The Sun.
London, England, 1824-11-08 00:00:00

THE LONDON. JOURNALS.

DAILY

Extracts from the Morning Papers) Nov. 8.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.)
Information continues to arrive from all quar-
ters extremely favourable to Greece. From
Syra the letters are dated on the 2d October,
and they state, that after the disasters which the
Ottoman fleets experienced, first in the channel
of !largos, then off the island of Cos, and after-
wards still more decisively off the island of Pat-
inas, they were met sailing towards Mitylene,
pursued by the Christian fleet. Advices from Con-
stantinople, and also from Smyrna, leave little
doubt that they were again defeated near Mity-
leue, for a vessel arrived on the sth of October
at Constantinople, the Captain of which reported
that whilst passing Mytilene, early in the
morning, he heard a severe firing of cannon,
and saw a dreadful fire towards the shore,
which he concluded was a ship burning. A vessel
arrived at Smyrna on the sth of October, and the
same information was given then by the Captain
and the crew. Strong expectations are therefore
excited that a few days only will elapse before
accounts be received of the final destruction of
this armament, which a few months ago was con-
sidered sufficiently powerful to have carried de-
solation and chains, before this time, amongst
the Christian inhabitants of celebrated Greece.—
During the whole of this short and brilliant cam-
paign the Greeks have conducted themselves in
the most merciful manner towards all their pri-
soners, excepting the invaders of Ipsara, whose
barbarity towards the natives of that Island was
completely and most justly avenged. All the
other Turks who have fallen into the hands of
the Christians, have been made prisoners of war,
and will either be exchanged or ransomed, as
owl be most convenient for themselves and for
their Government. /lad the result of the war
been different, the same mercy would not have
been extended to the Greeks, who might have
fallen into the power of the Invaders of their
oountry, and the introduction of civilized war-
fare into the Levant is, at all events, therefore,
one benefit which has already arisen from the
liberation of Greece.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
By the Flemish and Dutch Mails width we
eceived yesterday, we have a further confirma-
tion of the late naval successes of the Greeks.
" Thus," says the Allgemeine Zeitung," has ended
the Egyptian expedition, which was announced
hi such a threatening manner, and which, formed
on a gigantic plan, was to have founded a black
African colony in Christian Europe." The last
accounts from Hydra, in the German Papers,
state, that the heroic Canaris had sailed, on the
td of September, with forty fire-ships, to at-
tack- the Captain Pitches Fleet off Mity.
lane, and by way of Constantinople we learn,
that on the night of the 6th of October the whole
sell near Mitylene was illuminated with the con.
liagration of vessels. It is therefore highly pro-
bable that the remainder of the Turkish fleet
has been destroyed, Letters have also been re-
ceived in town, stating that a merchantman from
Smyrna, when off Mitylene, heard a heavy firing
fOrieveral hours. In the Frankfort papers there
is an account of the substance of the convention
concluded between Sir Frederick Adam and the
Greeks, with respect to the treatment of neutrals.
Some ridiculous stories have been circulated on
this subject, and commentaries, more ridicu-
lous still, laboriously written upon them. The
Greeks have bound themselves to follow the usages
of civilised nations, and establish a proper Court
of Admiralty to decide the lawfulness of each
capture made by the Greek ships of war, on the
gnu:rid of the violation of neutrality. This, we
think, it must be admitted, even by the Morning
affronicle, is a course somewhat snore regular
than destroying the suspected vessel at once,
46 together wills its crew." Our traders in the
Levant cannot feel much obliged to souse of our
iournalists for the kind of protection they would
be, ye extended to our mercantile marine ; nor can
the Greeks themselves look with satisfaction
upon the zeal manifested to abuse our Govern-
ment, because it adopted the most prompt rasa-
suns to obtain the revocation of a sanguinary
proclamation, issued by the Greeks, probably in
a moment of extreme irritation, and rescinded in
a few weeks, with ass honourable acknowledg-
ment of its absolute indefensibility.

[Twt TIMF.S.]
It is a serious task, however painful, to watch
the successive writhings,. plangings, and couvul-
bin 'catchings, of. Ferdinand VII, and his Mi.
Waters ; and. all for what ?—for the continuance
of
,tt state of misery, which, to themselves ttt
least, by every law of human nature must be
th© next thittg to intolerable. We have been
kid to this remark by the sight of a document
professing to
.be un Ordinance of the Spanish
Minister of Police, and dated Madrid, 4th of
October. The articles of this decree demonstrate
consequences which always result from a Go-
vernment of which tyranny is the active prin-
ciple. We do not mean the consequences upon
the • unfortunate people who are oppressed
by it, and who are kept, TlO doubt, in a state
of regular purgatory ; but its effects upon
the rulers, in their own persons—on those who
enjoy the Government—who have committed
perjuries and treasons to arrive at it, and who re-
tain it by the hourly perpetration of the 'most
heartless cruelties. What is called the superin-
tendence of the police, is in plain language a
civil inquisition. Fouche talks of it as a humane
expedient and if so, the legitimate Spanish Mi-
nister, M. Gonzales, has carried his humanity to
a Pitch, that immeasurably overtops and eclipses
that of Fouche and his Jacobins. Each paltry
local intendant of the Police throughout Spain,
is ordered to form and transi • nit to Madrid a list
Of all the souls, male and female in his In-
tendantcYs whom he, the Intendant, in his ti-
midity, his folly,. his ino• •• •
ice, us personal ven-
geance, or his base ambition to snake himself
known at head-quarters, by
"Wior zeal
and vigilance, may choose to say that he
suspects of liberal opinions, or may .choose