The Sun. — London, England, 1821-11-15 00:00:00

FOREIGN 1\ T h',E4I„IGENCE. PARIS, Nov. 12.—T ;le king held a levee yes terday, and afterwards transacted business with the Duke de Richelieu and the Minister of the Interior. Count de Goltz, the Russian Minister, gave a grand dinner, the day before yesterday, to the King's Ministers and the Foreign Ambassadors. Madame Catalani has just purchased the beau tiful estate of Les Orines, situated near Chatelle riault, and long the property of the family of ti'oyer d'Argenson. - . letter from Rome states that the Count de St. Leu, the Ex-King of Holland, and Jerome Buonaparte, the Ex-King of Westphalia, are ex pected at that capital. T he son of Lucien Buo naparte is to be married to the daughter of M. Boudot, with a fortune of 300,000 scudi: and the ron of Prince Ruspoli to the daughter of the celebrated Prince of Peace. .. It seems that the Government is actively en gaged with the plan of forming agricultural esta blishments on the banks of the Senegal. Grants of land are given to every person who has the means of working them ; premiums and assistance are to be granted, to the first planters ; in short, every encouragement will be given to induce settlers to go there. VIENNA, OCT. 9.3.—(Extract of a Letter from a Greek.)—We are without direct news from the Morea, but Tripolizza ought by this time to have surrendered. The present contest will be de cided on the sea. The Greek fleet has again as sembled, and is at anchor in the port of Nava rino ; the Ottoman fleet has quitted Patras, and • is cruizing near Zante. Nov. I.—According to letters from Trieste, • several merchant•ships have met the Greek fleet on the coasts of the Peloponnesus. It con sists of more than one hundred sail, besides fire-ships, and the commanders anticipate the destruction of the Turkish fleet. Several islands of the Archipelago seem disposed to accept the amnesty offered by the Porte, which has produced a great effect throughout the remainder of Greece ; but the hostages in the hands of the Navarques of llydria, Spezia, and Ypsara, deter them from doing so. By the cap ture of the principal fortified towns in the Pelo ponnesus, the force of the Hellenes is become much more powerful, and the Turks will find it very difficult to re-conquer this country. Jussuf Paella has concentrated all his forces near Patras, where he remains on the defensive, expecting with impatience succours from the Turkish fleet. In Attica and Livadia, the Turks have not been more fortunate in their mi litary operations. The siege of Athens costs the Mussulmans many lives, and seems likely to be protracted • yet longer. From Albania and Epi rus we have no certain news. Many arrests have taken place in the course of September. in the lonian Isles of St. Maura and Cephalonia. According to the latest accounts from Molda via, many Hetarists continue to present them selves on the, Austrian frontiers, and are always received with humanity. They concur in saying that the wandering bapds in the mountains have been dispersed or destroyed. Anasnuno, Nov. 6.—[Extract from a Private Letter.]-I . am enabled to inform you, and from good authority, that. Count Lieven, the Russian Ambassador at London, went to Hanover on no other mission than that of congratulating the King of England on his arrival in his German dominion, and that he took no part in the nego tiations which may have taken place between the Prince de Metternich and the Marquis of Londonderry.- With respect to the negotiations relative to the affairs of Turkey, they have been carried on by the great Powers by written corn- munications. Couriers are frequently passing through our town, and in . one day we remarked two French expresses proceeding with all speed to Petersburgh. • FRANKFORT, Nov. B.—We. read in the Of& cial Gazette of Berlin, that a Lieutenant of the Captain Pacha had left Constantinople for the Archipelago, with a Greek Bishop, who was to endeavour to bring bhck the revolted islanders to their allegiance. ULM, Nov. s.—lt is again asserted that the Ex-King of Sardinia, Victor Emanuel, and the Prince di Carignano, are going to take up their residence at Rome. ODESSA, OCT. 8.----We have sometimes news from Greece. The sieges of the fortresses pro ceed but slowly, the Greeks being without artil lery, ammunition, and military science. Yet we have just heard of the reduction of several places after an obstinate defence. That of Na varino (the Pylos of the ancients) is of the greatest importances it covers Messene and La conia on We side of the sea, and it possesses a very fine port, which is protected by the famous island of Sphacteria, and furnishes a s afe anchorage for all the Greek fleets. Our brave seamen who form the Admiralty have beaten the Turks wherever they have met them. The Turks have, however, awakened from their slumbers, and pagg the Bosphorus in crowds.— They are become pore cautious,,and though they have proclaimedi. an amnesty, yet they murder all the• Greeks whom they meet. ' Young Grecian women are tak - eilaway -forcibly, and sold for 40 or 50 piastres, but frequently assassinated under the most atrocious circumstances : even the Turkish ma les of 10 or 12 years old are provided with knives, and assassinate the Greek children, or dispatch the wounded Greeks. We may rely on the fact that not a third . of the Greeks who resided at Constantinople, Smyrna, Ephesus, &c. are now alive. The cruelties of the Turks have never en tirely ceased, but they have been renewed with increased fury since a war with Russia has been apprehended, and the general arming of the Mussulmans has been - enforced.— It is asserted that the Russian Govern►nent has expressed its unqualified approbation of the con duct of the Baron de Stroganoff, and declared that it has broken off all direct communication with the Porte. MADRID, OCT. 31.—His Majesty is still at the Escurial. The King has accepted the resigna tion of Senor Barata, thd Minister of Finance. D. Angel Vallejo is appointed to succeed him, pro tempore. The Territorial Audience of Saragossa have sentenced D. F. Villamor to eight years' exile in one of the Canary Islands, for conspiring against the Constitptional Government. The news from Port St. Mary and Xeres are very consolatory. The Yellow Fever is subsid ing, and the arrival of winter will dissipate all alarms relative to those provinces. CORTES EXTRAORDINARY. SITTING OF OCTOBER 29. Third reading of the proposed law on military decorations.—Discussion on the new tariff of cus tom duties continued. Several articles adopted after long debates. SITTING OF OCTOBER 30. A dispatch from the Government was read, informing the Cortes that his Majesty had de manded a speedy report from the Council of State, on the measures to be adopted for the pacification of the Colonies. A letter from the Minister of War was read, to which was annexed a projet of law for the military territorial division of the kingdom and the adjacent islands. His Excellency explained the importance of this measure, and stated the desire of his Majesty that it may be taken into early consideration. Deferred to the Committee of War. The project of law on public health and cha ritable establishments was read. The discussion on the tariff of custom duties was resumed. The proposed law, consisting of 39 articles, was adopted. The 38th is conceived in the following terms :—" Goods of the first and second classes may be warehoused for two years; two per cent. shall be paid on them the first year, and one per cent the second year, confemably to the regulation." THE BARCELONA FEVER. M. FRANCOIS, a member of the French com mission sent to Barcelona, has written a letter, dated Oct. 30, to M. Berth), a physician in Paris, from which we extract the following particulars relative to the disease :—" The contagion ap pears to spew itself visibly. Its point of depar ture is marked, its progress followed ; it may be said that it is seen passing from one individual to another. Those who devote their cares to friend ship rarely fail to pay dear for their humanity. In a house inhabited by fourteen persons, all have been attacked, -and eleven have died. The progress of the disease is often so rapid that there is not time to try any remedy. The patient dies as soon as he is taken ill. In general, however, the sickness lasts seven or nine days. It would require manypages to describe this terrible fever,it presents so many anomalies and deceptions appearances. Sometimes the access is slight, and a deceitful appearance . of convalescence gives confidence to the attendants at the moment when the patient is expiring. At• other times the most terrible symptoms manifest themselves at once, such , as petechial spots, echymoses, and jaundice. Blood issues from all apertures of the body. Fetid and diluted blood flows copiously from the tongue. The usual evacuations are black and sanious. What is vomited may after dilution in water be compared to the oxyde of manganese. The body is cold as marble, and the pulse insen sible. Involuntary cries are put forth, though the patient , is in perfect possession of his mind, and so continues until the heart ceases to per form its functions. When the vital energy sinks, it cannot he again revived ; the benumbing poison of the contagion destroys it. The body of the patient then exhales miasmata, not percep tible to the senses, which attaches it to bedding, clothes, furniture, and even the walls of the apartments (as, from numerous facts, there is reason to believe), which then become capable of infecting individuals, more or less promptly according to their predisposition. The disease appears to have its seat i❑ the nervous system. It successively paralyzes the different viscera. The kidneys cease their functions first. The body, which may be called a corpse still animated, exhibits all the symptoms of decomposition. Some patients, after exhibiting all the signs of com plete dissolution, have by degrees returned to life, and have been cured. It requires courage, I assure you, and the most perfect self-resig nation, to approach and touch certain patients. The stomach appears to be the most constant point of attack. It is, subject to a kind of irritation which is quite sui generis. Its state must not be confounded with a phlegmasia, though gangre nous parts are often found in its interior. There is no inflammatory appearance in the yellow fever. After the convulsive spasms which mark the commencement, atomy soon takes place, and the extinction of life follows. At this moment the intensity of the disease appears to have abat ed, but still from one to two hundred die daily. Scarcely a week ago the number was from two to three hundred." IRELAND. The outrageous conduct of the peasants in cer tain parts of Ireland, we lament to say, still continues, though 'the most vigorous efforts have been made to suppress them. The following ar. tides are taken from The Dublin Correspondent, and other Irish Journals, of the 12th instant, a Paper that is a resolute supporter of the Govern ment of the Country : We regret to learn, from Private Letters, that the spirit of outrage in the northern part of the county of Cork continues unabated—that con sternation and dread prevails among the more respectable classes of the inhabitants, who have, for the most part, abandoned their houses. A few nights ago, an armed party made their way into the house of WILLIAM WRIXON, Esq., father to the distinguished Gen tleman who represents the Borough of Mallow in Parliament. Eight ruffians, well armed, sur rounded Mr. WRIxON's bed,• and, with their pistols and blunderbusses cocked, and presented towards his head, they obliged him to take an oath that he would send a gun to a particular place at a particular time. Mr. WaixoN,,as a measure of precaution, had before sent away his fire-arms to a place of safety. If an honourable character, disinterested spirit, and the hospitable and jovial life of a sportsman of the first stamp, could hope to obtain any grace, Mr. WRIxoN, of Ballygibbin, might well set up a good claim, upon those grounds, to be spared from the pre vailing outrages ; but the systematic plan of vio lence in which the peasantry are embarked, in many places, is as indiscriminate in its objects, as it is sanguinary in its practices.' We have seen' a letter, received in town this morning from Kildorrery, in the county of Cork, which men tions that the greatest alarm prevails there, and in the immediate vicinity of the place, in consequence of the outrages which are committed every night, by numerous parties of the peasantry, covered with white shirts, who attack every house where they think they can obtain fire arms." [From the Limerick Chronicle.] LIMERICK, Nov. 10.—We have authority to state, that the Lord Lieutenant has appointed that highly efficient and active Magistrate, Rich ard Wilcocks, Esq. to the command of the County of Limerick EStablishment of Police, in the room of Major. Stewart. This appointment, at the pre sent crisis, must give universal satisfaction, from the well-known activity and competency of Mr. Wilcocks. He will arrive at Rathkeale this day, to enter upon the official duties of his em ployment. Mr. John Grady's house, at Dorringstown, in this county, was attacked by an armed band of villains, on Wednesday night, between the hours of one and two o'clock; after firing several shots they broke one of the windows, and proceeded to break the door with a sledge, which they could not effect ; they then desired him in the most threatening language to deliver his fire arms, which his son, John Grady,. jun. refused ; they, then applied light to the thatch, which they brought for the purpose, and soon set it in flames. Finding the house on fire, Mr. Grady, with his son, and only one workman, rushed out, and fired on the ruffians, who ran in all directions. Mr. Grady, with the assistance of some neighbours, was able to extinguish the fire, without any very considerable damage. On Sunday morning, about two o'clock, an armed set of depredators attacked the house of Mr. John Arnold, within a mile of Mitchels town, and, after firing a shot into the parlour, demanded his arms, which, not being imme diately complied with, they commenced breaking the doors and windows, and it was only when they were in the act of setting fire to his out offices, for which purpose they procured a lighted candle and straw, that he was induced to give the only fire-arms he had—a gun. They then entered the house, which they searched closely, having left no place unopened, and finding no more arms, they asked Mr. Arnold and his brother to join their party, stating at the same time, that two such clever men would be soon promoted. They then- required some spirits, and wanted to entice him out on the road, which was literally covered with men ; but 'which having declined, they left the house, observing that " they were on a very serious business which would soon come to light," and desired the fa mily to retire to bed at once.—(Southern Re porter, November 10.) MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR.— For the last four months, at intervals, the family of Mr. DICKENS, ornamental paper-stainer, residing in Skinner's street, Somers'-town, have been nightly alarmed by the back Windows of the house being btoken with stones thrown by some invisible hand ; and although the maid servant had been set to watch, and other plans adopted, to trace from what place the missiles were thrown, and by whom, nothing ever transpired to form any conjecture who the invisible assailant could be. On Tuesday morn ing, about six o'clock, the family were still more alarmed by the timid servant calling out " Murder, thieves !" &c. On Mr. DICKENS running down stairs, he found the poor girl in the kitchen, in the greatest distress, and unable to articulate for some moments ; at length she stated that on her leav ing her bed-room a few minutes past six o'clock, and going from the kitchen into the wash-house in the yard, a tall figure, apparently about seven feet high, with a most horrible countenance, stared her in the face ; she shrunk back, and ran into the passage ; the monster followed and grasped' her by the throat ; she struggled, and the phantom'clawed her face with his nails, and then vanished over a high wall, exclaiming in a hollow sepulchral voice--" D—n you, you are not the one I want." She ran down stairs into the kitchen and fainted away , in which situation This mysterious cnsternation in o reports are in asiffleaisrvaisiafsouctrideatbeyd hceornsmidaestrearb.le the neighbourhood, and many circulation. FOR Tilt SUN. RUSSIA AND TURKEY. MR. EDITOR—As I think it is high time that the eyes of the country should be opened as to the real state of things in relation to Turkey, and that the public should be no longer misled by the representations of speculators and inte rested men, I venture to oiler a few considera tions on the subject. In the first place, what the general view s of Russia with regard toTurkey have been for the last forty or fifty years are too well known and too universally admitted, to need any particular stress being laid upon them. The sudden death of the Empress CA THARINE put an end to that treaty which would have secured liberty to the Greeks, and would have raised them to the rank of a free nation ; the completion wanting only her signature, and which (if ETON is to be credited) it would have received in the course of a few hours. The name of CONSTANTINE was given to the second son of PAUL, with prospective reference to that Empire at the head of which he was intended to be placed :a name calculated to rouse the dor mant energies of the Greeks, and to 'remind them of the ancient glory of their empire. Attended from his cradle by Greek nurses, taught to lisp his first accents in the Greek language, his whole education was made subservient to his future prospects. The breaking out of the French re volution, with all its tremendous consequences, turned aside for a time the attention of Russia from this her beloved object; the mighty struggles she was obliged to make in the course of that unparalleled contest, occupied her constant at tention, and demanded all her resources. Still did the Greek empire occasionally present itself, and as often did the interference of other Powers avert from the Turks that destruction from which nothing but political considerations could have shielded them. When Czerni Georges, the Servian chieftain, was put to death by the Turks, the indignation of Russia was such that an im mediate march to Constantinople was threatened ; to this the assent of Austria was given, on the un derstanding that no interference with her should take place as to her views on Italy. A third coun try, and at that time a third Power, interposed a negative; to which the others were obliged, how ever reluctantly, to assent. That country, Sir, was Great Britain, and how far any representa-1 tiens she may make, or negociations she may enter into upon this subject, may be regarded by Russia in the present day,l leave to others to de termine. The tremendous load of debt which threatens to overwhelm us, the interest of which can alone be paid by a pressure of taxation which fetters all our exertions and paralyses all our in dustry, and which drives us to collect so much of our revenue by systems totally at variance with, and .repugnant to, the legitimate and acknow ledged freedom of our Constitution, will best de 'cide this question. The ability, the acuteness, and the penetration, of the men who are to be found in the Russian cabinet, will not suffer them to remain in ignorance as to our exact situation ; negociate they know we can, but make war they know we cannot ; they know that nothing short of hostile encroachment or actual invasion would excite us to encounter the appalling consequences of war: they know the state of Public Opinion in this country, they know and can appreciate its influence on our Government ; they have fully calculated the opposition which would be shewn in this country to a, war for the purpose of ' supporting the Crescent against the Cross, and for the sake of enabling a nation of Asiatic barbarians to remain encamped for a few years longer in Europe ; they know that this country looks forward with impatience for, and will hail with , rapture, the day, when those beautiful re gions may be visited in peace and security, when new channels shall be opened for her commerce, new demands created for the ingenuity and in dustry of her mechanics, new fields for colonizing her surplus population, treasures of antiquity and science thrown open to the research of her en terprising travellers, and lastly, when the Plague, that destroyer of the human race, and that bane of all free intercourse between man and man, (then no longer to be fostered by Mahomedan filth and by Mahomedan superstition) shall cease, and, together with the cause of its continuance, be banished out of Europe. But it will be said, by those who still chuse to disbelieve , the pro bability of war between the Turks and Russians, that Austria would oppose it, and that the finances of Russia are not in a state to admit of it. Austria has, at present, what I think may fairly be termed her hands full ; she may, it is true, negociate, but beyond that she cannot go ; in addition to her German territories, where, if report be true, a spirit of insubordination exists, which requires a strong arm to keep under, she has military possession of all the Neapolitan do minions, including Sicily ; and is, besides, pre paring to execute at a convenient season such plans of aggrandizement in the Roman States, as are (I am inclined to believe) but little contem plated by the world. But Russia has orga nized an army, and a most powerful one : for courage, strict discipline, and implicit obedience to orders, the Russians have long been proverbial; and upon their recent improvement in tactics, in artillery, in engineering, it would be idle to in sist. The probability of Prussia being ready to co operate with her, I think I need not attempt to shew, and should that prove to be the case, what is to come of negociations ? Will France inter fere, and run the hazard of disturbing her pre sent tranquillity by incre'asing her military force, and again risk the danger of exposing herself to the fearful chance of giving life and vigour to that Hydra of military despotism from which she has been so recently emancipated? But it is a waste of words to talk of negociation ; the Greeks have drawn the sword, and have thrown away the scabbard ; Peace is out of the ques tion, as to them ; there is no security, there can be none ; it is a war of extermination, and such it must continue to be.; from the vengeance of the Turks all the parchment in Europe could not save them, though everysCrowned Head therein were to put his hand and seal to the instry molt. Were negociations to be entered into , even by the Grand Signor and the Russian Etn peror themselves, still it would be of no avail, for CONSTANTINE would then supplant the o ne, and the bowstring or the sabre would terminate the other ; it is the NATIONS who are on the point of war, and not the RULERS only ; the Russians will no longer tamely look on and suffer their brethren, professing the same religious creed as themselves, to be sacrificed in detail without coming to their help; they are crying aloud for vengeance on those who have destroyed their sanctuaries and massacred their priests ; al l Europe rings with the cry of w AR—and 15 this to be stopped by negociations ? ThhigS are drawing rapidly to a crisis; tremendous will be the struggle, and most awful the consequence , ' —Let us consider what connexion we ourselves have with the disputants : the lonian Islands may be considered as the only point of contact likelY to involve us,—would we were w e ll r id o f them! A cause of jealousy to other Powers, without producing advantage to ourselves; a source Of unceasingex pence to us, and still more so. and of deeper injury to our Colony of Malta ; an un' healthy climate; a population entirely uncoil' nected with us, and whose disaffection towards us increases more and more every day, and a deer and rankling wound in the breast of a leading: member of the Russian Cabinet, from the personal losses he has sustained in consequence of our oc" cupation of them. Russian intrigue, has WWI . , been at work there as well as in other parts 0 Greece ;. it may (with Telation to other Powers) suit the policy of Russia to profess neutraliti and affect moderation ; but the day is near at hand when Russian balls will be flying acros.s. the Bosphorus, and Russian bayonets driving the Turks from Constantinople.. IC;NOTT'S• -*** It is proper to observe thattiteaUtbo r of the foregoing interesting lette r is no t our old Correspondent, to whom we have often been it" debted for valuable articles under the salve signature. THE KING'S COURT. Yesterday, at three o'clock, his MAJESTY held a Court at his Palace, hi Pall-Mall, which Wag attended by— The Lord Chancellor, the Lord Presidentof the Canna the Lord Privy Seal, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Chancel lor of the Exchequer, the Secretaries of State for the Foreign, and Colonial Departments, the First Lord of the ilw miralty, the Master-General of the Ordnance, the President 02 the Board of Trade, the Lord Steward, th e Lord Chief Justi ce of the E.!ourt of King's Bench, the late Governor of St. the late Commander in Chief of Madras, the Russian Charge d'Affaim, the Master of the Cerpionies, &e. Sir HUDSON LOWE was presented to his MA JESTT upon his return from the govermnent of St. Helena. Sir THOMAS HISLOP, Commander-in-Chief at Madras, 5 45 presented upon his return to England. Baron NIcoLAY, the Russian Charge d'Affaires, was intro' duced to .his MAJESTY by the Marquis of LoNnoNnEfol:i Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Aff a i rs , an d conduct by Sir ROBERT CHESTER, Master of the Ceremonies, when the Baron had the honour of an audience of his NIAJEsT to take leave previous to his leaving England.. His MAJESTY held a Privy Council, at which the meeting of Parliament was further prorogued from the 29th instant, to, we understood, the 3a day ofjanuary next. - The Proclamation was agreed upon to be is sued for the circulation of a new Coinage ° I Farthings.—Several new official seals were agree d upon. His MAJESTY gave audience to the Earl , O f R lIAROWRY, the Marquis of LONDONDERRY, the riarl 0 f LIVERPOOL, Earl CATHCART, and the Lona Cu r ' , A' CELLOR. The RECORDER of London was present, but . did not r1 13k6 a Report. The Court broke up soon. after six o'clock. FOR THE SUN. STATUE OF KING WILLIAM. MR. EDITOR—Your Correspondent F. D' and his little Band," I dare say were highly fia t ' tered by the publication of their letter in yO r paper of this evening. It is a matter of surpri' e to me, Sir, that a letter. avowedly written to gr a tify the 'splenetic humour of a few individuals/ sans point or argument, in fact a string of inco herent and intemperate sentences without or or arrangement, should find a place in the re spectable columns of THE SUN. I have read I t with attention, and I can scarcely believe that " am secure in the retirement of this Institutio"; and out of reach of the baneful influence 01 Orangeism, that influence which the exhortati n°9 the command, of a King failed to ex t erm inate:. and which must still rage to the destruction (3,`, the unanimity which as Englishmen we shon iu emulate in restoring to Ireland, as Icing as F. his companions, and such like men in defiance ° reason, humanity, and good policy, are found ,0 laud the existence of a ..paily which has te e d mainly instrumental in promoting disunion al l disaffection in that country. • Without adverting to the random diversions ° -this Gentleman " and his tittle Band," (~dr ie r , betray a sad want of..information) I will tre e ! him directly upon his own ground; the gener a , tenor of the letter leads to the following i ll ; ference, namely th a t th e custom of decerati l ,, i ; the Statue of .King William a prop. of t'„ established religion in Ireland, " and good I ; done, and liberty both t em po ra l an d s Pi r itaal l s supported by this very . custom." Dreadful 5 ,1 have been, even recently, the c o ns eque nces ' t Orange Processions., I, think we must allow amongst the immediate actors, and on the ired theatre of such outrages, there may be commit ° „ acts in the vio)ence of party feeling, which thereo fore might court extenuation ; but goo d Gon9 i.i , it to be credited that a P ro t es t an t, an EngL is c , man, out of the sphere of pa r ty r a ge an d al"""o, sity, and a witness to its daily consequences , C t i.. be found to advocate a• p r i nc ipl e w hi c h Pr 3c A t cally leadS to the perpetration of inhumaniti es r e which nature shudders' I am really si nce io when request this little Baud' to confine „it politics and principles t o its o w n c i rc l e ; out 0' ri they will never flourish, and if its ambition sl y . to the columns of a newsp a p er , I beg to reC ° mend the perusal•of Guthrie. hes e I shall feel obliged by th e irOertion of t Observations as soon as possible, and beg t° scribe myself, Your obedient servant, / 0 London Institution, Nov. 13, 184, 1• r' I