The Sun.
London, England, 1823-02-20 00:00:00

[MORNII4,O POST.]

in the Houie of Commons last night, Mr.
Hume continued his eccentric career, and con-
tinues to 'excite the mingled mirth and pity of
that Honourable Assembly. He produced a new
series of farcical blunders; for which he was re-
quited with the custo►rmary castigation by Mr. It.
Ward and Mr. Secretary Canning, who suc-
ceeded in shewing that he was generally wrong,
but most part►cularly so on all those points whi.eit
he considered OP be strong ones. The
Gentleman seems to.emulate the glory of a ,prize-

fighter of trie.old.scbool, who was honoured with
the name of Rneggvd-and nugh, and who, though
he never cOnqUered, was much praised, in con-
sideration of the intolerable beatings which he
could sustain. Hume is xertainly a great
glutton in his way, and stands up.more than any
man we have ever seen so repeatedly floored.
His comical int-epidity so interested Mr. M'Do-
nald that he, compassionately endeavoured to
help him Anti of the hobble into which he bad
got by his motion on the subject of the recent
appointment of Lord Beretford to the situation
of Lieutenaht-General of the Ordnance. Mr.
M•Donald tenderly recommended him to with-
draw his motion, and move for a Committee of
Inquiry. Mr. Calming, however,'would not al.
low the-Patriot to get oil' so, and peremptorily
refusing to content to the motion being with
'poor Mr. Hume was l'or,ced into a divi
:ion, when he found a majority of 127 against
him.

[MORNING CIIRO?iICLE..I
Petitions were last night preSented from seve-
ral parts of the North. of Ireland, complaining of
the establishment of Jesuits in the south of that
country as .a great obstacle to the mental im,
provement of the people. It was stated by
several risk Members, that. the allegation in the
Petitions was tinfounded:; but Mr. Spring Rice
admitted there was an impression in Ireland that
the Jesuits had established themselves there,
though as mere Jesuits, abstracted from all , in-
terference with, political power, and devoted to
Instructing the people, they were not, he thought,
an evil but a good. We do not see how the esta
blishment- of Jesuits in Ireland can be worse
.than their establishment at Stoneyhurst in Lanca-
shire, nor how is it possible to prevent their esta,.
blishMent in either country, without flying in the
face of every principle of toleration. We are not
exactly prepared to determine how far instruction
communicated by a Society, of which the ethical
erder is detestable, can be called a good—but the
way to counteract the Jesuits is not to persecute
even them, 'but to rival them in zeal and activity.
Erederick of Prussia employed the Jesuits as
schoolmaSters in Silesia after their disgrace, and
yet notwithstanding the Protestants from the mi-
nority became the Majority in that country. The.
best way to counteract Jesuits, is not to deafen
Legislature with complaints against them,
but to imitate the industry of the Wlethodists,
who every where establish Schools as well as
Chapels, and who, notwithstanding the superior
attentionjo Pastoral duties of the Catholic Clergy
(compred with those of the Establishment),
We doubt not, gain ground in Ireland, as
sull as they have done in England.

[MORNING MERALD.I
tither public occurrences of a .nearer and a
deeper interest have drawn away the public mind
from the singular warfare between the Greeks
and Turks. Yet this contest will probably make
a figure in the page of European annals among
those great transactions which are referred to as
epochs in history—if,as we trust, it be ultimatelY
crowned with success. That such will be the
issue there is great reason to expect. The
Greek contest has been fur SOMP time on.
heeded, but not undistinguished. There have been
several shocki of arms by land as well as by sea,
and in these the Greeks have uniformly come ow
with. a solid accession of strength, and a still
greater eclat of reputation. The Turkish naval.
force they have completely shattered. It is al.
most swept from the 'e aters. The Turks have
been dispossessed of some strong holds on land
also.; and the Government has gradually ac.:
quired strength, unity, and regularity of opera.
Hon. Thereis still another important and gra,
titying circumstance. The Greeks have not only
achieved this without Russiahltid, but they see
the designs of the Russian Cabinet towards them
In its true colours. The history of a former
and not very distant contest in which they were
engaged against their, oppressors, 'should have
disabused them respekting the designs of Ritssia.'
The 'selfish mid cruel perfidy with which the.
Empress Catharine. abandoned the Greeks when
she found it prudent to make peace " with,
the Porte, is almost as great a blot upon her me.
'mory—certainly as strong evidence of her exe-
crable character, as the more noted atrocities
committed by her in Poland. . The GreekS, how.
ever, after the' lapse of ageuerathin, and with.
the natural 'credulity of men in despeynte peril,
still caught at the hope of Russian support.---
But the deVelopement of the modern Russian
policy, as rapacious and ',selfish as ever; though
more smoothly. cloaked ;—united with the.
develOpement 'of their own strength, has now
completely ,weaned them from ituSsian protec-
tion.--,Whilst the Greeks were .regarded as the
protegees 'of the Emperor of Russia, their fate
could inspire, comparatively, little hope or .
terest among the enlightened 'and reflecting of
other nations. It would be merely the change
of one bondage for another ; a really, though
perhaps not
.apparently more pernicious one.

ARMY.—Yestertlay morning, pursuant
to the order of the Musteralaster-General of
the three regiments of Foot Guards, five hat.
talions of the Ist, the (.2d (or Coldstream), and
Sd regiments, consisting of between five and
six hundred men, mustered on the parade
in St. James's Park, and after being formed
into a square,were inspected by their Officers.
The men seemed in good health, and had a very
formidable and warnuo appearance. A vast con,.
course of people were assembled to witness their
military evolutions, after which they Were dis.
missed.