The Sun.
London, England, 1823-09-16 00:00:00

goalerne against the Regency, from Andujar, re-
mains in many places unexecuted, but was for-
mally opposed by d'Espagne and the army of
Navarre, who prepared an address against it.—
HundreL4 of Victims still crowd the horrible dun-
geons, new arrests were still made, and the reign
of terror is is many places at its height. It is
even said the F'rench Ninibtry have withdrawn
the decree altogether. The truth is, disunion
reigns among the very leaders of the French
Councils, even within the Pyrenees. Angouleme
has one opinion—Lauriston another; Talaru and
Oudinot, itt INladrid, are atly4 thing but agreed.—
The fanatics who desolate Spain are, however,
consistent in their bigotry, and their thirst of
persecution and blood is unquenchable and un-
abated.

[vn TIM EL)
The Greek Committee have published a re-
port, from the pen of Mr. Bluquiere, with a view
of drawing attention to the affairs of Greece, and
to the glorious struggle which she has so long
maintained. With regard to the address itself, we
must say that it is much too voluminous, and at the
same time, much too vague—fatiguing to read,
and destitute of exact or interesting information.
Mr. Blnquiere seeks to recommend the cause by
general reflections, of which all men are ca-
pable ; whereas a few authentic and striking facts,
illustrative of what the Greeks have actually
done—of w hat they have su tfered—of their present
position, and of their resources for hereafter—
would do more to engage the public mind, than
whole volnmes of indignation, or pity, or 'egret
for their misfortunes. We need not be told that
the Greeks are Christians fighting for liberty, or
that the Turks are infidel barbarians, grinding
down our brethren of the faith of Christ with
cruel and contemptuous tyranny, We know all
this; and we give Mr. Blaquiera credit for the
impression which such affecting truths have made
upon him; bat we expected from him, instead of
that lore of sentiments which he set out with from
England on his voyage to Greece, some portion
at least of the local and distinct intelligence re-
specting her, which it was the understood pur-
pose of his mission to acquire. Mr. Jilaquiere
sailed early in March fur Marseilles, in corn-
parry with Luriottis, a distinguished Greek pa-
triot, ww•ho had come to London to inform him-
self concerning the dispositions of the people of
England towards his countrymen. Mr. Bla-
quiere's object was to ascertain for the Greek
Committee, and through them for the Public,
the precise condition of the Greeks and of
their contest—an object in which, we trust,
he will prove by and by, in some subse-
quent publication, that he has succeeded. What
we can collect from the report now before us is,
Ist, That the Greek insurrection was provoked
by the Turks, and was very far from being con-
' certed with the Neapolitans or Piedmontese—
with the Spaniards, the Portuguese, or the Irish.
id, That the cruelties of the Greek soldiers to-
wards their tyrants, besides being provoked,
were maliciously exaggerated ; and that although
the Turkish spirit of atrocity still continued in
its utmost violence, the Greeks had latterly
adopted a more temperate treatment of their
captives. 3d, That the Greeks are alive to the
benefits of knowledge and civilization, and are
anxious to educate their youth. Now, we be-
lieve all the aforementioned statements to be
well-founded, and we object to them only be-
cause they are not quite new, while they present
themselves to the public as the result of a voyage
undertaken in pursuit of what was to be satisfac-
tory, without being notorious. Our disappoint-
ment in this respect is proportioned to our ar-
dent sympathy with the Greeks, and to our un-
feigned anxiety. for their liberation. We are sure
that materials might have beers extracted from
visit to the scene of that heroic struggle, by
which the feelings as well as the judgment of
Englishmen, would be deeply and powerfully
affected. We recommend, therefore, a second
report to Mr. Blaquiere, stating what he saw,
not what he. thought ; and we heartily join him
and the Greek Committee in preying our coun-
trymen to come forward liberally. with contribu-
tions, for maintaining the cause of Christianity
and of freedom.

DeottNt:!to urttat.p.l
An;EN0111111* Paper has thought proper to at
tack an article we wrote a few days since, re-
specting the West India Docks, It is not done,
however, in the most courteous manner. We.
think the, writer of that article rnisenderstood us,
We said that if thet,om pimp, hnd been Utl prosperous
they might have had a fair claim on. the. Public
for an extension of their Cherter ; we, said so on
general grounds, for it is well known, that in, al-
most all cases of this nature„ the first expellee •is
the, greatest difficulty to surmount, For in-
stance, Sir Hugh. Middleton 'ruined himself in'
the New River undertaking, and it' was many
years before annual profits were made to a sufficient
'extent to pay even thoinWrest of the capital he bad
expended, mull Les& a profit beyond: the interest.
The same has often been. the case in the first
'establishment' of manufactories, more especially
those on, a large scale. Too often the first
establishers of such, manufactories haves been
„rained, though their successors have, after a
lapse, of years, caused them to flourish ; and' in
a great. many. cases, the establishers of large
manufactories, or the diggers of, cauale, docks,
&c. haver passed' their lives, and never re.
cevereet the amount, of the capitat they had
expended. Rut thle.Compauy shovreit that they
had been. highly; prosperous, and: that they find
not only. divided annually,ad good interest, but
that there was, also a surplus of 300,0004 Ueda,
such prosperous circumstances, therefore, we gave
it as our opinion, that they had no claim on the
`,country fax an. extension of dine 'beyond the three
:years, %hate, the Charter of: its cotomporary, the
London Dock Company, wool& expire. /tad
the West India Dock Company come forward. and
stated that they had' expended, a certain large
amount of capital, for which 'they had' not re-
.ceived interest, that there was no balance or stir-
plus appeariug on the face of the account, 'and:
that such concern had only jest got-over its* first
'difficulties, a. sufficiency of capital having been
now expended:, and that if a farther time of 7,