The Sun.
London, England, 1825-12-07 00:00:00

[BRITISH PRESS.]

Last night we received the Paris Papers of
Sunday, with the exception of the Constitutionnel,
which some accident, we suppose, has prevented
from arriving. This is a disappointment at this
moment, as we should have been glad to have seen
the first expressions of its feelings after its deli-
verance by the upright Judges who preside in the
Royal Court of Paris. In another column we
have given a longer account of the interesting
proceedings of the last day of the trial than could
yesterday be laid before our readers. The deli-
very of the judgment of the Court, it will be ob-
served, was hailed by the crowded auditory with
loud and long continued applause. The result of
this prosecution is justly regarded by the French
public as a signal defeat of the machinations of
the ultramontane party against their civil and re.
ligious liberties. The attempt, however, was
another, and an instructive proof of the un-
changed spirit of the Romish church, though it
has been happily frustrated by the independence
of the tribunals of justice. As Mr. O'Connell
was lately joining in the outcry of the Jesuits
against the Constitutionnel and the other journals
of the Liberal Opposition in France, we shall pro-
bably soon hear his lamentations over the failure
of their plan for stifling the newspapers which
dared to expose the blasphemous fanaticism of
the wandering tribes of Romish missionaries, not

in any degree exceeded in coarse and revolting
frauds and absurdities even by the wretched dis-
ciples of Joannah Southcott. In proof of our
assertions, we refer to the instances cited by M.
Dupin in his eloquent reply in defence of the
Constitutionnet. The subscription for the family
of General Foy amounted, on Saturday evening,
to nearly 248,000 francs. We regret to learn
that the Turco-Egyptian Expedition, under
the Capital' Pacha, entered the port of Na-
varino safely on the 14th ultimo. How it
was that the Greeks did not encounter this
armament at- sea we cannot imagine. The Greek
mariners must have known that the safety of
their nation, its very existence indeed, depended
on the preventing of the Capitan Pacha's fleet
from reaching the Morea. We begin now to de-
spair of the Greek cause. The next intelligence
we shall probably have from that unhappy coun-
try will be the horrible details of the extermina-
tion and enslavement of its entire population.—
Thus will perish, after a gallant but unavailing
struggle, nearly a million of Christian people, the
last and worthy inheritors of an illustrious name.
The land of immortal glory will be degraded to
a colonial dependency on the satrap of Egypt,
and its soil polluted with a mongrel race of Moors
and Negroes.

[TILE PUBLIC LEDGER.]
If it be true, as has been rumoured, that Count
Nesselrode has all at once lost the confidence
of his Imperial Master, and the Portfolio of
Foreign Affairs, our conjectures assume a cha-
racter of positive certainty ; and the spring
will unfold, as we said before, designs which
are now carefully concealed from common ken.
In the mean time, the circumstances of the
political world are more favourable to their de-
velopement than is usually imagined. Spain and
her ricketty Government cling, with the firm grasp
of a drowning person, to the neck of the French
Government, and will not let go their hold as
long as they have a principle of life. How much
France is embarrassed by this adhesion which
she can neither get rid of with safety, nor retain
without danger, is well known to the crafty Cabi-
net of St. Petersburgh ; and besides, the spirit
now pervading that country, and so incompatible
with the ultra views of the retainers of the French
Court—is also no secret to the same Cabinet. En
the next place, the Court of Vienna has found
employment, apparently as painful as it was un-
expected, in its efforts to put down the spirit of
independence, which has manifested itself in the
Hungarian Diet. To dissolve the refractory as-
sembly suddenly, would be a dangerous stretch of
power ; whilst the Emperor would lose the sup-
plies which he expects from his good kingdom of
Hungary. In addition to this domestic cause
of embarrassment, a very serious inconvenience
has arisen, in consequence of the change that has
taken place on the Bavarian throne, and which
is likely to extinguish the paramount influence
which Austria had for some time previously ex-
ereised on the most important interests of that
Kingdom. In Naples affairs have taken a turn,
equally unfavourable to the views of the Austrian
Cabinet, which perhaps begins to regret the
high hand and impetuous tone with which it has
hitherto interfered in the concerns of other
Powers, and which, it may be truly said,
have provoked universal disgust and alien-
ation. These circumstances do not escape the
keen and penetrating glance of the Russian
Court ; and we are greatly mistaken if it does
not take advantage of them to carry into effect
its long-cherished designs on the Ottoman Em-
pire. Lastly, the no Popery yell, where there is
too much disposition in certain persons to raise
in this country, would be a powerful auxiliary to
his Imperial Majesty of All the Russias if he had
it in contemplation to undertake the long pro-
jected march to Constantinople ; and we would
therefore advise those, who are preparing to fling
a flaming torch into the bosom of the British
Empire, to beware, unless they wish to see the
Russian flag floating from the Seven Towers, pre-
paratory to the attainment of universal domina-
tion by that designing and ambitious Tower.