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London, England, 1829-08-31 00:00:00

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An opinion has been expressed—even in some of the
popular journals—that the transactions in the East of
Europe afford no ground for alarm that its general tran
quillity will be disturbed. Ignorance of the commonest
connexion between cause and effect, or interestedness—
rendered purblind by party spirit—can alone argue thus.
The repose of Europe must be disturbed, and that as im-
mediately as unavoidably, or she must submit, for her
love of ease, to the bond of a general vassalage imposed
by Russia, whose dangerous and unnatural aggrandise-
ment now touches the crowning hour of its completion.
Do the writers who argue in this way pretend that
the occupation of Constantinople will not be the
signal for an appeal to arms ? Or do they fancy
that the Russian—drunk with conquest, and• encamp-
ing under its walls—will be negociated back to
the fens of Saint Petersburgh unindemnified, unag-
grandised ? Is it in human nature even, to expect it
from him ? No ; the extermination of European Turkey
is accomplished. It is too late to prop, and it is idle to
think of re-establishing, the empire of the Ottomans :
the general concernment, now, must be its geographical

allotment. We know there are not wanting here ob-
jectors, who would interpose that all this is anticipatory
declamation ; that MAHMOUD is still Sovereign of
Turkey, and that NICHOLAS is a most moderate Prince.
who only sent General DIEBITSCH across the Balkan,
to rectify a slight misconception of a clause in the Treaty
of Akerman. To these objectors we reply, that—sup-
posing the SULTAN to be still undethroned, and his
throne continued to him by the sufferance of Russia—
the Ottoman dominion will not the less effectually have
been overturned :
Nee dame= imperil fregit minus, imposuitque
Turpe jugum Victor fracto, si perbreve tocsin
Subjectis pareat populis,solioque ruentL

Not that even such an arrangement as this can take place,

because the kingdoms interested in repressing Russia will
End now, that something more than a conventional line
of demarcation will be necessary to secure themselves
—a barrier-guard between that power and their own pos-
sessions, which Turkey can never again present—but for
which, if ever there existed a political necessity, there is a
tenfold necessity now. To minds capable of the least re-
flection, we say it is evident that Turkey can never again
! become that barrier-guard. Whatever of external empire
1 might be relinquished to her by Russia, would only be
the trappings and the symbols—without the solid
strength and consistency—of power. These are departed
from her for ever. But her geography, her territory re-
, main ; her provinces teeming with cultivation ; her marts
of commerce—her capital, alone an emporium—and her
available physical population.

Rich prizes these, for contending nations ; and. who
can doubt that the contention will arise ? One will be for
bestriding Romania—another, the Danubian principalities
on both sides—another, unliberated Greece. But how if
Russia, profiting by the superiority of her position, and
! the march which she has stolen upon the kingdoms, lay
I claim to the entire herself ? Is it England that will
drive her back ? or France and England together, sup-
posing them coalesced for such a purpose ? We do not
i affirm that her repression is yet impracticable, but every
' hour's delay will aggravate the difficulty of the enter-
prise, and the beet blood and treasure of banded Europe