The Sun.
London, England, 1814-08-30 00:00:00

mantled.

BUCHANT, JULY 30.—A Tartar, who arrived
here yesterday from Constantinople, brought to
the Prince Regent of Walachia the news that
one of the wives of the Grand Seignior was just
delivered of a Prince, who had received the name
of Sultan Ahmed. This event has caused univer-
sal joy—the Prince has bestowed a number of
presents upon the Tartar who brought the news,
MADRID, AUG. I6.—His Majesty continues to
visit the public Establishments of the Capital, and
to receive addreiies of. felicitation from the dif-
lerent cities and provinces of his kingdom. His
:gaiety has re-established the Counsel of Revenue
of the Crown on the footing on which'it existed
in I 805. It has joiuea to its'function the cog-
nizance of affairs with which it was occupied be-
fore the jthittion of Commerce and Revenue.
VIENNA,' AUG. 14.—The number of strangers
who arrive here almost daily to assist at the Con-
gress is extremely great,.and lodgings are at Most
enormous prices. For some days our Course of
Exchange has been sensibly ameliorated.
GENEVA, Auo. 20.—The Projet of a Consti-
Jution,for the Republic of Geneva, which a Com-
. mission had been charged to digest, has heencom
tnuuicated to the Ministers of the High Allied

rort•ers, as well as to the Tielvetic Diet, and hav-
ing received their approbation, the Projet will he.
presented for the sanction•of the Genevese.
HAMBIJiGH, is believed that the
city of FrankfOrt is designed as a place of union
for the Deputies of the States which will com-
pose the German Confederation. The city of Mer-
gentheim, which now makes part of the kingdom
of Wurtemburg, will become the chief plate of the
Teutonic Order.- •

FRENCH FUNDS, Atio. 26.
5 per Cents, 7q f. 50 c. to 77 f. 10 ci
Actions of the Bank, 1150 f. 1152 f. 50c. 1155 f.

INDIA.

EXTRACT OF A LETTER DATED CALdUTTA, FEE. 9.

" Our passage to Madras was uncommonly
pleasant, having been only four months from
Portsmouth. On arriving •there, I endeavoured
to get rid of our investment (which, from the ex-
cellent weather we experienced during the voyage,
was in the best possible condition), contenting
myself with asking a very moderate profit. Judge
my surprise, when your friends, ,to whore you so
strongly recommended me, generously offered
,me
prime cOst,, provided they alright reject above a
third of the investment. Indignant at such an
offer, I immediately left their house, and pro.
eeeded to another; here, I am sorry to say,
met with no better 'encouragement, and I deter-
mined to abandon the idea of breaking bulk , at,
this settlement ; and'l am sure you will not eetf-
sure- me for so doing ; for, had I complied with
such an offer, you well know, that when the tin-
ties, landing expellees, breakage, and leakage,
were deducted, that 1 should be minus above 30
per cent. A few days afterwards, we got under
weigh for Bengal, and on the eighth day we took
a pilot. in Balasore roads,. and in a few hours af-
tetwards, we anchored in the Hoogly. On my
'arrival,at this place, I found the markets most
completely glutted.' Scarcely a European article
that I could not purchase at outcry at less than
one-half of its prime cost in London. Every at-
tempt, therefore, to sell our investment to a shop-
keeper was fruitless, and I had only one alterna-
tive, which was, to submit to the drudgery of a
retail, trusting to the kindness of some of my
friends, to take such articles as they stood in need
of, and to allow me to charge a fair advance—
In this I was tolerably fortunate, but after three
months hard fagging, I was left with above half
of the investment. No other mod-e of getting rid
. of it but by the hatuiner was left, and to this me-
lancholy sacrifice I was obliged to submit. When
I tell you that excellent boots were knocked down
at from 6 to S rupees a .pair, and almost every
article nearly in the same proportion, I fear you
will think I am grossly exaggerating; but, alas !
the fact is too notorious. lam winding up the
concern as fast as possible, and if 1 get off upon
the same terms whiclA rejected at Madras, I shall
consider myself lucky. I see no prospect of things
mending, for excepting two or three ankles of
a perishable nature, there are in Caleutaa at this
moment above three years consumption. As to
the prices current, which theSircars -and Banyans
send to Europe, they are gross impositionS : it is
undoubtedly their interest. to have a large impor-
tation, by which means their frauds and rob-
beries are much increased. What money I have
collected I shall invest in indigo ; but this article
is now very high here, and unless the price is
correspondently so on our arrival in England, we
shall make but a sorry trip of it. I firmly belieVer
_if the greatest attention had not.been paid, as
well in the purchase as in thc•sale of every ar-
ticle, that, heavy as our loss is, it Would have
been doubled. Such an investment, .consigned
,to the most respectable houses of agency in India,
would not have produced one half of its original
cost. My mind has been barrassed to death, and
had it not been for the troubles and difficulties at
the Custom-house on re-landing, I would have
brought many articles back.
" have bought for you'two pipes of very fine
London particular Madeira, for which I have paid
6bo rupees per pipe ; it has been three years its
this country.. An inferior sort I could have had
for half the money."