THE GREEK REVOLUTION.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. London, 26th October 1843.
Sea—The unanimity of the organs of the press in England and France in their reverbmtiog support of the late events at Athens,—which are at the same time denounced by their correspondents at Constantinople as a dexterous and long-prepared combination of the Cabinet of St. Petersburg to upset the dynasty of Bavaria in Greece, should the " King of the Greeks" refuse to revo- lutionize the semi-Christian Provinces of the Sultan,—induces me to urge
through your independent columns a suspension of British judgment regarding a transaction which, under its self-styled motto of a "pure, spotless, wise, and military revolution," appears destined to involve a Conservative Administration in a second aeries of those "untoward events" which for twenty years have rendered England a copartner in the sanguinary deeds of Russia and France against the Mussulman race. Should the alarms here indicated be strengthened by further intelligence confirmatory of the source of the revolution at Athens, you may not regret the
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