The Sun.
London, England, 1822-04-08 00:00:00

'THE • 1..0 NPON

lAIRACTS FROM TUE, 1) t.11.Y MORNING P.O 11112,
April 8, 1822.

ET,4IE T3ME3.3
iowards the close of the laat week the public
mind:began to be seriously agitated by positiye
atiikeeicurrent statements from iiarioni quarters
Porte had peremptorily rejected the
is Om of flnssia ; that the long drawn con-
riiiis4e were iherefere 'it an end ; and that
open I;oAtilities might be immediately expected.
isbe government securities abroad and at home
ve lieen much depressed by the general ac-
-quiescence in the truth of that unfavourable in-
faillenFl. One of the French .papers contains
if describes to be nearly the-contents-of the
Turkish Note," announcing to the British and
Antinan Ministers the fOrMal 'rejection of the
.4,ll)ivlde of 'Russia. , Now this rejection of the
idtininfam was from the first asserted to have taken
tlaoi on the (28th of Feb:, and the 4h of March
flibe latest period assigned to it by any of the
foreign -journalists or correspondents. Yet we
%t armed on good authority, that advices
fiave been received from Lord..Strangford and
from our Consul-General at.censtantinople, both
under date of March / ; but that neither 'of them
reters to this official document as if he was aware
of its existence. If we may credit the Bridal
.DoeSul-General. a communication had been made
to-the-Austrian jrternuncio, which was far frog'
amounting to a total or intemperate refusal of
the Prepositions of the Russian Court; but
-which, on the other hand, so far as depended on
TntkeY, left still open the path'to reconciliation.
7:2-the Porte was willing to withdraw. inarne!
diately one half of its troops from Walachia and
Maldavia, and -the remainder so soon as the
insurrections in those provinces should be sup-
pressed: It is added, that the.y would then be
ready, to rnake concessions on every other point.
Private letters of high, but confidential and there-
fore Incornmunicable,authority,have been quoted
as 'sanctioning the grateful assurance that "
though the public mind in Constantinople was,"
at the date of those letters, " prepared to ex-
‘.`‘pect an immediate rupture, the hopes of pre-
serving peace were stronger than ever."—
With regard to this variety of conflicting
statements, we can do no more than admonish
Our readers against believing war to be cer-
tain, because .peace may not yet be secure ; and
against reposing without further evidence im-
plicit faith in all those rumours and allegations
of the last five days, which have caused so much
perplexity, and we fear such considerable injury,
to many who acted on the truth of them, as un-
qUestionable. It is clear that every negociation,
between Powers. which are, or believe themselves,
iodependent, must be more or less doubtful in its
result, and therefore may terminate in war; but
thoSe who take for granted that the issue of the
pending difference in the east of Europe has ab-
solutely taken place, and is of a nature to be
lamented, decide, we are apt to think., on, in-
Sufficient testimony.

[MORNING HERALD.]
There i 3. still some hazard in pronouncing that
war, is determined between the Turks and
13.assians. It is difficult, however, any longer to I
maintain even a rational doubt of war. We give i
from the Augsburg Gazette, a more full statement
of 'tile Turkish Note to the British and Austrian
ministers. Upon perusing it, we do not think
it-liable to the imputations of arrogance cast upon
it by the German Journals. One of the Ont.
charges of the Porte against Russia is, that the
Citinsiils of the hitter. Power in the Ottoman pro-
vinces were agents of insurrection. There is,
we believe, little doubt that the charge is well
founded- When Russia obtained from Turkey a
cciaSent, by treaty, that Russian Consuls should
be admitted in certain Turkish ports, all the
world anticipated that this was but an incipient
step towards ultimately wresting the provinces
where the Greek rite prevails from the Ottoman do-
minion. These anticipations are fully borne out
birthe origin and progress. of the present insur-
rection. In fact, Ifussia is reduced to this
dilemma. She encouraged the Greek insurrec-
,i,
tlLqn
either_ to embarrass Turkey, and thus more
eaSiiy obtain the cession of the provinces on her
frontier, Qr • else she did so with the purpose of
d's.iiin'frthe Turks out of Greece. The distinc-
tior?. in this Note bq.ween'B.usSia and Austria,
respecting their treatment of the Greek fugitives,
is a'so resonable. To deliver up those fugitives
would have been iuhutnan.. But it is quite clear
that in Russia, though their cause was disavowed
in words., yet they were personally received with
unequivocalp favour. The tone, of this Note is
hanuhty", but nothing more ; and with
„ P •
toe EpOst exaggerated estimate of Turkish
~barb-
arity, it is id:possible to snppose that such a
Dto—tg 'qou Id be put ror'th without a confidence of
ine-anaof resistance, which are not supposed- to be
.
poisessed. by the TtirkS.

[MORNING. POST.]
When the Agricultural Petition from the city
of London was presented on Tuesday last, we
seized a fact mentioned. on' that occasion by Sir
liam Curtis, and corroborated by Mr. T.
Wilion ancl"Mr. Alderman Bridges, to guide the
public in estimating the real value of that docu-
ment. These three City Representatives agreed
that the Petition came from about 300 out of
13,000 citizens, and that it did not express the
seoliments of in in-,. mense majority, in number
aarespeciability 'of their constituents. This
fact" appeared to us of vast importance. Pro-
ceeding from three out of four of the.Represent-
ativesof Lottdon,its perfect authenticity was,above
question ; for no man actuated by a sense of ho-
nesty or_even its trust -would either betray those
who had..raised 4tirn to a seatin the British Parlia-
ment, or, when such was the bent of his ambition,
forfeit their future suffrages by .belying their pre-
sent,vvishes. This petition. was also one of a long
series of proceedings in which within a period of
two,,or, thre,e.y.ears, the pyinciples, the loyalty
anthhoneur, of the City df London haVe been
deeßly,,implicated. Emanating from so high a
source as the Capital of the. British Empire,
whose municipal insignia and official costume