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Ise ass Asstrbis gareiltatas, Lass lately rewired
crime rsiefareassosts, bet them Ms bee... thought of as-
issoldisit an Austrian amp is them provisoes.
Is Mistrial' Italy it is sot at all believed that Austria will
take asy active part is the war with Turkey if it slsoatil
break out, sad seen is the mippositisis (to which it is ilia-
Cult to give may belief) that Austria should eagage is a war,
Daimons would certainly sot be He provisee its which the
Military operatious of the Austrians would hails.
MOE TM DWINA. SOLT 27.
A Beetled army Of 1811,000, It already above half formed,
Ind a third of 150,900 will be so is has ties tee smathe.
Arms, saisinnitiomafte. are be sheadeses. Use. admirable
military administration prove its esealroce ma this oc.
anion. The Cabinet negotiates, say oar soldiers, bat the
army marches.
What a certain foreign Paper says of diversion in the
North, almost makes us laugh. Eyer the will to attempt
it seems a political impossibility, and thee there is perhaps
nu power which needs our friendship so moth as that which
some world now coeval into as ally of the Tarks.—(No•
ratifier' Correspondent. August 25.)

THE BRITI S H PRE S S.

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LONDON,

TUESDAY, Sammie& 4, !Hl.'
04,

The arrival oT the Awls Papers .f Friday last
contributes but little towards divesting the ques-
tion of a war between Russia and Turkey of the
anxious uncertainty which has for so long • time
enveloped it. An article of intelligence from
Vienna asserts positively that Baron STROGONOFF
bad not left the harbour of Constantinople on the
91st of July, and in allusion to the opinion which
had attrOnted the delay of his departure to the
prevale of contrary winds, the writer observes
that tbeie winds are of a political nature. Nothing
(games to us front Constantinople in a form that

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can command our confidence. Facts are either
suppressed or distorted through interest, prejudice,
or ignorance, and we therefore ordinarily find the
representation of one day ups any given transac-
tion, contradicted or modified by the statement of
the next. To this day we have not had an abstract
of the Russian aliirsuaam upon which we can rea-
son as true—our knowledge of the conduct par.
seed by Baron Svaocomors in his intercourse with
the Porte depends upon inconsistent and conflict-
ing narratives—and equally unsatisfactory seem to

be the accounts which have reached us through the
German Papers of the manner in which the Porte
has more recently expressed itself upon the subject
of the oillietalluia. From some we learn that the Porte,
anxious to wai►e the indignity offered to it by the
requisition of •o answer within the 'beet space of
eight days, sent on the day limited in the demand of
the Russian Cabinet a ve►ba! answer to Ba►otr STRO.
GOROFF. acceding to the terms prescribed in the
aftimaistas, with an intimation that it would
communicate its answer in writing in two
days. From others we collect that the answer
of the Porte was given in writing in the first
instance, but that it was a few hours too
late, and that the Ambassador, pursuing the
strict letter of his instructions, refused to accept
it. A third class of informants state, that the an-
swer, although offered in writing and in sufficient
time to be strictly within the letter of the Russian
requisition, was yet couched in terms so evasive that
Baron STROGONOF/ declined to become the medium
if transmitting the document to his Court. This
diversity of statement precludes the possibility area-
*suing upon the point ; but we think it impossible to
believe that Baron STIOGO norr would undertake the
serious responsibility of plunging his country into
a wsr, solely on account of the delay of a few hours
or days on the part of the Turkish Government,
if he had any good cause to believe that eventually
the Porte meant to accede in every particular to
the requisitions prescribed by the Cabinet of Pe..
tersburgh.

A doubt seems to be very reasonably entertained
of the ability of the Turkish Government to con-
trol the fanaticism of its subjects, and maintain the
terms of a prescribed peace. The disposition of the
soldiery and populace of Constantinople is said to
be in favour of a war with Rus►ia, and the Govern.
tacit seems to have hitherto, though perhaps 1111111-•
tentionally, countenanced this spirit, by its constant
exertions in Asia to collect a formidable army for
the purpose of repelling the Russians. The power
of the Ottoman Empire lies principally on the
Asiatic side of the Bosphorus, and a force, remark-
able at least from its numbers, is said to have
been levied there for the protection of the• Eur-
opean Provinces. Fanaticism, with a national ha-
tred of the Russians, are the moving p►inciplea of
•this mass; but what can they achieve in opposition
to the steady valour of ■ discipliued army of Euro-
peatt veterans ?

The Skinister packet, from Lisbon to Falmouth,
Li., brought letters from Lisbon of the lid of Au-
;:ust, in which tin account is given ofa disagreeable
fteurrence which lately took place in that city. A
teneral review of the Portuguese troops, under the
Orders of General SEPULYIDA, the Military Com-
mandant of the city of Lisbon, took place in the
'pine of the Terreiro do Rico, in the presence of
lie Kona, who had placed himself at one of the
*indows of the Royal Palace. Before the review
toacluded, the KING being in conversation with
tk•reral persona of rank, accidentally turned his
bui kto the troops in the square. One of the first

41*:ms, it is said, who notictti the circumstance
'll, General SEPULVIDA, who immediately ob-
.ised totem! of the offices'', slant the Kura had
',aced himself in that position, in order to shew his