The Sun. — 1823-01-02 (London, England)

DEC. 11.—Lord Strangford, Ambits. sador to the Porte, arrived here from the Con. gress. A report prevails that the Turkish General is authorized to offer an armistice to the Greeks,  CHOURSCHID PACHA, the Turkish Commantier, who, by his enterprising spirit, and the vigour of his military operations, placed the cause of the Greeks in such imminent peril that nothing but the most devoted heroism, and the blessing of the God of Battles on their arms, could save them and their country from destruction, has lost his head, by order of the barbarian, ungrateful, and murderous Government, which he had so zealously and so skilfully served. We yesterday stated that the private letters from all parts of the Continent had become remarkable for the increased confidence with which their writers spoke of the cause of the heroic Greeks. From the important details contained in the Foreign Intelligence of our Paper of this day, our Readers will see that the expectations in favour of Greece are well founded.— Nothing, surely, can exceed the distraction and dismay of the Turks, or the undaunted resolution and inextinguishable energy with which their self-emancipated subjects have sustained and repelled the successive attacks of their formidable and infuriated enemies. The secession of hostilities during the winter will enable the Greeks to consolidate their Government, to secure the advantages which they have already -gained, to improve their domestic resources, to recruit their armed force, and, we sincerely hope, to obtain the recognition of their independence, and the succours which are( necessary for its complete establishment, from that Power which is the most able to effect their deliverauce from the Turks, and which, at the same time, can have no political motive for subjecting them to another and scarcely less barbarous yoke. Greece, -which has proved itself so formidable to the Ottoman domination as an enemy, cannot but be valuable to England as an ally, if England, boldly disentangling herself from the insidious policy of the Holy Alliance, will but in this case adopt that course which is plainly pointed out to her by a wise and generous Icy I' , bytldictates po of humanity, and the doctrines and precepts of religion. That the Turkish Empire in Europe cannot much longer exist, has become obvious even to the most superficial observers. It has been gradually declining, until it is now but the shadow of its former greatness ; and that shadow has only been preserved by the jealousies and opinterests of other States. In a few years  more, however, it must- ba finally dissipated by the effects. of internal' convulsions, if not removed, by the fire of a Russian invasion. Nothing, therefore, can prevent the annexation of European Turkey toltussia, but the erection of a new Christian Empire on the ruins of the Mussulsnan Tyranny. The Greeks, who have so nobly struggled for their emancipation from oppression, under all the disadvantages of an insurrectionary war and of an imperfectly con. structed and unrecognized Government, will of course display equal heroism ; with infinitely greater resources and power, and with all the advantages which, as an independent State, she would reap from her alliances with the other Powers of Europe, and particularly with Great Britain, in resisting the dangerous encroachment of Russia, and in setting limits to the territorial progression of that overgrown and rapacious Empire. The Greeks would be more deeply interested than any other European nation in disconcerting the vast projects of Russia, because they would be more immediately endangered than any other people by their success.