The Sun.
London, England, 1827-09-25 00:00:00

SPLIT OVP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

So far as the city news may be trusted, it
does not appear that the last advices, via Paris,
have stated the departure of the Allied Mini-
sters from the Turkish capital. It is unques-.
tionable that the demand of a categorical answer.
from the Porte, announced in the joint note
delivered to. the Reis Effendi on the 16th of
August, prescribes a shorter period for delibera-
tion than had been specified in the treaty under
the general provisions of which the Ambassa-
dors were authorised to act. The treaty allowed
the Divan a month, the note but fifteen days.
Of course the limitation of the time originally
agreed upon must, we take for granted, have
been the result of instructions particular or gene-
ral, either commanding distinctly that such a
deviation from the words of the treaty should
be made at all events, .or vesting the Ministers
with discretionary power, to tighten the reins
upon his Mahometan Majesty, it circumstances
should render it .desirable. For diplomatic
agents to act without any instructions, much
more to exercise their free agency in manifest
encroachment on the terms of a solemn compact
between their respective Governments, is a course

which may by possibility have been pursued, but
which is neither usual nor probable. Some
persons in the city appear to think, that the pe-
remptory requisition by the Ambassadors, of a
reply to their communication in 15 days, was
meant only to ascertain the temper of the Porte,
and in case of its refusal of the allied proposals,
that the remaining 15 days provided in the treaty
itself were to be employed in endeavours to en- .
lighten or mollify his Highness.—lt is likewise ..
affirmed, that there would be no excuse for the
Ambassadors, whatever the terms of their first
note (viz., that on the 16th of August), in
leaving or proposing.- to leave Constantinople
before the 30 slap allowed by the. treaty.—
We are not qualified to form a decided
opinion either way, where full materials, as
in the present case, are not before us.—
We cannot, therefore, assert or deny, that
the note of the 16th ultimo was merely
intended to feel the pulse of the Grand
Seignior ; but if such was the design of Mr.
Stratford Canning and his colleagues, they un-
doubtedly began by a somewhat violent gripe of
his Imperial Majesty's arm. Besides, it had
been previously ascertained—with, indeed, much
more precision thin Eastern diplomacy in ge- •
neral uses to convey its sentiments—what was
the policy avowed by the Porte with regard to
the expected interference of the Christian
Powers between her and the Greek insurgents.
The Manifesto of Turkey had already appeared, .
having been officially made public. This paper
was drawn with much subtlety of argument and
force of language, and indicated, with great ap-
parent resolution what would be the system of
the Ottoman Government. To the same Ma-
nifesto the Minister of Turkey has since referred
as containing the principles and bases of his
Master's policy ; at the same time the Christian
Ambassadors may have had reason to suspect
for ought we know, that the Sublime Porte was
not in earnest, and might, in consequence, have
written their before-mentioned note of the 16th,
as a civil mode of putting the old Irish insinua-
tion—,, May be your Honour's only joking
with us after all." With regard to another sup-
. position—viz. that the Ambassadors would have
no excuse for leaving Constantinople before the
expiration of the 30 days, although they might •
by note have implied their intention of doing so
at the end of 15,—we willingly agree that if, by
remaining at Constantinople for twice 30 days,
they. felt any reasonable assurance of effecting the
y gilI to i
objects of the treaty, without having recourse to
the extremities of war, or incurring the risk
which must attend the commencement of every
war,—namely, that of its incalculable prolonga-
tion and extension afterwards,—they would, of'
enteredrnsition
with the
all men on earth, be the. most unpardonable for
refusing so small a. sacrifice. The two questions
in that case are, would delay be a probable
means of sueceeding---and were they permitted
to remain? But if positive blame should be
imputed to the British Minister,—for whose re-
putation only it imports us to feel,—in enat he
thought fit to leave Constantinople at one period
rather than another, the latter and. longer peri9d
being that which was indicated as the utmost
limitpec t
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ment to that of Turkey, there are but two re-
Canning as a public functionary-1. His disobe-
dienceend of 15 or 16 days instead of 30.
That is a very simple, though at this moment
an inaccessible, ground of judging, and to be
settled no otherwise than by -a disclosure of the
official instructions which accompanied or fol-
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think herself aggrieved by the signaolrae, of such
a• treaty, and by the system of
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avows ; but she is no party to the negociation of
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given time ; and then, should
the
.Allied Mini-
sters, in derogation from the
treaty,
,require the . .
answer fifteen days sooner than had been stip..., ..
lated, the Porte '
might complain that she had
been grossly wronged. Here, however, if the. .
three signing Powers deem it right, from consi- . •
derations affecting Greece, Egypt, or other
countries, to change terms of a compact which
is to regulate their own councils only, and to
which no other States are parties, there is none
to gainsay such au exercise of their supremacy :
their diplomatic agents are answerable to them.
alone. Let us also recollect that the period of
thirty days forms part of what was to be held in
the light of a secret article, of which the Porte
could take no cognizance until it had been for-
mally communicated by the Ministers, of the
Allied Powers. We have gone into this argu-
ment, merely to keep the subject open, and to
save the British Minister, in the absence of sence of facts,
from being prejudged by friends
or enemies.
Times.

In the Insolvent Debtors' Court, yesterday,
one of those farces was acted which have lately
exhibited the Judicial practice of the country in
so ludicrous a point of view. The Rev. Robert
Taylor, of the Christian Evidence Society, came
before the Court for his discharge. Before an
applicant an be examined; it is necessary that he