The Sun.
London, England, 1824-07-31 00:00:00

[MORNING POST.]

iiifench Paper; to the 29th inyl., and the Eloile
or Thursday, -reached us last night, by Express.
Their contents are not highly important. The
gives extracts of letters from Constatt-
tinople of "118 late a date as the 4th inst., accord-
it qf 'to which Lord Strangford bud declared to
theaeis-Effentli, in a conference holden on the
23d of June, that the King his master had re.
celled all the English Officers who had engaged
1414110:service of the Greeks, and that the British
Qabinet would abstain from taking any direct or
indireet part in the existing war, citing as a proof
otthisolle events in Ithaca, "in which the Eng-
-1410001 Showed that they were far from bring
disposed to aid the Christian Insurgents." Now
whatever ,truth there may be in the statements at.
Winged to his Lordship, we are convinced that be
could never have so far. forgotten his own character
IlMe'Christiiin and the, representative of a Chris-
-o“l'MOillfreil and people, as to make it a merit
in. the eyes of a Mussulman Minister that the
cense orChristianity has been deserted, end that
hit Sovereign and countrymen " were fur from ,
being disposed to aid Christian insurgents." For
what would be more false or calumnious than to
say, that, however 'checked by prudential and
political motives, such a disposition did not
exist ? The assertion that be used such language
is,a libel on the Noble Lord himself, and no
doubt proceeds from the zealous hostility of those
who Beige every opportunity abroad of attempt
ing 10 degrade the British character. How-
ever this•nmy be, the communicatious made, are
said to hare 'so completely satisfied the Reiss
Effendi, that he eagerly delivered to Lord
Strangford a written promise to evacuate Walla.
chic forthwith, owl ,Moklaviain a very short time,
and to replace every thing in these two Princi-
polities on Use. same footing as it existed in -1821,
before the explosion of the insurrection. Lord
titrangford, added, then announced
timet ar-
rival of Itaissian Ambassador ; and on he 3d
of JUirdlspatched a courier to London.

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4%4 pea or the public who are not familiar
with dinette's-I:condition of affairs in Portugal—
"" d"ivitttUes, personal as well as politi-
cal, which have been played for there—or with
the very important 'station which Marshal Beres-
ford 11" been "ant to occupy at the Court and
In the Palace of JCilitt Vi,, will hear, perhaps,
ariot, .surprise, and even with concern, that he
may lie hourly expected home, as the 18th
instant wasp we understand, the day appoint-
ad for his L°lllBl4o "nhilrkation. Various
rutnoura., of courseove eircuhtted
here and
at Lisbon respecting the motives •which have In-
fluted 'pie "Noble Lord's
return,' it It he vo.
ecessity,
Watery—or as to the camas of its n

ti', Ferchance, it should tura out to be compuislye.i
—lt is possible, say his Lordship's friends, that
ids manly mind may have taken some disgust at
:the compile* and profligate intrigues which have
been developing themselves for so long a time
Ot Lisbon. It is eke barely possible, as has
been affirmed by those who are not Lord
Beresford's friends, that the interest with
which his Lordship regarded the scene was
not quite that of an indignant spectator, and
that his temper was irritated less by the unseeming-
ly violence, or selfish baseness, which charac-
terised the proceedings of the factious, than by
the consequences in which they have resulted. It
was from the Constitutional Government that
Lord Beresford's grandeur and ascendancy in
Portugal received their mortal blow. We are
not certain whether the name he bears be signal-
ized itt its native country for any indiscreet at-
tachment to the cause of freedom. His profession
of a soldier, undoubtedly, would not bias him
against that course of political machinations
whose object was to substitute a sharp and over-
bearing despotism for a state of imperfect liberty,
but whether a direct bias in favour of the female
tyrant and her graceless offspring was really com-
municated to his Lordship's affections from any
less avowed or less pardonable source than that
of natural resentment, or professional habit, it
belongs not to us to decide. The statements which
we copy out of a Cornish paper, although commu-
nicated in letters from Lisbon, dated so far back
as the 20th of June, must be looked upon as re-
markable at least. What truth may appertain
to them will appear hereafter : if false or ex-
aggerated, the person whose reputation they most
deeply affect, must feel some desire to strip
them of all undue authority. Certain weak-
nesses to which men of even a very rugged and
masculine frame of character are prone, have led
them ere now into embarrasments of a critical na-
ture. It would be odd and lamentable, though
not incredible, far less do we assort it to be true,
that an English Ambassador should have been
induced by the representations of any Bri-
tish subject, himself infatuated by the in-
fluence of a Portuguese woman, to sign, joint-
ly with a French Minister, for instance, an
order sanctioning the entrance of French troops
into Portugal ! We say, that if such a case
should in future be brought home to any
British subjects—no matter how high in rank,
how grave in function, or how little worthy of
consideration in any other point of view—the
novelty of such a fact is not the only character-
istic by which it would excite the wonder of the
people of England. In the mean time it has been
mentioned to us, that Sir Edward Thornton is
about to be recalled, and Sir Wm. A'Court will
succeed him ut Lisbon. The vacancy at Madrid
may be filled from Paris, or by a Minister now
on his return from a more distant Court. And
in the general move, we take it for granted that
Lord Francis Conyngham will not be altogether
forgotten.