The Sun.
London, England, 1828-01-31 00:00:00

the 'Nfembers of Administration may exert them-
selves to suppress aggression from their side of

;he House.

The Paris Papers of Monday, and the Ga-
zette de France of Tuesday, contain some further
particulars of the preparations making by Turkey
in the event of hostilities. The exertion will be
of service to the SULTAN by the more complete
formation of a new army to supply the place of
the Janissaries, but he is not likely at present to
have any occasion for the valour of his troops.
A spirit of enthusiasm has been communicated
to the people which may render them more
tractable to the innovations designed by the
SULTAN for their improvement.
It appears that after the news of the change in
the British Cabinet had been received at Vienna,
an English messenger brought the ratification of
the Supplenzent to the Treaty of London, which
was concluded on the 21st December between
Russia, England, and France. The existence
of such a special treaty is new to us, but it serves
to show that the Allied Powers are determined,
under any change of Ministry, to watch over the
deliverance of Greece.

The convocation of a Parliament in Turkey
is another proof of the SULTAN'S enterprising,
yet prudent character. IT he live ten years more,
Turkey will be advanced a century in civiliza-
tion and knowledge, while her resources will be
vastly increased. Prejudice has hitherto ruled
the Government of Turkey, and paralysed her
strength by creating her natural protectors into
petty tyrants—each more eager to advance his
own selfish views than the interests of the State.
Mutual ambition begat personal hate between
rival chiefs—and hence the singularity of a civil
war in remote parts of the Empire, that the rapa-
city of one tyrant knight be satisfied at the ex-
pence of the other, or rather at the expence of
the people who were forced to supply the means
to both. But these things are common to
TUrkey—and we believe only to Turkey, whose
Government is divided into so many refractory
rulers, spread over a large extent, and each abso-

lute in his own command. A representative
assembly would greatly tend to controul these
tyrannical chiefs by concentrating the power of
the Empire at the seat of Government—which is
probably.the object of the SULTAN.

The Allge»2eine Zeilung of the 24th inst.
contains a long letter from the Oriental Specta-
tor, upon the affairs of Greece. This document
places the situation of Greece in the most de-
plorable—the most hopeless view. Nothing can
indeed be worse. Count CAPO DISTRIA is to
be deposed on his arrival—or if tolerated, his power
is to he very much circumscribed. The Greek
nation is said to be a moving sand, which affords
no solid footing. Without resources to carry
on the war, and without credit with foreign
nations, her cause is pictured in gloomy des-
pondency. Her chiefs quarrel for supremacy,
while
,her people are perishing of hunger.—
But our readers shall judge for themselves, re-
collecting that the article is from a quarter
decidedly hostile to the interests of those whom
if affects to pity. The Turks would not surely
speak well of the Greeks or their cause

SMYRNA, DEC. 15.
The Oriental Spectator contains the following letter,
dated Egina, Dec. 11 :
The confusion prevailing in Greece daily increases, with-
out any prospect of its termization, without will and power
in the Government to make any improvement, and with-
out any power in the people, agitated by various interests
of their leaders, to find a fixed point from which it might
look forward with some security. EVery one acts for his
own account. The Government itself is a coterie which
has no greater influence than any other, and knows only
its own decisions, while these of the others remain quite
unknown to it.
Thus Vass() and Griziotis, both famous for their rapa-
city, lately made a lauding in the Gulf of Volo ; the Greek
inhabitants treated_ them as robbers, and joined the Turks
in driving them away. The Candiots have left part of the
Islands in the Archipelago, where, however, all remains
in the same confusion as before ; notwithstanding this Lord
Cochrane pretends to govern then, and sends persons
to levy contributions. The Government, on its side,
orders them not to obey the Admiral. At Tino, Dr.
Grosse, his Lordship's agent, has threatened to fire on .
the town, unless five hundred talaris were paid him.
The Primates were obliged to comply, though this sum was
intended for the Ipsariots, who will not fail also to demand
it, and care little for the orders of Lord Cochrane. At
Scio, the same Doctor, when levying contributions, came
in-collision with a schooner belonging to the Government;
the victory was on the side of the Doctor, who got some
hundred talaris. After going to Santarina, he proceeded
to Corfu, there to snake a loan for the Admiral, whose
finances are in as bad a condition as his influence. It was
intended to call the National Assembly together, and to
propose to it to deprive the Admiral of his titles and au-
thority. This plan, however, did not succeed, and
,things
remain as they were. It is said here that the principal
Members of the Assembly had expressed an inten-
tiou considerably to dimiuish the power given by
the Constitution to Count Capo d'lstria, the Pre-
sident, and even to propose his deposition, because his
:rival in Greece is so long delayed. The Count, who
certainly knows what resources he is likely to find in Greece,
will surely not conic without having obtained money
and troops ; but the ardour in favour of the Greeks has so
much cooled in Europe, and especially in England, which
was lutist depended upon for a loan, that money is not to
be obtained as it was a few years ago. The piracies have
put an end to all interest in the cause, and only M.
Eynard, who still refuses to acknowledge it, continues to
make some sacrifices, of which, however, he will probably
soon be weary.
Of General Church we hear nothing, he appears to
have vanished , at Corinth ; if he himself is there, his army
is not with him, it has been almost entirely dissolved
by desertion. Ibrahim Pacha has concentrated his troops
near Tripolizza, and left weak garrisons in the fortresses.
It is thought he will go to Ilumelia. By this the Morea would
became free without the Greeks haVing contributed to it :
neve.rtheless they will claim the victory. Meantime the
with
people are dying manger; every thing in the country
is destroyed, and nobody thinks of Cultivating the ground.
All the roads are infested by robbers. The proclamation
of the blockade of the ports of the Morea by Admiral Co-
drinr;ton increases the distress of the Greeks ; and if the
fate of this country should he one day regularly settled, the
greater part of the population will have been swept away
by famine and civil war.
On the 28th a new Commissioner of the Russian fleet
arri red at Syra, in the person of M. \Taws Poulo. About
thirty Turks, taken prisoners at Scio, were brought to that
island, having been sent to the Government by Colonel
Fabvier. The Captain would not support them, and the
Commissioners from Scio were told by the local autho-
rities that they would do nothing for people who belonged
to the Colonel, so that iu this dispute the prisoners remained
two days without food. All enlightened politicians
see the future situation of Greece in a gloomy light, even