The Sun.
London, England, 1828-10-11 00:00:00

the protector of Greece in conjunction with M.
De Villele, who had just before put down what
the former called, and the latter did not call,
liberty in Spain ;. and in conjunction also with
the Ministers of Russia, who assisted but the
other day in putting down the rising liberty of
Italy, and assist every day in keeping the
hundred millions of their master's subjects in
the most cruel and abject bondage. The
plea of a general regard to freedom is too
vague to be of any validity, and too susceptible
of abuse to be safely employed by those who
have any thing to lose. It would justify the
American Congress iii protecting the Ne-
groes of Jamaica, rather better than it can
justify Mr. Canning 'in having attempted
tOiprotect the Greeks. But the security acorn-
meree is beyond all question an interest pecu-
liarly British; and Mr. Canning manifested his
zeal and talent in upholding it, by permitting
piracy to flourish and increase in the Levant, al-
though the whole naval force of Great Britain
was at his 'comme..nd, until it had grown to an
adequate magnitude to serve as one of the apolo-
gies for a Treaty the most dishonourable and
injurious to his country, but which was sure
to procure him the immediate applause of
all the Liberals of Europe, whom it suited
his .opening prospects just at that period to
court. .To prevent Russia from subjugating
Turkey was clearly a British and an Euro-
pean interest, but that Russia was suspected
of such a . design was surely no reason
for forming an alliance, by the existence
of which, and the measures to be taken in the
furtherance of its object, Russia was sure to be
placed in an improved position, both as regards
character and strength, and Turkey, to be at-once
irritated and enfeebled. When there was reason

to suspect Russia of meditating the subjugation
of Turkey; had the foreign policy of England
been under the guidance of high intelligence and
honourable principle, piracy in the Levant would
have been crushed by his single arm, every effort
-would have been made to pacify Greece, without
detriment' to the 'Sovereign rights of the Ottoman
Porte, and at all events any intimate alliance with
Russia would have been spurned. Then was
the time to say to Russia, " March against Con-
stantinople at your peril."—Morning Post.

We have been blamed by some of our ea

tempdraries, to whose opinion we defer, for the
conclusion that we drew most reluctantly from
Mr. Peel's silence at the Manchester meeting.—
It has been said, and plausibly said, that dinner
parties were not the proper places for a Minister
of the Crown to explain his sentiments either on
great or small questions of policy. Mr. Peel,
we admit, might have taken the liberty of silence
with his friends. He was sure that no apparent
coldness or hesitancy on his side would wean
them from the cause of which he used to be
the most powerful and upright champion.--
He, safely calculate that even his actual
:abandonment, much less the'suspicion of an
intention. to abandon thein, would not turn
back those Who, in every part of the country,
are starting up, as if from slumber, to defend
the principles which he has the lasting honour of
having propagated. But, .though Mr. Peel might
safely conclude that no silence of his would de-
ter his friends from the•vindication of the church.
which they hold so dear, and the constitution
which their fathers have pnrehased with their
blood, there was another party on whom he
should have known that it would produce' no
slight effect. He 'ought to have bethought him
of enemies as well as .friends when he forbore,
though s© directly called on, to say whether his
views were or were not changed on a question
not more deeply agitated by the one than the
other, though from very different motives. We
have inferred, perhaps
.hastily, perhaps illo-
gically—let that
,pass—certain things froth that
ominous suppression. The friends of• Catholicity,
the pro-popery advocates, have come to the same
conclusion somewhat more decisively; for, where
we merely feared and doubted, they boldly assert
" that the silence of the one brother-in-law, and
the speech of the other," were proof infallible o
the intentions of Government, and of course o.
the intentions. .of Mr. Peel and Mr. DaWsor

For a proof ofthe universality of the opinion_ en-
tertained of Mr. Peel, we have only to refer to
the report of the CheSter Whig Meeting, of
which we have given,a Cull and impartial account
in another column—all contemptible as are the
Whigs and their affairs at Chester and• every
where else-:--because we are anxious to let our
readers ,see what miserable creatures these anti-
constitutionalist spouters are, and because we
wish to show to 'Mr. Peel the sentiments
which his silence haS inspired into
,the. Whigs
as well as the. Tories. Having done so,
we hope we are not too sanguine in expect-
ing that he will embrace or make an opportunity
of explaining himself. We shall hold our co-
, lumns honoured by their being made the medium,
if not for the benefit of the friends, at least for
the satisthction of the enemies, of the Constitu-
tion. We solemnly exln,rt him to this ; and we
hope our exhortation will not be ineffectual. If
it prove so—if, after all that has. passed, we are
doomed to behold Mr. Peel arnoog the deserters
of the glorious cause of which we are the feeble
advocates-r-we shall bid him farewell more in
sorrow than.anger ;. for. no punishment that we
could frame or inflict will be equal to that which
must follow the cowardly abandonment of prin-
ciples deliberately chosen and long -cherished—
principles, to the maintenance of which. he and
his owe all their power and consequence, and
estimation ; and which forsaking, they must and
will sink into impotence, insignificance, and con-
tempt.-lorningJournal alias. New Times.

• DINNER TO LORD NUGENT.—We are happy
to find-that the public dinner to be given on' next Thurs-
day to Lord NITOENT, in this city; by the friends of civil
and religious liberty, is likely to be one, in point of a nu-
merous and respectable attendance,- in every way suited to
the exalted political character of this truly patriotic noble-
men. Lord EaktiNcTotr, and many other distinguished
Protestants from this and the surrounding counties, have
expressed their intention of attending on the occasion.--
Wateilbrd Chronicle.

.Last week a. duck belonging to Mr. T.
HAWKEy, of Denis, near Padstow, laid an egg, which was
34 inches long and 21 inches in diameter. On breating
this, besides a yolk, &c, of. the common size, another egg
with the shell quite hard, and of the ordinary size was
'found inclosed. The latter is in the possession of Mr.
Doerow, Pa6toW.—Plurnouth Journal.

A SENTIMENTAL JOCKEY.—It was plea-
santly observed by a sentimental jockey, who lost by a con-
siderable length the first race he ever rode, " never ride
another as long as I live. The riders are the most selfish,
narrow-rninded creatures on the face of the. earth. They
kept riding and galloping as fast as they could, and never
had 'once 'the kindness or civility to stop for me."
DISIItSS /NG S UJCID E.—A case of distress-
ing suicide.oeurred .on Wednesday: afternoon. A .young
man vas proceeding with his father by the Canal at Kings-
land, when some dispute arose, and he instantly exclaimed
Well, then, you'shall just see how I can swim." He
then plunged into the Water and instantly sunk.—Dorset
Chronicle,