The Sun.
London, England, 1821-10-16 00:00:00

[MORNING POST.]

The only article of importance in the French
Papers of Thursday and Friday last, is a private
letter from Odessa, very- different in its tenor
from those which have been .daily laid before the
public _during the last two months. It states
that the Emperor Alexander had declared to our
Court and to that of Vienna,-that lie could not
regard the state of Turkey as sufficiently consoli-
dated. to allow him to resume his former atnica-
ble relations with the Porte. It adds that he
had refused the mediation offered, by Austria
and England, as well as that of every other
Power, in pursuance of the same principle which
induced him to leave the restoration of tranquillity
in Italy to Austria alone; and it fairly announces,
That if fresh persecutions should break out against
the Greeks, he would be obliged to occupy Mol-
davia and Wallachia with his troops. • This•an-
swer is represented as having' occasioned great
satisfaction at Odessa, where it is evident-public
opinion must either have lately experienced a
total change, or must never have been so prepos-
terously favourable to the Turks, as counnercial
letters had stated. If the information contained
in this article be correct, hopes may still be en-
tertained that the cause of humanity and Chris-
tianity. will not be entirely sacrificed to consi-
derations of interested policy. But as fresh
negociations are said to have been opened be-
tween Russia and the Porte, after these declara-
tions had been made, it is impossible to anticipate
the ultimate result of this grand conflict of human
views and human passions with human duties.

[NEW TIMES.]
The following is an interesting Extract of a
Letter from Odessa, received yesterday morning
by an eminent Mercantile House in the City :
‘‘ I am .sorry to say that the hopes which we
have entertained within the last few days, of the
intention of the Emperor Alexander to- revoke
the Ukase, which removed the freedom of this
port, are not likely to be realised. As yet we
are in a state of uncertainty upon. the subject.;
but from what I can ascertain from persons high
in office here, the Government of St. Petersburg
have for some time past thought the late com-
mercial regulations of the place very imperfect.
It appears that smuggling has been carried on to
such an enormous extent, that it has been found
absolutely necessary to appoint extraordinary
officers, and to have recourse.to other arrange-
meuts, which have not only been attended with
very considerable trouble, but have entailed
very heavy expences upon the Government—so
much so, indeed, as to form an item of some
consideration in the financial arrangements of the
Minister. Notwithstanding which, these precau-
tions have proved totally ineffectual, and the Em-
peror has been advised to deprive the Port of its
freedom; and although the merchants are hide-
fatigable iu their exertions to get their late pri-
vileges restored, I very much fear that all their
endeavours will prove ineffectual. Notwithstand-
ing the gloom which this event naturally throws

•
over the place, we 'find our Markets "very 'brisk,
and the prices. of,almost all articles improving,
Corn has risen very consi:lerably. As to the
question Of war with Turkeys that is a matter so
far removed from our minds, that it is,nnneces-
sary to trouble you ,with any speculations on the
subject. In a few words,- I may say that there
is not the slightest probability of such an event."
In addition to the above intelligence, NVii learn,
on the authority of letters from Odessa, to so late
a date as the 18th September, that the Russian
army stationed on the frontiers of Turkey had re-
ceived. orders to break 'up their -encampments,
and prepare to return immediately toward -St.
Petersburgh. The letters add, that at the depar-
ture of the post, the army had actually commenced
their preparations to retrograde.

• [BRITISH PRESS.]
We are sorry to learn that in many places,
and especially in parts of Ireland and of Wales,
it is found absolutely necessary to mix a consi-
,lerable quantity of old wheat with the produce
of this year, to make the latter fit for ordinary
use. We are persuaded that, although the
supply of this 'year throughout the kingdom is
very far inferior, both in quantity and quality,
to that of the year preceding, it is yet sufficient
for the, general .consumption ; there can, how-
ever, be no doubt, that it would. be of very ge-
' neral advantage to the consumers if a moderate
quantity of good wheat from the Continent, or
some of that which is now bonded in England,
were suffered to be mixed with our own wheats
of inferior quality. To open the harbours with-
out limit would bring a certain and overwhelming
ruin upon our agriculturists, but the Council
might, in its discretion, suffer a limited quantity
of foreign grain to be applied to home 'con-
sumption, and ,the result, we sincerely believe,
would tend to the eventual good not only of the
consumer but of the agriculturists in general.
A partial admission of foreign corn, for the pur-
poses we allude to, would, according to its pro-
portion, remove all apprehensions, and obviate
all speculations for the unrestricted opening of
the harbours, and thereby give a consistency and
steadiness to the markets which they do not en-
joy at present, but which are of .essential advan-
tage to-all parties; it would also, by rendering
all our home produce more extensively applicable.
to the consumption of the country than it is at
present, make all the produce more readily sale-
able than some of it can be with Out such assist-
ance, and thus, while it actually offered a season-
able help to the farmers, give an improved article
to the general consumer. Something of this kind
was done by the authority of the Council in the
year 1816, and the result was found to be gene-
rally beneficial. 'Were that example now fol-
lowed, it would, in. our opinion, be the means-of
saving the farmers from the effects of an unlimited
importation of foreign corn, to which the arts of
the speculators now tend, and which there is
great cause to apprehend will be the result of
their exertions in the ensuing spring, though they
should fail of their effect this year.

[THE TIMES.]
The average.prices of Corn for the week end-
ing Oct, 6, being the first of the six weeks pre-
ceding the 15th November, are now made public.
We are happy to state that they confirm the
general tendency of our expectations with regard
to the progress of the corn-market. The average
price of wheat is now quoted at a decline of full
6s. from the price which formed' the text of our
last 'Tuesday's observations. From 70s. 7d. it
had fallen to 645. 7d. for the week ending on the
6th inst. ; and by the subsequent accounts from
Mark-lane it appears, that owing to the continu-
ance of an abundant supply down to yesterday
morning, the, minds of the corn-dealers bad under-
gone such a change from their former eagerness
to purchase as to produce a still further reduction
in old wheat of 2s. per quarter—in new wheat
of 3s. to 4s.—in old barley of 2s.—and in new of
4s. to ss. Under. these circumstances, we are
probably justified in discrediting the notion that
the ports will be opened to any species of corn
on the 15th November, the next taking of
the averages. The merchants are willing to en-
courage an opinion that Lie old wheat will main-
tain its present value—because the millers re-
quire it in considerable quantities to mix with
the new grain, which, say they, is otherwise unfit
for the mill. This, however, is a mischief which
time will be apt to remedy. The middling
wheat of the present crop, already in the buyer's
hands, will mend, and the wheat of better qua-
lity will, though as usual with less expedition,
gradually find its way into the market.—
In the mean time the millers have large stocks
in store, and until these shall have been sen-
sibly reduced, the speculators must be satis-
fied to wait for an opportunity of recommenc-
ing their operations. The grumbling of the
farmers for some months past has been cu-
rious from the inconsistency of its subjects.—
In the same breath they have cried out against
the ruin of the low prices, and against the ineffi-
cacy of the Corn Bill. Now it is cleaf as light,
that both these demons could not have been
pinching the farmer's sides at one and the same
moment. If the Corn Law bad been brought into
play at all, it must have been by high prices, at
least by an average of SOs. per quarter ; and then,
had the prices been lowered by importation,
whatever service the public might have derived
from it, the agriculturists, as they call ,themselves,
would not have incurred the ridicule of blowing,
hot and cold together. But the prices for a long
time past have been so low, that there is no con-
ceivable Corn Bill which could have yielded
them the least advantage. 'Suppose the Parlia-
ment had (in the farming phraseology) " amend-
ed" the law, by substituting 100 s. or 120 s. in-
stead of 80s. as the importation price, or by pro-
hibiting foreign corn altogether. How would this
have affected the interests of the tenantry
throughout Great Britain, any more than they
would have been influenced by an alteration in
the Corn laws of China or Japan ? The English
farmer has enjoyed for a long time past all that a
perfect prohibition could have given him. He
has had a monopoly of the home market. What
business has be, then, to drag the Corn Law into
his catalogue of grievances ? Let him, if he will,

corrip!ain of his still immoderate rent, and pre-
vail upon his. landlord to reduce it further. The
landlord will then be compelled, in spite of all
his ...'oryism, if he be one of the- generation of
Goodies, to carry his complaint also to the pro.:
per quarter ; and if the disease which afflicts
him be cured, or even mitigated, the whole
country will'be the better for it, from Cornwall
to Caithness.

FARTHER ACCOUNT OF EGYPTIAN 0 RE-
rasK.-This piece of antiquity was lying in front
of the Temple in the Island of Philoe, where it.
stood originally, at the time of PTO LEM v, or pro-
bably anterior to that period, and was first no-
ticed by NORDEN and various other travellers,
both ancient and modern. It was taken from
that place to Alexandria by the traveller BEL-
ZONI, to whom Mr. BANKS is entirely indebted
for this arduous operation, as may be seen in
BELZONI'S narrative, page 347. On the first at-
tempt to convey it on board the Pier gave way,
and it slipped into the Nile, from whence it was
got out by means of great labour under the di-
rection of BELZONI, who, although de-stitute of
mechanical instruments, except some palm leaf
ropes and a few pieces of palm trees, contrivedlo
have it turned up on the banks again, from whence
it was embarked in a small boat and,launched down
the cataract, over a faliof water of about twenty.
feet iu breadth, and 600 in length, full of rocks
on every side ; it was then taken to Thebes,
where another party of travellers took possession
of its but not being able to justify their claim to
it, they made an attempt on BELZONI'S life. At
length the obelisk was safely conveyed to Alex-
andria by him, where it was shipped for Eng-
land. It is 21 feet in length and 4 feet square
at the base ; it forms in proportion about 1-30th
part of the great obelisk now lying in Alexandria,
named Cleopatra's Needle, which is about 67 feet
in length by 7 broad at the base. We have rea-
son to hope that that great monument of anti-'
quity will be brought to this country, particu-
larly as it lies on the shores, in the harbour of
Alexandria, so favourably situated for its embar-
kation.

Miss Boorrii.—This Lady gives all her heart
and soul to her acting ; her feelings are so many
electric flashes ; they move all minds by their
energy, and delight by their splendor. She is as
the genius of the middle classes; the star of
loveliness, intelligence, mirth, and ardour.' She
is without a predecessor hi the place which she
fills at our Theatres. Like Lewis, she came a
single brilliant spirit—irradiating a certain
li-
mited sphere with new glories—only to leave us
without a hope of 'a successor.—(Birmingham
Paw.)
The letters D, A, B, and N, which have cut
such a flour:sh in the list of subscriptions for Sir
ROBERT WILSON, and which were understood to
mean Demagogue, Agitator, Bashaw, and Noo-
dle, turn out to be 11r. L AIIBTON, Sir F. Boa-
DETT, Earl GREY, and the. Hon. H. G. BEN-
NETT. Mr. LIMETON and Sir FRANCIS hive each
subscribed 5001. Earl GREY 2001. and Mr. REN-
NETT 501. These subscriptions are, of course, in-
tended as an expression of. the opinion of the
parties as to the impropriety of his Majesty's
conduct in dismissing from his service an officer,
against whom there was no other chargethan that
of having simply opposed his royal commands !
(Durham Advertiser, Oct. 13.)

CAUTION' TO THOSE IN THE H.1.131T OF PAWN-
ING.—A new mode of robbery has within these
few weeks been practised by a set of villains
who are a disgrace to the metropolis; their plan
is to loiter about the pawnbrokers' shops, and
whenever they see any person enter with their
property to pledge, they follow after and conceal
themselves in one of the private boxes near the
individual pledging, whereby they are enabled
to hear the name of the person to whom the ar-
ticles belong, and also the amount they are
pledged for. The villains in a few days after re-
pair to the pawnbrokers, and stating that they
have had the misfortune to lose the duplicate, re-
quest an affidavit, which is instantly given them,
and proCeed to a Police-office, and swearing the
property pledged to be theirs., they return to the
pawnbrokers' and redeem the articles. On the
individual to whom the property actually be-
longed presenting the ticket for redemption, he,
is told by the pawnbroker it has been taken out
by affidavit.

SHOCKING FRATRICIDE.—WC understand that
a man was- killed on Monday morning, In the
neighbourhood of Mullinavat, by his own bro-
ther !! We have not learned with certainty the
names of the parties, or any authentic particulars,
except that the deceased was killed by repeated
blows of a stick on the head, and that the tra-
gical occurrence was the consequence of a sud-
den dispute. The unnatural perpetrator, it is
said, immediately absconded, pursued by a num-
ber of country people, but we have not heard
that he was overtaken.—(Waterford Chronicle.)
DREADFUL EFFECTS OF INTOXICATION.Yes-
terday afternoon, an Inquisition was taken before
JOHN WRIGHT UNwIN, Esq. Coroner, at the
Golden Dart, Lamb-street, Spitalfields, on the
body of Elizabeth Sumpter, aged 19. It appear-
ed that the deceased was bar-maid at the house
of Mr.' JACKSON, the Salmon and Ball, Wooler-
street, Spitalfields, and that on Friday forenoon,
about twelve o'clock,. she ,was discovered by Mrs.
JACKSON lying on the floor of an apartment up
stairs, drunk and insensible. The deceased re-
mained in this state till about four o'clock, when
persons in the street were alarmed at seeing her
get out at the attic window and stagger about in
the gutter; when in attempting to sit on the pa-
rapet, she was unfortunately precipitated out
into the street from a height of four stories, by
which her head was dreadfully fractured, but
Hot one of her limbs received the slightest inju-
ry ; she was carried into the house in a dying
state, and expired soon after. Verdict—" That
the deceased came by her death by accident,
being at the timeln,a state of intoxication."
An awful instance of sudden death occurred a few days since
near Worthing. A gentleman of the name of Home, having
occasion to paint his house, incautiously remained in it, con-
trary to the advice of his friends, during the time the men were
employed. On the fourth day he was seized with vornhings,
and complained of a giddiness in the head. A physician was
immediately sent for, but before he could arrive, the unfortunate
manwas senseless. Every means which medical skill could devise
were tried for his recovery, but without effect. He has left a
w:fe and two children to lionent his untimely death.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION HOUSE

ROBBERY OF TI.IE ORDNANCE RECORD OFFlCS.YeS-
terday a man named George Lane was brought before the Lord.
Mayor, charged on.suspicion of having robbed the Office in the
Tower, for the deposit of records belonging to the Ordnance,
and other departments'of recordsnf importance, which had been
sold as waste paper.
Joseph Ryder, a labourer, who works in the Armoury, at the
Tower, stated, that on Saturday morning, he saw the prisoner
coming out of the Record Office, heavily laden with a large
package, tied up with brown paper on has shoulder. lie
locked the door, and put the key in his pocket, and then moved
off' with the parcel. The witness suspected from the prisoner's
manner, that there was something wrong, and followed bins, to
the outside of the Tower, where there was a regular-porter,
with a knot, in waiting, to whom the prisoner ;.transferred his
load. The witness followed them to see where they would de-
posit it, and saw them enter the shop of Mr. Price, Cheese-
monger, No. 115, Bishopsgate-street, Without. The witness
then returned to the Tower, and informed the Gentlemen of the
Ordnance what he had seen.

Harrison, the darshalman stated, that he went to the shop
of Mr. Price, in company with several gentlemen belonging to
the Ordnance Office, when he (Harrison), asked Mr. Price
whether he had not just got some books from the Ordnance
Office. Mr. Price very readily shewed some, which he said he
had bought that morning, of a man whose description suited
the prisoner. The gentlemen identified 14 large folio volunies,
which were produced.—Hesketh went in pursuit of the prisoner,
who was known, as, he had once been employed in the Tower,
but he had obtained intelligence that the officers were in pursuit
of him, and absconded. He was, however, taken at .the house
of a relation. At the prisoner's own house, a quantity of paper,
belonging to the Ordnance Office, was found.
Mr. Q. H. Warring, the chief derk of the Ordnance Office,
deposed, that the papers found at Mr. Price's were documents
belongii,w to his Majesty, which had been deposited in the Re-
cord Office of the Ordnance Office. They were of various dates,
sonic were 50, others 100 years old. Some of them were ledgers.
The papers found at the Prisoner's apartments also belonged to
his Majesty, but were not documents of any importance. '1 hose
found at Mr. Price's were documents of importance, which
ought not to be abroad.—The prisoner was remanded for fur-
ther examination.