Star.
London, England, 1828-08-06 00:00:00

from any conviction of its necessity), between what the
course of events may, of themselves, produce, and svba
may be the results of a premeditated line of policy....
If, however, evil be to arise, it matters little to owe
whom it affects whether they are the victims of chance
or of design.
When we look back to the original concoction of the
Treaty of the 6th July, barely twelve months since—.
and remember that Am the Ambassadors of England.
France, and Russia were amicably and jointly cretin
themselves at Constantinople, to obtain the ends centers.
plated by that Treaty—and when we now see, Russia
singly in the field—France embarking a military force
,for the Morea—and England only so/here sit was—k it
impossible not to be struck with the change. It is not,
we are assured, every thing is as it ought to be ; and that
' although Russia and France are striding onwards, and
England standing still, yet they are all going together;
or, in other words, that the first two Powers are doing no,
thing whicL is not perfectly agreeable to the last. We cars•
not help wishing, however, that instead of Eagland look.
ing on merely, with an approving smile, she were side by
side with her allies ; because, if she should wish to over.
take them by and bye, we are afraid they would have
the best of the race. She, who, in the fair exercise at
her strength, knows no superior among all her rivals at
scompetitors, may, when taken at a disadvantage, have
to brook defeat ; or, at the best, achieve victory with tee
fold greater sacrifices than would have been necessary
in the first instance.

And, if England should find herself so circumstanced,
what should we have to lament? The want of energy,
or wisdom. or prudence, in her Ministers? No—but
her unsuspecting confidence, and her reliance upon the
good faith and the integrity of others—a reliance spring.
ing from the conscious purity and singleness of her ow=
intentions.

There were those who, from the first, foresaw, that,
let the stipulations of the tripartite Treaty take what
shape they might, Russia would not be long before she
found, or made, a cause for separate quarrel wick
Turkey. We know, indeed, that the Treaty itself, and
the Protocol, of which it was the practical application,
sprung from NECESSITY, and not from CHOICE. We
state this advisediy.We say, distinctly, that if the late Mr.
CANNING could have kept Russia quiet—if he could have
restrained the policy of the Imperial Cabinet, no suck
Treaty as that of the 6th July world now be in existence.
But been was the diffaculty that great Statesman had to
cope with : he had to choose between giving to Russia
a carte blanche, as it wive, with regard to Turkey—to
place England in direct conflict with her—or to amal-
gamate her projects with others which might fairly
assume the character of a great international queens.
He chi:teethe last, with the certainty of delaying for a
time, and with the chance of ultimately defeating, the
separate views of Russia. We will not venture to sea
mise what aright have been the actual position of drain
if Mr. CANNING bad lived to direct the machinery
which he constructed ; we will not inquire whether
the Allied Ambassadors would have lingered at Con-
stantinople till the beginning of 1826, or whether they
would have left at all ; we will not allow ourselves to
!guess, even, under what circumstances Russia 'odd
have taken the field it her musks had been permitted to
sewn. The Master Mind which would have solvedaN
these problems was withdrawn, and our business is to
deal with things as they are.
When there is a French army in the Mora, and whet
the Russian standard Moats over the towers of St.
Sophia, the drama will begin—and not before. At
present we are only listening to the prologue : but unlike
the prologue to a tragedy or a comedy, oar political
one does not tell us what the play is to contain. No,
no; we shall be left to find that out, as the piece pro-
ceeds, and the plot thickens.
Is there any man credulous enough to believe, that
Turkey can offer her invader any indemnities or ami-
ties sufficient to make him re-cross the Danube? Is
there any sue who seriously thinks that the Emperor
NICHOLAS is marching upon Constantinople only to
obtain from Turkey—what Turkey will be able to give?
We do not believe there can be an individual capable
of forisiag a sound opinion upon them, who would
venture to answer these questions in the affirmative.—
We might ask a third question. If NICHOLAS %ere
an absolute personification of magnanimity and ma
deration—if be were ambitious only to show how gm.
ciously he can pardon wrongs, and how calmly be LIS
put aside temptation—is he the Monarch whose sitar
lion is such as would permit him to indulge in thew
ercise of these lofty virtues ? Has not the pen of His'
wry recorded the elevation of CATUZAIIIIII and the death
of PAUL? Do we not know that mystery sorrow:dill
the descent of ALIZANDIIII to the tomb ? Aod b"
we a right to calculate that NICHOLAS is ready to ages
himself a martyr to the faithful execution of a Tine
A powerful, turbulent, and semi-barbarous atistocracf
si—a fierce and fanatical soldiery—and the accomplish'
meat of what may justly be called an hereditary object
of national ambition, would constitute the formidable
obstacles which NICHOLAS must overcome, before le
could return to Et.Petersburgh a self-denying connucoe'
Our Government is not ignorant—France is not
rant—Austria is not ignorant—of this peculiar chaise-
teristic in Russian policy as regards Turkey. Theretwe
k was that Mr. CANNING struggled to the last to aunt
her first step; and therefore; too, it is, that France pi,
pares herself betimes to stand fair for her portion of the
spoil—and that Austria is concentrating herself aldg
the western frontier of the Turkish provinces. Tbe
French troops, which are now going to expel IWO
PAGUA, may remain, and secure the Protectorate
of
hope over the future independence of Greece; and
tote Austrian Army of Observation will easily be co°'
vetted into one of occorpation, whenever the Autocrat
ands himself conspelkd to declare the capital of Turkel
the seat of a Vice-regal Government, in the woe °II
the CiarOVitC.ll CONSTANTINO. Then, too, we shall he
Weer able to understand why the rights of prune
genitors were surrendered by the Archduke, When as