The Sun.
London, England, 1828-01-31 00:00:00

valuable effects of individuals, ate broken open.
Pickpockets swarm in this capital to such a degree,
that the Government is compelled tacitly to recog-
nise their chief, who is called Bodzek, or insect.'

People who are robbectimmediately have recourse
to him, pay him, and recover their property by his
intermediation." The Government too, according
to Sir Dudley North, have the same sublime idea
of their functions that ours have—they allow the
aggrieved individuals to be at all the trouble and

expense of discovering those by whom they are
mimed, with this improvement, that to prevent
being troubled with unnecessary complaints, they
punish them, if they do not discover the thieves
or robbers. " I shall allege," nays the biogra-
pher of Sir Dudley—evidently enraptured with
this point of Turkish superiority.—" but one in-
stance farther, where I think the Turkish law is

remarkably distinguished, and is on the criminal
side. If a man comes to the judge, and with
clamour—as the way is—complains that he-is
robbed of his goods, the Cadi will ask him by
whom ? and where is the thief? And if he
says he does not know, perhaps punish him as a
Ft/orb, that pretends to Joe robbed to cheat his
el editors. " What (says he), doth not the Grand
Seignior protect his subjects,? If you-are robbed,
find the thief, and right shall be done ; if you
want help, take an officer ; but do not accuse
the Grand Seignior's righteous Government."
:Find the thief.; and take an officer if you want
one, paying him handsomely of course, just as
in England. There is, however, one point of
superiority on the part of the Turks,—they
punish him who complains of the Grand
Seignior's righteous Government, but they con-
nive at the compounding the felony, and do not
punish the man who does the cst he can for'

himself, when the Grand Seignior can do no-
thing for him. In those nice matters even, in

which we fondly imagined that we had a mono-
poly of wisdom, the Laws for the -.xclusion of
evidence, to which Mr. Bentham h done such

ample justice in his recent pub] cation, The
Rationale Judicial Evidence, it appears that
the Turks are not by any means 'hind us. In
the works of Mr. John (heaves, Professor of
Astronomy at Oxford, edited by Dr. Birch,
vol. 2, p. 761. in an account of his travels in
Turkey, he states, cc Among Turks it is not per-
mitted that every one that hill, should bear wit-
ness; but only such men as are free, of a good
age, that can say the Nanzaz (Common Prayer),
and have some knowledge in the law, known to
be men of civil life and conversation ; and, above
all, which drink no wine. For the witness of a
Turk Which drinks wine is nothing worth, yet
they may drink Mooselless (new wine boiled),
Rakee (Aquavit.i2), and Roza (a drink made of
seed much like new mustard, and is very heady),
which arc stronger than wine; and this their law
.7emmandeth. But ib't all this, corruption is so
crept in amongst them, that now in Turkey, es-
pecially in ConStantinople, there are. (to the out-
ward appearance grave and- honest men) 'More
false witnesses than in any• other part of the
world besides ; and who 'are they, at least the
chief of.them, but a certain company of beggarly
Emeers—that is, such a pretend to come of the
race and stock. of Mahomet, aliVays- wearing
green turbans, bylvhich they are -Ic.nown and
veverenced. .• . . - . . And hence it is
that Avancas are so commonly framed ; for they
can stoutly, and that with ease, outface the pour
Christians and Jews.; pay,, for obrihe they
pat spare their own sect in bearing false witness
against them. Can we wonder that such a
people should gain the favour of our Government
of Church and State

The King's Speech and the comments upon
it which have emanated from authorised persons
in Parliament, have furnished the advocates of
the late Administration with a pretence for con-
sidering it as actuated by the same principles
with the present. We think the inference a
rash ors'; but we are 'nevertheless prepared to
admit that it may have been drawn in all honour
and good faith, if we find the advocate:, to whom
wa have adverted, zealous as in consistency they
are bound to be in support of the present Ministry,
towards whom of course every legitimate objection
and all honest hostility on the part of these reasoners
issuperseded by the discovery they suppose them-
selves to have made. Bc this as it may, it is at
le:Let gratifying to find the adherents of the late
Ministers eo eagerly seeking shelter under the
wings of the present; and apparently ambitious
on behalf of their patrons of no higher glorythan
that of having resembled them. The Speech of
his Majesty alludes to none of the topics which
permanently divide the leading parties of the
country. it makes no attempt to amalgamate,
or to define the boundaries of their respective
opinions. Such an attempt would have been as
useless,
seless, as it would have been derogatory to the
Royal dignity. The Speech is a simple annun-
ciation of the actual state of national affairs—it
expresses no censure and no praise of any party
in the State ; but it announces hopes, with which
all parties are supposed capable to sympathize, antl
conveys admonitions which all parties arc sup-
posed willing. to. regard. The accomplishment
of the object for which our troops were sent to
Portugal, and the improvement recently mani-
iested in the foreign commerce of the country,
are topics in the Speceb from which all par-
ties may extract the materials of self-gratula-
elan, but which none can appropriate exclusively
to themselves. The measures leading to both
were the measures of Lord Liverpool's Admit&
3tration—an Administration similar in all respects
to the present ; and it is but justice to add that
they received the support of many of the adhe-
rents, and of all the Members of the last Admi-
nistration—an Administration in many respects
dissimilar to that of Lord •Liverpoo-1. The
Treaty for the pacification of the East'of Europe
33 the only question of immediate interest t you
which the King's Speech could have afforded a
triumph to either party,awl to neither does it
afford any. In -this the wisdom and moderation
of the 'framers of the, Speech are conspicuous.--
They sought no triumph at the expense of the,
country ; and it could, we but have
been at the ex.:
pense :of the. count, rY--114(1 they:stigmatised the
Treaty, which they would nevertheless have been
bound to fylol. We are
'loe so fettered ; and
we must now, pronounce
.the Treaty of
of London, as we pronounced it at first, a most
unjust, anu pernicious Treaty ; iu which sen-
tenc, had we needed- confirmation, we should
have been Confirmed by the opinion of Lord
Althorp, certainly one of die most respectable,
and reputed one of the most intelligent, of the
late Ministerial - and the present Opposition.
Party, zind NV h , greatly to his honour, has so
far overcome the natural sympathies and antipa-
thies of party, as to join us in unqualified con.
demnation of this unprincipled compact. If then
- a King's Speech could be framed by one Admi-
nistration so nearly similar to what it must have
been had it been framed by another, why, it is
ingeniously asked, should any change have
taken place ? What national advantage, or
what personal causes, have led to the