The Sun.
London, England, 1821-11-21 00:00:00

ptlesent with something of a—iinickenea intereFt
An impression, prevails that hostilities canhatdly
be avoided. We never put faith in the confident,
if not presumptuous assurance .of the continuance,.
.of • peace, which have been so. -frequently given,
with authoritative pretension. But, at the same
tithe, when we consider the .vast proportion of
the power and population of Europe, which has a
cOnthitin interest in the continuance of traquillity,
%re cannot persuade ourselves that even the thirst
of conquest and military conceit -of Russia will
defy the force of opinion which is opposed to 116%
There :appear to be many persons who overlook
the calamities of War, and the ambitious views of
Russia, from a mistaken view of the situation and
interests of Greece. It is, we think, an error,
toldentify the. emancipation of the Greeks with
the expulsion of the Turks by Russia. The
change Of dominion from a Mahornetan to a Chris-
tian despotism would afford, perhaps, some tem-
porary alleviation ; but the interested policy of
Russia, though less contemptuous, would rather
check than- promote the actual progress of the
Greeks in wealth and improvement: Under the
clumsy, negligent dominion of the Turks, they have
improved Muth more rapidly than they would
do in double the time under the watchful, selfish,
and deceitful policy which has, under so many
Sovereigns, marked the conduct of the Russian
Government. It is also a mistake to suppose
that the Greet nation looks to Russia exclusively
for liberation. The Russian party in Greece is
not the .most influential or enlightened. The
Greek population has for many years been di-
vided into three parties—one which looked to
France for liberation from the Turkish yoke;

the insular and commercial party, which regarded
England as the quarter to which they should
look for assistance; and thirdly, the common
people, who have a prejudice in favour of the
Russians from similarity of religion.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
It begins, we find, to be tardily confessed in
some of the Papers of the South of Ireland, that
the accounts published of alleged acts of vio-
lence committed in that part of the Kingdom
hav,e been in many instances exaggerated. The
public credulity has been abused either by per-.
sons who had some sinister interests to pursue, or
by others who, without being actuated by mo-
tives morally reprehensible, could not resist the

infatuation of telling something which might ex-
cite a feeling of general anxiety. The narrators
of great or singular events seem, for the mo-
ment, to acquire amidst their circles an import-
ance, second only to that which they assign to the
heroes of their tales, and hence arises too fre-
quently that disposition to strain and exaggerate
circumstances which the lenity of society fa-
miliarly reproves by the ludicrous designation of
" drawing a long bow." Our private sources of
information respecting the real state of affairs in
the county of Limerick prevented us from re-
posing an easy belief in the assertions repeated
in the public, prints, respecting the great force
and numbers of the disturbers. 'We were well
assured that the banditti were as inconsiderable

in numbers as they were in reputation and
character ; 'and from this circumstance, con-
nected with some others to which we have
more than once referred, we drew the con-
clusion that the state of the country was one

which required rather the interference of an ac-
tive body, of policemen, directed by intelligent
and enterprising Magistrates, than the presence
of a large army, provided as if on active service
with a train of artillery, a commissariat establish-
ment, aid a camp equipage. In the statements
of individual outrages, which we have seen in the
Irish Papers, there were incidents occasionally
mentioned well calculated to cast an air of mys-
tery over the state of the south of Ireland, which
to some minds must have been ineffably delight-
ful ; and it was no doubt to heighten the effect
of the picture, and to add increased terrors to
the awe which those accounts were supposed to
inspire, that a learned writer, in a Morning Mi-
nisterial Paper, united in the close bonds of Ja-
cobin fraternity the banditti of Limerick with the
Carbonari of Naples.

[THE TIMES.]
The present position of the Ministers, who are
in want 'of one of their efficient members, so far
as- voting is concerned, in the person of the Lord
Chamberlain, gives rise to various conjectures and
theoretic plans for the new Modelling of the
whole body. The place to be filled up is, as we
have just hinted, that of Lord Chamberlain ; but
the new guest may not take his seat in that pre-
cise situation, others may move till a place is left
vacant for him in a different part. The following
is the manner in which we have heard the Mi-
nistry arranged :—Lord Wellesley, it is said,
and Mr. Canning, are both to be admitted—t*
former to the home Department, the latter to
the' Admiralty; Lord Sidmouth being to take
the Privy Seal, and Lord Melville to go to
India : Lord Westmoreland is to become the new
Lord Chamberlain; and, lastly, Lord Bucking.
barn is to go out to Ireland. We give this merely
as a report, somewhat more particular and con-
sistent than others which we have heard; we are
not answerable for its accuracy, but shall yet
bestow a few words in the discussion of that
arrangement which it describes. Mr. Canning,
it was thought, had given too much offence in a
certain quarter, by the honourable testimony
which he bore to the character of our late injured
Queen, to be hastily admitted into any Adminis-
tration. But no matter ! it is well known to the
country, that the dignified personage to whom
we allude has long tried to rid himself of the Mi-
nistry altogether ; and as he has not been able to
succeed in 'that effort, the addition of one
more to the number of those he does not like,
is no new, and therefore no intolerable, grievance.
Ile has found out what others knew long ago, that
the word "".,loyalty" does not mean attachment
to the King, but attachment to the Ministers,_
the dispensers.of all favours, the authors of all
British greatness, and 44 within these our domi-
nions, supieme." With respect to Mr. Canning
and Lord Wellesley, the plan, whether real or
fictitious, is a sagacious one which admits' them
both into office : their ancient conflicts for that
honour, when it was thought it could only be im-
parted to one at a time, will be avoided.