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CONTINUATION OF THE FIRMAN DISSOLVING THL COSTS

01 TLIE JAKlssanzas.

In consequence of this iie3i;ioii,;;,ii.:7las given to the Janis.
varies that every individual who sbonld oppose the execution of this
measure, unanimously adopted, whether by acting or speaking
against it, should be punished with ail the rigour oldie laws. The
enrolments were begun—minis and unites wits were distributed, and
order was given last trek to begin the new exercise. All thew
preparations were at the expense of the Trea-ury ; but, without
regard for the commands of religion or the orders of the law, the
Janissaries mutinied during the night of Thursday last, attacked
the palace of their Aga. and eves the Sublime Porte, the palace of
the Grand Vizier, and several ethers; and after having plundered
these residences, they cut in pieces with a knife a holy book (the
Koran, wherever they found it, and committed • thousand ex.
crsses, crying, " We will not have any exercise."
The Janissaries therefore having respected neither the divine
law, nor its organ, nor the Sublime Pure, nor the (lams ;
having dared with sacrilegious bands to turn agaiant .he most es.
abed powers the arms which 113 d been delivered to them by the
law of the Prophet, and having thereby shown that they have
neither faith nor religion, have become the object of general ex-
ecration. Immediatehr the respectable Muftis, retired or in otlice,
the noble Kadiliskeits (supreme Judges in Europe and Asia), the
august Grand Vizier, the learned Mettles, whoa' number may the
Almighty increase to the day of the resuerection, the officers en
duty. and all the other Id ussulmans, hastened to the Imo erial Niue,
brought thither the standard of the Prophet, to which salutation
and prayer may be addressed, and then wen( to the mosque of
Sultan Achmet. Thence they sent criers inm all parts of the city
to invite all good Dltissolmans to come and place themselves under
the standard of Alahomet. Though the number of the faitlitul
who immediately and with zeal obeyed this summons was its-
niense, the seditious persisted in their detestable design, and or-
cupied the place-of assembly, which was become the theatre of
their iniquities, ths only object of which was to effect the total ruin
of the Ottoman Empire, to snake the State fall into the talons of
the enemies of the filth, glad to tread all good 31ussu:mans under
foot.
Under such circumstances the law commands blood to be shed
withaut mercy. An armed force was therefore sent against them,
their barracks were burnt, and the omnipotent God punished
them for their crime, by bending their heads under the sword of
the law. As it was positively known that seditious and ill-disposed
individuals arid other corporations- had secretly excited and sup.
ported the revolt of the Janissaries, preparations were made to
make them undergo the same fare. All these events have produced
a conviction, that the institution of the Janissaries, the original
principles cf which were bravery and obedience, had in process ot
time assumcd a very different character, and was now founded on
perverseness and iusuhordination, so that the title of Janisasry,
the name Voldaset (comrade), and the badges of this corps, had
beeoine the shield of all those worthless individuals who wished to
domineer over honest men. . .

It has happened that among those who have been arrested and
exertited on this occasion, wretches have been discovered who had
marked on one arm the sign of the 75th Ores and the Cross of the
Christians, a certain proof that men of all sects had et:limes] among
them, and that there were always wretches among them who under
the Mussulman habit concealed the character of spies. It has been
observed that whenever proposals have been made to them to purge
their corps by the expulsion of this vermin, they have always made
the greatest resistance, and that it has never been possible to real
them to the object of their primitive institution, so that the men
of honour among the Agas and other Commanders of their corps
could no longer control them. As it has been thus, as it were,
pointed out with the finger, that their amelioration was impossible,
and that there were absolutely no means of making them useful, we
have this day, by the unanimous advice of the respectable Muftis,
of the noble Kadiliskiers, of the august Viziers, of the learned Me-
man, and of all honest men heartily devoted to the government and
to religion, assembled for the public good under the Sacred Stan-
dard in the Mosque of Sultan Acluner, changed the name of the
Corporation of the Janissaries, and given another form to their
ancient statutes."

(To be eon:inued.)

Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East
India House, when the following Captains were sworn into
the command of their respective ships, viz.:—
Captain John Clermont Whiteman, of the Herefordshire—Ben-
gal and Chinr.
Captain William Henry Ladd, of the Kellie Castle—Chira
direct.

Captain John Hine, of the ship Atlas—St. Helena, Bombay,
and China.

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Captain Charles Shea, of the Thomas Grenville.

Yesterday a Court of Direc:ors was held at the East
India 11-use, when the under-tnentioned ships were thus
viz:—
The Atlas, for St. Helens. Bombay, and China ; and the Bridge-
water and Lowther Castle. fir Bombay and China ; be afloat Ilatt
Nov. 1620, sail to Gravesend 29th, stay there 30 days, and be in the
Downs 4th Jan.
H.:pulse, Duke of York, and Herefordshire. for Bengal mil
China ; be afloat 29th Nov. 1826; sail to Gravesend 14th Dec.
stay there 30 days, nad be in the Downs 19th Jan. 1827.
Th.• Vimsittart,Buckinghainshire, and Sradeby Castle, for Bengal
and Gina ; be afloat 14th Dec. 1828 ; pail to Gravesend 28th, stay
there 30 days, ailel be in the Downs 3d Feb. 1827.
The Inglis and Charles Grant, for Bengal and China; the
Windsor and Hythe, for llorn!ay and China ; and the Farquhar-
son, for St. Helena, Penang, Singapore, and China; be afloat VA
Dec. 1826; sad to Gravesend 12th Jan. 11L7; stay there 30 kis,
and be in the Deans 17th. Feb..

The Bomb iy, Gener.l Kyd. and iraterloo, for Madras and
China; be afloat 12th Jun. 1827; sail to Gravesend 26. h; stay
there 30 days, and be in the Downs 3d March.
The new ship building in the room of the Kent, and the Kellie
Castle, fur China direct; be afloat 25th Feb. 1827, sail to Graves-
end 13th March, stay there all days, and be in the Dowr.s 18th
The accounts from the moors in this district are very
favourable. Game is said to be plentiful, but the birds we
represented as being very wild, and strong upon the wing.
Good shots have had no reason to complain of the epor.
The extensive Moors on Stammore, in Westmorland, the
property of the Earl of Thanet, never abounded more m
game than they do this season. This is Tartly attributed
to the great fires on the Yorkshire Fells adjoining, which
deprived the birds of cover, and partly to the:strict watt b
that has been kept.—Tyne Mercury.