The Sun.
London, England, 1826-11-27 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

Poevistourn, Nov. 25.—Yesterday arrived the Rifleman, 18
Captain W. Carleton, in nineteen days from Halifax, to be paid
off; left there the Jupiter and Dotterel; the Orestes was gone to
Bermuda with a mail ; Alerts', at Quebec (under orders to return
home); Contest, on the purge from St. Jollies to Halifax;
Niemen was spoken off Halifax harbour, returning from Boston,
with Miss Lake and Colonel and Mrs. Harris on board, who went
from the falls of Niagara on a tour into the United States. Cap-
tain Wallie and the officers of the Niemen experienced the most
marked, polite, and gratifying attention from all the public au-
thorities and principal inhabitants of Boston,
,on the visit. The
followlng'prumotions had taken place in the North Atnerican
squadron :—Cornmander Webb, of the Rifleman, promoted to
the rank of Captain, and appointed to the Jupiter, vine Sir Wm.
Wiseman, .Bart. invalided; Commander Henry Edwards, of the
Dotterel, to the rank of Captain; Lieutenant W. A. B. Hamil-
ton, ,of the Jupiter, to the rank of Commander, and appointed
to the Dotterel ; Lieutenant W.. Carleton, of the Jupiter, to the
rank of Commander, and appointed to the Rifleman. Sir W.
Wiseman'and Captain Edwards came passengers in the Rifleman.
On WedneSday the Galatea, Sir Charles Sullivan, Bart. ar-
rived from a cruise ; yesterday the Pyramus, Capt. Sartorious,
arrived front Liverpool, and they remain at Spithead;' with the
Blonde, (under orders to some into harbour and be paid off),
Romney, Rifle Man, and Russian ships Constantine and Helena.—
In the harbour—Victory, Melville, Spartiate, Aim, Diamond,
Dartmouth, Arachne, Plumper, Clinker, and Cracker.
We to
understand that a. reduction is. ,be made in the Naval
Estimates from those of last year, to be laid before the new Par-
liament. Five line-of-battle-ships, severel frigates and sloops, 'are
to be, paid off, which will diseberge about 3000 seamen front the
service. Some of the 'hips to be put in ordinary, as they arrive
home;
,are the Warspitt!, Cambridge, Ocean, Wellesley, of the
line'; Blonde, Diamond, Bianchi!, Dartmouth, Menai, Tamar,
Brazen, Alligator,- and Mersey, frigates;' Morey, ',Eclair, Rifle-
man, grasshoppers and Primrose sloops.
The compliment of the crew of the Spartiate, 74, Captain F.
Warren, fitting for the flag of Yiee-Admiral Lord Aurelius Beau-
clerk, isr the Tagus, will shortly be completed. Captain Sykes
will bring betneand pay off the Ocean.
Letters-from Malta, dated October 23; state the return of th.t
1.',"4/I.ei '74 (Sir 'Harry Neale), from Smyrna ; 'and, that the
ttaniiirlinsanto• Irtefiavti.ngtatpr7inigillyterr, forethast, was 'on her passage
Admiralty Clerk of the Revenge,
va""Putm4 to he purser of the Medina, vice Bunk ; Mr. Little
to be
surges of the Talbot. The Greeks. were going on badly.
w.Litts'Atal:r"in,r,rtulttnsort are appointed to the Tyne ; Lieut.
vice at Weymouth; Katie
ti.eut., Purcell, to the Coast Guard sa-
w. T. D. E.beib,
to. Kent; to be Purser of-the Arachne ;
Lieut. Etimmid Leclunere, tohu A:sistant-Surgeon to the Spartiate ;
yard, of the Tweed, .4' be Lieubet. of the Mr.
brWI"
invalided ; Mr. J. Curtis, cob, Bustard,vice eet ;
urser of the Tyne.—( Humpsh ire
~Teleyraph.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

(From the Etoile, dated Saturday.)

CREATION OF A PREFECT OF POLICE AND DECLA-
RATION RELATIVE TO THE GREEKS.

CONSTANTINOPLE, OCT. 26.—As for some time the
execution of the Laws and ordinances of the Empire
could not be enforced, every thing had transgressed its
ancient limits, and the Rayas for instance permitted them-
selv'es to believe in a m►anner wholly opposite to their con-
dition as Rayas.

In consequence the supreme will of the Sultan had de-
creed, that 'measures should be taken to make all things
return within their proper limits, and that this commission
should be given to a Prefect of Police, chosen among the
Capidgi Basehi.
All opinions having been in tavour of this measure it has
been adonted, and in the ordinance issued on this subject,
and which is furnished in its upper part with the.autOgraph
order of the Sultan, the Raps are forbidden to wear hence-
to dress themselves in cloths or'
forward large kalpaks ;
stuffs, of the colours or fashion reserved for Mussulmans,
and they are ordered to wear only benich or 'djubbe (long,
habit's which differ from each other only by the length of
the sleeves) of narrow black cloth, of the cut at all times
ordered for the Bops ; they are not to go out dressed in
any other manner ; their Patriarch shall first warn them,
afterwards meets them tying-
and if the Ptefect of Police,
grossing the present Ordinance they Shall be seized and
punished.
It is known that some senseleSs itityas permit theM-
selves in sonic places,:and in the Channel to go out of the
limits which are enjoined upon them by their condition as
Rayas; that their daughters appear in public in the Bos-
phorus, at Peru, Kalikow, and other places, dressed like
European women. The Prefect of Police is ordered and
punish every Rapt whom he
enjoined henceforward to
shall find dressed in a manner that is not permitted ; and
this care is not solely confided to that agent; we shall
ourselves cause attention to be paid ; and, when we shall
be informed of any violation of the orde,r 'we shall inflict
other punishments. For these purposes Boucorirtildi shall
be sent as well to the Armenian Patriarch as to the Jewish
Khahambachi. These two shall take care to make whom-
soever it may concern in the Greek nation fully compre-
hend, that henceforward all are to dress themselves as for-
merly, and that their whole conduct, and all their actions,
must be regulated according, to their miserable condition
as Rayas, that none must depart from it, and that every
one who transgresses *ill be punished without mercy.
The 25th of Soper, 1242 (end of Sept. 1824

PAWS, Nov. 21.—The Augsburg Gazette says, that
Daoud Ago, the. Persian agent at Constantinople, had
sought to pay a visit to M. Minziacky, and had applied to
him for a passport from Russia. It is thought probable
that the receipt of ,the bulletins of.the Russian army has
induced him to take these conciliatory steps. However,
M. ISlinziacky has refused the interview and the passport.
(From the Couiier Francais.)

CONSTANTINOPLE, OCT. 25,—Orr the 17th great in-
juietude prevailed throughout this city, and it was whis-
pered about that a revolt would breakout immediately.—
On the 18th it was said 'the Janissaries incorporated with
the new militia, or belonging (to the esnafa (company of
trades),- had formed a plot to assassinate Mehemed Pacha
and Topschi Pacha. They were to have put their design
into execution on the following day, while performing the
fire exercise, having agreed to put ball with the cartouches
into their muskets, so that on the discharge these Pachas
and all their staff might fall. They were then to seize the
depots of munitions, and march against the Seraglio. The
plot was, however, discovered to. Mehemed Pacha by a
Captain ,Suiz-Bachi,andfour Topschi, to whom overtures
had been made to unite with their corps in the plot.

As soon-as it was discovered, Mehemed Paclie gave in-
formation. to the, Sultan and Seraskier Packs, who took
measures together to punish the guilty and' prevent the
machinations of the . disaffected. They sent about fifteen
hundred men to Nicomedia,l either by kind or in ships, and
it was at first supposed that it was to suppress the revolt
whiell made its appearance this quarter ; but it soon be.
collo known that the only object of this expedition was to
get rid of the persons who had participated in the plot.—
. It is supposed that.when arrived at the Dardanelles they
will be .aent to Chios: already have six schooners left the
-arsenal to assist in this operation.

On the 20th the Grand Vizier ordered all the Chaonehs
of the Admiralty who were disposed to reinforee his guard.
He put eight Mussulmans to death, mid the Seraskier had
six more strangled, among. whole were several officers and
a Din-Bashi (commander of a thousand men) of the troops
of Scutari, accused of having an understanding with the
seditious. Three more schooners have started for the sea
of Marmora. We ate assured that the Greek cloth-mer-
chants have refused to take orders for the supplying of
army equipments.

On the ht the Seraskier had seventy-two persons
strangled privately, among whom were four Captains, one
standard-bearer, and eight corporals.. Their dead bodies
were 'carried by night to the Top-Capon, and thrown
into the sea. Thera is this day a grand Council with the
Mufti...4llc ancient Ulemahs of the first class are sum-
moned to attend, as well as !icy eral Redjals and Nedjels-
Effendi.

At Effendi is named Defterdar of Rowena (treasurer),
instead of Hussin Bey, who is recalled to the charge of
the Nidchandgi, which situation had been filled by the
former. The tails are given to Noun Puha, and the Gs-
Vernment of Mans is iutrusted to him.

.The Government is sending all the Asiatic Janissaries,
who are not married, into exile, even those who practise
professions. There is a question of disarming the popu-
lation. There is reason to believe that all, those steps are
taken as the'result of the deliberation of the Council with
the Mufti. The number of persons sent into exile is said
to amount to 1,000 and those executed to 500.

(From the Quotidienne.)

MADRID, Nov, 13.—(Private Correspondence.)—The
multiplicity of couriers arriving and departing—the frequent
conferences between the Foreign Ambassadors and: our
Ministers—and, in fact, every symptom of diplomatic
movements, are presenting themselves before us; still
mystery seems to involve the affairs of our Cabinet, though
one thing is evident, that our Court is on the eve of de-
claring in favour of the Portuguese Royalists. The pro-
testations—nay, the menaces of Mr. Lamb; have not in-
duced our Monarch to deviate from a certain line. of policy.
It is probable that k will be intimated to the English Am-
bassador, that as Eegland has began in favour .of -the inno-
vations which, have taken place- in Portugal; 'Spain has
every right to disapprove of theth. And since the British
Cabinet has thought proper to disembark troops at Lisbon,
since she keeps it squadron in the Tagus, to which the Con-
stitutionalists may retire when unsudeeSsfirl, the Cabinet of
Madrid 'has- equal right to assemble on our own territories
those men who come to seek an asylum against persecu-
tion and death ; and, if the army which has thus emigrated
should think proper to go back to Portugal, why should
we wrest their arms from their hands The Spanish for-
trines can afford the Portuguese Royalists the same pro-
tection that the English vessels afford the Liberals. So far
things are equal.

Royalists under the Marquis de Chaves
amount -to 6 or 6,000 men ; and the other two Royalist
The Portuguese
columns are not less than 10,000; one of them commanded
by Silveyra, and the other
by the Governor of Tavira.
The province of fires-08.Moutes iv said to be the Scot
land of Portugal, and if tho Pretender shows himself there
he will not wantpartisans. There are few Constitution-
alists in this province.

for the 'COunty of Middlesex returned a
GAMING IN litott LtrE.—On Saturday the
true hilt of indictment against Gentlenlen of the name
of Augustus John Waldron, and John M -
thew Boland, for a conspiracy to defraud a Gentleman
Grand Jury
of the name of AuldJo of his money, by unlawful gam,
ing at cards,

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW.
Morning .12 minutes after 0. j Uvening 11 minutes atter I.

LONDON,
MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 27, 1826.

The French Papers of Thursday and Friday, and the
;toile of Saturday morning, reached us last night.—
They contain accounts from Trieste, stating that
GOURAS had been put to death in the citadel of
Athens by his own troops, on suspicion of carrying on
a correspondence with the Turkish Generals ; and
that Captain GRISIOTTI had been chosen as their
Chief. The Greek fleet, which had "peen refitting, put
to sea again as soon as it was known that the Egyptian
fleet had sailed.

Sorne troops had assembled at Salamis, and five or
six hundred men had succeeded in throwing them-
selves into, the Acropolis. IBRAHIM YACRA was
encamped near Corinth with 6,000 men. -
These papers also contain accounts from Constan-
tinople to the 26th ult. A
,plot had.been arranged
amongst some of the ex-Janissaries, who had been in-
corporated amongst the new troops, to shoot, at a
review, Mehemed Pacha, the Seraskier-Pachai and the
Topschi-Bachi---but their intention having' been re-
vealed by some TOpschis who could not be persuaded
to join in the conspiracy, the Government immediately
took the most vigorous measures to punish the con-
spirators, and confound their plans. Decapitations,
stranglings, and banishments. then ensued, and the
tranquillity of the city seems not to have been inter-
rupted. *Mufti, however, had determined to dis-
arm the Mussulman as well as Christian population,
and a proclamation had been issued for regulating the
dress of'the Rayas.
The Jourtall de :Trieste states, that a plot had
been. discovered at Tripoli against the life of the Bey,
whose eldest son was at the head of the conspirators.
He was banished to Dena for the purpose of being
strangled by the way. Such events in these Malio-
medal) States fill
.up the, pages of their history.
The accounts from Madrid in these papers come
down to the 13th inst.. It would seem, from the ge,
neral
have d loigf °thtier
&tsesnaodro
ro f these
notad v cseus tche
ea
dt e h e
nt rqeuaitest
Court of Spain on the subject of the affairs of Por-
tugal..

-The French Funds have fallen—the 5 per Cents. to
99f. 80c, and the 3 per Cents. to 71f. 60c.
Extracts of these papers will be found in another
column•

We received, this morning, the Naples Journal, of
thd 6th instant. It announcer the death, at Rome, of
the Spanish Ambassador to the Holy See, his Excel-
lency Chevalier William Curtoys, in the 70th year of
his ago:—

Rome, Nov. S.
We are extremely sorry to announce the death of his Excellency
Chevalier William Curtoys, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister
Plenipotentiary from his Catholic Majesty to the Holy See. The
deceasesl, who WWI born in England, entered while still very
young on the diplomatic career in the.service of his Catholic Ma-
jesty, in which he gradually rose by his merit to the highest
offices ; he sva i Knight and Treasurer of the Royal Order of
Charles 111., Secretary of State, Ambassador to the Courts of
Lucia and Tuscany, and lastly to the Holy'See. In. Rome, its
elsewhere, he enjoyed the esteem due to his vast learning and noble
character. An, organic defect which had long afflicted him,
carried him oft, after a tedious and painful illness, ou the 4th
instants in the 70th year of his age.

I Nov. 6.
The Journal of the Two Skillet of the fourTATLILS, list days, con-
tains part of a Royal Decree, relative to the management of the
Woods and • Forests in his Majesty's dominions. The part hitherto
given by the Journal, consists of seven chapters, divided into 124
articles.

" In this new law," says the Editor, " a monument of the
wisdom and generosity of his Majesty, we must admire the manner
in which the difficult medium is preserved between the highest
respect for private property, and the greatest possible public ad-
vantage. Its preamble will say more than any comment.
Seneca said, ' Let the law command,' and Cicero, ' Let the
law persuade.' Our good king has resolved that this last law shall
persuade and command at the same tinie."

German Papers have also arrived this morning, but
are destitute of any news. The following article, de.
scriptive of the division of the territories of the Duke
of SAX GOTHA ALTEN►su►zc:, may be edifying to
our German historiographers :

GOTHA, NOY. lb.
The National Gazette pilbli,hed gives to-day the following

article :
In Consequence or the extinction of the eldest branch of the
house of Saxe Gotha Altenburg, the territories of that branch
em
have been divided among the three' existing branches of Saxe
meimageo, and C.:obtarg, by a preliminary con-
vention, concluded an the I Ith of August, 1826, 'by the Commis-
sioners of the three Wino, under the mediation of the King of
Bildburghaue
saxony, and since ratified by the Dukes, with a few alterations.
i. Saxe Afeiningen retains all ihtpossessione except bailiwicket
which are Already it) the midst of the' territory of Coburg,' to
which they are now ceded ; on the other hand Meittingen receives
large additions.
2. Hildburghausen cedes all its possessions to Mciningen and
cAoorg, end receives the whole of Altenburg, except a part which
is added to geiniugen.

S. Saxe-CAurgSaalfeld, now called Saxe-Coburg and Gotha,

retains the principality of Coburg, except a district which comes to
Meinengen, and obtains the bailiwick of Konigsberg Sonnenfeld

•••
from fluldhurghau..en, and the whole Duchy of Gotha, except the
bailiwick of Kranichfeld, Which falls to Meirtengen. Coburg, of
course, retains the principality of Lichtenburg. '
The following is a comparative view of the former and present
extent of the Duchies :

BIZ-OltE THE TITION.

Gvnuan sqr. milec. Populatior.
Saxe-Gotha Altenburg

Saxe-Wioeugen V 19
Saxe-Hildburghatmen
Saxe-Coburg (with Lichtenberg)

Total 1121}

:387,600

SINCE THY. PARTITION.
German erg, miles. Population.
Saxe-Meitlengen, Hildburghausen,
and Saalfeld 43 ... 129,200
Saxe-Altenburg (late Hildburg-
hausen)
Sale-Cnburg Gotha

Total 110;

387,600

His Majesty's packet brig Hope has arrived at Fal-
mouth with a Mediterranean Mail. She sailed from
Corfu on the 12th October, from Malta on the 20th,
and from Gibraltar on the 4th inst. The Public De-
spatches received by this opportunity contain nothing
important. The following are extracts of the Malta
ed Government Gazette of the 18th inst. which has reach-
MALTA, Ocr. IR.—Letters from Smyrna have been received to
the 28th ultimo. from which it appears that the reform com-
menced by the Grand Sultan meets with no setious obstacles in
the neighbouring provinces. A &man received there directs
10,000 men to he raised, and barracks to be built ; and a corn-
missariat is appointed for the issue of ration, pay,
and c
No re-action in any district has yet occurred: bodiesefel:tvhailry:
under the command of Pachas well known flu. their fidelity, march
in every direction to suppress any attempt to raise a commotion in
favour of the proscribed Janissaries.
The last news from Constantinople left every thing
as traiiqu
re"
il.
It is supposed, however, that the conflagration w a p
nonunanintstefdorwtihtheirofgrpeautttinangteantstoanpd ttobethdenartarvnacgt
meditated act of the discontented, which provokt4l the
Great Officers attending, as is usual, to see a vacuum cot
around the burning building, the only mode the Turks are ac-
perty. It was understood that the Russians had made other de-
mands on the Porte, and that a given, time was fixed for its deci-
sion. ' Such an embarrassment mast be very perplexing at this
critical 'moment, when the Turk hae no army he can depend upon,
and the feelings aroused by the late events are still in an unsettled
esionofffilirvees: this
ac-
and ►pro-

into
.Russians, it is said in
state.
Paella still exists
G. reFleeGrsolavernment, g thecae letters, have marched an semi
from the
aanttdactkresaticifieir:y
ceanne
citadel of Napoli di Romania.small band of Greeks lit,,ti
Gourd holds out likagiewlinsgei A my, though pent up (ti
leer
Acropolisinlnnthttehheeholkpefor(els,Euarnodrethe. Ptrovvenisitoniaaalo
tinothiungrebitriot of Athens, 'nu.
are closely besieged by them o , ,
the Serask. '
town. ier s troops in possessidnef ula
deprive an
I:61m; tlitheye
Tbi Ottoman Peet has now been in the Archipel 0 ?In?
weeks
whic without attempting any thing, while tht. Greek saguaarl"
have long lost their vigour and th •'eegrf re
disti •Or character, 3 „,,_
distinguished for caution than
gether allured from the cause for enterprise, if they are ea ","p
by a
thirst
for individual profitandplunder • .1)1 Abp
too irresistt e,
once tasted, for their
for days
together inoffensively
palate. These two forces has been lea
rs.
looking at each other. It sir
however! t ali I
1t about the 19th of last month sorue skitia"hing
took . p ace off Mytelene, when the Greeks under Sechtouri et-
peudedthree bralots without effect, and one accOuut says IhsY
to the
lost nine of their own vessels, having approached too near
heavy guns of the Turkish ships, 1..• 1 i . they were
in W.W.I s Mahon .
becalmed and sunk.
The expeditionne (I.
against Samos, it is seppeae,l, vas allat -nde
until alter
I),lcha Itriltbe equinox ; and it is' uncertain who
the C' pot
men
ii, I even then make any attempt to reduce it, as the 15,0 (h
We
hearsembled on the opptxsite coast or Anatolia are all disperse(
__, of fewer instances of piracy committed in the Levant
Seas than formerly, which is attributed rather to the readiness of
o squadron' in granting convoy ships for the protection of trade,
'than to any material diminution in the number of piratea who in:
feat them ; that we would not advise any Merchant Captain totisic
harbour in
of his owners without protection. These plunderere
nTour in almost every creek and inlet of every island or shore
and they seldom' fail of darting out when a good opportunity
_pre.•
((ents itself of making Imre of their prey. A letter from an Office!.
of his Majesty's ship Rose mentions, that on a signal from the Ad_
mire!, about 150 marines landed front our ships on the Island 01.
Andros, and, after seouring the coast for several hours, they found
two Eirat. d • '
!el trusties, am. a m Str , 5
1 bo b d .0 situated as to be nob-
serve le from ships TI ev were of course immediately
at tea. I ,
burnt.
----------
Extract 'film the Agents to Lloyd, dated Gibraltar,
November 6. : .
b. Gut
Two •
brigs, supposed to be Algerine cruisers were in t
,_____
this morning, off Pent* Cameo), they were seen to board a il ro
nish vessel which they carried to the Eastward. They first lc°.
Spanish colours, but after boarding, hoisted French, , m Ai,.
A Spanish corvette end a schooner of war were lying
geseiras. e.
Gibraltar. Chronicles to the 6th of November, have bees lot
ceived ; their contents are unimportant, and only a"
tt:ll' lie
many proofs we have received of the wretched state in trbit ~,he
Spanish marine and their mercantile trade are reducca..o ',iie
Alg ;
er.nes appear to treat them with contempt, and almostievtid,
face of their, armed vessels capture and carry off aani
their coasting craft. r Lloyd',
Extract of a letter, from the Agots 0, froo
dated Smyrna, October 19 :—The American brig Sultan,
itun_
Trieste and Zant.e, to fill up at this place far Boston, walAtold,
dead, sth instant, off Cape Dew, by two mistics, from , with
which took out a few fine goods and filled their veswein_tever.
sugar, emptied out of the cans, and carried off or destro3r;
di
crew'
portable article. They stripped and beat the mss a iio
The John Reid, tioni Liverpool, aud another F.lnglisli vesse ~ ,
ballast, it is reported, were boarded by the same Pirates, a le
hours before.
--------'-' at . : rival
Paper .0
We mentioned in our ' f Saturday the
Cart
of Mr. WlLLocic Charmd'Affaires at the
, our 00'
of Persia. It is understood that he brought dose
• _
Colonel IVIOOI4
.nts

ocofucnotisisiodfetrialbelecaiumsepoarntatince' from .
our Resident at Teheran,
of these despatches have not been' positively, Os
e-
known, they are understood to contain detailed 0
a Or
••,. . __l; pi•
big on hetsveen Russia and Persia, and O. APP*4 ,
.
:einfi filth
from the latter for
the mediation of Great Drs.— tea
the former, to arrest the contest. ' - Mr. Wll,o°l-6.00
the camp at Mac on the 13th September, enu ibst,
progress of the war no v! ~.,,,
all which we have been able to gather, we be 1411,00.
and although the contod. 0
the Russian account, both of the origin-of the 0:
and of the operations since its comniencernent, °,l,
tains gross misrepresentations. The difficulties which
Russia has to contend against, from .the nature pet,
country in which she is carrying on militeri
tions, and from the distance from which she has to trans' t.
port. all her stores and supplies, are enormously Oress
But her gigantic powers end resources will over Onto
all the natural difficulties against which she
hal .ro
contend, and the distracted state of the internal .the
of Persia will facilitate her success when once t",
frontier Provinces are overcome. It therefore beconlro',
a question of immense importance to the interests .
this Country to arrest this inevitable overthroiv of 01,:
Persian Monarchy, by nagociation, if it can be effete°
but we doubt very inuch—ast, whether this Counq
will venture to offer to Russia her mediation on this
occasion, and 2d, whether, if she *ire to tlO,
Russia would allow of it.
The policy of the Court of St. P 11
eteishUrgh '0
been

so steadily directed` towards advancing eastward, that
we do not believe that she, will abandon this policy at
the very monient when an important step in it is likely
to he gained.
Mr. Wittocx was in a state of such exhaustion
when he arrived, from the fatigues of the very long and
extraordinary rapid journey which he had completed,
that he was unable to alight'from his carriage.

Two of our Contemporaries, and one of them a
Paper not professing any devotion to the psrty op-
posed to the present Administration, have last week
made comments upon the frank and manly statements'
of Mr. CANNING, on the subject of Portugal, which
it was difficult to lead without some surprise and in-
dignation. There was no vaunting in Mr. CAN,.
NINO'S made no boast of the power, of
England—and. threw out no defiance to any other
ternary ; . but, disclaiming any intention to' interfere
between the domestic parties into which Portugal
might be divided; he quietly stated, what no good
Englishman would be forward in doubting, that it had
been the object .of the British Government to take
care that no Foreign force should enter the dominions
of that ancient and faithful Ally ; and that, if the small
squadron stationed, at no immoderate expence, in the
Tagus, had conduced to the attainment of that object,
it would have prevented an explosion which would
have cost England more, in one year of war, than
the closest economy could compensate in twelve of
peace. What part of this observation could have been
supposed likely to excite a sneer ?, Could it have
been the indirect intimation that England was not
prepared to be a tame spectator, whilst a Foreign
Power sent its armies into a country, so long and so
intimately allied to her, in order to put down, by force,
a majority of the nation peaceably labouring, in con-
junction with the representative of its lawful Sovereign,
to amend and 'consolidate its institutions ? It was even
140. Two English journals, one the professed organ
Hof the regular Opposition ; the other assuming the
character of an independent, plain-sense, publication,
have treated the idea of any other course as chimeri-
cal ; they have both represented this country as so
crippled by her debt, that she must have been passive
under an aggression, in the utter dishonour of which,
all Sense of the fatal detriment to her interests must
rdmest have been forgotten. If these papers have
'Token truly, we have only to say, that the sooner we
Proclaim our inability to keep our engagements with
the public creditors the better; no disgrace, no injury,
tesulting from such a declaration could equal the ignominy
and helplessness of the condition in which we should
grovel on, holding our own safety, and that of every state
cooLected with and confiding in us, by no better tenure
than the forbearance of Governments a little less in
debt than ourselves, and deluding our creditors with
Alt idea of our ability to maintain, that place amongst
the nations of tkearth, without which their security
for principal or Brest were not worth a ducat. But
:those papers have not spoken truly ; and they know it.
Tile One to attack a ministry, the other to indulge in
hackneyed sarcasms on a financial system, of which,
with all its defects, the best defence is to be fOund, in
that unparalleled pre-eminence which the country has
reached and maintained, by it, with it, or in spite of it
(be it which it may), both writers have belied their native
land. They know it, we have said, and happily other
. nations know it too. With or without a debt, we
have too wise an administration to trifle with the evils
°t W'11; the world has more than once been indebted
to them, and to them only, for the preservation of a
rllace so degirable for nations, so indispeneible for the
ppitiess of millions ;, their 'unremitting vigilance,
w)elr persuasive- reasonings, their blended conciliation
4,4 firmness, their journeys far and near, (in the
L'ePth of winter, and in a , precarious state of
ahh), all have been employed, and successfully 'so,
!u r that great end ; but, let the essential interests 'of
the realm be menaced ; let one ambitious power, by
*ICS on others' yet remote from us, endanger that
balance, which howsoever the foolish or the factioui
mar mock
d_the word, is the sole basis of national in.
mitlence and lasting peace ; or, above all, let an
lealnvtlion be attempted on a weaker state that has
ned f
4_ or centuries upon us as its main support; and
a, We and they,' and all the world, 'shall see what
thoort
r a check our debt will be upon our faculties ;
ar_ it. will lock up our swords in our scabbards, or
blunt their edge.

alifax Pape'
re to the 34 November inclusive have been received
the North and South American Coffee-house ; their contents
tthr:eot important. They seem to be congratulating themselves upon
eaQbatit'acY of the American Government in having brought
rt themselves the British Order in Council, interdicting Ame-
Z; thiPping from trading with our West India Colonies, by
t,„0:4 they would lose the exportation of, their produce to the
O'ttlt of
141 millions of dollars annually, and which employed
1
'ut) tons of American shipping
,in a profitable trade. The
1:,1
4 Octobtet had already comm dence, and at St. Johns, N. 8., on the
,fler, they had been visited by a regular snow storm, the
of the season.
414 .toils contrittlicts the assertions made by other papers,
the ft King, of France had experienced an attack of the gout in
ect ; but state that his Majesty has felt some slight rheumatic
Iv, 117 in the knees, which may have been occasioned by the fall
iTH: II happened to him sometime
ago, but which does not even
°tit
-the King front walking, and is already subsiding ritddly.
Letters from Geneva of the 20th " at. announce that tile weekly
subscriptione in favour of h et,lkan 'l3 Eynard,
have hem already commenter:7l
Nijon a small town near --oMeto.wron'soosedf Stiyitzeriand. At
not exceed 2000 souls, 307 aelle,:4); population of which does
and offer to pay three sous each,erltZ44ve presented themselves,
year., It is expected, that the numberlY, until the harvest of next
towolf the subscribers will soon
im 450; at Rolle, and other small
fooll.vhere there are 1,200
inhabitants, 250 subecribers have been
Geneva is also on the point of opening substriptio n 4 ;
"Pected from 4 to 5000 persons out of a poptifiitiorof"—
zWill inscribe their names. If
this
example
be followed
in other
entries, the Greeks may, at all events, depend on relief6ftroZ
Presiing famine which menaces them from the devastation of
°f their These subscriptions in Switzerland are instituted
the sole view of giving bread to a nation, 'which otherwise
"
414," Perish from want of the common necessaries of life. This
qk of pure Christian charity must be approved by men
of all
tmtkii and parties, whatever be their opinions or their wishes with
111411 to the Greek contest,'politically considered.

t ,
—Aar METAL PIANOS.--Every nay the Use of
:t4 ot iron is becoming more general, bridges are made of it;
I:utehM-boats ; in England it is used' for roads; and at Liverpool
P,„•es are built of it. Here, in. Peril, we have lately got
r
N. the frarne-Work of which is formed of cast iron. These
I:EU ments have been brought to such perfection by MM,
4e,1 and Co., that not only did they rival, hut, in many parti-
-0.," surpass the beat English instruments. The solidity of the
ind " o -bwork is so great, that they seldom get out of tune, and the
r►hieard relieved from those enormous pieces of wood with
004, Was formerly cumbered, in order to resist the strain,
ttritT" ninth more elasticity, and seconds the vibration of the
hetes ninch better. The tone of these instruments is wonderful,
thm4..pnwer and mellowness, and the mechanism is so perfect,
Indeedimmitt of the most delicate as well as of the strongest touch.
Ant ‘4's has no doubt, that when they are'knewn, they will
1nv„,.,"41—t0 the Importation of foreign Pianos. MM.,Pleyel
Itigl. *416 inn
rt Ontbtah ine p
d a patent for *are witli single
.....P
411 cr. •

THE FUNDS.

CITY, Trim o' Clock.

The Chief employment of the Brokers this morning is in making
up their, accounts, to-morrow being settling day. Console
opened at 83 and by January 831 4; they have since been
rather better, and are now 891; rather buyers ; India Bonds and
Eichequer Bills are heavy at a small decline, the former being 37
9, and the latter 18 19 pm. - Fears seem to be entertained that
some failures may take place to-morrow, from the heavy fluctua-
tions which have occurred during the account. The Foreign
Funds have had but little business, Mexican are steady at 68,
buyers ; Colombian, 41t 2 ; and Greek, 20, buyers. There
does not appear any thing novel in Shares.
Three per Cent. Consols, 89/ ; Ditto for Jan., 841; India
L per Cent. Bonds, 37 9 pm, ; Exchequer Bills, 18 19 pm.

Two o' Clock.

Consols have-been 83i, fora moment, went to it, and in
consequence of having sales, are now 83i and 83 4, for
January ;.4. per cents. 974, and Bank Stock 2831. •
Thera is scarcely any alteration in the Foreign Funds; Mexi-
can are 68 f ; Colombian, 42; Greekabout per cent. lower,
191; and Spanish, 134. ' •

Three per Cent. Consols;
FOUR O'CLOCK--C
Consols 83-i
Do. for Ac. 83i I
Brazilian Bonds 65i
Buenos Ayres Do. 6G
Chilian Do. 38-i
Columbian, 1824, 41i

THREE O'CLOCK
831 1.
LOSING PRICES.
Danish Bonds 62
Greek Do. 1825 19.}
Mexican Do. 1825, 68
Peruvian Do. 35
Russian Do. 87#
Spanish Do. 13#

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

LLOYD'S(Turs Day.)
MAT., Nov. 25.—Wind Westerly.—Arrived from the River
and remain, Sir E. Hamilton ; Emerald, Simpson ; and Water-
loo, Wilkinson, for Jamaica. Passed the Cortes, Sprague, for
New York; the Molland, for Zante; and Homer, Fraser, for
Honduras.
Nov. 26.—Wind N.N. W,—Arrived from the River, and sailed,
with the whole of the outward-bound, the London, Carman ;
Piggot, Blake ; and the' George, Parker, for Jamaica. Remain,
the Tobago, Lawless, for Miramichi; and Europe, Jones for
Philadelphia. ' ,
PonTsmotrrn, Nov. the Maria, Cleland, 'for
Honduras ; Friends, Hill, for Jamaica ; Greenwich, Dunn, for
the South Seas ; and the Pursuit, Adie, for St. Thomas's, from
London. The David Scot, for Madras, with the rest of the out-
ward-bound, got under weigh this morning, but have since put
back, the wind being N.W.

PLYMOUTH, Nov. 25.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrived the Swal
low, Johnes, from Alicant ; and Seal, Brown, from Lisbon.
Ganviestriv, Nov. 25 and 26.—Arrived the Jane, Osborn,
from Petersburgh ; Kirkman, Fletcher, ditto; Dido, Lee, from
Cephalonia ; Paget, Wing, from Smyrna; William, Carlisle, froin
Lisbon; William, Carter, ditto, and Magdalen, Robson, from
St. Petersburgh. Sailed the Prince George, for London ; Ar-
man and Piggott, Blake, for St. Petersburgh ; Magnet, Watkins,
for the Cape; Georgina, Watt, for Grenada; Hannah, Hope, for
St. Michaels; and Emulous, Weeks, for Jamaica.

CHESTEItI SATURDAY EVENING, N0v.25,

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
Our market during the past week has been very inactive,
nor have we to-day observed any amendment. . The few
buyers which have presented themselves in the market, this
week, have been small country drapers, and consequently
their purchases have been but limited. Even the London
wholesale buyers seldom or never have any influence by
their purchases here in making much alteration in prices.
At this season of the year the holders do not expect much
business, nor are they, therefore, from this circumstance,
inclined to reduce prices in order to cfre2t sales. We have
had 'a tolerably fair enquiry for power loom. cloth, and a
very fair business has been doing, but at very low prices.
Velveteens, for exportation, are uncommonly dull, and very
few sales have been effeeted. Water twist continues to sell
freely, and prices fully supported. Cotton has been, through
the past . week, very steady, and about 11,000 bags have
been sold here and in Liverpool.

itt3*Y CASE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
fits--Although I know yon to he in the main a supporter of
the King's Government, yet deeming your support to be guided
by reason, and also believing it is the earnest desire of the Go.,
vernment of itself to direct the affairs of the country upon a
system of the strictest justice to the subjects of his Majesty, espe-
cially in reference to the collection of taxes, I think you will give
me an' opportunity of Mean% 'II eve of as gross robbery and ab•
surdity as ever was performed under the sanction of the law or the
authority of its officers. The case I mean bears reference to the
legacy duty, and the duty on probates of wills, and letters of ad-
ministration. It was my unfortunate lot a ,few weeks ago to
lose my father, and my Mother declining to take upon her
self the burthen of 'the administration she renonnced, and 1
applied for letters to be granted to' me in due form of law. It so
happened, Sir, that by my father's tnarriage-settlement each of
his children attaining the age of 21, took a vested interest in the
funds secured by that settlement (being personal property), and
were therefore entitled by will to bequeath it to whomsoever they
pleased. But, as that vested interest could not he reduced into
possession till the death of' both my father and mother, of
course, therefore, the right thus given could not be attended
with the immediate beneficial enjoyment of the property.
My father had two myself and 'it brother, who died
some years ago, having attained twenty-one years and a half,
and his interest under the marriage settlement of his father having
thus vested in him, descended to his father by virtue of the sta-
tute called the statute of distributions. This fact chanced to
transpire, and I was refused letters of administration to my father's
estate, (although I was willing to estimate as part of his property
my deceased brother's portion), unless I should permit the proper
officer to be guilty of that gross absurdity, of .granting letters of
administration to a dead man, that is, from my deceased brother to
my deceased father, as in that case I must pay the stamp duty on
the letters, and on the succession from my brother to my father
first, and then again, on the snore property, , from my father to
myself. This I refused, as cruelly unjust, thinking that I had
done quite enough in offering to pay the duty once from my father
to myself. You will also perceive 'that the property in right of
which this double duty is pertinaciously demanded, will not, even
when the dtity is paidi come into my possession, but I shall
merely have a certificate of .my right to it, a right which I claim
by the exprats provision of the low, the statute of distributions.
In vain I urged the absurdity of the thing-4n vain its injustice
and oppressive character: the officer was inexorable, and I must
abandon my claim to the letters. This I would do because I know
that eventually it must be paid to me or my legatees, or personal
representative, without the letters of administration in question, but
I am unfortunate enough to be a suitor in that blessed Conrtthe Court
of Chancery, and I must give up all my immediate rights, unless I
acquiesce in this extortionate demand, for this Court of Equity
refuses to entertain my suit, unless I am duly empowered to de.
wand (rights no person can or will dispute) in
clue fotmy m'n rights
of law; so, in accordance with the old • proverb, gi one
needs must when the devil drives," especially such a devil. I
ant preparing to pay the duty without more ado.
• I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
Nov. 27, 1826.

B. F.

Wl L D , . ' 1
.. ,
Li... name, sq,
Ai glienlehMannintr
hisi p
o
s
.tnst
neighbourhood of Southampton for the.purpnee . of
and large gun,
session 4 most ingenious canoe
,_
about 2t feet long, nerr°w*
*hooting wild fowl. The On°. Iera""" sea phrase, is very OW;
Fo w .1, Stio O T I,birip..
quite flat at the l,ottom, and 6.,ftlert :aa
herhegiiningwhhalyerewalioliih:aro...tet
, 'Kb that a person may easily stand oned , foe and aft, and
upsetting her „ she is , completely deck
the
gun and shooter
open sufficiently et inidship • to . 01,11 y, with streaks to let up and adacaowitlt inmse' teorimaineewteellin.—a
fiv7lite bow or nelie and likewise the sterlb„,, „ea is well
ilYtheds4,l%itirt blot' tifirsirtin- It:tees:L(lk iwogithpieaecePPet ' er.od la"le)saltifuletitthithe
twist barrel and a dint lock (the preference given by 1
wild-fowl shooters to the flint over' the percussion'
the birds suddenly rising m the flash, they present a better
isk for the range of the shot), mid in shot from a swivel, to which"
attached a strong spring to receive-the recoil that naturally err:
frOrn the discharge of so 'ergo 4 gun, the barrel being eight feet
long, and
,weighing nearly 7011,4, , so ingeniously is the canoe
Wilt, that she is scarcely percentible at a chart distance, from
being painted white, and se.sre) t
Y elght inches above the serfatea' ,
.
of the sea ; and, together with the Len Oars,--" and man, it dram 1
only tliree inches of water,..diants Telegraph.