The Sun.
London, England, 1839-08-30 00:00:00

AFFAIRS OF THE EAST.

The Semaphore of Marseilles of the 25th inst., an-
nounces the arrival, at Alexandria, on the 7th, of M.
Anselme, the Aide-de-Camp of Baron Roussin, and Me-
hemet Ali's agent in Constantinople. The flatter was
the bearer of a letter from Chosrew Pasha to the Vice-
roy, of which the following is a copy :

LETTER Or CHOSREW PACHA TO MEHEMET ALT, 'VICE.

ROY OF EGYPT.

" I have received by the return of Akiff Effendi your
Highness's answer to the letter I had the honour to send
by this Envoy, and I have understood its contents, as
well as the reports of the aforesaid Akiff Effendi of all
that passed between your Highness and him. I laid
both at the feet of our magnanimous Lord, who perused
them, and I afterwards communicated them to the prin-
cipal dignitaries of the Sublime Porte assembled in
Council. We were rejoiced to learn that your High-
ness, who is an ancient vassal of the empire, and who
has rendered it more real services than any other, and
for that reason has become one of the greatest of our
colleagues, had the noble thought of making common
cause with the most influential and devoted members of
the Mussulman nation, and we have prayed to God to
vouchsafe our mutual vows of union for the happiness
of the empire.
" In the letter which I had the honour to send to your
Highness by Akiff Effendi, I did not speak of the
hereditary transmission of more than the Egyptian
provinces ; but that was only a form employed to
announce the pardon of your Highness. Besides,
Akiff Effendi had no mission to treat of affairs,
and was merely charged to communicate to you
the news of all your restoration to favour ; this
is the reason why I omitted to give more ample
explanations to your Highness—all the grand digni-
taries of the Sublime Porte being desirous with mo
that you should have every security and all the
necessary guarantees, and being ready to asso-
ciate their efforts with yours for the prosperity of the
empire. After having received the supreme orders of
his Highness our august master, I had given orders to
Saib Effendi, one of the Ministers of the Sublime
Porte, to visit your Highness for the purpose of coming
to an understanding with you respecting the demands
which you have presented, the services which you pur-
pose to render, and the measures to be adopted in the
present position of affairs. This Envoy was about
to leave by the steam-boat when the Ambassadors of
the Five Powers transmitted a note to the Sub-
lime Porte. Its contents will inform you that the
Five Powers have come to an agreement to discuss
and regulate the affairs of the East. Immediately after
the presentation of this note, the high dignitaries of
the Sublime Porte met again in council, and were
of opinion that the interference of strangers in
an affair between Sovereign and vassal is not very
proper ; but, considering that the Five Powers having
already acted in concert, the refusal of their mediation,
contrary to European usage, might be offensive to them,
and bring trouble and embarrassment upon the Mus-
sulman nation—looking at the general state of things,
and moreover reflecting that having obtained your
pardon and an assent to the projects of union, the
guarantee of foreign approbation would be superfluous,
and that the intervention or non-intervention of the
Powers in the arrangement of affairs is of no import-
ance—the grand dignitaries, whilst they agree in a
hope that recourse to strangers will not be necessary,
have not thought proper under existing circumstances
to reject the unexpected demand of the five Envoys,
and have therefore given their adhesion to it.
We desire, and it is the wish of his Highness, that
you should be informed of all that has yet taken place.
This is why the departure of the Envoy in question has
been put off. I have taken the liberty to write this
letter to your Highness, and shall send it by a steamer.
As soon as your Highness shall have read its contents,
and the reports addressed by the Ambassadors to the
Consuls-General, I beseech your Highness to let me
know your opinion.

" CHOSREW PACHA.
" P.S.—lt was agreed that your Highness's Charge
d'Affairas should be the bearer of this letter, in order to
deliver its contents viva voce, that your Highness may see
matters more clearly."
M. Anselme communicated the instructions of which
he was the bearer to the European Consuls, upon which
they waited in a body upon Mehemet Ali. In a letter
from Alexandria of the 10th inst. we find the following
statement as to the result :

" Mehemet Ali has replied to the notifications of the
Consuls in a long note, in which he still insists on the
recognition of his hereditary right to Syria by the
Porte. He formally declares that he will not part
with the Ottoman fleet until that condition shall have
been granted.
" Count Medem, who, in the presence of his col-
leagues is more clamorous than the rest, has frequent
and long private interviews with the Paella. Mehemet
Ali said, yesterday, to one of his confidants,' I am aware
that Russia alone has it in her power to serve me ; I
ought to have known this sooner.'

" Captain Caille writes from the camp at Marasch,
on the 10th of July, that the news of the death of
the Sultan Mahmoud, and the accession of his son
Abd-ul-Medjid, had reached Ibrahim officially the day
before, and that he immediately ordered 100 cannon
to be fired, and millions of musket-shots to be dis-
charged, in celebration of the event. It appears cer-
tain that Hafiz Pacha is at Malatia, with 10,000 or
12,000 men. No change has been made in the po-
sition of Ibrahim's army, and no idea is entertained
of any movement in advance."—Moniteur Parisien.

Syria appears to enjoy the most complete tranquillity.
The first division of the caravan from Bagdad
reached Damascus on the 20th of July. It consisted
of 700 camels. The great caravan was daily expected
in that city.
The Semaphore de Marseille of the 25th inst., pub-
lishes letters from Constantinople of the 7th, which
stated that all the Ministers of the Porte had left their
summer houses, on the Bosphorus, for their city resi-
dences, and the Sultan himself was to come and inhabit
his winter palace on the first day of the new moon.
This measure was considered highly impolitic, inasmuch
as the people supposed that the Government was
labouring under serious apprehensions, a conviction
which had completely paralysed all commercial transac-
tions. Turks, Greeks, and Armenians rose every
morning with a certainty of seeing the Russian fleet at
anchor in the Bosphorus.

Two frigates and three corvettes, whose captains re-
fused to follow the Turkish Admiral to Alexandria,
had returned to Constantinople, and four or five other
vessels of the fleet were expected from Rhodes. Tahir
Pacha would, it was thought, be appointed High
Admiral.

The European officers attached to the Turkish army,
for whose safety fears had been entertained, had returned
to Constantinople. Among them were General Chrza-
nowski, a Polish officer in the pay of England, who was
sacrificed to Russian intrigue, and the Prussian Baron
de Molck. The Government gave to them the most
gracious reception.
Hadji Ali Bey, ex-Governor of the Dardanelles, had
been reinstated in his former post of Director of the
Arsenal. The Waywode of Galata, the great protector
of the Capitan Pacha, had been dismissed from office,
as well as all the functionaries of ithe Admiralty known
to be devoted to him. Hassous Pacha, Governor of
Cyprus, sailed for that island on the Gth, in a steamer of
the Danube Company.
The last intelligence from Persia, received in Constan-
tinople, was dated the 12th ult. The successes obtained
in Cabul by the British arms were deemed likely to in-
jure the influence of Russia at the Court of the Shah.
M. Duhamel, the Russian Envoy, was labouring to
bring about an offensive and defensive alliance between
Persia and Mehemet Ali, with a view to exclude the
English from the Euphrates, but the Shah was wait-
ing for the solution of the Eastern question before he
should come to any determination.
The Carlsruhe Gazelle of the 25th states, under date
Constantinople the 7th inst., that a few days after the
departure of Captain Ansehne and Sarim Effendi for
Alexandria, the British and French Ambassadors or-
dered the Admirals of the united squadrons to sail for
the coast of Egypt, and carry away the Ottoman fleet,
in case Mehe:net Ali should have refused, on their
arrival, to restore it to the Sultan. The same journal
adds, that if the Viceroy declined accepting the media-
tion of the Five Powers, a corps of English troops would
be sent to take possession of Camila.
A correspondent of the Debats writes from the East
—" The French fleet is still in sight of the Dardanelles.
An English steamer, which arrived from Alexandria on
the 18th inst., has brought information that Hafiz Pa-
cha had, with the remnant of his army (7,000 or 8,000
men), put himself under the orders of Ibrahim Pacha.
Admiral Stopford and all the British commanders have
returned the visit of Admiral Lalande. The English squa-
dron consists of nine ships of the line, three corvettes,and
three steamers. The French vessels are more elegant, and
are generally kept in better order than the English ; but
our crews are not equal to theirs, as they are nearly
all composed of new recruits. The English Admiral's
ship the Princess Charlotte, of 110 guns, is not equal to
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CAMBRIDGE ELECTION.-sir John
Doyle has, we understand, retired from the contest, acting under the advice of Mr. Dillon Brown.
STORMS IN THE CASPIAN SEA.--The Cas-
pian part of July.r
Sea,by
storms
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the
generallye so tranquil, was violently
agitated
Eighteen
Russian and Persian vessels, valued with their cargoes at
three millions of rubles, were wrecked, and ninety. fives
lives were lost.