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pauses. The College of Physicians, however, would
do well to „look to the matter; and we cannot see
any objection to a Board of Health being esta-
blished, to examine statesmen, as we now do soldiers,
befgie they are admitted into the service. To be
sure; no preliminary care can provide against
casualties—suCh as a Navarin fever. But every one
knows that men of originally sound health are least
liable to such casualties; and that a Ministry com-.
posed originally of stout and sound fellows is the one
best calculated to ensure subsequent health and
vigour, both to themselves and the State.—Morning
Herald.

The progressive-encroachment which the ambition
of Russia has been making on the Persian territories,
for the last century, and the vigour with which, her
forces are, at present, proceeding to take military
occupation of the strong places of that empire, ought
to make our Government very watchful lest our
Indian possessions might be embraced in the scheme
of Eastern conquest which the Cabinet of St. Pe-
tersburgh has long meditated. We have frequently
endeavoured to call tilt- serious attention of our
statesmen to this subject ; and we feel it of greater
importance at the -present moment than ever, because
Russia has contrived to embroil Great Britain with
the Porte, the ancient rival of Russia, the natural
enemy of her ambition, and the great check to her
projects of Eastern aggrandisement. However de-
ficient Russia may he in the arts of civilization, her
Statesmen have given unequivocal proofs or their
superiority in political tactics to our own, by con-
triving to turn their whole attention to the affairs of
Greece and Turkey, and entrap our Government
into a most unpleasant position with the latter Power
at the moment when she was prepared to execute
her plan for the subjugation of the Persians.—
The history of the world does not present an
instance of a more crafty or successful coup d'etat
as far as its effects are yet seen, than this stroke
of Muscovite policy. If Russia had not succeeded
in placing our Government in the position into
which it has been betrayed with regard to Turkey,
the Northern Autocrat would either not have under-
taken the present invasion of Persia, or would have
to carry it on miller very different circumstances
from those in which he is placed at present. He
would have had to dread the interposition of Turkey,
which would then be free to observe- his movements,
and, perhaps, feel it necessary, both in a political
and religious point of view, to make common cause
with its Maliommedan neighbour. England, too,
not -having all her anxieties turned to the Darda-
nelles, would probably see this Russian act of ag-
gression in its true light. The jealousy of allowing
an European power to open a highway to theindies,
which before induced her to oppOse the Turkish
arms to Napoleon's attempt upon Egypt, would
very likely, in the present instance, have made
her influence very inconvenient to the Czar, 1214..
deaveuring to plant his standard on the walls of Te-
heran, an event much more formidable in its probable
results to the security of British India than the
military occupation of Cairo or Alexandria even by
so able and intrepid a warrior as Napoleon ; who, in
order to penetrate further into the East, must hair
drawn the troops and the principal part of his re-
sources from the remote territory of France. Great,
however, was the alarm which was felt for our
Indian dependencies when it was heard that that
ambitious Chieftain had landed in Egypt. The
Turkish scimitar, however, then did us good ser-
vice : at Acre and Aboukir the invading legions ac-
knowledged the destructive courage of our Mahom-
medan Ally. Our fleet, too, was then employed
not to open, but close, the barrier of the East : the

fanciers of the Nile were directed by a differe

policy from those of. Navarin. We did not offie,
ously. intermeddle in other people's affairs instead of
protecting our own. We did not send Nelson on
foolish quarrel to the Dardanelles while the French
were in Egypt. While Russia pursues her own
designs on the Caspian Sea, she cuts us out work
in the Greek Archipelago. We have the merit of
beating her hereditary enemy, and obtaining a tri-
umph over our own Ally.—lbid.
The leading Ministerial Journal defends the Treaty
of Intervention between Turkey and 'Greece by the
examples of Austria, when she interfered to suppress
the Neapolitan Revolution ; and of France when
she sent her armies to re-establish the absolute
power of Ferdinand in Spain. The examples are
well chosen, and the defence is entirely worthy of
the cause on behalf of which it is offered. These
Interventions were universally held to be unjust by
the politicians (at that time, we suppose, Igncirant
and unenlightened) of England. In this opinion sin
ranks and classes of British Statesmen concurred—
'Ministerial and Opposition, in Parliament and out
of it.. We recollect that on the first of these occa-
sions, there were no terms of obloquy or opprobrium
which the Opposition in.the British House of Com-

mons thoughi-foo violent to be applied to the con-
duct and character of the Austrian Government;
and that upon the latter, Lord Liver')Onl himself; a
Statesman much too lofty and too wise to indulge
in intemperance of language, pronounced a severer
sentence than intemperance of languaire could have
expressed, when he admitted in the If°llse of Lords
that the invasion of Spain afforded to England a
legitimate ground of war against France, had war
been the policy of the English Government. Such
were the opinions which prevailed in England in
those days of darkness ; and it is of course owieg to
the wonderful.progress we have since made in " the
march of intellect," that the examples of Austria
and France are now quoted in justification of the
recent conduct of the British Government.. Worn-
ing Poet.
We have heard a great deal of late of the dan-
gerous designs of Russia, and of the opportunity
which it is supposed the Treaty of the 6th July
will give to their accomplishment-. If the Russians
pass the Pruth with their armies, it is conceived
that a partition of Turkey must be the inevitable
consequence. By following up the same line of
argument,- it is concluded, that-in the dismember-
' ment of the Turkish Empire, the rest of the na-
tions of Europe will insist on being sharers. It is
very evident that the whole of these anticipations
rests on the assumption that Russia will, in the very
teeth of the Treaty of the 6th July, Which declares
that the three contracting Powers have no view to
territorial aggrandisement, and in open violation of
the plainest dictates of justice and decency, proceed
to do what she has formally and solemnly depre-
cated. We shall not speak here of the opposition
of England and France, which would naturally
he offered to such a violation of the Treaty.
We wish to take up the question on higher
grounds. If kingdoms were wont to fulfil
their pleasure in every thing from _which they
are not compelled by force to refrain, we might
naturally expect from Russia what is prophecied
of her. But among communities, not less than

among individuals, there is a moral force which they
must respect, and whieh operates much more power-
fully on their conduct than any physical force what-
ever; and this moral obligation no Sovereign in
Christendom dare in the present day despi.se. We
are aware that we shall be referred to the case of

Poland in fefutation of what we assert, but we do

not think it a case in point. In the first place, the
political condition of Poland had been notoriously
corrupt and unsettled for ages. It was the rotten

borough, so to speak, in iv-hich the Princes of Eu-
rope bribed arid caballed for the office of King;
and though it is true that an attempt had been made
to obviate that grievous evil, its Monarchical elec.
tions, he attempt was only just made when the
first partition occurred. In the second place, and
this certainly tended to make the atrocity of the
two partitions less revolting than it would have
been, every man in Europe, - who was in the
leak acquainted with Poland, knew that, of
all the systems of government in Europe, that
country possesied the most utterly infamous—that
the tyranny practised under it over the unhappy
.o‘fvittlhieoutut parallel, even in Greece,
turbaned gentlemen, for whom
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Add to this fact,have so tender a predilec-
tion.the opponents of
which Ministry
no one now disputes