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Intelligent.' from Semblin ees that the Turkish
army befure Janina has been completely defeated, and that
the Commander-lis.Chief Jassy, the Pacba of Macedonia, is
among the slaio.

ANTIMOPLII, MAY 12.

The Ottoman troops still occupy is t►e Metes and Livadie
the following fortresses and places :—Negroponte, Athens,
with the citadel, Lepante or Naspacto, the Castle of Potrar,
Nsvarin, Modone, Corone, Napoli de Mslrani or Menem-
hula, and Tripolizzo. We believe that Nopoli de Ronanea

is besieged by the Greeks.
it i► said That two Turkish frigates, of SO gnus each, two
corvettes, sad four brigs, destioed against the Mores, have
been delivered up to the Greeks by t►e crews, the greater
part of whom were of that nation. Nine busdred Turks on
board were massacred.

THE BRITISH PRESS.

LONDON,
SATURDAY, Juii 16, 1621.
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Mr. 411:1111Allti'll Bill for repealing the tax on
husbandry horiels-was lust night read a second time
in the !louse Or Common,, and ordered to be re-
ferred to the Cothinittee on Monday nest. Mr.
Lusatenrom wished that the Committee might be
appended fur Tuesday, in the assurance, no doubt,
that notices having precedence on that night, the
Committee on this Bill should be further postponed,
but the fiends of the Bill persisted in appointing
Mondry for the consideration of the details of this
measure. The Ministers are certainly determined
to overthrow the hopes of relief which the agricul.
tural part of the country must have entertained from
the success of Mr. Cuawsx's first motion. In
the same manner the Ministers disappointed the
expectations of the people on Mr. WESTERN'S
motion, and *hewed that they bud no intention of
affording any relief to a class of the people which,
perhaps more titan any other, feels the distresses
and disabilities which have fallen upon the coun-
try since the return of peace. Upon that flees-
-61011 we remarked upon the want of policy and
of wisdom that was manifested by the Ministers in
reversing the opinion of the House of Commons, as
it had been expressed upon the first motion, re-
lating to a mitigation of the malt duty ; and the
same principle applies, with perhaps still more
force at the present moment, to the threatened
conduct. of the Ministers upon the agricultural
horse tax, fur to the repeal of this tax the firmer,
have long looked with great anxiety. The CHAN-
CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER contends, that having
submittrd his budget to the House, he will find
the repeal of any tax a great inconvenience to him;
but the abolition of one or two useless offices, or
the reduction of the salaries attached to /I few sine-
cures, would enable him to afford this very season-
able relief to the agriculturists. and assist, through
thrill, every class of the community.
The Bill for appointing Commission-
ceed to Ireland for the purpose of inquiring into
.the state of the revenue of that country, and of
correcting whatever abuses they may discover in the
mode of collecting it, went last night through the
Committee.

to pro-

In another part of oar Paper will be found an ex-
tract from certain official returns laid before Par-
liament respecting the state of the import trade of
behind, from witch it will appear that in the quan-
tities of nine, foreign spirits, and tobacco, there
has been a very considerable reduction, as com-
paring the year 1820 with the year 1800 ; and that
in teas and sugars there has been rather an increase.
The quantity of French wine imported in the year
1800 era+ 657 tuns; in the year 1812 it was at the
highest 881 tom; hut in the year 1820 it did not
exceed 82 Inns. The Madeira wine imported in
180 C was 65 tuns; in 1808 it amounted, when ft

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the highest, to 210 letaerlet ill 1920 it was only
72 tuna. Of port witse..the quantity imported
into" bellied in ;11800 was 5.791 tuns; it was in
1820, the Rbessish "is* fell from
46 tuns to 4 tuns t and even in Cape wine theie hai
been in the last year ;treat falling 'off, far theleart
tity imported into Ireland is 1819, when it was at the
highest, was 617 tuns, bet in 1840 it did not excaerr.
416 tons. In tobacco the falling off is very consideset:'
We, for in 1800 the quantity imported into lr:elanr,
was 7,744,6911b5., but in 1820 it amounted only to'
3,113,8091b5. The revenue of Ireland-has beeni
very much diminished by the imposition of very
heavy duties which have wholly discouraged con.'
soniption, but the Treasery has been also defraudeci
by the gross misconduct of the generality of the per-
sons employed to collect the revenue, and by the
enormous expenses at which the system is put into
action. The ordinary expense of collecting the
revenue in Great Britain does not exceed 7 per
cent. on an average; but in Ireland the average,
expense exceeds 20 per cent.. The Commissioners
will have a laborious task 10 perform, and one
which will bring upon them much personal ill will;
and perhaps some odium, if they perform it ho-
nestly and faithfully; but their services will be
eventually rewarded by the approbation of the
country, and by the conviction that, in removing
the gross abuses that now rankle in the system,
they will confer a lasting benefit upon the Govern-
ment and the empire in general.

His MAJESTY'a visit to the Duke of DEVON-
SHIRE ott.Thursday has excited considerable in-
terest. The dinner party did not exceed thirty.
The party did not include any of the prominent
Members of Opposition, and Viscount MELVILLE
was the only Member of Administration present.
Among the company at the concert were Mr.
BROUGHAM and Mr. TIERNEY.

•
. We have received the Paris Pipers of Tuesday
last. It is stated under the head of Ulm, the :id
instsotobat the Civil Section of the Superior Corn-
missiou established at Turin, for the purpose of de
ciding upon the fate of the persons implicated in
the late resolution in Piedmont, have made a report,
in which they state that they are iirevented frcim
proceeding against said persons, by the amnesty
granted by the lima, and also by the omission of
the formalities required by the fundamental laws of
Sardinia. The Military Section of the Commission
has not made any report on the subject.
The Milan Gazette, of the 31st May. contains a
letter from CHAal.laS FtLIX, the new King of Sar-
dinia, to Field-Marshal BtiattA, in which he says,
that next to the suistaoce of the Almighty, he
owes the preservation of his States to the powerful
protection of his august Allies, and the seal of the
Field-Marshal in the good cause. These Paper*
contain intelligence from Madrid tothe 2d instant.
It states, that the Cure Maairso, far from being
' killed, has iuued a circular in Old Castile, put.
ling 400 horses in requisition to re-mount his ca-
valry, and carries on his guerilla system with great
activity. A man named BARCIELA is to be tried
fur having said in a tavern that MERINO would
arrive with 20,000 men, and that he spoke with
certainty as he was one of his spies." The Paris
Papers also contain a variety of details relating to
Turkey.

A Flanders Mail has arrived with Papers from
Brussels to the 12th instant. It was reported et
Vienna that a new Congresi will meet in that city
in the course of the summer to deliberate upon
the affair* of, Turkey. The anarchy to which that
country has been for some time • prey appears to
increase, and the accounts of its progreis are as
confused us the subject. The Turkish corps which
had passed the Danube has recrossed that river, and
no progreis had been made in reducing Moldavia
and Wallachia to subjection; on the contrary, the
atrocities committed by the Turks in Constantinople
had excited • more determined spirit of hostility in
those provinces.

Yesterday the Doke of YORE transacted military
im.iness with the KING at his Palace in Pall-mall.
No less than 317,0001. in gold has been lauded
at Portsmouth' from on board the Venus, from New
York. sum is sent to this country to an emi-
nent mercantile house, for the payment of a part
of the dividends due to individuals in London front
the funds of the United States.
Letters from Bombay state, that twenty ships
have been taken up by the vigilant Governor, on
board of which 5,000 troops are embarked, destined
to the Persian Gulf, to repair the disaster suffered
by the surprise of the detachment left by Sir Wit,
max KIER, under the direction of a young mail.
The gallant General LIONEL SMITE ha' been se-
lected foi this important service.—His Excellency
Mr. ELPHINSTONE, completely recovered, is gone
ott • tour to Kutch. to settle all disputes, and to
ascertain the true situation of the country.
A letter from St. Jago tie Chili, dated February
26, 1821, contains the following intellipence :
" We have just received accounts from the army of Gene-
ral San Martin, that they have beta obliged to fall back frum
before Lima to Hsuacha, which will retard fur ■ length of
time the fall so geurrally expected here : in fact, a genersr
gloom prevails litre in eousequesee."

Intelligence had been received from St. Domingo,
stating, that the President. BOYER, had succeeded
in suppressing the late insurrections, and behaved
with giest leniency to the prisoners, extending free
pardon to all, except one or two of the ringleaders.
A smart contest is expected for Kinsale, in con-
sequence of the death of G. COUssII•KER, Esq.
•who *is nephew and presumptive heir to Lord Ds
CLIFFORD.

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TBB DUMB OP DRvoNsuners GRAND Psrat

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TO THE 1011(7.
Thursday being the day fixed by the Kill to on
to
:Duke of Devonshire with his rumpus,' at inner, his Ma-
jestrarrlveo at DevaasbAre-house, Piekafidly, about tore sty
vainotes past Irmo o'clock, lu his prinks corriultei lorelleg•
PaNied• by Sir. Penjandn Bloomfield, Bart. Or his arrive
at the door of ',legion!' loath mid on his Majesty's slightest
from his rarriage, be was received by the, Duke or Devoe-
shire, Lords' Granville, G. H Cavendisk H. , Morpetb, and
Normanhy, who tondoeted lain to the red room, where the
distiriguisherd-porty were waiting. His Majesty .consist-tad
Lady Morpeth and Princess Esterhazy, sod the Doke of
York Lady Grauville, to the graud saloon. where timers,
ware laid for 30. The table was covered with silver gilt
ornaments, plateatm, breaches containing numerous
Debts, &c. Nearly the whole service of plate was silver
gilt. The peril consisted of the following distinguisbed per-
sonages :
, His Royal Highness the Duke of York, Prince and Prin-
cess Esterhazy, two Marquis and Marchioness of Conytqc-
Lord P. Conyngbarn, Lady Conynghaus. Viacom.,
and Viaceonteva Grasaville, Lord arid Lady Melville, Lord'
and Lady Normanhy, the Earl sod Countess Cowper, Lord.
, and Lady Morpeth, Lord and Lady Gwydir, Lord W.
Ihmtireck, Lurd G. Cavendirh, Sir B. Bloomfield, Colonel
Upton, Captain Clifford, and Mr. and Mrs. George Lamb.
His Grace sat in the centre, on his right Princess Ester-
hazy and his Majesty, on his heft Viscountess Granville and
the Duke of York; at the bottom sat Lord Normanhy, the
Marchinuese of Coeynglram on his right, on his left Sir Ben-
jamin Bloomfield. The dessert and wines were of the rarest
description; there were 12 sorts of ices.
About half-past nine o'clock the party retired to the green
room, where a grand concert took place. At half-past eleven
dancing commenced in the grand saloon, and did nut cease
till nearly four yesterday morning. The Ladies were all very
elegantly dressed, with feathers and a profusion of diamonds.
His Majesty, we are happy to state, looked extremely well,
' and Wag in high spirits • he retired about hall past twelve.
The company present eteteried 250 persons of the first rank,
distinction, sad fashion, among whom were—
Prince Leopeld, the Duchess of Kent, the Duke of Cla-
rence, the Duke and Duclie-a De Fries, the Dukes of Wel-
lington sod Montmse, the Duke 11111 Duchess of Portland,
the Duchesses of Bedford and Richmond, the Marquis of
Camden and the Ladies Pratt, the Marquis and 31erchioneu
of Lansdown, the Marquis and Marchioness of Hertford,
the Marchioness of Loodontlerry. the Earl and Cuentess of
Harrowby and Lady Mary Ryder, the Marquis and Mar-
Aiwa's' of Tavistock ; the Marquises of Graham, Headfort,
and Toehfield; the Earl and Countess of Jersey, the Earl
and COIIIIIIeSS of Darnley and the Ladies Blith, the Earl of
Clanwilliam, the Earl of Fife, the Earl of Egremont, the
Earl of Westmorland, Lord iTalletott, Lady G. Pane, the
Marquis and Marchiooess of Cholinourkley, Colonel and the
Hon. Lady C. Seymour, Earl sod Countess Bathurst and
the Ladies Bathurst, Lord ntol Lady Grantham, the Earl
and Countess of Aboyur, the Ladies Gordon, Earl sad
Countess Fortrecue, the Earl and Countess of Clare, the
Earl of Shaftesbury. the Ladies Ashley. Lord and Lady
pentioekohe Earl of Doooughwinre, Load Erskine, the Earl
of Glengall, Lard A. Hill, the Earl and CMllllrell of Sefton,
lord and Ladies Mulyneux, the Ladies Lennox, Lord and
Lady Belerave, the Earl sod Countess of Clownsel, the
Earl and Countess of Fleetwood, Lord sad Lady J.Thyane„
Lord and Lady Ossalston, Lord Brecknock,

FASHIONABLE PARTIES.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Dinsdown entertained
a distinguished party yesterday al Laneslowa House, Berke-
ley-square.
The Countess of Dartmoatts gave a splendid rout nn
Thursday evening, at her house iu Berkeley-square, whirls
was sitraded by upwards of inn hundred distinguished
&shim:babies.

The Connie', of Lonnale entertained a large party of
fashiunables on Thursday erening, at her house in Charles.
street, Berkeley-square.
The Countess St. Antonio has issued cards of invitation
for another grand ball uu Moods) nest, at her house in
Hanover-411rue.
lady Woltz Bentirck gives • rout this evening at her
Louse in Palk-lane.

The Duchess of GLOUCESTER, the Princess An-
GUSTS. and the Princess SOPHIA, visited the KING
yesterday.
Yesterday morning the Duchess of CLARENCE
went tl the KING'S Roller, at Kensington. on a
visit to the Duchess of KENT. Her Royal High-
ness accompanied the Duchess of KENT in her car-
riage to town.
Prince LEOPOLD dined with the Duchess of
KENT yesterday.
The Marquis of LONDONDERRY is confined to
his bed with • violent attack of gout.
Mr. and Mrs. BERKELEY and family arrived
yesterday at Wake's hotel, Jermymstrect, from
America.
Departures from fistchett's hotel. Dover-street,
Piccadilly :—Captain MICHELE. Mr.. Mrcuttc,
and Mrs. WHITBREAD, for Cambridge ; sod Capt.
POPIIAM nn a tour.

General Count STACKLEDERG, Ambassador Ex-
traordinary deputed by his Imperial Nlajraty the
Emperor of RUSSIA to attend at the Coronation of
his MAJESTY, is hourly expected to arrive in town.:;
The late residence of Mr. SPENCER STANHOPE,
in Longhorn-place, is taken, and furnished in a
superb style, for the reception of his Excellency.
Four carriages have been already engaged, with a
suitable number of domestics. Ilia F.xcellency
has already been in England in a diplomatic situa-
tion.
A subscription has been raised for the purpose of
establishing a pack of fox hounds within that part
of the county of Warwick usually considered as
the Warwickshire limit, and the management has
been accepted by EVELYN J. SHIRLEY, EKI. of
Eatington Park.—/ Woreewler Journal.)

NATURAL HISTOLY.--We understand thut
M.M. the Directors of the Jordia de Bed have
received instructions from his MAJMY to place the Royal
Menagerie upon a route extensive fouling, slid, shove all,
to introduce a system of greater domestication. These irt•
structions have doubtlessly arisen from the perusal of an
interesting Essay which was forwarded to the Directors, on
the success of the system in the Meoarrie of Exeter
'Change, of London, where it has been attended by the most
wonderful effects, there having been an accession of Lions,
Panthers, Jackslla, and even Munkies, by birth in the dens
of the Establishment. It is allowed by French Naturalist.,
that the greatest praise is due to the Director of the London
Menagerie for his truprecerketed care and a•eentiow, which
have thus operated a chalice in the nature of the most fero-
cious tsunami.. The birth of a monkey which has taken
piece there within the last fortnight, has excited the wonder
of the Directors of she Parisian Menagerie, such an instance
Never baviuß before hives. witnessed. We hear that M.
Caws, the Director of the Exeter 'Change Menagerie, is
rewarded for his exertions by the slailyaisits of all the Ant
families in Fogisoid, okra r.ipod to views .his .xtensive and
well-conducted Establishment,—(Preach roper)

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'Aar idght 'the- iettiss'eentellidtail• iirk the ettatedy
!of the Heir at• Lets, sad the, sausie.l ettrstregmits
temilled Giesummi• is Lanka,-Wet ifisetits bettett
of Mr. RODWILL. "The ItOttoe, ittliventitdett
,excetni; and the dress eircfe,.bfled '6ith beillity and
fiteltion;jiieselairs corp d'ail of the 'west gpktorlitt
• kind. The appearance of the hotter mast ,have
been extremely flattering to Mr. it 00W E
though not more than • jnit retarn • for his
and obliging conduct. At the conelusion of the
play an epilogue Wei spoken by the perforgiers
ru-
gaged in the representation, couched in the of
a farewell address. • The entertainmests• *set ed
with great eclat.