The Sun.
London, England, 1820-11-21 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

CONSTANTINOPLE, Our. 10.—Ali Pacha and
his contests with the (Porte are still the chief sub-
jects of conversation; and the attention of the
public is the more excited because the last dis-
patches from the Turkish Generals excited an
expectation that the struggle would be soon ter-
minated ; but it now seems as if Ali would hold
out to the last extremity, to save his life and li-
berty. We have positive intelligence, that having
retired with SOt) men into the Castle of Janina (as
has been already announced), he has destroyed a
great part of the city by the effects of his nu-
merous heavy artillery, and blowing up mines,
and has done the besieging army considerable in-
jury. Baba Peldivan Pacha (Commander in
Chief of the Turkish troops) and Pascho Bey
Ishmail Paella (Ali's successor in the Pachalik of
Janina) have found it necessary to solicit a rein-
forcement of meji.and artillery. The Pacha of
SalonichiliasalreAo' joined them, and heavy bat-
tering cannon anfl ammunition of all kinds are
embarking; with all speed at Tophanan (the can-
non foundery). The Pacha of Egnibos (Negro-
port) has received orders to place all his artillery
at the disposal of the
*Turkish besieging army'.
These measures are adopted in consequence of
an autograph letter addressed by the Sultan to
•the Grand Vizier, conceived' in very serious and
urgent terms. The whole family and relations
of Ali Paella have in a most humble memorial in
the Creek language, implored the clemency of
his Sublimity, and declared they would submit
unconditionally to the will olthe Sultan, as be-
fore -expressed, and would take up their abode
at their father's native town, Tepedecendi. This
request has been provisionally granted. Ali
Pacha, in order to render escape impossible, has
had the gates of the Castle Walled up. Four Beys
have, however, ventured to let themselves down
by the walls of the fortress; one of them lost his
life in this hazardous attempt, but the other three
arrived in Pehlivan Paella's camp. According to
their account the situation of theii late• master
becomes every •day more desperate, and the mo-
ment May not be distant when he will close his
extraordinary career under 'the daggers of his
most decided adherents and partizans.
Several _Armenians, implicated-in the attempt
to murder.their Patriarch,,have lately been exe-
cuted at Constantinople : among them was a rich
banker, ,and an old man above 80, and several
priests ; all the others are sent into exile.
The accounts respecting the public health of
the capitalare extremely satisfactory ; traces. of
infection, however, still manifest. themselves in
several parts of Albania and Dalmatia.
VIENNA, .Nov. I.—A great deal is said of the
proposals made by Prince Metternich at the
opening of Me Congress at Troppau ; and if
'what is reported of them be true, they are well
worthy the attention of all Europe. The Aus-
trian Minister, It is said, has laid down as a
principle the-invariable stability of the existing
political systems and order of things, founded on
the faith of Treaties in the several .European
States, in such a manner that no single Govern-
ment maT ,arrogate to itself the right to make a
change in them without the consent of the
others; especially When such change effected by
one Government would evideutly be to the pre-
judice of another Government. If such a case hap-
pens, there would beonly two means dictated by
policy to the A llied Powers—to maintain the exist-
ing order of thing-s in Europe,or to re-establish it in
case of need: The first would be, by conclusive
but energetic measures, either by negociation-or
force of arms, to induce the Government which
had made this change, in opposition to the in-
terests of the others, to give upthe new system,
and return to the old one. If this means, which
seems the_ most simple, should not be adopted, or
should prove unsuccessful, there would remain
only the second means to avert the evils with
which Europe would be menaced by the propa-
gation of the revolutionary spirit, which would be
to employ measures like those long since used
against the plague, and to establish a kind of
quarantine against the countries in which that
dangerous spirit of revolution unhappily prevails.
HAmnuaGir, OCT. 28.-111 the last meeting of
the citizensit was resolved to continue the pre-
sent. system of custom duties for only six months
longer, and to draw up in the mean time a new
one, more suitable, to the general wish and to the
interests of our commerce. A chief object will
be to considerably diminish the import and ex-
port duties, and to remove every thing arbi-
trary in the administration of this important de-
partment.
VIENNA, Nov. 4.—An official notice has been
issued, stating, that" in consequence of an agree-
meat between the Government and the Directors
of the privileged National Bank, the funds arising
from the loan of thirty-seven millions and a half
of florins in convention money, which were ex-
clusively destined to redeem the paper currency,
and henceforward placed at the dispoSal of the
National Bank for that purpose ; but as on the
one hand the Directors -of the Bank are not in a
situation to want the whole receipt of their sums
in the Course of the following year, and on the
other hand, will not withdraw any capitals from
commerce and circulation before it is necessary
to employ. them for the above-mentioned pur-
pose, the following regulations have been adopt-
ed respecting the payments of the
,said loan,"
&c.—(Herefollow the details of this Ordinance
under t orhead s.]
BrueSsELs, Nov. 13.—The Captain of an Ame-
rican vessel which left the Straits of Sunda, says,
the great expedition to reduce the Sultan of Pa-
lembang, sailed from Batavia the 31st of July.
ROME, 2.l.—Signor Bergami is now in
this capital. When her Majesty the Queen of
England took leave of him .at St. Omer's, she
gave him, for his past!services, an annuity of 8001.
sterling, and a second annuity of 3001. sterling
for his daughter Victorine, whom he has left in a
boarding school at Paris. He will fix his .re-.'
sidence at Pesaro, where he has purchased the
villa formerly the residence of his Royal Mistress
with the money received for the Villa Barona,
which he has sold.

FOR TILE SUN.

ILLUMINATIONS.

Mn, EDITOR,---The old Government of France
was sometimes accused of causing Paris to be
illuminated, in order to keep the people in the
dark; rejoicing when they ought to have mourn-
ed. The Mob-governors of London take still
more extraordinary measures; they illtneate
the town to keep themselves in the dark. For
what light can be.thrown upon any question by
a forced illumination ? Had not the peril of their
windows forced the inhabitants to light up, the
town would have made but a dingy appearance
upon a late extraordinary occasion. What sub-
ject of joy could it afford to any reasonable
mind, that the most exalted Personage but one
in the State was for ever stigmatized, in the face
.of t,.• mankind, by a decided majority of the
high, Judicature in the country—by the most
august Court of J udges in the world ? That pu-
nishment is not pursued or urged, can afford but
a trifling consolation to a mind of any delicacy ;
the guilt is stamped distinctly, and stamped in-
delibly, to all posterity.
But a man's windows are of course the most
vulnerable part of his house ; and a few glaziers'
apprentices can do more mischief in an hour,
than their masters can repair in a week. In the
public streets, therefore, a natural feeling for
his panes led many a housekeeper to illuminate,
who, if left to the movements of his own mind,
would rather have extinguished his common
lights, than have given the smallest colour to so
base an imposition, as that of declaring a person
acquitted who was clearly and decisively pro-
nounced guilty. Yet even a Magistrate was found,
foolish or factious enough to advertise that he in-
tended to illuminate 'on this wretched occasion,
thereby giving encouragement, and almost ex-
cuse, to every outrage that followed. Well may
we lament the depravity of such times, w hen
wives are all to be told that retaliation to the utmost
extent is perfectly laudable, if a husband fail in
any of his duties ; when all the world is to be
told, that the English Public has no regard for
the honour of their SovEacios's Wife, but can
triumph in her disgrace, so long as she is not to
suffer the just consequences of it.
Knaves say, and fools believe, that the
QUEEN is acquitted. Would it were so! Spon-
taneously would I illuminate, and many thou-
sands with me, if this could be established as a
truth. But because the populace will neither
hear evidence, nor believe it when given—be-
cause faction circulates falsehoods, and factious
news-writers, enveloped in tenfold brass, an-
nounce the proofs of innocence, when they know
the contrary to be confirmed, am I therefore to
assume the face of joy, and give the lie to my
feelings and my conscience, to please a. senseless
mob ? If this be not tyranny, I know not what
deserves the name and the only good I can see
in it is this, that it gives a glaring proof what
mob-government would be, and chews distinctly
what kind of liberty we should enjoy under the
auspices of Radical Reformers. The liberty .of
doing what they please, however grievous to our-
selves, at the hazard of property, safety, and life
itself, if we should dare to avow our honest senti-
ments ! Let us then, in the name of wisdom,
have Annual Parliaments and Universal Suffrage,
to bring about this blessed end ! Let the old
Major be proclaimed our Protector, and CAM,
FRANCIS, and ROBERT, his Privy Council. So
shall our lights shine, when they ought to be ex-
tinguished; and LIBERTY be enjoyed in name,
when SLAVERY is fixed upon us!
LUX.

FOR THE SUN.

SHO REDITCH.

Mn. EDITOR—I have to thank you for insert-
ing the few lines which I addressed to you on
Saturday, respecting a recent meeting of some of
the inhabitants of Shoreditch Parish, and, in
consequence of your remark, beg to mention, that
the report of the proceedings I read in The
Morning Chronicle, and on referring to that
Paper find it was a Mr. SUGO, who moved
that her MAJESTY'S • Answer to the Address of
the Parish should be elegantly engrossed, fram-
ed, and hung up in a conspicuous part of the
Church ; and as you mention that you " trust
" the Clergyman of the Parish will interfere to
44 prevent such a monstrous desecration," I think
it proper to remark, that according to The Morn-
ing Chronicle the Rev. Mr. PIERCY was present
at the Meeting, moved an Address to the
QUEEN, and, according to his words, as reported,
on " the Triumph of Virtue over Vice, of Inno-
cence over Persecution."
If Mr.PIERCY is the Clergyman of the Parish,
the respectable part of the Parishioners should
enter their formal Protest against the
.defilement
of the walls of their Church, as proposed by Mr.
SUGG. •.

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London, Nov. 20, i R 20. A CONSTANT READER.

ROYAL ACADEMY.—A. CARLISLE, Esq. last
evening, delivered his second Lecture on Anato-
my, at the Royal Academy. The subject of the
Discourse was the human Bones, which the
learned Professor illustrated by frequent refe-
rences to the skeleton. At the conclusion, Mr.
CARLISLE was much applauded by his auditors,
which were numerous, exclug'ive of the students,
most of whom were present.

A Correspondent informs use that an illumina-
tion took place at Monmouth on Wednesday last,
which was attended with disgraceful riots. A
vast multitude was assembled from the populous
vicinity of the town. The fronts of several- re-
spectable houses were materially injured, and
further acts of violence would probably have fol-
lowed, had not the mob been repressed by the
spirited exertions of some of the loyal inhabi-
tants, whose lives and property were endangered,
and who received, it is said, very little aid from
the Civil Authorities.—(New Times.)
On Wednesday, Mr. JEFFREY was elected
Rector of the University of Glasgow by great
majorities in each of the four nations. Mr.FIN-
LAY was the other candidate.