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PASB lONA BLE INTELLIGENCE.

Among the company present at the Dowager Marchioness of
Salisbury's party on Wednesday evening in Arlington-street, were
Prince Gortachakoff, most of the Foreign Ambassadors and their
Ladies, Count and Countess Lothar, the Marquis and Marchioness
of Clanricaoe, the Earl of Westmorland, the Earl and Countess
Vcrulam, Lord and Lady Burghersli, the Earl and Countess of
'Astaire', Lord St. Helens, Lady Georgina Fane, the Earl and
Countrss of Beauchamp, Sir Charles and Lady Rowley, Sir Charles
and Lady Ogle, the Vice Chancellor, Mr. and Lady Sarah Robin-
son, Lady Clifford, Lady Tanned, the Earl and Countess of Har-
court, the Marquis and Marehiones of Donegal, Lord Valletort,
Marquis of Graham, the Countess of Antrim, Dowager Lady
Hampden, Mr. and Mrs. Rice Trevor, Mr. Giles, Colonel Hobart',
Mr. and Mrs. Fremantle, Mr. Taylor, &c.
The Marquis of Lansdown had a dinner party yesterday, at
Lansdown House, Berkeley-square.
Lord King had a dinner party on Wednesday, at his house in
Dover-street, among whom were the Marquis and Marchioness of
Lansdown, Lard Ponsonby, James Scarlet', Esq., Mr. and Mrs.
Abercromby, Mr. Grenville, Mr. Tooke, Mr. Bruce. &c.
The Vice-Chancellor had a dinner and evening party yesterday,
at his house in South-street.

General Roe entertained a distinguished party at dinner yester-
day, at his house in Postiand-place.

The Marquis of Chandos arrived In town yesterday, from his
seat, Wotton, Buda.

Esrl and Countess of Damley and family have arrived in
town, for the season, (emit their seat, Cobham Han, Kent.
Lard and Lady Saye-and4lele have arrived in town from
BrWnon.
iced ilinghan) left town yesterday for Brighton.
Lord Sussex Lennox has arrived in town from a tnar.

Lord Robert Manners has arrived in town from Bs!vote Castle.

LITERATURE.

A r.rxagnza I. Emperor of Kunio; or, a Sketch of his Life. and
of the most important events of his Reign. By H. E. Lloyd,
t'ettl. Trottel and Warm
The following extract from the above work will be read '
with interest at this moment, when the public attention is
lirectetl so strongly to the cause of the Greeks, and to its
Onnexion with Russian politics :
" While ALEXANDER showed no disposition to war and
•conquest, he sought to exert hie influence over the rest of
Europe, on the principles of the holy alliance, and on the
religious pacific system, founded chiefly by him at the
Congress et Aix-la-Chapelle. In this spirit lie endeavoured
Ito Establish a kind of European directory, and to check all
the revolutionary movements of the people, especially po-
litical changes effected by the armed force. The memoir
addressed to all the Russian Ambassadors with respect to
the affairs of Spain, and the answer given by the Russian
cabinet to the Chevalier ZEA BERMUDEZ, contained the
maxims of that European policy laid down in the declara-
tion, dated Aix-la-Chapelle, November 15, 1818, chiefly
against revolutionary commotion', which might disturb the
peace of Europe, as the French revolution had done. In
this spirit he participated in 1820, in the congresses held
at Troppan and Laybach, concerning the affairs of Italy,
and ordered his army to march to that country, in order to
quell the insurrections in Naples and Piedmont, which
were ascribed to the Carhonari ; but as those revolutions
were terminated in a short time, the Russian troops
marched back to their own country.
" Since the last demarcation of the frontiers between
Russo and TURKEY, which, with respect to Bessarabia
and the mouth of the Danube, had been determined on
the 2d of September, 1817, conformably to the demands
of Russia, fresh differences arose in 1819, because the Ern-
' peror ALEXANDER, supported by treaties, intervened in
favour of the fugitive Hospodar Keradja, and required
satisfaction for the insult offered to his flag in the harbour
of Constantinople. To this was added, in 1820, a violent
attack by the Yatnacks (soldiers who garrisoned the castles
at the entrance of the Black Sea), on the palace of Baron
Stroganoff, the Russian Ambassador. Satisfaction was, at
length, given for this insult; but the arrangement respect-
ing the accomplishment of the treaty of Bucharest was not
effected, because the Porte insisted on the evacuation of
the Asiatic frontiers by the Russian troops.
" Thole differences became much more serious in 1821,
when the invasion of Moldavia by Alexander Ypsilanti,
and the insurrection of the GRE EEC, excited, in the highest
degree, the indignotillosittlse Sultan. It was in vain that
Alexander, in a proclamation from' Laybach, declared
Ypsilanti's proceedings criminal, and Russia neuter in the
Greek cause. The Divan imagined that, in the purely di-
plomatic dispute between Russia and the Porte, there was
a secret connexion with the Greek revolution : incensed at
this, it violated the treaty with Russia with respect to
Moldavia and IVallachis ; it laid an embargo on the Rus-
sian ships coming from the Black Sea ; disregarded the re-
monstrances of the Russian Ambassador, who opposed with
energy the excesses of fanaticism against the Greek church
and the innocent victims of Turkish suspicion ; and, by
its insolent language, at length induced the Russian Am-
bassador, whose life was in danger from the fury of the
populace, todetnand his passports. Baron Stroganoff sailed
for Odessa on the 9th of August, 1821, and was graciously
received by the Emperor at Witepsk and Sr. Petersburgh.
Since that time the diplomatic relations of Russia with the
Porte have been carried on at Constantinople, through the
British Ambassador, Lord Strangford, and the Austrian
Internuncio. After the note, addressed by the Reis Effendi
directly to the Russian Minister, on the 26th of July, 1821,
a breach seemed inevitable ; hut the pacific policy of the
holy alliance, entirely remote from all schemes of conquest,
alarmed by the military revolutions in Spain, Portugal, Na-
ples,Piedmout, and the spirit of Carbonarism in general,and
determined by the resolutions at Laybach, completely tri-
umphed in the Russian cabinet over the friends of the in-
dependence of the Greeks ; to this was added the convic-
tion that a war between Russia and the Porte might easily
kindle a flame throughout all Europe, and that tlw national
and religions contest cohnected with it might awaken a
dangerous political frenzy in Russia itself. The cabinets
of London, Vienna, and Paris intervened, to represent the
pacific sentiments of the Emperor, as above all the calcu-
lations of ambition.
" The foreign political system having taken this direc-
tion, Count CAro DIKTAT A, Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs, withdrew from office in May, 1822, and obtained
leave to travel ; Baron Stroganoff, late Ambassador at
Constantinople, did the same. Thus the hopes formerly
entertained by the Greeks, of the support of Russia, were
disappointed. The declaration of Count Nesselrotle, in
the note dated Laybach, 10th May, 1823, That the po •
lizical views of the Emperor were not guided by love of
war, or by the ambitious thought of exercising an exclu-
sive influence over the councils of other Monarchs, or on
the nations intrusted to them by Providence,' seemed now
to indicate the course of the Russian policy ; which, how-
ever, assumed a more decisive character after the return of
the Emperor from Verona, by way of IVarsaw, in Jan.
1822. In consequence of a circular letter, addressed by
Count IVinzingerode, Wurtemberg Minister of State to the
%Vurtemberg legation in foreign countries, and of some notes
of Baron Von IVangenheitn, Minister of Wurtemberg, in
the Diet of Feb. 1823, occasioned seine differences with
• the Court of Stuttgart. Austria, Prussia, and Russia re-
called. their Ambassadors from that city : and Count Be-
roldingen, Minister of Wurtemberg at St. Petersburgh,
was appointed Minister in the room of Count Winzingerode,
, who was dismissed. However, a new family alliance be-
tween Wurtemberg and Russia was formed by the mar-
riage of the Grand Duke Michael to the Princess Charlotte
of Wtirtemberg, the daughter of Prince Paul, who was
married by the name Helens, on the 20th of February,
1824. But the diplomatic relations were not renewed till
1825, when the Prince of HOULNLODK—Kirchberg, nr-
-1 rived at St. Petetaburgh in January, 1825, as Ambassador
of Wurtemberg; upon which the Privy Councillor Anstett,
Russian Ambassador to the German Diet, was appointed
; likewise Ambassador to Stuttgard. With the same
bar-
mony, and in conformity to the resolutions adopted at
Ve-
rona, the Russian, Austrian, and Prussian Courts acted at
Madrid. When the Duke d'Angottlente soon after entered
Spain, at the head of a French army, the Russian mer-
chants were commanded to suspend all commercial trans-
, actions with Spain and Portugal ; and Count Boutourlin,
Aid-de-Camp to his Imperial Majesty, repaired to the
fluke's head-quarters, for the purpose of making the cam-
. paign with his permission. After the re-establishment of
the ancient form of Government in the two countries, the
Emperor conferred the insignia of different orders on the
princes, generals, and officers who had contributed to it ;
and, through his Ambassador at I'aris, Count Pozzo nr
• Bottoo,•as also through M. d'Oubril at Madrid, exercised
great influence on the system of the restored Royal Goyern-
molt of Spain.

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