The Sun.
London, England, 1829-10-03 00:00:00

GREECE.

11413XPAT OF THE CO3I3IISSION 'et: WED WITH THE
EXA.HINATION Or THE LABOURS OF THE EXPEDI-

TION SENT TO GPtECE.

Mr. Geoeroy St. Hilaire reported, in the
name ,of the Commission charged with this ob-
ject, mpecting the operations of the Scientific
Commission sent to the Mora

This Commission, under the &ration of M.
Bory de St, Vincent, consisted of M. Virlet, for
mineralogy and geology ; M. Despreaux, for
botany ; M. Peetor, a physician ; and M. Brusle,
for zoology ; M. Delauny, for geography and
geology ; and M. Baccuet, who Was engaged to
design for all parties,
The voyage scanlong and difficult. It was
nearly the end "of the month of March before
the expedition saw the shores of Navarin. Af-
ter some days of necessary repose, our learned
travellers commenced the examination of the in-
tv:ior and exterior of the road of Navarin. The
Commission made a, report to the Ministry,
giving a description of the various kinds of shell
and other thh which are to be found in this road
and the stirthunding shores.
The expedition was aftetwards divided into
twu parties. MM. Pecter and Delauny were
appointed to explore the coast of Messenia, run-
till% from Mutton. M. Despreaux, who re-
mained ill at Navarin, was replaced by M. Pa-
naget, a young surgeon, to whom Marshal
Maison gave permission to join the expedition.
13ory St. Vincent, accompanied by MM.
Valet, Brusle, and Baccuet, explored the inte-
rior of the country, traversing mountains and
valleys hitherto little frequented by strangers.
All the travellers were instructed to take three
barometric elevations each day.
Throughout the journey our travellers found
the Greeks kind, hospitable, and humane, and
intelligent. They everywhere saw the French
received with respect and kindness.
The Greeks regularly precede their public wor-
ship by a prayer for the Royal Family of France.
The expedition took notice of the ruins of
several monuments of the highest antiquity. A
report of the 10th of May contains the details of
the observations.

In a second expose M. Bory de St. Vincent
gives an account of several new excursions, and
describes abundant collections, the produce of
the soil, which he is to forward to the Museum
of Natural History. The expedition, augmented
by a new member, M. Goguet de Bourlay, sent
out by the Minister of the Interior, was again
divided into two sections; the first embarked to
explore the coast, the second visited the interior
of lEtolia. The report points out a vast num-
ber of errors in the charts which we possess of
that coast. The expedition goes on to speak in
terms of self-gratulation on the favourable recep-
tion they continued to receive from the Greeks.
It speaks in the highest terms of their moral
character and intelligence.
" In Laconia, as well as in Messenia," says
M. Bory, " the French are the objects of the
most friendly dispositions on the part of the in-
habitants ; even in the small villages they do not
begin public worship without a general prayer
for the Royal Family of France.' " The man-
ners of the Mainotes," adds M. Bory, " have
interested us extremely. Their history will cer-
tainly form the most interesting part of our nar-
rative. We claim the honour of having been
the first among Europeans who penetrated
amongst the descendants of the Spartans, amongst
whom we found the manners of ancient times
modified by feudal customs, which are in spirit
those of the 13th century.
Laconia is susceptible of the greatest im-
provements ; the land there is extremely produc-
tive, though, from being badly managed, every
kind of agriculture and gardening are in a state
of infancy, and the fruits and herbage of all kinds
are of a very inferior quality. When it is con-
sidered that this defect may be remedied, and
that the unwholesomeness of the marshy lands
may be removed by bringing thither a consider.
able number of exotic plants, of which they do
not know even the name, it may be imagined
that even the least political commotion and the
smallest change in the usages of the country have
been of service to this part of Greece, and will
become beneficial to humanity."

The excess of labour, under an ardent sun,
was at length nearly fatal to some of the travel.
lers. M. Baccuet became dangerously ill, as did
-M. Virlet, whose zeal carried him too far. "On
our arrival at Monembasia," continues the Di-
rector of the expedition, " MM. Brusle and
Delauny, both so zealous for the objects of the
expedition, became also ill. Dr. Pector, who
was left behind from the maritime expedition,
vas unable to give any assistance to his col-
leagues. M. Saccharini, a young Bavarian
Doctor, who was attached to the Greek regular
troops, was sent expressly by the President to
Greece to give his aid to the expedition. The
invalids, who were convalescent at the de-
parture of the courier, were conducted by the
Director, M. Bory, on board a steam-boat, to
Tisio, an island of the Archipelago, about fif-
teen hours sail from the coast."

Very rich cdections were made during the
journey in Arcadia and Laconia, but as yet no-
thing has been sent to France.

The reporter concludes by an enumeration of
the scientific riches for which we are indebted
to the Commission. They are as numerous as
could be expected from a country known for so
long a period, but still imperfectly, so close to
our territory, and in a latitude so little different.

The Committee of the Institute gives the
highest credit to the zeal, activity, and profound
skill of the director of the expedition, as well as
to those of all its members. It mentions that it
was the authority which conceived the happy
idea of an expedition which brings so much
credit to France. The Academy of Sciences,
consulted on the choice of subjects, must ap-
plaud those to which the attention of the expe-
dition was directed.

M. Brongniart has, on his part, made a report
on two memoirs of M. Virlet, relative to the
geology of IVlessenia, and particularly of that of
the environs of Modon and Navarin.

SUICIDE.—A letter from Moulines states the
following case of suicide --On the 18th of September, a
deplorable event plunged a part of this city in the greatest
distress. The son of :NI. P—, merchant, Rue de
l'Horloge, a young man, about 17 or 18, deprived him-
self of existence almost in sight of his parents. It appears
the young man was employed in a commercial house in
Paris, and was induced to make away with some money
belonging to his patron. The sense of his fault, and the
impossibility of restoring the money, induced him to quit
Paris. Upon his unexpected return he importuned his
parents to advance him the sum necessary, but did not
communicate his offence. He renewed his application
without success, and solicited his mother., who was on the
point of calling for the final explanation from her son,
when she heard the report of fire-arms. She ran to the
spot where the piece was discharged, and beheld her son
extended on the pare, bathed in his blood. The unfor-
tunate youth bad blown out his brains with a pistol, which
he had brought loaded from Paris. A letter found in
his pocket explained the cause of his suicide.— Gazette de

LONDON,
SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 3, 1829.

We suppose that Monday will put an end to
the present uncertainty which prevails with re-
spect to the want of intelligence from the East.
We have for the last week been supplied ith
abundance of news, but it was deficient in the
main quality—authenticity. Reports of all kinds
are abroad, some for peace and some for war—
but the general impression is that the Russians
will manage to get to Constantinople in either
case. Their triumph will not be complete
without the capture or possession of the
great capital. That is the grand object of
Russian ambition, and General DIEBITSCH is

not likely to stop short in his career when within
view of the towers of Constantinople. If he
do, his moderation will be more magnanimous
than politicians give him credit for.
According to the last accounts, the 14th of
September was the final period fixed for the
ratification of the Treaty ; and by Monday, we
think it extremely probable that advices will be
received from Constantinople up to that date.

Frankfort Papers of the 26th September have
been received this morning. An article, under
date of Smyrna, gives a satirical, but correct,
version of the speech of the Greek President to
the National Assembly. The speech, the con-
duct, the hopes and fears, of the President are
all Russian. He is a political Jesuit, who has
adroitly contrived, through the moderate instiga-
tion of Russia, to get into power in Greece, and
the subsequent effect of his Government, or rather
mis-government, proves that he is grateful to one
party at the expence of the other.

The Governor of Smyrna has collected all the
disposable force in his power, and marched to
Constantinople, but his presence will be useless
there,—the crisis will be over before he can have
arrived :

MUNSTER, SEPT. 17.

A law suit, which has been pending here for seve-
ral years, and which, (rim its importance, has excited
universal attention, is at length decided. On the
30th September, 1821, Prince Emilius, of Bentheim-
Tecklenburg, presented a Memorial to the Tribunal
of the Province, in which he required that " Prince
Alexis, of Bentheim, should be sentenced to deliver
up to him, the plaintiff, the county of Steinfurt,
with all its dependencies, and the other ancient pos-
session of the family of Dentheim, situated in the
Prussian dominions, and also in the jurisdiction of
the Tribunal, &c.” The plaintiff grounded his claim
on a derogatory marriage, alleged to have been con-
tracted in 1661, and on a supposed com-
pact. By a sentence passed on the 23d August,
1825, by the Tribunal at Munster, the plaintiff's
claim was declared to be unfounded, and he was
adjudged to pay the costs. Prince Emilius having
appealed, obtained a decision in his favour on the
28[h August, 1827 ; against this the Prince of Ben-
theim appealed to the Supreme Tribunal at Berlin,
which decreed that the first sentence of 23d August,
1825, should be re-established. This sentence was
published here on the 11th, and arrived the same
day at Steinfurt, the residence of the Prince of Ben-
theim-Steinfurt, where the inhabitants expressed
their joy in the most unequivocal manner at this
agreeable news.

SMYRNA, AUG. 16.

he Co:wrier de Smyrna gives a letter from Ar-
gos, of the 3d inst., which says, " The speech of
the President, on opening the National Assembly,
may be reduced to the following phrase :—‘ Gentle-
men, I may, perhaps, allow you to busy yourselves
about certain affairs, but for the present you will let
me do every thing myself; and you will not forget
that the only use you are to make of your full
powers, is to put them into my hands.'
" The Assembly answered in the most complaisant
manner, and placed all the power in his hands, with
a degree of liberality of which the Danish history

Accounts received from New Yolk by the
last arrivals, state that a draft of 1,000 seamen
had been recently made there, from which num-
ber the crew of the United States ship Ohio,
fitting out for the Mediterranean station, is to
be selected. Owing to the great demand for
seamen in the mercantile service, the American
Government has laboured under considerable
embarrassment in procuring suitable seamen for
vessels of war.

It appears that there- are nine Banks in the
city of New York, which, according to their
own reports of February and March, 1828, have
together issued notes to the amount of 3,085,804
dollars, payable on demand in specie ; and that
the amount of specie in the Banks for the re-
demption thereof was only 945,829 dollars, be-
ing seven dollars in paper for one of specie.—
The Bank of the United States and branches,
22 in number, have issued notes to the amount
of 24,139,175 dollars, and have specie in the
Banks to the amount of 5,815,821 dollars.

Letters from Virginia, of the 28th of August,
state that the quantity of rain which has fallen
there exceeds any thing recollected by the
oldest inhabitants. Some of the rivulets were so
swollen as to carry away the houses on the banks,
and in 'l'aguier county the waters are said
to have risen 30 feet. The strong bridge at
Buckland, with its heavy stone abutments, was
carried away.

The Angostura Courier of the 13th of Sep-
tember states, that on the Tuesday night pre-
vious an incendiary attempt was made on the city
by setting fire to a lot of cotton, which was for-
tunately discovered in time, and the city saved
from destruction.

It appears that schooners employed in the
African Slave Trade from the island of Cuba,
enter the American ports ostensibly in distress
as vessels engaged in the gold and ivory com•
merce, and obtain such supplies as are wanted at
a cheaper rate in the United States than at
Cuba.

We have received advices from Davis's Straits,
with accounts of their fishery to the 23d Aug.,
which are of some importance. The following
is a statement of the success of the Hull vessels:—

Fish.

Abraham
Alfred
Andrew Merwel
Ariel
Brunswick l4
Comet 4
Cambrian 5
Dauntless 8
Dordon
Duncombe l4

Fish.

Eagle
Ellison clean
Everthorpe . .
Gilder 1 I
Harmony 4
Ingria
Isabella 7
Jane 7

Kiero
Kirkella 7
Laurel 5
Lee
Lord Wellington
Mary
North Briton ........ 9
Oxenhope 8
Progress
5wan....... lO
Venerable 4
Volunteer 7
William... . 6
William Tors ll
Zephyr ll

---
Total 236

The ships this season were all at the West
side of the Straits by the 20th of July, although
they had to go round by Melville Bay. On
their first getting to the West side there was
every prospect of a great fishery, but owing to
heavy gales of wind the land ice was broken up
and soon disappeared, together with the fish.
The Home Castle, of Leith, and the Jane, of
Aberdeen, were both lost in crossing Melville
Bay.

COUNTY FIRE OFFICE RETURNS.—We
are requested to state that all persons who in 1828, and
preceding years, had been seven years insured, may receive
their usual returns of Twenty per Cent., at the Office in
Regent-street, or from their respective Agents through
whom they insured.

The London Magazine is incorporated in
the New Monthly. We are requested to repeat this no-
tice, in consequence of an attempt to substitute another
Periodical in its place. The Number of the New Monthly
for October will be found unusually rich in original

HAY M AitKETS.—(A t per Load of 36 Trusses.)
ST. JAMES'S.
.

Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay
New Meadow Hay
Useful Old Ditto 3 3 3 15
Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay 3 18 4 15
Clover Hay 3 10 5 5
Oat Straw XI 18 to £2 2 1 Wheat Straw... 2 2 2 5
Supply good, and trade dull ; prices as last quoted.

SMITHFIELD.

Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay ..£2 8 to .£3 0
.

New Meadow Hay
30 3 5
Useful Old Ditto 3 7 3 14
Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay 3 14 4 10
Ch.ver Hay (extra fine)....£s 10... Generally
Oat Straw ...... LI IS to £2 0 I Wheat Straw 2 0 2 2
Supply good, trade very dull, and:prices as last quoted.

We are happy to state, that the weavers gene-
rally have this morning resumed their work.—Coventry
.Herald of yesterday.

Yesterday afternoon as a gentleman was driving,
a gig in Brunswick-place, the horse suddenly became res-
tive, and, refusing to turn, dashed right through the win-
dow of the fruit•shop at the top of Russell-street, with the
gig at his heels, and then fell down en his side in the shop.
The wheels alone remained outside. The horse was raised
and led out of the door-way of the shop, with little other
injury than a cut on the knee. The gentleman also for-
tunately escaped with only a slight cut in the hand.—
Bath He; ahl.

RA RA Avis.-We have see❑ a white grouse,
which Las been presented to the Natural History Society
of this town, by Mr. M'LEAN, surgeon, of Castledawson,
who shot it in the heath bog between Castledawson and
Tubbermore, county Derry. It was one of a pack of seven
or eight birds, all of which were of the common brown
plumage except itself. We have not heard of any of this
kind having been seen in this part of the country before,—
Belfast News Letter.

Last week Mrs. OXFORD, late Mrs. ALLEN,
of the Carriage Inn, Combe Down, received a ring, which
was stolen from her 12 years since, inclosed in a note from
the person who stole the ring !—Bath Herald.

A serious accident happened on Friday morn-
ing, about one o'clock, near Langloan. While Mr. Jacie-
sos's carts were proceeding on the road to Edinburgh, it
is supposed that the carter had fallen off his cart, and the
Edinburgh night mail coming forward some time after,
the coach ran over the body of the man. The coachman
perceiving something wrong, pulled up ; and on the guard
attempting to lift the body; the man's faithful dog, which
had been watching its master, seized the guard, and tore
his coat ; nor was it till the dog recognised some people
who came up, that it allowed the body to be lifted. The
unfortunate man was conveyed to his ow❑ house, and little
hope is entertained of his recovery.—Edinburgh Even-
ino Courant.