The Sun.
London, England, 1828-02-26 00:00:00

to believe him actuated merely by interest. Yet
even the most changeable must be changed by some-
thing; . for no act of man is purely arbitrary.
that giving his Lordship credit for the complete dis-
regard of principle and, indifference to professions,
'we may not be the-JesS- puzzled in forming-conjec-
tures .as to his future conduct. Lord Seaford, pro-
fessed himself unable to recollect the exact eipres-
sions used by Mr. lluskissor.--21/ orning Chionicle.
Some of our contemporaries have endeavoured
.to cast a doubt over the authenticity of the docu-
ment which. we gave yesterday from the, Ilfoniieur,
and which agr teably to. common phraiieology, we
denominated the Turkish Manifesto. The..grounds
Of this doubt are the internal indications which the
paper.seems to give of its being manufactured by
other than Turkish hands. Internal evidence is but
little to be relied -on .in any case, but in this.it seems
to us weaker than ordinary, because it may be
granted that the Manifesto, has teen drawn up by
some Christian perhaps a 6reek, without in any
'degree' impeaching its
,credit. The present Emperor
of the Turks is a great reformer, and nothing is more
likely 'than that the same feelings which dictated al-
terations in the discipline of his soldiery, might dictate
alterations in the arrangement of his sentences- Be-
sides, it is extremely difficult to come to a Correetjudg-
ment on the style of a document which had passed
through the hands of two translators, possibly three,
before 'it reached oars, and which our readers re-
ceived after it had once more changed its dress from
French to English. Although viewing it in its
neral structure, and in the nature of its arguments,
there appears still quite
.enough of orientalism left,
even under its present disguise, to justify us in im-
puting it, to Turkiah dictation. Abstracted, hew-
ever, from all argument derived from style, its admis-
sion into the Moniteur, the French official paper, is
evidence in.its favour, which no hypothesis can beat
down. The state of the. French funds was quoted
in the city yesterday, as a proof that it was.not be-
lieved in
.Paris"; but the influence of good or bad
news on the funds is-modified, and sometimes con.;
trouled, by numerous 'disturbing forces, whose sepa-
rate and conjoint effects must botaken into account
if we wish to form any thing like an accurate.theory
of their Variations. It is. indeed a very common
remark of jobbers in the funds that those who trust.
to intelligence generally lose, while those who watch
the market generally. win. Any argument, therefore,
either in this or in similar cases, drawn from the state
of the funds, must be received with great, caution.--
The question of much higher import is, as we ob-
serKed yesterday, whether Turkey, having fulmi-
nated this threatening paper,, will rest there or go
farther, anti in either case how the Allies will act.
We have always argued in favour of vigorous mea-
sures, should a-war with the Porte prove inevitable;
for, next to the advantages of continued peace,would
be
.a speedy termination to hostilities, and nothing
short of. the most vigorous measures could lead to
thafdesirable.cOnclusion. The military strength of
Constantinople, and the capabilities of Turkey to
sustain a war ofdefence, are not very accurately known.
The latter have been little tried, and the former not at
ail. So far as the maps may he relied on, Constantinople
is peculiarly open to an attack by sea. The shore is bold,
and, from " the Seven Towers" to the " Seraglio,"
and even in the harbour of the city to the east of the
Seraglio, there is good anchorage close *to the land.
Were th combined fleets,' therefore," in the Sea of
Marmora, with such a number of steam-boats as
would enable them, When sailed on, to take up a
proper position, and were the Russians to combine
with them in an attack.—on,,the land side, there seems
no reasonable" doubt-but.-that the ancient capital of
the Eastern Empire would be.compelled to' capitu-
late in alew hours.. There is 'quite us little doubt
that, in such an event, the Allies blight impose upon
Turkey . whatever conditions they thought proper.
That the fleetkmay pass into the sea of Marmara is
very obvious for fleets have gone thither'before,but
of the obstacle's which may present themselves to
the advance of the Russians, it is much more diffi-
cultto form a judgment. Ve. do not think that
the- bombardment of the capital, without a simulta-
neous attack by a military force, would do more than
exasperate the inhabitants:. It is evident, indeed,
that notwithstanding the disaster of Navarin, it is a
military force that they alone fear. The Rnssians
the enemies to whom the Manifesto first directs
the attention of. the Faithful, and their terror, as
well,as their anger, are evidently excited by their
movements, with an intensity which the operations
of the other parties to the Treaty of July have no
awakened.—.7New Times.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF ICING'g'BENCH, FEB. 25.

Sittings before Lout TE,NTERDEN and 3 Special Jury.)
CONSPIRACY.
REX V. REES AND OTHERS.

This.was an indictment against the several de-
fendants, Thomas Rees, Howell Rees, Gilbert,
Wood, Biles, Keymour, Jones, and Stuart, for a
fraudulent conspiracy, to enable Thomas Rees, a
bankrupt, to cheat his creditors, by the concealment
of hiS goods._ The defendant, Stuart, was acquitted
before the opening of the ease, so as to qualify him
to become a witness; and the defendant, fones, was
acquitted before the Judge came to sum up the evi-
dence.

Sir J. SCARLETT opened the case for the prose-
cution. Thomas Rees was a linen-draper in Shore-
ditch,- and had a shop also at Chelmsford, the con-
cern bf which was afterwards transferred to Chat-
ham.- • At the close of 1826, anti the beginning of
1827,.it appeared that Thomas Rees was resolved
to become bankrupt, and a Commission ,of Bank-
ruptcy was issued against him. on. the 16th March,
1827. He had been insured at .the Phoenix Fire
Office, stock at 2,000/.; and furniture at 500/. At
the meeting of his creditors he gave up his stock at
8004 but a strong suspicion' of fraud having existed,
inquiries were set on foot, and -goods, exclusive of
those- given up by the bankrupt, to the amount
of 8081., were discovered secured by means of, and
in -the houses of, the other persons named as 'de-
fendants in the indictthent, as the. Jury would hear
detailed to them in the , evidence. Several curious
letters had passed among these parties, and the Jury
would farm an opinion from the tone of their corre-
spondence as.to.their moral character.. This was a
case particularly deserving of the attention of the
Jury, as frauds of this kind had- became very cithii-
mon. A bankruptcy had too often been made' the
means of what was called whitewashing a tradesman,
and when he was supposed tp have given up every
thing to his creditors, he suddenly appeared again in
wealth and credit, as in the late instance of an At-
torney, who took the benefit. of the Insolvent Deb'
tors' Act, and suddenljr....commenced business again,
and lent money to his clients at three per cent. Af-
ter. evidence in support of the prosecution had
been adduced, and. Messrs. Sergeant Strokes,' Den-
man, Chitty, and Alderson, had been- heard in de-
fence of the prisoners,
,
TENTERDFN summed up, and a half-past
eight, the Jufy found their verdict, finding Thomas
Rees, the bankrupt, Howell Rees, and Biles, Guilty
and. Keortiour, Wood, and Gilbert, Not Guilty.

CAPTAIN FRANKLIN..--,We are informed
that Captain FRANKLIN will make another journey to the
northern coast of America, in order to complete his survey,
by traversing the space left between 'him and Captain
BERCHEY.--;-Literary Gazette.

A cormorant, of sinktday plimage, 'was, shot
on Tuesday, off Longmore Point, in Claichesterighhatrbobotitirte,
by Sergeant CA RTE R. It was ' nearly silver white over
the breast and body, the wings and tailbeing abr
green, forming a beantifuk, contrast,. ;It was sent to Lon-
don for 'preservation,--Hants, chronicle.
WOLFE, the Missionary; being prevented
from prosecuting his intended mission to Palestine, in con_
sequence of the unsettled state of Turkey, intends to visit
the scattered dews "in Africa, and to explore the region of
Tiinbuctoo.

It appears by a meteorological journal that the
►wean ,temperance of .thr air during: the last. month of
lanuary was much higher than that of March in several
preceding years, .. .