The Sun.
London, England, 1837-09-08 00:00:00

RUSSIAN INTRIGUES.

PARIS, SEPT. 4.—Colonel Chesney, who it is uineces-
sary to remind you, commanded the Euphrates Expedition,
and who arrived in London about three weeks since, was
the bearer of dispatches from the Governor of Bombay, an-
nouncing the arrest of three Russian agents in his govern-
ment, detected in the act of exciting the natives to revolt.
The despatches of which Colonel Chesney was the
bearer must have conveyed is extreme detail all the circum-
stances that led to, accompanied, and followed the arrest
of the three persons alluded to. They will he found to
have erc used the most unequivocal and conclusive evidence
of the guilt of the prisoners—for I am assured that I may
p!edge myself that nothing could be more complete than the
proofs of their being paid employes of the Russian Go-
vernment, charged with the mission so fortunately laid open.
So important did this communication appear to the Go-
vernor of Bombr,y, that he charged Colonel Chesney to
make all the haste possible to reach England. Colonel
Chesney did not, accordingly, lose a moment. He crossed
the whole of Arabia and a part of Egypt in, I am assured,
as unexampled brief space of tine.
So much for Colonel Chesney's despatches.
In corroboration or confirmation of the view of Russian
policy to which this statement irresistibly leads, I shall now
adduce a fact communicated to me from a different quarter,
but on equally undisputable authority.
A few months since Count Zabiel!o, a Pole by birth, at-
tached to the Russian Embassy at Teheran, was sent into
India on a mission pretty similar to that of the three agents
arrested in the Government of Bombay. I say " pretty si-
milar," because the Count's mission is of a more comprehen-
sive character than theirs.

Count Zabiello travels, as it were, for pleasure and in-
struction. His orders direct that he proceed first to La-
hore, where he is to confer with General Allard, whose
late visit to France is suspected to have had a rather more
important. object than " to see his mother," which a friend
of his told me at the time was all he had in view. From
Lahore Count Zabiello is to continue bis journey through
British India.

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For this extensive trip Count Zabiello took with him
funds supposed to be sufficient. On leaving Teheran, a
suns of 300,000 francs (12,00010 was placed in his hands.
I now proceed to narrate some minor particulars respect-
ing the last-mentioned " Russian Agent," for such I am
advised, I may proclaim him, charged as he is stated to me
to be with the glorious mission of sapping the foundation of
Brush power in India.
Count Zabiello had been an officer in a Polish regiment
in the Russian service, and after the insurrection of 1830
joined his fellow-countrymen in their struggle for inde-
pendence. After the fatal termination of that war in Po-
land, he emigrated and arrived in France, where, meeting
a number of his fellows in exile, he embarked in a wild un-
dertaking to excite a new revolt in the direction of Galli-
cia, but perceiving how hopeless would be the attempt, he
abandoned it and repaired to London. He remained in
the British capital six or eight months, most perseveringly
employed in attaining a knowledge of the English language:
His object (as he pretended to his co-refugees) was to en-
able him to pass his time agreeably in Edinburgh, whither,
as he stated, he was about to repair with an inleation of
permanently residing in that eity.
Instead of proceeding to Scotland, however, he having,
as he calculated, acquired a sufficient kno'wledgu of English,
set out for Russia without having been amnest►ed, and with-
out a passport, as far as appears. He had not been many
weeks in St. Petersburgh when, still ostensibly labouring
under the disqualification of rebel and revolter, lie reeeired
an appointment of attache to the Russian embassy is the
Persian capital. There he sedulously applied himself to
the study of the Asiatic languages, and of which, having
even a more than the ordinary portion of the facility of his
countrymen for such acquirements, he made himself master.
He is a man of 45 or 50 years of age, of an enterprising
character, of excellent address, and otherwiso admirably
adapted for the business in which he is engaged.

One fact more from another quarter.
On his late (or present) journey from St. Petersburg'',
the Emperor Nicholas visited Kowno, where he was to be
received by Prince Paskewitsch, and in which place he had
declared that he would receive, and it was understood fa.
vourably, the petitions of all Poles having any to address to
him—an intini..tion supposed to convey that all and every
indulgence would be granted to the exiles. lie then pro-
ceeded, I am told, to Wilna.
I need hardly obsorve that the connexion of this with the
former facts is to be found in the expediency and policy of
propitiating and reconciling the Polish cation, so necessary
to Russia in the event of a foreign war.—Times.