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London, England, 1821-07-30 00:00:00

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY EXTRACTS FROM THE MORNING PAPERS.

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[MORNING HERALD!,
The chief topic of foreign intelligence at pre-
sent is the Greek insurrection. Attempts are
made, of which we doubt the good faith, to di-
minish in number, as well as in character, the
atrocities of the Turks—chiefly in private and
commercial communications. It is said that the
Russian Ambassador had effected his escape to
Odessa, and the report of the advance of the
Russian army is repeated. Ypsilanti is said to
be on his way to the Morea, to take the chief
command there. But there is still much uncer-
tainty. The news of the death of Buonaparte
had reached Vienna, and it is said that his wi-
dow, with the approbation of the Emperor
Francis, would go into mourning. In the House-
hold of the young Napoleon, however, it is stated
that there was no indication of any change of
livery.

rMORNING CHRONICLE.]
We stated that we believed an endeavour
would be made to free the Greeks in the Morea
and the Islands from the dominion of the Turks.
No doubt, any proposition of this kind must be
far from palatable at Constantinople, and there
will be great difficulty in bringing the Turks to
consent to it. But the Turks, however intract-
able in general, and however decided their con-
duct with regard to the Russian Ambassador
may have been, cannot altogether shut their eyes
to the consequences which would result from
their having to encounter, unsupported by Eng-
land and any of the other great States, the hos-
tility of the colossal power of Russia. The
Turks know that, in every war with that Power,
they have experienced nothing but loss of terri-
tory and humiliation. But we suspect that the
greatest obstacle to any arrangement of this na-
ture will proceed from Russia, and not from
Turkey. The well known policy of the Court
of Russia, and the feelings of the population,
forbid us to expect much, in a conjuncture like
the present, from the pacific views attributed to
the Emperor personally. how far Austria may
be disposed to second the views of France and
England, embarrassed as she now is with her
Italian dominions, is a subject involved in great
difficulty.

It appears from letters from Naples, that a
Decree has been issued for the entire dissolution
of the present army, and that a new army is
about to be raised, of which three regiments of
Swiss and one regiment of Albanians are to form
a part. This is the only sure and effectual plan
for protecting Monarchs against the consequences
of misgovernment, and we are only astonished
that it has not yet been more extensively acted
Upon. It is obvious, that when the soldiers of a
country are taken from its population, they must
always, in some degree, share its feelings. But
the foreign soldier takes no interest in the affairs
of the people he is hired to keep down, and must
therefore be a desirable instrument to those-who
wish to practise oppression. The pretence for
keeping up large armies, is to defend a country
against foreigners. This is the pretence; but it
is now pretty generally understood that large
armies are kept for the purpose of protecting
Governments only against their subject. We
wonder, then, that the Members of the Holy Al-
liance have not yet fallen on some plan for rais-
ing their armies in the dominions of each other,
by which the end in view must be so much better
answered. Switzerland is but a small country,
and, however anxious, cannot supply all the
Despots of Europe with mercenaries.—(Mid.)

[BRITISH PRESS.]
Stocks, which fell one per cent. in the course
of the week, suffered a further depression to the
same extent on Saturday. -It has been remarked
that all the brokers connected with Government
were amonc, the sellers, and to a considerable
amount. Many persons giving them credit for
superior intelligence, have been tempted to fol-
low their example. There is a diversity of opi-
nion on the cause of this depression. Changes.
of Ministry, new arrangements with the Bank
respecting the payment of the dividends, the
nature of Lord Walpole's mission to Constanti-
nople, and the relations between Russia and
Turkey, are alike subjects of discussion and
alarm.

[MORNING POST.]
A Morning Paper thought proper to represent
the Lord Mayor as having been very uncere-
moniously treated by his Majesty, on the day of
the Coronation. Though.distortion of facts is no
novelty in the Paper alluded to, we are surprised
at the folly which could venture on so gross a
misrepresentation. The Lord Mayor was most
graciously and courteously received by the King.
This, we know,' has' been repeatedly stated by
his Lordship himself. If he were treated with
neglect, it was more than the Lord Mayor could
discover, and he ought to be regarded as a com-
petent judge in this case. The malice of the
falsehood which has been told cannot but disgust
his Lordship, and we confidently expect that he
will take an early opportunity of contradicting it
in public, as he has already done in private.

[THE TIMES.]
With the successive arrivals from Turkey come
gradually to hand some means of appreciating the
value of many prior statements, by which the
public have for weeks been agitated. Intelli-
gence was received on Saturday, by letters of
the 19th and 21st ftom Smyrna, and from Con-
stantinople of the 25th ; the two latest of which
have high claims to credit, being addressed offi-
cially to the'members of the Levant Company.
The Constantinople letter is totally silent upon
the massacres and outrages, and sales of Greek
merchants in that capital ; and from Smyrna the
account is of an equally consolotary nature, dis-
crediting totally, as we had anticipated, the nar-
ratives of some of the French Journals, intimat-
ing the entire ruin of that great trading city. No
further light had then been thrown on that ques-
tion to which all others respecting Turkey
may be considered as subordinate—namely,l