The Sun.
London, England, 1822-09-28 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

PARTS, SEPT. unfavourable news re-
specting the Greeks against which we cautioned
our readers, and of which we pointed out the exag-
geration, and even the falsity, has not been able
to discourage the generous Philhellenians of Ger-
many. Of all the people of Europe, the inha-
bitants of Southern Constitutional Germany have
shewn from the beginning of the struggle the
most interest in the cause of the Greeks. All
the world is acquainted with the noble, efforts
which have been made by M. 'i'hiersck at Mu-
nich, who is an excellent citizen, as well as a
celebrated Hellenist, and the intervention is also
unfortunately known, which neutralized his phi-
lanthropic zeal. At Tubingen, at Scauff hausen,
at Stuttgard, at Darmstadt, and in several other
towns, Professors, literati, and distinguished
men of all classes, not immediately dependent
on Government, have united their efforts in fa-
vour of this work of humanity. A general As-
sembly of Deputies from the various Associations
'was held at Stuttgard on the 15th of September.
The Philhellenic Association of Stuttgard is un-
der the Presidency of M. Schote, a celebrated
civilian, formerly Member of the Chamber in
Wirtemberg, and one of those persons whose en-
lightened minds have contributed to improve the
present Constitution.
In this Sitting the formation of a corps of 600
men, to be under the orders of M. Kephalas, a
Greek by birth, was agreed to. This Gentle-
man was the first to mount to the assault at Tri-
pulitza ; he fought at Leipsic under the standard
of Germany, and has been for some time resident
at Zu-;ch. This corps is to servt as a genne.—
It is to be completely equipped according to the
European fashion, and even supplied with a mili-
tary band. Only such individuals are to be re-
ceived as have served a certain time in the Euro-
pean armies, who can prove their good conduct
by unobjectionable certificates, and who may
really dispose of themselves without infringing on
the duty they owe their country.
They are to repair individually to certain des-
tinations iu different parts of Germany, ere
they will receive arms and necessaries. M. !Toff-
man, a rich merchant of Darmstadt, has already
obtained for this use 4,000 muskets, which the
Government of Darmstadt sold him at the mo-
derate price of 2 florins 30 kreutzers each, and
-which were formerly used for the land wehr,
suppressed in 1819. At the same time we learn
that the Minister of Prussia at Darmstadt has
been authorised to grant passports to those who
desire to repair to their destination without in-
quiring into the motives of their journey.
We know that several merchants at Lyons
- have also established a Philhellenic Association,
but we do not see that it, or the Association at
Paris, has been followed with any result.—(Con-
stitutionnc/.)
A Journal announces that the Spanish Go-
vernment is about to demand a Bull from the
-Court of Rome to secularise all the monks and
Jams who desire to leave their convents, in
;granting them a pension, or some ecclesiastical
-.employment.

IVelearn from the department of Vaucluse that
;the vintage was concluded there on the 16th of
this month ; that the wines on the banks of the
Ythone %%ill be of a superior quality to those of
18H, and that the year 1822 will serve as an
era in the history of wines as the Conulate of
the detested Opimius was employed at Rome.

FRANKFORT, SEPT. 20.
,Extract front the Spectateur Oriental.]
ARGOS, JULY 17.—1 t was announced at
;Argos that 20,000 Turks had entered Coriath,
.:and made themselves masters of the fortress. At
;the first rumour of this event, a mortal fear seized
„all men's minds, and a horrible confusion prevailed
-in the town. The Greeks, in despair, gave up
:,to the flames the whole town of Argos, laid waste
the neighbouring fields, and sought their safety in
•flight, We• are very certain that the Great
•Council (in Greek Nov/i) sold the Morea to the
Turks. In fact, why should the four Members
-who constituted, the Grand Council,quit Corinth
-fifteen days before the arrival of the Turks ?
Why did Thanos, one of the Members of the
,Grand Council, withdraw from Argos two days
_before the arrival of the news of that event ?
Why did he take reftige on board an English
vessel which happened to be in the Gulph of
Napoli di Romania ? Colocotroni, instructed re-
specting..this secret intrigue, caused all , those
suspected of being guilty of treason to be ar-
rested. Negris, Minister of Foreign Affairs, was
also seized by order of this General. Thanos
shared the same fate. Ypsilanti ordered ten
gun-boats to be armed, which boarded the Eng-
lish vessel, and took out of it his Excellency,
who had taken refuge in it. So much for these
famous liberators of Greece !"

This letter confirms what we have already said
respecting the Morea. We have written accord-
ing to our belief and conscience, and we know
enough of men and things to be afraid of deceiv-
ing ourselves in our predictions. People have
heen simple enough to believe that with words
things might be revived ; and a drama has been
w:ted, which would only have been ludicrous had
there not been a horrible part in it. As we ap-
proach the denouement, it will be seen whether
we are deceived in our manner of viewing things,
and if it was to flatter the Mussulmen that we
have spoken harsh truths to the Greeks, who
ought to have profited by them ? Some have had
the complaisance to print, and that lately, that
we wrote under the sabre. Our business was to
tell the truth, and we believe we have told' it.
We deplore the fate of the Greeks, but they
ought to blame themselves for all their disasters.
I f they had had a slight knowledge of statistics, and
of the topography of their country, they would
not have rushed like blind men into an insurrec-
tion of which the consequences were likely to be
so fatal to them.
We know that the Greeks have answered this
objection by saying, that they expected to be
„assisted by the States of Europe, but for what
purpose ? with what title ? What is to be gained
.by a'great overthrow, a vast conflagration ? Blood
and ashes.---Does reason command. us to put our-

( Notes of the Editor of the Journal des Wats.)

* If the re-establishment of Greece as a small independent
State, in the manlier of Switzerland or of Tuscany, is an ab-
surd chimera, it is at least a chimera which has been cherished
and supported by powerful minds and great Sovereigns. Leib-
nitz and Ilossuet wished for it in the name of Christianity ;
Grotius demanded it on the laws of nations ; Choiseul-Gouffier
drew a delightful picture of it, and Catherine the Second had
meditated profoundly. on it as a matter of policy. These are
powerful authorities in favour of this absurd chimera! Others
could be cited amongst our cotentporaries, but we are satisfied
with quoting the dead, and we beg the Spectateur Oriental, the,
Austrian Observer, The Courier, and all the Turks of Chris-
tendom, to follow the example of these illustrious partisans of
Greece, if the opinion which they maintained has received any
favour.

t This problem is irresolvable for all the Christian Powers, if
they do not revive to support their interference with an armed
force. In vain they will obtain promises and amnesties from a
despotic and barbarous Government, determined to advance, and
to pay no attention to any body. It is necessary that Europe
should demand lOr the Greeks, as it has done for the inhabitants
of Moldavia and Wallachia, a privileged province into which
they may retire, and live tinder a particular Administration, as
that of their Archbishops, or of the Greek Hospodars. 'Without
this perfect separation of Greeks from Turks, the former will
always be the devoted victims of fanaticism beyond the con-
troul of the Divan.

Besides, the benevolent result of such an arrangement to
'humanity, to learning, and to the commerce of every maritime
and manufacturing nation, the political system of Europe would.
find in it a special advantage, which has not hitherto been
pointed out. The Dragomans, and the Greek Secretaries of
Fanal, supply by their finesse, their intelligence, and their
knowledge, the ignorance of the Ottoman Ministry; the di-
plomatists of Pera have directed for more than a century and a
half all the politics of the Divan, and often they have defeated
the European diplomatists. If the Greeks henceforth are en-
tirely separated from the Turks, the diplomacy of the former
will be abandoned to themselves, and will be unable any longer
to resist that of Europe.
4' It seems according to the sound logic and good sense of the
Spectutenr, that the Insurgents of Hydra, Ipsara, and Spezzia
ought to surrender, accepting the amnesty which has been of-
fered to them, in the hope that the Turks would not destroy a
flourishing mercantile navy, which will be a source of wealth
and of revenue for the Empire, and which may even become one
day a powerful succour to the navy of the Ottoman Porte.—
But first, the Turks, generally speaking, do not reason in this
manner, and only think of revenging the death of the Capitan
Paella by exterminating the Hydriots and the Ipsariots :
cond, the Turkssare advised by certain Europeans, who do not
love to see sear,n either commercial or warlike in any other
ports than their own. England (for it must be seen that we
speak of her), has a great interest in letting the Greek mercan-
tile navy be destroyed. Consisting of 10 or 1,200 vessels, it
has monopolised nearly all the commerce of the Levant. '

It would, then, be folly on the part of the Greek Islanders to
trust to Amnesties. "rhe only part which Hydra, Ipsara,
Spezzia, and Samos can take, is to embark on board their ships
with every thing which they can carry with them of value, and
to seek a refuge in some Chrigtian country, of which they may
become subjects. _

We have already pointed out .the immense advantages
which would accrue to France from any hospitality accorded to
the Greeks. The Courier has endeavoured to turn our propo-
sition into ridicule. "We desire (he says) to people Provence
With seven millions of Greeks.', By no means. We only
wish to attract to the Hieres, or to Collioure, or to Porto-
veschio in Corsica, or on any other neglected part of the French
coasts, fifty Greek commercial houses possessing. from MON
piastres to forty millions of francs (like the Contmioti) with
their ships and their seamen. This project is so little chime-
rical, that it is already partially executed, since some com-
mercial Greeks have arrived to establish themsblves at Mar-
seilles. In Our opinion, the Govermrent would find a great
political and commercial advantage in assigning to the Greek
emigrants a special district for their residence. But if the
Government has reasons for not doing so, it is sufficient for
the Greeks to come. The laws of the kingdom. authorise thcm
to do so.