The Sun.
London, England, 1817-04-23 00:00:00

GERMAN PAPEnS.

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VI ENV:A, APRIL 3.-'-Those who travel through
.INloderti. Greece will soon discover among the
people a degree of acquired learning, which gives
some to expect that they-are tiwakpaed to a coo-
scioteengekof the miitti Of their ancestors, whom
theymgerly seek to emulate, The number of
young Greeks who reside in Uermmiy,
hartieu-
larly amt Munich, is a proof that the
want of cultivated edoetitiqu.is, felt in their 'coun-
try. In Greece itselftle miist apphopthtte terans
are einproyell for the instruction of those whu are
uuaifle to seek edneation itefoieigo Countries ; and
Athena, the ,seat of chi .grebtOtt' Philosophers,
Artists, Orators, and Poets of AneientGreece, is
now 'again ret.' One() to by young men froth various
provioeCs, to be instructed itt the spirit'of Plato
and Ifteninstlicue. s.. We. so.itit' hear ;if new
and Ahle wt iters from • these schools. As api oof
how eagerly the learning of the Germans is used
by the young Greeks for the literary iMprovement
of thek country, we mention " The History of
Grea,Liteisiture, by M.' F. Schnell," which has
.been translated into modern Greek by Mt .skonfin,
a young Greek from Smyrno, who has formed
himself by travels through all, Germany and
Torhey, and completed his studies in Nlttnielt.
The first volume of this translation has already
beriiptidished at Vienna. An excellent Preface
by the Translator gives a proof of the elevation'
of his ,mind, and at the same time a picture of the
mitidiel those .to whom he chiefly directs his
glowing and highly figurative language. At the con-
clusion of' his Preface, Mr. Skouffo says, Shall
we suffer foreigners to seize on the (intellectual)
culture of out country, in order to have the right
to reap the Imiti of it I No ! We are too proud
to leave to foreigners the_ honour of calling our
nation into life again !" The whole is dedicated
to Madame Roxander de Stourtlza, Lady of Ho.
'tour to her Majesty the Empress of Russia, now
Duaried to the Privy Counsellor and Minister of
State, Von Eciling, ai Weimar. May these laud-
able efforts of a Nation from which civilized E.u-
ropb is entitled to expect so much, at least not be
thwarted by the Turkish Government.
' D4RLIN, APRIL 1.-.-There are various parties
here all quite different from each other, except iu
one point, namely, in the hope that the Coostitu-
titan will afford theirs means to limit the Royal
euthotity. It this is effected they will combat
each other.: The itoyftlisti, who justly appreciate
these parties, have the principle, that Under sidalt
circumstances it is not a time to dividet to limity
and to weaken the Royal Authority.
Their expectations of the future are rather
glbotny, , in which they sec a preponderance of the
States, and rather a stagnation than a progressive
inipeovement.' Well meaning men, on the other
side,: say that thersee things in too dark eolours ;
as ,the Committee fur forming the Constitution
must keep to the limits axed by the King's
Ordinance of (22d May, 1815, and there-
fore theta-is nothing to fear. Out, say the
Royalists, if it appeals from the Ordinance That
the States are to have decisive voiee, it was
staalso in France in 1788, and yet .
The imprejudieed observer, however, sees in those
who are chosen Counsellors of State, real merit,
joined with knowledge, experience, and energy
./ of mint!, to support the Throne, so that it is not
likely any Deputy will appear who should have
the most distant idea of attempting to shake it.
As I lately expressed this opinion in company, a
foreigner answered rather maliciously, 'tis for
that, then, that so many Generals are chosen into
the Council of State, anti the Committee of the
Constitution, that they may 'brace out the Con-
stitutiole to tl.e States with their swords I His.
tory can spew no example of so many Gene-

rids sitting •in the King's' Council : therefore,
_ 4ti

he a otirely military State,
al it has been sir often called,. or your ...guntu..l4.,
. t have studied many other things besides war."
, . dy .answered,—" You must be little sc-
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,With these Generals ; had they studied
the laws of Solon and Lycurgus and the Consti-
intim% of the Romans as little as that , of North
America, or the seven French Constitutions of
modern times, they haves!! soup(' common sense,
which will not lead them- wrong. These men,
particularly General Count Uneisensu, possess
• the confidence of the Nation ; ',if
.among the
States which are to be summoned, some foolish
voices should be heard or exaggerated aristomati.
cal !retentions, such a man needs but to open his
mouth to reduce them to silence. Hip a General
sully Unyaliat can be looked for, he is certainly
support of the Throne." - •
The great problem to be solVcil is, ',how
.to
maintain and confine the sovereign authoiity, In
414k* all its branches, to make the Ministers respon
yak tittle, respect the provincial differences, check
Isistocracy on the one band, and its opposite,