The Sun.
London, England, 1821-11-10 00:00:00

antler's magnanimity and mocieratlon. Here is a
kingdom bound to England by ancient friendship
and alliance, by every aptitude of geographical
and commercial relations to form the strictest
union of interests—the Sovereign of the one
bound to the other, for hospitality in his exile,
restoration to his country and elevation to a
Throne—and yet the influence of Russia upon a
weak Prince,piqued on the one side and dazzled
on the other, threatens to sever the bond Of
union between both nations. if we may trust
the foreign papers, Russian Emissaries are la-
bouring with the same eagerness, and not without
success, in a more distant point.

[IRITISII PRESS.]
The foreign Papers have not as yet given any
confirmation to the report which prevailed in
town on Saturday evening and Sunday, relative
to the appointment of a new Russian Ambassador
at Constantinople. They, however, seem for the
most part to concur in expressing a firm belief
that the peace of Europe will not be disturbed
by an immediate war between Russia and the
Porte. The journey of Prince Metternich to
Hanover during our King's late residence there,
has excited much speculation on the Conti-
nent, and it is universally attributed to a de-
sire upon the part of Austria to induce the
King of Great Britain to concur in certain
projects entertained by the Courts of Vienna,
Berlin, and Petershurgh, upon Turkey. The
movements of great personages must always,
in the eye of the world, have some reference to
political events ; but it certainly is very possible
that Prince Metternich made his mysterious
journey to Hanover as much for the purpose of
complimenting the King of England on his ar-
rival in his continerr.al dominions, as with the in-
tention of strengthening the arm of Russia against
her less powerful rival.

[MORNING POST.]

The intelligence from Vienna states, that
Austria is on the best footing of amity and
good understanding with Russia, and that all
her efforts tend to the maintenance of peace
in the East of Europe. It is admitted, how-
ever, that this accord is not general, and
that the conditions proposed by those two
Powers have been considered by our Government
as requiring concessions which it would not be
safe for the Divan to make, or politic for other
States to allow. Our Minister at Constantinople,
it is added, proposed modifications to the de-
mands of Russia, which were immediately re-
jected by the latter, who declared that she
would not consent to any curtailment of the gua-
rantees which she had demanded, as she felt con-
vinced that they were necessary to the security
of the Greeks. In this opinion Austria and Prus-
sia are said to coincide, and the mission of the
Prince of Metternich to Hanover is represented
as having had no other object than to persuade
the King of England to adopt the same views
upon this point as his Allies. If the conditions
in debate are those of which an outline found its
way some time since before the public, they are
indeed calculated to yield protection to the
Greeks, for they would reduce the Turks to a
state of little more than vassalage, and would
make the existence of their empire in Europe
totally dependent on the mercy and forbearance
of their great and dangerous neighbour. It is
not astonishing, therefore, that the Divan
should be inclined to reject them, or that we
should support its resistance on grounds of
policy, though on grounds of justice and hu-
manity the Porte has no claim upon our
aid. The intelligence brought from Spain in the
French Papers is of an afflicting nature. Fif-
teen hundred young men, who formed part of
the National Guard, of which the cordon esta-
blished on the land side of Barcelona was com-
poseds are said to have fallen victims to the
desolating scourge. In the town itself the morta-
lity continued, and out of the four French Phy-
sicians who had gone in the hope of counteracting
the disease, one was already dead, two others
were infected and confined to their beds with all
the symptoms of the fever, and only one remained
able to attend to the state of his friends and of
the public.

[TIfE TIMES.]
We give from the Hamburgh papers a copy of
the commercial regulations of Russia, applying to
the settlements of that empire along the north-west
coast of America, the Aleutian islands, and the
east Coast of Siberia. The line of maritime and
commercial dominion thus covered by the decrees
.of the custom-house of St. Petersburgh, extends
along the American coast full 10 degrees-of lati-
tude from Beer; Straits, in about 61 N. to 51
N.. in the neighbourhood of Nootka ; and on the
Asiatic side, from the same straits of 113eering,
above 15 degrees along the eastern coast of
Kamtschatka, and down to the south cape in the
island of Ourop, lat. 45 deg..sl min., -not very
far north of the empire of Japan. The regula-
tion spoken of is nothing less than a prohi-
bition to all foreign nations to commence the
whale or other fishery, or any other branch
of trade or industry, on any part of the afore-
said coasts or islands, or to approach any
one of the Russian settlements within a. less dis-
tance than 100 Italian miles, under 'the penalty
of losing the cargo. There is an exception in
favour of ships- driven in by stress of weather,
and of ships sent out on voyages of discovery,
hein?. previously provided with -passports from
the Russian Minister of Marine.—The alleged
ground of this general restriction is to prevent
the further continuance of those mischie-
vous consequences which., it is said, have
been felt by the above Russian settlements
from the prevalence of -a contraband traffic.—
To the prevention of such a traffic none can fairly
object : yet it is rare, if not unprecedented, that
any Power should assert so • broad a dominion
over the sea itself, for the mere purpose of pro-
viding a check against smugglers, is is here laid
claim to brthe Russian Government. That the
sea near the coast is capable of being'tnde pro-
perty by the Sovereign who is proprietor Of the
do.gt itself, all• writers and all Governments Are
agreed ; but it-does not appear us quite cees
taia whether Russia has-not, in the invseilt