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FRENCH PAPERS.

The French Papers of Tuesday and AVednestlay have
reached us by express. The following are extracts :
Irma the Courrkr Franeais.]
CONITANTINOPLZ, Dec. 2S.
Every thing in the Ottoman empire wears a hostile aspect. The
attempt upon Missolonghi has failed. Patras, closely invested by
the Greeks, must shortly surrender. Many mil repots* succeeding
each other rapidly have spread uneasiness amongst the people of
Constantinople; and couriers, the bearers of news still mere die-
witrowl, have spread a general consternation. Who would ima.
gine that the insurgents would hire the audacity to show them-
selves at the very gates of the capital, even to attack the se.
coed city of the empire, and to renew their efforts against
the unfortunate Island of Scio--still bathed in blood and co.
vexed with ruins? Such are. however, the statements brought by
the couriers. Smyrna is seriously threatened: the attack, it is
believed, had already taken place. And in the meantime the other
expedition is acting against Scio, and all the island has been sub-
dued, except the castle in which the Turks gm shut up. The
Divan holds its sittings day and night ; the Sultan has changed
his Minister; the Reis Effendi has been deposed, and succeededby Said Effendi t the Aga of the Janissaries has been sent to take
the command of the castles upon the Black Sea. In the dtflng of
the Divan of last Tuesday, the Grand Seignor evinced the
t indignation against the rebels, and gave orders to the
rait2Ran Melia to sail immediately with the greatest desyuclif
and carry all the disposable forces to the assistance of Smyrna:
Unfortunately the Porte is under such financial embarrassments,
as to render all its military efforts extremely difficult to be
executed. Since the last courier set off, an unexpected rnt.
niaterial change has taken place, which will undoubtedly
have a great effect in the present circumstances. The moderate
party has gained the ascendancy in the Divan, and there is more
reason than ever to hope that the old amicable relations will be
established with the European powers. The Grand Vizier, Ali,
has been deposed and exiled to Gallipoli. Galib Effendi, com-
manding upon the Bosphorus, is his successor, and he has been re.
placed by the Aga of the Janissaries. The Reis Effendt has been
also deposed, but has been since appointed lON* Bey, which is
equivalent to the situation of Minister of the Interior' and Said
Effendi,who held this titration, has been made .Minister of Foreign
Affairs. The happiest results are expected at Pent, from these
changes.
A 1.7051W11011, JAN.2I.
The Russian Envoy. M. de Minxiaky. has arrived at Bucharest.
It is also said, but the news wants conhroorion, that the Packet' of
Silistria and Widdin, commanding the Ottoman troops, upon the
Danube, awaited only the arrival of the Russian diplomatist to
pmpose to the Grand Seignne the evacuation of these two princi.
polities. This proceeding would without doubt contribute much
to diminish the differences between Russia and the Ottoman,
Porte. _

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[From the Restaurador.)
31ALAGA, JAN. 7.
This day the gene/Ide was beaten, and a number of volunteers
and royalists crowded to their posts. This affair caused a great
terror amongst the Constßutiorusliats, who closed their doon. It
turned out to be a false alarm, which had no result,.
Caicuas mx Tncro, JAW. 10.
The Police use every effort to discover persons named Uria and
31enentles, warm partisans of the Constitutional system. They
have not as yet succeeded, but since the appearance of these is.
dividuals, much agitation has chewed itself amongst the perms of
their faction. Travellers from ('adiz my, that movements are
visible amongst the Constitutionalists; they circulate seditious
news; they avert that 3,000 men will be armed at Carthageria,
under the orders of Generals Velasco, Utiles, and others who
have figured under the revolutionary regime.
SEGOVIA, JAR. 7.
The Authorities of the city of Espinar send by express to de.
mend assistance of the Royalists of this city, Miring that the
cannoniers, coming from Ciudad Rodrigo, had mutinied, and cried
" A has Ie Roi"—" live la Constitution," and had sung the
Tragala, our new Commandant, Don Isidore Lopez de Ara,
having. heard that an assemblage of suspected persons was to take
place In a house in the city. bad it searched at night by forty
Royalists, and seven persons who were found armed were con.
veyed to prison.
PARIS, JAN. r 7.
After the rest rise of the English funds, it is a sourceof astonish.
meet upon the Exchange of Paris to find that those of France have
not risen in the same proportion. Upon consideration we think we
can trace the cause to the state of the Government of Madrid. We
are assured that the capital of Spain is the theatre of numerous
intrigues, and the conduct of the Spanish Minister inclining to the
Constitutional party, is far from being satisfactory to the Absolutes ;
one party, it is said, wishes to oppose the infant Don Carlos to Ferdi-
nand, and it is to put an end to these movements that the latter has
instituted the courts martial, determined to take severe measures
against the agitators, no mattes to what political party they may
belong. It is said upon the Exchange, that the Minister, aware
of this situation of things, has felt the necessity of increasing the
army of occupation which remains in Spain ; but not wishing that
this measure should be known, upon the eve of the elections, two
division' will be marched into Spain, without any notice being
taken of these military movements.
Our correspondence from the South state, that similar reports
are in circulation at Ilayoune. It was at the close of a council
where this new measure was decided upon, that M. Marcella set
off for Madrid. This intelligence, repeated and commented upon.
In a thousand different manners, has prevented the funds from
rising they would have done, in consequence of the rise d the
English funds.
• he Spanish prisoners who have been sent to Alengon from
Marseilles, arrived there in a state of actual destitution. One of
them, to give same assistance to his companions, sold his epau-
lettes; but the money gained was but a wretched assistance indeed.
The sight of so much misfortune has attracted the lively com-
miseration of the people of Alengon. Many of them have, how-
ever' been checked by the fear of compromising themselves, and;
lest they should be taxed with evil opinions, they dare not yield
to the humanity of their feelings. We hope such apprehensions are
chimerical, and that in France pity will never be • crime.
The ludieutrur of Ifounleaux, of the 20th January, says that it
is reported that from fifteen to twenty thousand men are p.wing
into Spain. Some riots caused by a party spirit, have taken place
at bogrono and Vergers., and some persons have been killed and
many wounded.
The greatest vigilance is used at Behobia to prevent the anima
into Dunce of Spaniards. who wish to seek refuge there, without
being authorised by the French Magistracy. Sonic of them, it is
said, have succeeded in introducing themselves in female apparel.
affirming that they. would rather be committed to prison In France
than return to Spain.
We read in the Brussels Oracle that when General Cana died
'at Alagdeburgh, where he had chosen to reside, he left after him
some most valuable documents respecting the French Revolu tins,
from the year 1701 to the second overwhelming of the Imperisl
Government as the battle of Waterloo. These papers cannot he
published in France under existing circumstassa t they will see
the light at London ; and an English bookseller has, it is said,
purchased the manuscript.
From the Journal der Drba ts. 1
lONIAN ISLANDS.

Coarn, l/w. 27.
Sir Thomas Maitland, the Lodi High Commissioner, hascwind
here from 111..tlus, in 15 days 3 during his voyage he touched at tie
islands of %ante and Cephalonia. Ile has this day published the
following proclamation :
" Inasmuch as, upon the 10th or 12th of the month, one of the
most flagrant violations of territoryhas taken place in the Islands
of Santa :Haunt and Ithaca, upon the part of certain armed Greek
vessels, under the command of a person nyled Prince 31aurocco-
dato ; and this has been done in opposition to every acknowledged
principle of neutrality and the law of nations.
His Excellency, the Lord High Commissioner of his Majesty,
Kies himself most unwillin,„•ly compelled, by a sense of duty, to
order that the above-named two Islands be immediately placed,
with mama to the other lonian Islands, in a state of quarandas
for thirty days. The Inspector-General of the Department of
Health of Corfu is charged to issue the necessary orders forthwith.
" His Excellency feels real sorrow for the inconvenience and
losses that must result from this measure. What renders the mat-
ter still more afflicting, is that he never expected to see the govern-
ment of the lonian Islands placed exclusively under the protection
of his MajFsty, attempted to be insulted by men who declare they
are combating for their own liberty, and to render that Government
(if the affair was passed over in silence) an accomplice in these
abominable massacres and odious atrocities, which, upon this a-
aision, and upon several others, have distinguished the conduct
of the panics engaged in this warfare.
Palace of Corfu, December 20."

PERPIGNAN, lax. 19.

The people, in the vicinity of Barcelona, are not satisfied with
the conduct of the troops of Baron d'Eroles : the take all and pay
for nothing. The in..:abitants of Sonia have, in particular, ex-
perienced the greatest annoyance; they, however, hope that the
presence of the Baron will cause some improvement, and that the
greater part of the lopulation will not be put out of the protection
of the law.
Upon the night of the 15th, some soldiers and the Lient.-C,oloal
of the regiment of Leon, cantoned at St. Feliu de Guixols, after the
capitulation of llostalrich, were murdered in the streets of that cite.
Toe Colonel received many wounds, and he was plundered dem,
thing he had. The inhabitants hastened to give assistance to the
unfortunates, and they would have taken the assassins, if night hail
not favoured their escape. Upon the same night, at Mame, a
Frei.cll soldier was murdered by two of the Spanish Royalists.
(From the Conatitstrioont.A
Pants.
The reports circulated in the English journals, that naval steak.
menu' are preparing in the French ports, arc not entirely void et
foundation. The Ministerial Journals admit that 1,000 inn have
sailed Imm Brest, in frigates and other vessels of war. It is be-
lieved that further preparations are making at Toulon and Roche-
fort ; and some tegiments stationed at the Isle of Rile are to be etc.
barked. Other regiments are, it is said, to he embarked at flees.
Arc these troops destined for our Colonies, like those who have s•
ready sailed ? They cannot, in our opinion, have any other ime-
Siete destination ? But do our garrisons abroad require itch
reinforcements ? We think not. We do not suppose that our b•+
veminent has any hostile intentions against any nation of the earth-
The South Americans alone, or the Mexicans, can occur to Ili;
but we are tens n that there is no idea of waging war against the,'
people. What din can be the object cf sending such a niihite
of traps to the Antilles? In our judgment, negociatioss will b
opened between the King and the new Republics of Smith
rice; anti these troops, placed In the neighbourhood of the Arno--
can continent, are merely destined to facilitate these sae
the object of which is to obtain from the old colonists of spar, r-
cuniary concessions to a greater or less extent, and also woe 'Pr:
menial advantages. There is also a report of the cession of •
to France, but it does not apoear well.fOunderl.