The National Register. — London, England, 1821-09-16 00:00:00

~'~~ T - . ~ U OA (anal( AtratiV I trr • • Our Coninitution, anb UMW. No. 1,332.—V0t. XIV.] SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1821. GERMAN AND DUTCH PAPERS. VIENNA, SEI'T. 1.-By the last accounts from Constantinople of the 10th of August, it appears that news had been received there from the Mores and Livadia, which state that the imperial troops Ills succeeded in d s riving the insurgents from some districts of those provinces, and in restoring tran quillity there. The details are contained in the tidlowing extract fxtn a report of. Mahomed Governor of the Murea, to the Grand Vi s er, of 23d July •1 inform your Excellency that I arrived before Livadia on the e3d of June, and encamped here with my nutty. The Rajas bad murdered the greater part •of the Nlussulmen in this province, violated the fernoles, and made their families slaves. They persisted in their rebellion, and when they learned that troops were advancing against them, the insurgents of the surrounding districts united with those who formed the'r advanced posts in the Morea, and entrenched themselves in Livadia. To prevent the desolation of the county. and to treat them with moderation, I sent several flogs of truce to them ; summoning them to avoid the impending misfortune, and declaring to them, that if they would stibmit,. they might expect security and par don of what had passed from the Sub:ime Porto. " Without pang the slightest attention to this generous offer, the insurgents agreed together that they would not suffer themselves to be considered as Rajas in future, and began a fire of cannon and musketry limn the fort and entrenchments. "Early in the morning the army drew up in three lines, and began the battle. Victory declared for the hlussultneu , and the greater part of the Insur gents were cut to pieces. Qf those who remained about i.OOO escaped into the fort; and 1..500 re treated with their attar into the houses. One or two. of those houses were sat on fire to make room forilie van of the army, and, if nevestroy to stem the place; A high wind suddenly arising, spread the flames; the insurgents who bad fled into the houses were the victims, and almost the half of the large and handsome buildings were consumed. It was with didieulty that those on the top of the mountains were sdved. As the Oro caught the house in which I myself was, I was olkged to remove ro another. ' On the day of my arrival before Livat'la, certain chieftain, Dissuvo, had htit the. city, and collected a band of rebels a mile and a bolt' oil. It was therefore necessary to talkie measures to binder them from coming to the aid of the insur,,,iients shut up in the fen. For this poi pose caused %dirge to be attacked with 2,000 men, The enemy was entirely defeated; ILO dead, and as many %waded, remained on the Uhl, When the enemy shut up iu the fort sttw there was no deliverance for them, they threw themselves iu despair from the ramparts —seine were killed, anti others drcadfally mutilated. Those that were still in the fortress begged titr mercy for themselves, their wives and cliiklren, and it was granted to them. ‘' In this engagement there have perished in all above 3,000 of the enemy, partly by the sword and Fatly by the flames, As the Koran stty6, When thou bast gained a victory over thy enemy, thou shalt pardon him. in order to testify thy gratitude,' the remainder of the insurgents could reckon on the magnanicaky and mildness of the Sublime forte, winch was in fact show,' towards them when they. declared their Submission, anti bogged permission to return to their Iwase2. A 13aluk Bastin was ordered for this oupose, with a detachment of troops, to receive them ut the castle, anti to conduct them back. to their civvellings. This was done in solemn pra t...sewn, amidst ate acclamations of the conquerors, ,sieving before' them tho standards tuken tuna the rebels." At Smyrna tranquility is restored. Sonta Nuova and Metelin, on the contrary, aro the theatre of the most sanguinary beene.i. Near sidonichi.thcro is likowiso u bond of insur• gents, which the Paella of that town 13 ordered to i4sperse and destroy, The Turkish fleet lately seen cat !Samos is said to have gone to Rhodes, to join the sluatirpn fitted eat by Malwmet Ali, Paella of hiypt. This squadron is stated to consist of 15 'lit, and to to manned chiefly with European sailors ; it Is commanded by Istniel Gibraltar, the same who %as formerly the Patio's agent In Sweden and Leghorn. He is said to be an able seaman, and even to have fin.nerly served on board English ships. Ibrahim, Pacha of Brussa, is still encamped near Bujukedcre, on the Bosphoi as ; he has received fresh reinforcements of troops from Asia. One of the frst officers of this Pacha has been lately pro moted, and has lately received the horse-tails. There have been r'so restored two other Paellas, who were lately deposed ; one of them received the govern ment of Candia, with orders to restore tranquillity in that island. The installation of the Keduelters of Remelia and Anatolia took place at Constantinople in the begin ning of August. Sikedi Effendi obtained the first of these places, and Bebict Effendi, formerly the Sultan's physician, the second. Among the most remarkable works of the late days is the execution of V eli Pacha, and Monitar Paella of Joannina. The first was in exile at Ku- Will ' • and the second at Kaisserige. A Greek, dis guisod as a Dervise, served there us a spy ; he was attested at Constantinople, and the correspondence found on him betrayed the secret of the sons of the tyrant of Epirus. The royal Freneli iligate the Lily has brought to Smyrna Rear-Admiral Hulgan; he immediately hoisted his flag on board La Giterricie. The Turkish ministry has faiklifully kept its word, and not thrown the sli:;htest obstacle in the way of Baron Strogonuff's departure. Firmans, it is true, were refused, as has been stated befure, because the Porte would not in the least have the appearance of conceiaing in the step; but tho commandantsof the forts received the strictest orders to respect, and suf fer to pass without hindrance, the ships which had the Ambassador and his ;mite on board. At Constantinople perfect tranquillity prevailed; the embargo previously laid on all v3ssels laden with corn had been teen off by an order of the Sultan ; the navigation el' the channel is therefore uninter rupted, as it used to be. The events Alai most European journals have announced with so much confidence—such as the participation of the Jews in the dreadful excesses committed on the dead body of the Patriarch; the violation of 160 Greek virgins in the Baser: and so many other reports, are wholly unkowa in Con stantinople, and absolutely fixtions, originating in other countries. The heads of the Jewish com munity at Cpnatantinople have even taken public steps to refute the reports relativp to their nation. Troops cf . .he dispersed insurgents still harbour in the reeetilseNf the mountains of Moldavia ; sand are 'very dangerous to the tranquillity of the pro vince. One of these troops NlL...trod cn the ljth, tit tlkieveni . ug', quite unexpecoally, before the town of In which •there was; a Turkish garrison of twenty-five men, surrounded the town, and set it an tire in three prices. Tl*t Turkish garrison, and 'all tito Jewish inhabitants then threw themselves into the elirtreli tel St. John, which, However, was soon sot Olive by the insurgents on all sides, and watistill burning lit the departure of the itessonger, who war a witness to this horrible scene. A coiltscif_the Turkiati army was expected tiPM.jtiCS: . i, which is clestine.l'lto put an end to the thither incursions' and maraudeng of these remains of the Het - IW*s in that provhice. DitolDY, AvG. Liartuan papers greatly exaggerate the 14tashin warlike preparations and marchespf ‘ troops. The rya tett part of the southern Many under (Jeti 4 ."tount Wittkenstein is still in its old cantonments, and has merufy detached some light troops to she Pruth. The wesCarmy as it is called, !let not yet made any movement whatever. ON TVA MORAL PflOrittETY OF A SOLDIER'S ODE- PIENCE TO HIS OFFICEII%; ORDER TO FIRE. The illegality of the recent - murder at Cumber land-gate, we take it for grantel is incontrovertibly established by the verdict of a j.try.....we now mean to inquire how far morally or rtAgi(hlS::y a man can be justified by his otfrecr's order to shed human blood-44 he scriptures contain d Sdn tenee - o r retaliation on any one wilo does Wiles° slicadeth man's Wood, by inan thrall his blood be shed; for in the .ituage at' God, made he man,"—Gen. c. 9, v. 6; and reremitorr intenliction aguilist murtier—" Thk.o shalt nut kill," E c. 20, v. inataiice is there a qua iication.—there it no reservation in favour of military butchery—.none wliat:ver in con-: sideration of obedience to an officer. have a divine denunciation and sentt upon the murderer—we have a diva ment not t 3 kill, and where is the mai Private, King or Beggar, who will forward and arrogantly place his ephemeral in opposition to these repeated declarations Supreme Being !—but if such there be, attentions soldier fearlessly point out we have quoted, and then ask nit who h,im to fly in the face of bis Creator's Whether it be r;ght in the sight hearken unto you, more than unto God, This short examination into the moral at duty of a soldier we cannot better conch the following extract f..om a funeral set, the lgth of August last on the death Majesty, by the Rev. W. J. Fox. "I have often adverted to the mititary of•triott, and lily opinion on its inconsistency with Christian.ty ii 3 S gone before the public. in some measure n.th yet , • sanc.'on. Whatever may be the just t'ghts of sec defence, whatever of universal arming and omarization may be :'owed by the gospel to an invaded nation, it is astonishing to me that any one can read the New Tcsument and think its believers sanctioned in making use of arms a pro. testa" in giving up their con:Timm to a sune.:or, and being accessary to the tiesttuc.ion of human l're, a,thout the ingest conviction of ita strict justice and ab• lute necessity in every particular ease. Such a shea"ng of blood as has just occuiteit, Land though the instance is at hand and impressive, hundre.ls which the sante reasonings apply must occur in a soldier's life 4 though it may, tor aught I know he legal ; though it limy, lot aught I know. be duty in the military sense; ri)ough is may, for aught that I sha" argue here, be politically praiseworthy : is what, I thi-':, no Christian can lay his hand on his heart and say he would do—at that he would not rather be the wretch... Jest slave on the face of the eat.lt than hive the moral respon,ibility of such devils. He dares not, he emnot think; that any amino. rity, and proz . 23sional regulation, any legal protection, will be an avail•ng plea, a recognized licence fur destroying a felow. , :reato T, at the bar et God, For 300 years. Christian and ' :soldier were tmiversally held incompatible terms. What 11144 united them Cettamly not a clearer untler4anding of tho spirit of the gospel." TRE LATE QUEEN. The Execulri,p( her• .IWiy applied to Mr. Wuiffe, the otteiating eler;tyfftan at Brunswick, to preach a funeral sermon on th unday tit;lowi:ist; the funeral—he declared he darg3 not without pas ' mistion—permission was applied r and rudely re fused, nevertheless Mr. Wußre on the next Sunday concluded his Sermon as follows: We too, dear fellow-citizens, have been en happy ns to have Sovt.rutos who revered religion, nod in our Princely Family we were always edified with the spectacle of nu enlightened piety. We ft equently saw in it. membrn wet'. snipping Gird in our sacred congregations. They Joi , ed as feltutv believer., sod guve us au endearing example of hue devotion Lod pium. a mil. Aal a bat It heuet Cial iilllo , eVe bad chi, fie our :mac bittern to them, and on Chi it behaviour toward. u.; sincere pies) made our Pri.ices .jest .were ns, Val'. of mankind, patterns of gentleness and beisevolence. " Hera I may he .Coned to make mention of the hie li deceased, %hose earthly reinuMs we all lately fulluvred Ins that vault. She is .till deeply itnprissed Vour te t ero, o and your looks lead me to speak nevi itt of her whaiu ynor tuna's ht mem. She too. the dau,.:,Mer of the yenetAil- Cherie. William Ferdinand, %as ar. ein tg locoed foal warm votary of rriighist. n,,fure I tilled lite sittut lota ahieh new hold, she was from her tender intuit-, iooraeir i is Ciltistiottity by a non hy le icher, and -rdettiii'y continued in it, tier quick undersinthim4 easily recci.tl ..very ray nJ 'trine time, and in r warm heart an lively feelings ne:e esciteu and elevated by piety, Her sen.e of reit : Jots la. e.eased to a COntirrikeii Liit h, amid she resolutely r sifted It/ eXerCiee the dude. a hich it enjoined, Pions oecopelitou were dear to her heart. 1 lows, her a• an enlidur tied Cuoktian hetore slo left the country of her hint§ tilde flint received front my hands a Mt piou• emotion the holy supp er of oar Lord, and the Niletutiity of liar manner era., like her previous devotion*, all cirrispected proof of h. r Oneere faith :sod pious (rebut. h!:4• trztathut qualified fur h• -r destmati.o., to become Queen of a toiLle tition. dritioguialied by its seii. gives 8 oil, atta is sacred regard to the digs dedicated to Gad. Thts ivase of religion, it is triw, did not always wt.. serve her train tutirmiti•s Mitt errors ; but w is the mor• till, ohe,e !Ls trifle been a saint, a tin has been oln ys per. feet And be olio riled lee. may conaciontloosly ni • self, .betties he use. it to himself, 11110 11.11 inure foi notate ti oat au, tool iii., utuleverved grate. of find. Let at not for. ;.;et she tool oith which reliaitill ellff.ilted her under.ntioling and her helot, echo-nu; it - self is her cl i.pinit ion 110 belt:tenon. tier distinc,W.lied benevolence. liar r,ditndtiy , her uallininded desire to ,trati VI nreekiud, h, r lute of rightt.otewiess, her goS iterusi; nod her foigivitt,t vt ohlinte vii toes of the Clefistio it has e iii iii, Leval nil.toed he r th e streu t oh 0. het .1011,,i,.n appeared esperi.ily m her Ma try ma d your.ehe , my hi dues:, Btive read tea, sly flip- WEI her e ••• V•4 l tie., ICJ it . . 1.. I , llthlat star L.:re her h et wve:e red . fing.--mri 'me 41 flout evor.) tint roue king the etc. k. . to.. of Lilly milli she gar •in her h -it ex. . 4 hi Ile' !net, Slum. a Z 1 Clttl.tintl—a hat h,l) :.It4 etltiti , elll hapes she loosed froat this Will Id ill el01.:Ity. M.ty eternal rew.e teat ton het lints dicd spirit, and comfort ken, *Ace the enauraoce of her earthly wort, nub • the joys of cavatish." . r, . *t i ..~ ,~.., . • 7 't • C3r. 4111.110,....-•• • `llr a • • • _ • • MM11•1111111111111111Mwm. • Pale's 9 1 1 d. We have a 'fence of deatPi v;ne comniand lan, Generator dare to stand ['enteral &dun: arations of the be, let the eon:. t the pus•ages • ho would order Dr'is commanth, :Tilt of God to i'rod, judge ye." al and religious nclude than by n Juan preached th of her late nhd niy • 1 3 S gone before the • Whatever may be iversvl arming and mn invaded nation, le New Testament Ise of arm; a pro. tne,:or, end twang 'about the ingest neceseity in every