The Sun.
London, England, 1824-05-18 00:00:00

making against the power of the Infidel, for their

existence as a nation. The Vienna Journal has
been all through the persevering enemy of the
Greek cause ; its pages have ceaselessly been
filled with the grossest misrepresentations.—
Now that Austria is too powerful to appre-
hend any rivalry or danger from her Turk-
ish neigbour, and probably contemplates
the fall of that tottering Monarchy at no
distant day, the partition of the splendid spoil
in union with Russia, she cares little what fate
may await the Greeks, and would rather see
them subjected to any doom than triumphant
against their oppressors, and free. According
to the Vienna Gazette, the Ottoman is•putting
forth all, his strength for the campaign. The
Paella of Egypt has furnished a numerous contin-
gent, and nothing awaits the hapless and divided
Christians but certain destruction. We cannot,
however, forget the same confident forebod-
ings by this journal and the Smyrna Gazelle
previous to the three former compaigns, and
we know how they closed. The only appre-
hension we can have at present springs from
the divisions of the Greeks. If Colocotroni
has fallen, and the Christians are united, the
force of their enemies will melt away before

them as in former years; they will have little to
apprehend from the few Janissaries who have
enrolled their names to serve against them at
Constantinople, or the rabble of Asiatics and
Egyptians, furnished by the Egyptian Pacha,
ho has been artful enough to decline the danger-
ous command in Romelia, Albania, Natolia, and
Syria, offered him by the Porte, and which Ma-
homed Ali transferred, with the title of Seraskier,
to his son Ibraham. According to the Vienna Jour. ,
nal, the Pacha assists the Porte with 20,000 infau.
try, 12,000 of them organized in the European
manner, and 2000 cavalry, with 10,000 Druses from
Mount Lebanon and that neighbourhood. Now
there is no force of this amount or character in
Egypt; and the Druses will not quit their coun-
try to march with the Egyptian contingent
through Syria and Asia Minor, for the purpose of
a desperate warfare against the Greeks. If any
unhappy divisions still unfortunately exist
among the Christians, they will vanish at the ap-
proach of danger. The Albanians were the best ,

troops the Porte possessed in the former campaigns,
and their Palikars have ❑ow refused to serve
against the (I,reek.s. By the time the forces from
Egypt reach Gallipoli the campaign in the Morea
will probably be over, and the efforts of the Otto-
man. be confined to provisioning and strengthen-
mg the fortresses of Patras, Lepanto, and the few
remaining places still in his hands. The Greeks,
ill provided as they are, still are more than a
match for the Turkish rabble. Greece fortu-
nately affords the finest local advantages for de-
fence, which the Christians availed themselves of
in the former contests, and they will dispute
every inch of ground now, and are infinitely bet-
ter prepared to meet their oppressors. A few
months will, we trust, dispel all the dark fore-
bodings of the Austrian Journal, and shew the
Christians united and triumphant.

[MO Na CHRONICLE.]
We inserted on Saturday a letter signed Mer-
cator (which we received from a mercantlie Gen.
tleman, than whom, few persons in the City of
London are supposed to be betteracquainted with
South American affairs) ridiculing the idea of
General Iturbide having privately left this coun-
try, and stating that in a few days he would be
found with his Lady at Bath. We were some-
what startled when we received the intelli-
gence yesterday of the actual departure of
this individual. We have extracted a para-
graph from The Courier, in which some parti-
culars connected with his departure are stated.
Our readers will also fiud in another column, a
let ter from-the General, addressed to M. J. Quin,
Esq. Gray's Inn, dated as far back as the sth
instant, in which he announcesthe views, real or
pretended, with which he embarks for Mexico.
A duplicate of this letter was, we understand,
addressed to Mr. Matthew Fletcher, a respect-
able merchant in the City, and Cite commercial
agent of General Iturbide.—lturbide has left six
children in this country. The eldest son is at
Ampleforth College, Yorkshire ; another boy
is at Hampstead. This looks, at all events,
as if he had a desire of keeping up a connection
with this country. In charity, too, to the Gen-
tlemen who have allowed their names to be
brought before the public on this occasion, as his
confidential friends, v,e must suppose, that they
were persuaded his views were not hostile to
the interests of this country. As to the proba-
ble result of his expedition, however, we aro not
in possession of data to enable us to pronounce a
correct judgment. The Courier anticipates civil
war from it. The General says that he goes to
heal divisions, and he pledges himself that, if he
succeed in realizing his plans, the debt will be
acknowledged, and the mining and commercial
transactions of the country will be carried on
with additional vigour. Time will clear up
this matter, which at present is involved in ob-
scurity. We may observe that Captain Basil-
Hall, in whose judgment we may repose great-
er confidence than in that of any other indi-
vidual who has visited America, speaks favour-
ably of Iturbide, and from the character he
gives, that he would betray his country to Spain
seems hardly probable. His connections in this
country too were respectable. We were waited
on by an individual of the-first respectability, on
one occasion, who pointed out a misrepresenta-
tion we had fallen into with respect to him. We
have not the slightest doubt, notwithstanding the
assurances of Ministers, that France is at the,
bottom of the designs now in agitation against
South America. We would fain hope that Itur-
bide has not lent himself to the views of that
peg &lions Government.

[MORNING HERALD.]
In the Lord,s last night, the Earl of Liverpool
moved the appointment of a Committee similar
to that appointed in the House of Commons as
an amendment upon Lord Althorp's motion, for
an inquiry into the state of the counties in Ire-
land in which the Insurrection Act had been en-
forced. It was carried by a majority of 50 to
w. The amendment in the Lords was exactly'