The Sun.
London, England, 1833-09-17 00:00:00

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PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.

CONsTANTINOPLE, AUG. 18.—Within the last
week there has been current in this city a rumour,
founded on the authority of letters received from
Odessa, of the cession having been effected by a
secret article in the late treaty between Turkey
and Russia of the principalities of Wallachia and
Moldavia, in full possession and sovereignty to the
latter Power. As nothing positive is known of
the treaty, and as the cession of those provinces
is likely to cause very great discontent among the
inhabitants of the capital, who regard them as the
granaries and feeding-ground for the supply of Con.
stantinople, there is much mystery observed an
the point. The Turkish Ministers—even Achmet
Pacha himself, who has been named Ambassador
to St. Petersbnrgh, to thank Nicholas for his late
timely interposition—deny the fact of the ces-
sion ; but it is evident that the report has been
got up to accustom the world to view it as fast
approaching. It is remarkable that the influence of
Russia with the Sultan is said to be on the wane,
whilst it is repeated that Achmet Pacha does not wish
to go to the Court from which he has received such
large sums. Raised from the lowest rank of a porter,
in order to gratify the most degrading passions of his
master, and ycleped Secretary, although he knows
little of writing, this minion sold himself to the
highest bidder, but he is afraid to leave the city lest
his favour should be lost. As Sultan Mahmoud
shows not much gratitude to Russia, whose friend-
ship he must fear as much as its enmity, iti tr there-
fore said that the Russian influence loses ground,
but it requires only a slight shock of adverse fortune
to renew it more forcibly than ever. The treaty,
which was called " offensive and defensive," is now
said to be merely defensive, and for a duration of 10
years.
In the mean time, great intrigues prevail in this
Court, where there are now, as of old, two springs
of government—one tising from the Divan or Cour].
cil of Ministers, and the other from the favourites
of the Seraglio. The old Seraskier Pacha, who has
been 40 years in power, and who has contrived to
escape from every revolution intact and advanced
rank, and who is now Governor of the capital, is
opposed to the favourites, and, as some say, to Rus-
sia. A change in the Ministry is spoken of,
but such a measure in this country, where,
to use the expression of a keen ob;erver, " every
thing is going to the devil," can produce but little
good. In order to obviate the objections of the
people towards Russian influence, it is rumoured
that Greek Princes have been named to govern
Wallachia and Moldavia, but of this statement one
hears no confirmation. There is also much talk of
the discovery of a vast conspiracy against the Sul-
tan and his system, and of the number of persons
implicated therein who have been strangled, but it
is impossible to arrive at the truth. A gentleman,
on whose word reliance may be placed, told me he
saw some of the bodies floating in the Bosphorus.
They were stated to have been chiefly officers, who
had placed themselves at the head of the discon-
tented soldiers, many of whom are eager to adopt
the plans of the Janissaries, and by firing the
wealthy part of the city to gather plunder, and also
to bring about a revolution by the removal of the
Sultan. The new coinage has appeared in a small
quantity, the soldiers having received some of their
pay in it. The pay of the common men, which
lately consisted of about four shillings a-month ex-
clusive of rations, has been reduced one-fourth, and
this reduction has increased their dissatisfaction.
Threatening notices have been posted up in several
places, and fires are expected.
The latest news from the British and French
fleets states that a great portion of them had gone
fora time to Vourla, near Smyrna, while the re-

minder were cruizing in the Archipelago. It is
asserted that the whole of the British squadron is to
assemble on the 24th in the bay of Salamis, where
final instructions are expected as to the course the
Admiral is to adopt for the winter. It is said by
the Turkish agents that the conduct of Mehemet
Ali has awakened the suspicions of Europe, and that
those squadrons will not leave the Levant and its
neighbourhood until the fullest explanation be given
of his intentions. His fleet returned on the 21st
ult. from Tarsus to Alexandria, bringing back 8,000
men of the army of Syria, who were immediately
sent to Cairo, in order to put down som commo-
tions among the Hedgias. On the 27th Mehemet
Ali embarked for Candia, where his presence for
five or six weeks is likely to put down the rebel-
lious disturbances. He was accompanied by Col.
Campbell in the British corvette Champion, on
board of which Mehemet Ali went to his own man-
of-war on embarking, and from which he then
received a salute of twenty-one guns. The
Egyptain fleet, consisting of four ships of
the line, four frigates, and a great number of small
vessels, accompanied him : his suite of cooks and
other servants is very numerous, and it is thought,
from the quantity of provisions, &c., that he intends
to entertain the British and French Admirals. The
rendezvous of the vessels is stated to have been
appointed by Mehemet Ali in the harbour of Suda.
He is represented as having the intention of esta-
blishing an arsenal in the island of Candia, which,
from its position, must become of the greatest utility
to his ships in all future movements on this portion
of Turkey. He continues to increase his naval force
in an extraordinary degree. A new ship of the line
(the eighth in commission) has been just launched,
and immediate arrangements are made for construct-
ing another.
Ibrahim Pacha remains in Syria, busy in levying
new troops and in remodelling the government of
that country, and in organizing a new system of
taxation. It is even said that he is about to fix his
residence in that country, and that palaces are to be
built for his use.

The Polish General Debinski has entered the
service of Mehemet Ali, and will receive a salary of
20,000 dollars, for organizing the army.
An agent of the Sultan, the ex-Derfterdar (Trea-
surer) Femy Effendi, arrived last month at Alex-
andria, on board a Turkish corvette, which was
placed, like other ships coming from Constantinople
arid infected places, in quarantine, on the termina-
tion of which he was to proceed to Candia. His
mission is represented.,as of importance.
Among the rumours now in circulation is one re-
lative to the speedy coming to this city of young
Rothschild, from Vienna, who is, according to re-
port, to be charged with a financial measure for the
advantage of Turkey—that is, with the contracting
a loan to the amount of 3,000,000 ducats.
Another rumour states that Mehemet Ali has ap-
plied to the Porte for the government of the pro-
vinces lying between the frontiers of Syria and the
river Phaz, where the Russian confines at present
are fixed. His object in this demand is stated to
be, that it is necessary for an active army to op-
pose the advance of that grasping Power, and to
prevent its further encroachments on the shores of
the Black Sea. It would be useful to the com-
merce of all nations, and of the British and French
in particular, to prevent the ports of Trebizonde
' arid of the Turkish districts on the Black Sea,
from which Persia and other Asiatic countries are
supplied with European manufactures, from be-
coming the property of the Autocrat, who would
thereby become the dictator of the centre of that
quarter of the world. The present appearance of
Russia is like the tiger in his lair—none who
know his nature can dare to trust him, especially
when one hears of the magnanimity arid generosity
of the Czar, all of which good qualities are shown,
according to the Russian supporters, in his not
having already strangled and devoured the remains
—The difficulty of communications
of Turkey.
in AthuisGcljosuTnt2r6y. is very great : the wan': of a frequent
post to Vienna is much felt, since it is through that
city that letters pass usually to England. Yet
there are extraordinary accusations made here against
that Power, which is charged with opening, reading,
and stopping such letters as are not suited to the
policy of Nletternich. Even the despatches from
ambassadors are examined : hence it is rather re-
markable that the exchange of cabinet couriers is