The Sun.
London, England, 1827-09-24 00:00:00

rally to comprehend these truths, it would make
it a matter of difficulty' for any GovernMent to
enter on wars of conquest. We are inclined to
believe that these truths have, in reality, found an
entrance into very many minds throughout
Europe, and that in consequence it will be a
much more difficult matter hereafter than it used
to be for Governments to involve their subjects
in war. All the wars,. for instance, in which

England was engaged during the first half ofl
the last century (leaving out of consideration
the two last revolutionary wars), arose out off
mistaken views of national advantage. Neither;
Goverment nor people in the present day would'
think fiklgoing to war on the same grounds. We
have thus gained a greater probability of en-
joying peace, by the addition made to
our knowledge, and let us hope that the
diffusion of sound views will continue to diminish
still more the chances of going to war. The
whole race of Buonapartists, a pestiferous brood,
of whom too many yet remain in France, being
entirely without any other than military know-
ledge, cling to the 'mischievous notions of na-
tions benefitting themselves by conquest. We
do not doubt that there are not a few of them
who imagine that England derives great advan-
tages from her influence in Portugal, and that it
would be a desirable object for France to occupy
Spain, and clear the Peninsula of the:English.—
We know such notions are entertained, because
we have been doomed to hear them. An article
iii another column, headed " From a Corr.-
• spondent," communicates many of the notions
that fill the heads of politicians of the Buona-
partist school. For our parts, the sooner we can
withdraw with honour the troops from Portugal,
the better it will be for us. The only ground on
which we should object to the French attempt-
ing to realise any of their wildgoose schemes in
the Peninsula, is not the disadvantage to our-
selves, but the duty of neighbourhood, which
calls on all nations to prevent, as much as pos-
sible, any nation from interfering with another.
We really, however, cannot believe that the
French Ministers are so silly as to wish either
to occupy Spain permanently, or to obtain pos-
session of any of its provinces. The French,
though comprehensive views in politics are sel-
dom taken by them, would never surely tolerate
such an abuse of power as the attempt to hold
possession of Spain in spite of the natives, would
amount to. Vast sums of money must be ex-
pended in any such attempt, and it could not
possibly be successful. Buonaparte, with all
Europe at his back, could hardly have garrisoned
Spain, and the present Government would not
surely be able to do it with all Europe the other
way. As to what our Correspondent states of
the old claims of France, that is altogether out
of the question in the present day. But why
,should the French wish to extend their limits in
the direction of Spain ? If ever nature sepa-
painted two countries front each other, she has
done so by the Pyrenees in the case of France
and Spain. Mountains of the first order, by
interrupting communication, form the best of all
boundaries between nations.—Morning Chron.
It cannot be denied that the state of Greece
has long been one not only of distress and alarm to
its inhabitants, but of annoyance to all the mer-
cantile powers of Europe ; nor do we therefore
deny the right of the latter to remonstrate, and,
if that were unavailing, to repress, by force, a
nuisance which was in its nature calculated to
affect not only its immediate neighbourhood, but
the whole civilized word. But that which can
be justifiable to-day, was of course still more so,
as a matter of precaution, years ago ; nor can we
understand the peremptory tone assumed to-
wards the Porte now, in the first instance, instead of
the conciliatory forms of remonstrance and me-
diation which should have been adopted. Let
she Philhellenists, as they call themselves, shape
their view of the matter how they will, let them
talk of their classical recollections and sympathies
(sympathies, by-the-bye, which have, for the
most part, their origin in the Stock Exchange),
we defy them to deny that the Greeks are as
much the subjects of the Porte as the inhabi-
tants of Ireland, Jersey, and Guernsey, are those
of the King of England. Now, if the inhabi-
tants of one or all of these islands, or any other
isolated part of his Majesty's dominions, were to
break out into open rebellion, and were to ex-
tend its consequences to other States by piracy
or clunder, or otherwise, so as to obstruct, if we
may se say, the great highway of nations, we do
not dens' that France, Spain, and Russia, or
even Turkey herself, however far she might be
from the inconvenience, would have a right to
say to the King of England—" Put an end to
this nuisance, or we must but we know, too,
what the Government of. the people of England
would think, and do too, upon such an occasion.
The British lion, though couchant, perhaps, at
the time, would be apt to rouse from his state of'
lethargy, would shake his mane, erect his paws,
alternately, and, with native fury in his eye,
evould exclaim—" What are my subjects, or my
affairs, to you ?—interfere with them at your
• peril." Now, what we should do in our own
case, we have no right to complain of being done
under similar circumstances by others. It is
true that the Ambassadors of the United Powers,
in their recent Note to the Reis Effendi, state
that " during six years the Great Powers of
Europe have been engaged in endeavours to in-
&ince the Sublime Porte to enter into a pacifica-
tion with Greece it would, however, we be-
lieve, puzzle those Powers, and their Ministers
too, to point out what those endeavours have
been, or even of what kind of language they
have consisted. Certain it is, that no snnulta-
neous movement or endeavour has heretofore
taken place e nor would, we believe, have taken
place now, had not Mr, Canning's zeal been
outwitted by the crafty policy of one at least, of
the other contracting parties. That the whole
xivilized world would be glad ton ee amend put
to the desolation to long goig on Greece
eameot be doubted ; but that Great Britain is,
at the eleventh hour, to be involved in a war for
such an object, and that a war, the result of
which may open a door to future inroads upon
our own most valuable colonies, is a state of
things which none but Ultra-Philhellenists and
holders of Greek bonds can view
,Die crisis withis any other
sensations than those of alarm•
one of difficulty, from which (in O'hat used to
be the language of our Courts till Mr. Peel's
late Act repealed it) we wish the British Mi-
nistry " a good deliverance.''-3foen,lig Herald.
Since the death of Mr. Canning, and the re-
formation of the Ministry, domestic politics ap-
pear to
have excited but little attention ; and
were
It..nOt for the state of involvement in which
we are placed ';by 'that :gentleman's policy with
regard Portugal to and- Turkey, scarcely any
iiterest
would be felt by the majority of the
country with re and to foreign affairs.
the latter A
s much lets censiderabte than would
be imagined
; and were it not for ttaturmoil
which the good people of the Stock Ekchange
keep up (for the good of their country, no