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THE EMBASSY TO RUSSIA.

CiONSTADT, delve 10, 1826.—The Gloucester, of 71,
guns, arrived here two days ago, having on board a part of
the suite of the Duke of Devonshire, with the domestics
sad the luggage, after a tedious passage from England of
thirty days. It appears that they had to struggle with
contrary and baffling winds all the way from the Nore to
the entrance of the Sound, and after that met with calms
and light winds, when the Meteor steam-boat, which ac-
companied them, proved of the greatest service in towing
them along, at the rate of two or three miles an hour.
This was more especially the case in passing through the
grounds opposite Copenhagen, where there is not more than
twenty-five or twenty-six feet of water, and where it is,
therefore, an exceedingly difficult matter for a ship of the
line to sail across. Nothing could exceed the civility and
kindness of the Danes, who seem Row to be wholly free
from recollections even of their former enmity, and to en-
tertain the most friendly disposition towards England.
The moment the Gloucester anchored, an officer was sent
from Copenhagen with offers of assistance, and to supply
whatever might be wanted, and Government vessels were
soon afterwards sent from their dock-yard with water for
the ship. Every one was struck with the beauty of the
Island of Zealand, all the coast from Elsinore to the capital
being fringed with fine trees and underwood, down to the
water's edge, intersected by villas and pretty white-washed
villages, reminding one of Southampton river on a large
scale, and the fine verdure like the beautiful green of Paul
Potter's pictures.
The Duke of Devonshire, with Lord Morpeth, Mr.
Cavendish, and other gentlemen of his suite, left the line
of-battle ship off Agland, an island at some distance from
the entrance of the Gulf of Finland, and came here in the
steam-boat five days ago. The most marked and flattering
honours and attentions were paid to hint by all the Rus-
sian Authorities; all the Admirals and General Officers
hastening to wait on him on board the steam-boat, while
each man of war fired a salute, as well as the forts on
shore; so that the loud anti continued reports made the
welkin ring again, even through all the streets and distant
' palaces of St. Petersburgh. Indeed every thing has been
' done to mark the amicable feeling that exists between the
two nations, as well as to testify the friendship and regard
which the Emperor has for the Duke, with whom he lived
on the most intimate and familiar footing when in Eng-
land. Every one bete, who has had access to his Grace,
speaks highly of his courtesy, and of the pleasing and af-
fable reception they met with.

Yesterday Sir Herbert Taylor transacted military busi-
ness with the Duke of York at Mr. Greenwood's villa at
Brompton. The Royal Duke continues improving towards
recovety. On Monday afternoon his Royal Highness rode
out in his dose carriage, passed through St. James's Park,
and viewed the buildings for his future residence.
We understand that it is the intention of his Royal
Highness the Duke of Sussex, with the other branches of
the Royal Family, and many other illustrious personages,
to attend the Fete at Vauxhall-gardens, on Thursday
next, for the benefit of the Spanish and Italian Refugees ;
and it is supposed, from the numerous applications for
tickets, the Gardens will be extremely well and fashionably
attended.

The Duchess of Kent, the Duchess of Gloucester, and
the Princess Feodore, visited the Princess Augusta yester-
day. Her Royal Highness was better yesterday. The
Princess Victoria paid a 'visit to her Royal Aunt on
Monday.
Last evening the Duchess of Kent and the Princess
Feodore honoured the Italian Opera with their presence.
Yesterday afternoon, at two o clock, a Cabinet Council
was held at the Foreign Office in Downing-street, which
had been summoned to meet since last Thursday, by teder
of Mr. Secretary Canning. The Cabinet was fully at-
tended, there being present the Lord Chancellcr, the Earls
of Harrowhy, Liverpool, Westmorland, and Bathurst;
the Duke of IVellingtutr, Mr. Secretary Peel, Mr Secretary
Canning, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Viscount Mel-
ville, Mr. Wynn, Mr. Iluskiason, and Lord Bexley. The
Council continued iu close deliberation upwards of three
hours.

Yesterday the Earl of Westmoreland had a numerous
party at dinner, at his lions, in Grosvenor-square.
Yesterday Lord Charles Somerset transacted business
wi h Earl Bathurst at the Colonial Office.

On Saturday, Sir HenryHaWord. after attending on the
Duke of York and the Pllncess Augusta, left town for
Oxford, in consequence of the death of his brother, Dr.
Vaughan, the Master of Merton College.
The Ring has been pleased to grant to Sir Thomas
Lawrence his royal license and permission to accept and
wear the insignia of the Royal Order of the Legion of
Honour, which the King of France has conferred on
him ; and his Majesty has also been pleased to grant to Sir
IL Pymm, Knt. to accept and wear the insignia of the
Portuguese Military Order of the Tower and Sword.
Mr. Price, the American Manager, has become the Les-
see of Drury-lane Theatre, having taken the contract off
the hands of Mr. Bish, in consideration of receiving from
the latter hi; deposit of two thousand pounds. The Cam-
nui
tee signified, through Mr. Calcraft, their assent to this
arrangement, on Saturday evening. Mr. Price leaves Lon-
don in a few days fur the United States, and will be back
by the middle of October, to superintend the opening of
Drury-lane.
A donaition of 12,000 francs has recently been made to
the hospitals of Paris, through the medium of M. Lafitte,
by a benevolent individual who remains anonymous.
Considerable excitation existed in this city (Glasgow)
yesterday, when the intelligence became generally known
of the failure of the Stirling Bank. This circumstance
will be laid hold upon by some croakers as another argument
against the stability of the Scotch Banking System. It Is
unfortunate,howevcr, for such disputants, that every penny,
it is declared.will be paid by the Stirling Bank, and that not-
withstanding the unparalleled state of trade, and the los►es
which a bank, circumstanced as it has been, must have
endured, there are twenty shillings in the pound to ulti-
mately satisfy all claimants. But a feathrr in times like
these weighs like lead,—what would otherwise not be
thought of becomes now a matter of moment, and there are
plenty of spirits abroad ready to declare that a puddle in
a storm is a current-of the ocean.—Glii.vgiiie Free Press.

TURKEY.

(Official.)
NOTE OF THE OTTOMAN PORTE,

AMINES/ED TO M.MINZIACKY, CHARGE D'AFFAIRES OF Rtt.
/lA, DATED THE 7TH OF THE MOON or I.EZIVAL, IN
THE YEAR (Or THE HEGIRA) 1241 (may 113, 1826.)
The Sublime Porte has taken into consideration the contents of
the official Dote dated the 24th March, which the Charge d'Af-
faires, our very illustrious friend M. de Minsiacky, remitted to us
at his last interview. The transla, inn of this note is to the effect,
that his Majesty the Emperor of Russia, in consequence of his
pure and benevolent intentions, demands and desires that the
mode of nomination, and the duties of the Ileschli-Aga., as well
as the number of the Ileschli soldiers in the provinces, may
be restored to the same footing as that on which they were
placed before the disturbances; that the Servian Deputies
who are now at Constantinople in the custody of the Dos-
tanilgi-Pacha, may be set at liberty; and that Plenipoten-
tiaries may be apqrointed on both sides. to meet an the ?tontine, in
order to bring about, and to terminate by arrangements equally sa-
tisfactory to both parties, the negotiations formerly commenced at
Constantinople, between the Delegates of the Sublime Porte and
the former Minister of the Court of Russia, M. de Strogonor,
which had been suspended by circumstances.
It is manifest and generally understood, that the Sublime Porte
at all times, be determining to execute folly the stipulations and
engagentents contracted with all friendly and neighbouring Posers,
has constantly endcavn•.red to maintain relations of good
genre with them. In tutu:armee of this principle, being equally
animated by tae desire of settling, in a manner conformable to the
clear ,tipulations of treaties, the matters in which the respective
Dekga•es had previously begin to negotiaie, and anxious to re-
mote anti destroy by that means every subject of difference between
the tw • Courts, the :sublime Porte will t.ot at any time allow itself
to reuse its adhesion to such an arrangement upon the beset. and
principles then adopted. Moreover, his Majesty the Emperor of
Russia, being moved by a sentiment of uprightness and good faith,
having at this movement testified, with his usual benevolence, a
desire to consider of the best means for cementing a sincere amity
between the two Empires, and having proposed to negotiate accord-
ing to the treaties, on the basis °fright and justice, without mixing
any other questio is therewith. the Sublime Porte acknowledges in
this step a proof of the distinguished equity and moderation which
characterize that Monarch. Accordingly, being anxious on its
part to testify to hie said Majesty its high defrrence and its particu-
lar respect, the Porte hastens promptly to comply with the demands
above-mentioned, considering the sincere and cordial adhesion
which it gives to them as a happy presage of the speedy re-establish-
ment of harmony between the two Courts.
In the first place, the intention of the Sublime Porte was to pre-
serve, not only the established privileges which the two Principali-
ties of Moldavia and Irailseitia enjoy, but the public peace and
tranquillity of the two Provinces, and that without any interested
views.

The Sublime Porte considered the existence of the Resell:II-Ages,
and of their adherents, as nee:story for the maintenance of good
order. Nevertheless, as there is nothing which can be preferred to
the wish of a groat friend, an order sent separately to the Governor
of Silistria, enjoins hint to withdraw ta this side the Danube Ilse
Basch-beschli-Ages, with their adherents ; and another order, sent
separately to the Woiwodes, enjoins them to appoint themselves
die Baselt.beschli-Agas, who a.e to supersede the former • but that
every thing T.:spec:Mg the number and employment of die private
nese-bits, shall be conducted exactly as was done before the Insur-
rection. In this manner the stales quo is re-established in these
two principalities.
In like manner, the Servian nation, also participating in all the
favours which the great mercy of his Highness accords to all other
people subject to the Sublime Porte, there has been notutirg in his
conduct towards the said nation but an accumulation of benevolence
and protect inn. If then for some time its Deputies at Constantinople
have been lodged as hostages in a place ad hue, this measure has been
dictated only by a feeling of solicitude for ere welfare and tranquillity
of their nation. However, as it is notorious that hitherto the said
Servian nation has constantly abstained from uniting with the other
malcontents, and as the duration of the stay of the, said Deputies
has been prolonged ; in consequence of this, in order to settle with
theta such demands us may not be contrary to the dignity of the
throne, and iii consequence of the soli:tit:l64MS of the said Deputies
who are at Constantinople, they have been permitted to leave their
confinement and to reside in the 11011%.3 which they formerly occu-
pied at the Fowl. On the other hand, skce, according to recent
Intelligence front the Paella of Belgrade, it is proposed to cause
these Deputies to 60 superseded by new ones, this intention coin-
citing at the same time with that of his Righnent, arid out of regard
to the good pleasure of his 3lajesty the Emperor of Russia, the ar-
ticle relative to the liberation of the said Deputies has been executed
innitettiately.
In the third place as to what regards the nominalon of the re-
spective Plenipotentiaries, as it has been expressly stated in the
note above cited that the resumption of the discussions formerly be-
gan at Constantinople by M. de Stroganoff, is proposed with the
benevolent intention of strengthening the good understanding be-
tween the two States, and the greatest desire of the Sublime Porte
being also to perform the clear stimilations of existing treaties, tire
adhesion of the Sublime Pottc to the deinands of the Court of Rus-
sia takes place in the hope of seeing the relations of good intelli-
gence strengthened between the two Courts in consequence of the
conferences in which the principles formerly established shall be
adopted, without raising any pretensions not contained in the trea-
tics, and without introducing any new clauses,or wishing to change,
extend, or modify the existing stipulutions--aclhering, on the con-
trary, in every respect to the clear letter of the treaties, and con-
forming to their precise meaning. For this purpose, and in order
to continue faithful to the prineMles formerly establisited,the servant
of the Sublime l'orte, Seta Mettemcd Ila,ii-Cfr-ndi, the present
Controllor of Anatolia, has been appointed Plenipotentiary, and the
Molloli Sed Ibrahim-A fet.Effendi, invested with the rank of Dfolluh
(of Scutaria and Provisional Coda of Sophia, has been nominated as
second Plenipotentiary, in order to meet on the frontiers the Plenipo-
tentiaries of the Court of Russia, who shall be appointed and an-
nounced for duo purpose. The execution of all these points on the part
of the Sublime Porte, and the proofs of deference and respect which
it has just given, being worthy of the justice which characterizes
his Imperial Majesty, and its language being also an increase of
honour, his Highness hopes that in return his said Majesty will
make it his business to execute and confirm the existing stipula-
tions, which will cement more and more the amity and good un-
derstanding between the two Courts. It is to express this hope.
and to declare also, in writing, to cur friend the Charge trViires
the execution of the above articles, notwithstanding the notifica-
tion which has already been made to him through the medium of
his Drngoinan, 31. Panchini, that the present official note has been
drawn up and transmitted.

It is reported that Lord Cochrane has been assured by
the British Government, that it would not concern itself
with his proceedings, if lie did not enter an English port.
It is affirmed that the Holy Alliance 'man to defer the
promulgation of the Portuguese Constitution, till the
Governments have time to make representations to the
Emperor, Don Pedro.
'I he following are a few additional particulars concern-
ing the revolt of the Janissaries:—
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T!e Ministers had assembled in a tent pitched on the Aimei-
den, under the Presidency or the Grand Vizier, llussein Paaa, I
and the 3lufti, and formed themselves into a tribunal to try the
rebels. Ail the Jaaitisatics alto bad been taken with arms lu their
-bands, but principally their Vstas old the other off:errs wl o bad
previously sworn to adopt the reform, were, after a short exam -
nation, executed. The less guilty were cuilducted to the prison s
of the llostanje .he 17th, while this tribunal was sti.l
sitting, a proclamation was published, which dissolved for ever the
corps of Janissaries, devoted their name to execration, ai.d there, d
the formation of rcolar and disciplined treops, under the name t f
d'aahoi litithanlNtedije, fur the defence of the empire and of la ,
m s It. _ _

At the same time the citizens and peaceable inhabitants of the
capital were invited to open their shops, which had been slut
for thaw days, and to pursue their usual occupations. No one
was allowed my mere to appear in the dress of a Janissary, or to
lam. that name.

" All their barracks were destroyed front top to bo:tmi ; their
kettles, which had been so often the signal of revolt, broke., ; the
distinctive marks of the mai or regiments, taken away, trample I
upon by the Mufti, and destroyed. In line, every thing has beet
annihilated which formerly pertained to this militia, once so for.
guidable. All the posts hitherto occupied by the Janissaries have
been surrendered to the cannoniers and the Bostangis; and at the
24 gates of the city there have been established us many Kapidshi-
bashi, with u guard of 24 men of these troops.
The following day the Grand Viz'er transferred the seat of
Onvernment front Attneitlan to the First Court of the Seraglio,
where the Ministry since scrotinded with armed turn, trar:satt
Cusitters under tents, whilst, in the other parts of that Court, the
troops are exercised in the European fashion.
" In spite of the promptitude with which the tcruzgle has been
decith4 in the interior of the city, people were nit entirely at
ease about the issue which it was going to take, while they were
ignorant of the part which the garrisons on the Bosplur us were to
t ike, the Yamacs, known in the former it surrections cf the Ja
nissaries. But the latter not only kept perfectly quiet, but even
declared that they were disposed to co-operate in maintaining get d
order, and assisting the Sultan with all their force to cverthrow
the mutineers. The Wand Seignor thanked diem for their good
intentions, and sent them a present of 31$J purses, to be disided
amongst the garrisons of the castles. The tptestien is now, whether
1 the Pareses Phan be permitted to retain the prevent organization ;
for they do not appear disposed to adopt the new one, and Hussein
Perlis, whose penetration nothing that can endanger the present
i state ofthings escapes, will not assuredly lose sight of these castles
and their garrisons."

SECRET MEMOIRS OF TUE ROYAL FAMILY' OF
IRA NCE OCR lA6 TOE RECOLUTIOX,
FROM THE JOURNAL, LETTERS, AND CONVERSATION., or
TII E VIIINCESS 1..%M lIAL I. E. TIY A LADY OF RANK
THE CONFIDENTIAL SERVICE OF T HAT 11/NEORTINAIt
PRINCES&

This work, though anonymously published, can rine nn
longer be considered as an anotiymoun publication, the
authoress having avowed herself by affidavit at the Also.
sion-house, in consequence of an intimation contained Ia
the E frole, that the journal was altogether spurious. In,
deed, had she not taken this step, there might justly be
' entertained a presumption that the documents were boe
authentic, inasmuch as that, in times like the present, there
could exist no substantial reason why an author's name
should be withheld, from a work of such deep interest amt
importance—important it' true—deeply interesting at all
events.

The author, or rather the editor, of the work before us,
is Catharine Hyde, Marchioness Govion Broglio Solar'
and we are inclined to believe what she asserts, when she
says that in any other person's hands than her own the
journal would have been incomplete, as it was written in
a rambling manner, and was never intended for puisica.
tion. But connected by the conversations between the
Princess and the Marchioness, and the recital of the events
to which the latter can bear personal testimony, she trust,
it will be found the basis of a satisfactory record, which she
pledges herself to be a true one. Her motives for ioublisin
ing at the present moment seem also to be perfectly satis.
factory, for in short the publication seems to be in some
measure forced upon her by circumstances, at least by mil
circumstances as are imperative with those who are anxious
for the promulgation of truth. The Marchioness says that
she does not linow that, at her time of life, and after a lapse
of thirty years, she should have been roused to the ass
rangement of the papers which she had combined to form
the narrative, had she not met with the work of Madame
Campan upon the same subject. The Marchioness alleges
that this Lady has said much that is true respecting the
Queen ; but that she had also omitted much and miarepte.
sented a great deal, not purposely, but from ignorance and
being wrongly informed. Madame Campan herself in-
formed the Marchioness, at Econen, in 1803, that, at a
very important epoch, the peril of her life forced her from
the seat of action. With the Princess Lamballe, who was
so much about the Queen, she never had any particular
connexion. The Princess esteemed her for her devotedness
to the Queen ; but there was a natural reserve in the Prin..
CCSS.F character, and a mistrust, resulting from circum-
stances, of all those who saw much company, as Ma-
dame Campan did. Hence no intimacy was en.
couraged. Her being thus utterly isolated from the
illustrious individual nearest the Queen, has necessarily
left much to be desired in her record. Without specifying
the express errors in the book of Madame Campan, the
Marchioness observes, generally, her want of knowledge of
the Princess Lamballe—her omission of many of the most
interesting circumstances of the Revolution—her silence
upon important anecdotes of the King, the Queen, and
several Members of the First Assembly—her mistakes con-
cerning the Princess Latnhalle's relations with the Duchess
de Polignac, Count de Fersen, Mirabeau, the Cardinal de
Bohan, and others—her great miscalculation of the time
when the Queen's confidence in Barnave began, and that
of the Empress Mother in Rohan ended—her misrepres
sentation of particulars relating to Joseph the Second—and
her blunders concerning the affair of the necklace, and re.
garding the libel of Madame Lamotte, published in Eng-
land with the connivance of Calonne: all these, and other
statements, the Marchioness purports to correct IV supply,
in order that the future biographer of her august benetac-
tresses may, between the two, be in no want of materials to
do justice to their honoured memories.
Having thus done justice to her motives for publication,
the next point to be ascertained is the manlier in which
the journal came into her possession. In explanation of
this matter, the Marchioness states that she was at an early
age placed in the Irish convent, Rue de Bacq, Fauxbourg
Si. Germain, at Paris, where she received lessons in music
from the immortal Sacchini, the instructor of the Queen.
Pleased with her progress, Sacchini, while teaching Marie
Antoinette, spoke so highly of her talents in the presence
of the Princess Lamballe, as to excite in her Majesty a
desire to hear her sing, a gratification which the Princess
immediately offered to obtain by going herself with
Sacchini to the convent. The result was, that the Mar-
chioness became the confidential attendant of the Prim\ Ss
Lamballe, in which character she continued until the
death of that amiable and unfortunate lady.
One evening, in reply to a question from the Marchioness,
the Princess Lamballe said, 'lt would take me an age to tell
you the many causes which have conspired against thismuch-
injured Queen. I fear none who are near her person will
escape the threatened storm that hovers over our heads.
The leading causes of the clamour against her have been,
if you must know—Nature, her beauty, her power of pleas-
ing, her birth, her rank, her marriage, the King himself,
her mother, her imperfect education, and above all, her
unfortunate partialities for the Abbe Vermont!, for the
Duchess the Polignac, for myself perhaps, anti last, but
not least, the thorough unsuspecting goodness of her heart.
But since you seem to be so much concerned for her ex-
alted persecuted Majesty, you shall have a journal I myself
began on my first coining to France, and which I have
continues! ever since I have been honoured with the con-
fidence of her Majesty, in graciously giving the that un-
looked-for situation at the head of her household, which
honour and justice prevent me renouncing., snider any diffi-
culties, anti s high I never will quit but with my life."
She wept as she spoke, and her last words were almost
choked with sobs. &wing her so much affected, the
Marchioness apologized for having unintentionally caused
her tears, and asked permission to accompany her to th..,
Tuillerics. " No," said she, " you have hitherto con-
ducted yourself with a profound prudence, which has in-
sured you my confidence. Do not let your curiosity
change your system. You shall have the journal ; but be
careful; read it only by yourself, anti do not show it to
any one. On these conditions you shell have it." The
Princess soon after left the Marchioness, first directing
that site should walk in a particular part of the private
alleys of the Tuilieries, between three and four o'clock in
the afterncon. The Marchioness was punctual, and there
received the journal from the It ends of the Princess herself.
This, then, is the history of the journal, which it must
be confessed is deeply interesting. We cannot help smiling,
however, at the pains which the Princess, and by the way,
the author also, takes to impress us with the belief that
the French Revolution was chiefly brought about by the
Queen's intimacy with the Duchess de Polignac. Heave n
preserve us I—such a revolution originating in the inti-
macy of two amiable women! Here is cause and effect
with a vengeance! If women, however, are not as deep
politicians as the other sex, they can, at all events, be jest
as faithful and as accurate recorders of facts which have
conic beneath their observation ; and facts being the main
object to he attained by the perusal of such a journal, we
tray venture to assert, that the reader will not be disap-
pointed in his labour if he devotes a few hours to the his-
tory of the unfortunate Marie Antoinette during that evc.le!.
ful period of her life, coming, as it does, from such autho-
rity as that of the l't itusess Lamballe. With this single
aservation we recommend the work to the perusal of cur
readers.

Among the features of the late remarkable drought, it
may be ►n.•ntioned, that Lincoln spring water, driven front
the conduits, formed an article of export to Boston by the
steam.packet boat.
We are sorry that we cannot communicate any improve-
ment in Glasgow during the present week. Less business
has been done than in any preCeding week of the currant
y:ar ; and we have no prospect of any immediate extension
of trade or advance of price. Among our manufacturers,
a sort of tacit understanding has lately prevailed, the',
during the continuance of the present depression, they
wculd pay a fixed rate to their weavers; but one extensete
concern has departed from the agreement, and, by the
is ue of blank tickets, has contrived to pay the operative at
a lower rate than that paid by other houses. The pittance
thus withheld from the poor weaver enables this inane -
facturer to undersell his neighbours : and thus not only to
reduce still farther the prices of goods already ruinously
low, but to break down the wages of work to a rate which
will not suffice for the bare existence of the operative. Snell
miserable policy merits the reprobation of every friend to
humanity and fair trade.—Scots Time's.