The Sun.
London, England, 1827-10-05 00:00:00

RUSSIA AND TURKEY.

(From the Moniteur.)
A journal, misrepresenting, according to its sys;
tern, the circumstances of a notorious fact, ascribes
the intervention of England and France in the
affairs of the East to the desire of restraining Russia
from realizing -designs and plans contrary to the ba-
lance of power • and it founds on this hypothesis a
prediction calculated to inspire little confidence in
the continued tranquillity of the world. According
to it, that which appears to us a participation would
seem to be only a precaution. Distrust would enve-
lope 'itself in. the appearance of hostility, and two
contradictory projects would conceal themselves un-
der a common name. It appears to us that the first
duty of every person who discusses a treaty is to
read that treaty. In proceeding thus, the journal
which gives occasion for our remarks would have in
the first line a formal engagement not to conquer;
an express renunciation of every sort of aggrandize-
ment. Nor is this only one of the dispositions of
the treaty : it is its very soul and substance. Rus-
sia, in signing that treaty, has dissipated all the
fears which' ancient recollections could inspire.
By this participation, she has so bound herself
to the maintenance of the balance of power, that she
could not,without loss of character, concei ye orresume
designs of aggrandizement; and how, with such
projects, could she have become a party to a treaty
which condemns them ? It is true that the clauses
of the treaty, which trace clearly the common rule
of conduct in case of a refusal, are not so precise on
the supposition of an armed resistance to the me-
dieting forces. But it may always be said, that this
ulterior conduct will be conformable to the spirit of
the treaty, on the ground that the manner cannot
oppose the principle, nor the execution the design ;
and since the interfering Powers have declared that
ambition was perfectly foreign from the motives of
their intervention, nothing that can favour the com-
mon or individual ambition can come into the con-
tingencies of the intervention.
The essence of European policy, (we repeat it
with confidence, for it is a truth which we have had
thepleasure to announce more than once), the es-
sence of this polic is the maintenance of peace. Is
of
not this, in fact, aynatural consequence of an order
things where the prosperity of states is founded
upon public credit ? The very aliment of credit is
industry; and therr guarantee of industry is peace.
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It is not only between the Cabinets, but between
the nations of Europe, that there has been esta-
blished an alliance of interests and ideas unknown
in the history of States. Policy has been, so to
speak, regenerated by this alliance. It might
merly have been described as the art of laying Snares for each other; it may now be defined the art of
combining their wishes,. Political relations were
then a system of secret hostility. . Relations now
are express concerts to smooth, arid, to mitigate re-
sistances, and to resolve them' into a common will.
Then your neighbour was your natural enemy, and
political friendship 'Might lie measured by the de-
grees of the meridian.' Your neighbour now is your
auxiliary, as you are his; for in this community of
views and interests, if there are prefeiences, it is.
only in the opportunities of regulating them. Let ,
us, then, judge our age as it ought to he- judged—
by its wants and its interpsts. Let us judge the
policy of Governments according to the characters
of all reasonable policy—the wants and the interests
of the age.