Star.
London, England, 1829-08-26 00:00:00

DESTRUCTION OF THE TURKISH EMPIRE.

It will be seen by our Prwate Correspondence, that
there is no room to doubt any longer concerning the fate
of Constantinople. Its destiny ere this is sealed, and
the Moslem power extinguished in Europe. What con-
sequences are likely to arise from this ominous and
long-predicted consummation, is now a matter or deep—
and almost breathless—interest ! Will the colossal victor
be persuaded to relinquish the long-sighed for an-
nexation, and fall back within his anterior limits ?
Never. How, then, will the geographical chart
of Europe be reconstructed ? At least the Noble Duke
and the Noble Earl have not been taken by surprise. It
is reported that the Funds have risen five per cent. !

The Globe of yesterday, in a note appended to an ex-
tract which it makes from the Courrier Francais, vindi-
cates a great contemporary from the charge which has
been brought against it by the French journalist : no less
than that of being in the correspondence and the pay of
POLIGNAC ! This, the Globe says, it is due to the Times
to state, was contradicted immediately on the appearance
of the article at Paris, by the friends of the new Minis-
ter : a very suspicious contradiction, we should argue,
if it were a case within suspicion. But it is even more
idle than malignant, to suppose the mighty journal so
fallen, as to be accessible to douceurs from the Rue du
Bac. We wish, nevertheless, that it were as
free from contamination at home, as it is clear from Pa-

risian gold. There cannot be a doubt that the tone of the
Times, since these infamous Ministerial changes, has
afforded a handle and a justification for much dishonesty
to be imputed to it. Why has it forsaken the popular
cause ? Why does it range itself under the banners of
arbitrary power, false to its old principles and pleadings,
and leave the war for freedom—in which it led the van—.
to be conducted by so much obscurer, and less efficient
champions ? Has he neglected to consider that if the
cause of liberty prevails at last, under the disadvantage of
his powerful advocacy withdrawn from it, the triumph
of opinions in which he formerly gloried can but aggra-
vate his public shame ? Are his eyes shut to the difference
of his own reception in liberal circles? Does he circulate
in the club-houses and coffee-rooms, and not hear the
note of condemnation echoed against him from mouth
to mouth? We can hardly think it possible. What
consideration, then, if it be NOT a bribe, can have occa-
sioned such a deplorable divergence from his pure career ?
We know that he has too much prudence—and we are
convinced, also, too much integrity—to apostatise for
common lucre ; but this is the chain of argument that sug-
gests itself to vulgar reasoner' : and if they were reasoning
on vulgar men, the concatenation would reach the truth.
Perhaps, however, the Times will maintain that he
has not apostatised, but that the Government which he
is now upholding is itself converted to patriotic courses?
Let him prove this, and he will find eager coadjutors in
us : be knows of old how much we have admired his
talent, and that it is only his want of principle with

which we have ever quarrelled. And how proverbial—
we cannot forbear to ask—must not that want of principle
have become, before he could be taxed by foieigners
with taking a foreign bribe ? We know that he never
took it ; we know that he is incapable of taking it ; that
he is too English for such extreme prostitution : but again
we say, has he not laid himself open to the imputation ?
Is he not the thick-and-thin defender of the Noble Duke,
upon the most flimsy and insufficient pretences ? Does
Lord ABERDEEN want a bolster for his double-dealing,
and fail to find it in the Times? Has he not asked, with
impatient petulance, how much longer this great country
proposes to defer the recognition of Don MIGUEL ?
These are substantiated apostacie', which it may suit
our contemporary to blink : but there they are—regis-
tered in his own columns—so many damning testimonies
of his desertion of the people. What can be his mo-
tives for it ? Where his reward ? As a Journalist, he was
covered with glory while he adhered to the cause .of
political improvement : nor did Europe present a nobler
spectacle than the Times, awing back the invasions of
unconstitutional power, and battling with the corruptions

of the world.
Hes ! Isis tam Wean poteit soplre draconem?
Through the dark night of the CASTLEREAGH adminis-
tration, and up to the period of Mr. CANNING'S death
at Chiswick, the Times was the consistent friend and
ardent advocate of those principles, " for which He MP-
DEN bled in the field, and SIDNEY and RUSSELL on the
scaffold." During the feeble throes of the Noble
Viscount's Government, he began sensibly to alter ; and
more than one straw was sent aloft from Printing-House-
square, to find out the direction of the wind. But when
the Noble Duke was nominated, he cast aside the veil ;
he fell down before the risen sun. In vain his letter-
box teemed nightly with expostulations and remon-
strances : some of them produced a momentary effect,
and the lights of his dying patriotism gleamed desul-
torily athwart his columns—only to make their setting
the more remarkable.
We do not hesitate to say that, from that time forward,
his career has been equivocal, immoral and impure : and
we arraign him of political baseness—baseness of the
deepest die— for compromising with the government of
the noble Duke. The principle of that appointment in-
volved a flagrant and flagitious violence to the Constitu-
tion, and no considerations of expediency ought to have
prevailed with the Times to relax in his protestations
against it. He stood at that conjuncture unassailably
high, and his moral elevation gave him a great power and
advantage over the people. They looked up to him,
they confided in him ; he was their bulwark
against Ministerial encroachments—he had kept
alive their spirit through years of trouble. This pre-
disposition on their part to be guided by him,
augmented the facility—as it did also the crimi-
nality—of their betrayal. Trusting implicitly to their
tried advocate and guardian, they received un-
examiningly many novel doctrines and opinions from his
pen, at which they would have started had they made
their approach from more questionable sources. In
this manner, partly by the prescriptive influence which
be had come to exercise, and partly by the subtlety with
which he disguised his new inculcations, he wore away
insensibly in the popular mind those outworks of public
principle, which would have been impregnable to directer
assault: and having achieved by circumvention that
change in it which he could never have operated by open
appliances, he now takes a more unequivocal attitude,
and stands forth the avowed supporter of the men and
principles that he formerly denounced. Hence the
singular apathy with which the government of the Noble
Duke has been hitherto apparently regarded : hence the
toleration on trial—through false expectations predicated
of them in the Times—of the Noble Earl, and five or six
General Officers—and of a military, Tory Cabinet.
But the prevalence of sounder opinions is undoing this
work of our contemporary, and the betrayed country is
waking to its real position.

The Greeks are again plunged into misrule and misery.
The news touching their state to-day is of the most
distressing nature—it will be found in the following
article from the Frankfort Papers. With respect to the
Russian triumphs, we have only at present to state, that
knowing the spot where the advanced guard was sta-
tioned on the 30th ult. it is likely we shall have to present
an official account of the fall of Constantinople—if not
to-day, in a very short time. In fact, there is no such
Empire in existence at this moment, as the Turkish
Empire :
SYRA. Jinx 8.
The evils which the friends of order and peace have feared, as
the inevitable produce of the seed which the protocol-policy scat-
tered in Greece, begin now to manifest themselves. The violent
passions which this policy has excited and cherished, that they
might serve as means to forward the views of Rusk, are going to
give the President more than be asked, and very deservedly en-
tangle him In all the embarrassments which be had so diligently
contrived for others. Thus we have another instance that the di-
plomatic artifice, which no* teeg ability,--aud whisk egotists in
deceiving all for the beside q:oise,—.fails of Its object lat gives
new arms to the cause of probity and sincerity.
Tice Clsiliarth Christi Palo Hadgi Pedro, whom the President
bad pardoned for the excesses committed at Lepanto, and who,
after a few days arrest, was seat back to command his battalion—
the finest and most numerous in Western Greece—has again railed
the standard of remit, in concert with the notorious Sumo, one of
the authors of the troubles which in 1827 stained Nark di Re,
mania with blood for several months together. He has starprieed the
fort of Lepaito, expelled the garrison, consisting of 200 men (regu-
lar troops), under the command of Col. Pieta, and taken possession
of it,—driving out all the Meets appointed by the President.
Colonel Pieri received a wound in the head from a stone, and is
believed to have died in consequence. According to a report
which, however, is not yet cosirmed, one of the first secretaries
of the Panhellenko, who was but lately placed at the bead of
we of the departments of the administration,—.shod a share in this
plot. This report has excited at Egins a sensation difficult to be
described.

Count Augustin Capo d'lstrias, who was on board the Hellas
hive, wished to tsessbard the fort ; but those about hiss db.
.suadod his. It is Mows that be has arrived at Napoli, to at.
quiet the Preddent with what has happened. The President, It is
said, Weeds his for the plass ot Preeslos(CoensellsrOo the Cos-
Widen ter Iledesialtleal Affairs--a post that is better suited to the
talents and iodisation of the Count. It is even repotted that

Count Augustin bawds to take holy orders, that be may in the
sequel became Patriarch of Greece.--a report which does not ap-
pear to be wholly ustosnded.
Ovule Rayko. Governor of Pert Palamidi, has been promoted
to the risk of Lieutenant-Wesel, and the chief command of the
fortresses of Moms and Passes. This appointment does great
honour to the President. and is universally applauded. Captain
Muller will have henceforth the asennumd of both Itsch Kale and
the Pabmidi. Count Pisa is appointed Military Governor of
Napoli dl Romania, in the room of Colonel Heidegger. who has re-
turned to Bavatia.--,Froolifert Papers, lug. ie.

VIENNA. Ago. 15.
A letter from Odessa, of the 341 et August, from a respectable
quarter, grotto letters from Varna of 30th July, which announce
the occupation of the towns on the toast, and say that the Turks
Ay in all directions, and that the passage of the Balkan cost the
Ruisians less than 300 men. The letter adds--" The sick In our
neighbourhood are going on pretty wee, and •I hope that we (in
Odessa) shall remain free."—Anhise Okeiver, Ass. 13.
PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.

PARIS. Hatr-rast Foes, vas. MOSDAT.
AU doubts retails, to the person who is to emceed to the
Ministry of Marine in the room of M. de Ripy are at an end.—
The Cionvier Yronfois stated positively to-day that a courier has
been dispatched to bear to M. de Viuolies his appointment to the
Ministry ; but the *wrier Fetus is mistaken—M. de Viuoiter
is art to be Minister. The new Minister of the Marine la appointed,
sod the appointment will be olicially announced to-morrow in the
Mositene. Admiral d'Augier. a Member of the Chamber of
Deputies, is as person on whom the choice has fallen. This is
certain.
THE NEW ADMINISTRATION.

The clamour against the new Ministry is subsiding. From theme
It if not to be concluded that It Is better liked than it was at the
oanusencensent--the truce, if ft may be so called, is merely the
resuk of the lassitude of the assailants. Meanwhile the Prince and
Ms adherents declare that they set popular clamour at defiance ; the
Prieto himself has been heard to say that be is perfectly indifferent
to what is said or written against him, and that be will go straight
on in the path traced out to him by his duty to his Sovereign and
his country, without turning to the right or to the left. He is
said to have been perfectly unmoved in the midst of this popular
explosion, and to have shown in all his actions the same coolness
and self-command which distinguish him in the less arduous part
of Ambassador.

The adherents of the sew Ministry draw favourable conclusions
from this. and flatter themselves that the Prince's firmness sod
maderation will ensure stability to the new Adminktrados. As

to the Prince himself, say his friends. be is above all consideration
not connected with the immediate good of his country. Nothing
will divert him from his course : he will set lodepeodssoly of the
feelings of the courtiers. nor will be allow himself to be influenced
by clamour arising from our quarters.
Nee sumit ant pipit secures
Arbkrio popularis auras!
Such is the language you hear in the blinisterial circles—time will
show bow far it is well founded.