The Sun.
London, England, 1822-04-26 00:00:00

Turkey. The army commanded by the eldest
son of Prince Ali, who died last year, has com-
menced hostilities with the Pacha of Bagdad.
" We have this moment received the news,
that the army of General Wittgenstein is con-
centrating in Podolia, on the northern frontier
of Moldavia."—( Constitutionnel, April 23.)
ODESSA, APRIL I.—We have letters from Con-
stantinople of the 27th March. The Reis Ef-
fendi had not, up to the 25th, replied to the
Note of the mediating Ministers. Lord Strang-
ford had en e deavourd to persuade the Grand
Vizier and the Reis Effendi, in the visits which
be made them on the 23d, to accept the Ultima-
tum, but the Reis Effendi answered him, that
the reply to his Note would be found already in
the Note of the Porte of the 28th February, and
that the Porte had no new declarations to make.

FRANKFORT, APRIL 17.—The Austrian Ob-
server of the 12th, which we have received by
express, contains the following article :

" Several of the late numbers of the Allgenicino Z..itung con-
tain articles relative to the state of the political negociations at
Vienna, which from their style and tone appear to have the
character-of diplomatic reports, and are, besides, drawn up with
a degree of confidence which a member of the diplomatic body
would hardly allow himself in a report. To be able to judge of,
and to appreciate, the first sources of the articles of this descrip-
tion (upon the final drawing up of which we here abstain from
any reflection), it is necessary to know that these same cor-
respondents, from Odessa and other places, who for these eight
months past announced every post that war would break out
immediately, do not cease to write to Constantinople in a sense
directly contrary, and to give their friends in that capital, and
through them, the most important individuals of the Turkish
Ministry, the assurance that the Emperor of Russia does not'
and cannot, think of war ; that the reports spread on this head
are circulated by the enemies of the Ottoman Government, in
order to induce the Divan to steps which would injure its
honour, and that to such reports they ought to oppose immove-
able firmness.'

" The same men, who are never weary of presenting to Eu-
rope the frightful picture of the state of Turkey, of entertain_
ing it with predictions of dreadful catastrophes, neglect nothing
to blind the Porte to its real interests, and by false statements
to turn it aside from the views of the European Powers, and
from its relations with them, and to excite the Turkish people
to sedition and despair, by falsely representing the Divan as
indifferent to the true interest of religion, and of the national
glory.
" At all times the public journals have given, with respect to
peace or war, reports, presumptions, calculations, or probabili-
ties. Nothing can be more natural than that the same thing
should happen now, when the public take such a lively interest
in political affairs. But hitherto we had not seen what has ta-
ken place for this year past, and that precisely on questions of
the highest importance to the existence and the fate of whole
nations ; namely, that journalists, and the correspondents of
journals, have thought fit to give, day by day, detailed bulle-
tins, which, by their contents and forms, so much resemble of-
ficial reports, that an unpractised reader can hardly see any dif-
ference ; although it is evident that there must be much better
information respecting the true progress of the negociations at
Vienna than at Odessa or Semlin ; and yet the Austrian Obser-
ver cannot be reproached with pretending to know more than
becomes a private individual ; and if it has now and then con-
tradicted news wholly devoid of foundation, it has never sub-
stituted for them others that were doubtful, or calculated to
mislead.

" This time, however, we are formally authorised to declare,
that the reports which have been circulated for some weeks past
in public papers on the state of the negotiations with the Porte,
are either entirely false, or mixed up with data partly true and
partly false, so that they do not merit any credit whatever."

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BERLIN, APRIL f6.—The Journal des DAats
of the 3d inst. contains an extract from a pre-

tended Note, which the Reis Effendi is said to
have delivered to the Austrian and English Am-
bassadors at Constantinople. _ _

Several German Journals have already inserted
this Note, and probably thought themselves the

more justified in so doing, as the Journal des
&bats is a paper edited by respectable men, and
-therefore enjoys the entire confidence of its nu-

Therous readers. The whole extract, however, is
flothing more than the invention of some mercan-
tile house, which has been equally injurious and
successful in the invention and execution of its

plan. The sole object of this house was to de-
press the public funds for some days, to pur-
chase during that time, and to find in the rise of
them the solid reward of its well calculated
speculations, and which could not fail to en-
sue as soon as the public was informed
of the falsehood of the Note, and the
Fear of the near approach of war had been
'dispelled. For ,this reason, too, the Jour-
nal des INbuts was chosen ; the same ac-
counts, if they had been in other Paris Papers,
'Would have little or no effect on the Exchange.
The fabrication of the Note, however, perhaps
deceived at the first moment even many persons
acquainted with the circumstances, having very

artfully interwoven in the fabrication some frag-
ments of a preceding genuine Note of the Porte
(of 2d Nov. 1821), of which at the time no spe-
cial information was made generally known.—
This delusion could not but be dispelled on
coming to the passage in this pretended Note in
-which the Divan is made to declare that it will
"either evacuate Moldavia and Wallachia, nor
'choose the future Hospodars among the Greeks,'
declaration which has not been made up to this
hour, an& must have been considered as a decla-
'ration of war. The Editors of the Journal des
hebals were so sensible of this, that, in subse-
quent numbers, still believing the Note to be
authentic, they speak of breaking off of all ne-
gociations at Constantinople.
From this explanation it is evident why the
State Gazette did not insert this article ; for, not
to mention the great contradiction between it and
That which we inserted in No. 41, under the
head of-Berlin. and which came from an authen-
tic source, the comparison of the day on which
the Note was said to have been issued with that
When it was published at Paris, and the single
circumstance that the news of so important an
event
,must have come to Berlin sooner than to
*the Editors of the Journal des Dads at Pa-
lls) made it the most natural to conclude
that the Note in question was the work
°C an impostor, which we can now positively
declare it to be. The State Gazette will, as far
a? Possible, always proceed with the same cau-
`loa, and endeavour thereby to give the highest
-Prof of its respect .for truth and for its readers.