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FRENCH -PAPERS. 2ti _ • • CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES, DECEMBER 29. General 'Donadieu, as Reporter of the Commit -lee of Petitioh, noticed among others the Petition of a Monsieur Crestin, late Advocate at Gray, who complained that he had been unjustly struck off the roll of Advocates by the late Keeper of the Seals (De Berre), and prayed that the decision ofthe bite Keeper of the Seals might be referred to the present holder of that office. The General stated that the C,.ogamit tee acquiesced in the prayer of the Petition. The Order 'of the Day was moved—all the left side voted against it. The numbers were, 142 for, and 135 against the motion, so that it was only car ried by seven. It was remarked that more than twelve Members of the left were absent. - PARIS, DECEMBER 29. His Majesty heard Mass in his apartments, and afterwards transacted btriiness with M. de Lam iston, Minister of the Household ; and in the afternoon with M. de Villele, Minister of Finance. He also gave au diences to Madame de Sorgan and the Countess Rapp. M. de Choiseul and M. de. Boisgelin, who have given in their resignation of their functions of Major- General and of Adjutant-General of the National Guards, have been replaced by the Count Jules de Po lignite and the Viscount Sosthene de la Rochefoucault. The house of Arnsteein Eskles, at Vienna, i eceivei on the 19th Dec.qnber.a courier which left Cnnst in tinople on the 29th of November. At th it date no disastrous event had occurred in the capital of the Turkish Empire, except sorrinosonflagrations. under the cover of which the Asiatic Turks attempted to plunder some houses in the Bazaar, but were se nerely repressed. The red flags had actually been hoisted at Bel grade, and this circumstance had given some weight to the sinister reports circulated on the Austrian Iron tier. But the Fir man for the war against Persia is the sole reason for the measure adopted at Belgrade, and for the discprietude which the inhabitants mani fested on that occasion. Little Wallachia is evacuated by the Mussulman forces, and the Turkish frontiers on the side of Aus tria are stripped of troops as in a period of peace. The Funds, which had fallen at Vienna on the 16th and 17th, in consequence of the news from Constan-' tinople, rose on the 18th as soon as the falsehood of the reports was ascertained.--./truran/ de Paris. We i , .;ve the following paragraph fiom the French Cantu idiom ;lel of &turd:it , with the blank made by the Censorship :-- 4 ` A Journal published yesterday a grand conversion. M S.lon,on Rothsthild..,4 has been baptised at Vienita, and the Prince taster hazy hits been his god-father. It is also said that M.J. Rothschild, partner of the above, is named Consul- General from Austria to Pails." ZANTE, NOVEMBER So. After the naval victory of the Greeks. on the 11th October, martial law was proclaimed in our island; the ordinary tribunals were immediately suspended, and the most of our distinguished islanders were ar rested and thi own into prison, without knowing what was imputed to them, or the-fate which awaited them. The principal are, Calyvas, Dionysius Taliopetre, his nephew Pinageote, Michel Verecios, Dionysius Da- Spyredon Sicoure, Eustathius Cariates, the brothers John and Demetrius Pethamenos, and Con stantine llieracare. A great number of peasants have been condemned to death by military commissions. After the execu tion, their dead bodies were thrown into cages of iron, in which they are still exposed on the summits of hills, as if by way of menacing the rest of the people with a similar fate. After this scene of horror and terror, the Government ordered the general dis arming of the island. The inhabitants of the capital with murmuring obeyed this order, but the inhabit ants of the country still continue to resist. They regard this disarming as the last degree of dishonour to which they can be exposed. The Government, by way of constraining them, had recourse to another measure: it invited the citi zens the dearest to the People to repair to the church a Our Lady of Petrides, when it seized them as hostages, and now retains them in the citadel. They are St in number; the following are the names of some of them :—(. , oscine, Pergadinos, and Ventonre, all three clergymen; Stellius Mecalize, Julio, Do menigine, Nicolas Messala, Peter Macrys, Robert and Dionysius Solomon, Marcus Flambouriare, Do lor and Dionysius Volterra, Gradenigue and Nicolas Psernaits, Jahn Secoin, Theophilus Francopole, Ste.— Notwithstanding this measure, the peasants still per sist in not giving up their arms. Fresh English troops have disembarked in the island; a squadron com posed of frigates and vessels of war has its batteries directed against the town. Wherever we turn our eyes we meet only the apparatus of war; the island has the aspect of a blockaded country. A great num ber of our inhabitants have voluntarily banished them selves; the movement is far from being appeased. The Spectateur Oriental of the 2d December says, " The murders recommenced in the Frank quarter a month ago. These murders, which usually fall on the Greeks, are committed unde r t h e eyes of the Eu ropeans, threaten their personal safety,, frighten their families, suspend commercial operations—violence is encouraged by impunity—the public disorder has be come intolerable." CONSTANTINOPLE, OCTOBER 7. In consequence of the Firman of the Grand Seig nior, the Janisaries have conceived themselves au thorised to commit with impunity every excess, and the suburbs of Constanainople have been the theatre; they burnt, pillaged, massacred, and a great number at young girls have again been carried off to be sold. PERA, NOVEMBER 25. EXTRACT OF A PRIVATE LETTER. " The Tut kish troops resemble more a masquerade than an army—one is dressed in blue, another red, another white, &c.—one is armed with a musket two yards long, near him there is another with a carabin ; a third marches with pistols ; others have only sabres, oe knives of the country, called Yatagans; some we on foot, others on horseback, or on mules, kc. Ts is the nation which, with an intestine war, wishes to brave Russia and to make enemies of the other Powers, belching and maltreating with a ferocious pride :heir subjects, icc. often their Ministers. We are here on the eve of a dreadful crisis." FRANKFORT, DECEMBER 23. Constantinople is in the most dreadful anarchy. A great number of 'Wats pevi e b every day. The Chris- LONDON. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2, 1822. THE FUND& PRICKS 01 STOCKS THIS DAY AT OHS O'CLOCK 3 per Cent. Redu. 76 Vs 76:--3 V I par Cent. 86% 4 per Cent. 953 4 % 34 —Ba n k Long Ans. 19 3-16 34 Exchequer Bills £lOOO, par, 3.1. pr. . Cons. for Account 77% % 34. The Paris Papers of Sunday, with the interme diate Journals of Thursday and Friday, do not furnish us with any sufficient cause for the great depression of the Funds, which from Thursday to Saturday had varied no less than four per cent. The circumstance appears to have excited serious apprehensions in the Ministers, who caused the followiag paragraph to be inserted in the Moniteur of Friday : " Malevolence has gratified itself for some days past, by cir culating various reports, tending to disturb the tranquillity which France enjoys, and to shake public credit. If we are to credit these rumours, armies are about to be assembled at the foot of the Pyrennees, but no authority can be quoted to sanction these wanton fabrications. The Government has assembled on the frontier of the Pyrenees, the troops strictly necessary for the for mation of a Sanitory Cordon. This Cordon will be maintained in order that no security may be wanting against the introduction into France of the destructive scourge which ravages Spain." This paragraph was also sent to the opposition pa pergthe Courier Francais and theConttitutionuel, with a request by the Secretary General of the War De partment, that it might be inserted. It does not, how • ever, appear to have had the effect of keeping up the Funds. An article from Smyrna, dated the Sd December,' goes very far to shew the gross exaggerations of some of the Ministerial Papers relating to the atrocities of the Greeks, and confirms all the reports which bad previously reached ns of the barbarities of the Turks. It is an official Note, addressed on the 14th November, to the Pacha and all the Turkish Authorities of Smyrna, by the European Consuls resident there, on the subject of the assassinations that were.claily committed. It states, that " For a whole month murders have reeommeneed in the quarter of the Franks, notwithstanding the positive orders of the Grand Seignior. Those murders, which are committed on the Greeks, are generally perpetrated under the eyes of the Euro peans, threaten their personal safety, terrify their families, sus pend commercial operations, and when heard of in our countries, put a stop to that trade which enriches the Ottoman States Europeans no longer dare entrust their property to a City where every individual erijoys the right of lift and death, that terrible and supreme right which only belongs to the Sovereign, 'and Which may only be exercised by his Representatives." It adds, w vio lence has been encouraged by impunity, and public disorders have increased every day. They are became intolerable." HASSAN PACHA, in his answer to the Consuls, in forms them, that he will lay their Note before the Public Authorities of the City, and that he did not doubt but proper measures would be adopted to re, store order. But, notwithstanding these assurances, assassinations continue, and Smyrna is the theatre of the most 'evoking atrocities. One stratagem resorted to by the savage Turks to secure their victims is, we believe, without a parallel even in a nation prover bial for its barbarity. The massacres that daily took place induced some of the *reeks to seek means to escape their sanguinary and implacable enemies.— The Turks, aware of this, caused a vessel to be fitted out, under the Greek flag : the unconscious fugitives crowded on board, and paid a large sum on condi tion of being conveyed beyond the Sea Castle. But no sooner had these demons in human shape got the money and made sure of their victims, than they were put on board an Algerine brig, and were all massacred. Such are the tender mercies of the Turks, whom the Courier vindicates. The German Papers have been particularly active , data in Orcaladag reports of a revolitiop at Constantinople. An maisle from ' the led: ult. says: 04 After the arrival of 'two con . riers, who were conducted by the Prince de Metter nich to the Emperor, the report has been cireulited that there have been dreadful scenes at Constanti nople; that the Sultan Mabmoad and his sons have been strangled, and that upwards of 6,000 Christians have been massacred." A Nureniberg article of the 21st ult. states the re. ceipt of letters on that day from Vienna, coming 'from a very respectable source, which confirmed the ,death of the GRAND 5R10N10R..... 41 Rivers of blood (it is added) have flowed at Constantinople. The Je nissaries have massacred a considerable number of Christians. It is even asserted, but this wants con firmation, that two Ambassadors lost their lives." But the Hamburgh Coryespondast,with the strongest predilection for the marvellous and the horrible, in a letter from Vienna, dated December 16, tells the fol lowing story :—" Constantinople is no morel A con flagration far more terrible, of longer duration, and more destructive than the great fire of Moscow, has reduced this capital to asirs. The Grand Seignor and his son Abdul Mirtad have been murdered, as have also the Mufti, the Reis Effendi, the Capudan Pacha, and many other great Officers of the Empire. All these atrocities and devastations are the work of the Janissaries. One of the most determined of their leaders, an Orta, is mule Sultan. The Foreign Am bassadors had the good, fortune to escape in time to Buiukdere and Scutari. All the Greeks and Franks weTe murdered.. These horrors were accompanied by an earthquake in the environs of Constantinople, which swallowed up towns and villages." We stated yesterday, that advices from the Turkish Capital, of the 10th inst. were silent on the subjects on which the German Journalists have so dilated. An article from Leipzic, of the 17th ult. states, that a respectable commercial house had received advices from Vienna, that the Russians had passed the Pruth, and that war had broken out, which has been confirmed by other news. War has been pro claimed at Constantinople against Persia. The camas from the French Papers, up to Mon- i day last, will be found in a preceding column. Some of our contemporaries who talk of the mag nanimity and liberality of the Emperor of RUSSIA, seem to forget the policy of that Court, which, from the time of PETER the GREAT to that of ALEXANDER " the bringer of blessings," as his subjects wished to call him, has been uniformly one of aggrandisement. When the great CATHERINE exclaimed, "my capital is too near my frontier, I must have Finland," the possession of this Province became the unceasing policy of the Russian Cabinet, which never was abandoned until the wishes of CATHERINE were rea lized. Poland—but we must not blame Russia alone for annihilating the independence of that nation ; all the great Powers of Europe shared in the infamy of its first partition, and Russia has only profited by circumstances to add the whole to her empire. On her Persian frontier she has displayed the same spirit ; but the great master-project of this ambitious Power is Turkey ; in all her wars and alliances, in all her negociations and treaties, Russia has never lost sight of this darling object. The first step was gain ing possession of Wallachia and Moldavia; and in the plan of partition formed at Erfurth between the Emperor ALEXANDER and his good brother Nero- LEON, whose cheek he kissed, and whose obsequious Ally he then was, it was agreed that the Turkish Provinces should fall to the share of Russia, and Spain to that of France. It was after this under standing between the two Sovereigns that overturn were made to England; and while the negociation was still pending, BoNeeeRTE declared to his Senate that the principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia were annexed to the dominions of his friend and ally, the Emperor ALEXANDER. When, however, BONA pArri found England determined not to treat upon any basis which did not expressly admit of the eva cuation of Spain ; and that by entering into such terms he left a decided advantage to Russia with respect to Turkey, without reaping any benefit to himself from the political bargain made at Erfurth, he changed his views. The Continental System, which he endeavoured to justify in attributing the general calamities of , Europe to a tyrannical perseverance in war on the part of England, furnished him with a sufficient pretext for engaging Russia to continue her war against Turkey, , which had just entered into terms of friendship with, England. NAPOLEON, on the other hand, prevailed' on the Turkish Government to insist on the mtitu lion of the two Principalities occupied by the Rus sian armies, and to continue hostilities so long as the Russian Court should withhold its consent to the rnea sure. The desire of BOHAPARTS to keep these two Powers at vasiance with each other increased when he had formed the plan of subsequently invading Russia, then molested on one side by the Tusks, and on the ether by the . Persians, and she was forced to employ considerable armies in defence of her frontiers. The exhausted state of Turkey, the mediation of Eng land, and the impatience of Russia, pressed by the hostile preparations of France, evidently► intended against her, hastened the conclusion of peace between the Mussulman Power and the Russians, who were compelled to relinquish their designs on ;Moldavia and Wallachia. Since 1812, to the conclusion of peace s Russia as :oo actircly employed against France to think of netreoacineets. She has not, bewmt, voted long on her arms without seeking a quarrel with Turkey, and making demands of such a nature, and urged in such a manner, as either to ensure the peaceful possession, in the firstiostance, of the two Principali. ties; or a pretext to seize on them by force- What her ulterior views are, we have before stated. Milting less than thb Empire of European Turkey. thus hoping to menace our Empire in India. We have been favoured wish the following el. tracts df private litters received this morning by a respectable House in the City, from the Consul at &lonic*: • SALOWICA, NOV2MBER n. " At length the Turks have succeeded in taking Cassandra, on the 12th instant, after a feeble resist ance on the part of the Insurgents, who suffered cm, siderably. Abul Labut Pasha conducted the at. tack, and, it is said, discovered traittof personal va. lour seldom excellid, having put eighteen of the rebels to death with his own hand. “ The number of prisoners taken I have not been able to ascertain ; but it is given out that a vast num ber of women (some say 10,000) have fallen into the hands of the Turks. True it is, however, that bp. wards of 4000 of these poor unfortunate creatures have already been brought to this town, and are now exhibited for sale to the highest bidder I It is said, that Abul Labut has marched upon Sikia and Mount Athos, which no doubt will share the fate of Cassandra. gg Within the last few days the neighbouring vii. lages due west from here, and distant from eight to fifteen miles, have been alarmed by-the incursions of some Greek Albanians, who, after exacting heavy contributions, threatened open •iolence if they did not rise and join them (the Greeks) against the Turks. Upon this the Chiefs of the villages called for protec tion from our Governor. How this matter will end I am yet to learn ; although I am. not without apprehensions of danger for our present quietness and tranquillity, as those Albanian rovers are strongly suspected to be part of Ali Pacha's emissaries, who have already done so much mischief in this part cf the country." " CONSTANTINOPLE, NOVEMBER 26. " A part (say four two-deckers, one frigate, two corvettes, and four or five small vessels) of the Turkish fleet have arrived to undergo repairs; their crews have taken to the shore, and began their old tricks of p hindering and murdering the poor defenceless inhabitants in the streets. g i I hear Lord Strangford was to give a Note to the Sultan (himself) upon this subject to-day, corn• plaining of this evil. The German Minister had a conference with the Turkish Ministers on the 22d in stant, on the subject of Russia's demands, and the Ministers of other Powers will follow. This question is as uncertain as ever." “ Letters fiom Odessa state, that the question of war with Turkey is dropt for the present, but generally believed it will probably be revived in the spring.” The Irish Papers of Monday mention that some houses had been attacked for arms in Kildare, and that several threatening Notices had been posted in the County of Kilkenny ; but, with those exceptions, the country was tranquil. The Ball intended to have been given on Monday last, at Bushy Park, by his Royal Highness the Duke of CLAszNcE, has been put off, on account of the inundations about Hampton. So greatly are his Royal Highness and his amiable Consort beloved,on account of their benevolence to the poor, and their afithility Ito the Gentry of the neighbourhood, that it it hoped that this opportunity of displaying their hospitality may not long be deferred. Mr. and Mrs. RA IK es have been compelled, for a time, to quit their house at Hampton, the lower part of it being entirely under water. The Marquis of 13VCKINOHAM gave a sumptuous entertainment yesterday to all his tenantry, &c. at his seat Stowe, Bucks. The Marquis of ELT is entertaining a select party at Byfrons, near Winchester. The Earl of DELAWAR entertains a select circle of friends at his. seat, Bourn-Hall, Cambridgeshire. The Marquis of WINCHESTER is entertaining a large party at his seat, Ampost House, Han: s. Christmas-day, Colonel BallitZTON, of Chichester, 'bad a party to dine with him, and there were straw -1 berries picked from the beds in the open garden. The Duke of SCHER'S; at his late audit day at Holbeach, returned 20 per cent. to his numerous tenantry in that neighbourhood. At the audit for the Duke of BEDFORD, an average return of 18 per cent. was made to the tenants upon their year's rents. The allowance varied from 15. to 20 per cent. according to the terms upon which the farms are held. The Earl of Covawriy, in addition to very Van& some abatements made by his Lordship within the last file years, has, at his late audit, made very libe ral deductions to his tenants, according to the period of time at which the tenants took their estates. The Earl Hoar., at the late rent-day of his Not tinghamshire estates, made a deduction of the last half-year's rents. The VICI-CHANCILLON, after passing a few days at Casbiobury, has crossed into Hampshire; and from thence be goes on a visit to the Earl Dio', at Sher. borne Cas le, in Dorsetshire. The Right Hon. Tama AS GRENVILLE has left town , for Daoprnore Lodge, bucks. Marquis GRAMMA has arrived in town, en a visit to his father, the Duke of Motrraoar, in Grosvenor. square. The Earl of Ess*x is indisposed at Cashiobitry. The Earl of HA RROWIBY stilt remains at his seat, Sandou h all, neu LlKbaeld, Staffordshiro. trans are prey to the Most drew") soffeeings.— Bands of assassins, - among whom are many Janissaries and Asiatics, run tip and down the streets of the ca pital, and give themselves up to the most unheard of atrocities. It is in vain foreign Ministers make repre• aentations. The Divan always answers in an evasive manner. The number of fires becomes more frequent. On the 18th of November, the day when the war against the Persians was pro claimed at Constantino- , pie, the Ottoman Government received the news that the Persians, after a bloody battle, had taken posses sion of Musch, and advanced by forced marches r agaiast.Erzerum ; almost at the same time it was in formed that the Greeks had taken Tripolissa by as sault. This news roused the fury of the Turks to the 1 1 utmost degree. The Divan, which dreaded the effects of this effervescence, published that the Ottoman army had gained great successes against the Greeks, in the Peninsula of Cassandra. It was even added,, that Chirschid Pacha had beat the troops of Ali Pacha. However, the truth will not be long in being knovi , n, and then nothing will stop a furious popula tion, bent only on the destruction of the Christians. Saumur, which the French Papers state to have beeh the seat of a conspiracy against the Government, was lately exposed to destruction by fire. The Journal of Ike Maine and Loire says—" A conflagration, on the cause of which opinions are not decided, has spread consternation through the town of Saumur. It broke out on the evening of the 18th ult. in the upper story of the residence of M. Prroan, an eminent merchant. Alarm soon became general, as it spread rapidly, and assumed a most appalling aspect. The Civil and Mi litary Authorities, the Officers and Students of the Military Colleges, and inhabitants of all classes, were active in their efforts to stop the progress of the de you: ing element, in which they did not succeed until midnight. Five persons perished, and four were grievously, and, it is feared, mortally wounded on this calamitous occasion." _ THE EVENING STAR. CO on 4t lu • g ni blo Cl nt/ ha nC • • 01 nt • a, ici yit . n 61 WI .1 n a II •is is he he is ul , h a •u • Tr • a • ot ▪ s 01 t rel re nt ti n Go .e the Ac sig an ,1 .11 du thy ing the •n 1 au SO Le s•.d PI Se E as J r I ~.'► I ~r ;.. :'~ I , PI u PI