The Sun.
London, England, 1821-11-27 00:00:00

THE LONDON Jeu:INALs.

iris ALLY J4T.IIACT3 Yltoll THE MOILING 3AFF.115,

November 27.

• ' [Nay; TIMES.]
No-thing further has been learnt of the fall of
Lima e:nd the subject remains in the same ob-
scutity AO when we alluded to it yesterday. It
is proper, however, to observe, that the dis-
tances lath we then mentioned were merely
those on the map ; the actual length of road
is, of
..toui.sp.; much greater ; especially in pass-
ing the lofty mountains, which lie between
Santiago de Chili and Mendoza. In like manner,
the sea voyage,. from Lima to Valparaiso,
is much longer than it appears by the map ;
for the prevailing winds and currents render it
impracticable for a ship to proceed in that direc-
tion along the coast, and compel it to stretch
out.several hundred miles to the westward, be-
fore it can stand in for Valparaiso. Under all
these circumstances, it is still possible for the
news of the .fall of Lima to be true; but if that
event has happened, it must have, been -very I
shortly after the armistice of -the. -15th of July,
__order to have alloWed of -the intelligence
reachiug Valparaiso by sea on the 12th of Au-
gust; and if San Martin was in quiet possession
of the place by the 18th,or 20th of July, it
might have been expected that some account of
the fact would have been received overland.
from thence at Buenos Ayres before the 4th
of September. The couriers in those countries
travel with extraordinary rapidity, insomuch that
in quiet times dispatches have been transmitted.
from Lima through Cuzco, Potosi, Salta, and Cot-
dova,•l to Buenos Ayres (a distance of full 2400
English miles), in - the short space of 12 days ;
and consequently-what occurred at Lima on the
20th of July might have been known by such
conveyance_ at Buenos Ayres on the Ist of
August. It is not to be expected, indeed, that
intelligence will be transmitted with the same
regularity in revolutionary periods as in seasons
of tranquillity ; and therefore we simply notice
the facit, that what might (by physical possibi-
lity). have •reached Buenos Ayres on the Ist of
August, bad not reached it 34 days later. Nor
is this all : the road from Mendoza (by which
Games travelled) joins that from Lima at Cor-
iloya; y4t even here he does not appear to have
learatany: thing relating to the qlleged successes
of General San Martin. Upon the whole, there-
fore, it may be reasonably inferred, that if Lima
had fallen at the time the Montezuma sailed for
- Valparaiso, the Royalists had at least cut off San
Martin's communication's with the interior, so as
to -prevent the news of his success from being
transmitted by the regular channels for some
weeks .afterwards. , •

[IIOIINING POST.]
By the Eliza, accounts have been received
from -Smyrna, of 'the-recent date of the 19th ult.
They state-that the Candiots at that place had
suddenly risen against the few surviving Greeks,
and put to death all that fell in their way. The
ferocity of their conduct was such, that the Pacha
himself thought it necessary to protect the Greeks
with the Turkish Guard, whotbehaved.well on
the occasion. -Not less than thirty of the former,
howeVer, had- been killed or severely wounded,
before the fury of the assassins could be checked.
On the 18th an arrangement was made with the
Candiots, who on the following day were shipped
off for Candia. Much activity had lately been
displayed at sea both by the Greeks and the
Turks, but it consisted more in manoeuvring than
in downright fighting. The Turkish squadron
having been joined by several vessels on the coast
near Prevesa, and by those sent from Egypt,
amounted to upwards of sixty sail. It bad re-
paired to Zante on the 9th of October, and had
sailed again the same day for the Levant, after
having received fresh .reinforcements. This was
the squadron which had previously attacked Ga-
laxadi, destroyed the town, and carried away a
few vessels found at that place. It was stated
some time since, that the Greek vessels had been
seen retiring to their respective islands in the Ar-
chipelago. and it was supposed that an intention
existed of disarming and laying them up. It now
appears .that they only went to refit, and they
are represented as having re-assembled, and pro-
Ceeded to the., east6ra coast of the Morea. It
has been at length found necessary to convoy the
merchantmen trading in the Archipelago. The
Cambrian frigate escorted a fleet of vessels for
that destination from Sinyrna, on the 7th of last
month.

[BRITISI► PRESS.]
In reading the numerous accounts which we
daily receiiefrom various parts of the south of
Ireland re,--pectiug .nocturnal outrages and rob-
beries, our surprise is principally excited by
observing the extensive supply that the banditti
seem to possess of fire-arms and ammunition.—
It at the same time occurs to us that this cir-
Comstanee "might" aft-Old a certain means of dis-
covering the offenders and of preventing future
exCeSses ; for, as in Ireland, the •law autho-
rises the Magistrates at all time; to make domi-
ciliary visits for the purpose of seizing arms,
this power might now he exerted in all the
disturbed districts, and the weapons of mischief
be wrested from hands which have shewn them-
selVes too willing and too well able to employ
them.—From the nature of the excesses already
committed, we entertain no doubt that if the
banditti. are really. governed by any general
purpose, they aim principally at a reduction of
rents and the abolition of tithes.

[MORNING HERALD.]
It will be perceived, by our accounts from
Ireland, that a horrid crime bas been committed
iii that country at which the heart shudders.—
Vie shall not here notice more particularly this
monstrous instance of human enormity ; but
such an example of prodigious horror, joined with
the general state of that part of the Empire,
should wake the attention, the wisdom, the hu-
manity of the Three Estates of the Legislature
to the necessity of some great, original act of Go-
vernment which should bring-the peasant popu-
lation of Irelant within the pale and ordinary