The Sun.
London, England, 1825-10-25 00:00:00

pendent, friendly, fraternal, and confederated
nations.

Letters and Papers were received from Gibral-
tar yesterday, to the 4th inst., by which we learn
that very bad weather had been experienced
since last advises. A circular from the Sardinian
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to the Con-
suls of his nation abroad, dated Turin, September
6th, had reached Gibraltar, which stated that the
Bey of Tripoly having, from a misconstruction
of the existing treaties, sequestered the Sardinian
vessels in his Ports, until the difficulty he
had raised should be removed, his Sardinian
Majesty had thought proper to resist the
Bey's demands, and had sent, without loss of
time; a squadron to Tripoli, to urge the ob-
servance of the treaties, and if the Bey should
prove obstinate to use force. In the meantime,
the national trade would be protected against his
corsairs. A Colombian privateer had appeared
in the Gut of Gibraltar on the morning of the
29th ult., and with a Lateen vessel came into the
Bay, and remained behind the Rock ; the vessel
in her company appeared to be deeply laden.—
(ibid.)

[BRITISH PRESs.]
A letter was received yesterday by a mercantile
house in the. City, from Dover, written by a gen-
tleman who has just returned from Greece. The
intelligence he communicates is the latest from,
that country, and may be relied upon as authen-
tic. It appears that the campaign, which was to
have extirpated the whole race of Greeks, and
destt oyed their very name, has ended like all
those that have preceded it since the commence-
ment of this contest, without any decisive or ma-
terial result to either party. In one respect,
however, the present year may be considered
to be closing more unfavourably to the patriots
than the last : a strong body of their enemies
remain encamped in the Morea. The insur-
rection of Candia may, perhaps, be regarded as
a circumstance of equal importance in the other
scale. Certain it is that if the inhabitants of
Candia should succeed in throwing off the
Turkish yoke, more will have been accomplished
towards the establishment of Greek independence
than Ibrahim Pacha can possibly do to prevent
it with all the force of Egypt employed in sub-
ugating the Peloponnesus. The following is an
extract of the letter to which we are referring :
" On my departure from Cephalonia, on the 16th
September, the campaign in Greece seemed verg-
ing to a close; hostilities had ceased north of the
Isthmus ; the Seraskier, Redschid Pacha, had
withdrawn the troops from Missolonghi, and com-
menced retiring in the direction of Arta,on the ap-
pearance of the rains, on the 9th and 10th Sept.
Ibrahim Pacha was remaining quietly at Kalamata
with his troops, whither he had retreated from
Tripolizzn, on the retirement of the Turkish fleet
from Missolonghi in August. The plague had
entirely ceased, however, at Modon, and it was
expected that he would again fix his head-quar-
ters at that place. At Napoli di Romania, fac-
tion was quiet ; all were looking anxiously to-
wards England for aid or interference ; in fact,
hostilities seem every where to have ceased for
the season by land and sea. No accounts had ar-
rived from the fleet which had sailed to make
another attempt to intercept the Egyptian squad-
ron expected from Alexandria."

[NEW TIMES.]
Yesterday a most melancholy sensation was
produced in the metropolis, by the intelligence
of the sudden and instantaneous destruction of
the Comet steam-packet, near Gourock, with be-
tween sixty and seventy persons on board ! We
have received the names of several individuals
who are asserted to have perished ; but so long
as there is any possibility that those names may
be mistaken, we shall hesitate to give them pub-
licity. One Peer, one Member of the House
of Commons, and one distinguished literary
female, have been mentioned, we hope erroneously.
The scene of horror must have been appalling,
but it was short : the Comet, between one and
two o'clock in the morning, was suddenly struck
by the Ayr, another steam-packet. Both vessels
were greatly damaged ; the Comet so much so,
that she filled and went down in two minutes,
while the Ayr with great difficulty reached her
port. Upon the causes of this sad accident we
will not now speculate. The whole matter will
no doubt be solemnly investigated ; and as it
would be cruel to anticipate censures that may
ultimately be found just, so it would be still more
culpable to deal out censures which may prove to
be undeserved.

The Durham Advertiser of Sunday contains'
the trial of the men who were riotously engaged
in August last, in the river Wear, to obstruct the
sailing of the ship Busy. Two of them were
found guilty, and sentenced, one to six, the other
to four, months' imprisonment in the House of
Correction, and to be kept to hard labour. Three
others were sentenced to eight months' like im-
prisonment, and two to six months, and to find
security for their good conduct for six months
afterwards. We hope these punishments will
have a salutary effect upon the minds of the la-
bouring classes, when again tempted to seek their
supposed rights through the means of tumult and
outrage..--(Aid.)

[THE PUBLIC LF.DGEtt.]
The Foreign Journals, French, German, and
Flemish, which arrived yesterday, contain no
news of any importance,except what is furnished
in some extracts from the Greek Chronicle of
Missolonghi, upon which we shall offer a remark
or two presently. Some, however, may see an
exception in a paragraph in a Brussels Paper, on
account of its connection with recent spirited
proceedings of the Mexican authorities relative to
ecclesiastical matters. These proceedings clash
so much with papal assumption, as revived by the
present Pope, that we are anxious to see the end
of the controversy to which they have already
led. Moreover, the mission of the Mexican Go-
, vernment to the Holy See, which Is announced in
the Brussels Journals, is a subject of attractive
speculation, as bearing noon the claims of the
Spanish Government, which his Holiness is said