The Sun.
London, England, 1827-12-25 00:00:00

ing are extracts :

FitAracyoar, lac. 11.

We find iu public journals the following article, dated
from Hanover :—The affairi of the Privy Counsellor, Von
Schmidt Phiseldeck, formerly in the service of Brunswick,
and now of Hanover, and the proceedings of the two Go-
vernments relative to it, have become of .more importance,
and this remarkable affair is now submitted to the public
opinion in a work drawn up by the Hanoverian Minister,
Count Munster, by the command of the King of England,
accompanied with numerous documents and original letters
of the Monarchs and Ministers of England, Austria, and
Prussia. The Duke of Brunswick, both in a pamphlet
published and distributed at the German Courts,• and in an
intended memorial to the Diet of the Gehitan confederation,
charged not only the Privy Counsellor, Von Schmidt
Phiseldeck, but in general those persons who were in-
trusted by the King of England with the Government of
the Duchy of Brunswick during the minority, with
crimes which could not probably have been committed
without the knowledge of the King himself. The Duke
has affirmed that a plan was deliberately pursued to render
him, by his education, unfit both in body and mind for
the cares of Government; that the guardianekip of. his
country was illegally prolonged ; that in the course of it
several of his sovereign rights were unjustly alienated; and
that no account has been given him :of the administration
of his country, or of his private. property, during his mi-
nority, Rae.
The above-mentioned work of Count Munster refutes
these accusations singly and in detail, with the communi-
cation of the above-mentioned original documents. The
reasons given by Count Munster for making public an
affair which otherwise should have been confined to the
Cabinets, are too important to the history of our times not
to be quoted here. "The Duke," says Count Munster,
" entertains a belief that his rank' as an independent
Pripet: protects him from t;:e consequences of his conduet,
but he appears to forget that a thing is here at stake which
must be equally dear to the great. Sovereign as to the
meanest subject—the preservation of his good name.—
That the one, as.well as the other, is bound to preserve that
purity of honour which, as a celebrated writer* expresses
it, regards every spot as a mortal wound, and that the
accusation which is found to be false recoils upon the
author.' The authority which his. rank •as Duke gives
hire, might in future times injure thereputationT of those
whom he accuses, nay,. even the sacred name of the King
Might suffer through the credulity of men, with regard to
the most groundless accusations, and by -the malice of a
race to which he will not have been known. For these
reasons the King has commanded me to .refute the pam
phlet of his Highness."

• , • iftins-Tv, DEC. 11.
Yesterday we received the information that the Greeks
had again plundered three Austrian merchantmen; and
even in the Gult; a pirate, which lay in wait for the
packet-boat from Corfu, came off very badly. It mistook,
the Austrian sloop of war, commando! by: 'l!aptiiii,
Dabinovicb, for the packet-boat, and attacked it, but TV-Lis
burnt by three Cougreve rockets. • Its crew consisted of
100 men ; 'were drowned. 'Six, who' attempted to
escape in the boat, were taken prisoneral)y the boat of the
sloop. They are two Genoese, one Dalmatian, and three
Greeks. We long for nothing so much here as that tha
scandalous system of piracy may be put an end to.

VIENNA, bSC. 12.

Yesterday a Russian courier from St. Petersburgh ar-
rived here, who after a short stay, proceeded on his journey
to Ancona. He carries to the three Commanders of the
combined squadrons in the Meditetranean the insignia of
the Russian orders conferred upon them by his Majesty the

Emperor.
VIENNA, DEC. 12..-141eta11iques 90 1-16 ; Bank
Shares 1,064.

FROM THE DANUBE, DEC. 12.

The latest accounts or rather reports that we have here,
respecting the affairs from Constantinople, are again fa-
vourable. The Porte, it is said, has consented on the re-
peated representations of the Ambassadors of Austria and
Prussia, to an armistice for some months. Meantime a
congress will meet at Ofen, in Hungary, where under the
mediation of all the European Powers,' the object of the
treaty of London, of July 6, will be distuised and defini-
tively arranged with the concurrence of the Porte. Yhese
statements certainly have an rTpearapos of great probabi.
lit). But it must not he forgot. that at the present mo-
ment speculation iv particularly active, and exerts all its
ingenuity to produce new auctuations in the several
markets in Europe, suitable to the views of the speculators.
Ferrand, Esprit de l'Histoire.

Advices from Paris state that'the fort of Scio
still remained, at the date of the latest accounts,
in the hands of the Turks. Forty vessels had
left Smyrna under an escort of three Austrian
ships of war.

THE FUNDS-(THIS DAY).

CITY, •oms 0. CLocr.

In consequence of the festivity•of Christmas, the
Bank, Royal Exchange, Stock Exchange, and other
places of resort in the City, are shut to-day ; and
scarcely a business face is to be seen within a mile of
'Change-alley. The anathemas of the LORD MAYOR
against drunkenness within his Lordship's precincts,
will fall inoccuous against the 'disciples of fun in
the Stock Exchange, who have very properly aban-
doned, for this day, the vicinity of his Lordship's
residence, for those rustic retreats where free from
the din and bustle of Consols they may enjoy unre-
strained festivity, and discuss the affairs of TUMMY
without annoyance. , • .
In this state of things-. we have, been unable to
find a Jobber who can tell us 'the price of STOCKS.
The few wbo.ditl appear in the morning seemed ap-
prehensive ; of• not being considered in their sober
senses if they'rexnained during th'e• hours of divine
service, and sculked off:without doing a bargain, for
fear of being kicked up in.the only •STocics,open to-
day, namely, those under the controul of the worthy
Chief Magistrate. - •

The state of affairs in the Eest will render the
Christmas Bird this year a source 'of endless jokes to the
punster. Many a one. will he for: deitriving Turkey of;a
wing—others will carve out its whets substance among
themselves--the pinions • and the Wier' will be a source of
amusement to many—while but a few will be for con-
signing great part of it tb....the Devi/.