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HAMBURGH MAIL.

CONSTANTINOPLE, JULY 18.
(roost A PRIVATE COMMUNICATION.)
Constantinople, in its present state, is hardly to be
r cognised, when compared with what it was only ■
short time ago. Every thing indicates peace, and
the Porte hes never taker► •itch decisive steps to pre-
it as it now does. The day before yesterday
the English Ambassador received an official note,
informing him that the Porte (es we have already
stated from other resource.) had appointed the Boyer
Ghika Prince of Wallachia, and Stourdza Prince
of Moldavia. In making this choice the Porte has
fur the first time departed from its custom of choose
ing Greeks residing in Constantinople, to fill those
high offices. They are natives of the country and
the Porte is said to have expressly excused itself
in tins note for having departed from the ancient
mode, because, under present circumstances, it
could not possibly have sufficient confidence io
Greeks, to put such important posts into their pos-
session. The evacuation of the two Principalities
continnes without interruption, and mill be come
plete before the arrival of the new Princes, who
leave this city iu u few days.
FRANKFORT, AUGUST 1.

The fortifications of Coblents are nearly cora-
pleted, and will be quire finished by the eud of the
year.—( Homburgh Papers. August 13.)
Exchange on London, 37 1, 37 4.
ST. PETERSBUROH, JULY 30.
Exchanges—London, 10 9 15-16; Amsterdam, 9 13-16;
Hamburgh, 91 3.16; Paris, 105.

AMERICAN PAPERS.

NEW YORK, JULY 24.

Extract of a letter from our Consul at La Gusyra
to his correspondent in this city, dated July 2, 1844:
" Referring to former &deices, I have now to state
that there_ is every appearance of a total glut of
provisions and merchandise in this place, and that
the high price and scarcity of produce make it ad-
visable to suspend any kind of adventure hither
until a change takes place, of which I will endea-
vour to keep you advised. It is said that the ex-
port duties will be renewed on coffee and cotton in
a few dip. Any quotations at present would be
nominal."

BOSTON, JULY 2i._

The British Minister, Mr. Cowling, and his Se-
cretary of Legation, Colonel Wilmot, will, we learn,
set out to-morrow for the Manor of Carrolton, in Ma-
ryland, where, in compliance with the polite invita-
tion of its hospitable proprietor, they will pass a
few days, and then proceed on a tour to the north.
Mr. Parish, one of the Legation, will remain at
Washington during the summer.
Mr. Bsker, the British Consul-General, we re-
gret to state, left this city a few days ago in a bad
state of health for Philadelphia, where he will re-
main for a time under the medical advice of an
eminent physician of that city.
Letters from St. Thomas's inform that a corvette.
built ship, mounting IS guns, was fitted out at St.
Thomas's, for the coast of Africa, under the com-
mand of a Frenchman. She bad 70 men shipped
oil the Ist instant, and waited for 50 more, when
she would sail without delay. This is the ship in
which Dubois committed piracy upon the ship Or-
leans packet, of Philadelphia, and was formerly the
United States' brig of war Prometheus, sold out of
the service.—(Aorfolk Beacon.)

(From the Buffalo Journal of July 18.]

A company of English emigrant., consisting of
about thirty souls, arrived here last week from
Quebec, on their way to join the English colony
planted by Mr. Birkbeck, in Illinois. They have
with them young cattle, hogs, geese. &c. which
they brought with them from England. The whole
company is in good health and high spirits. 'I hese
people came out a. emigrants to the Canada., and
by lauding at Quebec, have helped to swell the
lists of " emigrauts to the provinces" that have
been published from time to time in that city.
Hundreds find their wsy across Luke Ontario to the
United States every year, in the same planner,
whilst honest John Bull supposes them snugly
quartered iu his American doniiiiiona.

Norwich Corn market was thinly attended on
Saturday, sod very little b•siness was done.
Wheat experienced • further reduction of Is. per
coomb, said Barley advanced as much. No par.
ticular alteration•in other grain.—There was a good
supply of the usual stock of Scots end Home.
bred+, and the drovers kept steady to their late
prices. Also a large quanti►y of Lambe, chiefly
Half-bred Leicester, at from 101, to 131. per score,
and many were odd,

THE B RITI S H PIES S.

LON DON,
THURSDAY, Amon' 22, 1822.

The Emperoiltafflussta is expected to arrive in
Vienna nn the 6th or 7th of next month, for the
purpose of assisting at a Congress of the Sovereigns
or representatives of the several great Powers of
Europe. A flamburgli Paper in announcing this
intelligence adds, that the King of PRUsst♦ will
not attend at this Congress, and that a great mystery
seems to prevail respecting it. There are two sub-
jects which at the present crisis might properly oc-
cupy the attention of a Congress, namely, the pro-
priety of putting an end to the inhuman warfare
that rages between the Greeks and Turks, and of
recognising freely the independence and sovereign-
ty of Mexico, Colombia, Buenos Ayres, Chili, and
Peru. In observing, however, that such topics
might properly occupy the attention of the assem-
bled Kings and Minister', we do not mean to imply
that the several Powers of Europe might not with
far greater propriety determine within their respec-
tive Cabinets upon the line of policy which they
'ought severally to pursue upon these two important
subjects. If it be an advantage to any State to
act in conformity with its Allier, this advantage
may be sought in the ordinary way by negnciation ;
but we have no hesitation in saying, that a govern-
ment compromises its own d.gnity, and betrays the
true interests of the people intrusted to its care,
if it should submit questions relating to the ex-
pediency of any proposed measures affecting the
honour and well-being of the State to the judg-
ment and votes of foreign Potentates. The recent
death of the Marquis of LONDONDERRY has ex-
cited in many minds an anxiety respecting the
individual whom it may please the KING to
choose in the room of the Noble Marquis to re-
present his MAJESTY in the approaching Congress,
and there uphold the interests of Great Britain.
The point it undoubtedly one of considerable im-
portance, but for one own parts we cannot see how
it happens that the interests of Great Britain should
be placed in any jeopardy at such a Congress, nor
do we perceive how either the dignity of the British
Crown, or the well-being of this empire can in any-
wise be promoted by our appearing as a party at
such an assembly. Great Britain has no occasion
to attend these juntas, which, so far as the expe-
rience of the pest will enable us to form on opinion,
appear to have no other object than to bestow a
kind of legal sanction upon national oppression,
and to guarantee moral injustice by the imposing
influence of an irresistible force. If it be right
that England should recognise the independence of
Mexico and of the South American States, why
should it be done rather as the result of a delibera-
tion in a Congress at Vienna than of a debate in
the British Parliament at Westminster ? If the
cause of freedom in Greece ought to be maintained
by British influence, or be promoted by British
arms, is it in Vienna, or wherever else the Con-
gress may sit, that so important a question should
be decided ? Will the Emperors of AU•TRI♦ or
RUSSIA, will the Kings of PRUSSIA or FRANCE
feel a doper concern for the trade and commerce of
England with the immense continent of South
America than the Representatives of London,
York, and Lancaster ? Will they appreciate
more keenly the claims which liberty ought
to have upon the generosity, the sympathy, and
the character of England, then the Lords and
Commons in Parliament assembled ? The interests
of Great Britain have long been felt upon the Con-
tinent of Europe to conflict with those of the great
Powers who would form this Congress; and can we
hope for justice or impartiality in such an assembly
upon any point where those contending interests may
seem to be involved ? Such a hope would be idle ;
and yet, in becoming a party to the Congress, our
Government ipso facto binds itself to adhere to the
resolutions of the assembly, and to pursue such •
line of policy, with regard to our foreign relations,
as the majority of foreign Kings and Ministers way
think expedient !

This is the nature and extent of the sscrifice
which Great Britain implied!), proposes to make
by sending • Minister to the expected Congress.
Let us see, on the other hand, what the advantages
are which we may hope to gain as the reward of so
great a conces►ion. What have we gained hitherto
for the Allies that we sacrificed upon the continent
of Europe—for the commercial pursuits which we
abandoned, and fur the rich and extensive colonies
which we most generously restored ? We strutted
and flourished in the face of Europe, and were
flattered loudly with the praises of magnanimity
and generosity, and then—were laughed, at. Our
commerce was interdicted by our friends; our ma-
nufactures were excluded by our allies; the ports
which in their own independence used to court our
intercourse as the promise of future protection, and
the assurance of present profit. became through
our means the property of our rivals, and en-
larged the extent of commercial prohibition,
our very favours became sources of ingratitude,
and we had been so inflated with the praise
of - anaguanimity, that our flatterers knew
they could piny upon that weak point in the
character of our Government. We have been're-
pelled from the harbours of Europe, but we wrre

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too mignanintous to resent the ibjury, fns at this
moment the very pirates who infest the American
seas plunder and murder our merchants and destroy
our commerce ; but our magnanimous adhereuce
to some ridiculous notions of the Admiralty about
the rights of flags—pirates to wit—fitters our
naval power, and renders our character in the
west at once ridiculous and contemptible. What
then are we to hope from the present Congress
Certainly nothing good. We ought rather to dread
the approach of such a meeting, for unless the future
is to differ essentially from the past, we must anti-
cipate some further outrage upon public rights, of
which the British Governnient will be made the
silly instrument, or expect some special invasion of
our own interests, in which the recorded magnani-
mity of our Cabinet will ioduce it to acquiesce.
The true interests of Great Britain will be best con-
sulted by abstaining from attending at these occa-
sional congregations of foreign Potentates, and by
intrustiog them to the wisdom of a British Parlia-
ment for counsel, and to British enterprise, skill,
and valour, for execution.

The Paris Papers up to Monnday give us back
little more than our own news. They are nearly filled
with a report of the Coroner's Inquest upon the late
Marquis of LONDONDERM—Letters from Vienna
state that Count MONTMORVICY, the French Mi-
n ster of Foreign Affairs, is expected in that city,
and that the affairs of Spaiu will be discussed in the
approaching Congress. The opening of the Con-
greas is said to be fixed for the lit of October; but
the Ministers of the Ere great Powers are to hold
preliminary conferences in the month of September.
The following are extrac:s

PARIS, AUGUST 18.

It is stated that the King's Attoruey-Genetal ►as com•
menced MEMO proceedings against Sieur Lafontaine, and
the Editor of the Journal de la Cole d'Or, for defamatior
and abuse of the King's Ministers, ■nd particularly of this
!Cloister at War. The trial was to have taken place on ,be
16th 'before the Tribunal of Correctional Police at Dijon.

A private letter from Vienna, of the 7th instant, contains
the following paragraph—" A report bas been in eireishation
here since morning of the death of his Holiness the Pope."
Baron &MINIM% who has been appointed the Austrian
Internuncio to Constantinople, is engaged is making preps.
rations for his voyage, and is expected to leave Vienna abou►
the 20th of this month.

A rause of great interest has been brought before the
Royal Court. The administrators of the public domains
claim She property of the deceased Madame Marie Adelaide
of France, the King's aunt, inasmuch as her natural heirs,
the Kiug and their Royal Highnesses Monsieur, Madame
the Duchess of Angouleme, have formally renounced the suc-
cession. 1 his is opposed by the Simi,. Delaunay, the trustee.
The hearing has been deferred for a few days.

Extracts from Bayonne Papers to the 'l4th in-
stant are given in our preceding columns. They
contain accounts of the recent operations of the
Royalists in Spain.

Tes FUNDS.—The market yesterday was ra-
ther flat, but without ;any other assignable cause
than the little real business doing. Consols were
80& for Money and the Account, and buyers at
801 for the October Account; Reduced, 8111;
4 per Crate. 99n ; New 4 per Cents 9911; Lou`
Annuities, 40 15.16 21. Foreign Securities were
all better : Old Spanish, 651; New ditto, 641
Prussian, 8811 89 ; Danish, 881 ; Neapolitan, 74f
751 Colombia, 103 f ; New ditto, 86 ; Chili,
"Hi*
At the late Norwich County Sessions MANAHAN
ELWIN, Erg. who took the chair in consequence of
the iudispounou of Lord SUFFIELD, at the instance,
it is believed, of that Nobleman, recommended
thut the gentlemen of the couuty should purchase
malt on a large scale, at the then existing low price,
and retail it out, at a trifling loss to themselves, to
their labourers—the same proposition had been
made by Mr. CRISP Baowx to the farmers. His
Lordship has been trying the experiment with suc-
cess amongst his labourers, whose numbers hare
fluctuated according to circumstances from 80
to 140.

At the Kilkenny Assizes, the unfortunate occur-
rence at the fair of Sawn came under the attention
of the Court, on Monday, in the indictment of
Lieut. IVRAT, of the Police, for siding and assist-
ing in the murder of MARY DELANY, on the 16 Is
of May last. The trial ended in the immediate ac-
quittal of that officer.
The Suffolk meeting, to commemorate the Birth-
day of Mr. Fox, and promoting Constitutional Re-
form, was held yesterday at Ipswich, and a public
chimer was given at the Ipswich Corn Exchange
upon the occasion.
General RUFUS PuTtrast was the first white man
that settled in Ohio. He was from the county of
Worcester, Massachusetts. He has lived to see
Ohio positsard of a more numerous pnpulatiow than
has native State, which was the second in the Union
when he left it. He lives in Marietta, at an ad-
mired ■ge, and is esteemed as the father of Ohio.
The Irish Committee have received the following
articles of clothing from Mrs. Fn and the Ladies
supeittitending the females in Newgale, for the re-
lief of the diotressed peasantry in Ireland. The
materials were presented by ROST. BARCLAY, Esq.
and were made up by the female prisoners, under
the direction of Mrs. Fay :-66 gowns, 92 petti-
coats, 108 shifts, 190 shirts, 60 caps, 12 blauketa,
and 12 pincloths.
We are informed that the overseers of the poor in
the parish of Ludgven, lately put up to auction the
labour of such persons as could not obtain work,
and had, in consequence, applied fur relief. The
demand for this species of labour was not great. and
the right of employing these unfortunate persons
was obtained at the rate of from two-pence to four-
pence a day for tuck. If it were nut for the poor
laws, these unhappy beings would be reduced to a
state aqua' to that of the people in Ireland, who
hove been starring amidst abundance,—(Cornwall
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