The Sun.
London, England, 1822-04-12 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRONTIERS OF MOLDAVIA, MARCH 14.—0 n
the 9th, in the evening,a•fire broke out at Jassy
and destroyed before the morning five hundred
and.eighty houses. The others had already been
so devastated by the Turks, that this city,
which contained many elegant buildings in the
Aiost modern European taste, resembled a heap
of ruins. The Janissaries in Jassy were accused
of having been the cause of the fire, and got into.

.a quarrel on account of this accusation with the
other troops (Tilemes), so that a sharp conflict
ensued between them, which was not over when
the post departed at 10 o'clock P.M. of the 11th.
The Janissaries fought with great fury in the

streets of the onfortunate town ; the Tilemes
defended themselYes from the houses, by which
WO of the inhabitants were killed or wounded
erk the first day. Of the Janissaries, 100 killed

and 80 wounded, were brought into the yard of
the i'rince's Court. The loss of the other party
could not be conjectured. Some Germans who
have arrived from Jassy cannot find terms to
41escribe the misery that reigns in Moldavia.—
Tire land is no where tilled ; all the merchan-
dize, especially cloths, have been seized by the
urks. In the streets, which are never remark-
ably clean, dead horses, half putrifiefil, lie about,

and only a few half-naked Gypsies are to be
teen. Were not the peas-ants in Moldavia and
Walachia already accustomed to live under the
zeverest oppression, they certainly would not en-
dure the tyranny of the Turks ; but as there is

very little difference between the treatment they
experienced from the Boyars and theirAgents,and
that which they receive from the Turks, and the
peasants are so simple, that they have no notion
of their mela►►choly situation, but approach every
saperior, consequently the Turks, with the most
abject humility—they find all this quite natural.
As well the peasants as the gypsies have been
partly relieved by the Turks from the burden of
bringing up their children, almost every Janis-
sary having appropriated to himself some boys
and girls, and sent them to his own home. It
may be imagined what influence this state of
things has on the dull-minded, lazy, covetous
Boyars, who have a natural aversion from all in-
dustry and mental occupation, though in ge-
neral they are used merely to kill time,
and to live in luxury on the revenues of
their lands, and the contributions exacted with
great rigour from their inferiors. These Boyars,
who are now almost all fugitives, trouble them-
selves about political events, and even read the
newspapers, which is an extraordinary exertion
for them. Their entire hope is in the Russians,
whom they have not forgotten since 1812: time

will shew how far these hopes are well founded.
At this time there are hardly ten thousand Rus-
sian troops in Bessarabia, including the garrison,
,of Chotym ; as the rest have retired behind the
Dniester, probably from want of forage, and
perhaps also to get into more convenient quar-
ters.—l cannot conceive how the Journals could

state that Colonel Pentakoste, and other leaders
of the Hetarists, had been sent to Siberia, and
the Hetarists ordered into the interior. Credible

witnesses, who have just come from Bessarabia,

have seen Pentakoste at Kischeneff, Duca and
Osche, and the Hetarists, in Budecti and other
places. It would have been very ill judged of
the Russian Government, if it had ill-treated
these brave warriors, as long as its differences
with the Porte were not settled. The report was
probably caused by the arrest of two officers of
the Hetarists at Odessa, for having expressed
themselves in an unbecoming manner in a place

.of public resort, on the delay of the Russians.
VIENNA, MARCH 20.—The Austrian Observer
.. of the 27th, 28th, 29th,- and 30th of March in-
.clusive, has no news whatever from Greece or
Turkey.—On the 29th, the metalliques were 744-;
Bank shares 670 1-3.
MARCH 27.—Yesterday the metalliques were
at 74 ; the Bank shares at 664 1-6.
MARCH 28.—Yesterday the metalliques were
at 74k- ; the Bank shares 665.
FROM THE DANUBE, MARCH 29.—The Minis-
ters of Great Britain and Austria, after receiving
the Turkish Note 'of the 28th of February, were
.induced to break off the negociations with the
Ottoman Ministers, till they should receive fur-
. tiler instructions- from their respective Courts.
lIAMBUItGH, APRIL s.—On the 2d of April two
couriers arrived successively from Petersburgh,
at Berlin, which have caused great bustle in the
Ministerial Departments. It was reported that
the first had brought the news of the rejection of
The Ultimatum by the Turks; and -the second,
.the declaration issued •in consequence by the
'Russian Cabinet.

SPAIN.

CAniZ, MARCH 1 9.—The_ship of the line, the

Asiti, has happily cast anchor this afternoon at
:;the mouth of the port, and'buta very few vessels
,-belonging to the convoy are behind. The only
,one that has been lost is the armed schooner brig
Sorpresa, which was wrecked on the 18th, at
eight in the evening, on the coast between Rota
..-and Chipiona : the crew were saved, and it is
'hoped that.the greater part of the cargo, consist-

Of 117,000 piastres, will be recovered.
VALENCIA, MARCH t3.-Our troubles do not
cease. The day . before yesterday a troop of
Students, seduced by the favourers of anarchy,
appeared before a post of artillery, .insulted it,
and had afterwards a quarrel with other indi-

duals of the same arrny, at the gates of the
-.liniveTsity.' The alcalde of The nearest barrier,
,who endeavoured to restore tranquillity, was
.pelted with stones, as 'well as fout -soldiers of the
,regiment of Zamora, whom he had called to his
assistance. In these circumstances, thirty soldiers
with an officer appeared to check this tumult,
,and the Students being confined for a moment
Within the University, offered to the Political
Chief,- who immediately arrived, to be quiet, and
mot utter any more cries ; but scarcely had the
Political Chief, trusting in this assurance, caused
the soldiers to retire, when they again began to
throw stones, with cries of" Itiego for ever ;" to
which they added, the alarming expression,

-g' the Contitry is in 'danger," and others of the
anie *lna. - The COpunantlant General, the Po-

litical Chief, and the soldiers, at whose head they
walked, were pelted with stories, amidst cries of
" Riego for ever." The next day the Alcalde,
who had so honourably done his duty on the
21st, was dismissed by the Municipality from
his employment in the Secretary's Office, which
he had filled for many years. This deserving
individual has been deprived of his livelihood, as
a recompence, we suppose, for his generous ad-
herence to the cause of the public.
An Address is spoken of from the Munici-
pality to the Political Chief, on the 21st, in
which, after complaining of the battalion of ar-
tillery, they say the contagion has spread to
Zamora, which regiment enjoyed till now a
distinguished reputation for liberalism. It is
said too that the Municipality tells the Political
Chief, that it cannot but resist the violences com-
mitted against the inhabitants of this capital ; a
language which is the more strange, as it is noto-
rious that no inhabitants have been ill-treated
but the inveterate agents of disorder, and the
constant fomenters of aggression and insult.
The nocturnal meetings of the factious continue,
to the great terror of all honest people. These
meetings will infallibly ruin this city, unless they
are annihilated, considering them as what they
are, that is, a band of conspirators against the
repose of the citizens, and the respect due to
the laws.

MADRID, MARCH 27.—There have been some
disturbances, or rather attempts to create disturb-
ance at Lorea, on the 19th, when some persons
who were singing patriotic sons in honour of the
anniversary of the Constitution, were insulted by
others singing the Tragala.
Accounts from
.Aranjues of the 25th say, there
had been a slight disturbance in the theatre the
day before, on a dispute whether patriotic songs
should be sung or not. Order was, however,
not materially interrupted.
Accounts from Barcelona speak of new ma-
noeuvres of the factious, of which the authorities
were, however, fully aware.

THE lONIAN ISLANDS.

Gibraltar Papers, to the 18th ult. contain
the following Instrument, issued by Sir THOMAS
MAITLAND :

" PROCLA3IATION.

" His Excellency the Governor having maturely and deli-
berately considered the important question, how far the corn
monopoly, which has existed for centuries in these islands, shall
be done away with, and having called to his aid the opinions
of such persons in these islands who thought themselves com-
petent to give any opinion on the subject, he feels himself dis-
posed, though with considerable doubt and difficulty on his
part, to try the experiment of throwing open the commerce of
this most important article of necessity. His Excellency does
it with doubt and difficulty, because he is convinced, generally
speaking,,that the wisest system of government is to adhere to
what has been practically ascertained to be beneficial to the
people, in lieu of setting up novel theoretical speculations.—
Anxious, however, as his Excellency is to give a fair trial to
what it is thought will prove ultimately beneficial to these
islands, and equally alive to the necessity at the present moment
of stretching any point that even bears the appearance of in-
creasing either the commerce, or of giving employment to the
lower classes of the people here, he is pleased to proclaim,
for general information, :that on the Ist of July next the
commerce of grain of every kind shall be thrown open in
these islands.

" Having. come to this determination, his Excellency deems
it to be his duty to state, that it is not his intention that Go-
vernment should interfere in any manner (beyond what is here-
after mentioned) with the commerce of grain when once thrown
open, so long as the poorer classes of the inhabitants be sup-
plied with bread at a fair and moderate rate ; but as the Go-
vernment must keep a stock on hand to prevent any scarcity
or any sudden or excessive rise in th& price of corn, and as it
must continue its assistance in providing for the inhabitants,
should such high price he of any continuation, he deems it ab-
solutely necessary, to secure the interests of Government on one
hand, and to prOtect the agricultural interests on the other,
to adopt the following regulations and restrictions on this
head :

" 1. That, upon all wheat imparted into these islands for
consumption, a duty of 4 scudi per 'gam shall be levied, if im-
ported in vessels under the British or lonian flag, and 5 scudi
per salm, if imported in foreign vessels.
" 2. That, upon Indian corn imported into these islands for
consumption, a duty of 3 scudi per salm shall be levied, if im-
ported in British or lonian vessels, and 3. if imported in fo-
reign vessels.
" 3. That, upon all barley, rye, or other kinds used in mak-
ing bread, a duty of 2,1 scudi, in British or lonian ; and 3 in
foreign.
" 4. All paste flour, semolla, or farsa, 4 scudi.
(The remainder of the Proclamation relates entirely to the
details of carrying this important measure into execution.)
" By command of his Excellency,
(Signed) " RICHARD PLASKET.
" Dated Palace, Valetta, Jan. 24, 1822."