The Sun.
London, England, 1822-09-09 00:00:00

TIIE LONDON JOUItN4,S.

EXTRA IS FROM 'NU. Dll LY MORNING PAPERS,
September 9, 1822.

['MORNING CIIRONTCLE.]
The whole of last week has been spent
amongst the Ministers and their Royal Head in
bickerinff and dispute, as to the individual to
whom shall' be assigned the seat in Council, and
the redoubtable office in the House of Commons
recently filled by Lord Londonderry. We learn
from a respectable quarter, that from the very
delicate state of Mr. Peel's health, that Gentle-
man would gladly renounce the honour of Leader
in the Lower House of Parliament, which has
been ardently pressed upon him by the greatest
Personage, could any other adequate repre-
sentative be found. If, however, the Royal
repugnance should not he overcome; it is thought
he may be brought to make a sacrifice of per-
sonal convenience on the altar of public duty.—
The time presses for a decision respecting what
may well be called " Hobson's Choice," for if
Mr. Canning goes to India, he must depart early
in October. The wily Chancellor is said most
reluctantly to have yielded, though he did not,
as was currently reported on Saturday, tender at
the foot of his Sovereign the Seals, and request
to be allowed to resign ; but having at last got the
better of his doubts and scruples, he consents to
admit Mr. Canning into office, so that the hitch at
the present moment is not with Lord Eldon, but
with a much higher power. Could the deeply rooted
objection be removed even in a certain quarter,
there still appears considerable difficulty, as to
the ostensible post to be assigned to the embryo
Governor-General of India. The story is, that
Lord Bathurst will be Foreign Secretary, Fre-
deric Robinson will go to the Colonies, Mr. Can-
ning to the Admiralty, and Lord Melville to
India ; but there would be an extreme awkward-
ness, nay, in the event of war, almost an impos-
sibility, in the First Lord of the Admiralty lead-
ing. the House of Commons.

['MORNING POST.)
The conflagration of. Jassy, in Moldavia, is
hilly confirmed. The appointment of a new
Ilospodar, and the apparent settlement of all
existing differences, had induced many of the
Boyards to return to their possessions in that
principality ; trade revived, and all announced
peace and prosperity, when in the night of the
10th of August, the streets suddenly resounded
with furious yells, and every house was forced
open and plundered by the Janissaries, who had
Marched back unknown to the inhabitants. In a
short tune they proceeded from pillage and all its
concomitant excesses to wanton destruction, and
the town presented one universal blaze :—" At
the departure of the Courier," says an account
dated from Suczawa, on the Moldavian frontier,
"the number of houses destroyed by the confla-
gration was estimated at twenty thousand ! It
was feared that those which had hitherto escaped
would share the same fate. This intelligence is
Unfortunately official, and we expect more detailed
particulars every moment. Till then we are lost
in conjectures respecting so surprising and so de-
plorable a catastrophe."—lt now remains to be
seen whether the Emperor Alexander has so far
abjured the views of mingled ambition and
generosity which had induced him to arm against
Turkish oppression and atrocities, to be satisfied
with the mode in which the evacuation of Mol-
davia and Wallachia has been carried on, and
the efficiency of which is strikingly exemplified
-
by this new sample of Ottoman treachery and
barbarity.

[mwrisn PRESS.]
The time for holding the Congress at Vienna is
not yet announced, but we are told by an article
in a Hamburgh Paper that the Emperor of Russia
actually left Petersburgh on the 16th of August for
Warsaw, where he was to remain until the Ist of
this month, and then proceed direct toVienna, for
the purpose of assisting at the Congress. We find
in the Coizstitutionnel of Wednesday a speculation
upon the probable views and principles that
will influence the deliberations -of the Assembly.
But this can be treated only as the conjecture of
some private individuals, and is remarkable only
as it is said to accord with the notions generally
entertained upon this subject by the people of
Germany. The well-known characters of the
Allied Sovereigns, as they have been displayed
by their conduct in the former general Congress,
and their subsequent proceedings, necessarily
teach us to expect in the ensuing assembly a
repetition of their denunciations against the pro-
gress of freedom, and the means of extending
political science throughout Europe.

[moaNtsor licaaLn.3
On Saturday it was reported at the Stock
Exchange, that the Bank of England had it in
contemplation to reduce the rate of interest on
its Stock as much as two per cent.—namely,
from ten, which it yielded, 'to eight. Of course,
a compensation, in the way of bonus, would be
made to the presept holders of Bank Stock. Thus
the Bank of England would he following the ex-
ample set by Mr. Vansittart in his financial ope:
ration on the Navy Five per Cents. All tltif
would appear to be done in conjunction with the
Chancellor of the Exchequer; and the object
must be to bea,t down as much as possible the
rate of interest in this country, so.as to get up the
price of Stocks generally. The/Four per Cents.
are nowt at par, oi..nearly so. The Chancellor's
next essay will be to get up the price, if possible,
as much above par as the Five per Cents. had ar-
rived at. If he can force them up to 110, he
would then bring in a Bill, similar to that of last
Session, to pay oil', as he would call it, the Four

per Cents.

[THE Es.]
If Those'members of our Ministry whose busi-
ness is to look after the affairs of foreign com-
merce can spare a little time from domestic in-
trigues and perplexities, we would recommend to
them to turn their attention to a Royal Ordinance
for lowering the duties hitherto payable by vessels
of the United States on entrance into the ports of
France. We were prePared fur this by aTormer
statement from America, announcing that a treaty
bad been signed, and that the President had