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GERMAN PAPERS.

♦IENNA, AUGUST 30.
The Austrian Observer of yesterday has again
news from Consiantinople of the 10th of August.
They mention the death of the Greek Pdtriarch,
and the choice of the Bishop of Chalcedonic as his
successor.
No news of any decisive battle in favour of either
►he Turks or the Greeks had been received, but
the advance of the Turks through Thesaaly to the
Mores was fully confirmed.

♦flour 26.—Metalliques elf ; Bank Shared 8891.
Awcurr 29.—aletalluquea 89 3.16; Bask Shares 674 9.10.
CONSTANTINOPLE, AUGUST 10.
Perfect tranquillity shit prevails here. We have
nothing new from the Mores. The Egyptian
flotilla having joined the Turkish fleet, the latter
sailed fur the Mores on the 23d July.
Lord Strangford had s conference a week ago with
the Reis Effendi, with a view to induce the forte
Ist, To acquaint Russia by a Note with the no-
mination of the flospodsrs; 211, To send a ne.
gociator to Kominiee, to treat, as Russia desired,
with M. de Tatischeff. The Porte refused, and
it is feared that it will not be brought to con-
sent. Yet some hope that fanaticism and pride
will yield to a spirit of conciliation.

MOO of the Genoese ►essels which were bound
for the Black Sea, have, returned in ballast to the
Mediterranean. Two of them having received their
papers from Odessa, have hoisted the Russian flag.
Genoese ships that come here with Russian papers
will not meet with any difficulties.
The number of rioters and mutineers who were
executed, imprisoned, or banished during the dis-
turbances in July, is estimated at between four and
five thousand. It was made known that if the five
Oct., did not expel from among them the authors
of these terrible disorders, the Sultan would make
use of the power given him by the Sultan Soliman,
and disband these regiment..

BERLIN, AUGUST V.

Count de I■ Ferronsys, French Ainbemador to
the Court of St. Petersburgh, has passed through
here on his way to Vienna. The Chevalier Verstulk
de Soelen, Mioister Plenipotentiary from the Nether-
land. to Russia, has also arrived here from St.
Petersburgh.

SWITZERLAND. ♦RENT Si.

The Committee of Commerce has presented a
new Report to the Diet. The majority adhered to
their first Report, proposing the establishment of
divers impo►t duties, the produce or manufactures
of those countries whose Custom-house laws are in-
jurious to the productions of Switzerland. The
Committee hies, however, made come modification.
in the first project.
The miuority have given two opinions. The one
presented by M. Braun, who persists in advocating
a system without restrictions ; and the other by
M. Hirsel, who would limit the import duties to
wine and corn.

After the Diet had again deliberated, thirteen
votes were io fa►our of the priociple adopted by
the majority, most with the reser►e of the ratifica-
tion of their constituents.

The Deputies of Zurich, 13.1 e, Geneva. Uri,
Schweits. Underwald, Neuchatel, and Valais, ac-
cording to their instructions, took the matter ad
referendum.
It was also decided that the measure, in ques-
tion should he taken mat by virtue of a binding
solution, to which the Diet would nut be color.

THE BRIE SH PRESS,

LONDON,
FRIDAY, Strramess 13, 1842.

By the Leeward Island Mail we hay.e received
advice, from Caroms op to the end of July, from
which there appears to be no doubt of the Presi-
dent BOLIVA a having subdued the whole of Quito,
and he wss daily expected at Bogota, on his way to
Caroms. His arrival will hasten the fall of Puerto
Cavello, though, befo►e that event takes place, it is
probable this last retreat of the Spaniards must
yield to the Colombian arms, as it appears the In-
tendente of Caraccas had received an official com-
munication from General S•NTANDItiI, the Vice-
President of Colombia, advising him of his having
ordered two vessels of war, that had lately reached
Carthagena, to proceed forthwith to aid in the
►eduction of Puerto Cavello. The Vice-Pie-
sident's communication is said to contain a very
flattering compliment to Don Luis LoPEZ
Mewnea, upon some recent services he has rendered
to the Republic. So far from there being any ap-
prehension of Puerto Cavello holding out, it was
considered certain that the arrival of the two ves-
sels in question would decide the fate of that
place.

The accounts which occasionally arrive from the
south of France give us to understand that military
preparations, on a very extensive scale, have been
orderei by the Government, and that every military
station in the south shews en extraordinary degree
of bustle and activity. The cordon sanitaire, not-
withstanding the repeated remonstrances of the
Spanish Government, has never been withdrawn
from its position on the frontiers, sad to this force
are now added several new corps, so that in point
of numbers it has become a formidable army. The
supplies of cannon and ammunition are said to be
upon a scale that marks the expectation of an im-
mediate necessity for using 114 m, and stations are
already occupied upon the frontiers as if it were in-
tended to skew an apprehension of invasion! The
temper of the French Government towards that of
Spain, ever since the late Revolutions has been far
from conciliatory, and from the protection granted
to the Spanish royalist refugees in France, and the
encouragement now openly extended to the Bayonne
Committee for promoting the wen k of rebellion in
Spain, we cannot doubt the hostile feeling of the
Cabinet of the Tuileries. The vicinity of the cordon
sanitaire was felt by the Spanish Government to have
exercised a most pernicious infloence upon the state
of the frontier provinces; and this new manifesta-
tion of energy on the part of the French Govern-
ment, and the increase of the French army, cannot
fail to offer a great encouragement to the rai-
disanre " Army of the Faith." The French
papers insinuate that if, in the event of a defeat of
the Spanish Royalists. the beaten party should take
refuge within the territories of France, it if not im-
probable that the conquerors would pursue them.
This would be a violation of the French territory
which ought to be prevent..,l, and ii is presumed
that this feeling on the part of the Government will
account sufficiently for so considerable an increase
of their military force on the frontiers. There is
just enough of pretence in this observation to serve
as an excuse for the underhand hostility of the
Government; lint can any one doubt that these
preparations are made with a view to encourage the
rebels in Spain, or perhaps to be prepared with an
overwhelming army to take such advantage of oc-
casional occurrences as would enable the BOUR..
sows of France to restore without much risk the
former suiliority of the BOURBONS of Spain ?

We noticed yesterday the legal difficulty in
which the Court of Poitiers and the Attorney.
General of that Court are placed by the circuits-
stance of General BRITON'S having no defender on
his trial, and remarked, that by the terms of the
, law of treason the present proceedings must, on
account of this defect, be considered null and
void. The Citiotidielme, however, has started a
notable argument, to shew that in fact the provi-
sions of the law have been satisfied. It seems that
M. DRAULT, the advocate who had been assigned
by the Court to assist General BERTON in his de-
fence, was also intrusted with the defence of some
other prisoner, and in the discharge of this duty
found occasion to introduce the name of the Ge-
neral. Now it is argued that the observation of
the Counsel was urged for the benefit of General
BERTON ; and although the General disclaimed
the Advocate, and the Advocate resolutely protested
against being regarded as the defender of the ac-
cused, still, says the Quotidienne, the prisoner must
be held to have beets legally defended, and conse-
quently the terms of the law have been sati►Bed.—
We should like to know whether this perversion of
common tense was dictated by authority to the

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Quotidienne, or frost spontaneously from the un-
aided stupidity or wickedness of that journal. Yet
it mutt be admitted that the argument, as the writer
perhaps would cull it, is in every respect as well
founded in law and justice, as was the conduct of
the Beech to which we referred yesterday. The
spirit that breathes in the one is perfectly consistent
with that which dictated the other, so that we
should be much inclined to suspect that both own
the same origin.

The victory lately ascribed by the Austrian Cl-
server 10 CROURSCHID PAcHA, is by the same au-
thority withdrawn, and we are now told by this au-
thentic paper, that all its firmer assertions upon
this important point were wholly devoid of founda-
tion. The cautious advance of the Pacus through
the Straits of Thermopylae—tile fortunate disco-
very of one unfrequented defile—the partial skir•
wishing, and the eventual shock that closed with
the total defeat of the arms of Greece, had no
other existence than the fanciful inventions of the
Editor of the Austrian Observer. This writer now
asserts that no battle whatever hal been fought be-
tween the Greeks and Turks, because •' no such
intelligence has been received by the foreign Em-
bassikls, or the respectable commercial houses of
Vienna." A pretty acknowledgment of its own
falsehood ! The Austrian Observer manifestly
fabricated this story of the victory of the Otto-
man army, to counteract the impression which
was likely to be produced by the previous account,
which gave the triumph to the Greeks. The ac-
knowledgment of the fabrication does not of course
set up the truth of the other statement, but it must
hare the effect of detracting very much from the
boasted credit of this demi-official organ of the Ca-
binet of Vienna.

The French Papers notice very sparingly the
affairs of Spain, but we see enough to make us
doubt every account coming through those channels
of public intelligence. The position of the rebels,
who call themselves the Army of the Faith, enables
them to control in a great degree the correspondence
of Spain with the rest of the Continent. These bri-
gands intercept the couriers, plunder the mails, and
suffer such letters alone to pass as appear to give
favourable representations of their prospects of suc-
cess. It is very evident that the rebels are not in
want of money, which avowedly comes from foreign
Governments, and it is equally manifest—indeed
no disguise is attempted, that they have a Commit-
tee of Managemtnt in full activity at Bayonne,
who receive every facility and assistance from
the French authorities in preparing the means
of disturbing the Government of Spain.—
These are' the means which the Holy Alliance is
obliged to udopt towards the Peninsula, from a
conviction that the appearance of a foreign force in
Spain would rouse the ardent patriotism of the
people to punish the aggression. It is safer to bribe
some of the rabble of the country to disturb the ge-
neral tranquillity, than to attempt by open war to
interfere in the domestic economy of the State:

Frankfort Papers to the 6th instant have arrived.
They notice the number of the /lush-ion Obterver
which elates, that no news of any decisive battle in
favour of either the Turks or the Greeks, had been
received at Cunstantinople up to the 10th of Au-
gust.

Sir CHARLES LONG and Mr. Pant had audi-
ences of his MAJESTY yesterday.
Mr. CANNING is arrived in town, and the Minis-
terial arrangements will, of course, be completed
without further delay.—(keening Paper.)
FERMANAGH ELECTION.The vacancy which
has occurred in the Representation of the county of
Fermanagh, by the promotion of Sir Lowav CoLa
to a foreign appointment, will, of course, cause a
new election, which will probably be contested.
Two candidates have declared themselves, namely,
Lord CORRY and Sir HENRY Baooas.—(Dahlia
Morning Post.)
Calcutta Papers to the 6th of March have sr.
rived, but contain little news. According to ad-
vices from Lnckncw, it letter had been received
there from Major•FamivuL's camp. stating that
the fortified village of Bursgong, late in the pos-
session of QUARIM ALIE KHAN, bad been taken
by the English troop., after a short conflict attend-
ed with some los.. It is added, that the proprietor
of the village, rendered desperate by the oppression
heaped on him by AGA MEER, and the appearance
of a British force, had burnt 110 less than six or
seven towns, previous to his being attacked. Lady
HASTINGS had suffered from severe indisposition,
but was recovered. The Governor-General was at
Barrack pore.
Extract of a letter from Odessa, dated 16:11 of
August (N. S.)—" We had accounts yesterday that
the remainder of the town of Jassy has been de-
stroyed by fire. A thousand Janissaries haviin
returned to that city, with a view of plunder, were
opposed by the Turks in the town; en attrir took
place, in which the Janissaries overpowered the
town guard, and burnt the town for the sake of the
plunder, excepting, as it is said, only the palace of
the Pacha. The wife of the new Hospodar of Mol-
davia, in returning from the country, applied to the
Governor of Bessarabia for a passport, and was told ::1
she could only have one as u private person, as thee)
EMPEROR had given no orders as yet fur acknow-
ledging her husband as Hospodar of Moldavia.
By this it would appear that things are not defini-
lively Settled, and we cannot leant that any new
dispositions of the troops have been made by either
the Turks or the Russians. This place continues
full of Russian officers."

Dr. BEATTIE, who was surgeon to lard NELSON
when his Lordship received his mortal wound st
Trafalgar, is said to he 'appointed Phyvician to the
Royal Hospital at Greenwich, rice Dr. ROOCRT
WEIQUT, deceased.