The Sun.
London, England, 1823-07-23 00:00:00

[ IRITISH PRESS.]

It is some consolation to turn from the dark
and. blood-stained scene of national outrage and
°pp.( scion in the west of Europe, to hail the day-
star of freedom, which is gradually growing
brighter in the east. The success of the gallant.
Christians in the Peloponnesus and Morea appears
to have roused the slumbering spirit of the in-
habitants of• Thessaly, particularly those dwelling
in the chain of Mount Olympus, who rose and
threUte"ned in arms the communications of the
Turkish bands. The important rising is stated
to have begun in the mountains known by the
name of •the Chain of Olympus, and to have spread
southwards as far As•Massone. To the south, all
the islands had taken arms as far as towards Lake
Balla, and to the promontory of St. Georgeoieer
the Golf of Vola ;
,and, in the north, little corps
of insurgents had posted themselves in the moun-
tains of Volum', Serria, and Dernenisza, threat-
ening the road leading from Macedonia to
Larisa. Odysseus, the Greek-leader, after for-
tifying Athens with care, and leaving a sufficient
garrison in the Accopolis, had advanced at the
head of 8.000 men by Marathon, towards Betio-
nizza ; other corps of inhabitants, trained
to arms, had advanced also to the equally-
renowned Thermopy la:, under other leaders.
iOdysseus intended, it is said, to proceed
towards the ,Peneus, and. attack the Turks,
whose 'rabble were assembled there) to the

number of twenty thousand. But the Paella
of Scutari was stated to be in march, at the head
of a corps of Albanians, by loannina, towards the
Peneus, and a strong Turkish reinforcement from
Adrianople was also said to be moving on the
same point. The brave Odysseus would thus be
compelled by superior force to act on the, de-
fensive, and maintain the mountain warfare,
which has, hitherto been so destructive to the
infidels.

The names of Marathon and
.',rhemo-

pylat recall the most, glorious recollections ;
at one, Greece triumphed against the innumer-
able bands of the proud Persian ; at the other,
her warriors, few and determined, baffled a count-
less host, and at length fell, with the brave Leo.
nidas, amid heaps of slain. The cause of Greece
is now equally inciting; every thing a nation can
value rests on the effort. its people are the same
as they were ages since; but centuries of tyranny
degraded and unnerved them. They have re-
deemed their character and shewn themselves
worthy of their great ancestors. If this last effort
of the Ottoman should fail, as we trust it will,
the liberty of Greece islissured, and the greatest
results in that fine and interesting portion of
Europe may he expected to follow.

[N ENV TIMES.]
I
In il
' the dullness of the dog days, it becomes
extremely difficulty for the Opposition Paperi to
find topics for the amusement of their readers.—
Leaving, therefore, the beaten road of fact,
they are obliged to draw on their imagination ;
acid the action _on which they seem chiefly
to rely at present is a change of Ministers. With
singular modesty, herwever, they do not so much
as hint that their own friends are to come
That long cherished hope is at last abandoned.
But the Tories, it seems,- are to quarrel among
themselves, and, to throw overboard those two
useless and insignificant personages, Lord Liver-
pool and Mr. Canning !—Very ingenious, to be
sure, is' this hint. No doubt lt will be taken.
The two eminent personages in question will be'
driven into the ranks of the Whigs ; and we shall
then see, what we have not seen the,4e.sixteen
years, a detent and respectable Opposition.—But
how is all this ,to be brought about? Why, the
story, is told with some affected prudery, and
there is a pretence of not naming individuals; but
the gauze is meant to be: seen through, and the
characterS are designated in a manner which is
certainly not intended for congealment. The
Lord Chancellor, indeed, is mentioned by his
official title : the Duke of York is called .the Heir
Apparent ; the Marquis of Hertford is " a Noble
Marquis,"Aind The Courier is called a leading
Tory Journal. Well, then, we are told that the
Marquis of Hertford has in view the forma-
tion
of a new Administration ; that he is par-
ticularly .connected with - The Courier; that
he is displeased with the moderation of
the Cabinet'; that some other great Borough..
mongers are of the same way of thinking,:
that the Duke agrees with them in sentiment—
these are the premise S—and from these, by a
most singular and ingenious kilid of logic, is de-
duced the consequence, namely, that the present.
First Lind of the Treasury and tlie ;Secretary for
Foreign Affairs must be dismissed !—The English
have the reputation of being 4.4 a thinking people"
--What must they think then of such sense-
less trash as this ? It is really not fit for a student
of hic,, hwc, live, and horUns, Marini;. horum.--
The head boy in the petty class pf any school in
the metropolis could invent a more plausible piece
of nonsense. And upon what .foundation does
the wondrous fabric. rest?--Why, Sir Charles
Long thinks that 'the works of-art should be
kept in Great Russell-street ; and Mr. Croker
think thelNiews would be a better spot : Mr.
HuskisSon entertains one opinioh on the Silk-
Weavers' Bill, and the Lord Chancellor en-
tertaitis another ! We, should like to know
how many subjects there are on which any
six Members of Opposition agree—:always ex-
cepting the opinion that this unhappy nation is
ruined in consequence of not having. follo.wed
Whig Counsels4,—Briefly there is not a syllable,
we will not say of truth or probability, hut' not
even of plausibility, itt the notion of this splitting
of the Cabinet.

[THE TIMES 4 .
Every post from Ireland brings intelligence of
some new calamity, growing out of the Orange
demonstrations of the 19. th inst., which took place
in the remoter parts of the country, notwithstand-
ing the injunctions of what these people call their
"Grand Lodge" in Dublin.; and in disregard of
the promises founded on those injunctions, that no
such provocation to a breach of the public peace
would be- given. It appeari, that somewhere
between Monaghan and Armagh, a party of
Orangemen, who had been celebrating the day,
Und were returning to Monaghan with their arms,
fired upon a body of country-people by the road
side, when one man was killed and five wounded
---three, it is affirmed, mortally. The result
of the coroner's inquest is not stated, • nor is
any authentic evidence brought forward, to
prove-which party began the melancholy fray.—
Government, it is said,have issued express orders
for an immediate prosecution of those who may
be accused of the murders, without regard to
rank or religion ; to which end, the examina-
tions of the wounded men have been taken by
the Crown Solicitor,—as other-examinations have
likewise been sworn by individuals of the
Orange party, implicating their wounded adver-
saries. .tt would seem, however, that crimes
like these, susceptible of explanation from the
klu'wn state of factions in Ireland, are not the
only ones which disgrace that wretched country.
Niece men at Cork have been sentenced to death
for burning some valuable mills at. Castletown-
Roche, and, grievous to say, the offenders
are described as belonging to a more decent
class of society than that which► has been usually
productive of outrages against the laws. The
Messrs. Magnify from London, who established
paper-rnills in the same county, have had their
property destroyed from no conceivable motive
but fiendlike wickedness and malice. These
gentlemen had embarked a considerable capital
in their business, and gave work to many of the
neighbouring poor, who are now plundered of
their sole means of subsistence by the seine bru-
tal spirit threngh which their employers have

suffered. This it is to tolerate, as We are told'
must be done in Ireland, the feuds and violefices
of a more than half-barbarous community.—
l'here is no more lamentahle'weakness than that
of imagining, that -if a loOse be given by the
ruling, power to crimes in any specific direction,
the criminal propensity will confine its operations
within the designated limits. He who tells two
bodies of men that if they are satisfied with tor-
menting and persecuting each other, they need not
apprehend molestation from him, forgets that the
spiritof injustice, revenge, and -barbarity,is. ever on
the lciok•out for fresh sources of excitement, and for
new modes of indulgence; and that if the conscience
be set free from restraint on one side, it will un•
shackle itself on every other. The lower Irish
(we do not mean exchisiiely the very lowest)
are now, and have long 'been, deplorable inns-
, trations of this truth. They have seen every
thing in their country sacrificed to party vio-
lence ; they have seen all transgressions of law
,and justice pleading party for their excuse, and
that plea acknowledged. The moral principle
being;thus partially undermined, -they have gra-
dually diversified, at the instigation of their seve-
ral caprices, the instances in which they chose to
exempt themselves from its authority ; and have
raised every evil passion .of human nature..intto a
tribunal for the sanctification of its OWES objects,
and for the redress of its own imagined wrongs.
—To us, indeed, the belief does most power-
fully suggest itself, that without a more diligent
and -efficacious system of moral instruction—
and that enforced by a purer practice in those
to whom the multitude resort for examples—
we may legislate and punish, and pour troops
into the island, nay, - deluge it with riches,
and yet do no essential good.--We see that Mr.
Owen, to whom Ireland stands indebted for a
strong manifestation of benevolent wishes, and a
series of generous and indefatigable tittemps to
serve her unfortunate people, invites a public
meeting at the City of London Tavern.on the
29th inst., where we trust he will not be disap-
pointed of a fUll attendance of the patriotic and
humane.

[MORNING HERALD.]
It must be confessed that the Revolutionists
of modern times will cut a pigmy figure, in his.
tory, by the side of those who have gone before
them. in former revolutionary contests foC

dependence or liberty—whether they succeeded
or failed--from the war in the Netherland
against Philip the Second, down to the carnage
of Wat'saw, and the partition of Poland,
the instances of treachery were so insignifi-
cant or so rare as scarcely to be remembered,
whilst the records of devoted faith and great
capacity abound.. The:truth is, that at the pre-
sent day there is more of ambitious calculation
than of public principle. Or patriotism. Public,
virtue is but too generally regarded as synony,
'mous with simplicity and. narrowness of
and the man who successfully employs artifice
and duplicity for his personal ambition, looks to
he called, not knave or traitor,' but' a man of
skill and talent-=-a clever fellow. Not. only
that severe And dangerous enthusiastri of re:.
ligious' and civil duty, which made, the 14.1nglish
Commonwealth's-men act and suffer " for con-
science sake," but the abstract loVe of
,liberty also,
,and the .pure sentiment of pa-
triotism have passed away like prejudices. The

. . . _
French Revolution, with all its frantic enthu.
siasm, produced a host of ambitious calculators
from Dumourier to Buonaparte. The successive
scene-shiftings, from the first to the second fall
of Buonaparte, exhibited a host of individuals
changing their cockades and their oaths with
shameless versatility.-.. The attempted Revolu-
tions in Italy, particularly that of Naples, were
marked by the most contemptible treachery
in the Chiefs. In Portugal there appears
to have been neither principle, nor steadiness,
nor common comprehension of the public cause,
among the Chiefs, or the masses of the army' and
the people.—Lastly, what a list of prominent.
seCeders or renegades in Spain !—The Ameri-
cans, during the war with the mother country,
were reduced to an apparent state of greater
desperation than the Constitutional Spaniards
Have n yet .experienced. But there is in
the American
war only one instance of trea-
cheryeee worth notice—that of General Arnold.—ln
Spain, four leading Generals, of whom two stood
in the first rank, have already übandoaed or
betrayed their cause, without even trying the
fortune of arms.—lt is not meant to impeach
the great mass of the Constitutional population
and Constitutional armies of Spain. The de-
fection of these Chiefs affords proof even that
the general spirit is purer. It is known that
A bisbal could not move a man of his army
to follow his treachery and his fortunes.—
' Morillo, according to the French Papers, had
joined the French with 3,000 men. It is to be
Suspected that the number is exaggerated ; and
even that the remnant of his corps which adhered
to him was- not to be employed against the Con-
stitutionalists at all.—General Saarsfield,, who,
it was said, had joined IVloncey with his army,
turns out to have placed his single and precious
Person, under the protection of the French Mar-
shal, and Villa-Campa appears to hate made no
attempt to seduce his troops, though it is most
probable ha had an understanding with the
French. The state of the Spanish cause is
very unfavourable. It is not,- however, per.
ha ps, absolutely irretrievable. The defection I
of these Chiefs may have more weight in appear-
ance than in reality. The two first, Abisbal and
Morillo, had military reputations, but they were
mere speculators—and Saarsfield and Villa-Campa
were names of no distinction. As long as the
troops remain steady to the Constitution en masse,
Chiefs can be easily supplied. It is to be re-
marked, in the Mansfestoes of IVlorillo and Villa-
C,nil can hardly 41111 m, that they say opinion has changed in Spain.
be tiny thing else than a pretext for
their own desertion. It is very likely that the ac-
tual hardships of an invasion have greatly tended to
damp the Constitutional zeal of the people. But
it is difficult to discover what act of the Cortes,
since their departure from Madrid, could alienate
any real and resolute friends of the Constitu-
' tion. Between, the translation of the Government
to Cadiz and the, probability of falling into the
1
hands of the French there was no. alternative.