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Yun-nan generally supplies it ; but a detect has occurred, which makes it necessary for the local Government w buy copper of the merchants. Embezzlement.—Several cases appear in the Gazettes of Local Magistrates receiving, but not paring, the land tax. Some are cast into prison till they pay the debt ; others, already dead, have the property of their kindred seized by Government to the amount embezzled; and those who have sons in office have the pay of thole sons stepped till the amount be made up.—fgrerver and Chinese Cironiele, Jan. 29. NAVY OFFlCB:baober 23, 1822. THE PRINCIPAL OFFICERS and COMMIS SIONERS V kis MAJESTY'. NAVY do hereby girls Mike* That on THURSDAY, the 6th of November next, at One o'Clock, they will be ready to treat with such Persons as may be willing to Contrdct for supplying the undermentioned articles. namely, IMPERIAL CAP, or BROWN SHEATHING PAPER, to be delivered at his Majesty's Dock Yards at Deptford. Wool wich, Chatham, and Sheerness; and HALF-WATCH and other GLASSES, to be delivered at the two former Yards only. Patterns of the Articles and Forms of the Tenders may be sees at this Office. No Tender will be received after One o'Clock on the dal' of Treaty, nor any noticed, unless the Party or so Agent for him attends. Every Tender must be accompanied by a Letter addressed m the Navy Board, and signed by a responsible Person, engaging to become bound with the Person Tendering in the sum of .1300, foe thlt due Performance of the Contract for Paper, and in t►e 'aim of 1100 for the Contract for Time Glasses. HENItriCALCINED MAGNESIA continues to be prepared with the most scrupulous care and attention, by Messrs. Tuoseas and Watust MORT, Manufacturing Chemists, Manchester. It is sold in bottles, price 2s. 9d. or with glass stoppers at Is. 6d. stamp included, with full directions foe. its use, by their various Agents in the Metropolis, and throughout the United Kingdom; but it cannot be genuine, unless their names art 'engraved on the Government Stamp, which-is fixed over the cork ur stopper of each bottle. Of most of the venders of the Magnesia may be had, authenticated by a similar Stamp, Hreav's'Aaostarsc Snug of Vitimaa.a, the invention of Mr. Henry, and the only genuine preparation of that article. EVER ANXIOUS TO PREVENT IMPOSITION. MAY and MARTIN respectfully inform the Public they have, after much labour and at a very considerable ex pense, hrought to perfection a Label of such singular construction and extreme dieLtilty of execution, that they trust will effectually prevent the many Frauds that are daily practised en the Public.— An attention to the following description of the Label will ensure the genuine Blacking prepared by them. A pattern like Lace of a plisk•colour covers the principal part of the Label, the names of Day and Martin are printed in white letters edged with ph* and ►lack, And placed on a white ground, the address, 97, HIGH-HOLBORN, as ales *kite letters edged with pink and black, but placed on the lace pattern, the signature And price at foot are black on to white ground, the preamble and directions for use are printed as before, black limn en white ground.-97, High-Holborn, Sept. Ins& CHINA. —so-- • IEXTIRACTS PROM THE CHINESE PAPERED CANTON, JULY ans Kansah province, situated on the north-west frontier, is subjected to a military tour annually ; ate paepote of which'is to seize on peroins who tform il%-berE of mining banditti, and dig for gold dustiorrather "gold pebbles" On the 290 of June the Foo-yuen received an es, press horn the Cr insinal•Board at Peking; containing new order from the Emperor concerning prisoners. • His Majesty -Amon a law wade by the Emperor. Yungcbtrig in 174 for mitigatieg the sufferiats• of prisoners and the punisbessot4 baninadingduriagibe hot months of every year. which was done, belays, to manifest cleaiency beyond the law." , In consequenca of being abused, the law was subsequently abrogated. However, Kang-he, who as Beams itself loved Inman beings, acted on the spirit of the law, and often miti gated punishments instigative?. It is therefore mywish, says his Majesty, to imitateifs merciful and benevolent SS example. Hereafter let there be a mitigation ot chastisement during the hot months, and even to pti loners charged with heavy crimes let mercy boshown. As t 3 thosekonfinedlOtslight offences, or only oft sus . - picion, let them be set at liberty on bail, to appear *gala m autumn. If these commands be duly obeyed„;all Approach may be made to the desired object of punish- ing only for the purpose of rendering punishments Its; necessary. Should, however, this clkmency' be abused by die connivance of the police,that will subject the parties to further chastisement. The Governor of Canton has issued a proclamatidi against a class of river piratei who assuine the . fbrla St customhouse - boats, and plunder under pretence of searching for Opium and smuggled salt. The Governor threatens that, whenver the, amount of plunder will authorise the act,- he will Maki the case a capital one. His Excellency has obtained permission to repair the Canton war boats, and put in order the arms, many of which are old and useless, at the different stations. It appears from a long statement of the Governor of Peking, that the salt mer i chants of Shan-tung are in debt to Government upwards: of 10 millions ot taels. During the fourth moon his' Insperial*Majesty and the Princes of the Blood went in person to various temples, and, having burnt incense, prayed for rain: The Emperor went to the god of the Black' Dragon rivet..-the Amour. The King, styled Shun-tain; went to the temple of the cloud god. Another King went to the wind god, and another to the thunder god, Ste. Rain came, and the Emperor sent his eldest son to return thanks to the Black Dragon. He also bestowed a pecuniary reward on the Bndh and Taint priests whir assisted on the occasion.. The Governor of Yun-nan province, lately of Canton. Yueo-Ta-jin, bas anion for five additional Mill* officers to place on the frontier. They aregrantecL• The Board of Revenue has objected to the Commissariat the Department; but the - Emperor, who anticipates a return of the grand army in triumph,, earl clues the expenbar on account of the distance of the of war. Suicide—The Galatea from which these extracts ' are made Mention three cases of persons, under appro.' 'mullion of embarrassment, having committed suicide,; oneof these was an officer implicated by thetate disaster l at the Yellow River. False Seals.-:-In llo..nan province, certain Military Secretaries have, fur's period of ten testis, obtained money, 'sulphur, &c. by means of false seals: The GOECT;• nor wished to neute those officers who had failed 'to discover the fraud ;but the Emperor rebukes him sharply for his proposition. Ac Gan-hwuy province, it appears the different clan , of peopleon the borders•are in the habit of fighting with muskets, and small pieces of artillery, which the) carry on men's shoulders. - sock plant wherever they have occasion to n:c .hem. The Emperor - referred the cast to the Military Board, Nho recommend very cautious measures to get the arms ow. of the hands of the people, and t., seise upon those who cast and manufacture them. The measureadoined is to give a lianiteditiine .fur Ilia polisetiots to deliver up their arsusi• and to rennin from RUSSIA. A.marvellous change took place is the situation and power of Russia under the auspices of Peter ; ship was, built after ship, and town after town was conquered; and one stoke:of policy and civilization did wonders for Russia. Before Peter's time no Russ could le4ve hir country. He opened the ddors, and a rush of young men took place towards the south. His own determination to travel was delayed by Sichler's con. pira c y ; but when he bad arranged matters, accem ibanied 'by' three of the most distinguished persons of his Empire for their talents, and by a number of the young Nobility, he bent his way, through Germany, to Holland: He had learned the Dutch language long nefore. He does not appear to have been much inter ! . este.] by the great cities, and hastened through Amster dam to Zaardam. He there occupied a miserable abode, which is still preset red in its then state, and which the Princes of Orange have surrounded with a brick edi fice; to screen it from the effects of time. It is a poor cottage, such as the commonest shipwright would inha bir, cun.isting of two small rooms, each lighted by a badly constructed ea.ement. These rooms have since been visited by hundreds of thousands, and among them, by Alerstisder. who like every other visitor, inscribed his same in the Album; but the leaf has been stolen by some assi.chievous autograph collector. There are, how. ever, the signatures of the King of Holland, the Queen, and.otber Royal Personages. Peter had ordered that his quality should be concealed. He had adopted the dress of a sailor, and pretended that he sought .an existence there. It.ciannot , be said that his story was believed; be was known to be a person of rank, at least; and, the truth tostell, the elevation of the Autocrat sometimes inter fered with the lowliness of the ship carpenter. • He visited the families. of the persons he had known in Russia, and be sometimes dined familiarity among them. ,Oa oils occasion.he called on the wifeafa shipwright es. ,tahlished inllassia,aud the asked him what. as his trade? 66.1 am a carpeater," said the Czar; yet the Czar spent motley liberally-antongthe,Zaardanansets; and though his stsitetsad adopted the dresses of .Zaardam shipwrights, the secret was soon out. in consequence of a letter which came from a vapour) in Russia, telling his family that all she Court was gone with the Czar to Zaardam. The letter was read in the presence of the parish barber, and the barber, bursting with the news, proclaimed the Autocrat to all his townsmen. However, tere were mill doubts; and a man who had been in Russia pulse f rpm Amsterdam to decide the matter. :He saw Peter, and exclaimed, 66 'Tis the Czar s as surely as we are ilitrel• I know him well," But Peter still .attempted. tp preserve the incognito; and, when an attempt was made to remoye hint to a larger,dwelling, answered—s. 6 6 We are not great gentlemen, but common men, fur whom a common abode is : good enough." Yet his house was beset, and his labours and his studies in. terrupted. There is a picture of Peter, stripped to the shirt, with his axe in his hand, surrounded by caustic's, who are bedizened with all the foppery and finery of the day. Peter visited• our William the Third at Utrecht, and sought the acquaintance of several of the most renowned Dutch A dmirals, not forgetting maoy li terary. men of the day. He went to the Hague, where he grew impatient, and insisted on going to another hotel, where he wandered about, and, finding one of his atten. dents sound asleep, he turned him out, and took pos. session of the warm bed. Peter the Great had grand, though rare conceptions. His was a half emancipated mind. His correspondence with the Greek Priesthood shows that, in religiosis matte's, he bad not passed the threshold of :•iquiry ; but, when he dared to think, he followed his thought into glorious doings. He had a high admiration for the English people, but a great, and I think ungrounded, dislike t r George I.—Eatenct of a Letkr from Holland. RUSSIAN BULLETINS. -........ 7 . BERLIN, Orr. 23. NEWS FROM THE THEATRE OP WAR. To-day. the 2.9 d, the following accounts have been received of the operations before Varna, and the taking of that place: . 1..--OPIRATIOIIII ItTORI VARNA • FROM THIC IST TO THE STH OCTOBER. The two mines laid under the walls of the formal wete finished to our wish, and sprung on the Sd and 4th'ectober. The 'first WAS laid with great difficulty and not without danger to the workmen, under the ex. tram points of the north bastion, towards the sea. Part of the works of this bastion was damaged by springing the mine, sad fell into the ditches. The second mine was laid on the right front, tinder the second northern bastion: Colonel Scheldtr made an entrance. to it, and , charged it with the greatest courage, in spite of the fire , of the.enenty, who, observing what was doing, made, fonr attacksduriag the night, but was each time re pulsed with loss. The mine was sprung at three o'clock in the afternoon, and the result fully sits weed our es !visitations, as two breaches me already made in this bastion. The corps of Omer Vricsne, notwithstanding the rein fercements it received, has made no further movement to the 18th (30th' Sept.) Oa our side the corps ot (ion. histions has also been strengthened, and redoubts erected w cover his position.. in this manner the De• cassary measures have bent taken to prevent any relief being received by the fortress. -Prince Eugene ot Wirtemburg has lefia strong ad e ICCAI good in Hassan Lao, and has advanced to Oonsiscsyk. • To strengthen the right ping of Gerteral 4listront 9 t pontos * the evrpe of Major General Dellis". • - • haven has drawn nearer to him, and has occupied the village of ltesnardzi. tr.—OPERATIONS BE/ORE VARNA, PROM OCTOBER 5 TO • OCTollek 9. Our works having opened a way to the towels, it was resolved to detach some troops to take possession. it possible, by means, of a breach of the north bastion nearest the sea, and to erect a battery in it ; 110 sharp shooters and chosen. sailors were appointed for this p.o.' pose, who were to be supported by one company 'of the 13th regiment of sharpshooters, two companies of the Ismailow regiment ot, the guards, and 150 labourers I provided with gshions. On the 7th of October, an hoar before day.break, the sharpshooters, led by Ljeutenant Zaitzeffski of the Navy, penetrated int ) the bastion without firing a, shot. and killed all the Turks that defended it. Meetintt with no resistance, these brave men suffered themselves to be led away by their courage, and without thanking of taking possession of the bastion, which was the man object, they penetrated into the middle of the:tovrt. Meantime false attacks wine .nude .at three 0 fferent .poiots by oar redoubts upon the town, and the Tin kisb. tirailleurs, who had conceded themselves in the ditches of the fortresses, were driven out of Menu Notaith. standing this uneapected success, and the supprnt that Continued to be sent, to the shalsrdlOOterts it was to br foreseen that they would not be able either to rear the whole of the eaernses petition or. to .retain Mimr sion or the bastioh. To pievent. further blood.hed s • a retreat was rosined. The men retired in the grentrit order, and brought with them a great number ol Cr..'li tiara women and children, who had joined them in the town. Two pair of colours found in the bastion were taken. As it was impossible to bring away 14 cannon which were there, they were partly spiked by our people, and partly thrown into the sea. We had 80 killei, and 300 wounded. Toe loss of the enemy may be esti. mated at 600 men. Though this enterprise had not the result that war} intended, it served to prove to the Turks that they weep •no longer safe in the walls of Varna, and that by Means' of the breaches that bad been made, the fortress Might (be taken by storm. Accordingly, a Turkish Off Mer came to negotiate for the surrender of the fortress. This morning (the 9th) Jussuff Pacha, one of the Chief Commanders in the town, arrived here to confer with Admiral Greiff . This does not hinder the progress of oar works, which are coninued with equal rapidity and success. Since the 30th September the enemy bas not at tempted any thins against General Biaroro, who re tain, his old position our 04 south side of the Bay of Varna. Turks sometimes appear at a distance, but they retreat at the first shot. 3.—(This - ,ic the Bulletin already published, stating the surrentler of Juibuff Pacha and his troops, without capitulation, and afterwards of the rest cf the garrison, with the exception of the Capitan Pacha and a taw fol. lowers,, who - retreated into the citadel, where be was taken by the Russians, who Intered through the breaches withont.oppOsition, with•drinas beating and colours tying.) ,4r-ACCOUNT OP TIM DIRPORZ OCHIDELA FROM THE 2STID SEPT. TO. SD OCT. On the 28th September in the morning, the enemy 'began to fire upon us from the fortress. and at the same time his cavalry. in largensasses. advanced against the .outposts of our left wing. Major General Sysojew, with the reserve of his regiment of Cossacks, met the enemy,, and endeavoured to draw him towards our re doubts, and sn to bring him within the range of our fire. Towards noon the enemy received rpinlonensents 'of cavalry and infantry from the town, but *wee aim! ' palled by the fire of our redoubts to retreat to Schwalm. On the succeeding days we cannonaded each other; without any considrrable loss on our side. On the 2d October, the enemy detached'a corps of 4,000 infantry, and 5,000 cavalry, and 14 cannon, on tbe.road to Silistria, to cut off from our camp Major Geiseral Nabel, who was advancing .with a brigade Of Hulans towards Schumla. Adjutant General Orin* was therefore ordered to defeat tire enemy's plan, and iarasediately.set out with the first division of Chasseurs on horseback, four battalions of infantry, and 16 cannon, towards the village of Kadvikroi, attacked , the enemy, silenced his cannon, and compelled him to tett eat.— Meantime Major General Nabel. whOwas attacked by the enemy's cavalry, had intercepted it, and joined Count Orlow's division. 5.-4-ACCOUNT OF Till OPERATIONS IN LITTLI WALLA. CHIA, OW THE 4111 OCTONER.. . Lieut. General Langeton reports . as follows—The Setaskier of Widdin, at the head Or 26.000 men, and tliiity cannon, left on the 24th September, the intrencli meats at Kalafat. He was already designated before hand to be P4Cha .of this town, an appointment of which there has been hitherto no ipstance in the two principal ties. Having advanced to the ',Mar. of Boglesta.theTurks began to intrench themselves. Major Gen.Geismar,with la division ri 4,200 men, was at a distance of seven watts. Notwithstanding their superior force, General Geismar resolved to anticipate the Turks, and, by a gotous attack, to hinder them from proceeding with their intrenchmento. He accordingly attacked them on the 26th September. about noon. An obstinate com bat ensued. which continued till nightfall without any decisive advantage on either side. The New Roots and Kargopol regiments of dragoons greatly distin guished themselves OA this day ; and also the Tamsk reeituent of infantry, which repulsed with considerable loss the attacks of the Turkish regular infantry. After this action, General lieismar saw very clearly that he should be attacked again on the following day, .nd that the enemy, who were so very superior, might eiasily surround him, or at least at t a c k him i n Sank— he therefore resolved to attack hips the second time the same night, and executed this resolution with the most brilliant success. After a desperate resistance, the Turkish regular troops were destroyed ; the other corps gave way in the greatest confusion. Seised with or• roc, they fled as f e ar as Kalatat, where about ten thou. sand men arrived without their arms, which they had thrown away. The loss of the enemy amounts to some thousands killed and six hundred prisoners. Among the former is the Paeha of Albania. The whole of the enemy's camp fell into our hands, besides twentploar pair of colours, seven cannons, a great number of horses, and waggons with ammunition and provisions of all kinds. We lost nearly six hundred men killed and wounded. Thisiplandid victory ensures the tranquillity of L it. de Wallacbia t and hinders die. caseation of tlit flaws kites plan to lay waste that pmvisice; and cut tAF int e.immunication with the Riissom carpi destinectfor iqt lefence. His Majesty has recompensed M ejor•Gen• Geismar by promoting him to the tank of Lieutenant , General.—Pressiers Mate Oaring, Oct. 24. iicittrN, OCT. 24. We have the following pirticulart to give to thou we gave yesterday— • Already on the Bth of October, at noon, a Private Se. :retary of the Capitan PaChia, accompanied by two other Turks. appeared on board the Paris. to commence a negotiation for the surrender of. Varese. Be the Ens. :be rotes orders he was referred to Admiral Greig, but eturned without coming to any undersanding. Thn .egociatinn was, however, renewed by the same Envoy I in the morning of the 9th, in Count Woronsow's tent, but did not lead to a snore favourable result. In the evening Jussut Pacha himself appeared, and the result if the conference with him was, that a *naive deck. ration was promised for the nest day. The Riche re. •uining on the lOth; gave his declaration 'bathe most acknowledge the impossibility of defending the place 4my longer, and 'hectare c•isild only vote for the see , tender. As the CApitaa.Peeha, however, would sot cooseat to a capitulation on any ternis,be o lo.suff ['debit had revolved not to return into tbe fames% but to place hiniself under the protection of the Emperor. Wbeq this pesolotion was known in the town. all the troops that were undeethe'carninand'of JossurP4ctia itoaae distely [Aid down their . arms. and during the nighrof the 10th; aid on the morning of the 11th, they came is troops with their Commanders nut of the town, to sae , render themselves as prisoners s.f war to the besiegers. After the gariison had in this manner dissolved itsel4 the Capita° Pachs,who, with those who remained faith. ful to him, had fled into the citadel. requested to be al• lowed to retire unmolested with SOO men, to the carps under Omer Vrioae. The Emperor granted' this, on condition that be should either take the road by way of Fravati, or embark for Bourgas. Towarts noon Da. puties came from the town and requested pen mission to deliver the keys to the Emperor; lOC Erispes Of received them on the top of the Telegraph Mountain. The town was occupied by the Russian troops, and a salute from all the ships announced and accompanied this happy event. The Ambassadors and Envoys of Foreign Powers. who embarked at Odessa on the Sd, arrived in the rued of Versa on the Stb. They. are Prince Philie. itf Hesse Homburg, the Austrian Ambassador; the Mike de Mortemart, the French Ambassador; the Katsina Charge d'Affaires, Counseller Vim Koster ; the Prussian Lieutenant• Colonel, Von Thun ; the Swedish Ainbassis dor, Baron Von Pahustierna I and , the Hanoverian Ambassador, Lieutenaot-General Von Domberg. They will remain on board the .hip which brought them—. Pressidus bests Uascite, Oct. 25. TOULON. Ocr. 20. -.......... By the arrival e 4 the French frigate La Cybele, which left Nevado on the sth instant, I am enabled to inform you that the'Whole of the Egyptianarriy (20,000 men) were embarked on the 4th, and that ihr.hrus Puha sailed 'on that day for Alesandria, having previously 'breakfasted with General Maison and Staff. Pursuant to Sir Edward Codrington's Convention, the four ton tresses have been gieen•up to the Twits and A:banians, bpt, as already Mentioned, only 400 men are'atiowed to garrison each place.• The French army is divide) into three corps—one . llas gone to Nuts, another is be. fore Coron, and the Stk.& headed by the General-in. Chief, is encamped close to the walls of Navaris. AdMiril be Rigny it anchored in the harbour with a large portion of his fleet, end Coin* Guillemot* bas takin up his qUarters on board tt line of battle ship, the I Breslaw. Count eapo dilitria was daily . expected at the French head-tlearteri. Potteries have been constructed close . under Come. without any opposition from the garrison. AU the pre mations at this point indicate the probability of hosti lities being contemplated. Indeed. i: is strongly reported here that .matters will be so contrived /hat tire fair strongholds must shortly be occupied by French troops. Orders hare been issued to send out a battering train of forty heavy guns, with all haste, and a large quail. tity of ammunition. Numbers of transports are loading 1 1 het; and the exertions at the arsenal are unabated.— Orders weig some time ago issued to the Colonels of regiments on this coast to hold themselves in readings! to embark it an hour's notice. Accordipg to private letters the Egyptians seemed very glad to get away from Greece. I hey took care, however, not to leave any baggage ter artillery behind I every thing was embarked. and. to render thi. transac tion more singular, a 'imber of Bieck women. who were induced to accompany Orlr task masters. owing to a threat that if they ref used they would meet instant death. So bortor-struck mere many of these pont creo• tures at their situation, that some lit them concaved to rush on deck as the vessels were leasing the port, and by their shrieks attracted the attention of the French squadron; upon which Admiral de Rigny insisted that all those who did not really wish to depart should be relanded. A number of victims were thus rescued from something worse than slasery. Not a word is said in these accounts of Sir Pulteney Malcolm or Mr. Stratford Canning. It is, however, reported, that on hearing cf . the disembarkation of the French army, Capo d'lsuia was greatly disconcerted, aid, as if some secret plan of his own bad been later. rooted by the measure. the President was heard to esclaint—" This event has spoiled every thintre The tendency of his Escellency (whose very nomination is due to the unsuspecting credulity of two or three Ear 'salmon) is no longer doubtful t though Presidoet ei Greece, be is said to be Russian, heart and soul. There seems to he no prospect of any *nougats** bet *ems France and Algiers. Corsairs cookies to auk* captures almost daily, and, besides the blockading squa dron, a number of vessels have been just sent out io various directions to protect the commercial into us. P.S. Since writing the above, I have seen a private letter dated from the head-quatters of - General Mahal on the Sd instant. In this the writer positively asset, that the Turks left in the fortresses are to he summoned to evacuate thens forthwith, and that in the event of their sot doing so. - a siinultaneous attack wilt be Sad, ea them. It is added that the Turkish Cuonnanden asp dsteminsd to defend themselves,