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London, England, 1828-10-10 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS.

PARIS, OCT. 6.—The expedition to the Morea,
so noble in its end, and so generous in its policy,
has effected a powerful diversion in favour of the
Russian army. But it is probably near its close.--
The French army, after having cleared the Pelopon-
nesus of the Egyptians and Turks—after having re-
covered the fortresses of Coron, Modon, Nayarit),
Patras, and Lepanto, will entrust their keeping and
defence to the children of Greece, and will come
back to receive the expressions of our gratitude.—
We shall have largely fulfilled the obligations con-
tracted by the Treaty of the 6th of July, and our
policy does not permit us to interfere beyond that in
the quarrels -of the Russians and Mussulmen.
The difficulties produced by the blockade of the
Dardanelles, though removed in appearance, by the
compliance of the English Cabinet, announce that
others of a still more serious nature may arise.—
The uncertainties of the present, and the-obscurity
of the future, justify the moderating attitude of our
King, anxious to avert from the bosom of Europe
all the causes of war which might spring up and
develop themselves. They forbid, on our parts, all
eccentric or adventurous movements.

Our arms will acquire fresh lustre in Greece.
Our expedition has been wisely calculated ; and no
part has been left to chance, save that which no
foresight could anticipate. Even in the Morea our
forces will only be displayed, when all means of
conciliation shall have been exhausted. The Turks
will become the more disposed to treat; as it is
their interest, during the war with Russia, not to
increase the number of their enemies, and to relieve
their left flank from the menacing presence of our
troops.

(From the Gazette de France.)

It appears certain, as we announced it some days
ago, that our troops will return from the Mores,
after having witnessed the embarkation of Ibrahim
Pacha's army. On this subject the Courier Fran-
cais says—" The unfavourable nature of the opera-
tions of the Russian army naturally leads the mind
to the difficulties which France may have to encoun-
ter in consequence of her expedition to the Morea.
This view of the question, a most important one
for us, does not seem to have escaped the attention
of our Ministers. They are anxiously occupied, it
is said, in securing the means of averting perils
which would reduce us to too great sacrifices. If
we may believe the reports in circulation, our Go-
vernment is resolved to withdraw honourably from
a career where an adventurous course might bring it
amongst shoals and quicksands. The occupation of
the fortresses of the More; whichever way it is
effected, whether by cession or by force, will put,
we understand, an immediate end to our expedition."
(From the Constitutionnel.)

PARIS, OcT. 7.—Some misunderstanding, and a
little impatience for glory, natural for French troops,
created, for a moment, some fears for the evacuation
of the Mores by Ibrahim. These fears are now dis-
sipated, and news has been received, that 600 men
of his army have embarked, to return to Egypt.
He would not have weakened himself in this man-
ner, had he preserved the smallest hope of postpon-
ing the deliverance of the Greeks on this side of the
Isthmus. To obtain, by negociation or force, Modon,
Corot', and Patras, and to fortify the pass between
the Morea and Livadia, so as to make it another
Thermopylae, appears to be the honourable mission
of the French expedition. Under a commander so
distinguished as Count Maison, with such brave
troops, a few months will be sufficient to ensure these
important results, and restore to the French army,
covered with laurels gained in the cause of civiliza-
tion, the detachments it has sent to the assistance
of the Greeks. By the victory of Navarin, the Ot-
toman forces in the Mediterranean were so reduced
as to be unable to make a formidable diversion on
the coast and islands of Greece. The blockade of
the Dardanelles by the Russian fleet, and the occu-
pation by Admiral Rigny of the seas of Greece, will
secure it against all attempts, even of the Turkish
troops Which may be assembled in Asia Minor.
Every thing makes us suppose that France; without
having recourse to measures foreign to her policy, or
that she should assume towards Turkey the charac-
ter of an aggressor anti art enemy, will secure the
object of the Treaty of July 6. Tire Government
of Greece will not be exonerated from the cares and
the exertions necessary to secure to the descendants
of Leonidas and Miltiades, the benefits of nationality
arid independence; but money and men, capable of
directing other men in those fields where glory is
acquired, will be supplied to her in just and suffi-
cient quantity.
We read in another -Joarnal, that the Bishop of
Soissons has obtained a brief from the Pope, grant-
ing him the title of Bishop of Laon, and in future
he will be styled Bishop of Soissons and Laon. We
supposed that it was only the King of
,France who
could confer titles in France.
Tomos, Our. l.—(Private Correspondence.)—
The French Government has hired at Marseilles
sixty transports, 20,000 tons of shipping, belonging
to different nations, to be sent to the Morea.
M.
Durand at Marseilles engages them. Merchant
vessels sail from Marseilles every day, carrying pro-
visions for the French army. The troops embarked
on board the Atalante consist of those who, from
some cause or other, were unable to join their reg,i-
ments in time to embark with them. A vessel from
Marseilles, bound to Alexandria, is said to have on
board a printing press and engineers, and other per-
sons destined for the service of the Pacha of Egypt.
The greatest activity prevails in the arsenal. Tire
ships on the stocks are completing as fast as pos-
sible, in order to render our fleet proper for the
exigencies of the Morea and Algiers. The artillery
and the ships' crews are disciplining their' young
recruits with the greatest diligence. The guns are
exercised almost every clay, and the people fire at a
target.

(From the Journal des Debats.)
PARIS, OCT. 7.—As we thouglu by the last
phrase of the bulletin, dated Shttnila; Sept. 11, a
general movement of the Russian army on Jenibazar
was ordered on the '7th. The difficulty of procuring;
forage, and the uselessness of fresh efforts against
such a strong place as Shumla, induced the Emperor
to order his troops to take up their former positions.
We learn this from a bulletin dated the Ist, which
had not before reached us, and which we bud in the
Austrian Observer.
NEWS FROM SHUMLA OF TILE 7111.
" Head-quarters on board the Paris, Sept. 10.
" Since August 29, nothing important has hap-
pened. The want of forage is felt more attd more
every day. Our foraging parties are obliged to go
25 wersts to procure it. This difficulty compelled
our troops to abandon the position they had occu-
pied. The head-quarters of the second army are to
be again transferred to Jenibazar. The baggage
sod the hospitals have been already sent thither.—
The movement will most probably be executed on
the 10th and 12th."

The Russian army has not hitherto fulfilled the
expectations which Europe had formed from its
numbers, its discipline, its courage' and the expe-
rience, the talents, and valour of its Chiefs. All its
efforts at present are directed against the second-
rate fortress of Varna, which continued its resist-
ance on the 13th of September, and if it should fall,
will cost its assailants as many lives as it contains de-
fenders. The reinforcemeuts received by ate Em-
peror Nicholas will hardly fill up the 'losses ihtlieted
by the sieges of Brailow, Varna, and Silistria, by
the unfortunate affairs before Shumla, by the fre-
quent. irruptions from the troops encamped before
Widdin and Giurgevo, which have freqsently en-
dangered the line of operations of the Grand Army,
and by the no less murderous disorders engendered
by fatigue and the climate.
The capture of Varna would have been highly im-
portant at the commencement of the campaign. It
would have facilitated and secured the regular supply
of provisions of all kinds, and supported, e
Otrength of the fleet, the march of the Eusions

towards Adrianople—'-an audacious step, but one
which, at that periodmightlead to great results.
'We are now approaching the time of the year
when the navigation of the Black Sea is uncertain,
perilous, and almost impossible. To advance to the
very centre of Thrace, without being able to rely
on the sure support of the fleefbehind, and to leave
in their rear the Ottoman forces now united in the
camp at Shumla, besides those at Widdin, and the
garrisons of Rudschuk, Silistria, and Giurgevo,
would be an act of temerity on the part of the Rus-
sians, and a grave fault which the Emperor Nicholas
will not commit.

A winter campaign has been talked of, and the
climate does not oppose any serious-obstacle to it ;
but it could only take place in the valley of the -Da-
nube, until the Turks should have been. driven be-
yond the Balkan. - ,
The Russians did not rightly understand the na-
ture of the war which they were about to undertake.
They imagined that they would only have to en-
counter the Turkish army, and relied on an easy
triumph. But it is the Ottoman nation, it is Islamism
itself, against which they have to contend. The
united armies of Europe were broken in pieces
against France in 1792, 1793, and 1794. The forces
of Napoleon, rendered ten times greater by the in-
fluence of a genius which inspired terror and com-
manded admiration, though triumphant over Austria,
Prussia, and Russia, failed when they came in con-
tact with the Spanish people. Patriotism alone
created the miracles of France and Spain ; what
may not be produced in Turkey by patriotism, se-
conded and exalted by religious 'fanaticism ? Varna
recals Saragossa. Still greater difficulties await the
Russians at Adrianople, Constantinople, and inter-
mediate positions.

(From the Quotidienne.)

FRANKFORT, OCT. I.—We are informed that the
last despatches from Odessa and London have oc-
casioned at Vienna several meetings of the Council.
Diplomatic relations with England are more active
than ever. The last letters which we have received
from Belgrade announce the arrival of the Grand
Vizier at Shumla, at the head of 40,000 men, which
raises the main Turkish army to an effective strength
of 100,000. combatants. It appears that, notwith-
standing the presence of the Vizier, Hussein Pacha
will continue to direct all the operations against the
Russians. We therefore perceive, that among the
Turks considerations of rank and grade vanish before
the public interest; arid it is extraordinary that this
instance of patriotism should be given us by a nation
whom we affect to consideras barbarous.
It is asserted that the Pacha of Widdin still
maintains the offensive, notwithstanding the rein-
forcements sent from Bucharest to the Russian
General Geismar. The- Pacha, possessing a nume-
rous cavalry, causes all the flat country to be scoured
to intercept the Russian convoys. He is said to
have entered Crajova, and to be waiting there for
reinforcements, in order to make a serious incursion
into Great Wallachia.

Correspondents and journals devoted to the Rus,

sian cause have stated that the Turks had burned,
in Little Wallachia, what they had taken from the
Russians and could not carry away ; but the asser-
tion is false and ridiculous.
Since the opening of the campaign the Russians,
who had no magazines, have lived at the expence of
the country, which they loaded with requisitions.
The Turks had certainly a right, when they entered
Little Wallachia, to lessen the resources of the
enemy. This they have done, and the Russians
ought to recollect that, in 181 2, they gave that
example themselves when retreating before the
French army. They even did more, for they drove
before them the country people, and burnt their
habitations:

(From the Courier Francais.)

PARIS, OCT. 7.--INSULTS HEAPED ON THE ENG-
LISH' MiNtsTRY.---The impression made in London
by the acknowledgment of the blockade of the Dar-
danelles has been lively and profound. The English
people are always alive to the national dignity,
though it appears extinguished in the Ministers.
The nation is not so blind as to wish for war with
Russia, but they require peace without humiliation;
such as Canning or any other Minister but Welling-
ton would have maintained. At the time when
England feels so severely this new attempt on her

consideration, a trifling event has revealed to her
how much she has lost in the opinion of nations and
Governments. Even Don Miguel is not afraid to
insult her. An English vessel, which carried to
Lisbon the news of the arrival of the young Queen,
was cannonaded by Belem fort. On this vessel re-
turning to Lisbon she was not allowed to enter the
port, and this was posted at Lloyd's, with the notice
of the blockade of the Dardanelles. Thus an account
of a new act of weakness is posted alongside an ac-
count of an insult, the consequence of former acts
of weakness. The public indignation was loudly ex-
pressed, and a comical notice was posted up, that
Don Miguel had ordered the blockade of Falmouth,
and that the Earl of Aberdeen had acknowledged
the blockade. It is melancholy to see the English

evenge themselves by a joke :lit reminds us or the

time when we consoled ourselves for our defeats
with a song. They ought to feel only bitterness
and grief at seeing how much they are sunk. For-
merly the active protection of the English Govern-
ment was extended to all its subjects and their pro-
perty, and nobody dared to violate them. Now Don
Miguel imprisons and persecutes the English, and
cares nothing about their Government. He violates
the laws of nations, and fires at an English vessel
withont fearing that presumption and ‘vatiu of faith
will be punished. Formerly a King of Portugal
would have trembled at the thought. Lisbon and
ail Portugal would have expected with dread the
vengeance about to fall on them. This is what
England has gained by acknowledging the blockade
of Oporto and Funchal. When its Government
was seen cowardly abandoning those it had encou-
raged to resist, it was foreseen that this would be
followed by other basenesses, and no care was taken
to avoid them. England, insulted by Don Miguel,
and bearing it patiently, makes ui believe that a
whole century has elapsed since Mr. Canning's
death. It does not seem possible that so profound
a degradation should have been the result of a few
months. This moral weakness is not stopped. It
increases every day, and will not stop while the
destiny of the country is left in the hands of the
Atnister who has given its pulicy this direction.

(Fratn the Gazette de France, dated Wednesday.)
published the follow
C3NSTANTINOPLE, SEPT. 12.—The Porte has
following extracts of f
rolmetters fron?
Hus-
sein Paeha; which we the originals,
reducing the dates to our' calendar :-
6' Stit..7mtat, MTG. 27.—Hussein Paella Com-
mander in Chief of the Turkish' a • had'd.
mramies,directed
three divisions in the
commanded by Hatil Pacha, consisting of oe-f-tthle bat-
talions talions of regular troops, and other Ottoman soldiersree at.
against the enemy's entrenchments at Strar d
the second, consisting of some battalions of re
troops, and a considerable corps of irregulars under
Essaad Paella, against the works raised at 'l' •en- h -
lik • and the third, under Halisch p
ga acha, and
other superior officers against the entrenchments' of
Eski Stamboul. f hese three divisions set out in
the night of the 26th August, seven or eight hours
after sunset, and arrived in good order at the poi •
nts
indicated to attack the enemy at the same time.
The first attack of the regular troops on the works
at Strandcha was so successful, that our troops
entered the entrenchments before the enemy's
outposts had time to fall back into them. All
that we found in the redoubt, among whom
,was a
General, were put to the sword (BaronNlrede.)
Six large cannon and six waggons of ammunition were
taken, and immediately brought into Shumla. The
enemy then collected a large body of troops from the
great camp to endeavour to recover the entrench-
ments. 'they attacked three times, but were always
repulsed by the bravery of the Mussulmen. The
loss of the Russians in three attacks was consider-
able. Lastly, when they saw that they could
nothing do
against
the courage and energy of the Otto-
man troops, they retreated, Meantime the en-

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