The Sun.
London, England, 1829-07-20 00:00:00

SURRENDER OF SILISTRIA.

Silistria surrendered on the 30th June. We
had been prepared for this ever since the defeat
of the GRAND VIZIER,, whose imprudent con-
duct, in suffering himself to be attacked in the
field, has not only accelerated the fall of Silistria
but will endanger the safety of all the other for-
tresses on the Danube, not excepting even Wid-
din. The garrison of Silistria consisted of 8,000
men, who, with 10,000 armed inhabitants, capi-
tulated, and are prisoners of war. The surren-
der of this fortress must prove highly important
in its consequences. The campaign is now en-
tirely in favour of the Russians, who have ac-
quired a disposable force of perhaps 50,000
men for besieging Shumla, or for marching on
Adrianople, The arrival of English and French
Ambassadors at Constantinople, may, however,
extricate the Turks from their perilous situation,
by staying the march of the invader. The news
of the GRAND VIZIER'S defeat was known at
Constantinople, and naturally produced a great
sensation among the higher orders, to whom it
was confined by the manoeuvres of the SULTAN.

Letters from Mayence give authentic intelli-
gence of the Governments of Prussia and the
low countries having come to an understanding
respecting the navigation of the Rhine, and that
Prussia had ratified the project of free navigation,
modified in some points by the low countries.
It is added that the King of PRUSSIA would
visit his Rhenish provinces in the autumn, a►,d
announce in person the concessions he had made
in this navigation.

Letters from Havannah to the 3d ult. state,
that an additional duty had been laid on
Spanish flour, imported in foreign bottoms, of
five dollars per barrel, which was to go into im-
mediate effect. It was expected an embargo
would be laid on the vessels hi the harbour.

German Papers of the 12th and 13th inst.
have been received this morning. They contain
an article from the frontiers of Moldavia, descrip-
tive of a movement by the PACIIA of WIDDIN
to reconnoitre the strength and position ref the
Russians near, and at Rachova. The Russian
advanced posts fell back, but the PACHA did not
venture to come to blows. The conduct of flys-
SEIN PACHA in surrendering Rachova is cen-
sured, but we think, with little justice :—he did
not surrender, but was overpowered. The PACHA
of WIDDIN had better look to himself, now
that Silistria has fallen, for it may be his turn
next. The heat of the weather has increased
the sickness in the provinces :

FRONTIERS OF MOLDAVIA, JUNE 29.—According to
accounts from Little Wallachia, the Pacha of Widdin,
after the occupation of Rachova by the corps of Gene-
ral Geismar, undertook a great reconnoisance towards that
place, in which he fell in with a division of Russian
cavalry. The Russians fell back to their posit;on at
Rachova (or Orchawa), and the Turks did not attempt
any thing farther. It is affirmed that if the Turkish gar-
rison had done its duty, and the Governor had shewn a

little more resolution in its defence, General Geismar
would hardly have succeeded in obtaining a firm footing
on the right bank of the Danube, as the Pacha of Nicopolis
was on the point of coming to the relief of Rachova. Se-
veral ships, laden with corn, coming from Belgrade, have
been set fire to by the Russians with Congreve rockets.
FRONTIERS OF WALLACHIA, JUNE 30. —Notwithstand-
ing the bad weather and the overflowing of the Danube,
and the frequent sallies of the Turks, the siege of Silistria
was so far advanced that the fill of the fortress was shortly
expected. Up to the 27th, no further news was received
at Bucharest from the army of General Diebitsch.
BUCHAREST, JUNE 23.—Within these five days the
sickness has increased in an alarming manner in conse-
, quence of the hot weather. We are threatened with a
general
.desertion of the city, as all the richer inhabitants
were withdrawing towards Transylvania; the alarm daily

becomes greater. It is reported that Russia will establish
another sanitary cordon on the Pruth.
ODESSA, JUNE 25.---An expedition of 2,500 men,
prepared at Sebastopol and destined fur Sizeboli, has re-
ceived another destination, on account of unexpected
events from Asia, at,rl is now about to join the army of
General Paskewitsch. The measures taken by the Go-
vernment to prevent the extension of the plague, have
calmed a little the minds of the people, but every thing
conspires to render our commercial situation extremely bad.

Considerable agitation is said to have been
noticed fur several days past in the Saloons of
Paris, from the circumstance of an Address to
the KING being in preparation, cautioning his
MAJESTY of the danger which surrounds his
throne. What clanger is not mentioned.

We have Barbadocs Papers to the 20th of
June, this morning. Copious and abundant
showers had relieved the apprehensions of the
Planters, and the weather had changed most
favourably.

Letters from Lima state that the late pro-
hibitory decree of the Peruvian Government had
been carried into effect, and that an American
ship which had touched there had been prevented
landing her prohibited articles.

The letters from Madrid, of the Gth instant,
state that Count D'OFALIA was to arrive at
Pais on the 22d instant. Gen. VIGODEL,
condemned to death for having been named
Regent by the Cortes at Seville, had arrived at
Marseilles from Gibraltar.

We copy the following paragraph from a
Morning Paper:—

" SWAN 11 IYER• —The Gilmore, Captain GEA RY,
chartered by Mr. THOMAS PEEL, proceeded down the
Thames on Saturday, on her way to the Swan River.
She left St. Katherine's Dock on Friday. All the neces-
sary articles for bringing into cultivation the land granted
to Mr. PEEL had been placed on board, with live stock,
&c. The Gilmore is a ship of 500 tons burden. Mr.
PEEL and his wife and family will, it is understood, join
the vessel at Plymouth. Among the passengers already
on hoard are Captain Mraits and Mr. POTTER, who have
grants of land at the intended settlement. The Hoogliley,
another ship chartered by Mr. PEEL, will be ready to
quit the Thames in a few days. It is sJi,l that several
persons of considerable property intend to emigrate to the
Swan River, and among them a large landed proprietor of
Sussex."

This is the very identical vessel which an
Evening Paper falsely represented as having
formed the subject of a Cabinet Council, at
which it was determined not only to prevent her
sailing, but to break up the whole arrangements
for the settlement of a colony on the Swan
River. The fdsehood obtained ready circulation
among that class of Papers for which it was in-
tended, and even formed the subject of many a
veracious leading article ! The poor scribblers
must be sadly put to it for facts, when they have
recourse to such lame and impotent inventions_
But they will have their reward in due time,—if
not on the banks of Swan River, perhaps on the
classic borders of the Macquarrie I

The accounts from the North of Ireland are
in the highest degree alarming. Lives have
there been endangered ; murders and every spe-
cies of ruffian enormity committed—and, we
regret to say, with impunity—by the Cumber-
land Brunswickers. How long, pray, is Ireland
to groan under the bondage of these solecisms
in society and civilization ? Already they have
placed her fairest provinces in a state of the most
abject vassalage ; already they have done all in
their power to raise her character high in the
annals of barbarism ; and now they seek to con-
vince the world that there can be no hope left
for Ireland except in the wholesale extermination
of the Catholics. We protest, when we read the
sickening accounts with which the Times of
this morning has abundantly furnished us,
we imagine ourselves transported back to the
days of the Saint Bartholomew massacre. We
fancy we can discern, in tin conduct of the
Orangemen of the present age, an ambition of
rivalling the infamies of the Catholics of the
past. But can this system continue ? Impos-
sible ; the Government must look to it, and that
promptly—effectually—they must put down with
a stern unsparing hand—and they will have the
prayers of every good man in the community Of
either Kingdom to second them— this
odious,
unnatural, and blood-thirsty Orange ascendancy.
They must crush the hydra, even though it have
a thousand heads. They must dismember the
dragon, even though armed men may spring up
from its scattered teeth.

Mr. SIIEIL has published, in the Dublin
Evening Post, a long and elaborate defence of
his conduct in accepting a retainer of 300 guineas
from Lord GEORGE BERESFORD. The chief
object of this epistolary vindication is to prove,
that in acting as he has done, he has acted in
strict accordance with the dictates of common
sense and liberal sentiment. Emancipation once
gained—the past, he says, should be forgotten.
Liberality should succeed intolerance, and the
waters of Lethe be drank alike by Catholic and
Protestant. His vindication is, we think, suc-
cessful ; he has fully redeemed his character from
the aspersions which ignorance or prejudice may
have cast on it, and in accepting a retainer from
the BERESFORD family, has done nothing but
what every man of sense would have done under
similar circumstances. He has compromised,
he asserts, no political opinions by it. What
more has Ireland a right to expect from him ?

As a curious instance of the multiplicity of
law proceedings which will sometimes accom-
pany a contested Bankruptcy, we are credibly
informed that, during the five years already

elapsed since the suspension of payments of
Messrs. CHAMBERS, no less than fifty actions
in Law and Equity have arisen.

Is this the way, we beg leave to ask, to satisfy
the claims of creditors, and whether, if a little
moderation and temper had only been observed
by both parties in the outset, the estate would
not have been spared the mass of litigation in
which it is at present involved ?

The despatches brought by an Italian Mes-
senger yesterday to the Foreign Office, were not
from Constantinople, as stated in the Court
Circular, but from Smyrna, dated the 9th of
June.

Despatches were received this morning from
Lord STUART DE ROTHSAY at Paris, and Sir
CHARLES BAGOT at Brussels.

At the Colonial Office despatches have this
morning been received from Major-General
GRANT, at Trinidad, dated June 7 ; and from
Lieut.-Colonel G. IL COLE, Governor of the
Cape of Good Hope, dated the Ist of May.
We understand that they relate only to matters
of a local nature connected with the Colonies.

We understand that an Assistant Surgeoncy
in the service of the East India Company has,
in consequence of the resignation of the gentle-
man to whom Mr. C. WYNN gave it last year,
reverted to his nomination, and that the Right
Hon. Gentleman has, in the most handsome
manner, placed this appointment at the disposal
of the Council of the London University, if
they will undertake the task of adjudging it to the
candidate whom they shall, upon examination,
deem to be most meritorious.— Times.

The Treasurer of the Ordnance has at length
found his way back to town, from his confiden-
tial mission to Ireland. Report whispers that
his services arc required nearer home to conduct
a delicate negociation at present in embryo.
We shall be much surprised, if, before the close
of the present week, he does not pay a friendly
visit to 310 riling Chronicle.

As a proof of the unexampled and, we will
add, unfair eagerness that exists in certain quar-
ters, to throw peculiar obloquy upon a certain
Individual, it is positively affirmed that great
efforts are making in the City to procure signa-
tures to a Round Robin, declaratory of a want
of confidence in the existing Order of things, so
long as the Individual in question continues to
hold an efficient office in the Administration.—
The probability is that this attempt will prove
abortive ; but the simple circumstance of its
having entered into the hands of the Wise Men
of the East is too remarkable to be passed with-
out notice.—Morning Chronicle.