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Vitsin.silver pays 10 per cent. and east.
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the penolties in tine of the discovery of fraud, which
ore very severe."
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PRIVATK CORRESPONDENCE.

Estraet from a private letter, dated Corfu,
July I,
The Greeks are not getting on as they ought ;
in fact 'they seen, to be rather too much of the
Neapolitan breed.-t)try have °reran ;be Mores.
eturstiut up the Turks in their fortresses, but they
have not the pluck In attack them there. although
many of them are in a ruinous state; any measures
that seem to risk the foss of a life, they most cau-

tiously avoid. 'fleas &sr a people who are endea-
vouring to recover their liberties, is not the way to'
succeed, and ;then;their cruelties with the few un-
fortunate Turks is beyond belief; a female who
wottosplian!ls • Greek ship of war, the other day
•ttidasasd at a slow tire, six Turks of distinction that
into her hands, and they do say actually eat
part of one of them; sad they cat off the hands
and legs of their Plisoners, and hung them up on
their yard-aim. I wish their comae well, but dis-
approve of their conduct, for if any thing wilrtend
to drivt the Turks into • religious •war, this is the
way, and if once they can be roused in -Asia, you
may rely they will xurue down .with an
foice and annihilate the Greeks. Old Ali still
holds out."

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THE • BRI:11 Sft ES:4.

LONDON,
WEDNESDAY, Jevr ts, Mt.

Report stile, that Ministers hare &trysdy rem,
ineticed the work of retrenchment to which they
stand pledged by the limo's Speech at the close of
the late S+,s,ion of Parliament. The glia, 92.1, and
93d regiments of foot, and the 7th Dragoon
Guards, are, it is said, intended for reduction.
The complement of men in each company of
the remaining regiment*, and the Second Majors,
it is also said, will be reduced. The sale•
ries of the. olprlto -46 .It the public offices are
also to suffer a coniiderable diminution. One report
states, that Al salaries above two hundred a year,
are to be reduced 10/. per cent. Another report
states that the reduction will he on a graduated
scale, viz. all salaries from 2001. to 5001. a year, a
reduction of 5 per cent.; from 5001. a year to
1,000/. ■ reduction of 10 per cent. ; and all
above 1,0001. a year a reduction of 15 per cent.
From the hill in the price of the necessaries of life,
particularly the article of bread, it is estiusated.that
the salaries thus reduced furni4i means of subsist.
ence equal to their produce at the time the -parties
became possessed of them.

A person of the name of Bele or Bert was fined
Yesterday in the Guildhall of the City of London,
for the publication of a seditious libel, upon online-
formation filed against hint, ex officio, by the At..
TORKelf-GENERAL. The Defendant, it seems,
was a servant or shopmati to the bookseller, CAR-
/ALE ; and the libel charged in the information
was published in an infamous paper called the
Republican. Thr libel was a gloss and malignant
attack upon the Kura personally ; and it is only
to be lamented that x person standing in the situa-
tion of a thopmon eliaidd be the Defendant in the
prosecution, instead of the individual who had dared
to compose amd publisitsuch indecent scurriliiy.The
Jury, without any twin:Awn, found the Defendant
Gadfly. The prosecution in this instance was condtict-
ed by the SoutotTua-Gfisteaot., who, in the course
of his address to the Jury, made some allusions to the
state Of public feeling upon the subject of es
officio informations, and the Bridge-strierSociely,
which it is impossible to let pass without notice.
The Learned Gentleman observed, that a " marked
change had taken place in public opinion with re-
spect to es Iffitio informatiolis—formerly it was COD.
sidered a sort of hard• hip 011 r defendant to he put
upon his trial by the ATTORNILINGIMERAL, but
it was now thought better that such a power should
exist in, and be exercised by • known arid respon-
sible officer, who could be called to account for
any misapplication of his authority." The Sour;
curat-GENEII•I. here evidently alluded to the ex-
pression of public Itching upon the unwereautable
assumption of ministerial authority by the Bridge-
street Association, but he does not fairly state the
question in dispute. There is no " marked change"
in public opluieu with respect to ex officio infer-
matioos, it is still felt as much as ever " to be a
hardship on a defendant" In be put upon his trial
by the tele usitheriir of the Arroastr-OsepliAL,

, intervention or a Grand Jury, so that
coutiormoiht„iireciselipthesmue torte as it
previous tes.tbe loesdidiabment ofKt prettnaled.
!onstitotionsl Asserefation." Whito.thsi public
. that • sell:constitated Society should
the discretionary power of the Ministers
;town, and without any responsibility select
for prosecution such of their fellow-subjects as to.
.them may seem it, it was-ttot.intended to institute
P.:comparisou between such • mode of proceeding
and the filing of ex edfieio informations by the AT-
TORNEY-Gillum.. Still kes could it be the in-
tention of any comparison between them to relieve
the latter from the numerous objections-which ex-
perience and common sense have long urged spinet
it. Let the character of each be determined by its
pun particular merits, but let not the energetic
,and unequivocal reprobation of the one be per-
verted into a constructive approval of the other.—
By the genius and spirit of our excellent Coo-
siltation, no subject of this realm ought to be
put upon his trial for an of&nce, strictly poli-
tical, unless sit the prosecution of the responsible
Officers of the Crown, but even their authority and
their discretion, checked though they be by the
controlling force of public opinion, and by the re-
straints imposed by the forms of the Constitution,
ought not alone to he sufficient for such a purpose ;
but every charge against en individual ought, in the
.
tint instance; to be Submitted to the consideration of a
Grand Juty,aorl no man's liberty or fortune be plat-
;ad in jeopardy without the sanction of their high an-
.lhority. We do not however mean to say, that the
irroan sv-Ge mat AL is not warranted by law in
"Illing informations ex ttfieio, neither do we mean
quarrel with the Learned Gentleman for the
manner in which he has exercised his discretionary
iiithority. We certainly should he well pleased
Alm political libels were bound to be prosecuted
Onecording to the forms prescribed in other political
offeaces, such as high tree.on, seditious -riots, and
the holding of seditious assemblies, and that the
intervention of a Grand Joey were as essential in
the former se in any of the latter. But we have no
limitation in saying, that as the law invests theAT-
71,11ttettY-GBNIERAL in eases ,of libel with-a power
'.quivalent to that of the grand inquest, we should
.roepose with much greater confidence in the judg-
AMent, mercy, and discretion of the Arrottwev-
ii-,
yENERAL, as a responsible Officer of the Crown,
•thati in the mat-ie never qualities of any self-con-
.stituted Society.

We have received Paris Papers of Saturday last.-
The Journal de Paris asserts positively that Baron
STROGONOFF, the Russiad Ambassador to the
Polite, has been sent to the Seven Towers. The
Constitutionnel says, that this intelligence bad
reached the office of that Paper three drys pre-
viously, but that the Editor was prohibited from
publishing it. Are we to understand from this,
that the censors of the press prohibited the pobli•
cation of this important circumstance, su long as
it seemed to the Government of France to want
authenticity, but that the truth of the state-
ment being now ascertained, the Journals of
Paris are iftwed to give it publicity ? This
is an inference which the condition of the public
press in France may at all times warrant,
but we cannot sccount mach upon it in the pre-
sent instance, from the circumstance that the
Moniteur dors not repeat the statement. Should the
statement prove true, no doubt can then exist of
the immediate commencement of hostilities be-
tween Russia and Turkey, for the committal of an
Ambassador to the Seven Towers has been itnme-
morially considered by the Turkish Government
as equivalent to a formal declaration of war.
The event is not mentioned in any of the Ger-
man Papers. The Constitutionnel adds, that the
other Ambassadors of Christian Powers remon-
strated with the Porte upon this flagrant .viola-
tion of international law, and demanded that the
Baron STROOONOFF should be sent to Odessa, but
the Porte, with its characteristic obstinacy, paid no
regard to their interference.
The latest intelligence from Madrid represents
that capital as being perfectly tranquil. The
scceinuts from various other parts of Sp.iiii
concur in representing • the several parts of the
Peninsula respectively as enjoying un uniform
state of peace and confidence. Meatrso's efforts
to excite a civil war were the last feeble attempt of
the .partisans of the old system to disturb the Con-
stitution, hut his band of robbers is dispersed, aid
Alsetsio himself is said to have been obliged to
seek fur safely in France.

The French Fi►e per Cents. were on Saturday
last $5 f. 85 c.; Bank. Stork, 1,517 1. 50 c.

The Portuguese squadron front Rio Janeiro with
the ROyllt Family mutt suite un board, arrived at
Lisbon 041 the 3d instant.

The tOth regiment is on its march from Houns-
low to liiigliton.
A recent promotion in the Life Guards is a sub-
ject of much conversation among military men.
The late Earl of STA IR left 2,2001. to be distri-
buted amongst the poor in the several parishes iis
Scotland in which his estates were situated.
Mr. Gsoaaa Wass HALL'S Committee have
just publi►hed a Report, expressing their diva's-
pointnieut at their late defeat, re-urging their old
arguments, and calling upon the cultivators of the
soil throughout the kingdom to renew their system
of pentiouiog for high pricer.

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nations.
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