The Sun.
London, England, 1821-05-03 00:00:00

TIIE LONDON JOURNALS.

°Aux -EX .TRACTS FROM THE MORNING PAPERS.]

[MORNING POST.]
Paris Papers mention, on the authority of a
German Journal, that the insurrection in Mol-
davia and Wallachia has subsided ; but so far
from-this being the case, we have reason to be-
lieve that the Greeks are becoming every
and that the day
more and more formidable, firmness
of their determination is in foil proportion to the
increase of their strength. There is a report of
an action having been fought between the Turks
and Prince Ypsilanti ; and as the Journals un-
favourable to the cause of the Greeks represent
the result as bearing no decisive character, it is
not unreasonably concluded that the Turks had
the worst of the battle. A short time will pro-
bably enable us to communicate some important
intelligence from that quarter. From Presburg
it is stated that the advanced guard of the Rus-
sian army entered that capital on the 19th ult.,
and that the Austrian and Russian troops were
advancing towards the Turkish frontiers. This
movement, however, we repeat, is merely pre-
cautionary, and by no means with a view of in-
terfering in the contest between the Turks and
Greeks.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]

Nothing certainly was ever worse timed than
the jocularity of The Courier on the subject of
the present state of the country :--44 It is a great
consolation, however," he says, 64 to reflect that
all the evils which are destroying us, are getting
so old, that they cannot be expected to live much
longer. We doubt if there is a single one of the
grievances which now menace us, of less standing
than a century and a half." This at a time when
the aristocracy of the country are trembling for
their very existence—when all schemes have been
tried for keeping up landed property to the value
to which it was raised by war prices, and have
failed—and when one universal ruin threatens to
devour the all of the occupiers of farms ! Really
the Agricultural Gentlemen (who, to give them
their due, have all along been among the most
strenuous of the supporters of Ministers) are
very much indebted to The Courier for this happy
sally. "Itis a great consolation !"—They may
well, in the language of, the old fable, tell him
it may be sport to you, but it is death to us.—
Their expectations of the short livedness of
their distress are not very sanguine ; and we be-
lieve the investigation on which they lately en-
tered has not had the effect of tranquillising
them on that head.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
There is no circumstance in our domestic affairs
that demands so imperatively the anxious atten-
tion of the Ministers of the Crown, of Parliament,
and of all humane and goad men in the empire,
as the very alarming extent to which the system
of smuggling prevails in parts of the country.
Smuggling is no longer the timid hesitating at-
tempt of a few poor and irresolute fishermen to
evade the scrutiny of tide-waiters and custom-
house officers, it has assumed the bold and impu-
dent front of a system regularly-organised and
well-supported, and proceeds with a confidence
which nothing could inspire but the assurance
not only of ready markets and large gains, but
also of receiving protection and assistance from
numerous bands of armed men. Along the coasts
of Kent and Sussex in particular smuggling pre-
vails to a most alarming degree ; vessels are
equipped, armed, and well manned for this
particular service, while on shore there are land
forces, trained and disciplined to effect the de-
barkation of the merchandise, and to defeat the
efforts of the officers and seamen employed on the
preventive stations, should they attempt to seize
the suspected articles. We read continually of
severe actions fought between the seamen and the
smugglers,and we have had occasionally to perform
the melancholy task of announcing the premature
death of some gallant officers and men who have
fallen in this inglorious strife about casks of
brandy and rolls of tobacco.

NEW TINES.]
We yesterday intimated our hope, that the
affairs of Spain might be settled by negotia-
tion. Such was our wish in the case of
Naples ; and such would have been the event,
but for the folly of the traitors who had there
usurped the supreme power. They flatter-
ed themselves that Revolutions breaking out
all over Italy, and even in France, would have
kept the Austrian armies at a distance from Na-
ples ; for it never was any part of their scheme
to fight in propria per.tona. Their disappoint-
ment, however, holds, out a salutary lesson to the
revolutionists of Spain ; and we are happy to learn
that some of them are inclined to profit by it.
Dispatches are almost daily sent off from Madrid
to Laybach ; and the result of this intercourse,
we trust, will be to effect an approximation of
the views of the opposite parties. If the demo-
cratic faction will not abate any thing of their
monstrous pretensions—if they are determined to
renew the atrocities of the French Revolution,
to plunder the churches, to proclaim mar-
tial law over the whole country, to establish
revolutionary tribunals, and to effect arbitrary
deportations—in short, if they are resolved to
tyrannize, like Robespierre himself, over a de-
graded King and a desolated country, that ty-
ranny will necessarily produce resistance ; and,
to stop the horrors of a civil war, it will become
necessary to march a foreign force to the support
of that part of the nation which sighs only for the
return of order and tranquillity.

[THE TIMES.]
If any proof were wanting of the total indif-
ference of the greater number of those Members
of Parliament who are usually denominated
the Representatives a the landed interest, to
the expenditure of the public money, the pro-
ceedings of Monday last on the Army Esti-
mates would supply that proof. In a House
of 658 Members, only 9.7 could be found at
any one time of the evening, to oppose the
several extravagant grants. The minorities, pub-
lished yesterday, contain the names of only three
County Members, and we think the Opposition,