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[From the Oriental Sfectalor.)
lissy RYA, SZTT. 16.
There hare been same engagements of Alitviene and Fochr,
between some Turkish ships and the Greeks. •Aliattlis, with ao
ships, had joined the 53 under ffaehtury, on which the Greeks
seemed dWposest to attack the Turkish squadron betore Mitylene,
in the n'ght if Sunday, the 9th of September. They sent our,
but without effect, two fire.ahipe : one of them. as well as one of
their brigs, was sunk, and a polacre and two other brigs were con.
sidenibly damaged by the lire of a large Turkish frigate. On.
Monday, the I Ith, the Greeks wished to attempt a coup de maim.
against the ships which are repairing at Fochea ; they launched a
fire %hip without effect; two Greek ships were sunk, and several
dimmed. The Turkish ships remained to their position, that Is
to say, part at Mitylene and part at Foetus : the Cepitan Paella Is
with tile latter. The Cheeks, taking the damaged vesicle in tow,
retreated, mime to Ipsara, and some to the harbour of Vati, in
Samos, to repair. Count Guilleminot, the French Ambassador to
the Porte, arrived on the .9th of September en board the Pomona
COvrette, at VOUtts, where the Freed.% squadron lay, but soon pro.
ceeded on his voyage to Conitantinople.
Letters from Alexandria of the 25th August ay that Omer it
Boyer, and moat of the officers accompanying him, had quitted the
service of the Viceroy and embarked foe France. The restless
spirit of some of these officers seems to have caused a breach which
all the dram of the French Consul.Oeneral mold not prevent.

• Cocerecricorxr, SEPT. 2R.
It is rem ted that the Orphan Petite was defeated oear Petals,
and that C,anaris (who wee wounded en the octagon) having as lire
to a frigate. it was abandoned by the Turks, ■nd token potsession
of by the Greeks, who succeeded in extingsishirg the dames.
Count Guilleminot, the Plena Ambassador, is said to hare been
an eye-witness of this exploit. and greatly to have. raised the
valour of the Greek sailors. The loss of the Turks is as
very considerable but this whole account requires con
VIEN EA, Ocr. 13,-3letalliques 110 ; Bank Shape

MOLDAVIA AND WALLAC

By the late arralgement between the Tides and the
Russians, the latter have obtained pomade() of Moldavia
and Wallachia. These provinces are a valuable secession
to the Russian territory, if we may credit the statements
of the best writers. According to them, Moldavia is about
230 miles long, and 200 broad, and ia bounded on the
north and north-east by Poland and the river Dneister, on
the south by Bessarabia and the Danube, and on the west
by Wallachia, Transylvania' and branches detached from
the Carpathian mountains. The surface of the country is
finely diversified with hills and valleys, extensive fonsts,
and numerous rivers, the principal of which ere the Pruth,
the Sireth, the Moldeau, the Danube, and the Dneister.
There are also several small lakes. The climate is rigorous
in winter, and oppressive in summer. The territory
abounds in minerals. Gold is occasionally found; foe-
ail salt is plentiful ; and nitre is exported in consider-
able quantities. The waivode or hospodar, appointed'
by the Turkish Government, was obliged to send yearly
to Constantinople a tribute of twenty-live tons of ni-
tre, and a million of piastres. The Turkish navy was
also supplied with the lineal oak from the forests, and
with masts and cordege of native growth. The chief pro-
ductions are wheat, barley, oats, millet; and maize. Bees
are reared in gredt umbers. The principal domestic ani-
mals arc horses, cattle, sheep, and goats,..great numbers
of which were annually purchased by the Turkish Go-
vernment at a low and arbritrary price, and carried to
Constantinople. Ihe bogies are much esteemed by the
Austrian and Prussian cavalry. Some of the wealthy
farmers are said to have 400 or SOO of these animals, which
are suffered to remain without shelter in ail seasons. The
population of the territory is computed to be 500,000, most
of whom inhabit miserable villages, and wooden huts
daubed with clay, having paper windows and open roofs.
In winter, the tenants of these wretched dwellings
descend into subterraneous cells, which are easily warmed,
and there live promiscuously. The wretchedness of the
inhabitants, and the frequent famines which occur, have
resulted from the oppression of the Government, and not
from the natural sterility of the soil. The capital is Jassy.
or Yassi, which is situated on the lake and river Bakful,
the Pruth, and occupies a great-extent of
e houses being detached, and surrounded by
gardens. The population is about 40,009. The
us seventy churches, public hospitals, and schools
two hundred pupils, who are mistvuetet4 in the
1 , ancient and modern Greek, *riling IMO
11154teueatios, kestereer, grotty neglected.
are generally one story high,-bußvillarafjc,
within and without, and roofed with inner
are floored with beams cf the finest A/wet&
*WM 102-years.
lewseitaZietrey are covered with deep liquid
in dry weather with thick black dust,-which,
the accumulation and stagnation of panes-
inces below, produce numerous disease 9.—
e seaport and chief emporium of the province,
is situated on the Danube, sixty-five miles from Yarsi,
where the river is navigable by vessels of 300 tons.
The population is about 7.000. Moldavia is part of
the ancient Thcia, whole inhabitants resisted the pro-
ms); of the Roman arms. The King of the Visigoths,
being compelled to retreat hither in the fourteenth
century, a rested a wall between the Pruth and the Danube,
where various antiquities of a remote era are still to be
seen. In the thirteenth century it was occupied by a new
tribe, under their leader Bagdan, who assumed the Sla-
vonic title Vaivode or Voivode, equival, nt to a reigning
Prince, and from him the country received the name of
Bogdiana. It became tributary to Turkey in 1336; and
since, having been the theatre of sanguinary wars between
that empire, Russia, and Austria, each has alternately
held the sovereignty. At length the growing power of
Russia obtained the cession of the best portion of the pro-
vince, between the Pruth and the Dneister, in the year
1812. The author fro.n whom we quote anticipated, in
the year 1817, that this would be the precursor of a final
cession of the whole to Russia; and his anticipation has
been fulfilled.

The general account of Wallachia is similar to that of
Moldavia. It is 280 miles long and 150 broad; and is
bounded north by Moldavia and Transylvania, east by
Bessarabia, and west by Transylvania and the Danube.
The capital town is 'rergovists or Tervis.
The inhabitants of both provinces are of the Graek
Church, and in general very ►gnorant. The prik its have
very little more information than the laity. Their attain-
ments consist chiefly of reading and singing, and an ac-
quaintance with the ceremonies of the Church.

Mr. 'Hunter, son. the King's Messing-a, has arrived in
town, hripging despatches from the Right Hon. Frederick
Lamb, our Ainbatsador at Madrid. _ _

Yesterday, being the first day of the Sessions at Guild-
hall, the Lord Mayor entertained at dinner the Aldermen
on the iota, the City Law Officers, and a numerousparty.
We learn with pleasure that there is every probability of
Mr. Beaumont being returned for a borough early in the
ensuing session.. Ile is now entirely engaged in negotia-
tions for that purpose, and, in consequence, is, unable at
present to leave town'with a view 64 sprndirttr any-time-in
the north. On this account, it has been deemed advisable
to postpone the public thinner which was intended to have
been given to him in Newcastle on the 3d of November.—
Tyne Mercury.
DISTRESSED LETTER-PRESS PRINTERS.—From the
I advertisement in another column, it will be seen that the
subscriptions for the Letter-press Printers have fallen off
[ very considerably. It cannot be necessary for us to repeat
r what we have before stared on this subject. From the
literary world, at team, distress of this kind has a right to
expect not only sympathy, but active benevolence; and if
the pstrons of literature have been less sensible than tni4lat
have been expected to the misfortunes of abase hupthle in-
dividuals, we trust the circumstance is to to mtributed
only to their ignorance of the pressing necessities of those
who claim their assistance.
DUTY ON PRINTED COTTOWS.—WE understand a de-
putation of gentlemen engaged in the paint trade set out
last night for London, for the purpose of making repre-
sentations to Ministers, with a view.of inducing theta to
consent to the repeal of the excise duty on printed goods,
when it was stated, that of the ruin of 2,03.5,219/. lbs. el.
to which the gross amount of the duty reached in the year
I ended the sth Jan. last, 1,665,592/. Ss. was returned in
drawbacks and bounties; and that of the net produce,
which reached the Exchequer, 569,9431.55. 4d. by fur the
larger part, is drawn from the labouring classes. Nothing
more need be said to show the very objectionable nature of
the tax, . and we trust our townsmen will completely suc-
ceed in their efforts to procure its removal.—Mancholer
Mercury, Oct. 24.