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LONDON,
FRIDAY EVENING, SEPT. 15, 1826.

We have authority to state that Athens has
not been taken by the Turks, according to the
reports which have prevailed on this subject. The
town has been abandoned by the inhabitants, from ap-
prehension of the Turks ; but the Acropolis still
remains garrisoned by a small Greek force.

We received last night the Paris Papers of Tuesday,
and the Etoile dated Wednesday, from which we
inake,the following extracts. It will be seen that the
accounts from Constantinople come down to the 11th
ult., being one day later than the last intelligence, and
contain proofs of the continued perseverance of the
SULTAN in the great work of Reform which he has

undertaken. He has created a Minister of Police
with the power of life and death, and is forming a body
guard of the sons of the grandees ; thus securing the
fidelity of the most powerful men of his empire, by the
double incentive of gratified ambition, and parental
solicitude for the safety of their sons, who may be
cousidered as hostages in the hands of the SULTAN.

CONSTANTINOMV, AUG,. i I.—The Government daily
follows up its system of reform ; and, act ording to the
suggestion of the Grand Vizier, a Minister of Police ha,
been created, who, independently, of the privileges of a
Dacha, has been invested With power of life and death.—
The organization of the new troops is pushed on with
activity, and appears to give much pleasure to the young
people of the capital, as they have been seen some days
back imitating the European exercise with sticks, in de-
fault of muskets. Even the Sultan himself partakes with
enthusiasm in the new exercise. • He chews himself with
the Selictur Aga and Berber Basehi, and other favourites,
in the court-yard of the Seraglio, and exercises himself in
the manual discipline of the Franks. His favourite plan
, seems to be the formation of a noble troop of body guards,

composed of the sons of the grandees of the empire. He
will have in them, at the same time, so many hostages kr
the loyalty of their fathers. They have already taken into
the Seraglio a hundred, who are exercised with the young
heir to the throne.

PAIUS, sm.'''. 19.

The Holy Father, by a Bull, dated 12th of May last, has
authorised the translation of the chapter of St. John of
Jerusalem, from Catena to Ferrara. A Council of State of
the order has passed a decree for the execution of this
Bull.
In consequence of this decree, the Knights departed on
the 31st July, from Catena, with their archives and pro-
perty, and proceeded to their new destination by the
Adriatic, with the exception of the Commander Vela, Presi-
dent of the Chapter, and Commander of the Order, who
took the route of Naples.
After a tedious and disagreeable voyage, the convoy of
the Chapter arrived on the 26th August on the side of the
month of the Cioro. The Commander Vela, arrived early
in September at Ferrara. The Bishop of Terraeina died,
on the 17th of last month, at Naples.
The following is from the Augsburg Gl' izette:—." A cou-
rier, who was despatched on the 30th of,Jtdy, by way of
Odessa, bringing letters from Messrs. de Woronzow and
Ribeaupierre, has given information to M. Minziaky, that
the Turkish Commissioners were at first unwilling to sub-
mit to quarantine, as contrary to the precepts of their reli-
gion; that they afterwards declared Akermann too distant
from the frontiers, anti proposed in consequence to carry
on the conferences ciir the left banks or the Prutb. M. de
Minziaky went immediately to the Reis Effendi, calling on
him to expedite proper orders to the Commissioners. It
is hoped that,in spite of the ambiguous, evasive,and laconic
answers attributed to the Reis Effendi, the Porte will
interpose no more obstacles to the opening of the eon-

rereriees.''

We cannot pretend, like the Augsburg Gazelle, to
know every day the diplomatic relations of the two parties,
but we try, in general, to give our readers nothing but cer-
tain intelligence. It is very obvious that, to relate, as re-
cent, transactions that have occurred a long time ago, is to
a certain degree to deceive the public, who require results,
and not conjectures. We have already announced the
opening of the conferences.)
Prince Metternich was expected at Frankfort on the Bth.
Lady Cochrane, who has, we are informed, resided for
some months at n country house at Chatelaine, in the
neighbourhood of Geneva, is so seriously indisposed, as to
Occasion extreme uneasiness.

Bank Action.,
1; 45c;aniali Loan, 461 f.
Falcate,' FuNnit.-1;;;:iErr lg.—Five per Cents. closed
at 081. 49e.; Three
2012 f. 50e. Rents. depwerapCeie.ititt7s..;t66lfgc.

Dutch Papers to the 13th instant were receirei

last night.
The Prince of ORANGE, Prince FREDERICK and
his Consort, arrived at Brussels on the 10th instant.

It is stated in these Papers, that " Travellers Who
come from Russia speak in the highest terms of
praise of the conduct of the Emperor NICIIOI4AS.

He has undertaken the Herculean labour of cleansing
the Augean Senate of the system of bribery and cor-
ruption, which, since the time of CATHERINE, has
pervaded every branch of the administration. Thus,
for instance, it has been discovered that the fleet is not
built of the oak and other sound timber provided by
the Government at a vast expense, but that this has
been embezzled by the persons employed, and the ships
built of ordinary fir, which is very perishable; for which
reasyn the English call such ships, which can hardly-
last one voyage, by the name of coffins. In order,
therefore, to discover which are fit for sea, and which
not, they are sent in small squadrons to the North Sea ;

is is the true reason for these expeditions."

This appears to be a strange reason for sending
ships to sea. It is only in harbour, and when
dismantled, that it can be accurately ascertained
whether ships are in a state fit for service, or can be
made so by a repair, the expence of which would not
be greater than the value of the ship. It is by assign-
ing reasons such as these, for the equipment of
squadrons, that we should be led to suspect some other
motive bad influenced the Russian Cabinet, which it
wished to conceal.

M. EYNARD has written to the central Greek
Committee in-Brussels, a letter, dated Geneva, Aug.
30. The Greek fleet, consisting of 140 sail, was at
Hydra. No tidings had been received of Lord
COCHRANE.

A marine Cadet arrived, a few days ago, from
Greece, who has brought the following information :
" Colonel Rothiers, of Antwerp, who is commissioned
to search for antiquities in the Archipelago, has been twice

to Athens, where, by special permission of the Greek Pro-
visional, he was enabled to enter the citadel, which, since

the beginning of the contest, has been inaccessible to
strangers. He has made all possible drawings of the archi-
tecture of the temples of Minerva, Themis, &c. At
Rhodes he has caused all the monuments of the ancient
Order of St. John of Jerusalem, now called Knights of
Malta, to he designed by Mr. P. J. Witdoek, of Antwerp.
For these three centuries nobody has thought of making
drawings of the edifices of that ancient end heroic order.
He passed some hours in the Mosque„ formerly the
Church of St. John. Mr. Rothiers hopes soon to return,
and will publish his valuable collection for the use of the
academies of the kingdom. There are 54 folio drawings,
to which more may perhaps be added. The work may be
considered as a sequel to' the History of the Knights of
Malta, by the Abbe de Vertot, who never was at Rhodes."
ASIsTERDAM, SEPT. 12.—Exchange on London, 40 5
to 40 6 ; 2 months, 40 3 to 40 4.

Brussels Papers of the 13th instant, have also come
:o hand this morning.

The question of the Navigation of the Rhine seems
by no means settled ; and, if we may believe the
Frankfort account of the state of Russia, the affairs o
that Government are not in a very secure condition.
The following are extracts :

BitUSSELS, SEPT. 9.
A British Cabinet Messenger from London, passed
through this city yesterday, on his way to St. Petersburgh
with dispatches.
Our differences with Prussia, relative to the navigation
of the Rhine, are far from being terminated. Austria,
which has intervened in this 'Lair, is said to be much dis-

used at the diplomatic note of our Minister for Foreigl

Affairs.

A letter from Frankfort, of the 30th of August, gives a
discodraging picture of the moral situation of Russia, and
especially of the. Capital. There is much discontent, says
the letter, among the Nobility, and a degree of embarrass-
ment is observed in the proceedings of the Government.
SEPT. 12.

His Royal Highness Prince Frederick left this city at
midnight,to inspect the camp at Ravee this morning. The
Princess, his consort, also left us this morning with her
whole suite, for the Hague, whence their Royal Highnesses
will set out to-morrow for Berlin.

Accounts from Smyrna of the 28th July have
reached us this morning through the medium of the
Frankfort papers of the Bth inst., which publishes, from
the Oriental Spectator, the following account of the
fate of the cannon and military stores landed at Napoli
by the English brig Skylark.

We receive all news through this channel with some
suspicion ; but the circumstances are so clearly stated
in this case, that we fear there can be little doubt of