The Sun.
London, England, 1822-01-02 00:00:00

FRENCH FUNDS.

Dec. 29, Five per Cents.
Bank Stock 15901. c.
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A Nuremberg article of the 21st December
states, the receipt of letters on that day from
Vienna, coming from a very respectable source,
which confirmed the death of the Grand Seig-
nior Rivers of blood (it is added) • have
flowed at Constantinople.--The Janissaries have
massacred a considerable number of Christians.
it is even asserted, but this wants. confirmation,
that two Ambassaddrs lost their lives."
ZANTE,. NO V.-30.—After the naval victory of
the Creeks on the II th of October, martial law
• wk's proclaimed in our island ; the ordinary tri-
bunals were immediately suspended, and the
most of our distinguished islanders•were arrested
and thrown into prison, without •knowing what
was imputed to thern,!or the fate which awaited
them. The principal are, Calyvas, Dionysius,
Taliopetre, his nephew Panageote, Michel, Ve-
recios, Dionysius Damaliane, Spyredon Sicoure,
Eustathius Cariates, the brothers John and De-
metrius Pethamenos,. and Constantine liieracare.
A great number of peasants have been condemned

to death by military commissions.. After the ex-
ecution, their dead bodies were thrown into
. cages of iron, in which they are still exposed on
the summits of hills, as if by way of menacing
the rest of the people with a similar fate. After
this scene of horror and terror, the Government
ordered the general disarming of the whole island.
—The inhabitants of the capital with murmur-
ing obeyed this order, but the inhabitants of
the country still continue to resist. They regard
this disarming as the last degree of dishonour
to which they can be exposed. The Government,
by way of constraining them, had recourse

to anoLher measure: it invited the, citizens the
dearest to the people to repair to the church of
Our Lady of Petrides, when it seized them• as

liostages, and now retains them in the citadel.
They. are 54 in number ; the following are the
names of some of them :—Coccine, Pergadinos,
and Ventoure, all three clergymen ; Stellius
Mecalize, Julius Domenigine, Nicolas Messala,
Peter Macrys, Robert and Dionysius Solomon,
Marcus Flambouriare, Dolor and,Dionysius
terba, Gradenigue and Nicolas Psemairs, John
Secoin, Theophilus Francople, &c. Not-
withstanding this measure, the peasants still
persist in not giving up their arms. Fresh
English troops have disembarked in the
Island; a squadron composed of frigates and
vessels of war has its batteries directed
against the town. Wherever we turn our eyes
we meet only the apparatus of war; the island
has the aspect of a blockaded country. A
great number of our inhabitants have voluntarily
banished themselves; the movement is far from
being appeased.

Pi.lti;Nov.2s.—(Extract of a P rivate Letter.)
—" The Turkish troops resemble more a mas-
querade than an. army—one is dressed in blue,
another red,anothe.r white, &c. one is armed with
a musket two yards long ; near him there is ano-
ther With a carbine; a third marches with-pistols;
others have only sabres, or knives of the country,
called Yatagans ; some are on foot, others on
horseback, or on mules, &c: This 'is. the nation
which, with an intestine War, wishes to brave
Rusiia and to make. enemies of the other Powers,
insulting and maltreating with a ferocious pride
their subjects, &c. often their Ministers. We
are here on the eve of a dreadful crisis."

FRANKFORT, DEC. 23.—Constantinople is in
the Most'dreadful anarchy. A great number of

victims perish every day. The Christians are a
prey to the most dreadful sufferings. Bands of
assassins, among whom are many Janissaries and
Asiatics, run up and down the streets of the capi-
tal, and give themselves up to the most unheard.
of atrocities. 4 It •is in vain foreign .Ministers,
unke representations. The Divan always answers
in an evasive manner.. The number of fires be-
comes always more frequent.
On the 18th Nov., the day when the war
against the Persians was proclaimed at Constan-
tinople, the Ottoman Government received the
news that the Persians,
.after a bloody battle,
had ' taken possession of Musch, and advanc-
ed by forced marches against
_Erzerum ; al-
most at the same time it was informed that
the Greeks had taken .Tripolizza by assault.
This news roused the fury -of the Turks to the
utmost degree. The Divan, which dreaded the
effects of this effervescence, published that the
Ottoman army had gained great successes against
the Greeks, in the Peninsula of Cassandra. , It
was even added that Choirschiid Pacha had beat
the troops of Ali Pacha. However, the truth
will not 'be- long in being known, . and then
nothing will stop a furious population, bent only
on the destruction of the Christians.

CANDIA, Nov. 29.—The Greeks occupy all
the open country here. The Turks are shut up
in a few places, where they are dying of hunger.
CONSTANTINOPLE,NOV:27.—We are in expecta-
tion of great events. The agents of the Christian
Powers are making preparations to facilitate the
flight of their families, in case of need. The
nearer the crisis approaches, the more the fanati-
cism of the Mdssulmans increases : it has risen to
a height of which no idea can be formed. A re-
volt is announced in Syria and Mesopotamia.
These provinces wish to become independent of
the Porte.

VIENNA, DEC. 18.—After the arrival of two
couriers, who were conducted by the Prince de
Metternich to the Emperor, the report has been
circulated that there have been dreadful scenes
at Constantinople, that the Sultan Mahmoud and
his sons have been strangled, and that upwards
of 5000 Christians have been massacred.

LEIPSIC, DEC. 17.—0 n the 14th several
couriers passed through here, coming from St.
Petersburgh and Berlin, among whom was a
Secretary of Legation. On the 15th, a respect-
able commercial, house received advices from
Vienna, that the Russians had passed the Prod],
and that war had broken out, which has been
confirmed by other news.