The Sun.
London, England, 1827-08-04 00:00:00

THE RECORDER ANDSHERIPF FARE-

BROTHER•

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS

Whoever shah iia4 the fortune to ransack the
secret papers of Prince Metternich after the death
of that Minister, misnamed, we think, a" States-
man," may light upon things More worthy of
astonishment than the original draught of the Turk-
ish Manifesto, which was yesterday published ex-
slusively in this journal. Pictures, with certain
~haracteristie marks upon them, are pronounced
it once, by competent judges, to be of a specific
ige and school, and indeed it most frequently
happens that the composition or colour, the form
of handling, affords such materials of reatly.aed
plausible decision to the connoisseur, as
.justify
inn in declaring not merely the period, whether
remote or recent—not merely the school, whe-
ther Flemish, French, English, Spanish, Vene-
tians_ Florentine, Roman, whets and whence the
subject of his criticism first beheld the light : but
the very individual mind which conceived, and •
:linger which traced it on the canvass. Some
paintings are innocently muddy and confused ;
some State papers, too, are designedly 'mysterious
or unmeaning—circumstances which create much
.difficulty for the inexperienced, but which rather
facilitate for the acute, the task of hunting out
:in author. In the present instance, although the
lussulman diplomatist appeals on behalf of the
principles which he announces to the old law of
eations, and to the sacred Koran, there is in the
anifesto prima facie evidence that the. text of
the piece was in the code of .the Holy Alliance,
and that it was Metternich, not Mielitimet, who
inspired it. The first paragraph, or clause, is
somewhat too abstract to require much discus-
sion. though even there the . cloven foot may he
discoverable. After talking of the benefits result-
ing from a union of mar in .society, the writer
goes on to alive, that from the._ diversity of man-
ners and character, " this union could only be ac-
complished by the subjection of several nations"
:irides the same yoke. This is a doctrine equally
edifying for the Walaehians, Moldavisais Bul-
garians, Egyptians, and Christians, of unhappy
Greece, whose variety of " manners and dm-
cacter" compelled, no doubt, the enlightened fol-
lowers of the Crescent to " subjugate" them for
the benefit of the conquered people themselves ;
is it was covertly designed to be for the multifa-
dons races, including those of Northern Italy,
who have, from motives no less benevolent,
'teen " subjugated," even in our own time, by a
Power no less enlightened than the Ottoman.—
But then " Almighty wisdom," as we are as-
sured, " has assigned to each country of the
universe a Sovereign, in whose hands the reins
isf absolute authority aver the nations subject to
his dominion are placed 1" If this be from the
Koran, it is undoubtedly the Vienna edition of
that important work. No where else but in the
protocols of the Holy Alliance are " divine
fight" and the " Fonarckical. principle" stated
with more accuracy of expression. In this re-
spect the Manifesto contains an argumentum ad
izominem, which, on the ground assumed by the
Divan, it would not be easy for the Russian or
French Cabinet to get rid of, inasmuch as the
enjoyment of "absolute" power leaves the Grand
Seignor carte Manche, quoad the persons and
properties of the Greeks, whom he. may there-
re confiscate and empale as he thinks proper,
treating any complaint or reclamation from
the Holy Allies as a piece of 'unchristian im-
oertinence. But in - another position the
Porte is not quite so successful. It al-
leges that the duration of such a happy
state of things depends on Sovereigns abstain-
ng from every kind of interference in each
tthers internal affairs; with the three facts staiing
sach other in the .face, that Russia didmeddle
in the affairs of Poland, which she holds as a
eonquest,—by " divine right," of course ; that
Austria meddled in the " affairs" of the two
Sovereigns of Naples and Piedmont ; and that
Charles X. of. France keeps' possession (by
divine tight" again) of the dominions of the
King of Spain, whose " affairs" he regulates as
he thinks pitref, because Louis XVIII., by a
right which is still unspecified, meddled in them
through the bayonets of 100,000 soldiers. On
the ground, therefore, of" inconsistency," there
is nothing to prevent the Kings of the Holy
Alliance from exercising the " divine right" of
invasion, to the detriment even, and overthrow,
of the " divine right" of possession, whenever
and as often as they There is, nevertheless,
in this long Metternich Manifesto one little over-
sight worth a short observation. The Turkish
icribe does not once attempt to grapple with the
Avowed motive of the Allied Powers for in-
terfering between the Porte and its Christian
;objects—namely, that the continuance of the
war is an evil which loudly threaten), the general
tranquillity of Europe itself, suspending com-
merce, and destroying property, and extending
its ravages to innocent and unoffendiug gates,
This appears to us a ground of interference,
sufficient in the eye of justice, and laudable in
that of humanity, -with a view to the general
interests of mankind. It is, clear, moreover, of
all connexion with the topics of dispute between
Russia and Turkey on the Danube ; with regard
to which, so long as,no actual breach takes place,
there seems no immediate necessity here for
raising a political discussion.— Times.
The Manifesto of the Ottoman Porte, depre-
cating the interference of any other Powers
in
the quarrel between the Turkish Government
and the Greek portion of its subjects, has -it
length made its appearance. It will be found in
our last page. So far
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on the part of other Governments, as
inconsistent with all the principles of public law
and of general policy which have been hitherto
deemed essential to the maintenance of peaCe
among the great community of nations, and not
less 'essential to the due understandin end the
nothing
arfetroe
proper and legitimate support of civil rights in
each separate State. If the Ottoman coal!' fight
all parties as successfully as.
,reasons with
them, final justice would no 'cloalit -be done.
The Greeks wouldheat him as soundly aS he
would beat the officious intermeddlors, who, to
o, that a
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Minister of one of the European Powers at
Constantinople offired thee
revolting aid of hisubjects
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Porte, at the very commencement
vernment to punsh th
ofof theth the Grecian struggle ; that a similar
offer of interference was made byef theitdseoclin
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of several of those Powers at the Congress
of Verona the p
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regard to the salutary prin-
ciple friendlydam acm overtures ;
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of preserving the internal affairs of every
State from the interference of every other. The
Sultan, we suspect, tells his own story here in a
manner somewhat too favourable to himself. That
' certain offers were made to the Turkish Go-