The Sun.
London, England, 1826-12-02 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF Tilt PUBLIC JOURNALS.

The orders issued, under authority of the British Mi.
nister for Foreign Affairs, prohibiting, with muckappear-
ance of sincerity and even Warmth, the prattice of cover,
ing merchandise, the property of the Pacha of Egypt, by
the this of his Britannic Majesty, have' given satisfaction
to various classes of men.' It is not known, nor imagined,
amongst our fellow-subjectS, to what extent the flag of
England has been dishonoured, and thehostile expeditions
of the infidels against Greece assisted, by the base tupi-
dity,of ,English traders, and the mercenary and wicked
connivance of some of our commercial functionaries in
the Levant.. Theaupplies for the Egyptian troops;. and
in many. instances the troops themselves, virtre conveyed
to their •:destination in British merchant-Vessels, While the
fraudulent' papers with which those blood-freighted ehips
lime furnished, set it equal defiance the smith of the
English naval officers, and the pursuit and just severity of
the cruiscrs'eniployel by Greece to intercept the commu-
nications of the Pasha. Certainly, whate
have been the general sentiment yes ye? might, once
"e•ecting the truth and
loyalty'of Englishmen''where tb:o.niterests of free Christian
nations were in open ccr
;11C,„ with those of tyrants and
infidel barbarians, tl.
conduct of our. "d less
that is henceforth said of the
as the r• fellow-subjects abroad or at home, so far
,4nts of unfortunate Greece haver been concerned,
.% less will be the weight of odium and ignominy at-
tached to them. Ambition prompts to bold erimes,
tivarl6e to mean ones Between treacherous harpies
here in England, : plundering the poor Greeks of their
own money, and ravenous purveyors to the yen-
Eeance of their enemies prostituting, the honour of
ngland to a direct co-operation with the Turkish fleets and
soldiers in every attack on the Mores, the name of this country
must have become a term of contempt and reprobation to man-
kind, had not the great organs of public opinion throughout the
empire vindicated the general body of its inhabitants from all NUS-
Oicion of being leagued with thaw wretched pickpockets who con-
'vert the Fonda of a distressed people to their own sordid uses—
and hail not, likewise, the King's Govermnent, however slow and
'hesitating its progress, ventured at last to tell the more distant
'offenders, that if they continued to involve their Sovereign in an
imputed connivance at an unbroken series of outrages upon the
Ocarest obligations of neutrality, impartiality, honour, and good
faith, they should be henceforth tuft to the mercy'of those whom
they had an grievously wronged and so justly exasperated. Let
tie hope that these professions of the King of England's Minister
may turn, out to be more genuine than those of a certain party
'among hiss subjects, in i:elation to the unhappy Greeks. But,
besides the breathing time thus held out to Greece, there bids fair
to be a benefit secured to our commerce, in the destruction of a
pernicious monopoly of the trade in Egyptian produce. Plucked
at, and preyed upon through such various channels, unlawful
some, and others marked out by the hand of the Legislature itself,
the wonder is, that the English merchant can any where hobd his
ground against the combination of ropier), and folly which besets
Times.

EGYPT.

EXTEACT A LETTER EAOII 'Ram, DATED SEPT, 27.