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London, England, 1826-09-15 00:00:00

DUTCH PAPERS.

ET.BEIWELD, SLIT 10.
Our Gazette contains the following article :
Travellers who come from RUMlia speak in the highest terms
of praise of the conduct of the Emperor Nicholas. He liar under-
taken the Herculean labour of cleansing the Augean stable of the
system of bribery and corruption, which, since the time of Cathe-

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rine, has pervaded every branch of the Administration. Thus, for
instance, it has been discovered that the fleet is not built of the oak
and other sound timber provided by the Government at a vast ex-
pense, but that this has been embezzled by the persons employed,
and the ships built of ordinary Fir, which is very perishable, for
which reason the English call such ships, which can hardly last one
voyage, by the name of coffins. In order, therefore, to discover
which are fit for sea, and which not, they are sent in small squad-
rons to the North Seas; this is the true reason for heseexpeditions.
BRUSSELq, SEPT.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Orange, Prince Frederick,
and his consort, arrived here yesterday.
Count Munster, Ilanoverian Minister of State, arrived here the
day before yesterday, with his family, from Hanover. His Excel-
lency Baron de Falck, Ambassador from the King of the Nether.
lands to the Court of London, arrived here on the lath.
111. Eynard has written to the Central Greek Committee in this
city a letter dated Geneva, Aug. 30. The Greek fleet, consisting°,
140 sail, was at Hydra. No tidings had been received of Lord
Cochrane.

We bear that M. Stratenus, hitherto at the head of the depart-
ment of national industry, will be succeeded by M. Netacher, who
will have the title of Inspector-General ; and the superintendence of
the prisons, hitherto confided to de Die, will be given to M.
Broca, who has at present the direction of the establishments for
the poor. N. de Die, we hear, is appointed Councillor of State,
and M. Stratenus will be employed in the office of Secretary of
State.

M. Rezende, the Brazilian Ambassador, having arrived at
Vienna, it is supposed that some resolution will be taken respecting
the affairs of Portugal.
We have mentioned (from the English Journals) that the Peru-
vian Government had resolved to express its gratitude to M. de
Pradt, for the good he has done the cause of America by his writ-
ings. The Journal de la Belgique says on:this subject :-31r. Riva
d'Agaero, now at Brussels, made this proposal to the Congress of
Peru in 1023, when he was President of the Republic."
Private letters from Lima, received at Brussels, confirm the re-
port that Bolivar aspires to the Dictatorship.
A marine Cadet arrived a few days ago from Greece, who has
brought the following information :
Colonel Rothiers, of Antwerp, who is commissioned to search
for Antiquities in the Archipelago, has been twice to Athens, where,
by special permission of the Greek Provisional Government, he was
enabled to enter the citadel, which since the beginning of the con-
test has been inaccessible to strangers. lie has made all possible
drawings of the architecture of the temples of Minerva, Themis,
/kr- At Rhodes he has caused all the monuments of the ancient
order of St. John of Jerusalem, now called Knights of Malta, to
be designed by Mr. P. J. Witdoek, of Antwerp. For these three
centuries nobody has thought of making drawings of the edifices of
that ancient and heroic order. He passed some hours in the
Mosque, formerly the Church of St. John. Mr. Rothiers hopes
soon to return, and will ,publish his valuable collection for the
use of the academies of the kingdom. There are fifty-four folio
drawings, to which more may perhaps be added. The work may
be considered as a sequel to the History of the Knights of Malta, by
the Abbe de Vertot, who never was at Rhodes.
A 318TERDAM, SEPT. 12.—Exchange oo London, 40. 5. to 40.
6. Two Months, 40. 3. to 40. 4.