The Sun.
London, England, 1824-10-22 00:00:00

rut LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY
Extracts from the Morning npers, Oct. 22.

[MORNING POST.]
An Express brought us last night French
Papers to the 20th inst. and the Etoitc of Wed-
nesday. It appears by the official part of the
:MonttCur that Sir Charles Stuart had presented
his new credentials to Charles X. as British Am-
bassador. The report which lately prevailed of
his being recalled, and of an intended change in
the Embassy, seems therefore both incorrect and
unfounded. There is an article in these Papers
from St. Petersburgh, which shows that the ef-
forts and influence of Lord Strangford with the
Porte had not been as successful as it had been
represented. The promised and pretended eva-
cuation of Moldavia turns out to have been a po-
litical fiction imposed upon his Lordship and the
Russian Cabinet as a reality. A Report from
General Sabanieff, who commands the Russian
forces in Bessarabia, has dispelled the delusion,
and proved that the Turks not only oc-
cupied Moldavia still, but that they had
not taken one single step which indicated that
they would soon evacuate that Principality.—
This intelligence is said to have produced a
great sensation at St.Petershurgh. It was expected
that the Emperor would be " extremely discon-
tented with the Turkish Government," and that
" great changes would take place in the policy of
the Russian cabinet." These c,hanges would of
course affect the question of war or peace with
Turkey, which was thought to have been decided
in favour of the latter, but which seems now as
unsettled as ever. And indeed had Alexander
only considered the dignity of the crown and the
violated faith of treaties, he would long since have
sent his troops across the Pruth, and enforced with
the sword what negociation vainly struggled to
obtain. But he had other objects to view : for
though his ambition is great, it is cautious and even
timid. Like Napoleon's it may aim at the pos-
session of a world, but unlike Napoleon's it will
undermine, not storm its prey. He listened to
the remonstrances of his brother Monarchs, who
feared that war once lighted in the East would
extend throughout Europe, with a degree of
condescension which. was more apparent than
real. He yielded to their counsels, checked
his troops, and obtained full credit for consist-
ency and moderation, whilst his chief object was
to gain time. For time, he saw, must give up
defenceless into his hand the State which was
then in the plenitude of its power. Had he
made war upon Turkey when she first occupied
the Principalities—at the very birth of the
Greek revolution, atul before she had bean ex-
hausted by the contest, he would have had to
grapple with a lion, full of wild strength and
terrible spirit. Should he now declare war,
the lion is faint, wounded, and only mighty '
in its despair. But should he wait a little
longer, even that last expiring energy will
have subsided, and the prey will have nought
to turn against the Invader but an eye of
impotent indignation and fury. We should not
be surprized therefore if Alexander should begin
to lose some of the docility with which he has
hitherto suffered himself to be led by his Royal
and Imperial Advisers. IJ.e is positively to re-
turn much sooner to his capital than he intended
when he set out, and though this is attributed to
illness, it is perhaps one of thffse political ill-
nesses, which conveniently attack Ministers and
Sovereigns when some "great changes of policy"
are in contemplation, and it is wished to, conceal the
prlparatory steps from public view. Not many
months will probably elapse ere the nature and
the energy of the new system shall have become
fully apparent.

• [lllllll4ll Pit US.]
The war with the French Ministry is waged
more actively and sigorously than ever in the Pa-
ris papers of Tuesday. From each side, Royalist
an4r Liberal, the attacks are made with great
..titirceness and apparent confidence of success.—
...sr4l T
ke,laurnal des Debate has an article on the
state of Spain, which it truly ascribes to the nar-
row and doubtful policy of the French Cabinet
towards that wretched country. " We can
neither abandon it," says the journalist, " to
the dangers of a fresh civil war, nor conti-
nue to occupy it at our own expellee, such are
the unanimous distrust of the Spaniards as to
all foreign interference, the want of modern-
tion among the Clergy, the only body possessed
of influence, and the political debasement of
the Nobility, by the shameful practices of the
former Ministers. Why did we abandon the ge-
nerous and wise principles proclaimed by the
Prince Generalissimo at Andejar ? We are, said
the magnanimous Bourbon, under the obligation
of preserving the tranquillity of the kingdom ;
we ought not to suffer arbitrary arrests, gratuitous
unnecessary molestations, or imprudent persecu-
tions : they tend only to embitter party spirit,
and to keep alive the flames of civil war ; at least
they defer the restoration of public peace and
order." Further on the Journalist asks—" What
party have we gained by our vacillating and hollow
policy ? What credit have we with the Cabinet of
Madrid,with the clergy,or with the people ?" The
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article Concludes thui—" The Prebident of the

Council has skew n himself,in this case as in others,
m, an of some skill fora single transaction, but
oily destitute of that comprehensiveness of
,adwhich enables its possessor to see before-
Land
a train of consequences, and equally defi-
cient in the loftiness of character which inspires
confidence in those who know him. Like the pilot
of a petty boat, he can avoid perils when he sees
them plainly, but he is no captain for a long voy-
age. Ito cannot sail across the ocean. Wander-
ing without design or compass, he is every mo-
ment in danger of striking against a rock, or
foundering in a storm." T lie Constitulionnel,
however, denies that either the Prince de Polig-
ner, or M.de Chateaubriand has returned to Paris.
Ttott paper hit* a long account of the disturb.
auces itt•rt:he funeral of the actor Phillippe. It
appears that the Minister of the Interior excused
himself, from interfering, by telling the deima.,
tion who:waited upon'him, that it was net in his
rnirsc to oropel the Clergy to receive the corpse