The Sun.
London, England, 1829-10-13 00:00:00

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LONDON,
TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 13, 1829.

The Duke de LAVAL MONTMORENCY has
arrived in London, as Ambassador from the Court
of France. He landed at Dover yesterday, having
only stayed two days in Paris on his way from
Vienna. The Duke has never been in England
before, and can scarcely speak a word of Eng-
lish. He is apparently about sixty years of
age, and is tall in person.

The Duke of WELLINGTON left town this
morning, for Walmer Castle ; and Lord BA-
THURST for Cirencester.

The particulars of the Treaty signed ai
Adrianople on the 14th ult., have not as yel
been made public.

The Turkish Empire seems destined to a '
speedy dissolution. The last letters from Alex- '
andria, which are to the 30th ult., bring the in-
telligence that MEHEMET ALT, the most
powerful as well as the most intelligent Pacha
in the dominions of the SULTAN, has been
making serious and active preparations for de-
claring his independence of the PORTE. It is
known that various grounds of division and dis-
trust have long existed between them, but the
immediate cause of the present misunderstand-
ing has been a refusal on the part of the Pacha
to send the succours required of him for the re-
lief of Constantinople. The SULTAN has not
as yet, of course, found leisure to take that ener-
getic notice of this act of disobedience, for
which all the measures of MAILMOUD are so
remarkable ; but from the known characters of
the Sovereign as well as of the vassal, it is to
be presumed, from what has transpired, that
MEHEMET will either succeed in shaking off
the Turkish yoke or lose his head in the struggle.

The first answer of the wily Pacha, in reply
to the requisition of the SULTAN, was to ex-
cuse himself under pretence of the badness of
the roads, and the miserable condition of his
Pachalic. To a man of AiAlimoup's character
such an answer must have produced some im-
mediate act of vengeance, bad he not been re-
strained by the embarrassing circumstances in
which he was placed, and by the fear of exciting

the other Paellas to follow the example of in-
subordination of which MEHEMET had set to

iem.

It is believed that the PORTE has always re-
garded the elevation of MEIIEMET ALI as the
work of revolt, and that he would long ago have
fallen under the veneance of his Master, if he
had not been constantly on his guard ; contriv-

ing always to rid himself of the bearers of the
bow-string, among whom he is said to have at
one time found the person who was to have re-

placed him in the Government of Egypt. He
succeeded in intercepting a new firman of death,
which had been sent to him since the capitula-
tion of the Morea, while the bearer of it was on
bis progress through the Desert of Syria. It is
nevertheless true, that of all the Pachas of the
empire, there is not one from whom the SUL-
TAN has received so much assistance as from
MEHEMET A Li. He alone bore the whole
burden of the war against the Greeks, especially
towards its conclusion, exhausting his treasures
and sacrificing his fleet in the service of a Power,
the violence of whose resentment is not perhaps
strongly characterized either by gratitude or jus-
tice. The mutual relationship of Suzerainte and
vassalage between the PORTE and its numerous
dependents is not indeed very strictly defined,
and it is not to be wondered at if a man of
MEHEAIET's character should avail himself of
the present opportunity to try to establish an in-
dependent Government in Egypt.
The last firman addressed by the SULTAN to
the Pacha contained a renewal of the order to
send 20,000 men to Constantinople, under the
command of his son InnArtrm, at the same
time enjoining MEHEMET to furnish his ac-
counts of receipt and expenditure, and requiring
him to observe, that, like all the other Paellas,
he was only the salaried agent of the PORTE.
Under existing circumstances this language
seems to have been somewhat imprudent, as it
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said to have determined the Pacha to resist
the orders of the SULTAN, to save his son from