The Sun.
London, England, 1821-09-22 00:00:00

Eintmin PRESS.]

. The most interesting of
,the contents of the
Paris Papers is a copy of a Manifesto issued by
the Grand Seignor, justifying his conduct with
respect to the Greek Insurgents, and promising
perfect security of property and life to such of
the Greeks as may have abstained from insur-
rection, or have proved their repentance for past
errors by returning to their obedience. This
Manifesto is addressed to his Vizirs and other
persons in authority. It commences by boasting
in somewhat pompous and certainly exaggerated
terms, of the benefits which all the subjects of
the Porte, who are not Mahorneta.ns, have de-
rived from the I.rotectiou of its Government.
But of all these f-voured and happy people the
Greeks were most eminently distinguished by the
affectionate regard of the Sublime Porte, and
in proportion as they were advanced beyond
other nations as the peculiar objects of the
divine mercies vouchsafed, from the Turk, so
much the deeper have they sunk into the vice of
ingratitude by their present opposition to the
Government. It is, no doubt, much to be
lamented that the Greeks should have been so
blind to their peculiar felicity ; but so it is that
they, sharing the opinions of the other nations
of Europe, foolishly conceived that they were
oppressed by the most debased and grinding
tyranny that ever formed the lot of man-
kind, and impelled by this feeling, they
disclaimed " the shield of mercy and cle-
mency" with which the Porte had covered
them.--The Sultan, however, now declares
that it is his 44 sublime will" that the in-
fatuated Greek nation should still taste the
blessings of his protecting power, and his
Sublime Highness therefore very earnestly com-
mands that the innocent and peaceable people
should receive protection and safety. lie admits,
indeed, that his wishes in this respect have been
occasionally violated in the most flagrant manner,
that the properties of the Greeks, however in-
nocent, have been seized, their persons injured,
and their churches despoiled ; but he denounces
the severest punishments upon all persons who
shall hereafter presume to contravene his corn-
mands, and endanger the safety of his people.—
The energy with which the Sultan reiterates his
wishes proves his sincerity ;' but the events
that have occurred in Constantinople, under the
very eye of the Government, would raise a doubt
of his ability to enforce his commands. We are
happy, however, to perceive in the Government
such a symptom of justice ; and we further learn,
by accounts from Constantinople of the 18th of
August, that since the 4th of that month
the tranquillity of the capital had not been
disturbed. Accounts from Smyrna, of the
4th, say that attempts had been repeated in
that town to renew the former excesses,' but
that the Authorities had sufficient energy and
strength to suppress the rioters, and that several
Turks have been decapitated, in proof of the re-
solution of the Government to give efficacy to its
commands. By way, we suppose, of preserving
the balance of power between the contending
parties, several Greeks of distinction, inhabitimts
of Smyrna, were at the same time seized, and
conducted as prisoners to Constaatinople, under
a charge of having conspired with the-insurgents
to promote the great object of the deliverance of
Greece.

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