The Sun.
London, England, 1827-04-06 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRENCH PAPERS.
(Prom the Constitutionnel.)
"INQUIRY INSTITUTED BY THE CHAMBER OP PIERS.
" The Chamber no sooner rose, than a number of
citizens hastened to learn the result of the investiga-
tion which had been intrusted to the Grand Refer-
endary. The following are the facts we have col-
lected, and on them reliance may be placed :
" It is stated that the Chamber could not enter
on this important subject until four o'clock, in con-
sequence of the absence of the Duke de Doudeau-
ville, who was retained near the King. After the
arrival of the Noble Duke, the Marquis de Semon-
ville's report was read, and ordered to be printed.
We are assured, that in this report the Marquis,
after setting forth the present state of the regulations
for burials, reprobates with great energy and sensi-
bility the scandalous transaction which has roused
the indignation of all France; and that he expressed
regret at his not being present when the disorder
occurred, adding his conviction that he would have
been able to prevent the disgrace and confusion
which took place.
" We are also informed that the Duke de Dou-
deauville described the order with which the first
part of the ceremony was managed, the deep ab-
straction and sorrow of the students, and how he
was induced, on their pious solicitations, to grant
them permission to carry the body. He also stated,
that the King had ordered him to wait on the
Duchess Dowager de la Rochefaucault and her fa-
mily, to address to them his Majesty's profound
grief on account of this deplorable event.
" Baron Pasquier spoke with great force, and
made the culpable conduct of the police appear in
its true light.
" The Minister of the Interior spoke next After
paying an homage somewhat tardy to the illustrious
deceased, he exhausted his rhetoric in the justifica-
tion of the police. If we are rightly informed, his
apology made little impression, and was even heard
with disapprobation.
" The Duke de Praslin and the Marquis de Lally
concurred with Baron Pasquier; and the Duke de
Broglie replied victoriously to the apologetic argu-
ments of the Minister of the Interior.
" Finally, after two hours of animated discussion,
the Chamber resolved, on the motion of M. Leine,
to thank the Grand Referendary for his report, and,
as legal proceedings were instituted, to wait for the
result of the investigation before any further deci-
sion should be adopted. This resolution, if we may
believe the reports of the lobby, was agreed to with-
out opposition.
(From the Constitutionnel of Tuesday.)
CORFU, MARCH Io.—(Extract of a private let-
ter.)—After so much contradictory news, and the
terror the enemies of Greece inspired in us, by
spreading false reports that the citadel of Athens
had fallen into the hands of the Turks, we received
the official account of the complete defeat of Red-
schid Pacha. The Greeks had landed there 3,000
men, after occupying the port of the Pincus. The Se-
raskier had taken measures for reducing the Acro-
polis by famine. Considering the injury he might
receive to his plans, from this so important point, he
left 1,000 men in the town of Athens, and marched
against the Greeks in the Piraeus, at the head of
the remainder of his troops. He was repulsed by
them with great loss, and found himself compelled
to retreat; but, in the mean time, the garrison of
the Acropolis made a sortie, killed the Turks who
were in possession of the town, and destroyed the
intrenchments of the enemy's camp. The Greek
Generals Nicetas and Londos, who are from the
Morea, and Zavallas and C. Botzaris, who are Su-
liots, and all the brave warriors of Romelia, who are
in different parts of Attica, awaited with impatience
the moment for charging the enemy. At a given
signal from the Acropolis, they hastened from all
sides to the field of battle, and fell upon the enemy
with the greatest fury. The fire of the musketry
was very brisk at the beginning of the engagement ;•
and, after two hours' continuance, the enemy's can-
non was silenced, and the thunder of the bat-
teries from the Citadel roared in the ears of the
combatants. A panic seized the enemy, who took
to flight without knowing whither to go, as the
Greeks arrived in great numbers sword in hand, and
occupied all the avenues of the enemy's camp ; pre-
sently the fire slackened, and nothing was to be heard
but confused cries, which did not admit of distin-
guishing whether it proceeded from the conquerors
or conquered. Kioutaki, surrounded by some Turkish
cavalry, succeeded in opening a road for himself.—
Part of his troops followed close on his heels, whilst
the Greeks pursued him to the very gates of Thebes
in Baeotia.
On this (to the annals of Greece so memorable)
occasion all:the defenders of liberty behaved with
great gallantry and valour, of which no just idea can
be formed. A Macedonian of the name of Angelis,
a man of colossal stature, took two Turkish stand-
ards, after killing the standard bearers, who are
always selected from amongst the bravest and most
powerful men.
The foreign Philhellenes, who fight for the liberty
of Greece, were almost to a man engaged in this
battle, which proved so decisive of the fate of the
town dedicated to Minerva. Messrs. Hastings and
Gordon fired from' the deck of the Perseverance
steam-boat the first cannon-shot against the batteries
of Redschid-Pacha, which were situated in the port
of the Piraeus, and the Greek sailors made them-
selves finally masters of it, carabine in hand, under
the cover of a thick smoke, which enveloped the
sea coast. Colonel Fabvier, on his part, seized a
favourable opportunity to order a sortie, and to call,
by a signal previously agreed upon, the Greek
Generals.
Greece is, besides this, much indebted to the ge-
nerosity of Europe, for it is only by her bounty that
the Greeks were enabled to maintain and assertible
this large number of valiant warriors in Attica, who
have defeated and expelled the enemy who threat-
ened the independence of the whole nation.
The number of killed on both sides on the field of
battle is not yet known; but according to the
Turkish bulletin published at Prevesa, a town in the
possession of the Turks, it must be very consider-
able. That bulletin contains the following expres-
sionshich
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in Attica is unfounded. Theofficial letters from
the camp of Redschid Pacha announce that only
2,000 men of his troops were missing. It appears
that these heroes, in pursuing the apostates, have
missed their way to the rest of the invincible army
of the Prophet.'

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(Prom the Quotidienne.)( Our readers must have
perceived from our
Spanish correspondence, that there is a grand diplo-
of Madrid and Lisbon daily exchange couriers. His
made movement in the Peninsula. The Cabinets
couriersCathol have j
beenicMttestys despatched from Madrid to listers hold frequent Councils,
and after several of these meetings, extraordinary
dif-
ferent capitals in the north of Europe. We believe
we can perceive, through the mysterious veil which
still covers the affairs of the Peninsula, the cause of
this extraordinary movement, but we will hazard
nothing in this respect. We shall only observe that
the conflicting parties are not agreed. Spain has
set up just pretensions, which the Cabinets of the
Holy Alliance cannot fail to approve. There is,
therefore, room to hope that the Cabinet of Madrid
will not every where experience a denial of justice.
Meanwhile, the Spanish army which lines the fron-
tiers of Portugal, far from being dissolved, as some
Journals have asserted, is on the contrary receiving
a more vigorous organization, which will every day
render it more imposing. But what we wish chiefly
and the nation are closely united in
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to point out is, that in this dispute the Spanish
Government
sentiments—a circumstance the more
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worthy of being remarked, as such a union nowhere
else exists.

(From the Pilots of Tuesday, April 3.)
PARIS, APRIL 2.--" The King, with his charac-
teristic sensibility, has ordered one of his Ministers
to express to the fstnily of Rochefoucault, which is