The Sun.
London, England, 1828-09-09 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRENCH PAPERS.
(From the Gazette de France, Sept. 7.)

CONSTANTINOPLE, AUG. 1 I .—The latest accounts
florin the theatre of war speak only of partial combats,
because the Russians seem to intend to wait for the
arrival of their reserve and of the guard, before they
undertake a general attack on Shumh. All these
unconnected actions are represented in the Turkish
reports as having been favourable to the Ottoman
arms. Thus the Russians are said to have made, on
the Ist of August, an attack on Silistria, in which
they are reported to have been repulsed with a con-
siderable loss in killed and wounded, and of two
pieces of cannon. A division of the new cavalry is
reported to have particularly distinguished itself on
this occasion. An attack made on the outworks of
Shumla is stated to have had no better success.
A vessel arrived yesterday from Odessa reports
that, on the 7th, a heavy cannonade was heard pro-
ceeding from Varna, whence it is presumed that the
Russians had again attacked that place.
It has also been reported since yesterday, that the
Captain Pacha has been wounded. The bravery of
that Officer in the several actions near Varna is highly
extolled.
The accounts from Asia are less favourable. Kars
and .Anapa are certainly taken. Eizerottm is
threatened; and, it is feared, the Porte will lose
Poli,* the last fortress it possesses on the East coast
of the Black Sea.
SMYRNA, A uG. 2.—The Marquess de Caraman,
a young Staff Officer, arrived here yesterday, on
board the Philomet schooner. We have received the
`.-....Vtiivg news from Alexandria, dated Bth July :
from corfultslish brig of war, the Rifleman, arrived
which he asks letrahtcin from Ibrahim Pacha,
no
means of supporting his army, nasnet?.,
iss,
the blockade does not allow him to hope for relief.
The Viceroy seemed to be in great perplexity, and
to wait for fresh orders from the Porte. It was
generally believed that he would never decide against
the will of the Sultan. All the vessels that returned
from Navarin have been put in a condition to go to
sea, and make a very respectable force."
(From the Alessaper des Chambres of Saturday, Sept. 6.)
PARIS,.SEPT. s.—The Lyons Gazette contains
the following article
" TOULON, AUG. 30.—The Galathee frigate has
just anchored here with Admiral Collet on board,
who returns from Algiers in ill health. Capt. de la
Bretonnare, who' is to command the blockade in his
stead, sailed t NO days ago on board the Faun brig.
"Every thing is ready for the second expedition,
the last transports hired at Marseilles, sixty in num-
ber, arrived yesterday. The embarkation of the
troops and baggage has already commenced. This
division is to sail on the lst of September.
" A third, and much more numerous expeditio
is talked of, to take place in the course of Septern
her. It is affirmed that transports have been hire.
in the ports on the ocean, and in those of Italy.'
(From the Courier Francais.)
THE NATION AND ITS ACCUSERS.

PARIS, SEPT. 6.—We see by the last letters
from Constantinople, that the Ulemas had displayed
a keen spirit of opposition to the measures of the
Sultan. This Prince, not content with abolishing
the Janissaries, threatens to appropriate theproperty
of the Mosques—an inexpiable crime, a horrible sa-
crilege, in the eyes of all the Ulemas of the world. The
Sultan, however, has resolved to respect the pro-
perty be threatened ; • every thing was immediately
arranged, and the massacre of 10,000 Janissaries
was only a trifling crime, which the Ulemas readily
pardoned. It is said, however, that the danger of
the country contributed to make the Ulemas lay
aside their resentment, so that the Turkish Clergy
by this miraculous denial supply an example to the
Clergy of all countries. Here we shall see no simi-
lar prodigy. To the Clergy the public welfare, the
prosperity of the State, are of no consequence; and
those whom they select as organs desire power and
wealth. To obtain these they revive hatreds, and
disturb the nation. Nothing stops them. For
several _months they have exhausted themselves,
by their exertions to create a fermentation among
the mass of the people, and have revenged
themselves for the calmness of the nation, by
heaping on it outrages and calumny. With what joy
did they not remind us of the horrible catastrophe of
Sept. 2, to throw the blame of it on the present
generation. This ought to be for them a great tri-
umph ; for this perhaps is, of all the abominations
of our history, the only one they did not sanction,
because it was not committed for their advantage.
From the crusade against tine Albigenses to the
Dragoonades,from the massacre of St. Bartholomew
to the massacres of Nismes and these of St. Denis,
we have always found them ready to applaud cruelty
under the name of salutary terror. In default of
reason, humanity ought to teach them to disguise
sentiments so opposed to Christianity. They ought
to feel, that in this age of the world, religion cannot
be founded in blood, but reason is impotent, the old
spirit--the spirit of Torquemada—still lives in them
The Prevotal Courts in 1815, the Commission o

Ferdinand, the atiarobioal immolations of the Spanish
populace, the gibbets of Don Miguel and the nightly
labours of his executioners constitute them the beau

idea; of good government, the very model of a go-
vernment, Whenever a Prince raises a scaffolu

near a crucifix, h is pardoned though he be a parri-
cide. He has a claim op their admiration. Our

legislation has been too mild for them—they wanted
it polluted with some of the diapositionE of the
12th century. The law of sacrilege placed the dug-
mos under the safeguard of the executioner. They do
not now complain of the laws' but of those who ad-
minister them. Theyare men sJae4 with blood, who

reproach us with the massacres or September 2.
Those who have supported Bessieres, and the Ora.

viados; it is Chaves and Don Miguel who accuse us

of conspiring against royalty; those who attack it
whenever it is opposed to them, and who are en-
raged at not finding here any thing but a people, the
friends of laws, in place of a fanatic mob, ready to
assist their exertions.

Time, so rich in instruction for all men, has no
Influence on them. it has left th2m with all their

ferocity, with all their ancient hostility to reason.
- Let a learned man make some discovery as to the
sett, of our faculties, or the relation of our inclina-
tions to Dur organs—he is a materialist, a blas-
phemer, a sconn,clrel, Science is atheism—instruc-
tion is impious. They are still the same men who
imprisoned Galileo, because he discovered the mo-
tions of the earth—who persecuted Coltunlnis be'
cause he conjectured that we had antipodes. The
compensations they offer us for that science they
proscribe, are orations against the scurf, against
madness, and against the tooth-ache ; they represent
the end oC the world by petards, they sell holy let-
ters written tly .fesu4 Christ ; they talk about the
angel Gabriel, and substitutp despicable tricks and
shamatil stories for whatever is owe and elevated
in Christianity, The luminous cnicifix
of Migne
has begotten a shining victim in the Upper Rhne.
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and good sense from Rome. The
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has recognised.
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who call themselves defer of religion),.,
have not
become more humane, more charitable,
friGre acces-
ethic to reason, more averse from that
cupidity
which sets a price on every thing appertaining to a
,
Minister of Religion.. .4t what period have the
Courts had so many complaints to decide of de-
spoiled heirs, who ask to have the testaments P.
nulled which give their property to the Church ?
When were the fees for all the ceremonies SO ri-
* This Owe is known to have been taken the 27th of July.