The Sun.
London, England, 1809-01-16 00:00:00

FROM THE DUTCH PAPERS.

VIaN A, 'Dec. 14- —The new Grand 'Vizier
•11,11.7trArn A BAIHACTAR has finished his career..,--
. Ever since the 29th of last July, when the gcied
4.1.61 111. was barbarously murdered in the Sera-.
- glie, and his h uccessiff , MusTeette IV. dethroned
anti s..ut tip in the old Seraglio, the Grand Vizier,
ender the name of- MAtIOMET 11. whom he made
Grant' ,eeignior, ruled the Ottoman Empire with
'unlimited authority. By his determined charadter,
his- severity, and his active, as well as vigorous
• measures,. lie re-established tranquillity-and order in
all the Provinces,- kept under restraint. the Nelms
'mem were inclined to insurrection, deprived of their
' 'Bncient..extvtisivt• privileges, the Janissaries who had
so irequenly dethroned and appointed Sultans, end
intended gradually to assimilate the Turkish troops
to the'Europemn armies. But the arduous under-
taking of acting the part of a reformer among a
'people who detest every thing new and foreign,' cost
him
.his
• On the ,14th of November, at day-break, the
Janissaries were seen assembling from all quarters,
and being ieinfurred by those who were in the vi-
cinity of CongtaniinOple, they fell upon the Seirnens
. of -141,e. NtZAM GEDID, and massacred all the par-
tieans.ot ,tire Grand Vizier that carne in their way.
The'coniesi spread to every street in:Constanueople.
The Sennett; long made it most obstinate resistance,
but at eist they were compelled to submit. • Manyof
their teirty deserted to the Janissaries at. the com-
mencement of the ittsurredion. On the 15th, the
Janissaries assaulted the high walls of the Seraglio;
alioi it was at this moment that the Grand Vizier,
Lifter call,ting like unfortunate MUSTAPHA IV. who
was it prtsulicr there, to be strangled, blew himself
up in his own palace with gunpowder, of which he
inireeNely provided a large eietntity before-band, to
• prei tee is felling alive into the hands of his elle-
mte3. On the idth, when the post left Constanti-
noel; the utmost contusion stilt prevailed there.
• A dreaded fire 'tad broke out, and during the. whole
of the following night be saw a glow in the sky,
:from winch he conchided that the tire was still 'rag-
: inge—The fate ot the reigning Sovereign, MAIIOMET,
10 not yet ascertained ; but it is feared that he has
been the victim of the Revolution.
Ovon the news of the events that have taken
place at Censtaminople, the prices of cotton rose a
little here, it being possible, or rather very probable,
that circumstances may o‘cur to prevent the transit
of commodities :through European Turkey, which
has hitherto been entirely Lee.
PARIS, Dec. .'o.--His Majesty the Emperor ad-
eiressed the folloeing letter on the 7th, from the
• 'camp in filen of ,Madrid, to the Archbishops, Bie
shops, &c.
' " The victories gained by our forces in the bat-
tles of Espinosa, Burgos, Tudela, and Somosierra,
the entrance. of our troops into Madrid, and the
especial good fortune we have had in recovering that
• city entire out of the hands of the insurgent brigandS,
•wlktr kept its brave inhabitants, under oppression, in-
duce-us to write to you these presents. We duke
• that immediately on their receipt you will take the
necessary nuasures to convoke our people in the
churches, and to cause 7'e Deem to be sung, as a
' thanksgiving to God for his protedion of our arms,
.and that he has been pleased to put to shame the
- • foes' of our nation', and et the peace of the Continent,
• 'who, constant!) indaming the spirit of party strife,
seek to establish their, exchisive vommerce upon the
general anarchy and ealainities.ot all nations."
A letter from Burgos, of the 10th instant,, says,
this city, which, in consequence of its resistance,
WAS iseverely deal: with, h.lona to recover itseit.—
• The inhabitants are-gradually returning, and are well
pleased with the conduct-of toe French soldiers. The
peasantry o the environs come in, and brieg with
• them a -seperabundanee -I all sorts of provisions.—
Gen. DABIVIAGNAC, Wilt) is Governor of the city and
province of -Burgos, inainteins the strictest disci-
' pliev. ivi. Gett..ivl. Dum AS is also were on a parti-.
cniar mission from his Majesty. The Marshal Duke
Of MONTEBELLO; and Gen. MOUTON, his ;Majesty's
Aid.;-de-Camp, arrived here on the 7th. The iore
mer carne-trotn tie vicinity of Saragossa. Tile Mar-
shal the.:Duke of COIINEGLIANO remains before that
.City, vs.hith tie keeOunclef blockade, until his Ma-
, jesty gives of here for attacking it.
Peat% Dite; 26 —We learn that M. ALDINI,
Secretary of State for Italy, has received orders from
the Emperor to repair to Paris, to wait for the ar.
rivet of hts Majesty. MOM this circumstance 'we
cenehaue, that the !affairs of Italy had made ocitesi-
- deranie• progress, ,and that his Majesty was speedily
expected in this capital.
A huge French corps is collecting in Dalmatia,
Under :he orders of the Duke or IIAGUSA (General
AelitattioNT), who, had established his headivarters
et le.ra„ but Lite object 4%1.6 assetnbletnent is not
inenuetted. All cotumunication with Zara by
sea had been cut by some English cruizers,
whose activity ie represented as being particularly
vexatious. •
Ai' •
BERLIN,' DEC. the order by which the
Duke of AUEttaTADT 4111101111 Ced taeGeneral ST.
HILAIRE his depatture from Berlin, the folloWing
passages are the most. retuarkabla :—" The lasi or.:
ders which I have to address told% on my Setting
oft: from Berlin, ought to be a mark of resped for
the glorious memory of FIIEDERICIL the Great, and
".„Prhot of theesteem which "Our Sovereign and the
peach
,Nation .entertain for his august brother.—
. When juts ate leaving Berlin, .you will repair at the'
teed ot your stoups to Prince Fettoreeen, and pre.
. teem to him the keys of this capital."-.—" At Berlin,
Vienna, and wherever destiny has concluded the
arms ut our Emperor, it cannot bodenied that we
!lave done nothing to seduce the affedions of j 4-
eds from their Sovereigns."—" Here, as every
'where else, there are enthusiasts a;td adventurers, to
whom the subversion of all order is an objed of
hope and interest. These dangerous persons have
been kept in check.. The nobility, landholders,
clergy, citizens, and tnerchants—oll the Institutions
Which form the basis of soeial order—have been
protected and 'defended against the attempts of in-
tovators The French leave this country with sett.
tintente of profound consideration for the Monarch
and the people." -
The Telegraph positively states, that information
hat been 'laid before the French Authorities of
mysterious and romantic association, into which jhe
young luau are inveigled. The person who jeT4 i
knots a only the individual who enlists him. lielaffe6;
an oath to furnish himself with arms. to atteudstb

signal uhich be .given. for their eti:boyillg, to
repair to hid appointed rendezvous, to obey imp;i=
citly an unknown Chiof whom he shalt there find,
and to follow him Wherever he leatls. The new
member engages '.O enlist. One of his friends in the
same' manner. The oath of enlisttnent bigned
each individual passes front' hand. to hand until it
reaches the unknowp

This tad was long looked upon as incredible, :but
the numerous accounts which haVe been received
from various quarters establish its reality. The
French Authorities have alSo received denunciations
against several societies, whose only. object seems
to be general disorder and anarchy. The Mar-
shal Duke of AUEfiSTADT, on being informed of
these things, conceived that the presence .of, his
Majesty the King in his pod town. of Berlin
would speedily put an end to all. the 'efforts of the
anarchists.

THE BRAZILS.

PRIVA CE CORRESPONDENCE,

" Rto JANIERO, OCT. this harbour re-
fitting —Foudrepant, Rear-Admiral Sir S. Smith,
Captain Schoenberg ; Marlborough, Commodore
Graham Moore; President, Captain Mackenzie;
Hyacinth; Captain Davies,; Serapis, (Store-ship,)
Pitt and IVanch (Brigs,) And Piper, (Schooner).
" In the River La Plata-41onarch, Commodore
Lee; Bedford, Sir James Walker ,eigamemnon,
Capt, RoSe ; two armed Transports, and two Pot.-
tugues6 Brigs.of War.
" Isle Grande—London, Sir Thomas Western,
attending the Prince Regent, atSatita.Cruz.

Surreillante, Confionce, Lightning, cruizing on
different points of the coast.
" Our friends will be gr'atified in learning the
honorary distinetions his Royal Highness the Prince
Regent has conferred., arid the selection he has made,
upon two of the meritorious officers belonging to Sir
Sidney's squadron ; the choice has been made, as
well from the distingisj4icd, urbanity of their man-
ners, as their general merit as officers.. The Cap-
tain of the London, is appriinted one of the Royal
Chamberlains at the Palace of Santa Cruz—and has
received a most distinguished iiresent from his Royal
Highness of 40 bullocks, and as many sheep, hogs, ,
and pigs, with two valuable cows, in calf, I.vbi,n, it
is conOdered, is meant as the foundation tor the
,stock of the farm, intended to be gives, to every
Knight Companion of the order of," l'idetity and'
Valour." Capt. Western is so great a favotrite,
that be iy to be installed one of Ine Grand Crass, in.
lieu of Commodore Alarm.; who, un itie tn-st re;
speaful manner, ha 4 decli...ed this acklitional- mark
of the Prince ,11.!;ent's ~;ratitucie, to officers who had
the honour of -a c<tfrtii any sub !inn from Lisbon.—
His Royal ilightßtsS is universally esteemed, and has
conde.tcended to accept, from Capt. Western, a, most
beautiful pair of brass pistols, mounted in gold; and
which that gallant officerpartieularly prized for their
being the fruits oflard-earned victory, wherein he
was personally, engaged. In return for this marked
attachment, his Royal Highness has set,l bun a
beautiful charger, richly caparisoned, and another
for his son, a midshipman on board the London.—
it‘ spirit of patriotisM has manifested itseit in this
country worthy the cause, which Portugal, as well
as Spain, has so warmly at heart.l--A subscription
has been opened, which 'already amounts to 'soma

" St, Sebastian's, 0ct..24, 18 8.

" I find the Ckeerly brig (lately arrived with dis
patches front Atiglanii) will be dispatched in the
course of a day. I 'therefore_ add some additional
cittratis from my own letters, in the hope they may
proVe acceptable; The Thais 'has arrived with a
convey; the only missing Vessel is the Earl Percy,.
and the Captain of the. convoy reports, she kept
away in defiance of hitcsignal, theday he hauled up
for the land, abf,ut Cape Frib. The probability is,
the Brig is cast away, on'the low land of Narant.
berg. The hopes w e have that she may be sate,
are founded 'on the arrival of the • Surveil/ante,
Sir George Collier ; the . London, Sir T. Western ;
and the Pitt, Brig of War, neither of which Ships
lot seen any thing of a. wreck,ott any part of the.
cow: The Cheerly hls also arrived since my last,
and; the Steady, from the Bahia, .liaving seen
the trade into that port, and Pernambuco. A
Packet arrived a few days since ; but we have
later news-by a Liverpool Brig, the IWary. lam
happy to say we have carried our, points against the
opinion of the Portuguese Ministers, and that,
though trade may continue dull, many of our griev-
ances are done away; and, to sliew that we are not
insensible to the goodness of the Prince, a subscrip.
.tion we had raised, of upwards of a million of mil-
teas, fur the Patriots in Spain and Portugal, has ;
been made public,. to. the astonishment of the Por-
tuguese and Brazilians. This; with the other sub-
scriptions,
is to be sent.home by the Portuguese Man
of War'Conde Henripa, a remarkably fast-sailing
Ship of the Line. it-is reported at the Consul-Ge- '
neral's Office, that Our trade goes under convoy 'of
the Surpeillanie Frigate, Sir George' Collier.—Sir !
Sidney Smith gave, a grand fete to her Royal High-
ness the Princess, at his country residence, Villaßra
gatiza—a present to him from her Royal Highness.
The 'Spanish Officers were.presen4. deputed trimn
Buenos Ayres, who recognized in her Royal High-
newt the legitithate heir to the Crown of Spain, dur-
ing the iropriscinment of the nearer male branches
of the Blood Royal." .

'W. have received informAtion from St Vincent's,
that a Schooner belonging.to COlono BROWN, and
iavigateo solely by his Negroes, on.her return from
the Bahama Islands to St. Vincent's, fell in, with, a
French Privateer of very superior force. Ne-
roes commenced the attack on the Frenchman,
and after a sharp action beat him otf. The French-
man availed himself of his sweeps, and escaped cap-
ture by its falling a dead calm.
'The French General LEPEnit v. passed through Bath,
on his-way to his parole in' ilerkshire.. His.cavalry
mantle cloak was richly embroidered. In the centre
was a brilliant star, with NAPOLEON • in the centre
of it, under which was the word " Edelitas ;" and
on a scroll round, these words in French, " The gilt
Of NAPOLEON to the Faithful." Over this was the
Imperial Eagle, surmounted by a Ducal Coronet.—
„fp* aii'sumed servant, who is supposed' to ben man ofrank in disguise, says, he never saw such a body of
men and horses as the British dragoons; the charge,
lie said ernpliatically, was irresistible in ail its pinta
of attack.