The Sun.
London, England, 1824-01-20 00:00:00

GREECE.

We should have noticed, at an earlier period
some recent proceedings of the University
of Cambridge in favour of the cause of the
Greeks. They have nominated a branch Com-
mittee to superintend the application of a
subscription in favour of the Greeks. The Duke
of Gloucester has transmitted his subscription of

a hundred guineas to this committee ; and, from
the names which compose it, no doubt can be en-

tertained that an impulse will be given to a mea.
sure which may afford considerable assistance in
furnishing arms and other auxiliaries to this long
oppressed and nobly struggling people. We
should, indeed, be sorry to see that sympathy
which has been excited in their behalf decay to

vigour ; a sympathy which is consecrated by the
right of their cause, and fed by the recollections
of their history. This is not the cause of blind
and plundering jacobinism, which declaims
against war when republicanism or an imperial
usurper is the aggressor, and beats its empty
drum to arms when a legitimate and monarchical
government makes the first approach to aggression
and waits for no reason or just g'oundof hostilities;
but it is the cause of humanity and righteous-
ness, bound upon us by the laws of our kind, and
which, if unsanctioned by laws of nations, would
yet stand on the immoveable foundations of truth
and justice. In the address of the University,
we find the same distinction taken between the

insurgent Greeks, and insurgents against a regu-
lar and common government, which we stated
and argued at an early period of the contest ;
and we are glad to find ourselves supported by
such authority. A conquering power, which af-
fords equal protection, and rules both the con-
quered and the conquering part of its subjects
with equal laws, will come ultimately into the
possession of all the rights of a native government.
But this is not the case with Turkey and Greece.
distinction is kept up as broadly between them
now as when the fall of Constantinople transfer-
red the throne of the Cwsars to barbarian Sul-
tans. The Greeks have enjoyed no certain pro-
tection. A Turk, as such, has, on all occasions,
been allowed to insult their persons, to invade
their property, and to deny to them the common
rights of humanity. They have had no rights in
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other nations cannot be debarred, on any prin-
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to the oppressed : they must do it, it is true,
at the risk of offending Turkey ; but, for any law
or right, they are at liberty to do it, and ought to
do it. Whether that assistance ought to be
given by this country, we speak not now
of individuals, but of the country by its Go-
vernment, so as to push them forward into a state
of absolute independence, is another question.--
(f no middle
plan, which would adequately re-
lieve them from oppression, and place them out of
the reach of the grasp of Russia, is practicable,
we should answer that question in the affirma-
tive. The Turkish empire must ultimately fall
under the growing power of Russia. This none
can reasonably question ; but it will be the fault
of this country if we, by supiness, give Greece
to Russia, and furnish her with all the ele-
ments of becoming a great and commanding naval
power. The independence of Greece would pre-
vent this, and it is, therefore, in policy to be
encouraged by Great Britain. It is, however,
stated, that Great Britain and France are uniting
their indifference at Constantinople to bring the
Porte to consent to allow Greece to be governed
by its own Magistrates and Officers, to withdraw
the Turkish troops, and to accept an annual
tribute and acknowledgment of dependance. To
this Russia, it is said, is not unwilling, provided
her claims on Moldavia and Wallachia are yield-
ed. This is opposed by Austria, and so the
matter is stated, at present, to rest. Such a
measure, as connected with the present policy of
keeping up Turkey against Russia, no doubt may
be made plausible. But who believes that
Turkey can long be kept up against Russia ? and
if not, the tie which connects Greece with
Turkey.' though slender, may be strong enough
to bind Greece to Russia, upon the subversion of
Turkey, and to give her the command of her re-
sources, by virtue of only a nominal sovereignty.
Our policy at the Court of Constantinople has
not appeared to us to be sufficiently longsighted.
It. is adapted rather to circumstances than per-
manent relations. We ought to look forward
to what Russia may be, to what she must be, in
a few years, and provide against it. This is to
be the guiding star in our policy in that quarter,
or we shall be, ultimately, laughed at by the
statesmen whose plans and purposes all extend
beyond the present, and especially the statesmen
of St. Petersburghi. We are bound by no treaty
to defend and uphold Turkey. She must fall if
we were. To her fate we must leave her ; and
when, by aiding Greece, by espousing the cause
of her independence, we do at once a work of
humanity and justice, and provide against the
shock which the balance of power must ultimate-
ly receive, the policy of working towards an ob-
ject which shall meet that issue happens to be at
once most just and most imperative.—(Liverpool
Courier.)

MEETING OF SILK.WEAYEas.—On Saturday
night the Journeymen Silk-Weavers again met,
pursuant to adjournment, at the Red Lion,
Phoenix-street, Spitaltields, for the purpose of
receiving the Report from their Committee, as to
what progress they had made in effecting a re-
conciliation with their employers, when Mr.
BAKER, their Secretary, read a letter from Mr.
THORPE, on behalf of the Masters, proposing
another Meeting, at the King's Head in the
Poultry, on Monday evening, in order to discuss
article by article, and to decide differences,
which proposition was unanimously agreed to.
At the Essex Sessions, Friday, Samuel Clarke,
.whose commitment for stealing the body of Mrs. Cu/1./NEI/A,
from Little Leighs Church-yard, was sentenced to seven years'
transportation f'or stealing the clothes from the body of the
1, deceased.