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• . . . . • _ . ztr • '4l I Ilk 1;41. - • fr. I 1461 . ~. - • - , t*CN /7112-Pla fis-ftada• --ft: ,••• • •* 1..141 • ke/uNidatz ./4 FRIDAY EVENLNG, JANUARY 2, 1829. Numnxit 13,056.] PRICE NEVENPENCE. ADMIRALTY OFFICE. !Wernher 4,1848. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, th at a S ess i on o f • Oyer and Terminer and Gaul Delivery for the Trial of Offences committed on the High Seas, within the Jurisdiction of the Admiralty of England, will be held at Justice Hall, In the Old Halley, London, on MONDAY, the 14th of January next, 'at Fight o'Cloek in the morning: And all Sheriffs, Gaolers. and 'Keepers of PEisons, in whose custody any Prisoners, charged with ' \Vence, committed on the High Seas, or within the .aid Juris . 'diction may be, are hereby required to transmit a copy of the Com . t Initment of every such Prisoner to Mr. CHARLES JONES, the So iichor of the Admiralty, at his Office, No.lo, Lancaster place, Strand, London, in order that the necessary measures may be taken, for removing all such Prisoners to his Majesty's Gaol of Newgatr, for Trial at the said intended Seseion: and all Mayors, Justices, Coroners, and other Officers, before whom any Inqui titian*, Informations, Examinations, or Recognizance, may have time in constant employment, forming trenches, where the dead were laid site by side. The evil is now nearly at an end, but it has Irk such an in.pression here as, like all great events, will form an epoch in the history of the Rock, and such a one as ao one here will desire to see repeated. CHINA. po,tation, and that the sale of the merchandise spreads thrcuLthout the c. witty, the Spanish piastres, sequins, and Hungarian ducats—the only c-ins whit h have cur rency. Here, however, nn proportion is pieserved, for though it may not be doubted th it the resources and means of the Gave, nment have augm nted, it is equally th.t its wants have a still more rapid pr giessi The accounts from Pekin state that the captive rebel, Changkih Urh, who first raised the standard of rebel lion in Western Tanury, had been forw•aided to the Celestial Capital in a cage, and that his Imperial MA• jesty was busily engaged in rewarding his officeisosLo had been most active in bringing the war to a con clusion. On Changling, the chief in command, h.. Majesty had confetred numerous honours. The ful lowing is his case: FRENCH PAPERS. -+ FROM TH. GAZETTE DE TRANCE DFC. SI. CONSTANTINOPLE, Nuv. 27. By the areivals of prowl ions from Egypt and Syria, we are secu.ed for some time against want. Tue Sultan has sent orders to *ll the Pachas in Asia t send pro •ikior,s to the cap.tal by land. At the same time a &- mut has been published, forbidding opulent person; from laying in a great stock of provisions. It is even :opposed that the order to quit the city given to the foreign Greeks and Armenians may be in the sequel eztendej to all the Franks. All the orders given, for many years past, by Who. met Ali. for cannon, arms, whole pat ks of artillery, clothes for his soldiers in the new tale—the purchase and building of shi,s. of war, the purchase of cordage , nd bail. for the teilect eq•iipment •.1 his fleet, and the immense number of Fre.tch, Getman, English, Dutch, and Whin workmen, induced at a great ex• c ense to come t^ Egypt, occasi n an expenditure shich may certainly be put in balance si.h the produce of the es portc. " bungling, a Chinese officer, succeeied in cap turing the rebel chiet upon the fiontiets. He was te warded as follows-- " Had Changling, as soon as he took Cashgar, caught the Monst.r, his merit would have equalled the great warriors of our dynasty Chaoughway and Ok Xci ; AS ten months have ;!lapsed before the rebel was taken, his merit is second to those heroes. However, as he di. not shun difficulties and hardships, but continued hi' pursuit beyond the frontier, to.)k the great wretch alive, caged him, and has forwarded him to Pekin, the ci•est very superior to that of havi.tg commanded the foreign barbarians to deliver him tie Tae present ulcers. was the RAW( of desperate and hazardous effort ; it is ri g ht to bestow es ra:irdinary largesses, and the most si lenJru praise. " Changling is hereby created 4 The Majestic and Valiant Duke,' to be hereditas y without end. I bestow upon him the right to wear a precious stone upon the vertex of his cap, and a round (instead of a square) dragoon badge on his b eas► and back, and re►tore him to the rank of Great &ate:man in the Impetial pie srnce. I confer upon him the right to use a put ple bridle—to wear a double-erd peacock's leather; and I loosen from my own girdle two pur,es, and bestow them upon hint—and an archer's white gem ring Irom my own thumb. The precious stone ka b, the double eyed feather, the round dragoon badges, which be is allowed to wear, I herewith bestow, and also give a white gem double. joy-feat' et-tube fur his cap. I give him a white stone symbol of felicity and prosperity for his sash, and a psir if yellow bordered coo al studded purses to hang at together with four small purses." —Canton Register. been taken touching any such Offences, are required to transmit the same forthwith to Mr. THOMAS SHELTON, the Clerk of Arraigns of the High Court of Admiralty of England, at his Office, at the Sessions House in the Old Bailey. London.-3. W. CROKER. The ltu sian fleet which is at Tenedos is accompanied by a swarm of Greek privateers, whose excesses will again briar/ ruin upon the commerce of the several neutral nations. Nothing could be more agreeable to the Divan at this season, for there is no doubt that this abuse will give rise to collisions between the European Admirals. DR. PARIS ON DIET. —THIRD Emma ENLARGED. This day was published, in Ben. price 10s. 6d. ATREATISE on DIET; with a view to esta bli s h on Practical Grounds, a System of Rules for the Preven tion and Cure of the Discawa incident to a Disordered &ate of the DIGESTIVE FUNCTIONS. By J. A. PARIS, M.D. F.R.S. Fellow of the Royal College of Phyidcians. Printed for Thomas and George Underwood, Sil, Fleet-street. By the same Author, in Two Vols. alto. DR. PARIS'S PHARMACOLOGIA—Sizen Enirsow, .CI 10s. 'Comprehending the Art of Prescribing upon Fixed and Scientific Principles; together with the History of Medicinal Substances; 'containing likewise an Analysis of upwards of One Hundred and Eighty Quack or Patent Medicines. S I e 4 1 7/1. tgL 30, STRAND, London; And sold in every Town in the Kingdom. LIQUID in Bottles, 6d. 10d. 12d. and lad. each. Ake PASTE BLACKING, in Pots, 6d. 124. and 18d. each. rz Be Particular to Inquire for ROB?. W A It RE N'S, 30 STRAND. ♦Ut. OTHERS ARE COVNTEIItRIT. GIBBALTAR, DEC. 20. EXTRACT OF A PRIVATE LATTER. The cases of yellow fever ate now so far diminished in number as to encourage the hope of a speedy release (nom the inconveniences of living so long from home. le three weeks I thit,k we shall be able to return with safety. You cannot easily imagine how tired we are of .our quarters hete; I mean the neutral pound, a small territory between Spain and Gibraltar, which, from its being level with the sea, is always thoroughly ventilated, snit fee from the prevailing malady r f the garrison.— put accommodation is poor in the extreme ; and when I inform you that I bleep and mess in what was, before its occupation by me, a stable, you will be readily convinced that it is so. Many a•e less sheltered and lucre cvlifined in their accotnniotlation. The prima them , who have fled from the slaughter in thegarrison ate encamped, to the number of 'bite or tour thousand people, and base only a coveting of canvass ovet their heads to protect them from the weather. 'All cbmmunicatton with Spain is shut our, except t y letters, which undergo mail put ificat ions before they ate seer on their was, and this system well be adhereu nitro finty days atter the last case of fever. making a stagnation in ou• trade fist a pet Ind of ab• we five months„ which, besides, is ui.t the extent of injury see receive. a; from ptecautiol.aiy meautr ev, we shill have a cor don of obtei ration Oa• ed em next season, and p e rhaps the f.llowit,g, so that it is a blow to• In trade of nr consequence. This fiver has carried riff six Pt ic ,ts out of ten, oni two Rabbis, tl e gat rison Cheplaut and his succe.ot, one Methodist Pat son, eight medical men, ihcludini. die chief medical e ificer. No place of wot ship has beet open since the begthnitig of September, and the funeral *trice ovet the dead of the Protestant persuasion i peritirmed by a Captain in the army, for the want e: another better endowed. Aihriut '1 100 of the inhabitants have died, besid fit 0 of the military. Sixteen grave-2.iggers were at t:t.. The pacific party in the Divan continues its efforts to increase the number ot its partisans; but the Sultan 'emains immoveable in his resolutions. A Moll.th of the Ulemas had ventured to present a memorial to him on the pres-Nit state of the empire, advising him to enter into negociations for peace. The Sultan, after having real the memorial, banished the Mollah to Asia, but sent the document to a committee of the Divan to exam ne it. Since that time several assemblies of the Divan have been held upon this subject. It is remark• able that the Sultan, whose intentions do not appear to change, should yet have honoured the opiniJa of the pacific party with such a distinctio.i. The ex-tii and Vizier Galeb Nam, who has endea- voured to justify himself from the accusations made against him by Omer Vrioni, and by the new Grand Vizier, has excited the pity of the Sultan, after h 45. ing been Vie object cf his anger. lie has sent him 50,000 piastres for his subsistence. It is supposed now that his head is in no danger. Besides the ves,els laden with corn, which have ar rived from Alexandria, two have arrived from the Crimea. Two others from Odessa had only a small quantityof merchandise and wool. A fifth has brought ion from Taganrog. FROM THE CONSTITUTIONNEL. EXTRACT or A PRIVATE LETTER. CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. '29. Every h-fe of accommodation is at An ens. Pro jects of armistice, of recognition, of the enfranchise ment t.f Greece, even on the conditions of suzerainte and political dependence; nothing can i•iduce the lofty head of the Sultan to agree to. El‘s device is all or no thing. " Let the Fie. ch quit the Mo;ea, the Muscovite, Capo d'lstria, depart ; let the chiefs of the insurre:tion against my Sublime Parte be delivered up to me; and than I shall see whether there be room to bestow upon the Frank' those conditions which they held from the favour and the mercy of my glorious ancestors. Let their Kings stnd as many Ambassadors as they please to ask favours, my will that I shall re-enter upon the plenitude of my empire such as it was more than a century ago." This is the strict meaning of the Sultan's answer to all the negoci4tars who wish to ii.terfere in his concerns. In spite of this stupid hauteur, far it proceeds more from obstinacy than strength of character, the Divan would wish to break up the coalition and procure itself alliances, except with that Power which it looks upon as having wished to make a diversion in favour of Rus sia, by the operation of the Morea. It is, meanwhile, attempted to convince them that this was a combination apart from the general question; but the sons of bars barism are not easily to be hoodwinked, more especially' when the Smyrna Paper exclaims against France. The yet nded zeal of this writer, who is a hireling of Austria, was so great that he wanted lately to nave jest.: de joie on account of the reverses experienced by the Russians, and of the fevers which have afflicted the Fresich army since its landing in Messenia ; he would oish that every thing which could injure the holy Turkish empire should be annihilated; and this man yet dares t.s call himself a Frenchman. In truth, there appears a total perver ion in the ideas of these people of theLevant,who believe themselves called upon to trumpet forth despotism as the beau ideal of filmset nments. The Sultan is anxiously des i rous that Ibrahim PACha shosld repair with all his force to the Danube. It is probable that he will do nothing ; and the Viceroy of Egypt, his father, knaws too well his own equivocal position to wish that the Grand Seignior should regain the plenitude of his power. It is said that, by way of a commencement towards the satisfaction of the Porte, Count Guilleminot, who was at Port's, will depart from Greece. He is by this time embarked on beard the Breslau, for Naples, where, if it please Pnovionoce, the negotiations will be re newd during the Carnival. This kind of eclipse will explain itself without any comment; f ,, r it is pretty well politiect that great diplomatic s, who have always pro phesied the reverse of what has happened, have need to return to obscurity ; there it is that they may restore themselves. Notwithstanding the boldness of the Divan, it is not at all at ease reputing the tranquillity of the capital. His Highness has already granted remission to the in habitants of Constantinople to leave off the military uni , form which he had commanded them to wear. The Nlufti, who is the Turkish Pope, no longer wears the sabre and the dagger ; the bt Ea' or sacristans of the Mosques are relieved from being exercised in the, Austrian manner. W4it but a short time, and there ell he a re-action against the new institutions. Already 'it is found that the conficatiqns of the good old times are profitable. Taking other people's property is a m a tte r so conren;enr, that a heavy hand is again lad u, on the goods of the Armenians and the Jews. There is some talk of a Congrese, ti, assemble at An cona or some other city, under this specific erudition that it be nut in a country where the press is fife, in no to avoid indiscriminste disclosures; tut It is al Aay ft lith dosed doors that the tate of nations is to be deli berated on. Fatacn FUNDSPAIUS, Dtcrstssa 30.—Five per Cents. 106 f ofse. Three per Cents. 731. 90c. Hank Stock. 1,8106 Roue,. 'e Nayks, 771. 65c. Royal Spanish Loan, 79E. Spanish Rene t petuelle, 4811. Ilaytian Loan, 49,11. Esch.tuie ou London, one ,south, 251. 25c.; three months, 251. luc. r; at d kz t it ~~ oil k of the a' THE OLD SOLDIER TURNED POLITICIAN" " warrivo" perms " morrow." A Decidedly Cot stitution a l J ourna l, un d er t h e .1411. popular title of " Till OLD &moms," will be published, ‘Price 7d.) on SUNDAY NEXT, the 4th of January, l 829; and as there are Politicians and Agitators ridiculous in themselves, and whose consummate vanity places them in ridiculous situations, one Mode by which " Tut OLD SoLtolt*" will attack such persons will IT, ST ILLUSTAATING THIS POLITICS or Tilt DAT 1111 CARICATURIS. ,The first subject of the Series will represent "The Old Soldier turned Poltician." "Dying," not "talking," being the charac teristic of "Tits OLD &nom," a Preliminary Address to his Country is published at the Office, No. 4, Catharine -street, Price 2d. Advertisements will be acceptable; and as all the world knows where a Newspaper is to be bought, so where all the world goes, there will be found at Ids post " Tux OLD SOLDIER." INVITATION; A NEW SONG. To the Tune of " Blue Bonnets over the Border !** MARCH, march, British Nobility. Sustainers still of our national glory! &ars of our galaxy, shine on utility ! Patrons of Art, be immortal in story I With Muses and Grace., Congenial your race is. s Britain's Nubility, worth patronizing, Support now the Vender Of genuine jet splendour, Warren, whose Blacking all nations are prizing. March, march, &c. Choose, choose, ye of the lower cla..s, Yet, though untitled, of high estimation, Whether your wives—many good ones are .lowerless—. May not correctly claim dignified station ; She walking by your side, You in bright boots that guide Eyes to the Jet, as grand source of attraction : You so respected then, She net neer cted then, Clings to her spouse with increased satisfaction. Choose, choose, Ac: Haste, haste, all ye to the Strand, n ow , Who by jet brilliance secure would politeness, Merit is not in repute very grand now ; Poets themselves are even treated with slightness : Old maxims abolish, Of high mental polish, Polish your Boots to classic resplendency; Fashion and Rank surprise, Forth to the world, and rise, lisheed by Waltman, to just ascendancy! Haste, baste, Ac. Ibis Easy Shining and Brilliant BLACKING Prepared by EG Y - P - 1 • . 11ISSIOIR PR EGYPT. BY AN AUSTRIAN OPTICS'. (Conducted from Tau Swot of Thursday. Dec. 5.) I have already spoken of Egypt, and the extraor dinary man who governs that country. Let us now examine the nature of her commerce, and particularly chat which she carries on with the Indies. •The war with the Wecchabites inflicted an unpa►al leled injury upon that commerce; for before they ob tained possessi ,, n of most of the ports on the Red Sea, those in t' e Stigiar and part of Yemen, which mete afterwards regained by the troops of the I'acha, regular caravans used to depaut for Egypt at the commence. ment of June. The Egyrtian fleet also sailed at th.,t period for Arabia, whence it returnedat the commence ment of October. The navigation was thus regulated because of the winds. which at certain seasons of the year resider C.e Red Sea so boisvrou, as to retired commerce. At present many obstacles embarrass the regular course and security of this commerce, and have ten dered the great designs of the Pacha respecting it tory. The increase of the imposts—pillages and este tions cf all kinds--an embargo scarcely ever irate:. :flitted, upon vessels seized for the purpose of transport ing troops from one place to another; but above all, the extraordinary depreciation in the intrinsic value of the Terkish and Egyi tian money, are the causes which have forced this commerce into a different direction.— Cordage, bars of iron, &c. are among the few articles which Egypt still exchanges with the leidiet. The re lations between Egypt and Arabia have not suffered ; and that circumstance is to be attributed to the con tinued submission of the P.cha to the Sublime Porte, to the tribute of coffee which he is obliged to pay an. Dually, and also to his religious obligations with respect to Mecca, which he regards of the highest importance. Ceremonies of great solemnity mark the departure of the Grand Caravan from Cairo in the month of June. A religious fete is then celebrated with the greatest asagnihcence, and a grand fair is held, w hide lasts from ice to twenty days. B,fore affairs were disturbed by the enterprises rf the Yacht' in the interior of Afric I, it was not an unusual sight to see .5 ),000 or 60.000 pil grims c •llected round the city, living in 8.000 or 10,000 tent., under tie protection of many thousands of soldiers, rurnished by the Government as much for ' its own security as fur that of commerce. Th e activity and importance of this commerce have singularly di. minished since the commencement VI the military en terprises of the Pacha. The great advantages it is cal culated to confer on Cairo may easily be estimated from the following considerations and details— The thousands of pilgrims who leave Morocco and other western countries for Mecca. make Cairo their point of rendezvous. They bang with them from the r :minty provisions sufficient to last only during their tourney to that city, where their co.ssumprion is exceed ingly great, partly iu consequence of the fete, but chiefly because they are obliged to lay in stores for the route to Mecca. On the return of the pilgrimage the same thing t..kes place. There are, besides, other advantages which counter. balance the inconveniences before adverted to. s • From the time that Mehemet Ali, by the force of arms, reduced under the dominion of Egypt a part o. Nubia, and the whole ef Senaar, the commerce t f those provinces has been made subordinate to that of their mistress. It may now be considered as an integral part of that active trade, which exists among the different provinces, cities, and town•:, of which Egypt is corn. posed. It extends to the nearest parts of the country on the east and the west, ani depends less upon the ca price and arbitrary whims of the Government, than upon the physical wants of tire people, the vat iattons of the soil and localities, and tele reciprocal relations co the inhabitants. Nothing can ever disturb this tick .vlitle the people continue to possess the same manners :ustoms, and usages. In the course cf the year 1823, merchandise to the amount of 6 976,400 piastres was exported from Egl pt. On the other hand, the total amount of the importation cannot be calculated, as the greater part s f tic impor. tation introduced passing to the acc..unt of the Govern. ment, pays no duty, and therefore undergoes no super. vision by the Curtomsbouse (Ace's. The Government, hoWever, takes great pains to inJuce the btlier that the importation is less in value by one-lialf than the ex., The inerersing want of coin , f good alloy (the Spa. Dish pia ters havin4 been a long time nut of circulation.), a mild also prove that the ext•ens.s of the Government a•e eq r:►l to its income, unless we should be inclined to adopt the general opinion, that the Pattie hoards the good silver in his own treasury, and thus straitens the c►rculation at the country. The Government also sustains great loss in the pur chase of goods of foreign manufacture. wl ieh retch a high price, while the tottons„ corn, and indigo of Egypt are received in exchange at a very l•sw rate. The Petite is bound towards the Grand Seignor in an annual tribute, partly payable in merchandise and partly in current money. Thus a great deal of ma. chandise, which might otherwise enter into the account of the exchange with other nations, is lost to him. The payment of this tribute may be traced back to very remote times. 8u far back as in 1507, a treaty was concluded be twe• n Selim 11. and the 24 Heys nho then governed l Egypt, by which they were bound to pay to the Sublime I Porte an annual tribute of about 4,000,000 of franc•, of which one half was for Mecca. By the second a . tide, the Porte has the right, in case of war, of de manding 12.000 Egyptians for the Tu►ki►h army; and in the present war akriost the Greeks, the Grand Seignor has required the fulfilment rf this stipulation. Of late years, the agio between Egypt and Constanti. nople has been very high, in consequence of the depre. ciation of the country, compared with Spanish piasters. Notwithstanding this, the commem with Europe will always be the most advantageous for E.typt, if she new commercial system adopted in that part of the world produces no change. o[Bl9 vessels which left the port of Alexandria in 1825, 444 were destined for Europe. Mehen►et Ali has done much to assist trade in the Mks inr. He has made navigable the canal called Machmudie, which unites the Nile with 0 e a'•cirr.t rt f A:exanill lA. This canal commences a: the city of Pisa, and tiavertes an el ',rely desolate and deserted crlisntry. Since its of e•ring in 1820, it has been nevi. Viable by tl e vessels a the Nile. It is eight or ten n►ites in length ; its depth, which varies with the height of the river, is sometimes a; low as six, at other ti nes as much as taenty lent. In May Bird June, a h it the Nile is at its lowest, th-r canal is very shadow, and the trans port of merchandise thereby riper ences intents! ti n. The breadth of the canal also changes with the rise and tall 4 f the Ns:e. When 0 e river is low, its breadth is not more than :JO Stet, but generally it extends from GO to 80. It this were art the case—if the water experienced no fluctuation, aad its depth c •ntinued always the tame, merchandise ci aid at all times be tiansperted from Cairo to Alexandria ; for although the distance is not very great, yet the violence of the winds ai•cl the calms its bummer sometimes delay for wicks and months together the vessels crim . ng f tofu Ito,e.ta. Be. .ides which, the watt of skill in the Arab sailors, and the defective constructir n r f the coasting vesels. eno uihute no slight degree t•i increase the difficulty of the transport by water to Alezthdri r. • So long as the new canal continues navigable, tl e pas•age of ins els is regular and certain; but ever since the third year trepans of every kind have bec-nie necessary. The Government has pu.chased. at great es. petite, a steam engine for clearing this can .1. 'Die machine was tn.& in England, but its parts were pit together in Egypt. These has also been con-oucted at Alexandria, and upon the shore of the Nile, large prams. It has likewise been thought necessary to order a large quantity of coals from England. All expense Was. however, really unnecessary. Egypt has ple• ty of oxen and inhabitants to supply the place of steam, in a less expensive and less complicated style. The steam engine, when put to work, was food to be defective; its power was not sufficient, and another one was obliged to be made, bo that it was discovered that 2,000 000 if piastres, and the subsistence of a great number of men, had been needlessly expended. Wen the French were for a while masters of Egypt. they were anxious to render navigable the ancient canal which tuns from Hemania to Alexandria; but it was fou 4,60 t by the plans proposed, the work would last five years and cost a million of francs, and the idea was theiefo.e abandoned. The engineers of Mehemet Ali, departing from tlio•e plans, have made the canal tun iii a straight line, and at the spot where the canal of Machn.ndie flows into tl•e port of AI sat& ia, be Pacha has established a large magazine for the reception of the coin and other merchandise destined to be shipped on board of vessels in the port or upon the canal,-- Merchandise of all kinds is c -rsied every day by thou sands of Arab pouters from barges on the canal to this edifice, while as many others are employed at the same time in relieving the magazine from its hoards. This continual Aux and reflux—ahis great activity confined tss one spot—the melange of so many indivi duals, ci stumes, languages, and habits, of various sects of men, some half naked. some black, others tawny— wads spoken in twenty idioms—the numerous flocks of camels and mulestlie cote houses filled at all hours with rich and idle Mussulatans—brilliant flags floating in the midst of a hunched vessels—the towering cupola. of the.m• sques surmounted with bright crescent,—the immense ocean, abuse waves wash distant and solitsirey shores--the pillar of Pompey, so justly celebrated—suck is the adn.irable panorama which Alexandria, the me dium of the commerce of half the world, affords. When the present Pacha received the reins of Govern ment, hardly more than eigl ty or one hundred small • ships visited this you, while at present one thousand large vessels ate riot sufficent to west the demands of its commerce. . . . • 'Egypt ban not any sepias army, though she has 4 4it` . .r:. • 1 I I : • s i • • 1 I I I • .