The Sun.
London, England, 1821-09-11 00:00:00

GERMAN PAPERS.

NUALMBURG, SEPT. 1.-A letter from the
Maine says-" The sudden changes.in the route
taken by the Duke of.Weflington has given oc-
casion to divers conjectures, which, though they
lead to no result, we will communicate, because
one of them at least has a great degree of pro-
bability. As soon as w.e beard that his Grace,
instead of proceeding to Vienna, was gone to
Paris, the absurd report was spread that such se-
rious disturbances had broken .out in England,
or rather in the capital; that his Majesty the
Ring did not think it safe to return thither, and
that his Grace had in consequence received di-
rections to apply to the French Court for that
aid and support which the Kings of France had
formerly granted to the Princes of the house of
Stuart. This report was, however, too impro-
bable to keep its ground long, and was soon re-
p:aced by another. The King of England, it
was said, was resolved, as many English Journals
and announced, to marry again, and of the Euro-
_peso Princesses proposed as the sharers of his
:crone, the Duchess of B— held the first place.
:That the Duke of Wellington was commissioned
to ales. to that _Princess the hand of the British
Sovereign, and that there .was the more reason to
,expect. a favourable result of this mission, as
there seemed to be no political or moral obstacle
-in the way. -Without examining into the .reasons
for the probability of this opinion, we proceed to
another supposition, founded.on the journey' of
the Duke of W.ellingtoni(which is certainly very
worthy of remark)--a supposition that seems the
more worthy of attention as it is immediately
connected with the great political questions
which now attract almost exclusively the atten-
tion of all Europe. Russia, it is affirmed, is on
the point of concluding au offensive and defensive
alliance with France, to which Its present situa-
ticn seems urgently to impel it, and the special
object of which would be the affairs of Greece
and Turkey. In the approaching interference
of the first mentioned Power in these affairs, to
which, as cannot be denied, it. is urgently called
by religion and humanity, it has a great political
and moral interest in securing the assent of France,
nay, if -possible, its co-operation, that it may not
-be accused of ambitious views, if it should be
obliged to act as an armed mediator. This ac-
cusation, and every similar suspicion, will be more
surely avoided by Russia, if it acts in concert with
the ancient Christian Allies of the Porte, whose pO-
litical interest, even now, requires not precisely
the preservation of the Ottoman power, but at
least- the existence of a powerful state in the
south-east part of Europe. The bases of this
pending alliance are affirmed to be on conditions
conformable to this principle—they secure to the
highs-minded Greeks a future establishinent wors
thy of their heroic efforts, and the maintenance t f
the present European political systetn. The id( a'
of the balance of power, on which this system is
founded, will be more fully realized by the
creation of a new Christian state with European
Civilization and form of government, which must
certainly have a more decided weight in the
scale of power than the impotent and tottering
edifice of the Turkish powerss—The execution of
this philanthropic and wise plan, as may be in-
ferred, independently of other circumstances,.
from the language of the English Ministerial
Journals, does not harmonize with the t otnnier-
cial interests of Englund, to which, as experience
shows, that Power has always sacrificed every
other interest. England seems to desire the con-
tinuance of a state of anarchy and weakness in
those countries which have groaned for centuries
under the iron sceptre of despotism, wielded
_indeed by nerveless hands. It therefore acts
consistently .in -endeavouring to impede every
thing that may produce a. change; and if its di-
plomatic-efforts to that end should fail at Con-
- stantinople and at St. Petersburgh, it will at.
least insulate Russia, and throw as many diffi-
culties as possible in the way of the execution of
the generous plans of the magnanimous Alex-
ander. With this view the British Cabinet en-
deavours to prevent the conclusion of the treaty
in question with France,. and the Duke of Wel-
lington is chosen for this important mission.—
Such are the reports."
BERLIN, SEPT. 1.--As might have been expected,
from the sound sense of the German nation,it seems,
that on the whole, none of our youths studying
at the Universities have enlisted in the service of
the Greeks : this at least may be inferred, from
an article in our Slate Gazette, dated from Frank-
fort, which says—" Most, of the young men who.
have hitherto resolved to join the.. crusade to aid,
the Greeks are bon vivants, who give out that
the sacred duty of supporting Christianity, and
assisting the faithful, is the main' spring of their
heroic resolutions.; but who, in fact, go on these
adventures, to withdraw from the performance
of their first Christian duty, their duty to their
creditors, to lead a merry life, and to look about
them in the world, at other people's expence.—
Though in general it may be a real blessing to
the country to get rid of such a class of men in a
handsome way, yet many an honourable promising
youth is led away on such an occasion to go against
the In fidels,and we see some such examples here; so
that the familiesTrom which young men go to meet
the uncertain fate that awaits them that are not
much obliged to those who recruit for the Greeks,
and reasonably ask what great things are to be
effected with such a handful of combatants ; for
till a regularly embodied force receives the scat-
tered Greek partisan corps into its ranks, they
will do nothing against the superior force of their
enemies.—To us it appears, that so long as ttie
great majority of the well-informed and well-
educated young men of our times can be useful
to their own country, it is wrong to sacrifice them
to foreign interests."
LEIPSIC, AUG. W.-The statement in some
foreign journals, tltrat there is here a society of
Armenian merchants to support young men dis-
posed to go to Greece, is a fable, by which several
young men have been cruelly deluded to come
here, and of course were bitterly disappointed.