The Sun.
London, England, 1821-12-26 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

PARIS, Duc. 21.—The Monifeur contains a
Royal ordinance, appointing M. de Lavean, a
Counsellor of the Royal Court' of Paris, to be
Prefect of Police, in the room of Count Anglers
who has resigned. Another Royal Ordinance
appoints M. Kesner to be Cashier General of
Ole Treasury, in the room, of M. Pescatory, also
'resigned. . _

The Nuremberg Correspondent has the fol-
lowing account from Constantinople, of 10th
iioVerni?er

" We here enjoy apparent tranquillity ; but
in remote quarters and suburbs matters have been
worse again for some weeks. The fanatic Turks
-who live there have considered two great fires
which we had as had omens, and say the Prophet
requires victims. They have therefore massacred
orne Greeks and several Armenians, and only
the armed force could check their excesses, in
which dissatisfied Janissaries favoured them.—
The accounts from Armenia are alarming. The
Per'slans have gained considerable advantages
over the Turks, who have, however, opposed a
brive resistance to them. The force of the Per-
s:ans has been very much exaggerated ; it con.'
sists, according to the Turkish accounts,of about
fifty thousand men, of whom thirty thousand ad-
vance against Erzerum, and the rest against Bag-!
dad. The Crown Prince is with the first. The
Turks are inferior in force in those parts. It is
generally believed in Constantinople, that" the
Persians, supported •by the discontented Arme-
nians, may make great conquests without en-
countering any considerable obstacle. All the
Persians here, and many Armenians, 'have been
thrown into prison. The changes of the'Minis-
try.and of the Paellas. shew sufficiently the em-
barrassment of the Divan."

VIENNA, DEC. 10.—The Russian and Turkish
out-posts on the Pruth have had some skirmishes,
but which have not led to any thing serious.
The troops of the two nations merely observe
each other.

• A letter from Constantinople, of 16th Novem-
ber, expresses fears of a general mutiny of the
-J;;nissaries. It seems that this turbulent soldiery
is influenced by the party which is iu favour of
war. The Janissaries, on theirpart, vow nothing
less than to exterminate all the Infidels. The
return of the Ottoman fleet has been marked by
'executions and not by rewards. Tile Sultan has
had 7 of the principal officers beheaded, and some
others thrown into prison. . Of the four large
ships which the Turkish Government had, only
one has returned ; the three, others have been
burned by the Greeks. The Greeks have taken
Patras by storm. This affair cost them 700 men,
bat they have made 6,000 prisoners.
Accounts from Frankfort say the affairs of the
purchasers of domains in . the former kingdom of
Westphalia will probably, not be brought any
more before the Diet at Frankfort, because, as
we are informed, the Elector of Besse Cassel is
willing to accede to .their proposals, and to grant
them an indemnity of 30 or 40 per cent.
it is also believed that one of the first affairs,
`which will be finally regulated by the Diet, will
be the termination of the differences between this
City and the Jewish inhabitants, and some steps
.zire thought to have been lately taken which will
lead to a favourable 'result for the latter.

-1 aiEsTe, DEc. 3.—:7everal vessels have arrived
to-day from Corfu. They bring the news, that
besides COron and Modon, the important fortress
of Napoli di Romania has surrendered to the
Greeks by capitulation. If this news should be
true, the whole of the Morea would be conquered
by the Greeks. In the lonian Islands the ope-
ration of disarming the inhabitants, commanded
by the English Government, is said to have been
every 11 here attended with resistance to the
troops, in which blood has been spilt. In some
of the islands the armed peasants retired into the
mountains, and Maintained themselves in full in-
surrection against the English.
ST. PrrEasanitc, Nov. W.—The great in-
terests treated of in the Cabinet are still covered
with an impenetrable veil. Though we cannot
know what will be the decision of our Court with
respect to the Porte, the general opinion here is,
that under the present circumstances war is ine-
•vitable. For some months past our armies have
.been in a formidable attitude, and occupy a
strong position on the Pruth. They only wait
for the signal to exact a dreadful vengeance for
•the unhappy fate of the Greeks, their persecuted
brethr-on. But the penetration of the Emperor
'Alexander foresees the dreadful carnage to
which the lawless parties of Islamism would
then deliver up all the Greeks. His noble soul,
his humanity, would wish to see this sad fate
everted from than, before he makes known his
irrevocable' will.
A private letter from the southern provindes-of
.the empire contains the following particulars re-
specting the war, and the armed force of Russia ;
I learn at this moment that there are such
active measures going on in the second army, that
it. may be inferred from them that war is on the
point of breaking out. Couriers from the Emperor
are received daily. The tone of the Journals like-
wise presages an approaching rupture.. Many
distinguished officers think there will be a winter
campaign, which, they pretend, 'would be pre-
• ferable to a summer campaign in those countries,
the climate of which is very-unwholesome. It
will not be uninteresting to give you a view of
the military force of the Russian empire. The
mass of the troops Fs divided into two large ar-
mies, and four large corps. The first army is
composed of six divisions, the second of four ;
which makes in all fifteen corps. These divisions
are all composed in the same manner, of infantry
cavalry, and engineers, formed into brigades,
&c. The total of a. corps is 60 or 70,000 men.
Each of the' two armies has a Generalissimo.—
' Tbe detached corps have Generals in Chief.
--4,4,11 these corps are distributed in the follow-
inannet : The first army extends through
all the weiiern provinces, and touches on
i the frontiers of Poland and Austria ; the se-
cond is stationed in the southern part of the
Empire,' principally on the side of Turkey and

Moldavia. The five detached corps are can-
toned as follows The Regiments of the
Guards, the most numerous corps of all, being
80,000 strong, sillich is in.general at Petersburgh
and Moscow and their neighbourhood, has ad-

vanced at present towards the western frontiers.
2. The division of Lithuania occupies the pro-
vinces on the Baltic, and extends to the frontiers
of Prussia. 3. The division of Finland is sta-
tioned along the Gulf of that name, and on the
side of Sweden. 4. The division of Georgia oc-
cupies that country- and the frontiers towards
Persia. 5. The division or Siberia extends

through the North of Asia. Besides this mass
of troops, there are in each Govermnent two or
three garrison battalions, according to its extent.
Let us reckon only 100 garrison battalions, and
add a tompany of veterans in active service in
the chief town of each district—all these troops,
destined for the service of the interior, are as
well exercised as troops of the line. The total
mass of troops is therefore much above a million,
without reckoning the invalids, who do local
duty, and"wriose'number is very considerable.—
The officers alone of all these corps would form
an army more numerous than that of some king-
doms.

Nov. soon as the Turkish, Egyptian,
and A lgerine squadrons had formed a junction,
the Capitan Bey massacred without mercy all
the Greek seamen; who had hitherto faithfully
served him.

FRANKFORTiDEC. 14,--The Prussian Govern-
ment having ascertained / the unhappy certatuty
that there is a deficiency of ten millions of dollars
in its budget, which can only be covered by a
loan, negociations have already been entered into
with several foreign bankin!, houses.
MADRID, DEC. M.—[Extract of a Private
Letler.]—You will doubtless have been informed
'ere this reaches you, that Mina has yielded obe-
dience to the orders of Government, and that
affairs have been satisfactorily settled in Galicia ;
thanks to the firmness and good conduct of the
Political Chief.

In spite of the an%iety and agitation which the
political state of Spain might be supposed to pro-
duce at Madrid, an establishment is formed there
on the plan of the Athenxurn of Paris, and is
frequented by a great number of persons who
cultivate letters and the sciences. The Spanish
Atheneum has just acquired the magnificent
cabinet of Dr. Robertson, a physician now resid-
ing at Madrid.