The Sun.
London, England, 1824-01-23 00:00:00

EBRITISH PRESS.]

Accounts frorn Colmar to the 10th of January,
in the German Papers received by us yesterday,
state the report of the Opposition Deputies,
Messrs. d'Argenson, Kcechlin, George Lafayette,
and Berguen, Representatives in the last Cham-
ber for the department of the Upper Rhine, be-
ing about to be summoned before the local tri-
bunal at Allkirk, on account of their memorable
Metter circulated in that department, on the ex-
pulsion of the undaunted Manuel, and which as-
signed to their constituents their reasons for with-
drawing themselves from the outraged Chamber,
and taking subsequently no part in it;deliberations.
Every opposition possible will now be given to
the return of the Opposition Deputies to the new
Chamber; and a proceeding of this sort is pur-
posely adopted at such a period. Manuel will
most probably be re-elected, and again expelled
by the violenceof the Royalists, and the Chamber
will a second time become a scene of violence
and armed outrage. The Spectateur Oriental, the
apologist of the ferocious Turk, and of the worst
atrocities of that barbarous power, under date of
the 28th November, affects to give a most
gratifying picture of the situation of hapless
Selo: according to this wretched Journal, that
island enjoys perfect tranquillity ; that is, the
quiet of the grave, the peace of the church-yard,
and the silence of the tombs. The impartiality
of the Smyrna Journal is well known and appre-
ciated; this Paper has latterly become very mo-
derate and philanthropic ; twelve months since
it denounced the Greeks as rebels, whose necks
must fall to the scimitar and bow-string, without
hope or consideration. At present, however, its
tone is completely subdued. " Humanity now
(the Paper says) has no wish to form but that
" of seeing the Greek revolution terminated, not
" violently, but in a manner that may content
" both the Turks and the Greeks, Unhappily
(it modestly adds) the accomplishment of this
" wish is remote." It is indeed. So far we
agree with the writer of this article. A con-
summation of this sort-is one the managers of the
Smyrna pener alone can contemplate; nobody be-
side is insane enough even to think of it. The Greeks
can be contented with nothing short of absolute
independence : the Turk aims at nothing short
of universal extermination ; he would reign
amid
the silence of surrounding death sooner than
ceose to govern by a code of ferocious oppres-
sion. The Smyrna Journal adds, that "it is the
" history, and not the romance, of the Greek re-
" volution they have undertaken to write." But
this Journal, the hireling Gazette of the Mussul-
men never will be referred to for the history of
the glorious efforts for liberty of the Greeks.
Their actions will be recorded by other pens, and
be known and remembered in their great result
and their unparalleled effect, when the calumnies
of the Smyrna defamer are long forgotten.

BRITISH PEERAGE.—There is an investigation
now going forward, proving a claim to a title
supposed to be extinct in the BERKELEY Family.
The claimant is Digby Berkeley, Esq. great
grandson of Dr. Henry Berkeley (formerly of
Ardustan, in the county of Carlow, and at that
period one of the Masters of his Majesty's High
Court of Chancery in Ireland, being appointed
to that situation by his near relation, the first
Lord Berkeley, of Stratton, when Lord Lieute-
nant of Ireland, in the reign of Charles the 2d),
by his first wife Catherine, daughter of Essex
Digby, then Bishop of Dromore, and sister to
the then Bishop of Elphin, and which Essex
Digby was the son of Sir It. Digby, and Lettice
Lady Ophaly, the daughter and then sole heir
to Gerald, Earl of Kildare, the ancestors of the
present Lord Digby. The claimant's grandfather,
also a Digby Berkeley, succeeded his father in
the estates in the county of Carlow, who married
an Elizabeth Prettyman, the daughter and sole
heir to the then Sir William Prettyman, of
Loddington, in Leicestershire, Bart. From
the recent discovery of certain documents, and
the success which has hitherto attended the
necessary searches, little doubt is entertained
of the ultimate establishment of his claim.—
A case is now pending, to be laid before
the Law Officers of the Crown in England ;
and if they should give their opinion in the
claimant's favour, a question of considerable
moment will take place on an ejectment about to
be brought for the recovery of the whole of the
property in the county of Carlow, where the only
difficulty that can occur will be, whether length
of adverse possession, connected with the grossest
fraud, can bar the right of remainder-men.

BOW-STREET.—Anthony Bryan, the proprietor
of one of the St. Alban's stage coaches, was fined 51. and costs,
for plying for hire with his coach as :i hackney coach on the
paved street, the sagie not being a hackney coach.