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with the rapidity which great and
events aragenerally 'spread abroad. reports
the teheßy unexplielia death of his Majesty the
from he Austrian Consular agent at
'. ." bentalowl a notice that the Emperor
heal - tie 34 at Taganrog, after a very sheet
I Jftei that 'the city of Warsaw was in easisiternatioa.
ihe canes '4llf it was not publicly owned. There were.
IPas.
I • *My MINIM Whops that the news might rest on a false
a al Woman. Nothing was sald of any act of the
sep • ma every thing made it out duty to welt for
aim a coa
st. ~ of the importsat neva, cc for the wished.for
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lithiaZil.-
V the silk has sheet assumed a hem which hardly
pmenkte up to.deeilit that the Moan* whose name ells one of the
:Ilannit &nen places is the book of history, is taken from his
pc*, and hews the wield.
Retests **hest the lith sad the morning of the 17th no
Laws was noshed that had the slightest reference to the metals.
. holy meet ; a Amen which but too much induced the people to
emits web. On the 17th the merchants of this city received e•-•
.gullia from inlitalie. dated the 14th, referring to accounts received
..t) the 13th et Bala fresaWassaw and coinciding with the report
ef the Austrian Consular Agent of the 9th. Accounts from the
A./vim at Dresden andinned on the same day the arrival of
er.coe accounts at Balls.
today the (19th) further reports have at length been received
trust Warsaw, which state the lit December as the day of the
's Meek, and add the following circumstances:—
news of his Majesty's death, after 14 days' illness, is said
combed, oa the 7th, his natural successor, the Grand
tine, who sent, on the Bth, his brother, the Grand
lehoel. to St. Pateniturgh. Up to the 10th December no
tan
set if she now Ooveroment had taken place at Warsaw. It
ewe thew alleneed that the East nets of the new Emperor will
:nee has St. Petorsbergh.
The report of the Kovpmer's death was spread through the
w.t2ir %Oen of Pelim4te• the 14th, and will certainly be hosed
.4 of Europe withae seine feelings with which we notice
,i in jeunial.
FRANtrotrr, DEC. 2s.
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VIENNA, DEC. 29.
by the Austriitat_Juurpaly
it is in the :trre!,.rt

Ws have just received Berlin linen of the The late
":412ePort Maunder remelted ill on the 17th from the Crimea, to
regaling his illness rapidly grew worse, and soon proved to he a
?Meet bilious fem. On the 211th and 27th the disorder was at its
On the 28dt, a fatal termination seemed to be at hand.
• 26th there was an apparent change for the better, but the
Wilds it had exalted was soon dispelled, and a tranquil death
:sok place on the Ist of this month.
ST. PETEIIIIOII9II, DEC. 10.
Our meted Is plunged since yesterday, in the deepest affliction.
'-elveral days paw indeed, ceurien had brought Dew, of the illness
41 oar beloved illenerch, bat embody expected the blow Providence
• ad reserved for ma, far very few knew that her blajesty the Empress
Joiner was already making preparations to basica to the sick
lei of bee august sm. Alas! she but too roots received the news
bps death, which kept her bare, and fills her maternal heart with
. riff. The deceased Masan*, who has been taken from us in his
411th year, and in the midst of a mild, just, and wise government,
•.i nearly & quitter of a century, replete with the most caraordinery
^rents, was II about fourteen days, and the immediate cause of his
.iness, the yellow fever of the Crin.ea, as it is called, is said to
:tare been a cold caught on an aquatic excursion.
Her Majesty the Empress Elisabeth constantly ereched over her
soviet consort, in a manner worthy of her excellent heart, and
slotted his eyes. She Is deeply afflicted. Heaven grant that the
°ism* may not injure ha health, which is already so deliette. Shc
expected here shortly. The body of the late Emperor sill also
:dos arrive. The capital is desolate, and despondency and sorrow
we every where visible. His Majesty the Emperor Constantine is
mid to have set out titan Warsaw, for Taganrog. It is difficult to
tsy whether this is true; but we must know in a few days, as we
:we expect to see his Imperial Majesty.
ST I'TGAID, I)Ec. 23.
Court has gone Into mourning today un account of the
destb of his Majesty the Emperor Alexander. The Midgard,
'faint Gazeite gives thee/one particulars that we have already cont.
Imitated to our mien; only it adds, that it was on the 27th
*WO the disorder had reached the height that the Emperor took
**Sacrament, and that he died on the let of December, at SO
t. to past ten o'clock.
Cant.sautte, DEc. 22.
TbrCaen goes into mourning for six weeks for the Emperor of
Magnin, whose untimely lose is equally deplored by all classes in
ear country, to whose prosperity he so powerfully contributed. The
Odle the venerable Princess. who lives among us. is th.: more
vrofounst, as this is the second revere affliction which she has expes
"tweed within a abort period the death of the Einprror of Russia
miring so soon followed lint of the King of Bararia.—Fraitlfart
rapes, Dee. 24.

THE GREEKS.

M. de Chateaubriand has published a new edition of his
Note concerning 'Greece, to which he has prefixed an in-
troduction of twenty pages relative to the events likely to
-exult to the Greek cause from the death of the Emperor
Alexander.
After having. examined the terrible consequences which
tl'e ezteessinatton of the Greeks will produce in civilized
I:ttrope, 11. de Chateaubriand proceeds :
" The death of the I.:taperer Alexander has lately changed the
;:usition of affain : Alexander, already a veteran politician, had twice
.reversed Europe at the had of Ins armies; a pacific warrior, he
ad for the adoption of a particular line of conduct, that weight
g:ven by triumph, age, success, and the habit of government.
Will his heir follow the same line of policy, and would it be posit.
kis for him to do it were he so inclined ? Will he not find ft more
rogy and more safe to return to the national policy of his empire,
sal to be Rimini rather than French, English, Austrian, ee
eftelebal ? Greece will therefore be aided. What a noble Jetted
:et a Prince in his royal career, to make the first act of his reign
eta liberation of Greece, and the deliverance of so many unfor-
tunate Christians ! What will not be his popularity and splen-
dour for the remainder of his reign ! It is, perhaps, the only glory
Alexander has left his successor to reap.
,nil will not Constantine I. stretch hit. friendly aid to brothers
gion ? Is there not a contagion to dare, a flame to be emirs-
ell •or a victim to be saved in the world ? Constantine will
w it; the nations find a prophecy in his name, and in his chs-
ricter a guarantee of the deliverance of Greece."
M. de Chateaubriand then notices the reproaches thrown
or: the Greeks, with intent to defraud an oppressed people
of the admiration due to their courage, and the pity in-
spired by their misfortunes ; and after having examined
the objections drawn from the vices imputed to the Greeks,
he comes to the questions relative to their actual situation :
" So far from ate being astonishing that the Creeks do not
altogether agree among themselves., it is rather to be wondered at
that they have succeeded in making • common bond and defence.
/I it not a miracle that a people of slaves, part islanders and part
continentals, should, under the scourge and sword of the Turks—
Linder the weight of an immense empire—have been able to
raise land and sea armaments, to sustain sieges. to take towns, to
g .in naval victories, to establish • Government which deliberates,
commands, contracts 101/1., enters upon the formation of • code of
financial, administrative, civil, and political laws ? Is it possible,
/WI any'eemblance of equity, to put what the Greeds here (loos
flu the comsat of their heroic struggle, in the scales with a few
disasters, hiSeparable front their creel position.
" If a traveller had visited the United States after the loss of
tile battle of Broolyn, the taking of New York, the invasion of
devrp4sey, the dens. at Brandy wine, the flight of Congress, the
'coca of Philadelphia, and the insurrection of time Royalists ;
.1" he met wt militia, without clothing. without pay,
without food, or iillollt arms; if he had seen Southern Mee-
Sna reduced, the Repuilicen army of Pennsylvania in mutiny ; if
he had witnessed the etertspiraeies and treasons, if he had read the
proclamations of dlenold, a General of the Union. which cleetansi
that Asserts, had beemellet prep itf the a et' the Mei!, me
t., ate wet ur ita spot les, mid Ms gra.' of Itirlends ; If that nit.
seller had withillliculty escaped limn the midst of the civil wars
sod judicial butcheries going on in the difflretit cities of the
union; if he had seen given in exchange for Ins inanity bills dere-
4-laced to so low a point that a batful of them was barely sufficient
to pay for a pair of shoes ; if he bad met with the Act of Con.
dress, which, violating the public faidi, declared that these bills
should so longer circulate at their nominal value, but according
so their: cooventional value—what sort of a representation would
a trident: en circumstanced have made of the situation of things,
and of die eharneter.of the Chiefs in the United States? Would he
rut have' mentioned the transatlantic insurrection as a Aimee'
anarchy, as a commotion that was about to be put an end to 1
Woad he not have pointed the Americans as a race of men
divided among thoinselves, ambitious, incapable of using the
Shorty they aspired to, a set of greedy men, without faith, with:eat
laws, and on the point of falling before the victorious arms of
Crest Britain? . !
" The eve the present prosperity of the United States 'mild
Serve disproved the prophesy of that uavellev, and yet he would
merely have said what ha thought lie perceived at the time of his
tour. And yet in how much more favourable a situation were the
Americans than are the tireeiniko work out their ludependencel
','hey were not slaves ; they Ina already accustomed man or-
ganised administratinn, each State ruled itself by a regular form of 1
*avernment, and enjoyed all the power resulting drum &dressed 1
, civilisation.
• , " Now then, let a traveller of present day drawee a picture
Iffifranarehy he may have met siM., or thought he had met with, th 1
tireert, he with merely paint the natural situation of a nation mi.
fogaged in the painful labour of making themselves free. It would
be much more extraurdinary if we were to be told that every thing
ireadm and flourisiong in she Moves, in the ruidst of lligillim's M-
edlin instead of telling vs that the Greeks are agifs%d, that
,zordere are badly executed, that rear bas struck some posillvolivions
-breasts, sod that some ambitious men, and perhaps" some traitors,
endeavour to probe by the trouolvs of their country.
4 am••••••••...E.alarmamoo .
• Allee C4Nt and the army of l'lrthilie have gone into
ming its four weeks, and the royal theatres were
skied for three days, on account of the death of the late
Rusk.

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