The Sun.
London, England, 1808-08-26 00:00:00

FOREIGY INTELLIGthCE.

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VIENNA,- JULY Z0.,--Thd Court Gazette- of _4llis
date 'contains the folldwing :article frint Turkey ;..---
" On'the 17th ult. the Captsin Paclia,SLO., ALA'
PACiI A, received the most' pressing.ofders to get t,be
Grand Fleet completely ready for sea in three days;
and fast-sailing cutters-were dispatched in-all,direc-
tions to procure the necessary supplies of provisions
i and ammunition, and particularly of ropes. and cord-
'age. The cause of their order was reported to be
-th. re. appearance in the Archipelago; and even at
,A "e 'moth of the Dardanelles, of a division of the
c-/ 1 , Alts.h. Fleet in the Mediterranean,. under the coot-1
"iiVand of Admiral -COLLINGwooD. We are confi-
I- dently assured, 'that the Turkish Fleet, consisting of
eleven S4il. of the Line, seven Frigates, and five
I vessels of inferior .rate, adually got under sail on
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-t 27th of June.
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The army of the Grand Vizier, in the provinces
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cif
IBUlgaria and RomeKa, lately received-consider-
able reinforcements, particularly-of Asiatic troops.--,
MITSTAPHA RAIRACKTAR, after a long and obstinate
quarrel with the Grand Vizier, bas at length been
'reconciled to him, and is,' at present, at the Head-
quarters in Adrianople, Where he is treated with
considerable distinaion. The Russian Major Bait
vrTz has also arrived at the Grand Vizier's camp;
on a' mission from Field Marshal Prince .Paoso-
Ito wsxr, ComMander in Chief of the Russian armies
in the Provinces of Wallachia and Moldavia. There
have been no further movements among the Russian
.troops: they still remain in the camps-which they
Occupied in the beginning of May, on both sides of-
. the Danube ; but on the •other hand there have
'leer Sorrie disturbances in 'Servia, and even in Bos-
nia; which however have been suppressed Without
any serious consequences, by the firmness of Go-
, vernor CHOSROW PACHA. All was tranquil in
Egypt ; and the several treaties concluded by the
most poWerful of the Bes;s- with 'the Caimaean of
the Porte, AIAHOMED AliY, were still in force. It
Still continued to be believed, whether with or with-
Out cause, that an. attack upon Alekandria was to be
appFehendeci; from. the great force which the Eng-
lish have in the Mediterraneab.• - •
: «T he alarming symptoms, of the plague; which
Vfieen discovered at Smyrna,- and caused great
43644.i.0n to the trade•with that,place, have again
pltifi4itirsappeared:• . • .
rtimoured that -matters of great import-
bedisctisSed in the Hungarian Diet, which
is to open its-3 Sessidn oh -the 28th of August. The.
Austrian Cd-tiff intends to lay:before them' a plan
ifdi'.the general defence of .the Kingdom, -by means
rkell-organized Militia and. National Guard, to.
actual service-in time of war.
''On the tsth inst. an order was issued at Semlin for
the iminediate departure of 'all the Turkish inhabi-,.
taints; whether rnerchani; or of any other descrip-
tion.' The- cause• of, this injunaion is not publicly
known. It is reported, that onAhe .11th inst. the
Servian Commander, MiLoE-, left Belgrade with the
greater part of th© military force. ,

THE • CiHEVA LiEli DE CORREti.

TO TnE EDITOR.—LETTEIt 111.

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,Among the various branches 'of Ftennh policy,
none has of late, Years been more sedulously and sys-
tematically cultivated than that which is distinguished
.byahe :lathe Of:Espionage. The foundation of this
system of'employing spies was_ first laid by the celes
brated,PEsareriE, when at the head ofshe Police
of. Paris, and it has- been carried in France to a far
greater degree of perfeaion than iu: anypt her coun-
try, and It ni)-W forms a chief object of =the atten-
tion of the French Government yormerly, indeed,
it: was. but a secondary and oceasiOnal mode of
obtamid2 inforreatiOn; brit it has since been.refined
into ft coMprehensive and elaborate system, to con--
trive political intrigues, and to calculate their results.
It smoothes a road for bribery to'venalitY, and insi=
nuates ils influence among the members who consti-
tute the Councils of other States. It has been with
me the subjeCt of much, observation and 'race-lion.;
have looked pretty. narrowly into the secret wheels
of this machine, and think myself,- therefore; some-
what competent to give an idea of it to the British
Public.
My motive is only that of humanity, and a'desire
to warn the friends of independence, and ollawful
SoVereigns, against its insidious and. baneful effects,
and teach them how to convert this formidable en-
gine to the destruction of those by whom it has too
long, and . too successfully,' been wielded, against.
themselves. : •
It has unfortunately been shewn, by the evidence
of fairs, how. fatal it has.oroved to those Countries
who have had- to contend with France, either':
to have been altogether ,enacquainted with the
advantages of this engine, or to have' wholly disres
gardedor disdained its use.—Many are the instances
I might point out .of this, negleet, ',alien. either that
Hydra of.discord might have been timely crushed,
or its poison so concluded, as to sow' the seeds of an
intrigue =env he Leaders of the French Armies, by
which many a gOd th:ght have been won which the
Allies have unfortnnately lost. If the Austrians had
attended to, and distinctly praiiised this system, be-
fore the battles Of Marengo, of Ulm, and of Auster- •
litz, ;how different might have been the issue of these..
two memorable dais. But if proper means are .not
employed to distinguish real friends frome-eal ene-
mies;ahe fault is with ourselves; the enemy affords
the example and. the instruaion. We must wrest
this invisible weapon from the hands of our adver-
saries, and turn it against its inventor—the mischief
can be counter-worked only by the.mischief itself.
The- present improved plan of Espionage was ".
adopted at Paris Mille time of Boa ESPIERRE. and was
the chief instrument he employed for subduing the
spirit °Cale. people by terror:, It first worked its
way through the towns and provinces, in order to de-
tee% and defeat any danger the then Government had
to dread, front t RoyaliscParty, and to discover the
nvehinations set on loaf by several of the Members
of the: National. Convention. This and other measures
of.terrot coMpelled several families to emigrate, and
a nUmber of spies took advantage of their, resolution,
and etnigrated with them, in order to insinuate them-
selves Ur a variety of charaaera into foreign Courts,
and into the. society of the higlier circles .of
This, at least,. has been preyed by subsequentexpe-
.
rience. 'From that moment foreign Courts began to
Feel that their humanity and attentiim to distress was
'abused,., and that the best impulses of.
,the
.human
heart were turned against :those who were swayed
by them.. Many of Those wretches who then pre-
tended to fly •froin the.daggers of IteesSPIER4E,al
terwards proved to be parnians and the tools of that.
!sanguinary Tyrant; and'il any of them'should still
lurk in this.eountry, let" thern read this letter, trent-
Wes and be cdnfounded:... . - •
The prsent,eatablishment bf the yolide in France
is dividainto a variety of brandhes of inquiry, which
are, hoWever, redaced: to font heads, viz. Tiavellers,
Traders, Nobles, and- Military Men.—These are
the charaCters principally employ c.l for the purposes
of secret information. The, Travellers , precede and
prepare the way for 'the Traders ; . the Traders are.
succeeded 'by the , Nobles ; and then comes the
Soldier or Military Man :.the-Travellers, in general,
are. the. first to.•entc...r an the bosiuesa "of inquiry ;
they frequent coflee-houses,. taverns, and all places
of public amusement—they insinuate themselves into
the acquaintance of servant's, and all descriptions
of persons employed by persons of 'distinction.
The trader. adopts_.other means,, such as his own
calling May supply him with ; in the pursuit of
these, he pries Leto, and discovers the means' of
raising money, Which' be soon employs as au instru-
ment of bribery. The Noble wins his way into the
society of pti-sons of his own class; and/ succeeds in
captivating their favour; ratherby performing on
some 'musical instrument;.or by promoting gambling.
The military men follow, and strike the blow, the
means of which the others 'had previously been fa.

cilltat►ng. •
This subje&, which will run :into some length,
will observe upon weekly in your Paper ;
,and will
therefore postpone the further consideration of it till
next week. -
I am, Sir, your obedient. Servant,
Turnizum-green, Aug. t . 3. A. C.

Yesterday afternoon a- horse ran away with a gig
with a Lady. and Gentleman in it, near the Brick-
layer's Aims, in the Kent-road, upset and broke it to
pieces; fortunately they escaped unhurt ; but as the
Gentleman.was cutting the harness, the horse kicked
a bye-stander in the thigh, and greatly bruised him.
On Wednesday se'imight a beggar, and ari Irish
woman who passed for 'his wife, quarrelled at North •
Shields. . Whilst smarting with the. chastisement he
had bestow4d on her, she met two soldiers, whom
she infoimed she would conduct to adeserter. She
accordingly led them
,upon the- bank,- and pointed,
Qot a young lad abOut 15, who 'was- in company •r
with hisfathi‘r, shduting " bellows to mend." Af-
I
ter a short resistance, be was secured, and condu6ted
to Tynemouth barracks. The =woman's rage being
now abated, shq attempted to contradia what she
i-: had before- affirmed, , and her pretended husband,'
who was brother to the youth, went to the bairacks
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enleiktetl..eddaytthoeplgetiLdrdh-isi
iecsuese,
t;babrilktt
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ssoolodnieerrs hbayd llt
un-
tying a few bandages from his leg. and irm, made
him who had beep lame for a Iminber of years per-
t fealy sound l_ Tice yoenger brother then confessed
they were both deserters. , . , .