The Sun.
London, England, 1840-11-10 00:00:00

COMMODORE NAPIER.

Perhaps there is not another man in the world so fit
in all respects for the work he has to do as Napier.
When he commanded a British frigate, he was always
looked upon as a sort of Lord Cochrane run mad ; not
mad, however, without method ; for he is both skilful and
calculating ; but mad to rush to the cannon's mouth on
all occasions, and never so much delighted as when en-
gaged in the turmoil and danger of close action. To a
personal appearance highly eccentric, he adds an un-
ceasing activity and untameable enterprise. In the
last American war, he and Captain Gordon took their
frigates, in spite of a thousand obstacles, up the Potomac,
to the town of Alexandria, where they destroyed the
national stores and did immense damage of various kinds.
On their return they had to pass close to a point of
land which jutted into the river. Here were posted
four or five thousand American troops, covered by the
brushwood, and these made sure of the two frigates, sup-
posing that they could sweep off the crews by a single
volley of their musketry. Gordon and Napier were
not so easily caught. They were quite aware of the
trap laid for them. On approaching the point of land,
the frigates were weighed down on the starboard side,
which had the effect of elevating the muzzles of their
larboard broadsides ; the crew were protected from
musketry by an impenetrable rampart of hammocks,
&c.;sails, the guns were loaded with triple charges of
grape, canister, musket balls, pieces of iron, nails, and
other missiles of the like kind ; and with these the un-
derwood was severely scoured, and the American troops
scampered off without their expected prizes ! Napier,
however, did not go scot-free. Disdaining all cover, he
jumped up some elevation on the quarter-deck to see " the
fun," and received a musket-ball in the back part of his
neck, one of the effects of which severe wound is a for-
ward inclination of the head, thereby increasing the pe-
culiarity of the gallant Captain's personal appearance.
His subsequent exploits are well known, not the least
distinguished of which was Ilisocapture of the whole of
Don Miguel's fleet, an operation completed in about
twelve minutes. He has entered upon his present ser-
vice in a similar spirit. He was among the first to go
on shore, and there he might be seen in his shirt sleeves
digging in the trenches (by way of example) and tugg-
ing at the heavy guns. Such a man, at the head of
British seamen and marines, can accomplish whatever
is in the power of man ; and should the French venture
upon the experiment of another struggle for naval supe-
riority, depend upon it that Napier's name will be again
'neard of, and he will always be found in the van, in the
thick of the enemy, regardless of the numbers, and vic-
torious too ; for his boldness is tempered by skill, and
upheld by an unconquerable resolution.

PARIS, TUESDAY --Iwrote .
to you this day week,
giving you some account of the session at the Deaf and
Dumb Asylum here, and of the sensation which Dr.
Turnbules wondeerlu'l. cures had produced. :I went
to-day to see him
etry his skill on a young gen-
tleman, a private ient, on whom, his friends stated,
all kinds of experimentspa had been tried, bleeding, cup-
ping, introduction of instruments into the car, without
producing the least effectsi upon the organ of sound ;
and again, I have great pleasure in bearing testimony
to the efficacy of the D
short minutes this young gentleman treatment. After a few
nir heard so distinctly
that, not being able to hear thee
ear,octor's watch ticking
hopasmsiandge
at a short distance from the
through
the to us that it was because a carriage
in him ;
the street, the noise of which inconveniencedwas
Paris might
twenty minutes before all the carriaes
have rolled through the same street, and not only would
they not have prevented his hearing the tick"
watch, but he would not have heard themselvewsg pofea 1
viously and subsequently he heard the ticking, not; only
of the Doctor's but of strangers' watches. If I troubley 1
you too much upon this matter I do so, believe me, be. ,1
cause I know that you have a great quantity of philan-
thropy yourself; and that I believe in giving publicity I
to a discovery so truly wonderful, we are doing a ser-
vice
to suffering humanity.—Mming Advertiser. t

VISCOUNT PALMERSTON TO

EARL GRANVILLE.

Foreign Office, Nov. 2, 1840.
MY LORD,—The despatch of the Bth of October,
from M. Thicrs to M. Guizot, which was officially com-
municated to her Majesty's Government by M. Guizot
on the 10th of October, afforded to her Majesty's
Government the liveliest satisfaction by the renewed
assurances which it contained, that love :of peace is a
constant sentiment of the French Government ; that
Europe may reckon upon the disinterestedness of
France in regard to the affairs of the Levant ; that
France considers the existence of the Turkish empire,
in its integrity and independence, essential for the
dearest interests of Europe, because the fall of that
empire would increase the power of neighbouring States,
at the expense of the general equilibrium ; and that
France will devote all her means to the maintenance of
peace, and to the upholding of the balance of power in
Europe.
These assurances, indeed, are in strict accordance with
all the previous diplomatic communications which her
Majesty's Government has received from that of France
during the progress of these negotiations ; and they arc
of high value in the eyes of her Majesty's Government
as pledges that, notwithstanding some differences of
opinion between the Powers of Europe as to the parti-
cular matters of detail, the general agreement of all the
Great Powers upon the fundamental principles which
ought to regulate their conduct in these affairs will pre-
vent any interruption of peace.
The main subject of M. Thiers' despatch is the edict
of the Sultan depriving Mehemet Ali of his government
of Egypt ; and my despatches to your Excellency, No.
291, of the 17th ultimo, and to Lord Ponsonby, No.
195, of the 15th ultimo, which have been communi-
cated to the French Government, contain so fall a
statement of the view which has been taken by her
Majesty's Government of that measure, that it is unne-
cessary for me on the present occasion to add anything
further upon that point. But there are some remarks
which have suggested themselves to her Majesty's Go-
verment upon some passages of M. Thiers' despatch,
which your Excellency is instructed to submit for the
consideration of the French Cabinet.

M. Thiers says that France, in accepting with a re-
ligious fidelity the state of Europe, such as it resulted
from treaties (by which it is presumed are meant the
treaties of 1815), has understood that the state should
not be changed, either for the benefit or to Me detri•
ment of any existing power. In this understanding her
Majesty's Government entirely agrees ; and her Ma-
jesty's Government conceives that an arrangement which
has for its object to prevent Egypt and Syria from being
severed from the Turkish empire is in strict conformity
with this understanding, and in accordance both with
its letter and with its spirit.
M. Thiers states that the integrity of the Otto-
man empire embraces the shores of the Black Sea
and those of the Red Sea, and that it is as impor-
tant to maintain the independence of Egypt and
Syria as that of the Bosphorus and Dardanelles.
But her Majesty's 'Government presumes that what
is meant to be expressed in this passage is, not that
the particular portions of the Turkish empire therein
mentioned should be made separately independent,
because that would be a dissolution of the Turkish em-
pire ; but that the sovereign power which rules the
whole of the Turkish empire should be able to exert its
paramount authority with entire independence of foreign
control, as fully and completely on the shore of the
Red Sea as on that of the Black Sea ; in Egypt and
in Syria, as on the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles.
In this opinion her Majesty's Government concurs, and
the measures which arc now in course of execution by
the Four Powers, in regard to Syria, appear to her
Majesty's Government to be strictly in furtherance of
these views.

So far her Majesty's Government is glad to find
itself concurring in the positions laid down in M. Thiers'
despatch ; but her Majesty's Government cannot equally
agree in the opinion expressed therein, that the pre-
sent condition of the Pacha of Egypt is an essential
element of the balance of power in Europe.
The whole of M. Thiers' argument on this point
seems to rest on the assumption, that the continued
existence of Mehemet Ali in his present condition as
Pacha of Egypt is a source of strength to the Sultan,
and tends to enable the Sultan the better to defend
himself against foreign and domestic danger ; because
if it is admitted that Mehemet Ali is a Governor using
against his sovereign an authority which has been con-
fided to him for the benefit of that Sovereign, and em-
ploying in hostility against the supreme power of the
State, the resources, military, naval, and financial, of an
important portion of the empire itself ; if, in short, he
is, to use the words of the despatch, " a Pacha disobe-
dient towards his master, and depending upon all sorts
of foreign influences," it is manifest that the continued
existence of a subject in such a state of insubordination
and enmity towards his Sovereign, must be a source of
weakness, and not of strength to that Sovereign, and
must render him less, instead of more able, to defend

I himself against either foreign or domestic danger, am
must, therefore, according to the principles of M
'Tiers' despatch, impair the balance of power.
But the opinion of the Turkish Government, which
may be allowed to be a competent judge on this mat-
ter, has for some time been, that the continued exis-
tence of Mehemet Ali in his present state of military
power, and with his hostile intentions towards the Sultan,
is incompatible with the internal peace and integrity of
the Ottoman empire, and destructive of the indepen-
dence of the Sultan as regards his relations with foreign
Powers : and, undoubtedly, the experience of the last
few years has too fully shown that this opinion is not
unfounded.

The extent of the limits within which it may be
necessary to confine the delegated authority of Me-
hemet Ali, in order to make it probable that for the
future he may be an obedient instead of a disobe-
dient subject, and may, therefore, become a source
of strength, instead of being a cause of weakness to
the Ottoman empire, is a point upon which opinions
may differ ; and that question it is not requisite for
me now to 'discuss. But her Majesty's Government
conceives that whatever may be the opinions enter-
tained on this point by Foreign Powers, such
opinions can only serve to regulate the advice which
those Powers may tender to the Sultan, nr to determine
the extent of the assistance which they may be disposed
to afford him ; but that it rests with the Sultan, as So-
vereign of the Turkish empire, to decide which of his
subjects shall be appointed by him to govern particular
portions of his own dominions, and that no Foreign
Power has a right to control the Sultan in the discre-
tionary exercise of one of the inherent and essential at-
tributes of independent sovere.gnty.
The question of principle which I have thus adverted
to, may probably not have any practical bearing upon
events now in progress, but her Majesty's Government
has felt anxious that it should not, by silence on this
matter, leave its opinions liable to be misunderstood.
Your Excellency will give a copy of this despatch to
the Minister for Foreign Affairs.
I am, &c.,
(Signed) PALMERSTON.

THE LATE EXTRAORDINARY

AFFAIR AT RICHMOND.

The circumstances connected with the recent disturb.
ante at Richmond, Surrey, an account of which appeared
in yesterday's papers, have assumed a somewhat serious as.
pect, and are likely to lead to the adoption of strong mea.
sures against some of the parties concerned. It appears
that, after the Magistrates discharged Mrs. Anna Maria
Nelson, the lady who lays claim to the manor of Richmond,
she returned to Mr. Smith's residence in Hill-street late
on Saturday evening, and a large concourse of persons as.
sembled and threatened to destroy that gentleman's pro-
perty. The lady was cheered and encouraged by the
mob, and she demanded a certificate from the magistrate,
Mr. Penrhyn, before whom she had been examined, setting
forth that no felonious charge existed against her. Mr.
Penrhyn having quitted the office, Mr. Smith was unable
to comply with Mrs. Nelson's demand. Mrs. Nelson said,
as she could not obtain the certificate she should not con-
sider the promise she had made to the Magistrate, not to
visit West Hall again, as binding. She and her followers
afterwards adjourned to an inn.
The property the lady lays claims to belongs to the
Crown, and has done so since the reign of James I. Mr.
Powell, of the Woods end Forests, is the steward of the
manor, and Mr. Smith is the deputy. The latter gentle-
man is treasurer of the parish of Richmond, and holds
other responsible offices. His family have for the last
three centuries resided in the town, but prejudice has
been created against him.
Yesterday Mr. Smith forwarded to the Treasury the de-
positions that were taken against Mrs. Nelson on the charge
of stealing the gate and door keys of West-hall. It is the
general opinion that the Lords of the Treasury will instruct
Messrs. Pemberton and Crawley, the solicitors, of White-
hall, to indict all the parties concerned for conspiracy, in
the event of any further molestation taking place.
It appears that Mrs. Nelson as far back as three years
ago laid claim to a house upon Richmond-hill, which
. belonged about a century since to a person named
Nelson, but which, had subsequently fallen into the
hands of the Crown. Upon that occasion she ap.
plied to Lord Melbourne upon :the subject, and
Mr. Smith examined the deeds bat could not trace
the slightest title to her. Since then her claim has in-
creased to the whole of the Crown property in Richmond.
She seems to be verging upon 60 years of age, and is an
educated woman. Mrs. Nelson has always plenty of mo-
ney with her when she visits Richmond. The lady's claims
lo not appear to be confined to Richmond, as she delivered
several printed advertisements for holding Courts Baron
in different parts of the country. Among other proper.
-ies mentioned were West Tofts, otherwise West Hall,
Norfolk, Langford Hall, otherwise Langforth, and the
manor of Little Buckenharn and parish of lekborough, in
the same county.
Upon one occasion Mrs. Nelson obtained from the Court
of Queen's Bench a rule nisi, calling upon Mr. Smith to
show cause why be should not give up the papers, writings,
&c. relating to the manor of Richmond, but on the day
Person appeared in Court
of Mrs.
fNorelhsocnacingbethhaelf.rule, no

It is stated that Lord Ward has recently added
to leis already vast territorial possessions the noble estates
of Glengarry, in the north of Scotland, which he pur-
chased by public auction fur the sum of 91,0001. Worces-
er Herald.