The Sun.
London, England, 1827-11-23 00:00:00

us this morning

BUCHAREST, NOV. 2.
By the ordinary post we have letters from Constanti-
nople to the 25th October, but which .contain nothing of
importance. M. Minziacky, the Russian Consul, has left
us, and gone to Jassy.
His departure, the object of which is to see to the repair
of the building's belonging to the Russian Consulate, which
wete much damaged by the late fire at Jassy, excites some
sensation under the present circumstances.

ANCONA, NOV. 4.
The Dartmouth frigate, which arrived here on the 2d,
has landed 37 wounded men at our Lazaretto, of whom
two are already dead. It is related, that as soon as the

firing of the Christian squadrons commenced, the Turks
massacred all the Greek sailors on board their ships.
The Turkish batteries in the Hand of Sphacteria were
silenced and taken by the Russians. It is said that the
Turkish Admiral's Secretary, who was taken prisoner, has
declared that the Admiral wished for and sought an en-
gagement, having received orders from Constantinople, by
the aid of his are-ships, to destroy the Christian ships on
the first opportunity.

It is mentioned in letters from Paris, that the
Florence Gazette states that the Secretary of the
Turkish Admiral, who was made prisoner, had
declared that the battle wilS; provoked by the
Turks, in compliance with secret orders from
Constantinople, which enjoined them to burn
the European vessels.
A letter also from Ancona, published in that
Journal, confirms the above, and mentions that
the Greek seamen who were compelled to serve
on board the Turkish vessels after the action,
were massacred by the Turks. The Diario di
Roma of the 7th contains 'a letter from Corfu,
giving the same details.

The Allgemeine Zeitung of the 16th instant,
has been received this forenoon. It contains
no intelligence from Constantinople later than
the 25th Oct. It appears by an article under date
of Ancona, 4th November, that the Turkish
batteries on Sphacteria, the island in front of the
harbour of Navarin, were taken by the Russian
ships. The following are extracts :

FROM THE DANUBE, NOV. It.

According to letters from Vienna, immediately on the
receipt of the important news from Trieste, the acceptance
of all bills of exchange drawn from Constantinople was
suspended, till it should be ascertained what measures may
have been taken against the Greeks and the Franks in the
Turkish capital, in consequence of the late events. The
despatches sent from Vienna to Trieste, Fiume, Venice,
and Ragusa, as well as those sent by a courier to the
Gene7l commanding on the Turkish frontiers, are said to
be very important:.
FROII THE FRONTIERS OF ITALY, NOV. 9.

The English courier, who has passed.through with Ad-
miral Codrington's despatches for London, says that a con-
siderable number of English wounded had been brought by
a brig of war to the Lazaretto at Corfu. The French and
Russian wounded were brought to Zante. The commerce
with the Italian sea-ports with the Levant, which suffered
extremely from the piracy exercised under the Greek flag,
is now wholly paralyzed by the hostilities with the Turks.
All vessels freighted fin• Turkish ports remain in the hay -
boors, and most of those that have lately sailed have re-
turned. Insurances can scarcely be effected on any terms.
Admiral de Rigny hail ordered back several Austrian and
other merchantmen, laden with ammunition, and hound to
Turkish ports, which have sailed to Zante to discharge
their cargoes.'

VIENNA, NOV. 11 •

Tlie Austrian Observer has a short account of the
:male of Navarin, as given by one of the couriers (an Eng-

fish Naval Officer), who landed at Ancona on the 2d Nov.
I'This letter concludes with the following remarks :-
1 " These accounts have thrown the merchants here into
alarm, because so many mercantile interests are closely
interwoven with the fate of the, Europeans in Turkey ;
,md, in case they should be endangered, great losses may
accrue to all countries, especially to those lying in the
Mediterranean and the Adriatic, which have their pin_
! cipal commerce with the Levant. Those houses, ton, which
carry on the corn trade with Odessa are exposed to great
risk, for a great many ships are at Odessa, taking in
cargoes of grain, which, in case of a breach with the
Porte, would not be able to continue their voyage ; and yet
the bills drawn fur the amount of invoices must be paid;
and, under such circumstances, no money would be ad-
vanced on the bills of lading, notwithstanding the insurance,
as is otherwise usual.

It is, therefore, much to be wished that all these alarms
may be soon dispelled by the receipt of more pacific news.
VIENNA, NOV. 10.
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Metailiques
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The following Notification has been addressed
by the Agents of LLOYD'S, at Bordeaux, to Mr.
,TOUN BENNETT, Secretary, relative to the new
line of packet ships fioin thence to Mexico.

BORDEAUX, NOV. 10.
Sir,—Referring to our letter of the 27th ult., in which
we acquainted you with the establishment of a line of mer-
cantile packets front this port to Vera Cruz, and to sail from
hence on the 20th of every month, we now beg to state
that it is officially announced by MM. le Directeur des
Porte, of this city, that they will touch at Martinique
and St. Domingo, and then proceed to Vera Cruz;
and Le Illexique, taking letters for those places, the
dostage of which is paid. At this information may use-
ful to the mercantile interests connected with the above,
we submit the expediency of your giving it publicity.
We are, Sir, yours, &c.
CUTLERS & WILSON.

A Learned Gentleman, named FRENCH,
thought proper to move the Court of King's
Bench, yesterday, for a criminal information
against us, on the assumption that an article
commenting upon the Learned Gentleman's
conduct at a late public meeting went, not only
to destroy his character, but to deprive him
of the means of subsistence. The Learned
Gentleman said that his family were thrown into
the greatest affliction, and for what ?—because
Mr. FRENCH'S attack upon the memory of Mr.
CANNING, was exposed in our columns as ri-
diculous—silly, and uncalled for. Why, does

the Learned Gentleman think that the field
of invective is to be left for his plea-
sure—that he is to be allowed the exercise
of his fine talents to assail the memory
of the illustrious dead, and to wound the an-
guished feelings of the living relatives and ad-
mirers of Mr. CANNING ? We had no inten-
tion whatever to wound the feelings of Mr.
FRENCH'S family---in fact we did not know that
he had any—but when a man comes forward in

public to denounce the character of others,
he ought to have some care for his own ; and
whatever touches the feelings of a man must
by sympathy extend to his friends. But we
deny the charge made by Mr. FRENCH,

that we insinuated he was disordered in
his intellect, and we think that he would have
proved its strength much better by taking no
notice of the article, than by adopting the ob-
noxious course pursued, to substantiate the
solidity of his intellect in a Court where the
exhibition must have been considered quite
superflous by his learned brethren. But there
is no accounting for tastes, any more than the
eccentricities of the human mind. We had
thought that Mr. FRENCH'S intellect was too
great to be affected by the paper bullets of the
brain, and that he would have rested satisfied
with taking in good humour a part of that cri-
tical observation which he delighted in bestow-
ing upon others—men who had ►merited the ap-
plause of their country, and who sunk to the
tomb lamented not only at home but abroad.
Does Mr. FRENCH think that he is to attack the

memory of great men with impunity ? Would
it not have been more praiseworthy—more
magnanimous to have abstained from attacking
Mr. CANNING'S memory at such a time and on
such an occasion? If he say that the character
of public men is public property, then surely,
the public censor ought to submit his
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Mr. CANNING.

MALTA, OCT. 22.—His Majesty's ship
Jasper, arrived here to-day, sailed from Chesme with 22
English vessels under convoy. On the 11 th inst., off
Scio, three Greek misticos efime from the shore, took in
tow the Elizabeth, Noctes, (she being about two miles
from the brig of war), and before assistance could be pro-
cured, she had got out her long-boat, laden it with fruit,
taken it on shore, returned, and laden it again with stores,
when the Jasper's boats came up and secured the boat.—
The Jasper called at Milo, and found lying there the
English brig Kitty, bound to Alexandria, which had been
plundered, and waited another opportunity for protection.

The Duke and Duchess of CLARENCE gave
a Grand Dinner on Wednesday, at their seat in Bushy
Park, to a numerous party of the Nobility and Gentry.
Their Royal Highnesses gave a Ball in the evening to a
numerous assemblage of the neighbouring Gentry.
The Duke of GLOUCESTER visited the Prin-
cess AUGUSTA yesterday, at her residence in the King's
Palace, St. James's.

The Duke of CLARENCE came to town yes-
terday morning from his residence in Bushy Park. His
Royal Highness held a Levee at the Admiralty as LORD
HIGH ADMIRA T., which was attended by a number of Flag
and other Naval Officers.

The Marquis of LANSDOWNE, Mr. TIERNEY,
and Mr. SruacEs BouttNE, visited the Earl of Dtinr.sv
yesterday at the Foreign Office, Downing-street.

Prince LIEvEN, the Russian Ambassador,
gave a grand Dinner yesterday, at Ashburnham House,
Dover-street, to the Duke of DEVONSHIRE, the Earl of
DUDLEY, and some of the Foreign Ambassadors and Mi-
nisters,

The CHANCELLOR Or the EXCHEQUER left
town yesterday, for his seat at Montreal.
A practising Barrister may plead his profes-
sion as an exemption from the office of Sheriff.—Wor-
cester Journal.
Mrs. CANNING and the Marquis and Mar-
chioness of CLANRICARDI are residing at Waresley Park,
in this county.—Dorset Chronicle.