The Sun.
London, England, 1828-09-04 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRENCH PAPERS.
(From the Gazette de France.)

ODE:is A, AUG. 9.—On the 2d the Emperor
Marched from before Shumla, with the regiment cs
horse chasseurs that bears his name, 12 pieces 01
Cossack artillery, two squadrons of the guard, and
two battalions of the 19th foet chasseurs,
His Majesty took the road of Jenibazar, and en-
camped the same evening before Coslandgi.
On the 3d, the troops of which his escort was
composed had a day of rest.
On the 4th, his Majesty Continued his march
towards Varna, and slept in a redoubt constructed at
a short distance from the village of Derbentkieni.
On his arrival, the Emperor received intelligence of
• an important advantage just gained by the Aide-de-
Camp General Prince Menzikow (recently charged
with the siege of Varna) over the ,garrison of that
place.
Several Turkish detachments had succeeded in
penetrating it by the Bourgas road, which the Aide-
de-Camp General Count de Suchtelen had not been
able to intercept, as it was separated from the posi-
tion which he occupied by the great lake of Thvina,
whose waters almost touch the south-west part of the
fortifications of Varna. A corps of regular troops
arrived by land from Constantinople, under the corn-
=rid, it was said, of the Capitan Pacha, had. also
been observed. With the aid of these 'reinforce-
ments, the garrison had become too numerous to
allow Lieutenant-General Ouchakoff, who succeeded
Count Suchtelen, to continue the blockade of the
fortress. •He therefore wisely contented himself
with observing it at a certain distance, after an ac-
t.'" in which the Turks were repulsed with loss.
Meanwhilt We also reinforced the corps befoie
Vane,; bat when Prince Menzikow assumed the
ersinmarid, the enemy occupied, at four wersts in
advance of the town, and with the double view of
defending its approaches and preventing the lauding
of our troops returning from the siege of Anapa, a
chain of wooded heights which extended to the sea,
and which he had garnished with artillery, cavalry,
anti sharp-shooters. Not withstanding the adsan-
tages which this position gave the Tuiks, Prince
Menzikow resolved to attack them. By a skilful
snanceuvre, he turned their left on the 3d, and
whilst his artillery, some lancers of the Boug, and a
battalion of infantry, attacked them in front, another
battalion fell upon their rear.
The effect of this movement was such, that the
Turks threw down their cannons from the summit of
the heights to which they had been conveyed, and
precipitately took flight, abandoning their tents, a
'standard, the body of their Commander, who had
just expired, and an ancient Greek convent, the pos-
session of which was indispensably necessary to
enable us to land.the troops,on beard the fleet.
This essential point, and all the heights which
the enemy had disputed with us, were in the power
of Prince illenzikow, when the Emperor
.reached
his bivreaac on the morning of the 4th.• After having
observed the position, the fortifications, and the bay
Of Varna, issued orders for commencing the works
of the siege, left with Prince Menzikow the detach-
ment by whom he had been escorted, and inspected
the regiments landed the day before; the Emperor
reached the sea-shore by a long and difficult defile
which leads from the Convent amidst the heights to
the sea. There he embarked on board a fire-vessel
which took him to the Paris, Admiral Greig's ship,
where his Majesty condescended to accept •of a
dinner. The fleet, consisting of upwards of 20 sail,
of which eight were of the line, five frigates, and
three bomb vessels, already blockaded the_ port of
Varna. Highly pleased with the state of the vessels,
the condition of the crews, and the extreme rapi-
dity with which all the Admiral'i signals-were given,
and the movements which they indiCated executed
in his presence, the,-Emperor quitted the Paris in
the afternoon,. to -go on- board the Flora frigate;
which was to convey him to Odessa. About-seven
paw. the Flora unfurlect her sails amidst the,firing
of all the other vessel's; "which saluted the Imperial
flag; and yesterday, 8; at two part. after a for-
tunate voyage, his Majesty cast- anchor before the
villa occupied by the Empress.
The official report from before Shumla; dated
August the 7th, says—
" According to the accounts of prisoners and de-
serters, the action of the lst cost the Turks nearly
‘')00 men, in killed and wounded.
" During the night from the -Ist to the 2d,- we
constructed redoubts on the key of the position
which we had carried during the day.
" In the morning of the 2d, both our wings ap-
proached the intrenchtnents of Shumla without the
least opposition. •
" We continued the same movement on every
point during the 4th, sth, and 6th, and even this
day. Every night we construct fresh redoubts, which
approach the Turkish entrenchments closer and
closer, and are raised within reach of their guns.
Yet no sortie has been made against us, and we
have not even been disturbed.

" When we couipare this torpor with the vivacity
and perseverance with which the Ottomans disputed
every inch of ground in the neighbourhood of
Shuntla, in preceding campaigns, we no longer re-
cognize their former character, nor their method of
lighting."

(From the Gazette de France, Sept. 2.) .
Pitts, SEPT. I.—The Courrier Francais, in an
article published the day before yesterday, says, that
the German Journals cannot have news from the
theatre of war, except by the -Russian bulletins,
and that at Vienna letters from Turkey can be bad
only by the mail from Bucharest. Now, indepen-
dently of this mail from Bucharest, we must state,
that Vienna communicates with Turkey by way of
Orsova (or Orchova), in the Bannat of Temeswar,
by Brod, in Sclavonia, byl(9,mnitza,
in Croatia,
and that in all those places therC'are post-offiCes, la-
zarettos, &c. pasi over Semlin, which the
courier ought to be acquainted with, and the nume-
rous points of communication bet seen Dalmatia and
the Ottoman States, by which news may iipeed4
arrive at Trieste. This explanation appeared to its
to be necessary before we- gave the translation of the
following extracts from a private letter which has
been communicated to us :--- ,
" 01150 VA, Avo. 12.--Several merchants per-
forming quarantine, who have arrived from , Seres,
inform us that the levies-of troops are proceeding
with great activity in Macedonia and the other pro-
vinces through which they have passed, and that
notwithstanding these levies, with the exception of
ittOse of Pioneers, the Rajas are not molested. The
Turks are fortifying Sophia, Nis.9, arid all the towns
and defiles in that direction, and they rppear .to be
resolved to defend their territory inch by inchi as
well as their positions; -which they fortify and fur-
nish with provisions, Confining. themselves (wisely I
think) to 'a war of skirmishes, as they are not able
to meet the Russians in a pitched battle. .I think
that the Russians ought to have taken- advantage of
the first confusioreand the, first. surprise; and: that
they have depended too Auch.on- the -apathy'olthe
Turks, who, besides, could not persuadetbemselVeS
till the last moment that, the,guropeou Powers
would suffer them to be,swallowed up by the Mus-
covite giant; but they have,'
as you know, at,tl4
bottom a great deal of energy, naliimal.
pride, and
patriotism, which will support,: them) even though
extinguished
religious fanaticism should be entirel)i
amongst them.
" The Servians, our
neighbours, are very
san-
guine,
and yet they are not destitute of bravery,anti
zeal for the faith. But the Prince will .not run any,
risk, and follows in this respect the u ise councils of
our august Court; besides, the nation remembers its
last insurrection, and will not,begin again to runt it.
self for the interest of others. The Bosniaks would
not wish any better than to have a: pretext to enter
Sierra and lay waste the country. They say it is to
watch and check their neighbours, that they have
not yet sent-any troops out of their province, where
they are resolved to defend themselves, and this is
a great loss to the Sublime Porte, for the Bosnians
alone are able to raise a brave and numerous army.
" The last accounts we have received horn Con-

stantinople state, that order prevails there notwith-
standing the continual arrivals from Asia Minor,
the great preparations for defence upon the Bospho-
rus, and the daily enrolment of troops by virtue of
the Haiti Seherif. All-this does honour to the Sul-
tan, whose firmness is not to be shaken, and who
has a hundred times more authority than his prede-
cessors.' ~Mr. M. who came post with a Tartar of
the Legation, says there are many foreign engineers
and artillerymen in the service of the Porte, and that
they are fortifying the principal passages of the Bal-
kan, but he does not think that the Russians will
pass it beftne the winter, and until they have made
thernselves masters of Shurnla, which contains a
whole army, of' Silistria, &c..
" They might, indeed, by taking possession of
Varna, make their troops advance on that side, and
march along the coast to arrive at Constantinople;
but there are many difficulties, and those which may
he added to them have not been forgotten : the
roads are impassable in many places, and in many
Others a communication between the Russian army
and the fleet would be impossible. There are, perhaps,
as many dangers as by the ordinary road by way of Ad-
rianople, and a great force would be required to secure
the rear, the communications, and the convoys.
Heaven grant that all this may ead well, and that
this affair of the Greeks may not cause more Euro-
pean blood to flow."
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