Star. — London, England, 1821-04-23 00:00:00

f. - _ _ FRENCH PAPERS. PARIS, APRIL 18. We learn with certainty, that the Russian army of Volhynia is stopt on its march towards Hungary and Italy by a new order from the Emperor Alexander. MILAN, APRIL 9. Onr Gazette of this day contains the following official intelligence: " Count Bubna, Commander-in-Chief in Lombardy, being informed that the Piedmontese rebels were ad vancing on Novara, to attack that part of the Pied montese army which remained faithful to the King, under the command of General Latour, resolved to march to his assistance. With this view a bridge of boats were established over the Tesino, near Buffarola, and it was practicable on the 7th, at eight in the evening. The corps'under the command of his Ex cellency immediately effected the passage. The troops posted at Pavia, and at Abbiategrasso, also passed on two bridges, the former towards Gropello and Val leggin, the latter at Vigaevano and Mortava. As soon as the river was passed, the General published the following Proclamation in Italian and French : " Piedmontese !—The Imperial and Royal army has been obliged to pass the Tesino, in consequence of the hostile move ments of Alessandria. The object of this march is solely to support the army of your King against every aggrission, by re pelling farce by force. " This conduct must give confidence to those whose fidelity to their legitimate Sovereign is superior to the vicissitudes of the moment. Recognise then, Piedmontese, your real ft lends and allies, by the assistance we give to the Royal army. I have more than once fought beside you in the days of glory : our reciprocal esteem assures to us the renewal of such days. " At the Tesino, April 9. " COUNT BUBNA." The advanced guard under General Bretschneider arrived near Novara on Sunday, the Bth, at two o'clock, after midnight. His Excellency the Corn uiander-in•Chief arrived in the morning, precisely at the moment when the town was violently threatened by the rebels. Part of the Royal Piedmontese troops were in gar rison in the town of Novara, and the rest had taken a position on the right. The Anstiian advanced guard directed its march to the left of Novara. At six in the morning the enemy debouched from Cameriano, on the great road leading to Verceil, and began a brisk attack. It was less the effect of chance than of a sudden determination adopted in consequence of the urgency of the circumstances, which made Count Bubna ar rive at the very moment when the rebels had com menced their cannonade. The presence of his Excellency electrified the Royal !'iedmontese troops, who received him with acclamations, which were repeated by the inhabi tants of Novara. The battle then commenced. Notwithstanding their long night march, the Duke Czartorisky regiments of infantry, and a battalion of Reuss-pleccen infantry, advanced on the heights at the charging step. In a short time the enemy was repulsed from the plain of Novara into which Ire had advanced, as well as from the bastions, whence the Piedmontese troops maintained a brisk fire of artillery and musketry.— He halted again behind the Agogna, and defended himself in that position for some time, until being attacked in front by the Royal Piedmontese troops under General Latour, on the left by the brigade of General Breischneider, and threatened on the right by detachments from Mengen's brigade, he was obliged to abandon that position also, and to retreat precipitately on Verceil, whither he was pursued by the united ad vanced guards of the Austrians and Piedmontese. His Excellency reserves for publication and a par ticular repot t,' the names of all the brave men who distinguished themselves on this important day. It testifie,, in the meantime, his high esteem for the brave Piedmontese troops, who have given a fresh proof that when well directed they belong to the most distinguished of the military class. This report was scarcely closed when intelligence arrived that the combined Austrian and Piedmontese advanced guard, which pursued the enemy on the Verceil road, had defeated him whet ever he attempted to make any resistance, and had taken 100 prisoners, including seven Officers, and also two pieces of cannon. On our side, the trifling loss hitherto ascertained con sists only of one Officer killed, another wounded, and a small number of soldiers. According to the most recent accounts, General Br etschneider has entered Verceil. VIENNA, APRIL 7. The insurrection in Walachia and Moldavia prin cipally engages the attention of the Public in this capital, and particularly of the Greeks. The fallacious promises of Prince Ypsilanti, that Russia would lend her aid to the insurgents, appear to have misled many into the cause who will repent when they shall know the Declaration of the Emperor Alexander, in which he unequivocally disavows the whole enterprise, and deprives them of all hope of aid. The Austri2n Observer of tiPday says—" A general satisfaction has succeeded to the anxiety which pre vailed previously to. the entrance of the Austrian Army into Naples. On the '2sth, the day following the deliverance of the capital, the inhabitants thronged in crowds to the public promenades and to the Toledo, which had been but little frequented for some time. The Theatres have also more select and more nume• Tons spectators. In a word, joy is visible upon all, countenances; which, added to our perfect security, offers to the eye of an observer a remarkable contrast with the restraint, the sullen silence, and painful in certitude, which existed during.the Carbonarian Re volution. The King and Prince Leopold are expected to arrive without delay in the capital of the Two A letter from Hermanstadt, dated 'the 28th of Alarch, draws a very melancholy picture of the state of Walachia. All the Nobles who, satisfied with the bitrary Magistracy with which they were invested, were not favourable to the insurrection of the Otto man Porte ; all the inhabitants who, from character, or the want of means, or from age, were either un able or unwilling to take up arms, have fled from Bucharest, and sought shelter in Transylvania; but the salutary precautions have required that they should be stopped at the frontiers, and they have been confined in the Custom-houses to perform qua rantine. A great many of them have preferred to withdraw into the woods and mountains. The army of Prince Ypsilanti is daily increasing. APRIL B.—The news from Turkey becomes daily more important. There is a vast fermentation in Ser via, and that province will soon follow the example of Walachia and Moldavia. Troops are everywhere collecting for the purpose of combating the Porte. The inhabitants of the Morea and Albania participate in the same feeling. It is difficult to obtain certain intelligence of what is passing; but atfails must be serious, if we julge from the movements of our troops, who have received orders to form a cordon, extending from Semlin along the frontier of the Ban• nat to that of Moldavia. The Porte has adopted the resolutiOn of sending a strong army into the provinces of the North, and of acting with energy against the rebels. We are assured that all the Greeks act on one plan, and that they have an understanding with Ali Paella. Be this as it may, the Litter will find means to profit by the diversion which has been. made di rectly or indirectly in his favour. Since the entrance of our troops into Naples, the . public attention is completely directed to Turkey.— The events in Moldavia and Walachia have an influ ence on our Exchange, where the number of Greek meichants is considerable. The promises of Ypsi lanti are contradicted by the declaration of the Em peror Alexander; and it is possible that the enlight ened pal t of the population will prevent the mass from ing the standard of rebellion* The last accounts from Constantinople are far from satisfac tory. The indignation of the Porte is at its height. The Dragoman, Callimachi, who si as dismissed on the &lc of last month, has since been beheaded, and several Greeks of distinction have experienced the same destiny. HAMBURG!' AND FLEMISH PAPERS. ODESSt,MARCH s 4. " On the arrival here this day of the. packet-boat from Constantinople, the following report was circu lated :—On the morning of the 2bth March, a con siderable number of Greek vessels, with heavy artil lery, from all parts of the Archipelago, made their appearance in the harbour of Constantinople, under the Russian flag, and having at least 15,000 armed Greeks in them. Their arrival excited universal agi tation, and the Turkish Government wished to exer cise, with iespfct to them, the right of visitation; but' Count Strogonoff, the Russian Minister, threatened to take his departure immediately, if the flag of his nation should not be respected. The Grand Signior is said to have immediately sent for the Greek Pa triarch, to avail himself of him as a mediator. ,So stood affairs, it is said, when the packet-boat set sail for Odessa, on the evening of the 20th. No one doubts, in this country, of the existence of a long prepared plan of insurrection, extending over all Greece, which is now carried into execution. Much blood will probably be shed in Constantinople." STOCKHOLM, APRIL 6. The Message of the King to the-Norwegian Diet, respecting the request of Colonel Gustayson to be naturalised, was communicated to that Assembly, in a public Sitting, by the Count Wedolo. After the Message was read, the affair was referred to a Com mittee of five Members. They immediately met, and agreed to propose to the Storthing to send a humble Address to his Majesty to the following effect :—That the Norwegian Storthing saw, in the communication which his Majesty had been pleased to make respect ing the application of Colonel Gustayson, a fresh proof of the paternal sentiments of the King ; that the Storthing thinks it superfluous to add to its refusal of the said application any other Resolution than to repeat on the occasion the assurance of its inviolable fidelity to the dynasty, which the free choice of the nation has called to the Throne; and likewise the assurance faithfully to fulfil its duties towards Swe den, and to keep at a distance whatever might disturb the good understanding with that kingdom. The proposal of the Committee was unanimously adopted by the Storthing in its Sitting on the 91st of March. WARSAW, APRIL 4. Accounts from the frontiers of Moldavia, of the 17th of March, say, that Prince Ypsilanti left Jassy with 4,000 Greeks, and proceeded by the way of Foksahamy. As this road goes through Walachia, he - may be expected to join Theodore : 14,000 Turks are said to have advanced as far as Braila. JASSY, MARCH i 2. The insurrection of Prince Ypsilanti has produced a great effect. Two thousand volunteers, said to be well equipped, have enrolled themselves in a remote place, and are marching hither. All the sons abroad are summoned home by their fathers, to join the standards to which all are flocking. Those who can not take the field, give money ; and the sums col lected exceed all expectation. You would fancy, to ,ee the restless activity of these Greeks, that the enemy was at the gates. Our Ilospodar, Prince Suzzo, supports the business to his utmost, and has given large sums; and the Jews are not backward. The report of an insurrection among the Greeks, at Con stantinople, needs confirmation. MARCH I3.—An Order of the Day of Prince Ypsi lanti, addressed to the Greek warriors under Colonel Basil Harabia, congratulating them on the victory obtained at Galatz, has been published. VIENNA, APRIL 7. Though the Neapolitans are wholly put down, the Emperor of Russia, with wise precaution, will not stop the march of his troops ordered to Italy. FRANKFORT, APRIL 12.. One of the first operations of the Greek insurgents was to attack the town of Giorgewo, situated between Bucharest and the Danube. It was occupied by a gan ison of 5000 Ottoman troops. The Greeks hoped to carry it by a coup de main; they attacked it with great intrepidity, but with only 300 men. The su periority of the enemy, and the strength of the posi tion, rendered success impossible. The Greeks were almost all cut off; but the insurgents having now collected a more considerable force, attacked the place in due form, and made themselves masters of ' it. The greater part of the Turkish garrison was put to the sword. Letters from Semlin say, that the Pacha of Bel. grade bad retired into that town, after having deli vered up the citadel to the Servians. CASSEL, APRIL 9. Our Journals enjoy much more liberty since the accession of our new Sovereign. They are now allowed to insert news from Spain, Portugal, and Italy, and what passes in the Cortes. Confidence in Austrian paper does not yet revive. The tickets of the second Loan, or Lottery of RothsthilsLs, have declined be. low the rate at which they were aegociated by the Contractors. The presence of My. D. Pails!) is not. calculated to make them rise, because it is believed that a new loan is in contemplation. THE EVENING STAR. • LONDON. MONDAY, APRIL 23, IS2I. ,EATTZS MAJESTY'S BIILTII-DAY (Err). Holiday at the Public Offices. —A. St. George's Day being the day appointed for the celebration of the Anniversary of his MAJESTY'S Birth, this morning was u4ieled in by a merry peal from all the bells of the Metropolis. The Churches , as usual, displayed their flags. The Royal Standard was hoisted at the Tower, and the ships in the various docks, and on the River, displayed the colours, at the mast-head, of their respective nations. St. Dunstan's in the West having erected a new tower on their Church, the inhabitants caused a handsome new flag to be exhibited on the occasion. At noon the guns in the Park and those at the To•A er, were fired. —The Guards, Coachmen, Scc. of the Mail Caache, having their new Royal liveries for, the occasion, will take their usual route through the principal streets of London, after dinner, from the Mail Coach Manu factory, Milbank. The General Post men and Two penny Post lads are this day all newly clothed in the Royal livery, and cut a very handsome appearance. The veterans of Greenwich and Chelsea are not forgot on this occasion ; they will dine off roast beef and plum pudding, have a shilling and two quarts of ale, to drink his MaJEsTv's health, each man. The arrivals from abroad in the course of yeAerday, consisted of the Paris Papers of Thursday, and Hain burgh and Flemish Papers to the 17th and 20th inst. from all of which we have given extracts in another place. The news which they have brought is not of much novelty or importance. There is an official account by the Austrian Count BUBNA, which con. firms the statement in the Private Letter from Turin, which we published on Friday, doing justice to the, ret-i,tance made bi the Constitutional Ai my of Pied mont. Although the result was unfortunate, it was far from being disgraceful. The Piedmontese made a brisk attack, and sustained a conflict of some dura tion with the united forces of BontrA. and LATOUR. They halted and rallied, after being driven from the plain of Novara, and defended themselves a second time behind the Agogna, before they were finally defeated. The piece of intelligence contained in the letter from Odessa, given by a German l'aper, stands cer tainly in need :of confirmation. It is altogether of a most incredible character. A considerable number of vessels are said to have arrived in the harbour of Constantinople, under the Russian flag, and having at least 15,000 armed Greeks on board ! It is said that the Turks wished to exercise the right of visitation with respect to them, but that the Russian Minister, Count STROGONOFF, threatened to depart instantly if the flag of his nation should not Le respected ! ! Can it be possibly believed that the Turks, on the arrival of such a hostile force in the very harbour of their own capital, would have been deterred from taking steps for seizing them, or that the Russian Ambassador would commit his master in so open and palpable a manner, as to inter fere on such an occasion? Russia will play a more cunning game. The time is not yet come for her open hue' ference. The Russian Army of Volhynia is said to have been stopped in its march towards Hungary and Italy by a new order of the Emperor ALEXANDER. The March of this Army naturally gave rise to great ap prehension. As the Neapolitans and Piedmontese had been put down, why was a Russian Army to be marched into Italy ? The impression generally ex isted in Paris that an application had been made to the French Government for permission to march this Russian Army through France, for the overthrow of the Constitutional System in Spain, and that the pre tended destination of Italy was a mere blind. In the Chamber of Deputies, on the 17th, General For made some observations on this subject, which gave rise to great agitation in that Assembly. We are inclined to think that the apprehension is groundless, for we do not believe that the French Government would dare to try the patience of their subjects so far as to give permission to a Russian Army to march through France. It will require a year or two more of the domination of the Ultras to fit them for such a humiliation. The French Five per Cents. left off on Wednesday at Si francs, 80 cents. A Dutch Mail has also arrived to-day with Papers to the 21st instant. It gives us sincere pleasure to learn from them that the king of the NETHERLANDS, has, by a Resolution of the 16th of April, prohibited the imrertation of Negroes, from those foreign Colo nies where it is still allowed to import them directly from Africa, into any of the Colonies of the Nether lands, and especially into that of Surinam. We have received this forenoon Piedmontese Ga zettes to the 12th of April. They announce the accession of Alexandria and Genoa to the restored order of things. The attempted regeneration of the Sardinian dominions may therefore he considered for the preient as entirely at an end. The following are Oltracts : TURIN, APRIL 32. Official letters, received yesterday afternoon at three o'clock, by his Excellency the Governor-Gene. ral, by an express dispatched yesterday from Genoa, by way of Savina, by 14.1j0r-General cassonbing, an nounce the happy intellii2:ence that the City and Duchy of Genoa have returned to the ancient order, and that three deputations were on the point of setting out-- one to his Royal Highness the Duke of Genevois; the second to his Majesty, King Victor Emmanuel, the third to his Excellency. All these deputatio ns ' will be accompaniel with dispatches from his Excel lency, Count Desgenez. The Secretary of State for the Home Department has jug receivei, by express, the following official letter, dated Alexandria, 11th April; " At this moment, that is, at half-past one o'clock in the af. ternoon, a corps of Austrian troops, commanded by General Bretsehneider, has entered and taken possession of the city and citadel, in the name of his Majesty our King. It was received at the gates by the Bishop, the Intendant-General. and the Cor. poration of that city. No accident has occurred, and the po. pulation, who have taken no part in the preceding convulsions, preserved theirusual tranquillity." " LUIGI BONGIOVANNI DI CASTELBORGO, Knight of the Sacred Religion and Military Ord a of St. Maurice and Lozano*, Commander and Trea surer of that of Savoy, Major-General of the Royal Armies, and Governor, ad inferno, of the Division of Turin : " All persons, whether they be subjects of his Majesty Ge foreigners, who have arrived in this city since the Ist of Janu ar y last, are to depart within twenty-four hours, unless they obtain permission to remain from the loyal Government. Permissions will I): given is writing to those who shall assign sufficient rea sons. Those persons, whether civil or military, who are here on acc4unt of the loyal service, are excepted from this Order. " The Officers, Subalterns, privates, and other individuals, not attached to the Corps, Brigades, or Regiments here stationed or passing through, are also to present themselves to the Govern ment to receive orders. " Those who shall contravene the present Order, shall be pro. cceded against with a degree of rigour proportioned to the dr cumstances. " DE CA STELBORGO, Orecchia Sec. " Turin, 11th April, 1821." Yesterday, at six o'clock, his Excellency, Count Sailler de la Tour, Commander-in-Chief of the Royal armies, and Governor-General of Piedmont, entered this city, attended by a brilliant Staff; and the head. quarters. At the same time entered the brigades of Infantry, and the Grenadier Guards of Piedmont and of Aosta, the Royal Piedmont regiment of Cavalry, and a battalion of the Royal Light Regiment. The soldiers drew up in the Piazza Reale, and in that at tiguous to the castle, and, amidst the sound of their bands of music, uttered the joyful cry of "Long live the King I" A battalion of the Royal Legion'relieved, the same evening, the Local National Guard which did duty in the Citadel. At the approach of night the whole City was splendidly illuminated. Yesterday also a body Guard, a battery of twelve cannon, escorted by a Corps of Royal Carabineers on horseback and ou foot, and the Brigade of Cuno, returned from Novara. The return of these brave troops, who have gives so many and such striking proofs of fidelity to their Sovereign, the spirit by which they are animated, the discipline they observe, the name of the General in -Chief, and his personal character, will suffice to restore among us that tranquillity which all have been longing for. - Let the People, who never took part ctleerftllly, resume their occupations; let those families who, to escape the state of anxiety in which we were, had sought tranquillity in the country, joy fully return to their homes; and let all hearts indulge those hopes of peace and concord which the august House that has governed us for eight centuries bas never deceived. The Paris Papers of Friday arrived this forenoon. Their contents are of considerable interest, especially with respect to the state of Spain. It appears, that the fermentation produced at Barcelona by the ar rival there of the first news of the overthrow of the Neapolitan Constitutionalists, has, as was anticipated in the accounts we gave on Saturday, extended to other parts of Spain, and threatens to produce an un happy deviation from that line of temperate policy which has hitherto marked the progress of the Spa nish Revolution. The following is a rapid sketch el the events which have occurred immediately preiP ous and subsequent to the transmission of the neWs from Barcelona: MADRID, APRIL 2. The Congress, in one of its secret sittings, hating examined the Report of a Special Commission ap pointed to consider the Memoir of the Minim o f State on our political situation with respect to other kingdoms, has adopted the opinion of that Commis sion, and resolved, that " the principle of our owo restoration was attacked by the hostile steps of At* tria against the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies." 1 14 deliberations of the Congress have been published; and they occupy every one's attention. Extraordinary measures are to be taken to prePal here arms and munitions of war, and probably mai of repression will be adopted against individuals. SITTING OF TIIE CORTES ON THE 6TH. A project of law on• the organization of the Atoll discussed. Seven articles adopted, one of which call out, for the defence of their country, all Spaniard s from the age of 18 to .50. SITTING OF TIIE BTII. TIIE SWRETARY Of read a d;Sp2tCh of tie to fio so il th IN th re ti,