The Sultan has been successful in the employment of fraud
and force to gain possession of the persons of several Albanian chiefs, whose fidelity he suspected. A rumour of the death or illness of MEHEMET ALL was prevalent in Constantinople at the date of the last letters. Such agreeable reports are doubtless set in motion every now and then within the precincts of the Serag- ho, for the gratification of the Sultan.
Mr. ELLIS, the British Ambassador to Persia, arrived at Con- stantinople on the 19th of September, on his return to England. The correspondent of the Morning Post asserts that he has failed in the commercial and political objects of his mission. But im- plicit faith is not to be placed in the correspondent of a journal whose constant aim is to misrepresent and depreciate all that the English Minister for the Foreign Department does and says.
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