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The Greek Captain continued his c Im pla:nts there, and the affair is reported to the Minister of the Netherlands in this city, in consequence of which it excites some attention. By the death of Ifinni Bey, who was so high in the Sultan's favour, the pacific party think they hive been rid of one of their chief opponents ; but it is not likely that a change will take place in the Sultan's way ol thinking. All the appointments since the deposition of the late Grand Vizier have a warlike tendency, and leave but little hope that the Porte will'content to con• cessions, or negotiations, or peace, which do not seem honourable for the Divan. Meantime the disconter.ted patty do not fail to spread all kinds of unfavourable repo; ts . ri 'petting the state of affair . Thus they pore out that Huitein Pacha had vanished; bot better in formed person. know that he had marched to•Brlistria. Oth:rs equally unfavourable succeeded each other. It seems certain, however, that the Grand Vizier is pre. vented by the severity of the winter from undertaking any operation, and that the typhus has also broken out in his camp, and carries off numerous victims. It is also oSserved, that Asiatic troops pass the capital by circuitous routes, and return to the coast of Asia t their circumstances had probably some influence on the more energetic warlike preparations ordered by the late firmans. negotiation to regulate the lot, and thus secure the de it.ve paclfic4tion of Greece. " Load ua Nov. 16. (Sigurd) Ansheirg Gazette, Jam. 11. ,4 ABERDEEN. ~ POLIGNAC. 1, LI EVEN. COLNONIAI. INTELLIGENCE. DIVIDENDS. Feb. 12, C. Bishop, Frame Selwood, Somenetshire, victualler, at eleven, at the Angel lon, Warminster, Wiltshire. Feb. 10, G. Burdy, Edge•lane, West Derby, Liverpool, glass manufactuter, at one, at the Clarendon Rooms, Liverpool. Feb. 20, T. Hamp ton and E. Hooper, Rayader, Radnorshire, bankers, at eleven, at the Bear's Head Inn, Newtown, Montgomeryshire. Feb. 12, May,J. Wyborn, W. White, and J. Mercer, Deal, bankers, at eleven, at the Guildhall, Canterbury. Feb. 12, J. Baron, Black burn, Lancashire, calico manufacturer, it twelve, at the Bay Horse Inn, Blackburn. March 10, J. Moir, Liverpool, merchant, at twelve, at the Clarendon Rooms, Liverpool. Feb. 13, J. Hayes, C. F. Hayes, and C. M.Callarn, Albury Mills, Surrey, paper manu facturers, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. COPT OP A DISPATCH TNIAP IITTSD BY HIS PIC11.• LINCT TUB GOVERNOU or DOM 'MCA TO TUB 110114 g OP AthIIIBLY. I:IIICULAR. The Building will continue Open daUy from Ten to Four, during the neat Week. • Just published, By F.Dwaan But.L, New Public Subscription Library, 28, Holles.street, Cavendish square, London, In Three Vols. 41 11,. 6d. LTHE TRIALS OF LIFE. 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To the neglect of such attention are attributable many of those hapless instances which, while they excite the commiseration of the be holder, should alio impress him with the fear of self-reproaels. Luxurious habits will effeminixe the bodyill residence in the tropics will relax the elastic fibre—but more especially does the premature infatuation of youth too frequently compromise the na • coral dignity into a state of inanition, from whence the agonised, . sufferer more than doubts the chance of feint. To all such then we address ourselves, offering hope, energy, muscular strength, felicity; 'nee will out advances appear questionable, sanctioned eel • they are by the multiplied proofs of 20 years' successful experience. • The easy cares of married life are sometimes disturbed by the suspension of those blessings which concentrate the nuptial wreath —for the female habit is often constitutionally weak—yet it can be strengthened, acd deficient energy improved into functional power. • In every case of syphilitic intrusim, as well as in every relaxation of thesewerativr economy, we pledge eve ability to cure speedily, and with effect. Earnestly solicitous to expel the unfeeling empyrie • from the position so presumptuously taken up, we deviate from general principles with less hesitation; and confident in oar own honourable integrity as Members of the College of Surgeons we refer the su ff ering comm un i ty o f e i t h er S ex (especially throe en tering into matrimonial life) at once to our house, where daily attendance is given for personal consultation ; and letters from the country are immediately answered; these must contain a remit tance fur Advice and :kledicine, which can be forwarded to any put of the world, however distant. GOSS and Co. M.E.C. Surgeons, No. 11. llouv e rie s tr eet , Fleet-strmt, tondon. pfp Jut published (Seventeroth Edition), 1. The Acts of tars, ' a familiar Commentary on the above Diseases. 21, Hrosutea, - addressed exclusively to the Female Sex. 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WA It-OFFICE, Jam. 19. 40th Regiment of Foot— Lieutenant. General Sir James Kempt, G.O IL from the alst Foot, to be Coluuel, vice General Sir Brent Spencer, 4eceased• sl.t F ot-3lajor,G,tieral Sit Richard Downes Jackson, K.C.B. front the Royal Staff Corps, to be Calorie', vice Sir James Kempf, optokured to the 40,1 a Foot. Gaassuoks—Lieutettant-Geotral Sir William Inglis, K C.B. to be Govettior of Cork, lice Sir Brent Spencer, deceaied ; Lieut.- 6 tilel4 4ubn Sullivan Wood to be Lieutenant• Governor of Kinsale, vice Mr William Inglis, appointed Governor of Cork. - DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY. John Copley, Burton upon-Trent, Staffordshire, upholsterer. Arthur .11iller lids,. E.:item Wharf, Adellihi, coal-merchant. James William Rockland, Great 'fower.street, tailor. J.i.eph Juba Caudlm, Fencaureh.street, merchant. BANKRUPTCIES ENLARGED. Elisabeth Kershaw, Pilllnrow, _Lancashire, Crawl-manufacturer, to Fehrevty 7, at ekven, at White's Hotel, 3lancheater. 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Asattlati 31•Kvi*, fiderpool, therehaot, January' 30, 31, and N:areb 5 two, attlatiClarendonitouns g ravertixt Attordes, MAW'S:. FRENCH PAPERS. 71110111 THS MESSAGED DES CHASIDIM, JAN. 18. PARIS, JAN. 17. There is no important news from the theatre of war. It seems certain tint all that has been said of a great battle in the neighbourhood of Varna is destitute of foundation; the position of the contending armies is still the same. Letters limn Bucharest, of the 29th December, an nounce that a thaw had set in three days before, and that the roads continued to grow more and more im passable. 'The last letters from Li .bon are of the 6th of January. They confirm what was announced by the telegraphic dispatch respecting the improvement of Don Align heal h. The Courrierde Slityrxe, according to custom, en deavours to place the Greek Government in the worst fight. That Journal, in its last Number, siyi" The Government cOtild find no means of putting a sto,s to the alarming desertion among the troops of Ypsilanti, which threateued a total dissolatinn of his corps, but to spread a report that a To kish army had orders to in. wade the Peloponessus. This news has produced a bad effect among the inhabitants, severil of whom have sus• pen Jed the rebuilding of the r houses, and hrming plan tations. Captain Criezi has succeeded Basssoo in the command of the Greek flotilla, which has done nothing but capture a Tut ka.h brig and a gun boat in the gulf of Prevent. Tie corps of General Church not being able to undertake any offensive operations, confines itself to useless oettionstrations, which cannot awe the Turks, and are very burdensome to Greece." ODESSA, Du 117. General Di-b the Chief of the Staff, left Jassy on the 25t of December for St. P,tersburgh. General S!rekaloff, who's appointed Governor of Tea:, arrived at Odessa on the 2.5 t on his way to his post. 1110111 THE GAZETTE DE FRANCE. JAN. 19. PARIS, Its. 18. The Dianio di ;lonia announces, under the head of Corfu, that the Ottoman Primates of Epirus and Al_ bania having been convoked at Berat and Janina, to receive a communicAtion front the Porte, invit.ng them to continue the war at their own expense, as the Go vernment was unable to :lift): d them any assistance, re ; solved not to continue so ruinous a war, but to nevi ciate with the Greek Government. Accounts had been received from Mal a, that these were in th,t part five E ships ol tr.e line, and seven English frigates and brigs. Great ex:•rtions were making there to repair tne f alifications. The French are also WI in fortify ing Patras. FROM THE JOURNAL DES DEBAT& LISBON, JAR. 3. PRIME LETTER. The greatest activity reigns in the War Department. Orders have been issued to put in nraion four thousand men of the division of Chaves, who are divided among the pros inces of Alentejo, Beira, and Tras-o-Montes ; eight Mildred men were to repair to Lisbon, about an equal number to Oporto, and the rest were to proceed to those points of the coast which are most easy of access. This measure proves that the Government has more confidence in the troops of the Chaves division than in those of any other divi,ion of the army ; it has, therefore, produced a bad effect on the regiments in garrison at Lisbon. ErritiCy OP ANOTHER LETTER. Consternation reigns in the palace at Quelux, since the great Council held there on the 90th of December. The Ministers of War and Foreign Affairs have had conferences with the usurper of several hours duration. The object of these conferences is to fi n d mea ns of maintaining for Miguel an army strorg enough to keep t!:e inhAbit.inti of Portugal in acre, without taxing them for the paythent of it. The result is said to be a deci sion t.) diminish the number of troops of the line, and substitute for them new royalist, volunteers, under the pretext Olt the existing army ii that which, in 1820, committed so many disorders, and which has figured in so many revolutions. Serious misunderstandings exist between the volunteers and regulars. The councils of the Minister are frequent, and it is generally believed that they are occasioned by the last dispatches received from London and the Isle Saint Michael. The pt isomers of state from Madeira are still on board the transports. They thus, at least, escape the cruelty (it our prison polers, and the numerous maladies ink ing from the Mfetted atmosphere of the prisons. The negotiations respecting Greece ate still tire ob ject of diplomacy in this city, and almost all the com munications to the Pone refer to them. Little as the latter is disposed to assent to the views of the Powers, it his adopted a system which, without making concis• sions, promise, to maintain amicable relations with all, so I. , ng as t, ey do not of themtelves break with et, and I)te Russia declare war. Europe has had oppottunities to be convinced of this. The French expedition to the Morea has produced no more change in the won't) nts of the Porte than the battle r f Naval in and the depar• tore of the Ambassadors did before, and notwithstansi log these events, it considers Count Guilleminot and Mr. Stratford Canning as Ambassadors accredited to it. The prudent conduct of the latter, and the conti nued endeavours of the English and French Admirals in the Archipelago, to convince the Pine kow much their Governme4s desire to avoid a formal breach with it, have cont,ibtred to confirm this system, and may perhaps in the end overcome all d thculties, and lead to an arrangement of the affairs. The arrival of Admiral de Rigny at Smyrna, who is said to have grme thither at ere request of Baron Von Z .la Z iylen, is at this mo ment important; and the einfideirce with which he is honoured by his Government, and which he has justi. fied by his prudent conduct in the most trying ciscum. sta. , ces, as well as the esteem he has acquired in the estimation of the Porte, make him peculiarly qualified tri act with effect on this occasi an. It is probable too, chat the Russian blockade of the Dardanelles may have induced the French Admiral to apptar in those parts to protect the interests of his nation. The negotiations with Mr. Gilley, the Americ ,n Consul, proc eJ f avow ahly, and a Commercial Treaty, advantage its t • both parties, will soon be conclude t. The Paella of Egypt, of whose judgment a high opinion is entertained bete, is said to have a !wised the Rote to grant all possible facilities to the American commerce. We have no recent news fruit the army. Some Rim• sian officers and several trundled privates taken prison. ers, almost all wounled, have been brought hither in very deplorable condition, it is said from Silisttia They are di.tributed in some islands near the capital, where, they ate aoenJed by the physician of the Etoropea-. Legation. Tne Sultan is said not to have shoWn him s-lf disposed utwaids them tit was whit great difficulty that the Austtian, Dutch, aid Danish Atubas sadois obtained from the Iteis Effendi permission to lend their m. d cal assistance, and to provide for their most urgent wants. The waist of ready money is sensibly felt, and the Turkish Nlinis.ry is assidu Insly engaged in devising means tit put a stop to the increasing embarrassment. Wnat it means to adopt is not known: ordinary me. Clods are not applicable in a csointry which has no re gular tinanci .1 system, and exttaordinary ones are dan gerous, as the ground of discontent exists, :and the old Esprit du Corps of the Janissaries does not cease to m .- nilest itself under its most dismal t rms. JAL a.---afetalliques„ 961 ; Bank Shares, 1,109. Ag. Zeiler's& Jax. 13. " DECLARATION CARRIED TO CONSTANTIN - PLR IT /11 JAUBERT• • " The declaration of the 11 of August last, which was delivered to the Reis Effendi by his Excellency the Ambassador of the Netherlands, in the name of France, Great Britain, and Russia, has made known to the Porte the motives and the abject of the expe.fition to the Morea. The immediate result which the three Powers proposed to effect by that expedition have for tunately been Attained. The departure of Ibrahim, and tle evacuation of the fortresses by the Turkish and Egyptian troops, have put an end to the effusion of human blood in the MOM, and extended tranquillity to that country ; but the work of the Powers would be incomplete, if, by the departure of their troops, the in• habitants of the Mores were exposed to new invasions. The Powers, therefore, owe it to their own dignity to prevent it. It is with this view that, at the moment when the Allied forces are disposed to retire from the Morea, after having accomplished their pacific mission, the three Courts declare to the Sublime Porte, that, till a definitive arrangement, made in common with them, has regulated the lot of the provinces which the alliance has caused to be occupied by their troops, they place the Mores and, the isles of the Cyclades under their provisional guarantee, and that in virtue of this decla ration they will view, as an aggression against them selves, the entrance of any Military force into that country. " In bringing to the knowledge of the Sublime Porte this resolution, the Courts of Great Britain, France, and Russia are pleased in acknowledging the wisdom with which the Porte has avoided a prolongation of the ca lamities of war in the Morea. They hope that, guided by the same spirit, it will be animated with a desire to terminate those questions which for eight years have held Europe in a state of anxiety and agitation ; and , I that it will eater with the three Courts on an amicable Downing-street, Sept.; IS2B. SlR—Among 1 1, e subjects to which my no ice has been called since I received the seals of 0 e Colonial Department. there is none which appeared :o me more sles•ei ving of attention than that r.f the mea•usts in pro gress fen improving, the condition of the slaves in, the West ludic Colonies. Dining the late Ses-ion of Parliament, the Ministers of the Crown took occasion to express, in their places, the ;settled purpose of his Majesty's Gnvernment to adhere strictly to the reo.lutions which were passed in the H ruse of Commons on the 15th of 'slay, 1823, and unanimously adopted in the House of Peers on the 7th of March, 1826. It is the • bject of this eispatch to convey to your Excellency the strong sense which, in common with all lily colleagues in office. I entertain of the obligations imposed upon his Majesty's Government, by thi. laden n And reiterated engagement.; and l call upon year Es. tellency assiduously to employ your endeavours to 'convey the like impression to the Legislative Council and House of Assembly of D noinica. The specific measure. of iniplovement which ap peared most urgent should be adopted, for 4ineli , r the condition of the slave population, have been al.eitly brought under the notice of the several colonial legislas tures in so pointed a manner, by the dila c;:es lit my predecessors in this t ffi:e, that it might appear a need less work if I again recoion ended each of tl em sepws rattly to your particular attention; and it might teem even to imply my entertaining an opinion, tit-er that the colonial legisla•ures had at no time been suffic ently alive to the importance of these specific measure-, or 'hat there existed in 0:e colonies so rooted an indisposi• Lion to the inttoductioti of some of them, that no pro wess had been made towards their adoption. It is my anxious desire, however, to admit no tuch unfavourable opinion of the disposition existing in the C ponies, and I shall there:ore confine myself in a great measure at present, to coiling back your attention to the Resolutions of Parliament, ad.e.t ng incidentally only to their specific application by particular enacts menus. And I adopt this clone the more willingly, Isecaose I think it visible that the protracted discus. sions which have occurred upon this imporai.t qu-stioe may have generated an opposition, the :cork rather of diversity of opinion upon particular points than wising irons any want of common assent to the prineipies laid down in the It :Amities of the two Houses of Pattie. menu, which must form the basis of all wise leoisl on the subject, and which reavn and humanity equally recommend. Them are two objects f r the attainment of which it is necessary that effectual provision shauhi he made. The first of them is the eradual elevation • f the moral character of the slave population; and o.e second is, the due protect on of all the just rig , is of pr. petty, which existing laws have vested in to e owners f slaves. 1 4M perfectly awe e that them may be found many very iespectable persons in white n.inds the lure e f polio •ice or the iiifluence of habit, or p. 'haps also a. too restrictive view of their own individual ottertsts, may have established a COligictiou that the objects above oar. boned are wholly incompatible; and that a choice mu,t at once be made between the positive sac. i6ce and the right of property on the one hand, Cr a positive deitial on the other, of the advantages which humanity has sought to obtain for the slaves. The steps, however, which base been already taken in several of the Colonies, and the progress which has been s.) happity made in some of Vern. towa cls the amelioration if the condition of the slaves, induce me 14 conclude that the extreme opinions which I have above adverted to are n.,t very generally en:et tained, and lead me at the same to f arm the espcattion.l trust not too sanguine a one—that the example of those Colonies which have advanced the farthest,without any detriment having resul:ed from their liberal lines of policy. will persuade others that it is possible to imitate without risk their laudable pinceedings. But although I am disposed to believe, that motives of sound and enlightened policy, as well as those of a more sacred and elevated character, will in.biee Gen. tlemeti holding the station of members of the local le. eislatiov, as well as other individuals possessed of influence in the Colonies, to lend a favourable ear to the repeated appeals. which have been made to their judgment and to their feelings upon this most impor. taut and interesting subject, it would be improper, how ever, to omit stating, that there are also other calls upon them, which ten ler every day more and mote urgent, as a matter of necessary policy, the ameliorat ing the condition of the slave population. For it can sc ircely be doubted, that of the two alternatives, that of withholding amelioration, and that of effectually improving the condition and character of slaves, the latter is one which holds out by far the best prospect, under the existing circumstances of the world, for general tranquillity, and for the security of property ib the Colonies. Although it be my intention, as I have already stated to your Excellency, not to enter into a detailed view of each of the individual measures which have been already so often and so urgently pressed upon the attention Of the Colonial Legislatures by my predecessors, I most advert pointedly however to a few, which I deem to be of peculiar importance. The first of these is the reli gious instruction of the slaves. It must be obvious to every man capable of reflec tion, that independently of the sacredness of the oblige. Lion which requires that no imp-diments should be placed in the way of their acquiring a knowledge of the great truths r f religion, there is no more certain mode of advancing their civilization without c'etsiment or. danger to society at large, than by religious instruc• tion. It is necessary, however, that thi s imp ortant ob !jeer should not be intrusted solely to individuals, but that provisioa shoulA likewise be made for it by law, in, order to guard againit the injury which society would sustain, by the want in any one of a just seine of its importance. Amodgst the enactments which will sug gest themselves upon this subject, there is none which appears more proper, more becoming in itself, or which