The Sun.
London, England, 1822-05-21 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

PARIS, MAY 18.
We have some reason to believe that positive
intelligence has been received at Paris, that im-
mediately-after the arrival at St. Petersburg-h of
M. de Tatitscheff, there was to be convoked a
grand Cabinet Council, , when the question of
war or peace would be irrevocably decided. We
cannot yet know here the result of this Council,
but persons who are—the" greatest partisans o►
peace are reduced to the apprehension that war
has been resolved upon. If this information be
correct, as we have reason to suppose it is, it is
probable that in less than a week all uncertainty
will be at an end.—(Constitutionnel.)
The Duke de Richelieu died yesterday at noon,
at his Hotel, Place Vendome, aged 53. He was
attacked almost suddenly by a brain fever,
which carried him off in a few hours.

SMYRNA, APRIL 13.—We have advises from
Salonica to the 6th. The Greeks were in insur-
rection in the villages situated at the foot of
Mount Olympus, and the Pacha of Salonica was
marching against them. We shall not fail to
learn what importance is to be attached to these
new revolts, and in what manner they are con-
nected with the general plan of the Greeks. On
the one hand, every thing at times appears paci-
fic; and on the other, every thing, on the contrary,
looks like war. The flame of insurrection spreads
by land as well as by sea.—The city of Negro-
pont is not strictly blockaded, but'only observed.
Caryste is more pressed by the Bishop of An-
dros, at the head of a great number of Islanders,
and by Odysseus, the Commandant of about six
hundred men, and as many Mainotes, who were
under the orders of Beyzade Elia, son of
Pietro Bey. This' young man, who was of much
promise, has been_ killed ; and it is said that his
father has sworn to avenge the death of his son,
or to perish with all his men, whom he is about
to lead to the siege of that place. The Paellas
still keep their hold in the plains and the principal
towns of Thessaly, without having yet attempted
to repass Thermopylw ; the mountains are occu-
pied by the Greeks. The whole country has not
yet revolted, but the inhabitants seem disposed
to rise as soon as the Ottoman troops are gone.—
It is stated that the inhabitants of Mount Olym-
pus will also raise, in the spring, the standard of
independence, and that they can arm about
24,000 men ; half of 24 villages of Mount Pence'
is in open revolt, the other half wavers still in
uncertainty.—Letters from Athens ,say, we are
ignorant here of what is passing at Janina ; it
would be difficult for the Pachas to penetrate
into Phocis and Barotia, even should there be
open defiles, there being neither provisions nor
forage to be found ; but there is every reason to
believe that on the return of summer they will
re-commence their military operations, and that
they will then resume • the offensive, reinforced
by considerable corps 'of troops, which ace, stated
to be on the march to join them, and which are
expedited by the Porte.
NUREMBERG, MAY 10.—The most contradic-
tory reports were in circulation at Constantinople
respecting the Schah of Persia. Sometimes he is
said to be at Teheran, listening to proposals,and
taking presents from Russia and England—some-
times at the head of vast Irmy, roarly to cross
4h Euphrates, and penetrate into Asia Minor.—
The mysterious silence of the Porte, and the
fear which hinders private individuals from wri-
ting, cause the affairs of Asia to be involved in
obscurity.

The mail from Moscow brings news that a
Russian merchant, named Gusiatnikow, one of
the principal dealers in twist in that city, had
failed for about a million and a half of roubles.
This affair excites the greatest sensation, because
he was Director of the Bank of Moscow ; and it
now appears that in order to relieve himself he
has forged bills of exehange ; he has already
confessed having issued to the value of 250,000
roubles.

According to all we can learn of the results of
the two last sittings of the Commissioners assem-
bled at Darmstadt, to agree on a commercial sys-
tem for the South German States, there is every
reason to hope that the projected Convention be-
tween these States will be very soon accomplished,
for the joint protection of internal trade and manu-
factures.--(Nuremberg Correspondent, May 10.)
The Editor of the Biblioteca Italiana (M. Acer-
bi) gives, in the number for March, an extract
from a letter of M. Zuccoli, dated Sennaar, Nov.
3, 1821, which holds out the fairest prospects
for the future. M. Z. accompanies the army of
Ibrahim Pacha, son of the Viceroy of Egypt, as
officer of engineers, and is charged with the geo-
graphical survey of the countries through which it
passes. -When the letter was dispatched, the
army was in 13. north latitude, and was to ad-
vance
,to the 7th degree. In that variable cli-
mate, a heat froM 31 to 35 degrees of Reaumur
by day-, with a coolness of 15.'by night, causes
frequent diseases. Ibrahim Pacha himself was
in great danger from dysentery, but was saved
by his physician, Ant. Scotto, a Genoese. Don-
gola, Sennaar, and Kordofan, are already in the
hands of the valiant Ibrahim; whose object was
to attack Fezuello and Shilluk, and penetrate
further into Nigritia.
M. Zuccoli has made a survey of the Nile from Alexandria
to Sennaar. He counted 100 more or less considerable cata-
racts in the Nile, which were all passed, however, with very
-small loss either of vessels or people. He remarks an error in
Bruce's map. Bruce makes the Bender fall into the Rahb,
and the latter in the Nile; whereas both these rivers fall into
the Nile, the Bender fifteen miles above the Rahb. Where
Bruce wrote, according to the information of the inhabitants,
and did not see with his own eyes, no confidence can be placed
in him, for the people; says M. Zuccoli, are so ignorant, that
they hardly know where the sun rises and sets. They cannot
distinguish north from south. He thinks he has found the
island. of Meroe in the slip of land between the Dender and
the Rahb, where he discovered 45 pyramids covered with hiero-
glyphics. He met here with M. Caillaud and his companion,
who followed another army under Ismail Pacha,_ another son
of the Viceroy's. He waited for the armed vessels to proceed
as far as possible up the IVhite River, and see whether it
comes, as is said, from a great inland lake, and is connected
with the Niger, or at least is in its neighbourhood.—( Allge-
meine Zeitung, May 8.)
WARSAW, APRIL 20.--The Councils of the
Waywodes having sent to the Emperor several
loyal addresses, the Minister of the Interior has
made an answer to them, in which is the follow-
ing passage :

Im—perial Majesty is far from thinking that there can
be Poles with dispositions so hostile to their country, as, with
a deliberate intention, and by a culpable abuse, to expose their
fellow-countrymen to the loss of their dearest hopes. But this

mournful event may result equally from an inconsiderate a
aggeration of the imperfection which is inseparable from all till
works of man—from a servile imitation of the means emplOYea
in other countries, although for ends entirely different, by the
disturbers of the public tranquillity,—from the senseless man'
ner of preaching up vain theories, the application of which
incompatible with the maintenance of social order—from the
complaints of offended vanity, or from errors into which they
are thrown by a desire of distinction, or it might likewise
be the effect of perfidious seduction, of blind wickedness, or
of criminal pride. If a danger like this should show itself, it
would be the duty of his Majesty to prevent, by the most e'fff.
cacious means, every enterprize which might tend to trouble
public order or to give scandal."