The Sun.
London, England, 1826-01-30 00:00:00

markable exception, including in its sweep a
whole hemisphere !

[THE PUBLIC LEDGER.]
Last night we received the Austrian Observer
to the 17th, with the dtgemeine.Zeitung and
Frankfort Papers (both to the 22d inst.) The
Austrian Observer has no recent news, either
from St. Petersburgh, Warsaw, or Greece ;
neither has it any allusion to the Cordon Sanitaire,
so confidently spoken of by the French Papers.
This silence, however, does not invalidate the.
report, as the Austrian Government is never over
anxious to lay before its subjects an account of
its proceedings. It is only when they become
the general subject of discussion abroad, that the
veil is slightly raised at home; though a full
view is never presented, as this would be a dan-
gerous precedent for a people to whom inquiry
is prohibited, and implicit submission rigidly en-
joined. In the mean time, it is very unusual for
the plague to break out in the midst of winter,
particularly with such violence as to render the
adoption of extraordinary precautions in the
neighbouring States necessary. That a malignant
fever may prevail in Wallachia, is not very
improbable, as the province is scarcely ever free
from virulent diseases, in consequence of the ex-
treme poverty and uncleanliness, which may be
said to be the habitual lot of its wretched inha-
bitants. But as a disorder of this kind, how-
ver destructive in its effects, would not justify,
on the part of the Austrian Government, the
formation of a Cordon Sanitaire, the plague has
been judiciously substituted ; and should a Fo-
reign Power ask explanations, it would be refer.
red to the paternal solicitude with which abso-
lute Monarchies watch over the welfare of their
subjects. There may not be the least truth in
the abovementioned rumour, for aught we know ;
but, should it prove correct, we would then un-
hesitatingly say, that it was not any fear of the
plague, but an apprehension of Russian hostilities
against the Turks, which had induced Austria
to establish a military cordon on her fron-
tiers. Nor should we he disposed to censure
her for this precautioo, Ms we feel convinced that
the motives which had induced the Cabinet of St.
Petersburgh to remain a passive spectator of the
struggle between the Greeks and their late mas-
ters, expired with the Emperor Alexander. The
present sovereign must pursue a different course
of policy, if it were only with a view of giving
occupation to his armies. Moreover, the Empress
Mother is, and has always been decidedly favor-
able to the plan of rescuing the Greeks from the
Turkish yoke, though not for the purpose of
raising them to the rank of a free and indepen-
dent people, but of making them contribute to
the power and wealth of Russia. As the design
of incorporating them with the Russian nation
would be sure to give mortal umbrage, and to
provoke, at the same time, the most determined
resistance, on the part of other leading Powers,
it is probably intended to reverse the Greek mo-
narchy, and place a Russian Prince at its head.
If there be any truth in this surmise, it would
take away from the marvellous in the renunciation

of Constantine rind the readiness with which
this impetuous Prince has submitted to the ar•

rangement for excluding him from the Russian
throne would he perfectly intelligible. We

find that he has left Warsaw for St. Pe-
tersburgh, anti he has, in truth, played his

part so readily in the whole of this extraordinary
drama, that we strongly suspect there is more art,
and less magnanimity, in his conduct, than is
commonly imagined. It will be seen, from
notice in Saturday night's Gazette, that the Duke

of Wellington has received his Majesty's corn.
mantis to proceed to the Russian copiCal, in order
to congratulate Nicolas on his accession. We
presume nobody supposes that this is a mission of

mere ceremony, but th►►t political objects of great
importance will be mixed up with it, of which no
doubt the first will be, to ascertain what are the
real designs of that Sovereign with respect to
Turkey.

[THE REPRESENTATIVE.]
We threw out a. hint in.the first number of our
Paper, that since the Government of the United
States had agreed to have a Minister at the ap-
proaching Congress of Panama, we thought it
far from improbable our own Cabinet might fol-
low the -same course, and such we have since
ascertained to be the fact. Mr. Dawkins sails
this week in the capacity of amicus curice, and
proposes to land at Chtigres. As up to the pre-
sent hour several of the Governments to
be, represented at this Congress have not
been openly recognized by the King of England,
we can scarcely doubt that some event of great
imOrtance, as yet withheld from the public, will
be announced when Parliament meets, in order
to show that the measure in question constitutes
no departure from the general rule of conduct
hitherto adhered to by Ministers in regard to the
affairs of Spanish America. We expect, in a word,
to hear the Minister announce that Ferdinand
has at last yielded ; and that these Colo-
flies ure now admitted by universal consent
into the rank of independent States. Indeed
we have strong reasons for believing that this
arrangement was completed several weektz
ago. The interest which England, simply as
a great manufacturing and maritime power,
must necessarily take in the final settlement of
these new Republics, might have been quite suf.
lidera to justify the presence of an envoy at
this transatlantic Congress but there is much
more than this itt the matter. Great Britain,
while the Canadas, Nova Scotia, and the
West Indies are hers, should certainly never
be the only Ameriean power excluded from
any American Congress ; and—as to this oc.
elision in particular—there would, it seems to us,
have been absolutelmbecility in suffering the one
American government that shares the jealous feel.
lugs of Continental Enrope in regard to this
country, to be not only by far the most powerful,
but in fact the only perfectly matured and or-
ganized government represented at Panama. Our
great American empire is now assailed at every
point by a certain class of our political writers.
According to them, we derive no advantage from
these, or from any of our Colonies, but what is
strictly commercial ; and Ott! we should equally