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FRENCH PAPERS.
(Prom the Gazette de France, dated Oct. 28.)
TRIESTE, OCT. 18.—Lettert froth Otranto saw
that Ibrahim Pasha-had ionseated, at the latter end
of Sept , to surrender the fortresses which he held to
the French troops (49. It is chiefly owing to. the,
exertions of Count GUillem:not t÷:at the Egyptian
Commander has resolved to retire voluntarily, and
taken upon himself to a o beyond the terms of the
Co nventtort of 'Alexandria, and probably to the orders
of the Sultan, in thus akin:: up the fortresses of the
Morea without blootklied. M. de Ribeempierre seems
powerfully to have seconded Count Guilletninot.
If these Vatemetitg ide confirmed, the object of the
French ETpc:li:i,!o seems to be attained. It is,
thc-efore, presumed, :hat as soon as► the frontiers of
Greece are positively freed, the French troops will
return to France. It is said that the blockade of the
Dardanelles by the Rus,ian fleet has been ordered,
and that Admiral Heyden is preparing to Carty it
into effect. This measure will do More harm to the
sea-ports of Italy than the piracies ►which have just
been put down. It is to be hoped that a speedy
peace in the East will restore the liberty of corn.
merce, which is the life of our sea coast, We begin
again ft) do some business with Alexandria.
PARIS, OCT. 27,-.=A letter from Toulon contains
the following 'statement :—" Orders were received
on the >KOth to send to the Morea twenty-five pieces
of cannon, to be taken from the arsenal? of Toulon,
Perpignan, Toulouse, and Grenoble.
" It seems that hopes are entertained of occupying
the fortresses of the Morea, which it is intended to
fortify. Large quantities of powder will also be sent.

" 'The army is in want of provisions--a two-
pound loaf is sold at 40 sous—the country is with-
out resources ; and the bad diet, added to the bad
climate, has caused an epidemic disease (intermittent
fever) in the army, to which many fall victims ; se-
veral officers of the artillery and engineers are dead.
The Gazette de France, Moniteur, and lliessager
des Chambres, have no news whatever from the thea-
tre of Avar,

(From the Journal des Debats.)
PAM) Ott. 27.—1 n the spring, a campaign in
the summer was hardly thought necessary; now we
have autumn, and nothing is spoken of but a cam-
paign in winter. The present war between Russia
and the Porte has falsified too many conjectures not
to make us timid in hazarding new ones on the con-
sequences of one of the most important events which
has agitated Europe for 15 years. Some writers,
however, are not discouraged by them—prophecies
have been refuted. They now place the Russians
on the shores of the Bosphorous, with the same con-
fidence with which they formerly made them cross
the Balkan. They only change the road and the
date, and do not pass by Shumla, but by the Black
Sea. Servia and Bosnia were to make common
muse with the invaders. The Pachas of those pro-
vinces have sent their contingents to Remelia, and
not a Christian has taken up arms against the Cres-
cent. This is of no consequence; and this diver-
sion; judged to be so careful six months ago, is now
found to be useless. The Servians and Bosnians are
dispensed with. Four bridges over the Danube
were to keep up the communication of the Russians.
One alone is in their possession, and the nearest for-
tress to the passage, with its,garrison, is a source of
uneasiness and danger to the Imperial army. Now
the Danube is not wanted, or, at least, its mouths are
sufficient. In spite of the assistance of a fleet,which
has not met a Turkish vessel in the Black Sea, the
difficulty of, supplying the army has been great, and
has been cruelly felt in the Russian army. Famine has
destroyed es msey Russian soldiers as the Mussulman's
sword. In the winter. the Black Sea, scarcely navi-
gable, will not admit of that regularity of supply ne-
cessary in a country, the inhabitants of which dis-
appeared, as. if by enchantment, at the first appear-
ance of the Cossacks. This is of no consequence;
the Russians will now do without their. fleet. A
r single road, never yet closed against the incursions
fit the Spahis, will suffice for all the convoys. The
firm ground of the Balkan presented in summer in-
surmountable obstacles to the passage of artillery;
and now, when three months' rain will have ren-
dered it impassable for foot travellers, the Russian
guns are to pass it with ease.and safety. This is an
extraordinary way of:acknowledging an error shared
try almost all Europe. It is expected that events,
ailet; having falsified probable predictions,- will, out
'of revenge, confound the best calculations ?
,Cart.it, however, be now predicted that the war of
extermination preparing between Russia and the
Porte will next year find all the Powers of Europe
in that political optiniisin with . which they have
witnessed its commencement ? What, because
when it was supposed. that Russia had only to draw
on sight on the Sultan; Austria and England kept
-heir swords in the scabbar4s—when Russia, awake
from its error, shall pour on Turkey men and trea-
-ure—When the possession of Constantinople will
fot be regarded as an indemnity for the expense of
the war, is it to be believed that the Duke of Wel-
ington and Prince Metternich will still play the
arts of spectators ? Is resentment at negotiations
broken off nothing ? Will there not also be a cam
~sign of Cabinets in the winter, and will it bring
aeace in the spring ? No persons are more dis-
posed than we are to acknowledge that England,
f r some time past, has been paralysed in her move-
ments; but between that and a complete impotence
to mingle with events which she cannot rule,
there is a great distance. With Ireland and
her National Debt, people offer the Cabinet of
St. James's, bound hand and foot, to its rivals, and
England in 1828 will become what 'Turkey was in
1827. This may be specious, but this delusion may
be dissipated with more noise than the other. As
for Germany, her features have been modified for
some months, and appearances are no longer the
same as at the commencement of the Russian cam-
paign. The probability of Russia demanding as-
sistance of Prussia has already set several Cabinets
in motion. The family connection between the
Sovereigns is in opposition to the interest of the two
countries. This may prolong, but does not guarantee
the union. Let us admit the docility of the Prussian
Cabinet; if any limit has been laid down at Vienna
to neutrality, it will be reached the instant a Prussian
regiment marches for the Danube. We speak not
of France. More disinterested than the rest of
Europe in the quarrel which is settling on the bor-
ders of the Eaxiiie-Sea, she may one day find herself
obliged to throw into the scale something more
weighty than her councils. Hitherto her's has been
a noble part. Religiously observing .treaties, she
will be in war, as in peace, faithful to her allies,
formidable to her enemies. Let us have no alarm
on the probable consequence of wants of importance
sufficienttoie awakenus
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which consist in making that which one desires
that which one believes.

(From the Courrier Francais.)
INTRIGUES IN THE LEVANT.
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PARIS, OCT. 27.—We have had communicated to
us
,thee tu'onl Idoekrvsi
;logo
d letter
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to political events :—" The intrigues which have
been going on in the Levant during the last two
months exceed belief. While France was pre pari•
ng
an expedition to deliver Greece, Sir Arthur Paget
was neeociating at the Dardanelles to place Greece
..
under the yoke of its old masters; holding out the
hope to the Porte of an offensive and defensive al-
liance with England. It was proposed to stop the
French at the place of disembarkation, keeping them
idle till they would be brought into open war with
Turkey, and till the fever had spread itself among
the -army. Negociutions were accordingly car-
ried on through Admiral Codrington with the
Pacha of Egypt to induce him to withdraw his
troops from the Morea. We are ignorant what passed
at the Dardanelles and at Teaedos, between the
Envoy of Great Britain and the Turkish Diploma-
tists, but it is supposed that somethingpositive was
stipulated with the Grand Signior: We know,
'"' It ii not known that Navarin has been given up to the
French.