The Sun. — London, England, 1829-11-04 00:00:00

PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE. " PARIS, NOV. 1. " The most melancholy accounts are given in letters from the East, of the state of the Turkish provinces in Europe. The period of their evacua tion by the Russian troops is regarded as the signal for the dissolution of all the ties of social life ; and whatever energy the Sultan may be supposed to possess, it is not believed that he will he able to stay the impending calamity. The Christian popu lation, in particular, are in a state of the greatest alarm and consternation. It is not from the Turkish Government that they are apprehensive of mal treatment at the moment when the reaction takes p'ace, but rather from their Mahometan fellow-sub ject:, who would not fail to see, with feelings of resentment, the unequivocal proofs which were afforded by the Christians of their anxiety for the success of the Russian arms. " According to letters from Jassy, dated in the middl , 3 of October, the passage of troops from Astutia and the Pruth had not yet ceased, although it was then known that the Sultan had ratified the Teraty ; but it is accounted for on the supposition that the Prineipalities had b?en encumbered with troops, and that these movements . had taken place for the sake of temporary convenience. " The terms of the new Austrian loan are now made public. It is nominally to bear an interest of four per cent., and it amounts to 21,000,000 of florins. The parties by whom it is negotiated take it nomithlly at 86 per cent.; but after all deduc tion,,, the nett amount which reaches the Imperial I teisury will be only 82. C. It is stated that Prince Metternich and Lord Cowley have had some serious differences. The British Minister, in obedience to the instructions of his Cabinet, is reported to have made a demand on the Austrian diplomatist which did not appear to the latter to be altogether consistent with the Imperial interests; and that the demand having been supported by observation-, which wore some thing of a threatening aspect, had been repelled in such a manner as to give rise to the alleged misun derstanding, Since this period it appears that there has been ha direct communication between these two personagt s; but it was expec!ed at Vienna that kliteir former good understanding would be restored b koy the friendly intervention of the Prussian Am bassador.—A telegraphic communication from tl►e Maritime Prefect of Toulon announces that the Russian blockade of the Dardanelles has been raised since the 30th of September, " The general attention seems now to be pointed s E g ypt, as the probable scene of events which are in come degree to engage the attention of Europe. The Pacha has just sent 34 young Arabs to France, for the purpose of acquiring a knowledge of the manufactures, the commerce, and the useful arts, as now practised in the more civilized countries of Europe, 'These young strangers have already ar rived at the Lazaretto of Marseilles, having been consigned to the care of M. Etienne Gautier. On their being liberated from quaran►ine, they are to be sent to Paris, where they will be under the inspec tion of two officers of the Pacha, Abdi and Muchtar Effendi.. "A handsome Egyptian frigate built at Marseilles, arrived at Alexandria on the 15th of September. At that time there were 65 French vessels in the port of Alexandria, waiting the arrival of their cargoes from the interior, consisting of the staple commo dities of cotton, indigo, and saffron. " The last intelligence from M. Pariset and the other members of the Commission sent by the French Government to Egypt, for the purpose of investigating the nature of the plague, and inquir ing into the possibility of preventing or removing it, appears to afford the most flattering prospects of ultimate and complete success. The following is an extract of a letter from M. Pariset, dated from ttea, in the Island of Cyprus, on the 26th of August : " I set out this morning for Alexandria. We " ` go to see the inundation on the plains, fol. " lowing the retreat of the waters, and observing " ` the Delta step by step. That being done we " ` shall, in January or February, return to France, " and if all be well you may rest assured that I " ` shall not budge again. Yes, my dear friends, " ` God willing, I shall soon be with you. Hitherto " ` my conjectures have been supported, and should " ` the rest follow, I shall have reason—too much " ` reason, perhaps—to rejoice; for it Nvill be be " lieved that I have felsitied facts to accommodate " ` them to my former views. I have met here with a " physician who has passed thirty years in the ." East, and who thieks exactly as I do ; his idea., " ` his very words, and consequently his o'sserva " ` tions, are the same. He maintains that nothing " ` is more easy than to extirpate the plague, and " ` that if the Sovereigns of Europe were only to " ` ask it of Mahmoud and Mehemet Ali, the thing " ` would be done. I believe it—l am convinced of " ` it—and it will be the text of a good memoir to " ` be prepared at Paris.—Patience " A Royal fete in Paris is a very serious affair, mid already the most extensive preparations are in progress for the event of Wednesday next. That the populace may all be in good humour, the theatres and other spectacles are to be thrown open on Tuesday, the day before. Supplies of bread arid meat, and other eatables, are to be gratuitously dis tributed, aril wine is to issue instead of water from the public fountains. The palace of the Tuileries will, however, be the great centre of attraction. The King, as usual, dines in public, but such is the demand !or admission, that the limited number is already completed, and further applications are now rejected. The general programme of the fete has been published by the proper authorities, and it is amusing to observe the extreme degree of minute ness with which every thing is regulated. " Excessive regulation seems indeed to be the besetting sin of the French police. A Royal ordoittiance has lately been promulgated by the Minister of the Interior, in which it is stated that the exhibitions of itinerant showmen having given rise to disorderly proceedings, his Excellency had thought proper to establish rules for the govern ment of the Local Authorities in permitting such exhibitions in the places under their respective juris dictions. It is required that the objects presented to the public should contain nothing which might have a tendency to recal the remembrance of Buona parte, and give a false direction to public opinion.— The Authorities are therefore directed to require a previous account to be given them of all the swigs, parodies, end other burlesque exhibitions, with which puppet-shows, phantasmagoria, and other similar representations are accompanied, in order to enjoin the suppression of whatever they may con csive to be dangerous to good order and morality, or to the King's Government. When such instructions are formally and deliberately delivered, with all the pomp and circumstance of a Royal Decree, by a :\linister of State, it is easy to suppose that the zed of the subordinate officers entrusted with its execution will allow nothing to be lost in point of strictness or severity, while administering the details. A thousand instances have already occurred in the ieferior jurisdictions, showing to what ridiculous extremes this spirit of unnecessary regulation may be carried. A number of individuals have been fined arid imprisoned for drinking their liquor out of glasses supposed to bear a resemblance to the young Duke of Reichstadt; and an incident has occurred •within these few days, at Fontainbleau, which, al• though merely ludicrous in its results, appears to af ford some indication of the feverish anxiety and alarm in which the Royal Family are living. The little Duc de Rourdeaux had been sent with his Governor, the Duc de Dames, on an excursion to the Royal Chateau, at Fontainbleau ; and, while there, a stranger had arrived at one of the inns of the town, where he stayed for several days, without being apparently engaged in any active pursuit, hav ing no acquaintances in the, town, and returning only to his inn for the ptirposes of eating and sleep ing. Such a- circumstance occurring at the period of the Royal visit, was enough to excite the atten tion of the Local Authorities, who had the stranger immediately arrested and examined; but, although his passpo t and other papers were all en retie, it was impossible to remove the preconceived idea of a conspiracy, which would, no doubt, be confirmed in the mind of the Commi'sary of Police by the con viction, that if he were to be the happy instrument "f detecting such a plot against the existence of the M marchy, his fortune would at once be made. The stranger, however, insisted on being carried before the Duc de Damas, by whom he was immediately recognised as a General Officer of distinction, and, what was more to the purpose, of strictly Royalist principles, whose object it was to purchase a place of residence in the neighbourhood of the town. The incident itself is trifling; but the light which it throws on the feelings of the Royal Family, with reference to their personal safety, makes it not unworthy of consideration. It would be strange in deed if they could ever forget the sad events which have already befallen them, even if they had not been so forcibly recalled to their attention by the murder of the Duc de Berri." MILITARY FORCE OF FRANCE. The following is a correct statement of the actual military force ot . Fram:c, according to the last re turns made by the Minister of War for 1830 : GENERAL STAI.F. 12 Marshals of France 491 General Officers 2,09 S Field Officers and others 2,604. Total. THE KING'S HOUSEHOLD TROOPS.-(GARDE DU CORPS.) 1,409 Officers_(G►rdes du Corps Cavalry) 41'1 Noll-commissioned officers and privates—(Cent. Swiss InEntry) 1,826 Total. GENDARMERIE ROYALE. 16 Officers d'Elite Garde Royale (Horse) 301 Non-commissioned officers•and privates (ditto) 609 Officers commanding the gen- These form nn trartnes in the departments part of the 14,452 'Non-cmainissioned officers and Garde privates Royals 15,376 Total. INFANTRY.-(GARDE ROYALE). 534 French officers 10,056*N0n-commissioned officers and privates 192 Swiss officars 4,414 Non-commissioned officers and privates 192 Soldiers' children—(Enfans de troupe)* 15,378 Total, Royal Guards. DITTO, TROOPS OF THE LINE. 7,026 French officers 113,021 Non-commissioned officers and privates 361 , Swiss officers 7,460 Non-commissioned officers and privates 1,976 Soldiers' children—(Enfans de troupe) 145,225 Total of Infantry. CAVALRY.-(GARDE ROYALE). 520 Officers 5,820 Non-commissioned officers and privates DITEO 01 THE LINE. 2,513 Officers 29,392 Non-eonunissioned officers and privates 377 children—(Enfans de troupe) 36,622 Total cavalry. (There is no Swiss cavalry in the French service.) ARTILLERY. 100 Officers t Garde 1,403 Non-commissioned r•flicers and privates S Royale. 1,170 Officers t Of the 14,492 Non-commissioned offices and privates S Line. 262 Enrans de Troupe 17,428 Total, ENGINEERS. 238 Officers 4,512 Non-commissioned officers and privates Enfans de Troupe 4,874 MILITARY EQUIPAGES, OR WAGGON TRAIN. 49 Officers 664 Non-commissioned officers and privates 12 Enfans de Troupe 725 GARRISON COMPANIES OF INFANTRY AND ARTILLERY. 8 Officers S Garde 222 Non-commissioned officers and privates Royale. 220 Officers 5,557 Non-commissioned officers and privates 113 Enfans de Troupe 6,120. * Two children belonging to soldiers are admitted into every company, and receive half the pay of a private, and are clothed and educated at the charge of the State. These children mu►t be two years old, born in wedlock, and belong to a st,blier's wife attached to the corps. as washerweman, su•tier (virandiere), &c ; they are under the immediate care of an officer, wits trust see they are taught to read, write, and cipher, to swim, and practised in gymnastic exercises. They follow the regiment from one station to nother, but tint on foreign service ; they are in that ease sent to the military depot of the regiment to finish their education, military as well as moral ; at 16 years of age they may be admitted into the regiment as volunteers ; they arc then placed on the muster roll and receive full pay, and are considered effective, and their place is then filled up by other children of the same class. A RADICAL KING.—It is stated in a Paris Paper, that the poems of the King of BAVARIA have been intellicted in Austria, as having e republican and seditious tendency. A French physician has discovered that scro fula may be cured by a preparation of gold, which same disease another of the same faculty, with wonderful simpli city, denominates a species of yellow fever. Such, indeed, are all diseases that gold will cure. POWER" OF ARREST.—It is a fact of con siderable importance to the traders of Dublin, and one which, we believe, is not generally known to them, that the late bill of Mr. PEEL, putting a stop to arrest on ine%ne process under 201. can be avoided in Dublin by proceed ings in the City Court. The jurisdiction of the LORD MAYOR and RECORDER is not affected by Mr. PEEL'S Bill, and they can hold to bail parties indebted to others from the smallest to the largest amount by the process of attachment against the goods.— Dublin Morning Register. Notwithstanding the vigilance of the pre ventive service along the coast, a considerable business is carried on inthe smuggling line. Dui ing the last two or three weeks, spirits and tobacco have been hawked in Beverley almost as openly as Irish linen, and last week, as Mr. MILLER, one of the officers of excise, was 'going his round, he observed two person s, at the sign of the Plough, who appeared not to savour his presence : their ominous looks induced him to kick a bag which lay on the floor near them, at the same time asking if they bad bagged a fox ? The rebound with which the contents answered his foot, convinced him that it was a bag of " Moonshine," which he immediately seized : but the men in the uproar of the moment, effected their escape. The bag contained several bladders of brandy, and a pewter measure.—Bos ton Gazelle. - - - • DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—On Monday last, the Old Diligence, newly-revived, called the Conspiracy, broke down in the neighbourhood of Cork, by which fatal accident the coachman, named EVIDENCE, was literally smashed to pieces, and left dead on the spot. D—rv, an outside passenger, is among the sufferers who have been most grievously injured: Several individuals who had taken places, merely on trial, had a miraculous escape. The cause of this accident was the conduct of one O'CON NELL, who, in the act of too closely examining the pro ceedings-of the coachman, crossed the vehicle in the height of its speed, and the whole concern upset.—Dublin Morning Register. SINGULAR ESCAPE.—Some days ago a horse, while grazing on the face of a bill near Dollar, slipt his foot, and rolled down a distance of forty feet. Some peoph who happened to witness the circumstance, were astonished to observe, that no sooner hail the horse reached the bottom of the hill than he suddenly disap peared. On proceeding to the spot they discovered that lie had fallen into an old coal pit, which notwithstanding that it was twenty-five fathoms deep, it would appear had nut been covered up. Although they had no hope that the poor animal could he taken out alive, they itnme dirtely got ropes, with which, and the assistance of about a dozen of men, he was, after considerable difficulty, dragged up, and placed on his feet, when the party were not more astonished than agreably surprised to find that lie had escaped from his perilous adventure, without re ceiving the slightest injury..— Caledonian Mercetry. LONDON. WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 4, 1829. Despatches were brought to the Colonial office this morning by Mr. MARCIIESY, a King's Messenger, from Sir FREDERICK ADAM, Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Isles. Mr. MARCHESY was also the bearer of despatches from Mr. DAWKINS, the British Charge de A ffaires at Greece ; and from Sir PULTENEY MALCOLM to the Admiralty. Despatches were like%sise received from the Earl of BELMORE, Governor-General of Jamaica. Despatches were also brought by Mr. MAR CHESY to the Foreign-office, from the lonian Isles ; and from the Right Hon. R. GORDON, ?RICKS OF STOCKS THIS„DAT AT ONIK O'CLOCK. II .nk stock 3 per Cent. Red. 3 per Cent. Cons. 91 1 / 04 New Ditto ..... . .................. 3Ni per Cent Ititto Red 9874 IN Ditto ltd. 74 75 pm 3 per Cent. 1726 ~. Ditto WO •Ld. '74 75 pm. 4 per Cent. Ann '0.3%14 , Ditto l:d '74 75 pm. 'Mk., 1526 Ditto Scrip Ditto lid. '74 75 pm. Rank 1.. Ann. l9 13-16 Bank for Account ....... ... India Stock — India for Account ......... Ditto Bonds —631. m. ,Cons. for Account ......... 91!;', PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds Brazilian Bonds 6, Peruvian Bonds ............... 14 Buenos Ayres Bonds — Portuguese Bonds ............ Chilian Bonds „, 21% Prussian, Old .................. Colombian Bonds ..... - Ditto, New ...................... Ditto, 1824 I9N Russian ....... 104 Danish Greek Bonds 2O 1323..'......•••••_f Ditto, 1825 90.3.i French Rentes sp. c. —c. Guatimala — Exchange ...... —f. —c. Mexican Bonds — 3 per cent....... —1 —e. Ditto, 1925 — Exchange ....« —f. —c. PRICES OF SHADES THIS DAY AY ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. Brazilian Imp. Min. Co. (iss. at W. pm.) £2O Ditto National lO 14% PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, BuRLIH, OCT SI. Bank Stock Consols, 3 per cent. Gov. Stock, 3% per cent 9.9N Ditto, New $ per Cent lO2 Gov. I)eb. 3 1 ' per cent 9S% Royal Canal Stocs — Grand Canal Stock — City Deb. 4 per cent — Ballast Office Deb. 4 p. c 99% Royal Irigh Ditto — National Ditto Patriotic Ditto Hibernian Bank Provincial Ditto Royal Irish Mine Imperial Mine • Mining Co. of Ireland Commercial Buildings COURSE OF s,xcir, Amsterdam C.F 12 7 Ditto, at sight 12 4: Rotterdam 2 U 12 Antwerp 12 71 flambu-g M.B. 13 151 Altnna I'l 15: Paris, 3 days' sight '25 80 Dit to 2 U. 26 5 Bordeaux 2i 5 Berliu Frank forton Maine, Ex. 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The chief topic of public conversation in London since yesterday morning has been the extraordinary arrest of a gentleman named , DERDON, by order of a Physician, at the desire of his brothers, upon a presumption of insanity. The report of the affair appeared in our Paper of yesterday, but to elucidate our remarks the more clearly, we shall give an abstract of it here:— Mr. FRANCIS ANDERDON is a gentleman of for tune, residing at I\o. 2, York-street, York-road, Lambeth, and is the brother of Messrs. ANDER DON, pm triers in the firm of ANDERDON and BOSAN QUET, the bankers, of Lombard-street, in whose hands he lodged some portion of his property, and they had been in the habit of taking his cheques, and otherwise acting as hii bankers for the last eight or nine years. On Friday last, however, Mr. F. ANDERDON having sent a cheque to the house in question, the firm refused to cash it, and, it seems, assigned no reason for the refusal on that occasion. Upon Mr. ANDERDON being apprised of the cirtfum stance, he immediately determined on withdrawing the balance of his account (ruin the banker, amounting to ,040/., and for this purpose drew out a cheque for that sum, which he presented himself on Saturday last; the application met with the same fate as on the pre ceding day, the clerks refusing to give cash for the cheque. Under these circumstances, Mr. ANDER DON immediately proceeded to his legal adviser, Mr. TRUWIIITT, of Cook's-court, Lincoln's Inn, to whom he gave instructions to commence law pro ceedings against the firm, for the recovery of the balance of his account then in their hands. Mr. TRUWEIITT, however, wrote to the firm, giving them previous intimation of his client's intention, and stating that if the cheque for 1,040/. was not paid by eleven o'clock on Monday, proceedings would be instituted to compel them. In reply to this communication, it appears, no answer has been re ceiVed. Things remained in this situation . tua Sunday evening, between the hours of seven . and eight o'clock. While Mr. FRANCIS ANDERDON was sitting at home, two men entered his parlour; and having stated that they belonged to a Lunatic Asylum, said that they were sent there for the pur pose of confining him to the house, adding, that if restraint were found necessary, they were pre pared with the necessary apparatus to enforce their orders. Mr. ANDERDON having expressed the utmost avonishment at what he bad - juAt heard, immediately inquired of the men by what autho rity they presumed to enter his house for such a pur pose. Upon which one of them drew out a paper, and handing it to Mr. ANDERDON, said, " . That is our authority for confining you to your house—don't alarm yourself, for we are not going to take you from hence." Mr. ANDERDON lead the contents of the paper, which was to this effect : " 13 ) the directions of Messrs. A. and J. Anderdon, I authorise the bearers to take charge of Mr. F. Anderdon, he being insane, and to confine him to his house, No. 2, 'York-street, York-road. (Signed) "G. M. BURROUGHS, M.D. " No. 17, Montague-street, Russell-square." This is a statement of the case. Mr. ANDER DON, however, had sense enough to send the " keepers" to the watch-house, and next day appeared at the police-office, accompanied by a host of neighbours of the first respectability, who bore ample testimony to his sanity. Mr. ANDERDON himself admitted that he was eccentric in his trimmers ;—wore a straw hat, and shoes different, perhaps, from other people, but that was his whim, and was he for that to be set down as a madman ? " Ile had also purchased pictures, considering himself a pretty fair judge of paintings ; and if he had on one or two occasions laid out his money to a disadvantage on a speculation of this description, it would be hard indeed if on that account he were to be deemed cracked in the (rain ; for if that were the case, many individuals n London, who considered themselves connois- seurs in the art, and had been unfortunate like himself in the purchase of some paintings, must of course be classed, as he was, in the list of maniacs." All this appeared to be the head and front of Mr. ANDERDON'S offending. Now let us see how stands the case with the Medical Gentleman who decided upon his insanity by proxy. Dr. BURROUGHS admitted before the Magistrate that he granted the order for confining Mr. ANDERDON at the instance of his brothers, without having first seen the " un fortunate" gentleman, as he was in duty bound. He sent the keepers to take care of him " until he, the Doctor, called to ascertain the true state of the case." N o w here il i a confession which, if correct, is a fearful example of what Medical Gentlemen may do—and where is the responsibility attaching to this dread power in their hands ? Is any man safe under such circumstances ? May not Dr. BURRouGHs issue an order to his myrmidons to put us under safe keeping to-morrow for writing this article to-day, should any willing take it into his head to suppose that we are a fit subject for the exercise of a sanatary cordon? Dr. Bußßoucus may have been misled—in fact he admits it ; but what are we to say to the state of the law which delegates such irresponsible power to any set of men, however respectable—and Dr. BURROUGHS be longs to a class of the very first respectability ? We do not write so much against the Doctor, as against the possible abuse of the power entrusted into medical hands. A medical gentleman may be very complacent, as in truth the faculty all are, but it is carrying compla cency rather too far to grant licences of in sanity upon the disinterested representations of friends or well-wishers. It is even worse to send keepers, without a previous examination ; for supposing theta, like other ardent professors, to have an interest in propagating their peculiar belief, the keepers might make the unfortunate object of their care a confirmed maniac by the time the Doctor pays his first visit to ascertain the true state of the case. The state of the l►►w in this free country with respect to insanity is as deplorable as the disease. And if the power be really as great as it would seem to be from the practice in this case, no man is safe. Every man of eccentric habits is at the mercy of his more prudent neighbour or friend. Why all the gene ration of Quakers might be visited with strait waistcoats because they wear broad brimmed hats—or the new police might take it into their wisdom to take up every man who did not wear a regulation coat in conformity to their own. The bare contemplation of the thing is not more monstrous than alarming. In the calendar of crime there is a gradation from petty larceny to the grand climacteric of murder—but in the vocabulary of insanity, or mental hallucination, there is no medium. A man who may be only a little touched is liberally allowed full credit for having ar rived at the last stage of insanity—and the reasons for such are frequently more cogent in proportion to his means. Money is the standard in England for all things. It is otherwise in Scotland. When a man dies there, the first pious ejaculation is for the salvation of his soul, but in money-making England, the first inquiry is " How much was he worth ?"—and in exact proportion to the amount is his charac ter estimated. So in insanity. If he be a per son of harmless propensities, and worth nothing, such as a poetical lunatic, he may rhyme along the road to ruin to his favourite measure, but if he happen to be Worth anything respectable, then indeed, he is too warm to be left alone,—his friends with due consideration will take care of him till he has found leisure to come to himself. In making these ha Ay observations, we do not mean to throw any aspersions upon the motives of any of the parties in the pre sent case. We only express our alarm at the power in the hands of medical men, and that it ought to be regulated so as to afford some security to personal liberty. The following are extracts from GermAl Papers of the 28th October VIENNA, OCT. 22. The following are the contents o f the decree of the Fourth National Congress of Greece, dated 13th August, respecting the Civil List of the President, and the answer of the latter :—Considering that his Excellency the President, as well before as since his arrival in Greece, has devoted to the service of the country the remains of his property, amounting to above a million of Turkish piastres; considering farther that his Excellency, in consequence of the deficiency of the public resources, has not accepted the 12,000 tallaris (Spanish dollars) which the Pan hellenion offered him for his annual disbursements ; sensible of the necessity of furnishing his Excel lency with the indispensable means to maintain the dignity of his station, and to defray the charges of his household, the Fourth National Congress de crees : " Art. I. There shall be assigned to his Excel lency the President, J. A. Capo d'lstria, for his an nual expeticee, the sum of 180,000 phoenixes in the national coin (30,000 Spanish piastres) from the public treasury. " Art. 2. The present decree shall be inserted in the codes of the decree., a..,1 after being confirmed transmitted to the Government, to be printed and carried into effect. " Argos, Aug. 13, 1829. (Signed) " fhe President of the Assembly, " SISSINI. " The Vice-President, C. MAURONIATTI." (Here follow the remaining signatures.) ANSWER OF THE PRESIDENT. " ARGOS Y AUG. 16. " The decree, No. 9, of 13th August, which the Congress has transmitted to me, fixes the in come of the head of the State. " In the same decree the Congress has regard to the little which we have been able to do personally, in order to prove that the Greeks should raise them selves by sacrifices, and not by personal advantages, to the rank which the national independence and liberty promise them, " We esteem ourselves happy that we were al lowed to deposit the remainder of our small pro perty for so sacred a cause on the altar of the country. " We are very far from not hoping that the na tion will one day be able to make it good to us, hut till that time shall come we shall carefully avoid burdening its finances, by requiring the repayment of the sums advanced by us. " We shall also decline to accept now the sums assigned for the disbursements of the Chief of the State ; and so long as our pri►•ate property shall suffice, we shall abstain from touching the public money for our wants. " If the entire failure of our resources should com pel us to it, we shall have recourse to the public treasury, but burden it with those expences only which the exercise of our functions renders neces sary. We have hitherto practised the strictest eco nomy, and shall continue to do so, for we could not prevail on ourselves to procure even - those cemfo. ts of life which suppo.e a state of prosperity, while we stand amidst ruin, and zare. surrounded with whole classes of population languishing in the pro foundest misery. " You, Gentlemen, participate in these senti ments, and have just given a proof of it by serving the nation in the character of its Representatives without any remuneration. " We flatter ourselves with the hope, that those among you, who in the provisional administration take a share in the Government, as well as other citi zens who may be called to such functions, will per ceive with us that the public officers under present circumstances, cannot nceive salaries comnr,easurate with their rank or their servicts, but that such salaries must be strictly regulated according to the pecuniary means which the Government can command. " The Pree'dent of Greece, (Signed) "J. A. CAPO D'ISTRIA." VIENNA, OCT. 18. The new loan, at four per cent., was yesterday cmitracted for by our Government, with the houses of Rothschild, Geymuller, Arns•ein, E'ke!es, and Sins. The amount is said to he 25 millions of florins. The primitive price is stated to be 86 per cent., with the advanta , re of the coupon attached to the obligation ; so Sat the contractors do rot pay more than 81 1-3 per cent. Notwithstanding this, and though 88 were immediately offered on 'Charge, the ho:ders would not part with any. It roust be acknowledged that circumstances are extremely favourable to them, as the rising of the four per cent. bonds of Bethtnan, as well as the interest of the holders of Bank Shares, &c., must be favour able to the new paper currency ; for the higher that is, the more will other stork be likely to rise. FRANKFORT, OCT. 27.---Exchange on London, 150 ff. We have this morning received the Jamaica Papers to the Bth of September, from which we give the following extracts : (From the Jamaica Courant of Sept. 3. ) We understand it to be the intention of the Lords of the Admiralty to join the North American and West India naval stations under the command of a Rear-Admiral—Bermuda to be head-quarters; but as the dock-yard there will not be ready until next year, it is reported that Admiral Fleming has •had the option of remaining twelve months longer, but has declined. The command of this station was offered to two distinguished Admirals, both of whom declined ; the principal objection made by these officers was, the ruinous state of the Admiral's Pen, which induced the Lord High Admiral to direct that the present Naval Commander-in-Chief should not make a permanent residence in any particular island, so that the benefit which Jamaica has hither to exclusively derived by the residence of an Ad miral will now be shared by the other islands. (From the Jamaica Courant of Sept. 2.) CURACOA, AUG. 29 The Barham will be ready for sea about the middle of' next month. The Mersey came in from Antigun and Martinique two days ago; she is going to Trinidad with the Grasshopper. The Rayner goes to Maracaibo, fur documents, requested by the Kingston merchants, and will proceed with them to Jamaica. The Icarus takes this; she has been over to St. Thomas's to inquire after the pirate that plun dered the Admiral Beam in February last. It is reported that the vessel which committed that out rage returned to Guadeloupe two months ago, with a cargo of slaves, and from that went to St. Bar tholomew's, the receptacle for ill such ruffians. When the literacy was at Martinique, the new Go vernor, Admiral Freipenerte, arrived there, and , aas very well received. After the high mass at church, he is reported to have thanked the people for his flattering recepti3n, and told them that he seas sent there to bring them back to the obedience of the laws, and reminded them that although they were colonists, they were still French citizens, and must obey the laws of that country in the same man ner as if they resided in one of the departments. He is reported to have ordered the Procureur de Roy to confiscate all the slaves not registered, which will amount - to about five thousand. If the penalties are exacted, they will amount to an im mense sum of money. The Governor of Guade loupe is likewise recalled. If the French will put down the Slave Trade in earnest, the Spaniards and Portuguese will soon give it up, and the commerce of the world will be free from molestations, to which it is now subject from the demoralized marauders engaged in that infamous traffic. (From the Jamaica Courant of Aug. 4.) MONTEGO BAY, AUG. 1. On Wednesday,about two o'clock, this town neighbourhood was visited by a sudden squall, ac companied by rain, from the north-east, which broke down several maringo fences adjacent to this office. The vessels in the harbour sustained some injury. The brigantine Ranger broke adrift, and the Mary Ann was damaged. Almost every vessel started from her moorings. (From the Jamaica Adrertiser of Aug. 3.) We understand the Law Officers of the Crown have given opinions that some of the Islands, not having complied with the terms of their Charters, have lost their right to them; but having been given by the King in Council, the difficulty will now be as to the mode of Parliamentary interference. The following is from our Paris Correspon- dent : " PARIS, OCT. 31. " Your respectable correspondent Modera tor' seems to me to have hit the happy medium in forming his opinion of the Treaty of Adria nople, which is equally opposed, on the one hand, to that view of the subject which sees nothing in the conduct of Russia but rapacity and ambition ; and, on the other, to the praises applied ad nauseam to the Emperor's generosity and moderation. The one extreme is, doubtless, as far distant as the , other from that statesmanlike and rational system of policy which has latterly characterized all the measures of Russia. But it does not follow, that because the present views of this Power are moderate and reasonable, that all the world should sit down with their hands across, and witness the immet's'.! and rapid strides which Russia. is making to pre-eminence and power, without some attempt at preparation for\ the possible con' tingency of another Catherine arising, with equal ambition and the power of aggrandizemen t immeasurably increased, to lay Europe Pls' trate before the Russian eagles, and for a season to disturb the peace, if not to destroy the fiber' ties, of the world. What is to be done with Turkey, is the question which perpetually arises whenever our ( views are directed to the present posture 0 afnirs in the East. It is admitted on all hands that this barbarous Monarchy can no longer maintain the semblance of that power which it has hitherto been supposed to exhibit. Every day discloses some new source of weakness, or sonic circumstance to prove the utter impossibi' lity that the wreck of the Turkish empire s hould hold any longer together. Like a sheer bulk on the water, every succeeding wave will serve to separate her parting timbers ; and the present is evidently the proper moment to provide for the future consequences of an event which is t 0 affect sit many interests, before the wreckers are at work, and the spoil is irremediably appr"" printed. • " Mehemet Ali, the wily Paella of EgyPt, is said to have resolved to secure his independe nce by a surer and safer course than a n a ppeal le' arms. Availing himself of the financial diffirni . ties of the Porte, he has 'offered the immediate advance of twenty millions of dollars, as th e price of his separation from the Turkish empire' With all his cruelty and barbarism, it is ad' mined that Mehemet has noes enough to se e that the habits of his countrymen, and the insti' tutions under which he lives, are totally blow' patible with the advanced state of civilizatio n throughout the rest of Europe ; and it is h e ' lieved that he has even had the dexterity to r e vide for the payment of so large a sum to th e Sultan, by the arrangement of a loan which je about to be negociated on some of the great Er changes of Europe ; a member of the Diva"' who is also an intimate friend of Ibrahim, hsr ing engaged to make the proposal to the Sultan; and to insure his acceptance of it. It is eve e hinted that Egypt will speedily indemnify its elf ~ for so liberal an advance, by the employment 01 the troops which have thus been spared from II struggle for mere independence in taking po, session of some of the fertile provinces of De r ' bary, hien touch the Egyptian boundary. " Since the date of my last letter two othe r manifestoes have appeared, both dated from Sl' Petersburg!' on the 15th instant, the one re" clueing the levy, ordained by the decree of th e 22d of August, from three men to two on eve r / five hundred of the population ; and the othe r directing that two-thirds only of the recruits' which had been levied for completing the crew s of the Imperial Navy, should be placed at th e disposal of the General Staff of the Marini but that the other third of the recruits shou t " be incorporated with the land forces of the 0; pire. The peace with Turkey is assigned, an no doubt truly, as the cause of these alteration s ' but it is not to be denied that two men on ever/ 500 of a population like that of Russia, is rathe r a formidable addition to a peace establishment. The policy of Russia seems still to be Ji; rested with unceasing care in conciliating th e affections of the inhabitants of the provinces °i. Wallachia and Moldavia. Their sufferings dur ; ing the late campaign must no doubt have h e ", considerable, after making every allowance I° the rigid discipline maintained by the invadi n g army. Their roads must have been cut up and ruined by the movements of the troops, and t lle cattle of the country, although punctually Po for at the ordinary prices of former years, es iv not now perhaps be restored with the sums re : ceived fur them. For such reasons it is °I L nounced that a loan is to be negociated for s ae Principality ; that of Wallachia being 1,000,U s and that of Moldavia 800,000 ducats; both lob being effected under the guarantee of " An alliance offensive and defensive is sr k fq of in the last letters from St. Petersburgh t about to be formed between Russia and Fn . which seems to be founded on certain stately e° o f which have lately appeared in the , Journel e m a Poland, announcing that the Emperor r agreed to remit 12,000,000 of rubles of th e a id indemnity, which had been stipulated to he P th i s by Persia in terms of the last treaty. i f on .. statement be true, it seems to afford a fresh by firmation of the view which has been taken ° ' • your correspondent Moderator' and myself, i" the general system of policy which is now po sued b) the Government'of RUssia.' ar io• " It is mentioned in private letters from Piti/.,ed of the Bth inst., that Admiral de Rigny had arr i 6 there on the 2d, and, after holding a confe r e t y bo with General Schneider, had departed again on „iv 4th for Egina and Smyrna. It was believed ajtl varin that the French troops, which had beef Greece, would be sent in the spring to Algie rs The attack on which had been finally decided on• in troops at Navarin expected to form the vanguari."obi, this attack, from their having been , so long " t he tuated to an eastern climate. The day af t er departure of Admiral de Rigny, the Tria el i lol Fiend' ship of the line, with Admiral "de RP: c y on board, had anchored in the roadstead of Ps,ce. rin; and on the 6th, the brig Le Loiret, fool go o n dos, and a sloop of war from Malta, ha d made their appearance. " Every day produces some frtsh rumour t:ft.: change in the French Ministry; Tut such rcre:ay have already been so often falsified, that 1 ant ashamed to repeat them, although convineed,lf"ool abstract, that a change before long will be unavoidable. St. Charles's Day, th e 4th o f to , 0 1 vember, which is celebrated as the Fere';oo lB Charles the Tenth, and is usually marked by measure calculated to promote a general feelifl o d for pularity, is now pointed to as the probable p erg hi d e the expected change. Some say that the ch ide will be radical and total ; other's that the, r • the de Polignac will receive a fresh order I:i f ine e reeonstructure of the Cabinet, in which the A • fa h himself will alone remain; while it is stAt e ,"P e o third party that it is only Messrs. Bourmo" t vet♦ Bourdonnaye, and Montbel, who are to r e _ . ,017 40 i being the most violent and unmanageable. °''