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London, England, 1823-01-02 00:00:00

.FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

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PARIZ, DEC. 80.—The Duke de Rauzan 6
.appointed Director (Under Secretary of State)

-in the office for Foreign Affairs.

The Spanish Ambassador has delivere'd a note
,to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, in which he
• complains of the magistracy of the department
of the Eastern Pyrennees having refused to corn-
,mtinicate to the Spanish rebels the amnesty per-
mitting them to return to their homes.
Letters from Corfu, dated the 4th of Decem-
ber, announce the arrival of intelligence from
Janina, confirming the beheading of Chourschid
Pacha. The order for his execution was brought
.to Larissa by a Capidji.Bachi. Another mss-1
sener of the same description brought an order
toJanina for Omar-Vacha to surrender his Pa-
, chalic of Loner Albania, to which an Asiatic
Pacha is to be appointed. It is expected that
Omar-Pacha will also be beheaded.
. • Yesterday, after mass, the King received the
Ministers, M. the Prince de Talleyrand, the
Marshals of France, M. the Chancellor, the
Grand Referendary of the Chamber of Peers, a
great number of the Peers of France, and of the
Deputies, and numerous military officers of all

ranks.
M. the Viscount de Chateaubriand, appointed
Minister of Foreign Affairs, had yesterday the
honour of taking the oath of office before the
King.
The note presented by M. de Montmorency,
says the writer, not having been accepted by his
Majesty, M. tie Villele read the official docu-
ment, which you have seen in the Moniteur. It
is said that each Minister had his projet of a note
in his portefeuille, and that the one which hud
.been drawn by M. Le Garde des Sceaux was
the most energetic and the most decisive; it was
not read because his Majesty had given his ap.
probation to Villele's note before his turn arrived.
M. de Montmorency demanded that the French
Minister should quit Madrid at the moment when
the Ambassadors, of the Allied Powers should be
recalled by their Sovereigns. Now the late King
of Spain, Charles IV., left his Ambassador at
Paris till the catastrophe of the death of Louis
XVI., and it was considered important to leave
with King Ferdinand at least a Charge d'Affaires
...of the King his cousin, who might aid, in the
name of the Government, the Spanish Monarch and
the Princes his brothers it was important, also

for the dignity of France, that she should act in
this matter with perfect independence. All these
considerations were expressed in a few words,
and with irresistible force. Then M. de Mont-
morency tendered his resignation. It was agreed
to offer the portefeuille of Foreign Affairs to M.
de Chateaubriand. He refused it, positively,
distinctly, and without hesitation. He proceeded
immediately to the residence of M. de Montmo.
reecy : you know that they have been friends for
many years it was not believed that they had
differed, or that they bad not acted in union at
Verona. M. de Chateaubriand repeated his re-
fusaj three times during the two following days.
Re yielded at last to numerous and most power-
ful solicitations. It seems even that he was not
determined to accept the office till after hav-
ing had, on the evening of the 9.oth, a long con-
ference with his Majesty.
It is not known whether he obtained certain
conditions which he required, and which were of
a nature to satisfy every Royalist. Some deny it
but the greater number are sure they will never
have occasion to reproach M. de Chateaubriand.
It appears that the Marquis de Pastoret wished
to be Graod Veneer, and that it is the Duke de
Fitifames who is to succeed M. de Chateau-
inland In England. They say that M. the Count
Reynhard, formerly Secretary to M. the Deputy
Chauvelin during his embassy to England, and
once the Secretary of the Committee of Public
Safety, but now Minister of the King at the Ger-
manic Diet, &c., will be allowed to retire. M. de
Raineval, French Minister at Berlin, will be sent,
we are assured, to the United States, and he will
be replaced by the Marquis de 'Mustier, Mini-
ster at Hanover, to whom will succeed the Mar-
quis de Bourue, superior officer of the (Garde-du-
Corps.
It was yesterday rumoured that a courier, ar-
rived from Madrid, had left that capital on the
22d instant in great agitation. It was confidently
;said that the refusal of the King to sanction the
decree of the Cortes, respecting the arrest of the
conspirators, had excited very serious disorders.
J.t is added that he King has been compelled to
yield to an artnerf demand made upon him hy the
There was a rumour yesterday evening of the
arrival of a courier who left Madrid on the 22d
December, and who brought the intelligence that
,the refusal of the King to sanction the decree of
the Cortes relatively to the events of the 7th of
July, had excited much tumult in an extraordi-
nary sitting of the Cortes. It was feared this
sitting would have consequences disastrous to the
public tranquillity.-- (Gazette de France.)
The Courier Francais and the Journal des
D bats, mention this rumour, but consider its
authenticity as doubtful.
The nomination of M. de Chateaubriand was
spoken of two days before it was published in
the Moniteur. This news sufficed to end all the
conjectures, which the public indulged in tiering
24 hours, respecting the partial renewal of the
Ministry. Between M. de Chateaubriand and
M. de Montmorency, the shade of difference is so
slight, that it is not, properly speaking, a change.
M. de Chateaubriand, it is said, at Congress de-
clared himself opposed to war with Spain ; but
the articles which he published in the &men:a-
kar, on the revolution of that kingdom, seems
sufficient to indicate that, in his recent opposition,
he has rather considered the expediency (l'apro-
pos) of war, than the principles of justice, policy,
and humanity, which should dictate its rejection.
lit may be believed, especially looking at the note
addressed to our Ambassador at Madrid, that
expediency was almost the sole ground which
'influenced the opinion of a portion of the Minis-
try against war. The question was only consi-
dered in regard to its expediency ; it was found
-that the moment was not favourable, and in the

hope that it would `become so, Me right of resum-
ing a hostile attitude has, perhaps, been reserved.
It is thus sthat •the public in general has inter-
preted the enigmatical note published two days
ago in the Moniteur; and hence why the com-
mercial and manufacturing public feel, that nei-
ther the retirement of M. de Montmorency, the

note of M. de Wide, nor the nomination of M.
de Chateauhriand, afford them any security.—
They only see in it the continuance of a preca-
rious state, which may end in chances the most
disastrous to their interests.—(Courier Francais.)
FRANKFORT, DEC. 24.
(PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.)
The attention of the public begins to be direct-
ed from the West to the East and the news from

losses.

:he Ebro has, during several days past, excited
Less interest than that which arrives from the

banks of the Danube and the Pruth. The gene-
ral opinion at Frankfort is, that war between
France and Spain will not, immediately at least,
take place ; but we begin to doubt the possibility
of the maintenance of peace between Russia and
the Porte. The last advises from Verona an-

nounce that the affairs of the East have been dii-

cussed in long ministerial conferences, which
were held several days successively. The Em-
peror Alexander deemed it proper not to be
absent during the whole interval of these import-
ant negociations, and in consequence renounced
the project already announced, of visiting Flo-
rence, Rome, and Naples. At present, this
Monarch is hastening his return to the capital of

his dominions, where he is desirous to be on the
12th of the next month, to take all the measures
which the urgency.of present circumstances de.

mends.

Some of the meditated measures have, it is
affirmed, already been concerted with the other
Sovereigns. All the orders of the Russian Ca.
binet, during the meeting of the Congress of
Verona, and dispatched, whether to St. Peters.
_ .

burgh or to tire ilifferent- Chiefs of the corps can•
toned on the frontiers of Turkey, were of a nature
to induce a belief that war might every moment

break out.

It is not less true, that new negociatious have
been opened at Constantinople, in order to re.
establish harmony between the two Empires;
but little hope is entertained, especially since the
recent revolution of the Seraglio, that they will

bring about a satisfactory result. It is affirmed,
on the other hand, that at the Congress of Ve-
rona a remarkable approximation has operated
between the Cabinets of St. Petersburgh and St.
James. The deceased Marquis of Londonderry
was, as is known, entirely devoted to Ottoman
legitimacy, and the most faithful Ally of the
Mussulman. His successor, Mr. Canning, now
acts, it is said, upon more Christian sentiments.
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Some politicians even would not be surprised to
see England soon making common cause with
Russia, and acting hostilely against the Sublime
Porte, which rejects all mediation.—(Courier
Frangais.)

UNITED STATES OF THE lONIAN ISLES.
[EXTRACT OF A PRIVATE LETTER.

LEUCADE (SANTA IVIAURA), DEC. 6. metvl.—Chours-
chid Pacha, suspected of having plundered the treasures of the
famous Ali Pacha, of Janina, has just forfeited his head, in
consequence of this accusation, whether just or not. A Ca-
pidgi-bachi, who arrived at Larissa on the 16th November with
a Finnan from his Highness, was present at the execution of
this Vicier, who was long the pride ,of his master. lie was
worthy of a better fate.
" By another Finnan, Omer Brionis, Pacha of Janina, for-
merly a Lieutenant of Ali Tobelin, is dismissed, and sum-
moned to Constantinople, to give an account of the-treasures of
Ali, and to receive (it is said) a command in the army destined
to act against the Persians. It is already known as .certain
that he will not obey this order ; but no one knows where he
can find an asylum, except In the lonian Isles, far the Alba.
nians are much exasperated against him.

" Another Firman:enjoins Tahir Abas,.Pacta of Pasarnythia
and Ilaga Illouhartla.(the Treasurer of Ali) to appear at Con-
stantinople; instead of complying with this mandate, these
Chiefs declared themselves in open insurrection. A Capidgi-
hachl, who was sent to Prevesa, to 'bring away the head of
flekir Giocador, commandant of that place, was fired at, and
compelled•to retreat. Epirus may thus be considered as a prey
to anarchy, for the Acroceraunians, who hitherto were tranquil,
have just proclaimed their independence."

Coaru, DEc.23.--In the middle of Septern-
ber, the Pacha of Janina; Omer Brione, joined his troops to
those of three other Paellas, Reehlti Whined, Ahmed Massa,
and Hassan, Pacha of Lepanto, and with the Turkish and
Albanian forces combined,'advanced to the frontiers of Epirus.
He there began to combat the Greeks, not by arms, but by a"
deceitful policy. The plan was suggested to him by the per-
nicious Councils of some European agents, more pernicious to
the Greeks than the Turks themselves. The English Consul
at Provesa, M. Meyer, voluntarily undertook to conduct all
these little intrigues, by which they hoped to bring back the
Greek Chiefs to obedience to what is still called their legiti.
mate Government. M. Meyer even replied to reproaches made
to him by some friends of humanity and justice, that he only
conformed to the instructions of his Ambassador, Lord Strang-
ford.

In spite of the long effort of these agents, nothing could be'
obtained but the neutrality of one of these chiefs, whose firm-
ness was shaken by measures for putting to death his son, who
hail been for two years hostage at Janina. This chief, Varna-
kiote, drew with him two superior officers, but was soon aban-
doned by his soldiers. The other Chiefs repulsed with indig-
nation all proposals. Omer Brione then resolved to try the
fortune of arms, and marched against Etolia.
On his approach the inhabitants, of their own accord, burnt
the villages and towns, and transported their provisions into
the mountains or to Missolonghi. The bridge of Ala Bey was
then broken down, and that of Angelo Castron put in a condi-
tion, of defence. The most advantageous positions were occu-
pied by Guerillas, and the mass of the Greek army assembled
in the neighbourhood of Missolonghi, and the passages lead-
ing to Lepanto. At these two points which the enemy chiefly
coveted, they waited fur him with confidence.
At the sight of this devastation two old Albanian Chiefs of
consummate experience perceived the firm resolution of the
Greeks, and wished to persuade Omer of the danger to which
he would expose his army and his military reputation. 'While
they continued to give. he reasons of their opinions, he inter-
rupted them roughly and said, " I should be no longer Ileione,
the Conqueror if the English, if I did not disperse like sheep
all these troops and your fierce Greek Guerillas." This
I'acha is fond of assuming this title of Conqueror of the Eng-
llsh, because he commanded the Albaniawarmy which in 11107

defeated at Abou-Moittouf in Egypt, the English of whom het
mach an horrible massacre. The two old Chiefs on this proud
answer of their Commander bowed respectfully and withdrew.°
The next day, October 25, the orders were given, and the!
Mussulman army, divided into separate columns, passed the
Achelous on two points.' The first, commanded by Omer
Pacha in person, left Machalos, and marched for the ruins-of
Vrachori. The second, under Itichid Pasha, passed the river
near the sea above Cutochi ; but, near Stamna, the passage wart
warmly disputed by the Greeks, who repulsed it on two din-
' rent attacks. After many ineffectual movements, the two
Turkish Commanders determined to unite again, which .they,
effected afterwards, after efforts which cost them great

At the head of this combined army the Turkish Generals
conducted five consecutive attacks on Alissolonghi. This place
had for its defence only a ditch, which Maurocordatos had re-
cently dug across the long causeway which leads to the
town. Fifteen hundred Greeks, commanded by the same Nan.
rocordatos and the intrepid Bozaris, constantly repulsed from
this intrenchment all the attacks of the Turks with consider-
able loss. The enemy then turned his attention on Anatolicon,
a little island placed in the midst of the lagtinct and the arm
of the sea of Missolonghl, but Galanis, at the head of five hun-
dred men, stationed on this island, defeated all these at..
tempts.

After these ill-fated operations, Omer Pacha marched oh the 1
pans of Caki-Scala to open a passage, and establish commu-1
nications with Lepanto. The two Stratarchs, Macrys and
Zongos, who defended the defile, attacked him with vigour,
made 700 Albanians bite the dust, and the remainder com-
pletely routed.
Things were in this state when the Greeks received reinforce-
ments from the Canton of Arapha and the environs of Thor-
'mopyla3. They then attacked the enemy on Nov. 17, not far
from Statnnia. At first the Turks sustained the attack with
great vigour, but at length Bozaris and Zongos, who com-
manded the wings of the Greek army, brought forward their
corps, and by a most animated attack on the flanks of the ene-
my, decided the fortune of the day. The greatest disorder im-
mediately prevailed in the Turkish army, which from that mo-
ment sought its► safety in flight. Pursued as far as the Ache-
lout, they lost a great number of men in that river, who were
drowned in attempting to cross it.
The Turks were then harrassed in their way to Acarnania,
-where they met with more losses. Finally they arrived in the
very worst condition at Mho, near Macrynoros, from where
they re-entered Epirus.

P.S. (DEc. 4.)---We have received to-day from Prevesa and

.tinitia the news of a Capidi-bachi having arrived at Larissa,
and caused the head of Chourschid Pacha to be cut oft: Another
arrived at Janina, has declared Omer niche to
be dismissed from his pachalic of Lower Albania, to which the
Divan has appointed an Asiatic Pacha, called Abud:Pacha.
It is added, that Omer's head is to be cut off on his arrival at
Janina. The same Cupidt-baelii is appointed to conduct the
Albanian Chiefs to Constantinople, and particularly Tahic-Al-
bas, Hago-Mouhourdar, Belichter et Bekir-Zogadoro. The
latter, who commands at Prevesa, has already replied to the
Capidi-baclii who came to arrest him, by several shot, and has
declared against the Porte.
The same Turkish officer has brought three firmans ; the first
exacts from all the inhabitants the silver vessels at very low
prices ; the second imposes on the Canton of Janina a con-
tribution of 400 purses, (200,000 piastres) for the repairs of
some strong Place which is not named.; the third requires the
former inhabitants of Janina to leave all their places nfrefbge,
and return.into the town.—( Constilutionnel.)

SPAIN.
MADRID, DECEMBER 21.
Everyeffort and project is exhausted to obtain
money. The plan of M. Surra, which has been
submitted to the Junta of Credit, consists in pro-
curing for the Government four hundrecknillions
in cash, 'but on condition of a creation of eighty
new millions of Tentes,inscribed in the great book.
The following is what he proposes .:—He desires
that to obtain the said four hundred. millions, the
Government should acknowledge one thousand
six hundred millions of the ancient debt, of that
which bears:at least 4 per cent. interest. Thus,
each subscriber would receive, for his delivery of
one hundred reels in paper, and twenty-five reels
in cash, five reels of inscribed route, which is an
impracticable operation, and which, besides,
would throw the finances of Spain into a much
greater chaos than they now are. The consti-
tuted debt of Spain, which is already out of all
proportion with the resources of the country,
would absorb every thing if the plan of M. Surra
were adopted.
The following is an extract of a letter written
from Bayonne by the Royalist :General Charles
O'Donnel, to his brother the Count de l'Abisbal,
who serves in the army styled Constitutional.
It is dated the Ist of September, previously to
the departure of this General to take the corn-
mend of the Army of the Faith
" You have just been nominated Inspector of Infantry, in
the Army styled National, and it is natural. that in this new ca-
pacity your actions will be in accordance with those which
gained you notoriety in 1820. You then forgot what you
owed to the King—we were five brothers, whom his Majesty
deigned to.admit into his service; you forgot the distinctions
with which he honoured us in a hazardous career, when the

throne rendered powerless the arrows with which envy assailed
us; you forgot, finally, the confidence that Ferdinand had
placed in you, since you have turned against him the arms
which he had given you to defend him. You have been equally
ungrateful towards your country, and you will answer to it for
the evils which you have occasioned, when it was in your power
to have averted them. You have basely deceived the King, by
means of the most solemn promises, and thrown yourself into
the province of La Mancha, to intercept couriers, and fi►rce
the peaceable inhabitants to proclaim that infamous consti-
tution which will soon terminate their moral and
cal existence. We are still four brothers, who now share
justice and odium, according as we rank with the King
and his enemies. Joseph and myself happily belong to
the class of faithful subjects, and Alexander and you have
sold yourselves to the regicidal faction, composed of the basest
and most criminal men. _ For ourselves, we have sworn never

to have any fellowship with two brothers whom we renounce,
and whose names ought to be obliterated from our genealogy.
Come and give us battle, we await you firmly ;- but know that
Joseph and Charles O'Donnel will preserve unsullied the
honour of an illustrious house, which Alex:m(la and Henry are
endeavouring to tarnish. The day will arrive when you will
seek us, the day will arrive when you will al.,,ain desire to abuse
the goodness of the best and most beloved of Kings ; but it will
be too late, and your beads shall expiate all the crimes which
you have committed. For ourselves, we defend the cause of
God, the rights of the throne, and the real libetty of the coun-
try ; but you defend oppressalon, immomlty, and irreligion.—
, Alas ! I have said enough. .11lay God recal you, my dear
Henry, to better sentiments.
(Signed) " CHARLES O'DONNEL."

IREL,A.,N.D.

,FROM TNT bUBLIN CORRESPOirDEITT OF DEC. !&

ATTACK ON THE 31ARQUIS WELLESLEY.

-Yesterday several Addresses were presented
to his Excellency the LORD LIEUTENANT at the
Phcenix Park, and at Dublin Castle. The first
in importance is that of the Clem, of the esta-
blished Church. The Deputation was most re-
spectable. There were present the Archbishop
of Dublin, the Bishop of Kildare, and Dean of
St. Patrick's, (Deans of the two Cathedrals,) the
Clergy of the two Chapters, and many others of
the Clergy of Dublin and its vicinity. The Ad-
dress was read by the Archbishop of Dublin,
with an impressiveness and perspicuity which was
much admired by his Grace's auditory. The
Answer of his Excellency was delivered with
that dignified and earnest tone and manner,
which characterised the delivery of the whole of
the eloquent replies to the several Addresses
presented to him on the occasion of the recent
outrage. We insert the Address and Answer :
To his Excellency the Marquis WELLESLEY, Lord Lieute-

nant General and General Governor of Ireland, &e. &c. &c.

We, the Archbishop of Dublin, the Deans and Chapters of
the two Cathedrals, the Archdeacons and Clergy of Dublin and
its Vicinity, beg leave to approach your Excellency with senti-
ments of the sincerest attachment and respect.
As Ministers of peace, we hold it not unsuited to our sacred
profession to come forward on the present occasion, openly to
express the deep regret and unqualified disgust with which we
regard the late atrocious outrage committed at the Theatre on
your Excellency's person--an outrage which could have origi-
nated only with persons of the most ferocious and abandoned
character, since none others could have been so infatuated as to
insult the dignity, and endanger the person of a Viceroy, illus-
trious by his distinguished talents and his pre-eminent public
service ; and now when called by our Gracious Sovereign to the
Government of Ireland, faithfully employing the powers with
which he is entrusted, and the talents with which he is en-
dowed, to promote its peace and its prosperity, with an ardour
of zeal which no labour can weary, and with a warmth of affec- '
tion for his native land which, we are persuaded, no ingratitude
can extinguish.
We cannot, indeed, too deeply lament the prevalence of that
spirit of insubordination and discord, and that contempt of
established rule, which at present so extensively disturb and de.
plorably disgrace this country—a spirit which 'has of late been
excited, with more than usual malignity and audacity, to vilify
the character and degrade the dignity of the most exalted
authorities.

For the subjugation of this destructive spirit, we look with
humble confidence to that Divine Providence which enables
those who follow its guidance to overcome evil with good, and
which, we trust, will employ the wisdom, the firmness, and the
conciliating of youf zeellency's Povernment, with the sound
sense and il1010:11e4 10)444 of great body of our 6110W.SUb.
jects, to restore obediencq to the 4ws, respect for social order,
and the invaluable blessings of union and tranquillity.
To promote this.happy result by 'your instructions, our in•
fiuence, and our example, we are mire, that; as the Ministers
of Religionove are peculiarly bound; and we take the liberty
to assure your l xcellency, that, with the Divine assistance, such
shall be our constant and zealous endeavours, convinced that in
thus acting we shall fulfil a duty which we owe to ourselves, our
King, our Country, and our God.
WILLIAM DUBLIN, for Self and Clergy.