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London, England, 1829-12-18 00:00:00

GERMAN PAPERS.

RECEIVED LAST NIGHT.
SMYRNA, Nov. 1.
Chance, blind Fate, is no longer a divinity : where should we
be, if we were obliged to believe that an empire goes to ruin be-
cause fate has decreed its fall, without the possibility of finding
a deliverance by human means? The treaty takes from the
Turks land anti money; and, consequently, its material in-
Ureats. In a moral point of view, the Turks are at this moment
weakened, as must be the case with every conquered nation which
certainly loses in its own esteem, and in that of other nations.
However, there are in Turkey more than in any other country
numerous means to find compensation for the vicissitudes of
military fortune. The Porte has lost some territory; but in a state
like the Ottoman empire, which possesses such immense territories
under one sovereign, can a few square miles, nay, even sonic mi.
litary possessions given up to the enemy, be of such great impor-
tance as to affect in any manner the vitality of the state? In the
commotions which have shaken Europe during the last half cen-
tury, bow many of its states have been derived of whole pro-
vinces, without the smallest diminution of their real strength,
which consists, not in the dead earth, but in the art of animating
it, which is the secret of Power. The Porte must also pay money,
and the sum is indeed large, when we think of the state of the
finances. But Is there in Europe a single Ministry of a
Well-regulated State. whose sleep is for a moment disturbed
by the recollection that it needs the same number of millions as
the Turkish Treasury renter's to pay the military contribution.
Money, therefore, is not, as it was 50 or 40 years ago, impossible
to be obtained by the Governments, but it comes in only when
order and good management give it security. If the Porte will,
by its interior organisation, by insuring respect to private pro-
perty, give security to public property, the millions of Europe
will come to its aid. It is only thus those bonds of interest
between Turkey and other nations, that truly universal con-
vention, can be formed which unites all nations for their cost.'
mon preservation. Every thing, therefore, depends on the
course that the Turkish Government shall take. Spain in pee.
session of the mines of America, remained poor, in spite of the
geld and slyer which ita galleons brought it. t would now be
one of the richest countries in Europe, if it bad cultivated its soli,
if it employed on canals and roads the hundredth part of the tees-
mires which it long considered as the sole source of prosperity.—
Happy is the land whose soil give an ample reward for the labour
bestowed on it ! In this particular, Turkey may be envied by other
States. In every part of the countries governed by the Sultan the
earth is prodigal of its gifts; the slightest exertion of the arm of the
inhabitant obtains the richest produce, and the thousand European
ships that come annually to contend for the advantage of taking them
away, seem to indicate to the Porte that the fertility is far from pro.
clueing what it might do. and that it awaits only the encouragement
of a protecting government, to double the wealth of its subjects and
its own. The blussultuan people deserve, indeed, all the
regard, nay love, of those who govern it. Where shall we find men I
• more unassuming, more plain in their mode of life, more moderate
in their wishes, more compliant to the will of their sovereign ? We
see, indeed, in other countries. under a despotic Government.
bumble and resigned people, who remain passive whatever may
happen to them, but they are almost everywhere serfs, who hardly
venture to raise their bodies, which are bent to the ground. The
Turks, on the cootrary, noble-ntindedb filled with a sense of their
dignity, submissive without being debased, skew, in every situ-
stion of life, a haughty soul, open to great impressions, capable of
great efforts, combining devotedness to the supreme head of the
State with reverence for God. Iris generally believed in Europe that
this people encamped, as has been so often reported, in the fine
▪ cos conquered by Mahomet 11. lived in a lawless state, with
is arms always at band, and ready, like the Bedouin tribes, to
WWI wherever plundet and booty may be hoped foe. If we look
closer, we shaltend a very different scene. The Turk has become
a cultivator of tile soil ; he bas become attached to the piece where
be has his field, and his house ; be desires no better than to live here
at his ease, withlue troubling himself with what is passing at a
distance ; he goes to war when bit Prince summons him ; hot he
is itrong only wffen be defends himself at the spot where he has his
home. What retfiarcts may the Government Sod in this excellent
Ovulation! Wlot strength will the empire possess, if each of these
energetic men could look on the sovereign as the protector of the
Interests of all. If the reformation is carried on with prudence
and energy, it will not be rtluitite to destroy the whole of the
10461 edifice of the Turks. The old manners of the nation have
many points which deserve to be respected. One strike most sim-
ple and important secrets of the art of government in these times,
is to interfere v ithout raising impediments. Let the Porte con-
vince itself of this truth, and its reform conducted in this spirit,
instead orator*, or changing the national character, will in-
, creme its adMitabty.tempered energy. dtlieisseine Salaam,
Da.ii.
• Ezowastoss ex Logoots.-.-Angsburg, 10th Dec. 10 4; Rapt-
ors, 9th Dec. 9 months, 1511 ; Berlin, 10th Dec. 6 291.