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sal Reports have been made by them. Under the
authority of the late Minister of the Interior, his
Excellency the Duc de Claes, a list of questions
was issued, in o►der to obtain returns of the state
of the prisons; and these returns have been em-
bodied in • Report from the Minister to the King,
which also contains a detailed view of the law rela-
tive to Prison Discipline. The laws of France
presume the existence of a variety of prisons, and
enact many provisions which it iv impossible in the
present state of the buildings to execute. It is,
however, hoped, that as information on the subject
of prison discipline is extended, larger allowances
will be made for the extension and improvement of
the buildings, and that the alterations will be made
on the best principles.
(To be eiestheret)

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FLANDERS AND DUTCH MAILS.

AUGSBURG. SEPTEMBER 25.
in the midst of the contradictions which presuil
in the accounts that we receive. as well from Manna
as from Russia, re►pecting the affairs of Turkey,
we have observed that the hope of maintaining
peace between the two empires seen!, to be mach
diminished. At Warsaw, for instance, every body
seems convinced that the Turks will be immediately
rollicked. They even go so far as to fix which of
the Russian armies will commence hostilities.
Among the manifold reports that are in circula-
tion relative to this great question, we °beery& one
that a Power in the South of Europe, whose com-
merce in the Ottoman dominion's is not nitwit fa-
voured, has joined with the Court of St. Peters-
burgh to follow. under present circumstances, the
same policy as Russia.
Persons who pretend to be better informed. assu►e
us, that in case of war, this Power will confine it-
self to observing the strictest neutrality, which
would still be the iuterest of the Cabinet of St.
Pete►shurgb.
Ou the other hand, many of our politicians speak
with an air of mystery of an understanding be-
tween the Courts of Vienna atid London on the most
snitehle manner of terminating the effairs of Turkey.
Notes are said to have been exchanged between
those Governments and the Russian Cabinet. If
this is coefirmed, the result would he, that the ne-
gotiations entered into on this subject would not be
very near their termination.
BRUsSCLS. OCTOBER 2.
The bureaus of the Ministerial Departments
continue to arrive at Hague. Oii the 16th the
States General will open. The 'subjects they will
have to discuss this Session are of the highest im-
portance to the interests of the whole kingdom.
We sincerely hope that the new laws to be presented
to them,may at length conciliate all interests, both
public and private.
The Marquis of Londonderry has gone direct to
Hannover. where great preparations are making to
receive the King.—(Brussels Papers, October S.)

PARIS PAPERS,

PARIS. OCTOBER 4.

Two English Officers, in consequence of a dis-
pute, had a meeting on the glade of Calais, to fight
with pistols; one of them received a ball in his
thigh. Being prosecuted by the public authorities,
they were discharged by the Chamber of Council;
but on the appeal of the Attorney-General, the
Royal Court of Dousy caused them to be arraigned
for the attempt to murder. This proceeding was
denounced by the accused to the Supreme Court,
which annulled it, and appointed the Court of
Nancy to decide on the appeal of the authorities
against the decision of the Chamber of Council.
The Court of Nancy having adopted the same doc-
trine as the Court of Douay, this new act of accu-
sation was submitted to the Court of Cussation,
which has decided that the cause should be brought
before the assembled Sections, under the Presidency
of the Keeper of the Seals.
The Gazelle of Lyons gives the following ex-
tract of a letter from Barcelona, under date of
September ti :—" No idea can be formed of the
desolation reigning in this city. The bulletin of
health, published with the design of calming the
public uneasiness, states the number of deaths in
Barcelona and the suburbs of Barcelonetta, at
only 43, and of sick, at 310; but all the inhabit-
ants unfortunately know that there numbers are
not correct, and that the deaths and sickness which
incessantly afflict our observation, give u cruel
contradiction to the assertion of authority. The
disease width rages in this country, and of the na-
ture of which we reinitiated for some time doubt-
ful, is decidedly the yellow fever. The Magi-
strates arc now occupied in transferring to two 'or
three convents in the neighbourhood of our city
the persons not yet infected with this destroying
scourge. The misery at Barcelona is frightful.
Provisions are scarce, there being no communica-
tion with the country ; and three parts of the shop.
are closed. Barcelona is like a city taken by
storm. Adieu, my friend, adieu ! Oh ! that my
adieu may not be eternal !"

PARIS, OCTOBER 5.

Yesterday his M..jesty transacted business with
the Marquis of Laurision and the President of the
Council.
Chevalier Roth, Secretary of the French Lega-
tion us the United Statile, has returned to Frstiee,
charged with a particular mission. The frigate
fi Juains, in•• which he arrived, was put under
quarantine for thirty days at Brest, with all the
passengers.
French Funds.—Five per cent. Consols, 88 fr.
90 c..—Bault Stock 1,595 1.

FRANKFORT, SEPTEMBER 28.

A courier extraordinary arrived at Vienna on the
20th inst. from St. Petersburg!), with dispatches
for Count Golowkin, the Busman Minister. Vari-
ous rumours were soots circulated, in consequence,
in that capital. It would appear that the Russian
cabinet hat hot been otitiefied with the reply of the

Putt, t• its witiaologne, anct that it insists more de-
cidedly than ever is the evacuation of Moldavia and
Wallachia by the Ottoman troops, which, accord-
ing to existing treaties, have no right to occupy
these provinces in a military way. The declaration
of the Divan, that the Greek Patriarch, and the
dignified members of the clergy, who have been put
to death, were conspirators, has, it is added, made
an uafavoarable impression ou the members of the
Russian Government.

The head•quartrrs of the Russian army hove been
transferred from Witepolc to Minsk, where the Etn•
peror Alexander was expected to arrive immediately.
PRANK/VET, SEPTEMBER 29.
Uutil the 25th instant every one mere thought
that King George, on his way to Hanover, would
puss through our town ; we were the more confirm-
ed iu this belief, because on the 24th the British
Legation resident in this town received a letter from
Lord Claticarty, which took no notice whatever
that the route of his Britannic Majesty was chang-
ed. Every preparation to rrceive a King, has been
made ; relays were stationed, and our artists have
duta►ed their best paintings in a hall of the Castle
of Homburg, where the Sovereign, it was expected,
would visit his sister. A courier, however, has ar-
rived there, bringing an invitation from the King to
his sister to have un interview with him at Hano-
ver. It is affirmed that his Majesty will only make
a short stay in Hanover. The rumour still prevail■
that lie will have an interview with the King of
Prussia at Halberstadt, and that he will visit the
University of Gottingen.

HANOVER, SEPTEMBER 25.

The Castle of Herrenhausen, situated near our
city, has been arranged in a style fitting to receive
our Sovereign, and the road leading to• it has been
furnished with lamps.
It is affirmed that our States will be convoked
immediately after the arrival of the king. and that
his Majesty will make • proposition, tending to re-
lieve the country from the !model' of maintaining
•n armed force disproportioned to its resources.
To attain this end, there is a rumour of employing
15,000 Hanoveriaus to form tlae_gartiaon. of Malta,
Corfu. and the lonian Islands.; they will be paid by
Great Britain. It was by a similar measure ►hat in
the war of America the Hanoverians fought under
the English flag.

♦IENNA. sETTEMBER 24.

Rumours in some degree of a warlike nature are
revived. A courier, who left St. Peiersburgh on
the 10th of September, states, that the Emperor has
fully approved the conduct of Baron Strognoff, and
testified his approbation to him in an autograph
letter. The Russian reply to the last note of the
Porte was not us yet known. The Emperor was on
the point of settiug out for Minsk, where he will re-
view his guards ; it was said he would visit all the
cantonments of his troops as far as Odessa and the
Pruth. The foreign Ministers mere not to accom-
pany his Majesty. All our letters agree in their
description of the extreme ardour manifested by the
Russian army to come to an engagement with the
Turks. Our Court has proposed a Congress; but
doubts are entertained that the Emperor of Russia
will submit his resolutions to foreign Power., much
less leave Ins duu►inions at this critical period.

ODESSA, SEPTSMDER 7.

Baron Strognnuff, who has completed his quaran-
tine, sets out this day for St. Petersburgb. He had
a confvrence for two hours ut Odessa, with the Com-
mander-in-Chief. Cuunt Wittgenstein, previous
to his departure.

GERMAN PAPERS.

PESTI!, SEPTEMBER 16.

There are several persons here, who, during the
dreadful Ea.ter holidays at Constantinople, were
eye witbesses of the shameful mutilation of the
corpse of the Greek Patriarch, formerly mentioned
in the Allgesneine Zeitung, and who made a de-
scription of it which I will spare your readers.—
The corpse was afterwards dragged by cords, fas-
tened to the feet, through many streets, and pur-
posely before the hotel of Baron StrogotitA Hun-
dreds of Greeks who have since tied to Russia, will
attest this.

ODESSA. SEPTEMBER 4.

Within these two days a report has been circa-
hoed of a piohibition to export corn to Turkey, ❑s
being shortly to be issued. Those friends of the
Turks here, who, front motives of interest, look on
a war with Turkey with horror, see in this pioliihi.
lion a proof of the most pacific intentions; others
look on it as a measure on the part of our Govern-
ment preparatory to wur. Though it might in
some measure have been foreseen, yet the mere re-
port. connected with the abolition of the free port,
has produced an extraordinary stagnation is all bu-
siness. One thought shine comforts, which is, that
if war breaks out this time, the dominion of the
Turks in Europe would probably soon be at an
end, and the free navigation of the !losphortis and
the Dardanelles be for ever It cured. Our city,
whose trade may be said tii depend on the caprice
of the Turks, might then look forward to the at-
tainment of the highest prosperity.
The number of Russian vessels which sailed, in
consequence of the removal of the embargo at Col:-
statitioople, to all parts of the Archipelago, loaded
fur the most part with corn, used some perhaps wills
military stores, is said to have amounted to 400.
Baron Strogonoff, who is now out of quarantine,
received on the a courier from St. l'etersburgh.
As the report of the prohibition to export corn was
spread immediately after, some persons think that
the declaration of war will immediately follow.
The uative inhabitants of Odessa have nethitig rite

LONDON.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER g, 18t1.

The Paris Papers of Saturday arrived at u late
hour last night. They announce a fall in the fonds
of nearly one per cent. within the last few days.
The following are extracts :
PARIS, OCTOBER 6.
111srquis de Gamier, Peer of France, died yes-
terday : lie has left no direct heir.
The news flout Spain received at Bourdeaux
ray that the' epidemic is daily decreasing in vio-
lence, and that it is hoped that the fiat cold wea—
ther will entirely put a stop to it.
Fundy, October 5 Five per Cent. Consols 88 f.
6o c.

VIENNA, SEPTEMBER 24.

On the Igth of this mouth some of the Depu-
ties of the Neapolitan Parliament, and among
them Messrs. Petrinelli, Poerio, and Gabriel Pepe,
passed through this city on their way to Prague, the
place of their banishment. The King of the Two
Sicilies has intrusted.thein to the care of our Go-
vernment. Others will be conducted to Spielberg,
and the celebrated Colic;lis, to Mungutsch.

LEIP3IC, SEPTEMBER 26.

The last accounts from Brody say, that the
Russian ships which acre di tamed at Constanti-
nople and other Turkish ports by the late mea-
sures, had not obtained permission to depart, but
on condition of selling all their cargoes. They
state further, that there had been some serious dis-
putes between the Turks rind the Russians on the
frontiers of Bessarabia.

Leardi, the Papal Nuncio at Vienna, has ar-
"rived at Dresden, with instructions fur a definitive
organisation of the affairs of the Catholic church
in Saxony.

The accounts of the state of the relations be-
tween Turkey and Russi■ in the foreign papers
continue of the same doubtful character which
has distinguished them from the commencement
of the misunderstanding between these two Powers.
They are alternately warlike and pacific. In the
early pert of lust week they gave assurance th4t
the peace of the Continent would not be disturb.

ed. The Papers ot Yesterday inform ds that the
hopes of peace are diminished, that the answer
of the Ottoman Porte to the ultimatum of Russia
has proved unsatisfactory, and that the latter
Power insists more strongly than ever upon the
evacuation of Moldavia and Wallachia by the
Turkish troops, in conformity with existing tretties.

Sir ROBERT WILSON is arrived in town from
Paris ; a copy of • laconic letter from the Duke
of YORK. communicating his dismissal from the
service, and of Sir ROBERT WI 1.40N.5 answer, are
given in another part of our Paper. Fvom the
latter we find that his sentence operates with a de-
gree of severity of which we were not aware. It it
not mercy the deprivation of his rank in the
army, it is a confiscation of his property. lie
had purchased all his commissions in the army
except the first. His private property, thus ex-
pended, is now all swept away after twenty-nine
years of honourable and distinguished service in his
profession. There is another circumstance disclosed
in the answer which greatly aggravates his fate.
Having heard that calumnies had been circulated
against him, be had formally challenged inquiry so
far beck as the 21it of August, mud it was not until
the 15th of September his condemnation was an-
nounced in the Duke of l'ottes letter, without
inquiry granted, charge preferred, or au op-
portunity given for defence.

Dispatches were yesterday received at Carlton
Palace from his MAJESTY, dated from Dussel-
dorf, where his MAJESTY arrived on Thursday,
the 4th instant, in perfect health. His MAJESTY
was to set off ou Friday for Hanover, where be was
expected to arrive yesterday. Every where his MA-
JESTY'S reception has been most enthusiastic.
Dusseldorf is a city of Germany, in the circle of
Westphalia and duchy of Berg, situate on the
river Dussel at its confluence with the Rhine, and
about twenty miles N.W. of Cologn.

The country is now left in a very awkward situa-
tion. Our gracious Sovereign, previous to his de-
parture, deputed 19 persons to fill his place, or,
technically speaking, to discharge the functions
of the executive power. We wish to know what
is become of these Kinghogs. We have read
in the newspapers that one of them is gone to
Scotland, where he will pass the reminder of
the season with his relatives and friends ; two
or three more of them went to the Continent
with his MAJESTY ; of the remainder we know
nothing. The KING may be considered the sun of
our political system, diffusing his genial heat among
the bodies that move obedient to his control, in pro-
portion to their distance. The metropolis, as more
immediately within his attraction, may be said, like
Illereary, to bask in his fervid rays. The wilds of
Scotland and of Ireland occupy the places of Jupi-
ter and Saturn, and scarcely feel the influence of
his beams. To those remote parts of the kingdom,
therefore, it may he a matter of indifference whe-
ther the KING resides at Brighton or Hanover,
but not so with the metropolis. The KING'S
presence is sure to attract the Court circle of
nobility and gentry, and keep these planets moving
around him in their orbits in autumn as in
winter. Were his MAIRSIY now in England, we
might expect to feel the benefit of his presence at
the the.itre, at the Loan NIAYOR'S dinner, or in
some other situations, inciting activity and ani-
mation through the town. Fifty black rabbits, we
admit, will not make one black horse, and
these nineteen stars may not be equal to one
sun, but still their light, if consolidated, would be
more brilliant and efficient than that which they
emit in their present erratic and scattered state.
lf, then, those Lords Commissioners would do all
in their power to compensate fur the absence of the
Sovereign, let them unite in the metropolis, where
they may shine as a little galaxy of stars, though
they may not shine as a real ►un, nor challenge our
wonder as a brilliant constellation.

His MAJESTY will open the next Session of Par-
liament in great state. The state coach, which has
undergone a variety of improvements, and its
beautiful paintings by CIPRIARI cleaned at.d re-
touched where necesvary, is now complete, aud,
with the superb harness, is in the Royal !Views.
The body of the carriage has resumed its original
farm, being open in both front and sides, with ele-
gant plate glass windows, so that his MAJESTY'S
person will be distinctly seen by the spectators in
going to and returning from the House of Peers.
Extract of a letter from Leghorn, dated 224
of September :—" The tender of Admiral Sir G.
tIOORE arrived this morning in fifteen days from
Curio, and brings information that in the Mores
the Greeks have taken Navarritio and Corroni. At
Zone the news had arrived, that the Ottoman
squadron had been attacked by the Greeks, who
had Liken and burnt seven tiansports, and that
the Ottoman fleet was situated in the Channel of
Scio, for fear of the Greeks, who hid a fleet of up-
wards of fifty vessels, each manned with about 200
men. Every thing was quiet at Smyrna and Con-
stantinople."
Accounts from Captain BILLINGHAUSEN, Corn.
mender in the Russian voyage of discovery in the
Antarctic seas (as received at Petersburgh from
Botany Bay, his letter dated May, 1820), report,
that he bad discovered three islands covered with
snow and ice, on one of which was a volcano,
lat. 56.5. He announces that there is no southern
comment, or, should there be one, it oust be in-
accessible, from being covered with perpetual boors,
ire, &c.