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London, England, 1826-03-21 00:00:00

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[ARUM PRESS.]
'the peesent aspect of affairs in Europe opens a
wide field for meditation. The events of every
day furnish &new subject of prophecy, while it
adds one page more to the history of the sports
ef Fortune and the vicissitudes of Greatness.—
While the Greek struggles were exciting the
Dopes and sympathies of all the friends of free-
dom in Europe, and while they were pausing in
doubt whether that classical land was to be res-
sued from the sacrilegious gripe of the turbaned
Ottoman,or whether the Grand Turk, being le-
Fitimate, it was to yield to the pretensions of the
triple Alliance—all their sanguine anticipations
were on a sudden disconcerted by the announce.
meta of the death of Alexander ! No circum-
stance could have taken the political world more
by surprise—no news from Si. Petersburgh could
have been more unlimited for, or have thrown
the Cabinets of Paris and Vienna into greater
Perturbation. What turn this event will give to
the affairs of Greece, was a question a thousand
times asked—and, had it been possible, would
have been answered with a thousand dif-
ferent answers ; fortunately, the option lay
between two opinions, for either the Emperor
Nicholas will pursue the same course of policy
sir his predecessor, and keep aloof from the con.
test; or he will incline to the disposition of the
majority of his people, and give his voice for the
regeneration of Greece. Were he cordially so
disposed, he might regenerate it almost without
an effort ; but that he will take even a single
step towards bringing about this great end, we
ere very little disposed to believe. how, in•
deed, can we expect any thing like zeal in such
a cause, from any one of the Continental Sole.
reigns ? The utmost that can be reckoned upon
on the part of Russia is, that she should decline
all interference. Iler policy, no doubt, would be
to suffer the exterminating warfare between the
Greeks and their oppressors to go on unchecked—
to look on while they were wasting their re.
sources and wearing down their strength—and to
keep herself in a condition to profit by that
period of their mutual helplessness, which
should enable her to interpose her good
offices with effect. But Mr. Canning, in the in.
terve), is well aware of the policy dictated by
the interests of. England. lie is too shrewd a
statesmen not to have been long since alive to
the restless ambition of Russia, to her projects
in Turkey, and to the disposition she bus pub.
Hely manifested to extend her southern frontier.
" Cel empire Russe," says Voltaire in a letter to
le Compte d'Argental, written in the year 178,
.64 aATlendraParbilre du Nord: Je vous en avertis
Messieurs le _Francais" Russia is at this moment
too much occupied with her own internal
sentions to have leisure for arbitrating be.
tween her neighbours ; but if, when she has
settled her own differences, she shall find Tur.
key sufficiently exhausted, her march lies wide
and open to Constantinople; and she may there
put an end to hostilities in a osmium. that
may well put other nations besides Messieurs les
Francais on the alert. The possibility of
her fleets riding triumphantly in the Mediterra.
nean can be no very consoling speculation to any
of the European, Powers. The mission of the
Duke of Wellington to St. Petersburg!' at the
present crisis, we feel assured, bus been dictated
by the soundest political wisdom ; we hazard
nothing in affirming that its object id essentially
connected not merely with the interests of Great
Britain, lint with the tranquillity of Europe. its
influence ow the Greek cause must be consider.
able. The Sovereign of Itustrin is sufficiently
jealous of his great Northern Rival to listen to
the prudent counsels of the British Cabinet ; and
though he may not be brought openly to counte.
nance the claims of Grecian independence, from
the dread of disturbing the spirit of passive obe•
dience ht his own dominimis, he trey yet he made
to look a little more steadily than he has hitherto
done to his own security, and to co.operate in
that system of enlightened policy which would
prevent the subjugation of the Greeks from ling.
wanting the already dangerous pretensions of his
Imperial Brother.

[TUE TIM Ell
-Th., death of John VI. King of Portugal and
Emperor (by courtesy) of Brazil, was an event,
we believe, anticipated and provided for by the
Stetestnen acting in his name, a considerable time
befOro it 'happened. Ile appears to have been a
Prides of small attainments, ingrafted on mean
endowments, and therefore with nothing intel.
luaus! or moral to distinguish him from the herd
of 'drowned instruments, who remain passive
ruitist mighty changes, and are used like so
many notched sticks, whereon we register the
vi-
cissitudes of nations. The chief animal propensity
of 'the defunct Emperor and King was one in
which the demise of Louis XVIII. of France
left his Most Faithful Majesty without a rival in
Christendm»—o exclusive, but so remarkable,
was the energy of his Royal atornuch.---
An however which never could have
been nssociated with the name or character of
Joint VI. while living, his death her, excited for
the kingdom over which he nominally ruled.—
What is to become of his European dominions ?
What of that immense country which had ceased
to be,a part of his dominions ?—A Regency is, in
its Malin., but a substituted and provisional mode
of GOvernment. That which is now administered
in Pokugal by the Princess Isabella Maria, looks
of course to a successor of the late Soveieign in
one of the males of his family. Miguel—a
creature of the obnoxious and incorrihible, but
happily, as all the intelligence from Lisbon
assures us, the humbled and impotent, Queen
of Portugal—is set aside for the present by
a national feeling, in which Englund and
Franc, bay,. concurred ; so that nothing in the
way of legitimacy is left for future sovereign of
the Portuguese nation but non Pedro. The
position of this new Emperor, then, does really
SONOn to tis the most embarrassing that can well
lea istingilletl. Upon events yet hi 4 in futurity)