The Sun.
London, England, 1827-11-12 00:00:00

1 acted with admirable concert, in a service where
the least neglect or want of promptitude might
have been attended with the most disastrous re-

sults. Again and again, the large ships were
snatched from destruction, by the prompt exer-
tions, of the vessels charged with the dangerous
land difficult duty of securing them from the fire-
, ship's. It is greatly to be feared, that the destruc-
tion of their fleet will provoke the barbarians
"to the commission of still more "dreadful ex-
cesses on the unfortunate Greeks. But this

is' not the only evil to be apprehended.—
We shudder when we think of the conse-
4luences to which the intelligence may lead
at Constantinople. It is difficult for • people
like Ourselves, so different in our habits and
ideas from the Turks, to conjecture in what
way they will receive the news. The Turks
do not act according to any calculation intelli-
gible to us. They occupy the finest part of Eu-
rope, without knowing any thing of Europe. It
is clear, for instance, the Turkish Statesmen are

either totally. unacquainted with their strength as
compared with that of the Western nations, or
that those :who possess this knowledge have no
power of acting on their own judgment. 'lf the,
determination to.oppose the Allies was, as is be-
lieved, the result of orders from Constantinople
—for it was known on the 14th of October in
that capital, that important and decisive instruc-
tions had been sent by the Sultan to the fleet—
it may be inferred that they who sent sucli orders
conceived the possibility of combatting the Al-
lies. They who miscalculated their strength so
much may not be taught by the result to know
themselves. If, on the other hand, the action
was the result of a fatalism, proof against all cal-
culation, who knows the direction which that
spirit may take in future ? We are pleased to
learn from the French Commander, that " the
Trident is going to Smyrna to meet the Junon,
the Pomone, and the other light vessels, to
supply the wants of the moment, and to wait
new directions. The English corvette the Dose
has gone to Smyrna, whence' couriers will be de-
spatched to Constantinople to announce this
important' event." Captain Reverseaux, •of
the Pomone, had instructions to pro-
tect the French subjects." We trust the
English subjects in that port will also be
protected from the fury of the enraged Turks.
By this time, veshould suppose, there is hardly
a rational being who believes in the possibility of
making any thing of such incorrigible barbarians
as the Turks. So long as they remain in Europe
there is n °lope for the Levant. They would
have been driven from it long since but for the
difficulty of disposing of the valuable provinces
which they possess. The time seems, however,
to be fast approaching when temporizing will no
longer be possible : and it will be necessary for"
the great Powers once for all to decide the fate
of Turkey. If they.retaliate on our defenceless
countiymen whom commerce has &awn to their
towns, they will thereby provoke a terrible re-
tribution. It is impossible to conceive that the
Allies, who have already gone so f;r, would not
go farther, after such an insult. The Egyptians
had several French officers on board their ships.
M. de Rigny says he required them to quit the
service when things were taking this serious turn,
and that .he believes only one did not obey his
orders.—Morning Chronicle.

. .
Dispatches. were received at the Admiralty ca
Saturday from Admiral Sir Edward Codring
ton, giving an account of a splendid victory o
the British, aided by the French and Russian
squadron, in the destruction of the fleet of Tur-
key—a Power hitherto justly considered one of
the•mosts faithful; and, by geographical position,
one of the natural Allies of England. The de-
tails of the engagement, which took place in the
Port of Navarin on the 20th of October, (the
anniversary be it remembered of the ever me-
morable and truly glorious battle of Trafalgar),
were published on Saturday night in an Extra-
ordinary Gazette, which is given in a preced-
ing part of our paper. Our brave sailors, it is
hardly necessary to say, sustained nobly upon
this occasion the high and splendid reputation
they had acquired in all their former conflicts—
in conflicts more worthy of their arms, and more
conducive to the honour and advantage of their
country. When we view the subject in this, its
only bright. aspect, our feelings of pride and exul-
tation rise to their utmost height—fondly view-
ing in it, as we do, the heart-gratifying proof that
our naval discipline was never better—that our
naval heroes were never more courageous or
invincible—and that the glorious race of our
Howes,. our Duncans, our Jarvises, and our
Nelsons, is as full and as brilliant as in the gol-
den harvest of our repeated and transcendent
naval victories. Here, however (with anguish
of heart and soul we confess. it), these feelings
have an end. En every other view of the subject,
they are succeeded by emotions of grief, morti-
fication, and alarm. The Combined Admirals,
in explaining the causes which led to this san-
guinary and important conflict, do not appear to
us to speak the language of candid or high-
spirited men. They impute the first aggression
to their opponents, because the first shots were
fired by them ; as if the unprovoked entrance of
the fleet under their command, in order of battle,
into the Turkish. port in which the fleet of
Turkey was at anchor, was not in itself a pal-
pable aggression. This, we regret to observe,
is
a pitiful equivocation, which we never could have
expected to find disfiguring and degrading the
official dispatches. of a gallant Commander.--
The result of the engagement is represented
to have been the almost entire destruction
of the Turkish fleet. The Gazette does
not, however, furnish us with that mi-
nuteness of detail, under this head, which
would in all the circumstances have been
satisfactory. None of the Turkish vessels
have been taken possession of by the combined
forces ; and we inter that the destruction has not
been quite so complete as the vague and general
terms of the dispatch might have led us to be-
lieve, from the circumstance of the Allied Com-
manders attempting, after the termination of the
engagement, to renew the armistice----threaten-
ing and promising the Turks in the following
terms ;—" If one single musket or cannon shot
be again fired on a ship or boat of the Allied
Powers, we shall immediately destroy all the re-
maining vessels, as well as the forts of Navarin,
and we shall consider such new act of hostility as
a formal declaration o£ the. Porte against the
three Allied Powers, and of which the Grand
Signior and his Pachas must suffer the terrible
consequences. But if the Turkish Chiefs, ac-
knowledging the aggression they have committed
by commencing the firing, abstain from any act
of hostility, we shall resume those terms of good
understanding which they have themselves in-
terrupted. In this case they will have the white
flag hoisted on all the forts before the end of
this day. We demand a categorical answer,
without evasions, before sunset."—What the
success of this application was, the Com-
bined Admirals do not state. If the message
were delivered on the very clay of the battle, we