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aentative of the Clergy, to a scat in the Cabinet, are the
measures cited in evidence of the design, which some ex-
pect to have immediately developed, for raising the Galli-
= church to its former eminence. We are certainly ap-
prehensive that these measures do indicate the existence
of a design too accordant with the KING'S character.
The education of the French youth will, perhaps, be sub-
jected to the absolute control of the Clergy. The people
of France can, at this day, hardly be carried back to the
base ignorancc and degrading superstition of the people of
Spain and Italy ; but much will probably be done to re-
ti 74: the wh:desome progress of public knowledge, and
weaken those springs of public spirit, which are supposed,
and supposed justly, to preshvith peculiar force against
the power of the Priesthood.

In the German Papers we received last night, we hare,
rig Leghorn, some accounts rei,ecting the Egyptian expe-
dition ; according to which it appears to be of a truly for-
midable description, and likely to be productive of consi-
derable mischief to the Greeks. The troops, we fear, are
well disciplined and well provided. If the Viceroy be
sinctre in his design to aid the Porte, the independence of
Greece will be seriously menaced from that quarter. The
assistance the able and ambitious Viceroy has received
from the apostate Frenchmen in his service, will render
him a dangerous enemy to the Christians in the Mores.
They are now happily united and supplied with money.
May they triumph over the barbarous infidels! We ob-
serve, with joy, that some fresh disasters are anticipated to
have befallen the Capitan Pacha. The following are
extracts :
LZOITORN, :ZIPT. 3.

A ship from Malta arrived here to-day, after five days passage.
We expected that it would bring us some recent accounts of the
affairs of Greece, but the Captain affitras, that no late news had
been received at Malta. The letters will not be delivered till to.
Accounts from Alexandria say, that the expedition had with it
eighty cannons, forty howitzers, and twenty mortars. The fine
appearance and discipline of the troops were universally admired.
The Viceroy, they say, was much affected on taking leave of his
son InaAelx Pacha, and that he said to him, " IBRAHIM. if
God should give you the victory, prove by your humanity that you
are worthy of it ; be an enemy to the enemy, but protect the de-
fenceless." There are different opinions respecting the first object
of the expedition. Some letters say that it is Hydra, and others
Samos.
SEILIX, SEPT. I.

Though we have no news from Constantinople respecting the
removal of the Sersskier Dervish Pacha from the command, it ap-
pears to be confirmed, tf we may believe letters from Seres Of the
12th of this month. But it was reported there that Jussur, Paella
of Patrass, would have his place.
SITTZMPER 2.

Later letters from Seres, of the 14th August, again speak in
mysterious terms (as they did on the retaking of lowa by the
Greeks) of some new misfortune which h... befallen the Caphan
Pasha in the Archipelago. The Greeks are full of joy, and inter-
pret these obscure passages in their own favour. They say that
the result of the expedition of the Capitan Pasha against Samos,
might have been long since known, if it had been successful. But
before we pay attention to these conjectures, It vould be advisable
to wait for the next mail from Constantinoplo.
A new Company, upon a large scale, has Just been
formed in the City, feir the purpose of applying Mr.
liaowN's Gas Engine to the propelling of wheel carriages.
The capital is ‘200.009/., in shares of lot. each, of which
ten per cent. is to be deposited in advance, and no more
will be required until the projectors shall have driven a
carriage from London to York and back again, at the rate
of ten miles an hour. All the shares are already sub-
scribed for, and they expect to be enabled to Start their
first carriage in about two months from this date.
We have always looked upon Mr. Meow N's invention
111 the first discovery of the age in which we live, and we
have not the slightest doubt of the success of the experi-
ment, as the power applied is so portable, that a man of
ordinary strength might carry an engine of two-horse
power on his back ; and the quantity of power, therefore,
to give velocity, need only be limited by the necessity of
studying the safety of the passengers and the public at
large. lf, therefore, it is found that a carriage can travel,
without danger, at the rate of twenty miles an hour, the
necessary power can be rpplied quite as easily as if it was
only required to propel it at the rate of ten. We have no
doubt, therefore, that after the experimental carriage has
made its first trip, shares will rise IW per Cent.

Despatches, dated the Bth of August, were yesterday re-
ceived at the Colonial Office, from the Earl of Chatham,
at Gibraltar. The garrison continued healthy.
The following news has been received by the Greek
Committee, in a letter dated Ancona, 31st August, to which
place they hail been sent from Missolonghi:—" Dervish
Pacha having reached Marathon, with an army of 14,000
men, was attacked by the Greeks, at first but 800 in num-
ber; being reinforcesi by 5,000 men, they routed the
Turks, took possession of their baggage, and the Pacha and
600 of his followers were all that escape:l. Many of the
enemy were slain, and many taken prisoners. Those who
conceal themselves in the woods arc pursued by the con-
querors. All the Turks who landed at !pure were, with-
out exception, destroyed. The conduct of the brave Ipsa-
riots was worthy of their former fame; the women took up
arms and fought to defend their country. A convoy, con-
sisting of many foreign vessels, levied by the Turks for
the carriage of provisionr, was attacked by the Greeks, and
taken, after a combat of eight hours, in the roadstead of
Chio. The prises are two corvettes, one sloop of war, and
filly-three transports; a Turkish frigate was burnt, and
the fleet has taken refuge in Smyrna. The Capitan Pacha
is at Mitylene, and the vi ii tut Admiral Miaouli is confi-
dent of further triumphs."
SOCIETY TOR THE PREVENTION 01? CRINE.—II will
be within the recollection of our readers, that on Monday,
the 7th instant, a meeting was held at the London Coffee-
houe, Ludgate-hill, a eery full report of which we gave
on the loll:ming mornii g. In another part of our Paper
this day, will be found t: e resolutions then agreed to ; anti
we are now enabled to sate some further particulars con-
nected with the progress of the institution. On Monday,
the 11th instant, the Committee appointed at the general
meeting held their first cenference. S:r I'. Laurie was pre-
sent, and the subseriptien book was opened by the Worthy
Knight, with a donatien of 201. The Committee, after
despatching so:ne prelin Mary business, considered that
it would be proper to adjourn until the Ohl Bailey
Sessions had nearly terminated. iu order that, by a care-
ful investigation of the several CAWS which came be-
fore the Court, a fair estimate might be inatle of the
probable utility of the proposed Institution. One case
that has attracted their n trice deserves to be men-
tioned. It occurred before Mr. Curist, at Hicks 's Ilall,
on Friday last. A perren namel Turnbull was charged
with stealing a piece of bacon. The prisoner tacitly ad-
mitted his guilt, but appealed strongly to the feelings of
the Court, urging that he was driven by want to the theft.
' He stated that he was master of five foreign languages, and
had had an extensive mercantile establishment at Ham-
burgh, which had been ruine I by the dishonesty of his
partner. He had in consequence returned to England, and
having exhausted his means, was cotnpelled to have re-
course to the shocking alternative of begging or
stealing. The worthy Chairman lament.d that a person
of so much enterprise anti talent should he placed in so
disgraceful a situation, and in consideration of his former
respectability, sentenced him to a confinement commen-
surate only to a nominal fine. Such are the cues to which
this Society will particularly direct its attention. Approv-
ing of its objects as we do, anti anxious as we are to
facilitate them, we shall wr.cli and report its progress from
time to time.