The National Register. — London, England, 1821-09-10 00:00:00

~~~.1 SOUTH AMERICA. Majesty's ship Andromache, Captain Shirreff, it:, wed at Po r tsmouth on Friday, having on board the lady and flintily of the late Viceroy of Lima; also Lady Cochrane and funily. Letters have been received by this conveyance from Lima, Chili, and Rio de Janeiro: from Lima, also, are transmitted the bulletins of the expeditionary army to the sth of April. It appears from them that nothing decisive bad taken place since the last intelligence from that quarier. The army under General San Martin had its head-quarters at lithium. The Royal army had a camp at Arnapuqio; and the military revolution, which placed La Surna at its head, is hailed by Gen. San Martin as an event t:tvourable to the cause of independence. The Royalists, on the other hand, boast of their superiority, and speak with confidence of an attack meditated on San Martin's position at Ibiaura. Two detachments had left Lima, for the purpose of cutting off his communication with Piseo, while Gen. Canterac, with the main body, was moving directly on Huaura. '('he Arantaju Spanish schooner of war, and the Europa merchant brig, had been captured by Lord Cochrane's cruizers ; but his blockade had been infringed by a British vessel, which got safe into Callao. Pezuela, the ex-Viceroy of Peru, had been detained in prison from the period of his deposition. The Andromache has brought from r Lima one million of dollars in specie. From Valparaiso, the advices brought by the An dromache are dated the 9th May, and relate chiefly to the British vessels sent there by Lord Cochrane, on suspicion of having Spanish property on board, and detained for adjudication. No decision had taken place, but great hopes are entertained of a fa vourable result, from the interference of' Sir 'Thomas Hardy, who, after hearing the statements of the British captains on the subject, felt it of so much importance as to be induced to sail immediately for Lima, in the Crrolc frigate, in order to have u per sonal conference with Lord Cochrane Sir Thomas Hardy is said to have declared to the commanders of the British ships, previously to his departure, that in its relation to the interests of British commerce, lie considered it a question of the highest importance; and that, should Lord Cochrane acquire a tight to detain, and the Chilian government to condemn, Briiish vessels under such circumstances, it would prove a most serious impediment to our trade in that quarter. He should, therefore, use his exertion to place it on a different footing. Sir T. Hardy was expected to return to Valparaiso by the end of May. —The latt.st date front Ric de Janeiro is the 13th of July. The privateers in that quarter, under the flag of Buenos Ayres, had captured several Spanish vessels. Among others alas the Maipo brig of war, with the deputies from Lima to the Spanish Cortcs on board. Another brig of war was taken off Ponte Negro by the same privateer, with much specie on board. The Morgiana, royal corvette of Rio, had arrived from Bahia, with a slave ship as prize, which bad been detected in pursuing that traffic to the north of the Line, and was, therefore, subject to condemnation by the mixed commission. Rio de .kneiro was apparently tranquil; but it was believed that a design was on foot to abridge further the powers of the Prince Regent, by making him a mere president of the Provisional Junta. - - - FRENCH PAPERS. PARIS, SEPT. 4.—A report prevailed yesterday at the opera that the Courier Extraordinary, who arrived in the course of the day, and brought intcl. li.,;ence of the passage of ,the Truth by the Russian army, and of the commencement of hostilities be tween Turkey and Russia. This does not appear probable; the Baron de Strogonoff might, without any inconvenience, have remained embarked in the roads of Constantinople until the end of August, particularly if that report, which is generally believed, be true ,—that the Emperor Alexander never contemplated the com mencement of hostilities betbre the Ist of September. The mo,:t probable presumption seems to be, that the war may in ilia have broken out, but it is impos. Bible that authentic news of it can have reached Paris. Some journals have announced that the opening of the next Session of Legislation will take place early into vember, and that the Budget fin 18?2 will be discussed and adopted before the Ist of January next. The Animal de falls is of opinion that the Chambers ca not be convoked so early, and that it will be impossible to pass the fin..nee law the begin ning of the year. The authentic news from Constantinople reaches to the 9th of August. '1 he Baron de Stroganoff; who had been detained in the roa,!s by contrary unids, set sail on the evening 01 that day, the wind having beco-ne lair. A French frigate brought him and his suite away. During the 1 days she re mained at the Cape, a very active correspondence was carried on between the Ministers of England, Austria, and Russia. [lopes in favour of the peace were entertained in consequence; and it was be- I , THE NATIONAL REG: hewed that, though the Baron de StrogonofF had not directly continued the ncgoeiations with which he was charged, his reason was, that he might literally obey the directions of las Sovereign, as to those points which concerned hint personally, and with the Ministers of the Ottoman empire. It seems certain that the proceedings relating to Constantinople (up to the present time at least) have had the common consent of France, Russia, Austria, England, Prussia, Sweden, and the Low Countries. Biz ()tans, Avo.3l.—lt is positively asserted that the King of Great Britain will be at Brussels on th 15th or 16th of September. He ‘vill remain here it is believed two or three days, during which time he will be present at the Court entertainments.— Some persons think that the monarch will repair to to l'aris,others suppose that he will proceed directly to Vienna. TURIN, Auo. 26.—The Prince of Cistcrna, the Marquis of Prie, and Count de Perron, have been condemned to death, and executed in effigy. The fate of all the individuals implicated in the late pro ceedings will be innnedLitely known, and then his Sink-Ay will return to the capital. AuossußG, Au, 28.—A French officer, bearing important dispatches from Constantinople to Paris, passed this city. He quitted Constantinople on the loth inst. and confirtits the intelligence that the Baron de Strogonotl had sailed the evening betbre for Odessa. ANCONA, A Uti. IS. Some of those Greeks, who formed a part of Ypsilanti's army, are arriving at Trieste every day. They are proceeding to Greece, and are in the most distressing condition. They are not permitted to embark, but must make the journey by land. We have no news from Greece. I send you a letter front Smyrna, written by a German : • SKYINIA, JULY 17 —Commerce is again in great disorder, nu persons dare open their shops or warehouses, the embargo is taken oil; some ships have sailed within these few days. A great number of Greeks are shot or beheaded every day. The Jews drag the carcases about the streets, or throw them into the sea. Nothing but the pressure of hunger would induce the Greeks to come out of their houses; this compels them, and costs them their byes." Fn,t. Truk EvENT.—The conversation of all Paris turns on a frightful event which took place two days since at the house of M. I. Mouttier, a money changer, in the street de la Feuillade. At a late hour of the evening, a person, who it has been since ascertained had just left a gambling louse, where he had lost all his property, entered the house. There was only a young female servant at the counter. Madame Mouttier and her nephew were in the back shop. The man, when he entered, closed the door, stabbed the servant with a poniard, and seized a basket full of gob!. Madame Nloutticr and her nephew rushed forward, and were both stabbed by the assassin, who escaped from the house, and reached the street de Li Vrilliere. Two young men endeavouring to seize the miscreant, were both wounded, one of them dangerously. An old man, who was going quietly along, was also stabbed by the furious wretch. He was at length seized by a patrol of gendarmes ; but even in the moment of his arrest, he made an ineffectual attempt to wound one of the military. He was conducted to the guard house at the Bank, but he had hardly entered, when he suddenly drew a pistol from his pocket end blew out his brains. Nothing was found on his person which might Laid to a discovery of the monster.— (Cunstilutionnel.) The Moniteur states, that three of the persons wounded are since dead, and it is feared two others will not survive. VIENNA, Aug. 19.—the following are the cir cumstantial details of a very remarkable affair which took pl..ce near the Convent of Statina, between the Greeks and the Turks, to the great disadvantage of the latter:— The Convent of Statina was inhabited only by seven Greek monks. It is surrounded by a very high hill. Ninety-seven Greeks, under the orders of a Servian Captain of their own choice, called Anastasi, had thrown themselves into this convent, where they were attacked on the !25th of July by 1,500 Turks, under the orders of a Bimbacha (chief of 1,000 tnen), to whom three Jews acted as guides. The Greeks placed behind the battlements the must experienced marksmen, to whom the rest supplied muskets loaded without interruption. At first the three Jews set tire to baskets of corn which were placed near the wall, and the wind soon spread the flames into the court of the convent, and the convent being constructed of wood, was *ton consumed.— The Greeks, however, did not give up their reso lution to defend themselves. In the wall of the convent there was a small old door, and through that one of the monks escaped. The Turks seeing this opening, penetrated by it into the court. The Chief then assembled his followers in the church, and barricaded the door as much as possible, while they kept up an increasing fire from the roof of the church, which was partly wrapped in flames ; but those who remained in the court, and who could not withdraw in time, were overpowered by numbers, and all put to the sward. Then Bimbacha then 1 - .. 46 --ssoned Anastasi to surrender, promising him . the ,l lter rejected with di Q. At pardon, the same time a bah"" the rooff laid the 133 :.•I'acha dead on the spot. Imtm::."s ely a Turk cut o ff hi s head, and carefully wrapt it ti . 1 , 17 .14 piece of cloth to show that it had fallen in battle. Meanwhile the flames, which enveloped 6i l f'.l grecs the roof of the church, forced the Greeks to descend. The Turks penetrated into the church— they thught round the high altar, and the Greeks continued their fire with such effect that the Turks demanded an armistice, which was only granted them on condition of immediately withdrawing. The Turks lost 372 killed, and the Greeks 17 killed and 13 wounded. The seven monk, were killed. The three Jews fell into the hands of the Greeks, who nailed them to the cross, after having torn the skin front their bodies, and exercised on them other barbarities. The 80 triumphant Greeks, after having laid down their arms, passed the frontier of Bukovina, and were sent by an officer of the Austrian guard to 13ozatice, where they safely arrived on the ::Bth of July. Tue KING.—His Majesty quitted Ireland cm Ntonday last, and his arrival in Town is exrct...,l to-morrow. A private letter from Dublin, dated the fhl inst. says—" The conduct of the Chief l'oiiee Magis. trate Marley), at the close of the late civic enter taiament, has been noticed by the Sovereign in a manner most credit:Ode to his Majesty, and most congenial to the forgiving temper of that body whom that underling of the executive had the audacity to insult. A special messenger from the Castle waited yesterday upon the Earl of Fingal to request his at tendance there. His Lordship on his arrival was received by Sir B. Bloomfield, who stated that he was commanded by his Majesty to express to his Lordship the deep indignation which his Majesty felt at learning that a Police Magistrate of Dub:ii. with the countenance of a considerable number of individuals, had, at the conclusion of the di. tier at the Mansion-house, presumed to propose a toast which is considered by the bulk of the population of the country to be given in the spirit of hostility; and and to assure his Lordship, that if the expression of his Majesty's indignation did not assume that exem plary charac,er which was perhaps expected by the community, it was solely to be attributed to the de termination originally formed In the King, to render his visit to Ireland a visit of peace and conciliation. Sir Benjamin stated, however, that his Majesty bad commanded, that the i•adividual principally offending should receive the severest possible reprimand, in Majesty's name, with an intimation that a repetiti•.:t of the offence would entail a more serious mark of the royal displeasure ; and that it was the wish of the King that these his sentiments should be com municated to the Catholic Body by his Lordship. Alderman Vood arrived at Amsterdam on the 4th inst. on his return from the funeral of iier late Majesty. In all the towns and places which he paged in his way through Germany, the same allectionate regard tin the hue Queen appeared to exist. Whenever the worthy Alderman was dis covered by his passport or otherwise, the inhabitants immediately crowded around to speak of, to praise, and to express their regard for her; and at Osna• Bruck, they flocked into his room at the inn, and ninny of the principal ones, among whom was the chief magistrate of the place, insisted on shaking hands with him, and on expressing their thanks for his attachment to her late Majesty. The Journals of Piedmont contain most afflicting details of losses and injury, occasioned by storms, which have spread devastation throughout several provinces of that kingdom. At Carignan, Piohesi, anti particularly at Pignerol, there has been a toll of hail stones as large as eggs. A great many persons have been severely wounded, the lands ravap,ed, the roofs of houses broken, and trees torn up ; Lidded to which a great number of oxen have perished in the storms. _ Extract of a letter from the capital of Iceland, dated 9th July A vessel is cast on shore on Westmann Islands, she has been upset a considerable time ; there were five bodies found on board in a decayed state ; they have been buried in one cuts:.. She is supposed to be from the coast of Labrador; the only papers found are two duplicate bills of ex change upon somebody at Stourminster. A board, apparently from the stern, has been sent to the go vernor ; there is upon it Jane of Dartmouth, painted in large German-text, nearly obliterated. She is a sloop or small schooner, and has been I.alen with fish and oil ; the bills are dated in October 1810." The coiners have been busily employed for some time past coining bud shillings and sixpences. They are now circulating in all directiens, and arc badly executed, and have a brassy sound and dull appear ance. Retail shopkeepers particularly should be cautious what silver they take after dusk, as that is the time generally when spurious pieces are uttered.