The Sun.
London, England, 1824-06-23 00:00:00

RUSSIA AND GREECE.

On the PROJECTS of RUSSIA, with relation to the PACI-
FICATION of GREECE.
For the last three years Russia has been en-
deavouring to convince Europe of her entire dis.
interestedness, and total oblivion of her antient '
projects on the East ; but further attempt is now
useless, for she has just betrayed her designs by
her last Alemoir on the pacification of Greece.—
(See THE SUN glaze 3d June.)
The ambitious views which Russia has never
ceased to cherish for the beautiful regions of the
East, may be dated, not to go farther back, from,
the reign of PETER the GREAT. The Empress
CATHERINE developed them in,a greater degree,
at the same time that she displayed a power tnore
capable of realizing them. In the last Russian
war with Turkey, the Emperor ALEXANDER
proved that he had not relinquished the projects
of CATHERINE, and even, after the peace of Bu-
charest, which was concluded in 1812, when he
carat out victorious from the contest %%all NAPO-
- the Russian Cabinet accused the Porte of
not having executed that treaty, and declared that,
unless full satisfaction was given, Russia would
consider herself in regard to Turkey as in a state
of a suspension of arms.
A steady perseverance in the same projects
from the time of PETER the GREAT down to the
year 18i1 alone chews %hat a real and deep in-
terest Russia feels in the conquest of the East.
The opposition manifested by the Powers of
Europe at Laybach constrained that Cabinet to
defer its projects, in the hope of resuming them
at a more favourable opportunity. 'We were in-
clined to think for some time that Rassia had
laid them aside, but the Memoir to which we
have alluded has unveiled her secret designs : it
proves that Russia has changed her mode of pro-
ceeding, but not her system ; she has only adopt-
ed a more circuitous route.

The absolute independence of Greece woo
.completely overturn the ancient projects of tha
.Power. If the Greeks should proceed in form
ing themselves into one compact and solid nation
it is very possible that this regenerated and in
defatigable people, full of that activity which
long contest imparts, might get possession 0
Constantinople in a second war with the 'lurks,
and this war would at no distant time arisk,
between two people who have borne each other
•a deadly hatred for so long a period.
To .prevent this event, fatal to her views which
are only deferred, what has Russia now done ?
After having abandoned for three years to all the
fury of Turkish vengeance the Greeks whom
she had excited to insurrection, she recommences
her pacific declarations ; she proposes -for the
belligerent parties a plan of arrangement which,
on the one hand, is death to Greece at the very
moment of her regeneration, and, on the other,
paralyses Turkey to render her an easier prey.
Strong from her infancy, the former gives pro-
mise of a robust body, and threatens to arrest
the projects of aggrandisement of Russia. A di-
vision of Greece into three principalities, govern-
ed by three Jloapodors inonsioated by the Turks,
and into as many municipal states us there are
islands in the -Archipelago, placed in three equal
proportions under the jurisdiction of the Hos-
podarS, can only --he designed to stop the victo.
rious career of the Greeks, and reserve for Rus-
sia the power of realising, on a favourable occa-
sion, her views of domination over the East ; and
by withdrawing at the same time the Archipelago
and Greece from the dominions of the Porte, she
almost entirely exhausts the remaining strength
of Turkey, the conquest of which she has been
so long coveting.
Fortunately for Greece and the whole of Europe,
these projects are contrary to the interests of
the Great Powers. England is decidedly op-
posed to them ; and Austria, whom the aggran-
disemeut of Russia alarms with much greater
reason than England, seconds the latter, as power-
fully as she is capable of daring, in her endea-
vours to frustrate the designs of the Cabinet of
St. Petersburgh.
The C reeks find also, in the Divan itself, an ally
against the Russian plan of pacification. Every
time an important question relative to its foreign
affairs is agitated, this Turkish Council of State,
by a natural effect of its extreme ignorance and
distrust, follows with scarcely an exception its
,principle of temporizing. Baccalim (we shall con-
sider), ifedi Allah (if it please Cod), such are the
answers in which it persists at each interview to
the representations of the Christian Ambassadors,
wkom it regards as its natural adversaries. But
when any such propositions come from the Rus-
sian Cabinet, whom the Turks consider as their
most implacable enemy, then they take every
possible pains to put then off indefinitely; and
perhaps the Greeks will have finished their war
with the Turks before Russia may obtain a cate-
gorical reply to the demands she has recently
made to the Porte.

COMMON CouNcii..--A Court of Common
Council was held yesterday at Guildhall., The
Committee of City Lands presented a Report, in
which they recommended the stun of 1501. to be
granted towards the expellee of widening part of
Brick Hill-lane, Upper Thames•streeti which
the Court agreed to, and empowered the Com-
mittee to draw upon the Chamber for the amount.
The Court proceeded to consider the adjourned
Report of the general purposes Committee for'
grantiug the sum of 3001. towards the relief
of the distressed Settler,. at the Cape of Good
Hope, which they
agreed to, and directed the
Chamberlain to subscribe the amount accordingly.
The Committee for General Purposes made a
Report of their proceedings respecting Black-
friars Bridge, ‘which concluded by stating it as
their opinion not to be advisable for the Corpo-
ration to renew
their application to Parliament
it, the present Sessions for raising money to re-
pair the same.—The. Court agreed with the Re-

port.
EARL or• MAR.—The paragraph which has ap-
peared in several of the Papers, laming that the
Earl of MAR had set off to London to pay his
respects at Court, On account df the reversal of
the 4i:tinder affecting his title, Is incorrect. We
are assured that the state of the health of this ve-
nerable Nobleman is such as to render him quite
unable for such a journey•--(G'aledoniun mei.)