The National Register.
London, England, 1821-09-09 00:00:00

No. 1,331.

SOUTH AMERICA.
His Majesty's ship Andromache, Captain Shirreff,
arrived at Portsmouth on Friday, having ou board
the lady and family of the late Viceroy of Lima;
also Lady Cochrane and family. Letters have been
received by this conveyance from Lima, Chili, and
Rio de Janeiro: from Lima, also, are transmitted
the bulletins of the expeditionary army to the sth of
April. It appears from them that nothing decisive
bad taken place since the last intelligence from that
quarter. The army under General San Martin had
its head-quarters at Huaura. The Royal army had
a camp at Arnapuqio; and the military revolution,
which placed La Samna at its head, is hailed by Gen.
San Martin as an event favourable to the cause of
independence. The Royalists, on the other hand,
boast of their superiority, and speak with confidence
of an attack meditated on San Martin's position at
Huaura. Two detachments had left Lima, for the
purpose of cutting oft his communication with Pisco,
while Gcn. Canterac, with the main body, was
moving directly on Huaura. The Arantaju Spanish
schooner of war, and the Europa merchant brig, had
been captured by Lord Coclirane's cruisers; but his
blockade had been infringed by a British vessel,
which got sa'e into Callao. Pezuela, the ex-Viceroy
of Peru,had been detained in prison from the period
of his deposition. The Andromache has brought
from Lima one million of dollars in specie.
From Valparaiso, the advices brought by the An-
dromache are dated the 9th May, and relate chiefly
to the British vessels sent. there by Lord
ro Cochrane,
on suspicion of havirr Spanish property. on board,"
and detained for adjudication. No decision had
taken place, but great hopes arc entertained of a fa-
vourable result, from the interference of Sir Thomas
Hardy, who, after hearing the statements of the
British captains on the subject, felt it of so much
importance as to be induced to sail immediately for
Lima, in the Creole frigate, in order to have a per-
sonal conference with Lord Cochrane Sir Thomas
Hardy is said to have declared to the commanders of
the British ships, previously to his departure, that
in its relation to the interests of British commerce,

discussed and adopted before the Ist of January
next. The Journal de Paris is of opinion that the
Chambers cannot be convoked so early, and that it
will be impossible to puss the finance law the begin-
ning of the year.
The authentic news from Constantinople reaches
to the 9th .of August. The Baron de Strogonoff,
who had been detained in the roads by contrary
winds, act sail on the evening of that day, the wind
having bececue fair. A French
frigate brought him
and his suite away. During 'the 13 days she re-
mained at the Cape, a very active correspondence
was carried on between the Ministers of England,
Austria, and Russia. Hopes in favour of the peace
were entertained in consequence; and it was be-
lieved that, though the Baron de Stmgonoff had not
directly continued the negotiations with which he
was charged, his reason was, that lie might literally
obey the directions of his Sovereign, as to those
points which concerned him personally, and with
the Ministers of the Ottoman empire.
It man certain that the proceedings relating to
Constantinople (up to the present time at least)
have had the common consent of France, Russia,
Austria, England, Prussia, Sweden, and the Low
Countries.
BausseLs, A1,0.31.—1t is positively asserted that
the King of Great Britain will be at Brussels on the
15th or 16th of September. He will remain here
it is believed two or three cloys, during which time
Ire will be present at the Court entertainments....
Some persons think that the monarch will repair to
to Paris,others suppose that he will proceed directly
to Vienna.
Tunny, Avo. 26.—The Prince of Cisterns, the
Marquis of l'rie, and Count de Perron, have been
condemned to death, and executed in effigy. The
fate of all the individuals implicated in the late pro-
ceedings will be immediately known, and then his
Majesty will return to the capital.
Auosauno, Ave. 28.—A French officer, bearing
important dispatches from Constantinople to Paris,
passed this city. He quitted Constantinople on the
10th inst. and confirms the intelligence that the
Baron de Strogonoff had sailed the evening before
for Odessa.
ANCONA, Atm. 18.— Some of those Greeks, who
formed a part of Ypsilanti's army, are arriving at
Trieste every day. They are proceeding to Greece,
and are in the most distressing condition. They
are not permitted to embark, but must make the
journey by land. We have no news from Greece.
I send you a letter from Smyrna, written by a
German :-
6. SMYRNA. Jury 17.—Commerce is again in great disorder,
no persons dare opts, their shops or warehouses, the embargo is
taken of, some ships have sailed within these few days. A great
number of Greeks are shot at beheaded every day. The Jew;
drag the mirages about the streets, or throw them into the sea.
Nothing but the pressure of hunger would induce tire Greeks to
come oat of their houses; this compels them, and costs them
their lives."
FRIGHTFUL EvENT.—The conversation of all
Paris turns on a frightful event which took place
two days since at the house of M. M. Mouttier, a
money changer, in the street de la Feuillade. At
a lute hour of the evening, a person, who it has
been since ascertained had just left a gambling
house, where he had lost all Ills property, entered
the home. There was only a young female servant
at the counter. Madame Mouttier and her nephew
were in the back shop. The man, when he entered,
closed the door, stabbed the servant with a poniard,
and seized a basket full of gletl. Madame Moutticr
and her nephew i ushed forward, and were both
stabbed by the assassin, who escaped from the house,
and reached the street de la Vrilliere. Two young
men endeavouring to seize the miscreant, were hurl
wounded, one of them dangerously. An old man,
who was going quietly along, wins also stabbed by
the furious wretch. He was at length seised by a
patrol of gendarmes ; but even in the motneut of his
arrest, he made an ineffectual at tempt to wound one
of the military. He was conducted to the guard-
house at the Bank, but he had hardly entered, when
he suddenly drew a pistol from his pocket and blew
out his brains. Nothing was thund on his person
which might lead to it discovery of the monster.—
(C'onsiliutioutteL) The Moniteur states, that three of
the persons wounded are since dead, and it is feared
two others will not survive.

he considered it a question of the highest importance;
and that, should Lord Cochrane acquire a right to
detain, and the Chilien government to condemn,
British vessels under such circumstances, it would
prove a most serious impediment to our trade in that
quarter. He should, therefore, use his exertion to
place it on a different footing. Sir T. Hardy was
expected to return to Valparaiso by the end of May.
—The latest date from Rio de Janeiro is the 13th
of July, The privateers in that quarter, under the
flag of Buenos Ayres, had captured several Spanish
vessels. Among others uas the Maipo brig of war,
with the deputies from Lima to the Spanish Cortes
on board. Another brig of war was taken off Ponte
Negro by the same privateer, with much specie on
board. The Morgiana, royal corvette of Rio, Ivid
arrived from Bahia, with a slave ship as prize, which
had been detected in pursuing that traffic to the
north of the Line, and was, therefore, subject to
condemnation by the mixed commission. Rio de
Janeiro was apparently tranquil; but it was believed
that a design was on foot to abridge further the
powers of the I'rince Regent, by making him a mere
president of the Provisional Junta.

A t:G. 9.—The following are the cir-
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took place near the Convent of Statina, between the
Greeks and the Turks, to the great disadvantage of
the latter:—
The Convent of Statina was inhabited only by
seven Greek monks. It is surrounded by a very
high bill. Ninety-seven Greeks, under the orders
of a Servian Captain of their own choice, called
Anastasi, had thrown themselves into this convent,
where they were attacked on the 2Sth of July by
1,500 Turks, under the orders of a lrunbacha (chief
of 1,000 men), to whom three Jews meted as guides.
The Greeks placed behind the battlements the most
experienced marksmen, to whom the rest supplied
muskets loaded without interruption. At first the
three Jews set fire to baskets of corn which were
placed pear the wall, and the wind soon spread the
flames into the court of the convent, and the convent
being constructed of wood, was soon consumed.—
The Greeks, however, did not give up their reso-
lution to defend themselves. In the wall of the
convent there was a small old door, and through
that one of the monks escaped. The Turks seeing
thii opening, penetrated by it into the court. The
Chief' then assembled his followers in the church,
and barricaded the door as much as possible, white
they kept up an increasing fire from the roof of the
church, which was partly wrapped in flames ; but
those who remained in the court, and who could not
withdraw in time, were overpowered by numbers,
all put to the sword. Then Bimbacha them
summoned A dastasi to surrender, promising him
on, which the latter rejected with disdain. At
se same time a ball from the roof laid the Bambetha
dead en the spot. Immediately a Turk cut off his
head, and carefully wrapt it up in a piece of cloth
to show that It had fallen in battle.
Meanwhile the flames, which enveloped by de•
grces the roof of the church, forced the Greeks to
descend. The Turks penetrated into the church—
they fought round the high altar, and the Greeks
continued their fire with such effect that the Turks
demanded an armistice, which was only granted
them on condition of immediately withdrawing.
The Turks lost, 372 killed, and the Greeks 17
killed and 13 wounded. The seven monks were
killed. The three Jews fell into the hands of the
Greeks, who nailed them to the cross, after having
torn the skin from their bodies, and exercised on
them other barbarities.

The 80 triumphant Greeks, after having laid
down their arms, passed the frontier of Bukovina,
and were sent by an officer of the Austrian guard to
Bozance, where they safely arrived on the 28th of
July.

The Journals of Piedmont contain most afflicting
details of losses and injury, occasioned by storms,
which have spread devastation throughout several
provinces of that kingdom. At Carignan, Piohesi,
and particularly at Pignerol, there has been a fall of
liaq stones as large as eggs. A great many persons
have been severely wounded, the lands ravaged, the
' roofs of houses broken, and trees torn up; added to
which a great number dozen have perished in the
storms.
Extract of a letter from the capital of Iceland,
dated 9th July :—'' A vessel is cast, on shore on
Westurann Islands, she has been upset n considerable
time; there were live bodies timid on btrard in a
decayed state ; they have been buried in one coffir.
She is supposed to be from the coast of Labrador;
the only rapers found are two duplicate bills of ex-
change upon somebody at Stow-mil:sten A board,
apparently from the stern, has been sent to the go-
vernor ; there is upon it Jane of Dartmouth, painted
in large Gertnan-text, nearly obliterated. She is a
sloop or small schosmer, and has been I.den with
and oil ; the bills are dated in October 1810."
Last week, at the village of Dodbrook, a curious
incident took place. A young widow, who has an
annuity of WI. per annuiu SO loll; as she remains
unattained, had, it seems, been wounded by one of
Cupid's arrows: but the beloved swain, though not
altogether a worldling, wished to se,nre the 100. "4
a-year, amid hintcd as much to the fin Sho
applied to those who had the disposal of her hap- #4
piness in their hands, to know if it were possible to
unite Love and Mammon ; but the cruel fates had
steeled their hearts, and they gave their decision in i
the negat ivy. Wing something ofa Sappho in spirit, -
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she nisiatuly cot her throat, but not having 'lone it -•
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