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

No. 1,331. SOUTH AMERICA. His Majesty's ship Andromache, Captain Shirreff, arrived at Portsmouth on Friday, having ou board the lady and family of the late Viceroy of Lima; also Lady Cochrane and family. 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 quarter. The army under General San Martin had its head-quarters at Huaura. The Royal army had a camp at Arnapuqio; and the military revolution, which placed La Samna at its head, is hailed by Gen. San Martin as an event favourable 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 Huaura. Two detachments had left Lima, for the purpose of cutting oft his communication with Pisco, while Gcn. Canterac, with the main body, was moving directly on Huaura. The Arantaju Spanish schooner of war, and the Europa merchant brig, had been captured by Lord Coclirane's cruisers; but his blockade had been infringed by a British vessel, which got sa'e into Callao. Pezuela, the ex-Viceroy of Peru,had been detained in prison from the period of his deposition. The Andromache has brought from 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 ro Cochrane, on suspicion of havirr Spanish property. on board," and detained for adjudication. No decision had taken place, but great hopes arc 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 Creole frigate, in order to have a 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, discussed and adopted before the Ist of January next. The Journal de Paris is of opinion that the Chambers cannot be convoked so early, and that it will be impossible to puss the finance law the begin ning of the year. The authentic news from Constantinople reaches to the 9th .of August. The Baron de Strogonoff, who had been detained in the roads by contrary winds, act sail on the evening of that day, the wind having bececue fair. A French frigate brought him and his suite away. During 'the 13 days she re mained at the Cape, a very active correspondence was carried on between the Ministers of England, Austria, and Russia. Hopes in favour of the peace were entertained in consequence; and it was be lieved that, though the Baron de Stmgonoff had not directly continued the negotiations with which he was charged, his reason was, that lie might literally obey the directions of his Sovereign, as to those points which concerned him personally, and with the Ministers of the Ottoman empire. It man certain that the proceedings relating to Constantinople (up to the present time at least) have had th e common consent of France, Russia, Austria, England, Prussia, Sweden, and the Low Countries. BausseLs, A1 , 0.31.—1t is positively asserted that the King of Great Britain will be at Brussels on the 15th or 16th of September. He will remain here it is believed two or three cloys, during which time Ire will be present at the Court entertainments.... Some persons think that the monarch will repair to to Paris,others suppose that he will proceed directly to Vienna. Tunny, Avo. 26.—The Prince of Cisterns, the Marquis of l'rie, 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 immediately known, and then his Majesty will return to the capital. Auosauno, Ave. 28.—A French officer, bearing important dispatches from Constantinople to Paris, passed this city. He quitted Constantinople on the 10th inst. and confirms the intelligence that the Baron de Strogonoff had sailed the evening before for Odessa. ANCONA, Atm. 18.— 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 from Smyrna, written by a German :- 6. SMYRNA. Jury 17.—Commerce is again in great disorder, no persons dare opts, their shops or warehouses, the embargo is taken of, some ships have sailed within these few days. A great number of Greeks are shot at beheaded every day. The Jew; drag the mirages about the streets, or throw them into the sea. Nothing but the pressure of hunger would induce tire Greeks to come oat of their houses; this compels them, and costs them their lives." FRIGHTFUL EvENT.—The conversation of all Paris turns on a frightful event which took place two days since at the house of M. M. Mouttier, a money changer, in the street de la Feuillade. At a lute hour of the evening, a person, who it has been since ascertained had just left a gambling house, where he had lost all Ills property, entered the home. 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 gletl. Madame Moutticr and her nephew i ushed forward, and were both stabbed by the assassin, who escaped from the house, and reached the street de la Vrilliere. Two young men endeavouring to seize the miscreant, were h u rl wounded, one of them dangerously. An old man, who was going quietly along, wins also stabbed by the furious wretch. He was at length seised by a patrol of gendarmes ; but even in the motneut of his arrest, he made an ineffectual at tempt 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 and blew out his brains. Nothing was thund on his person which might lead to it discovery of the monster.— (C'onsiliutioutteL) The Moniteur states, that three of the persons wounded are since dead, and it is feared two others will not survive. he considered it a question of the highest importance; and that, should Lord Cochrane acquire a right to detain, and the Chilien government to condemn, British 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 latest date from Rio 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 uas the Maipo brig of war, with the deputies from Lima to the Spanish Cortes 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, Ivid arrived from Bahia, with a slave ship as prize, which had been detected in pursuing that traffic to the north of the Line, and was, therefore, subject to condemnation by the mixed commission. Rio de Janeiro was apparently tranquil; but it was believed that a design was on foot to abridge further the powers of the I'rince Regent, by making him a mere president of the Provisional Junta. A t:G. 9.—The following are the cir timstatitial details of el very remarkable affair • ja t J ALL ow., I l ikrt ii 0 , ii)•-• Our ging, Congttutton, Atttl KOHL vol.. XIV.] SUNDAY, SEPTEbI MR 9, 18'21. ottr. .. r . ' . 3' Pateit 9ia. took place 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 bill. 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 2Sth of July by 1,500 Turks, under the orders of a lrunbacha (chief of 1,000 men), to whom three Jews meted as guides. The Greeks placed behind the battlements the most experienced marksmen, to whom the rest supplied muskets loaded without interruption. At first the three Jews set fire to baskets of corn which were placed pear the wall, and the wind soon spread the flames into the court of the convent, and the convent being constructed of wood, was soon 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 thii opening, penetrated by it into the court. The Chief' then assembled his followers in the church, and barricaded the door as much as possible, white 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, all put to the sword. Then Bimbacha them summoned A dastasi to surrender, promising him on, which the latter rejected with disdain. At se same time a ball from the roof laid the Bambetha dead en the spot. Immediately a Turk cut off his head, and carefully wrapt it up in a piece of cloth to show that It had fallen in battle. Meanwhile the flames, which enveloped by de• grces the roof of the church, forced the Greeks to descend. The Turks penetrated into the church— they fought 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 monks were killed. The three Jews fell into the hands of the Greeks, who nailed them to the cross, after having torn the skin from 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 Bozance, where they safely arrived on the 28th of July. 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, and particularly at Pignerol, there has been a fall of liaq stones as large as eggs. A great many persons have been severely wounded, the lands ravaged, the ' roofs of houses broken, and trees torn up; added to which a great number dozen have perished in the storms. Extract of a letter from the capital of Iceland, dated 9th July :—'' A vessel is cast, on shore on Westurann Islands, she has been upset n considerable time; there were live bodies timid on btrard in a decayed state ; they have been buried in one coffir. She is supposed to be from the coast of Labrador; the only rapers found are two duplicate bills of ex change upon somebody at Stow-mil:sten A board, apparently from the stern, has been sent to the go vernor ; there is up o n it Jane of Dartmouth, painted in large Gertnan-text, nearly obliterated. She is a sloop or small schosmer, and has been I.den with and oil ; the bills are dated in October 1810." Last week, at the village of Dodbrook, a curious incident took place. A young widow, who has an annuity of WI. per annuiu SO loll; as she remains unattained, had, it seems, been wounded by one of Cupid's arrows: but the beloved swain, though not altogether a worldling, wished to se , nre the 100. " 4 a-year, amid hintcd as much to the fin Sho applied to those who had the disposal of her hap- #4 piness in their hands, to know if it were possible to unite Love and Mammon ; but the cruel fates had steeled their hearts, and they gave their decision in i the negat ivy. Wing something ofa Sappho in spirit, - • she nisiatuly cot her throat, but not having 'lone it -• likyly to recover. • -Hi, FRENCH PAPERS. PARIS, SEPT. 4.—A report prevailed yesterday at the opera that the Courier Extraordinary, who aarived in the course of the day, and btought intel ligence of the passage of the Pruth by the Russian army, and of the commencement of hostilities be tween Turkey and Russia. This does not appear probable ; the Baron de Strogonoft 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 byline the Ist of September. The most probable presumption seems to be, that the war may in fact have broken out, but it is impos sible that authentic news of it can have reached Paris. Some journals have announced that the opening of the next Session of Legislation sill fake place early iuNo vember, and that the But t tut 1622 will tic 1