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CAPITULATION OP ATHENS. V ILNNA , MAY 29.—The Austrian Observer gives accounts from Constantinople, which contain the capitulation of Athens. The citadel was evacuated on the sth of June; 2,000 persons *of all ages and both sexes, half of whom were ill, or exhausted by hunger, left the place, and were embarked on board the French and Austrian ships of war. General Church, with his few remaining troops, left the Phalerus on the 28th of May, and in such a hurry, that six large cannons were left behind. CAPITULATION OF THE CITADEL OF ATHENS. Art. 1. All the troops of the garrison march out with their arms and baggage. 2. All the Athenian families withdraw without arms, but with baggage, and may repair to their dwelling and villages, where the Pacha engages to restore their property to them, and to guarantee that as well as their lives. The Pacha further engages to give means of subsistence to the women and children who have lost their husbands and parents, and to assign them a village for their residence. 3. All Mussulmen, of whatever age or sex, who are in the citadel, are to be given up to the Pacha. 4. The tract of land which separates the city from Cape Colias, shall be evacuated by all the Turkish troops, except the Philopappos, which re mains unoccupied. 5. The French officers, and three officers of the Pacha, and the three Albanian chiefs, who are re quired by the Greeks as hostages, shall accompany the column to the place of embarkation, and remain there till all the troops are on board. 6. The Pacha furnishes 60 horses for the re moval of the sick and wounded. The citadel shall 'be given up in its present state, with all the artil lery, arms, ammunition, and provisions. 8. The Pacha having learned that mines may be laid, will send three confidential persons, who shall be received into the citadel as soon as the capitulation is accepted. As these three persons may be considered as hostages in the hands of the Greeks, the latter shall give three distinguished persons in return, who shall be sent back as soon as the citadel is evacuated. 10. If the INcha's officers sent to the citadel, find any damage done, after the acceptance of the capi tulation, to the walls or the towers, by means of miners, the capitulation shall be void. 11. As soon as the capitulation shall be accepted, the hour shall be agreed upon at which the execu tion of it shall commence. We, the undersigned Commanders of the Acro polis, have accepted this capitulation in the above form and tenor. GERASIMO PHOKAS. N. KRUSIOLI. N. ZACHAZITZAS. S. KATZIKGANIS. MICROS LEKAS. D. EUMORPHOPULO. • S. VIACOPULO. G. MAMURI. FABVIER. STEAM PACKETS. "WILLIAM ALDHA: I AND FIFTY OTHERS (SUING AS THE PROPRIETORS OF A STEAM PACKET CALLED THE LEE), PLAINTIFFS, AND ABRAHAM MEREDITH AND RARA- CHIAS GLASCOTT, DEFENDANTS. This cause came on to be tried in the Court of Common Pleas, before the Right lion. the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE of the said Court, on Saturday last the 7th inst., when it was stated by Mr. S. Wilde, as Counsel for the 51 plaintiffs, that the action was brought to recover the sum of 4831. 7s. 9d. as due from the defendants (two respectable gentlemen of the City of Bristol, who had acted as agents to and for the plaintiffs), being a claimed balance of money received by them for the use of the plaintiffs, (a Company formed at Liverpool, and owners of a Steam-vessel called the Lee, trading between Bristol, Liverpool, and Cork), to which the defendants had given a set off for monies due to them as Agents, for certain persons forming a Company called the St. George Steam Packet Company, at Liverpool aforesaid, by which Company three other steam-packets, called the Severn, Emerald Isle, and St. George, as well as the said packet called the Lee, were placed under the care and management, at the city of Bristol, aforesaid ; during which agency very considerable sums of money were due and ow ing to the defendants on the account of the said steam-packets, called the Severn, Emerald Isle, and M. George, and of which they (including the money claimed by the plaintiffs for the Lee,) had (in the month of February last) transmitted to the said Company, called the St. George Steam Packet Com pany, a general account, ascertaining a balance to the said defendants on all the before mentioned packets. The plaintiffs rested their case on the proof of the SUMS stated to be due to them as proprietors of the Lee only, contending that the other steam-packets were not part of their concern placed under the de fendants' agency ; but, on examining witnesses, and inspecting various letters and documents written and sent by the plaintiffs' agent at Liverpool and one of the plaintiffs to the defendants, the Learned Judge left it to the Jury to say whether the evidence given by the defendants, and the inspection of such letters and documents, did not lead them to conclude that, the defendants were general agents for all the said steam-packets, and not the steam-packet called the Lee exclusively; of which opinion the Jury were, and immediately returned a verdict for the de- fen dan ts. Counsel for the plaintiffs—Mr. Sergeant WILDE and NIL HOLT. Counsel for defendants —Mr. Sergeant TADDY .and Mr. Sergeant LUDLOW. At Orgon, in France, a toad and two mussels have lately been taken out of the bottom of a deep well sunk in the rock, and re-opened after having been filled up for 150 years. One of the mussels and the toad are still preserved alive in some of the water in which they were found. It will be recollected that some days ago a melancholy occurrence took place at Stoke by Nayland, in Suffolk, six individuals having been poisoned in consequence of eating a pudding in which a quantity of arsenic was mixed up by mis take. Soon after partaking of the pudding, Mr. Simpson, the husband of the lady who unfortu nately mixed up the arsenic with the flour in mistake, died in great agony, as also did the ser vant girl who lived with them. The other four persons, one of whom was their grandchild, sur vived the effects of the poison, but have been left in a very debilitated state ever since. On Monday, 2d inst.. an inquest sat on the bodies of Mr. Simpson and the girl alluded to at the village above named, before Mr. John Wayman, and a respectable Jury. The following are the circumstances attending the unfortunate catas trophe :—lt appeared that about a fortnight ago, Mr. Simpson borrowed o f a neighbour about an ounce of arsenic, for the purpose of destroying rats, with which his premises abounded. Having used a small portion of it, the remainder was placed in the pantry, without, however, the precaution of either labelling or tying it up, so as to distinguish it from coarse flour, for which it was subsequently mistaken. . The arsenic was lying on a piece of paper near a jar of flour, and on the morning in question, Airs. Simpson, desirous of giving her family a treat,) went to the pantry, and having used all the flour in the jar in the preparation of a pudding, not having a sufficient quantity to make it into the proper consistence, she unluckily took up the paper containing the poison, and conceivin g it to be a little flour which sh e had left out in making starch, mixed it up in the pudding. Im mediately after the family had dined they were all taken ill ; the deceased persons having eaten more freely of it than the rest, expired in two hours. A verdict of " Accidental Death" was returned. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRENCH PAPERS. (From the Gazette de France, dated Sunday, July 8.) " CONSTANTINOPLE, JUNE 11.—Before the Porte made known in writing its formal refusal to admit the intervention of Foreign Powers in the affairs of Greece, the Russian Ambasador had had his audi pee in the palace of the Porte, and received on that occasion presents of horses and pelisses more splen and valuable than are usually given on such occasions. grom another Letter of the 11th. ) " There would be reasons to infer, from the late measures taken by M. de Ribeaupierre, that that Minister will make a long stay here; but many per sons doubt of this, on account of the written refusal of the Porte to listen to the proposals in favour of the Greeks, and they are rather inclined to believe that the crisis is at hand. ".The declaration made by the Porte on the 9th June is in substance as follows :- 6 The Porte must reject the proposals--Ist. Because they are contrary to the doctrine of the absolute obedience which subjects owe to their legitimate Sovereigns; 2d. Because the right of the Sovereign to regulate his affairs himself cannot suffer any diminution, and because the chief as well as the people of the Mus sulmans have never permitted such an intervention; 3d. Because these proposals are contrary to the de clarations made on his return from Verona by Lord Strangford, the late English Ambassador, who affirmed that he would never interfere in this affair ; 4th. Because they are equally contrary to the con vention of Akermann.—Augsburgh Gazette. " PARIS, JULY 7.—The last letters from Rome iay that the Pope has had a relapse. - - - - " The following is in the Veradique, dated Mar- Seines, June 28 M. Ricard Jarrat sailed this morning with the Pacifique, Captain Hermitte, car rying his artillery with him. " Sutton, the nephew of Lord Cochrane, who ar rived here on board the Unicorn schooner, brings a despatch for M. Eynard, and states, that up to the tth of this month the Greek fleet was in excellent condition, consisting of the fine frigate the Hellas, '4 , ith a crew of 500 men, commanded by Miaulis, ps Captain under Lord Cochrane, of the Saviour rig, of the steam-boat, of two corvettes, or three tnasted vessels, formerly merchantmen belonging to ponduriotti, and of 12 Greek brigs, belonging to the same 'chief. " However, their prizes are limited to a Turkish chip laden with gunpowder; for two Egyptian fri 'gates, to which they gave chase, escaped by favour of the night. They have been received by the com manders of the French and English squadrons, and even by the Captain of an Austrian frigate, with de ?nonstrations of joy and friendship, which show that they were already, informed of the present determi nation of their respective Governments. In fact, letters from Alexandria say, that Admiral Rigny has persuaded the Pacha to defer for three months the f departure of the new, squadron intended for the Mo rea. The Pacha is also resolved to have a fleet in the Black Sea, and has bespoke four more frigates in Sweden, and six at Venice. The cost of build ing at Marseilles is too high for him, and the build ing of the frigate on the stocks here is discontinued. IThe bomb-vessels necessary for Algiers are fitting out at Toulon." (From the Journal des Debats of Saturday.) LISBON, JUNE 20.—We are assured that under the new Ministry, business will be transacted with more despatch, and it is already said that Sir W. lA'Court, who was blamed for the indifferent ma iagement of affairs of the late Administration, has fen ti rely changed his proceedings. 'lt is supposed, that divers decrees of the Empe ror of Brazils will be published as soon as M. de ! Palmella arrives, the preceding Administration hav ing opposed such a course. The Princess Regent remains at Bemfica, and ap- I m ears to be in good health at present; shehas display al much firmness of character in the late change of the Ministry. The Spanish Refugees are suffered to remain un molested these several days past, however four of them were arrested yesterday, having been accused of an intention to organise a Guerilla for the inva sion of Spain. Three ships belonging to the English squadron stationed in the Tagus are to sail immediately on a cruize before Brest, for the purpose of receiving the Infant Don Miguel, who is to embark for the Brazils. As the Marquis de Monteyro has declined tile office of Minister of Finance, the Minister of the Navy has been charged ad interim, with the conduct of that department. The arrival of the Marquis de Pahnella had been expected; the Secretary at War has therefore ac cepted the Foreign Office, which the declining Mi nister of Finance was to have undertaken. PARIS, JULY 6.—His Royal Highness Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg, accompanied by Lord Granville, at twelve o'clock,paid a visit to his Ma jesty, which lasted for an• hour. His Royal High ness afterwards visited the Dauphin and Dauphiness. (From the tonstitutionnel.) PARIS, JULY 6.—On the day before yesterday (the 4th of July), the citizens of the United States residing at Paris, to the number of 80, ,met at the Cadran Bleu, M r. Barnet, their Consul at Paris,and Mr. Lyon, the Consul at Lyots, acting as Chair man and Croupier, to celebrate the 91st Anniver sary of American independence. On Monday, at six o'clock in the evening, a ter ribls? hurricane burst over Arcis sur Aube. Part of the leads of the Church and the roofs of more than twenty Muses were carried away by the wind. Almost an eiztire row of poplars, near the mills, were either striplw.i of their branches, or broken. A woman in the fields was thrown forward several paces, and broke her -arin in the fall. Several pieces of the lead from the roof of the Church, o f extraordinary size and weight, were colind at consi derable distances. During the continumie. of the tempest, there was very little either of lightning rir of thunder; but the wind was terrible, and the rain fell in torrents. It was-a species of waterspout, (From the Quotidienne.) PARIS, JULY 6.—The persons appointed by the President of la Loire Inferieure, to the office of Censors over the Journals of the Department, at Nantes, are the Viscount Walsh, author of the Vendean Letters, Mr. Bouteiller, and Mr. de Con.- . tenem. On Monday the populace of Limerick evinced a disposition to oppose any potatoes leaving the market, except for home consumption, and the streets continued in a tumult the greater pait of the day. In Tipperary and its neighbourhood there exists a great scarcity of provisions amongst the labouring classes, and the Magistrates per mitted some car-loads of potatoes to proceed in that direction, under an escort of Police, fol lowed for a short distance by a detachment of the Scots Greys.—Tipperary Free Press. THE WAKEFIELDS.—(FROM A CORRES PONDENT.) -It is, we believe, a circumstance not generally known, that the Wakefield family are allied by marriage to his Royal Highness the Lord High Admiral. Mr. William Wakefield, brother to Mr. E. G. Wakefield, and who is at present confined in Lancaster Castle, having , b e en married at Paris a short time after his brother had carried off Miss Turner, to Miss Louisa Sydney, daughter of Sir John Sydney, Bart., of Penshurst Park, in Sussex, whose son and heir, Capt. Philip Sydney, of the Life Guards married one of the Miss Fitzclarences previous to M r . William Wakefield being united to Miss Sydney, consequently Mrs. William Wakefield is sister-in-law to Mrs. Sydney, and niece by marriage to his Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence, ' CAW ,: „Alit t ‘ 26ll 4, *14114 , LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 10, 1827. The Paris Papers of Saturday, and the Ga zette de France, dated Sunday morning, reached us last night. They contain the reasons said to have been assigned by the Porte, for refusing the intervention of Foreign Powers in behalf of Greece, namely.-Ist. Because they are con trary to the doctrine of the absolute obedience which subjects owe to their legitimate Sovereigns. 2d. Because the right of the Sovereign to re gulate his affairs himself cannot suffer any dimi nution, and because the Chief, as well as the people of the Mussulmans, have never permitted such an intervention. 3d. Because these pro posals are contrary to the declarations made on his return from Verona by Lord STRAWGFORD, the late English Ambassador, who affirmed that lie would never interfere in this affair. 4th. Be cause they are equally contrary to the Conven tion of Akermann. These papers also contain the Proclamation of the Greek National Assembly at Trezene, on the close of the Session, which we gave yes terday from the German Papers. It is said also, that before breaking up, the Assembly resolved to exclude the Clergy from all political employ ment, to authorize Count CAPO D ' IsTRIA to contract a loan of five millions, and to give to General CHURCH the command of all the fortresses. Extracts of these Papers are in another column, and we subjoin the price of the Funds in Paris on Saturday. FRENCH FUNDS, JULY 7.—Five per Cents. 103 f. ; Three per Cents. 73f. ; Bank Stack, 2,015 f. ; Neapolitan, 78f. 10c. ; Spanish Loan, 1823, 611. ---Exchange on London, one month, Paper, 25f. 35c. ; Money, 25f. 30c. ; Three Months, 25f. 20c. ; Money, 25f. 20c. We received last evening Hamburg!' Papers to the 7th inst., which were brought by the William Jollife Steam-vessel. According to the accounts from Copenhagen to the 3d instant, the Russian fleet for the Mediterranean was daily petted there on its way to the Mediterranean. The terms on which the Citadel of Athens capitulated are given from the Austrian Observer, and will he found in another column. We subjoin a few extracts : " Coexxnarcrr, JULY S.—On Saturday the Russian frigate sailed for Amsterdam with Prince Wolchonski, an d Princess Gallitzin, his sister. On the same day another Russian frigate anchored in thv . outer road, where a transpo r t arrived . some days ago belonging to the great fleet that is expected. On Sunday it sailed to the North Sea. The English steam-boat George IV. arrived on SundaY from St. Petersburgh, took some passengers on board for London, and sailed again on Sunday. " F/CANKFORT, JULY I.—A very severe ordinance against poachers has been issued in Schwartburgh Son dershausen. The penalty for killing a stag is 500 dollars ; for a wild boar, 500 ; for a buck, 100 ; for a swan, '75 ; a hare, 50 ; a bustard, 50 ; a partridge, 30, 2cc. If the poaching is at a forbidden time, the penalty is doubled." EiCHANGIS ON LONDON. HAMBUROH, JULY 6.-36 7 ; two months, 36 4. LEIPSIC, JULY 2.—Two months, 6 15g. BERLIN, JULY 3.—Three months, 6 261. Mexican Papers to the 10th, and from Vera Cruz to the 13th May, were received yesterday- Their contents are not important. The letters received by the same opportunity are also very barren of political intelligence. The execution of the sentence pronounced against the Priest, ARENAS, has been postponed, in consequence of irregularities having been discovered in the pro ceedings of the Court by which he was tried. The proposition for withholding public employ ments from Spaniards, until the Court of Madrid should recognize the Republic of Mexico, was debated in the Senate on the 24th and 25th of April, b u t the question had not been disposed of. The disvvssion of a new tariff and Custom' house regulations hada-lief:ly occupied the Cham ber of Deputies. The project of a law for pro hibiting the founding of benefices, majorats, a nd certain other ecclesiastical and civil institutions, had been introduced ; and also one for prevent ing convents, congregations, and fraternities, from receiving • testamentary bequests. In the preamble in which the grounds on which this measure is proposed are stated, the ruinous effects which Spain has experienced from suc h establishments is forcibly described. We have received this forenoon Frankfort Papers of the 3d instant, and the Austrian Observer of the 28th ult., which furnish the Articles : following swiTzERLANDyiuNx 27. M. Herzog, Minister Plenipotentiary of Wurtemburg, is expected at Zurich in the course of the month of July, in order to discuss together with the Minister Plenipoten tiary of Bavaria, and the Commissioners of the Diet, the modifications which it is requisite to make in the Treaty between the kingdom of Wurtemburg and the Swiss Con federation, in consequence of the Convention which has been recently concluded between Bavaria and Wurtemburg. BERLIN, JUNE 28. The last Number of the " Bulletin of the Laws," pub lishes an ordinance containing the regulations for the pro vincial estates of the Duchy of Silesia, the County of Gist; and the Margravi*te of Upper Lusatia. The Estates will consist of— _ _ 1. —ln the class of Princes and Nobles, 10 votes. 2.—ln the Equestrian order, 116 votes. 3.—Class of the Deputies of the cities and towns, 30 Deputies ; and for the cornmwaes of the county, 16 Deputies. For the purpose of fixing the right to be elected in the equestrian order, a register of all the Nobles' estates shall be drawn up in each circle. In the cities landed property gives a qualification. This property must be worth in large towns 10,000 crowns, in those of the second class 4,000 crowns, and in the smaller 2,000, with the excep tion of those in Upper Lusatia, for which there will be other regulations. In communes a person, in order to be eligible, must have a real estate, which in Silesia and Gists pays a land-tax of twelve, and six crowns, and in Upper Lusatia consists of a certain number of acres. Each deputy will receive three crowns a day for attending the assembly, and one crown ten groschen per (German) mile for travelling expences. VIENNA, JUNE 27. The changeable and rainy weather continues, and in some days we have the most oppressive heat and very disagreeable cold in rapid succession. The Jour nals of Croatia, Carinthia, Carniola, Styria, and Tyrol, continue to be filled with the most melancholy ac counts of the ravages caused by the heavy rains, and the inundations are more extensive than ever were known. Not only all the places on the banks of the rivers, but even those at the distance of one or two leagues, are under water, and the inhabitants were obliged to take refuge in the up per story. The communications are almost wholly inter rupted. The heavy rains have so softened the ground, that in the vicinity of the mountains, vineyards, and the houses on them, have sunk in and been destroyed. The Mednitchak has again formed itself a new channel through the gardens and fields, and the fragments of rock and stones which it has brought with it, has destroyed all well founded hopes of an ample harvest. We look with apprehension for far ther accounts. Whoever has paid the slightest regard to the characteristic peculiarities of the new Opposi tion, must be aware that the virtue which they most prize, is Consistency. The presumed want of this cardinal quality, is the theme of their sorest complaints against the Administration. The presumed possession of it by themselves, is the sorest temptation to their own vanity. Their strains, both oral and written,—their prose and their verse,—their comic and their tragic tirades,—all are eloquent in the praises of consistency. Whenever their country-gentle men stumble on a classical quotation, it is always the " Justum et tenacetn propositi virutn." And were it possible to suppose that some of the weightier heads of the party should undergo the fate of that of ORPHMJS, consist ency would still be their parting cry. Consist ency, consistency, would tremble on the forky tongue, till it ceased to articulate. The doctrine of the fraternity on this head, is, of course,—and by virtue of its very subject, — beautifully reflected in their practice. Accord ingly, it may be observed, that the Marquess of LONDONDERRY, proverbially eager for Catholic Emancipation, and indignant at the coldness and neutrality of the Cabinet in regard to that sa cred cause, has thrown himself into the tolerant arms of the Earl of ELDON. The Earl of EL DON, again—the sworn advocate of things as they ate, the Sage " who doats, yet doubts, suspects, yet strongly loves," whenever old abuses are even mentioned,—the political anti quarian, who, like the patriot in the prologue to " Cato," is ever shedding tears " for dying laws," —his; under' the inveterate and overwhelmin g influence of these feelings, formed a political al liance with Earl GREY. Earl GREY, the con stant and uncompromising advocate of popular rights, the very devotee, from his earliest years, of liberty, peace, and rcforyn, could not, in his eager pursuit of these cherished objects, resist the temptation of standing forth as the champion of the privileged order, and the bro ther-in-arms of the Duke of WELLINGTON. The Duke of WELLINGTON, pledged, like all the other members of the LIVERPOOL Govern ment, to all the leading principles and provisions of the Corn Bill, and called, under the circum stances in which he was placed, by every consi deration that can come home to a high and sin cere nature, to fulfil that pledge liberally and generously—has selected, as his chief counsellor and coadjutor in this excellent work, the Earl of LAUDERDALE. Once more, the Earl of LAU DERDALE, conspicuous, through a long life, for his zeal for all sorts of freedom, except freedom in corn-dealing, has been so fortunate as to secure a complete co operation in respect both to the rule and the ex ception, by closely coalescing with Earl BA- Tituß sT and the Earl of WESTMORELAND. These are surely very beautiful varieties of that rare product of nature, a consistent States man. Nor can it be thought surprising that the soil which they adorn, should also have been fertile of humbler specimens of the same dis tinctive excellence. In plain terms, the consis tency of these mighty men is admirably emulated by their followers. Witness our friend Bull, of last Sunday. In the same breath he describes the junction of the Opposition with Mr. CANNING as the utter late ,i) rostr ation" of the former to the latter ; the absolut e d egra d at i on o f t h e Whi gs i n t o , 4 the suitors and subalterns of the most enrage Tory in existence,—and yet announces, most autho ritatively, that, " even now Mr. CANNING must . c 4 either descend (from his Premiership) or go about his business ;"—that "the High Whigs , 4 will not act under him,"—and that " we (that is, Bull and Co.) shall see how far " Mr. c , CANNING will carry his condescension and pliability. " So, also, he ominously warns the SOVEREIGN against the creation of fresh Peers favourable to the Catholic Claims—speaks of Mr. CANNING as the "most able, vehement, and ardent ad. vocate" of those Claims,—nay, talks dis tinctly as if the declared sense of the Adminis tration, and even of the KING, as manifested b y the choice of that Administration, were in favour of the measure ; and, before his pen is dry, proceeds t o tell us that it was the very ~ condition " of the alliance with the • A • Whigs, " that the Catholic Question should " be postponed SINE "DIE," • and emphatically speaks ‘i of the prostration of the Premier to the Archbishop, and of the prostration of " BROUGHAM tothe Premier UPON THIS VERY " QUESTION, AS THE TERMS OF OFFICE !" In the same spirit, again, our friend informs us that the proceedings of a certain True Blue Club, who will not toast the Administration, be cause it is " decidedly a Whig Administration,'' are strongly indicative of the real feelings of the country, that is, of the country as opposed to London, where there is an affectation of sup porting the Ministry kept up ;" and yet face tiously describes Mr. BROUGHAM as having Un 'Rigged himself to receive the cap and bells fitted for him by some undiscerning admirer in the Edinburgh Review. By the way, this very pleasant jeu-de-rnot of our friend (whose propensities in the punning line are well known to be ungovernable) on the word unzuhigging, would seem rather to be framed by a Londoner than a Countryman. Certainly, it almost rivals the old cockney conundrum on Mr. Fox's having the honour of associating with the KING when Prince of WALES. " Why is Mr. Fox always seen with " the Hair Apparent 7' " Because he is a Whig ! ! !" Such, however, is the grave, the austere, the dignified consistency of our double dew-lapped friend. And such, we may add, is the consis. tency of the Ultra Tories in general. Whenever Mr. CANNING is to be vilified, he is held up to view as a manifest Whig. Whenever Mr. BROUGHAM is to be attacked, he is proclaimed as a palpable Tory. And the burden of both songs is always CONSISTENCY ! ! ! Reports are in circulation that the Bank of England have it in contemplation to sell a por tion of, or all the Annuity of 585,0001. per annum, which they hold for 44 years, from April 1823, and that the Resolution lately come to for discounting at 41. per cent. was principally passed with a view of upholding the money market to enable them to effect this operation. The Bank, in July next, will complete the payments to the Government for this Annuity, which will then have cost them 13,089,4191., and if they can sell it piecemeal to the public at the price which it ought to bear with reference to the present price of Long Annuities, it will produce to the Bank the sum of 14,040,0001., exclusive of the ad vantage which they have derived from the pay ment to them by the Government of this An nuity of 585,0001. from April 1823, although the payments by the Bank in instalment, for it are not complete till July, 1828. If the sale of this Annuity be really contem plated by the Dank, it 13 not surprising that great efforts should be made by that Corporation to raise the price of public securities, which they have so many means of influencing ; and the An nuity once disposed of to the public, we may, perhaps, see the same means put into operation to lower the value of Government Securities, in order that a better bargain with the public may be made by the Bank next year, when the Mi nister will have to dispose of a further portion of the Half-pay Annuity, or abandon that most unwise and unfortunate scheme of raising an annual loan. The Morning Post will certainly be the death of some one—it is so very droll. Nor is its fun confined to leading articles, for its readers, catching the infection, reflect back some of its humour in the shape of letters. Space alone prevents our giving a bright specimen of epis tolary satire, which occupies a considerable por tion of to-day's Post, and which is addressed " To the Right Rom GEORGE CANNING, &c. Sic." It will not be deemed presumptuous in us to surmise who is the Correspondent of our Con temporary, just as all the world take the liberty of guessing who wrote JUNIUS'S Letters, and in the absence of positive proof, we are oblig ed to make the most of internal evidence. Now, with even a superficial perusal, we have come to the conclusion that it was written by Lord GREY. Having in early life derived great edification and delight from the study of his Lordship's eloquence, as reported in the Parliamentary Debates, we have for some time prided ourselves on being able to detect him anywhere, whether he writes in John Bull or in Cobbett's Register. But whatever trouble it may cost us at times, in this case, we feel none, and are quite clear that this able letter could have been written by no other man in the country. The deep irony, the polished die , tion, and high tone which distinguish it, cannot attach to more than one man in a century ; a nd in these points who will venture on a competition with the Earl GREY ? But, though we cannot give the whole letter, we must gratify the excited curiosity of our readers by giving a sketch of it. It commences (with but moderate pretensions to o riginality) in a grave charge against Mr. CANNING for having broken faith in saying that there was to be no creation of a batch of Peers; when soon after out comes the elevation of one individual to that rank ; but quitting this style, he soon comes from " grave to gay," and tells Mr. CANNING that " his proverbial candour," (written humour ously in Italics to show that the author does not think Mr. CANNING candid) "puts any more creations of Peers out of th e question, ,, and then proposes the following OUTLINE OF A NEW ORDEE OF KNIGHTHOOD, TO BE CALI.XD " The Most VERITABLE ORDER of the RED HALTER." GRAND MASTE R. —Rt. Worshipful HENF.Y BROUGHAM. ASSISTANTS TO DITTO. --The Right Hon. Lord HOL LAND, and Sir ROBERT WILSON. DIPITTY GRAND MA STElL—Right Hon. GiORGE CAN NIN G. ASSISTANTS TO DITTO.—Sir FRANCIS BURDETT, Bart., and Right Hon. Sir GEORGE WARRENDER, Bart. DEAN OF THE ORDER.---Rey. ROBERT TAYLOR. GENTLEMAN USHER OF THE RED ROD, AND HALTER KING AT ARms.—Right Hon. GEORGE TIERNEY. GINEALO6I3T—JXREMY BENTUAki, Esq. REGISTRAL—WILLIAM COBBETT, Esq. KrucHTs Comeamows.—The Assistants to the Grand Master and Deputy Grand Muter (ex officio); and any other Noblemen and Gentlemen the Grand Master may he graciously pleased to appoint ; the number to be limited to One Hundred. N.8.--John Ketch, Esq., is appointed Executioner of Recreant Knights ; but it is not yet settled whether he is to be a Knight, in virtue of his office, or whether he is to rank among the Officers of the Order, who are to wear the mantle, collar, and halter of the Order, but not the Star ; but to distinguish the Halter King at Arms. from the other Officers, he is to carry a red wand, and to wear, under his mantle, a coat of three or four different colours, turned inside out. But as we said before, space prevents our copying the whole of this matchless article, though our readers may take our word for it, that the happy strain of irony is maintained throughout. Now is it possible that Mr. CANNING, or any other Minister can stand such at tacks. Don't his enemies charge him with want of faith ; and will any one doubt their word ? In our Court Circular of yesterday a brief ac count was given of the fresh attack with which the Earl of LIVERPOOL has been seized. We have collected in another column all the par ticulars of this afflicting circumstance which have appeared in the columns of our cotemporaries ; and we regret to add that the answers to our enquiries fully confirm the severity of the seizure. The private letters received to day from Con stantinople communicate some additional particu lars to those given in the Frankfort papers re specting the declaration delivered by the Reis Effendi to the Ministers of the Allied Powers, in answer to the requisitions for the pacification of Greece. The tone assumed in it is depreca ting, though firm, but has nothing of an assu ming or insolent character, and is said to prove the Ministers of the Divan to be, on the whole, great adepts in the arts of diplomacy. The de claration begins by stating, that the requisitions made are not within the power of the Sultan to comply with, since he has been placed by Heaven on the throne of that empire, and that he is for bidden by its fundamental laws to yield up or to alter. the constitution of any portion of it; that the Greeks, as a nation, on whose behalf the interference of the Allied Sovereigns has been resorted to, no where exist ; that multitudes of Greeks reside in different parts of the Turkish dominions, who practise, without molestation, the religion they profess, who are in all respects good subjects, and who acknowledge the swag of the Government to be a mild and paternal one ; that the people of the Morea, who p a ss under the name of Greeks, and whom the Turkish arms are now engaged in putting down, are the mixed refuse of various nations, incapable of government and good order, or of combining for any object beyond that of plunder ; and, in effect, no better than a band of robbers. After touching on various other . topics, for the most part con' ceived in a similar spirit, the declaration con' eludes with an appeal to the decisions of the Congress of Verona, in which a victual guarantee was given for the integrity of the existing state of Europe, and an express declaration that the Powers would not interfere in the affairs of Greece. It seems evident enough, from the general spirit of this State document, that though the demands of the allied Potentates maybe evaded by similar subtleties, they will not be met by any effectual resistance, and that the Turks, as they usually do, will yield with a goof grace when they perceive that there is no altertAs tive.—Times. THE FUNDS-(THIS DAY). CITY, Twelve o' Consols have shown a fidgety appearance alt the moo' ing, and considerable difficulty seems to be felt by the speculators which way they are to turn their attention" either for a rise or fall. The first price of Consols wse 871 for account, and 861 for money, they subsequentlf receded to 871 after some trifling fluctuations, at which rate they continue ; the Commissioners paid 871 for Br duced. It is understood their purchases every transfer dal will be about 5,0001. stock less than last quarter, ariliof from fewer holidays taking place; the amount will be the same. The Exchequer Market has this morning been the subject of a considerable fall, (103. per cent.) said to arise i° consequence of some heavy sales made by Government ; the! were quoted early in the morning at 62 3 pm., but hail been 52 3, and are now a little recovered, being 53 5 pi* India Bonds have also fallen from 93 to 90. Few transse' tions have taken place in the Foreign Funds, Mexica o Bonds are a shade lower than in the morning, being 69 I; Colombian, NI 1+; Greek are rather lower to-day, beioi 161 171. The business in the other securities has bet°, only to a trifling extent, and no alteration has ocearre since yesterday. We have nothing fresh to report 14 Shares, either as to business or prices. Three per Cent. Consols, 85i 6 ; Ditto for Account/ 871 ; India Bonds, 90 pm.; Exchequer Bills, 53 5 pill' FOREIGN. -- Brazilian, 694 Buen os ßuen os Ayres, 62 3; Chilian, 27 9 ; Colombian, 1824, 30 i 1 4 ; Danish, 63 i; 6Grpeeekr,cel6l,l679;4ll4lripcaenruysian, 21 6 ; P ortuguese , c Ditto 76 Russian, 94 4 ; Spanish, 10i- 11. miNis.—Anglo Mexican, 45 dis.; Brazilian, part 1 pm. ; Colombian, 9 11 per Share ; Real del Monte, 6 0 60 dis. ; United Mexican, 19 18 d i c • - Two o' Clock Consols have been nearly stationary at 871 i since l~ o'clock, having been for a moment only 871 buyers, thel are now at the former quotation, with little doing. The Foreign Funds remain without alteration. HALF-PAST TWO. Consols, 871, buyers. FOUR O'CLOCK--CLOSING PRICES. Consols 85i i I Danish Bonds 63 Do. for Ac. 81 Greek Do. 1825, 17 Brazilian Bonds Mexican Do. 1825 69 Buenos Ayres Do. 621 Peruvian Do. 251 Chilian Do. Russian Do. 94 Columbian, 1824 , , 30i Spanish Do. 11 Box-MOT.--A barber, who was in the habit of stunning his customers' ears by the rapiditl of his tongue, asked an individual, one day, hop he wished his beard to be cut. " Without saying a single word," replied he. PA R A sur E.—One of our modern parasites being reproached for dining so constantly at the tables of other people—" What would you hair!, me do ?'' replied he, " I am so pressed , True," returned the o ther, " there is nothi4 so pressing as hunger." PRICES OF IRISH Bank Stock Consols, 3 per cent. 84% Gov. Stock, 2 3% per cent.9li ni Ditto, New .9 % 4 per Cent. 100% % 1 Gov. Deb. 3% per cent. ... 93% Royal Canal Stock - Grand Canal Stock - City Deb. 4 per cent - Ballast Office Deb. 4p. ct - MA Arrived. Due. O America 0 O Brazil 0 0 Buenos Ayres I 1 Dublin 0 Flanders 1 France O Gottenburgh 1 1 Guernsey & Jersey 0 HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning ...53 minutes after 3. I Evening... 9minutes after 4. STOCKS, JULY 7. St. Patrick Incur. (per sh.) Royal Irish Ditto National Ditto lO Patriotic Ditto 3% Hibernian Bank 1654 Provincial Ditto Royal Irish Mine Imperial Mine Mining Co. of Ireland Commercial Buildings Arrived. Due. I ' Hamburgh 0 O Holland 0 O Jamaica 0 0. " Leeward Islands O Lisbon 0 0 - Malta 0 O Mexico 0 1 Waterford 0 Do ton Nn Ma suc 1101 CU SOT of his