The Sun.
London, England, 1821-06-20 00:00:00

THE BISHOP OF WINCHESTER.

We regret that we had not an opportunity
yesterday to insert the subjoined letter, as it con,
tains a full vindication of this venerable Prelate
from the charges brought against him by,tMr.
ROBERT ADAIR I!! The Bishop has fully jtisti-
fied all that he has said in his life of our late il-
lustrious and unrivalled Statesman', WILLIAM
PITT, respecting a transaction Which will be an
eternal brand upon the memory of Mr. Fox, a
transaction, which Mr. BURKE not only consider-
ed and described- as little short of 11101 Treason,
but positively proved to be so by irrefragable
arguments founded on undeniable facts. Mr.
ADAIR, therefore, in attempting to clear Mr.
Fox of the heavy charge brought againSt hiin by
Mr. BunKE, has only confirmed the truth of that
charge, and implicated .himself in a measure
which .it is impossible to defend or. to pal-
liate. For our own part, well remembering all
that was said of the transaction at the time
when it happened,
,our only doubts 'arose from
the difficulty of supposing, that a man of Mr.
Fox's deep knowledge of mankind and long po-
litical experience, whatever his principles or his
objects might be, should have ;chosen such an
agent, as from all that we haVe ever heard of thf,
person in question, we should never have con-
ceived that his intellectual powers would 'have
pointed him out to such a man as Mr. Fox, as fit
to be employed on so very critical, hazardous, and
dangerous a mission ; at the,same time, it is pro-
per for us to .add, that. never having _been ac-
quainted with the person in question, and only
judging from, .the_ report of others, we are wholly
unable.to estimate his mental capacity• and at-
tainments, except from his literary productions,
which ar,e
.certainly by no means calculated to
remove the doubts which we originally enter-
tained on the subject.

To ROBERT ADAIR, Esa.
" Great George-street, June 2, 1821.

" Sin—l have to lament that many circumstances have con-
curred to prevent my sending you an earlier answer to the let-
ter, which I had the honour of receiving from you on the 23d
of last month. - - I now beg leave to inform you, that the ex-
tract, page 445, &c. of the second volume of my Memoirs of '
the Life of Mr. Pitt, was taken from an edition of Mr. Burke's
`Works, printed by Rivington 1815, which, as far as• the
paper in question is concerned, is acopy of the edition publish-
ed by Dr. Lawrence, one of Mr. Burke's executors. The
paper, originally written in 1793, was_ certainly not designed
for publication ; it was meant to be entirely and strictly con-
fidential.' but on that account it was not less likely to. be true. I
request your . attention to a passage in a letter. .from Mr. Burke
'to Dr. Lawrence, dateda Bath; February 14th, 1797, soon after
he had learned that this paper had. crept surreptitiously into
the world I beg you and thy friends to be cautious hew
you, let it be understood that I disclaim any thing but the mere
act and intention of publication. I do not retract any one of
the sentiments contained in that memorial, which was and is
my justification, addressed to.the friends for whose use alone I
intended it. lead I designed it for the phblic, I should have
been more exact and full. It was written in a tone of indigna-
tion, in consequence of the resolutions of the Whig Club, which
were directly pointed against myself and others, and occasioned
our secession from that Club, which is the last act of my life
that I shall repent. Many temperaments and explanations
there would 'have been, if I had ever had a notion that it would
meet the public eye.' Dr. Lawrence proceeds to tell us, ,that
Mr. Burke finding, upon his return from Bath, that -he had
not kept a fair-Copy of the paper, corrected.one of the pam-
phlets with his own hand ; and he adds, from this, which
was found preserved with his other papers, his friends after-
wards thought it their duty to give an authentic edition.' chus
it appears that the copy from which I have quoted was cor-
rected by MrAlurke himself, several years.after the paper was
written,. when he had full time to inquire into the truth of his
statement, and after the publication of your letter in '‘ The
Morning Chronicle.' I feel myself, therefore, justified in in-
ferring that Mr. Burke persevered in considering his statement
true and accurate, after mature deliberation, and after seeing
what you had said upon the subject. And his executors
thought this acknowledged production of Mr. Burke, full of
matter likely to interest the future historian,' worthy of a place
among his valuable works.
" I cannot think, that it makes any substantial difference,
whether the idea of your journey to . Petersburgh originated
with yourself or-Mr. Fox. You acknowledge that you went
with the consent of Mr. Fox ; and you will not deny that, be-
sides other correspondence, you wrote to him in cypher, which
is a proof of Mr. Burke's assertion, that you went ' with his
(Mr. Fox's) cypher.' Yon also admit that you obtained a
knowledge of events as they were passing' at Petersburgh,
and that you discussed, " with openness and freedom, both the
causes and the consequences of the'Measures then in agitation ;'
which open and free discussion must have related to the -politi-
cal situation of the two countries, and to Mr. Fox's conduct
and sentiments, which were in direct opposition to those of the
King's Ministers. You decline naming or designating the
persons with whom You communicated ; but they must have
been the Empress's Ministers, or persona in their confidence.
It appears to tne, therefore, highly.prabable, that these com-
munications produced the effect ascribed to them by-Mr. Pitt
and Mr. Burke; and your concession seem to amount to an
admission of the material parts of their charge against Mr. Fox.
" 1 do not think it necessary to give any other answer to your
questions relative to the objects you frustrated, but by referring
you to Mr. Pitt's speeches, of which I have given an abstract.
When Mr. Pitt talked of parliamentary inquiry., it was impos-,
sible for Mr. Fox to do less than declare his readiness to meet
it ; but-this I cannot admit as any proof that the charge was
groundless. To establish, by regular proof, the truth of a
transaction alleged to have taken place between a private indi-
vidual and the Sovereign, and the Ministers of a for and
distant country—a transaction in which both parties would un-
'questionably withhold all information—must obviously .be
extremely difficult, if not 4bsolutely impossible ; and yet
circumstances might leave no doubt in the minds of impartial
-persons of the reality of the transaction, or of the effects it pro-
duced. . .

" You mention that the Empress Catherine's known prefer-
ence for English -connexion gave you an advantage for learning
the real situation of affairs at the Court of St. Petersburgh,
and of discovering its ,future intentions.' I mush own thatel.
should have thought that a person avowedly of the party acting
in opposition ti'Ythe English Government would not have been
very likely to meet with a favourable and confidential reception
from the Empress - if she had been really desirous of a friendly
connection with that Government. The truth is that the Em-
press saw in Mr. Pitt a great obstacle to her ambitious projects,
'and therefore sheaved a predilection in favour of Mr. Fox and
his friends. -
" You seem to think, that it was my duty to have made such
inquiries concerning you as should have led to the knowledge
of your publishing a letter in The Morning Chronicle,' in the
year 1797. I really do not conceive that I was under any obli-
gation to make that inquiry e nor do I understand how it could
have been instituted. I was bringing no new charge against
you ; but was merely transcribing a few pages frcm a work of a
well-known author which had been origmally published more
than twenty, years, to which Mr. Fox had made no reply what-
ever; and which you had only noticed in a letter in a ne*s-
paper, which I had either never seen or totally forgotten. In
that letter, a copy of which you have had the goodness means'
me, you mentioned some idea of replying, but never did reply,
although you afterwards discovered, that what you called a
pretended letter' was really written by Mr: Burke. I apply
no epithet in my work to the transaction ; and my short com-
ment' upon it relates only to Mr. Fox.' I do not even mention
your name, except in the quotation. In your letter in The
Morning Chronicle' you affirm that the charge is false;' but
you do not explain the nature of the charge, or point out in
what respect it is false. In your letter to me you acknowledge,
that you did go to Petersburg,h fon a political purpose, with NI r.
Fox's tonsent ; that you• had political communications with
certain persons there; that you freely delivered your political
opinions, which were those of Mr. Fox, and that from thence
you corresponded with Mr. Fox.
" Dr. Parrofter quoting part of the passage quoted by me,
says, I am not enough acquainted with the circumstances of
this transaction, either to justify or condemn the whole of it.'
This explicit acknowledgment makes it unnecessary for me to
add a word concerning Dr. Parr's observations, unless you will
allow me to express my surprise, that after hisdeclaration, that
he was not sufficiently acquainted with the transaction to decide
whether it ought to be justified or condemned, yost should repre-
sent him as having confuted Mr. Burke's reasoning in a way
that admits of no answer as having 4 completely dissected M r.

The following are the contents of the Ham-
burgh Mail which we received this day
" HAMBURGII, JUNE 14.—The postscript of a
commercial letter from Vienna says—' Official
news has been received that the Turks entered
Bucharest on the 28th of May, that they be-
haved well, and that Ypsilanti had with diffi-
culty escaped.'—(Borsen Halle List, June 14.)
" HAMBURGII, JUNE 14.—We have received
the following intelligence :

CC BY EXPRESS.

" A courier, dispatched from Bucharest on the
28th May, has brought the news of the evacua-
tion of the capital of Wallachia by the rebels,
and of the peaceable entrance of the van-guard
of the Turkish army. Kiaya Mahomed, Pacha
of Silistria, Commander of this corps of about
12,000 men, had advanced on the 26th as far as
Odileschti, and on the 27th to Tratsinesi, five
leagues from Bucharest, and on the following
day to the environs of the city itself, without the
smallest resistance being attempted by the troops
of the various parties. Theodore, Hadschi, Pia-
don, and Binbaschi, with their adherents, on re-'
ceiving certain information of- the approach of
the Turkish troops, precipitately evacuated on
the 27th both the convent of Crotoeseno and the
city of Bucharest, the inhabitants of which feared
a general pillage. For several days the public
peace had been preserved solely by measures
concerted by M. Udritzky, the Austrian Agent,
with the Boyars and the Turkish Commanders,
and by the Austrian subjects at Bucharest, who
were called upon to form a guard. On the 28th
a detachment of 200 Turks entered the city,
who observed the strictest discipline, and shewed
a moderation which did them honour, so that
they are considered by the inhabitants as their
deliverers from the dangers and pillage with
which they have been lately threatened.
" Theodore, with his adherents, has retreated
by way of Pitescht towards Carte d'Argisch,

and took on his way alt the post and other horses.
—The greatest disorder prevails among his corps,
and it is to be foreseen that, if they should by
overtaken by the Turkish troops the yen
'country, they will hardly venture a battle...„."-.
"-Ypsilanti detached- on the 2N. of May' the
greater part of his Greeks, stated at 2000 men,
under the command of-Cantacuzeno, a,gainit the
Turkish troops, who have been advancing since
the taking- of Galacz in Moldavia. He had re-
mained himself, with only 600 men, at Tergowist,
against which the corps of Hadschi Ahmed
Pacha was already on the march, to join that of
Jusstif, Pacha of Ibrailow, who was likewise
marching towards the same place, to drive away
this leader of the Insurgents.
" Unbridled anarchy prevails in Moldavia;

the lietarists, who have abandoned Jassy, rove
about the country, which they lay waste and
pillage like banditti. The Turkish divisions of
the corps of the Seraskier Jussuf, Pacha of. Ibrai.
low, are advancing in different directions towards
Jassy, and where they appear order arid tran-
quillity return, as they pursue only the Iletarists,
protect the country people, and pay for every

• thing in ready money.
" CONSTANTINOPLE, MAY 14.—The following
circumstances have• excited an extraordinary sen-

ation here :

" On the 29th April the Greek merchant;
Emanuel Danesi,• was arrested, because he re-
fused to pay a' bill of exchange for 309,000 pias-
tres drawn upon him, to the order of Prince Cca-
limac:hi, now HoSpodar of Wallachia, because
the drawer, the banker'Sakellario, at Bucharest,
had informed him that no funds had been assign-
ed. The AuStrian Internuncio teok his- part,
because Saliellario is an Austrian, and Danesi
alSo defended himself with an intrepidity unusual
with a Greek. He was released. He yielded,
however, to the entreaties of his gamily, and con-
cealed himself ; but the Reis Effendi sending for
him, the Russian Ambassador, whose banker he
is, persuaded him to leaVe his retreat, and pledged
his word for his life. On the 2d May Danesi,
accompanied by zi Russian Dragoman, appeared
at the Porte, but was immediately seized and
thrown into prison. On the 3d, Baron Strogo-
nOff caused him to be claimed as the hanker of
the Russian Embassy, but , the Reis Effendi an-
nounced very coolly, that Danesi was a subject
of the Porte, and. Baron Strogonoff had no right
to interfere in his. favour. Hereupon the Ambas-
sador ordered M. Von Daschkow, who is attached.
to the Embassy, to. go in ceremony, accompanied
by two tnterpretersy four Janissaries, and two
servants in state liveries, and renew the demand.
Lie was made to wait five hours, and then dis-
missed with the same answer as the preceding
day. M. Vhn Daschkow, who had been ordered
not to return without Danesi, sent one of his Jar
nissaries to inform Baron Stregonoff of the answe-
he had received... The latter immediately came
himself with a numerous suite, but received the
same answer. At his de:Sire, he was conducted,
contrary ,to established, custom, to the Grand
Vizir, but still received the same answer. 110

now desired to know of what Danesl was ac-
cused. The Grand Vizir said, they had the
most convincing-_ proofs that he was guilty of
High Treason. ..Baron Strogonoff observed, that
this accusation entirely changed the nature' of
the affair; that Danesi Ueing his banker, and the
medium .of his official correspondence with the
Morea, it threw a doubt.on the uprightness of his
own sentiments,-and was therefore an ins lit to
the Imperial Ambassador. This the Grand
Vizir would not allow ; on which Baron Stro-
gonoff loaded him with the harshest reproaches
and the most serious threats.. Nothing would put
the Turk out of his way: The Ambassador then
asked the release of Danesi as a particular favour/
on 'which he would set a particular value, but
he received the same refusal. Hereupon he
presented a Memorial, addressed to the Sultan/
but the Grand Vizir refused to take it. Baron
Strogonoff withdrew, Withoitt having succeeded
in his application.
" On the 4th M. Von. Fonton, the first Coun-
sellor of the Legation, repaired -to the Pcrte acid
again demaiided•the release of Danesi, and this
being refused, to desire that the memorial should
be presented to the Sultan. The Reis Effendi
refusing both, M. Fonton declared he had order'
to :go. to the Mosque,
~to step before the Sultl
on his way thither, and to present'the Mernori;"
to the Sultan. All the 'endeavours of the ftej,s
Effendi to divert him from his intention,..whic"
he said was contrary to all custom .and deroge
tory from the dignity of an Ambassador, WO.°
fruitless.'
" M. Von Fonton proceeded with his suite to
the neighbourheod of the Mosque, where t,dl'
Sultan was at prayers. When he came out Ti;
Von Fonton held up his paper and cried aloucl!„
1 the Turkish language, ' Ilere is a Memorial fr°'r
the Ambassador- Extraordinary and 111iiii5t(
Plenipotentiary of his Majesty the Emperortyle
Russia to his Sublimity' Sultan Maltmoud
Second.' haat
" He pronounced these words twice, Avit,"iij
exciting the attention of any body ; the "I'9t
time, the Sultan cast a contemptuous look by
him, caused the paper to be taken from hiwn
rc
an officer, and went on. On the same daY 0,
e-
fusal, couched in very harsh terms, was givte-10
It is, however, hoped that the tiled
Russian Ambassador for Danesi, accompanied
mediation of 1
with such remarkable circumstances, will be at-
tended with a happy result.
" On the 7th of this month, the itrssian
nister (alleging the 7th and .14th articles of the
of
Treaty of Rudschuk-Kaitiovzie) complained
The ill treatment Suffered by the Greeks, of the
insults offered to their religion, and of the; de-.
struction.of their churches. id
He demanded that no Turkish troops shou-,
I enter the principalities of iVioliavia and Wil}'