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DUICII PAPERS. THE HAGUE. SEPT.:. Sy a decision of yesterday, his Majesty has appointed Count dt I c.tcs Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, to matey on negotiations with the papal See respecting the affairs of the Roman Catholic church. At. J. Germain, Seferendaty of the pint (lain to the Council of State. Is named Counsellor of legs luta. Count Alexander de Traregnies is attached to the embassy. His Majesty is gone to the boo. There stems reason to hope that the itmg-motracted negotiations, on account of which the deli attire regulation .of the most important interests has hitherto been delayed, will now came to a spwdy and favourable termination. The Ann of this month was the day appointed for the embodying of th. militia, to be exercised during this month. Hitherto the mi litia always met on the Irith of September, atiti remained embodied till the 16th Oct. Various reasons have this year caused them to be called together a fortnight earlier, and they will continue embo. Med during the month. The camp for some divisions of infantry with the requisite artil lery which is annually formed, for the purpose of executing grand inanoravres, will be this year on the heath of Ravel. The cavalry are to be exercised ou the heaths or plains nearest to their impa rt to pajamas. HAMBLIRGH P4PERS. DRESDEN, Avo. 26. His Highness the Doke of Anhalt Coethen, who arrived here on the 2d, pad a visit on the following day to the !loyal Family at p e : n it e , His Highness is still hen, and lorlges:in the Hotel de Pologne. The Journal of Coethen lately gave a long description of the pre cious relics and other presents sent to his Highness by the Pope. 'They are at present deposited in one of the apartments of the Pa lace, arid it is expected that they are le be transferred with much laden:nit, to'theCatholic church (formerly the Protestant chapel of tOe Palace). On a late occasion a Clergyman spoke in very ener gene language against what lie was pleased to call the absurdities of dark ages in a religious point of view, which he of course de signed as an attack on the Catholic church. Hereupon an order front the Duke had been addressed to the Consistory severely to re primand the Clergyman in question, and the following words of the Duke's rascript, which are generally applicable, have been commu nicated through the Superintendent to all the Clergymen in the country :—" As we and it extremely Indecorous of Clergymen to abuse and calumniate the church to which all their Sovereigns _e- Lang. and to cast odium on a faith which we proles', our Directors haste to signify to our Consistory that the Clergy are appointed to preach the word of God, but not to sow seeds of discord in people's minds, and to prejudice the subjects against their Sovereign. The Consistory and the Superintendents are therefore to take care that each things do not happen again. TRIESTE, AUG. 23. I.etters from Syra of 28th and 29th July say that the Turkish fleet had separated into two divisions: one went to Suda ; the other wok in troops at Alitylene and Scio, and attacked Samos. But the Greek fleet of forty sail, under Sactouris, won arrived. About the l'ith July there was an action in which the Greek tire-ships burnt a lige Turkish vessel. The text day the battle continued, but the ✓esult was not known at Syrs. Ibrahim, who had advanced with 4,00 men against Mains, having been defeated in three engage ments with the Greeks, hastily retreated to Calantata. His whole torce in Greece at that time was estimated at 7 or 8,000 men, so that the Greeks had resolved to act on the offensive, for which pur rise 4,000 Hunieliotee were to join the other troops in the held. ADIeRS defends itself bravely against the enemy encamped under i:s walls. The city is well furnished with provisions and brave soldiers. MALTESE PAPERS. MALTA, JUNE 14. We are atatbiefezed to state, that an official communication has ►wen received from the Board of Health at Genoa, intimating that tree pratique will be glinted to all vessels arriving from Malta; a:4 we expect that oommunicat ions equally satisfactory will shortly b. received from the respective Boards of 31arsetiles, Leghorn, and The benefit that will accrue to the commerce of this i•lard front free pratique with the Continent, there is rrcry reason to beiteve, will be found equally advantageous to the continental ports trading with us; and considering the great local superiority or our lazaretto, isolated and surrounded by a spacious harbour solely devoted to quarantine purposes. with a most efficient qua rantine establishment, certainly no place can be better entitled to tree pratique, or to greater confidence than Malta. The resolution of our Board to place men of war on the same footing as merchant vessels, with regard to quarantine, has been of much service, and this resolution is most strictly ndhered to. His Majesty's ship Zebra, which arrived here lately from Smyrna, after • passage of thirty-one days, notwithstanding that site had no com munication during her voyage, and that the most perfect health was enjoyed by all en board, was ordered to perform thirty days' qua. moire: in fact, our Board has resolved to enforce, on all occasions, the most rigid system of quarantine. It heseldom that we have had occasion to publish intelligence so teoly interesting as the above ; and another source of domestic con. gramlatioo may be found in the perusal the following letter from the Right Honourable Eat! Bathurst, one of his Majesty's Prin cipal Secretaries of State, to his Excellency the Governor, which must be most gratifying to the Maltese population. from the ex. mew:Motif Royal approbation which it conveys, and scarcely less so as another instance of their Governor's solicitude to promote their welfare:— , London, April 17. 1826. "My Lord,—l have the honour to acquaint your Excellency, that with a view of holding out the means of employment toe por tion of the male population of Malta, orders have been given to the officers commanding his dlajesty's ships and yr...iris in the Mediterranean, to avail themselves of any opportunity which may ueer for receiving such nien, natives of Malta, as may be willing to etev the naval seivice; and similar orders are given to the offi,.ers coinnianding regiments stationed at Malta and Gibraltar, to enlist 31alreve it Mill; in the proportion of live men to every hundred British soldiers. In communicating this arrangement to your Excellency. I de sire to express my hope that it will be viewed by his Majesty's frlaltese subjects as a gratlfyiug mirk of the sense which his Ma. testy is pleased to entertain of their loyal and ordeily conduct. " I have the honour to be, my Lord. " Your Excellency's most obedient humble servant, (Signed) " BATHURST." 1113 MAJESTY'S SHIP ROSE, JENS: 28. On Saturday last his Majesty's ship Sybille, Captain Trebel], who sailed hence some time ago for the purpose of protecting out commerce with Alexandria from the swamis of ; irates which have of late so alanningly infested these seas, returaed to this island, after having dislodged a nest of the most atrocious of them on the sJuthern coast of the inland of Candia, *here his information induced him to believe they were concealed. Upon arriving off that island, Captain Peehell reconnoitred it with the greatest diligence ; and persisting in the idea that they must have a lurking-place in the neighbourhood, lie, on the follow. ;no day. ran close in shore, in the hope of finding some indication of the pirates. It was rot long before lie descried two mistics in clime of him. In their thirst for plunder, it appears they had not adverted to the d. seription of vessel they were pursuing ; but, out their mistake, one of Mem brae up, and ran to largest ahelteted herself behind a point, which oe an island, under Cape Metals. Here was dis iplete nest of these robbers; and so well were they defence, that upwards of 200 armed men were sten breast-work, ready to repel any attack. tbille appeared, a boat came out with the master of a having regular papers , who Informed Captain .e were 4 mimics lying there, whose crews subsisted plunder ; and the pirates themselves contirmeil this es message was sent in desiring that they should give As we know," they replied, " that our vessels will ;rather die in defending them than starve, as we c them." This left Capt. Peehell no alternative, and took Ineuures for putting his ship in the most me ; but, from the narrowness of the place, he could _..a guns to bear upon two of the mistica. On perceiving determination, one of them erdeavoured to escape. but she was - /bille'e barge, commanded by Lieut. Gordon, who. boarded and carried her in the most detemiirhd ~. not without great exposure to the musketry on biting wounded in three places, and not an officer or whole. mistica were sunk, and the other two disabled ; and of the people on shore, from the guns of the Sybille, t very considerable, as the Island was strewed with muskets. it necessary service was not accomplished without 6on our bide. Mr. James Maxwell Knox, mid. men, were killed in the boats; Lieutenant Gordon, Ipper (since dead), Mr. Edmonstone, Mr. Lees, , and 29 men (live since dead) wounded. The Sybille quarantine, her wounded have been landed in the Lazaretto. settlement of this colony of miscreants—an islet situated at 4 the Archipelego, and midway between Malta and doubtless been one of those hidden haunts from commerce of this island has for a long time most seri ; and while all will deeply deplore the loss of human occsalon, the promptitude and perseverance of Captain ferreting them out cannot but create general satisfaction. use of success, and a secure and almost inaccessible re encouraged in them a hardy boldness, which became when closely pressed by the tenacious bravery of Bri t a conflict with such enemies may be perilous, but ' that it will never be of doubtful issue. which induced Captain Peehell to suspect the ex pirates was committed on the brig Sole, of Malta, Sardinia° brig Fenomeno, which were sailing in company, were mat with by the pirates, and obliged to anchor '-nd of Candis. They used the most deliberate torture to extort from them money. which, by perseverance ..e, they obtained ; and then opening every bale of taking away th e most valuable, they warned them to escape, lest they should be again visaed by other plun they did not hesitate to confess, harboured in those 4 this advice, the Foie cut her cable and made for meetlag with contrary winds, and the master and Mate disabled from the barbarous treatment they had under wag obliged to ran fur Alexandria, whither the Feno. followed bet ; and the Sybille being then a tt Alexandria, ehell lost no doe in panatiag the clue us ailbrded out the perpetrators. upon finding out I I:eviard, and the Is turned out to be covered a completi Prepared for defer behind a stone brew When the Sybil l Shriek schooner, h " Pecbell that there 7 entirely by plunder section, when a me themselves up. "J be burnt, we will r intim do, without th hi immediately tot , D ieing . pa tMo; I only bring hie gun , this determination. stopped be the Syl dashing forward, h manner, though t shore, himself man escaping who Two of the mil the destruction of 11-Unt have been vl their bodies and tr This severe but • lamentable Inas notion, and 12 n Lieutenant Tupr 1 roulahipmen, end being in ouarantin 1-U settlement • the entrance of th Alexandria—has which the comme ously suffered ; at life on the oce.isic Pechell in (erred, A long course of treat, had encot desperation when t:sh seiumn ; a they will find tha The outrage a laterite of these and die Sardinia* 'alien they were w.der the land upon the crews. I in their cruelty, geode and *skit make their men, streets, who, they 'pos. • Profiting by Malta ; bar twee being totally dist Floe, she was 4 14:e00 soon folio" • Capta'n Peehell his. to swatch ou I I , ll . • I . • PRICES OP BRITISH I per Cent. Cons. 79 f Ditto Aect.7ll V. per Cent. 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The Drapenu Blanc and the Cunstilulionnel assert that 4,000 men, under the command of MILIAIS, have overrun Catalonia, anil proclaimed CHARLES V., the latter further asserting that they had endeavoured to gain possession of the Seu d'Urgel, where there is a French garrison. The Flair contradicts all these accounts. The Elude also con tradicts an account in the Pilote of a successful attack on a French convoy by 3,000 famished Spaniards. We subjoin a few extracts from the French Papers : From the Journal drs Wats.) GREECE. ZANTE, Avo. 13. The most authentic letters from Napoli di Romania announce that the military affairs of the Mores have taken a tutu favourable to tht: Greeks. Ibrahim l'acha, who thought he had reduced the Mainotes, found himself attacked by them as soon as he set foot on their territory. His cavalry, and even his regular infantry, were useless to him in the defiles, which were occupied by the Mainote sharp-shooters. Three battles, each more bloody than the preced ing one, forced him to make a disastrous retreat, and his army. re duced to 7,000 men, was rendered incapable of making any further attempt. It is a pity that the Greeks are not prepared to attack him in their turn. The 4,001 Roumeliotes, who came to Napoli to be paid and re-equipped, wi'h to march to the succour of Athens, which defends itself bravely against Itcdschid Paella. The city is tin Tiled with provit lens and warlike stores. itivlschid cannot take the Acropolis, as he is without artillery—perhaps not the city. What most prevents the Greeks from acting on the offensive is the. state of disorganization from which the regular troops (taktikui) are but just escaped. Fabvier labours with all his ro'ght to re organise them. SVGA, At I. At length the naval campaign ho opened. A division of the fleet of the Capitan Paris, afttr having taken some troops of the disembarkation at Scio and Mitylene, presented himself before Samos the 27th July. It seems he reckoned on some treason formed by the Kid of fercio gold, and on some dissensions be. tween the Greek it.habitants and the Albanians. A rumour was spread, that Logo:heti, the Chief of the Wand, kept a vessel in readiness to save himself as soon as the Turkish flat should ap pear. These sinister omens have not been fulfilled hitherto at least. The valiant Sactouris having come up with 31. or, according to some accounts, 40 ships, attacked the Turks on the 23th July, and burnt one of their largest ships. The Greek fire-ships have scarcely suffered any thing. The Turkish fleet took to flight, but took I second thoughts on the 2flth, and returned to the ntighbourhood of the island, when s terrible conflict took place. This fight was still continued on the 30,h, and every thing seemed to presage the final success of the Greeks. LISBON, Avo. 20. The Princess Regent of Portugal, on the 17th ult. dissolved the Commission appointed to determine the place of meeting of the Chambers, appointing the Palace of Rocio and the Terreiro du Paco for that purpose. Another decree orders the suppression of Special Commissions in civil and criminal affairs. Tiie General of Tram-es-Mentes, in a letter dated the 12th August, says he has arrested, in the villages of Vinsiees and Algozo, two agents of the rebels who had taken refuge at Zamora, in Spain. The Governor of Elves writes on the 12th, that the rebel Generals Msgessi and Conavarro had set out for Madrid, and that their Lieutenant, Al puin, had caused the baggage of the officers who would not desert to be binned, as well as that of those who, having deserted at first, had afterwards quitted the standard of rebellion. The Regent has published a decree to dissolve the Junta of the Treasury, as incompatible with the new order of things. An other decree has been signed to change the 51inistet of Police. It is asserted that the Count of Villa Real will be appointed Portuguese Ambassador at Madrid, in the ram of 31. Gomez, who reiiided there as Charge d'Affaires, and, hosing remained 17 years continually at Madrid, had identified himself too much with die ideas of absolute power. On the 15th, the fete of Donna Al aria the Gloria, Queen of Portugal, was celebrated here. The English station on the Tagus was decorated with flags all day and replied to the three salvos of artillery which were fired in the morning, at noon, and in the evening, by the Portuguese forts and ships. A pamphlet has just been handed to us, entitled As Appendix to Me Black Book, containing a List and Analysis of Me new House of Commons. The only method of giving piquancy to a work of this sort is by making it a vehicle . . - of general abuse, and we perceive that his Majesty ' s Minis ters have come in for their full share of the common calumny ; yet, making allowance fur the peculiar objects which the writer had in view, it seems to us that the in tended satire in their case has assumed very much the air of panegyric, while their opponents are treated with a sort of sham respect, which gives more bitterness to the satire against them. The great abilities and good inten dat of Mr. BROUGHAM are duly appreciated ; but the remarks on his " wiry and sinuous" career, and, above all, on the inconclusive results of his endeavours, neutralize completely the effect of the commendations which the writer bad previously bestowed on the Honourable Member for Illinchelsea. The good points in Sir F. BURDETT'S character are alluded to ; but they are all defaced and ren dered ridiculous by the imputation of want of zeal and ac tivity. Sir J. %tem-roan is passed over in a very few lines, and is said to be falling into the scar and yellow leaf. Mr. CANNING, on the other hand, is called a Iruipokan certainly ; but his present popularity is admitted. He is said to be a " very clever man, a gentleman Of high honour and accomplishment." His foreign policy is com mended, and the liberal tone which he has assumed in his speeches is approved, though with seeming reluctance. In the account of Mr. HuseissoN, it is admitted that the • " liberal portion of the Ministry have evinced both wisdom • and firmness in carrying various measures ;" and it is added, that "others are touch better paid and provisioned THE BRITISH PRESS. than that Right lion. Gentleman who are not half so de serving." There are drawbacks on this praise, it is true; but still the writer evidently admits those merits which few of any party are inclined at present to i deny. The merits of Mr. PEEL are also allowed; and, though the dark side seems to predominate in the ac count of Mr. ROBINSON, the writer seems very much inclined to yield to the " temptation of calling him an honest Minister." We are well aware of the imposui- Laity of conciliating all parties on any question ; but where every party seems willing to admit that Ministers are the next best to themselves, we are but acting on a recognised principle in setting them down as the nearest of any to perfection. TLe more discussion has enabled people to see their way clearly in all the great questions of policy, the more have all pazties been led gradually to approximate to that middle course which Ministers have adopted with a sagacity, and pursued with an integrity, that will give them a place and a name among the proudest recorded in the pages of our history. Again and again it has been pre dicted that they would be foiled in their attempts at im provement; and every successive prediction has shown more clearly the uncontrollable force of reason when guided by integrity and talent. In those momentoua questions which were agitated last Session, the opposition which un thinking calculators had anticipated entirely disappeared before the general conviction entertained of the sagacity and uprightness of those at the head of affairs; and we do not imagine that the apprehensions entertained by some concerning the result of the discusidons in the new l'arlia ment will turn out to be better founded than those of which the futility was so clearly demonstrated in the last. Ministers have evidently the good wishes of the majority in their favour ; and the will of the many will soon open the eyes of the few. We were made to assert in a late article, by a mistake of the printer, that the majority of the landowners are opposed to the revi sion of the Corn Laws. We do not Lelieve that they are—it would be a libel upon them to suppose that they are. Without impugning the motives of our op ponents, we are perfectly sure that no landholder sup ports the Corn Laws as a whole, unless it be from inat tention to some important particulars in the inquiry—. whether that inattention arise from prejudice or from care lessness. It would be an insult to the majority of the ' landwners to say that they are either prejudiced or care less, but we do say that those who oppose revision in into must be either the one or the other. This is the reason which prevents us from supposing that Ministers will meet with any strong opposition in that quarter. On the other subjects, in which opposition is anticipated, we have some reason to think that the parties who were formerly moat active have been led to modify their resistance to a very cmsiderable extent. In any case Ministers are right; and, even if unsuccessful (an event not very likely), all good men are bound to admit their merits, and to support their principles. CITY, .:VI EDNESDAT EVENING. The British Funds, during the day, showed adisposition to advance, transactions having taken place as high as 79i s ; but at the close of the market Consols did not bear a higher quotation titan their opening price of 79k. There was, however, an evident feeling of confidence among the leading parties that they would not go lower, for considerable sales wtre made of Money Stock at 79 and 791, without producing any effect in the way of depreciation. The ge neral opinion appears to be that there is not the slightest reason to infer a fall in consequence of opening the ports ; and, judging from the increased demand for colonial produce in the Low Countries, and the consequent advance of prices,it is reasonable to suppose that the advantages resulting from the measure will be of a reciprocal nature, and that, as a measure of commercial policy, as well as of national necessity, it will not prove that overwhelming disaster to the English farmer as was insisted upon by those who combated their interests when the question was brought forward at the conclusion of the Session of Parliament. Exchequer Bills anti India Bonds are stationary in price, and very marketable commodities—the former at 18, 19, and the latter at 27 to 29. In the Foreign Market there is something like a new feature to-day. Chilian Bonds bare been subjected to a reaction of three per tent. in consequence of an apprehen sion that the dividends due in October will not be paid. If this surmise should prove correct, it will have the effect of throwing still further odium upon this species of se curity. At one o'clock they were 38, from which they descended rapidly to 35, and closed any where between that quotation and 37. Mexican Papers have been received to the 2d July, but they are wholly silent on the subject of money matters. The Bonds of this Government, however, were not much operated upon by this taciturnity; if any thing, they were disposed to recede, having been done as low as 505 ; but at four o'clock they had regained 51, being only j per cent. lower than yesterday. Colombian, Greek, and Spanish, are scarcely mentioned, and therefore no alteration is to be noticed in them. Shares Misplay a similar disposition of inactivity. In noticing the Colonial Market yesterday, there was an error, which it is necessary to correct. The advance of Sugar should have been stated at one and two shillings per cwt. instead of hogshead. There have not been any considerable sales to-day, and therefore the prices re main unaltered. The Corn Market is quite at n stand-still ; and it is sup posed a week at least will elapse before prices can settle to that state of certainty which will induce buyers. It can not be expected that any sales of bonded Oats will take place until some i.iea of the extent of supply from the North is arrived at, and also of the prices at which.they may be put into the market. GREEK CAUSE.—We understand that the discussions in I the late meeting of the Greek Bondholders have produced at least one good effect—they have roused the activity of the persons employed in the construction of the steam-ves sels, and we have no doubt of the speedy accomplishment of this part of the designs formed by the friends of Greece. IVe understand also that there is every reason for believing that the American frigates, about which Lalle mand was deputed, will very soon be rendered disposable in a manner which will contribute very much to the strength of the Greek cause. MON titan REV ENGE.—Nothing can be more extraordi nary than the affair of M. Noyer, who was prosecuted in the Appeal Tribunal of Correctional Police, at Blois, on the 30th of August, for an insult, by means of a feu de joie against a Minister of the Catholic faith. M. Noyer had fallen into disgrace with the Mayor and Cure, on account of a house which he bad given to the hospital, and from which they wished to drive him out bya conger though he consented to pay the rent of it. The Cure having been called to another living, a fee de joie was lighted on the day of his departure. The police of Vendome condemned Noyer for the offence of lighting it, to 15 days' imprison ment, and a fine of 500 francs. The Appeal Court of Blois decreed that the fact of lighting the jets de joie, in order to insult the Cur.. was proved in the evidence; hat though it were proved that M. Foyer caused it to be lighted, his gifts for religious purposes showed that he could not have done it with any irreligious intention, and that it could only have been in consequence of person al en mity, on account of the course pursued by the Cure, in the administration of the hospital. The Court, therefore, rescinded the judgment of the Court of Vendome, and ae. quitted M. Noyer.—livads Paper. sOCDII AMERICA, CADIZ, AUG. We have just received very interesting accounts of what is pass. ing in Yucatan, relative to the prohibition of trading with the ila vannah, in consequence of an order issued by the Mexican Govern it eat. The province of Yucatan is a peninsula, washed on the east by the Oulf of Ousnajos. On this side its extent is 130 leagues, and it reaches almost as far as the island of Cozumel. Towards the north it is surrounded by the sea from the above-mentioned MK as far as the Mexican territory. The extent of this pointillist, in the interior, is 120 leagues from east to west, and 38 from nort'l to south Its boundaries are. the province of Verapae, that of Tahargue, and of Vera Cruz, and it is separated from this last only by hilly and desert tracts, which the traveller can hardly pass through. In the interior the country is at once arid, moist, and stony. It is watered only by one river, called Lagorloa. In thi. province there are no mines. Fruits are rare foe want of water, and the inhabitants can support themselves by supplying vessels with cordage, a species of traffic for which they are indebted to the Spa niards, and by some other manufactures, the produce of which they sell at the Ilavannah. Since the Revolution of Mexico, in 1810, they endeavoured to co itinue this commerce till the time when San. Lana went to govern them in 1824, as a State belonging to the Mexican Colifedendiun. At this time all communication with countiics subject to their legitimate Sovereign was forbidden to the inhabitants of Yucatan. This prohibition deprived them of the only resource width relieved their poverty, and gave rise to the quarrels which took place between Yucatan and Campeachy, which shut up its post against all commerce with the Ilavannah. Being reduced to the moat dreadful misery, the inha bitants of Yucatan endeavoured to continue, by means of Sisal, their commercial connexion with the Ilavannah. by sending their manufactures into that island. The merchandise which they re ceived in exchange filled the inhabitants with joy. Sisal is a pretty contedent roadstead, placed very favourably on the coast of Yuca tan, so as to p ••rmit the commerce with the Have:malt, without the Governmei t of Campeachy being able to prevent it. It is a year since the quarrel first took place between the tw,t pa, t . et, and it has so much exasperated the people, that the ot.l/ reason of their eon:inuing quiet ha , been, that Santana has ktp t peace by giving them hope' that Colombia being about to invade the island, that invasion would naturally restore its connexion with the Continent of America. But the people of Yucatan, being now informed of the respectable land and sea forces at the Ilavannah, and of the impotence of the Colombians, do not allow themselves any longer to be lulled asleep by false hopes, and Santana can no longer restrain the people, who are determined to opeit the port of Sisal to the Spaniards, and to join with them ; for they have no wish but to sea the Government restored under which they formerly lived happy. We have just received several letters assuring us of the truth of the.? statements. "%V are on the point," say the inhabitanst, "of declaring open war against the republicans of Campeachy, and pre p trailer)s are already made on bolt sides. If we judge from the hatred which animates the two people, the war will be blcoly and obstinate. There is no di übt that the anti.r.:pub'c an p. rty will triumph, for it hax suffered too many vex ttions, and has to:defend the fie is of its commerce, from which alone it derives it. ruhatat• eller. Woe be to every government which reduces the peollf to the cruellest misery, anti forces them to have recourse to arms to free themselves front w) deplorah'e a sate. VAN DIEM/WS LAXU. Letters were received in Edinburgh on Friday last, from Van Diemen's Land, by the ship Medway, which came home in about four months, dated 9th of April last. TM y are front a respectable proprietor, who is not at all guilty of exaggerating the state of the country, but who writes its real situation with perfect truth. It gives ua, therefore, much pleasure in laying before our readers the latest intel ligence from that interesting colony. Ile proceeds— " In my former letters I informed you of the miserable state of the Colony, from the robberies and murders of the bush-rangers, which made every one tremble. lam now glad to acquaint you, that they have all, except two, been overtaken by justice, and forfeited their lives to the twice offended laws of their country. It is to be hoped that these two will also soon be got, as Givernor Arthur is using his utmost diligence to take them, and has offered very high rewards. The Judges at home ought to have a discretionary power of fixing the place of banishment as they see just, and none but the least offending criminals should be sent to these fine countries. The worst of the convicts ought to be sent to repair forts, &c. at Sierra Leone; the second class to Bermuda ; the third to public works in Britain ; and to such as deserve lenity, their punishment should be Australia. " We have just had an abundant harvest (January last) of every kind of grain ; and prices are consequently low. IVhcat is 6s. 6d. per bushel, barley 5s , oats 53., potatoes 6s. per cwt. Cattle are very cheap, and can scarcely be sold. Fine milch cows M. and 61. The Government con tracts for meat are made at 3d. and 2111. per lb. This is owing to the over care of Government sending us out so much It ish cured pork, and has caused us to have a large surplus of meat, which we cannot dispose of nor consume, the population being only 13,000; and we have 230,000 sheep, and 20,000 head of cattle. The colony, thank God, can now maintain itself. "The Tasmanian Company from London have arrived, but hitherto we have heard little about them. The Leith Australian Company are very limited in their trade • they neither buy our wool nor wheat, but seem solely to aevote themselves to freights. The other merchants in the island, however, putchase our wool and raw material, which en ables the proprietors to go on. My opinion of the Tasma nian Company is, that they should become bankers and merchants with their large capital, and not farmers and graziers. " The fine wool is in great demand, and those who have large estates and good stock make large profits. " Last summer it was very hot ; pray, how was the win ter in ONI Scotland ?" In perusing the above letter, those who have relations or friends in Van Diemen's Land must be much relieved, be cause of the very distressing accounts of the proceedings of the bush-rangers (or runaway convicts) lately published. We have often thought that if Government grant any sum for the purposes of emigration, as recommended by the Parliamentary Committee, the money could not be better expended than in conveying some thousands of our dis tressed manufacturers and others to Van Diemen's Land and New Seuth Wales. That would encourage our ship ping, and at the same time be an immediate and permanent relief to the emigrants themselves ; for the instant they landed, they would find themselves in a most healthy and congenial climate, abounding with all the fulness of Pro vidence, enjoying a mild and salubrious winter, and a sum later equally fitted for a British constitution. PLAGUE Tuna ty.—A letter from Tarsons of the 30th May, 1826, says, the plague has made dreadful havoc at Adana. The dead are no longer buried. Many quarters of the town are put under quarantine, and the few who re main alive in them, without being attacked, die from the infection of the bodies which are allowed to putrify in the houses. As for Tarsons, the l'acha, who arrived there only 4 days ago, has communicated it to it. From 15 to 20 persons (lie daily, and there were 50 attacked. At Adana it is still worse; out of 50 attacked, 49 die. Hitherto 'farms has been the boundary of this scourge on the South. POLITICAL. PROPHECY OF THE LATE JOHN ADAMS, 71 YEARS AGO.—The following is an extract of a letter writ ten by John Adams, dated at Worcester, Massachutets, Oct. 12, 1755.—" So on after the Reformation, a few people came over into this new world, for conscience sake. Per haps this apparently trivial incident may transfer the great seat of empire into America. It looks likely to me; for, if we can remove the turbulent Gallica, our people, according to the exactest computations, will, in another cuntury, be come more numerous than England itself. Should this be the case (since we have, I may say, all the naval stores of the nation in our hands), it will be easy to get mastery of the setts; and then the united force of all Europe will not be able to subdue us. The only way to keep us from Betting up for ourselves is to disunite us. He not surprised that lam turned politician. 'fhis whole town is immersed in politics. The interests of nations, and all the din of war, make the subject of every conversation. I sit and hear, and after having bean led through a man of sage observations, I sometimes retire, and, laying things together, form some reflections pleasing to myself. The produce of one of these reveries you have read above." SOUTH OF IRELAND. (PROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.) Cork, SepteraLer 2 That unaccountable and reprehensible delay, which I before alluded to, still continues, and no effectual me an , have yet been taken to, supply the starving population of this city with food. A sum amounting to ur arly 3000/. h a , now been subscribed, and is at the disposal of a Committee, consisting of very respectable gentlemen; but instead of taking immediate measures and applying the means within their reach to meet the urgent necessities of the caw, those gentlemen have thought proper to convene Parish Vestries, in which Parochial Committees are formed, whose duty it is to meet the Committees of other Parishe 14, ror the purpo se of discussing such proposals as shall be submitted; with a view to relieve the urgent distresses of the Poor. If words could foal the hungry, no doubt this plan would be wholly unobjectionable, but it seems a very tedious and circuitous mode of affording that relief which is allowed on all hands to be indispensable to the very existence of a large propor tion of the suffering poor. Notwithstanding the vast num ber of unemployed persona who crowd the streets, there does not seem to be the slightest tendency to riot or disorder. The patience and forbearance with which the lower orders have borne their sufferings, whilst it excites admiration, cannot fail to strengthen those feelings of sympathy, which their distressed and destitute situation have calied forth. By this time the distress, which is already extreme, wo u ld have been fearfully augmented, if the bounty of Providence had not blessed the country with several abundant fails of rain, followed by genial sunshine, which has happily re. vived vegetation. The fields, before parched anal arid, have now assumed all the freshness and verdure of spring; and the fears that were very generally entertained of a total failure of the late potato crop, which, in this country, would be tantamount to an absolute famine, have greatly diminished. Indeed there is now every reason to hope, that however deficient as An averag' crop, the late potatoes will be improved in quality, and increase in quantity more than the most sanguine could have believed, from their appearance a few weeks ago. 'f he change in the weather has produced a sensible alteration in the prices of all kinds of field and garden produce. Milk, butter, and vegetables, have been reduced car•.sidt rably, and potatoes are now sold at eightpence a stone, which is one third less than the sell. ing price a month ago, though still more than double the ordinary rate. Meanwhile the Poor Laws continue to oc cupy a much larger share of the attention of the citizens that, the actual condition of the poor. It is now proposed to hold Parish Meetings, in order to agree upon Cotintr. Petitions to be sent to Parliament, in opposition to that agreed upon at a general meeting of the inhabitants. This will render every vestry-room an arena for wordy warfare, and afford a precious opportunity to that host oft rators with which this city is blessed ; who, like the s,ve n wise virgins, seem always ready, and never miss an occasion of " declar lug their sentiments," whatever may he the nature of the subject. However opinions may differ, with respect to I the time and manner in which this subject was discussed in Cork, there can be no doubt that it is a question of great difficulty. The frequt nly revolting, and occa sionally alarming, scenes presented by an extensive pauper population without any permanent means of support, are calculated to make a deep impression, and fill many with an idea that no price could be too dear for the removal of an evil of such appalling magnitude. On the other hand, the poor laws in England have been the source of much abuse, and, in the opinion of many, have tended to degrade the lower classes. To expect its: the Irish could have the rose without its thorns, or that they could import a system liable to such abuses, and pre serve it free front those abuses, seems quite irrational, and, w. re it not so, it may be doubted whether Ireland is yet ripe fur the introduction of such a system. These argu ments, into which I shall nor enter, are canvassed here in every society: they have for some weeks exclusively occu pied the attention of all classes, and would probably con tinue to do so for some time longer, but for the lam: nted death of one of the Representatives of this city, (Mr. C. H. Hutchinson.) A letter written by this respected Gentles man a few days before his death has just been published, recommending his son to the notice of the electors. he ensuing election therefore at present divides the public at tention. There is little doubt that the election will be COll. tested, as several candidates have already been named. The Oriental Spectator off' the 14th July gives the fol lowing sketch of the character of Goura : When Colonel Fabvier, provided with money and great military talents, arrived in Greece, and was appointed Commander of the regular troops, Goura, dissembling his mean jealousy, sought the friendship of the generous Philheiline. who, like all old soldiers, incapable of deceit, was the more easily deceived, and fancied he had found a friend. Goura flattered Fabvier, loadtd I.im with marks of friendship, and even made him a present of s beautiful horse. But at the time of the affair at Carysto he secretly spread unfavourable reports, and thereby increased, in the eyes of the troops at Athens, the dangers of the Greek army. Thee reports caused va rious disorders, which Goura promoted. ineteod of trying to suppress them. Be succeeded in bribing some Greek officers of the battalion of reserve, which was not sufficiently well trained to join the army. Sacrificing their Commander and their honour, they favoured deser tion ; while dour* secured in the citadel the deserters and their equip ments, which he encouraged them to pilfer from the magazines. At the National Assembly, at Piads, Gouts, who thought dist Fabvier was irretrievably ruined, not knowing the resources which the Colonel would find within himself, and which would make him more powerful than ever, threw off the mask ; his jealousy blinded him to such a degree, th at he himself stai the wicked means he had employed, wh. e , to get rid of a flea!, he halt 'tact liked a whole army of his countrymen. He said publicly :hat Fabvier hail gone to Negropont, to make himself King ; that if he, Goitre, 1.a.1 been intrusted with the expedition, he would have executel it with more prudence, and the Government would have found in him a much more faithful servant. lie was answered, that in case of success, he would, perhaps, have seized the supreme power him self. " Well (said he), anti what great misfottone would it be. if I were the tnaster of Greece ?" Let no one say, then, who knows Oman well, this is not the exclamation of a heart animated with perhaps a pardonable ambition, which burns with desire to make the country happy. He is a vulgar speculator, without thinking of honour or reputation, who coolly contemplates the misery which he would create, if he commanded Greece. He will lay down his power the mmnent there is nothing more to get, and he would al ready have given up hia present situation, did he not daily find means to plunder tied oppress the unhappy Livadia. of which he found himself master, when he precipitated from the top of a tower his prisoner 1 klyssetts, his old master and friend. To amass riches and retire with them to Europe, there to enjoy his ill-gotten wealth,— this is the plan or flours, and of all those Chiefs to whom a deluded people have confided their liberty and happiness, not reflecting that at the of gold, they are even ready, in the hour of danger, to abandon the unhappy victims of their rapacity. At the National Assembly at Piada. Prince Ypsilanti it tttcred himself iur a moment that the reins of Governtnent would be intrusted to him. The real friends of the Greeks rejoiced in the prospect of having so patriotic a Chief, and hoped that the well-known integrity and disinterestedness of the Price would pot an end to the anarchy. This last hope has been baffled for the present by intrigue. The Greeks have still at the head of their armies the insatiable Coloco troni, who, loaded with the treasures of Tripotizza and Napoli di Romania, still stretches out his hand for more money, and laughs at the simplicity of those who hasten to the combat, singing Rohe of liberty. We have the following account of Colocotroni. Zaint. Primate of Calarrita had purchased from the Hydriots seve ral fine Arabian horses, Attu had been captured from lbrahint's army. Colocotroni long sought means to appropriate them to h imself. What did he do ? He proposed to the Government that all the horses at pasture in the plain of Argos should be taken to form a regular corps of cavalry. The proposal was approved. Culaco trom put it into execution, and caused &liars horses to be conveyed to his own stables. Zaini loudly complained of this viols ion of his property, and managed so well, that Colocotroni was ordered to restore his horses. lle obeyed, but four of the finest of them had already died. MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL, SEPT. S.—Monthly Return of Patients from the lst to the 31st August : In.patients admitted by letter . - Ditto, accidents . 110 . 92 -139 . 190 . 110 -303 Out-pat;ents adm't.ed bi Irters . Ditto, accidents T,t 1 In.paffnts eivharrd - Remaining 'n the limits! - . 437 1?..4 148 *SO 45,4 1 ..+i. 800 ESC 0 COW 111 for bill Si otT Jim of Oem nap Om Ma sigi ion'