The Sun.
London, England, 1827-12-03 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF TI-1 PUBLIC JOURNALS

We represented !_,ott !Saturday as « rumours"
f
Allied leGscovernments, tlae Grand
indiscriminatelyt such vessels
from Constantinople, that so far from showing
1
ence in the pacific pro-
posals°
. ,
111 hfiotTirs
of their subjects as \ve;e within his reach ; and
that he required, as a preliminary to anv negocio-
tiOn, to be indemnified for the loss of his fleet in
the port of Navarin. This representation was
snapped at in. the usual fashion by an evening
paper, in terms which aimed at the credit of a
denial, without incurring the responsibility of a
positive falsehood ; and it was doubted by ano-
ther, (more respectable) contemporary, on the
ground that such events had not been announced
by the Augsburgh Gazelle, or by the private
letters, and that it " was known" from PariS.that
the decision of the Porte was to depend on. the
Divan of the 11th ult. Now we state as
facts what we were before content to describe as
rumours, and to this extent—viz., Ist, that all
the Russian vessels have been
.actually stopped ;
and 2d, that the Reis Effendi did absolutely as-
sure the Minister of Great European Power,
that ". compensation must precede negotiation."
I,3ut we go further, and add that the Reis Effendi
".despaired of negotiation altogether." Report.
—but no so well authenticated as the above—
affirms that other ships besides the Russian have
been laid hold. of at Constantinople : and all-the
most repiitable
,sources of information agree that
the question has. assumed ,the inosst threatening
and warlike character. The Diva', however, as
we have before stated, was to meet on the 11th,
two days after the date of the, last intelligence ;
and on that meeting will depend the yet uncer-
tain question-of peace or war.— Times.

Since the above was written, we have received
intelligence of a later date, which abundantly con-
irms our previous statement. The einbargo laid
on foreign vessels at Constantinople extends to
fiaeigners, and is avowed to be done in order to
provision the city in case of an -attack. The
Sultan h;.l.- expressed the utmost indignation at
the descent of Lord Cochrane and General
Church on Scyros : he charges English vessels
with assisting them; , and complains of this de-
,cent even more than ;of the battle of. Navarin.,.

A.ustria, however, ,is still actively exerting itself
As a mediator.--/bid.

It gives us no satisfaction to recur to a sub-
ject which we mentioned on Saturday with a
mixture of regret and disgust,--=we mean the in-
sult to the venerable Bishop of Norwich,
by one from whom he was entitled to the utmost
'respect and tenderness. There may, however,
be added to the former statement,- that the im-
pertinence complained of was accompanied with
a sneer at the proinOtion of a clergyman by the
Bishop of Norwich, -as having no title to his
Lordship's' favour, but his occasionally " play-
i!tg with him at whist." The Archbishop of
Canterbury felt himself obliged to communicate
the foolish letter to its innocent object. .What a
hateful thing is an intolerant and meddling priest

We have been very much amused with an as-
ide on the game Laws, in Biacktvodds Mag,a-
ine for December, which, after a great deal of
:retended friendship for the aristocracy, sad great
adignation at the conduct of _ their opponents,
rids with recto-Intending the very measure avhiCh
.he writer haS been abusing. We imagine we
:ear the writer saying to himself—" come, let
ss have a. little sport with these grown babies—
here is nothing so gross but they will swallow it—
we will mystify them by a pretended regard for
heir interests, and they will be so far the dupes of
he hearty interest we take in their cause, that
hey will never see we arc laughing in our sleeves -
st them all the while." When a silly country
fellow falls into the hands of sharpers, it is a emu-
lsion trick of some one in connection with the
:!ang to affect to' feel great indignation at their
conduct, and to take the part of the simpleton
ssith all the ardour of apparent friendship, pro-
testing that he will stand by him and not see him
wronged, and having thus gained his confidence,
ie whispers in his car that he had better come to
cons with them, for he knows them to be dange-
stus 'fellows, with 'whom he has no chance what- •
.:ser,and he then offers td negociate with them. The
esultof the negociation is a recommendation to
comply with the chief of their denaands, and if
Any hesitation is manifested, he assumes all the
sir of indignant virtue, and frightens the poor
(lupe into compliance, The process by which
Blackwood attempts to noodle the Country Gen-
tlemen is precisely orthis impudent character.—
The writer sets out with stating, that " the
efforts which have so long been made by the
ltighest. aS well as the other grades of public opi-
nion, to make the nation believe that its laws
And systems are marvellously faulty, have natu-
rally been emiuently successful. John Bull is
now convinced that his constitution and laws,
instead of being the perfection of human wis-
dom' and the admiration of the world,' are
things so erroneous and defective,-that they in-
flict
the
(Het on hint almost every conceivable injury.
The worthy man does not ask himself' why he
could not discover this until it was told him—
why its operation on his own person did not -
fake him sensible of it—why he was wont to
boast so mightily of things which
supply
himh y
he
ther those whose
now
con-
ceives to be so injurious : lie does not inquire wile-
sonviction are people worthy of being trusted ; but
lie believes because he will believe, and nothing
will content him, but wholesale 1
sange,uater the
:tame of improvement. His
labours in this way
!lave hitherto been attended with a portentous
imeasure of fail Ore ;, but b nevertaidess he proceeds
with his characteristic fortitude. *Ha floundem
about amidst his calamities, blows
out his cheeks,
ind pads his dress that his emaciated condition
nay not, be discovered ; hides she rents and
)atches in his garments, and protests that his im-
irovements have wonderfully benefitted his health
:Led prosperity." He then proceeds to observe,
" Amidst the sweeping denunciations against all
that is, the Game Laws have naturally received
t double portion of condemnation. These laws
exist iu favoUr of the Aristocracy, to which the
leaders of the cry for change are the inveterate
enemies ; and the attacks on them are highly
efficacious in covering it with slander and
obloquy. To a large part of the community,
and that part whichon these days, is represented
to be practically the whole, in respect of opinion
And interest, they are, "from their nature, very
distasteful ; and in consequence any abuse of
them, however absurd andgroundless,
,exceed-
ingly pleasant. There is thus a desire on the
one side to malign them to the utmost, and a
disposition on the other to believe the worst that
can be said of them ; this is, in addition to
the feeling engendered against them, in com-
mon with other laws, by the passion for
innovation. It follows, as. a matter of course;
that they receiv
e about all the vituperation that
language can supply ; and it follows likewise as a
inatter of cOlnlie,
that the vituperation consists in