The National Register.
London, England, 1821-07-23 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS.

Nuts, Jut.v I.2.—The Buonapartists here have
put into circulation a report that Napoleon has been
poisoned, by a diamond pounded, by an Ransil
priest. His death, it is said, had been resolved upon
at the Congress of Laybach, by the Allied Sove-
reigns, frightened at the revolutions breaking out
on all sides, and at the danger still threatening them,
that on the least rupture between them, England
would act him loose upon Europe. The English
cabinet, it is added, consented to the proposal out of
fear at the progress of the Radicals, and from a desire
of saving the immense expenses incurred by support-
ing their illustrious prisoner. As a consistent stqual
to this story, it is added that the son of Buonaparte
is now unwell, and that his death must soon follow
circumstance that should not excite the asto-
nishment of men who understand political affairs.
At last the decision of the Court of Peers is
known, although it is not yet published. It has de-
elated that there was no conspiracy, and that the
pretended authors of the plot were only guilty of
seditious conversations. They will in consequence
be condemned to five years imprisonment at the ut-
most : those who concealed them will of course be
acquitted.
Messrs. tie Villele and Corbieres assure their friends
that they will send in their resignation at the end of
the session.
The censorship has triumphed, and more insolent
than ever. They are assured of their pay for five
or six months more, and they are endeavouring to
exercise their despotism more cruelly than ever. No
one doubts that the project will be adopted by the
Chamber of Peers.

M. de Chateaubriand wi',l speak in favour of the
liberty of the press, and this hostile act on his part
may continue to change the strange position in
which theeole droitstands with respect to the ministry
The session will not terminate for a month to come.

Jt:Lv 14.—We have this evening received a
Madrid Gazelle Eitroordinary, dated the 7th inst.
which contains the following official article:—
An extraordinary courier, despatched from Lis-
bon, by the King's Charge d train's to the Por-
tuguese government, has brought to the Spanish
government the following communication, dated the
4th inst.:—

Yesterday, very early in the morning, a signal
was made that the Portuguese squadron was in
sight, and at I 1 m. the ship of the line Julia VI.
anchored in the port of Belem, and the other ships
of the convoy in succession, To-day, at noon, his
Majesty and the Royal Family lauded with great
pomp, and proceeded to the cathedral, where u Te
Drum was sung. The King and his family after-
wards entered the hall of the Cortes, where the
King took the oath to maintain and observe the
constitutional bases decreed by Congress on the 9th
of May last.
During, this august and solemn ceremonial, the
most perfect tranquillity and good order prevailed.
Auossuitc, JULY B.—lntelligence arrived yes-
terday from Odessa, which gives reason to believe
that a rupture will shortly take place between Rus-
sia and the Porte. The Turks, by moderate mea-
sures and taking proper advantage of their amicable
dispositions with foreign powers, might have avoid-
ed the evils which menace them ; but pursuing a
different line of conduct, they have, with incon-
ceivable fury, committed excesses revolting to hu-
manity.
Hundreds of victims have been massacreed in the
streets and in pursuance of the orders of the Grand
Seignor himself, who looked for the total annihi-
lation of the Greeks with impatience; the wives
and children of Christians have been embarked in
small vessels in detachments of 150 and 200, sent
to sea, and thrown into the abyss at an appointed
signal. Under these circumstances, the Russian
Ambassador, Baron Stragnoff, was once more taking
part in defence of humanity ; but the rage of the
barbarians knew no Winds, and the remonstrance
of the Ambassador remained fur three weeks unan-
swered, as if in defiance of the humane Russians.
On the Nth of June Gen. Langcron, Governor
of Odessa, communicated to the commercial interest
a note addressed by Baron Strogonoll' to the Porte,
relative to the violations of the treaties concluded
between Russia and the Ottoman Empire: he for-
mally protests against the measures adopted by this
latter Power relative to commerce, and holds it res-
ponsible for the losses which the Russian inhabitants
may suffer. Another note, communicated on the
same day to the commercial body, announced the
measures proper to be taken to ascertain the losses of
Russian merchants in consequence of the new step
of the Ottoman Porte. There was scarcely any
doubt of a speedy rupture between the two states,
when on the 18th further intelligence of the 14th
June arrived from Constantinople, which shows that
the Porte was no longer scrupulous in its conduct
towards the Russian Ambassador, and even that it
was its intention designedly to give him otlence,
he rekaiied to Bujukdere. Immediately after the