The Sun.
London, England, 1821-11-13 00:00:00

FORIAG.N INTELLIGENCE.

PARIS, Nov. 10.—The King 'transacted busi-
ness cesterday with the Minister of the anterior
mud the PreF.ident of the Council.

The Prince Royal of Denmark is arrived at

Park.

• ,Next Monday there will be a Sitting held at
the Chamber of Deputies, as 216 Members have
arrived at Paris, and have inscribed their names.
This number exceeds by two tl►e majority re-
quired to form a House.
Vlree more ships have Failed from Marseilles
for Greece, with one hundrA and fifty young
Germans on board. As they were leaving the
port, these Ships were searched, and three
French passengers, who formed part of the ex-
pedition, hut Whose 'passports were not duly
authenticated, were obliged to disembark.
Some letters from Germany continue to in-
dulge in the hope (hat, by the intervention of the
Austrian► and English Ambassadors, the Porte
will consent to give the satisfaction and guaran-
tees demanded by Russia. Other letters affirm
that the Prince de Metternich would, during his
stay at Hanover, arrange with the Marquis of
Londonderry certain propositions to be made to
Russia, which could not possibly be rejected.
A letter, which was inserted some time ago in
the public Journals of London, announced that
the English who visit France met with great dif-
ficulty respecting the embarkation of the horses
-which they brought with them. This is only
correct with respect to stallions and mares ; geld-
ings, on being taken out of France, are subject-
ed only to a tax of 15 francs per head: but,
with regard to those which remain prohibited,
conformably to the laws of the 15th of March,
1791. and the 7th of June, IS'2O, we are informed
that the French Government has just given in-
structions to the officers of the customs to reserve
in favour of travellers the right of taking back
kith them their horses, of whatever denomina-

Von they may be ; their identity being previ-
insured by a registry, minutely detailing
the description of each animal. Thus the diffi-
culty complained of no longer exists.
Some of the Journals have announced that the
ove rumen t was employed in forming a Colonial
Commission at Paris, consisting of all the former

Governors and Administrators of the French Co-
IQ:lies, under the Presidency of the oldest of
them. This report is destitute of all foundation,
ar:d we are authorized to contradict it.

FRENCH rusiyi.
Nov. 9, Five per Cents.
Bank Stock
Deferred Stock

89 f. 70 c.
—.1595 f. c.
... 99 f. 40 e.

VIENNA, OCT. 28.—The day before yesterday
an important piece of news was circulated with
great rapidity throughout Vienna. It was said
that the Porte had declared war against Russia.
This news may not perhaps be authentic, but it
is not improbable. Such a declaration of war
would be, for the Russian Ministry, the best
means otputting an end to the negociations.—
Great activity prevails among our diplomatists;
couriers are continually arriving and departing,
but nothing positive is known, and all the re-
ports which are circulated do not appear entitled
to any credit.

OCTOBER 29.---The Journal des Debats of
the 16th of this month mentions, under the
ileac! of Brussels, a memorial on the affairs of
Turkey, of which a Journal of that City gives
extracts, and which the Duke of Wellington is
stated to have presented to the French Govern-'
in the name of his Court. The article in
the Journal des Debats confesses, indeed, that
the pretended State Paper contains things that
are evidently incorrect ; but yet finds in it many
passages which are worthy of attention, even
though they may not deserve implicit credit. As
u know, from authentic quarters, that the me-
morial in question never existed—that conse-
quently all that the Brussels Paper gives as its
contents is pure fiction, we think it our duty to j
give this correction, for the sake of those who
may have been deceived by the article in ques-
tion.—The Journal di_'s Debats, it must be ob-
served, has by no means pledged itself for the
authenticity of the memorial.
According to accounts from Trieste of the
9th October, a notification has been made to
thf. Deputation of the Exchange, by which all
Greeks who have taken part in the troubles in
Turkey are absolutely prohibited from entering
the Austrian dominions, whether they arrive by
sea or land, and even when they are provided
with goad passports. If such fugitives arrive by
sea, they Shall indeed be admitted into the Laza-
retto in the harbour, but sent away again by the
same ship, or the nest, as soon as possible, either
during or immediately after the quarantine. All
Captains of vessels are to be acquainted of this
regulation, and it is to be signified to them, that
if they take such fugitives on board, under any
pretext whatever, they will be made answerable
for all the expences Which the public treasury
may incur by sending them away. According to
these same accounts, the Austrian Captain Ka-
paitich had lately arrived at Trieste. lie had a
cargo of corn, was stopped by the Turkish fleet,
and carried to Coron, in the Morea, where he
was forced to sell his corn at a certain price,
which, however, he did not receive in full, and
:sneered considerable loss, He and his crew were
very ill treated by the Turks. The Turkish fleet
eonsis42d of fifteen sail, from which three cor-
vettes parted to take a small Greek polacre,
towolavd,e,d by Captain Nicholas Caladoechia.
The Greek. defended himself a whole day and

night, and the three Turkish vessels were obliged
to give up the attempt.
AUGSBURG, Nov. 3.—The extraordinary pre-
parations for war made by the Divan prove that
the Turkish Government persists in its determi-
nation of not allowing any dictation in its mode of
governing the Greeks. Hence arise the difficul-
ties made to granting the guarantees demanded
by Russia in their favour : and the consequence
is that the present negociation will linger on
for some months, and become daily more intricate
and difficult.

The want of discipline among the Asiatic
troops, who do not respect even the authority of
their chiefs, is the subject of general complaint
at Constantinople. It is said that a part of them
will not conform to the orders of the Grand
Seignior, prohibiting them from returning home
during the winter : the end of October is the
usual time for these troops proceeding to their
own country. _ _

Another squadron is fitting out with great dis-
patch at Constantinople, which, is to sail without
delay. It seems that the Captain Paella is to
take immediately the command in chief of all the
Turkish fleets in the Archipelago.
In order to raise the public spirit, they have
been at considerable pains in publishing at Con-
stantinople a report of the success obtained
the Ottoman fleet, which have not only burnt the
Greek ships that blockaded Corou and Modon,
but also landed a numerous body of Asiatic
troops, who have been victorious over the insur-
gents.
This news, which seems, however, to have been
exaggerated, has produced the intended effect;
for it has increased the exasperation of the Turks
in the capital against the Greeks.
NUU.EMB ERG, Nov. 3.—According to the last
accounts from Salonica, the state of affairs in that
town begins to be critical for the Greeks and the
Franks. The reinforcements sent from Constan-
tinople, composed chiefly of Asiatic troops, were
guilty, in the middle of September, of the grossest
acts of barbarity. The European merchants
were obliged to shut their shops ; many Greeks
who were in prison have been massacred in the
most cruel manner. If the great Functionaries
of the Porte, who are impatiently expected, do
not arrive quickly, Salonica is threatened with
the most horrible scenes. All the Turks are
armed, as are also the Franks; whilst the Greeks
have long since had their arms taken from them.
FRA K FORT, Nov. 3.—[Extract of a Private
Letter.]—According to the most recent accounts,
there has not yet been any action between the
Turkish and the Greek fleets, though they are in
sight of each other.
Patras has been re-victualled) and its garrison
considerably reinforced.
_ _

The Suliotes have made another unsuccessful
attack on Prevesa.

Chourschild Pacha has just made his appear-
ance in the neighbourhood of Janina with a nu-
merous force. lie has received positive orders
from the Grand Signior to storm the Lake Fort,
and to get possession, at all risks and sacrifices,
of the person of Ali Pacha.

The'. affairs of the Greeks in Macedonia are
improving-.

CONSTANTINOPLE, OCT. s.—This capital is in
a state of extraordinary confusion and agitation.
The Porte has published a Firman addressed
to the Turkish troops, both Janissaries and
others, forbidding them to return to their
quarters, and ordering them to bivouac till
further orders ; to have their arms always
ready, and their horses saddled. Measures
are taken as if the enemy were within a
mile of Constantinople. The very day when
this Firman was published a dreadful fire broke
out at eleven in the evening, near the JJihisitassi
(so they call the column of Theodosius the
Great.) It continued through the night, and it
was not till five in the morning that its fury was
checked. Many houses were burnt, and a great
part of the city was threatened with falling a
prey to the flames. Notwithstanding this the
Sultan, who otherwise does not fail to appear on
these occasions, did not even chew himself, or even
any Turkish authority. It is not known to what
cause this extraordinary conduct, which has sur-
prized every body, is to be attributed ; and we
fear lest it should be a covering for some fatal
project. The Turks alone put out the fire, no
individual of any other nation having come for-
ward to assist. This was caused by the fears of
a mutiny among the troops, for the greatest
fears are entertained of the Janissaries ; al-
ways prepared for pillage, they perhaps de-
sired only the confusion caused by a fire to have
a pretext for it. Thus we fall from one danger
into another, and our perils daily increase. The
following circumstance affords a confirmation of
this :—A finnan from the Sultan to the Greek.
Patriarch has just appeared, in which he is de-
sired to furnish an exact list of all the Greeks in
Constantinople. It is with trembling that we
furnish these statements, which may prove ter-
rible arms against ourselves. The Sultan re-
quires that this list shall contain the names of all
the Greeks, their profession, age, country, whe-
ther married or not, the number of their chil-
dren, the place where they are, and lastly the
description of their persons. This measure ex-
cites general alarm, but different explanations
are given of it.
Some people say that the Asiatic troops, which
are encamped without the city, daily demand
the general. massacre cf the Greeks ; that the
Sultan, to avoid it, wishes to know the number
of the Greeks, and to exile them into Asia.— '
Others, with more reason, think that the project
of the Sultan is to punish those Greeks who have
sons in Romelia, the Morea, and the revolted coun-
tries ; and to order them who are in different
parts of Europe to return to Turkey. The Turks,
Armenians, and Jews, have been ordered to dis-
miss all their Greek servants. The Jews, how-
ever, never had any.
HAGUE, Nov. B.—Lieut.-Colonel Taels Van Amerongen,
Aid-de-Camp to the Governor-General of the East India pos-
sessions, and Lieut. Koopman, of the Navy, arrived here yes-
terday, with the happy intelligence of the successful issue of the
second expedition against the rebellious Sultan of Palembang,
which was of so much importance to the maintenance of the
Dutch authority in India. On the 24th of June, General. De

Koek, to whom the chief oomm.nd of the expedition was Con-
fided, made himself master, after an obstinate resistance, of the
works in the river, which impeded the approach to the town.__
The General states, in his dispatches of the 28th of June, that
on the 26th he cast anchor before the town, and that the Sultan
Badaroedin, seeing no means of resistance, declared himself
ready to give up the Government to his brother, who was on
board the Dutch fleet, and to surrender himself on the assurance
that his life should be spared. The General, therefore, hoped
that he should soon be able to send the Sultan and his family
to Batavia, on board the Dagerad frigate.

The General bestows the highest encomiums on the bravery
and perseverance of the soldiers and seamen. The enemy had
his chief force in the river, near the Island of Go►nbora, in t)e
mouth of the river Pladjoe, on a low and marshy spot of ground.
A large battery was erected on the island. Between that and
the right bank were two floating batteries, and on the hank four
batteries, one behind the other, the largest of which was at the
mouth of the Pladjoe. These works were defended by 126
pieces of artillery, which, as the event shewed, the enemy knew
very well how to manage. The two banks were also defended
by a double palisade under the command of the guns, and be-
hind the palisade were armed boats. It appeared, therefore,
not advisable to attack the enemy's works by land.
The first attack was on the 20th of June. At day-break the
ships of war took the positions assigned them. The cannonade
was extremely violent on both sides.
In the forenoon, the fire from Gombora began to abate ; one
of the' gun-boats had already penetrated through the palisade
into the great rivet, and the Genoa' had already given orders
to Lieutenant-Colonel Keir, to make an attack with 300 men
in boats on the last mentioned battery, when unfortunately the
cables of some of the ships of war were shot away, so that
they drifted with the stream. This accident exposed the
Van der Werf alone to the enemy's fire, and as this vessel
had already 60 men killed and wounded, and several of her guns
were dismounted, the General thought it advisable to suspend
the attack.

The second attack was made on the 2-ith June ; before day-
break the ships of war took their positions under a heavy fire
from the enemy. At five, the ships returned the enemy's fire,
and at a quarter past six the fire from the island began to
abate. Colonel Bischoff made a successful attempt to penetrate
with his troops, in boats, through the Palisade, along the left
bank, towards the island ; the battery was taken, and the flag
of the Netherlands hoisted on the enemy's works. An attempt
to attack the great battery in front was judged not to be advis-
able, and the troops were therefore collected on the side of the
island, in order to cross the river behind it, and turn the bat-
teries on the right bank. Meantime the Ajax and Venus had
overpowered the floating batteries, which were taken possession
of by Lieut. Van den Ende, and afterwards burnt.

At nine o'clotk the troops under Colonel Bischoff began to
cross the river. At half-past 11 I.icut. Lange, cf the Navy,
planted our colours on the hindmost battery ; the second and
third were quickly abandoned by the enemy, who endeavoured
to maintain himself in the first and largest ; but the troops
under Lieutenants Wagener and Van Styrum carried it by as-
sault, and made themselves masters of this last and important
position.
(Here follow the names of the officers who distinguished
themselves, and the statement of the killed and wounded.) The
loss in the first action was—
Killed . 64
• • • •
Wounded . . 97
• •
In the second action—
Killed•
. 29
Wounded . • . .
Total killed, 73—Total wounded, 237.
Among them the Van der Werf alone had 17 killed and 63
wounded.

To-day the guns have been fired, on account of this joyful
victor/.

BATAVIA, J 21.—The conquest of Palembang has been
announced by a salute of 101 guns.
The cholera morbus still rages dreadfully at Banlam, the out
districts of Sourabaya and Passarouang. At Banlam, about
100 persons die daily ; in the two other places, above 170. The
number of deaths at Batavia, in consequence of this disorder,
does not exceed five daily.
IlAiauE, Nov. B.—A private letter from Batavia, of the
2Gth of July, states, that the cholera morbus was abating, and it
was hoped that its ravages would soon cease.