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London, England, 1821-10-30 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

PARIS, OCT. 27.—The 'King gave yesterday a
private audience to Sir Charles Stuart, the Eng-
lish Ambassador.

It is reported that a courier arrived yesterday
from Hanover, with despatches to the English
Ambassador, announcing that the journey of the
King of England to Paris had been deferred.
Last night an express was sent by the French
Cabinet to St. Petersburgh.
We learn from Bayonne, under date the 20th
instant, that private letters from 'Madrid, of the
15th, state, that official intelligence had arrived
of the appearance of the contagious fever at
Murcia and Alicant, and that all the gates, but
one, of Valencia had been closed, by way of pre-
caution. The greatest desolation reigned in this
province, the most populous in Spain ; and the
inhabitants look forward to winter as the only
hope for the extinction of the infection.

A letter from Malaga of the 10th says, it was
reported that some persons in that town had been
taken ill with the fever.

One of the most deplorable and disastrous
consequences of the contagious malady at Barce-
lona, is the death of 1500 young men, who had
been enrolled in the National Guard, to form the
sanitary cordon.

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BERLIN, Om 20.—The Prussian State Ga-
zette of the 18th contains the following article,
which may be considered as an official Declara-
tion, caused' by the report that Russia had de-
clined the mediation of the Allied Courts, in the
affairs of Turkey :--
" An impudent falsehood, which the malice of
a journalist has invented, and the ignorance of
others repeated, requires correction ; and we un-
dertake the task with the more pleasure, as it
gives us an opportunity of shewing the modern
European policy in the fair light in which it will
appear to impartial posterity.—The statement
says—' The Emperor of Russia has declined all
intervention of his High Allies in his affairs with
the Porte, and declared that he would have free
liberty to proceed with the Turks, as he left it
to Austria in Italy.' Each of these words con-
Lair's a falsehood. To begin with the fast sen-
tence, it is well known, that when Austria un-
tlertook the pacification of Italy with her own
army, this enterprise, and all the steps accom-
panying it, were undertaken in the most intimate
understanding with Russia and the other Allies.
When his Majesty the Emperor of Russia after-
wards received at Layhach the first news of the
mad attempt of the Moldavians and Wallachians,
(Greeks in religion, but not by descent or lan-
gua;e), his acute understanding was immediately
sensible of a truth, which has since been proved
by incontrovertible facts, viz. that the insurrec-
tion in Turkey was the work of the same fac-
tion ; the enemies of all order and tranquillity,
who, after they had indeed overthrown or shaken
several States of Europe by their doctrines of
disobedience and wickedness, and had failed in
their plan of dividing the Holy AM-mice of the
-Monarchs by the revolutions in Naples and
riedmont, now assumed the mask of religion to
lead to an event, by which the political inte-
rest of all must be endangered. But the Mo-
narchs recognised the hand which had prepared
this event 'for ,them, and their union was still
further confirmed. They mutually engaged,
that the insurrection in Greece, to whatever
measures it might in the sequel compel them,
should not disunite them. Henceforward there
prevailed on this subject the greatest, and cer-
tainly an unparalleled, openness and coincidence
between the Cabinets. Not a step was taken ou
the part of the Russian Cabinet without being
arranged with its Allies—without being approv-
ed of by them. All have openly done justice to
the principles of integrity, humanity, and mag-
nanimity, which the Russian Monarch has pro-
fessed and followed, without in the least depart-
ing from his dignity. All have given him the
tribute of their admiration and their gratitude.
Every step of the Russian Cabinet has been most
energetically supported by the ,Ministers of the
other great Powers at Constantinople. The ex-
ertions of these Ambassadors had not the form of
a mediation. The mediator endeavours to abate
the exaggerated demands of two hostile Powers
with whom he is on terms of amity, and to pro-
duce by reciprocal concessions a happy reconci-
liation. This could not be the case at Constanti-
nople. The demands brought forward by Russia
were recognised by all the Powers as founded on
treaties, justice, equity, and magnanimity. As
such they were brought forward consequently as
postulata, which could not be in the smallest de=
gree departed from, and on the acceptance or re-
jection of which peace or war must depend ;
and if there was any mediation on the part of the
Ambassadors, it was only so far as they made use
of the personal esteem which they enjoyed with
the Sublime Porte, to overcome the prejudices of
HS Ministers, and to draw their attention to the
situation of the Ottoman Empire, which had the
unanimous. sentiments of the five Great Powers
against it, and no other Allies for it, than the
above mentioned party and some visionaries in
Germany. In fact the voice of reason has suc-
ceeded in dispelling the error in which the Divan
for some time' acted. Authentic accounts from
Constantinople state? that the Porte, even before
the arrival of the Russian. Ultimatum, lately ad-
dressed to it, had accepted individually all the
demands contained in it, so that it might be, said
the affair was entirely settled, were there not
still some unimportant accessary circumstances
respecting which the consent of Russia and
of the other Courts could not yet be obtain-
ed. How, then, should the Emperor Alexander
have refused a mediation which *as never offered
him, and could not be offered him ?—Howr.-slyuld
he have declared that he would settle the-boi-
ness himself, while, on
_the contrary', be has
caused his last step to be taken through the me-
dium of the Allied Powers?—The enemies of
tranquillity in Europe may, therefore,• renounce
the hope which the article that we have refuted

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had excited in them. The wretches who, with
wicked intentions, have put arms into the hands
of the Greeks, and made themselves answerable
for the blood which has flowed in the East since
March, will have been guilty in vain of so many
crimes."

AUCSBURG, OCT. 21.—The suite of the Prince
de Metternich which accompanied him to
Hanover, was not very numerous. The Austrian
Government, according to its usual system of
circumspection, spoke of the Prince's journey
with great reserve.

BANKS OF THE DANUBE, OCT. 11.—We have
received news of the officers who have gone to
Greece. Some disembarked in the Morea, but a
great many Europeans coming from Spain,
Italy, France, and Russia, are in Etolia, where
they have formed an European corps, which was
about to march directly for Livadia. Several ar-
tillery officers have been called out of Etolia to
the Morea, where there is a want of them. Vessels,
under Spanish and American flags, have landed
a great deal of artillery and ammunition in Etolia.
It is asserted that these vessels are French or
English, and that they changed their flag from
prudence. The city of Missolongi is the head-
quarters of the Greeks of Etolia ; and as the
coast is free, they continually send warlike stores
from Missolongi to the Morea; and at length all
the artillery officers have been brought to the
peninsula, by the exertions of Prince Demetrius
Ypsilanti. All the armourers and carpenters aie
likewise Tone.

The .European military men who resorted to
Venice and other Austrian ports are not per-
mitted to proceed for any port in the occupation
of the Greeks. The orders of the Austrian Ca-
.binet are very severe on this head, and admit no
exception, not even in favour of those who have
regular passports.
The Central Committee of Calamata, which
bears the name of Senate, has consolidated its
power, and is employing its means in reducing
the strong places occupied by the Turks. The
reduction of Novorino is a great point for the
Greeks, that place having strong fortifications,
constructed in the middle of the last century
by French engineers. Prince Demetrius attached
so much importance to the capture of this place,
that he carried on the siege in person for a long
time, and was present at the capitulation, which
took place towards the end of August.
Patras still holds out, and it is not likely that
it 1011 soon yield. ° Lepanto is besieged by a
Greek corps from Etolia, in which are many
Europeans. Its speedy reduction is expected.
The arrival of a Turkish fleet at Coron is talked
of, which was to raise the siege of that place.

FRANKFORT, OCT. 1. —Tile Greek combined
fleet, consisting of 135 sail, have been re-vic-
tualled and re-fitted in the ports of Spezzia,
Ilydria, and Milo. Its different divisions are
commanded by the navarques of Toumbasi ;
Alexis, son-in-law of the celebrated itobelina of
Spezzia ; Anargyrus, Nicolaus Apostolo, and
Cozia.

ANTWERP, OCT. 21.--[Extract of a Private
Letter.Y—Letters from a respectable source
state, that Ali Pacha still keeps possession of
Janina, and that he is in free communication
with the neighbourhood. The Suliotes had
made several :attempts to get possession of Pre-
vesa, and after their last repulse they were rein-
forced by the corps marching to join Ali, and
have again appeared suddenly before Prevesa,
which they are resolved on taking.
TURIN, OCT. 18.—The King and Queen made
their solemn entry into this capital yesterday, at
four o'clock in the afternoon. A salute of 200
pieces of cannon from the citadel announced their
arrival.

MADRID, OCT. 15.—[Eitract of a Primate
Lefler.]—Whilst we are enjoying here tolerable
tranquillity, Andalusia is much molested by the
bands of Roa and Zaldivar, which occasion more
alarm than the famous Merino.

The proceedings against General Grimarest
have been annulled, on account of the incompe-
tency of the tribunal which tried him. He will
be again tried by the Judge of the First Instance
at Xeres, because the offence was committed
within his jurisdiction.

It is reported that General Elio has escaped
from prison with the captain of the guard.
....

The news from Catalonia is more and more
afflicting ; for to the scourge of the contagion is
added that of famine.

The state of health at Malaga and at Cadiz
continues satisfactory.

TURKEY AND TII I, ARCHIPELAGO.

CONSTANTINOPLE, SEPT. 25.—A. firman was is-
sued a few days ago by the Divan, calling on all
the Mussultnan population of this city to conti-
nue to carry arms ; and k is observed that since
its promulgation, a much greater number of the
inhabitants than formerly appear armed with mus-
kets. This measure, however, is not to be as-
cribed to any fears of a Russian invasion, but to
a danger nearer home, and of an aspect scarcely
less threatening. It has long been known that disaf-
fection to,a very alarming extent exists among the
Janissaries. They perceive with the utmost jealou-
sy, that the number of Asiatic troops in the service
of the Government continues to increase, and
that the new military system, of which they have
ever been obstinate opponents, is gaining ground.
They now openly avow, with little reserve, their
intention to impede its progress. The Grand
Seignor, on the other hand, who possesses great
decision of character, is inflexible in-his deter-
mination to establish this most essential reform,
and to disband or put to death, on the first ap-
pearance of insubordination, those Janissaries
who may prove refractory. That which most
surprises those who view what is going on here is,
that so dangerout a step should be taken at a
time when a contest is carrying on with the Greeks,
`and the fears on the side of Russia, though sup-
posed to be set at rest for the present, not wholly
appeased in regard to a future, and perhaps a
not very distant period. The firmness of the
Grand Seignor has, however, amply manifested
itself. Witness the proceedings at Bucharest,
where one thousand Albanian Turks, of the corps
of Janissaries, were put to death by the order of
their own Government ; and the same told

spirit, it is said, is hereafter to, be applied to
the maintenance of discipline and subordination
in the Turkish army. All the Turkish troops in
Wallachia and Moldavia, it is understood, are to
be immediately withdrawn from thence. Those
provinces will then revert to the previous form of
government—of boyars, appointed by the Porte,
subject to the approbation of Russia. This mea-
sure will no doubt be satisfactory to that power,
and tend to facilitate the adjustment of the dif-
ferences, if any still remain, between her and
Turkey. The number of Asiatic troops in the
neighbourhood of this city is very considerable.
One corps is estimated at 15,000, and another at
25,000 men. At present Constantinople is per-
fectly tranquil, and we have similar accounts
from Smyrna. 'the Pacha there appears to be
better supported than heretofore. He is conse-
quently more prompt and firm in his measures to
repress disorder, and is more respected by the
people—a good omen for the continuance of tran-
quillity.

The Greeks have gained some advantages in
the Morea, but their success, like that of the
Turks, has been attended with cruelty. The
fortresses of Navarin and Malvoisia were lost for
want of provisions. They defended themselves
to the last, and surrendered on the faith of a ca-
pitulation. At Nayarit), the surrender had no
sooner been completed, than the Greeks put all
their prisoners to death. At Malvoisia, the ca-
pitulation was at first adhered to, and a portion
of the Turkish garrison, as stipulated, was sent
off to Scala Nuova ; but on the departure of
Prince Cantacuzene, the Greeks fell upon the
remaining prisoners and murdered them. Their
progress in the Morea will be impeded by the
arrival of the Turkish fleet, which was last seen
off Cerigo on the 3d inst., and which would not
fail to throw supplies into Patras and the other
fortified places on the coast.

In regard to the Greek fleet, a letter from
Smyrna, written by one of the Consuls, says that
it is in a state of disunion, and that many of the
ships have in consequence given up their share
in the contest, and returned to the islands where
they were first fitted out. Some of those vessels,
which remain cruizing in the Archipelago, seem
to have fixed on the sea, for a time at least, as
their home, having placed on board their wives,
families, and property of every kind, ready for
whatever destination, fortune may 'guide them to.
It is feared more than ever that they will devote
themselves to the trade of piracy. Some cases
have occurred lately where even English vessels
have not been respected. The Richard and John
was carried into Castel-Rosso, in Caramania,hy
a Greek cruiser. from Miconi, and detained there
some days. She made ter escape, but was
boarded by another Greek vessel, which was com-
pelled, however, by the approach of the Turkish
fleet, to abandon the capture. The Elizabeth
and Mary was also carried into Calamon
by a Greek cruiser, but the intelligence,
luckily for the owners, havingreached the Com-
mander of his Britannic Majesty's ship Cam-
brian, she was rescued from the captors. They
,
had landed the cargo at Calamon, which had
been sold far beloW the current prices, and the
captain had received half the amount. Captain
Hamilton, of the Cambrian, however, demanded
the remaining value from the islanders, and caused
it to be deposited in the hands of the British
Consul at Smyrna. He at the same time inti-
mated to these islanders, that any interference in
future with the English flag, even the search for
papers or for the nature of the cargo, would sub-
ject them all to be treated as pirates. Unfortu-
nately this threat, which is extremely becothing
and proper in a British Commander to make, is
likely, from the insufficiency of the naval force
in that, quarter, to prove an empty denunciation,
without the power of enforcement.

Commercial men, both here and at Smyrna,
are looking on with wonder at the supineness of
the British Admiralty, and the vigour which cha-
racterises that of France. They form a perfect
contrast with each other; and the effect is likely
to be as injurious to England in its remote as in
its immediate consequences. The conduct Of
the French is extremely artful, and is no doubt
planned with the view of regaining that supe-
riority in their trade with the Levant and the
Archipelago, which they lost b the war.—
They have protected, not only their owu sub-
jects, but those of every other country, Eng-
land included, in cases of extreme peril ; and
the instances are numerous wherein the Eng-
lish Consuls have been compelled to take re-
fuge on board French ships of war, because
none from their own country were at hand to suc-
cour them. The English commanders appear, too,
to have had no definite instructions from home, if
the statements circulated here are correct, as to
the course tliey are to adopt towards the Turks
and the Greeks. It has always been understood,
whether the true policy or not is not material
here, that the English, in consequence of their
relations with Turkey, refused to recognise the
Greeks as a belligerent Power ; yet, in a late in-
stance, which occurred at the island of Miconi,
the principle has been departed from ; at least, if
tke Commander of the Larne is truly stated to have
refused to take on board six Turks who were living
under the protection of the English Vice-Consul,
on the ground that his instructions were to main-
tain strict neutrality between the Turks and the
Greeks. The same Turks, with six others,
being the whole of that nation on the island,
were subsequently demanded by a French cor-
vette and brig, and delivered up to them, not-
withstanding some very strenuous opposition on
the part of the Greeks at Miconi, which they
overcame by threats. All the proceedings of the
French shew that they seek to inaratiate them-
selves with the Turks, and indeed they openly
avow such to be their intention. This was carried
so far at Smyrna lately, that some Candiote Turks,
who were permitted to embark in a French ship
at Smyrna, obtained the additional security of a
French man of war as convoy.

'The French also- seem to be studiously anxious
to make their Consuls respected,--Ist. By the
distinction conferred on them by conveying them
to their destinations on board of ships of war,
which an English Consul has been known to so-
licit for in vain; and by giving immediate at-
tention to all their applications for redres in

cases which concern the safety or the property of
French subjects. British Commanders, no doubt,
feel equally zealous for the welfare of their
countrymen; but the force at,their disposal is so
inadequate to the protection of the space over
which they are diffused, that the representations
of their Consuls and their own threats have been
rendered nugatory, while the French, who ._have
their cruizers all over the Archipelago, can give
immediate effect to both.

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM THE AGENT TO LLOYD'S

AT CONSTANTINOPLE, DATED SEPT. 25.
" Captain G. 0. Payne, of the Richard and John, arrived
from Alexandria, reports that he was taken by a Greek insurgent
armed vessel, and carried into Castel Rosso, on the coast of Ca-
ramania, where he was detained some time ; that he made his
escape whilst being conveyed to one of the Greek Islands, and
was afterwards taken by another Greek, but was liberated on
the Turkish fleet coming in sight; he represents their conduct
whilst at Castel Rosso as violent. It is to be feared that the
Archipelago will soon be overrun with pirates.

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM THE AGENTS TO LLOYD'S AT

SMYRNA, DATED SEPT. 17.
" There is little news since our last of a public nature. The
state of this town continues much the same, and allowing busi-
ness to proceed, though there has been partial infractions of
order during Turkish holydays, and other temporary circum-
stances, without excitin farther uneasiness. The result con-
tinues in suspense of the. motions of the two hostile forces at
sea in the Archipelago. European flags continue to navigate
there without further molestation from either, as far as has
transpired; nor does any English vessel appear to have sus-
tained the least injury beyond the temporary detention to which
our former letters have alluded. An Austrian frigate has called
off our port, and proceeded outside, it is understood, to demand
reparation for the outrage committed at Scio on the two mer-
chant vessels of that nation, and to prevent a recurrence of the like
nature. The Racehorse brig continues in port, and the only
one of his-31 aj es ty 's ships here."

THE ARCHBISHOP OF ARMAGH.

[JOHN BULL.]

With our veneration for the Church of England, as by law
established, our devotion to its tenets, and our respect for its
ministers, it is impossible not to notice a coincidence, which, if
it were not on so important a subject, would be ludicrous, and
•
being on so important a subject is lamentable.

In the third column of the MORNING POST of Friday the
19th inst., amidst other Irish intelligence, there is an account
of two visitations held by two Irish Archbishops, in which the
one, the Archbishop of Armagh, expressed his disapprobation
of the Bible Society, told the other, the Archbishop of Tuam,
lamented that any. difficulty should be thrown in the way of that
excellent association.

There is some confusion in the, report of what passed at Ar-
magh ; a sermon is stated to have been preached by an ecclesi-
astic of the extraordinary name of Hinck ; and this Reverend
Gentleman seems to have conducted a good argument in a rnan-
ner almost as extraordinary as his name ; and if we did not
find him preaching at the visitation of the Lord Primate of Ire-
land, we should have thought him some crack-brained dissenter.
But our business is not with Mr. Hinck. It seems doubtful
indeed whether the reporter has not confounded 111 r. Hinek and
his Grace, for we cannot discover where the sermon ends and
the pastoral address begins ; but the following observation, at
least, is unequivocally, (though, we suspect, erroneously) at-
tributed to the Archbishop :—" His Grace has no objection to
the circulation of the Holy Scriptures--what Clergyman can
have any ?—but he objects to their circulation without note or
comment."

We apprehend that this must have been the observation of
the Gentleman with the absurd name, for his Grace cannot be
unaware that the Scriptures; published under the authority of
the Church of England, are absolutely without note or com-
ment. His Grace could not have talked such nonsense: he,
we have no doubt, insisted on the propriety of uniting with the
distribution of the Scriptures the distribution of the Liturgy of
out Church, that most admirable form of public prayer, the
most comforting assistant in private devotion, and the most
touching, as well as the most able commentary upon the Holy
Scriptures that ever has proceeded from human pen, if indeed
that, which is a selection from the very words of divine inspi-
ration, tan be tailed a human performance. -
Our readers will see that we have not indulged in an idle
hyper-critieism ; contrasted as the proceedings at Armagh ap-
pear to be with those which took place at Tuam, we cannot
but suspect Mr. Hinck's nonsense, " Hine illae lachrymre,"
has been put into the mouth of the Archbishop with a view of
depreciating at once his fitness for his exalted station, and his
knowledge of the important subject under discussion.
But the report proceeds with the account of the visitation at
Tuam, where the Lord Archbishop, who seems to us to be a
neophite of the sect that profanely and uncharitably designate
themselves as Evangelical; appears, instead of delivering a
charge, to have held some familiar chat with his clergy upon se-
veral
important topics.
" His Grace did not deliver any formal charge, but he made
" several observations."

And, as this remark follows immediately the statement, that
" the Rev. Mr. Galbraith preached a most excellent sermon,"
it would seem (if the Report be correct) that his Grace's obser-
v-Itions were made parenthetically during the pauses of Mr.
Galbraith's discourse, as if his Grace, whatever he might do
with the Scriptures, could not venture to permit his Arch-
deacon's discourse to be uttered " without note or commen-
tary,' a prudential precaution which we wish his Grace of Ar-
magh had practised with Mr. llinck.
His Grace of Tuam then proceeds to lament that the branches
of the Bible Society (reprobated by the Primate) had not been
more generally established in his diocese ; but his Grace hoped
with the aid of the Clergy (we wonder, he omitted the formula,
" and with the blessing of God,") to introduce that Associa-
tion into his diocese.

After this, the Reporter tells us the upshot of the affair with
a naiveté, which is almost ludicrous ; for, says he—
"'We have very sincere pleasure in adding, that when the
" Rev. Gentlemen, who attended there, met together at dinner,
" they came to a resolution

of course, one would expect, to consider the topics of
his Grace's charge, and the means of patronizing the Bible So.
ciety. No—

to create a fund for the maintenance of Clergymen's
" widows."

These Irish visitations seem to be comical affairs ; in one the
Archbishop will be obliged to disavow his preacher, and in the
other the Clergy seem to have thrown over the Archbishop.
Now; if we do not forget, his Grace the Archbishop of 'Plum
is the learned Prelate who made such an unhappy hand of the
Prophet Malachi, in the affair of her late Majesty the Queen,
or, we should rather say, to whom the reporters of the day at-
tributed some canting trash, that would have disgraced a Me-
thodist tub ; perhaps, it may account for his Grace's inter-
locutory interruptions with Mr. Galbraith, that this Reverend
Gentleman was so indiscreet as to select the text of his sermon
from, of all the books in the Bible, the Prophet Malachi afore-
said.

If Mr. Galbraith be a wag, he perhaps imitated Swift 'and
Sterne, who have ventured to excite 4 smile in the pulpit ; a
dangerous practice at best, and one which we never could ap-
prove ; yet as the thing was to happen, we confess we should
have liked to have seen his Grace's countenance, when the
preacher announced the text from Malachi.
But, seriously, and we say it in seriousness and sincerity, we
do not think that we have ever seen, in any newspaper, half a
column which gave us more pain than that which we have been
noticing ; and the juxta-position of the opinions of two Heads
of the Church, so absolmely contradictory to one another, and
both of them disfigured by such clumsy circumstances, appears
to us likely to do more . injury than can be counterbalanced by
the personal exertions of their Graces, however exemplarily they
may fulfil their diocesan duties.
If Mr. Hinck and Mr. Galbraith choose to have it known,
that, they preached most excellent Visitation sermons, let them
say so, and sign it (as Dogberry says) " with their names ;"
but let not the character of the Church, and the interests of re-
ligion, be mixed up with such vain trash, and above all, let not
the scoffer, or the sectarian, already too powerful and too active,
be encouraged by such violent discrepancies as the charges of
these two Archbishops exhibit.

Sr. JAMES'S PARK.--Yesterday morning twelve
labourers in the employ of the Ordnance Depart-
ment at Woolwich arrived in town with their fore-
man, Mr. M' Do NA.Lo,and, according to orders, pro
ceeded to remove the large cannon called the
Regent's Bomb from opposite the Horse Guards
to the spot which was occupied by a Waterloo
carriage at the back of the Horn?. Office. Another
cannon and carriage are on their way to town
from ‘Voolwich, to take the place of the,Re-
gent's Bomb, and the Waterloo carriage will be
removed nearer Spring-garden gate.