The Sun.
London, England, 1826-10-21 00:00:00

FRENCH TPATE.I.IS.

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PARTS, OCT. B. —The most recent lette,s front Ode§aa
announce it a.:,-, tit; goner,l opinion; that peace would be
preserved by the Porte, according to the demand of Russia.

(From the Journal de Paris of Thursday.)
The Chevalier Nuno Barbosa, Charge d'Affaires of Por-
tugal, was yesterday presented, in that quality, to his Ma-
jesty and their Royal Highnesses,hy the Baron tie Lalive,
who is charged with the introduction of Ambassadors.
The latest accounts from Odessa mention that the gene-
ral opinion was in favour of peace, and that the Porte
would accede to the demands of Russia. What gives a
confirmation to this opinion is, the certainty. that the
Turkish Government is making no preparation for war.
Yesterday M. Rothschild gave a grand dinner, to which
were invited their Excellencies the Ministers, Mr. Can-
ning, and the Ambassadors.
(From the Journal des De6all of Thursday.)
Nam, OCT. 18.—We have received, by an extraordi-
nary courier, advices from Lisbon of the 7th inst.
On the sth, in the Hall of the Senate of the Chamber
of Lisbon, a meeting was held to nominate Deputies to
the General and Extraordinary Cortes for the province of
Estramadura.
Baron Quintillo and Joao Ferreira da Costa Sampayo
obtained 101 votes.
At Porto, on the first scrutiny, M. Barrozo Pereira had
108 votes; MM. Ferreira de Amnjo e Castro, 107; Jose
Antonio Guerreiro, 105 ; Francisco Xavier Soares de
Azevedo, 103.
The Government hail received despatches from Vienna,
dated 9th Sept. The Infant Don Miguel, at that time
was in.good health.
For the last fortnight the political horizon has been tran-
quil, but cloudy. We search in vain for a prominent ob-
ject upon which to fix our views; all is vague, without
any decided complexion, and almost without motion.
How can it be otherwise ? No common principle go-
verns Europe—no general interest holds the place of prin-
ciple ; there is not even an object of general fear, for the
possible aggrandizement of Russia cannot be such, since it
is acknowledged that no other barrier can be opposed to
that, but the wisdom of Russia herself.
In point of fact, great interests have been so balanced
for some time, that it would be difficult, even supposing
a greater energy to exist in Cabinets, to arrive speedily at
definitive arrangements.
At Lisbon, the meeting of the Cortes is waited for.
Without a knowledge of the genius of that Assembly, how
are we to judge definitively of the progress of constitu-
ional Government / As to the_ question of legitimacy

that has been a long time decided by all the Cabinets ex-
cept, perhaps, one.
At Madrid they wait for an army, for finances, and above
all, for common sense ; but none of those will soon arrive.
Meanwhile, Spain sees the flag of her insurgents wave in
the ports of France, the Congress of Panama has con-
cluded important treaties, and the name of Bolivar put an
end to civil wars.

On the banks of the Prutli, at Constantinople, and at
Vienna, the 7th of OCtober is anxiously waited for. It
appears that Mahmoud reckons much upon the eternal
disunion of the Christian Powers. "The House of Naza-
reth is the House of Discord," say the Ulemas : and the
Mufti answer, "May it be done as it is written in Hea-
ven !" With these two principles, Turkey will be able
to postpone her fate for a year; if, by a new perfidy, she
accepts without any express, although with mental reser-
vations, the eighty-two articles of the Russian Ultimatum.
Supposing that prudential reasons, the scarcity of provisions
in Moldavia, or any other reason, may have hindered
Russia from causing her armies to march, the temporary
acquielcenec of this power, by its feigned acceptance of
them, would not niter in any manner whatever, the hostile
position of the two Empires.
lit the menu time, the public, impatient for this pro-
crastinating policy, seeks for news. Must we invent it.
Do they wish that we ehotfld retake Athens, no matter
•on what day, or that we should go to find, in God knows
what port, the undiscoverable Lord Cochrane.
But, say these eager news-hunters, it is an indisputable
fact, that Mr. Canning has been at Paris nearly a month;'
Mr. Canning dines here, Mr. Canning dines there ; why,
therefore, not do as so many other people who pique them-
selves on their acuteness ? Why not hazard a political
dissertation on the fate of Europe, from the sombre or
the joyous countenances of the illustrious guests of M.
Rothschild ?
Really, this would be attaching rather too much im-
portance to diplomatic or financial dinners. But since it
must be so, • since you must have news, you shall have
them. They discoursed of war at those dinners then, nay,
of battles even—but, alas ! it was the war with Persia;
the battles took place on the banks of the river Kur; these
are objects of indifference, especially since the Persians
were the beaten party; for the general opinion is, that the
war with Persia will not be of long continuance; and the
first successes obtained by the Russians, and the great pre-
parations of that power to force the Court of Teheran to
seek peace, support that opinion. The army of the Don,
composed of 18,000 Cossacks, under the orders of. the
Hetman Howniski, is but a few days' march from the
army of Georgia. 'A strong division, aided by other
troops, is about to embark, for the purpose of acting in
Mingrelia, whilst the General-in-Chief, Yermaloff, ad-
vances 'with 50,000 men.
The Georgian Prince Alexander, who has de.serted the
Russian standard for that of Persia, is set down as one of
the chief instigators of this trilling war.
Truly, however, these are not the battles which, for some
days past, have given so much business to the Ambas-
sadors of Russia and Austria, and which have made them
lately so prodigal of morning visits.
Great matters are most probably treated of, but what are
they V Between whom ? Upon what basis ? With what
degree of celerity nr, pf skiwness ? These are questions
which cannot be discussed every morning, if they are
wished to be discussed at any time, with maturity ; and
we have some reasons to believe that this time is not
distans.

BARCMANA, OcTrB,—,Sovorfil notices, have come to
his Excellency the Captain-Crepe& respecting the appear-
ance and course of several Algerine vessels. The Captain
of the xebec N. S. de Los Dolores, bad arrived on the
beach Des Manes. in a boat,
with eight of his crew and
one passenger, fie stated that his vessel was captured by
a large vessel,
which Was sent on board him by two Alge-
rine corvettes and a three-masted schooner, and that he
had the good
fortune to escape on board his boat. He was
surprised three
leagues to the South of Cape Malgrat.—
Another corvette sad a brigantine were seen at some dis-
! tense.

The Post Captain of Mataro sent word, on the 27th, in
the evening, that nine vessels were in sight—viz. a large
ship, two frigates, five ships of a middling size, a xebec,
and a great number of boats.
Other vessels have appeared in a hostile manner before
Celan, Arens lel Mar, and Pineda, All this part of the
coast is in estate of defence.
By a decree of the• King, a petision. of 2,500 reels,

be
enjoyed from 2d July, 1823, has bsen given to John
Carapunsa and Theresa Clostres, his wife, whose son,
Pedro Carapunsa, Captain of the Royalist Division of
Don Thomas Costa, was taken prisoner by the Constitu-
tional troops, and conducted to Barcelona, where he was

shot. __
The Vice. Consul of the King
at Tunis, has informed
the Consul of his Catholic Majesty at Marseilles, who has
given notice of it to the naval Commander at Barcelona,
mereliantmen.
that the Algerine pirates had put to sea, to attack Spanish

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CORNWALL and DEVONSHIRE MINING

COMPANY.

A Meeting of the Proprietors took place yesterday at
Batson's Coffee-house, Cornhill.

Mr. W. CLARK, the Chairman, stated that the Meeting
was convened in consequence of a most extraordinary cir-
cular letter, which the Shareholders had received from the
Directors, demanding an additional instalment of 51. per
share, and in the event of a refusal threatening to enforce
the claim by action. This call he thought no man .of com-
mon sense would answer, after the previous waste' of funds
which had
.been committed in the concern. Mr. Kershaw,
one of the Directors, with tears in his eyes, acknowledged
having received 900/., and others; no doubt, had received'
other similar sums at the expellee of the Company. Some
of the Directors, it appeared, had borrowed about 10,000/.
on account of the Company, for which they gave their in-
dividual security, and now finding that they could not en-
force their claim on Mr. Wilke, they turned round on the
Shareholders to make good the deficiency.
A SHAREHOLDER recommended to indict all the Direc-
tors. When they came before an English Jury, every
honest man among them would be sure to be acquitted,
and those who were really guilty to be punished. He had
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IMPRO VEMILNTS
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Yesterday evening a Public Meeting was held at the
Commissioners Rooms, Somers Town, for the purpose of
taking into consideration, the propriety of adopting a peti-
tion to the Duke of Bedford, requesting his Grace to al-
low of a communication by Seymour-street, between So-
mer3' and Camden Towns, and to receive the Report of
the Committee appointed to give effect to that object.
After a " wordy war" between Messrs. Pitt and Portar-
lington, in which they mutually accused each other of
getting up the Meeting by way of a job, the petition was
unanimously adopted, and a Deputation of thirteen Gen-
tlemen appointed to present it,