The Sun.
London, England, 1827-12-11 00:00:00

than merely doing so for the lake of game it-
self, or their own diversion. They had a higher
and more important object, and that object involv-
ing a great moral principle. Not only were they
acting to stop crime at its very outset; but they
were acting to preserve the public peace, and to
prevent that system of rebellion which could not fail
to be followed, when bands of men to the number
of ten, twenty, and, as had been known, to the
amount of nearly one hundred, went out armed at
the dead of night, and not only trespassed wherever
their lawless will led them, but discharged their
guns under the very windows of the owners of the
houses on whom they were marauding. If such
persons were alloy. .ad to go thus armed, to what con-
sequences might it not lead ?" The consequences
to which it will lead, we think, ve can venture to
predict—the amendment of the Game Laws. The
people of England will not submit much longer to
the outrages which are caused by the Game Laws,
and the Game Laws alone. The immorality is on
the side of those who make laws wicked and unjust
in principle, which ought to be violated, and which
must and will be violated every day. The game of
the country belongs to the nation ; and the Laws
which assign that game to a certain number of in-
dividuals, not for the purpose of being distributed
by them through society like the fruits of the
earth, but for their own exclusive use, are unjust
in principle, and at variance with the express object
of the social union. The poachers violate the law
indeed, and must suffer the punishment which the
law enacts. We advise no man to resist the
law. But this law is one which must be broken;
and, inoid.lly, the rest of the community are justi-
fied in buying from poachers, and poachers are
justified in selling to consumers. The risk they
run from the law is, of course, an addition to their
gain. The crimes into which these men may after-
wards fall from their habits, and the consequences of
these climes, will, if there be justice in Heaven, be
laid to the charge of the Aristocracy of England,
the really guilty. We lament the evils occasioned
by this vicious system of legislation; and we only
regret that the punishment of the really guilty should
in this world fall on those who are comparatively
innocent.: However, Magistrates may threaten as
they please, the poachers are now becoming too
powerful for them ; and it requires no extraordinary
sagacity to foretel, that when bands of one hundred
armed men wander up and down the country, the
Magistracy and preservers must quail to them. The
Magistracy have obviously allowed the evil to ex-
ceed their powers of repression. The poachers
practise the grand improvement in modern warfare,
that of endeavouring to bring a greater force on any
one point than their opponents can do; and they
are generally successful, because the preservers are
obliged to be on the defensive, and never know the
point which the combination of poachers will attack.
We lament the moral evil; but we rejoice at the
defeat of the Aristocracy, who will be compelled,
whether they will or not, to consent to the selling
of game.—Morning Chronicle.

In the lamentable dile--; na to which the gross
misconduct of Ministers had reduced the Nation, by
not having in the first instance given proper instruc-
tions to Admiral Codrington, they find themselves
under the necessity of making increased preparations
for actual warfare, now to all appearance become
inevitable, and which, whilst originally they never
contemplated the event, they had in the progress of
affairs neither the wisdom nor foresight to avoid.—
Accordingly several additional men of war are al-
eady under orders for the Mediterranean, including
the Erebus, Terror, 2Etna, and Infernal bombs,
and several other ships of such a description as to
leave no doubt that they are intended to be em-
ployed in the Dardanelles and against other
parts of the Turkish coast. We hope and trust,
however, that all due caution will be used in the
employment of this force, and that the injury we
have already so wantonly inflicted on an old and
faithful Ally, will not be increased, except under
circumstances of the most urgent necessity, as well
regarding the honour of our country, as the interests
and personal safety of our fellow subjects.—Morn-
ing Post.

That the Turks have frequently shown great ener-
gies and dauntless resolution, in trying and difficult
situations, cannot be denied—that they have dis-
played both decision in the Cabinet, and exemplary
courage in the field, must be universally admitted—
but never before bad they` to contend with difficul-
ties so grtlt and terrible as those which surround
them at the existing crisis. At no preceding period
was the Turkish empire placed in so great peril as
in the year 1770 to 1774; yet the danger was
small compared with the present. Then, indeed,
the ambitious Catherine fomented a general in-
surrection in Greece, with the hope of being
enabled to place her grandson Constantine on
the throne of the Greek empire ; and, at the
same moment, attacked, with all the vast re-
sources of Muscovy, the Turkish empire, both
by sea and land. Turkey had then to support
a tremendous struggle : she had to fight for her very
existence, while rebellion raged in her provinces, and
invading fleets and armies insulted her frontiers.
Yet the policy of Catherine was frustrated—the
Greek insurrection was extinguished—and, after
many vicissitudes of war, the crown of the coveted
soil, which lies 1-,:Aween Russian ambition and our
Eastern possessions, remained on the head of its
Ottoman conqueror. Turkey then showed no
deficiency of courage or resources; but her northern
enemy had not the fleets of England and France to
assist her projects, as Russia bas at present; such a
co-operation would have made the odds frightful
against Turkey at any time; but how much more so
now, when the right arm of the Ottoman empire
has been cut off by the annihilation of the Janissa-
ries, the most warlike part of her people, and the
elite of her army ? It was a force, certainly, un-
disciplined in European tactics ; hut their ignor-
ance of scientific evolution was' in some measure
compensated by their enthusiastic spirit and im-
petuous valour, as the armies of both Russia
and Austria, on the Pruth and the Danube, have
before now severely experienced. This savage
strength of the empire the present Sultan has cut
off, without supplying its place with any civilized
and effective substitute. It is true he has got Chris-
tian officers, with the hope of organizing an army
after the European fashion; but a mob is not to be
moulded into an army in a day; and if the Sultan
was unreflecting enough to go to war, his dominions
might be over run before his new description of
troops had learned their exercise. We thought at
the time that he was precipitate in getting rid of the
Janissaries in the sudden manner that he did; and
we could not but entertain a suspicion, which subse-
quent events have tended to confirm, that the insi-
dious advice of Russian agents had induced hiM to
take this foolish and desperate step. At that time
the Sultan was praised in some of the Continental
papers, to which probably Russian agents had also
access, as a Sovereign of great capacity and enlight-
ened views, who was determined to eradicate the
" barbarous institutions" of the country over which
he ruled, and make Turkey fall in with the " march
of mind." Those very papers describe him now as
an
unmitigated barbarian—governed only by his
passions
—incapable of any thing like an enlightened
notion—and undeserving of :civilized treatment.—
Morning Herald.

CHARTER TO THE WRITERS TO THE
SIGNLT.—This body, we are informed, has applied by pe-
tition to the Crown for a Royal Charter of Incorporation,
which has been remitted to the Loan AnvocATx to report.
A bill lately brought into the House of Peers was objected
to by Lord ELDON and the Lord GIFFORD, and with-
drawn. Perhaps the respectability of this Society will be
best consulted by abandoning all exclusive privileges, and
decreasing the present enormous fees of admission into the
certain accountants in Edin.
some time ago, created some
sensation ; but it was afterwards
burgh Society.
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Royal
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Charter,tion
so
-auandoned. It is not im-
probable the application of the Writers to the Signet will
meet with a similar result, as no
such charter has been
granted to any law.bocly in England........ Edinburgh Weekly
Chronicle. .