The Sun.
London, England, 1828-09-13 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE LONDON JOURNALS.

An importance—greater perhaps than reason
would justify—has been ascribed to the intelli-
gence which is said to have come from Lord
Heytesbury through Vienna, that his Lordship
has received from the Emperor Nicholas and
from Count Nesselrode " the most satisfactory
assurances" relative to the objects of the war
against Turkey. His Imperial Majesty is said
to have confirmed in person to Lord Heytesbiiry
rthigieiwritten declaration of his Minister fur Fo-
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put the country to the expense of a courier
conveyingex-
traordinarynoiffesto published home
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claimed all along that this was a defensive war—
a war provoked by Ottoman injustice,._ war for
security—and a war for indemnity—and any and
every sort of war, save only a war for conquest.
Had his Imperial Majesty made any other re-
ply to Lord Heytesbury's demands of explana-
tion but one corroborative of his earlier profes-
sions, he would have committed a gross, and,
what is worse, a premature inconsistency, and to
that extent, in a statesman, an unpardonable
folly. If- the imperial Government of Russia
were capable of harbouring airy ambitious views,
as people have sometimes accused it of enter-
taining, with regard to Turkey, it is tolerably
certain that those designs would not be avowed
at the very moment which would render the
avowal or them most unfavourable to their com-
pletion. The existence, then, of that alarm in
the mind of the King's Ministers, on the subject
of Russian aggrandizement, to which Lord
Heytesbury's mission is generally imputed, would
suppose the British Cabinet to be the greatest
fools imaginable, if they were to rest satisfied
with a mere repetition of phrases which had
already been employed by Russia, but which had
not, when so employed, alleviated their fears, or
superseded the necessity of the mission. There
appears much address in the language of the
Russian Government, when considered in con-
nexion with the scale of its operations, and with
the nature of its undisguised requisitions. "We
must have pecuniary indemnity for our ex-
penses,—we
must have a solid security for our
free use of the channel on which Constantinople
stands, but we do not desire to make con- _
quests." Such is the " assurance ;" but what
is the fact ? She insists on an indemnity for
the costs of a war for which she has put 300,000
men in actual march upon the Turkish territory,
and with a portion of which immense array site
ep3rinshweelap-laleililmaking
up
their
carries on a number of difficult sieges--the most
wasteful of all military labours. Can Turkey
pay, in money or moveables, one half the ex-
pense of such a war ? Then Russia calls for a
positive guarantee—that is to
which Turkey can have no control—for the free
say,
dof the tOhlei
see cßto:n' Bos-
phorus, p navigationitorus
th
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ethe o narrowof
m armpoarssa
,agaen
narrow passage of the Dardanelles. This gua-
rantee cannot, of course, be a mere written
compact with Turkey, for that had long
since, as Russia tells us, failed ; nor can
a guarantee well consist of money or any
other " moveables." The casuistry, then, of
the matter may lay here : conquest is not
the first " object" of the war; but, fail-
ing the " indemnity" and " security" - which
are professed to be so, a transfer of provinces,
fortresses, or positions, is demanded, and an in-
crease of dominion—that is to say," conquest,"
takes place as an alternative, though it be dis-
claimed
as a motive. How is England the het.;
ter for this ? or Europe ? And if nothing more
be gained by Lord Heytesbury than words sus-
ceptible of so easy an evasion, why M. Metter-
nich will tell his pupil, Lord Aberdeen, that he
might as well have sent Lord Heytesbury to
Brazil, where there is a constitutional charter to
be dealt with, and have reserved for Lord Vis-
count Strangford the illustrious office of medi-
ating between the Sultan and the Russian Em-
peror, to the first of whom his principles of go-
vernment are so congenial; and by the second
of whom his person is so esteemed. Should,
indeed, the Grand Seignor and his Harem be
compelled, by the approach of Nicholas, to get
on board ship, and escape by sea, it may make
little difference to Lord Strangford whether lie
be at Constantinople or at Rio, since in either
case to his Lordship will belong the praise of
having-advised it.— Times.
An evening- contemporary,
swadthetohmeapnmstieebniitiest
anxious, like ourselves, to hold up to reproba-
tiaiocnotuhrets
of J us ti
c abominablee,
ait of
instance f ee
Middlesex Sessions of a person being detained in
custody for fees demanded from him after his.
acquittal ; and that after an -ineffectual appeal
to the Court, which replied, as usual, that it had
no authority to interfere. We apprehend that
our contemporary must be mistaken as to the fact
w
nosu nttoi n g
whomto n no
theym o more
eh thanit
uheaatthcaetlyi, debt,ehc
a4iTithnsiolcltlet.
of any one having been detainedin custody for a
thee parties
profits
demand of this kind, for which thete is no right
may be
or authority ; such fees, though they
persons thele legal, a Ip,
for 'and recover in the usual way, This is. a
point, we should think, which, at any rate, the
Court might cleargoupno.end:ylt
to
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small:e
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fees
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out their offices
of mere sinesurists, who farm
to deputia, .
and
prin-
cipals, or,
.as is mere generally the case, who
P. pay aver the surplus
pay a certain sum by Way of rent, or annual con-
,
own extra gains by what they can screw, and in
some cases terrify the ' t.
vic inks out of, on whom
these rascally claims are made. That the persons
presiding in tile courts II shou t have
no controul
over these demands is, if any were wanting, an
adtlitioual
reason against them ; and appears to
Ils, We must confess, to be carried to an extent
which leads us very much to doubt its solidity.
That the officers of the Courts are the servants
of the Courts cannot be doubted ; and that the

servant shall have a demand upon the visitor or
the customer, quite independent of the know-
ledge, controul, or participation of the master,
reminds one of nothing more nearly than the old
system of.vails, which were claimed and expected
as a right, till the better sense of modern times
put an end to that system, as, we trust, it will
soon do to the others.— Morning Herald.
There were no arrivals last night from the
theatre of war, nor do we anticipate any, of any
importance, until after the Emperor has joined
the army, anti all the reinfQrcements which 4