The Sun.
London, England, 1821-12-03 00:00:00

[THE TIMES.

It is 'most likely we apprehend, that some
Changes will take place in the Administration'on
• the filling up of 'the Lord Chamberlain's office ;
and the rumour now is, though probably on no
good foundation, (us we only find it in ne Cou-
rier,) that Lord Talbot and Mr. Grant, the 'Si.
-drophel and Whackum orlrelrnd at ; present,
are to retire and make way for. the 'Marquess
:'Wellesley and Mr. Goulburn_; • and that-Mr:
• Reel is to succeed Lord Sidrnonth-as Secretary
of State for the Home Departm'ent. .Uponithe
latter presumed appointment we shall observe)that

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though we have nothing aristocratic in our feeling's
or principles,- and rejoice extremely to see men of
ability and integrity raised to eminent stations, yet
still there is a weight and consideration attached
in this and the other European countries to birth
and rank, for the want of which Mr. Peel's ta-
lents are not of so transcendent a nature as to
compensate. - Let him look at the ex-Ambassador
and Minister Plenipotentiary to the -No-Court of
Portugal, a man greatly his superior in all the
qualities of the mind, except, perhaps, judgment.
What first rendered that Gentleman ridiculous
in the eyes of the country, but the forgetting
exactly his position in society, and darkly labour-
ing to be at the head of an Administration ?
That which followed was natural,—" Pride goes
beforeAestruction, and a haughty spirit before
"- a fall :" he sank into an abjectness from which
a just value for the endowments of nature ought
to have preserved him, for aspiring to an elevation
which requires, also, in those who attain it, the
accidAtal advantages of fortune. He served those
'whom he bad endeavoured to command.—On the
subjeo,alsO,ofLordWellesley'srumoured appoint-
ments we have a few remarks to make. There was a
time when we thought highly of this nobleman :
he clearly possessed more talents than all his
family put together, some of whom are so richly
pensioned ; and therefore he ought not to have
made himself the retainer of any of them, for the
mere acquisition of place, or the improvement of
his circumstances. Our venal cotemporaries are
surprised that we dare change our language, when.
those of whom we speak change their conduct.
The writers who sell themselves, or offer them-
selves to- sale, -have restraints imposed on -them
from which we are free ; and our freedom, which
excites their envy, Rrovokes_ also their abuse.
If Lord Wellesley. be in the full possession
Of his faculties, he should be above accepting
any office of which such men as the present
are the sovereign disposers : as a dependent
also, he should feel indignant at that tardy
effort of fraternal regard, that has only
now, after years of expectancy, stretched out
the hand to lift lihn from 'the earth : but if his
„
Lordship be not in full possession of those
powers, and that vigoUr of mind, which he origin-
ally possessed, then he Is an unfit person to go-
vern Ireland in its present state ; and it is a
public injury, if he be suffered to add his weak-
ness to that of an Administration, which in his
,brighter -days he himself desCribed as imbecile
'end inefficient.

rMORNING CHRONICLE.]
The interest which this country manifests in
the cause of Greece, though decidedly increas-
ing, is, we fear, damped by the Imperfect and
even contradictory nature of the information we
o btain on the subject. In fact, our means of ac-
quiring intelligence are almost exclusively limited
to the reports of foreign Journals; or to com-
mercial correspondence ; and when we con-
sider, on the one hand, the possibility that the
successes of the Greeks may be magnified by
the enthusiasm of friends to the cause, and,
on the other, the certainty that they are misre-
presented and traduced by an illiberal and ser-
vile press, and open to the effects of what ap-.
pearS to be a feeling of mercantile jealousy, as
groundless as it is mean, on the part of indivi-
duals,—we cannot be surprised that the state-
ments revecting•them should be as discordant as
the sources of information. This is a disadvan-
tage which attends every public question, but we
trust that the wisdom of our Government has
provided it with better resources, and that its
measures are regulated on surer foundations.—lt
should be generally understood, that a company
of Merchants (designated the Levant Company)
enjoy by charter exclusive privileges in the Le-
vant trade, and among others, -that of nominating
their agents at' the different Turkish ports; .and
thus they exercise the important function of ap-
pointing the Consuls and Representatives of
the British Government. The individuals so
appointed are usually selected from among persons
connected with their trade, and each possesses the
faculty of trafficking on his own account,—a pri-
vilege which, from the nature of their situation,
gives them most important advantages over the
native and other merchants where they are esta-
blished. Such a superiority, however, must ob-
viously excite jealousy against them, and involve
them in personal animosities utterly incompatible
with the impartiality requisite for an equitable
discharge of their public duty. It must be al-
most superfluous to remark, that these persons
are much better qualified, both by education
and habit, to transact the minutiae of mercan-
tile speculation, than to execute the compre-..
hensive policy of a great nation,—even were
they superior to the temptation of some-
times sacrificing political to commercial interests.
—Of the description of persons here mentioned
is our present Consul-General at Constantinople,
Mr. J. Cartwright. Originally a merchant at
Constantinople, he was appointed, by the Levant
Company, Consul at • Patras ; and from thence
*advanced to the important situation he now fills.
—Mr. Green, the British Consul, and a cur,
rant-merchant, at Patras, in reprobation of
whose conduit a strong formal protest has
lately been published by the Greeks of Pe-
loponnesus, is the son of one of the Direc-
tors of the Levant Company. It is through this
medium that our Ambassador at Constantinople,
and the Government at home, receive intelli-
gence which may- lead England, if not all Eu-
rope, -to engage in a new and destructive war,
Let it be remembered that the Consuls or Com-,
mercial Agents of France, Russia, Austria, and
the othei European Powers, areselected on widely
different principles ; they are exclusively chosen
from'among persons trained to, and eligible for,
even higher diplomatic functions ; and they are
most strictly prohibited from personal participa-
tion in any mercantile transaction whatever.

Saturday evening, just after dark, some person
-or-persons unknown entered the, back parlour of
Mr. WATSON, landlord of the tap of the Golden-
cross, Chetring-cross, by means of opening the
4indow: sash, and - stole a..quantity of tut de-
canters, goblets, wine- and other glasses, as well
as other articles of value, with Which they Sot
clear off.