The Sun.
London, England, 1827-12-08 00:00:00

as to strip the motives of Russia of every disguise
her impatience was revealed MA manifest to all the
world, as an impatience stimulated not by huiinanity;
but bfambition. -The English PovernMent kould
not but see what were her real objects; arid n'atiiing
but the most itnbetire ttlWatdice could have re-
strained it -from denouncing and resisting them.—
There is too much reason to apprehend that, the
triumph of Russian policy will soon be
.cornplitei
and that England will have the taisraction of
knowing that the Orand Seignor and his advisers
are suf&iently punished for their contumacy in
withstanding the insolent and arbitrary dictates of
the Allied Powers. The partizans of Ministers
seem to delight in the prospect of this infliction; but
they abstain very wisely from informing the people
of England in what it is to consist. It is fit, how-
ever, that the English nation should know what the
advocates of the present Administration look forward
to as the consummation of its- glory. One of them
tells, us, that " it is presumed there can be little dif-
ference or opinion upon the line which policy as
well as all higher considerations require the Allies to
pursue ; and the Sultan and his Councillors will
then have tbemselve's to blame for the results,

should thee be, to advance the, armies of Russia
tipoh Constantinople, while our forces annoy and
blockade it by sea. The English share in such
hostility must," he continues, "necessarily be
confined to a limited scale of operations, and

a proportionably moderate one of expense."—
So the Russian armies are to advance upon Con-

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stantinople—an operation not to be performed
certainly without some severe fighting, and very
considerable loss even to the victorious party—

and then, perhaps having first administered the pu-
nishment of the knout to the Grand Seignor and the
Members of his Divan, are again to withdraw within
their original boundaries. Is this the kind of pu-
nishment for Turkish obstinacy which our Ministers
and their adherents contemplate with so much
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delight ? If it be, their expectation implies a very
imperfect knowledge of their good Ally, and a degree
of simplicity indeed altogether infantine. We rather.
incline to think that victorious Russia will claim,

after the general manner of victors, compensation
for the past and security for the future, and that her
army, once at Constantinople, she will not be slow
to announce her determinatien to let them remain

here. The natural result of a Treaty, which, as its

authors pretended, was founded in motives of
humanity, but which had its true foundation in
the grossest folly and hypocrisy, thus appears to
be, the transfer of European Turkey and of Greece
to the mild sceptre of Russia—to the mildness
of which sceptre, by the bye, foreigners in
the Russian dominions can just at this moment
bear the most valid and seasonable testimony. The
cause of Greece is in fact already forgotten, scarcely
mentioned even among coffee-house politicians—
' among Statesmen, never mentioned at all. The
threatened dismemberment or annihilation of the
Turkish empire, and the aggrandisement of the
power of Russia, are the topics which now occupy
the 'exclusive attention of the European Cabinets.
It was sure to be thus; and it is impossible to frame
any satisfactory apology for men pretending to the
character and assuming the station of Statesmen,
who could not or would not perceive in July last,
what the most uninstructed persons can so clearly
perceive now, viz. that the quarrel of Greece is of
no importance to Europe, otherwise than as the
pretext and the instrument of Russian ambition.
It is now universally admitted, that the conduct of
the English Government in becoming a party to
the Treaty of Intervention was extremely foolish.
In our view of it, this censure is much too mild.
We do not scruple to pronounce the conduct of the
British Ministers in this affair base, dastardly, hypo-
critical, and unprincipled.-11forning Post.
We have not of late met with any instance of
libel against an individual so promptly and so satis-
factorily refuted as that which 'was published a few
days ago by one ofour contemporaries on the Bishop
of Chester. In gen.eral, charges such as that which
was brought against the Learned and Reverend
Bishop contain such a mixture, if not of truth, at
least of plausibility, as is necessary to afford to the
libeller, when compelled to sneak out of the scrape,
something approaching to an excuse for the audacity
which brought him into it. In the case in question
however, unluckily for our contemporary, there was
nothing like a foundation in fact or in verisimilitudei
the statement had not, to use a vulgar phrase, a leg
to stand on. We are happy to find that our con-

temporary, after gravely and repeatedly asserting
what no man in his senses was ever induced to be-
lieve, has seen fit to retract what he so boldly
avowed. The following is the amendc—a paltry one,
we must confess, but quite sufficient to justify all,
and more than was said, in reprobation of his con-
duct:--
44 We are authorised by a respectable gentleman, who is
also, we have every reason to believe, a confidential agent
of the Bishop of Chester, now out of town, to contradict,
in the most positive terms, the statement which we pre-
sented to the public, that his Lordship had appealed, or ap-
plied, to the Archbishop of Canterbury on the subject of
the venerable Bishop of Norwich's occasional rubber at
whist. The contradiction is given by us on that authority;
and, if nothing more be subsequently stated by us on the
subject, must be considered a final acknowledgment that
we were in error."
We have no particular wish to remark on the
above. We do not know that any remark which we
could make would place the conduct of our contem-
porary in a clearer point of view than his own decla-
ration, given above, has already done. As we can-
not suppose for a moment that our contemporary
would hazard assertions so false and so libellous as
those of the statement which he now admits to have
been erroneous, on any authority which did not at
the moment appear to be most respectable, we hope
that be will follow up his recantation, by holding
up to the scorn of his readers the calumniator who
abused his unwary confidence. This is the very
least that Dr. Blomfield has a right to expect after
such an attempt to traduce his character, and to pa-
ralyse his labours as a Christian Minister. Our
contemporary adds :
" In reference to this subject we may state, that in a
letter which the Bishop of Norwich has recently written,
his Lordship says, that 'he is too old to quarrel with any
one; he is too blind to read by candle-light, therefore his
only resource on a winter's evening was a game at cards;
and that he would frankly own it was his intention not to
give them up.' "
Justly did a Saint of old pray to be delivered
from his friends. Of all enemies, if we may be al-
lowed to use an Iricism, they are the most to be
eschewed. What reference there subsists between
the libel on Dr. Blomfield and the resolution of a
man whose eyes are dimmed with age not to forego
a frivolous amusement, when called by one of the
three sufficient warnings to something more suitable
to a person tottering on the verge of eternity, we
do not pretend to understand. Rut much do we
wish, for the sake of the aged Prelate, whose excel-
lent understanding time may in some measure have
weakened, that he had chosen a more judicious cor-
respondent—one who would, out of tenderness,
have suppressed the expression of resolutions which
savour more of determination than of judgment, and
which, at the risk of being accused of bigotry, we
could not look on as very reputable in a young, but
much less in an aged Christian Minister.-2Vezo
Times.

Some of the Ministerial writers begin already to
take alarm, lest, in their measures towards Turkey,
our wise rulers may not have been rather playing the
game of Russia than our own. If, say they, in con-
sequence of the Porte's resistance to the terms of
the triple alliance between England, France, and
Russia, the last Power should be induced to proceed
to extremities which the others have never Contem-
plated, she must take the consequences. In a literal
sense this will certainly be the case; but not in the
sense in which these writers mean to express them-
selves. The fact is, that Russia is the only one of
the three contracting Powers which can be ulti-
I mately benefited by driving the Ottoman Power
out of Europe; and it Is the short-si glitedness