The Sun.
London, England, 1824-12-08 00:00:00

[IIRITISII PRESS.]

Our private accounts from Ireland by no
means warrant that alarm which appears to pre-
vail on this side the water, as to the inflamed and
contentious state of the Sister Kingdom. It was
to be expected that no pains would be spared to
prejudice the minds of the ignorant and unwary,
by aggravated statements, circulated for the pur-
pose of creating apprehensions which those who
spread them abroad might best turn to account.
Local inquiries have been made as to the condi-
tion of the different parts of Ireland, and from
the reports it is ascertained, that, with a very few
exceptions, the whole kingdom is tranquil ; and
the utmost reliance is placed by all parties in the
firmness of the Lord Lieutenant, and on his known
determination to maintain that tranquillity by all
the means entrusted to his hands. He will no
doubt wield with a steady bat discreet hand
the sceptre of authority, and will not per-
mit his Councils to be inspired by any other
than that equitable policy, which, from the
commencement, has marked his public admi-
nistration. Deploring, as wo all must? the
turbulent dissension which unhappily prevails be-
tween the Protestant and Catholic leaders, it is
gratifying to find the humble and industrious
classes keeping aloof, and cautiously abstaining
from every thing like violence and intimidation.
We place but little stress on those persuasives to
peace and good order on the part of the Catholic
orators, which interlard those speeches, the indi-
rect tendency of which is to irritate the liveliest
feelings, and to inflame their worst passions. We
do not Impute to these oratorical leaders any
deliberate wish to instigate the lower classes of
their brethren to turbulence and crime ; on the
contrary, we sincerely believe that they
have no other aim than to display their own
fervid eloquence, and to figure in the brilliant
reputation of their own rhetoric : and if their
speeches—impassioned and impressive as they
undoubtedly are—went no further than the ears
of the reflective assembly to whom they may
chance to be addressed, whose good sense would
keep them from delusion, or whose prudence
would restrain their excitement—in this case
the evil would perhaps not be great ; but when
these speeches are telegraphed by means of the
press, which disperses them into all quarters,
and places them is all hands—when they are
made, by this means, to stimulate the ignor-
ant, and inflame the bigoted—when all their
maddening energy is poured, au it were, into
the current of the national feeling—the result
becomes perilous in the extreme ; all the sluices
of iniquity may be opened upon the convulsed
empire, with a destructiveness which those who
thus unintentionally opened them may be wholly
unable to stop.

[TIM PUBLIC LEDGERI
Austria appears to be dreadfully alarmed at
the tottering state of the Ottoman Empire ; and
it is confidently stated that she is forming an
Army of Observation on the Turkish frontiers,
that she may not be surprised by occurrences._...,
Most of the German Papers have noticed, with
an expression of astonishment, the military
preparations of that' power; and the fall
of the Austrian Securities shews there is
some ground for this extraordinary rumour.—
For the purpose, probably, of concealing the
real object of this armament, it has been stated,
that the plague, which had broken out in
Moldavia and Wallachia, renders the formation
of a military cordon necessary. But Austria, it
is well known, always maintains a force on her
frontiers, more than adequate for a service of this
kind ; and moreover the plague remits its ravages
at the approach of cold weather. Therefore
this explanation will not suffice ; and a far
more satisfactory reason presents itself in the
dangers which threaten the Porte in consequence
of the successful progress 'of the. Greek arms.—
Every year that this conteit has lasted, has seen
the crescent become paler ; and should it last as
many years longer) it is probable that Its light

would be extinguished altogether, at least on
this side, of the Bosphorus. The Court of
Vienna, justly perhaps, apprehensive that Russia
would take advantage of such a circumstance,
and alarmed at the idea of a further aggrandize-
ment of a Power, whose greatness is only sur-
passed by its ambition, may see the necessity of
making a great effort• to avert the ruin that
plainly menaces the Porte. A Congress, in
which the affairs of Turkey are to be dis-
cassed, and an army to enforce its decisions, are
the expedients which the Austrian Court is said
to have proposed to the other G rent Powers. With
the army it is meant to overawe the Porte, whose
obstinacy might prompt her to oppose a scheme
designed for her benefit ; and it will be sufficient,
it is arrogantly supposed, to notify to the Greek
rebels the Decree of an European Congress, to
enforce their immediate submission. But the

obstacles to this plan are much greater than
the Austrian Cabinet is willing to see. The
French Government, we understand, is un-
friendly to. any plan for coercing the Greeks
to submit again to the Sovereignty of the Porte
under any terms ; and has tried, it is said, to
bring over our own Cabinet to its views. The
French proposal is to make Greece entirely in-
dependent; and it is the more probable; as no-
thing would be more acceptable to the French
nation,_ which has uniformly expressed the
strongst sympathy in favour of the Greeks. That
the Greeks will not be found so pliable as the
Statists of Vienna expect, may be affirmed with
some degree of confidence.