The Sun.
London, England, 1827-09-26 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

In yesterday's Times, we marked with suffi-
cient distinctness our doubts as to the accuracy

of certain impressions which seemed to be enter-
tained in some quarters respecting the occur-
rences at Constantinople. It now appears, as we
learn from good authority, that the answer of
the Reis Effendi to the note of the Allied IVli-

nisters was considered by them to be a definitive
answer; aud that, so far as they are concerned,
the execution of the treaty may be looked upon
as having actually commenced. On receiving
the refUsal of the Ottoman Government, the
Ambassadors of the coalesced Powers sent im-
mediate orders to the combined squadrons to act ;
and it was presumed that the first object of their
commands would -be to intercept the fleet and
convoy of the Pacha of Egypt on its- way from
Alexandria to Greece. It is generally under,
stood that, the notoriety attending the equipment
of this formidable armament,
.and the anticipa-
tion of irretrievable mischief should nothing be
undertaken to frustrate the landing of the 'troops,
were the inducements which operated- on the
Diplomatists of England and her Allies to make
them reduce the intended 30 days to 15. Per-
haps the Pacha may not have been very eager to
adhere much longer to the fortunes of the Porte,
and would, therefore, not greatly lament the pre-
text for inaction thus afforded him by the promp-
titude of the Allies, with whom, undoubtedly, he
would not court the risk of a gratuitous quarrel,
fur the sake of a master whose yoke he was
anxious to shake off, and to the certain extine-
tion.of those military and naval means through
which he might best accomplish his independence.
Theactiye measures proposed by the triple alliance
against .Turkey, in case of her refusing their
offer to mediate, have enabled the Pacha to exe-
cute, in compliance with all the forms of decency,
whet lie must otherwise have attempted in
spite of it—a desertion of his nominal Sovereign
in the heat of battle with a nation of insurgents,
in whose favour,
.'whatever the Christian. States
of Europe might feels it is impossible that a
,Mussulinan Pacha could indulge any real sym-
pathy. Well . informed persons go so far as to
say, that the Pacha sent at the same time, hints
to the Allied Powers where they might find his
Beet, and orders to his own officers against
making the slightest resistance. A needless
complication of hypocrisy all this, if true !. but
eastern policy in numerous instances, prescribes,
as a point of etiquette and honour,,that course
of action which savours most of the spirit of dis-
simulation and duplicity. ,The subsequent steps
to be taken by Great Britain and her allies,
under their convention, now force themselves on
public notice. It has been agreed that, under
such circumstances as are said to have arisen, the
Allied Powers shouls.l send Consuls to the Greek
confederacy, and thus anno.unee that recognition
of their independence which' seals the defeat 01
the. Turkish Government in this ea:nest. What-
ever measures the Allies stand pledged to take,
there is no rashness in pronouncing, ought, with
a view to the seiseraLrelations of the T.urkish-em-
pire, to be executed .without delay. The sooner
that a-system,deliberately adopted, is acted upon
and with the greater energy, the sooner will the
evils which have suggested it be brought to their'
desired termination. If driven to war, for , the
sake of a more secure and permanent tranquility,
the more speedily .we " strip to it," and the har-
der we bit, the sooner will peace be sin our
power. .We trust, therefore, that England at
least will be honest and, wise enough to fulfil her
engagensons without flinching—that she will
be- equally careful to escape the contempt
of those whom 'she-. threatens, and the re-
sentment Or distrust of those with whom she
binds herself to co-operate. If Russia sacrific-
ed to the solicitude and eabortations of England
the probable advantages of a surnmanding m
taryposition, and those personal though gigantic
sebjects, in the pursuit of which she promised
heself, to the dissatisfaction of England, a quick
and facile sticces:s.—if, in (stet, the result of the
late Mr. Canning's long and asinsioui negotia-
tions with Russia washer acceptance of British
ally for a generous and universally beneficial ens',
instead of an isolated hut perhaps brilliant effort
of- her own unassisted troops easil resources, for
the attainment of a selfish one,--this'esountry is,
beyond a question pledged to accomplish aut in-
,demnity by which RUS.Soa 'was detached from her
own peculiar and well-known schemes of aggran-
disement ; or, Ist, she forfeits her plighted ho-
now.; and, 2d, she releases the Russian Cabinet
from conditions which are valid only. by being
acknowledged as' reciprocal. Mr. Canning, we
are satisfied, " being in," would have fele that
" returning were as tedious as go o'er,' :and more
so, being in truth, to those who understand the
Mae of • Europe; impossible. That Russia, if
the treaty of Alliance he vigorously acted on, I
should think of crossing the 13ruth with an army,
for objects exclusively Russian, while the three
Powers distinctly negative by one .of its clauses
'di contemplation of personal or selfish proiects,
we decidedly cannot 'believe. The Emperor of
Russia is too upright a Prince to jussify. such
unworthy anticipations. A military attack on
those Turkish provinces whose position separates
them from the affairs and interests of Greece, but
as obviously connects them with whatever .has
been esteemed by the Powers of Europe most
alarming in the policy of Russia,.would be no
less than a dissolution of those friendly bonds
which now unite the Allies in a single and
sacred enterprise—all abandonment of Greece
to her own unsupported means, esid the pro-
bable'reVival of ancient tendencies in the great
Governments of the west and south-east of
Europe, to combine against any scheme of dis-
membering Turkey for the indulgence of Rom-
snn-place ambition. But silly rumours, buzzed
abotst by the ignorant, are shadows unworthy to
Russia, whose accession to the
content
with;
English, ,and French alliance. deserves to be aps
reciated as a humane and disinterested surrender
has a right to our steady
of a Russian 4,;.bijectl..
fulfilment of the • promoes, by which she was
gained lour proposals' In' -is
is her part
ready; an of Lord Dudley, Ay, g s con-
fidant and friend, there is nothing but spirit, con-
sistency, and decision, to be predicted.--.-Times.
The use of ardent spirits has long
been the
bane both of savage and of civilized life ; and it
is extradrdinary; and no small reproach to the
,latter, that it is among the former that the first
Kirin and decided step is taken to put an end to
a" evil of such wide-spreading and alarming
magnitude. At c, a- talk" of 'North American
Indians, it seems, these people determined to
abolish the Use of spirituous liquors, alleging,
equalwith
truth aml Simplicity, that " they
drove them eraiy," That' It shQUld be left to
savage life to di
fact, reflects hilt little I.correct this important
ccredit,ni.lon those civilisei.2
States in
the
_practice psessils and mad-
dens andthousandthousands,,eon,et
where not only no such
resolution this is but where the very
Government connives at the h
madness and ruin
of its subjects, and even condescends to raise