tish nation-the opinions of its Monarch-form a remarkable contrast with the circumstances of the last few years, as detailed and exulted over by the agents of Russia. We have consequently seen, as our tone became decided, that that of Russia was lowered; and, in the mind of no calm spectator of events, can it now be doubtful, that England has it still in her power to stay, by a word, the progress of Russia towards that position, the acquisition of which is admitted by all to be the signal for a general European war.

Although England has, as yet, taken no one step, as regards the independence of Turkey, yet the mere knowledge, as affecting the mind of Russia and of Turkey, that neither the people nor the government of Great Britain are any longer the dupes of Russia, has led already to the most important results—the promise of the evacuation of Silistria, for instance -the remission of a portion of the Turkish debt -the abandonment of the position assumed at the mouth of the Danube.* These, it is true,

*These things will all be brought to a conclusion if Russia sees the necessity of throwing them into the opposing scale of the

may be valueless, if England relapses into her state of previous subserviency; but, as it is, they have been gained; and no more trouble would it have cost to have secured every point connected with the independence and prosperity of the Ottoman empire. Prince Lieven and Count Pozzo di Borgo can no longer obtain speeches in the House of Commons, or Protocols in Downing Street, to demonstrate to Prussia, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Turkey, Poland, Greece, (we might go further,) the fascination of Great Britain by Russian delusion, or her co-partnery in Russian injustice.

These potent facts and considerations will, we think, leave little profit to the triumph, of which the Emperor may boast, in having got an English Ambassador at St. Petersburg, not

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punctilious," "susceptible," or "mistrustful," to proclaim "the union of England and Russia, for the purpose of preserving the peace of Europe."

public opinion of England. The very mention of the evacuation of Silistria has done her most material injury upon her own most immediate frontiers, to whatever advantage she may turn it at Constantinople and in London. To these two points now, of course, all her attention must be turned, and London soothed till Constantinople is occupied : Silistria, the provinces, the Caucasus become objects of no importance at all.

OFFICIAL NOTE OF LORD PONSONBY,

TO THE

TURKISH MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS,

RESPECTING MR. CHURCHILL.

WE insert the note handed to the Porte by Lord Ponsonby, on the occasion of Mr. Churchill having been thrown into the Bagnio. This outrage will surprise no one that is aware that its author, the Reis Effendi, is the known, avowed, and paid agent of Russia. However we may regret what this respectable merchant has had to undergo; however we may feel for the individual, in a national point of view, considering the spirited manner that our representative at Constantinople has taken up the matter, we look on it as a most fortunate occurrence. An opportunity is hereby afforded of retrieving the character of England, of disproving the assertions so sedulously disseminated by Russian agency, that her power is on the decline; and of removing from office in

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Turkey those men who are maintained in place by Russia, because they are hostile to us.

As every event, however favourable, (as long as we are indisposed to act) must be turned against us; so, if we display energy, every thing must tell in our favour. We trust, therefore, that government will support Lord Ponsonby's vigorous conduct.

The undersigned, his Britannic Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, has the honour to acquaint his Excellency the Minister for Foreign Affairs, for the information of the Sublime Porte, that his Excellency, Akif Effendi, having violated the rights of a British subject—rights conferred by the Sultans of glorious memory, and most particularly respected by the illustrious Sovereign now reigning, for the happiness of his subjects the undersigned is obliged to declare to the Sublime Porte that the undersigned will not any longer hold official communication with his Excellency, Akif Effendi; and the undersigned respectfully submits to the Sublime Porte, and emphatically to the Sultan himself, his just complaint against the Minister who has dared to violate the laws of his own Sovereign, and insult the British nation.

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The undersigned has the honour, &c.

(Signed)

Therapia, May 10, 1836.

PONSONBY.

DISTURBANCES IN GREECE.

ACCOUNTS have just reached us that great apprehensions are entertained of serious disturbances in Greece, soon after the King's departure. Emissaries are going about every where to stir up the people: and never was Greece in such a state as it is at the present moment; but great pains are taken to conceal the truth from Count Armansperg and his Royal Master, to whom the most varnished accounts of it are given.