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Ambassador has succeeded in his endeavour to efface from the
Turkish note several offensive expressions upon the personal
character of the Emperor of Russia, whom the Turks accuse of
want of faith and sincerity. Others pretend that the enumera-
tion of the Turkish grievances is still longer than was supposed;
and that the Divan renews its remonstrances against the occu-
pation of the fortresses of Mingrelia by the Russians, in direct
contravention of the last treaty, and which evidently betrays a

project of invading Turkey in Asia.
We are assured that the Plenipotentiaries of Austria and
England at Constantinople, felt obliged, after the reception of
the Turkish noteof the 28th February, peremptorily to break
off all negociations with the Ottoman Minister, until they had
received fresh instructions from their respective Courts. Such
a step is not decisive, unless the two Ambassadors had de-
Mantled their passports.
MARCH 30.-( Extract from a Private Letter.)—The ordin-
ary courier from Constantinople arrived here yesterday, but the
letters of which he is the bearer are not yet issued. The gene-
ral opinion here is decidedly warlike, but there are always some
great fundholders whobelieve, or who at least endeavour to make
the public believe, that peace may yet be preserved. These hopes
they'g'rouncl upon the well-known pacific disposition of the Empe-
ror A lex an der,who has already on more than one occasion opposed
the warlike views of his subjects; and upon the possibility that
the Porte may yet revoke its note of the 28th Feb., and at any
rate couch its rejection of the Ultimatum in terms less insult-
ing. It is well known that our Court, anxious probably to
preserve peace, has refused to receive this note.
The courier who bears this declaration of our Court quitted
Vienna the 13th of March, and his return may be expected
about the 20th of April. About the same time, too, we antici-

Pate the return of the couriers dispatched to Petersburgh, by
2113/. GOLOWKIN and DE TATISCIIEFF, to communicate to
their Sovereign the haughty conduct of the Porte.
We remark here some Military preparations, but they are as
yet very trifling, and are kept as secret as possible.
It is said that the Turkish squadron, which entered the
Euxine Sea, gave chase to three Russian vessels, of which
they took two, under pretence that they had Grecian property
on board.

If credit is to be given to tie important fact
mentioned in the last paragraph of the preceding
extract, there can be no doubt of the hostile in-
tentions of the Turks, which have already been
carried into execution by the seizure of two Rus-

Sian merchant ships in the Black Sea; and not-
withstanding the remonstrances of the masters,
alleging that Russia was at peace with the Porte,
these vessels were confiscated, under the pre-
tence that they had Grecian property on board.
The seizure of these two vessels is also mention-
ed in letters from Odessa and Augsburg, with
the additional fact, that similar acts of hostility
had been exercised at Constantinople against
vessels in that port under various foreign flags,
the release of which had been in vain applied
for by the foreign Ambassadors at the Ottoman
Court.—'We give further extracts in another
column.

The sensible and argumentative Petition agreed
to by the Ship-owners of South Shi?lds (and
_published in THE SUN of Wednesday) will, we
hope, receive that attention to which it is well
entitled, and be the forerunner of many similar
representations from the communities more par-
ticularly affected by the proposed changes in our
navigation system. These measures are> in truth
alarmingly important to the whole nation, but
where the general interest is affected through
that of particular classes, it is natural tliat the
beginnings of remonstrance and complaint should
proceed from those who are most immediately
concerned, as the aching of a single limb gives
notice of the disorder which will ultimately
threaten the whole body.
These petitioners justly represent as a case of
great hardship, that the Ship-owners, who, in the
revolutions of mercantile prosperity attendant
on the cessation of war, have suffered at least as'
,severely and as long as any portion of his INIAJcs-

TY'S subjects, should now be destined to tepair
the fortunes of another complaining class by the

most unreserved sacrifice of the advantages which
they yet retain. It is the part of a good Go-
vernment to balance all interests, so that none,
if it can be avoided, may suffer an undue and
disproportionate depression; least of all, we may
add, those interests which are most essentially
connected with the national security and inde-
pendence. But if the Ship-owners and the classes
dependent on them were to suffer for the re-
establishment, as it is presumed, of colonial pros-
verity, could no measure of a less sweeping effi-
ciency be found to relieve the colonist,. than a
system of law which exposes the shipping of

Great Britain to an almost unlimited foreign com-

Petition ? The Americans, under the 'flew regu-
lation, may convey our West Indian produce not
Only to their own ports, but to the shores of Eu-
rope, thus entering into. rivalry with the Mother
Country under circumstances of great advantage,
on account of their geographical position. Colo-
nial produce may be also brought to our own
door, though not actually into Britain, by the
ships of other nations, as the Petitioners of South
Shields have thus clearly represented.
" What other sensation than the strongest
feeling of alarm can your petitioners express, on
finding a Bill actually pending before your Ho-
nourable House, containing an entire new prin-
ciple (so diametrically opposite to the one be-
fore acted upon) by which the goods and mer-
thandize, being the growth) production) or manu-

faclure, of Asia, Africa, or America, shall be im-
ported into great Britain from any part of Asia,
Africa, or America, OR FROM ANY PORT OR
PLACE IN EUROPE, in British ships or vessels ?
only that the produce of Europe may be imported
into Great Britain in a British ship or vessel, or
in a ship or vessel belonging to the country, of
which the cargo is the produce," &c. &c. By
these provisions the petitioners observe, " that,
as regards the imports between Great Britain
and Asia, Africa, and America, the long transit
is ceded to all nations ; only that an English
ship must be employed from any foreign port to
Britain; and that the imports between Great
Britain and all parts of Europe stand so open,
that should the pending Bill receive the sanction
of the Legislature, the produce and manufacture
of the whole world (the excluded articles ex-
cepted) may be deposited in the Scheldt or the
Room-pot, or any other Continental depi'd conti-
guous to our shores, and which it will be the in-
terest of other Powers to establish, not only as a
commercial benefit, but as the sure means of anni-
hilating the Commerce and Naval Power of Great
Britain. In this way will the brave and hardy tars
of Great Britain become the lightermen, in the
transit from those depots to Britain in steam-
boats and other small craft, to the seamen 9f
continental Europe and America."

In raising up this manifold and dangerous com-
petition, have the promoters of the measure con-
templated any scheme for enabling the British
Ship-owner to maintain the contest on terms of
superiority, or even of equal advantage ? We
do not hear of any such project, but we trust
that, when the Bills are discussed in Parliament,
it will be inquired whether the shipping of this
nation is expected to maintain its place among
the crowd of competitors, under all the dis-
couragements arising first from those national
burthens which press alike upon all interests in
the country, and secondly from those heavy im-
positions which affect navigation in particular.
Surely if the support of the Navigation Laws is to
be withdrawn to the extent proposed, some plan
must be taken into consideration for relieving,
and not only relieving but effectually assisting,
the mercantile navy of Great Britain in the new
circumstances of difficulty under which it is
about to be placed : and we trust that this point
will be diligently urged by those who may address
the Legislature on the present occasion, as a sub-
ject requiring earnest attention in the event of
their determining to pass the Bills.
We do indeed greatly fear that if this resolu-
tion should be adopted, any regulation, any con-
cession that can be suggested, will prove inade-
quate to prevent a rapid and extensive decline of
our mercantile shipping ; and the apprehension
is rendered still more poignant by the thought
that such a decline, when it has once taken place,
is, as far as human foresight can extend, irre-
trievable. The dead branch cannot blossom
anew, nor the withered hand recover its sound-
ness. Ships, money, and, above all, MEN will
not remain by us, waiting the hour of renewed
activity : a time of repentance may come, and our
Statesmen may again feel that the old policy was
the wisest; but will Providence work a miracle
to replace us in the way from which we have
imprudently departed ? The skill, the enterprise,
the property that should enable us to accomplish
this object will have passed into other channels,
and, what is still more to be dreaded, a rival more
politic than we are will have occupied the avenues
of commercial greatness ; a rival who is daily
extending her influence, and augmenting her re-
sources, daily skewing herself more active and
vigilant in seizing those advantages which others
either neglect or want the power to retain. If
the imprudence that endangers our maritime
ascendancy be in any instance more unpardonable
than in all others, it is when by surrendering
British interests we contribute to the aggrandize-
ment of America.

IRELAND.— rbe outrages seem to be suspended,
and the spirit of insubordination temporarily re-
pressed, if not finally quelled. The Irish papers
received this morning bring no new accounts of
disturbances. At the Clam-net Assizes, twelve
prisoners received sentence of death ; namely,
James Walsh, for felony, to be banged on Tues-
day the 16th instant; Cornelius Delahunty, for
arson ; John Fogarty and John Grady, for as-
saulting a dwelling-house,; and William Ryan,
for serving one of General Rock's notices, to be
hanged the 20th instant ; Thomas Butter, for
firing at the Rev. Mr. RICALL ; John Ryan, for
highway robbery ; William Finn, for abduction ;
and Cornelius Dwyer and Michael. Ryan, for
burglary and felony, to be hanged the 23d inst.—
At the Cork Assizes, Patrick Neagle and, Patrick
Foley were found guilty of the atrocious outrage
on the women of the Rifle Brigade, near Kil-
dorrery.
(From the Jamaica Courant of the 18th of Feb.)
The Billette brig of war, of 18 guns; is 'arrived from the
Bermudas, having been three years and a half- on the North
American Station ; she had been stationed on the coast of Nova
Scotia and New Brunswick, for the protection of the Revenue
and the Fisheries against the encroachments of the Americans ;
and upwards of 14 vessels have been condemned for violating
the existing laws and treaties, as well as a number of boats. i
• We understand, a letter has lately been received from the
Colonial Agent, stating that the Petition of the two Hotises of
our Legislature, to his Majesty, had been referred to the Lords
of the Committee for Trade and Plantation Affairs, who are
impressed with the difficulties in which the whole of the West
Indies are involved, And will not fail to give the subject their
best attention, but that the President and Vice-President were
then absent.

A Baltimore 'Paper of the 12th of March an-
nounces letters to have been received from Havre,
stating that there is no chance of a Commercial
Treaty between France and the United States
this year.

BRIGHTON, APRIL 11.-A cutting north wind

has prevailed to-day,
,and, what is rather un-
common in April, raised clouds of dust. The
KING has no farther appeared in public than on
the Palace Lawn, His MAJESTY continues in
the enjoyment of perfect health.
The KING has been pleased to appoint RICH-
ARD BARTLETT, Esq. the British Consul at Co-
runna, to be his Majesty's Consul for the king-
dom of Hanover, at that port and its depend-
encies.