The Sun.
London, England, 1827-10-09 00:00:00

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SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

We have unfeigned satisfaction in stating, on
the authority of an express from Constantinople,
received since our publication of yesterday, that
the Turkish question, so far as Greece is con-
cerned, may be considered in all probability as
by this time set at rest. It appears that the
Porte had, according to custom, temporised to
the last hour, taking the chance of the cards for
what 'flied happen, until juggling and duplicity
would serve no further purpose. So late As the
10th of September, the Allied Asnbassadors gave
notice to their fellow-subjects, English, Frencft,
and Russian, that it naight no longer be safe for
them to remain in the Turkish capital, the Mi-
nisters themselves being about to depart, and all
protection to person and property disappearing
with them. The facts appear to be carefully
collected, such well authenticated in our city ar-
tick, and we acquiesce in the surmise that intel-
ligence from the Porte to the Paeha of Egypt,
re-
turned st
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Alexandriarado
ek, wh
ono
the
4th
ith . , may have assisted in accelerating the dispo-
sition to negotiate, which had been produced by
the decisire declarations of the Allied Ministers,
and by the undisguised prospect of coercive
measures being resorted to on the part of the
European squadrons. It wi3l be observed, that
by all the accounts received, the Porte is said to
have insinuated an apprehension of other ques-
tions, besides that relative to Greece, being kept
in petto by the Allied Powers, and 'likely to be
pressed upon it in the sequel, if once it shouldbegin
to
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mained no ulterior point whatever to be ad-
justed, beyond the stipulations of the Greek
treaty. Nor could it be Mani& to make the
Turkish Government understand, that in respect
of any scheme for sensibly enfeebling, much
more dismembering, the empire of the Sultan,
such a project would meet from two at least of
' the Powers which signed the treaty in favour of
Greece, a resistance as determined and effectual
as it would be possible to anticipate from a com-
bination of the most perfect identity of interest,
with an unconquerable array of maritime and
military force, animated by the universal consent
of the two most spirited and enlightened nations
in Europe. Turkey must, indeed, have been
convinced ere now, by Mr. Stratford Canning
and the French. Ambassador, that if any other
Government, however formidable, should menace
her with injuries amounting to dismemberment,
she would find in the ready protection of France
and England a complete assurance and guaran-
tee against their execution. That the clouds
which so long impended over this Greek discus-
sion have now apparently been dispelled, or at
least that the last wind from Constantinople blew
in a direction the best calculated to encourage
such a prospect, affords a double ground for ree
joicing, inasmuch as the politics of another quar-
ter of the European Continent are such as call for
the deep and undivided watchfulness of the Go-
vernment and people of Great Britain. The con-
dition of every part of the Peninsula, from the
Eastern Pyrenees to the rock of Lisbon, becomes
hourly more discouraging. The quarrel betweeti
the Apostolical rebels of Catalonia and Ferdi-
nand, is no other, incredible as it may seem, than
that he, Ferdinand, is not absolute enough,
vindictive enough, atrocious enough, to please
them,—that Ferdinand VII. is too enlightened
to rule over Spain ! His journey to Catalonia
if it be only to Catalonia and no further—seems
as doubtful in its causes as (whatever those
causes may be) it appears precarious in its re-
sults. When we wonder at the quiescence of
the French troops, while hordes of rebel barba-
rians against the ally and relative of Charles X.,
are not only setting the sovereignty of Ferdinand
at defiance, but insulting the fortreasee of which
these very troops hold possession, the Moniteur,
with great composure, informs us, that the
French army does not interfere in the present
case, although it did notoriously interfere against
a slight insurrectionary movement on the other,
namely, the Constitutional side of the question,
at Tarifa, because that of Tarifa was in the nature
of au invasion, and that near the gates of Bar-
celona is an internal rebellion. This is rather
bold of the Moniteur: it might seem unpolished
to apply the stronger term of audacious to such
an argument. Why, what was the first motive
of the French invasion ? Was it not to put
down a system of internal polities ? If not to
meddle in the domestic affairs of Spain, what
took the Duke of Angouleme thither ? Was
the country then invaded ? The sole pretext on
which the French army entered the kingdom was
one under which they were morally bound to
take the field for the suppression of any rebel-
lion against Ferdinand : rebellion, it is true,
there was none when they did enter, but
to suit a wicked purpose it was so described ;
and now they tell us that their object
is to repel invasion—not to put down insurrec-
tion ! Shall we whisper, to them what the world
maliciousg h t
wo
againstr d says,free that at the
Constitution,ench
established, and will not fight against a
in
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the fair
alreadyyosv: r n Theme nt fou
eTddhiee
Spain,
r asksan,d t tEsn, if it b e
woraiyesttolybaendestaabbsloislhuetde:pboeweearusreebtehln
in
the same
e Govern-
ment is the enemy of freedom every where, and
every where (but in Greece, where it is quite a
b
oo
tn
omnorgc,hieh)e thesal
e associatepri
nc principles"
easn, partisanthat
Franceof re-
fuses
Portugal, ar-
bitrary
o rtugal, with the parties engaged in civil war..
to inpower.ter
No, we answer—manifestly no. 'England came
to defend Portugal from • • invasion, and is there-
tore bound by her own hour and consistency to
abstain from meddling
where no invasion exists.
But the Court of France,--which
marched
avowedly first to make a civil war, and then to
take a part hi it,—on what plea of consistency
or honour can the French Court pretend to say
that it will only act against invasion,. but avid
look on while a civil war is raging? It is too
plain,—the system betrays its osyn dishonest
principles. If an armament of an hundred thou-
sand serviles were to disembark under the guns
of Barcelona, or of Cadiz, not a French bullet
,vould molest them. If but 500 Constitutional
Spaniards were to show themselves in arms
300 miles from the coast, horse, foot, and dra-
goon, from the Commander-in-Chief to the
trumpeter, would be after them by forced
marches. It is the object of the enterprise, not
its locality, which operates on the nerves of the
Bourbon Government. The Moniteur con-
iesses that it dreaded in 1823 the
contagion
of
Spanish liberty. But the French oec it occupation,
seems, at last, is to be prolonged as a
balance to
the occupation of Portugal by England.
It is,
we say, now publicly acknowledged that
British Government has furnished
France with
motive for prolonging lies
seizure Of the
Spanish garrisons, by occu
pig Portugal with
British troops !" W
e are glad to have the con-
fession which we long hare sought for. But is
it an honourable avowal, or justified but on a