The Sun.
London, England, 1829-08-25 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

The accounts from the seat of -war, in the
German papers and private letters received by
the Turkey mail to the 30th oh., add few details
to the important despatch from the Russian
head-quarters on the 26th, which we exchisivdy
published yesterday. The statement of the Rus-
si:ms may be a little exaggerated—the discom-
fiture and disasters of the Turks may be carried
a little beyond the truth—and the loss of the
Russians may be represented as less than it
really was ; but the great feature of the case (the
existing positions of the parties) is not likely to
be falsified. The Russians have passed the
hitherto impregnable mountain bulwark of Con-
stantinople, without any extraordinary obstacle,
or any remarkable loss. A large army, flushed
with triumphs, and capable of deriving its sup-
plies from the Russian provinces on the Euxine,
is now in the plains, within a hundred miles of
the Turkish capital ; the chief garrisons of the
Danube have fallen, and the fortress of Shumla
has been so completely masked,, that the Grand
Vizier did not know of the advanced movement
of the enemy till they had passed the mountains.
The force in this quarter has been completely iso-
lated ; all the towns to the Russian left—Aidos,
essembria, and Bonrgas—have surrendered
without a day's resistance in each ; and if they
have assembled in those towns and on this line
of road a sufficient force, there seems nothing to
prevent their march to Constantinople in a week
or ten days. The rapidity of their movements
appears, by the German papers, to have as-
tonished, if not paralyzed, the Turks ; and their
arrival at Kirk-kilissa removes all the doubts
which have hitherto been entertained about the
possibility of transporting a large army across
the defiles on the southern side of the Balkan.
It would be premature to decide on the certainty
of an immediate advance to Constantinople,
without knowing the amount of force which has
crossed the mountains, or of that which is pre.

pared to resist ; but we may observe, that no ob-
stacles of a local nature now exist to their on-
ward movement, the road to .the capital lying
through a level country, and over a tract of about
140 miles. Nor does it seem at all necessary
that the Russians should possess themselves of
Adrianople before they proceed to the capital of
the empire, as the former is situated about forty
miles to the right of their present -line of march,
or of the direct road from Kirk-kilissa to Con-
stantinople. As the Turks are now described
as greatly dispirited by their recent reverses, and
as they have shown that they cannot keep the
open field against their antagonists, the imme-
diate success of the campaign must depend upon
the relative amount of force with which the
Russians have passed the Balkan, and the con-
fidence which they can entertain in an attempt
upon the Turkish capital. The ease with which
they have been allowed to pass the difficult and
dangerous defiles of the mountains, where a
small force 'could have offered a strong resistance
to a large army, has surprised the European re-
sidents at Pera, and, together with the general
insubordination of a race of slaves in any great
calamity, presents a bad omen of a last success-
ful resistance. Yet we are told that the Sultan
still lends a deaf ear to European diplomacy,
whoa! interference can now be his only resource
against the co.iquest of his empire ; and that he
meditates a retreat upon aksia, rather than admit
their good offices in favour of a distant. province
over which he has letd no controul for the last
ten years ! Tranquillity prevailed at Constanti-
nople up to the. departure of the mail, notwith-
standing the uneasiness of the inhabitants. As
yet the Sultan had not removed his head-
quarters from the valley of Bouyoukderay. He
had recently given audience there to the new
Prussian Envoy, on which occasion nearly the
same ceremonial was observed as on Mr.
cordon's audience.— Times.

in another column will be found the copy of
a curious letter of M. de La Harpe, the tutor
of the law! Emperor Alexander, addressed to the
editors of the Globe, a Paris literary journal.
The direct and immediate object of this vene-
rable person is to deity the origin of the Empe-
ror's conception of the Holy Alliance, which
had been claimed by a Genovese enthusiast for
Madame Krudener. The favourable testimony
of k'r, de La Harpe, however, cannot disguise
from the world that his Imperial pupil contracted
a tendency towards religious mysticism about the
time of his first appearance on the stage of mi-
litary enterprise, and that for the last seven or
eight years of his life he became the bigotted
opponent of popular innovation, under the con-
viction that he was promoting the cause of
Heaven as well as that of Kings. If Madame
Krudener could boast of brining about his re-
ligious conversion, Prince Metternich was his
political instructor ; and the principles of the
latter were so fully grafted on those of the for-
trier, that they appeared at last to spring from
the same root. His Imperial Majesty, whose
mind had .always been susceptible of serious im-
pressions, was so much overpowered with the
extraordinary events of 1812—the conflagration
of Moscow, and the dreadful vengeance inflicted
on its authors—that his piety was exalted into a
kind of enthusiasm, and he looked upon himself
as the particular care of Providence. Thig'sen-
timent, at first perfectly consistent with the most
enlightened regard to the rights of humanity,
led him, on passing through Germany, and on
entering Paris, to urge the establishment of
constitutional freedom. Then it was that he
wished to be thought a Liberal, and that
he received with pride the compliment of Ma-
dame de Start, " that if he could not esta-
blish a uniform constitution for his extensive em-
pire, lie himself was a constitution." In a year
or two afterwards, when the German youth who
had assisted their sovereigns in expelling their
French invaders, demanded a fulfilment of the
promises made them in the hour of' trial, ho be-
came as much alarmed at their proceedings, as
he had formerly been delighted with their dis-
plays of courage and their spirit of independence.
Spies were appointed to watch over their con.
duct in the Universities ; conspiracies were often
detected in the simplest famession of conceited
opinion ; and the Holy Altiance was formed with
his concurrence into the high police of Europe.
From the Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle till the
day of his death, in 1825, his whole soul seems
to have been engrossed with the ellinieras of re-
volution, and all his efforts appear to have been
directed to stereotype society according to the
edition of Prince Metternich. It must be, how-
ever, acknowledged to his praise, that if his
principles were in this respect wrong, he at least
ehowed that he could make sacrifices of interest
or ambition to his declared convictions ; and the
forbearance which he showed to the Porte in all
its provocations, taken in 011110LiOli with the

speedy renunciation of his policy by his succes-
sor, evinces both the firmness of his character
and the sincerity of his professions.— Times.
We noticed upon a recent occasion the al-
leged determination of the Irish Government to
abstain from any thing approaching to direct in-
terference in the unhappy feuds which have so
long disgraced the country committed to their
guidance. Whatever may be thought of that
determination, it would seem there is a presumed
abatement of an almost intolerable nuisance ;
for we speak on a private authority, conclusive
on such a subject, when we say that appearances
indicative of returning tranquillity, or, at least,
of suspended hostilities, have within the last few
days begun to manifest themselves in the politi-
cal horizon of the sister kingdom. We cannot
suppose that a listless and slumbering inactivit:•
could in any way contribute to a consummation
so desirable; and we are more inclined to coin-
cide with the individual on whose authority we
receive the statement, in accounting for the pre-
sent temporary armistice between the Hibernian
belligerents as the result of a well-founded ap-
prehension, that spite of factious Magistrates
and Juries, turbulence and crime will find it
difficult to escape with impunity. Great pains
have been taken to impress upon all parties, and
all ranks, a conviction that it is the settled and
unalterable resolution _of the Government to
watch with unceasing vigilance, and endeavour to

punish with exemplary severity, all offences against
the public tranquillity ; and communications have
been made to the individuals whose influence
is supposed to be paramount with their respec-
tive adherents, that they can in no way render a
service more acceptable in the highest quarter,
nor more valuable to the infatuated multitudes
directly concerned, than by earnestly enforcing,
and sincerely seconding, the salutary, and ulti-
mately merciful intentions ofthe Administration.

The communication with which we have been
favoured proceeds from one too much accus-
tomed to the habitual course of Irish party
politics, and too well acquainted with human
nature, to expect an instantaneous and miraculous
cessation of feuds, which have subsisted in full
and ferocious vigour for centuries ; but it is con-
solatory to have the opinion of a competent

tness enjoying the very best opportunities for

aceuraie and dispassionate observation, that the
object is not entirely hopeless.—Morning Chron.

We call the attention of our readers to a
letter from Lord Rossmore, in another column,
on the state of the North Of Ireland. His Lord-
ship, it will be seen, considers the recent dis-
plays of party spirit in that part of the country,
to have been in a great measure caused by the
ill-judged appeals to them from individuals of
rank in England. He thinks that disarming
both parties would in a great measure put an end

to violence, as without arms there would be no
processions or assemblages which keep alive irri-
tation. .He considers stipendiary Magistrates as
indispensable, for some time at least.—lbid.