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THE GREEKS AND THE TURKS. 11031 THE FRENCH PAPERS. The Gazette of Amsterdam contains the following extract of a letter from Odessa of the 14th of July, con tained in a letter from Vienna of the 4th inst.(August). CONSTANTINOPLI, JULY 14.—After the arrival here of advice: from the Capitan of the capture and destruc tion of Ipsara, which news was also confirmed by the Pachas of Smyrna, Chios, and Mitylene, the English Legation in this city received a letter by express of the 7th of July, from Smyrna, announcing the news, that the Turkish troops, after debarking at Ipsara, were destroyed ; that twenty-five vessels from Hydra and Spenxia, immediately alter the debarkation of the Mus -sulmans, fell on the Turkish fleet, and either captured or sunk a great number of the small vessels, took three frigates, and so shattered the Admiral's ship, that he was obliged to seek safety by flight, after his bowsprit was carried away, and he was otherwise much injured." PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE 1 ' ZAINTII, JULY 19. Posterity will scarcely believe to what a pitch of exaltation the spirit of the Greeks was raised - at the news of the disasters of Ipsara. There is not a ship nor a decked vessel in the Archipelago which was not im mediately launched to harass the Turks everywhere that they could surprise and attack them. It is now known that a vast conspiracy was hatched against the Cross by the agents of Christian Powers. What will the Franks of Smyrna answer, when it shall be proved to them that they were the authors of the calamities of Ipsara? What reason will they oppose, when it shall be told them, that not content with having furnished plans to the Capitan Pacha, with having corrupted the mercenaries who betrayed the Ipsariots, they piloted the barbarians even to the place of their disembark ation? How will the naval European nations justify themselves, who have not stretched a charitable hand to a single Christian ? Thete are counted at this mo ment in the Turkish fleet ten Russian and fourteen Aus trian vessels, freighted to carry the biscuit, flour, and Trovisions of Egypt to the army of the Capitan Pacha. hus the Hellenists have not only for enemies the bar barians of Turkey, of Europe, of Asia, and of Africa, but even the navy of Christian Powers, which to them is so much the more fatal, as they are compelled to respect their flag." THE CENSORSHIP OF THE FRENCH PRESS. We have received the articles which were suppressed on Monday last, from the Constitutionnel and the Cou rier Francais. It appears that the Editors of those papers did not expect that the censorship would be in force until Tuesday, the established rule in France being, that no law or ordonnance shall have effect until 24 hours after its promulgation. The ordonnance for the renewal of the censorship having appeared in, the Konitenr of Monday, the conductors of the other paoers. finding that they had twenty-four hours before them, prepared their journals in the usual way. On Monday evening, however, a Commissary of Police waited upon the Editors, and delivered to them the following letter: " Paris, Acguit 16, " SlR—An Ordonnance of the King, dated yesterday, and in serted to-day in the 41foniteur, signifying that the laws of the 31st March, 1820, and of the 26th July, 1821, relative to the Journals, should be again put to force ; and another (hdonnauce of his Ma j..lsty, regulating the mode of execution, having also appeared, I in vite you to send this evening to the Hotel of the Director of Police, No. :16, hue de Grenelle, St. Get main, two proofs of the Journal of which you are the responsible publisher, to be there examined, an I nintrowed, if proper (s'il y a lieu). " Accept, Sir, the assurance of my perfect consideration, " The Counsellor of State, Prefect of Police, " DELAVA U." The Editors of the papers had, of course, no alter native, and the proofs of their papers were sent to the Police as desired. The censors, as has been already stated, were not sparing in the exercise of their power. Even the lettet of M. Delavau, which the Courier Fran cais bad inserted by way of explanation to its readers, was struck out ; and also, amongst other things, a theatrical criticism upon a new meld-drama, in which plebeian virtue is made to triumph over aristocratic ty ranny. The most curious article in the way of news which the censors suppressed, is the following. It is another proof of the blessed state of that country, for which a set of speculators, some of them, we regret to state, natives of this country, are endeavouring to raise a loan for the purpose of crushing the indepen dence of South America. FROM THE COURIER FRANCAIS. We have received several letters from Saragossa, all of which give the same account of the disorders which have just taken place in that city. It appears that some of those fanatics who enjoy there a great popularity, and who had thought it prudent to abandon the place when a French garrison entered, emboldened by the impunity ss !rich has accompanied their crimes, have audaciously re-entered Saragossa, and agaia inflamed the zeal of their partisans. They seized adroitly, as pretexts for this purpose, the disarming of the division del Royo, and an order of the Captain-General, which prohibits the Royalist volunteers from wearing their swords when off duty. They succeeded in raising a body of 3,000 men, chiefly volunteers, a part of which force appeared before the hotel of the Count d'Espana, insulting him grossly, and shouting, " Down with the police !" " Death to the French !" Another body pro ceeded to the house of the Intendant of Police, and in sulted him in a similar manner. The Captain-General, accompanied by only one person, rushed from his house among the crowd, and with drawn sabres, laying right and left, drove the cowardly wretches to the very gates of the city—shouting, however, in their flight 44 Matarle matatle ! quc va so :o !"—(kill him, kill him, he is atone.) At one of the extremities of the city they were joined by a great number of their friends, but they dispersed at the sight of the French troops, who, at the solicitation of the Count of. Espana, had arrived with their artillery. At the departure of the cou rier, several of the ringleaders had been arrested ; among theme >ti man who is called Cita() Anos (five years), and who has acquired great celebrity by his crimes. The Captain-General has published an order against the assembly . of persons in the streets beyoncilhe number of four. We save received a file of Bombay papers to the 24th of April, inclusive. They contain no local intelligence, but bring down the news from Calcutta to the Bth of April. Vigorous preparations were making both there and at Madras for the contest with the Burmese. Letters had arrived from the camp of Briga dier Mac Morino. on the Burmese frontier, announcing that that Officer was continuing his advance towardi Goahatty, as diligently as circumstances would permit; but that lie expected some deten tion, in consequence of the non-arrival of 'part of his force, espe cially the boudoirs aid some regular infantry. Goahatty wee Mid to be tho• attgulleet post possessed by the enemy in Western Aatar‘and Uhl*, Almiefore' to be defended with proportionate re soludan. Tbe swum elf the enuntry on the Burmese border is de- WO ) " as atilisisas to datop thi ardour of the bravest troops. THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. TUESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1824. ST. BMITHOLOXZW.—HoIiday at the Bank. THE FUNDS. STOCK EXCHANGE. TWELVE O'CLOCK. Consols opened this morning at 931 for the Aecoun4, with some business doing, but to no great extent; and up to this hour they are 931, ;• It was reported at Paris, on Saturday evening, that the Kness was much indisposed, in consequence of which, it is said, the French Rentes lowered a little. Thursday will be Settling-day in Consols, and it is generally be lieved that it is a Bell Account. This is a Holiday at the Bank, and Consols are, for next time, 93i. —We have neit►er reports nor news on 'Change. FOREIGN FUNDS. In the Foreign Market this morning the most done was in Mexi can and Colombian Securities. Current Prices:—New Spanish 17i, Old 221 1, Alliance Shares 111 121, Russian 961, Mexican 481 to 1, Colombian Scrip 81 die. Colombian 77, Chilian nothing doing, New Prussian 971, Old 981, Portuguese 871, Brazilian 11 disc. French Scrip 121, Aus. trian 951 1. It was reported in the City this morning, that the King of FRANCE was dangerously ill t and that the news had depressed the French rentes on Saturday. This is not true, and we are enabled to state, on the best au thority, that the King of FRANCE was, on Saturday, in better health than he had been for some time. At a late hour this forenoon we received, by Express, the Second Edition of M. de CHATEA ÜBRI A ND*3 Pam phlet, entitled, La Censure que ton yield d'etohlis en vertu de CArticle dc la Loi du 17 Mars, 1822. We learn from our Correspondent, that 5,000 copies of the first edition were sold in three hours, although the Censor ship prevented the brochure from being advertised in the Journals. " The Censorship," says M. CHATEAU BRIAND, in his Preface, " would not allow this brochure to be announced in the Journals, although the title cer tainly contains nothing seditious. Is there anything in it against the KING or the Law? Does the title state whether the author is for or against the Censorship ? What instinct in the Censors ! What marvellous saga city ! But I shall say no mere; my name is printed in the title-page of the brochure. Is it possible to believe that we are under the Ministry of Messrs. CORBIERZ and De VILLELE ? " In the preface to the second edition, N. de CHATZAU• ERIAND alludes to the rapid sale of the first, which he says was sold in less time than it was written, notwith standing the Censors would not let it be advertised, and the post refused to transmit copies to the Departments as usual. " This," he observes, 44 says nothing in fa vour of the work, but k shews how far public opinion is in favour of the tribunals, and with what ardour it demands the liberties of the public, in opposition to the present Ministerial system." In a preceding page we have given some curious anecdotes respecting the French Censorship, but these are nothing to those which M. de CHATEAUBRIAND'S pamphlet supplies. Among the articles struck out of the Journal des Debate of last Tuesday, the 17th, was Ist, A second article taking a retrospective view of the business of the last Session of the Chamber of Deputies; 2d, The advertisement of M. CHATEAUBRIAND'S pam phlet; and, 3dly, Some lines on the sensibility of the Duc d'OaLEANs, on hearing that his son, the Duc de CHARTRES, had obtained a prize! Against the Constitutionnel the Censors were still more severe, and that Journal was even precluded from mentioning the Duc d'Anootmeme as engaged in a cause much more honourable to humanity than lead ing a French army in Spain to restore FERDINAND VII. t.. his absolute authority. Indeed M. de CIIATRAU. BRIAND says, the thing seemed so improbable, that he could not believe it was suppressed until he saw the article. It was merely a notice sent from the Duc d'ANGOULEME, inviting the Members of the Royal Society for Prison Discipline to'meet his Royal High ness at a Sitting of the Society on Thursday ; accom panied by a fe►v remarks of the Editor, expressing a wish that all the abuses which exist in the prisons, and give so much pain to the true friends of humanity and religion, could be made known to his Royal Highness; that he might be well informed on a subject so worthy of his beneficence and humanity. Well may M. de CHATEAUBRIAND ask if there is anything in such an article that could excite the wrath of the Censors, those "rogueurs de phrases," as he terms them. He continues—" It is, then, no longer permitted to speak of humanity nor of religion; and thus the name of a Prince, the restorer of our army —a name that Europe respects, and France has in scribed among the great actions (fasces) of her glory —is blotted out by some obscure Censors in a police office. It is true that the Prince, though a Chris tian, is suspected of being attached to the Charter. It is true that all parties in Spain have found their only shelter in his sword ; that be has inculcated concord in the midst of divisions; that he has repressed the ram blings of liberty, as well as the vagaries of arbitrary power; that he is opposed to re-actions and vengeance; that he has not suffered proscriptions to dishonour his atmy, and that the piles of the Inquisition have given way to the altars raised to his victories." In the pamphlet, M.de CHATEAUERIAND commences by alluding to a speech he made in the Chamber of Peers on the 13th of March, 1823, in which, in re plying to a previcus speaker, he said, 44 A Noble Baron anticipates that France will be invaded and all our liberties destroyed by Spain. As to the in vasion of France and the loss of /Air public liberties, one thing shall console me, that these events shall never take place while I and my colleagues are Ministers. —The NoWe Ba.roh, who possesses to much talent, and, such generous sentiments, will parClon this assertion." . —These words, and the iiitablialment of the Censor ship, M. de CHATEAUBRIAND sari, explain why lie• is no longer Minister, and the Muse 'of ise treat ment he has experienced from his colleagues; but he says he will leave persons, and speak only of France. " I need not repeat," he says, " what I have said a hundred times in the tribune, and what I have printed a hundred times in my works, that there can be no Re presentative Government without the Liberty of the Press. With the Censorship of the Journals, the Con stitutional Monarchy will become either more weak or more violent than Absolute Monarchy. It is a weak or unruly machine, which interrupts by the complexity of its wheels, or breaks by the force of its motion." The Ex-Minister then proceeds to notice the fourth article in the law of the 17th of March, 1822, which provides for the revival of the Censorship, and contends that according to the spirit of that law, no event or cir cumstance has occurred to justify its revival. The article says, "if in the interval of the Sessions of the Chambers, serious circumstances should render ineffec tual for the moment, the measures of guarantee and re pression established, the Censorship may be again put in force." " I demand," says M. de CHATILAUERIAND, "if the case provided for by the lag► has occurred ? Are fo reign armies at our gates ? Is there any conspiracy in the interior ? Is the throne menaced ? Has one of our beloved Princes fallen under the dagger of a new Louvel? No—happily not. What, then, has hap pened ? Why, the Minister has committed some faults : he has lost a majority in the Chamber of Peers ; he is detected before the tribunals of shameful nego ciations, in order to purchase opinions—he has dissi pated the advantageous results of. the expedition in Spain; that he has separated front the Royalists; in one word, that he appears incapable of his offices.— These are the serious circumstances which compel us to violate the fundamental liberty of institutions which we owe to the wisdom of the KING. If the circum stances are serious he has made them so, and it is against himself that he has established the Censorship." M. de CHATBAUBRIAND then proceeds to an exposé of the circumstances which have led to the revival of the Censorship, against which he ably contends; he speaks with great bitterness against his rival, M. de VILLELE, though not by name, and contends that the country is endangered by the measures he pursues. In conclusion, he says," The remedy is easy if the malady is' taken in time; if it is suffered togo on,it becomes incurable. I cannot develope all my thoughts in this little pamphlet, the rapid work of a few hours, which I publish in a hurry on account of the importance of the subject. It is hard for me, that am so far advanced in my career, to reengage in struggles which have consumed my life; but aPeer of France and a Magistrate, I cannot see public liberty perish. I could not see the tribunals attacked without raising my voice, without giving my support, feeble as it may be, to the institutions that were endan gered. That the throne of our wise Monarch may re main unassailable—that Fra . nce may be free and happy is my prayer—and as to my own destiny, let it be as Gon pleases." M. de CIIATEAUBRIAND'S Preface to the second edi tion is only dated on Friday, and had not our Corres pondent procured an early copy, and sent it by Express, we could not thus have given even a hasty outline of a document so interesting. Our Correspondent, in a private letter, says--« M. de CHATEAUBRIAND leaves Paris on Wednesday, for Switzerland, but returns in three weeks to Paris. Par ties are at the highest pitch. A few days will probab}y contain important Ministerial intelligence." The Paris Papers of Saturday, which we have received, are still barren of interesting intelligence, except as to the late insurrection in Spain, on which, notwith standing the Censorship, they are permitted to speak pretty freely. Even the Moniteur, in its unofficial part, contains a statement which shrews that the rising had excited some alarm. The following is the account of the affair in the French Official Journal: " Authentic news from Cadiz, dated the 6th of August, state that a party of fifty Revolutionists, who came out of Gibraltar, sur prised the town of Tarifa on the morning of the 3d. The Governor was at Algesiras, and the Spanish garrison had nut time to defend itself. The Revolutionists killed an Officer who attempted to de fend the island, and immediately armed sjsme malefactors who were confined in the prisons. On the first news of this event, the Spa nish General O'Donnel, who commands the camp at St. Roch, sent a detachment against the place. As soon as this affair was known at Cadiz, Lieut.-General Foissac Latour gave orders to Colonel d'Astorg to proceed to Tarifa with a battalion of infantry and a squadron of cavalry, and to retake the place. His Majesty's cor vettes Diana and Pomona have sailed from Cadiz to support the attack, and to hinder the Revolutionists from escaping. There Is every reason to believe that the simultaneous employment of these forces will have sufficed to chastise the authors of this mad attempt, which is said to be conducted by a Colonel Valdes, or by Ordinziez. A similar attempt was made upon the little town of Cotapona, near Malaga; but the inhabitants having timely notice, took arms and repulsed the Revolutionists:* None of the other Papers say anything respecting the surprise of Tarifa. They confine themselves to copying the article in the Etoile, which we quoted in our lag. The Quotidknne alludes to subjects of a different kind, in a letter from Madrid, dated August 9, in which it is stated that the hastening the expedition against America is more than ever agitated ; that for this purpose a *Libor Quavano is to purchase two frigates and seve ral other vessels in England. QURVIIDO, by the bye, is a good name for the leader in so visionary a. project as that of Spain attempting to regain the New World, when she cannot preserve her authority in Europe with out the assistance of 40 or 50,000 foreign bayonets. The Moniteur contains is its official columns some Ordonnances, the object of one of which is the revising and new modelling of decrees which existed previously to the BourbOn restoration. The principal ankles are in these terms: 41 Art. 1. There shall be formed a Committee of Revision, for the purse of collecting and verifying the arrites, decrees, and other regulatory decisions, issued previously to the re-establishment of our authority in our kingdom. se 2. The Committee of Revision shall prepare successively, ac cording to the order of the subjects, projects of Ordonn ances A pro tiog especially and definitively such of those decisions as it shall judge ought not to be maintained. It shall also prepare, and in the same order, projects of ordonnances destined to replace such of the le dispositions as shall have been found useful, and which ought to be preserr " S. t e Committee shall be composed of 12 Members and a Secretary : the latter functions shall be. exercised by a Maitre Go iteguetes in the Council of State." This foretiOon we received Frankfort Papers to Vie 14th instant. An article from Berlin, of the prem u . day, states that the negotiations of the Court of st. tersburgh with the principal i'owers of Western Europ e continue to be carried On with unabated activity._ Another Russian Cabinet Messenger had just passed through, on his way from Paris to St. Petersburgh. The following are extracts : • MUNICH, AUGUST 11. Great attention was excited here by a pistoral letter issued by the Archbishop, under the date of the 9th of June this year, against the prevalent want of zeal in the exercises of religion, and the increasing licentious ness of morals. The letter concludes with a notice, that according to directions which have already been sent to all the French priests of the diocese, those pa rishioners who shall be guilty of illicit intercourse wat , the other sex, both the seducer and the seduced shall not only be held to a more frequent use of the religion , ' means of salvation, according to a certain gradation, but shall, on the first offence, be reproved in pre s ence of their parents ; on the second, in that of some respect able members of the congregation ; and on the third, before the whole congregation ; but on the 4th, be ea chided for a time from the congregation. This pastoral letter has given occasion to a Roy al Declaration, in which, after recognizing the saltuaiy views that may have actuated the Archbishop, di;ap proves the promulgation of this letter without the It )y:.6 consent ; declares null and void the regulations threat ening punishment for repeated misdemeanours in the commerce of the sexes, from consideration of the nu merous difficulties in the execution ; the consequences that would ensue endangering the honour and tran quillity of families, as well as the respect due to the Clergy themselves, and because they evidently exceed the limits of the spiritual authority. The Magistrates are directed in general to employ all proper and legal means in their jurisdiction, in order, with the active co-operation of the Clergy, to check the progress of immorality, and gradually to restore a better state of things; but at the same time to keep strictly within the bounds of their authority. The accounts from South America are by no means of a decisive character. Yesterday afternoon a report prevailed, that BRAVO, the Mexican General, had de dared in favour of ITUnBIDE, but it was a mere Stock-jobbing rumour—and rumour, with its thousand tongues, was never more busy than it has been lately on the affairs of South America. Even forged letters are resorted to, in order to influence the money market. Private accounts from Madrid state, that it is in agi tation to send a Spanish nines at the head of the expe dition to South America. A Prince will certainly be more easily procured than an army. We have received the Royal Jamaica Gazette of the 3d of July, with a Supplement, giving a detailed account of the recent disturbances at Hanover, which appear to have been much exaggerated. Tran quillity was perfectly restored. Accounts from Spanish Town state, that all the suspected persons belonging to the neighbouring estates had been examined, and nothing whatever that was improper was proved against them. In a preceding column we have given some interest ing intelligence from Greece, by which it will be seen that the conquest of Ipsara haS not had the advan- . tageous" result the Turks would anticipate, that of de pressing the ardour of the Greeks; on the contrary, it has shewn the necessity of increased exertion, and as soon as the disasters at Ipsara were known in the Ar chipelago, every island sent out its little fleet to harass the Tulllcs. The Frankfort and Dutch Papers received this morning are also favourable to the Greek cause. The Fran fort Journal of the 13th, says—" We have no authentic accounts respecting the operations of the Greek flotilla; but it is known that that of Ipsita joined those of Hydra and Spezaia in the month of June, and con sequently could not fall into the hands of the Turks on the taking of the island." The Amsterdam Courant of the 21st, says—" In a let ter from Odessa of the 20th (31st) of July, which is of a later date than the Mail from Constantinople of the 25th July, which must arrive in a day or two at Am sterdam, it is reported that the Turks who landed at Ipsara, all found their graves there ; that the Turkis h fleet, after considerable loss, which, however, could not yet be estimated, had left the island and sailed to Mity lene ; that the Ipsariots, not judging themselves strong enough to defend the Island against a second attack of the great Turkish force, had resolved to embark, with their families and all the property they could take with them, and were gone to Napoli di Romania to settle there and to contribute farther, by their heroic bravery, to consolidate their independence." An Edict has been issued, forbidding the Students of the Kingdom of Bavaria to study in any University ex cept that of Erlangen, his Majesty having taken such measures that Protestant Divines shall have all neces sary instruction in that University. The Duke of GLOUCESTER arrived at his residence in Puk.ligne, yesterday morning, from Bagsbot. Mr. Secr tary CANNING transacted business yesterday at the Foreign Office. In the evening, the Right Hon. Secretary had a grand dinner party at Gloucester Lodge. Prince ESTERHARY entertained Prince SAPIENS and a distinguished party at dinner yesterday, at Chandos House, C 3" vendish.square. 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