The Sun.
London, England, 1828-08-01 00:00:00

engendered among the people, and an actual de-
privation of morals, too. often .brought about:
Though we blame no one for claiming the rights
and advantages of which he is legally in posses-
sion, yet there may be occasions when right's
hare lost their advantages ; and we strongly sus.;
pect that those to which we are alluding are of
the number. We do not believe that one person
the less ever visited Kean's Richard because
the same monarch was to be seen mur-
dered in the suburbs; nor was the Maid
of the Mill one jet less attractive be-
cause the same notes were warbled in a minor
key at a minor theatre. If this be the case,
we cannot help thinking that the possessors, of
these rights might just as well have let them
quietly expire, or, at all events, have kept them
in abeyance till their exercise were likely to be
more useful to themselves, and more palatable
to the public. The matter, however, having
been mooted, and its inconvenience and injus-
tice having been thus forced upon public atten-
tion, we cannot but hope that the agitation of
the matter will speedily lead to the removal of a
restraint, which eN en were it, which we believe
it is not, of value to its possessors, is of ten-
fold greater injury to public taste and morals.—
That the English are not a play-going people,
to any thing like the extent that they were;
seems pretty clear from the poor success which
has attended most-theatrical speculations for the
last half century. If the monopoly has done
so little, it is surely worth while to try whether a
fair rivalry would not do more. When Garrick
and Barry were the rival Ro;neos of the stage,
each theatre was crowded for nearly half the
season to witness the same performance. This
is a tolerable proof that mere repetition does not
ruin a playhouse. On ,the contrary, we are con-
vinced that the more the works of Shakspeare
and our better dramatists are represented with
effect, the more they will be sought after ; and
that to encourage a good taste in the outskirts of
the town is the surest way to increase its influ-
ence in the centre.—Morning Herald.
The ambitious views imputed by Bonaparte to
Russia, the encroaching disposition of that
Power, and the danger to be apprehended from
an army constituted as that of Russia is, must
be evident to every one who forms his opinion
of Governments more from their conduct than
their professions. Within these last forty years
Russia, vast as it was previous to that period,

has added to her territory dominions sufficiently
large, if concentrated, to form an independent
kingdom, and all this under 'the pretext of pro-
tecting the injured, or of repelling unprovoked
attacks. In 1772, with the concurrence of
Austria and Prussia, she interfered with the
internal Government of Poland, took from that
Republic a third part of its territory as a remu-
neration for this interference, gave it a new
Constitution to serve as a hone of contention,

and to justify a second interference which took
place in 1791. In 1793 the country was parti-
tioned among the three Powers, and Russia ob-
tained as her share some of the richest provinces
contiguous to her dominions. In 1808 she took
advantage of the madness of the Swedish King,
invaded Finland, and obliged the Swedes to con-
sent to a convention, by which the whole of that
province was ceded to Russia. In the South
her operations have been of the same character,
and equally successful. Under pretence of pro-
tecting the interests of the inhabitants, she claim-
ed a right of interfering in the internal affairs of
Moldavia and Wallachia—obtained, as a remu-
neration, in 1812, all that part of Moldavia to the
east of the Pruth, as well as a controulling power
in the appoinment of the Hospodars, and the
internal Government of the two provinces. On
the other side of the Black Sea, on the frontiers
Persia, she has had a large army stationed for
years, for no other purpose that we can See, and
indeed as we have good reason to believe is the
fact, than to insult and provoke that Power to
repel the aggiession. The General command-
ing that army has been quite successful, and has
been rewarded by his master, no doubt, for the
able manner in which he had brought on the
war, as well as for the way in which he has
terminated it. Persia, irritated by the eon-
tinned annoyances of this army, in a mo-
ment of impatience made a hasty and ill-
advised irruption into the Russian territory, and
Russia, as a remuneration, received waggon
loads of gold to pay and reward her victorious
troops, and an increase of territory valuable, not
so much for its richness, as for its opening a free
passage to the rich provinces of the South. To
complete the picture, we have only to turn to
the present state of affairs in Turkey, and ask
what gave rise to the Greek insurrection ? how
it happens that a dependant of Russia has been
appointed President of Greece ? that Russia has
been for years building so many ships of war in
the Black Sea ? that France and England should
be induced so far to forget their own interests as
to destroy the Turkish fleet ? that the army on
the frontiers of Turkey should have commenced
its operations just at the time that the army on
the Persian frontier was ready to co-operate with
it in Asia ? and last of all, who have been collect-
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ing, and for what purpose, the gold and silver
coinage which, at one time, was common in the
Southern provinces of Russia, and which we
have heard has almost entirely disappeared ? In
addition, however, to all these, the Russians
have one fleet in the Mediterranean, and another
ox its way, though the Emperor professes the
utmost moderation, and according to the King's
Speech, even waives his right to employ these
fleets as a belligerent power. These are facts,
which, in spite of a thousand protestations of
moderation, prove that Russia has some great
plan in view, and that if she should not judge
it prudent 4t the present moment to seize Con-
stantinople and drive the Turks from Europe,
she will insist on a sufficient sum of money to
satisfy the cravings of her armies, have the com-
merce of the Black Sea thrown open, and claim
such- additions to her territory in Europe and.
Asia, as shall enable her on some future occa-

sion to carry her long-concerted plan into full
effect. England, probably, would be the first
sufferer by such a result ; but France, and, in-
deed, all the great States of Europe, would in
time feel its effects ; and till they shall see it in
that light, and unite for their own preservation,
as they did against Bonaparte, we can see little
chance of establishing sufficient check to that co-
lossal power.—lbid.

A person remarked that a certain auctioneer
had a down-cast look ; quite right said his friend—an
auctioneer should have a look for-bidding.

MORTALITY.—The frailty of human exist-
ence is frequently brought under remark, but the following
is an affecting instance. On Sunday week, a woman of
the name of ELIZABETH JACKgON, who resided in Pave-
ment, in this city, and who was 62 years of age, was busily
engaged in making a shroud for one who had already
thrown off " this mortal coil ;" and on the following morn-
ing she was taken ill and died, before the party for whom
she was labouring on the preceding day had been consigned
to the narrow house.-- York Courant