Star.
London, England, 1829-10-09 00:00:00

Do. National
United blealcan

TO CORRESPONDENTS.
Histrionic Sketches from the " CRILTIONAII MAIL BAG" to.
morrow.

This morning, dispatches of great importance were re-
ceived at the Foreign Office from the Honourable
ROBERT GORDON, our Ambassador at Constantinople.
They were brought by the King's Messenger, in the
Attwood, from Rotterdam, whose arrival is elsewhere
noticed.

The extreme impudence of the Times, when he feels
that he has committed himself to such a degree as to
make retraction necessary, is as notorious as the aban-
donment with which he has lately lent himself to
every depraved advocacy, inseparable from the fas
et nefas championship of the Noble Duke's ad-
ministration. We need not remind our readers up
to how late a period this most profligate Journal has
been ringing in the public ear the moderation of the
Emperor NICHOLAS. Even in the face of the
declaration of the invading General at AIDOS, that he
would follow up Ws victories as far as Div USE PROVI-
DENCE would permit him—even after the triumphant
occupation of Adrianople, and the peremptorily an-
nounced intention of DIESITSCH to march upon the
expecting Capital—we find our contemporary asserting,
not in one solitary and accidental paragraph, but in a
series of articles followed up with the design to make an

impression, that the Emperor NICHOLAS has given yet
no ground of fair suspicion to Europe, that he would de-
part from the moderate professions which he volunteered
at the beginning of the war. The new levy of 300,000
troops, after the Turkish empire was virtually sub-
jugated, was altogether passed over by our contemporary,
as if it portended nothing ulterior; and the "disclaimer"
of ambitious projects, put forth by the wily Autocrat to
tranquillise the simple Cabinets—Gon save the mark of
Cabinet simplicity !—was insisted upon as more credit-
worthy, than these signs and indications of an antici-
pated protracted warfare. And what has been the object
of this unprincipled print, in so misrepresenting actual
as well as probable things? Want of sagacity he can-
not plead—nor want of correct intelligence, as to what
was passing around hini—since we all know the
talented mind of our contemporary, and the various
and vast resources at his command for exter-
nal information. The lever which he works has
been perfected into such amazing power by the combi-
nation of circumstances, that it requires only to be

rested upon the fulcrum of public integrity, to exalt the
moral destinies of the world. But his corrupt and de-
praved inclinations have led him to coalesce with men,
who are leagued together to perpetuate social and politi-
cal abasement: with the METTER N ICl's, the Pomo N ACS,
aud—proh pudor, that we must add—the WELLiso-
xs . For this it is—this sordid, and selfish, and slavish
feeling—that he has deserted the people who•were once
proud of him as their champion and their organ, to unite
himself with the enemies of their prosperity, to identify
himself with unconstitutional power, and justify the
diplomatic antics of an incapable soldier.
The Times has no other object in thus falsifying the
condition of things, than that of recommending himself
to the Noble Duke, through whose mismanagement such
a crisis has supervened in Europe. He knows in his
heart, that the aggrandisement to which Russia has been
permitted to arrive, will infallibly bring with it encroach-
ments and pretensions alarming to greater Powers than

the Ottoman, and that them pretensionaintuit enwrap the
.. whole Continent—as well as England—in•a war of repul-
sion, of which it is not easy to foresee the termination. He

knows in his heart that Constantinople, the Dardanelles—
all Turkey must finally, and at no distant period, belong
to Russia : that they have been won by fair conquest,
while England looked on, an uninterfering spectatress ;
though at one conjuncture—while the Russian armies
camped upon the Pruth —her little finger held up in
signal of disapprobation, would have compesced the in-
vader within his natural geography.
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We have not been able to resist these remarks, ob-

serving--as no doubt our readers will have observed also
—the systematic attempts which the Times is now
making, to induce an opinion that he had prepared the
public mind for issues which are fast developing ; and to
avert the mingled pelting of ridicule and exprobration,
which he feels to be already descending on his Pozzo-di-
Borgoed columns. Listen to his language yesterday :
" We have more than once prepared the public to ex-
pect rigid terms for Turkey, and though we cannot now
lay before them the particulars, they will, we fear, find
their apprehensions and our own confirmed ere long." And
again—to-day : "It requires no ghost to tell us that
Russia has driven a hard bargain with the vanquished
enemy !" No, to be sure; but what ghost did it require
to tell him that this would be the case, when Count
DIEBITSCII pledged himself to the subjugation of the
empire at Aides ? When the imperial Ukase followed
up the passage of the Balkan, with mighty military or-
ganizations in the heart of Russia—what need of a
" ghost," to tell our contemporary that territorial aggran-
dizement was her fixed and certain purpose ? But he
cannot conceal it now : his friend Pozzo nt BORGO
has left him upon his fundament, to get up from his
ridiculous and dishonourable posture, amid the cachinna-
tions and scorn of the country. We cannot enlarge to-
day on the subject of the indemnities asked by
NICHOLAS : suffice it to remark, that he insists
upon more than Turkey can pay, if she were to
sacrifice—for this, at best momentary, ransom—even

two years of her entire revenues ! And the cream of the
joke--not for us, but for General DIEBITSCH...4S, that
the Russians are to stay in Rumelia, till they get the
cash from the SULTAN. Which arrangement is—in fact
—only confirming them in possession.