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()REIGN INTELLIGENCE.

VIENNA, JAN. 18.—.1n the latest accounts from
Constantinople of the 28th and 29th Dec. we'
find the following farther particulars : •
" The Persian troops have retired at,all, points
in consequence of orders from Teheran,
.and by
the intervention of a CountnisSidner from the
Porte, who has already set out,. it is expected
that all differences will be adjusted 'which have
arisen, not so much- between the Governments as
between the Officers on' the frontiers, and which
have given occasion to acts of vrolence supported
by a, military force. The Porte •has seriously
disapproved of the. improper conduct of, some
Pachas commanding upon, the frontiers on• this
occasion. Chosrow Mehmed, Pacha of Erzerum,
has been deprived of that GOiernment .and

tranSferred to that of Trebisond. On the other

ha sd, Ilauf Mehtned racha, who was formerly
Grand Vizier, and has lately given the Sultan
great proofs of his attachment and fidelity, has
obtained the Governments.of Erzerum and Diar-
bekir, and the chief superintendence of the mines.
In the European Governments. ,the most bit,
portant changes were 'the removal of Malik
Pacha to Lepanto; and of Ismael Pacha to
The-utnick Oertions ere making in the.
Arsenal of the 'Navy 'and,the Artillery to fit out
a certain number of ships for thepnrPoSe of
' carrying provision and ammunition to the Turk7l
isit garrisons in the Morea, of which they are in
great want. The 'Turks have hitherto defended
Napoli de Romania with great -braveryrbut the
Greeks—are said to have lately received Con-
siderable reinforcements.—They also keep the
Castle .of Lepanto.closely bloCkaded.
" The Greeks are now again in possession of
Athens, after having been -obliged to give it up.
fo.G oout.gix weeks. They make this time seri-
ous preparations to get possession of the Citadel
(the ancient Acropolis) without which Athens is
an untenable position, and have already blown
up some of the outworks.
!‘ The. Pacha of Salottichi, after the taking of
the-Peninsula of Cassandra, has succeeded in con-
. eluding. a convention with the inhabitants of
,Monte Santo (Mount Athos). The Greeks lay
• down their arms ; on the other hand, it is stipu-
lated that no armed Turk is to enter that district.
'l7lle Porte sets great value on this peaceable sub-
mission, because Mount Athos contains, as is,
well known, the greatest relics, &c. of the Greek
Church, and is considered as the seminary for the
Greek Clergy. . •
• 46 Nothing has lately occurred to disturb the
tranquillity of the capital and its environs.
Every body, whether Mussulman or Christian,
follows his business. On the 20th December
tbere was, however, a singular scene, in which
the students were the actors. Oneof the teachers
of the students attached to the Mosque of Ma-
homet 11. was lately banished for some improper
expressions respecting certain Measures of the
Government. The students, to the number of
some hundreds, which soon increased to 2000,
went to the Palace of the Mufti, loudly demand-
ing the recal of their teacher, but to shew their
peaceable intentions, without arms and with the
Koran and other books in their girdles. So nu-
merons an assemblage, however, created some
alarm, and a meeting of the Council, which was
to have been held in the Mufti's palace, was
postponed. However, the Grand Vizier with
his guards soon restored order, and the students
quietly dispersed, on hopes being given them that
their master should be restored to them."

, MOLDAVIAN FRONTIERS, JAN. 7.—The head-
quarters of Count Wittgenstein, which were ex-
pected at Kischanoff, had not arrived there so
late as the 4th January. The Russian artillery,
it is said, has been obliged to halt on account of
the badness of the roads. At Jassy the Turks
are forming large magazines, and are entrenching
themselves along the Pruth.
ODEssA,JAN.2.—The news received from Con-
stantiuoplz of the end of hostilities with Persia,

has caused a great sensation here, and will pro•
bably excite attention at St. Petersburgh. The
English agents in Persia have doubtless done
their utmost to attain this object. What is es-
pecially lamented is, the tragical end of Prince
Mirza, which was decided on by his fa-
ther, as some letters sty, but had been al-
ready carried into effect. lie was properly
he next heir to the Crown, bat was ex-
cluded by his father. This promising Prince,
who :was on the best terms with the Governors
on our frontiers, is said to have been found dead
is his tent, on which the Persians conclud-
ed•a convention; and hastily retreated.. As the
Schad disapproved of his son's conduct, hostilities
had of course ceased ; and he. would . have
proved a powerful competitor to the Crown of
Persia, he was put out of the way. Some reports
say, that his mother and sons have likewise.pe-
rishedt in an inexplicable manner,- iu his harem,
near Schiraz.

, LtriussEr.s, 28.—Letters from Weiss,. of
January, confirm the news of the tragical
c' ofthe Persiiii,Prike-Mahomet
. who was" found ,dead in his tent. This extraor.
&nary event has
_given birth to numerbus, con, ec-
,tnres, which time alone can clear up.- Mean
time the Greets at Odessa; are in' conSternatiau,
' for they had built great hopes,on aPrince Whom
they justly considered as a formidable enemy
,to
Tu:key. .

. .
anitakiEi.n,, JAN. 18.-i---The Gazette de Nay-
ence had. laid a trap for those credulous Jo'tlrna...
lists Who adopt, without discernmi!nf or eNaini-
4ailon, all articles of news favourable to' the
party• which they defend. It inserted in the
principal part of its Paper, an article. from Ye-

nice, stating that an Italian Captain named Bu
giardo (in • Italian, Liar) had arrived, in ;that
port, and brought news that a Greek vessel had

taken the fort of the -Dardanelles, on the Asiatic:
side, and had thence bombarded the arsenal, of
Constantinople ; that, after this, negociations had

been entered upon with the Greeks, &c.

The

wicked Journalist then placed at the end of the

advertisements, and in the same type as they are
printed, a notice that this article from Venice
was entirely his own invention, and, a trial to

know whether he might lie, like many others.--,-.
`the Neckar Gazette copied this article.; ohserv-

ing,however, that " it seemed to • want confir-
mation." As for our Journal, it eagerly pub-
lished the article. Thus we see how well we are
sUpplied with news.

• We may'•place in the same class the informa-
tion given to-day by the • Correspondent of Ger-
many, that " on, the 17th of this month, a Russian
courier brought'to Munich the Russian Declara-
tion of War against-the Porte." Later accounts
say nothing of this Declaration, the official notice
of which would cadte'agfeat sensation in Europe.
HAmstractt, JAN. 22.--We learn that the
Academia-Senate of the University of Upsal has
been under the necessity of taking serious Mea-
sures to repress some disorders which have taken
place among the Students.

Baron Dalberg, who is at Aschaffenburguhas
written to one of his friends at Copenhagen, that
above 500 brave combatants, who are going to
offer their services to the Greeks to defend their
liberty, are at this moment assembled at Leghorn,
where each of them receives, up to the moment
of embarkation, two paoli and a half daily, from
Mr. Warren, his agent in that ,city. These
generous men,' whose_ only wish is to combat for
the sacred cause of the Greeks, have a great be-
nefactor in the person of Mr. Wullweber, at the
Hague, who has contributed for this noble pur-
pose the sum of 2,500,000 Dutch florins.

COPY OF A MILITARY CONVENTION ENTEP.F.D INTO
AT-INIAPLES•THE 28TH OCTOBER, 1824.•
It having 'been stipulated itt,Laybaoortthe
2d:February, 1811', that themaintenanee.Of the
Austrian arrny, which,
.in the name of the three
Courts of Atitria, Prussia, and Russia, has been
placed at the disposition of their 'Ally the King
of the kingdom of the Two Sit:Hies, shall be de-
frayed by, that • kingdom, beginning to reckon
froM'the paSt.age of the Po, during the period of
the occupation, which ' has been fixed. at three
years, audit having- been in like manner agreed,
that every.. thing relative to this occupation
should be determined by the principles arid rules
observed in the occupation of France from the
year 1815 to the year 1819, and that a Conven-
tion should be entered into between his Imperial
Majesty arid his Sicilian Majesty, with the parti-
cipation of the Courts of Russia and Prussia,
their said Majesties, wishing to regulate this sub-
ject, have named Plenipotentiaries for discuss-
ing, "resolving, and agreeing on the particulars of
this Convention ; which, after communicating
their respective powers,.&c. &c.
Article 1. That the political situation of this kingdom, per-
rowing in no manner the reduction of the Army of Occupation
to the number of troops which may be fixed when- the Govern-
ment has organised its army according to the terms stipulated
in July 1821, its diminution can only take place.hereafter, and
in the terms following :
Art. 2. As it is be presUmed that in November the army
in question shall be constituted in the manner agreed on, then
the reduction shall be down to 42,000 infantry and 7,000 caval-
ry for the Provinces on this side the Pharo.
Art. 3. His Sicilian Majesty having bound himself by the
Convention of 22d May, 1821, to cause the Austrian troops to
be relieved by the Neapolitan as soon as this new form shall
have made sufficient progress to-permit it, and then the former
should then leave the territory of his Sicilian Majesty.
Art. 3. The evacuation of Sicily shall take place when. his
Sicilian Majesty shall send the corresponding number of troops
newly formed, which shall be from 5 to 6,000 men ; and three
months from the de;parture of the last Austrian troops from Si-
cily the Austrian corps shall be reduced from 42 to 30,000.
Art. 5. When the Neapolitan army shall be placed on the foot-
ing stipulated, comprehending the three foreign regiments mak-
ing a part of it, the corps 'of occupation shall be reduced to
25,000 men, which is to be the minimum during the three years

of the occupation.
Art. 6. The Neapolitan Government shall pay every month
for the maintenance of the Austrian army, the sum of 476,000.
German florins of silver; every day 42,000 rations for the in-
fantry, and 11,000 for the cavalry.
Art. 7, Till the Corps of Occupation is reduced to 42,000
men, the Neapolitan
.Government shall pay the excess in the
same proportion, in specie and rations.
Art. 8. In proportion as this number is diminished, the money
and rations shall also be diminished.
Art. 9. The rations shall be according to the Tariff; and the
Government shall conform to the calculation made.
. Art. 10. The waste in quarters, military habitations, and
hospitals, shall also be at the charge of the Neapolitan Go-
vernment.
Art. 11. The maintenance of the Austrian army being also to
be. at the Neapolitan expence since it passed the Po, the Nea-
politan Government shall pay to the Austrian the expences
which it incurred from the Ist of February; for the space of six
months; reckoning to the Ist August.
These arrears shall be liquidated between the Austrian and
Neapolitan Adininistrations ; and in order that his Imperial
MajeStymar not have to W alt long for the indemnification, his Si-
cilian Majesty; shall cause to be paid to the Imperial Treasury
'500,000 florins for the quota of Augusta 700,000 in each of the
mouths of September,
.october, and November, and 1,400,000
ui Jarmaii,,Making the. sup of four millions of florins.
Art. 12. All the waste.oseasioned.by the- movements of eva-
guation, either by sea: tp.TOeste or-Leglioru, or by land to the
beat t4e.charge
~of the Neapolitan Government. If
the 44pstrip,99yerMilPnt 1)a.11 be obliged to make any advances
on this account, they shall be reitnbnised 30 days after
present-
ing the accounts to the Neapolitan Ministry the advances ne-
cessary, fort the AUstrian ticveriiment, on account of the march,
..after passing-the Po, of the detachments joining the Austrian
-army, to keep it oh the footing stipulated.
Art: I.l' The' sick wil4; at the time of the evacuation cannot
follow'the shall be conveyed after fileir cure to the
Austrian States, the expence, of the Neapolitan Govern-
ment.
•

Art. 14. ThiS Convention shall be ratified by their Imperial
Majesties of Austria and Russia, and his Majesty the King of
Prussia, arid the King of the Two Sicilies.

The ratifications shall be exchanged in Naples, within two
months frOm the day on which the Convention was entered
into, or before, if.possible. •

. Note.—The maintenance of 42,000 men shall cost 9,200,000
ducats per annum.

For the 10,000 .men of Sicily, 2,400,000 ducats yearly—
total, 11,600,000. Thirty thousand men will cost 6,800,000
ducats ;,Twenty-five thousand, 5,466,000.

CATHOLIC AGGREGATE MEETING.—A Meeting
of the Irish Catholics is . convened for the 9th
instant..

The Olive-Crop at Smyrna, and the neighbour-
hood., has'been utterly, destroyed this 3ear.

FOREIGN LITERATURE.

(No. LVI.)

VOYAGES DE POLYCLEITE : i. e. Travels of Polycletus
or Roman Letters by the Baron de THE is. 3 Vois. Bvo,
Paris, 1821.
[Continued from our Paper of the 27th of December.] •

In our former article on the work of M.' de
Theis, we noticed what appeared to be its de-
fects, and censured the selection of the period
and the want of action. Though under the ne-
cessity of finding fault with it as a whole, we
are yet enabled to praise its details, which pre-
sent many beautiful objects that repay us the
trouble we have had in criticising so voluanle a
production.
The traveller is a young Greek sent to Rome
by Sylla as an hostage. lie embarks on board
a Roman vessel, quits with painful regret the
beautiful shores of Greece, and is absorbed in
sorrow on board the ship, like the exile whom
every instant removes farther from his beloved
country, when a pilot, struck with his grief, ad-
dressed him in. the Greek language. At these
well known accents the young hostage leaps
with joy, interrogates the pilot, and discovers
him to be a Greek who is the victim of misfor-
tune, is now subject to the Romans, and resigned
to his lot. He possesses that strong and conso-
latory philosophy derived from long and cruel
trials, supported with fortitude. His words are
soft and so(enanly religious; in the manner of the
ancients.. If M. de Theis is sometimes superior
to Barthelemy, it is on these occasions; he then
excels him by the nobleness and verisimilitude of
the tone. 44 I am a Greek," said the pilot, " and
my name is. Nausicrates. I have long served the
republic of Athens ; and its children are ever
dear to me. Unfortunate events tore me from
my country; I have followed a painful profes-
sion far beneath my birth, but I have always ho-
noured the Gods, have served with fidelity the
masters they have given me, and have observed,
in every situation and vicissitude of life, that the
just and determined character is himself the ar-
biter of his own destiny. My Son ! your mis-
fortunes are great, lint there are many still
greater. Youth always fancies it has reached
the ultimate degree of misfortune or felicity, and
experience alone teaches him how to moderate
his grief and to cairn his transports."
The young Greek ascends the Tiber with a
Tribune who is appointed to inform the Senate of
the submission of Greece. Their arrival at Rome
is highly dramatic: We see the love of the Ro-
man for his country, his joy at again beholding
it, and his indifference for his life, which is on
the point of expiring, for he is mortally wounded.
All these details are eminently beautiful.
On his arrival off the Tiber, at the moment of
stepping into a boat, " King of Rivers," he ex-
claimed, " receive thy soldier with his arms !"
Then he takes a golden cup, and filling it with
the purest wine, he pours out a libation in the
midst of the waves. " Divinities, who preside
over this river," continued he with a laud voice,
" accept this trifling first-offering until at the
most brilliant spot in its course I can present to
ye more worthy sacrifices."
At length they reach Rome. "-An immense
concourse of people, says Polycletus, surrounded
us. -What a glorious day for Rome,' I observed
to the Tribune, and with what joy will the
people be transported when they hear of their
triumph.' ' You are mistaken,' replied he, and
far from being transported with this victory,
which you consider so important, our Romans
will not even express joy at it. Yesterday they
heard that the Lusitanians were defeated ; to-
morrow will bring some like tidings ; and it is
long since that transports arising from fortunate
successes have ceased to affect them.' But,'
rejoined I, ' the conquest of Athens is so great an
event that your fellow-citizens ought to glory in
it for ever.' He looked at me, smiled, and made
no answer." What an animated opening, and
what an idea it gives of Rome, the confidence o
her citizens, their easy grandeur and love o
country.

Whenever M. de Theis wishes to exhibit the
grandeur of Rome, lie excels in that object, in
a noble and touching manner, but lie possesses
not the same felicity in entering on domestic de-
tails. His style is pure, easy, noble, but more
beautiful in the declamatory then the narrative
parts. We would particularly recommend cer-
tain chapters which are very remarkable for dra-
matic effect, descriptive merit, and truth of man-

tiers: such as'those ou the game of the circus,
the country-house, marriage, &c. and more es-
pecially one of the last where Sertorius appears
for an instant and converses with the aged Se-
nators.
We will make another observation, after'which
we shall take leave of M. de Theis. It relates
to Sy-11a, who figures at the close of the work in
a grand and terrible manner. The young Greek
discovers a conspiracy, and for very noble rea-
sons, though.too long to be. inserted here, gives
information of it toLthe Dictator anony-mously.---
His communication..conclndes in the following
words ?-" Art thouliappy, Sylla ? thy friends'
labour for thy glory-; thy enemies watch for thy
safety.. Vain will be the attempt to discover
me. I 'eXpect nothing from thee; 'I save and hate
thee." The 'young Greek, however, is detected,
land prdered to appear before the Dictator. *lie
denies that the information came from 'him; but
Sylla confounds him by- shewing hiM an inter-
cepted letter, which proves the fact, and finds
fault with his expressions. " I honour true
Romans," replies Polycletu4, " and I do justice
to the others."—" Justice," exclaimed the Dic-
tator, in a tone of indignation; " What ! a pitiful
being dare to judge between Marius and Sylla,
and to condemn them both, and 'rashly presume
to give his opinion• on those important questions
which agitate the greatest of nations! Do you
know what Marius was ? Do you know what. I
am myself ? In the dust where thou Hest . . . .

Return to your home instantly : this very day I
tisill decide on thy fate."
" I quitted him," adds Polycletus ; " and just
as I passed over the threshold of the door, a sol-
dier rolled a bloody head close to my feet.
recognized it for that of the perfidious Cleon. I
turned awdy with horior. Great Gods, said I

Internally, how dangerous is it to serve or to,of
fend Sylla."

A few days afterwards, Polycletus receives.
the title of a Citizen of Rome, his liberty, and
Lmagnificent presents, and Oturns to Greece.----;
We have just pointed out some striking scenes,
some beautifUl traits, but are they true ? Sylla,
whom we know-to be cold) cruel, proud, and
despising humanity beyond every other man,
Sylla flies into a passion, argues with an hostage,
and affects even to he just, him who disdained to
appear generous, and sent all his enemies to ex-
ecution ! The Sylla whom M. de Theis exhibits
to us in. other places as restless, unequal, caprici.;
ous,and even sometimes generous, is he the SyLla
of history ? is as great without doubt; butls
he equally calm, profound, and tremendous ?-"r
We are inclined to think M. de Theis was dray-.
ing another portrait, and that he has yielded to
the dangerous attractions of alluSions.

On the whole, the work of M. de Theis is' a
great 'and meritorious undertaking. There is
gratkieur, majesty, and vigour in his paintings,
but not truth or action enough: the style is easy
and original, it displays good taste, and con-
tains many passages of uncommon beauty., _