The Sun.
London, England, 1840-10-14 00:00:00

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LONDON:
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1840.

Nothing can be more unwise at the present tno
ment, on the part of either the English or the
French press, than the assumption of an insolent
or a braggart tone, under the flimsy disguise of a
lofty firmness, respecting the settlement of the
, Eastern question. If the Memorandum of the
French Government has failed to convince us
that France has all the ground for complaint set
forth by her Cabinet—if we have risen from the
perusal of M. TillElls' despatch without being
able• to perceive in the complaints of the French
Minister any just cause for doubting the integrity
of Lord PALMERSTON'S intentions towards France
—if we are still doubtful as to the existence of any
real interest which France can have in impeding
the execution of the Treaty of London—we frankly
and deliberately repeat what we stated the very
day we published Lord PALMERSTON'S note—
namely, that France has had just reason to feel
deeply mortified. The sudden change in the policy
of the Cabinet of St. Petersburgh, so remarkable
for the tenaciousness with which it adheres to
views once expressed—the facilit) with which it
yielded every point to England when it was known
that France was likely to separate from us in fool-
ish dudgeon, were in themselves most suspicious
circumstances ; and we are not at all surprised to
learn that they produced great consternation at the
Tuileries. On August 6, 1839, Count NESSEL-
RODE, in the name of his Imperial Master, in a de-
spatch, communicated to the French Government
" The EMPEROR in no way despairs of the
safety of the Porte, provided that the Powers of
Europe do but leave it in repose, and do not, by
their untimely ag,itation compromise its tranquillity
in their desire to secure it ;" and yet in the Sep-
tember following—in less than the space of a single
month, M. DE 13RuNow was sent by Russia to
England, with an offer to cover Constantinople with
a Russian army, Mille dr.! other Powers might find
it agreeable to blockade Syria ! It is a strange—
it is a suspicious circumstance to find Russia thus
wheeling about from left to right to suit the plea-
sure of Lord PALMERSTON, without any osten-
sible ground for so doing. It is the more suspicious,
;nasmuch as Russia heldaloof‘v lutliele acapbeirnfeectst
agreement was known to exist between
of London and Paris.
Lord PALMERSTON'S note accuses France of
intriguing in an underhanid.hiinsaninserdisattincCtloynsdteanniteid-
nople and Alexandria.
by the French Minister, who, however, admits that
France sought to promote a good understanding

ETENiNG EMTION.

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between the SULTAN and his vassal. The
French Ambassador at Constantineple," ti';'s
THIERs, 44 never sought to negotiate a direct ar-
rangement between the SULTAN and the VICE-
Roy. * * 4(' The instructions of lie KING'S
Government have never directed hint to take any
step of the kind. Without doubt, France has
never discontinued her efforts to effect a reconcilia-
on between the SULTAN and the VIcEROY, to
dispose both the one and the otter to make reason-
able concessions, and to facilitate by this means
that delicate task which Europe had undertaken to
accomplish ; but we have constantly recommended
both the Count DE PON TOTS and M. DE COCHELeT
to avoid with the greatest possible care everything
that might be looked upon as an attempt to set the
other Powers aside, anti they have scrupulously ob-
served these instructions." Now it really does
appear to us that the English Minister, irritated at
the supposed intrigues of M. FE PoNTOIS, the
French Ambassador at the Porte, and M. nE Co-
CIIELET, the French Consul-General at Alex
dria, did sign the Treaty sooner and more secretly
than he would have done had he supposed such
intrigues to have no existence. This we think
every person who carefully peruses his 1-4°lll‘
ship s note must infer from it. Now' it
would be instructive to know the source'
whence Lord PALMERSTON derived an impression
so unfavourable towards French diplomacy. Vid
CO'
the belief originate with Lord PONSONBY or
lonel HODGES, or did these gentlemen receive their
inspirations from the Counts DE BOLITINIir
and DE MEDEM ? At all events it would have
detractedn n uni
ci
aloted nothing
gifsrouts-n ;signs
eonis itiolistNelr. Tial
udilg:nsity, ha
Lord PALMERSTON, before signing
the TrestPal
a prompt ,
.
inthena
and ex
meo fopulci
rialtlpia(njal
niecewiotl:
ay
Fr
owai
e needeolande
0
The delay of a few days or weeks was thenf otir
ors°:
moment to the Allies, while it was of the utiiin-
importance, not only to England but to Enre'r.e't
that no just cause of offence or even of c°3lPial a
should be given to France. There were al° a
host of minor considerations which it hein)eta
Lord PALMERSTON, as an able Minister, ont he
lose sight of, although it was impossible °stale
could in any way allude to them. For exemi la'
his Lordship knew that between the liegal!;„1 g
Imperial families of Russia and France something
ILAaikill,eile,irreassEip.oe%n,r.sonal hatred existed, which rendered th_
jealous of the supposed leanings of
gtcloietuii;rediern°olo7t;
:Nraeen Neither
Lord
the
er
(ih
pa NICHOLASbAitLof
EcßosnTcnoeoaNri inLO o I s P iio. a I
be sensible that in uniting England with Rnsse,
he must inflict a wound on the self-love of a Si° of
reign who is the personification of the triumP il.ch
those principles of civil and religious liberty tc'w .1 la
the house of Brunswick stands indebted for the till)
Crown encircling the head of our gracious auf Eollsel
importance in diplomacy ; and
Trifles seemingly of no concern, are of simile
ic
never fails to take clue advantage of them. $1( 0
the Emperor NAPOLEON sent General .11,N°,1.10e
Ambassador to Lisbon, he strictly charged :lea
the
JUNOT not to ridicule anythin froghable in 0,
costume of the ladies, adding with' profound s.Bsest
a wise stat.ear;4lll:o
city, that the real origin of wars between the vv! f $
and most pacific nations was often an aliiir .0 is
head-dress, or something equally trifling. illisood
an axiom which the boasted growth of poPular,i. rgnice•
sense and intelligence ought not to prevent
.0
etc,
matists from occasionally remembering. sisal
tary motion of the moral, no less than the pllYco,
world, is often apt to carry us back to silly but Der
influencing motives of conduct of which, in sve,
moments, we fancied we had taken an eternal le" of
theWneegfortailatktiloynasdoirit,itthtehat at the comment:Oen:lo
gal
oa irni da
i Empireunderstood
o!
than
ilm Easternwo rheabtq;:. thestni
o°,‘
Ili question,
ie'lar Pi
tof-1;,:n1
otifteEon
she IceePing by the French Govelnine,nt—namely, •.- Turkey'
of the Russians and the Egyptians out of • t
But NI. TIIIERS has not attempted t° Sl.
what way the SULTAN could keep these eft tf
l 1"Vicoo
I 1
of ruin at a distance without the extent of terrilahj
, rue
in claieel fur him be England. It would be 'rue
to obtain the guarantee of France for the 'flt,eo *
of Turkey ; but surely something ors
parchment guarantee was required t° so a 0
the repose of the East. It would have been I
insult to France himself to demand from her s-• 0
e
guarantee after the pledge she had previousempire
of her determination to uphold the Ottoman
°iot
in the family of the SULTAN. This is 111,011,
considered
more
secure
eti
twiist h onetlie
which M. Tlifens takes care not to dwel` "coo
s bound wo.hich
and oPen.vediy.
it
England waslti his
adsuatyl
always
sit
maintained
nstpaoi
ikieedn
that
the 0. i.:
out ion.
ses
vi
ere,
g.,
greatest which
h e
care, ya
of Syria must be virtually master of
'therJoin*
and it was incumbent on France to have en list
to 1
I issue with England on this conviction, or Froee
proved it to be visionary and erroneous.
whit ,he
did neither. Affecting an indifference
satwk-
did not feel, and an air of reserve which
~ which
\tastily upon her, she awakened suspicinn
_otos
rec..
she took no care to allay, and provoked
which could not fail to hurt her self-love. good
.5
Our Contemporaries, with as little trot" as
taste, affect to ridicule the statement of th
op.
Constanto.m.pt:i
Minister, that at the commencement of they.,ropiit
tiations the independence of the Ottoman Iles'
was understood to mean only the keeping 111 e The
sians and Egyptians out of Constantinople. 00,
day's c
Morning Chronicle, which is never two ;"ions
sistent with itself, and which burlesques the oyto
be,
of the Government, whose organ it prete°'ilat coil'
is as facetious as its dull conception °f
s'
thisl sub-
stitutes pleasantry will permit it to be 0-nvestal'
fear of /'
that Mr
jest. Now what was really the
that he sin°9
II E M ET ALI should take Syria, but
01 that
Europe after the battle of Nezib? Not ld
s dethrone MAHMOUD. The dread was 11,ie, of
Inc would insist on having smother s' so,
. , ~usurp
of
the Empire, but that he would
' I c invasi°ll
and by such usurpation justify t i
Asia Minor by hordes of Itussians. A of tha
to every body conversant with the history joes to
period, and can be denied by nobody who Eogiiill
speak the truth. And why should ail miiiis-
Journal not admit the truth of the Fieneh A thsl
Vet,'
ter's assertion, seeing, as we before obser orire
Turkish c
it remains to be proved, how the • 2
is •
,et
could now maintain its integrity without Syr
, are )
event' ,014
So far, then, as the progress of
d PA Lit F",s:
known, it appears to us that Lot_
it. -at
and M. TittEtts have both been in error, 31
or leo
EnOte boil'
both have been unconsciously made hey b°
the tools of Russia. For what was it t DA'
desired ? The same objects precisely, 1e go
both t n
'•'his is knoslrnt
sought the independence of Turkey-- Egypt'
vernmentaldomination of MEI! EM ETA Ll.l .0;0
.
d deter
Mere questions of. territory were of little accol'
when compared with the unanimityan
hese ri"ts,
flop of the two Governments uuo" t ' , ovett.
Yet Russia contrived to sow dissension .
co
he alball
of the
them ; and when France,
might have laughed at the intrigues s
was
xr Tait" J
Cabinet of St. Petersburglis -'-'• , , , an
jo duul.'s-e"
silly enough to hold back
contrivances
the elOl
thus crown with success
What had Franc Aid
of a concealed enemy• by joining t
es.e i witn`'
0•4 to have "--1 e-.
supposing Lord PALMERsT •
vis
_i. FranC
it), in a proper regard for the feel;'`,,
ou:t
of. rest
England to fear from the designs of Itiissi' ? ,
which for the sake of arg_utnent, an(l.
quer, we wil,l
"nell
"1""re redotiode
to tine authority of the F
admit he was—would it not have too