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L?t London the satr.? evening without
th ir cargoes.
The New-York Gazette of the 25th
u!t. mentions the receipt of London pa
pers to the 15ih August, and states as
follows :—u It Will be seen among the
extracts which we have given, that the
British have no wish to go to war with
this country—and that the general ex
pression oi die public prints indicate an
ardent disposition to preserve the har
mony of the two governments. All ap
prehension oi an embargo on American
vessels had subsided—and the British
.i vernment waited with anxious solici
tude the arrival of the dispatches sent
out in the United States schooner Re
venge, w hen the merits of the misun
derstanding would be discussed.”
The Turkish-naval action.—The Tur
kish fleet sailed from the Dardanelles,
and gave battle to the Russians off the
I do oi Tenedos. Both fleets were of e
'i tal strength.— Idle action lasted near
in seven hours, and was severely con
tested ; and although two Turkish ships
were blown out of the line, vet the Cap
in i’acha, Sail> Ah , proved victoriou ,
a ul trier Russians were obliged to retreat
• Imbra. No ship was either taken or
• .'-troved on either side ; but both fleets
\ ere roughly handled, and los* many;
Men. The Captain Pacha has returned |
'o the Dardanelles, and expects some I
reinforcements to renew his attack.
I he following is a summary of the
roost important events which have
..ran spired on the continent in the coins'*
of the spring and summer.—The cam
" tig i between the Russian , Prussians,
*-.ul French, was opened on the 5th of
June. Several engagements took place,
ip the 14th, between diff rent detach
ments oi the armies, which generally
“» rminated in favour of the Frrnch.—
On the 14th of June a general battle was
fought at Frndland, in which th • Rus
sian:. anti Prussians were entirely d —
feated* An Armistice was asked lor by
‘.he Russians, and ar^eid to. Negotia
tions were commented, and a treaty of
penc concluded between France, Rus- '
i i and Prussia, which was ratifi d on !
tiu* Oth of July at Tihit. B-, th: . trea
ty the king of Prussia is curtailed of a
oi tder.xble portion of bis dominions.
\ part of Poland is erected into adut
y, to be railed th dutchv > VV'»asaw,
nrl is to be govern- d by die king of
saxony, one of Bonaparte's kings of the
confederation of the Rhine. Westpha
lia and some adjoining provinces are e
rected into a kingdom, of which Jerome
Bonaparte is to be king. Dantzick is
again declared a free cl tv, and restored
to her independence, under the protec
tion of the kings of Prussia and Saxony.
Russia cedes to the king of Holland, the
the lordship of Jever; but she is permit
ted to extend her territory into Poland !
for an equivalent. She is to mediate a
peace between France and England, if
England accepts her mediation in one
month ; and France is to dictate a peace
for Russia to the Turks.
The king ot Sweden is left to sustain
the contest alone. Stralsund is besieg
ed by the French, which appears to be
the only hostile operation at present
carried on.
Tiie English have sent a large squa
dron of ships, with a considerable land
force, into the Baltic. Their destina
tion and object are not known ; but some
suppose they mean to sicze the Danish
shipping before Copenhagen.
Vir.NNa, June 21.
Our court lias received a Courier from
Constantinople,with dispatches, announ
cing a revolution to have taken place in
that capital—but nothing has yet been
published in the Gizette.—The follow
ing are the contents of two private let
ters :
f'iie emperor S-lim is no more—the
discontents occasioned among the peo
by the scarcity of provisions, and among
the Janisaries by the European exercise
and discipline, furnished the enemies of
the government with an occasion to ex
cite an insurrection, which cost the un
happy Sultan his throne and life. On the
21th M »y, the Mufti, at. the head of the
malcontents, repaired with three hun
ired Janissaries to the Seraglio, and
read to him to a list of his pretended
offences, recited passages lrom the Ko
ran, hicli declared him, on account of
-nose offences, unworthy of the throne,
and ordered him to sign a renunciati
on ol »t. Selim, seeing no means of
resistance, signed the deed of renun
ciation, and begged his life. The Mufti
promised to intercede for him. Mis
person was then secured, and fourteen
of his principal ministers were put to
‘h ath.—Couriers were sent to the camp
and the Dardanelles, to arrest and
strangle the Clrand Vizier and the Cap
tain Pacha. On the 25th May, a pro
clamation, was published in Constant!
nople, to announce to the people that
the Sultan had been dethroned, and to
make known his offences, and the pas
sages ol the Koran which condemned
those offences; The people were invit
ed to remain tranquil, and mind their
affairs. On the 20th, Mustapha, the
son of Achmet, was proclaimed Grand
Seignior. On the 27th he sent an or
der to Selim to take poison. Selim o
bcyed, and died in a short time. Dut
ring the whole of this revolution, but
few disorders were committed. The
mass ol the people took no part at all ;
so that we attribute this catastrophe to
some chiefs of parties yet unknown to
the Janissaries. All foreigners have
been ordered to be respected. We are
assured that the Grand Vizier made no
resistance to the order sent him, and
was strangled. Of the captain Pacha
we know nothing.
The Grand Vizier had gained some
successes before he died : he passed the
Danube at Ismail, and forced general
Michelson to retire from Wallachia, to
Foksany and Rimpick. The new ad
ministration is entirely composed of per
sons devoted to the Janissaries ; we
know not the disposition it will show
towards foreign powers. Yet some
think the revolution will have no in'lu
nce upon our foreign politicks, because
the insurgents strongly censure the. ad
herents of the Russian system.
London, August 11.
Mr. Sansom had an interview yes
terday with Mr. Canning, on the sub
ject of the misunderstanding with Ame
rica. The minister informed him, that
he had sent to the American envoys, to
know whether they had received any
further information, adding, that if they
had, our government was ready to enter
into an amicable adjustment of all dif
ferences. The reply was, that they hatl
received no instructions.
August 13.
The king, we arc sorry to state, is to
tally blind.
i he occupation of Zealand appears
to be a prize for which France and En
gland arc contending. In possession of
that island we have the key of the Bal
tic, so long as it remains unfrozen, in
our uncontroulable possession, and not
a vessel can stir out or in, without per*
i mission.