The Sun.
London, England, 1832-09-19 00:00:00

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licy pursued by that Government siric4)Gceece
brew off the Ottoman yoke has been such as to
.ford abundant proof that the object of the ca-
')inet of St. Petersburgh was not to assist in es-
tablishing the independence of the ancient land
if civilization, but to supply the place of one
liarbarian master by another, and substitute the
iron sceptre of Muscovy for that of the Porte.
For that purpose was the Russian minion and
renegade Greek, Capo d'lstrias, sent from St.
Petersburgh, as we have more than once ob-
served, and zealously did he exert himself to
serve the interests of his employer. For a time
his government was conducted with more craft
and dissimulation than was consistent with the
open assumption of tyrannical power; but at
length, believing himself securely seated, as the
satrap of Russia, in the chair of vicarious sove-
reignty, he gave the Greeks a foretaste of the
blessings of Muscovite dominion—but the spirit
of Greece was not yet sufficiently broken to re-
EA the sample of Northern " liberality." 'The
consequence was resistance and bloodshed, in
the course of which the promoter of civil com-
motion and sanguinary violence paid the forfeit
of his own life. His party, or rather that of
Russia, was still strong enough to raise his
brother Augustine to the Chair of the Presi-
dency, but not strong enough to keep him there
long against the power of that national indigna-
tion which his perseverance in the policy of the
deceased President excited. He was driven
from the authority which he had usurped, and
the Russian Admiral received under the protec-
tion of his guns the banished minion of his Im-
perial master. Since then Nicholas has exerted
himself through his agents to facilitate what is
called the " settlement of Greece," by the ap-
pointment of a son of the ci-devant liberal King
of Bavaria to the throne of a country whose
people have not been consulted by the Great
Powers that presume to regulate its destinies,
either as to the form of Government, or as to

the choice of the person to be invested with the
regal purple. An inexperienced schoolboy,
.under the name of a King, will suit the purposes
of Russia very well. His father was one of the
first of the German Princes to give in his adhe-
sion to the despotic decrees of the Frankfort
Diet ; therefore to lean to despotic rule will pro-
bably be with him a matter of filial duty. Be-
sides, to make sure of having his political edu-
cation perfected in accordance with his own
views, the family of the Autocrat supplies hint
with a wife, and the incapable Foreign Minister
of England, who in this as well as in other
matters, has been made the tool of Russian po-

licy, binds England in a guarantee for an im-
mense SIJIR of money, by way of a loan, to the
juvenile Sovereign, whose appointment was first
suggested by the faction of Capo d'lstrias, and,
consequently, can have no other object than
to establish the sup/emu of Russia in Greece,
which will give the former, in process of time,
what she has long and ardently coveted, a ma-
rine and naval stations on the Mediterranean.
We said on former occasions, when directing

the attention of the British Government Co

this important question—we mean important,
not merely as concerns civilisation and huma-
nity, but as concerns the interests and com-
merce of England—that Russia fomented the
internal dissensions of the Greeks with a view
to the arrangement which is now stated to be
finally concluded. The German Papers in the
interest of Russia dwelt very much upon those
dissensions to show how untractable a people
the Greeks are, and how much they require to
be kept under by the energies of a strong Go-
vernment—strong in the Russian sense—that
is, not by the moral force of wise laws and
sound institutions, but by military power ; and,
accordingly, the chief outfit for king alio is a
tolerably strong escort of bayonets It was
not, however, the German Papers only, but

Journals in the interest of our own Government,
which represented the appointment of Otho not
only as being a most eligible one for the pur-
pose of putting down commotion and anarchy in
Greece, but as an appointment the very mention
of which created universal joy among the Greek
people. Some Private Correspondence which
has recently come from that country proves
quite the reverse. Some of this has appeared
in our own columns; but, as the truth is best
manifested by a coincidence of accounts from
sources totally disconnected with each other, we
cannot avoid quoting here some passages from
a letter dated Patras, August 6, and which ap-
peared in the Aberdeen Herald. The writer
says—" Greece still remains in a frightful state
of anarchy—no horrors committed by the Turks
can equal those which the poor inhabitants of
Missolonghi were doomed to suffer on the 2d inst.
The citizens had refused to admit the troops of
either party into the town, and obeyed the autho-
' rities, without trusting the protection oftheir town
'to any but their own citizens. Grivas, however,
d'accord with a party in the town, made an
attack in the night, and succeeded in getting in,
when he devoted the vi hole place to pillage ; and
a rich booty they had, for a number of rich
merchants who fled from hence had all their
property there. We are without the means of
communicating with Nauplia—the road is in-
fested with robbers, who rob and plunder right
and left, and have murdered two couriers. The
residents seem to be secure with their French
garrison. The Government is divided within
itself—Zaima, Metaxa, and Calliopulo being
opposed to Collete and the others. The assem-
bly is put off sine die, and the Russians are
actively intriguing in support of the Capp
d'lstrian faction, giving them money and all
sorts of support." Again, " last Friday, Gene-
ral Gussiolis attacked Kalerghi,' at the mills, by
sea and land, and, after three hours' continued
which fighting,
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the Russians, in exciting civil war, and en-
couraging, by all possible means, the misguided
party, is but too evident. In the preparations
for this fight they assisted Kalerghi (who was
opposed to the Government troops), and they
wished to protect two Spezziot ships, belonging
to the rebels, which were going to assist Ka-
lerghi ; but the English and French Admirals
were obliged to use cannon to bring them to
reason. Russian cannon, Russian ammuni-
tion and stores, two Russian artillerymen, in
the service of Kalerghi, and a letter from Ri-
card, having fallen into the hands of the victors.
In consequence, the English and French resi-
dents are much enraged with the Russian, for
his shameful conduct, so hurtful to Greece.
This victory has given joy to the Constitution-
alists, and h
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