The Sun.
London, England, 1829-12-19 00:00:00

LONDON,
SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 19, 1829.

Despatches were received at the Colonial
Office this morning from Lieut.-General Sir C.
COLVILLE, Governor of the Mauritius. These
despatches are dated the 4th Sept.

The following are extracts from Frankfort
and other papers :

GOTHA, DEC. 7,

The opening of our Diet, the first since the union
of the territory of Gotha with that of Coburg, took
place yesterday. The nsembers of the estates first
attended his Serene Highness the Duke to the Court
chapel, where Dr. Bretschneider delivered a suitable
discourse, after which the estates assembled in the
grand hall of the Ducal Palace, where the Dnke
being seated on the throne, M. de Carlowitz opened
the Session with a speech, in which he gave a state-
ment of the measures that had been adopted by the
Duke since the union of the two duchies. His High-
ness, be said, had done his utmost to carry into effect
the assurance he had given that his new subjects*
should enjoy the same protection and paternal care
that were the bases of the happiness of his old sub-
jects. After acquainting himself with the state of
the country in every respect, his Highness has taken,
in all branches of the administration, the measures
that were most called for. Commercial conventions
have been concluded with the neighbouring States;
new roads have been made, and the principal ob-
stacles to the improvement of manufactures in the
interior have been removed by judicious regulations.
his Highness has devoted the most serious regard
to the situation of the distressed part of the com-
munity; the greater part of the disbursements of the
Crown are designed to afford profitable employment;
persons of all classes have constantly hal free access
to his Highness; no well founded complaint had
been overlooked ; and no petition of an unfortunate
persorihaS been left unconsidered. Accordingly his
Highness, now that he appears for the first time in
the estates of the Duchy of Gotha, has the satisfac-
tion of knowing that the greater part of his subjects
look upon him as a prince who is really the father 0'
his people.

FRANKFORT, DEC.

On the 2d inst. died at Vienna, at the age of 78
years, his Excellency Baron Von Sturmer, who had
served the Imperial House of Austria, chiefly in the
diplomatic line, for above 50 years.
BUCHAREST, NOV. 20.

As soon as the Pdcha of Ghiurgevo had given
up the place to the Russians, the corps of General
Kisseleff, that was at Gabrova and before Sophia,
began its movement to repass the Danube. Gen.
Kisseleff was to cross it yesterday at Sistowa' and
the right wing under Gen. Geismar at Rachova.
The 3d corps which was before Shumla, is already
in motion, and its van-guard has crossed the Danube
at Kullarasch. The 2d corps under Gen. Pithier',
coming from Adrianople, has already passed the
Balkan, and will cross the Danube at Satounow.
The head-quarters of Count Diebitset are moved
to Selimno.

• 'The reader will remember that, en the death of the
late Duke of Saxe Gotha and Altenburg, thtt branch of
the Saxon houses became extinct, in consequence of which
the duchy of Saxe Gotha and the prix cipality of Alten-
burg were divided among the Dukes of Saxe Coburg,
Saxe Aleiningen, and Saxe Hildburg,hausen, Gotha was
assigned to the Dukes of Coburg.

Our Paris Correspondent says, " As a sequel
to my communication of yesterday, on the sub-
ject of the proceedings of the Government of
the Netherlands, you will see that a project of
a new law has appeared for the purpose of re•
straining the liberty of the Press, accompanied
by a Royal Message of rather an extraordinary
, character. The project is introduced by a de-