The Sun.
London, England, 1827-10-31 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRENCH PAPERS.
(From the Moniteur.)
CONSTANTINOPLE, SEPT. 19.—The visit of the
Greek Patriarch to the Porte had been announced
on the 17th. On the 18th he went thither in grand
procession; having been introduced to the Kiaja
Bey, he presented to him 97 acts of submission. of
the towns and district of Rumelia, from Prevesa to
the Isthmus of Corinth and Thessaly.
These acts were signed and sealed by the Pri-,
mates, the Capitani, and the elders of the country,
who expressed on this their repentance of their re-
volt, implored the Patriarch's pardon for the excom-
munications which they had incurred, and declared
their firm resolution to live and die henceforth as
faithful Rajahs of the Sultan.
The Patriarch added, that the principles of the
religion which he professed ordered him to pardon,
and that he had now only to implore the clemency of
the Sublime Porte.
The Kiaja Bey, after having read. and verified
these several documents, which had been previously
translated into Turkish, replied—" The Divine law
commands us to spare him who submits. If an in-
fidel kills the son of a Mussulman, and asks pardon,
the father must pardon hirQ, even though he had the
lifeless body of his son before his eyes; in the same
manner, following the precepts of our holy religion,
the Sublime Potte grants forgiveness to all the
Greeks who had laid down their arms. You may
announce to them this good news, and increase in all
places the renown of the clemency of his Highness !"

It has been seen, that in taking this step, the head
of the Greek Church had yielded to the demand of
the Porte, which desired to have an opportunity to
give a proof of its moderation. At the close of his
audience, lie had humbly solicited the liberty of three
Bishops who were kept, as hostages ; these Prelates
were released the following day, as well as the Pri-
mates of the islands, who were also detained in the
residence of the Bostangi Bachi.
SEPT. 20.—The Patriarch has despatched two
Tartars to Romelia, to announce the pardon ; he has
written to the Bishops, and called on them to use
their influence to induce their flocks to submit.
It is said, that the Porte is going to recall all the
exiled Greeks.
It is affirmed, that Redschid Pacha is at Thebes,
in great danger, surrounded by his Albanians, who
demand their full pay, amounting to 7,000 purses.
Atta Effendi, who is still at Larissa, has joined him
in representing to the Porte his embarrassing situation.
A hatti-sheriff has just been published, by which
it is forbidden to engrave on ambas, boats, or on any
thing else, the stars and crescents which are the
badges of the officers of the new regular troops, in
order that these badges may preserve the respect due
to them.

(From the Gazette de France, dated Monday, Oct. 29.)
STUTGARD, OCT. 22.—Their Majesties returned
yesterday afternoon .from their excursion to Frank-
fort, to meet the Queen Dowager of Wurtemburg,
who left London on the 9th, arrived on the 14th,
after a dangerous voyage to Helvoetsluys, and on the
20th at Frankfort.
Her Majesty will be at Monrepo on the 24th.
(From the Journal des Defects.)
BUCHAREST, OCT. 10.—The Hospodars of the
two principalities have received the Sultan's orders
to furnish immediately an extraordinary contribution
of money, corn, horses, and hides. These requi-
sitions are so exorbitant, that it is almost impossible
to comply with them. In each principality a demand
is made for 20,000 lasts of corn, a million of piastres,
ten thousand oxen, thirty thousand sheep, six thou-
sand horses, and many millions of quintals of hides.
All this is to be carried, in the space of five weeks,
into the fortresses of the Danube. The inhabitants
of Walachia and Moldavia have already been almost
ruined by the troubles of 1821. The Boyards, who
lost large sums by their emigration, endeavoured to
recover them from their peasants after their return, and
they are farfrom being in a situation to satisfy the de-
mands of the Porte. All this has excited great dis-
content, especially in Moldavia, and it is to be feared
that the vicinage of the Russian troops may incline
the inhabitants to some culpable excesses.
(From the Quotidienne.)
VIENNA, OCT. 18.—The following is the sub-
stance of the petition which the primates of 12 in-
surgent districts of the Greek continent have ad-
dressed to the Patriarch of Constantinople :
" In throwing ourselves at the feet of your Holi-
ness, and praying the Most High that he may be
pleased, for the benefit of the Greek Church and for
our salvation, to grant you a long life and all happi-
ness, we, the undersigned primates of districts, set
forth, by the present humble petition, what follows:
" Since our country was conquered by the Otto-
man Emperors, and more particularly during the
reign of the present: Sultan, the Greeks have con-
stantly enjoyed tranquillity, welfare, and complete
prosperity, and remained constantly faithful in their
duty, as well towards the august Government as the
holy church, until the year 1821, when, as a punish-
ment from Heaven for our manifold sins, the pernici-
ous spirit of revolution penetrated hither, and carried
us away in its train, after having seduced the Capitani
of our provinces. It instigated us to raise the standard
of rebellion against our legitimate Monarch, and.
made us transgress the precepts of our holy religion.
" Since that period we have frequently intended to
return to our duty, and to repair, by repentance, our
unpardonable errors; but dread of our Capitani and
their partisans, who came from the Morea and the
Archipelago to oppress us, has always prevented us
from throwing off the yoke of these rebels; and thus
we have remained deprived of the benefits of our
Government, and excluded from the faithful flock of
which your Holiness is the spiritual guide. But •
since his Highness, our august Monarch, sent two
years ago his Excellency Redschid-Mahmed-Pacha,
Governor of Romelia, Janina, Delfino, and Malone,
into these countries in the character of Seraskier,
where he has, as well by his personal bravery as by
the magnanimity of his conduct, subdued the insur-
gent districts so completely, that the sedition is en-
tirely extinguished in Romelia, our provinces, repre-
sented by their primates, have determined, though
some more tardily than others, to rely op the inex-
haustible fountain of the grace of his Highness, our
most gracious Sovereign. We have implored am-
nesty and pardon for our past misdeeds, and have
been so fortunate as to have had our prayer granted
by his Excellency the Seraskier. Penetrated with
the most sincere gratitude, we have addressed to his
Excellency our humble thanks, and we pour forth
benedictions on our paternal Government.
" After the capture of the Acropolis of Athens,
and the occupation of the coasts and other positions
by the troops of his Excellency,—
secure of being no
longer incommoded by the rebels ceming from the
Morea and the isles,. to tyrannize over us,—and in
the persuasion that we should be recognized anew
by his Royal Highness as faithful subjects, we, fife
undersigned deputies from our districts, proceeded to
the camp of his Excellency the Seraskier at Thebes,
and made known to him the sufferings And the
wants of our provinces. We were received gra-
ciously, and in consequence of the measures adopted
in our districts by Mehmed-Redschid Pacha, we no
longer doubt that in a little time a still greater state
,of happiness than what we' formerly enjoyed will
arise in this country,—a benefit for which we shall
be indebted to the good order which his Excellency
the Seraskier maintains, and the justice which he
exercises there. In order the better to guarantee
our submission, as well to his Excellency the Seras-
kier as to his Highness our august Sovereign, until
the period, doubtless not far distant, when the
affairs of the More will acquire more consistency,
we, the undersigned, have given to his Excellency
our families as hostages, and our Capitani will follow
our example,
" But although this mutual convention guarantees
to us the return of our ancient prosperity, our con-
sciences, nevertheless, unceasingly reproach us for
having been averse from the salutary exhortations of
our church—a reproach which disturbs oar happi-
ness and tranquillity. It is thiS which has deter-

'LONDON,
WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 31, 1827,

Mr. SHADWELL is appointed to succeed Sir
ANTHONY HART as Vice-Chancellor.

The Paris Papers of Sunday, and the Gazette
de France dated Monday morning, which were
received last night, add but little to the intelli-
gence we published yesterday from Constan-
tinople to the 2d instant inclusive, which had
reached us through the German Papers. An
article in the Journal des Debats, dated •
charest, October 10, states that the Hospodars
of the two Principalities have received orders
from the SULTAN, to furnish immediately an
extraordinary contribution of money, corn, horses,
and hides. These requisitions are described to
be so exorbitant, that it is almost impossible to
comply with them. In each Principality the
demand amounts to 20,000 lasts of corn, a
million of piastres, 10,000 oxen, 30,000 sheep,
6,000 horses, and many millions of quintals of
hides ; and the whole of the requisition is to be
carried in the space of five weeks into the for-
tresses of the Danube. The measures resorted
to for complying with the demands are said to
have produced great discontent, particularly in
Moldavia. If any further proofs were wanting
of the determination of the PORTE to a vigorous
resistance, it would be furnished by these pre-
parations which are making on the northern
frontier of the empire ; and when such prepara-
tions for hostilities were going on, it is not sur-
prising that the SULTAN should temporize and
procrastinate the negotiations which were carry-
ing on in his Capital. The Moniteur of
Sunday contains, from the Austrian Observer,
a petition addressed by twelve Primates of
districts in Romelia to the Patriarch at Constan-
tinople, soliciting absolution for having rebelled
against the PORTE, and expressing gratitude for
the pardon which they had received from the
Seraskier. The Capitani had not joined in
the petition, but the Patriarch is said subse-
quently to have presented to the Kiaja Bey 97
acts of submission by Capitani and Primates.
The whole is considered a contrivance to afford
the PORTE an opportunity of making a display of
moderation. The intelligence from the interior
of Greece is unfavourable to the Turkish
arms. REDSCIIID PACHA is said to be at
I Thebes, in great' danger, and surrounded by