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

Tit E LONDON JOURN

V EXTRACTi FROM TILE neltvlNG PEIZS,
November 13.

[MORNING' `POST.]

'We received German Paipers fast night, which,
though they do not come down later than the
first week of this mouth, contain some interesting
and even some new intelligence. The Vienna:
Gazette -declares from " authentic quarters,"i
that the Memorial on the affairs of Turkey, said.
to have been presented by the Duke of Welling-,
ton to the King of France, and copied some time:
*ace -from the Brussels into the French, and
from the latter into the English Papers," never
existed," by which we suppose it 45 meant that
it was a-fabrication. We have no,cloubt of the
'fact,- but we cannot help thinking that the grave
composure of the Court of Austria must have
been strangely moved by this non-existent docu-
ment, ere it could make up its mind to.enter the
field against "an airy nothing." if the ad.vic?s
from Hermanstadt speak the truth, and we-must.
own they have probability in their f4vottr, it would
appear that the Grand Seignior is determined to
frustrate all the exertions made by Cheistian
Governments to preserve Islamism from expul-
sion, if not from extinction, and to retain in
Europe the blessings of Mahemetan rule. Blind
to his own interest, though -Rot unaware of his-
danger, he refuses, it is said, to " listen to any
thing about rights," and still less to " any con-
cessions." This display of Barbarian pride will
sorely disappoint his Christian and- civilized
friends. It will force them to leave the assassins
of Smyrna and Constantinople, the sacrilegious
violaters of Gon's temples and altars, at the
mercy of human vengeance and •dicine justice.

{AI•O_It7,7ING CIIRONTCLE-1

The private letters received bi the Lisbon
Mail mention, that new Ministers had been ap-
pointed to the Courts of Loudon and Paris,
Madrid, Vienna. &c. The one appointed to this
country is Dr. Constancio, a literary character,
who studied in Edinburgh, but without practis-
ing in his own country. The Minister selected
for France is Judge Botello, late Governor of

Madeira. The Fiench ship Hazard had arrived
in the Tagus with contraband goods on board,
and in her had been seized a large quan-
tity 'of Pastoral letters, written by the Ex-
Patriarch, now an exile in France, and sent
to Portugal, with an intention to indispose the
peoplnvith the Constitutional Government. These
papers,--had- been sent up to the Cortes, but no
proof -existed-of their being sanctioned by the
French 012O1ice, qbaugh it is very natural to sup-
pose this is the case, as it would only be part of
that extensive
.plan of hostility adopted by the
Court of Paris against the ne‘r ly.acquired liber-
ties of Spain and Portugal, a subject to which we
shall take an early opportunity of revertie,.
The gradual reform of the Church had entered
into the discussions of -the Cortes, and a report
on this interesting -subject had been laid before
them by the Committee to which it had been
confided.

DEMERARA.-It gives us pleasure to be able
to announce any thing like an attempt at im-
provement in our deplorably vicious Colonial
system. It is stated, dial the suggestions of
Mr. Henry, in his letter to Mr. Goulburn, to,
abolish the present form of criminal process
in force at Demerara, and the other ceded
Colonies, namely, " of proceeding by written
interrogatories, and substituting, as far as it
is locally practicable, the viva voce exami-
nations practised in this country," has been
adopted ; and that an Order of Council has
passed to that effect, which will be sent out
forthwith.—We confess we were not prepared
for such a degree of attention on the part of the
Colonial ()like to any beneficial suggestion. We
had concluded, from no little observation, that
the only point which 'the Colonial Office thought
worthy of their attention, was the extending the
powers of the Military Governors appointed by
them, who in consequence are, in many cases,as
absolute as Turkish Bashaws, the property or
the interest of the governed being deemed a very
secondary matter. We should not be surprised
after this to hear that some of our other Dutch
and Spanish Colonies were also to get quit of
some most tyrannical legal proceedings.—(!bid.)

[THE Tutus.]
The Dutch papers contain the official account
of the conquest of Palembang—an event which
has been before noticed in our direct arrivals
from Batavia. The Sultan Badr al Deen, now
deposed, is the Prince who in 181'2 endeavoured
to render himself independent of the English,
who had then recently gained a footing in the
East Indian Archipelago, by the taking of Java ;
and the restored Sultan is his elder brother, w•ho
ced-ed to this country the island of Uauca—a pos-
session, by the way, the value which was not
discovered 14 ourrulers till they had relinquished
it. Ile will be nothing more, of course, than
a vassal of the Dutch Government. This unfor-
tunate family has felt deeply the consequences of
British protection. Without entering into the
question, so often agitated, of the apaihy with
which our negotiators have abandoned friendly
settlements to the mercy of those who were
likely to look upon such friendship to vs asa high
and punishable crime, we may remark, that here
as elsewhere our Ministers have shewn that they
as little regard the commercial interests of their
fellow-countrymen as they did the general in-
terests of humanity.

[MORNING HERALD.]
It is now some days since it has been reported
confidently, on the authority of private accounts,
that Russia had appointed a successor to Baron
Strogonoff at Constantinople, and that the Rus-
sian troops had received orders to retire from the
Truth. Every foreign mail was anxiously looked
to, as likely to corroborate this intelligence. Up
to this moment, however, the German and other
Continental papers have rather tended to ne-
gative than -confirm these accounts. They, on
the contrary, even represent the Divan as ut-
telly distrustful of the pacific intentions and