The National Register. — London, England, 1822-02-17 00:00:00

G~L~< 111.111.111111.1111.1.1.11.11111. 7 "111111111.1"1" ," "1"11.111611115111.111".. 2e) . g 0/10 0— • 6 " , „o p e 4 /2 Tit!, liatto rot tittr4 Our Mug, eoullUtution, anti La 331. . No. 1,350.—V0L. XV.] FRENCH PAPERS. PARIS, Fee. 11.—The cause pending between M. Jacques Lafitte, the banker, and Counts Mon thulm and Bertrand, the bearers of the note writ ten by Napoleon Buonaparte. in which he desires M. Lafittee to pay into their hands six months after his decease, the sum of five millions, deposited with him in the month of July, 1815, at the time of bis departure for St. Helena, was yesterday called on before the First Chamber of the Tribunal of the First Instance. M. Lafitte declared that he could not pay over the money, except in the presence of the guardians of Buonaparte's heir, or those duly authorised : but in the mean time he offered to place the money in the chest of the office for deposits. A serious difficulty also arose from the claim of interest for five years and a half, at the rate of 5 per cent, M. Lafitte contended that no stipulation had heen made as to that point at the time the five mil lions were remitted to him i • and that considering them as kucred trust, he had made no use whatever of the money. Itt. Dupla was ready to state the ease on behalf of the plaintiik but oa acaount of the number of causes already cesitneneed, end the pressure of bu siness before tho CWita, the. trial was deferred to the 231 of this month. MADRID. JAN. 29.—The important debate upon the means of pacifying Spanish America, will etc cupy the extraordinary Cortes for several days. We hare still further disturbances here. Nume rous patrols travel the streets night and day ; the 4-bards are doubled, strong picquets occupy the prin cipal cscones of the squares; in short, the city has as..ume4 an imposing aspect, to which we are in dehnld for the small degree of apparent tranquillity ichwli we enjoy. General Campo Verde is appointed to replace M. Barcena, the present popular emaniandatit of Seville. This appeintment will give rise to some commotion, tor M. Campo Verde did not spew any friendship to our demagogues in the late events of Grenada. Government has countermanded the disbanding of ths seven regiments of militia, which were to march en Seville previous to its submission. As that city is again in open rebellion, it appears the intention of inclement this time is to treat it with sevesig% JAN. 51 --Fite King has accepted the resignation cf the Marquis of Santa Crux, as minister of state. seed of 1). L. Balfiistercr, as minister of finance.— O. Ramon Pellegrin stnd D. Luis Sorela, ivill hold /di/tic/in: the prOtefeuilles of those two ministers. The Universel, of the Slit, affirms, that the Spa. milli gov r meat has just made an application to that c l nee, for the removal from the Spanish frontiers all - Spaniards who have taken refuge in Frar e. Letters from litzgos sue, tat the environs are Atli; in great fermentation. The magistrates of that city hart intercepted 46,000 reels in new gold coin, vitich were brought front Madrid by a :lucre, the striver of which was to deliver them to the insur t•lnti. Lssrers from Murcia of the 26th pay, that pro .::;; Las tee yet submitted to the government, but tuat Cie functionaries inttnea by the King were shortly going to resume their employments. Mean lane the Junta, which governed ad L.:feria:, has apreinted a deputation to go to Madrid, fez the purpose of justifying the inhabitants of tat pro m( . Peres, callcll the valiant, chief of the band in the neighbourhood of Curunna, lots been killed while defending liitnself against the troops that pursuc4 him. DEER V.L NOTE FROM 'ISE OTTOMAN rovir TO DI ExcuLLEascit LORD STRANCTORD, 11IC ENGLISH AM. isAIit 4 ADOH, DATN.D DEC. 2, lbil. FRANKFORT, Ft D. 4.—A cornmumcati‘nt Laving been wade to all the ministers of the Sublime Porte, as v . eil as to each cf the members of council, of the t, ittonts of two despltehes, inclosing the in str.:,..::ints given to Ids tlragnman, by our friend rangford, the distingtiblictl tenbassader . ex traordinary of the Court of England, to the Otto man ;to, with dtspetches regularly pre,,ctite,f, eat! in ti:e lust Elate to the Sublime Porte, have coutirm , :d (wifely a`.l the communications made ',y our friend, the very distinguished .Aruhassaaor df Austria, in the conference lately held with him, at ~ - ~~ SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1829. . which were discussed ell the points now in agita tion between the Sublime Porte and the Court of Russia, and which gate also to some other repre sentations; and the limit of this conference having also been communkothxl to the said ministers and memben of oouncil i the whole has been brought within their knov. It would be'superilikous to speak, and would be as unnecessary to pros See evidence of the good opi. nion which the Sublime Porte has always entertained of the Court of England, her greatest and most af fectionate ally, of the confidence which she reposes in her, or of the genuine and unequivocal friend ship which subsists sputually between the two illus trious Courts, as it sit to declare that the Porte has equally in view, with the allied Powers, the main tenance of general tranquillity; that she has no other object than this that she never will be dis posed to adopt the detestable measures of violating treaties, and of being the first to commence war, and that her attention and scrupulous cares to fulfil exactly and literally her engagements towards the Cohn .of Russia are cotenant and manifest. Whilst it is necessary. however, on the other side, that Russia should observe in the first instance, and before the execution of any other article, that con cerning the surrender of fugitives, (the first point in discussion, which admits no qualification, and, with reference to the state of rebellion, ought to be sub ject to no delay), she his signified that under present circumstances she cannot, whatever may be the motive, deliver those fugitives whom the Sublime Porte demands by virtnp,of treatits, and because she considers that delivery ,essential to the re-establish ment of trempilligyo ?with regard to the Greek nation, which is.fortiting imaginary projects of cre ating a country, and rendering herself independent, she has begun by a revit in the, two principalities, and in some other districts, from the Ottoman em pire. As at this moinota `he continues to hoist the standard of insurrection, and to curry on war in different provinces, the Sublime Porte, in the sole view of maintaining good order in her state, and in order to restore public tranquillity, proceeds to chas tise the rebels accorail ato the dictates of necessity, - the rights of sovereign and the interests of her internal affairs. In this state of things, it would be highly inconvenient to withdraw the Ottoman troops from Walachia and Moldavia, and to appoint and send princes thither; fot those provinces would then become an asylum and refuge for traitors and for robbers. However this may be, it would appear that the end of Russia, in setting up this pretension, is to obtain the countenance of Europe in actin ' ,, at her own discretion. The point, as it affects the Sublime Porte, is replete (and this is as clear as the day) with every species of inconvenience, both as it touches upon civil or national relatioas, or as it concerns those of law and of religion. It is a matter whirl) may, perhaps, as has been already seen by the com munications which Lave taken place by command of , the Sublime Porte, lea gain to disturb that tran quillity which it is d Lie to establish, and to intrude her authority a d 'gilts. The Sublime Porte hastens, then, sincerely to de clare to her allies who wish for general tranquillity, and who recognise as just the obvious reasons fbr which she delays her assent upon this point, at least for the present, that since it is announced that Russia cannot surrender fugitives, whatever be the motive, all which the Porte can do, and this only in the view of preserving peace with Ituisia, and out of respect to the friendly representations made by the Court of England on this subject, is to postpone her lust demand with regard to refugees. But on the point of evacuating the two princi palities, and of appointikig there two princes afresh, (3 as the Greeks have rev ted with the avowal of an intention to deliver Grt. ce, as they arc now in open insurrection in various a c e s , and as the first rebel lion took place in the litre of Walachia and Mol davia, it is impossible at present, or until the revolt is subdued, either by the punishment of the rebels, or by their submission and appeal to ckinetiey—int ' possible whilst the Sublime Porte remains unsatis fied that there is nothing to be apprehended from their part—to name two individuals as princes amangst them, or to confide to them the adminis tration of two rich and flyile provinces, forminz a part of his H:glatess's hut:lit:try states. Nobi-.:ly en: t';u1); that tL L•,..rt of Russia, by 4•••••-- or — 1! ••.• . '~ rt-* PiticE 94d- persisting in her demand upon this point—a point altogether incompatible with the internal regulations of the Sublime Porte (and this is also as clear as day), pursues a course contrary to the rights of na tions and of governments. It is impossible, then, in the last resort to modify this disk after the following manner : to wit. that until the rebellion abases, the Sublime Porte re tain possession of the two provinces by officers whom she has there established, with such a number of troops only as may suffice for their protection against depredators, and without the slightest mo lestation of the Rajahs; that she will relinquish to the Greeks those affinrs which concern the princi palities, and which are now directed by the Caimu cans, who are also Greeks : and that at present the evacuation of the provinces and the nomination of princes be deferred. As to the subject of churches, which isone of tho points under discussion, there will be no objection as soon the revolt shall be subdued, to their reparation and re-construction, as far as the law will permit, in whatever way they may have been injured. In what regards the free exercise of the Christian religion, the Sublime Porte, as in time past, has never said aught against its exercise. The punishments are confined to individuals who, in open rebellion, refused the amnesty; and it is known that protection is extended to those who have not raised the standard of revolt. As soon as rebellion shall cease, punishment will cease. The greatest care is shown, as *racily, to distinguish the innocent from the guilty, even to the extent that (although it is well known the conspiracy is general) these Greeks are protected us formerly who have not raised the standard of revolt. All this being generally known, and your Excellency agree ing us to the truth of the facts, it is superfluous here to repeat them. It would inspire pleasure to think that, as all the friends of the Sublime Porte, listening with a spirit of moderation to her just complaints on the points above mentioned, which she has proved to be Jimmi ed in justice, and conformable to national rights, equity, and truth, avow such without hesitation ; so the Court of Russia, on her part, will observe what is due to right and justice. In this hope, the Sublime Porte prays the Coart of England, whose good-will towards both parties cannot be doubted, that in exerting all the means which sincere friendship and justice require, she would employ her good offices to smooth the way to a final arrangement of the differences existing be tween the Sublime Porte and the Court of Resja. With this object the present Note has been drawn up and transmitted to your Excellency the Ambas sador of England. Accounts from Constantinople say, except single murders and excesses, which can never be wholly prevented, there are no complaints of the interrup tion of public tranquillity. But the fermentation is not suppressed, and has in fact, rather incrca.sed than diminished. Apprehensions are particularly entertained respecting the disposition of the Janis saries. A great part of the Ortus that were in the capital were ordered to co-operate in subduing the rcoellious Mariots and Epirots. Fur this purpose, they were to pass through Macedonia to their de,- tination, and their place to he upplied at Constvn tinople by Asiatic troops, which were still in the neighbourhood of Constantinople, as - reserve. This orator, which excited sensation, and the greatest ill-will nissarics, was plotested against by that corps, and by several distingui the state, for they considered it as the svards the execution of a plan which favourite, l-lalch Etnniii, is said to h in contemplation, and which consists lotion of the Janis.saries. Considerit opposition made to the removal of a the capital, it is probable it will not take plapinot all. The news of the reverses sustained at that ent points by the Tarkis4 troops has likewise ex cited much discontent, which it sought to allay by by spreading reports of th..l arrangement of al (lit: ferences which the Persians, and the retreat of their army. Bat the last circutaqiince is donbted, crn at Cov .. !nr.tin-Vo, lneause the latest acc mots froat aal Alexandria do not nr."*.i...n It. as part of the extrisurili,turrx among the all the cbidrof lished oto? the firs": ich thelfaitiati'S D have to as hi (40 lw ring ihis can •