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- IP . , ... FURTHER ATRACTS FROM COL. SERASTIANI'S REPORT ro sag FIRST CONSUL. On the 19th Nov. the Colonel arrived at Acre, and sent Citiiens AVIERT seal Lseeeeez to DJ_zZ AR Pact' A with a letter, informing him that peac hav ing been concluded between k ranee and the Porte, they were going to re-establi• h the relations of com merce on the same foet:og as before the sear, and that lie wasiharged h- Fs itsr CONNUL to confer with him ou. this se"..ject. he Colonel prayed a written answer : but after waiti:or ‹ . same hours, the Messengers returned, sa) ing that they had been re ceived very coolly ; and the I)SEZZAR l'acua had said that. the Colonel might attend him, but that he should answer only verbally. Every body advised the Colonel not to go w.ithout a written assurance ; but notwithstanding this timid advice, and the rAtal A'S obstinate reTtul to write, he sat out ; and was conduded by the Drogriaa into DJIAZAR'S apartment, in which be was aline. The following is his account of the interview :- 04 1 stopped at the house of the Commioiceer cf the Republic of the Seven Islands. A moineni. after th_. Dray:tun of the Paella came to take me to I)st9.zaa, who received me in an apartment where be was alone, and of which a carpet. was the only iiirniture. He had by his side a four-barrelled pis tol, an air grin, a %Awe and a hatchet. After in quiring after my health, he asked me if I was firmly persuaded that, when the hour of our death "a. 'funded in Heaven. nothing could change our des tint, My answer was, that I believed in fatalism as well as he. He continued a long time to discourse to the same effect, and I saw that he affeded an ex treme simplicity; that he wished to pass for a man of talent, and, what is more, for a put man. He several times said to me, • It is reported that DJ I:Z. • 2,11 is barbarous. He is only ju..t and severe. • Entreat the Faris CONSUL (said he) not to send as • Commercial Cantniissioner, a man blind of an eve, •or lame of akg far the people will not fail . to • my, that it was Duzzaa who reduced him to that • state.' A moment after he said to me, 6 I desire • that the Commissary you send may take up his re • sideoce at Side, for besides that Seide is the most • com.nercial place in my doe anions, such an aoent • wouid rate be nece.sary here. I will be the French • Commissary here myself, and your countrymen • will experience the most frienly reception. 1 6 greatly esteem the French. Botta P A is of • small statute—but he is the greatest of men ; and • therefore I know he is much regretted at Cairo, • and that they wish to have him there again.' " I said a feel words to him respecting peace be tween France and the Porte. 6 Do you know,' said he, • why I am glad to see you ? It is because you 4 come without a firman. I pay no regard to the 4 orders of the Divan, and I have the greatest con ' tempt for the oneeeyed Vizier. They say DJLZ. • 4 ZAII is a Bosnian, thrzze a is a barbarian, a man • of nothing; but for all that I care for nobody ; 4 and lam content I was born poor. My father • left me no legacy but his courage. I raised my • self by exertion, but that has not filled me with • pride, for every thlng has al, end, and to-morrow, • perhaps, there may be an cad of Lbezz It ; not • because he is old, as his enemies sate (and here he • fell to handling his arm, as the Siarnelukes do, g which he executed with great agility,) but because 6 God has ordained it. The King of France, who • was powerful, has perished ; Nebuchadnezzar, the • greatest King of his time, was killed by the bite •of a fly,' arc. &c. He uttered several other sen tences to the same effect, and then spoke of the mo lives which had induced him to make war on the French army. In all his discourse it was easy to see that he was desirous of an accommodatiot: with the FIRST CONSCL, and feared his resentment. " The following is the story which he made use of in order to impress me with the reasons w hich induced him to make resistance: • A black slave,' said he to me, 4 after a long voyage, during which • he had suffered every kind of privation, arrived • in a small piece of ground covered with sugar • cane. He tnere stopt for a short time, feS to • satiety on that delicious liquor, and took it into • his head to establish himself on th favoured 4 spot. A few minutes after passed by two travel -4 lert e • who seemed to follow one another. The • first said to h;rn, .5. 1 4111,21,, (health be to you.) s The I)-1 take you, said the black slave. The • second traveller came up to him, and asked why • he had answered so insolently to a question which • marked so much good nature. I had good rea -6 sons for it, replied the black ; had my answer 6 been friendly, the fellow would have accosted me, • would have sat down by me, and would have 6 taken a part of my food ; would have said it was • excellent, and then have endeavoured to appro • priate it exclusively to himself.' 64 1 recommended the Christians to RIZZZA R,more e pecially the Convents of Nazareth and of Jerasa lem: he assured me that he should treat them with great kindness. Neither did I lose sight of the Mu tualis: I received the same assurances in their fa vaur. Thezzaa frequently repeated to me that his word was equal, nay, preferable to treaties. Our conversation was interrupted for a few moments by rather a fine military music, which he ordered to be performed. 46 His pala:c is built with much taste and ele gance, but in order to reach his aparanenti, it is necessary to take a number of circuitous ways. At ' the bottom at the staircase is the prison, the d.sir re . which is always open fr.-an noon till the eveeing. As I passed by, I observed a crowd of miss rabies heaped together in it. In the coetoyard were ob served twelve field-pieces, with tl: ar caissons, ie ex• needing good conditioe. Never dal I belebld a Sp.T tncle more hatcous aad more die:us:iv titan that of the Minister of Da ,:zza a„ whom I net as I caer.e out. The racha had ore of la's eyes put out, and his ears and nose cut off. I observed in the tewa zaore than a hundred ifdividuals in i!)e ohne deplor able condition. When you behold Drezr SS's ser vants, and even the inhabitants of Acre, you ;pia gine you have before you a den of brigand' , ready to assassinate you. This rneesier has stamped on every one around huh the seal of his own atrocious character. Mille Meeks of the Convent of Jaffa have re- • tired to Jerucalem. On the f'itb Brumaire (Vet Novernherl, I let out from Acie ; and, as the wind was col:nary-to my going to Jaffa. I set sail for Zante, where I ar rived an the 1:111; Friniaire (December tab), aad Was pat under quarantine. I however obtained leave to visit the governoi, and the 1' rends commiso:ry,• ex.ortecl by guards brier:ging to the hospital. " I inovk learnt that the Island and the Republic were split into different parties, and that the public tranquillity was nearly threatened. I collected toge ther some of the Members of the Constituted Autho rities at. the house of the Governor, together with the principal inhabitants. After having intimated to them the high interest which the Fiasr Cosa r. too!: in their welfare, I exhorted them in his name to dismiss that party spirit which divided them, and to await in he silence of passion the new constitu tion, which the powers who were disposed to gua rantee their sovereignty and their independence, were preparing to bestow upon them. " These few words they received with enthusi asm, and they all exclaimed, " France for ever! Long live !SON A r ART' !" Those cries were repeat ed as I went out by more than 4000 persons who accompanied me to the harbour. The Russian Governor was alarmed at it; and I next day was informed by the French Commissary that two of the most forward were put in prison, but that at his solicitation, and from dread of my resentment, they had been set at liberty during the night. I soon saw the Governer ; I spoke to him in very warm terms of the irregularity of his condua ; he was quite overpowered, and promised that those who had exclaimed, " ong live Bo NAPARTE!" he should regard as good citizens, and that b e should treat them as such. " As he had, during the night, dispatched a cou rier to his government, and as I had reason to ex pect that he had transmitted to him an unfaithful report, I wrote immediately to the Charge d'Af faires of the Republic at Corfu, to acquaint him with what had passed ; and immediately after proceeded to Messina. " I do not depart one jot fr•om the truth when I assert, that the islands of the lonean Sea will declare them selves French, as soon as an opportunity is offered them." The following is his statement of the English Army in Egypt :—The army commanded by General STUART is 4430 men strong it occupies entirely and exclusively Alexandria and the surrounding for tresses. The Turks who composed the garri son of some of those fortresss, have been dri ven from them. 'Hie English General late ly ordered I)emauhour to be occupied by a hun dred infantry and a hundred horse, under the pre tence of keeping the Arabs in check. The English take no care ca the fortresses : the pallisadoes are almost all gone to ruin, and the earth that has fal len in, from the continued rains, has destroyed all the new fintifications.—They occupy none of she works that arc without the enclosure of the Arabs, and all the external redoubts that existed at the time of the departure of the French, are &polished. 'I he Paella of Cairo furnishes the English army with coin, wood, and meat, without exacting any payment. The consumption is triple what is neces sary ; the greatest dilapidations are committed in these articles. A most seri-ns misunderstarkling prevails be tween General S rues r and tlie Paella. STATE OF THE ARMY. Ilein% Regiment - - 450 Men. British Cdtas,eurs- 1 )iro - 5.50 Rain's Regiment—S•rrss - Gi 0 Wetterville's Regiment—Ditto - 6RO 10th Regiment Infantry—English 600 The 61st Regiment Infantry—Ditto - 6:?0 fhe 88th Regiment 10fatitry—Ditto • 460 D ra goon: of the 45th Light—Ditto - S5O Artillery—Ditto - - 130 Total 4430 He then proceeds to give 't view of the state of the Turkish forces and the principal positions which they occupy. In the ditTerent garrisons of Alexandria, Aboukir, Itos , ,tta, Itahmanie, &c. they amount to 7,640. There are besides, of disposable forces, in. fartry and cavalry 1(3,11.0. Their state of discipline he describes as extremely deficient, and they are very indifferently provided with arms. 'f he army of the Beys consists of 3,000 Mamelukes, of 3,5(X) Arabs of the tribe of Ahabdade de Chark, and of 3000 of the tribe of Bohcaly. The leaders ar.:.---18R MUM BLV, ELLY Br.r, and OSMAN BEV, Coe suecesior of MeltAD BEV. In every encoun ter they have beat the Turkish troops, and their came is espoused by the Egyptians. Acre has un dergone considerable improvements, and the da m vre do:v! to the fortifications by the siege is •re paired. The forces of the P.%cit• are about 13 or 16,000. An ancient stone pillar, in a high state of pre servation, was found a few weeks ago in the bed of Artle-Beck, at Caton, four miles Prom Lancaster. It is about eight feet high, and bears an inscription dedicatory to the Emperor Adrian, the concluding line of which is not perfectly legible. The circum stance of finding this pillar confirms the supposi tion of the Roman military-way having passed through Lancaster to Over-Burrow. A very curious opt:cal instrument has been in vented at Sweden, by which people are enabled to penetrate into the very secrets of the deep, and to discover rabitances at the bottom of the sea. The King of Sweden ordered some experiments to be tried with this ias!.rarnent on board the frigate of the Swedish stta cadets, which were attested by the captain. From them it results, that, by means of the instrument, bright objects may be seen at a th'pth of 53 feet, and obscure ones at 27; in the Baltic obscure olj.•rts could be seen at 27, and clear ones at S 7 feet. 'There is i contrivance in this in strummt, by whi,.h the c!” , erver can look as &•tpy i;:to the water in misty or lOul, as in clear, fair wea ther. The win:i never hinders the use of this instru s:-.ent, which only requires one person for use. His ,Sreedish Majo:!y nas -rewarelld the artist with a dommur of about sterling, and the Academy of Science at Stockholm is to make a report on it. A letter firm a gentleman at Milford Haven says,—some time since it v:as remarked, that an un-* connron number of large rats infested the cliffs and burrows of the extensive rabbit-wart-en in that mighbriorhood ; in consequence of which they he came sn farnali.ir;,.'d. as to propagate an abundance of animals of a mixed species, between the rabbit and the rat, and they have gradually multiplied to stick a degree, as to render it necessary to extermi nate the whole race. This circumstance has excited the, curiosity of the naturalists; but a similar in stance of deviation from the laws of nature was a .few years since observed at Plymouth, which ex cited At much disgust amongst the dealers in•rab bits, that nothing short pf the final destruction of the breed could e4ecitially remedy the evil. POLICE. • SgANOON-110VSE. On Saturday several persons underwent a long examination before the Lord Mayor, on a charge of stealing and circulating Bank-notes, which were s' , n e time since taken out of a letter that passed through the General Post Office. The prisoners are those persons through whose hands one of the notes taken out of the letter had passed. A letter'orter belonging to the office has been in custody for some time, but he can give no account of the letter. The prisoners (three men and a woman) were remanded for future examination. Three persons were also privately examined, on a charge of burglariously breaking and robbing the premises of Mr. Morris, of Westmoreland-court, Falcon-square, of a great quantity of calicoes. They were remanded. GUILDHALL. Saturday an apprentice boy belonging to Mr. Hamilton, underwent a private examination before Alderman Smith, on suspicion of having set fire to the premises, which were burnt down an 'Wednes day night. PUBLIC OFFICE, WORSHIP-STREET. Saturday four young fellows who were taken into custody on Monday evening last, in the City Road, were brought up on a charge of being bullock-hun ters, and committing violent assaults on passengers, some of wh.m they cut with their knives, particu larly a pc,or labouring man, whom they cut in such a manner that his life is despaired of. Several per sons appeared against the prisoners, whose persons were recognised. Other persons, who were robbed the same night, not being able to attend, - the pri soners were remanded for further examination. if STATE OF LITERATURE IN RUSSIA. The northern parts of Europe are as yet, in point of literature, almost " km: incogniter," whence Ad nos vie tvntas pctia'iiiur aura.—V: sc. A brief sketch, or " apprep rapid'," of the present state of literature in those countries, will not, there fore, prove unacceptable to our readers. Russia, unbretalized, if we may be allowed the expression, by Peter I. and the Empress Anne, ac quired ender the propitious reign of Catharine IL civilization and culture with a rapidity of progress, only equalled by that of her political importance. During a period of thirty-three years, that truly great .rzipres - not only placed her regenerated em pire among the leading powers of Europe, but alsd fostered and nursed up the arts and sciences in her vast dominions to. an unprecedented degree of im provement. Leo X. Lewis XIV: Joseph I. Gusta vus 111. were g..:ner :::7 t,potft:ors of talent and ge nius; but she was fac .:irr friend of literature, and the zealous patraners c'. • ',.: .7. learned. Her letters to men of literary eri:;.e• ee breathed not the lofty spirit of Imieriat p.n.' .:ion ; they are written in the unassuming style of a -...ommcrier of the Republic of Letters, who addres: Is his Peer. Her instructions for the committee at.2oiated to prepare a new code of laws are replete with profound legislative wis dom ; and her dramatic compositions, merely in tended for the. instruction of her grand-children, conveyed sentiments the most pure and refined, in a j style simple, elegant, and correct. Under the benign, 1 and yet powerful influence and animating example of Catharine 11. was literature thus ereatedin Russia, and attained no mean degree of culture duringher glo rious reign. By turns slighted, encouraged, and per secuted by her immediate successor, literature shared in the ephemeral revolutions of the calamitous pe riod, on which commiserating tenderness for the frailties incident to human nature readily throws the veil of oblivion. Literature revived in full vigour at the auspicious dawn of the present reign ; but from the short time which has since elapsed, it can hardly be expected to have made any material pro gress. The present state of literature in Russia may, therefore, with equal propriety and truth, be affirmed closely to approximate to that wherein it was left by the great Catharine. At that time Russian literature was not distin guished by any originality of charatier, nor has it since attained any distinctive national features. The uncommon richness of the Russian language, which with peculiar felicity renders the sense of foreign idioms, will, we fear, prove a powerful obstruction to that attainment. Oa taking a survey of the pre sent state of literature in Russia, we find, according ly, numerous translations, but few original works. Among the latter, not taking into account several ingenious treatises inserted in the Transactions of the Imperial Society at Petersburgh, there are some of distinguished eminence. Such as, for instance, the elaborate and instruairework on the Trade of Russia, by Tschulkow ; the Description of Kamts chatka, by Kratscliennikow ; and Cadmus and Har monia, a highly finished composition of Cheraskow. Yet, in common with all nations emerging from a state of barbarity, the Russians count among their national authors a greater number of good poets than able writers ih prose. Lomonossow and Den chawin have composed odes sthich possess great me rit. Ssumarokow, whose poetical works were pub lished in 1767, in ten volumes in octavo, is the au thor of several fables, ingeniously conceived and well told; and of a tragedy, intituled, The False Demetrius, which has experienced a very favour able reception. Russia possesses also an epic poem ' of no inconsiderable merit, we mean the Ruasside, by the same Chcraskow, whom we have already had occasion to mention. To Wien his country is indebted for several satyrical productions inßoileau's manner; and Deznitrew, perhaps the most popular of all the Russian poets, has published some charm ing compositions of the lighter species of poetry. The works of Euler, Pallas, Nicolai, and other foreigners; whose literary labours have illustrated Russia, cannot for obvious reasons be classed among those which form the subject of this rapid sketch. But the measure of calling in their assistance to forward the great work of enlightening her mighty empire does infinite credit to the immortal Catha rine, whom some ill-advised admirers of that unri valled Empress mean to extol by the ridiculous • appellation of the Semiramis of the North. . The case of Francisco, the foreigner, convicted a short time since at the Old Bailey, for discharg ing a pistol at Mr. Maryan, in his shop in Lom bard -street, was reported to the King on Wed nesday last, by the Recorder. The convict was among those whose sentence his Majesty was pleased to respite. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, FEL 4. His Majesty's ship Cerium's is under orders to pro ceed to the Eastward. Arrived the Camilla, Anderson, from Bermuda., with troops ; out eight weeks and three days in very tempestous weather. Arrived from the Northward, between forty and fifty sail of laden colliers , some of which, bound to this port, have anchored here ; the rest pursued their voyage to the Westward. Sailed from the Motherbank, the ships /Mine and Pallor, for the West India; and Bacchus, for the South Seas. Remain at Spithead, his Majesty's ships as per last. Wind N.E. and blows fresh. By a letter received this day by a_very reputable character in this garrison, we are happy in being able to contradict a report of the death of Doctor Blair, the Physician of the Fleet, which has pre vailed for some time, as the person drowned was a medical gentleman of the same name, but a na tive or resident of the island of Jamaica. • FALMOUTH, FIB. 2. Sailed this day the brig . Mentura, Dennis, with spirits • for Bristol ; the brig Venture, Dixon, fur Newcastle ; the brig William, Earner, with sugars, &c. for Havre de Grasse ; the brig Suir, Jones, with provisions for London ; the Marc, Paterson, for Hamburg ; the Venus, Jazer, with wine, &c. for London ; the American brig D l.gence, Wats, with sugar, &c. for London ; the American ship Marga ret, Lewis, for London ; and the Dutch ship Three Sister., Rymers, with hullands, &c. for Guernsey ; passenger on board her, the well-known Major Semple, who has been here for several days, with hopes of obtaining a passage either to France or Portugal, Arrived this day the brig Peggy, White, with provisions from Dubliu for this port ; and the brig Three Erotism, Wescott, with earthenware, &c. from Liverpool. Some of the packets, with Mails from Lisboa, West Indies, and America, may be expected to ar rive in the course of to-morrow : the wind has shifted this day very favourably for their arrival.— Wind N.W. DOVER, FEn. 4. The Charlotte packet arrived last night from Ca .ais, with three Mails, and passengers ; also the Pria m: of Wale: packet, Capt. Sutton, and La Renommh passage vessel, with a great number of passengev„, amongst whom were the Hon. Henry Pierpoint, Sir Thos. Clarges, Bart. the Hon. Mr. Knox, Lieut. Colonel Shaiker, 60th regime: t, Capt. Cullen of the 32d, Lieut. Newport of•the 4th, Lieut. Colonel WaM, Mr. Dowering, and Mr. Chanereux. The following vessels put into this port last night :—Efizabeth, of and from Liverpool, laden with sugar, Capt: Grayland, bound for Amster dam ; Wiliam, of Brixham, Capt. Bord, with but ter, bound to London ; Endeavour, of and from Pv-ollhele, Capt. Jones, bound for London. The brig Jason, Capt. Guerlie, of Nevis, from Antigua, bound to Loudon, .was brought in here this morning, laden with sugar and cotton ; ato the brig Pierre Capt. Johan Barden of Gefte, leaky and muchdamaged, laden with orange, from St. Übes, bound to London. The brig Robert and Sally, Capt. Charles Brown, from Chester, laden with lead ore, bound to New castle, in coming for the harbour this morning, un fortunately struck on the bar, in consequence of the water being Killen, and was afterwards driven on shore near the South Pier Head ; her stern is beaten in, 'and it appears -doubtful whether idie will be got off, as she is very much damaged. Sailed the Marie, of and from Hotter/ au, fur St. Vallery, Capt. Vanderplas. The Express packet, Capt. Dell, is expected to sail to-morrow for Calais, with the mail and pas sengers. - DEAL, FER. 4c. Arrived the Fri..n://h;p, Glover; from Philadel phia, and remains with his Majesty's ships as per last. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS, AT GUILDHALL, To-smuttier, Fan. 8. it. Is. Fisher Jacson, of BASill gllall-itreet, factor I. 13. J. Garwood, of Roy,unt, Hertfordshire, victualler J. Allen, to . B trtlett's-buildings, Holborn, tailor Robert Hugh,s, of Noble-sleet, warehouseman • DIVIDENDS. W. Butl*tn, of Plymouth-dock, linen-draper lO T. Maltby and G. Maltby, of Size-lane, merchants D. Maitland, of New Bridko-street, merchant • 10 J. Gerard, of Cannon-street, corufactur 1 is F. Gardner, of Great St. Helen's, underwriter J. H. Emmott and J. and F. Browne, of the Old Jewry, brandy-merchants William Ludby, of Pctworth, Sussex, shopkeeper CF.RTIFICATES. • Thomas Neave an& Muses Neave, late of Bickton, South. amptun, millers. James Rawlins, of Red Lion-street,' Clerkenoell, ha.d ware- William Turner, late of Floors, Northampton, baker. William Makinson, of Bolton, Latica.stor, niusiiii manufac turer. . . John Owen Harries, of Car lican, shopkeep6r. William 'Wat:isn, of Fenchurch-street, merchant ' - • BIRTHS. • Yeste-day, the Lady of %V. Davies, Esq. of Gower-street, of. a dau4ltter, Lail wea,.at Ampton, in Sofialk, Lady Char l es ?An', of a daughter. • .• MARRIED. 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