains is unmitigated by the shadow of
a political advantage—Sir EDMUND LYONS through-
out this strange and complicated affair, acting in total
ignorance of the designs of those who secretly impelled
him to effect the ruin of COLETTI.
Such, in substance, is the charge preferred by the
Portfolio against our ambassador at the Court of
Greece. To pass it over in silence is a course which
no sincere friend of Sir EDMUND LYONS will think
of recommending. A legal prosecution would serve
no purpose, save to confirm the doubtful in a convic-
tion that the charge itself was not wholly groundless.
The public has a right to a full explanation of this
affair, from the pen of Sir EDMUND LYONS—to a
solemn refutation of the whole charge, article by article.
The dignity of the KING, and the honour of the nation,
arc involved in the alleged persecution of JOHN CO-
LETTI ; and it is imperatively necessary that no mis-
conception should exist as to the immaculateness of
both. The Noble Foreign Secretary, Lord PAL-
MERSTON, will doubtless consider it his duty to com-
municate without delay the substance of the charge
preferred in the Portfolio against our Ambassador to
Sir EDMUND LYONS, with a view to a complete in-
vestigation.