The Sun.
London, England, 1826-08-23 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS.

(From the _gale, dated Monday, August 21.)

CONSTANTINOPLE.—Firmaun addressed by the Sultan
to the Cadi of Constantinople, and by which the dissolu-
tion of the Janissaries was declared.
Excellent Effendi, Cadi of Constantinople

Every Mussulman knows that Islamism- owes its main-
tenance to the mildness and the purity of its principles,
and that the Mabometan power is indebted for itp increase,
which embraces the East and the West, only to the vic-
torious armies' of the believers, who are always ready to
combat the enemies of the Faith. The Mussulmen, those
'warriors who believe in one only God, being necessarily
divided from the beginning into different corps. The first
.institution of this Sublime Porte, which may God pre-
serve to the end of time ! was that of the Odechak (corps)
of the Janissaries.

Bit your Sublime Sovereign has remarked, that the Ja-
nissaries, who had formerly gamed so many victories, and con-
quered so many countries by their courage in attack, and
above all by their blind obedience to the orders of their mas-
ter, had insensibly degenerated, and become cowardly and
mutinous : that these, troops, in the wars which have
been carried on for this century past, have despised the
orders of their chiefs—have been seized with consternation
from the slightest causes—have spread terror by false
news—quitted their ranks, and shamefully fled before the
enemy, abandoning to them the fortresses and provinces :
that dying this time the enemies of the faith, considering
this degeneracy and cowardice as equally to be attributed
to all IVlusselmen) did not ceasedaily to importune us
with fresh pretensions and demands. On the other hand,
considering that the whole nation is bound by law to arm
itself with the zeal of .the faith, and to find means to re-
sist, under the auspices of religion, the enterprises of the
enemy; that it has convincingly shown in the. late wars
that the enemy owed his superiority only to the exercise
to which his troops had been accustomed; that since the
wars of 1202 (1787), Attempts had been twice made to
introduce that exercise into the army ; that the corps of
Janissaries has shown itself unfavourable to the military
manoeuvres; that it has disapproved, and always opposed,
them; and that several sovereigns, who deserved to live
as long as the world, have been the victims of the obsti-
nacy and the ferocity of this corps.
_ _

In this state of things a General Council has been con-
voked in the palace, from which the decisions of, the law
should emanate ; the august Viziers, the learned Ulemas,
the Bedschalsf, (Ministers of State), and the Chiefs of the
Janissaries themselves, were summoned to it. It was con-
sidered that the suspension of the Janissaries, who were
an ancient corps, had never been thought of; that, how-
ever, they had long since been in the habit of sometimes
obeying, and sometimes exciting sedition, as their caprice
dictated; that they persisted in their ignorance. Lastly,
that the enemies whose eyes were always upon us, seeing
our position, had conceived the idea of attacking us on all
sides.

The holy union of the laws hiving been convoked in the
Council, a nobleTetwa, the emanation of the light of the
law, and accompanied by a Hodschet (legal document),
signed by all the Members of the Council, proclaimed the
following decision :--
With a view to revive.the word of God, and to render
vain the stratagems by which the infidels have obtained
their superiority, the Museelmen also on their side :

1. Shall arm themselves with the zeal of the faith, nod
Shall submit to subordination ;-•--

2. Shall learn the military exercise, which is the only
means of resistance to be employed under present circum-
stances ; and lastly, in order to obey the general wish and
public voice of the nation, the corps of Janissaries, with-
out. any change in its tncient statutes, and without any in-
fringement of its pri,Aleges, shall furnish 150 men from
each
troops
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• (Brow Lite- Constautionnel.)
PAW% AUG. 19,—We have been often obliged to ob-
serve how neee*ssw...:‘ with distrust, the
statements of the Ministerial Journals, A recent owl,
proves in a still stronger manner, the necessity (a using
caution in repeating any thing they may have published.
We published in the anstitutionnfl of the 25th July
last, giving at the same time our authority, the Constitu-
tional Charter of Portugal, from the translated text that
appeared in the II:toile.

NuMber 173 of the Gazette of the Portuguese Govern-
ment, now lying before its, of the date'of 26th July last,
contains direct proof that a most important suppression
had been made in that translation, relative to tie Liberty
of the Press, consecrated by the Portuguese Charter.
This suppression serves to unveil most openly, the secret
liking which the organs of the congregation have shown
for a Censorship. The third paragraph of the 1456
'Article of this Charter, rims thus in the official Portuguese
text: " Todos poden communicar es seus pensamentos
por palavras, escriptos e ruhlicallos pela imprensa tern
dependeneia de ita censura. [Every person can commu-
nicate his thoughts by words, writings, or publications in
print, without subjection to a Censorship.]-7-The transla-
tion of the last most essential words, "without dependence
on a Censorship," was suppressed in the Etoile, no doubt,
through design.

(From the Quolidienne.)

A French frigate from the Greek Archipelago, arrived
on the 13th of August, in the roads of Toulon, where she
gotfiatrhanatinnaet.urTeheoyf kthneewnenwotahianhga at Marseilles,
is
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brought
from the, East.
The Prince of Polignac left Ruy en Veiny on the 17th of
Aug.; he passed a day at Lyons, and is expected to arrive
in aria to-morrow or the .day after.
M. Cazales, son of the celebrated orator of the Consti-
tuent Assembly, took the oaths to-day as Judge of the
Tribunal of Previns.
The daily increasing troubles which have broken out in
Portugal, in consequence of the oath taken to the Consti-
tution, are confirmed from all quarters. The new system
is nothing more than a re-action of the Cortes, effected tin-
der the auspices of England; the soundest and most nume-
rous portion of the Portuguese nation rejects an order of
things, which tends to undermine the religious and monar-
chical notions of the nation.
Jr. appears certain, that after the-ceremony of the coro-
nation of Nicholas, as King of Poland, an interview will
take place between that Monarch and the King of
Prussia. The city of Posen is mentioned as' the place
where the two Sovereigns will meet.
Amonat the number of thdile who left Frankfort on the
Maine immediately after Prince De Metternich, we no-
ticed M. De Tatischeff, Minister Plenipotentiary of
Russia at the Court ofAustria ; it is supposed he was
going to Johannisberg.
His Excellency the Viscount Rezenda, Brazilian Am-
bassador at the Court of Vienna, his Charge d'Affaires, the
Chevalier Almeida, and their suites, have passed through
Brussels,, on their way from London, and have continued
on their route to Germany. M. Rezenda is
deputed to
present to the Emperor of Austria the Order of the
Founder of the Empire of Brazil.

muLANcnoLle INSTANCE OF SUDDEN DEATII.-
The Subscribers at Lloyd'a were thrown into, considerable alarm
yesterday afternoon, by the sudden death of Mr. Barnard J.
Graff, a very old and respectable Underwriter. It appears that
Mr. Graff, at about a quarter to three o'clock, was returning home
from lunch, and having obtained the top of the staircase, leading
to the Subscription Room, was observed to lean against the rail»
ing, and soon, afterwards dropped clown.
One of the waiters, on
raisin 4 his head, heard a rattling in the throat. He was con-
veyed into the Committee Room, and expired immediately. Medical
aid was immediately called in, but to no purpose, as the vital
spark had fled. The body now lies in the Committee Room await.
ink; the Corener's inquest.--The deceased has been for sonic time
subject to a dropsical complaint, was about 70 years of age, and
had been a Membir of Lloyd's for about 50 years. It was sup.
posed his death was occasioned by the rupture of a blood-vessel,