The National Register.
London, England, 1822-04-29 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

Pants, APRIL 27.—The Courier Francais of this
day contains a very long article on the affairs of.
Greece, extracted from numerous letters of various ,
dsie,F, from the Peloponessus, Thessaly, and Epirus.
The following are extracts from some of the most
recent :

" The details respecting the late victory gained by '
the Greek fleet over the Turks are nearly the same
as those already published, both as regards the num.
her of Turkish vessels taken or sunk, at the scene of
action, near the Gulf of Lepanto; only we have
more accurate details on the direction which the fu-
gitive Turkish vessels took to escape certain destruc-
tion. The Greeks, according to their usual tactics,
attacked furiously the centre of the Ottoman fleet,
where the largest vessels are usually stationed, and
among them the Admiral. The vessels forming the
two wings of the Turkish fleet, seeing the centre
destroyed, fled in different directions, some towards
Cephalonia, the others into the Gulf of Gauatenisza;
the latter, being elasely pursued, were soon over-
taken, captured, or destroyed.
" The Government of Cephalonia signified to the
division which had fled to its coast, that it could not
remain there for fear of exciting an insurrection, as
happened last year on a similar occasion, when the
English Governor of the port of Zante admitted the
Turkish fleet to escape the pursuit of the Greeks.
It is, therefore, not true that the Turks took refuge
in the Gulf of Lepanto, where they would have
been safe. The Greeks, sensible of this, tnanseuvred
so as to intercept the retreat of the Turks into the
Gulf of Lepanto, and one of their divisions which
followed those that fled towards Cephalonia, soon
pressed them closer when they quitted that coast.
" The accounts of Samos, sent by an eye-witness
to Odessa, state, that the Servians have a consider-
able army; that Lycurgus, their chief, has made
many wise regulations; that he undertakes frequent
excursions to the coast of Asia Minor, where lie has
erten defeated the Turk; and made great b00ty....
I.ycurgus recognises the General Assembly of the
Polopunnesus, and is in alliance with the Cretans,
to whom he has lately sent a reinforcement of 2,000
young men, well armed.
"Our cot respondents promise us details respecting
the. Central Government of Greece,on the laws that
have been published, &c. The duties on vessels and
goods are levied in the ports and islands in their
power; the public contributiens are regularly paid,
and the kind and sea hirces paid by the state. To
meet the sixpences of the corps lately sent to Epirus
and Thessaly, the Government has just put to sale
the lands and houses, depending upon fiefs belong-
jag to Sultanas, the mother or wives of the Sultan,)
or to the Chief Agas of the Eunuchs Had the Ja-
nissaries, Thus the Government will soon be able
to meet all the expences of the ttrtiv,gle in which
it is engaged,"

A change In the Neapolitan ministry is spoken of
to be brought about by Austria. The Pleasures, at
once violent and of little efficacy, which have been
pursued by the Prince de Canoe* and M. de Circelli,
have for a length of time disquieted Austria, who
was desirous of being enabled to employ elsewhere
part of her troops. Gen. Frimont, Commander
iii Chid of the Austrian troops, disapproved of the
popular executions which the Neapolitan police had
favoured. T 1.3 populace of Naples, for instance,
seised a cock, coodetuned it as a carbonari, and the
executioner conveyed it to the place of execution.
Whilst tha polialsev amused thaloselvos ;a this way,
And were themselves the victims of the exrcutioner,
the great chiefs of the conspiracy escaped all punish,
meet, Gen. Frimont repeatedly made representa-
tions against so irrational it Vkitetil• It %As expected
thkt he would be satisfied by the disinlasal of the
Prince 4e Canosa from the offiee of Minister of Po-
liocp but the disturbances In Sicily excited new dis-
quietude, and it is staled that Austria immediately
propoaed a total change in the administration of the
Government,

Au-4A-Cukrzttu, APhlt, 16,--Several merean,
tilo letters have given rise to a report, which has
been in ciroulation in the south of Germany, that an
English Poet would be sent to cruise in the Baltic,
It was even said that this news had excited some
tloootiloit whore thine iv a Ruftinn
cum.

It is affirmed, that the last despatches which the
Cabinet of Berlin has received from the Court of
Vienna relate to a convention agreed upon between
Prince Metternich and M. de Tatischeff, to regulate
the future fate of the Greek nation, and determine
its political existence. A similar communication is
said to have been made to the Court of the Tuileries
and to the English Government.
We shall won know what to think of the part
which Prussia will take in the approaching events.
Every thing leads to the presumption that it cannot
remain neuter in the present state of political affairs.
This important question will be decided as won as it
is officially known that Austria has finally made an
al!iance with Russia.

Accounts from Bucharest of the 30th ult. state,
that numerous Turkish troops daily pass the Danube
at Silistria. Orders have been given to the inn-
keepers, and to the agents of fugitive Boyards, to
clear their houses to receive the troops that are ex-
pected. The distress that reigns in the principalities
exceeds all description ; the Boyards who had still
remained here, often arrive on our frontiers disguised
as peas tots, and in the most wretched conditions
They say, that they daily expect at Jassy to heariof
the commencement of hostilities between the Rus-
sians and the Turks, and that the latter show the
greatest enthusiasm.
MADRID, APRIL 11.—(Extract of a letter.)—
" Rumours the most improbable succeed each other
with astonishiag rapidity since the arrival of a cou-
rier extraordinary coming from Paris. It has been
concluded from thence that a declaration of war be-
tween France and Spain had taken place; and some
have even gone so far as to announce the return of
the Minister Plenipotentiary of this Court from
Paris, and the departure af M. the Count Lagardo
from hence. According to these rumours, the Spa-
nish Envoy at Paris, having observed too little deli-
cacy towards the Cabinet of the Tuiljeries on the
subject of the cordon of health, of the factions in
Navarre, &c. the French Government had taken
him at his word when ho threatened to quit that
capital; which, it is said, he has ultimately clone.—
On the receipt of this news, the Spanish Ministers
repaired to Aranjuex, and M. Lagarde has received
his Itllres de conge. Yesterday he went to see the
King at Aranjuea, to take leave of his Majesty, and
he is expected immediately to Paris. This news ha►
spread consternation throughout the capital. Our
affairs, already in a lamentable condition, aro ren-
dered worse by thi► circumstance, which dues nut
make us either contented or happy."