The Sun.
London, England, 1826-06-27 00:00:00

[THE REPRESENTATIVE.]

The levity with which some of our cotemporaries
continue to treat Lord Cochrane's expedition to the
Levant reminds us strongly of the tone in which his
departure for South America was at the time almost
universally talked of and written about in this coun-
try, Almost the only persons who at that period
avowed their expectation of great things being
achieved by him in the Spanish Main were the Naval
Officers ; and we remark already that among such
circles this great business is treated as any thing but
a jest. in answer to every jeer they content them-
' selves with simply asking, " What is it that the man
who cut Out the .F.'smerulda may not do ?” The
great difficulty will be, as we have already hinted, to
keep the Greeks from provoking English interference
by piracies. We are, however, to consider that
all the influence of Lord Cochrane's character,
and of whatever rank in the Greek service may
be assigned to him, will inevitably be uniformly
and from the beginning, exerted for tare putting down
of piratical practices. Lord Cochrane is the very re-
verse of that hair-brained, rash, violent character he

is popularly conceived to be. On the contrary, all
who have ever come into contact with him are tho-
roughly that a man. of more cool. judgment, more
anxious foresight, more ample resources of every
kind, does not exist in the profession ; and it was
exactly because Lord, Cochrarie's coolness of head was
so well known among his fiiends, that his unfortunate
Stock-Exchange scrape for ever ruined him here.—
More than all that he did would have been easily par-
doned to a mere hot-brained Captain of boarders.—
' But they who knew him, knew that a more sagacious
deliberate reasoner was not in England. They well
knew that his fiery courage in action is united with as
much temperate judgment and calmness in council, as
ever the character of Nelson himself exhibited.—
Neither is it to •be forgotten, that the officers and
sailors of our fleet are to a man proud of Cochrane ;
they still regard him as a comrade, and, although
they will do their duty, it is not to be expected that
they will be very eager to have an opportunity 'of
doing any thing that is to injure him—more espe-
cially when his cause shall have been identified with
that of the Greeks. It seems to be pretty well
known that Lord Cochrane means to make the

• Egyptian Pacha the immediate object of his at-
tack ; some say he will- instantly blockade, or land
at, Alexandria ; others that he designs to make, a
descent on Crete. Whatever plan he pursues, we
Think
' extremely probable that the Pacha may
find it his best policy to return as quickly. as he
can- to his own country. He can have no real
good will to the Porte ; and we should not be sur-
prised to hear of his embracing eagerly so fair an
opportunity of abandoning an attempt from which,
whatever loss he might inflict on the Greeks, he
could not hope to derive any :direct advantage if a
Greek fleet were; to keep possession of the 'Greek
seas under . the guidance of such an Admiral as
Lord Cochrane. The affairs of Greece will, from this
time,' assume an importance in the eyes of Europe
they have never as yet been able to do. A certain ro-
mantic interest will, assuredly, attach itself to any ad-
venture in which Cochrane has so great a part. The
lethargy of the Turks is about to be stirred in good
earnest ; and who shall say that the volatile disposi-
tion of the Greeks cannot be controulled by a Coch-
rane—since as yet it has had to contend against no
authority but that of imbecile and every way inade-
quate charlatans ? •It would be strange logic to argue,
that because the Stanhopes, and.even the Byrons, did
nothing, a Cochrane, areal man of deeds, must have

the same fate. This is, undoubtedly, the first fair
opportunity the Greeks have had ; and, if they do
not profit by it, we have almost as little doubt that it
will prove to be the last.