The Sun.
London, England, 1828-08-04 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

(FROM TILE MORNING CHRONICLE.)

The French Journals continue their taunting lan-
guage with respect to our Government. " The lan-
guaaT of the King's Speech (says the Journal des
Dehats) is timid, like the part which England has
played in foreign politics, in the six months which
have elapsed. With the exception qf the outrage
against the Battle.gf Navarin, the Duke of Welling-
ton dismisses the Peers and Commons as he received
them ; the only difference is, that in February he
held out hopes, and that towards the end of July he
laments realities." The same Journal wonders that
nothing should have been said of the expedition pre-
, paring in the French ports, as it should have been
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his own dominions; whence it follows that the en-
trance of the Russians into Constantinople—the
conquest of Turkey—will he an event to which
Great Britain ought to remain a stranger. This is
very different from the language held at the opening
of the Session ; it is true that, by way of compensa-
tion, the Emperor Nicholas consents that his fleet in
the Mediterranean should not act hostilely against
the Porte without the concurrence of the other
squadrons. This is a glorious indemnification for
England, and his Imperial Majesty has made
a great concession in renouncing the attack
of Turkey by sea with eight or 10 vessels,
while he will occupy it immediately by land
with three or four hundred thousand com-
batants. So long as Statesmen were at the
head of the Cabinet of St. :fames's, they expressed
themselves with more energy respecting events
which may cause Great Britain to lose for ever her
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avowal
of Ministry
their a could
only weakness
and incapacity, by being under the direction of a
soldier, whom chance favoured once, and whom the
spirit of party wished to puff off as the hero of the
age." The foolish swaggering, respecting Turkey,
of the Tories, previous to the elevation of. the Duke
to the Premiership, is no doubt the cause of the
malicious satisfaction with which our Parisian Con-
temporaries notice the contrast between the boasts
alluded to and the conduct of the Ministry. No
doubt the importance attached by the King's Speech
to the inactivity of the Russian vessels in the Me-
diterranean sounds very ridiculous, and it would
have been better that his Grace had remained silent
on the subject. We are very little alarmed for the
loss of influence of this country in the affairs of
Europe. A nation which husbands its resources
cannot lose any influence which it ought to have;
but a nation which lavishly wastes its resources, for
the sake of maintaining its influence, will lose that
influence by the very means taken to preserve it. If
we had been somewhat less anxious to preserve our
influence by wasting our resources in wars with which
we had no concern, we should have had more at this
day than we possess. The prodigal who is spending
his capital, in order to be thought possessed of inex-
haustible wealth, may appear to throw the prudent
individual, who confines himself within his income,
into the shade for an interval ; but the latter has the
satisfaction of knowing that what the other seems to
be he is; and that the huzzas of the mob for a sea-
son afford little satisfaction afterwards, when a party
is reduced to take shelter in a poor-house. It is the
gasconading of-the Tories that makes the otherwise
prudent conduct of the Government appear so
To hear them, not a shot could be fired in Europe
without our permission ; and Turkey, our ancient
ally, must be supported, cost what it way. Now
the fact is, that we are unable to prevent Russia
from occupying Turkey. The power of England is
greater than that of Russia, but England cannot act
against Russia any more than Russia can act against
England. We could only interfere in behalf of
Turkey through the agency of other Powers, which
arc too prudent to expose themselves to the ven-
geance of Russia to gratify us. Were it otherwise,
and we had influence enough to produce an European
war, the expellee of that war, which would be
chiefly thrown on us, would be a dear purchase of
such influence. The Aristocracy of this country—
the proud, insolent Aristocracy—no doubt feel e-
ceedingly mortified that Europe should taunt them
with their impotency. If they imagined that by
having the Duke of Wellington at their head they
would be better able to give law to Europe, they
have committed an egregious mistake. The French,
in particular, would actually seem to consider hi,;
being at the head of our Government as a sufficient
reason for mortifying us, even when their own po-
licy might require a different conduct.

(FROM THE MORNING: HERALD.)

If some of our contemporaries are to be believed,
the present Government is the most blind, inert, and
callous, that ever directed the affairs of the country.
While Russia is marching rapidly to Constantinople,
France despatching a large army to the Morea,
Austria collecting large bodies of troops close to the
li
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fsego of action,
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usuala general war, according to
them, n a fewmonths, England has
sotacourse
as to stand by an idle spectator, and, though more
interested than any of the three last Powers, to act
as if the affair did not at all concern her. The same
individuals look on the conduct of Government itt
Ireland in exactly the same light, and seem inclined
to believe that all this apparent apathy arises from
mere cowardice or diffidence in their own abilities,
For our parts, we look upon such conduct in a vary
different light. Our advice with regard to Iralitial
has been, " Leave the Agitators alone, and let
them talk till they are tired. Though the, mob that
DOW and them collect about them may cheer to
deafening the bombastic demagoguea, the great body
of the people are too well aware of their true in-
terests, and of the increasing prosperity of the coun-
try, to second any measures which could render mi-
litary interference necessary," The apathy ascribed
to Government respecting foreign affairs is equally
groundless : the course which they are pursuing at
present is that most becoming the welfare of the coati-
try ; and the disapprobation of it arises from a wish
ahat they should immediately plunge the coon_
try into war, or front a total ignorance of
their principles and mode of proceeding. We
have had Statesmen who were in the -liabt
of boasting of what they would do if such and
such measures were adopted—of threatening, foa in_
stance, to let loose all
the evil spirits of the age to
put down tyranny and °Plwess.'" what ; and wag
Every the consequence? sober-thinking man ist
this country w
sensible of the imPl la • . 1
as ( ence of this
menace; foreign Governments were indignant that
such a threat should be held ovor their beads;
a,
arisen at thetl
"
had a war time, ler° cannot be the
w ness to provolze-
shadow of a doubt that this farard
and rush into a war would I 'ao,•e •
alienated from the
Ministry all that portion of the community '
. who have
more at heart the general
welfare of the country
than their own •• • 1 •
partial interests, and who are con-
vinced 'ay experience that *-
'
nothing but the most
justgrounds, such as the national a •
.. urity or honour,
should make us run the riskbeingec
• •
of agam involved
in a general war. The course l
pursue( at present ';,
of a very different description, and we are not at. all
surprised that it has produced a number of cavillers
—irritated more, perhaps, because Gove'anment
will not boast, and bully, and tell them all their se-
crets, than because they believe them re.gardless of
the secrets of the country. The secrecy observed by
the individual now at the head of the Ministry, when
in a different sphere of action, gave rise to a simi-
lar race of murmurers, not only in this country, but
in the army under his command, and contributed.
in no small degree to his splendid successes.
We trust and believe that he will act with the same
caution, prudence, and secrecy, on this occasion ;
and in place of gratifying the wishes of such inquia
sitors, and proclaiming his plans to the world, bp,
preparing only to carry into effect measures,which the
result of events, or Ult. idttkeci conclut, Qf orge 4,1,
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