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London, England, 1828-08-02 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRENCH PAPERS.
(Prom the Gazette de France, dated July 31.)

Poßos, JUNE 10.—The following Proclamatien of
the President has just been published :

46 GREEK STATE.

" The President of Greece—The Government has
this moment received the official communication of
the declaration of his Majesty the Emperor of Russia,
whose army is on its march to the Danube.
" In communicating this act to the Panhellenion,
to the extraordinary Commissioners of the several
departments of the Pelopotmesus and of the Archi-
pelago, and to the Commanders of the Forces by
sea and land, we think it proper to accompany it by
some precise explanation, which may place every
public functionary in the legal circle of his attribu-
tions, able to instruct the nation respecting its true
position, and to put the citizens on their guard •
against malicious; erroneous, and deceitful conjec-
tures,to. which a bad fortune, which has been so
long prOtracted, might lead them.
" The Declaration of the 26th of April clearly
shows the motives and the objects of the war be.
tween Russia and the Porte, and that a pacification
and the future state of Greece are the objects of the
Christian solicitude of his Majesty, the Emperor of
Russia; but this pacification, and this future state,
are guaranteed to us by Russia as one of the con-
tracting parties of the Treaty of the 6th of July,
under the protection of the three great Powers who
signed the Treaty, and not by one separate Power.
Penetrated by this convincing truth, let us show it
for the immutable principles of our conduct and our
exertions, and let us not doubt that peace will have
our prayer; and as it has already been heard in
Paris, our wants are already known, and his Majesty
the Emperor of Russia has the goodness to place at
the disposal of the Greek Government a pecuniary
aid, which will infallibly furnish it with the means of
providing for the more pressing wants of the army,
the civil and the other branches of the public
service. His succour has, however, been guaran-
teed to us only on the conditions of making
use of it with the greatest economy solely for
the defence of the country, to repulse the enemy,
and to alleviate the extreme distress of the people,
which has been greatly increased by the contagious
disorder which the presence of the Turks has brought
us, and which threatened us with still greater suf-
ferings.
" We are thoroughly convinced that his Majesty
the King of Great Britain, and his Majesty the
King of France, will, on their part, grant us succour.
Mean time, however, considerable those subsidies
may he which will be given us simultaneously by
the Powers, the crisis of our atfairs is not the less
difficult, and the only means of getting out of it con-
sist in sliming ourselves worthy, by the ameliora-
tion of our internal- situation, of the succour which
we have received, and of that which we shortly
expect.
" Encouraged by the first success of our prayers,
let us advance with perseverance and integrity
towards the object which is pointed out to us by
duty, and we shall infallibly attain it, because God is
with us, and the high Powers protect us.
" In consequence, Gentlemen, you will-acquaint
the Citizens who are under your orders with the
actual situation of the great interests of the country,
and you will direct their attention to all that the
country expect from their prudence, their decided-
ness, and their zeal.

" l'oros, May 31, 1828,
(Signed) " JOHN CAPO D'ISTRIA,
President of Greece.
" SP. TRIKUTIS,
Secretary of State."

• PARIS 'JULY 30.—The Avgsburgh Gazette an-
nounces, under the head of Syrtis, that Ibrahim has
declared that he was ready to quit the Morea, but
that be, wanted a fleet for his return, and that of his
army ; and that the Commanders of the Allied
squadron were afraid to convey the Egyptians and
• theirliggage, 011 account of the plague which pre-
vailed amongst them. In fact, the official notices in
the Colfit- Gazette say, that the Castor, Russian
frigate, which communicated with the Egyptian
prisoners, had four of its crew attacked with the
plague.
gram the Messagcr dcs Chambres:)
PARIS, JULY 29._T he Treaty of the 6th July
has not yet effected all its part, since one half of
Greece is under the military yoke of the Ottoman
Power; the troops of Ibrahim are in the Mores; it
is not sufficient to cut off their communications with
Egypt; it is necessary, also, to put an end, by the
display of a military force, to a state of things which
is in opposition to the conditions of the Treaty of
6th July.
If we are well informed, this is the object of the
expedition to the Morea ; we do not think that
Ibrahim and his Arabs have a mind to contend, and
our soldiers, the sons of Egypt, have already be-
come acquainted with our marine at Navarin. Per-
haps they also remember the French bayonet at

Cairo and Alexandria. Every thing, therefore,
gives reason to hope that the bare presence of our
soldiers in the Morea will put an end to the occu-
pation, and will complete the execution of the
Treaty of the 6th of JUly, which is the generous
object of the present expedition. This is the suffi-
cient answer to all the conjectures of war—to these
pictures of a generatconflagration, which some took
pleasure in tracing. The expedition to the Morea,
it is good to repeat it, has tio object but the execu-
tion of an existing Treaty.

. (From the Courier Francais.) ,
PARIS, JULY 30.—M. de Rayneval, Minister of
France to the Helvetic Cantons, was to reach Paris
this day. The object of his return was to take, ad
interim, the regulation of Foreign Affairs during the
absence of M. de Laferronays, who is to leave Paris
for a watering place on account of his health but
it is now said that this resolution will not be carried
into effect. Several high personages have made re-
monstrances against placing the Foreign Office
under a diplomatist who has hitherto only filled a
second rate situation. It would have been to point
out an eventual successor to M. de Laferronays, and
prejudge the question against all future candidates.
It is now said one of the other Ministers is to hold
M. de Laferronay's pork/6'ole for the present, thus
depriving no one of his hopes.
It is decided, it is said, by the Minister of War,
that the troops for the Morea shall be disembarked
at Napoli de Romania. Military men condemn this
plan. The principal object of the expedition is to
deliver the Peloponnessus from Ibrahim and his
Arabs, who in their excursions heap ruin on ruin.
The Egyptians, however, occupy the western part of
the Merea, being in the neighbourhood of Navarin
and Tripolitza, and Motion, of which they. are yet
masters. Time will be lost should our expedition
land at Napoli. To proceed from that point to
where the enemy is, the country must be traversed
that is exhausted, which would oppose many ob-
stacles to the march. The readiest method would
be to attack the Egyptians, by landing at Navarin
or St Coron. If the other resolution has been taken,
we hope it may yet be altered.
THE HARVEST.—The news from different parts
of France, as to the harvest, becomes more alarming
every day. During the last year several countries
suffered from the dearness of corn, and at this mo-
ment the price, which a year ago was thought-too
high, is 30f. 40c., or even 60 or 70 per cent.
higher now than then. This state of things, united
with the melancholy situation of trade, and the
bankruptcies which arc increasing* among second-
rate tradesmen, cause considerable alarm for the
labouring classes. The Government, it is said, ap-
prehensive of a dearth, has resolved to hasten the
period for a revision of our corn laws, and that a law,
either provisionally or permanently, to lower the im-
portation price; will be presented to the Chambers
in two days. This report is not very probable, for
the Chamber is tired, and a corn law will not pass
by acclamation in an assembly composed as it is. We
rather suppose that the Government will alter the
Tariff of the Customs during the cessation of the
Session, though the right to do so has been already
opposed. The situation of affairs becomes more
critical, on account of the Black Sea remaining
closed for some time, and, at any rate, the presence
of a powerful army in that neighbourhood will di-
minish the supply to be expected from that quarter,
so that we shall be reduced to bring our supplies from
the North, the price of which will be enhanced by
the competition of Great Britain.

FRENCH FUNDS, Ju IN 30. —Five per Cents. 105 f. 75e. ;
Three per Cents. 70f. 75e. ; Bank Actions, 18831.
FOREIGN FU NDS. —Neapolitan Renter, Fale. Cer. 751.
70e. ; Royal Spanish Loan, 71-0. ; Spanish Perpetual
Annuities, 49f. ; Haytian Loan, 6:22f. 50c.

The LORD MAYOR and a Deputation of the
Corporation of the City of London waited on the Lords of
the Treasury yesterday, and had a long conference with
their Lordships. The Duke of WELLINGTON, as First
Lord of the Treasury, presided at the meeting.

On Thursday evening, a meeting of the inha-
bitants of the parish and precincts of St. Ann, Blackfriars,
was held in the school-room, for the purpose of taking
into consideration a watch-rate made by the Alderman,
Deputies, and Common-Councilmen of the watd of rarring-
don within, upon the inhabitants of the precinct, It ap-
pears that by royal charter of 6th James 1., the inhabitants
have the right of " watching and warding" themselves,
uncontrolled by any other authority : upon this ground the
meeting was called, and also to take into consideration the
circumstances connected with a distress-warrant which
had been issued by the Lord Mayor against certain
of tke inhabitants of the precinct who had refused
to pay the said rate. Mr. CONSTABLE, the church-
warden, was in the chair. After some preliminary obser-
vations, a resolution was framed, "authorizing the church-
warden of the precinct to proceed in an action of trespass
against the magistrate who signed the distress-warrant
issued against the parties who withstood payment of the
rate imposed by the ward of Farringdon." Some conver-
sation ensued, chiefly regarding the expence of an action at
law. The meeting, however, was unanimous in pro-
nouncing the proceedings of the Court of Common Coun-
cil to be arbitrary and unwarrantable. On the resolution
being put, 16 appeared for it, and 6 against it—carried.
The meeting then separated.
THE LATE RAlNS.—Since our last there
have been several smart showers, and the ground being
already completely maturated with moisture, the whole has
flowed off, and again contributed to produce a very CollSi
derable flood. The water continued rising till Monday
noon, when it attained its greatest height. It has since
gradually subsided, and the river is now nearly within its
banks. The rain fell by ao means so smartly in the im-
mediate vicinity of the town as it did at the more distant
villages.—Nottingham Review.

It is with something approaching to apprehen-
sion that we look around upon the waste of waters by
which we are still encompassed from the continued
rains. About the middle of the week, the meadows ad-
joining to all the rivers in Norfolk, were covered nearly to
the utmost height the inundations have ever reached. The
harvest commenced r.n Monday in many towns, but the
shearing has been continually interrupted. by the almost in-
cessant and heavy showers. The hay is yet abroad near
the coasts, and the turnip seed has been in many places
washed out of the ground. Yet we are led to hope that
no very severe Or general injury is done to the corn crops,
but that should the weather now bummer dry, the prin-
ciple evil may yet be averted. Since Thursday the fain has
ceased, and we observe the harvest is vigorously pressed
all round the city.—Norwich Mercury.
THE LATE FLOODS.—The storms which
did so much mischief in England, visited the South of
Scotland a few days later. Tuesday and Wednesday were
crowning days in all that regards thunder and lightning,
wind and rain. Among the mountains, the concussion
was truly fearful ; and when two storms met, as they
sometimes do, the flashing and roaring over-head, resent-
bled the onset of the loudest artillery, and was alternately
blinding and deafening in the extreme, The rain literally
descended in torrents, and flooded every river to overflow-
ing. In Annandale and Galloway, different mountain
streams, which were comparatively dry a few minutes he-
tore, were seen descending several feet a-breast, to th 6 ter-
ror of all who were near their banks, and particularly
such fishermen as were catching grilse and herlings. Ott
uesday, DAVID WILSON, while fishing in the Fleet,
heard the roaring and gushing of waters, and imme-
diately ran to a rock for safety, which is placed far
above the -ordinary level of the stream. nit the
Fleet followed with equal rapidity, and befOre- he
could clamber to the pinnacle of the rock, the cham-
ber below was filled to overflowing—a circumstance which
was never witwi;:sed before. Ilut the stream subsided as
fast as it had risen ; and on Wednesday, while the sanse
person was again at work in a pool, he was suddenly sur •
rounded, and very nearly drowned. And this is merely a
specimen of what occurred in other places. Every burn
rose and 'overleapt its banks ; and though the natives, un-
edndful of the storm that beat on them, were indefatigable
in their exertions to save the swathes or ricks of Lay, a
portion of it was submerged and irrecoverably lost. The
roads, in malty cases, were flooded, and the mail coach up
to the axletrce in water. The Spittal burn, with one vio-
lent shock, carried away the bridge or pend of the same
name, forcing passengers to cross by a narrow wooden
structure, and the mail to be dragged so far by stout pea-
sants in place of horses. The storm was exceedingly par-
tial. While the one side of a bill was invohed in storm,
the other was perfectly calm and serene. While Castle
Douglas was completely deluged wiah rain, the ground a
mile beyond was perfectly dry.--. Edinburgh Evening
Courant.

LONDON.
SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 2, 1828.

There will be a general war in Europe before
Christmas. England avoids the siruggle for the
present, but will eventually be dragged in with
all expellee greater in proportion to the delay
which she evinces in asserting her true station,
and assuming all attitude becoming her moral
power and national glory.

The Gazette de France of Thursday, and the
Messager des Chambres of the same date, have
been received. The PRESIDENT of Greece
has issued a Proclamation to the Greek State
upon the passage of the Pruth by the Russian
Army, and its march to the Danube. In this
document he betrays his natural predilection for
the EMPEROR, in whose Councils he had
formerly actod a conspicuous part. We shall
not be surprised to see in a short time a further
demonstration of the PRESIDENT'S feeling
towards the interests of his Imperial Master.
The EMPEROR, besides making a powerful di-
version in favour of the Greeks, has also afforded
dim pecuniary aid, which will furnish them with
the means of providing for the most pressing
wants of the army, the fleet, and the other branches
of the public service. Notwithstanding this and
the grant of similar succour OR the part of
England and France, the PRESIDENT says
that the crisis of their affairs is not the less
diflic'ult, and that the only means the Greeks have
of getting out of it consists in showing them-
selves worthy, by the amelioration of their inter-
nal condition, of the succours which they have
received, and of that which they may shortly
expect.

The Message). des Chambray, an official
paper, says, with respect to the object of the
French expedition to Egypt, that it is not suffi.
cient to cut off the cominunications of the troops
of In RA Him with Egypt, it is necessary also to
put an end, by the display of a military force, to
a state of things which is in opposition to the
conditions of the Treaty of 6th July. It adds,
that " everything therefore gives reason to hope
that the bare presence of our soldiers in the
Morea will put an end to the occupation, and
will complete the execution of the Treaty of the
6th of July, which is the generous object of the
present expedition. This is the sufficient answer
to all the conjectures of war, to those pictures of
a general conflagration which some take pleasure
in tracing. The expedition to the Morca, it is
good to repeat, has no object but the execution
of an existing treaty."
All this may, be very true, but we shall receive
it at present as mere assertion, because we know
that French assertions and French practice are
not always the same. if the Morca was origi-
nally the destination of the Expedition fitting
out at Toulon, why was its departure delayed
in deference • to the apprehensions of the
English Government that all was not right
Has the cause of that apprehension ceased to
exist, or do the French now feel themselves
sufficiently strong to overrule the suggestions of
their co-partners in the Treaty of London ?
Or, if neither of these considerations now
exists, has the development of Russian policy
rendered it necessary to act with more prompti-
tude ? Admitting this latter view of tile case to
be the real one, it follows that the three great
Powers did not sufficiently understand each other
that all was not. sincere, though Russia was
more profuse than ever in her professions of
moderation. We shall be much surprised if the
French Expedition have not some ulterior object

in view than the Morea. But a few days may
perhaps determine.

We. received at a late hour this afternoon the
Gazette de France, dated yesterday, by Express.
It contains, however, no news of striking im-
portance from the theatre of war. The
French Ambassador is again said to have
returned for answer to the invitation of the
REIS EFFENDI, that he could not return to
Constantinople unless the Convention of the
6th of July were accepted by the Porte. The
Greeks seem to take courage as the Russians ad-

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAB•)

FllOlll LLOYD'S.

DEAL, AUG. I.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived holy
London the Hippomenes, for Batavia.
PORTSMOUTH, AUG. I.—Wind S.W. to S.—Ar-
rived from London, the Jane, Weddill, for Madeira.
Sailed the Columbus, Delano, for New. York...
PLYMOUTH, JULY 31.--Wind W.S.W.—Arrived
the Perseverance, Pidgeon; and the William,
for Memel.

JERSEY, JULY 30.--The Clara arrived front
Sierra Leone, brings an account of the deathof the
Governor two days before she sailed.

The Liberty, Dupont, from Gibraltar, has arrived
in the Creek.

The Fortuna, Rechelson, from Rio Janeiro, has
arrived off Hastings.
JERSEY, JULY 31.--Arrived the Ashburton and
Twig, from Archangel ; Minerva, Le Breton, from
Dantzic ; and the Magnet, Lawson, from Sierra
Leone.

GREENOCK, JULY 30.—Arrived the Lellias, from
Archangel ; Experiment, Walker, and Catherini,
Turcan, from St. Petersburgh.
CORK, JULY 30.--Arrived the Cleremont,
M'Auley, from Bombay.

LAW INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.)

COURT OF CHANCERY.

His Lordship took his seat this morningat twenty
minutes past ten o'clock, when
Dr. LUSIIINGTON resumed his arguments in the
case of Dew O. Clarke.

VICE CHANCELLOR'S COURT.
GREEN V. ©KEEN.
The Court -was occupied during the day with an
application fer the discharge of John Thomas and
lieorge Green, who were in custody for a contempt
of Court, in not delivering up possession of.certain
premises at Wakefield, in Yorkshire, to a receiver
appointed by the Court.
Mr. AGAR, in support of the application, ar-
gued that the order for the commitment of the.
parties, as well as the two antecedent orders
upon which it was founded, were irregular, inas-
much as a writ of execution of the order had
.not
been served on them previously to the issuing
of process of contempt. He also stated that
when the Sergeant at Arms arrested them, he
hurried them off to London, without allowing
them time to procure a change of clothes, or any
money for their sustenance. It also appeared that
one of the parties vas only fifteen years of age.'
Mr. KNIGHT followed on the same side.
Mr. SUGDEN and Mr. COOPER opposed the appli-
cation.

The VICE-CHANCELLOR considaed that the pro-
ceedings were. irreg.,Kllr, and ordered the discharge
of the prisoners, with costs against the plaintiffs.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY.)

BOW-STREET.

Mrs. Grindall attended with her solicitor by appoint-
ment, tt, answer the charge of assault preferred by Mr.
Perkins, surgeon, of Kensington. The assault in question
was committed by Mrs. Grindall, who it was alleged spat
upon Mr. Perkins while he was quarrelling with her hus-
band. Mr. Perkins now admitted having given the lie to
Mr. Charles Grindall, when the latter accused him of em-
ploying brickmakers end other persons to annoy them.
Charles Grindall (lid not appear to-day, but his solicits(
pledged himself to produce him on Monday morning, to
enter into recognizances for himself and wife, to answer the
charge, Mrs. G. having solemnly promised never again to
molest him.