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with becoming dignity end spirit.

A Dutch Mail has arrived with papers to the
27th instant. The following are extracts :

lIAMISURGII, OCTOBER 43.

His Majesty the Emperor of Russi• retuned on
the 51 h rsf October to Z .rskojesehh frogs hi. eters-.
siou to Witepsk.
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HAGUE, OCTOSIta 33.
The Second Chamber was to meet to-day, but
still the number of Members present was far from
sufficieot, and it was necessary olgaio to adjourn.
OCTOBER. TS.

We hear that ►ome more Members of the Second
Chamber have arrived, but others have gone away
*rain.
It seems that the King of England will 'qui p
visit Bronchial his return to London. This report
is confirmed by the circumstance that the English
Ambassador, who had already returned here, lind
whose effects were daily expected, has unexpectedly
gone back to Brussels.

In the extracts which we published yesterday
from the Papers brought by the Flanders Mail,
was to he found a copy of • firosauts or proclama-
tion, said to have been issued at Constantinople by
the GRAND SEIGNOR, in which he is represented as
imputing the insurrection of the Greeks to the faith-
trainees and treachery of the Russians, and as ex-
horting all his Moslem subjects to take up arms and
prepare themselves for war. In presenting this ex-
traordinary document to our readers, we observed,
that if it were authentic it must be regarded as little
short of an sctual declaration of war against Russia.
The authenticity of the firmest' is however denied
by an Evening Paper, which unreservedly calls it a
forgery. This opinion is formed by inference from
the silence respecting the appearance of such • re-
markable proclamation, which is observed in letters
said to have been received in town yesterday from
Constantinople, dated the 26111, and from Smyrna,
dated the I7th of September. Their letters state, in
opposition to concurrent accounts from various parts
of the Continent, that the capital and Smyrna enjoy-
ed a state of perfect tranquillity, and that all idea of
a war having subsided, commerce had resumed its
wonted activity. These flattering communication.,
we are told, were accompanied by extensive orders
for colonial produce and British manufactures,
which must indeed be at the same time takes as
the moat satisfactory assurances of their general
fidelity.
Upon the question of the authenticity of the re-
puted finuann mid to have been liaised on the
14th of September, it might we think be fairly in-
ferred, from the silence of these letters, that no
such paper had appeared in Constantinople. At
the same time it will occur to every one that there
might he some circumstances, either in the error
of dates or the timidity of the writers, to account 11
for the silence of these letters, without going to
the length of at once pronouncing the paper to be
a forgery. The supposed firmaun is said to have
been received at Marseilles, which is the most
likely port in the Weil of Europe for authentic in-
telligence to be first received respecting the affairs
of Torkey ; and it seemed to receive some con-
firmation from a paragraph in a Paris Paper, which
12y3 that the GRAND SEIONOR had resolved to
issue • proclamation, exhorting all the Mussulmans
to take up arms, and that Lord STRANGFORD had
exerted his utmost influence with the Porte to
prevent theippeorauce of so inflammatory a docu-
ment, but had succeeded only in causing its publi-
cation to be deferred for a few days. On the other
hand it is suspicious that the firmaun had not ap-
peared in a Paris Paper before it reached this
country through a German Paper. Upon such a
subject it would be idle to argue merely front lim-
itability. The conduct of barbarians most at all
times baffle speculation. It results so immediately
from passion and prejudice, sold is so little subject
to the control of those principles which flow from
an exercise of judgment and discretion among civi-
lized people, that it is impossible to estimate it by
the application of any ordinary notions of policy,
propriety. or common sense. It is certain that so
intemperate an invective could not emanate from
any of the politer Cabinets of Europe ; hut what is
there in common between diem and the ()mimeo
Porte ? A day or two, however, will be sufficient
to determine what degree of faith can be attached
to this extraordinary document.

Troops of every deuninitiation continue to be di-
rected by forced marches from various parts of
Ireland towards the county of Limerick, snit even
from this country some regiments have been
seat to meet the pressing emergency that regoires
the presence of a large force in the diatuilted di..
evicts. Every town and village within the county
of Limerick seems, tiom the extent of the force
thus employed, to be occupied by a detachment
of troops, and in mist places the yeomanry have
been placed upon permanent duty. it would ap.
peer, however, frost the accounts that arrived by
the loot mails, that this immense increase of mili-
tary power lan been as yet attended by no salutary
effects. The pertinacity of the rioters Kenos to

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be io,vineible. We 'still read of Louses being
attacked, of arined banditti iiCeating the public
toads both by day and by ni4lir, and of sol-
diers ate' policemen being waylaid and stripped
of their tit L'srts, pistols, swords, and accoutrements.
The acquisition ammo is the ostensible purpose of
every one of these acts of violence, fur neither in
attacks upon houses, nor in the rubbery of the sol-
diers and policemen of their arms, is any greate'r
violence used than is strictly necessary fur di., at.
taintuesit of this object. There never was a pop
far commotion of any kind, or in any place, w licit
did not, unless timely checked, assume AI it .0\ -
y.iticed a higher and more imposing tone •it
had thought of assumitig in its origin. When tl:e
county of Limerick was first disturbed by parties
of rioters, no object seemed to have been comma-
!dated but the redress of a few indiviitud
asters, which arose out of the particular inistuani4e.
meat of one Nobleman's estate. This spirit of car.
reeling abuses was suffered most improvidently by
the Magistrates to go unpunished, and the rioters
acquiring confidence from impunity, stow address
their attentiou to far higlimutgects, and begin to
talk of effecting aucft afteratiodi is the existing in.
stitutious as to them may seem expedient. The
system of tithes hes from time immemorial b.eit
' held to be a grievance by the foster orders of the
people of Ireland, and many valuable lives" have
been sacrificed in consequence of this feeling. The
Limerick rioters intimate a desire to suppress the
system, and it is not improbable that the practice
of collecting arms has some connexion with this
purpose. This, however, is the only evidence of a po-
litical object which has as yet appeared from their pro-
ceedings. Fur our own parts, we still entertain the opi-
Mon that the rioters in the comity of Limerick ere
very few in number, and are merely those wreched
outcasts from society whom a relaxation of authority
will at all times encourage to commit acts of vio-
lence, in the presumption that they may pursue their
mischievous career with impunity. The energy of
the Government cannot fail of suppressing them
effectually, but it is be Ismented that the whole
power of the State should be thus required to re-
store tranquillity within a very limited extent of
country, which could never have acquired so dis-
graceful a distiuction had the local magistracy
evinced an ordinary degree of vigilance and activity.

Great preparations ■re making to have the re.
pairs at Carlton Palace completed by the liima's
arrival. Report says that one of the most oomp-
h/ova entertainereots is in preparation, to which all

the Nobility, without dis►inc►ioa, will be
invited immediately upon his MAJESTY'S return.
Extract of a private letter, dated Aix-la-Chapelle.
October 21 :—" An extraordinary courier, expe-
dited front St. Petersburgh, has arrived at Berlin.
He has brought to the Prussian Cabinet dispatches
which, it is asserted, are of the highest importimer.
It is said, that they contain the confirmation of the
news which has already been circulated, that the
Russian Government has formally rejected the pin..
position which has been made to it, that a Congress,
should be assembled to discuss the affairs of
Turkey."-4Journat de Paris.)
LAW CHANOES.—We have heard it reported
that the following changes are about to take place
in our Law Courts :—Ssr JOHN STUART. Bart. re-
tires in consequence of bad health, sod is to be sac-
ceeded by the LORD ADVOCATE, whom HENRY
Hopes DRUMMOND, Esq. M.P. is to succeed; and
that Lord BANNATYNE retires, and will be suc-
ceeded by the SOLICITOR-GeweitaL. who, again,
is to be succeeded by JOHN HOPE, E-q. son of the
LORD PRESIDENT.—/Edinburgh Courant.)
The amount of sterling money to be invested by
the Commissioners for the Reduction Of the National
Debt, for the quarter, from the I Ith October, !V.I.
to the sth January, 1822, is 1,131,527/. Sr. I Id.

Lieutenant FITICLARENCII is app.iinted to the
Euryales frigate, at Portstnouth.

Letters from Gibraltar state the sailing from
thence of the Adeemture sloop of war, Captain
SMYTH, (or Tripoli, with twiny valuable presents
for Ins Highness the LIASHAW. Captain Smt Tel
then proceeds to an examination of the Alticais
coast to the eastward, which iv at present but very
imperfectly known.
Captain SABINE, who served as astronomer with
Captain PARRY. iu his voyage in the Polar Sees,
proceeds in the I phigenits frigate, C. plain Sir H.
Menus, to the coast of Africa, for the purpose of
making nautical observations, and determining the
true figure of that part of the globe. This liCitll.
title officer will commence his operations in the
neighbourhood of Sierra Leone.
We understand the cave of the Half-pay Officer,
alluded to by Mr. Hume, its his speech at the
London Tavern, on the 25th instant, to have been
the fullowitio :
In April, 178*, or thereabout., General Charles Ross, bro.
ther of the late Lord Aakerville, mid reatieed Colima of 5k
77th regiment, published a letter is the newspaper*, anima...
vrrtiag in sitting terms on the conduct of the Kisg mot in
Ministers, in bratowiug • ReJ Ribbon on Sir R. Bui)it, Li. ni
Governor of Gibraltar. in consequence of which he osa.
brought heroic a Court. Martial, but &whirred to the jariutir
lion of the Court, on the grottsidnf his bribe on balf.pay. Th,
question, WbetherGell. Pose, as on Beer on half pair, was
subject to Ike tribunal of a Canirt-glartkil was reterrea
the twelve Judges. The J utlees with Lased Mansfield, the great
advocate of prerogative. •1 their hoed, gave ma utianimoas
opinion that lie was sot, as a ka/f-pay /Fear, subject to
military law. They staled their snawrr on two points, mid in
both declared it as their opinion, that neither his ~real ass
a Genernt Officer, wor Alt eutnstily of half-pay, readerd bins
obecotiiiiii to military hist. lu eumwqrroce of this the
General witsdireharg,J from the custody of the bias shal, tool
the Court broke up.
Just as we were going to press. we heard, with
great regret, that a mars was fired at and despe-
rately wounded, in the neighbourhood of Newcastle,
on 'Tuesday tart. He was asked whether he knew
the assassins ; he replied in the affirmative. but de-
clined to mention their names, fut. If he recovered,
he was sure, he said, of being murdered, if they
were prosecuted. What a dreadful state of societ)!
I --(Malin Armin Poet I