The Sun.
London, England, 1828-10-08 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF 'THE LONDON-. i3ouRN

Darda nelles
executed her blockade of the
I'Ve stated
she condescended to ask the con: ter (t, of it
notifr her rest
,1
tuit:andLeltiios
, tish Government, or even to (
\\ - c this el
yesterday that Ru; ;Bia. order(
0 f adopting such a measure.
lie 'at our intelligence as a .fact, (r.which '
the contradiction from any
asse. rtinir (by the way) that it is.reP.
all t but ph]
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Brita. rthey think fit ;we
points, ,
(la::
rest this
tt..o—,on the positive breach of
1, ,of the Sea of Marmora, Const
—that i' lila& Sea, arvi all the countries
nople, the
tiguous thei the blockadg itself, and on the
to England in
Ifference towards his Majesty,
temptuous ind, Inner of effecting it. The,
hibited in the m. by Russia, of abstaining f
nean, must have in,
dition acceded to
hostilities in the Mt.
•id never have 1
something definite, o. !IC '.vote..,
• 1 he British
ritain. .1..
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this
insisted on by Great B
inference
fet ore aniciep tyo
on
pr
'lister could not have in
bition to a maritime .
't of Russia to fore
;vi
fCO3lrrebeyee,thtleiasttoilb,juelcattiloianNs'h 7 been already pr(
o%
the Greek treaty.
it must have b(
ttileergesetibgnnre\,afiitchareitgi
oh:
right
ogfagt
whatever,leoinsteiiilitt v against Turkey 1
any
that she pledged horse If not to inz
the Mediterranean the 1 nisis of operatic
undertaken for the extei illing of the R,
s;•11 power over Turkey, or f br any other purp(
oritttert4t exclusively Rus; Lian, in which t
--s trading up Lhe Mediterrarie
maritime powei.
'tigland, it is co
had no assige
a party nable co.:cern't 1
fessed, beca m
.-e
to .a.c..treaty of the 6th
.en if it could be pr
July, with a view to prei t,
in , vasiou of Turk,
vented by fair means, that .
which has since unfortunately of se" accomplish'
which France and Englaia „ ould not ha
endeavoured to avert, if they had not consider(
it to be pregnant with consequence. su•bv,2rsi'
of the existing relations, territorial and praett ''
on which the repose and independehce of ti.
States of Europe have tiolyf4r centuries rested.
From the moment at which! t'he Greek treaty'
failed to produce the satisfactory resurts• expected
from it, England and France were at entire liberty
to adopt any other measures of security. If, re 7.
&ding the demolition of the Turkish empire,
and the establishment of a Muscovite power
(for they are quite distinct questions) in the
place of it, as a grave calamity to the European:
Coihmotiwealth, they had an undoubted right-tie
communicate to litOsia their determination that
she should not go to war with Turkey, but
at the risk of a war with the French and Eng-
lish nations. England appears to hare chosen 4
milder alternative, and to have satisfied herself'
with stipulating such a restraint upon the ag-
gressive force of Russia as might have the.
effect of qualifying or retarding the absolute
destruction of the Porte, while it allowed the
continuance of an unmolested commerce be-
tween the subjects of Great Britain and those of
the Ottoman empire. Russia accepted the sti-
pulation, and has broken her promise. She
has extended the field of attack upon Turkey to
the neutral and sacred ground of the Mediterra-
nean, and has incorporated with this breach of
tirith and violation of treaties, a total extinction
of the trade of England to the centre of Turkey
in Europe, as well as a gross and contemptuous
insult to the British Government, in the unce-
remonious execution of the perfidy without any
previous notice of her design. This is a sort of
trickiness of which barbarians are often guilty
but Russia, it is probable, would take offence if
we called her a barbarian. However, the breach
of faith is a justifiable ground of war, or of
measures for forcibly breaking this iniquitous
blockade, if our Ministers do not attach more
importance to the unfounded ill-humour of
Russia, than to the universal indignation (for
universal it is) of all the people of England—
Whig, Radical, or Tory—at the base ac-
quiescence in it, of which the shuffling language
of Lord Aberdeen holds out too palpable a
on
.riceii s read
i theldie c ostatementitiale
; truthtli
which
i
prospect. Sonic of the evening papers affect to
deny our allegation that Russia has thus
trampled on all decency in its treatment of'
Great
is
inserted
Letseany man a
compare it with the first paragraph of our city
, , Britain. i t hi.
iasrtilci
likely
l;), andto Ipi er
preponderate.
onderate. It ridiculous to
charge the advocates of British honour on thin
occasion -with arguing the country into a war.
None can be more .
conscious of the benefits of
peace than we are—none more anxious to avoid
extremities while we can ; but the fact is, that
we do not avoid extremities by a willingness to
acquiese under insults. If one outrage be Falb'
mated to, another will be tried, and another, and
another, until we are rolled in the dirt, and
hardly worth lifting out of it. That is the true
rationale of the question,—whether we shall
pocket the kick preliminary, or, by resenting it,
save ourselves from a thousand more. He,
therefore, is the friend of peace who returns the
first fire, and makes the aggressor sheer off in
time, before he gains fresh insolence from impu-
nity. The Duke of Wellington must feel how
lightly he has been treated by more than one of
these continental Powers ; and we beg his Grace
to observe, that it is possible for the saute man
to be much admired in the field, and to be the
object of a less flattering kind of astonishment
out of it. The general impr • ession seems to lie,
that Lord Heytesbur3'•s •
mission to Odessa has
fiiiied, the Emperor Nicholas refusing to give
his Lordship any answer to his demand of an
explanation relative to the designs of his Impe-
rial Majesty in this 1 •
his invasion of Turkey. In
;(11 respects we are baffled and repulsed. Un-
doubt 11 ' if et \ ,the Emperor can so manage the
Divan excite it
as to
a declaration of war against France, and so to
neutralize, in some measure, the jealousy of the
latter power at his own ripened projects of ag_
grandizement, it will be a coup dc maitre. Eng.
land, with an incapable foreign policy, is in such
a case left alone to deal with that spirit of <, vir.
thous moderation," of which the Empress Ca-
therine was so bright an example,
and which
she has bequeathed, in all its purity to her child-
ren.—Times.

We foresee that ere long the Brunswick Clubs
will occupy a very small share of the public at-
tention in comparison with that occupied by
another—the high price of grnin. It is gene•
rally allowed that the crop of last year is defi-
cient. It is also, we believe, beyond a doubt,
that the crop has been more or less deficient
every where else, and that there is little hope of
any considerable. supply being obtained from the '
Continent. The extent of the deficiency can
hardly even be conjectured ; for price is no cri-