The Sun.
London, England, 1829-10-17 00:00:00

We are happy to have it in our power to allay, in
a great measure, the consternation produced by the
alarming account which appeared in some of the
Evening Papers of yesterday, which, though not
wholly without foundation, has been greatly exag-
gerated with respect to loss of lives. The following,
as far as it goes, may be depended upon as a correct
outline of the unfortunate, and we may add, almost
unprecedented affair :
The Dolphin frigate, used as a hulk for the safe
keeping of convicts employed in Chatham Dock-
yard, was moored close to the jetty, with a stage to
the shore, for the purpose of their accommodation
from the ship to the shore; and the length of the
moorings that confined her to the shore Crete appro-
priated in length to the ordinary rise and fall of the
tide. The vessel was also further secured by piles
driven on the off side. The late spring tides, how-
ever, have been unusually high, and shortly after
midnight on Thursday, Capt. Lloyd was aroused
from his sleep by the noise of the water rushing into
the lower part of the vessel. Unable to account for
such a circumstance, he went immediately upon deck
and gave such directions to the Officers under him
for the enlargement of the convicts,a,, we are happy
to state, prevented the dreadful loss of life which
must otherwise have ensued. The cause of the oc-
currence was still a mystery until the snapping of the
moorings which confined the vessel to the quay at
once explained the cause.
It appears that the unusual rise of the tide had so
much tightened the moorings which held her to the
shore as to prevent her rising above her usual level,
and caused the water to force itself into the lower
ports, and would, no doubt, have swamped her, had
not the moorings given way, the immediate conse-
quence of which was, that she careened awl fell
over on the opposite side from the quay, and the
cries of upwards of 200 persons who were on board
of her at the time, and just roused from their sleep,
were dreadfully appalling. Fortunately the orders pre-
viously given by Capt. Lloyd were so promptly obeyed,
that most of the convicts gained the deck, arid with
the assistance that was immediately given from the
Dock-yard and the town, we are happy in being en-
abled to state that only three persons were drowned,
who could not be got at; and one convict «ho un-
fortunately received a blow of an adze from one of
the crew, while endeavouring to cut away a bulk-
head to effect his liberatiop, from the effects of which
he expired yesterday afternoon.
The four bodies are now lying at the New Hos-
pital for an inquest, which is expected to be held or
them this day.
Mr. Capper, of the Home Department, who is
Superintendant of the Hulks, arrived in town about
nine oclock last night, having gone to Chatham for
the purpose of ascertaining the extent of the unfor-
tunate occurrence.
It is somewhat remarkable, that a circumstance
to the above happened to a brig called the
Fame, of Dublin, Robert Baker, master, in the year
[790, at a village named Marcus Hook, on the bank
of the Delaware, about 25 miles from Philadelphia.
The brig was strongly moored by hawsers to the
wharf, and on the rising of the tide about midnight
she was so tightly confined on the side next the
wharf, as to be nearly on her beam ends before the
crew were aware of the cause. The snapping of the
hawsers, however, and the consequent surge of the
vessel, at once apprised those on board of the real
cause. Fortunately other vessels were lying out-
side of her in the same tier, and prevented her from
upsetting on the off-side, and no further bad conse-
quences ensued but the breaking of the hawsers.
Had it been daylight, the evil in both cases might
have been avoided by easing off the moorings. The
writer of the above article was on board of the brig
at the time.

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AFFAIRS OF THE EAST.

(From the Constitutionnel of Tuesday.)

THE TURKISH GENERALS, CHIEFS OF CORPS,-WILL

THEY SUBMIT TO THE TREATY OF THE 14TH SEP.

TEMIIER ?

It is very remarkable that the treaty of the 14th
of September should be already a month old,
and that we should nevertheless be reduced to

the first documents, published even before official
advice of the signature of the act. In this want
of ulterior information the public papers of all
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countries find themselves under the necessity of
discussing the conditions which they know, and
the unanimous opinion of the counter-revolu-
tionary journals is, that they are not as moderate
as they had wished them to be ; and hence, on
their part, are hazardous menaces of opposition,
and timid calculations of the chances of success.
What these absolute organs hardly dare to let
out as the resolution which they lend to their
masters, the situation of things in the east itself
daily prepares. To make plain the consequences
which grew out of this situation, it is necessary
to set out from a fixed point.
Thus it is necessary to admit that the condi-
tions stipulated on the 14th of September are
those which are known, that they have been de-
creed and assented to, without the effective con-
currence of the mediatory ministers; for signa-
tures admitted by courtesy do not constitute an
efficacious intervention—in fine, that the Sultan,
in engaging himself, has only yielded to the ne-
cessities of his position, without having cal-
culated if it shall be in his power to execute the
clauses.

These points fixed, the smallest knowledge of
the places, the things, and the men, is quite suf-
ficient to convince us of the impossibility of
maintaining the Act of the 14th September, de-
clared in the terms which have come from the
East.

The places are ill defined in this treaty. What
is, for example, the free use of the two 13osphori
without effective guarantees ?
The things are stipulated without proportion.
How is the Sultan to pay 10,000,000 of ducats
on the one part, and 1,500,000 on the other ?
The men are ill appreciated. Mahinoud
might, perhaps, have flattered himself with the
passive obedience of a nation, consenting at his
voice to her overthrow. Would the different
tribes of his subjects have, however, silenced
their respective animosities, because he wished it
to be done ? 'Would the chiefs of his armies
submit themselves to an order, received from a
monarch whom they could not regard to be free ?
These radical difficulties render more than un-
certain the execution of the article-3 of the treaty
of the 14th Sept. If they are only considered with
reference to the interest of the Turks, we are au-
thorized to refuse them all character of moderation.
It is not thus, if they are argued upon the rights
of Russia. The Times has avowed that they
may be found moderate at Petersburgh, where is
known the amount of sacrifice which they are to
compensate.
Be it as it may, there is a power which can-
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