The Sun.
London, England, 1826-01-17 00:00:00

[MORNI NG HERALD.]

We are glad to find that the opinions we ven-
tured to give a few days ago relative to the awl-
shin character, and the- events which are passing
in that country, have been in a greet measure
confirmed by the accounts and documents which
have since arrived. in that temple of fraud and
falsehood, the Stock Exchange, some of the des-
perate adventurers, who stick at nothing to pro.
duce a turn in the market, have made someu tten,pts,
we see, to throw,discredit upon these documents,
anti to impute to the parties sinister designs,alto-
ether at variance with their plain and avowed put.,
port. It is natural enough that thnse'n ho live by
deception. themselves, and to whom truth, ingenu-
ousness, and sincerity are.unknow n,should qtrestion
the existence of such qualities elsewhere ; but to
minds uncontaminated by the malaria of this sink
of all that is vile and loathsome, the accounts iu
' question carry with them an nir,of innate troth,
alike creditable to the parties they come from, end
an earnest of the continuance of the 'peace of Eu-
rope. We cannot too strongly deprecate the dig-
' position which exists in other quarters besides the
one we have mentioned, to look With a jaundiced
eye upon every thing which happens in other
countries, and to assume that there can be nothing
like truth and sincerity in Potentates and States.
men. And this is done not so much with any
real or apparent foundation for, or conviction of,
,the truth of what they say, as to exhibit the won-
derful sagacity of the inventors. We do not
deny that the history of past ages, the annals
'of diplomacy, and the intrigues or Cabinets,
both at home and abroad, have heretofore
furnished too many grounds for justifying such
imputations. But the mystery which used to en-
, velope the science of Government hits been of
late years gradually withdrawn ; and the light of
general knowledge
which has long since broken
in upon the mass of Mankind, in most countries,
leaves so little to conceal, or s hich can be con
ci.aled, that the objects and designi of Cabinets
are now, for the most part, as well understood
and anticipated as the 'events of private life.—
Nor can we see any just' grounds for impaling
sinister designs and motives MN! which
would not apply just as readily to
duals in private lifel and we need not point out
what would'be the 'state of insecurity and dis-
trust in which mankind would be placed, if 'ail
confidence•• were .at, en end, and each man was
justified in imputing to every word and action of

his neighbours art object quite the reverse of
that which they profess, From all that we yet
know or see of the events which have followed
the unexpected death of Alexander, they appear
to carry upon the face of them as fair a bona
fide appearance as any thing of the kind the
world has ever witnessed and, to say the least
of it, it is truly ridiculous to witness the wonder-
fully " wise saws " of political quidnuncs, who
see nothing but civil and foreign wars, deception,
cruelty, revolt, and murder, in an affair, extraor-
dinary certainly, and almost unprecedented in its
nature, but one with which, as far as we yet
know, the Powers of Europe have apparently
but little connizance, and froin which the peace
of the world,as far as appearances serve to guide
us, seems to have 'nothing to fear.