The Sun.
London, England, 1829-10-26 00:00:00

FOUR YEARS IN SOUTHERN AFRICA

changed.

The volume under this title, just ready for publication,
will comprise, we understand, an account of the improved
conditi:sn of the Settler* at Graham's Town, and of the
state of Society at the Cape, &c. with descriptions of the
wild and picturesque scenery of Southern Africa. Name-
-011.4 characteristic sketches and anecdotes will be introduced
of the Kaffers, the Hottentots, &c. The work will like-
wise exhibit a very animated picture of the mode of bunt-
ing the elephant, the tiger, the hippopotamus, the rhino-
ceros, the buffalo, Sic. and will include a variety of de-
tails entirely new to the. English reader.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRENCH PAPERS.

(From the Monitcur of Friday—Non-official part.)
PARIS, OcT. 22.—The Government has decided
that the Portuguese refugees, to the number of more
than GOO, in the departments of Ile et Villaine and
of La Mayenne, shall have the permission to pro-
ceed to Ostend, which the Marquis de Palmella
had asked for them.
The daily allowances which the State had as-
signed to them will continue to be paid to them till
:he day of their embarkation.
On setting out from their depots for the ports
from which they are to sail) the subalterns and
soldiers hare received shoes and other articles of
clothing, of which they were in want, all taken from
the magazines of the state.
At the moment when these refugees quit France
they will receive a mouth's amount of the pay which
has been assigned to them : each dicer, therefore,
I will receive 90 francs from the Royal Exchequer.
His Majesty's vessels are ready to escort the trans-
ports which will convey these refugees to Ostend.
The commanders have received orders to repel any
attack from whatever quarter it may come, which
may be made upon the ships in which the Portu-
gue,=e shall be embarked. It is scarcely necessary
to add, that no vessel of the Portuguese squadron
has appeared in the channel.
Such is the truth on this subject, so shamefully
disfigured in the Journal des Debats of the 21st of
October.

(From the Messager des Chambres of Frid iy.)
SECOND EDITION.

PARIS, OCT. 23.-0 n e of our subscribers has
communicated to us a letter, lately arrived from
the Havannah, which contains the following de-
tails, which we believe we may guarantee as authen-

" The Isle of Cuba is in a state of effervescence
difficult to be described. It would need but a spark
to kindle a vast conflagration.
" The report which circulates here, and which
continues to gain ground, is, that General Santa
Anna has destroyed the 3,300 men who occupied
Tampico."
FRENCH FUNDS.—Five per Cents., IoBf. 50c. 55c.
50c. 35c. ; Three per Cents., 82f. 60c. 55c. 60c. 35c. ;
Bank Stock, 1,865 f. ; Naples Stock, 89f. '7oc. ; Royal
Spanish Loan, 77i. Exchange on London, one month,
26f. 65c. ; three months, 25f. 50c.

BRUSSELS AND GERMAN PAPERS.
BRUSSELS, OCT. 23.—The Augsburg Gazette
says, it has received, in the original language (the
French), the treaty of peace, which it publishes in
that language, in an extraordinary supplement to its
number of the 17th of October, and in a German
translation in the number of October 18. After the

Gil► article we observe that this document contains

the following paragraph, which we do not find in
the English given by the Courier :
" The present treaty of peace, containing sixteen
articles, and which shall be completed by the ex-
change of the respective ratifications, within the
time stipulated, has been signed and sealed by us,
by virtue of our full powers, and excharged for ano-
ther of the same tenour, signed by the above-men-

tioned plenipotentiaries of the Sublime Ottoman
Porte, and furnished with their seals."
The Plenipotentiaries of the two contracting par-
ties were,
" On the part of the Imperial Court of ltussia,
the most Excellent and Honourable Count Alexis

Orloff, &e.; and Count Frederick Pahlen, &c.; and
on the part of his Majesty the Emperor of the Otto-
mans, the most Excellent and Honourable Mehemcd
Sadick Effendi, actual Grand Defterdar of the Su •
blime Ottoman Porte, and Abdul nadir Bey, Cazi
Asker of Anatolia."

SEMLIN, Our. 4.—Letters from Salonichi, of the
14th of September, say that a Russian corps had ap-
peared before Cavalla, and taken possession of it,
after having dispersed or token prisoners 1,500
Turks who were stationed there. The Turkish
Governor, Ibrahim Pacha, and the son of the Pacha
of Salonichi, were among the prisoners.
VIENNA, OCT. IC—Commercial letters from
Semlin say, that the Sultan has ratified the treaty,
and sent the ratification to Adrianople to be ex-

The publication of a batti scheriff was
- . 1,

immediately expected, granting an amnesty to all
persons who, during the late, clients, have excited
the displeasure of the Govertirpent ; and also the
appointment of Commissioneraitp negotiate respect-
ing the emancipation of Greece. In the printing-
office of the Kiaja Bey, a finnan. was in the press,
restoring the Servians to thtsir ancient rights, and
adding to the kingdom of Servia the six districts
which were to be annexed to it according to the
treaty of Akermann. It was also reported that great
changes would he made in the Sultan's household,
and in the Administration ; and that the Sultan
would appoint a Commissioner to put an end to the
embarrassments which late events have caused in the
internal administration of the empire, and especially
to find means to pay the contributions, and to defray
the charges of the Imperial household. Meantime the
Sultan has the greatest confidence in the generous
sentiments of his Majesty the Emperor of Russia,
and hopes to obtain some reduction in the amount,
which he has been led to hope for by a power that

possesses great influence.
BERLIN, OCT. 15.—Prince Trubetzkoi, Aide-de-
Camp to the Emperor of Russia, has arrived here
from St. Petersburgh, to testify to our Court the
gratitude of his Sovereign for the co-operation of
Pi ussia in the restoration of peace.
General Muffling has received the Order of St.
Vladimir of the first class.

BRUSSELS, OCT. 23.--The Augsburg Gazette
publishes the beginning of a " Plan of a Convention
between the Governments of the States on the
banks of the Rhine, and of a code of regulations for
the navigation for that river."
The substance of the fist article of this convention
(which was proposed by the Commissioner of the
Netherlands in the sittin ); of the Committee at
Mannheim, the 19th of August), is, " That the
navigation of the Rhine, frJm the point where it be-
comes navigable, to the sea, both up and down the
stream, is perfectly free, awl cannot be prohibited to
any body for the purposes of trade.—Brussels Papers,
Oct. 24.
CONSTANTINOPLE, SEPT. 25.—The Sultan has
resolved to send an extraordinary Embassy to St.
Petersburg!), for the purpose, which has been offi-
cially announced, of obtaining from the Emperor of
Russia a modification of the terms of peace, espe-
cially a shortening of the term of the military occu-
pation of some of the provinces, and a diminution of
the indemnities. Held Pacha, the adopted son of
the Seraskier Chosrew -Pacha, Commander-in-chief
of the regular troops, at the head of which he re-
peatedly distinguished himself during the late war,
is appointed to this mission, and will be the bearer
of an autograph letter from the Sultan to the Em-
peror Nicholas. He will embark in a few days with
a numerous and splendid suite, on board a Turkish
frigate, for Odessa, whence he will proceed to the
Russian capital. It is said that the Sultan will offer
to the Emperor of Russia to return the Russian fri-
gate the Raphael, the Captain of which, soon after
he was set at liberty, was brought before a court
martial at Bourgas. The ratifications of the treaty
concluded on the 14th are now being drawn up, and
as soon as they are exchanged, Colonel Von Du-
hamet, in the Russian service, who is now here, will
go to Erzeroum, to carry the news to General
Paskewitch.
All the Russian prisoners of war are already at
liberty,, and will be immediately embarked on board
Austrian and Sardinian ships, and sent to Bourgas,
Sizeboli, and Odessa.
Immediately after the exchange of the ratifications
the Porte will give firmans for the Black Sea, and a
great number of ships of all nations are getting
ready to sail with the first fair wind.
In the capital the most perfect tranquillity pre-
vails ; and however burdensome the fulfillment of
the terms of the treaty may prove to the Porte, the
satisfaction at the conclusion of peace, and the end

LONDON,
MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 26, 1829.

By the Hamburg Reporter, of the 20th inst.
we have received a copy of the Separate Treaty
entered into by the Russian and Turkish Ple-
nipotentiaries, respecting the principalities of

Moldavia and Wallachia, but the principal Treaty,
that of Turkish indemnity and the duration of
Russian possession, is yet wanting. The pre-

sent Treaty contains nothing particular, besidea
what we were previously acquainted with. The
Hospodars " shall not, as formerly, be limited
to seven years, but they shall be invested with
their dignity for life." They are to administer
the internal Government of their provinces with
the assistance of their Divan, according to
their own pleasure, but subject to so many stipu-
-1 lations as to render their power, though inde-

pendent of the PORTE, yet clearly amenable to
Russia. The Turkish fortifications on the left

bank of the Danube are never to be repaired,
but all the Turkish cities on that side are to be
ceded for ever and annexed to Wallachia. Ma-
hometans possessing landed or other property on
the left bank are to sell the same within 18
months, and no Mahometan is ever to be allowed
to settle in the Principalities, so that the Turkish
power is completely cut off. The PoRTE re-
nounces its right to contributions of provi-
sion for Constantinople or the fortresses on the
Danube, but is to receive in lieu thereof
yearly a pecuniary indemnity, the amount of
which is to be hereafter determined—that is
never. But the best part of the treaty is that

the yearly tribute is not to be exacted by the
PoRTE for the space of two years, to be rec-
konedfrom the day of the total evacuation of
the Principalities by the Russian troops !
When that (lay is to arrive we are not told,—
But the SULTAN will find it to be
" The gay to. morrow of the mind
" Which never comes."
Nor is this all—the SULTAN is made to be
generous whether he will or not. He thinks of
nothing but the prosperity of the Principalities ;
witness the following:—
" Finally, the SUBLIME PORTE, animated by
the wish to secure in every possible way the fu-
ture prosperity of the Principalities, binds itself
to confirm every admznistrative measure which,
during their occupation by the Russian army,
may have been decreed in conformity to a wish
expressed in the assemblies of the principal in•
habitants of the country, such decrees serving

thenceforward as the basis of the internal ad-
ministration of those provinces, provided always
that such decrees do not in any way infringe
upon the rights of Sovereignty vested in the
SUBLIME PORTE."
Now the last " provided" is altogether unne-
cessary, for the power of the PORTZ is com-
pletely set at nought by the whole spirit and
tenour of the treaty. But why does Russia
insult common sense by such a treaty ? Would
it not be better at once to avow that she has
possession of the Principalities and means to keep
it ? Such avowal would be honourable, and
might be defended upon the principle of the
rights of conquest—but it would not be so cha-
racteristic of Russian policy, nor so consonant to
the profession of Russian moderation :
lIAMBURG, OCT. 20.
The Hamburg Reporter, after giving the Treaty
of Peace between Russia and Turkey, adds the
following :