The Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1822-1829, 1828-08-11

lost theif lives.
Doa Miguel's Ambassador, the Marquis o
PaImea, had lett London Tor Oporto
The Lords If the Treasury have permitted
all goods remaining IN boud IN Great Britain
to continue IN warehouse one year from the l2ti
june.
Lord Granhv. English Ambassador at Paris
was sad 10 have resigned. Lord Cowlcy, bro,
ther 10 the Duke OF Wellington to succeed
SIR John Byng, 1t was sand, would succeed Sir
George Murray IN the command IN chefof the
| army IN Ireland,
An Italian papero the 22d of May states, that
Gen, Church aud large body OF Greehs, had
been defeated neat MssolooghL
From Belts london Weekly Messenger, June :
TURKEY AND RUSSIA.
Public attention is necessarily directed 10
! the seat OF war between Russia and Turkey
| at the point OF time, which may be called the
| prologue nj the contest That the Russians
| have oVerrnn the provinces OF WallnchIa aud
Moldavia there can he 10 doubt They must
now be presumed 10 have crossed the Dan.
nbe, aud 10 be hesieging tndsIiuck or Adra-
| nople.-Unnprepared as Turkey is for resist.
ance, the road 10 Consaniinople seems 10
! he directly open, or, il any obstruction cx-
ist, the cannon az the invading army wall
tbinfs, a short review OF the condition OF
! Turkey, aid her hearings upon European pot
| tics, cannot be without interest for although
| ihr security Of Esgland will not be essential
| ~ afreried by struggle between two Pow
ers, both of which are spmi-barhirou~, it
must be always necessary To keep a vIgiant
eve upnn The movements of other countries,
Who may not consider themselves so safe
aud detached from The effects of toe contest
The police and religion al the Turks are
now Too well known 10 need any popular eX-
position. Suffice il 10 observe. that since the
period of their establishment on the ruins OF
the Byzantine haipire population has dcrrea-
sed as hnrbarsfn has grown up. Science hA-
here gone out, or, nj least, glcans only from
The laint taper of the Koran, whist the hu-
nan rae melts away bptufe the eye, Of the
beholder. The prnc,p pies ot landed trnDne
known in Asia, aud more extensively prevail
ing in Turkey have had still more desiruc-
tive effects inasmnch as the Turkish scer-
trc is more oppre sive 10 the culture Of the
soil than the dominion Of the Nogl. What
eyer part of this empire the traveller shall
explore he will perceive tho bancln inlurn-
res 81 bad laws, an imperfect policy, and n
ieplnrable fanaleism and ta'alism The
massive rnins in Greece and Asia Minor sufii.
GENTLY show the former state of those conn.
tries and though history gives rs hut few
lights on lis ancient popaintion, the country
itsaif speaks To the eye ot the observer. The
wild boar has broken into he vineyard, and
rooted up all arts aud sciences IN those very
cities irnm which they first darted the lustre
OF their ravs.
II is n reelection worthy of notice, that the
prile and stupidity oil the Turks have given
occasion 10 the greatest error that was ever
committed by chGqnering people. As their
bgntrv has always kept them distinct race
from he nations Who held the country before
their conquest of It, they have denied 10 the
conquered nations the same civil RIGHTS with
iham sclpes and retu ed to treat them III any
WY but Is slaves. The Greek, the Arncri-
an e. each has preserved hi, own Language.
his own religion, and customs and az they
were not put on II footing with the Turks
thrv have remained apart. The christian sub
iect can thus have neither interest nor pride
in ,nch an order Of thugs. Hence the Turk
has remained 10 This day foreigner in his
own land, and he thus supplies his enemies
with the means most available for his own
destruction and extirpaton.
Had lhe Turks waved The coercion NJ rel-
gious opinions, aud amalgated with the con
quered, the wllnle empire wand have formed
one body and "a the same distrIbutive JUS
tice, however imperteet it WAS, would have
been the light Of ali, the whole people would
have formed one nation. the weakness * dis
cord which result from the contrary system
weald not have existed.
The map Of the Turkish Empire exhihits
the different governments which existed du-
ring the meridian Of its former power. But
several Pnchas aud Virproys have long since
bid defiance 10 the Sal'ans, and all these ex-