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_ reorganise' his army: tho desertion of several
Albanians haring made an unfavourable impression on
and especially on the Asti.t,es, who arc but little

I From the QuefiJic,lne.l
ROME, SEPT. 22.

(IMITATE COSEESPONDZYCE.)
I 11A11011 to inform you, that the band of Gasterone, composed of
28 banditti. which inftsted the road to Naples, and the adjacent
country, bar capitulated with the military authorities of the police,
and that the robbers hare demanded only the fallowing condi-
tions

1. I'o he accornpan:cd, and not carried u prkoncra before the
tribunals.

2. To be allowed to fulfil the formalities prescribed, to obtain
the indulgeneel of the holy year.
_ _

3. To hope, or rather to here recourse to the clemency of the
Sovereign, to a hosejustice, however, they entirely submit them-
selves.

In fart, they have all entered the fort of St. Angelo in the train
of their Chief. This is certainly nn important event, and particu-
larly interesting to travellers.

His Holiness hes just been attacked by new indisposition,
bit these is nothing snious in it; he complains of a weakness in
his legs.

Farxcn FONDI.—PANts, OCTOBER 4.—Fire Tact Cents.
92f. 53e., ; Three per Cents. 711. 41/c. ; Bank Stock, 21401.
Rome de Naples, Certat. Falconnet. tiGI. 39e. ; liento d'Ls-
pagne. 151. ; !loyal Spaniel Loan, Wt.—Exchange on London
—o.te month, 251. ISc. ; three months, 211. 93c.—Cossreduthert-
t

Last night we received the Brussels and Amsterdam Pa-
pers of Wednesday. An extract from the Austrian Observer,
which we have given in another co!uinn, draws; as might
be expected from that Paper—the relentletis, inveterate foe
of Greek independence—the most disheartening and despe-
rate picture of the condition of the Patriots of the Mores.
This is .ecompanicd by some ambiguous and mysterious
hints respecting the proceedings of Commodore Muir-
TON, as if he bad been intriguing with the Greek leaders
to induce them to solicit the protectorship of Great Britain.
A very recent act of his MA3ESTV.B Government is a con-
clusive answer to these libels upon the sincerity of English
neutrality. We wish every other Court in Europe could
with the same truth disclaim any sinister bias in favour of
either of the belligerents.
The Session of the States General, it is announced, will
be opened at the Hague on the 11th of this month. The
following are further ex:racts
fIatyISELII, OCT• 4.

Baron de Barbier, intrusted by Austria with a mission to out
Government relative to pecuniary arrangements between the two
Governments, to adjust the claims arising from the ancient con.
nexions between Belgium and the Court of Vienna, is said to
be on the paint of terminating his long residence at Brussels.
and of returning to Gernisny.
The Chamber of Commerce at Amsterdam has published a
communimtion from the Minister of the Marine and the Colonies,
dated Sept. 22, announcing that the Vice-Admiral Governor of
Curacoa has informed, by letter, that on the 22d June, he had
detained, in the port of Puerto Cabello, a brig, which had been
called by the natnei of Rome Libre, and the Liberator, under the
command of Jose del Cotarro, accused of having committed acts of
piracy upon several vessels of different nations ; among which are
two belonging to the Nethetlrria, the one the Aimsble Pauline,
of Antwerp, bound to the Rio de la Plata, from which the
pirate took several cases of wine, and 21 cases of silk,
all which be landed at La Gusyra and at Puerto Cabello,
and another Belgian brig (name unknown), bound from
Batavia to Amsterdnm, from which he took, off the Cape Verd
Islands, 20 bales of coffee, 20 serons of sugar, a bale of pepper, and
other articles. M. Van Ruclere, Commercial Agent of the Nether.
lands, addressed a note on the subject to the Magistrates at Puerto
Cabello; bf report of the Governor, dated 12th July, ft appears
that the remonstrance has been received by the Maritime Court an
Puerto Cabello. The persons interested are, therefore, invited to
state their claim before that Court.

A USTI Da 31, OCT. 4. —Ezebano on London, nr. 10e.; two
months, NE 7c.
We would willingly hope that, in the interval between
this at the meeting of Parliament, the workmen in the
different trades have returned to the regular pursuit of
their true interests, and will have come round to the con-
viction that no weekly pittance that can be doled out to
them by the Union into which they have keen persuaded
to enter, can compensate for the entire loss of that inde-
pendence which is to be found in their own honest earn-
ings. The wiser among them, we have no doubt, will, ere
lung, disclaim the treacherous influence by which they
have been betrayed. There is always a lingering attach-
ment to the principles of justice and fair dealing in the
hearts of the common people of this country, which, if
they are left to themselves, will bring them back to the
right path when they have once discovered that they are
widely straying away from it. They arc at present misled
—we are adverting, of course, to the working classes—by a
few designing men, who, under the mask of a zeal for the
improvement of their condition, are daily stimulating them
into new follies, and goading them to excesses, of whie.
they throw the reproach upon them, while they take the
profit to themselves. No doctrine can be more untrue or
more pernicious than that which represents the prqfst of Me
capitalist as the idle man's share of the industrious man's
earnings. Yet this is the doctrine which is now indus-
triously propagated throughout all the manufacturing dis-
tricts of the kingdom, for the purpose of alienating the
labouring classes from their employers, and exciting them
to carry the system of combination to the full extent of all
its prepostetous consequences. The union system may
invest them with a shadowy power, but it will strip them
of all substantial energy. We would support the work-
men in all their claims so long as the:, are confined to their
legitimate and acknowledged rights. The instant they begin to
invert the order of things, there we leave them.We cannot sup-
port them in struggling against the institutions of nature,
because, in so doing, either they are mischievously misled,
or they sin against their better knowledge, and in both cases
society is only safe by arming itself against their preten-
sions. To auppore that the operatives in the different
trades can, by forming a union, however extensive, among
themselves, procure permanently the means of subsisting
with case and comfort in a state of disunion from their em-
ployers, could never, one should think, have entered the
mind of any man relieved from a strait-waistcoat. And
yet this is the supposition which the present system of sc-
paration acts upon ; but to what result will it lead ? To
a state of remediless confusion, afflictive alike to the work-
man and the master. Let the workman better his con-
daion to the utmost of his means, but do not let him fancy li
that, under any combination, he can level the natural in-
equalities of human condition. It is sheer infatuation. In
vain will be endeavour to produce fruit from any other
stock than that on which Cod has appointed it to grow ;
but by cultivating that stock the fruit will be produced,
and abundant enough, for the most part, fully to reward
the industry employed upon it. An attempt is at present
making to reverse all the received notions of property which
have hitherto prevailed in the world. At our first leisure
we shall draw out the new doctrines in their true form,
and display, in detail, the consequences to which they lead.

CITY, TIIUHSDAY EVENING.
We have again to record an uninteresting day on the
Stock Exchanges. The business in Consols was limited,
and the price rather drooped. They opened at 88 87j,
but they did not lung remain at that price, fur at twelve

o'clock
closed.

Exchequer Bills were at la. discount to 2s. premium.
Although money was generally scarce, and the business
trifling in the Foreign Market, still some of the Securities
in it were a shade better. Greek Scrip, for instance, was
at 2t 231 discount; and indeed there was an-evident
reason for this improvement, for there are letters in town
from Greece, of the 3d of September, which detail a
series of successes on the part of the Patriots, and assert
that Ibrahim Pacha was at Meton, wilt his army in a
very sickly state (it was said by some persons that the
plague had made its appearance in it), and suffering se-
verely for want of-provisions.
Old Spanish Bends were ICI 17 ; Colombian Bonds
741 75; and Mexican Scrip 101 I discount. The other
Stocks were at yesterday's quotations; and in Shares the
transactiontwere quite unimportant. Indeed much busi-
ness cannot be looked for in au) of the Money Markets
until after the payment of the October dividends, and the
settlement of the long Consuls Account, which will also
be iminedhitely succeeded by the• settling day in the
Foreign Stocks.
The Mincing-lane Market had more cheerfulness in it
than yesterday, but there was no improvement in prices.
Her Serene highness the Duchess Dowager of Saxe Co-
burg and her family arrived at Brussels,on the 2d inst.
Whin the King of Prussia, accompanied by the Royal
family of the Netherlands, went to visit the field of Wa-
terloo, his Majesty desired to be shown the spot where the
Prince of Orange received his wound, and took this occa-
sion to confer on his Royal Highness the command of one
of the finest regiments in the Prussian army, which will
henceforth beat his name.
The Courier gt Me Meuse announces that the establish-
ments of the brethren of the Christian schools have been
suppressed in the province of Namur; it has not yea learnt
any thing respecting the establishments under the direc-
tion of the brethren in Liege.
'l'he papers of the Vicar of the church of St. Nicholas,
at Ghent, have been put under seal. M. De Muvnek not
having obeyed a summons issued out against him, the
King's Attorney-General and one of the judges went to
his house and sealed up his papers, because he did not ap-
pear in court as called upon.—Brussels Paper, Oct. 4:
A Belgian journal states, that a great part of the pupils
from that country, in the little seminary of St. Nicholas,
which has just been suppressed, and several others of the
College of Alost, whose studies are suspended, have been
sent by their parents to St. Acheul, in I'icardy. It is re-
markable that while young Belgians are sent to St. Acheul,
the Paris journals inform us that many French families
send their children to Switzerland and Germany for educa-
tion.

A letter from Bayonne, dated the 24th of September,
contains the following passage :—" The new system of
medicine requiring the use of many leeches, a great num-
ber are obtained from the Spanish provinces in our vicinity.
A few days ago, an individual, who was looking for these
things, was seized by four Spaniards, and fastened to a tree.
These monsters then applied the leeches he hail caught
to all parts of his body, and left him to die amidst the
most horrible torments. In this state he was found by
some of his companions, from whom we had the informa-
tion, and who, for their own safety, have deetned it neces-
sary to leave Spain."
Extract of a letter from Demerara, dated the 11th of
August, 1823:—" We continue to experience the most
alarming weather, which must, ere long, utterly anni.
hilate this division of the colony ; we have neither water
nor provisions, and the cane plant will noon be extinct
amongst us.''
Letters from Demerara to the 13th August arrived yes-
terday ; they do not allude to any sickness, either in that
colony or in Berbice.
We have received Jamaica Papers to the 14th of Au-
gust. They contaiir no intelligence worth extracting. The
report of a very extensive coinadia.ddoubloons in London,
of a value two dollars inferior to the coinage circulated in
South America, is again repeated- and it is said that they
would be circulated in Colombia, Mexico, and Peru. The
rumour has been taken up seriously by the intendants of
the different departments, otherwise we should conceive
the report unworthy of tiCsiiesz The appearance of the
sugar crop for next season was very favourable:
The remains of Madame Joseph Bonaparte, which have
lain for eleven years in a vault in the clime]] of Ruel,
were transferred on Tuesday to the tomb which has
been raised to her memory by her children, in one of the
lateral chapels. It is of very large dimensions, and made
entirely of white marble.
The Pilute says, that "letters from Vienna, of the
20th September, mention that the Minister for Foreign
Affairs had received from Constantinople despatches from
Bron Ottenfels, relating to an important communication
made to him by the Reis Effendi and to several other
Foreign Ambassadors. The contents had not transpired,
but it was supposed to refer to Greece. The communica.
tion has caused the departure of couriers from Constanti-
nople to most of the Foreign Cabinets."
Advices from Gibraltar. dated the 13th September,
mention that the Sicilian Consul had received an express,
stating that the Emperor of Morocco would immediately
declare war against Sicily, Tuscany, Austria, Prussia, and
the Hans Town., oil account of there being no resident
Consuls in Morocco from these States. The condition of
his Majesty's maritime ft . e throws, however, an air of
ridicule over this wholesale warfare. His navy consisted
only of one schooner.
The letters from Barcelona confirm the reports of great
damage done to the fruit in the southern provinces of
Spain by excessive rains. The destruction of the crisp
reached as far north as Valencia.

The paragraph lately published by several of our con-
temporaries, meutionin the departure of General Mina
and family from Southampton for Jersey, is incorrect. It
was General Milans who embarked.

Considerable numbers of persons have lately emigrated
from Germany ; their destination is the Brazils, and it is
supposed that means are thus taken by his Brazilian Ma-
jesty to recruit his kingdom, every barrier to the execution
of this objection being removed or neglected.
It perhaps may not be generally known to the mercantile
world,that all vessels coming from Alexandria (Egypt)with
cotton, although they may be furnished with clean bills of
health, must perform quarantine at Macro]. The Friend-
ship arrived in the Downs on Wednesday, and, it will be
seen by the. Deal letter, was prevented from proceeding to
Stsngate Creek:

Ex-tract of a letter dated Mexico, July 2 :—" It has been
supposed that this country was more under the influence of
Roman Catholic superstition than the other states of Spa-
nish America, but the letter of Padre Mier, on the subject
of the circular written by his Holiness, and addressed to
the Mexican people, will tend, wherever it is circulated,
to produce a contrary Impression. Dr. Mice's letter has
been read and approved of by all ranks, and has been co-
pied into the Government Gazette. So much, indeed, has
it been sought after, that another edition has been struck
off. As this is the first time that the supremacy of the
Pope has been called in question, we cannot help consider.
lug the reception this paper has met with as a favourable
oinen.”

ESTAALIIIIIMINT or A ROPER? ATVAT.P•RAIIIO.—The
following is an extract of a letter from Michael Reynolds.
Esq., dcted Valparaiso, May 9, 1825:--" A cable and
cordage_ manufactory is on the eve of commencing here.
It will be managed by British animus, brought rut for the
purpose, and there is no doubt, from the well known good
quality of the hemp, that every article in that line can be
made equally as good u in England; and from the low
rates at which hemp can be laid in, cordage can be sold
here fur two-thirds of time English prices. This will
supersede the necessity of your sending out additional sup-
plies in vessels for this quarter. The Government have
granted the the only ground in this place for the purpose
of establishing a rope-walk, with an exclusive privilege,
and any other public security that may be thought neces-.
nary."—LiverFooi Courier.
An American frigate from Fisco, a port neighbouring to
Lima, entered the harbour of Cadiz on the ldth ult. bring-
ing eighty-five officers of the army of General La Serna.
Having touched at Rio de Janeiro, she was obliged to un-
dergo eight days quakantine. The Governor did not ap-
pear inclined to glee the officers a very flattering reception.

THE GREEKS.

The efiarrriew Observer, having mentioned the intrigue of the
Deputies of the several Philhellenic Societies, which have ended
In the application to England, gives a detail of the proceedings of
the English squadron, the substance of which is, that the squadron,
consisting of three frigates, a cot vette and a brig, assembled on the
12th July in the roads of Patin, a frigate and a brig =lied to Mit-
solonglii, and the remainder with Commodsre Hamilton to the
Archipelago; that the latter, on the 19th, wets before Napoli,
where he found another frigate, a corvette, and a brig, aril also the
London Packet merchantman, with a ntw remittance of 5,090 f.

sterling, from London.
Commodore Hamilton himself arrived at Napoli on the 20th,
baring been on the 19th a: Sperzia, and on the same day the Greek
GovrrnmeEt had an extraordinary meeting, in which 31surocordato.
who had lately arrived from Hydra, is said to have presented a
Report., in which he painted the desperate situation of Greece, the
fruitlessness of resistance, the dissolution of all discipline, the want
of money, and the necessity of submitting to some European Power
as the only means of safety left, recommending, it is added, Eng.
land, as the ntost powerful at sea and the most opulent.
On the 21st .111auroccedato, Trikupi Coletti, and Spiliotaki
went on board the Cambrian, to lay before Commodore Hamilton
the desire of the. Greek nation. What reply the Commodore made
we cannot state with certainty on a mere report. After their return
the Deputies, attended by a great crowd, repaired to the hall of the
Government, and ,opened a register, in which those who declared
for England should inscribe their names. The same had been done
on the 20th at Spezzia.

On the 231 July Iluduri brought the news to Hydra, Comlurlatt
assembled the people in the great Convent, and informed them of
the real state of affairs in the Peloponnesus. Ile declared all the
reports hitherto spread of victories stated to have been gained to be
pure fictions to deceive the people; that Cobcotronis force was
dispersed; that the Mainotes were inactive; that Ibrahim, from
his position at Tripolizza, could make excursions at pleasure ; and
that the best they could do was to follow the example of Navtli trnd
Spestia. This proposal caused considerable agitation, and several
persons said—" It was well known that it had long since been
intended to sell them to England."

The Ilyba Gazette, up to the Ist August (N.S.). says not a
word of all these ire:nue:ions.

The Osservatore Veneziano of September 22, contains
the following detailed account of the attempt made by the
Greeks to destroy the Turkish vessels in the harbour of
Alexandria by means of fire-ships:—
"On the 10th of August, at three o'clock in the afternoon, the
advanced post of the pilots gave the signal usual on the arrival cf
ships, that other pilots might go out to bring them into the harbour.
Soon after three brigantines were descried, which, at five o'clock,
hoisted flags_-one a Russian, the second an lonian, and the third,
as it seemed, an Austrian ay. The first, having taken a pilot on
board, entered the harbour half an hour before the others, and, fol-
lowing the direction of the wind, sought an anchorage near several
Turkish vessels, two of which were frigates. The other brigantines
followed at some distance. All these were Greek fire-ships. The
first was recognised, and those 011 boat d perceiving this, set It on•
tire in the middle of the harbour, and to the windward of one hun-
dred European merchantmen' and a French brig. The crew got
into their longboat and fled, leaving the pilot en board the fire-
:ship, which burst into flames, but fortunately did not explode, per.
haps for want of sufficient combustibles ; passing through the fo-
rests of masts, it ran aground. The two others, seeing this, took
to Hight a couple of balls which the French brig fired at the long.
Lat (tithe first reached, but did not injure it. If this attempt had
succeeded, not a ship would have escaped. The town would have
been reduced to ruins, and the sailors and inhabitants been sacri-
ficed. Providence, however, protected both the Egyptians and the
E3lopeens. The Viceroy of Egypt, who was at Alexandria, or-
dered the Vice-Governor (Billal Aga) to put to sea in the evening
of the 10th, in pursuit of the fire-ships. On the 11th, the Gover-
nor and Director of the Marine followed, with several ships, to se-
cond the Vice-Governor in pursuit of the Greeks. During the
whole night of the 11th, a heavy cannonade was heard, the Greek
cruiser having met, off Damietta, a number of sn all Turkish mer-
chantmen, with the convoy of which they were engaged. The
next morning a report was spread that the Vice-Governor,
instead of proceeding towards the side from which the can.
nonade came, had stewed in the opposite direction to the west.
The Viceroy, incensed at this, went on board his corvette, lately
built at Genoa, on the 12th, in the morning, to pursue the Greeks.
He was accompanied by many of his most faithful servants, among
whom was Petrona Bey. Ile left the Government to Base Aga,
to Soliman Aga (Director of the Customs), and to alias Ala, a
brother of the Vice-Governor, making them all subordinate to
Bogbas Jussuff. On the 13th the Capttan Pacha arrived at Alex.
ambla with his4eet ; it consisted of ten frigates, ten corvettes, and I
about twenty brigs and schooners. The absence of the Viceroy,
and the unexpected appearance ot' the Capitao Pacha, alarmed the
people. The Capitan Pacha, ignorant of the absence of the Vice.
roy, sent a written application to hint for perwissioo to enter the
harbour. Three days after his arrival, the Consuls of :he foreign
Powers sent their interpreters to compliment him. On the 14th,
twenty other ships put to sea, and on the 16th two more, to cruise
in the Leighbourlng seas. On the 14th too, the Regency sent an
English cutter (a merchantman) with a letter to the Viceroy, re-
questing him to return. The cutter returned the next day, with.
out having found the Viceroy, but Will sent out again. On the
17th, the Selictar Aga arrived from Cairo. At length, on the
morning of the 29th, the Viceroy returned, having passed through
the Canal and visited Cyprus and Fanea, without having met with
an enemy's ship. He immediately caused due honours to be paid
to the Capitan Paths, who landed for the first time the following
day. With the return or the Viceroy the tranquillity and joy of
the inhabitants was restored. The new expedition is preparing
with activity, but it is not thought it will sail before the end of
September."

At an early hour yesterday morning, the Right lion.
IV. and Mrs. Huskisson left their residence, Somerset-
place, to proceed by Dover, Calais, &c. to Paris, where it
it is expected the Right Hon. Gentleman will remain some
time.

A correspondent informs us that there is no truth in the
statement we copied from a Sunday paper that the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury is indisposed at Dover. We learn,
on the contrary, with great pleasure, that on Wednesday
last his Grace drove from Dover to Margate, joined a pro-
cession through that town on foot, laid the first stone of
Trinity Church, read the service in the presence of twenty
thousand persons, returned to Dover to dinner, and on the
following &Imlay preached at St. Mary's, in Dover, and
administ.red the sacrament to a very large number of com-
municants. We are happy to add that his Grace appears
to be in perfect health.
The Greek atonic'', published at Misso!onghi, states
that a French ship has landed at Modon twenty pieces of
cannon for the use of the Turks, and that a French vearel
is employed by the Cepitan Pacha between Camila and
the Peloponnesus, to convey news of the movements of the
Greek fleet.

Letters from Corfu of the Sd of September state, that
letters from Prevesa of the 26th of August announce that
Missolonghi had received a reinforcement of 6,000 men by
sea, and that 14 Greek ships were in the roads ; that a
Greek squadron had attacked the Island of Candia with
success, and carried a fortress. The letters from the Mo-
rea speak of numerous successes having been gained by the
Greeks over Ibrahim Paths, whose father-in-law had been
made prisoner, and sent to Napoli, where he died.
The following spirited proceeding is related in the Malta
Gazette of the 10th of August :—We understand that the
Seringapatam, accompanied by the brig of war Alacrity,
' proceeded about the middle of May last to Rhodes, to de-
mand an explanation from the Bey for an outrage commit-
ted against our Consul there, by some of Ibrahim Paella's
troops, who broke into his house and robbed him of eleven
thousand piastres. The Bey admitted the fact—but re-
fused to make restitution, or even avow it in writing. Cap-
tain Sotheby, therefore, thought proper to embark the
Consol and his family, telling the Bey, that if he did not
comply within a given time, he would fire on the place—
and in the mean time the frigate and brig were brought to
an anchor close in. The time being elapsed, and the do-
cument not forthcoming, Captain Sotheby very coolly fired
a shot into the Bey's own house, and sent a flag of truce to
try its effect. The Bey had not anticipated his petting his
threat into execution so promptly, and the acknowledgment
was no longer withheld. The Consul's flag was conse-
quently again displayed, and the Alacrity was left at Rhodes
to take tare that the Consul receives no ill.treatroent on
account of this affair."

BURMESE WA a.—lt appears by advices received by the
Hero, arrived from Bombay, dated May 15, that Sir A.
Campbell's division had made good a junction with 43e-
naral Cotton's brigade before Donebew, and that a general
attack was intended to be made on the fort on the 3tl of
April.
On Monday night the streets of this city, and several
sheps in the High-town, were lighted with gas for the first
time; the effect of this brilliam light was highly pleasing
and satisfactory, and- the streets wore crowded with
respectable people, admiring its efulgence.—llerefoed
Journal.

THE BRITISH PRESS.
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