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cl,ief hope is placed by them of the final
Lion of the Greek insurrection, by deprivini
of their superiority at sea. Indeed. m frii
Smyrna express belief that such is the case a
and that many of the Greeks, tinder that i
'ion, are sec►etly taking measures for their
dual safety, lu rule view of the question,

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navel contest between the Turks and the Greeks
may end in piracy on the part of thy latter, of a
nature most destructive. I leave you to imagine,
who know the large force they have at sea, to what
a state the commerce of European nations in the
Archipelago will be reduced, without the must
complete protection.
The neglect of the Eeglishlnn;ralty is quite
beyond my comprehension. The Medina and the
!racehorse are the only vessels stationed in the vi-
cinity of Smyrna, while the French squadron is 16
sa:l. A French two-decker, a 60-gun ship, arrived
at Sinyrna in the latter end of July, with Admiral
flalgen on board. The
,llutch have one ship of
war of 36 guns.
I have a friend at Salonica who writes me word
on the 31st ofJuly, that official accounts have been
received there of the passage of the Straits of Ther-
mopylae by Mahomet Peeler, and of the subsequent
taking of Livartia. This advantageous position will
enable him to detach a ls.ge portion of his force for
the Mores, for which destination Bairam Packs, at
the head of 12,000 Asiatics, is also passing.
Thus I expect very soon to hear that the Greeks
in the Mores are reduced to submirwton, as their
contending against such a force is entirely hopeless.
It may he years, however, before those provinces are
restored to a state of tranqnillity, or the Greeks and
even in appearance, have the same degree
of mutual confidence as before the insurrection.
A repOrt is just current, the truth if which I
have not time to ascertain, that theTorkish
Go-
vernment, in conformity with the dictation of the
Russian Note, have published an amnesty to the
Greeks for three months. How far this evidence
of sincerity, if that is the case, may influence the
decision of the Russian Cabinet towards peace,
there is no saying ; but unless war, at all events, is
resolved on, it ought to have some weight.

flesh reinforciitetiti of troops from AL
first officers of this Pacha has been lately ;promoted,
and has also received the horse-tails. They have
been also restored to two other Pashas who
were lately deposed ; one of them received the Go-
vernment of Candle. with orders to restore tran-
quillity in that island. The installation of the
Kediseehen of Monello. and Anatolia took place at
Constantinople in the beginning of August. Sikdi
Effendi obtained the first of these places, and
Behiet Effendi, formerly the Sultan's physician,
the second.
Among the most remarkable works of the late
days is the execution of Veli Pacha arid Motictar
Riche, the two elder sons of Ali Dependeli
of Juannina. The first was in exile at Hotahie,
and the second at Kaissarige. A Greek, disguised
its a dervise, served them as a spy. Ile was ar-
rested at Constantinople, and the correspondence
found on him betrayed the secret of the sons of the
tyrant of Epirus.
The royal French frigate, the Lily, has brought
to Smyrua Rear-Admiral (Wan. lie immediately
hoisted his flag on board La Guerriere.
The Russian Ambassador, Baron Strogonoff, had
embarked on the 7th on board a Russian brig,
armed en flute, but could not sail for Odes•a till
the 10th on account of contrary winds. [Direct
accounts from Odessa state, that Baron Strogonoff
arrived there on the 13th, a little before midnight.]
The persons belonging to the legation and the rest
of the Ambassador's suite, had embarked on hoard
the packet-boat, and in three Austrian vessels fitted
eut for the • purpose. The Turkish Ministry has
faithfully kept its word, and not thrown the slight-
est obstacle in the way of Baron Strogonofl's de-
parture. Etymons, it is true, were refused, as has
been stated before, because the Porte would not
in the least have the appearance of concurring in
this step,but the Comminidants of the forts received
the strictest orders to respect and suffer to pass,
without hindrance, the ships which had the Ambas-
sador and his suite on board.

At Constantinople perfect tranquillity prevailed;
the embargo previously laid on all ves►els laden
with corn had been taken off by an order of the
Sultan; the navigation of the channel is therefore
uninterrupted, as it used to be. The events which
most European Journals have announced with so
much confidence—such as the. participation of the
Jews in the dreadful excesses committed on the
dead body of the Patriarch, the violiation of 150
Greek virgins in the Caesar, and so many
other reports, are wholly unknown in Constanti-
nople, and absolutely fictions, originating in other
countries. The heads of the Jewish community at
Constantinople have ever taken public steps to
refute the reports relative to their nation since the
well-known affair at Odessa too well justifies their
apprehension of similar reactions in other places.
The plague has made no further progress at
Smyrna. lu the capital no symptoms of it had yet
appeared.
WALLACISA AND MOLDAtIA.

Troops of the dispersed Insurgents still harbour in
the recesses of the mountains of Moldavia, and are
very dangerous to the tranquillity of the province.
One ofthesetroops appeared on the igt h, in the even-
ing, quite unexpectedly, before the town of Nyamz,
in which there was a Turkish garrison of twenty.
five men, surrounded the town, and set it nn
fire in three places. The Turkish garrison,
and then all the Jewish inhabitants, threw them.
selves into the chord) of St. John, which how-
ever was soon vet en fire by the insurgents on all
rules, and was still burning at tbe departure of the
messenger, who was a witness to this horrible scene.
A corps of the Turkish army was expected from
Jassy, whith•is destined to put an end to the further
incursions and marauding of these remains of the
Hetarists in that provitice.—(ilastriun Observer,
September 1.)
VIENNA, AUGUST 23.
Letters from Corfu, of a recent date, assert that
the French fleet which cruises in the Levant con-
sists of SO vessels of different sizes, and that 20
others are expected.

BRODY, ♦UGUET Q.
The German Papers greatly exaggerate the Rua.
elan warldre preparations and marches of troops.
The greatest part of the southern army under Gen.
Count Wittnen.tein, is still in its old cantonments,
and has merely detached some light troops to the
Pruth. The West Alloy, as it is called, has Lot
yet made any movement whatever.
AUGUST 14.

With the exception Of a large moo; of troops,
which is between our town and Odessa, nothing is
observed that indicates that Russia will take an
active part in the affairs of the Greeks. Political
considerations seem to have induced the Cabinet of
St. Petersbargh to resolute to take other aveasnres
than what would probably have otherwise been
adopted.-1 Dutch Papers, September

and other places from the peewee*
appesrance of French vessels. Let it oat
_ supposed that we feel any jealousy at this cir-
cumstance, or should wi.b to see the naval force of
-0 in those seas diminished. We notice the
dmatance with far other feelings, sod with.*
y different purpose.
The greater number of the isles of Greece have
long been infamous as receptacles for pirates, and
no .mall portion of the depredations sustained by
the commerce of the East, which prejudice or igno-
rance has ascribed to the Barbary corsairs, have
been perpetrated by the insular Greeks. Sailing
generally under the Turkish flag, these pirates en-
joyed the protection which respect fir the power of
the Crescent must ensure to them from foreign
nations, while the actual imbecility of the Ottoman
Government was incapable of preventing them from
preying upon foreign ships, or of deterring them
from making spoil even of the vessels that belonged
to Turkish merchants. The fleet winch now dis-
putes the sovereignty of the Archipelago with the
naval power of Turkey. is formed almost exclu•
sively of pirates, and it is to the daring hill/its of
life which a long acid hazardous course of plunder
creates, that the Greeks now owe the existence of a
force which alone redeems the character of their de-
generate race. It cannot be questioned that the
present war must give an alarming impulse to
piracy, and that, no matter how the war may termi-
nate, the commerce of the Levant must he placed
in greater hazard than it was before the commence-
ment of the present hostilities. The French Go-
vernment, therefore, in increasing its naval force iu
those seas, has acted wisely, not only with reference
to the immediate necessity of protecting the com-
merce of France from the wanton depredations of
those marine freebooters, but also with regard to the
means of duly supporting the character and re-
spectability of the nation.
The accounts brought to us in the Paris Papers
emulously assert, that it is to the French ships of
war that the Franks throughout the Levant look
with confidence for support acid protection, as well
from the violence of the Turks on land as from that
of the Greeks on sea ; and we are further informed,
that by a happy concurrence theofficers and seamen
of the French marine are hailed with rapture by
all classes of the Greeks, whenever they chance to
touch at any port where the Greeks may venture to
express their sentiments. It is observable that these
representations of the high esteem in which the
French are held throughout the East ID Idom appear
unaccompanied by intimatioc s of the little popnla-
city enjoyed in the same quarters by the English.
This accompaniment, which savonrs so strongly of
national jealousy, throws considerable doubt, over
the previous statements, and excites a suspicion
that the influence of the French marine in the East,
and the testimonies of affection which the officers
and tailors so universally receive from the Greeks,
draw their origin from no purer or higher source
than the offices of the Journals in the " good city
of Paris."

We are not aware exactly of the strength of the
British naval force in the Mediterranean and the
Levant, but we know that it is considerable in point
of numbers, and still more so from the admirable
condition and efficiency of the ships severally. The
French boast of having thirty ships of war of various
sizes in the Levant. We are glad to find it noticed
in the French Papers that upon all occasions when
British and French ships have met together in
Smyrna or elsewhe►e, the utmost cordiality and
courtesy prevailed between the commanders and
crews respectively, and that no petty feelings of
national rivalry prevented them from concurring in
the most effectual means of affording confidence and
succour to those whom the unhappy necessity of
circumstances reduced to a condition that required
their prompt interference. Thus we find that at
Smyrna the Franks obtained from English and
French equally the utmost assistance. It belongs
to the most civilized nations in the ...mid to temper
by their good offices the brutality of those who sire
less enlightened. Their concurrence in such duties
may contribute essentially to mitigate'the miseries
which a war of barbarians must necessarily indict
upon all who are within its influence.

Dutch and German to the 1 eth instant

Papers
have arrived. They contain an extract from the
report of the military• operations in the Mores,
down to the 23d July, transmitted by the Governor
to the GRAND Viatt►•a. It boasts the success of the
imperial troops in the purtial extermination of the
Greeks, and restoring tranquillity ; but the reader
sill bear iu mind that this is the Turkish account.

The accounts received from Ireland respecting
the general appearance of the harves►, are for the
most part much more unfavourable than those
whicb !rave reached us from various parts of this
country and of Scotland. The early specimens of
wheat that have been brought into the Irish mat kets
are represented to be of a very indiffereut change-
ter; bat it is observed in the Waterford Mirror
that farmers are anxious to dispose as soon as
possible of their worst grain, and that therefore
what has now been offered for sale ought nut to be
taken as a fair specimen of the whole crop. The
rapidity with which the late rains caused the
markets to rise, displayed something of alarm, as
I if the home produce were not adequate to our do-
Mestic consumption, and the accounts which were

I extioo- oquadron is stated to consist of 15 rail, and to be S.nyrna
ng them manned chiefly with European senorss it is corn- japposifir
ricotta at mended by Ismael Gibraltar, the saint who *Mt be „pp;
already, formerly the Pecha's agent in Sweden and Leghorn.
impres- Ile raid to be an able seaman, and even to have cumstanc
1r indivi- formerly served on board English ships. France
the con- Ibrahim, Pacha of Brassie, is stil encamped neer eircucnsti
Burt the Bujukdere, "Boistrhoras ;he has received very diffe
e Greeks fresh reinforreinti of troops from Asia. Ono of the