The Sun.
London, England, 1821-08-04 00:00:00

SPOR-71TN-6-jisTMLIGENCE.

EDINBURGH RACES, JULY 30.
These races commenced on Monday, over the New Course
Musselburgh.
A Produce Stakes of 50gs. each, h. ft. for 3-yr olds.—Orie mile.
Sir Alex. Don's ch. f. by X.Y.Z. out of Agnes Sorrel - 1
Mr. Bogie's br. c. by Stamford, out of Diana - 2
Mr. Batllie's ch.. f. by Viscount, out of Salamanca - 3
5 to 4 on X.Y.Z.—A good race.
A Produce Stakes of 50gs each, h. ft. for 2-yr olds.—Half a mile.
Mr. Baird's ch. c. by Stamford, out of Clementina
Sir D. .Moncrieff's ch. c. by Colophon, dam by Caleb 2.
2 to 1 on Mr. Baird's ch. c..—Won easy.
The Gold Cup, value 100gs.—Three miles,
Mr. Rogue's ch. c. by Stamford, out of Ayrshire Lass, 3 yrs 1
Sir D. H. Blair's b. c, Milton, 4 yrs - - -
Lord Kelburn's.b. h. Chance, 3 yrs - . 3

GENERAL MONTELEGIER AND BARRIER DLTAIi:

PARIS, recently announced
that a duel was expected to take place, between
Colonel DUFAY and Genera! DE MONTELEGIER*.
In- fact, as was anticipated, the affair becaine
serious. The General, as may easily be belieVed,
felt much repugnance to place himself upon a
footing with a man, who, whether justly or not,
has acquired such an unfortunate celebrity.—lt
will be recollected, that the point in question
was a passage of the deposition of M. de Mon-
telegier .in his quality of witness in the trial of
the conspiracy of August. His deposition was
inaccurately reported in one paper only, (The
Journal des Debals,) the Editor of which would
willingly have corrected the error; but Dufay,
in his brutal fury, preferred provoking the Gene-
ral, his former companion in arms. His gross
insults left the latter no alternative, and on the
23d instant, he resolved to give a rendezvous
to Dufay, and sent, him a letter to that
effect by an orderly (ordonnance), with an in-
junction not to leave it without a receipt from the
Colonel, . who, after some hesitation, gave one.
The meeting was fixed for tWO o'clock, at an ap-
pointed spot in the " Bois de Vincennes." The
orderly had scarcely returned ten minutes,
when Dufay presented himself, 'in a mdst
violent manner, at the residence of M. Monte-
legier: The latter called out loud enough to be
heard by Dufay, that he could only meet him at
the appointed rendezvous, and not at his house.
Dufay insisted upon entering—Montelegier per..
sisted in his refusal, and caused it to be notified
to Dufay, that his servants should close the door
upon him. Upon this intimation, the natural
tiolence of the Colonel knew no bounds; the
domestics thronged upon the staircase, where, in
struggling 'to pass them, he hurt his hand, some-
what grievously. Montelegier proceeded to the
rendezvous, where he remained two hours. Dufay
did not make his appearance. The former says
that he will not now hold himself responsible to
Dufay ; with respect to Dufay, he is more irritated
than ever, and affirms that he only went to the
General's residence to get the place of rendezvous
changed, on the ground that the General com-
mands a' brigade of the Garde composed of two
regiments, who are in garrison at Vincennes. It
is not probable that the affair will end here. The
following statement has been printed and circulat,
ed by General de Montelegier

REPLY OF LIEUTENANT-GENERAL VISCOUNT DE moNTr.

LEGIER TO A LIBEL.

It is always painful to a man of honour to intrude himself
upon the public. I find myself, however, driven to this sad

necessity.

SuMmoned as a witness before the Court of Peers, I did not,
as the proces verbal of the Court, and the- official Journal
prove, even pronounce the name of the Sieur
On the 20th of ;flay I received from him a menacing letter,
written in the coarsest terms. (The samelwhich he has since
published.) I despised too much the writer and his insults,
not to consider it beneath me to take that notice of it which I
would not deny to a man of honour. I therefore merely signified
to him, that if personally attacked, I would take summary jus-
tice on the spot. To this declaration, I however added, that I
had never spoken of him.

I was bound to expect that I should never hear more of this
man ; but he has dared to publish, two days ago, an infamous
libel, with a view to incite Me to a duel. I yesterday wrote the
following letter, which 1 sent to the Sieur Dufay this morning
at six o'clock

" Paris, Sunday Evening, July 22.

" A wretch covered with disgrace, who has been condemned
to the galleys, exposed in the' pillory, and implicated in the
crime of Louvel, has no right to demand honourable satisfaction,
nor even to spimk of it. But one may meet him in a wood.—
To-morrow, Monday the 23d, Monsieur de Montelegier will
choose to wall; in the Bois de Vincennes, near Vincennes, on
the road which leads to Nugent; he will there only appear to
suit the occasion; he will be there merely in the character of
his first step in life, that of a private huzzar, and armed as
such ; four of his friends will walk with him,

" There it will be seen whether courage can dwell in the
same breast with infamy.

(Signed)

" 31ONTELEGIER."

The above letter was delivered to the Sieur Dufay at a quarter,
past six in the morning. At ten o'clock he presented himself
at my porter's lodge, with a letter to state that he would not re.
pair to the Bois de Vincennes. Having signified to the wretch
that he had to meet me in the Bois de Vincennes, at two o'clock,
that I should positively go thither, and that it was only on that
occasion that I would so far degrade myself with him, I caused
him to be throst out of my house.

I went to the appointed place, at the hour fixed, accompanied
by four friends, who enjoy, as they merit, the esteem of Paris
and of the whole army. We waited there two hours, and the
Sieur Dufay did not make his appearance.

I feel, and I declare, that I have acted wrong, thus to forget
for a moment, the rank which I have the honour to hold in the
Army, and also that I should so far have lost sight of the noble
character of a soldier, who ought never to compromise himself
with a man lost to every sense of honour.

Henceforward, I shall submit to the cognizance of the tribu,
nals any molestation which I may experience on the part of the
Sieur Dufay.

(Signed) THE VISCOUNT DE MONTELEGIER.
‘f We declare, that at the invitation of .11. the Lieut.-General
Viscount de I'llontelegier, we, to-day, accompanied him at
half-past one o'cl9ck to the Bois de Vincennes ;we there wait.
ed, at the entrance of the road leading to Nogent, until half_
_
past three, and that AL Dufay did not present himself.
(Signed) " Count BOURKE, Lieutenant-General.
0 L. SPARRE, Lieutenant-General.
" A. LA ROCHEJAQUELEIN,
" TOURTON.

'"
Certified to be an accurate copy,
" Viscount De IVIONTELEGIER.
Paris, Monday, July 23, 1821."

* The Viscount de Montelegier is a Lieutenant-General and
a superior Officer in the Royal Guard. The Colonel is the
same person who killed M. de Saint Mous in a duel, and who
during the Revolution had, been condemned to the gallies, and
exposed six hours in the pillory for theft. Some days ago he
wrote to N. de Montelegier that he was a liar, a scoundrel, and
a calumniator, for saying that he was engaged in the pretended
plot, and demanded satisfaction for the calumny by a combat
"to the utteranc e." Al. de Montelegier, in a card without sig.
nature, answered that he would not fight with such a man.—
Dufay, in fury, sent another letter, in which he threatened to
publish his refusal to fight. M. de Montelegier replied, that he
had nothing to say to a man who had figured in the trial of
Louvel. The Colonel then published these different letters,
which contained- terms the most offensive to his antagonist
This led to the proceedings above detailed.

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY EXTRACTS FROM TIIE MORNING PAPERS

August 4.

[NEW TI M ES.]
- Letters were yesterday received from St. Pe-
tersburg, but they were of less recent date than
thirie quoted in our last. So far as they go they
are satisfactory, and coincide with the pacific
tenor of the latest advices. The consequence
is, that our funds have been gradually improving.
They advanced during the whole of yesterday.
Consols for the Account opened at 75, sellers ;
and closed at 751, strong buyers. It may
be fairly admitted, that the convulsions of the
Turkish Empire present, with reference to
the politics of the rest of Europe, some questions
of peculiar nicety : and a Journalist, at the pre-
sent. moment, may perhaps be excused for not
committing himself rashly, by a hasty decision on
every question that is agitated. But certainly the
" Leading Journal," (The Old Times),f or a leader,
is singularly averse to the delivery of any thing
that can be tortured into the semblance of an
opinion. The following questions are abundantly
sufficient to exemplify its talents in the happy art
of no-meaning:—

" Are the Greeks to be abandoned altogether to the Infi-
dels ?"—(We don't knout.)
" Can Russia be prevented from making an undue profit of
their more adequate protection from the excesses of Tyranny ?"
—('We doubt.)
" Or of their absolute liberation from the Tyrant ?"—(Still
harder to answer.)

" Have England and her Allies—if Allies she possesses in
this embarrassing and important work—(Doubt upon Doubt !)
have they, we repeat, looked at the whole of their subject ?"
—This last question leaves so much to the ima-
gination ; it is so close a copy of Lord Burleigh's
shake of the head, in The Critic; it implies such
deep reflection in the person asking, and so little
inclination, on his part, to help the Cabinets of
Europe out of their difficulties, that we are
almost ashamed to subjoin to it, as we have done
to the others, the true and genuine answer, which
the Interrogator himself, if he were honest, must
have given, and which is simply—We know no
more of the matter than the man in the moon.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
The Hamburgh Correspondent contains an
article which, if really authentic, as announced,
is of considerable interest. It states that all the
great European Powers have remonstrated against
the system of cruelty exercised on the Greeks by
the Turks, and that the Ottoman Porte, in its
answer, has disavowed a spirit of persecution

against Christians, with which it has been charg-
ed 2 and pleaded necessity, as also the right of an

independent state to punish its guilty subjects,
in justification of any act of violence imputed to
it. The tone of the explanation is pacific, and if
the article be genuine must remove any suspicion

of a wish on the part of Turkey to provoke hostili-
ties with Russia. How any such suspicion came

to be entertained, we are at a loss to conceive.—
It Trould be great folly on her part to wantonly
court a quarrel with a Power with which she

knows her inability to contend. An opinion
seems to gain ground that the differences which
have arisen will be amicably adjusted, and that
the recal of Baron Strogonoff will prepare the
way to a perfect reconciliation. We hope, how-
ever, that, the present opportunity for ameliorat-
ing the state of the Turkish provinces on the
north of the Danube will not be lost. The Ot-
toman Porte has, to a certain extent, admitted
the interference of Russia in their political rela-
tions, and as long as they remain in their present
state, a scene of plunder and oppression, new
plots and insurrections, may be expected. On
the other hand, to effect a salutary change in
their situation, may extend the influence of Rus-
sia in that quarter. The danger of this result
has divided opinion upon this subject, and is a
principal obstacle to any attempt to improve
these unfortunate countries.

[MORNING POST.]
The French Papers inform us that the Peers had
adopted the Finance Law, or Budget, as amend-
ed by the Deputies, and that the Session was to
be dosed last Tuesday. Messrs. De Villele and
De Corbiere had left Paris, the one for Tou-
louse and the other for Rennes, and the Gazette
de France adds, that they had resigned the
posts which they held in the Ministry. If this
statement be correct, the union between the Ul-
tra Royalists and the Moderes, which took place
soon after the downfallof De Cazes, may be con-
sidered as entirely dissolved, and the Ministry
must look for now allies, or prepare to surrender
its authority at the opening of another Session,
for it does not possess sufficient strength to
stand by itself against the shock of parties.

We have given abundant extracts from the
Irish Papers (See another column of THE SUN)
of all the preparations making throughout Ireland
to receive his Majesty worthily. Notwithstand-
ing the political union which exists between the
two islands, the genuine warmth of Irish feeling
is as yet unknown, or at least not perfectly un-
derstood, in this country ; and what is fervent
sincerity of soul across the channel, may some-
times pass on this side for extravagance. On
this, occasion, however, the Irish have not dis-
played their enthusiasm in words alone. They
have added deeds to prove its reality ;
and the cordial union of those Protestants
and Catholics, who had for ages stood in
fierce and apparently irreconcileable hostility to
each other—their abjuration of all religious and
political prejudices—their meeting like brothers,
to welcome a common Parent, and form an indis-
soluble bond at his feet—all these are surely
pledges that however extravagant their expres-
sions may be, they only express what they feel,
and what they also know how to perform. What
country ever presented such a political pheno-
menon as that which has now taken place in
Ireland ?—(lbid.)

[TiIE TIMES.]
Of all that is said and circulated on questions
of great public importance, much will necessarily

attract the attention, upon which we ought not
in common prudence to ground our judgment on
matters either of fact. or contingency. Of such
a nature is a large proportion of the intelligence
which reaches this country from the East of
Europe, and especially through the medium of
Foreign newspapers. Amongst the variety of ac-
counts 'from Turkey which find a place in our
extracts from the French Journals of Wednesday
(which arrived at a late hour- last night,) and from
those of Hamburgh of 28th ult. there is nothing
which yet decides the question of immediate peace
or war between Russia and the Porte. A docu-
ment from the Hamburgh Papers, under the
head of " Authentic Comoienication," contains
an alleged answer by thew Effendi to " Re-
" monstrances from all the great European
CC Powers, respecting the cruel conduct of the
" Turkish Government to the Greeks, and re-
" specting the attitude it seems disposed to as-
" sume towards Russia, the intimate Ally of
" Austria, Prussia, England, and France." Whe-
►her this document be authentic or not, we can-
not determine ; but we suppose we may argue
upon it as containing the understood defence of
the Turkish Government against existing charges.

[MORNING • HERALD.]

THU FUNDS.-The transactions of yesterday
were not to any great extent; nor is any great
variation anticipated until it is known who are
the contractors for the French Loan.—The
cause of the rise may be attributed to the
Bears having sold too freely in the early part of
the week, with the intention to bang down the
market. To such of our readers who are unac-
quainted with this mode of creating a diversion
in the Funds, it may he necessary to state, that
it is managed by two or three persons precon-
certing large sales, which are, in the language of
the Stock Exchange, snatched the moment they
are offered, and thus a false depression is often
produced, without any real business having been
done. Prices at the close of the market yes-
terday—

Reduced
Consols 74' 75/40
Four per Cent. 94 95.941
Five per Cent lOBl /it
Exchequer Bills • ss. tis. pm.
Consols for A.cct. Aug. 29 7si 74i- 75iiii
.............7.
rMORNING CHRONICLE.]

Letters from Smyrna of the 26th of June, from
Constantinople the 2d, and Odessa the 6th of
July, were received. yesterday.—The Odessa
letter states " that a courier, with dispatches
from St. Petersbuigh, arrived here yester-
day. On his authority we derive intelligence
that there will be no disagreement between Rus-
sia and Turkey." The letter from Constanti-
nople, of the 2d of• July, which is from the
Consul-General, states that a communication had
been received by the Porte from the Court of
St. Petersburgh ; that the contents have not been
publicly made known, but " we have strong
reason to believe that it contains confidential as-
surances of amity, and a decided disapproval of
the conduct of Baron Strogonoff, who will be
immediately recalled." The source from which
the Constantinople intelligence comes is most re-
spectable, and it must be considered to afford a
fair representation of the views of the best in-
formed persons of that place. All the blame in
this and most of the letters from the same quar-
ter, is thrown on the Russian Authorities, who
are described as having endeavoured by every
means to provoke the vengeance of the Ottoman
Government. That the Turks in their present
difficulties would be desirous of giving offence to
Russia, of the power of which they have so
often bad such dreadful experience, is what few
will be disposed to believe.—But it is almost
as difficult to believe that the Russian Autho-
rities would endeavour so assiduously to provoke
the vengeance of the Turkish Government with-
out instructions from, or at least an understand-
ing of some sort with their Cabinet. The com-
plexion of the intelligence has, however, had its in
fluence on our Funds ; for Consols, which opened
yesterday at 748, closed at 758. Have the re-
presentations of England and France (perhaps
also Austria) induced the Russian Cabinet to
abandon their views, and. to disown the conduct
of Strogonoff and the other Russian authorities ?
Are the Greeks to be abandoned to their fate ?
or will Russia concur with the other powers in
a plan for securing them against the vengeance
of the Turks ? The subject abounds with diffi-
culties, view it which way we will.

We regret to say, that her Majesty's illness
has assumed a very alarming appearance, and
that fears are even entertained for her life.—
Her Majesty must have been more than human,
could she have remained insensible to the gross
and slanderous abuse with which she has been
incessantly assailed in the Ministerial Press of
this country. We cannot help believing, there-
fore, that her illness is in a great measure attri-
butable to the mental uneasiness which that abuse
must have occasioned. All who looked forward
to preferment of every kind, knew well that to
slander her Majesty was one of the most infal-
lible means to which they could resort for suc-
ceeding in their object ; and industry in this
disgraceful vocation, could not fail therefore
to have at all times a powerful stimulus. The
independent part of the Press rendered essential
service to her Majesty during the proceedings
against her, but with the close of these proceed-
ings its power of serving her Majesty, in a great
measure, also ceased. The activity of her ene-
mies, however, has never known any abatement,
but has been regular as the calls of appetite.
That her Majesty should at length suffer from the
incessant battery of these base and cowardly
calumniators is not surely to be wondered at.—

Yesterday morning, the workmen employed at
the Royal Exchange were thrown into great con-
sternation, by the falling of a large stone, up-
wards of 200 weight, from the top of the build-
ing. In its passage it broke various thick planks :
many of the men clung to the poles, and one
jumped from a ladder a considerable height. For-
tunately no person was hurt.