Virginia advocate. [volume] (Charlottesville, Va.) 1827-1860, 1828-11-15
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER Is.
tFrom the Liverpool COURIER. !
EAST OF EUROPE

EAS 4 OF EUROPE 1921
No decisive news has been received from the
seat OF war IN Europe. Rumour states. on. the
ose side, defeat Of the Russians before Shas,la.
and the rePnlse ofan attack upon Varna and. on
the other, such movements among the jatiizaties
as crente dIsquiet to the Turkish Cabinet he
latter IS more probable than the former but
neither rest, as yet, upon any credible authority
The Russians seem, however, to have been sur
prised near Widdin, and to have lost some cattle.
On the Asiatic side Of the Euxine, General Pas
kewllch Is pursuing his successes Two more
tortresses have fallen into his hands, with thirty.
four standards and several hundred prisoness.
Inc diplomatic rumonrs are, perhaps, as uncer-
tain as those which relate to the operations of the
campaign. Nicholas does not appear to have lett
Odessa, and his return to the army was fixed for
the early part OF the present month. Whether
tins delay is to be accounted for by the suspension
OF all great operations until the reiniorcements
nave got up III greater numbers than was at first
thought necessary, or whether the negotiations at
Odessa have taken serious turn time must de-
clare 1t was, indeed, reported, that Nicholas had
rejected the pacific overtures of Lord IIeytesbury;
but the assertion is, probably, made with little
knowledge of the facts All pauses in critical
junctures must be flied with conjectures, of which
the public is sufficiently to be much iirlluen-
ccd by them. The ruwlour of a treaty offensive
and defensive, between France and Russia is en-
titled to more credit, because it squares better
with the present posture Of things, which, il must
be confessed is somewhat singular and with tic
tone of tie majority of the French papers They
are decidedly anti-Turkish, aud gasconadine C.
nough in their protested enthusiasm as to the lib
Grafton Of Greece. Great Britain is The constant
theme of their sarcasms with reference both to
Greece and Turkey; but what If il should be
iound that France is only enthusiastic for Greek
liberty that she may possess herself of the Morea
and that she has basely battered the balance OF
power to Russia, only to get this prize into her
.l.1 - L.
hasatiag AZ IT may he we'll s,,ralp shine brs,to-
IN the page oil history than this coiitIson and may
even, ere long TIM eapsc, turn ont to be bot
ter policy. The Fsench papers, the organs Of,
perhaps, the predominant political feeling in
France at the present moment praise MIR Can
nngs policy, that they may assail that the Duke
Of Wellington who is treated with an abuse which
has this solution, that he beat them aud overture
ed their empire OF violence, aggression and nsa-
table ambition. Their praise of Mr. Cannino's
policy is, however, either ignorant or inshlinus L,
was at once lofty and comprehensive aud honour
able and just. We think il cannot be too higbiy
landed 10y those who understand it but its prae
is ridiculous in these French liberal papers and
1t is the fashion for them to he mostly liberal
MIR. Cummings policy AssuredIy he never would
have been a party to the French expedition to the
Moea assurcdly he never would have suffered
Russia to the Danube without good sccuri.
ty as to the limits to which she should push her
conquests, and security as to the Heespont If
indeed, the Duke Of Wellington Is party to the
military occupation o! the Morea by the French
the object which delights these conquerors il
his policy, by design or by accident has eudan-
gered Turkey, and favoured Russian ambition.
and these things accord with the present views Of
France, then the French papers ought to praise
his Grace's Administration tending to further
their own iavourite projects. What the British
Cabinet intends is not, howeYer, known at bone
and still less likely Is 1t that its plans should be
known to the writer's in the French journals, and
so all their specuations and structures 90 for moth
ing, except far as, like feathers on the water,
shey point out the course Of the current. That il
should set i'll towards Russian connection, follows
from the ascendancy of liberalism in France.
That ascendancy may be well for the domestic
politics of the country, and especially since the
folly OF the BnUrbons has left the nation no choice
between liberalism and Jesutism but the liberal
ism of France is not yet purged from reyolutora-
ny faint and Bonapartean ambition. It's dreams
OF guilty gloryare not yet disspated, and there is
not yet public virtue enough in France TO resist
splendid offer of national aggrandizement al
though great principles should be sacrificed for IFS
attainment. Hatred Of England too, is passion
not quclled in this body of men; it may be more
restrained, but IT is as deeply fixed, aud blind
as If, therefore, an offensive and defensive
treaty with Russia open the vista Of ambition Ia
this class of French politicians, and the power o
Russia can be made inrnica to England this is a
scheme which they will plunge into with eager
ness, rather than abide by the great principle o
Mr.. Canning's policy, (Which policy they so ri
diculousIy affect TO praise,) to unite the grea
powers OF Europe to free Greece from foreign op
preston, and yet TO uphold Turkey against The
ambition Of Russia.
But will the French Government itself he car
ried along with this tide of liberalisml Its plair
interest is to check it, and rather to draw the bono
closer with England and Austria, than to force
new combinations by an union with Russia
which union would accord only with an ambition
which temples upon principle, and would prove
inimcaI to every interest Of a parmaneut policy
If the French Government has resolved upon tbi
course, then it must have played dishonorablt