The Sun.
London, England, 1824-11-29 00:00:00

TIIEG MEEKS.

(From the Oriental Spstlalor.)
SMYRNA, OCT. 12.—During the whole of the night of the
6th of this month we heard the report of connon at a distance.
An explosion at midnight made the whole city feel a slight
shock, which was taken for that of an earthquake.
We afterwards learned the particulars of an action, which
fatal as it was to the commanders of the Ottoman vessels,
nevertheless covered them with glory.
A Tunisian polacre and an Egyptian brig, leaving Fwllin to
join the Ottoman fleet which had sailed from Mitylene, was
surrounded anti attacked in the night between Caraboumon
and tkio, by the Greek -flotilla of 60 sail. The Tunisian Cap.
Min, after having fought with the most heroic courage and
done incredible-damage to the enemy, blew up his ship by or.
dering the powder to be seton fire. One of the crew was picked
by the French corvette, ha Victorieuse.
Though the Egyptian brig remained alone, the Greeks, not-
withstanding the enormous disproportion of force in their fa.
your, did not attempt to take It, so terrible was the fire which it
kept up without intermission, but sent two fire-ships, which
perished without effecting any for the Egyptian captain
ran his vessel ashore, and barnt it.
thing,,
The cannonatietrvnui heals] by the Ottoinan fleet. A Turkish
frigate came up first. The Greeks sent four fire ships against
it, but the friate stink all the four. Other Turkish
came .and
the Greeks fled, having had many men killed,
and suffered considerable damage.
The second day after this event the Ottoman fleet, driven by
a violent south windj was cruising off Mltylene. The Greeks
were seen near Scio. •
Last .week the Otuso.an..aquadron was at ,anchor in the
best order before Chssnie. It consisted of seventy-two ships
of war. Forty:two creek vessels were seen approaching, and
the Ottomans intsiediately sailed; but the Greeks, as usual,
fled. Next dry the Ottoman squadron was cruising off
Mitylene.
Two passed at Napoli di Romania.
31. li nunanding the Austrian schooner Arethusa,
anidmieproarts,
ontevents have
entered that port on the night of the 2d October, to niake seri-
ous remonstrances respecting the two Austrian vessels which
had been detained by the Hydriots and condemned under van'.
otnvretexts. Several of the crew had been scandalously beaten
with ropes, to make then declare the place of their destination.
equal dignity and energy, insisted on their
rAi. estonaratnidonee,rann' withhdwtiltie indemnity which he had aright toclaim, but
the Menibers of the tioverninent sought to elude his' demands.:
The same day, October :hi, the English frigate, the Sybille, com-
manded by Commodore Feschel (query Pechell) arrived at Ns.
}soli. That officer summoned the Greek Government to give
him satisfaction in twelve hours. At the expiration of this
time (half-past nine in the evening), seven English boats; filled
with armed men, went to board the three schooners of the
Greek Government. The crews awoke in terror, and escaped
by swimming to the battery on shore,
where a great tumult was
heard, and a cry to tire, but only, three muskets loaded with ba
were fired.

At day-break the frigate was preparing to sail, with the three
schooners and a brig, sent by the Philhellenes, which had onl
board 360,000 talaris, and which, instead of delivering that Stith
to the Greeks, had immediately placed itself under the pro-
tection of the English. Commodore. The latter then saw seve-
ral Members of the Senate come in a long-boat, as supplicants,
but he told them that he was only beginning to act, that he
was going imediately to join his squadron off Cape Colonna,
then to proceed against the Greek fleet. The Deputies of the
Senate conjured him to suspend the execution of his threats,
and not to attack the fleet, without which Greece would be ruin-
ed. The Commander promised to defer the execution of
the orders of the English Admiralty on the three following
conditions

L To annul every decree of blockade whatever, and especially
that of the latter end of 31tii,
2. To pay' immediately the Erni of 200,000 TUrkish piastres,
as an indemnity. for the damage done to the vessels taken in the
Isle of Ithaco, in the month of Alarch.
3. A personal satisfaction of the chiefs of the ;reek expedi-
tion which 'violated ,the neutrality of the territory, by attacking
in the said island the vessel itvquestion.
The English cornmstuler,wtut afterwards seen to set sail with
the three schooners and the brig.

MfTYLENE, OCT. 4. :Yesterday the combined Ottoman
squadron put to sea. The Cavitan Pacha has sent back to the
Dardanelles three large men opytir. ' "

W! are indebted to aCorrespondent, who is an
industrious reader of tlfe Continental Journals, for the ,subjoin-
ed account respecting the greet and increased attention that is
now being devoted by the Russian :Government to the study of
the Oriental Languages in St. 'Peteraburith by the- Natives
of Russia. It strikes me, observes our intelligent Correspond.
ent, that the solution to all this is the longing
eye which the
Russian Government has upon the riches and wealth of the
great Indian Continent. " The General College for Oriental
Literature at St. Petersburgh," says a Journal published in
that city on the 30th oh. " is confided to the care of Professor
SENKOWSKIE and his adjunct Doliaraar, a learned native of
'Persia. The institute which was organized last year by his
Excellency Count NESSELRODE,
of the Foreign Department,
for the acquirement of the Eastern Languages, was for the first
to be limited to 16 Students, though it will shortly be extended
to a much greater another. Exclusively of the three great
leading languages of Asia, viz. the Arabic, the Persian, and the
Turkish, the pupils are taught.the Tartarian, the Mogul, the
Calinuc, the Chinese, the Georgian, the Arminian, and the new
Greek tongues. Four of the pupils have already quitted the
Institute, and gone to the Caucasus to exercise the functions of
Interpreters under General SERSOLOW, the Governor-in-Chief.
The Director of this learned Establishment is the Counsellor of
State, M. ADELUNG. It seems to be generally understood,
that his Imperial Majesty contemplates the Institution of a
third College, for the study of
Oriental Literature, but more
especially the Languages,—and that such College will be under
'the controul or management of the General Staff of the
Army:" •
ELLING WONDEIIB.—One day when a person
hail been relating many incredibleatories, Professor ENGEL who
was present, in order to repress his impertinence, said "'But,
Gentlemen, this is all a mere trifle, when I assure you that the
celebrated organist,
Abbe VOGLER once imitated a thunder
storm so well, that for miles round all the milk was turned sour."