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lion mule to the Porte by the British Ambassador
On the Bth of February, which must necessarily
claim • large portion of general interest in this
country. 'Fite Eitglish note urged that the system
adopted by all the Powers of Europe rootempl.ited
the observance of • general peace fdunded upon
the strict °lntervener of treaties; that every Power
which forgot this principle was regarded as • dig-
tartlet of the public. tranquillity; and that the
Porte having neglected to fulfil its engagements
with llus•ia with regard to the two provinces,
Russia would declare wet., and the Allied Powers
wont(' regard Turkey as bring opposed to the
system of general tranquillity. Tu these several
paints the Reis Effendi replies with ;to incon.
►iderable force of expression. Ile claims fur the
Porte the merit of being es desirous to main-
tain the• general tranquillity of Europe as any
other Power, and while he admits the right of
ttse Court of Russia to interfere on behalf of the
CI ate inh.bitiints of Wallachia and Moldavia,
re retorts upon that Power the charge of having
failed to fulfil the subsisting treaties, by withhold-
ing from the ['Otte several fortresses on the Asiatic
froatier, and by refusing to surrender MtcHEL,
formerly Hospodar of Moldavia, whom the Turks
accuse of having been the chief promoter of the late
insurrection in that province. The Porte expresses
its willingness to evacuate the provinces when the
rebellion of the Greeks shall be suppressed, but the
tight is claimed of maintaining, until the restoration
of tranquillity, a military force within them suffi-
cient for the purpose of suppressing insurrection,
and of p ing the inhabitants in security and
peace. We find in this note sufficient to account
foe some of the retrogressive military movements of
the Turkish forces which were lately noticed in the
German Papers, and more of humanity is at least
assained by the Porte than public opinion has been
generally disposed to attribute to the Turkish Go-
vernment. The Reis Effendi asserts that the
Porte, in its anxiety to relieve the provinces u
much as passible from the burdens of military occu-
pation, voluntarily withdrew • considerable portion
of its troops with its heavy artillery. IVe fear, for
the honour of the Sublime Porte, that this volum
tory reduction of its military strength in the pro-
misees beyond the Dauube, is to be ascribeil rather
to the absolute exhaustion of the provinces than to
the tender mercies of the Divan.
Upon the general character of this note we may
observe, that its tone, if not actually pacific, is cer-
tainly very far from justifying the assertions which
bad been made in the German and Paris Papers re-
specting it. So far is the note from being deficient
in courtesy to the British Ambassador, that it is in
fact marked by peculiar complaisance, and distim
gaieties the accomplished Nobleman to whom it is
addressed by :he flattering phrase "our friend."
It is difficult to imagine by what train of untoward
cirtaamtiatiees it could happen that the peace of
. the Continent should be disturbed by Powers, each
of whom warmly •vows its anxiety to avoid so
Altesdful a necessity, and when the proceedings of
both are reviewed, and in some degree regulated
-mad controlled by • powerful alliance, the main ob-
ject of which. i• Use swot mistutensoce of the public
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Preno6 Freda ea she ems.—Fire per Cent. Consols, S 7 r.
.65r.; B•ok Stock, I,SOO f.

iismiaergh Papers lose arrive& They contain
gest" from M. Peteriburgh to the letb last. It yrs. expect.
-ea is that capital that the arrival of M. Da Tariscsavr,
• whiu was presweesti is be sear at bard, will diselwas seem-
, ibis/ deeilive asopeelleg Terkel.

t. !
Yesterday the Earl tityleill'ooLimitipg so-
diem.e of the KING.
south Sea Stock advancrd yesterday a half per
ceet, is the anticipation that the South Sea Cab-
,: pony will be engaged in taking a considerable part
• of the annuity coutract with Govermeent.
Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the
Fast India House. whets Captain Teowas WILD-
LOCI ALDHAII, of the ship Aslell. took leave of
''the Court previous to departing for 51adrai and
-
• A deputation of the Hon. Commissioners of Cos-
toms have been pawing some days at Plymouth,
engaging themselves Ina minute inspection into the
dep.trtmeut these established. They are making •
tour atlas kip doal upon a similar mission.
4ztrset iiinsu a private letter, dated Bruges,
• April 3, 132t:—" We have last week diecuveted
that we have Ueda black sheep amongst rev in this
town, in the form of a dirty Lando. spy. awned
Sinclair, alias Forbes. 'sluts ?leasing. alias Ihe
sated flacks, ; hut when discovered lie war obliged
• to take instant flight: where gone we know not, but
it a good riddance."
The bead-quarter, of the 9th Innen were moved
dal, at a abort Notice, from Coon, bury fin &Vitus, to re.
line the 10th horrors.
Sending [matins to Ireland would some time
since have winded as sending coals to Newcastle;
'hot we learn that the exportation of this now gene-
. nil article of foam', from Penzance tat Cork, has

ben carried ou for several weeks. Ou Sunday last
the Like, OATS master, sailed with r third csigu
of potatoes from the former for the latter nort.—.
A cOnaidenible quantity of potatoes may be ob-
tained in this county without any inconvenience to
. the inhabitants. Ewe new poiatues are new sell-
, tog at Penzance at from is. to Is. 4d. a gallon.—
&refer 4asette.l
Early in the morning of the 45th alt, the house
pf the High Sheriff of Gloucestershire, S. FLarcusa
111/sLcu, E•g. in Bath-street, Cheltenham, was
-broken open, and robbed of a gold watch, various
articles, of jewellery, I. in petrol, and other
peopeitysompunting to upwards of 3001.—Seventy.
five gai's... have been offered as a rewsed fur the
apprtbeusiou of the uffeudere.