The Sun.
London, England, 1839-09-07 00:00:00

GRAND VIZIER

" ALEXANDRIA, AUG. 9.
" I have received the letter you were pleased to address
to me through the medium of Mufiz Bey, my Charg
d'Affaires at Constantinople. You inform me that you
have read the contents of the despatch I had the honour
of transmitting to you, on the return of Akitf Effendi, and
the report of the same envoy ; that the high dignitaries of
the Sublime Porte assembled in Council, after being in-
formed of the purport -of my letter and of the ieport of
Akiff Effendi, had agreed to accede to my demand, in
order to show forth the services which I could confer upon
the empire, and determine upon the measures to be taker,
under existing circumstances, and to despatch by the steam-
boat the Minister Saib Effendi as an Envoy to me, when
at this junction the Ambassadors of the Five Powers pre-
sented a note to your Excellency, a translation of which,
you say, is contained in your despatch, adding that the
Cansuls-General of the Five Courts residing at Alexan-
dria would make a similar commnnication to me, and the
verbal report of my Charge d'Affaires would give me a
bet Cr idea of the matter in question.
" Consuls- General have communicated to me the
instructions they received from their respective Ambassa-
dors, and Muds Bey has conversed with me upon the
subject of the message.
'• My only desire and my sole object are to make my
submission, and devote all my services to our magnanimous
and all-powerful Lord and Mister. But I have most
humbly supplicated his Highness that, in consideration of
my quality its an old servant of the empire, and of my past
services, he would through his generosity be pleased to
accede to the wishes I had dared to addri..:s to him.
When my Charge d'Affaires received orders to repair
to my Court, he obtained the signal honour of being ad-
mitted to pay homage at the foot of his Highness, who
deigned to address him in these words :
.

Mufiz Bey, present my cornplinirnts to the Pacha re-
lative to the prayer he has addresed to my throne, in order
to obtain the inheritance of Eg-j pt and its dependencies. I
grant him his request, and I have given orders that this
affair should be arranged.'
" Such kind words from his Highness filled my heart
with joy, inasmuch as they fulfilled my dearest wish—
namely, to obtain :he right of inheritance, as they did me
honour among the grandees of the empire.
4` Subsequently the high diffnitarks of the Subliaie Porte,
assembled in council, repeated to Mufiz Bey—
Our august Lord and Master has just granted what
Mehemet Ali Pacha had solicited at the foot of the throne
—namely, the inheritance of Egypt and her dependencies,
and just at the same time the Ambassadors of the Five
Great Powers present a note of which it is necessary to
give Mehemet Ali a copy.'
" In consequence of what has been said and done I re-
joice that one of my two wit.hes has been granted, and I
see that the parties appeared to neglect the other for the
moment. However, lam in hopes that the latter will
also be acceded through the kindness of his Highness.
If so, I think there wilt be no necessity to have recourse to
the mediation of the Five Powers.
" Your Excellency will also be informed of my opinion
by the despatches which the Ambassadors ate to receive
from their respective Consuls. General at Alexandria. It
was with the view of mentioning these things that I have
the honour of sending you this humble letter through
Mufiz Bey, my Charge d'Affaires."
The Smyrna Journal contains a letter dated Constan-
tinople, August 17, and by which it appears that the Porte
bad received an official account that the :ix emissaries of
Mehemet Ali, who arr:ved at Salonica on the Bth ult., on
board an Egyptian brig, with the view of bribing the
authorities of Macedonia and Roumelia, had been arrested.
This news was instantly communicated to the Ambassadors,