The Sun.
London, England, 1827-01-30 00:00:00

RECOLLECTIONS OF THE EAST.

The following letter is the production of the late
Dr. MACLEAN, who was lost in the Red Sea towards
the end of the last century ; we can vouch for its
authenticity; having the original in our possession.
We have been informed that Dr. BREWSTER, of
Edinburgh, has been engaged in identifying a Dr.
INiAcLEAN as the Author of Junius. This may,
perhaps, give interest to the letter :

SUEZ (EGYPT), APRIL 8, 1796.
• MY DEAR MADAM—When parting I little expected to
have the pleasure of addressing you from this ancient and
remote country, and I dare say you as little expected a
correspondent in the Land of Bondage. I need not in-
i form you that this place is at the bottom of that celebrated
sea, which obediently retreated before the Chosen people
of God. But as I can find no traces of those great events,
1 will only observe, that it is a most dangerous arm of the
Indian Ocean, abounding with shoals and latent rocks,
and that I have often wished for an extention of the pri-
vilege of the Children of Israel, who are said to have
walked over it on dry land. To this place we were or-
dered from Colombo, to convey on their way home Lord
Camelford, and two gentlemen, with Government de-
spatches, and Mr. Cleghorn, a Ministerial Envoy, who
does me the honour to take charge of these letters. Co-
lombo is the Dutch capital in India', situated on the west
side of the fine island of Ceylon. After the reduction of
some of the inferior Dutch possessions this place became
oar great. object, and an armament, consisting of a naval and
military force, was sent against it, to which it surrendered
on the 16th February last. The loss on our side con-
sisted in a few killed on shore, in a skirmish, and some
wounded in this ship, which had unfortunately come too
near a formidable battery of the enemy. The place con-
tains an astonishing quantity of public property—chiefly
cinnamon, which is produced on this island, and from
whence Europe is chiefly supplied. I expect at least
4001. prize-money, which you will easily believe will be
quite acceptable. Since the first day of my landing in
India I have not experienced the least interruption of
health ; indeed I have been toe well employed to have
leisure for sickness. I have wandered along the coasts of
the Arabias and Persia, and now of Abyssinia. I assure
you, however, I have not wandered in body more than in
fancy, which has often placed me among my Coll friends.
Instances of early attention and disinterested friendship, I
hope, I am incapable of forgetting, and these I experienced
from many individuals of your family, and I retain the
most lively recollection of them. Long ere these lines
dome to hand I hope you will be reconciled to a rural life.
I own, that when in Coll, I thought it a great hardship
that you and your amiable sisters should be sequestered
from society and the more refined circles, after being
brought up in habits of elegance; but, when I consider
that 'happiness is more a mental attribute than a local at-
tendant, I own I feel easier on that head, and you know I
always thought you philosophical. In this country,
where you behold the gayest scenes of life and
the greatest display. of grandeur, I do not find
that people are more exempt from ills than even in the
Highlands. Disappointed schemes of ambition, and the
rancour of rival competitors, seldom fail to disquiet the
minds of those who bustle for preferments. I must also
mention another evil,—do you know, that in these distant
regions, we have a greater dearth of Nymphs than- yo❑
have of Swains in Coll; our yearly importations (as we
Call it) from England soon leave the market empty again;
these fair adventurers are sometimes votaries of Hymen
in a few weeks after their arrival, and the fragrant groves
Of India become again musical with soft sighs. Could
you not persuade a troop of our mutual friends to form
themselves into a fair band, and come out to make one
campaign, where so many matrimonial laurels are to be
won. I am confident they would make great havoc
amongst the Nabobs of the East ; they could not with-.
stand the formidable weapons which health and nature
have conferred—you would, I assure you, meet with more
friends here than you are aware of. But in indulgingin.these
levities, I must not forget more interesting subjects. In
the first place, you are to consider, dear Madam, this letter
as a petition for the pleasure of your correspondence, the
little incidents of Coll would acquire with me an additional
Value, when dressed in the garb of vivacity you can give
them. I have lost all confidence in my other friends.
I have never heard a syllable from any pf my relations
since I left that country, which I think rather hard, as I
never omit an opportunity of writing them. I beg you
Ivill be so kind as to let me know any thing interesting re-
garding your brothers Captain Lachlan and John, and
their respective families. To the latter I would have
written did I know. where to address my letter.

My address is as follow, - Surgeon, BombarEsta-
blishment, care of Chas. Forbes, Esq., Bombay. The
letters must always be sent to London about the time of
the sailing of a fleet or packet.
I now conclude with the sincerest wishes, &c. &c.
L. IPLEAN.
_ .

Miss Flora M‘Lean, of Cornaig,
Isle of Coll, Argyleshire.

Mr. Thomas Merchant, master mariner, of Whitby,
(lied on the I.sth inst. He had gone with his wife to administer to
her sister's will, the late Mrs. Dickenson, whose death was an-
nounced in this paper three weeks ago. When rising from his
seat, in the house of the Rev. James Andrews, the surrogate, to
sign some necessary documents, he was observed to stagger; and
had not Mr. Andrews caught hold of him, he would have fallen
On the floor, as he expired instantly.—Hull Advertiser.

Villemain is writing a history of the Life and
Pontificate of Gregory VII., which has been purchased by AI.
Firman Didot for 10,000 francs for every thousand copies sold by
subscription. We hope the public will, on this occasion, give 111.
Villemain a mark of their esteem. For him a greater number of
subscriptions would be a recompence for the sacrifice he has made
to his conscience, and would he a proof that France knows how
to defend the defender of her Jibe' ties.—CorWitutionnel.

IRISH MURDERERS,—They had, during these
worde, been, perhaps, speaking to each other at some little dis-
tance; for their whispers, now that Peggy supposed them to
have come close together, were lost on her aching ear, though
she still heard the hissing sounds in which the conversation was
carried on. A considerable time elapsed while they thus stood
motionless outside her don•; at length they moved, seemed
about to part, and at parting a few more sentences became audible.
" Go, then," said the woman, " an' let us lose no time : nothing
else can be done ; poor Mnggy is to be saved from the treachery
of the Lonnon sneak, if there was no one else concerned in
the case ; speed, Phil ; make sure o' the horn hafted Lamprey
that you'll find on the dresser : I'll meet you at his doer with
a light and a vessel. Are you sure he sleeps sound enough ?"
" There is only the one sleep more that can he sounder," replied
Phil ; and Peggy heard them going off. In panting terror she
listened for their steps again passing her door : nor had she to
listen long.. Slowly and stealthily, and with heavy breathings,
or a suppressed curse at the creaking boards, they separately came
up. In a moment after, she heard 'them undo the fastenings of
the inside room, and fascinated to the coming horror, as the
bird is to the reptile's glanee, her eye was fixed to a chink, ere
the light they carried afforded her a renewed view of the vic-
tim's chamber. The woman first entered, bearing the candle in
one hand, and in the other a basin which held a cloth. bier face
was now set in . the depth of the bad expression Peggy had seen it
momentarily wear below stairs ; and she was paler than usual,
though not shaking or trembling. The lad followed, taking long
and silent strides across the floor, while his knife gleamed in his
hand and his look was ghastly. They made signs to each other.
The woman laid down the candle and the basin, and tucked up
the sleeves of her gown beyond her elbows. She again took up the
basin, laid the cloth on the floor, stole close to the straw couch,
knelt by it, and held the vessel near the wretch's head.
Her companion followed her, and knelt also. He nu_
knotted and took off, with his left hand, the man's neckcloth.
As it was finally snatched rather briskly away, the wearer
growled and moved. He never uttered a sound more.
Peggy kept her e” to the chink during the whole of this scene.
She could not withdraw it. Even when the murder was done,
she durst not remove her eye until the woman and lad had left the
chamber; so that she was compelled to observe the revolting cir-
cumstance of washing the blankets and the floor, and other things '
which again must not be noticed.— Tales of the O'Hara Family.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRENCH PAPERS.
(From the Courier Francais of Saturday.)

PARIS, JA N. 27.—We learn from Brest, that the just demands
so long:refused by the Tribunal of Brest have been at length at-
tended to. The Tribunal of Appeal at Quimper has set at liberty.
the persons detained for the business of the Tartufire, taking bail
to the amount of 11,000 fiance, which was immediately sent to
Quimper. M. de Kerauflec, the Procureur du Roi, has ac-
cordingly consented that the prisoner shall be immediately set a
liberty.

LIES OF THE DAY.
(From the Etoile, dated Sunday, Jan. 28.)

PARIS, JAN. 27.—THE CONSTITUTIONNEL.-The Etoile has
contradicted the fact advanced by another Journal, that a lady,
whose title is derived from one of the actual possessions of the
Emperor of Austria, had been announced under her French name
to that Sovereign.—(Note—The Etoile has contradicted the reso-
lution attributed by the Pilots to the Diplomatic Body, to follow
the example of the Austrian Ambassador.)

TILE CONSTITUTIONNEL AGAIN.—It has been observed that the
lfoniteur gives only a dry and insipid analysis of the discourses
delivered in the Chamber of Peers against the Jesuits."
THE JOURNAL nu COMMERCE.—M. Soumet, on the day when
the Academy met, had received orders to go to Rambouillet, to
which place he was called by his office as librarian.
We think we shall soon have to add to the " Lies of the Day"
another chapter, to record the new follies of the Journals; it
would appear under the title of " Extravagaucies of the
Day." . To-day it would contain the Petition of a respon-
sible Editor of the Aristarque, who petitions the Cham-
ber of Deputies to be authorised to prosecute the Keeper of
the Seals, for having insulted the responsible Editors; the pe-
tition of M. Sarran, to the Chamber of Peers, calling for an Ad-
dress from that Chamber, for the purpose of obtaining from his
Majesty the dissolution of the Chamber of Deputies ; and a pe-
tition from the Electors of Lyons, desiring the impeachment of the
Minister who is the author of the Project of Law on the Press.
The Academy of Sciences at Lyons held on the 22d the Ex-
traordinary Sitting which it had specially summoned—not to
discuss the principle on a petition to be addressed to the King,
since that measure had been adopted in the preceding Sitting—
but to vote on this petition. Twenty-one Members were present ;
two others put in writing their votes in favour of it, and after a
pretty long debate, it was resolved that these votes should he
reckoned. The Members who opposed the principle in the pre-
ceding Sitting of course rejected the petition, which was a con-
sequence of it.
The debate was continued till nine o'elock ; the result of this
long discussion, in which, notwithstanding a warm opposition,
the principle was debated, was fourteen votes in favour, and thir-
teen against the petition; and if the votes sent in writing had
been rejected, the majority would have been against a pro-
ceeding which, in the preceding Sitting was opposed by only
four Members.

(From the Constitutionnel, January 27.)
" Nothing has been talked of for several days, but a sovereign
decision of Austria, which has deprived a certain number of
Frenchmen of titles which the Emperor Napoleon had conferred
on them. Thus the names de Reggio, de Tarcntum, de Dal-
matia, d'lstria, de Ragusi, have been placed in the index of M. de
3letternich. This little stroke of foreign policy was acted' on
eight days ago in the Saloon of the Austrian Ambassador, A
noble lady was the first to experience the rigour of his Excellency.
Having presented herself with a title which referred to one of the
present possessions of the Emperor of Germany, the introducer
affected to announce her in her French name. It is impossible
that this' decision of the Cabinet of Vienna should not have been
communicated to the French Ministry. The illustrious indivi-
duals whom it concerns should not have been suffered to hear,
from the mouth of a valet of a Foreign Minister, that which they
had a right tp know from the President of the Council, or from
the Minister for Foreign Affairs. ' Ministers feared, it is said,
that the communication of the intelligence would lose them some
votes, and they wished to defer it until after the discussion of their
laws of justice and love.' Such a mode of acting would be, to
brave minds, an outrage more revolting than the Austrian index.
Noble warriors give their lives to their country ; but they will
not surrender their consciences for vain titles. They will not
forget that they acquired them at the price of the blood of their
fellow-citizens; and let them be called Macdonald or Tarentum,
Oudinot or Reggio, Mortier or Treviso, Le Brun or Piacenza,
they will never give their.suffrages to all which can prejudice
the rights and interests of France, for which they have so long
fought, and which is the first cause and most noble source of
their glory."

(From the Pilote.)

PARIS, JAN. 26.—Letters from Bayonne say, that, according
to letters from Madrid, a eolumn of Constitutionalists, consisting
of about 300 men, had landed on the coast of Malaga. The Go-
vernor of the Province and the Royalist Volunteers were stated to
have gone in pursuit of them, and to have taken 33 men, who, it
is added, were immediately shot.

The Chamber of Commerce of Paris, in its sitting of yesterday,
resolved to address to the King, through the Minister of the In-
terior, a respectful Protest against the project of Law relative to
the Police of the Press.

(From the Journal de Paris.)
(PRIVATE LETTER.)
VIENNA, JAN. 17.—1 t is affirmed that the important dispatches
sent to Col. Marschall, the Austrian Minister at the Court of

Rio de Janeiro, are partly relative to the wish said to have been
expressed by the Archduchess Leopoldina, Empress of Brazil, to
come in the spring to Europe, to pass some time with her father,
our August. Sovereign. A Courier has just set out for St.
Petersburgh. It is thought that he is the bearer of dispatches
relative to the close of the Diet, whose long labours are nearly ter-
unipated.

(From the Moniteur of Saturday.)

The Journal of Marseilles of the 16th of January has the fol-
lowing letter:—
" LAMAC A (CYPRUS), Nov. 9, 1826.—Y0u will soon see
again in your country the Venerable Missionary the Abbe de Mo-
zure. I state this from the accounts received by Messrs. Reg-
nault, Consul of France at Leyde and Mechin, our Consul at
Cyprus. He has not been able to enter the Holy Land, and has
got no further than Jaffa. The Janissaries at Jerusalem are in a
state of insurrection, and that place is closely blockaded. Tie.-
vellers were in great danger. The Janissaries, indeed, sent the
standards and badges to the Paella at the beginning of this month,
protesting their obedience, but they will not give up the fortresses,
so that their submission is illusory, and the blockade continues.—
The orders of the Porte are expected. "
FRENCH FUNDS.—PARIS, JAN. 27.—Five per Cents., 99f.
75c. 85f. ; Three per Cents. 67f. 60c. 65c. ; Bank Stock,
1,980 f.; Rentes de Naples, 78f. 85. 90 ; Spanish Renter, 111;
Spanish Loan, 511 52; Haitian Loan, 560 f. 570 f.

The Moniteur of yesterday contained the discourse of 51.
Laing at full length.

Letters received yesterday morning from Cape Coast Castle,
state that the Governor, Sir N. Campbell, had sent a special mes-
senger to the King of Ashantee, for the purpose of negotiating a
peace.

SMYRNA, DEC. W.—There has been a great disturbance at the
island of Hydra. The sailors demanding money of the heads of
the Government, which was refused to them, threatened to leave
the island with the vessels in port, and plunder every ship that
might come in their way. Two vessels actually put to sea. His
Majesty's ship Talbot was anchored off the opposite shore, and the
Captain, on receiving the information, placed his ship at the en-
trance of the harbour, threatening to sink the first vessels that left
the island. Captain Hamilton, of the Cambrian, on receiving the
advice here, immediately sailed for Hydra, in company with the
Rose. The Elias, a fine frigate of 64 gun•, built at New York
for the Greeks, and manned by 150 sailors, mostly Americans,
arrived at Napoli di Romania on the 6th instant. It is reported
that Lord Cochrane is to take the command of her.

Srxrisrics.—The Statistical Table of the States of Europe,
published annually
the esteem of the learned of all countries. That for 1827 is
by the Almanac of Gotha, has long enjoyed
drawn up with increased care and correctness. For instance,
the revenue of Russia, which was estimated at only 268,000,000
francs, is now state] at 338,000,000, a sum exactly equal to the
revenue of Austria. That of Prussia which was stated at
'947,000,000, is now estimated only at 193,000,000. The sum
of the revenues of these three Powers make a total of 869,000,000,
and that of France is 920,000,000. Thus we see that this
kingdom is not only as rich as Austria, Russia, and Prussia toge-
ther, but that it has an overplus of 51,000,000, which is equal to
the revenue of several powers of the second order, such as Por-
tugal, Sardinia, and Sweden. England, according to the same
table, will raise this year a sum of 1,410,000,000, but the inte-
rest of its debt being 750,000,000, there will remain 660,000,000
for the public expences. For this reason the budget for every
branch of the public service is smaller, with a few exceptions, than
that which is allotted to the same branch by the French Cham-
bers. It appears that, on an average, the Frenchman contributes
11 per cent. of his income to the public expenditure, while the
Englishman contributes 25 per cent.—Etoile.

ruimE POSTHUMOUS LETTER OF HIS
ROYAL HIGHNESS THE LATE DUKE OF YORK.
CLERC SMITH, Bookseller to the Royal Family, announces,
that Tins DAY is published, the THIRD EDITION of the
Royal Posthumous Letter, with observations establishing its au-
thoritative character; a step rendered necessary by the disavowal
of Sir Herbert Taylor. To be had of all Booksellers in Town
and Country.

36, St. James's-street,
Office of the Naval and Military Magazine.

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DAY AT ONE 0 CLOCK.
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