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THE LONDON WEEKLY REVIEW, SATURDAT, !ay 14, containing Rangers of Two years in Ara—Scott'a ii,pkwa—St. James's. a Satirkal Poem—Deniers Meteorology Tr/ Years in New South Wales, &c. Stc. Norma LITIBILWA. lossrmyrra Review: Mabillon. on the Worship of Unknown OINUNAL &ammo I The Deaths liessi--tediso Sketches, No, (rota the M& humid of an Indian thlicer. Original * t ry, Fair Arts, New Moak, Drama, Ste. Nihau's! by F. C. WinLIT, Bookseller, Id?. (near Somerset H os e), Strand, London; Wmkworth and Elder, Edinburgh; s l ab and Son, Glasgow ; Wakeman, Dublin ; and all Booksellers rei Namara. N ee gd. or stamped for Country circulation (post free) Is. SA The First Monthly Part (with a Corer), prim Us. ed. is ready for delivery. jusrablisheds in One very large Volume Svo. pnce 180. ns bal.. THE HISTORY of the REFORMATION o f t h e CHURCH of ENGLAND, during the !kip of Emma no Stull. By HENRY SOAMES, SLA, Rector of Shelley, Som. Muted for C. and .1. Rivingtoo, 34 Paul's Charch-yard, and wsigkellace, . • Of whom may be bad, • The two former Volumes (comprising the Reign of Henry VIII) Price 10s. to boards. rr Another Volume, which may be expected before the Con dews of the present Year, aed which will carry the Work down Re-establishment of the Ptotestant church under Queen Ilthrth, will complete the Asthoil FERNCH PAPERS. nom ma oa:trill DC P.aAsrce, WIDNESDAY, JULY 11. CONSTANTINOPLE, Jens 14. On the 7th inst. the Marquis deßibeaupierre had his solemn audience of the Grand Vizier. As this is the first audience since the abolition of the-Janissaries, and the formation of the troops, and as the etiquette and order usually observes( on these occasions underwent some change this time, we think it interesting to give the de tails of this ceremony, which will probably serve, hence forth, as a rule foe the audiences of the Foreign Am bassadors:— At sit in the morning, all the persons who were to hem the procession were assembled in full dress, at the Hotel of the Russian Legation. At tea, appeared Hassan Aga (who had accompanied M. de Ribeaupierre hither from the fr intiers as his Mihrandar), accompanied by two Alaitschausche to inform the Ambassador that the Grand Vizier was ready to receive him. According to the Tiokish custom, coffee and refseshment were pre sented to the Mihrandar. At eleven, the procession set out in the following order: 1. Two squadrons of hone artillery, accompanied by their three treopeters and their caters. Behind was BimbatchL They Sled stiorbe round of trumpets, two abreast, in all 140 nte. t The two Ali.Tschautschl an horseback. The 3lihmandar Aga. t Eighteen Reduchohadares of the Legation, on foot, two by tirr, with long side garments, headcaps and girdles. i Eighteen Ambassador' servants in livery, -blue with silent, ',dile arms of the Legation embroidered on them. on foot. 6. Etit blue Tschokadares. 1. "least Valets de Osansbes In blue, with gold lam on foot. S. Toe Ulcer of the Peon. Makedemsky. A The Interpreter of the Palace, George Niriko; both on kasha., az Directors of the first part of the Procession. 10. Twu Couriers of the Legation on horstbatk: It. TI• persons belonging to the Office of the Legation, on hinthack. It. The persons attached to the Embassy, oft lionehaek. 13. The Assistant Secretary, on horseback. it The Cbitf Secretary of the Legation, Baron Rickman. irking up the credentials, in a bag of white silk, embroidered onsilrer, on a horse richly caparisoned, and led by two Tsetse. IS. The Counsellors of State, Antony Fenton and Paul Pisani. 16. The actual Counsellors of Stue, Messrs. Minalacky and 6 1k• 11. 11.de Ribeaupierre, in a state drag, with the ribbons and amid various orders, en a horse Wall capuisooed, led by two Tothrharlarn. IL humeditely behind M. de Ribeaupierre, M. Franchise, the badrlgutnan of the Legation. 19. A numerous suite of merchants and others. When tine procession approached the square of Tope km, the two squadrons of artillery formed a double bat, on each side between which the Ambassador Passed. At the place of embarkation, M. de Ribeau pine Went on board the vessel belonging to the Em bassy; a second was prepared for the members of the Ligation; but the merchants and domestics went on L oud three retirees, or the b oats o f t h e merchantmen _ longi ng to the persons in the procession, in which the Russian flag was displayed. At the landing place of Unkapan, the Ambassador vas recei ve d b y a Tschaush.basche, or Marshal of the i.mpire, and the Chief blaster of the Ceremonies. After taking coffre, the procession set out again. At the head e a+ a division of 100 men of the New Cavalry, and woad division of Horse Artillery of 50 men. The wan of the procession was the same as on the other lacve, with the except i on that the Tschokadares con. 'send ten led horses, richly caparisoned. The Tchansch Baschi was o n h orse b ac k on t h e l e f t o f .. di Ribeaupierre, though he usually precedes Am. 641 acrs of the second rank: 120 horses had been got Yp l) .' e ldioess for the suite. A t t h e gate o f t h e Grand izier the cavalry drew up ; at the gate of the Seraglio 14e rest of the poets:ion entered it. M. de Ribeaupierre "thud on the biocktesch (footstool) of the Vizier, the : 111 r person s a l ig h ted as they pleased. Within the Court l wets too compa n i es o f t h e N ew Troops, drawn In a st luase. At th e corner were pol i shed cannon— d'7 P re sented arms to the Ambassador. the teeePtin as o at the Grand Vizie r ' s t h ere w :th in ing new, ex cept that, as a mark of respect, an at ms wan given to M. de Ribeaupierre, instead of the ;oaf stool, A h orse, r i chly caparisoned, and a sabre, , Prepared f ur the Ambassador, as presents from the trond Vizier. He was invested, as well as seven per sol. his s u i te, with pelisses of sable: ten others re c_e .. es co prilss. ere v mine, and fourteen othe r i n di v id ua l s eijLegation obtained ket akes. : 'dine order was o b served on both sides of the rur I n returning in the evening. The Mihrandar ac ""iparied the Ambassador to has hotel . On his arrival a t Peru, the ' „Liu, music, The Ambassador was welcomed by a band of "I • lhe finest weather had favoured this tes ta . • Qils which drew into the streets a countless mul ti:l,a, ,i cre ,; spectators. Th e h orse w hi c h •M . de Ribeau• eceived from the Grand Vizier is valued at 3,000 Porgy the trappings, which are very tich, at 10 _t_the sabre at 1,500 or 2,000 piastres; the pelisse 1.000 pia , tres. In return for these presents, the •••tinslar reeved one worth 10,000 piasttes; and FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 13, 1827. the persons employed in the ceremony t,300 piastres. It is said that M. de Ribeaupierre has brought a pelisse worth 60.000 piastres, as a present from the Emperor to the Sultan, as well as other presents for the Ministers. Today M. de Ribeaupierre had his solemn audience of the Sultan. Since the news of the capitulation of Athens, we have heard nothing important from that quarter. The Se. raskier has sent 3,000 men to .legara, to drive away the Greeks, who are spread over the country. Alter the Greeks had evacuated the entrenched camp in the Phalerus in the night of the 27th May, the Turks hoisted their colours on the Monastery of St. Spiridion, which they seem to have occupied without resistance, for some Greek stragglers who could not reach in time the vessels sent from Salamis, were cut down by the Turkish ca val&y which overtook them. The Seraskier receives reinforcements every day; among others are 5,000 men, brought towards the end of May, by Ibrahim Bey, of Vallo. a, which gave rise to the report that I'srahim Pacha had arrived at Corinth. The latter was at Pains, where he bad set at liberty the garrison of Castle Tornese, which he had brought to. that place. I'he Egyptian fleet, which arrived at Mo son on the 22d April, with ammunition and money, dailed on the 10th May to return to Alexandria. Four days afterwards the fleet from Constantinople, of So sail, which arrived from the D irdanelles under the com• rand of Taber Pacha, arrived at blavarin. Aust. Ms. FROM ?Re CANSTITUTIONNZL. PARIS, Jinx 9. The Mateiliar has now joined its voice to the voices of the Journals of the departments, and congratulates us on what we say, or rather on what we are allowed. to say. We wish to take no praise which we have not deserved. If we have been exposed as the interprets• dons of mslevolence, we shall content ourselves with referring to all our articles, to our words and our silence, and to the general spirit in which our Government is conducted. We have sail, since the Censorship under the present Ministry will not put in our urn any other than black balls, and as we expose them to broad day. we refer to the good sense of our readers to distinguish the colour, The Quotidienne says, " That a Ministerial Paper applauded itself, two days back, for what it had not seen in the newspapers since the establishment of the Censorship. It would represent silence as a benefit, and the repose of the Press as a new era for society. There was a time when this happiness was complete, and when the people knew no other emotions than those of private life, and when public affairs were only known to them as uninteresting reports of what occurred at a distance. What can be gained by returning to a prac tice which has already conducted the State to the brink of a precipice ? 44 We shall not favoisr this political apathy; on the contrary, we shall endeavour to keep the public atten tion alive by facts. being persuaded that the existence of a people is not altogether in the vicissitudes of fine weather and rain.'—" Since the establishment of the Censorship, the Aloniteur throughout all its long co lumns writes Vive b Liberte ; and every evening the Gazette de France, like the Moniteur, cries Vive la Lilierte. Perhaps the Editors of these two Papers will end by crying Vise la License, for is there not license in mocking at other people as we list?" EXTRACT OF A PRIVATE LETTER. AUGSBURG, JULT 4. It might have been believed, after the categorical re fusal of the Turkish Minister, that the Christian Diplck matists would have immediately asked their passports; but all the Ambassadors have remained at their posts, contenting themselves with informing their respective Courts of the want of success of these missions. A private letter from St. Petersburgh states, that the Emperor Nicholas is fit mly determined to oppose with energy the total extermination of his brethren in reli gion, in Greece- This le:ter bears a date anterior to the period when the last dispatches from Constantinople could have been received in that city ; nevertheless, the actual presence of Field Marshal Count d'Ossen-Sacken, at St. Petersburg!), is mentioned there, as formerly, to have a direct reference to the measures which are im mediately about to be taken, after it is definitiVely ascer tained that the attempts of Diplomacy will be unavail ing. Count d'Ossen-Sacken, they say, is designed for the chief command of the army of operation, and it is in order to receive the commands of the Emperor on that head that he has been called to St. Petersburgh, where he will problably prolong hit stay until the ar rival of dispatches from M. de Ribeaupierre communi• cafe the definitive issue of the negotiations with which he is charged, and which are expected from day to day. YROK THE QUOTIDIEN V E.--(PRI VATE CORRESPO ND ens.) LISBON, Justin. It appears that the fate of Portugal is about to be ir revocably fixed ; it will be indebted to the patronage of Austria, which has taken up the facts, and the cause, with peculiar interest. We expect, with much anxiety, a message which is to arrive from Vienna; the piece of news has contributed to calm our spirits. No doubt is entertained that Don Miguel is speedily to reign over us ; it is even asserted that he will be crowned on the first of August this year. The whole of this is planned with the consent of England, which is well aware that its position is untenable. In fact, all the contracts for provisions have been cancelled, and the paymaster of the English army, who had made a treaty for the exchange of London bills with the French house of Guillot and Company, has announced to that house, that in a month their transactions will terminate. It is added, that the English troops, instead of returning to England, will be sent to Gibraltar and Malta. ON THE ENGLISH OPPOSITION. Mr. Canning is exposed to a violent Opposition, and he is reproached with having united himself to the mo derate Whigs, who represent the enlightened classes of England. This Minister is not shaken; he knows that an Opposition is a necessary element of a flee Govern ment, and that an Administration, strong in its princi ples and good intuitions, must abide the corkequences. The sy,•ew he has adopted is a popular system; advan tageous to the commercial prosperity of England, and he pursues it with firmness in the midst of contradic tions. Some men of talents, and s4r. Peel among others, have separated themselves from Mr. Canning ; but as a compensation, he receives the support of see& ral members of both Houses, of the most honourable character, of approved capacity, and who enjoy the highest consideration. The names of Lord Lansdown, Lord Holland, and Lord Dudley and Ward, are gua rantees that the Ministry will never forsake the pin cipl..s of legal liberty, and will follow, both in foreign and home policy, that line of conduct which has raised British influence to so high a pitclt.. It is a good thing for the Greeks that the English Administration is thus composed. The interests of religion and humanity will not again be sacrificed to that political selfishness which degrade.. nations, as vulgar selfishness degrades individuals. The news of the accession of England to the res lotions of Rossi', ihough it comes late, is a fortunate event. We hope that tie intererence will be immediate and active, and that we shall not have to groan over the an•,ihilation of Greece. The more we know that people, the more we are convinced that it is worthy of receiving the benefits of independence and liberty. They have escaped too recently from the fetters 14 despotism, which corrupts and degrades everything. not yet to bear some of its Marks; but as instruction is spreaJ among them, as they give themselves up to pro ductive industry,and to the developments of their natural genius, they will shorten the dist-ince which separate them from those nations which are advanced in civili zation. The heroes of 'Nara. Missnlonghi, of the Acro polis, the companions of MiaOlissand of the unfortunate Karaiskaki, are worthy of living under the empire of law and justice. PRIVATE CnRRI4PONDENCIL MADRID, Jouz 21. Sedition, placards were lately affixed at Cuenca, where the Police have endeavoured to discover the au• thors of this crime. In consequence of this, a lively altercation ensued between the Secretary of the Intend ' ant of Police and one of the Regidors, whom the Secre tary accused of being himself the author of the placards. The Regidor complained to Madrid, and had sufficient interest to procure the dismissal of the Secretary. The salary assigned to the Duke of Satz Carlo. is twelve thousand doubloons ; that of M. Vitlalba is fixed at one thousand dollars. Some persons, who dislike the latter, sent a representation to the King, to which the has not deigned to reply. THE CARNIVAL AT LISBON. The Vigil of Ash-Wednesday is observed in an true Catholic countries as an evening of rare festivity. In Ireland they toss you pancakes, in one of which a wedding-ring ii enclosed. Happy is the man or maid to whom a slice of that pancake falls. In Italy it is upheld with a romantic and poetical splendour. Like everything else at Lisbon, the whole day is a compound of the disgusting and the delightful. The entire popu lation in the morning are employed in excesses, which none but a Portuguese could tolerate or invent. The night happily ends in dancing and music. The three days, commencing on the Sunday called Fat Sunday, and ending on this night, are denominated the Carnival. The two first days are in no ways -dis tinguished but by the deaths of undigestiug Pietists, who overeat themselves in a devout farewell to meat. I On the Tuesday, with the dawn of light. the spirit of the hour begins. I wish that I were poetical, for how can plain prose describe it? You observe. for some days previous, how busily the gallegos are employed in (etching water to the various houses in your vicinity, and what mighty stores of chalk-flour, eggs, and oranges are collected. You see all the urchins around you preparing tiny hollow reeds, from which water is to be ejected in the eyes of the unsuspecting victors; and all the ruffians arranging large s)ringes for the same purpose. I would not venture to say that Ladies use such deadly weapons, were I not aware that a Captain of the Lancers, who came down from the country for the ball, was disabled from attending it by the shower with which a damsel of quality did defile his shirt-frill. You also see masses of clay collected in each balcony, and you hear a general advice given to strangers, not to trust themselves in the streets. The children of every family are all alive with expectation at the coming frolic, and to speak the truth, the grown-up world are no less impatient. If the character of a people be taken from their amusements, the Portuguese will rank on this occa sion about the lowest in the scale of civilization. The whole farce consists in throwing eggs and oranges at every person whose business compels him to appear in the streets, or showering flour and then dropping water upon it, on every man's coat that has the least pretension to gentility, and in pouring pail-fulls of water, com bined with all villainous mixtures in it, on every hat that covers a head. Ail the artifices which we employ in England, to entrap each other from the house by false letters and messages on the Ist of April, is resorted to here on this day. Commands from uncles—mes sages from dying relations orders fr o m p u bli c - o ffi ces, and all sorts of fictitious formalities are circulated. Old birds are sometimes caught by the ingenuity in which these deceits are wrapped up. Strangers are sure to catch it. If you venture on horse Sack, you are a mark for the whole range of batteries, angular and diagonal; if you take a sege, the a Wows are battered in, and gallego ruffians deliberately throw every thing revolting on you. The safest way, if it be lite and death, which compels you to go out, is to steal along the sides of the streets under the cover, which the balconies afford. A; every open space, however, you must make up your mind to suffer; for up to the seventh story. are devils lying in wait with basins of water simultaneously to let tall upon you. • While you loathe the tormentoss, you cannot help laughing at the tormented, provided you be safe yourself. A pour fellow creeps along in safety for some time, till getting into one of these connecting spaces, he takes a sly look up to see how the mischief is best to be avoided—on the instant down comes the deluge; if his moth oe open, he only swallows a pint full—his eyes, his lace, and chest, receive the remainder of a gallon or two. This sport is not confined to children or servants, or the lower classes only. I assure you there is scarcely a Gentleman or Lady in Lisbon, who is not as active as toe humblest person. The love of mischief, and the pleasure of seeing others suffer those fixed principles of noble human nature set us all at work. There is no re sisting the inward man. Were I to tell you the dignified persons whom I saw tapping innumerable barrels of dirty [PRICE SEVENPENCE. water, you would not believe me. A, the day wears on, the combined armies in the various balconies. for want of fresh victims in the streets, turn their arms against each other. Those in the upper balconies watch those who pop their heads out of the lower, to play the same pranks on them which they have pestered the pedestrian with. The devils at the top of the house, like him who 'looks over Lincoln," have a supremacy of mischief.— The only annoyance which the lower residents can give the upper, is by a discharge of water from syringe., but then for every pint full he receives a pail full. One rascal, who had a small garden engine, swept the world before him. When the home artillery are exhausted, then the gallegos and boatmen begin their horse play. They pelt each other with all sorts of defilements, The shops have been closed all the day; a nice hand the man must have who takes dawn the shutteh the next warning. This is the Carnival at Lisbon. I assure you I do not exaggerate nor burlesque it. The time was, I un derstand, when gallantry, romance, and music, corn• hinei to tender the days delightful; but as. Portuguese report is me, that on maters of taste there is no disputing, perhaps the present system is by much the better. As to gallantry, no doubt you have the esters. teal still ; romance is all nonsense and street music they say, is but a waste of sweetness. Tuesday being the last meat day, is devoted to a great dinner festivity among the natives. The poorest man has pork, Bologna sausages, and a roast ; the rich stuff themselves with all sorts of fleshiness. A physician has assured me that there are very few persons who are not made ill by the surfeit on this occasion. 'Formerly the day was closed by a popular masquerade; at present there are but a few private houses who open their rooms to receivi such company. I could not hear of any one respectable person who did so this year. The ball at the Portuguese Rooms Is the grand at traction, for which all minor entertainments are de serted. Those who are not subscribers, or who cannot proem invitations, content themselves with throwing squibs and crackers at the singers, and at each other, at throperw—with the happy number who hold tickets all is bustle and prepararion. I was told the fete WA* to be a combination of masquerade, fancy ball, and dress ball. 1 was anxious that the first should pre ponderate, as I was desirous to compare Southern wit end hilarity with our broad doings at the Opera . House and Argyll Rooms, where Mr. Wright and Mr. Ebers assemble the world, as they say, under the direction of sit Noblemen; and I was also solicitous •to see to what extremities would Portuguese fancies reduce the natiee beauties of their belles. From the result, how ever, I have to learn that London is a very superior place for a masquerade to Lisbon, and that the Ladies here roe too sensible dt the impression which the reality of their beauty makes, to awaken it by any ill-suited and 'extravagient fancy costume. The rooms were filled at an early hour ; every one agreed that such a crowd had not been seen since the days the late King honoured them with his preence.-- All the lower benches were illuminated at eight o'clock by the brilliant eyes of two or three hundred diustrious damsels, and ,the still more piercing and expressive eyes of a few Spanish maidens. Their mammas were seated on an upper tier, As the mourning soil donii tined, every one was dres-ed in black, with the excep tion of a few English Ladies, whose tasteful white dresses relieved the general sombre character of the costume. All the Ambassadors, with the 'excepti -n of him of .Vlacli id, were preseat ; and in short nothing wanted to complete the triumph of the Directors of the Assembly, who generally find that the Foreign Rooms, as the English are called, excel them in the number and the character of the company. There were no fancy dresses unless that of a Spanish girl— who realized ail that Lord Byron tells of ihe 'night and majesty of loveliness—might be so termed. One young Lady was masqued, but she made n st the least attempt to support a character. Unhappily we had mine of bur Huss as, Lancers, or Guardsmen present, to sustain the fame which the former ball had bestowed on them. Their places were taken by the Officers of his Majesty's Navy, who were, as they deserved, to win all the ho flours of the night. I prote;t the Portuguese Ladies have quite enough to do to a ithstand the tremendous assaults making this season on their hearts by so many branches of service. The most beautiful are captured by the Commanders at bath sides and even those who escape the great guns of the Majors, Captains, and Lieutenants, are certain to be picked up by the Mid shipmen and Ensigns—not to speak of the Marines, who have a monstrous swallow for beauty of all shapes and sizes. Talk of the British fleet in the Tagus pre serving a neutrality—why, Sir, they have nr.t left an enemy in petticoats unconquered at either side of the river—they have invaded every man's and woman's house where fl daughter's black eyes held out a Motive of conquest, and secured, I know nut how, good- w ill free quarters, and a goo d name every where. s About six masks appeared in the course of the night. A duller half dozen arver ventured on busiuess in that line. One of them bad a small plain looking-glass, and a concave initror, which -increased every deformity, which he went about presenting to the company. Toe character might be mitre a great deal of, particularly in a place where every body is so well known as in Lis- - boti ; but he did not make a single point worth notice. Another dressed as Giovanni, but Heaven knows, he was perfectly innocent in art and intention. Your grandmother and grand-daughter were equally safe in his hands. A third, with a paper butterfly stuck on the end of a wire projecting flow his hat, played the great booby, and pretended to chase it. His dress was like that of Billy Lackaaiay, done by Liston; his dullness was his own, and done to a turn. The best character was that of au English Naval Officer, battered by hard service, and soured by disappointment. The task itself was inimitably moulded, the lower lip projected dis dainfully over the upper, and the eyes were contracted to maintain an ill-natured villainous squint for the whole evening. He had a good idea of the character, and attracted a considerable share of attention. Dancing was kept up with great spirit till three in the morning—an hour unusually late for Lisbon. There was one waltz in which a few only joined, as it is not considered good taste by the Portuguese Lathe, to eza Libit in puulic in the dance. At a private ball they AIL ‘ ll l I I - t