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VIENNA, SEPT. 112.
FllOll TURKEY.
The 13th of August was a day of terve* far Con-
staotinople. The fermentation and dissatisfact.
it Bich have prevailed fur souse time among the pro-
-rile, were raised to the highest pitch by the late
eve. is to Simi. (Sehapti). by which mine refining
of ilw Jan lied suffered, and by the late 00.
iontion of the Age, who was heted by that danger-
ous soldiery. lied the cinemas were already living iti
anxious terror of the near explosaots of acts of via-
lance, which was einsoisaced by several placard,,
when early in the morning of that day a fite brake
out in the bowie of the former Mulches Daschi
:Lieutenant of the Police). and "preallisig with
the rapidity of, lightning, turned the gloomy ex-
pectations into certainty. The lire ratted the
whole day through and till mist midnight, and
-.p.esented a most dreadful spectacle of the de-
. struction of sevend quitters of the city. Some
1.
'.thousand houses, two Christian churches, and ten
small mosques, were laid Mashes. Tlw presence of
..-rthe Sultan snit of all the Ministers. indeed, mai.
mated the zeal of the petunia employed in estin.
guisluing the tunes; but the narrowness of the
streets in that chately-built quarter of Ilse city, the
beat end fatigues of the day. increased by char smoke,
impeded the attempts to save the houses, and dr.
toyed re.boootv. Meantime the commotion among
ihr people became more and more aliment& cud
the fears of a tumult increased.
It is affirmed that in the placard*, the instigators
dematided the deposition of the Grand Vizier, of
`the High Adiinral, the removal of the favourite
Hale Effendi, of the Dharabhana Einiiii. Abdur.
ealituais Rey, and of some other.. Fears were
entertained for the lives of these and several other
persons.
The whole of the following day passed in anxious
'expectation. till at length towards the revising it
was announced that the Sick Itsch-lli-Alitueil
Poch, (hitherto Captain Pacha) was removed to
Brats+, and Haman Paella. Governor of that place,
sent for to fill the office of High Admiral.
. During these events the Government doubled
i's vigilence. to which alone we owe the moat per-
fect tranquillity and safety, especially in the quar-
ter of the Franks, where not only the guard* were
augmented and ordered to patiole without inter-
ruption both night and day, but several suspicious
persons were arrested and put into prism. It was
SU vino that some malicious persons endeavoured to
terrify the public by fresh alarms of lire, and to
gelay the re-opening of the public market, which
had hero cleared of the goods on account of the
threatening danger. All foreign legations were
requebted by the Porte strictly to enjoin all ',enigmas
of their respective nations, not to go ont after dark
without Immerse', in order to prevent all unlike-
assist consequences.
Oat the 17th of August there was a great extra.
evdinery meeting of the Council of State, in the
'muse of the Mufti. After it broke up. an loops ral
Pittman was published, in which the people were
ealiceted to keep peace and order, and to re.opesi
the shops that remained shut in the public mar-
kets ; and the assurance was added, that the Go.
verninent, filly relying De the seal sod support of
the we( -disposed iohehitants of the capital awl of
the empire. had no apprehension from the intrigue',
Of some disturbers of the public peace, and would
know bow to punish them with all the rigour of the
laws.

The Chiefs of the several regiments of Jisniaseries
also appeared, to exculpate those under their com-
muted Irons the accusation of having been fomented
In enuring the fire. They were dismissed, with hi,-
julictiona to took after MI such persons among their
body atyrere suspicious and capable of incendiary
plots,
plots, and us case of detection to punish them with
all the rigour of the statute of the corps. Lastly,
to indulge the prejudices of the people, who are
accustomed to regard the elephant as an animal of
ill omen, and to attribute all fires to the presence
of there *tamale in Constantine !le, it wus resolved
to beatnik all the elephants from the inetropolir,
which resolutiou bovine,' already carried into street.
That ii. all these troubles, over Which the Go.
*eminent has with equal dexterity and prademe
thrown a veil, the hand of a seditious !tarty wrs at
work, appears from the execution ion the nth) of a
public Officer equally distinguished by hi. immoral
chamfer, and his remarkable Went for legal sub-
tleties, by name Kaubur Sukimann Elkudi, of
the Court of Justice at Galati. lie hod been
I times tided from Constantinople far his
licentiousness, and had obtaintd towards the end of
the Rainadon, 'WI it is aseraied, on the intercerilion
of the Jaiiissaries, lease to return to Coortatt-
linople. Ile ass suddenly summoned, tinder the
pretence of thv. reading of a Firma, before the
Bostatigi Pacha and the Topdshi Pecks, delivered to
the extetitionerr, and strangled. and Ins body cast
irito the sea. The account of the *knitting of the
tfUll Lie% in Sieges. and of the general pardon granted
to the inhabitants of that important province, *rem
equatly to have contributed to allay the fitment t f
pruples untidy. The happy result is useritieil to
the toterveution of Tschtapan Ogle.
Tile new Captain Pemba arrived at Conrianti-
movie on the %Ph August. and was ret•Psvell and
stivegted with his new dignity in the wits, fortu.
Ou the 420th Angtist there was a sy. rebid enter*
tatimsent given by the late Dilector of tla Costmws,
now chief inspector of the kitchen, iti honour ul the
Sultan, on Ills admission among the webers, who
t w Illath at the distance of 1,100 pates. All the
Alintnets and arandees of the Empire, who peeler
nue gymnastic exercise to every other, %etre presents
ai,sl weti: sninietuouvly entertained ; a cntaiitte..s
tt►u 11 t ude rutruuutled the kitchens, where 1.130 cooks

were employed. The Sotto!' remained till the rrei:-
ing. and presented Ostwin ♦Ka, the giver sit ii:e
pat.', with a sable pelisse, and doges allortittl milts
Is. The girateat order prtvailrit ihnung ti e
',topic, and the Monarch clearly slieweil, by t!.is
public and cereitiouious appearance, how little he
fears the treitoroos plots of some insbotiten.s,
how stylise he feels Innistif in the of his rata,-
ful sobjects.
After the inhabitants of the capital h•.,1 et joysti
for wale weeks a good Stale of hislilt. the) nitre
suddenly alarmed at the end of last b) amile
remits of plague. It .skyrars amore the ate-. ia cis