The Sun.
London, England, 1828-01-04 00:00:00

' night. M. de Ribeaupierre has gone to, Odessa;
Mr. Canning to Smyrna, in the first instance, with
the intention to proceed thence to Corfu; Count
Guilleminot is said to have gone to Toulon. So far
as the settlement of the Greek question depended
on the extraordinary mission of the three Plenipo-
tentiaries, every hope is at an end. Whether,the
Ambassadors of the Three Powers at London (on
whom this event, which was provided for in the
Treaty of the 6th July, devolves the future arrange-
ment of the Allies' proceedings) may deem any fur-
ther attempt at negociation advisable; or whether
they may counsel an instant appeal to the only argu-
ment to which the foolish and obdurate Court, with
which they have to do, seems likely to listen, is a
question which we do not possess the means of an-
swering; hut, judging from probabilities, we should
he inclined to say that the die is cast, and that
Turkey must now abide the hazard. The nature of
those arguments—by which the weakest State in
Europe, one at whose heart's-core a civil war lies
smothering, and seeks but such an occasion to burst
forth into a conflagration, has been induced to brave
the united force of the three most powerful nations
in the world—can only be explained by the igno-
rance, pride, and obstinacy of the party; byall those
qualities, which, refusing instruction from precept or
experience, goaded on the unhappy Greeks to begin
the contest, and still compel them to maintain it.
A more important question, however, occurs—How
are the Allies to prosecute the war into which
Turkey may force them ? It is amusing to hear a
few wiseacres, who never heard a shot fired, unless
perhaps, at a pigeon trap, deciding gravely on the
way in which Russia and the other Powers are to
compel the Porte to hearken to reason, as if that
were not a purely military question, and as if it did
not ask the highest military knowledge for its solu-
tion. For our own parts, we possess no such know-
ledge, and pretend not to it; but, judging by the
practice in analogous cases, and by the principles al-
most universally acted on by belligerents, we should
say, that the nearer to head quarters the enemy is
assailed, the sooner will he give in. It is not by
nibbling at his extremities, by skirmishes with his
outposts, but by a straight forward assault upon his
main defences, that an enemy is to be made aware
of the relative powers of his assailant and himself.
As to the fears of Russia departing from those grin-
, ciples of honourable action by which she has so re-
peatedly declared that she will be governed, and to the
observance of which she is bound by the solemni-
ties of a Treaty, yet but a few months old—they are
a foul and scandalous libel on that nation and on the
character of its Monarch. A country like Russia,
whose Government and policy derive, in so marked
a degree, their " form and pressure " from the per-
sonal character of the reigning Monarch, presents,
with such a Sovereign as Nicholas, no ground of fear
to reasonable and honourable minds. It is gratifying
to notice that the intelligence of the Ambassadors'
departure from Constantinople has produced so little
effect on the Public Securities. We had been re-
peatedly told that at the very aspect of war these
would fall to nothing, whereas yesterday they rather
rose on the news being confirmed. This is, among
others, an indication that, in the public mind, a war
with Turkey in behalf of Greece is one which pre-
sents no ground of dread to the merchant, while it
affords every occasion of gratulation to the philan-
thropist—that it promises not only to yield an abun-
dant harvest of honour, but one which will be easily
reaped.—Nciv Times.