The Sun.
London, England, 1824-10-12 00:00:00

that Chittagong, which was occupied by a small
British force, has been captured by the Burmese;
but as a division, consisting of two native regi-
ments, and some European artillerymen, had sail-
ed for that place on the 9th of June, no doubt
this reverse would be soon repaired. The war has
commenced undersuch happy auspices, that it will
probably be brought to a conclusion much sooner
that was at first expected. Should this hope how-
ever fail, there is every prospect that the deci-
sive nature of our success will constitute a sufli-
dent indemnity for the expence that may be in-
curred. Such, in fact, is the nature of our em-
pire in the East, that.it can only be maintained
by a display of the greatest energy, whenever a
contingency like the present arises; and we must
trust to the same arts for guarding, by which we
have acquired it; shewing at the same time a
marked disposition to live at peace, as long as
the neighbouring Powers evince the same incli-
nation. But as soon as they exhibited a deter-
mined feeling of hostility, it should be crushed,
before it has time to acquire a dangerous charac-
ter ; lest opinion, upon which our dominion rests
in a great measure, should receive a severe shock.
It is therefore ridiculous to speak of the present
contest as an impolitic one ; for it could not be,
avoided without concessions on our part, that
would only increase the arrogance of the enemy,
and encourage other Powers to assume a menac-
ing attitude.

[MORNING HERALD.]
There is a struggle of lingering and languid

bargaining between the agents of the foreign
capitalists and the Spanish Government, for a
new Loan at, Madrid. We dare say both parties
are equally unwilling to let go their respective
holds, though it is so difficult to fix the terms of
agreement. Ferdinand has not a more ravening
appetite for the ready cash, than the gentleman
Loan Contractors have for a contract that will
go down with John Bull, on which they may
realize their commission. Two great difficulties
to an arrangement are stated in private letters--
the first, that the lenders demand Ferdinand's
recognitiou of his Constitutional Loans, or at
least some part thereof—the second, that the
contractors demand, by way of security for their
money, a mortgage upon the real estates, goods,
land chattels of the monkish, or, as they are
called, regular Clergy. With respect. to the
first difficulty, some doubt may be entertained of
its truth. The lenders are, ostensibly at least,
no longer the same. And it is rather new in the
money-lending world that a lender should scru-
pulously secure the payment of his dividends to a
creditor of senior standing, before he could be
brought to make any advance of his own. Such
a sense of equity almost exceeds the licence of
romance—and would probably not be indulged
by the great Northern Novelist—should he, in
the penury of scenes and subjects, exhausted as
they are by him, choose for his next theatre of
action the Stock Exchange. Another objection
seems to be, that Ferdinand's cognovil would be
of little value without the assignment of some
funds to meet the demand. The second obstruction
is much more likely. The first thing a lender
thinks—certainly the second—for the per cent. is
perhaps the first—is the security ; and the only
real and tangible security in Spain seems to be

the monastic t•stablishrnents. \Vill Ferdinand
venture to bleed these gentry ? The Cortes even
did not venture to assail them effectually. They
endeavoured to clip them a little, and only pro-
voked their rage. It would seem that some ill
blood has already been excited between Ferdi-
nand and his most faithful friends. Some of the
must servile and fanatical brigands of " the faith"
have been thrown into prison ; and it is curious
that at present the prisons throughout Spain are
gorged alike with Servi lists and Constitutionalists.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.)
The Accounts of the Revenue for the Quarter
ending the 10th of Oct., exhibit an increase of
above 64,0001. beyond the correspouding quarter
of last year. Comparing the year ending Oct.
10, 1824, with the year ending October 10,
1823, there is a decrease of considerably above
a Million, after allowing for the re-payment
by Austria, of which The , COUrier very un-
candidly takes no notice, stating unblmhing.
ly that the balance in favour of the financial
year just expired, amounts to 1,184,0401. Mak-
ing allowance for the reduction of taxes, the
falling off in the year's revenue may not be very
great. t is satisfactory to observe that the Post-
office, that criterion of annual activity, exhibits
an increase on the year of little short of 100,0001,
There has been au increase in tile Excise of about
270,000/. for the quarter—there is a slight dimi-
nution, however, on the year. One of our con-
temporaries states, the repayment for silks on
hand at upwards of 450,0001.

[THE TIMES.]
The. French Papers of Saturday,- which sr-
rived last night, contain, in a letter from Corfu,
dated the 6th ult., a threatening Proclamation,
issued by the Lord Iligh Commissioner of the
lonian Isles, against the. Provisional Coyest'.
meat of (reeve. That Government, indignant
at the selfish baseness which led the traders of
Christian Powers to league with the Infidel, by
hiring their vessels to become Turkish trans-
ports, had issued a manifesto, declaring that " as
46 different European ships had been freighted to
41 convey troops and munitions of war for the
" Turks, in despite of the representations of
" their Consuls, and in violation of the prin.
66 ciples of neutrality professed by their So.
" vereigus, ships so employed should no longer
"• be considered as neutral, but hostile ; and
46 should be attacked, burnt, or run down by
" Greek men of war, wherever met with." 'rite

Lord High Commissioner was ordered by the
British Government to represent to the Govern-
ment of Greece the necessity of recalling this
proclamation, and met with a decided negative.
His Excellency, therefore, after declaring the
conduct of
,the Greek Government to be con•
irary to the law of nations, orders reprisals to be
to k en ou the armed vessels of the Greeks till the
ohooxieus proclamation is withdrawn, and its re.
peal be authentically notified. In pursuance of
this publication of his Excellency, we are

told, that two English frigates had sailed
from Corfu to the coast of the Morea,
where they would be joined by a ship of 'the
line. If the terms of the Greek proclamation be
accurately given, it is difficult to see in what respect
it transgresses the laws of nations. Whatever may
be thought of the right of neutral ships to pro-
tect the merchandize or property of an enemy,
neutral cannot surely claim the privilege of con-
veying enemy's troops or munitions of war, with-
out exposing itself to capture by the belligerent
against whom it thus acts. The most extrava-
gant pretensions of neutrality never extended the
length of demanding permission for a neutral to
carry, under the protection of his flag, troops,
military stores, or munitions of %ear, for one of
the belligerents for the destruction of another.
During the late contest with France, we had an
almost continued discussion with the Americans
on their neutral rights ; but we never heard that
they laid a claim to carry, without molestation,
an army from Boulogne er Dunkirk to Dover or
Harwich. Did the British Government, at that
time at war, exercise a right, under the general
law of nations, which it wilt not permit the
Greeks to exercise in similar circumstances? and
if So, does not the strength or weakness of
the parties decide their claims, and not right
or law ?

[MORNING POST.]
French Papers to the 10th inst. and the Etoite
of Sunday reached us last night by Express.—
They contain a Proclamation from Sir Frederick
Adams, Lord High Commissioner of the lonian
Islands, which if authentic amounts to little less
than a Declaration of war against Greece. It
is dated Corfu, September 6th, and on the ground
of the refusal of the Greek Executive to recal
its Proclamation declaring that all European
vessels shall be treated as enemies which in
violation of the neutrality observed by their
respective Sovereigns hire themselves to the
Turkish Government to convey troops, arms, or
provisions of war, it orders that the British naval

force in that quarter shall " detain and capture
all armed vessels, or vessels carrying armed men,
equipped with or without, but acknowledging
the authority of the Greek Government !"
Should this Proclamation have really been issued,
and should it be acted upon, not, as it is as-
serted, in defence of neutrality, for that is
not the case, but in defence of those who have
violated neutrality, what an extraordinary, and
to England what an humiliating spectacle will be
given to the world ! English vessels, hitherto
The bulwarks of liberty, employed in seizing and
disarming the heroes of Samos and Ipsara, and at
the time when the salvation of Greece and her
islands has been half achieved by their courage,
and depends on their further exertions, sweeping
her navies from the surface of the sea and deliver.

lug her defenceless to the vengeance of the foes
who were flying before the prowess and sublime
devotion of her sons ! It is impossible, we
would fain believe, that a British hand should
have signed such an order; but if it has been
dour, as it is asserted, two English
frigatesne ad r
i'
immediately sailed for the coast of the
Morea to carry it into execution, and the Ad-
miral's ship prepared to follow, bitter as it
may prove to •British spirit, we cannot think the
following castigation bestowed by the official
organ of the French Government, the Etoile,
either unjust) or too severe, except as far as it
mixes the name of our Sovereign with such a
transaction. For we are convinced that his Ma-
jesty would not only be the first to condemn any
act which would tend to the injury of a Christian
People, but that Greek liberty has no warmer
friend, and Greek heroism no sincerer admirer.

[NSW TIMES.]
We have received the Molly dated on Sunday,
which contains an article directed against the
British Government on the following grounds :
It is alleged that certain subjects of Neutral
States, and amongst them some Englishmen,
chartered their vessels to the Pasha of Egypt, as
transports to convey his troops to Greece. The
Greek Government issued an Ordinance, direct-
ing its cruisers to attack and destroy the indivi-
duals who had so acted. The English Govern-
ment demanded the revocation of this Ordi-
.

nance, which was refused, and thereupon
Sir Frederick • Adam, Lord High Commis.
sioner of the lonian Isles, published a notification

that all vessels armed under the authority of the
Provisional -Government of Greece should be
seized and detained. Such is the statement which
we believe to be in many important particulars
incorrect. However, even assuming its accu-
racy, the remarks in the erode are by no means
justifiable. If <a neutral subject let out his
vessel to a belligerent as a transport, lie no
doubt subjects such vessel. to the chance of cap.
tore by the opposite belligerent ; and if taken
'in delicto the -ship may justly be condemned,
as she may for carrying contraband of wari
for breach of blockade, or for any other violation
, of her strict neutral character; but there the pe-
nalty ends. Many neutral vessels were taken up
as transports by the French, particularly on the
Egyptian expedition ; and some of them were cap-
tured by our'cruisers, but no idea was ever en•
tertained that the penalty extended beyond what
we have stated; and for the general principles
on this point we have only to refer to the case
of the Carolina (Nordquist, master) in the 4th
Volume of the Admiralty Reports. It is extra.
vagant to talk of treating neutrals under these
circumstances as " Retiegadoes and Pirates;"
and the British Government is bound to protect
its subjects against any such violence. If there.
fore the Greeks, contrary to the Law of Nations,
threaten to
destroy British Captains and crews,
our Government would be placed under the ne.
serious reproach k
oac
cessity of taking the very step which the writer
in
cho.nsiders to be matter of just and
ertiohse E

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gentleman ai Creditom part of the skin of the late John Thur.
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A subscription has been opened at Liverpool
for the benefit of Mrs. SADLER and her family,
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