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had not the power, as that of the Porte had n?t
the will, to controul their maritime forces, and it
was therefore imperative on the Allies to aid the
feebleness. of the one in the same spirit as they had
tact the obstinacy of the other. Whatever the
secret or avowed foes of the Allies may say, • they

cannot now refuse to them the praise of even-handed
justice; nor can they, if they possess any remains of
candour, deny that tile motives assigned in the
Treaty of July,for the allied interposition, have been
proved in the event to be the real ones. The motives
then assigned were the damages accruing to.the com-
mercial relations of the three Powers by the unset-
tled state of the Levant. To the evil resulting from
that unsettled state, there was but one cure, and
that cure has been adhibited. The ordinary forms of

blockade were put in force and found unavailing-;-
an attempt to give them greater efficacy was tried,
resisted, and the destruction of the Turkish fleet was

the consequence. With_the Greek fleet no blockade
was tried, for an obviotis reason; they were acting
contrary to the orders of their own Government; and
had no claim to such treatment as a neutral might

fairly expect. But, even in the order of their Pro-
ceedings, the Allies have given the most ample
proof of the good faith that' actuated their con-
duct. They began with the stronger side—they re-
duced the oppressor to reluctant quietude, before they
even called on the Greeks to abstain from acts which

involved not their own safety only,but tended to de-
lay, perhaps defeat, the success of the allied interven-
rion, and compromised, to a certain degree, the inte-
rests of the Allies themselves. There is no person of
soundfeelings that does not contemplate with horror the
cruelties of the Turks at Scio. There is nothing in
the history of the last fifty years to equal the barba-
rities perpetrated there by a bloody and remorseless
enemy, if we except some of the atrocities of the
Greeks themselves, which yet fall far short in extent
of what they rival in degree. In the desire of the
Greeks to revenge themielves on the captors of
Scio we can entirely sympathise ; but we do not
forget, at the same time, that the task of vengeance,
in such cases, is not to be entrusted to men, acting
without, or independent of the Government which
they profess to serve, any more than, in a re-
gulated State, it is to be entrusted to indivi7
duals acting without the permission, or con-
trary to the enactments of law. To the Pseudo;
Philhellenists of the day, the destruction of
the Greek fleet may afford a topic of decla:
mation ; but as there were no fleet of steam-boats to
be destroyed, we think it unnecessary to reply. We
leave the one to their arithmetic, and the other to

their rhymes. There are, however, brighter ancl
better spirits, who look on the cause of Greece with
something of the feelings 'of a fond lover on his mis.
tress—with eyes. like those of the lynx to her beau•
ties, but dull as those of the mole to her defects.—!
To such we would say, that the present sharp but
wholesome infliction bids fair to forward the causo

in which they take an honest interest, more thati
any event, save only the victory that preceded it.
The battle. of Navarin was well calculated to con,
vince the Turks of their utter unfitness to cope with
the forces which the. Allies could at any time leti

low against them ; and there is every reason to be-,
lieve' that it would have wrought the happiest effects
in the counsels of the Divan, had it not ben for th 6
rash and ill-timed descent upon Scio. That descent
excited, and very naturally too, in the Porte, suspi-i
cion of the sincerity of the Allies, which something

stronger than protestation's was-required to remove.
" You profess," they might well say to the Allies;
" to act as i'mpartial. mediators between us and our
own subjects; to permit you to. do so at all is suffi-
ciently humiliating; but how do .you prove your
impartiality ? 'You attack us where your power
insures you instant victory—you compel us, by the
annihilation of our fleets, to what you call a naval
armistice,' and in the mean while the vessels of our
inveterate enemies are allowed to plunder and destroy
us with impunity." What were the Allies to an-
swer to such an appeal ? We have no mighty sym-
pathy with the Turks, but we would treat them as
men of like feelings with ourselves, and really we

think that there was reason in their anger, on account
of Fabvier's attempt. The way is now at length
clear to a settlement. The Turkish Government
may still refuse to treat, and the Allies may be obliged
to make, yet, further demonstrations of what jus-
tice, backed%y power, . can effect, but their refusal
has been deprived of the argument by which it has
been hitherto supported. They can no longer accuse
the Allies of interposing for the sake of the Greeks
alone. We are told that preparations are actively
making in Turkey for war,' and by-the extracts. from,
the German Papers, in another column, it 101 be
.seen that magazines arc forming for the supply of the
capital, but at the date of thisnews the intelligence
of the action at Scio had not arrived. At Vienna,
where .the feelings of the Porte are perhaps better
known and better appreciated than in this country,
that event was bailed as likely to effect a successful
termination .of the negotiations. 'We are happy
that it has fallen to the, share of Adiniral de Rigny
to punish the Greeks. In the first place, it will gra-
tify the justifiable vanity of our neighbours, that their
forces have; in this case, accomplished alone what
required the united fleet of the Allies to accomplish at
Navarin; and that they have, in this Case, been the
leaders, while in the other, they only .followed.. In
the second place, it takes away the possibility of
charging us, as is often foolishly and malignantly
done on the Continent, with, selfish motives—as
influenced solely by a desire to advance our
own interests by crushing all maritime rivals. We
rejoice, therefore, that the destruction of a Power
which has injured us more than it has done all Eu-
rope besides, has been effected by the arm of our
Ally rather. than by our own. 'The French Opposi-
tion Papers see 'only, in this act of stern justice, .an
occasion of launching out into unmeaning charges
against the Ministry. This was to be expected.
We have no doubt, that while we are pr ping these,
lines, some of our neighbours are blotting innocent
paper, to prove that the destruction of those pirates,
of whose existence they so bitterly complained, is an;
act of the. greatest possible atrocity,- and that Cie li-'
terary buffoon, with whose notice we are sometimes
favoured, is already turning over his tattered. coin-
, • mon-place book, in search of stale jokes, to comme-
morate the act of justice whiCh he has so often in-
yoked. All this is selon le regles. We address our
.observations to those that-seekafter truth, whatever
side it may affect, not to the goose who.caanot hear,
nor to the adder that will not.—New Time:.

Mr. Burford has been for some time hotly en-
gaged in the Battle of Navarin, which will shortly
form the Panorama, in Leicester-square. It is
a sure hit. By a former Naval Victory reprel-
sented iu this shape, the concern netted 30,0001.
Everybody goes to see battle pieces.

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THE LATE MURDER IN OXFORD.--. Soon
after the final examination of Williams on
Wednesday, two respectable tradesmen presented
themselves as sureties, for him, • and he was ac-!
cordingly liberated. Throughout the whole of
the examinations that' have taken place on this
extraordinary business, Williams has conduct-
ed himself with propel firmness ; he has not
shrunk from any investigation ; on the contrary,
he expressed a wish that the examinations might
be public.--Oxford Journal, Dec. 29.
QUACKERY.--A doctrine called " polarity,"
is extremely fashionable just now in the Aus-
trian States. It,is founded on what its profes-
sors are 'pleased, to call " the universal force of
nature a primitive and unique force, which,
nevertheless, is composed of two forces, called
polar ; the one attractive or contractive, the other
repulsive. or expansive ; in constant opposition ;
always haVing a tendency to destroy one another;
but which produce and animate every thing. on
these principles (borrowed from electricity), the
professors of this doctrine pretend to explain all
the phenomena of nature, and even of life itself.—
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