The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-17 00:00:00

MORNING SUN.

against him for the defence of liberty menaced by the ordi-
nances of July. Now, the Turkish Government has not only
encroached on every law protecting civil liberty, but has
trampled under foot every divine and human law.
France is proud of her struggles for liberty, which she has
justly termed glorious ; how then can civilised and civilising
France express the sacrilegious thought that the holy struggle
of the Cretan Christians is an inglorious struggle? No ; he
who speaks thus is not a Frenchman. The Consul has signed
his forfeiture of that respected quality in signing the letter
which he forwarded to us, Insurgents of Crete!

It is impossible that the Government of his Apostolieal Ma-
jesty, which, by a secular struggle against the Iqussuitnaeoe,
has preserved a►l Europe from their domination—it is hill os-
sible that so paternal and humane a Governmert should recog-
nise the legality of a tyrannical power, employing by turns
against the Christians the blazing torch and the assassin's knife
which has lately fired two hundred towns or villages in Bulge- •
ria and Macedonia, and which, not satisfied with stripping the
Christians of their property, delivers their wives and their
daughters to the brutality of an unbridled soldiery..
IVo ; the prudent Austrian Government will not place such
dangerous arms at the disposal of the enemies of legality in
Europe. The Austrian Consul, the sole German ‘..onsul in
Crete, represents here not the Austrian tribe, but the whole
German nation—that nation which revealed to the world,
through the immortal Herder, the Christian humanitary dogmas
—that nation which now restores to the Greeks the rich loans
contracted from our ancestors—that nation whither young
Greece used to go to light the sacred flame of her political and
moral regeneration.
Did not the Protestants in Germany during the 16th cen-
tury create the Duchy of Prussia, that fundamental basis of the
monarchy of Frederick the Great? Did not Albert of Bran-
denburg abolish the domination of the Teutonic knights in the
name of the Prussian towns and commons? And doubtless no
compai ison can be established between the Government of those
Christian knights, subservient to the holy empire, and the brutal
tyranny of the Ottoman ?
No. Germany, that is raising a colossal monument to Her-
mann, her liberator from the Boman yoke, which was a civi-
lisng yoke, will not condem the sons [of Minos, who, invoking
the holy name of the Saviour, are rising against a brutalising
yoke!
In fine, it is impossible, and besides we know the contrary
to be the ease, that Greece should consider our devotedness as
Christians and as civilized men a mere mad undertaking, and
that she should apply to us words that wounded her to her in-
most heart, when in 1621 the bloody application was addressed
to her !
Is not King Otho the expression of the attained end of Hel.
lenie independence ? Humane and generous as he is, he can-
not long deny assistance to men who have a sacred call on the
gratitude of Greece, to whose deliverance they largely contri.
buted. Do not say, 0 Piroglon ! that thou art a Greek ; never
shall we believe it, for we are Greeks.
Convinced by all these motives that the Consuls at Canea
have not acted according to their instructions, that they have,
through weakness, expressed sentiments contrary to those of the
Governments and nations that they represent, we solemnly ap-
peal against their judgment to the supreme tribunal of the pub-
lic opinion of the civil sed world; we appeal from it to all that
Europe contains of generous Christian men, not in mouth, but
in heart ! And to this appeal we join the declaration before
God and men, that, martyrs of our faith, we have sworn, at the
foot of the liberating cross, to die sooner than againlutimit to

the yoke of the barbarians.
" If, therefore, you receive intelligence that order it re-
established in rete by the Turks and by their faithful
Christian allies, add thereto a prayer for the Cretans who
will then have ceased to exist, and who will prove before the
Eternal their conduct to be conformable to their holy
laws, and which they will then moreover have legitimised
' h their blood, as have done their brethren the martyrs of
-ia and those equally venerable men whom the barba-
Btr* ely massacred in Lebanon, while, kreeling before the
ailiatanrss h,.of Lord, they were imploring down his blessings on
s of Europe by whom they were abandoned
the Christian.
merciful to you as well as to us.
May God be
The Governm, .ntal Directory :
D. COW:RETIE, President.
801.711-DOUMBAKIs
Roussous
CONDAXAKIS Councillors.
BISLAKIS
CHRYSOPHOPODLAS. S. L. CDoKKILIs, Secretary.
on the day of St. Glycera,
Done at Bise, of Apokovon.‘'
13-25 May, 1641.

,
COURT CIRCA. LAR.
WINDSOR, FRIDAY.—The Queen and nrinse Albert took
their accustomed walking exercise in the Park this morning.
In the afternoon his Royal Highness Prince .Albert drove
her Majesty in a pony phaeton to Virginia Water .. The
Dowager Lady Lyttelton, Lady in Waiting; Hon. Mis:7 Pitt
and Hon. bliss Cavendish, 111a4ls of Honour in Waiting,
1~1-
lowed in an open barouche, as did also Mr. Rich, Groom in
Waiting, anst Colonel Buckley, Equerry in Waiting, in a
second carriage. Colonel Bouverie, Equerry in Waiting on,
his Royal Highness, rode on horseback with the party.
Her Majesty the :Quem of the Belgians walked for some
time on the Terrace of the Castle to-day.
Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal has taken her usual
airing to-day. he visit of the Earl and Countess of Erroll
to her Majesty was unavoidably put off yesterday, in consess
quence of his Lordship being confined to his room from thes
effects of a cold. To-day there has been no addition to the,
list of visitors at the Castle.
The following will be the only addition to the Royal Dinner
Circle this evening—The Earl and Countess.ot Uxbridge, and
the Ladies Eleanor and Constance Paget.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge, the
Princess Augusta, and Prince George of Cambridge, partook
of a dejune with her Majesty the Queen Dowager, on Thurs-
day, at the Lodge in Bushy Park. Her Majesty and the Royal
Duchess afterwards took an airing in the vicinity, in a pony
phaeton and four. The Duchess, Prince George, and the
Princess Augusta, attended by Lady Augusta Somerset, re-
turned to Cambridge House in the evening.
His Serene Highness the Duke of Coburg gave a grand
ball to the Duchess of Kent on the 7th instant, which her
Royal Highness was prevented from attending by the a rival
of the account of the death of the Queen of Hanover.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge went on Thurs-
day to his residence at Kew, returning to town in the after-
noon.
Mr. Thomas Thornton, Honorary Secretary to the Portu-
guese Committee, attended at the Foreign-office yesterday,
with despatches connected with the claims of the Bondholders.