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out of a dew revuliAnn al Constantinople his been
prevented with greet difficulty ; but the state of
istrairs is so verycriticsl, that if the news of such
• revolution should come, it would nut .brussex.
peeled or cause any surprise.—( Nuremberg. 0-f
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respondent, distgwit 9.)

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FRANKFORT. •URtJAT 10.
The wife of the merchant Four; lately condemn-
ed to death for murder; is gone to Berlin to direct
in Herron the steps to be token in support the ap-
peal against the senteuce, end in case this appeal
should foil, she will implore the royal clemency in
favour of her hutband.

A most remarkable petition to his Majesty the
Kiln of Prussia, in favour of Mr. Fonk, has been
'signed by a number of most respectable inhabitaina
of the city of Treves. They !tunably submit to his
Majesty, that the public proceedings iii this case
have left in their minds most serious doubts respect-
ing the guilt of the accused, the gromida of watch
they explain. Twice before already he has been
acquitted of the crime—first, on the 29.1 of June,
1818 ; and secondly, on the 41th of February,
18i0, by two d•ffereut Juries; that though hr knew
his servant Hamacher was to be tried, and he hid
every reason to expect to be tea a third time,
he did not leave the conittry, which he might easily
have done ; that reel' the facts of the case are not
decidedly fixed, the faculty having declared that the
cause of the death of the late M. Cotner, was
doubtful, and it could not be ascertained whether
his death was caused by drowning in the Rhine, or
whether be was thrown in a corpse. Still greater
doubts are excited by other circumstances: first,
with respect to the supposed falsification of the
books of the partnership with M. Schroeder, lOr
the purpose of concealing • fraud on the latter,
which was adduced as a motive for the supposed
murder of Schroeder's clerk, Cornell, the Cham-
ber of the Senate of Treves, after a most strict in-
vestigation, has declared, in an opinion which in
forty sheets examines the question point fur point,
that there was no falofimation or fraud, and this
point has not been brought forward on the present
trial. This imagined motive for the murder, there-
fore, on which so much stress has been laid, is dune
sway. The second proof against Funk, arisir.g
from the deposition of Hamaclie►, is liable to many
objections, not only from the circum•tancrs in
which it was made, but from the great improbabili-
ties it contains, and its being refuted by touch
more respectable testimony. Hamacher himself,
too, recanted this deposition a few days after, when
solemnly called on by the clergyman to tell the
truth. He has persisted in this recantation for five
year., though in chains; and even after Font: was
condemned, declared that the latter was innocent,
but that he himself deserved his punishment fur the
lies he had told.

The ;petitioners endeavour to account for the de-
cision of the Jury by the great difficulty of form-
ing a true estimate of a case, the hearing of which
had occupied seven weeks, in which 250 witnesses
were examined. The speeches of the Counsel on
both sides took up six days, and the summing up
of the President eight hours. Many ciieumstances,
such as the constant presence of flamacher, in his
chains and his red dre►s, as a condemned criminal
(for this very crime), violent pamphlets against the
Defendant, published just before the opening of the
A►sizes, and other things tending to inflame the pas-
sions of the public ; all this they think might im-
perceptibly influence the minds of the Jury, and
they therefore beg his Majesty to consider in his
wisdom whether these are not grounds to suspend
the execution of the sentence.—(Frankfort Papers,
August 12 J