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London, England, 1822-10-15 00:00:00

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

EXTRACTS FROM THE DAILY MORNING PAPERS,
• October 15, 1822.

[THE TIMES.]
We hear from very credible atrthority, and
from a person on tile spot, that " a quantity of
" artillery is continually passing through Nantes,
"on its wav to Bayonne." The writer adds,
that " the British Government ought to be ac-
quainted with this fact." It is very certain,
that since the Freud' Cordon of Health has been
covvertecl into an army of observation, such an
`army may require supplies of artillery. But to
-what, we ask, do these preparations tend To
an offensive war upon the people of Spain ? If
war of any kind- is waged, it must be an offensive
war on the part of France ; for there can be no
apprehension that the Spaniards, in the present
distracted state of their kingdom, should pass the
Py.rennees and become the assailants. And, to
say nothing of other states, what will Frenchmen
think of a new invasion of Spain ? They at least
have learned the danger of such attempts, though
their Sovereign may not have had the same ex-
perience as his subjects. Is there not, also,
every reason for supposing that the Baron d' Eroles
organizes at Bayonne,—that is, within the.: French
tOlitories,--the means of attack on the constitu-
;o.•
tivdal government of his own country—Spain ?
VA), does France suffer this ?
4'3(

• wei. [MORNING CHRONICLE.]
*the Paris Papers of Saturday furnish some
fotrther.details of the successes of the Greeks in
tW.Morea, which seem row to be fully con-
tiled. It will be seen that they have also been
(-14.ttnently successful at sea. The Turks, who
43re gentlemen in the true sense of the word,
4i:ending on the industry of the Greeks (the
beFs that furnished them with their honey), and
Alto by this insurrection lrave been deprived of
So-many tribute-paying provinces, appear to be
te4uced to very great straits for money, if we may
jiAge from the measures adopted at Constanti-
nople. Our readers will find an extract of a letter
fin Cfpitt's, detailing cruelties perpetrated in that
island_ seemingly not less atrocious than those of
Fire and sword have there been the order of
qfg:day, 60 villages have been destroyed by these
ruthless barbarians. What renders this outrage
the more horrible, the Island has been uniformly
peaceful, having taken no part in the insurrec-
tion. Indeed, whoever knows any thing of the
situation of Cyprus, will have as IRAN difficulty
insrediting this as he would that the Greeks
were tranquil in Constantinople or Smyrna.—
liow shocking to think that we have been ex-
erting ourselves to persuade the Greeks' to throw
themselves- on the mercy of brutes in human
shape, who by „these acts of wholesale butchery
prove but too clearly they want nothing but the
power to exterminate the Greeks to a man.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
Madrid Papers to the sth inst. contain accounts
olthe second and third preliminary meetings of
tja Cortes Extraordinary. In the Tatter the
log puties present took the oaths, and the Presi-
dent, Vice-Presidents, and ,Secretaries, were
!2cted. A Deputation was sent to the King to
inform him that the installation of the Cortes was
completed, and his Majesty in his answer stated,
ftit he would be present at the opening of the
§esion. The Espectador of the sth instant con-
tains a variety of details respecting the military
operations in the frontier Provinces. Nothing
decisive had taken place..

NEW TIMES .1

The Paris Papers of Saturday arrived yester-
day by express, with letters from that capital,
dated eight o'clock in the evening of that day.—
The Rentes opened at 93f. 25c. and are said in
iirivate advices to have improved greatly in the
course of the day, and to have left off at the ad-
vanced price of 93f. SOc. All foreign securities
were in great demand in the French capital. Spa-
nish old Bonds had attained the very high price of
87, and the new Bonds 72Z, which is an advance
of six per cent. on the former, and 41 per cent.
on the latter in the short space of two days
Ntapolitan stock had also advanced, and is
said to have been eagerly sought after at 81.
Nothing further had been derived from the
Spanish capital, or frontiers, beyond the confir-
mation of the arrest of San Martin on a charge of
bin concerned in the affair of the 7th July, if
the accounts from the Morea are to be believed,
a which different versions are given, though each
with a favourable aspect towards the Greeks, the
war of extermination in that quarter is still
unabated.

[MORNING POST.]

That most unfortunate body of politicians, the
tlibilhigs, have lately been honoured by a Chester
yttivat, called a " Whig Dinner," over which
that eminent statesman, Earl Grosvenor, conde-
-erainded to preside. That it is almost time some
decisive experiment should be made to ascertain
4ere, his Lordship's talent lies we are not in-
-diosposed to admit, and we would certainly much
ilther see him C 4 ruling. the roast " at a Chester
dinner, thaw assisting to govern the State.—
AtOw far his own party may be of the same
,opinion it is not easy to divine ; but from the
manner in which he supported their interests
land dignity at Chester, it may be fairly doubted
whether they would ever wish to see him in
either capacity. We know of a set of persons
(many of them of high rank), who were lately
described as deficient- in common honesty. his
lordship is one of those persons, and what must
he think of the orator who could so describe
him, and those with whom he acts ? Mr.
Ilume„ in some of his late exposures, of the
. Whigs, hoped the time was not distant when
that rapacious body (if not his exact words, this
was their meaning) would return to honest
courses. Now, this we take to be something
''-more than a broad hint that their ways are not
Lgxactly honest at present. What then must his
34bordship, conscious as he is of his own unsullied
11q6 tegrity, think of the person who could thus
mention that body of which he is a Member
We must judge of what his Lordship thinks from