The Sun.
London, England, 1828-01-21 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRENCH PAPERS.

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(From the Moniteur.)
New Ministers have been' called to the Govern-
ment by the confidence of the King. A general
disposition is shown to believe in their purity of
intentions, their devotedness to the Prince, and
their respect for the Charter. People without diffi-
culty acknowledge in them some capacity for affairs;
but it is asked if, taken as a whole, they correspond
with the state of the country ? and in looking on
one side at their names, and on the other at the lists
of the Legislative Chambers, some doubts are raised
regarding an agreement, without which all the rest
is no-ling.
The opinions which have reached its respecting
the composition of the elective chamber, are too
incomplete to admit a possibility of forming, with re-
gard to it, a definitive judgment. Nevertheless we
must acknowledge that this Chamber is divided into
several fractions which differ among themselves both
in number and opinions.

.In such a state of things, the formation of the
Council must have created serious embarrassments.
It was necessary to inquire what body of men could
offer the certainty of a parliamentary majority, the
first necessity of a Const►tutional Government.
Some persons had conceived the idea of a mixed
Ministry the members of which should be chosen
/lot only in parties of different opinions, but even in
parties of contrary opinions. This project, examined
with attention, offered no reasonable hope of success ;
other plans were successively produced, but all were
surrounded with difficulties of different natures.
What was to be done in such a case ? To set
aside both names and figures and all calculators of
this kind, and to look for success in things them-
selves. It became necessary to ask from the majority
of the country, the majority in the Chambers.
The desire of the majority of the country does not
attach itself to combinations of proper names more
or less dexterously conceived. What it asks before
all things, and above all things, is a firm and mode-
rate Ministry, prudent in its plans of conduct, and
sincere in their execution. What is of importance
to it is, that the Ministry should know how on the
one hand to secure respect for the dignity of the
Crown and the Royal authority, without which there

is neither protection nor safety; and, on the other,
to maintain the loyal and frank execution of the
charter. A Ministry which shall.march in this path
with a firm step,—which will acknowledge no
power but legal power—which shall busy itself with
our institutions only for the common interest of the
throne and the citizens,—which shall seek salutary
advice and repel nothing but dangerous principles
and pretensions, unjust or exaggerated,—such a
Ministry need not trouble itself ill making calcula-
tions to obtain a Parliamentary majority. That ma-
jority will come to it.

The Administration newly formed will address
itself to honest men—to the sincere friends of the
King and the Charter. It will show them with
frankness and freedom the road in which it desires

to march, and will propose to them to follow it, at
the same time enlightening it. It will ask no favour
for itself—it will demand justice for its acts; and in
the two French Chambers, whose meeting ap-
proaches, it will be sure to find it.
There is no doubt it will still have adversaries,
and even enemies. The second day after its forma-
tion it was subjected to a tax at least premature. It

must not be alarmed at them. In Prance we are
clear sighted, and the country cannot long be
abused. Oppositions which should have other mo-
tives than the general interest would soon be judged
and condemned.

(From the Gazette de France, dated Saturday, Jan. 19.)
BERLIN, JAN. 10.—The State Gaut& of this date
contains the following article :--
•t' In order to remove all doubts that may arise
respecting the manner in which Prussia has acted
in the negotiations which have taken placq at Con-
stantinople in consequence of the Treaty of London
of July 6, we are authorized to publish the following
translation of the instructions given on the 17th of
August to the first interpreter of the Prussian lega-
tion for the declaration which he was ordered to
make to the Reis Effendi, adding, for the informa-

tion of our readers, that the Prussian Minister at
Constantinople has not ceased, up to the end of the
negociations, to act in the spirit of those instructions,
and with the same zeal.

TRA.NSLA'TION OF TIIE INSTRUCTIONS GIVEN TO ONE OF

THE DRAGOMANS OF THE. PRUSSIAN LEGATION, DATED

AUGUST 17.

" You will go to-morrow to the Reis Effendi, and
mill nialse to him from me the following communi-
cation : _ _

" In a memorial delivered to the Sublime Porte
on the 12th of March, this year, at the moment
when the representatives of France, England, and
Russia, had just communicated to the Protocol of
April 4th, 1826, I developed with frankness, and.
without the least reserve, the considerations which
ought to determine the Sultan to accept the means
offered to him for the pacifiecition of Greece. I have
represented these means as the only possible source
for preventing the crisis which its friends endea-
voured to spare it, and the consequences of which
might be incalculable. Lastly, having exhausted all
the arguments which were in favour of the adoption
of the proposals of the Allied Courts, I have not
dissembled to his Excellency the Reis Effendi my
sincere conviction that even an absolute refusel on
the part of the Divan would make no change what-
ever in the Protocol signed by the Powers; and that
in the end, imperious neceas,ity would impose upon
Europe, the obligation to cut the knot which friend-
ship and good-will had endeavoured to unloose.
" Insead of profiting by these salutary proposals,
which the Porte received at the same time from its
real friends, the Divan, exaggerating to itself its own
resources, has thought fit to reject the counsels of
friendship. it has riot considered either the desires,
the alarms, nor even the real wants, which have been
laid before it; and by opposing to a lung series of
actions, dictated by kindness and regard, a series of
refusals, they have forced three great Powers to seek
for means to provide, in another manner, for the
tranquillity of Europe.
" Thus the Protocol of the 4th of April last year
has been followed by the Treaty of the 6th of Julyi
this year. Thus new refusals and new events will
lead to new combinations, new dispositions, and
new measures, till the Porte shall acquire the con-
viction and the pacification of Greece, which is ab-
solutely neeessary to Europe, is so in a still higher
degree to the Ottoman Empire in particular. Thus '
the Porte, by persisting in rejecting the just and
conciliatory propositions which have hitherto been
made to it by the three Courts, will force the latter
to consult only their interest, their power, and their
Then the affair will take another turn; condi- '
dignity.tions will succeed to offers,necessity will put an end to
regard, and force will triumph over a resistance which
reason and friendship have in vain endeavoured to sub-
doe. This future turn is as near and inevitable as
it is gloomy and alarming, if the Porte persists in
disdaining the counsels which its friends give to it
for the last time. It is still time to avert the imminent
dangers which have been drawn upon the Ottoman
empire, by reiterated refusals to yield to the neces-
sity which every day becomes more urgent. Yet
time presses, events proceed, and it would not be
the first time that the rapidity with which they suc-
ceed would have led to combinations which the
most upright policy of the Cabinets could neither
foresee nor prevent. May the Divan then accept
the proposals which the representatives of the Courts
of France, England, and Russia made to it in their
joint note which they yesterday presented to it !
May it take the helping band which its friends hold
out to it, meet their overtures with confidence, and
be at length convinced that the only means of se-
curing its rights, its interests, and its dignity, from
every violation, would be to receive with good will
and cordiality proposals which have no other object
than to put an' end to a state of things which be. 7
comes absolutely incompatible with the true inte-