Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1829-10-03
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SATURDAY MORNING, OCT. ,, 1929.

we are put IN possession Of our files Of the London
Times and Courier to the 22d inclusive.
The intelligence from Turkey is important, if not
decisive of the fate of that State. The Russian
Grand Army. had not only passed the Balkan, but
Gen. Die6itch had formed q ~iLnction with the force
landed at Sizeboli, and n battle had been fought
within 20 German miles of Cnns,--.i"sPi, -.d ,hv
troops Of the SULTAN routed and dispersed. This
information, SO probable in itself, fIAo previous
events, and reaching Western Europe thrsssh dit:
ierent channels, Is most likely substantially true, and
IL true, there is no rational ground TO doubt, t.at
Consian'inoplr is in the hands of the victor, OF ha,
been only saved by the Sultan's unconditional con-
forming to the terms of Russia. The spirit of the
Turks has not displayed itself in lis ancient and ey-
pectcd desperation. The levy en- masse could only
be enforced at the point of the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
iaiiaiicism seems not TO have been exerted rs was
anticipated, and the standard of the Prophet itself,
was unfur!ed without producing enthusiasm. an
thiSis surprizing enough, and con only be explained
by the generally received popu,dr superstition, said
10 be almost universal among the Turks, that the end
OF their Empire was at hand. and its fall destined
under the reign of the present Sultan. What fate
had determined, mortal cxertion could not avert, and
the gloomy suggestions of fatalism conquered with
national Incidence TO favor the progress Of the Rus
Sims.
The great problem must row speed ~ he solrcd-
Will England interfere by arms, to preserve the IN
tegrity Of Turkey? WAS the late chanpo of minis
try in France, produced by her influence, and cc-
tccted 20 secure the cooperation of that power
VIII those two great and gallant nations, throw
themselves into the breach to arrest the fearful
march of RusaiCn ACKNOWLEDGEMENT? Will their in
tervcntion be i'll time, to save Constantinople? win
Russia %relinquish the prize, the grand desidcratum
of her politics, when already in her grasp, after SO
many abortiye attempts to snatch it, at their bid
dinE'
an these questions mnst soon be resolved, and il
Is therefore needless, as we'll as idle, to speculate
upon them. European diplomacy is wrapped in a
ven winch tie restless endeavOrs, and acute sagac-
ity OF her politicians, rc-ely if ever pcnctratcs, until
1t pleases Cabinets to raise it of themselves. But
PROFESSIONALLY every THING priori reasoning, the
obvious interests Of Western Europe, the stronr
popular feeling in England especially, in behalf OF
the Turk, and the urgent demands of the press. a
power of modern growth, which even the ministry OF
a despotic Prince cannot rcsist-all these mutations
point to the armed intervention of England as almos,
certain, If milder eXpcdients fail, to preserve the OF.
tonlan Empire, so necessary to maintain the balance
of power in the East of Europe.
The relations between the Porte and the reyolted
Greeks, have interposed difficulties to the earlier in
reference of England and France, between Turkey
and Russia. England, France and Russia HAVING to
a certain extent, become the protectors of Greece BIZ
the Treaty of the 22d July, 1927, England cannot
now assist the Turks, without iniuring TO the same
extent, the cause of the Greeks, which Christendom
IS bound by so many high considerations, to synpa-
thisc with, and to defend. Assistance to Turkc-
against Russia, is viltuallytaking part against Greece,
in her high souled struggle for liberty against her OPP
pressors. To clear this difficulty from the way-to
place Greece in u condition where she could not be
afectedbythc events ofthe Russian war-to place her
self IN u condition where she could protect the Turks.
without harming the Greeks-has been the object of
England, in the active negotiations of which Constan-
tinoPle has recently been the theatre. The invetcrate
obstinacy ofthc Porte i'll withholding independence to
Greece, and in refusing to extend her limits beyond
the Morca and the C~ycludes, has planted more OBJ
%siructions in the path of England, already beset with
so many difficulties. 1T the last dates this obstinacy
renamed unconquered, anu to all appearance uncon-
querablc, and il only remained for England on the
one hand to aid Turkey without first taking cure of
Greece, and thus to give the latter n deadly wound
through the sides of Russia, or on the other to abstain
from all interference, and to leave events to their
course, and the Porte to It's fall. How she has dcci-
ded in this dilemma, we shall -oon learn but it is to
be feared that her decision, if in favor of the Turks,
wostoo long delayed to prevent the fall and the posi-
bic destruction of Constantinoplc.
"R9oTm'-A writer in tSc Delaware Journal,
thus speaks of the capacity of Catts, 10 newly ap-
pointed Post Mater at Dover, in that Siaic-one Of
the Hcro's new agents of "Rcform."
lie has thrice, tn one peek, sent The southern mail JyI
me northern st"gej and, perhaps, would have stopped
the communication between the country north of DO
yer, and the counties of Worcester and Somerset i'm
Maryland, and the Eastcrn Shore of Virginia, alto
gcthcr, had not tho Post Masters below, alarmed at
the failure, implored him, by letter, to lot tho south
crn mail 60 down to them, by the only conveyance
through which they could hope TO obtain it.
Itis The practice hero, so soon as the northern mail
arrives aud Is opened, Tor those who expect any thing
by the mail tO attend M the Posi- O0ice yvirIsw ',yI,rc