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DIMOTIMVILLI, Agent for the Victualling at Cork; to the Collectors of Ms Majesty', Curtains at Limerick, Belfast, Newry, and Waterford; and to the Secretary to the Post ?nearer General at Dublin, respectively. No Tender for a less quantity than shalt be nod to SOO Tierces of Beef, or 100 Three, of Perk will bo admitted, and each Tender mist spedfy the privet Word' at length, god be delivered Indere One o'Clock on the Day appointed ; and mast be actor*. .pesded by a Letter signed by two responsible Persons engaging to become bound with the Party tendering in the penal sum of One Third of the amount of the Contras, for the due performance of the moth TheAram vibe makes the Wader, °come Permit on his behalf, must mini Ohmmeter wham called for. IRILLEIZ C,LIFTON. ours HOSPITAL. L OF MEDICINE., ANATOMY, SURGERY, he. .F• AUTUMNAL COURSE of LECTURES • lot commence MONDAY, October let. ?busty and Practice of Medicine—Ds.llmoms. Material Medici and Therapeutics—Dr. Ammon. Anatomy and Surgery—Mr. B Coorza. Practice, Principles, and Operations of Surgery—Mr. KEY and /4r. Mosoat. Slr As Coerce, Bart. will also occasionally Lecture. Midwifery; and Physiology, er Laws of the Animal (Economy —lb. BLUNDELL. Chemumry—Mr. Anna, Dr. BOWDEN, and Mr. A. Barn. Structure and Diseases of the Teeth—Mr. BULL. Experimental Philosophy—Professor Ilzu.usaros and Mr. A. BARRY. Pupils to the Surgical Practice of Gaits Hospital are allowed attend that of St. Thomas's. For Particulars apply to Mr. &wins, Apothecary to Guy's lioupitaL LONDON MAGAZINE for Szprzuses, No. SS, Nsw Sams. Contents: The American Annual Register— The Reign of Dr. Francis—The Character of Lord Clarcadoo--Mensoirs of James Hardy Yaux—Dr. Parr's Marginal Metes—Diary for the Month Cl August The Household Book of Henry VllL—Montgo meres Pelican Island—The Persecution of Galileo--Anecdotes of Animals; from Griffith's 'iransl•tioo of Cosier's Animal King dom—Two Years in Ara —Magazigiana—Prices of Shares, &c.— Dreary Intelligence—Works Published—Prices of English aad Foreign Funds. Hunt and Clarke, York -street, Covent-garden. • Ms day was published, • LACICWOOD'S EDINHtifiGH AfititiAZlVE; B Na CX XX• for SEPTEMBER, in . L Invasion of India-4i. Recollections of a Trip to Spo—By Seen—lli. lbw* Germania& No. 24. King Ottokar's Pros perity sod Death, by Franz Griliparser— IV. A Subaltern in beaks (coodaded)—V. The hlisister's Beat—Vl. Chapters ou Churchyards, Chap. 1 2, Broad Sammerford, Part 2—VII. Schlegel a. Campbell— VIII. The Marvellous Doctor— By the &trick Shepherd—lX. Leonard Mayburue and Susan liessehie—X. The .BFlturein ; a Tale—By Thomas Moore. Printed for William Blackwood, Edinburgh ; and T. Cade, Strand, London. THE GRAVEL AND STONE, LUMBAGO, &c. HICKMAN'S PILLS are allowed to be the most successful Preparation for effectually removing and prevent kg the home recurrence of those Diaorders which arise from au perfect action el the Urinary Organs, as Gravel and Stone, Lumbago, Pains In the Back and Loins, &c. Composed of the toostinoocent ingredients, this truly valuable Medicine relieves the offering Patient from the excruciating tortures of those diseases,l without any violence or injary.to the constitution, and requires no' confinement or restraint of diet during its nse. It is one of the oldest Public Medicines extant ; and its peculiar virtues and efficacy have unlionnly maintained the highest reputation. Sold in boxes at ts. ad. and lis. by Messrs. Butler, Chemists, Ckespsisle, comer - of St. Paul's, London; 54, Sackville-street. Dublin • and 73; Princes-street Edinburgh; Savory and Co. 136, New Dublin; greet, .4 gib , Regent-stroes; hod by the principal Medicine Venders In the Kingdom. Of Elbow may be had Bee , saes Casten. Orointsitic, strongly recommended,* Chronic Rheumatism, Spasiwidie Affections, Palsy, &Mints, and Enlarge ment tittle Johns, Sprains, Bruises, &c. In betties, at se. ad. " Domus et platens ixor."—Hon. Thy house, end (in the cup of life, That honey-drop) thy pleasing wile. lIAPPINESS sir the gay to-morrow of the mind" is insured by marriage; the strictest tie of perpetual Friend is a gift fetsnl Heaven, cementing pleasure with reason, by which, says Johningp, awe approach in some degree of association witlicelestial intellikence." Previous, however, to entering into this hallowed obligation, it becomes an imperative duty, not only to regulate the passions, but is demise the grosser nature from those impurities which the free dom of unrestricted pleasure may have entailed upon it. To the ?slim of such attention, are attributable many of those hapless *lances which, while they excite the commiseration of the be holderohould also impress him with the fear of self-reproach. Luxurious habits still effeminise the body—a residence its the tr*Vits will relax the elastic fibre—but more especially does the premature infatuation of youth too frequently compromise the na tural dignity into a state of inanition, from whence the agonized sufferer more than doubts the chance of relief. To all such then, we address (missives, offering hope, energy, muscular strength, felicity; nor will our advances appear questionable sanctioned as An are by the multiplied proofs of 20 years' successful experience. The easy tales of married life are sometimes disturbed by the cope:lion of those blessings which concentrate the nuptial wreath --for the female habit is often constitutionally weak—yet it can be Str engthened, and deficient energy improved into functional power. In every case of syphilitic intrusion, as well as in every relaxation I f the generative economy, we pledge our ability to cure speedily, !ad with elect. Earnestly solicitous to expel the unfeeling empyric ?Menthe position so presumptuously taken up. we deviate frohi Paull principles with lets hesitation ; and confident in our own' bonourabk integrity as Members of the College of Surgeons, we left, the suffering community of either Sex (especially those entering into matrimonial life) at once to our house, where daily attendanse u turn for personal consultation; and letters from the counts y are boosediately answered ; these Must contain a remittance for Advice mid Medicine, which can be forwardedt o any pan of the world, however distant. 005$ and Co. M.R.C. Surgeons, No. 11, liouveric-street, fleet -sweet, London. rZ•riet published (Seventeenth Rdition),l. The /East of Lira, ! laminar commentary on the above Diseases. 2nd, HecelANA, Addressed exclusively to the Female Sex. May be had at 14, _ Priat "'" , eit bubo; 174, Fleet - str e et ;4, Catherine -street, Strand'; , 1 - ;"'"" d , i'acn, and Piper, 20, Paternoster.row ; and Chapple, London; Porter, 72, Grafton-street, Dublin; ll'lrhuu, 155, Teougate. Glae.ow ; 9, Calton street, ILdbiltar&h; ad 14 all Booksellers. ['rice 55. —D St! BARI Pi to at Ft liosi 1 7 'ru Hui of .1 titer Ann dam Litt Pore .L B Sew Cha v. ( e Oho • . 1 4 1 Stra !•• ta far Lat le snot eel 10 wit e• coa old le hal do Ch to Hi aal Ch Rh 3g ae All tit 7 or tli - of et NI ria• the oL to asea do ar eir he Ora ray tr oird P' Otte tl el re of ti t of :ort- o Jame a ciao, l l pos. t a 0 6 0 6 0 )W. 6 • set/ So. I BIBLIOTHECA PARRIANA. A very cursory view of this catalogue is sufficient to convince any scholar of the great value of Dr. Pate's classical history. Its magnitude was equal to its 'cute; for it contained most of the earliest printed co pies of Greek and Latin authors, and nearly all the most valuable editions which have since been produced of them by the successive labours of - modern commenta tors. The collection of annotations upon Aristotle alone occupies six pages in the catalogue jp. 140446), and seems to have been very highly prized by its learned proprietor. He has left a note on " Twining's Trans lations of the Poetics," which, if the merits of that work were not already known, would give it a flattering introduction indeed to the approbation of the public. He says that he values this work, on account of its be ing the gift of the editor, whom he is proud and happy to call his friesod, because he is one of the best scholars now living, and one of the best men that ever liied. His notes, he.says, p. 223, are'very learned ; and, con sidrod as a translation of a Greek osiginal, his work, is not surpassed by any translation in the English lan guage. The Doctor repeats this opinion in a note, which he has inserted p. 328, upon " Sydenhana's Ge neral View of the Writings of 'Plato." After stating , that no man understood Plato better than Mr. Syden-1 ham and Mr. Gray, he adds-0 Among the best trans.' lations in the English language, I reckon Twining's translation of " Aristotle's Poetics,":Sydenham's trans lation of the " Dialogues of Plato," and Hampton's translation of Polybius." To this lamer work, he adds, in another place, that Dr. Johnsort contributed the pre face. There is a numerous collection of the different edi t;ons of Homer, to which we refer the curious reader. At p. 224, the Doctor is guilty of a slight mistake, in calling Chapman's translation the oldest EnAnds trans lation of Homer. Chapman printed his translation of the first sect a books of the Iliad in 1596 ; 15 books more in 1600 ; the remainder in 1604; and the Oiyssey in 1614. Now the Iliad was is done into English," from a n etrical French version, by Arthur Hall, Esq. M.P. and published at London in 1581, by Ralph Newberrie. It is " done" in the lumbering Alexandrine metre of Sternhold and Hopkins, and was begun in 1563, under the advice and encouragement of Mr. Roger Ascham, whom the translator designates 44 climater acquaint ance of Homer." We should doubt much, whether Ascham advised him to use the measure which he adopt ed ; for in criticising Golding's translation of " Ovid's Metam , rphoses," he finds fault with it, and styles it a barbarous and rude rhyming, which makes the poet{ morel ke a Gothian than a Grecian in the handling of his verse." It is strange that all our early translators, •Pheier, Fleming, Turberville, and others, should have adopted this measure, which has now become almost ridiculous from the Puritanical associations which we camel with it. "Ihailogelidelaiimes Ns him esarrae emb& 0•11,•11111MOIMMIAllabia acquainted. Charles Lloyd of Binelashme publhised aaswynswady In 11117,a trandatioa of the 94th Book of the Iliad. Dr. Parr, in admitting that he revised the vendettas, calls the author or it a very worthy and eradiate translator. Considering that a poet was the subject on which Mr. Lloyd operated, we should deem this faint praise from a friend like Dr. Parr to be highly damnatory. . - . The mention of the same of Lloyd naiads as de note at p. 401, which conveys this very concise aad eurasedlouy intelligence : " The writer of Junius was Mr. Lloyd, Secretary to Geo. Grenville, and brother to Philip Lloyd, Dean of Norwich. This will soe day or other be generally acknowledged." Yes, on the same day that there is no longer any doubt u to who was the exuadoner of Charles I. or wbo was the man in the boo stash; but not VI then. To return, however, to Homer; at p. 51114 we have the following note attached to " Sponce's Essay on Pope's Odyssey " " Mr. Spence told my friend Langton, that his strictures, with the exception of two, felt only upon thee* parts of the Odyssey, which were translated, not by Mr. Pope, but by Mr. Tickell and Ms other coadjutors ; sod Mr. Spence, with his usual ineenueumas and acuteness, added, that 4 after the most minute attentlos to Pope's verses, in his translation of the Died and Odyssey, he be lieved himself to have found there every beautiful expressioa la the language of Foglia' poetry.'—S. P." To another copy of Homer, p. 175, the following note is attached, which is no lees creditable to the master whom it praises than to the pupil by whom it was dictated The gift of the Rev. Cary Sumner, S.T.P. bead master of Harrow School, to Samuel Parr, 1771. Dr. Sumner deservedly possessed the confidence of his sehulus, and the respect of his literary companions. He had elegant manners, various erudition, and most exquisite taste. He was the instructor of my boyhood, anal the guide of my youth ; and during the 58 years that have elapsed since his death, I have often thought of Mm and often spoken of him as " eseassaus quatal . sof s_te, candid lames KITS flag rani eve east slatiacsior KIM rare, Hat- 1 1 ton, Oct. 21, 1810." _ _ . _ . At p.. 105 we have some annotations, which would have made the blood boil in the bosom of Parr's " fearless friend" Parson.— Every &NAG' scholar knows the atrabilious feelings with which this Oreek of England regarded Hermann the Greek of Germany. He sneered at his philology, laughed outright at his metrical canons, and almost denied to him the possession of any talent. The two Greek iambics, containing a tribrach in every plate but the last, which Porson wrote to convince Hermann that he was wrong In saying that such a line could not be constructed, win be bag re membered for their pungency by those who are conversant In such matters. We shall merely quote, as a contrast to Dr. Parr's opi nion, the imitation of an epigram of PhosyUa.ts, which Porson made in derision of his great antagonist—for such, though he was unequal to compete with Person, he must beyond all question be _ a The Germans in Greek Are sadly to seek— Not five in five score, But ninety-five more: Bacepting sae Hermann, And he's& d-4 German." It is an old saying that " a live ass is better than a dead lion," and therefore our surprise is diminished at finding even Dr. Parr talking sneeringly about " Porson and his tribe," p. 38a, and then lauding up Hermann, p. 210, as a peerless editor, to the skies.— Besides, Hermann had before styled Parr, at p. 305," intelligent/5. shuns harum literarum arbiter." " My hero," says the Doctor, " is Hermann. He is not only a scholar, but a philosopher of the highest order ; and he smiles pro. bably as I die, at the petty criticisms of puny sebullasts Richard Poison a puny scholiast !) who, in fact, do nor understand what it written by this great critic." This is, indeed, a flight of rhetoric. The Lord of Antispasta and King of Ductimlacs exalted into a hero! Nothing can match it save Dr. Burney 's absurdity is first styling Richard Bendy, Rich , aril Dawes, Ricbard Person, and others " magnanimi heroes," and then apnea ophiaing them as 4 r vus Moores Itttardi." Surely Dr. Parr mum have stolen this expression trout his friend's tents ' own un the metres of jscbylus. The friendship of Dr. Parr with Sir W. Jones is known to all ' the world. At p. 4i5 we find that the Doctor assisted bis pre. eminently learned schoolfellow and friend in his translation of the isierches of Twiny Ile says that be carefully examined the trans laden tli out, and had before him ail the dont the Greek ora eats at H. u rephens. At p. 441 we haw. an anecdote regarding Ur Wilikna, which is highly corians and, considering the martin from wig* it comes, may be deemed trustworthy. " Ages' (Sir W.) Dialogue between a Farmer and a Country Gentlealin, on the principles of government, mitten bye Member of the Society fee Constitutional Information-478e. " • meat able dialogue, published without his name, by Sir W. skiff" He told me he wrote it after a conversation, in which he andedained, and Vergennes denied, that the first principles of go vernment could be made intelligible to plain lUiterate readers.— Dr. • •• • who was present, doubted. Jones wrote the dialogue In French . They met. Vergennes yielded; •• • • decided. Jones, on his return, translated the book, and it was. published without animadversion by the Constitutional Society. His brother kidder, the Dean of St. Asaph, procured a Welch translation ; then moo the prosecition from Fitsmautice, the righteous and rival inagkerate of the Dean. All this I beard when talking at his Ambers in the•Tempis, with Jones, on the Monday after he had 'peen knighted, and the prosecution against the Dean commenced. The preface, Sir W. Jones told me, was written by Bishop Ship ley.—S. P." -Ylpot.were . we believe, more prosecutioss than on. instituted, and mere Individual, than one imprisoned, for the paladiation of thle treatise. &range to say. the author not only escapee scot Om, line was loaded with dignities and honours. One cannot retest midis circumstance without calling to mind the oftaquMed lines ed Juvenal— • it Comenietunt cadent &verso trinrins fate; • • Ille crucem sceleris pretium talk, hie diadems." , 'AmOngthe curiosities in this part of the catalogue ,is a translation of tint Gemics of Virgil into Greek 'hexameters, executed by a Russian, and published at &. Petersbotgls• We subjoin the title of it—" Virgilil Georgici Grieco carmine heroic° expense nothique Ultimata, studio ac labors Bugenii de Belga:is: folio.—Petxop. 1706." The following Is an extract from a long MS. note dictated by Dr. Parr: " The dedication contains seventy-six lines, and is addressed to Prince Potemkin, The metre of the seventh line is irregular, and Weed unintelligible. Strange improprieties of this kind occur la other parts of the poem, where the verses are sometimes too long, and samcdoes too shor t. (Here follow examples.) To the text ire enhjoloo l yery copious notes in Greek, the matter of which is sesMlleas 1118 W all, mythological sod critical. • They abound liPilh=lM from authors both ancient and modern, panics ilea a work could be as little expected from such a quarter as a Insertion of Dolan into Latin verse from a ilitghhader, or into Drank verse front an Englishman ; and yet both these tasks have been perfumed, as we learn front two entries In p. SOO " Oasiaai Dat thula Grace residita a Gabel's° Herbert, Loodini, 19011" and " Ossiani Phiagaleis Poems Belem •Latine oonversom, ab A. Macdonald, Edinb. 1820." To this latter work Dr. Parr has at tached the following, note : " Fingal translated into good Latin heroics, by Alexander Macdonald, with an acute and elegant Latin preface, in which Macdonald endeavours to vindicate the anthen. deity of Ossian's poems against the objection of Michael Laing." Dr. Parr appears to have been convinced by those objections of the spuriousness of the poems attributed to (Wan ; for at page 52Che tort. I read this book (Milan's Poems) when a boy, and was our mowed of it. Wheo at College, I again read Oral= with increased delight : I now, although convinced of the imposture, find pleasure be reading Macpherson. The mention of one literary forgery leads not unnaturally to the 'mention of another. It Is well known that, when Chatterton first published the poems of Rowley, several persons of considerable name in the republic of letters stood up for their authenticity, among whom Mr. Bryant and Dean Mille. were most eminent. In a note upon Dean Miller's publication, we have the following opinion el Dr. Johnson, given as to the merits of the defence which those two learned Oentienten respectively nude foe the pseudo.Bowley— " Mr. Bryan's is a machine a/ bulk and complioatien. to In pats with mush mate ri als, elaborately polished . and egoderaely as‘ nosed, buy taken altogether, it Is onseecoosildly ended to the =l:sel lifting even a feather from the ground. The Dan's is larger and mere unwieldy, being constructed of antiqua rian lumber—as it was made without skill, it moves without pro gress, and has strong propensity to sink the object it was designed to raise." At p. 522, we meet with Ireland's great and isigte&rot reelterf• called " Miscellaneous Papers and Legal lostronsents under the band and seal of William Shakspeare. The Doctor thus dismisses this pleadenymous garbage—" I ant alma' nelonsed to Mien this worthless and infamously trickish book. It is Mil to include the tragedy of King Lear, and a fragment of HaMlit.-. Ireland told a lie when he imputed toes, the words which - Amiga Wharton toed on the very roaming I ceded on Ireland, emdmitt leaned to admit the possibility of geoubseness in his perm my subsequent conversation I told him my change of opinion; hut. I thought it not worth while to dispute in print with a denoted impoeter.—S.P." It has often appeared to us that a goad history of literary foia series, and of the controversies which they have excited, would be r most amusing work. Though the researches which the exectedele. of such a task would require might lead to no very useful end 100 practical point of view, yet they might be serviceable in dellossisig. the history of the human mind, and in tracing the variations eillO' public taste. Such frauds are, many of them, of high satigdiy., —One or two books of the Ili ad are known to be no more the i duction of Homer, than the shield of Hercules is that of or the life of Homer k that of Herodotns. The letters of Itai.l Fides are admitted to be as spurious as those attributed to naiades asd are supposed to have been forged by the same set of sophists. The Chi, ar,d Cubes of Virgil labour under similar torpfeiens, al do many of the epistles and some of the orations of Ciceros At the y restoration of letters several frauds of this nature were attempted. Leo Baptist' Alberti published, in 1425, a comedy entitled " PM lodoxus," which he distributed among his friends as the work of Lepidus, an ancient Roman poet. The literati of that day were deceived by it, and Lepidus for a while took his rank with Plautus and Terence. In the succeeding century, Aldos Manutius, tbe younger, printed that comedy, and gravely confessed in his proem% his ignorance of its author, Lepidus, the Roman poet. About the same time Muretns palmed some verses of his own upon &allies, as the verses of Teepee. Scaliger, believing then, to be genuhuly praised them to the skies. Muretus, wishing to appropriate to himself the applause which bad been bestowed on Trabea, ac knowledged the deceit of which he had been guilty, and thus turned Scaliger into a mortal and inveterate foe. • Annius,of Viterbo, pro duced a spurious edition of the works of Sanconniathe, Viterbo, and Berosus—a forgery which for some time remained undlacce. l vered. Sigoolus published a treatise of his own de Chiasafatinse as a treatise ot Deere ; many were deceived by the counterfeit, Iwo Lipsius discovered it. Ater only reading ten lines, he threw it away, exclaiming, " Vab—non eat Ckernals." agonies aftwilards acknowledged the fraud. A monk of Italy, not above toe psis ago, fabricated a fifth book of Cicero'e- 0 De Naiad Decienner.r. bet it was too clumsy a production to deceive the asset unleiongdj for be not only made Cicero quote the odes at Harm da AM' quantities, but also represented him as having a sacred weeder/drat!: science of all the most mysteries of the Catholic In all these cases the feelings which animated the fields mast have been, in some degree, similar to those which led Alclhiades to. intrigue with the Queen of Spr.rta, not so mach from love to her person as from the morbid desire of :enjoying in secret the know ledge that the future Kings of Sparta were to be his descendants. Other feelings instigated those who drew up and distributed the Ikon Basilike, as the production of Charles I. Such, too, was tho Case with reg:rd to many of the speeches attributed to the leaders of the Long Parliament, which Lord Clarendon unblushingly owns in his Memoirs, that he was a long time in the habit of forging and disseminating for the use of his Royal Masters. The PolieW Testaments of the Cardinals Bets and Richelieu were :forged.% France for similar purposes. These anecdotes are merely introdu ced for the purpose of marking the points to which the writer et such a history as we have mentioned would have to direct his atom. don. There is another class of literary forgeries, of which the hie. tory would perhaps, be still more amusing: for instance, the oil* at such stories as Mrs. Veal's Ghost. That is the best authenticated ghessarary on record ; and yet it is a mere fiction, written fora ' wager, and used by accident to fill up a very serious work en de. ' union. • Musa says, that Burke's " Vindication of Natural So ciety" owes its exigence to • similar cause. It was avowedly written in imitation of the style of Lord Bolingbroke, and passed for a long time, as Burke bet that it would, for the production of I that nobleman. After the bet was acknowledged to be won, Mr. Burke claimed the pamphlet as one of his composition ; and it is now published as such in every edition of his works. (re be coalmual.) FRENCH PAPERS. snow Tar °Starr/ DR num% AUGUST 29. ODESSA, AUGOIT S. We have news from Constantinople to the Sd of this mouth. The result of the conferences at London res pecting the pacification of Greece rendered the Porte very uneasy, though the certainty that the Courts of Vienna and Berlin did not take any part in them had produced a fironrable impression on the Divan. People were, however, convinced that the Porte would lit things come to the last extremity. The Courts of St. Petersburgh, London, and Pais had not yet caused the l atiourtais to be presented, with the indication of a period of SO days, according to the treaty; and as the ratifica tion of the three Sovereigns an indispensable, it could hardly be presenteebefore the end of the month. The Count Cap 6 crlstria,"Who is going to Greece, ie said, at St. Petenburgh, to hive with him to the valor of five millions of rubles. PARIS, Am. se. Letters from New Orleans say that the Bloss , a4 captain Richy (the Blossom, Captain Beechy), sent b)r the English Government on a scientific voyage, had touched at San Francisco in New California, and bad sailed again to prosecute his voyage. • PROW TUE CONSTITUTIONWEL. LEGHORN, Alva. 16. EXTRACT 3.110 M A PRIVATE LETTER. We have received a letter, dated Corfu, August 4, which announces a signal victory gained by the Greeks over their enemy in the Peloponnents. Ibrahim Pasha, after the defeat which he experienced at Megaspeleon and Calavrita, wished to conduct his troops against the Acro-Corinth. Having assembled all his forces, he marched in person at the head of the Arabs. The Greeks met him before the townof Vostizza, and forced him to return with the loss of a great number of soldiers. Another letter from the Island of Zante contains the following passage: 48 Lord Cochrane, after having burnt the Egyptian brig before Alexandria, and carried terror into the ene my's territory, has returned to Poros. Yesterday morn ing a little frigate of 36 guns, and a galley of the Turkish fleet, passed off oar island to proceed to Patras. On a sudden Lord Cochrane appeared near Strophes, with the Hellas and the Soter brig. Towards noon we heard a brisk cannonade, and in the evening we had intelligence of a naval battle. Early this morning the Hellas and the Soter approached the island, the latter having in tow the enemy's frigate, on whose mast the Greek standard was flying. The Turkish crew wee compelled to =reader, after a resistance of 10 minutes. The frigate has suffered in its rigging from the guns of the Hellas. the Greek sailors were repairing the da mage. The vessels approached ao near our port, that we could distinguish the men with the telescope. The Turkish galley was captured • without sustaining any injury. The Greek vessels proceeded towards Cbiareoza, to anchor and to arm the galley for to-morrow morning.", LISBON, Aaiun Is. We learn from Chaves, that the Hand standards which the Spaniards have Ault from Braganca, are a t . pected • there, and a fete is in preparation to receive them. A letter has been received at Chaves, written by Viscount Montalegre to his brother-in-law the Abbe of St. Valise, in which the former describes the dreadful state of misery he is in, and begs pecuniary assistance, to defray the expense of a journey which he intends to make to France. He also complains bitterly of the bad treatment which he received in, Spain, and to which he can no longer submit. Letters from Lamego, dated the 10th, speak of a mob having assembled near the village of Pontello, and compelled all passengers to shout viva: in favour of the Marquis of Chaves, and cry " Death to Don Pedro and the Constitutioa!* Sub-Lieutenant Soeiro proceeded to the spot at the head of a detachment, which put the seditious to Bien. One man was taken, and put into prison at Lamego. An English brig-of-war brought dispatches to the British Admiral two days ago. Immediately after, three small English ships of war sailed. It is supposed that they are to cruise out at sea, as a squadron of ob servation ; for at the same time orders were given to add to the ordinary signals of the maritime. telegraph on the tower, particular signals for notifying the ap proach of a Brazilian squadron. The circular or manifesto addressed by Count de Ponte to foreign Courts, continues to be severely cen sured. The inhabitants of this capital are grievously offended at it. The protest made at Madrid, on the catastrophe of Jut,' 7, 182'2, by the diplomatic body, spoke with more delicacy and moderation of the inha bitants of the Spanish capital, than Salvador de Ponte has done of those of the capital of his own country. It is reported that Count de Villa Flor is to be sent on au extraordinary mission to the province of Minh°. It is alleged that this mission has for its object to paralyse the authority of General Stubbs, who is feared." The following Decree of the Emperor Don Pedro is of some interest, because it was ploadulgated at the re •quest of the Princess Regent, and has not been executed because Sir W. A'Court Apposed it. DICRIL " In virtue of the request made to me by the Infanta Donna Isabella, my sister, who is worthy of my esteem and my predUee • Lion ; considering the indispensible necessity which she has point'd out of having a Secretary to her Cabinet, and authorising by my royal approbation the confidence she has always repovrd in the Counsellor Bernardo Red trAbrantes y Castro, I think fit to ap point him Secretary of her Cabinet. The above-gamed Infanta, Regent of the kingdom of Portugal and Algarve, will carry tid e s measure into execution. m Palace sat Rio Janeiro, Jan. 28. 1827. (Signed by Ms Majesty) FRANCISCO i3OIIES DB SILVA." There is a report that the Cabinet of Madrid intends to make the Spanish army approach the frontiers of Portugal, to support Don Miguel, sent by Austria. Notwithstanding the repeated solicitatioi s rf the Bishop of Algarve:, Minister of Justice, to be allowed