The Sun.
London, England, 1828-10-13 00:00:00

BRUSSELS PAPERS.

FRONTIERS WiTtL;, SEPT. 30.--Public Jour--
Bak mentioned. some time ago, that the Porte had
drawr its naval force from the Dardanelles. Ships
arrived at Trieste have brought the news that this
important station is now occupied by a division of
the English squadron stationed in the Grecian seas.
shoipld this new!, which does not, however, rest
nn any authentic authority, ,be confirmed, the
question of the affairs of the East would experience a
very unexpected denouement through this singular
continge.ncy.--Nuremberg, Cdrre2p„„dent, Oct. 6.
BUCHAREST, SEPT. 19.—At the same time with
the news that the second Russian army would re-
treat to Jenibazar, a report was spread that Varna
had _urrendered ; at all events, the fall of that place
is expected to take place shortly, as the Emperor
Nicholas made the Guards, as well as the other re-
inforcements, proceed along the coast of the Black
Bea towards Varna, and is gone thither in person.
Count NO9tHZ is the only one of the Foreign Am-
bassadors who accompanied the Emperor : the
others ha-:e remained for the present at Ode`-!s.
The liirkisll raison pi ;living received

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LONDON.
MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 13, 1828.

A Courier arrived this morning from the
Continent with despatches announcing the death
of the Queen Dowager of WI RTEmBuRG, late
Princess Royal of England. Her Majesty ex-
pired last Monday.

Public expectation is now directed to Varna,
with an anxiety proportioned to the catastrophe
likely to befall that devoted place or the Russian
army. If Varna fall, it will be one of the bloodiest
and dearest bought victories which Turkish ob-
stinacy has yielded to Russian valour. If it resist
the collected force—the forlorn hope of NICHO-
LAS, then indeed the situation of the Russian
army must be critical in the extreme. If we may
credit the accounts in the French Papers, the game
is up before Shumla, and the campaign may be
said to be over— for the Russian armies, according
to these accounts, are in full and desperate retreat
towards the Danube=—a retreat, compelled by

the strong arm of necessity, and harassed by the
7ccumulated vengeance of foes, each eager to
destroy; with all the rancour of 'personal hate.
diie;ilties, if not dangers, of a
To add to the
disgraceful retreat, the Russians will find their
movernenV. impeded by the impoverished state
of the country,-4hp-
destruction of their maga-
gazines, and the dispersion of those troops upon
whom they must have calculated for .spppoit.
It is said that the corpo of General ROTH has
been nearly destroyed by the Pagb4 of Silistria,
who sallied out with 25,0,00 men against the
inadequate force of the Russian& besieging that
place. Gen. 110TH was not only unable to reolse
the Turks, but even to ,effect an orderly retreat.
The consequences were as disgraceful aS ruinous
to the Russian arms. The Turks took thirty
pieces of cannon, besides destroying the works
of the besieger;, Nor, is this 4t all to be woo-
_

We received, this morning, the Allgemeine
Zeitung and Frankfort Journals of the 6th inst.;
their contents are important, so far as indicating
the manly view which the English merchants
of Smyrna took of foreign matters, and their con-
fidence in the spirit of their Government. The
rebuke of Lord ABERDEEN is in perfect
accordance with the whole tenor of his foreign
policy—cold—cold as the snow on his native
mountains. The observations of the Frankfort
Journal on this subject are so much in accord-
ance with our own, that we refer to them with
pleasure :

VIENNA, OCT. 1.

The news that her Majesty the Queen of Portugal is
gone to England is said to have caused some dissatisfaction
in the highest quarter, as his Majesty the Emperor ardently
desired to see his august grand-daughter, and had prepared
every thing with paternal solicitude for her immediate re-
ception. The public cannot understand the cause of the
change in the plan of her Majesty's journey.

FRANKFORT, OCT. $.
The Courier de Smyrne,:of 30th August, contains the
following paragraphs :

SMYRNA, AUG. 30.

A certain number of Philhellenes have arrived here, who
leave the service of Greece, while others, who will soon be
in the same situation, are going to offer their services to
the President. Among the former is Dr. V. Maurizi,
physician of Rome, who distinguished himself by the care
he bestowed with the most noble disinterestedness on the
besieged Greeks in Missolonghi in 1825 and 1826.
On the 16th of this month, Mr. Francis Werry, COR
sul of his Britannic Majesty at Smyrna, called a meeting
of the English merchants at his house, and communicated
to them a letter from Lord Aberdeen, the Minister for
Foreign Affairs, relative to the refusal of the Factory, in
December last, to place itself under foreign protection;
and to the resolution then adopted by the majority of the
members who compose it, to remain constituted as a corps
de nation, under the administration of two Commis-

sinners, chosen from among their own body. The Mi-
nister, after having reproached the Consul for suffering
this question to be agitated in a meeting at which he pre-
sided, blames the determination of the merchants, and ex-
presses his Lordship's displeasure at their not having fol-
lowed the instructions transmitted to them at that time by
the Ambassador of his Britannic Majesty, at the time of
his departure for England,—which were, to place them-
selves under the protection of the Consul-General of his
Majesty the King of the Netherlands. He acknow-
ledges that for the individuals the choice of pro-
tection is optional, hut he denies to the Factory the
right to constitute itself in the absence of every English
anthiority„ and to the acts emanating from the Commis-
sioners appinted for the purpose the character of legality
which is indispensable to them. Lord Aberdeen's letter
comes rather late; and the Ministry has considered a long
time before it resolved to blame the English merchants at
Smyrna, which seems to indicate that there was some
hesitation with respect to the manner in which the conduct
of the Factory was to be considered. The opinion which
has prevailed in the Council, and the spirit which dictated
this letter, may give room for reflections which are not
without i mporta nee-
Twenty years ago an English Minister, whether Whig
or Tory, sef4ull
have found only a subject of praise in a
measure resulting from a certain national pride, which the
Government at that time endeavoured to excite in the
hearts of p'ivate individuals and to carry to the highest
pitch. Merchants who, far from their country, and left
to themselves, ask protection, only ha the quail of sub-