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London, England, 1826-08-11 00:00:00

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ENGLISH OPERA TIOCSE.
This Evening, FRIDAY, Antru•t I I, will be performed the new
Grand Seriu.Comic Opera of
THE ORACLE; or, THE INTF:RIOTTED SACRIFICE.
principal Characters by Messrs. J. Blond. Perkin., J. 0. H.
Sapio. a.:4 Thorne ; Humilion, and (inward.
After which the new Comic Operetta, called
EYING MADE FAWN.
:he principal Character• by Messrs. Hartley, Thorne, and Wrench,
MIMS. Can and Iloden.
To timetesde with the Musical ►arce of
SHARP AND FLAT.
Solomon Sharpwlt, Mr.W. Ckapatan; Nlkey, Mr. Raley.

ROYAL GARDENS, VAUXHALL.
Under the especial Patronage of Me Most Gracious Majesty.
TAM Evening. IRMA V, August 11, there will be
A GRAND GALA,
With a constant succession of Entertainments, commencing at Eight
o'clock. A Concert of Vocal and Invtrumental Nude. Principal Per-
fonners.—Mim Travis. Miss Helmet. and 11141 Love; Mr. Braham, Mr.
S.gri.r De Baws, Mr. liornmeitle, Mr. C. Taylor, Mr. Robin-
.,o. and Maier Barker. Composer and Conductor, Mr. H. R. Bi,hup ;
l.•ader of the Baird, Signor Spagnoletti. The New Ballet of the Village
rtor, with the much. nlatired Comic Dance. Mr. Wil4on's
earaurdl-
mrry Pert' trmances on the riot Rope, which are varied every Evening.
ilr. Itsekmore's Slack slope Evolutions. The Rule, of an Italian Abbey,
re 3i, •litchi, by the celebrated Mr. Stanfield. Thirt Ciolvter, which hn4
Ixrn the adaairatirn of the Flitter, the Three last Night., will be esti'.
t0:,•4 this Evening. Al., the Cambia Veduta, by Mr. Cooke, giving
I.; Effect to 811 chanetable
THE FIRE WORKS, . _

w"ich are universally ackeoWle;lX;dtrb; aupe.rior to those of any other
will continue equally brilliant. The twu unrivalled Artists,
4'1,11.4 ■nd Southby, exhibit alternately.
Dom. Open at Seven o'clock.—Coneert commence, at Half-past Eight-
A t.ksion Js.—Roan may be eviesed upon application to Mr. Andrews,
Hand-street.

TheßßlTidu Plum commi;.ce-ci.p4lis—hiog yesterday marling

at five o'clock.

LONDON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 11, 1826.

The French Papers arrived last night. The following
are the only extracts worthy of notice :

(From the Male, dated NVednesilay, August 9.)
CONSTANTINOPLE, JULY 11.
The Sultan. dressed in the Egyptian fashion, has attended in
person the military exertion at Lski-Serai. Ile especially noticed '
wouitcumtasieri, whom he desired to accompany him, on the 291 h,
so Ins return, as far as the Suleimanie. The gunners are vier..
used at the great barracks above Pere. A battalion passed through
the Nobel+ this morning, preceded by TUNS and drums, mareh-
ir.g in two lines and divided into companies, &c.. with their ofli-
aal subalterns. This novel sight caused a great sensation.
It was .llahmoud himself who first intimated in the Clemas his
n•cntion to abolish the punishmeht of confiscation ; they applauded
I.rnieri, which they declered to be in harmony with the divine
and a liana Selloff confitmed thin important reform.
The Sultan has abolished several pieces of etiquette which kept
hi.ti ion much at a distance front his 31ininters and the Ulemas. In
the late coined., he repeatedly desired the persons present to sit
Oman in his presence. and in spite of their respectful objections in.
*noel on being obeyed.
partial executions continue. The Rhandjor, adorned with dia-
monds belonging to Nedjib Effendi, has been found in the hands
tai a &alt., in charcoal, who has been put in prison.
In she :10th the Sultan went to prayer in the mosque of the bar-
nick,' of the Bombardiers, as a testimony of his confidence and sit-
titaction. This corps increases daily, and vies with the 'Fopscliis
mats seat taleam the exercise.
The Grand Vitir, followed by the Chief Architect, went on the
first of July to measure the site of the barracks of Scutari which
were hum in 11307. The Government re. purchase% the ground, en
which some tire Turkish houses have been built, which are to be
pulled down to make room fur the new establishment.

The Guar of the Gith Legion has been arrested. He was con-
st Si. Stefano. disguised in a European dress. Ile was int.
ined:ately taken before the Aga Seraskier Pacha, and then before
the Grind Vizir. Some charcnal-dealers and corn-meters have also
been arrested. Capital punishments are rare, but sentences of
banishment and condemnations to the galleys for fifteen years are
t request.
The greater part of the jewels stolen by the rebels not having
been recovered, the jewellers and goldsmiths have been forbidden
In purchase any thing without giving notice to the Gnvernment. It
is said, also, that the porters who were banished are brougie back,
because they were not carefully marked when they were expelled.
It is affirmed that the Sultan has left the property real and per-
sisted, of the persons executed, to their widows and children.
On the 2d of July the Porte gave to the Armenian Patriarch
liberty to punish the bad characters of his nation, with the assur-
ance that rho change of religion should not secure the guilty from
the punishment which they had merited before they turned 3litaitul-
inns: that in such a cite he had only to intinin the Porte, which is
by no means desirous of such converts. Imprisonment and the bag-
tined° have already done justice to a great number of criminals.
Patriarch has enjoined his eountrt men to conduct themselves
str, t pluderee and modesty, that they may not offend the impeder
nuthnritirs. All the corporations of trade have been ordered to
appear brete the Cadis, to be subscribed on the registers of the Iris
Weal, arid to give security under the guarantee of' their Elders.
This operation is to be continued till It is entirely finished. On
:Nootloy, the 3d, the order to light the houses at nit,ht was ro-
tated, and an order given that nobody shall appear in the streets at
half past nine in the evening. This measure was taken, because
the city is perfectly tranquil, and the late precautions kept people's
usual. in a state of alarm to no purpose.
Wilt Effendi, formerly ;Leis k;flindi, Intentlant.General of the
Anillery, has been suddenly taken from his residence. and sent into
''"'l= to Anitata the Corimtrolla of the Finances of the Artillery is
ex'lol to t:e,ares. This measure against a person who has long
":.r „...fed pest influence, and was very active in the new organiza.
.
" the Tontine, is ascribed to hia having given an asylum to

Rome Janissaries. The investigations and the securities required of
the Corporatims have led to important discoveries. Within these
three days a considerable number of proscribed penons have been
arrested, and many of them executed.
The works at Eski.Serai are proceeding with as much activity as
the military manoeuvres. The situation of this place is Insgriis-
- rent ; it is a kind or citadel in the midst of the capital, and it is to
be converted into a military depot.

PARIS, Autc. 8.

A Royal Ordinance (in the 21/nriirrur of to.:186, in considers..
thin of the serviem of the late Attorney-General Ilelhirt, g.yes
pension of 3,000 franca to Mademoiselle Julie Kellam.
The tranquillity of Constantinople is so peitect ever since the
28th June. that the Patriarch% have decreed their countrymen to
cease keeping guard around their doors during the night. A great
Council lan Men luln it. the ancient church of St.lrene,aftcr
the Grand Vizir and the Semliki. Ilusssim Pacha visited the
Mint.

The Aga Seraskier Pacha has terminated a very important'
operation. The l'amaks, who occupied the twelve castles at the
entrance of the Black Sea, have been replaced by live companies
of Topchis, who will henceforth form the garrisons. His measures
were so well taken that the Tamacks made no resistance. They
were afraid that their conduct in 1807 and 111118 might be remem-
bered. They formed It body of about 2,000 men—half having
been sent to Anivolia, on board four Tess ls, which were pr. pared
to take them to their native country, to Trebistmd, Sinope, &c.
The remainder are incorporated among the new troops.
A small number of men of bad character were przviously
strangled. It is said that Ilusscin Pacha has ousel the Coin.
mavtler of a fort to suffer this punishment.
Two English (Hikers, sent by Commodore Hamilton, ha►e ar-
rived at Coostantioople in five days. from the Dardanelles. A
part of the Capitan Paella's fleet hail Just put to sea.
Accounts from Smyrna say that the Janissaries in that city have
submitted to the will'of the Sultan.

In removing the furniture from the Palace of Sultanas (the Eski-
Serai), a pereel was disco.ered, containing the bloody garments of
the Sultan Osman, who was murdered by the Janisssries p• the
age of tr ThorSulterta Valide had them delivered to him.. that she
might weep over the fate of her unhappy ann. After the death of
that Princess, three relics. were carefully preserved in the Eaki.
Serai.

"I his circumstance was communicated to the Sultan, who, having
examined the packet with the M,,PI lively grief, ordered it to tit
taken to the Grand Vizir and the Ministers, to make them part.
cipate in his indienathth and auger towards the proscribed, which
were much excited by the sight.
(From the Conetilstionewl.l
Extract of a letter dated Lisbon, July 20:—" An order of the
day, published by the new Governor of this capital, has produced
all cite Item effect on the minds of the troops. It was found easy
to cohvince tlitru that the Constitutional Government, or the sys-
tem of equality in the eye of the law, offered more real advantages
than the system of arbitrary power and privil.ges. '1 he source is
now known front which those dark resolutiona emanated which in
the first moment of ephemeral hesitation might have produced san.
guinary events. The step (.ken on the 4th of this month by the
Austrian Minister with regard to Sir W. A'Court, the Bribith Am.
Lassador, has furnished the principal pretext to the disaffected.
They had succeeded it) misleading the good faith of the solditrs,
to al in persuading them that the Infant Don Miguel was about to
arrive, and to put himself at the head of the opposition, in order
to resist the execution of the King's orders by force of arms,
and with the assistance of Austria. All this scaffolding has
now been thrown down. It is known that the Infant Don Miguel
could not ahando t Austria without the authority of the Cabinet of
Vienna Now it has not beer, found difficult to convince every
body that this Cabinet, which does nothing from passion, as not
willing to trust any thing to chance, would certainly not consent to
cause this young Prince to incur MO great risks—risks which would
infallibly expose him to the danger of dosappointment with regard
to his marriage with the Queen, and of being for ever removed
from Portugal. It is known besides, that such an attempt would
produce a rupture with Great It. itain, which has manifested its in.
tention of protecting. if necessary, with all its force the respect due
to the decrve% of the legitimate Sovereign. It is affirmed that all
the Members of aie new Al inistry named by the King DIM Pedro
before his abdication (a Ministry which does not enter into office
till after the solemnity of the oath), have accepted the offices
which his Majesty had intrusted to them, they talk only
of changing the Count of Aloizaa (Don Diego) the 3liniater of
Finance, who it is said will be called to occupy a supetior office
at Rio Janeiro. No reaction has signalized this change of Go-
vernment. Nothing has been noticed but the voluntary and on.
accounted-for departure of some monks and others, fur Spain.
The departure of the Count of Amsrante, the present Marquis of
Chavez, from Madrid, was stated by mistake."

Auasnuna, ArGUST 3.

By the last letters from Vienna, dieiire;;;;Vit of the politipl
and military retOrturdion of the Ottoman empire is far from being
consummated. The Yantaks (porters), that is the troops that
compose the garrison of the Cas.lir of the llar:lanellez. have not
chewed themselves mote docile to the wishes of the Grand Signor
than the Jarissaries had been t and notwithstanding the three
hundred purses bestowed upon them by his Highness, they have
displayed the standatil of revolt oa the Castle, and it is not yet
known what has been the result.
FRENCH Fr NDS.—PAais, Aro. o.—Five per Cents. Consols,
16111. 61k. • Three per Cents., 66f. 25c. ; Bank Stock, 2,0151. ;
Bente* ak Naples, 72f. 61k. ; Royal Spanish Loan, 45af. ;
Reims d'Espagne, Excange on London, One Month,
125 f. 6.je.

We have also received Dutch Papers to the 9th inst.,
from which we have made the following extracts:—

BRussEts. A ro. fi.

Joseph Napoleon Bonavorte, ("wilt of Sorvillierv, is expected in
thin city to-day or to-morrow. Apartments have been prepared for
him at the Hotel de Belle Vue. _ . _

The official -Journal continua the appointment of M. Vanderfosse
to the place of flovernor of the Province of South Brabant.
A dreadful hurricane, with hail-atones larger than a hen's egg.
ravaged, the day before yesterday. the whole territory of the yd.
lagea of Spiennes, Harvengt, Houveroy, &e. A waggon loaded
with corn was upset, a barn levelled with the ground, trees torn up
by the roots, all the standing crops cut to pieces, and pigeons and
other birds killed, &c. &c. The damage cannot yet be estimated.
On the Ifirn July the Commune Prechacq was the theatre of a
third scene of that brutal and barbarous toperst Mon, of which we
related two instances a few days ago, Jane Farthonat was enticed
into a house, and threatened with death unless she curd a child
that was sick, and which she was accused of keeping in that at de.
On her replying that God alone could make ill and cute, a rope
was put round her neck, and it was resolved that the pretended
witch ought to be burnt. A truss of straw, and a faggot of brush-
wood, were kindled, and the unfortunate Farthonat was placed over
the fire. Being severe), burnt, and seeing that she would cer-
tainly be burnt to death, she promised to cure the child the same
evening. After this promise they removed her from the fire, and
she went home. There is reason to hope that an exemplary pu-
nishment will prevent the recurrence of similar atrocities, which
seem to have originated in ignorance and superstition alone.
Prince Metternich, who was on his way to Johaniiisharg, was
overtaken by several couriers with important despatches, which
obliged him to stop to answer them, and SO retarded his journey.
AuuusT 7.
We have received from Maastricht a letter, giving an account of
the ravages caused by a terrible storm of hail, on the evening of
the 3d. Our correspondent says he picket! up hail-stones as larg
us a common-sized egg ; they consisted of an msaque nucleus, with
a transparent envelope. Thousands of panes of glass are broken.
The Town.hall alum has 1,500 destroyed. The whole country is
laid waste, even the rook of the buildings are destroyed ; crows,
pigeons, hares, are found dead in the fields. In acme places the
deluge of water obliged the inhabitants to take refuge in the upper
stories of their houses. One farmer had 40 acres of oats and 10 of
clover cut to pieces; he estimates his loss at 14,1100 francs.
In the commune of Heck, the damage is estimated at 121,550
francs. Baron dc S. is said to have ordered 25,000 slates to repair
the roofs of his chateau and the church.

AVOURT 8.
The Marquis of Hertford, with bis family and suite, arrived
here yesterday from London, on his way to spa.
The details which we received of the ravages and fatal events
caused by the late storms, are most afflicting. A great part of the
province of Limburg. and several communes of Namur, Liege,
and Nainault, hare had their crops cut to pieces, and their build-
ings damaged by the hail, the armies of which have been of ex-
traordinary sire, and it is even affimied, that in some instances
pieces of ice a pound weight have fallen. (Here follows the ecu-
meration of numerous instances of fires caused by lightening.
In general the unhappy sufferers were unable to save their furni-
ture, their corn, cattle, or horses. Some persons have been killed
by the lightening. The damage done by the fire at Alenkerk, of
which we Lave given an account before, is estimated at 100,000
florins.

AMSTERDAM, Auc. B.—Exchange on London, 40f. 9c.—Two
Months, 40f. 6c.

ST. PETERSBURG, JULY 19.
The Emperor, by four reseripts, dated from Znrnkojeselo, 7th
July, has been pleased to confer, let, on General Tatischeff, the
Minister of %Var. the insignia of the order of St. Alexander News-
ky, in diamonds; 241, On Prince Galitzen, the Pestmaster-
General, the dignity of Knight Grand Cross of the order of St. Vla-
dimir,lirst class; 3d. On Aid-de-camp Ousehakoff the dignity of
Knight Grand Cross of the order of St. Vladimir, of the necond
clean; 4th, On the Actual Councillor of State. Blandoff, the dig.
nit of Knight of the order of St. Anne, of the Seat class.
The Emperor having been prevent at the exercise of the regi-
ments of Horne Guards at Steeina, the 11th of July. expressed, in an
order of the day of the 14th, his satisfaction with the Colonel, as
well an all the other officers of these regiments : each subaltern and
private was ordered to receive a ruble, a pound of meat, and a glass
of brandy. His slaienty, in an order of the 151111, expresses
his gratitude to the Admiral Crown for the perfect order in which his
51x)enty found the squadron when he innpec'ed it on the June,
(12th July). His .lajeety has Moo expressed his natisfacti-n to
the Co;nmander of the squadron, of small vessels • hich
msntru-
vred before him on the same day, and ordered a ruble to be paid
to each subaltern and private of the crews.
Since the beginning of summer we have experienced in this ca-
pital an extraordinary degree of heat; the temperature. which for a
month was between 20 deg. and 25 deg, though the beams of the
sun neareelv penetrated the thick tog which covered the earth, be-
came a Nile milder ceaterlay after a heavy rain. Since the storm
of the 21st of June (:tat July not a drop of rain had fallen at St.
retershorgh or in the environs.
Thirty-two foreign nierthantmen, of which twenty-six were in