The Sun.
London, England, 1824-10-15 00:00:00

[MORNINd

"Notwithstanding the tone of indignation of the
Done, on account of the Proclamation of the
,lonian Government, we have reason to believe
that what we stated some time ago, on the autho-
rity of a Paris Correspondent, is quite correct,
namely, that France is now as hostile to the
Greeks•as Austria is, and has always been ; and
that the change of conduct in the French Go-
vernment arises out of jealousy of our own,
which it believes to be friendly to the Greeks.
On the subject of the infamous conduct
of the French agents in the Archipelago,
the result of instructions from home, we shall lay
-some details before our readers on a future clay.
Though- the Proclamation of Sir Frederick Adam
really timounts to a Declaration of War against
the Greeks, and would lead any one to infer
that Government had changed its policy with
regardto them, from all that we can learn, the
sentiments of Government on this subject remain
really• the same. How, after professing nen.
trality, and issuing orders to the different Con-
suls and Commanders in. the Levant, to ob-
serve the strictest impartiality, the lonian Go-
vernment should issue such a Proclamation as that
of Sir Frederick Adam, is to us inexplicable.—
There is reason to believe, that the Egyptian
expedition will turn 'out a bad speculation for the
miscreants (who disgrace the name of English-
men) engaged in it, for it was found totally im-
possible to keep the transports together, and they
were literally dispersed over a space of 30 or 40
leagues. It is extremely probable that many of
them "will receive that punishment from the
Greeks, which their base cupidity, deserves. Let
ns only think of Seio and Ipsara,• the havoc, the
slaughter of the old, the violation of the young,
and then ask ourselves what mercy those
Englishmen who lend themselves and their ships
to enable the same abominations to be perpe-
trated elsewhere, are entitled to at the hands of
the' men whose wives and children they would
have assisted in making captives, ,whose country
they would• have made a desert, and all for the
sake of a little filthy lucre ? The slave-dealer,
nay the highwayman, is. respectable compared
with them. Andlet it is .for• the sake of these
miscreants that the lonian Government has dis-
graced the country by appearing to declare war
against the Greeks, and that English Journalists
have consented to share the disgrace by apologiz-
ing for the act.

[TUE PUBLIC LEDGER.]
The accounts received yesterday from Spain
give a picture of that country which no man of
any feeling, to whatever party he may belong,
can contemplate without shuddering. To a friend
of Monarchical Government it must be more dis-
gusting than to the advocates of Constitutional
rule ; for it is the bitterest satire upon the prin-
ciples of the former, and a complete vindication
of the doctrines of the latter. No sufferings,
which a nation could endure in the process of
its political regeneration, would bear a com-
parison with those who have already risen from
t in
attempt to subject the Spaniards to the
wayward. will of a Despot. The convul-
asiroens,
only
theforerunners,
often
mark hitillf general of Liberty,
)er y,
vi-
gorous state of society, which soon 'compensates
for the troubles that have been incurred at a
previous stage ; but the uniform march of arbi-
trary power, particularly when it is forced upon
a nation, is from had to worse, till its converts
the body politic into one loathsome mass of vice
and ts4sery; If things were to continue in Spain
for ten' years, in they way they have proceeded
for the last 12, months, the country would be-
come a scene of general desolation, and the
inhabitants would worry one another like
wild beasts. Fortunately such a system, as
exists in that kingdom, cures itself, and 6'3 will
probably happen much sooner in Spain than is
generally expected. The utmost duration we
are willing to allow to the present despotism is a
period of two years, though it is probable it will
be overturned much aooner. But it will not ex-
pire till it has taught all nations to appreciate the
real character of arbitrary power : and if the ex-
ample of Ferdinand should servo at the same
time as a moral lesson to the Despot, at whose
fiat he has been metamorphosed from a Constitu-
tional to an arbitrary Rader, the world would
have no cause to lament the horrible spectacle
which Spain offers at this moment. Though we
are not so sanguine on the latter point as we. are
on the former, yet we ihall not be disappointed
with respect to the mortification which the Holy
Alliance are doomed to endure for the part they
have taken in the affairs of Spain. Instead of
securing the final triumph of their principles, as
they had flattered themselves, it will lead even-
tually'to their entire overthrow ; and the Spanish
nation, when once roused to a keen sense of its
wrongs will powerfully contribute to the de-
liverance of other nations from, the degrading
and debilitating effects of tyrannical rule.

A Master Carpenter, named Death, residing at
Battersea, has a man in his employ of the name of Corps.