The Sun.
London, England, 1825-10-05 00:00:00

mies, as two large frigates, whiCh have been built
for them in the United States of America, will
probably arrive in a Greek port before the end
of the year.

[THE TIVIES:I
The Gazelle of last night contained the import-
ant Proclamation against the interference of Bri-
tish subjects in the warfare of foreign States at
peace with his Majesty, to which we adverted
some days as then on the point of being issued.
This prohibitory document is dated Windsor,
Sept. 30. After reciting the King's declaration
of neutrality, and suggesting that if British sub-
jects contravene such declarations, not only might
the sincerity of this Government be reasonably
questioned, but the peaceable and unoffending
among its subjects in foreign parts might be expos-
ed to unavoidable violence by way of retaliation
for acts in which they had no share, it goes on with
a specific allusion to the contest now subsisting
between the Porte and the Greeks, and to the
certain intelligence received by Government that
attempts are making to induce certain of his Ma-
jesty's subjects to fit out, ships of war, and to
serve in them under the flag of Greece, to the
capture and spoliation of Turkish property. The
proclamation then points out the direct contradic-
tion of such proceedings to the provisions of the
Foreign Enlistment Bill, which are detailed at a
length rather inconvenient to the reader ; and
concludes by commanding that no person what-
ever shall take part in any of the conflicts re-
ferred to, under pain of incurring the penalties
imposed by the statute., Then• follows imme-
diately an Order in Council, reciting the 27th of
George 11., and forbidding the exportation of
cannon, mortars, shot, or shells of any description
during the next six months from the date of the
order. No mention is here made of small arms,
an omission, however, of little moment, if the
supplies of real value, viz. ships, cannon, naval
ammunition, and seamen, be withheld from the
unfortunate Greeks. It is stated that some ves-
sels laden with warlike stores did actually sail
within this day or two, apprehending the order
to restrain them : but with such exceptions, un-
less in defiance of the law, we fear that all hope
of British assistance to the Greek cause must be
considered as terminating. Whatever may have
been the secret motives or policy of the En-
listment Bill, there seems to be one argument
adduced by Ministe'rs to justify the course which
they are now adopting, and only one that con.
tains a shadow of title to notice—we mean the
dread of retaliatory violence from the resent-
ment of the Power annoyed by our reinforce-
ments to the Greeks, for those British sub-
jects who are domiciled in the Turkish empire,
and for that portion of the national interests
which may be involved in theirs. To this consi-
deration
we are willing to allow whatever weight
may properly belong to it, premising only, that
it is the Foreign Enlistment Bill which furnishes
the infidels with their sole pretence for regarding
any number of Englishmen as abandoned to the
mercy of foreigners, without, an- effectual claim
upon their natural Sovereign for protection.—
That bill was the voluntary, and, in our mind,
' the meddling and mischievous work of Mini-
sters. It, however, lends only a semblance,
and no substance of force to the argument
now brought forward. Even those subjects
of the King of England, who might, in
open violation of the Establishment law, give
their personal aid to the Greeks, could' not,
fairly be held to forfeit the protection of
their own Government in cases where violence
not authorised by the law of nations might chance,
to be exercised upon them by Turkey. Specific
penalties are provided by the statute : these the
illegal volunteers on behalf of Greece must of
course be satisfied to undergo ; but. any undue
outrage inflicted upon them by the Ottomans, the
British Government is still bound to punish.—
Much more are peaceful British merchants en-
titled to the active protection of their country,
and to such an interference in their favour as
would deter any Turk,whether Bashaw or simple
Janissary, from molesting them. What Lord
Cochrane's resolution will be, the world are no
doubt anxious to conjecture.

[MORNING ,HERALD.]

We this day publish :an important Proclarna,
tion which has just appeared, and which is singu-.
lar .so far as England is concerned. This Pro..
clamation, we have no doubt, is the result; of, all
'the Cabinet Councils which have recently. been
held, and...the event has proved tha.t the dissolu-
tion of Parliament .was not the . subject ,under,
deliberation, as , we before stated, though an
Evening, contemporary seemed to ,question the
accuracy of our information. During the last
fortnight or three weeks Lord Strangford has
come regularly to town.. froM his residence at
",,ronbridge Wells, . and has had frequent con-
ferences. with the Ministers upon the import-
ant question to . which the Proclamation. re.
fors. From our Portsmouth letter it appears
that his Lordship is to . proceed immediately,
to St.- Petersburgh, while Mr. Stratford Can-
ning is destined for Constantinople, and both.
diplomatists will ,doubtless take, out
with them
the decision that has just been . adopted by the
Cabinet. England, it Appears, has determined
not to iuterfere between-her old. ally and the in-
surgent provinces of Greece. In, our opinion,
England would be no inure justified in any inter-
ference of the kind, however " great and glo-
Huns" the Greek `cCause" might, be, than
Charles X. of France would be in taking up the
cause of Jersey or Guernsey, supposing these
little islands to have revolted from England:—
Why should England psuvoke, the. enmity of a
ptrwer that-eawsway between 40 and 50. millions
Uf;souls, and. lose the commercial advantages to
,;tie derived from the interchange of the com.rnot
ditie-s.of the two nations, merely for the purpose
of supporting two or three millions of people,
.who'-have no arganisedfGovernmentl,
and who are
all' quarrelling among themselves, while their
countryy_ is,. in., a state of, comparative ruin ? It
'now only-remains lote.asked,,V,hat, will. become
lof- the Greek-Scrip ?---The Proclamation has for
the present given it a death-blow.—We should
like to known what sort of e.rpose Mr. Hume