The Sun.
London, England, 1840-12-14 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 14,1810.

The LeipsicGazette, after announcing that Denmark
hed rut rt 7 fer sale her colon;es in fleieee a'' the ERR!
Lc tl.:eni in
opposition to England.
Much uneasiness prevailed in Paris, in consequence of a
newspaper statement that a French frigate had been sunk
by a British ship of war in the Red Sea, but the rumour,
we arc happy to observe, was not supported by any evi-
dence giving it a claim to credence.
The Commerce contains the following paragraph :
" The Moniteur de Gand of the 13th of Jane, 1815,
(five days before the battle of Waterloo), describes a
throne erected upon the Champ de Mars for the vote
of the new constitutions of the empire, and adds the
words, The Prince and nobles of the new em-
pire are already appearing upon the theatre prepared
for the new throne. The most eminent among them
is Marshal Ney. Next to him is ar.other Marshal,
who in the successive variety of parts he has played has
founded the monument of Quiheron, celebrated the funeral
rights of Leui► XVI., and the resurrection of Napoleon ;
has been Minister of Louis XVIII. when Bonaparte con.
suired, and Major. General of Bonaparte when Louis
XVIII. was betrayed I" " This portrait of Marshal Sault,"
adds the Commerce, " drawn by M. Guizot, is all the chore
piquant at thu moment when both are placed in the same
Cabinet, and are called upon to receive the ashes of Na-
poleon.
PEACE ow Wax.—" The Paris Bourse," says the Com-
merce, " was agitated by several reports on Thursday.
Among others was that of a loan contracted by /tali-
sia, with the house of Hope, at 41 per cent., at the rate
of 88. A question was also made of a notification
said to have been made to the French Governixe nt in
the name of the Germanic Confederation relative to
the continuation of the armaments in France. These
reports not only stopped the disposition to a rise
which had been manifesting itself, but induced even
a fall of 60c. upon the price, leaving the funds in the
same state as on the previous day." With these reports
were connected the notices containedin some of the Ger-
man papers, to which we yesterday alluded, and which at-
tribute the departure of General Von Hesse from Vienna
to a mission from the Austrian Court to the smaLer Courts
of Germany, that in case of a war with France they might
rely upon the assistance of Austria and Prussia, and that
both these Governments would keep an immense military
force in readiness to march upon the first signal. These
reports, according to the seine print, form the general
topic of conversation in the political salons of Paris, where
it is generally snpposed, from authentic sources, that the
French Cabinet would be glad to disarm, in order to calm
the apprehensions, real or feigned, of the Germanic Con.
federation, were it not embarrassed by the expression of
" armed peace" contained in the address, and the popular
feeling encited by the honours rendered to the glory of
Napoleon.
BOCLOGNE, DEC. 10.—Immediately after I despatched
my last letter this town was within a hair's breadth of
blown into the sea. It appears some men in the powder
magazine had incautiously lighted a fire in a chimney
which had not been used for several years, and the flue
toot fire. Towards one o'clock this morning the appear.
ances were most alarming, but happily at length the
flames were got under, and prevented from reaching to
the magazine. What an escape we all had 1 The blow-
ing up of Acre was a trifle in comparison, for there has
been for the last six weeks an immense quantity of powder
and munitions of all sorts stowed in this magazine. The
42i Regiment left this morning, having changed its
quarters ; but cavalry are pouring in in immense numbers,
why or wherefore I cannot divine, but I think it my dutj
to state the fact.

_
The report is revived at Madrid that M. Olozaga is to
be appointed to the pot,t of Ambassador at Paris ; and it
is reported that M. Antonio Gonnle is to go to London
in the same capacity.
A letter fron► Vienna of the Ist December says—" It is
affirmed that after the military conference, a corps of ob-
servation, of troops of the Confederation, will be formed
on the French frontier, and a loan is also spoken of to be
puranteed by t'.-2 States of the Confederation jointly."—
La Gazette de France.
A letter from Rhenish Prussia of December 6 has the
following paragraph :—" Your papers probably iilform
you that great military arrangements are making in Ger-
many. The friends of France in this country greatly fear
that a coup de main against you is contemplated for next
season.

" An invzsion of France, it is thought, would put an end
to the ConFtitutional system, which displeases the Sove-
reigns, and France being isolated, would necessary fall
back into the same political situation that it was in previously
to 1789 ; this is what is aimed at ; take care it will be ne-
cessary to conquer or die.—Courrier de la Marseille.
BO URSE.—Paats, SATURDAY, DSC. 12.

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Rank of rrance
Laffitte hank 1,000!. SO lOBO ...I. 80 ... 1080 ...It
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Bvlgian Bank
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ture emergencies, as no human power can ward off the re-
turn of a C!!1!:111it.y. • _ -

Pry •^.cknowiedgc the rerTl;-t r)f thi=. letlrr w. his
it is gratifying to me to afford a fresh proof of the interest
and care which such disastrous events require of me—
events, on the other band, which have excited your zeal
and devotedness in the investigation of their sad conse-
quences.
Receive, Sir, the assurance of my mast distinguished
consideration,

" Minister, Secretary of State to the
Department of Agriculture and Commerce,
"L. CUNIN GRIDAINE."

GERMAN Y.

VIENNA, DEC. 3.—The State and the sciences hgve just
suffentd a great and almost irreparable loss by the' dcatn of
the celebrated astronomer Vnn Littrow, Dicccrt,r of the
Observatory, and Professor of Astronomy in the University
of Vienna. . .

The statement contained in the last letters from the
East of the explosion of a mine at St. Jean d'Acre, is
without doubt groundhog, for a later report of Baron Ban-
dicra, Commander. of the Austrian Squadron, dat,d, the
6th of November, dues not make the slightest mention of
such en event. _

A, DEC. 4 _M. Von liummelauer, who was for
many years Contul of Legh 'rn at London, is appointed
Aulic Councillor. Baron Von HossehiJ of the G, neral
St.ff. will leave to morrow, cn his m:s,,,ien to the
States of Southeri: Germany.

(From the Austrian Observer.)
Leiters from Bey rout of the Bth speak of the explosion
of a mine at St. Jean d'Acre on the 6th of November,
which is said to have cost the lives of nearly 100 Turks
and English. The same letters say that Mahmud
lately Governor of St. Jean d'Acre, had been taken pri-
soner by the people of Ndplous, with all his baggage, in-
eluding fourteen mules laden with money, an 6 had been
trAten to St. Jean d'Acre ; but as letters from Beyrout of
tit! 9th do not mention it, there seems to b no doubt
that the two statements in the ai,ove-mentioned letters of
the Bth, which bring the long-known news of the eva-
cuation of the defiles of the Taurus, arc unfound. d.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 18.---A dreadful fire in Therapia
has consumed nearly 200 houses The summer palaces
of the English and French Ambassadors were injured.
Many valuable effects wt:re)saved front the houses, and put
on board a Greek ship at anchor in the harbour ; but the
Greek soon perceiving that a favourable wind blew, took
advantage of it, and suddenly sailed away with the whole
cargo. The British Ambassador is said to be a great
loser by this affair.

from the books of the Jewish religion shr,ws this it 6
prohibited for th<•3n Yi otq.. only r:t
but :

that the things they lay to their charge are pure calumnies.
" It must then follow, and such my love for mt subjects
requires it, that they shall not allow at all the Jewish na-
tion, whose innocence is evident, to he vexed and tor
mented by accusations which have not the least foundation
in them; and that, agreeably to the Hatti Scheriff which
has been published at Gul- Hanel', the Jewish nation shall
r,lso enjoy the same advantages and privileges Via, are eu-
joyed by the numerous nations submitted to my authority,
and that they shall be detended and protected.
" To this effect, I have given the most positive orders
that the Jewish nation, throughout the whole extent of my
empire, be equally protected with the rest of the subjects
of my Sublime po.t„, and that no one be permitted to
fewest them in any way what:oevor, without a just
neither in the free exercise of their religion, nor in what
reav concern their safety end tranquillity ; and for thi,
reason the present firman, which is ornamented above by
my houmayoun, and has emanated fionn my Imperial Chan-
cery, hies been delivered to the Jewish nation.
you ahoy-mentioned jedge, when you shall
kno, 1.0... at is going on, you will strive to procced with
care after the manner here above stated; and to prevent
at any time the violatioe of this firman, you shall cause it
to be registered in 'he archives of the tribunal ; you shal
then give i back to the JewiA nation, and you shall be
stow every care ant attention on the execution of my orders
and of my sov..reign will.

" Given at Constantinople, the 12th of R4tnavn, 1256
(6'h N.)v , 1840 )"

EGYPT.

CONVENTION AND CORRESPONDENCE BE
TWEEN COMMODORE NAPIER AND ME.
HEMET ALI.
" TO nIS EXCELLENCY BOGHOS JOUSSOUFF BEY.
On board her Majesty's ship Powerful,
Atexandri,i, Nov. 23,1840.
‘- The present lettLr will be (6:livered to you b 3
Captain Mauns:4, who is an old acquaintance of hi.
Highness Mehemet Ali. I have charged him to beg
his Highness to send back all the Emirs and Sheiks of
Lebanon, who were sent to Alexandria in the mon:h of
July by order of the authorities of Syria. The chief
part of these unipppy persons were taken upon the
mere suspicion that they had expressed discontent, and
that only from the instigation of the late Emir Beschir,
whose Government was anything but just and moderate
and who ended by detaching himself from the cause o,
Mehemet Ali.
" The further detention of these unfortunate indivi-
duals can have no favourable effect at present. Leba-
non is now entirely free, completely armed, and, what-
ever may occur in other parts of Syria, will never aguio
become dependent upon the Government of Mehemet
Ali.

" Mehemet Ali, no doubt, is aware of the wish of
the Allies to assure him the hereditary Government of
Egypt, and if his Highness will permit au old seamen to
suggest to him a simple means for reconciling himself
with the Sultan and the Allies, he would beg him to
give up immediately, and without any conditions, the
'Ottoman fleet, and to withdraw his troops from Syria.
The evils of war would then cease, his Highness would
have ample and satisfactory occupation in his latter
years in cultivating the arts of peace, and in settling
probably, upon new foundations, the throne of the Pto-
lemies. From what has happened in Syria his High-
ness will have seen what may be done in a country with
the Government of which the inhabitants are discontent-
ed. In a month's time six thousand Turks and a handful
of marines have taken Saida and Beyrout, defeated the
Egyptian army in three different actions, have
taken ten thousand prisoners and deserters, hare
caused all the seaports to be evacuated, all the
passes of the Taut us, and the mountains of Lebanon,
and this against an army of 30,000 men. Three weeks
afterwards Acre fell into the hands of the allied fleet
after a three hours' bombardment. If his Highness
wishes to continue hostilities, he will permit me to ask
him whether he is sure in Egypt? lam a greet admirer
of his Highness, and would rather be his friend than his
enemy. In the former case, gat me point nut to
Highness for how short a time lie can hope to preserve
Egypt in refusing a reconciliation with the Sultan.
Experience has shown that the Egyptian army in Syria
is extremely discontended, that the whole inhabitants
of Syria are in arms against it—that if Ibrahim Pacha is
attacked by a superior Turkish force, and one which mey
be augmented stiil farther, be will be &Aired to lay down
his arms. Let h.s Highness throw a glance over Egypt ;
all the inhabitants and sailors are discontented, the Vice-
Admiral and several officers have abandoned him, and are
at present on board the (English) squadron. The Syrian
soldiers at present in Egypt desire to return into their own
country. The pay of the Eg)ptian soldiers is in arrear,
an t they mourn at not being able to provide their fami-
lies with bread. From 1'2,000 to 15,000 Egyptian sol-
diers, who aro at present at Constantinople, are daily
fed, paid, and clothed, under the eyes of the Sultan.
Let his Highness rtfleet upon the dangers which envi.
ron him ; and if these soldiers are brought into Egypt
with a promise that they should be disbanded after his
Highness's defeat, who shall say that Egypt is invul-
ner,ible? Alexandria may be taken as Acre has been
and his Highness, who may at. the present mement be
the founder of a new dynasty, msy become a simple
Pacha.-1 have the honour to he, &c.,
CHARLES NAPIER, Commodore.
" His Exce:kicy Bughos Bcy."

ANSWER OF 5. E. BOGHOS EEY TO THE LETTER OF
COMMOD iRE NAPIER, DATED NOVEMBER 23. 1840.
INlonsieur lc Commodore,-1 have received with
much pleasure the letter which you did me the honour to
address me through my old friend Captain Maunsell, and
I hastened to present the translation to the Viceroy, my
master. Hi, Highness orders me to let you know that
he is grateful :or the good feelings expressed in your
letter.
" I cannot suppose it possible, M. le Commodore
that you believe in the evil reports of the Rear-A d-
miral. I am certain, from your honourable character,
that you will give little credit to the words of a roan
who, when he deserted from Constantinople, did not
hesitate to spread abroad calumnies of the Sublime
Porte, as he does at present about Egypt. At tile
period when the officers of the Ottoman navy ob-
tained the power of leaving Alexandria, the Rear-Ad-
miral solicited from the Viceroy permission to remain
in Egypt; and fi‘ially he obtained from his Highness
the authorisation to retire. But he preferred desertion
to eny frank and loyal step, because he thought he saw
in desertion the means of restoring himself to favour aed
prr,fit. It is merely to know the position of that offi-
cer in order to appreciate justly the value of reports
sent forth by him, which I shall not take the pains to
refute.
4. The orders of his Highness have already antici-
pated your wishes with regard to the liberty of the
Druse chieftains. Long siace several of their chief,
have quitted Syria and settled at Cairo. At tile news
of the late events, they came of themselves to claim of
the Paella the permission to return to their com-
patriots, in order to act in the interest of the Epp;ieo
cause. Teo s ago they took the road to Syria.
At their solicitation theDruse chiefs, who had been pro-
viousey sailed to Nubia, were allowed to return to their
homes ; the order to this effect has been already exe-
cuted. The restoration of those personages to their
country tieing accomplished, your good intentions
r. earil to them hate b. so. rise. s-
Shy of having recourse to au t xchar,!.•,
" It has already come to our knowiedge that it was
the intention of the great Powers to Lave to his High-
ness the hereditary government of Egypt. On this
important point his Highness waits still for official
communications. His Highness is not P:ss grateful
for the p:.oposition contained in your truer, seeing
in it a personal manifestation of ) our sink:11)10
and conciliatory dispositiin. In no case has his
Highness sought to put himEelf in opposition with
the wishes of the European Cseinets. You are not
ignorant, Commodore, that he bad already submitted to
the propositions of the 'Freest} which euuceded to him
r the hei editary aihnifostration of Egypt. His Higho,s,.
hod only refused to solicit trom the Sub iine
Porte the facility to ken to that first concession the file
government of Syria, and that because the Viceroy
had tire conviction that Syria in his hands might
s4iii offer great .esources to the empire. In-
stead of replyiess to this request hostilities were
to. You will impartially Jurt.,e, Com-
-1 resorted
I tuodore. if the wiring has been on the side tit the VhA,-
ro• Fit T ss persuaded to the contrary, and
y •
convineaf that tile great Powers will render him
jes:fce in tiler respsct.
64 I will two/ reply to ,vhat concerns the restoration
of the Ottoman squadron and the evaeustion of Syria.
It has never been the intention of his Highness to retain
the fleet of his Sovereign ; he has never ceased to co-
piess himself in this sense, even on the day that circum-
stances brought the squadron of the Grind Seignoir to
Aatsndria. Furthermore, when Serm Boy was sent on
a mission to the Sublime Porte, he offered, in the name of
his Iliehness the revitution of the fleet, . bleb wa= on the
point of setting sail to return to Constantinople, when
the hostilities commencing, in Syria occurred adjourning
the execution of the orders of the Viceroy. In respect
to the evacuation of Syria, his Highness had believed
it to be his right to wait for fresh orders from the
Sublime Porte. You know, Commodore, how the de-
man ;1 of the Viceiov was answered, who, from that
• time, thought it expedient to have recourse to the
officious mediation of France ; thus manifesting his io-
teution to enter into conciliatory ways, and his desire
to see tin end put to a state of things which his High-
ne•s is conscious not to have provoked.
" For the moment, the direct relations between the
Viceroy and the Commander-in-Chief of the Egyptian
army in Syria are interrupted, inw consequence of the
ith the sole idea of
agitation of the country. It
putting an end to disorder, ardistoensure the channel
of correspondence between thel army and Egypt, that
the Viceroy has just directed to the frontiers a corps of
troops, whose mission is the re-establishment of eom-
municatiens.
you will satified with
" I hope, Commodore, that
be •
the explanations that tile Viceroy ha, ordered me to
in
transmit to you, and that you will adroit, the anxiety
I display, to reply with proznptuess to your previous

enrnmeeiePtinng, f-Pfh rrt7tof rtf the Tylcl6.
I,tery eheairs et the Vat,rriy, my •r.
" 1 have the honour, &c.
" BOGHOS BEY."

(Signed)

SECOND LETTER OF THE COMMODORE TO H. E.
BOGHOS BEY, DATED NOV. 25.
" I wish to know from your Excellency whether, if
the chiefs of the Drupes have been sent back to LA,-
-'on, your Exc• li,t.cy will say whether those
catriid (Shoot S'ria in last July have returned to then.
homes?

" I observed to your Excellency in my letter of yes-
terday, that it did not depend on my will to suspend
hostilities by sea, unless his Highness the Pacha would
restore the fl,ct, and give orders to immediately evacu-
ate Syria. Stilt less can I give any assurance as to the
interroprit,r, 01 ruditary op.•retions ; on th.• conrrAry, 1
am co;ti, t. ,ht the orratiori, cop.-
ttuued, until orders are given for the coiliple!a evacua-
tion of Syria.

" l hit,e no knowledge of the despatch brt,uglit by
roe Fir:rich steam-tro.it, and I 4111 also ignorant if the
French Government has entered into negotiations with
the Allied Powers. I only know that the Adied Powers
have recommended to the Porte to re-establish Mehe-
met Ali in the Goveremtnt of Egypt, and to make it here-
ditary in his ;amity ; and I know chat nothing would give
greater ple,i,ure to tie Britisti G.:vernm, than to re-
ceive any letters by this packet, announcing that orders
Lad been given that Syria should be evacuated and the
fleet given up.

I can understand the, feeling of his Highness in hesi•
tatiog to do this until he receives officially, from the
Aliied Powers, their guarantee, but in the mean time I
must du my
" I &sire greatly to avoid all effusion of blood. War
arid disease have already dose enougt mischief ; where-
for.:, it his Eglthets wiii give orders that Syria be im-
mediately evacuated, by sending tratkporis to receive
the troops, and consent to let the fleet get ready for
sailiing, I will not insist upon its departure for Constan-
tinople, until the Pacha be guaranteed in the hereditary
Government of Egypt. On these conditions I shall con-
sent to suspend hostilities. I have the honour to be, &c.
(Signed) " CHARLES NAPIER., Commodore."

REPLY OF BOGHOS BEY TO THE ABOVE LETTER, DATED

NOVEMBER 26

" I have this instant received the letter that you
did me the honour to ediress me this day, and I hasten
to place it under the eyes of his Highness the Viceroy.
" Conformably to his orders I reply to the different
paragraphs which it contains.

" In what concerns the Druse chieftains, I repeat
to you, M. le Commodore, that those who resided at
Cairo have already set out for Syria. As to those who
are still in Nubia, the order for their return has been
already sent, as I have had the honour to assure you.
And I repeat the assurance that, at the moment of
their arrival in Egypt, they shall be perfectly free to
return to their country. As far as regards the fleet,
his Highness has learned with great pleasure that you
adhere to the proposal which he made to accomplish
its restitution as soon as the decision of the Powers
shall be officially notified. His Highness, participating
in the desires which you express for stopping the effu•
sior► of blood, is decided to put an end to hostilities :
but as you are not ignorant that the transport by
sea of an army, with a considerable suite of materiel,
of horses, and equipages, offers great difficulties, and
as it is extremely urgent to put an end to the horrors of
war, the Viceroy is ready to order h►s son, Ibrahim
Pacha, to concentvale his troops, in order to their fall-
ing back upon Egypt ; a disposition that shall ue
transmitted to the General-in-Chief by an Egyptian
officer, accompanied, if you should think it fit, by an
English officer accredited by you. Ibrahim Pacha will
thus he forced to evacuate Syria completely as soon as
the decision of the Powers shall be known.
" I have the honour to be, &c.,
" BOG HOS BEY."

THIRD LETTER OF COMMODORE NAPIER, DATED NOV. 2G.

" lo the last paragraph of your letter of yesterday
ou intAiritio that the Paella will give orders for ot.occii-
ti.,itmg thv Egyptian forecs in Syria, so that Syria may
evacuatistl, as so'n as the offical ckcis,on of the
Powers be known. I beg to observe to your Excel-
lency that the Egyptien troops are already concen-
trated, nod that my tit mind was the immediate evacua-
tion of Syria. I will place at the disposal of your
Highness a steatu-boat to conduct the officer which the
Pacita stall appoint, accompanied by an English officer,
to carry the detipatch of his Highness to Ibrahim
Paella. Tins is indispensable to engage the Commander-
iu-Chief to suspend hostilities, &c.
(Signed)

" C. NAPIER."

REPLY OF BOGHOS BEY TO THE COMMODORE, DATED

NOVEMBER 26.

'• I reply to the last letter that you have done me
the honour to address to me, atter having submitted it
the Viceroy, my master.
_ _

" His Highness consents to re-arm the fleet of the
Sublime Porte, to victu:il it—in one word, to put it
in condition to sail at the earliest moment for
Cotstuntionpe, with the express condition, which
you, Commodore, havo yourself pressed, that
the squadron shall rout un in our port until
the offical netifications of the Powers which insure
to his HighLICSS toe hereditary (.ioveroment of Egypt
shall arrive. According; to the formal demand which
you have made to the Viceroy. his Highness will send
to Beyrout at the e iriiest opportunity an officer of his
palace, already nain.ll a part of the commission, with
the necessary orders lor the evacuation of Syria by
Ibraburn Pucka, his son, and all his army.
" Tots Envoy will take his passage on board the
vessel that 3ou have placed at the disposal of lis
Highness, and will be accompanied by an English offi-
cer on his destination and return.

" This, with lively gratitude for your care and deli-
cacy in the solution of this thorny difference, as in the
name of his Highness, 1 am, with profound respect,
your very humble aLd very obeclicrit servan-,
(S pled) BUGHOS BEY."