The Sun.
London, England, 1821-05-18 00:00:00

[NEW TIMES.]

The foreign news from all quarters concurs in
showing the miserable result of Revolution. News
from Smyrna of the 22d ult. has •been received by
way of Genoa, stating that the Greek insurrection
bad produced a terrible reaction on the part of
the Turks. Dreadful massacres of the Greeks
had taken place at Smyrna and Constantinople.
Patras had been bombarded, and its miserable
inhabitants forced to fly for refuge to the _lonian
islands. The Austrian Observer contains intel-
ligence of the 13th ult. from Jassy, in Moldavia,
stating that Michael Suzzo, after having been
solemnly excommunicated on account of his re-
bellion, by the Greek Patriarch of Constanti-
nople, had been compelled by the principal
people of Jassy to resign his usurped authority,
and had retired, taking with him (as many of the
late revolutionary heroes have done) the military
chest of the Insurgents. Ypsilanti, it appears,
has in all a force of only 5000 men, and seven
pieces of ship cannon. Theodore Wladi►nirskoi,
whose views differ entirely from Ypsilanti's, left
Bucharest soon after the latter arrived there ; so
that there is little appearance of concert in the
cperations of these two Chiefs. Turning our
'view to Spain, we find that the Guerillas coati-

nue to act with energy against the tyrants of
their country. The Curate, Merino, a Royalist
Leader, at the head of 1200 men, bids defiance
to Martin, better known as the Empecinado, who
acts as a General under the Cortes. On the other
hand, the hired mobs, of the liberal faction in
Madrid, continue.to emulate all the atrocities of
the Septembriseurs of 1792. After having assassi-
nated the CanonSinuessa, in prison, the Members
of the Club at• La Fontana d'Oro (an exact copy
of the French Jacobin Club) met together to pre-
pare lists of proscription, in which each put down
the name of his victim ! The accounts from Rio

Janeiro give us reason to dread some further con-
vulsions there. Plots of all kinds are in agita-
tion : these,- it is surmised, formed the real rea-

son for the King's adopting the resolution of em-
barking for Europe. Should his Portuguese
Majesty, however, carry this project into effect,
it may probably lead to a declaration Of inde-
pendence by the revolutionary party in Brazil ;
the result of which would, in all probability, be
*endless pro,scriptions, confiscations, and civil war.
The anticipation of these . evils has greatly

alarmed. the British Residents there, who would
probably be among the first to suffer in their pro-
perty, if not in their persons. Such is the la-

rnentable picture.- presented in countries where
the mania of revolution, after it had began to
subside in other parts of the world, has been

again stimulated into action by the intrigues of a
restless faction, falsely and impudently assuming
to themselves the title of Friends of Freedom!

[MORNING HERALD.]

The accounts from Vienna of the 3d, bring
news from Jassy to the lath of April, which
give a very unpromising representation of the
prospects of the Gieek insurgents. We mention,
however, that one of the untoward events for
their cause, Put forward by the Austrian Ob-
server, is their being excommunicated by the
Greek Christian Patriarch of Constantinople, as
rebels to their liege Lord, the son and successor
of the Prophet. Knowing, however, that this
venerable person is in the hands of a power
which cuts off heads, without the least remorse,
upon slighter provocations than a refusal in such
a pole, .and that mattyrdom is a trying alterna-
tive, even for a Patriarch, they must ,have been
prepared for this event. But, abandoned as the
Greeks seem to be by Russia, they have little
prospect of success. Permanently weak as the
.Turkish Government is, yet, from its absolute
power, and the, robust stamina which the nation
owes to a barbarous pride and ferocious, supersti-
tion, it will be able to make such a single ef-
fort,' as .will, in all probability, put an .end to
the hopes of the Greeks.

[BRITISH PRESS]
The result of. Sir Francis Burdett's motion for
an inquiry into the circumstances attending the
meeting at. Manchester, on the fatal 16th of: Au-
gust, 1819, is such as every one who knows any
thing about the constitution of the House of Coln-
Moos have expected ; but it is not on this ac-
count less to be lamented. It is a stain npOu the
fair fame of our national systemof justice, 111.44

an event in which upwards of five hundred per-
sons were severely wounded and some were killed
by the unnecessary employment of troops, should
be permitted to pass away, notwithstanding re-
peated efforts made by independent Members of
the Legislature, by the friends of the deceased,
and by the surviving sufferers, without any satis-
factory inquiry having been made into the causes
that led to this sanguinary occurrence. The inves-
tigation that was commenced at Oldham, in the
inquest holden upon the body of John Lees, one
of the victims of military violence, was sufficient,
though incomplete, to shew the true character
and complexion of that dreadful scene, and the
country can now very easily understand why
the Coroner, in violation of his duty, suspended
the inquest just at the moment when the evidence
was o❑ the point of particularising some of the
chief actors in the attack that was made upon the
people. Of this we think there can be little
doubt, that if the Ministers of the Crown thought
that the inquiry proposed by Sir Francis Burdett
would terminate creditably or to the advantage
of the Manchester Magistrates and Yeomanry,
they would not refuse so pertinaciously to accede
to the prayers of the numerous, sufferers who
crowded the table of the House of Commons with
their petitions.

[THE TIMES.]

We can hardly permit the melancholy subject
of the Manchester business to pass away, without
a remark or two. 'We know as well as others the
awkward position in which Lord Castl-eseagh is
placed, and shall endeavour either to help him
out of it, or at least to palliate his continuance in
it. His Lordship is the representative of a cer-
tain set of opinions in the House of Commons,
and which be represents and defends as well as
he can ; and as they who embrace those opinions
-do not embrace them on his persuasion, but gene-
rally possessing and professing them already,
find him accidentally their leader, talis quails—
the preacher .is neither answerable for the num-
ber of his proselytes, nor are the proselytes obliged
to vindicate their conversion by the powers of the
preacher. Yet did the second night's debate
of Sir Francis Burdett's motion lead to the detec-
tion, or rather acknowledgement, of such im-
mense falsehoods in Lord Castleseagh's previous
statements respecting the Manchester business,
as indicates rather a want of common caution on
the part of his Lordship in his inquiries respect-
ing facts, than a mere defect in his mode of rea-

soning upon them and as it is every man's duty,
and within the reach of every man's powers, to
investigate the truth of the statement before he
makes it, it is not quite so easy to palliate his
Lordship's neglect upon this head.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]

The feeling of the public on the subject of the
Manchester Outrage is not of a temporary nature ;
it is no speculative inquiry on remote abuses :
but a simple question, whether a number of indi-
viduals can be slaughtered in this country of
boasted justice, without legal investigation as to
the means and circumstances which brought them
to a violent end. There now yawns a hideous
chasm in the administration of justice. Time
cannot close it—the liberties of the country may.
We might, indeed, point out a Curtius whom
it would well become to leap into the
sulf ; but self-devotion is not of the Ministerial

virtues ; and when we are to witness a human
sacrifice," plectuntur Achivi."—The single fact
of the Magistrates having employed the Yeor
manry, is a signal instance of blameable indis-
cretion, and one that, being attended with such
disastrous consequences, should have forbade
Lord Sidmouth'sexpression of praise and approval.
The Yeomanry was the last force that should have,
been employed; it is notorious that in manufactur-
ing districts the masters and men live on terms of
mutual distrust, ill blood, and hostile confedera-
tion against each other—the Yeomanry are ge-
nerally composed of the former description, the
Mob of the latter—thus the duty of dispersing
the multitude was entrusted to those whose pas-
sions might reasonably be supposed inflamed by
feelings of private and personal hostility.—The
result is too well known. Lord Londonderry
states, that the events of that day drew blood,
not in blushes to his cheeks for the remorseleSs
military execution inflicted on an unarmed flying
mob, but blood from his heart, for what his Lord-
ship can best explain.