The Sun.
London, England, 1828-08-30 00:00:00

That it ought to do so there can be no doubt ;
but that it will do so it would be rather bold to
augur. Let us hope, at all events, that such
conduct as the 'Forks are now exhibiting towards
the subjects of their most implacable enemy will
not be lost upon other States, either as regards
the differences which now disturb the repose of
Europe', or in apy, fhture wars tinit mey arise ;
end that tho'se who boast of Christianity and ci-
vilization will not be ashamed to take a lesson
from a Power which, though sometimes put out
ofthe pale of humanity, shows a more steiki!tvie
,
example of foilefteance; and oi* a desire to sonen
ttie horrOre war, than any Christian State has
'ever yet exhibited.—Morning -Herald.
The conduct of Russia—the Ultimate oblecte
which that power is generally supposed to have
in view-the probability which is now distinctly
Visible and openly acknowledged by every class
of politicians in every European StAt'r_s, that the
end of her dipioiPthic contrivances and military
&bits will be the permanent subjection of Eu-
ropean Turkey, attest the accuracy of the view
which we took from the i'lest of the Treaty of
Intervention in the affairs of Greece. All are
agreed that this increase to the dominions of
Russia threatens Europe With bdiaiiiiiks and
the liberal politicians of England and France,
woo have at length opened their eyes to the
danger, have done so apparently for no other
than the futile purpose of rushing into a senseless
discussion PS to the verious degrees in which the
r.A.,.Veial Cabinets of Europe have contributed to
produce it. Nothing can be more absurd than
this discussion. It is as evident as circum-
stances can render it, that Russia has acted
throughout upon a deliberate scheme of aggran-
dizement ; that she alone, of all the Powers, has
steadily pursued a predetermined purpose) and
that no refinement of diplomacy—no projects or
contrieences—nothing in the policy of other
Powers short of the resolution to go to war for
the protection of Turkey, could have stayed her
in her course. Is any one so ignorant of the
state of Russia as to believe that its ignorant,
barbarous, and servile population was capable of
a genuine and spontaneous feeling of sympathy
for the Greek cause, or that such a feeling
would ever have arisen had not the Govern-
ment been active and zealous to excite it ?
Is any one so ignorant of the character of the
Russian Government as to suppose that its
interference in favour of the Greeks was dictated
by the pure sentiment of philanthropy—by its
bonne of Turkish barbarity—by any regard to
the rights of humanity—or any sympathy with
the generous impulses of freedom ? The sup-
position is the romance' of idiotty ; yet We find
politicians, or ',el-60ns pretending to political
knowledge, degrading their own understandings,
and insulting the understandings of their readers,
by affecting to entertain it, for no other reason
than because it enables them to ascribe the actual
posture of Russia to the policy of Prince Metter-
nich, which withheld Austria from becoming a
party to the Treaty of Intervention, and ren-
dered her lukewarm in advancing its ostensible
object, and to the manly candour with which
the Government of the Duke of 'Wellington in
England has since characterised the atrocity of
Navarin. The invasion of Turkey by Russia,
not only Without concurrence of her confederates
in the Treaty of Intervention, but in opposition
to their wishes, and upon pretences which either
existed at the time when the Treaty was con-
cluded, or for subsequent offences, ap-
plied no more to Russia than to the other mem-
bers of the alliance—proclaimed to England and
to France, not that any thing had arisen to
change the views of Russia, but that she had
now 'found the: eeaseinable 'thement to carry her
original intentions into effect—in a word, that
when they made themselves parties to the Treaty,
they became at that moment the dupes of Russia.
The superior penetration of Prince Metternich
was the cause that Austria alone, of all the great
European Powers, escaped the snare ; and he is
now, accordingly reproached, by the adulators of
Mr. Canning 's wisdom and foresight, of having
produced the evil: which he alone; among EUrd-
pean Statesmen their in the possession of power,
distinctly foresaw, and which might probably have
been averted or reduced, if others had been en-
dowed with the same sagacity and prudence.
The true policy of England and France, when
Russia became importunate in her hypocritical
zeal for the pacification of Greece, was to have
taken direct measures for the suppression of piracy
in the East, and to have declared their resolution
neither to interfere by force beyond this, Mir to
permit any other power so to interfere in the quar-
rel between the Turks and the Greeks: This policy
would have had the. further advantage of being
consonant to the law of nations. It is not cer-
tain, indeed, that this course would have pre-
vented the invasion, or even the dismemberment
of Turkey by the arms of Russia but it is clear
that her teenptation to aggression, and her
chances of success, would have been diminishe&-,-,
that England and France would not have incurred
that disgrace under which they now labour; of
having directly contributed to the accomplishment
of her ambitious design;—that her councils
might have keen distracted and her eflbrts pare-
lysed—that compelled, as she would thee have
been, to forego or postpone any immediate inter-
ference on behalf of the Greeks, and confined tti
a direct attack upon Turkey, her tharetiter ant',
purposes *weld have been at once un-
Masked—and that she would not have been im-
pelled and strengthened, at the commencement
of her ambitious career, by the nilstaken ap-
plause) or her victim discouraged and enfeebled
by the blind and thoughtless condemnation of
the rest of the world. The end could not have
been worse, had this sound and 1101i4st policy
been adopted, than it now seems likely to be ;
and had the principles ascribed.to PrinceMetter-
hich fortunately prevailed;ilet tile bnke of
Wellington then been at the head of the British
Government, we confidently believe the clanger
which now impends over Eatipd Woiiid have
been averted, Thus much at least is clear, that
the character of the British Government would,
in this case, have escaped the dap and lasting
injury which the policy of our Liberals has un-
questionably inflicted.—Morning Post.

TIIE HARVEST.-All the apprehensions
which have been felt for the fate of the Corn Crops, and
the supply of the staff of life, are happily at an end, The
weather for nearly the last fortnight, but particularly for a
few days past, has, in this part of the country, been un-
usually fine and warm, for the season. Indeed, slnte the
fields of grain have been fit for the sickh?, every thing is
propitious, and we can state, on good authority, that, for
at least twenty miles round Leeds, little or no damage has
been sustained by the grain, nor will there be scarcely
a sheaf unsaved at the close of a week. In the south,
we can, indeed, well understand, that the earlier maturity
of the crop, rendered it liable to injury from the heavy
rains during last moon ;
but, on the whole, there must be,
perhaps, better than an average return throughout the
kingdom. The markets, sa a natural consepence, are
tilling, sad both grower and consumer, we anticipate, will
eventually be content...-Leeds intelligencer.