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London, England, 1829-07-13 00:00:00

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LONDON,
MONDAY EVENING, JULY 13, 1829.

It appears by German Papers received this
morning, that letters have been received at Ber-
lin, from the theatre of war, which represent the
late battle near Shumla much the same as the
Russian Official Bulletins. The defeat and dis-
persioa of the Turks are said to have been
most complete. These letters are still further
confirmed by an account of a Prussian Officer
who was present at the battle, and who has
since returned to Berlin, where he related to the
King of PRUSSIA many interesting and im-
portant particulars of the battle. From this
officer's statement, after making every reason-
able allowance for his partiality for the Russians,
it would really appear that the Turks have suffered
a most fatal overthrow, the ultimate consequences
of which cannot at present be foreseen. But a
very small part of the GRAND VIZIER'S army
succeeded in regaining the fortress of Shumla,
and these in a most deplorable condition. As
far as the eye could reach, the field was covered
with the wrecks of the enemy's army. Imme-
diately after the battle, Shumla, in which there
remained but a feeble garrison, was outflanked, and
the Russian army in full march to the Balkan,
taking the direction of Aidos and Bourgas, where
it will be supported by the Russians at Sizeboli,
amounting it is said to 10,000 men. The
Turkish army, though admitted to possess an
enthusiastic contempt of danger, is yet wanting
in presence of mind and reflection, or as the
poet has it—discretion—which is the ‘4 better
part of valour." In fact the absence of discre-
tion is the very consequence of the blind zeal
which hurries the Turk on to battle—and to
destruction.

The Russian officer says, that the GRAND
VIZIER was deceived by the false reports
industriously circulated by General DIEBITSCH
of the strength of his army before Silistria,
amounting only to about 20,000 men—a
force so small as to induce the GRAND VIZIER
at once to invest Pravadi. The total ignorance
of the VIZIER on a point of such essential im-
portance is accounted for by the circumstance
that Count DIEBITSCH, through the agency
of his Cossacks, intercepted all the despatches
between the GRAND VIZIER and the Governor
of Silistria. This, and the prompt junction
with General ROTH, had in fact decided the
fate of the GRAND VIZIER before a shot was
fired, and served to secure the retreat of Count
DIEBITSCH, should such be necessary. The
Turks did not even find out their mistake
when they saw the Russians in their rear, as for-
merly stated by DIEBITSCH, they
had only a few regiments, senbtutdofawnncyailTivision
to attack them. In this preliminary attack they
cut to pieces a regiment of Russian infantry
which they surrounded. Such was the impe-
tuosity of the Turks, that it appears the 12,000
or 15,000, sent in the first instance against

►e Russians, fought with such heroic bravery

that they almost defeated the Russian army,
until a battery of twelve-pounders thinned their
ranks by grape shot. The Russian officer was
himself with this battery, and was an eye-witness
of the gallant bearing of the Turks.
After the defeat of the first division of the
Turks, the main body was found advantageously
posted on an eminence where a most severe con-
test was expected, but the regular regiments
having been thrown into disorder, they caused
such confusion as to render the generalship of
the GRAND VIZIER unavailing. He could do

nothing :—and a total rout was the consequence.
It is said that he ordered his artillery to be fired
on the fugitives with grape shot. The confusion
was indescribable. The VIZIER reached Shumla
with only 600 horse, and that fortress is now
closely invested, and Silistria is near its fall.
Such is the detail of the Prussian Officer :
BERLIN, Junk's 3.—Letters from the theatre of war re-
present the events near Shumla in a manner perfectly in
accordance with the Russian official bulletins. The defeat
of the Turkish army was so general, and the destruction
so complete, that old soldiers do not remember a similar
victory. The plan of General Count Diebitach, though
the execution of it required great efforts, is generally ac-
knowledged to have been admirable. He led the Russian
army between the enemy's army and their entrenched
camp before Shumla. But a very small part of the
Turkish troops, and those in the most wretched condition,
succeeded in finding their way back to the fortress. As
far as the eye could reach, the field was covered with the
wrecks of the enemy's army. In Shumla itself there is
but a small garrison, and the battle is universally consi-
dered as extremely important. Already, on the se-
cond day after the battle, Shumla was almost wholly
outflanked, and the Russian army in full march to the
Balkan. It advanced in the direction of Aidos and
Bourrt. where it may be supported by 10,000 men

that have been landed at Sizeboli. The beet spirit ani-
mates the Russian soldiers, and they fight with admirable
bravery. The Turkish army (though the Turks when
ordered to attack, endeavour to lose all sense of danger in
the most furious courage) wants presence of mind and re-
flection, and their condition is considered throughout
miserable. The situation of Silistria was considered in the
middle of June to be such that it would not be able to
make
expected. a eprsetrcacted resistance, and its fall may therefore be
shortly
Major Staff Von Rutzeustein, of the Prussian General
Staff, who arrived here on the 28th June, was present at
the battle near Shumla on the 11th June. He left the
camp before Silistria a day earlier than General Die-
bitsch, and arrived at head-quarters in time to be present
At the great battle. The account which he bas given to
the King, adds many instructing particulars to the official
details.

General Diebitsch it seems had, by industriously circu-
lating hilse reports, made the Grand Vizier believe that
he had not above 20,000 men before Silistria, and this
chiefly induced him to make an attempt upon Pravadi.
General Diebitsch also succeeded by employing the inde-
fatigably active Cossacks in capturing all the despatches
sent by the Grand Vizier, respecting his own strength and
his designs. The punctual junction with General Roth,
and the entire interruption of the Grand Vizier's line of
communication with Silistria, had so far decided the fate
of the Turks beforehand, as at all events the Russians
would have been able to retreat unmolested. The ground
was advantageous to the Turks, as they were posted on a
high plateau, from which they commanded all the sur-
rounding country; but instead of confining themselves to
the defensive, fancying they had only some regiments
opposed to them, they came down to attack them. In this
attack they succeeded in surrounding and cutting to
pieces the Murow Regiment of Infantry. The rein-
forcements sent to support it were defeated, and the battle
seemed to take an unfavourable turn, when the brave
Major-General Arnoldi, with a battery of 12-pounders,
advanced and commenced a destructive fire: of grape-shot
within the distance of 500 feet. Major Staff was with
this battery, which was so exposed, that a bold attack of
cavalry by the Turks might have been fatal. General
Diebitsch was at first at a loss to conceive why the Grand
Vizier, whose force was so positively stated at above
40,000 men, sent only 12,000 or 15,000 to meet him ;
but-after these were defeated, the remainder of the enemy's
army was found posted in regular squares on the eminence.
Here a severe contest was to be expected, but the regular
regiments, which had been thrown into disorder, caused
such confusion, that the Grand Vizier could do nothing.
It is thought that he ordered the fugitives to be fired upon
with grape-shot; for all the Turkish cannon were dis-
charged on the eminence, by which some of their own
powder magazines were blown up. The Turkish army
then fled in a confusion impossible to be described. The
Grand Vizier had only 600 horse together, with which he
happily reached Shumla by a circuitous route. That place
is now closely invested.
FR ANY FORT, JULY 6.—Exchange on London—Two
months, 1481.

I its Serene Highness the Grand Duke of
BADEN arrived in town on Saturday night, and
was this morning presented to his Majesty at
Windsor, by Lord ABERDEEN, Secretary o
State for Foreign Affairs. Several of the other
Cabinet Ministers were also present. It is re-
ported that the visit of his Serene Highness to this
country is connected with the affairs of Greece.

A King's Messenger arrived at the Foreign
Office late last night, from St. Petersburgh, with
despatches from Lord HEYTESBURY, our Am-
bassador to the Russian Court.

Despatches were also received at the Foreign
Office this morning from Lord STUART DE
ROTHSAY at Paris, and from Sir CHARLES
BAGOT, at the Hague.

Considerable discussion took place in the
French Chamber of Deputies, on the vote of
credit for 52,000,000 of francs, as well as on
the Protocol of London ; but we have no space
for comment. The debate on the Budget being
closed on Wednesday, the whole was voted by
a majority of 131, there being 226 for it and
95 against it.

We have for some time contended against the
dismal notions of those saturnine politicians, who
assert that commerce is at a discount, agriculture
paralysed, and England in the last stage of de.
crepitude. We have thought it barely possible,
though not probable, that such hypochondriacal
Journalists might have objects of their own to
answer ; that in announcing the ruin of their
country, they might fancy that they were an-
nouncing their own prophetic and Burke-like sa-
gacity; and that consequently they might be some-
what premature in their opinions. But there is
no arguing against facts ; and, with anguished
hearts, we at length confess that the hour of our
recantation has arrived. The truth—the bitter
truth must out : England is on the very verge of
destruction I Does the reader ask for proofs of
this assertion ? We give them to him in the words
of the Morning Journal, which discreet Paper
has divided them into three heads, and put them
forth with a grave majesty worthy of the occa-
sion. First, says this temperate and much-beloved
periodical, " we have arrived in the middle of
July, and as yet we have had no summer. The
hay rots in our meadows, and the wheat-crop is

little better than dried grass." Can the discrimin-
ating reader doubt after this that England is on the
verge of ruin ? That a gracious and benevolent
Providence, indignant at our having let the
Papists into Parliament—notwithstanding we
have made all the atonement in our power by
keeping Mr. O'CONNELL out—has turned our
wheat-crop into dried grass, as a manifestation of
his will that England henceforth should be
blotted out from among the nations of the earth ?
We think not ; the very manner in which such
manifestation has been made, is decisive.
The second proof advanced by our cotem-
poraryis the following. Mark how it rises
preceding one, in argumentative and
aboveplilo l
philosophical topTiical dignity ! " The very potatoe is
ashamed to look up at the clouds. The straw-
berries are sick." Sublime announcements of
England's ruin ! The potatoes aware, no doubt,
of the forthcoming annihilation of their native soil,
are
eactuallyashamed to look up at the clouds.
They foresee the gathering elements of destruction
in the sky, and turn with Hibernian bashfulness
to earth. The strawberries are sick for the same
reason •
t These tender-hearted and patriotic
vegetables smart for England's unworthiness in
their bowels. They see that as a nation she is

undone ; and a cholera morbus is the con-

sequence!
The third of our cotemporary's proofs is, if
possible, still more lofty, dignified, and decisive
than the two former ones. " The raspberries,"
says he, " smack of soot and water; the melons,
like the clouds, are blue and unsavoury, and
even the cauliflowers resemble more the dingy
wig of Sir JAMES ScARLETE, than the candes-
cent locks of Lord ELDON !" Passing by the
Journalist's definition of a good cauliflower, that
it should resemble Lord ELDoN's white hairs ;
and of a salubrious cloud that it should be
savoury (or in vulgar parlance, that it should
stink) ; we come to the proof of our country's
destruction, contained in the soot and water, and
the ATTORNEY-GENERAL'S wig. These, we
conceive, are quite conclusive on the point—the
former especially, being a manifestation of national
decay, worthy in every respect of divinity.

Extracts will be found in another column
from Hamburgh, Dutch, German, and Brussels
Papers. Several sallies have taken place from
Silistria, but unfavourably to the Turks.

It appears that the Sir Edward Banks steam-
packet, from Hamburg!), for the safety of which
some apprehensions were entertained, had a stormy
passage of it. She left Hamburgh on Saturday
morning, and arrived at Cuxhaven at 3 P. M. ; it
then blew a hard gale from the west. She an-
chored for the night, and weighed on Sunday
morning early, and put to sea with a strong wind
at W. N.W.; towards evening it increased to a
gale, and at midnight it blew harder. At 2A. M.
the gale still increasing from the westward, she
put back for Cuxhaven, and anchored about noon
on Monday, where she remained until Thursday
morning at four o'clock, when, it having mode-
rated, she again put to sea, and arrived safe and
sound in the Thames on Saturday last. Being
nearly a week beyond her time she of course
brings no news. To-day we expect the other
steam-packet, with the Hamburgh Reporter up
to Friday evening last, when some additional
news may be received from the theatre of war.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.)

FROM LLOYD'S.

DEAL, JULY 11 and 12.--Wind W.S.W.—
Arrived the Standard, from New York ; Under-
wood, Wood, from Demerara; Hero, from Trinidad;
London, Smith, from Quebec; Thetis, Burton,
from Jamaica; Narcissus, Park, from Jamaica ;
and Glaphyra, from the West Indies. Arrived
from London, the Upton Castle, Thacker, for
Bombay ; Larkins, Campbell, for New South
Wales; Thames, Anderson, for New South Wales,
and Borodino, Kellick, for Sierra Leone. Arrived
the Ebenezer, from Pernambuco and Australia.
The outward-bound remain.

PORTSMOUTH, JULY 11.—Wind W. S.W.—A r-
rived from London, the Lady Nugent, Wimble, for
Calcutta; Cape packet, Dixon, for New South
Wales; Ann and Mary, Scott, for Demerara; and
Henrico, for Cadiz. Passed the Hibernia, from
Jamaica. Sailed the Thames, Robinson, for Phila-
delphia. Several vessels have come in yesterday
and to-day from the Carn Brea Castle. Pilots
report the ship loosens a great deal as she lightens,
and if it continues to blow as it has done these few
days past she cannot hold together more than a day
or two.

PLYMOUTH, JULY 11.—Wind S.E.—Arrived the
James, Peake, from Prince Edward's Island ; and
Cato, from Quebec. Sailed the Baroness Keith,
VVate, for Teneriffe. Arrived off Port, the Bur-
lington, Power, from St. Kitts; and Jonge, Hen.
drick, from St. Croix.
FALMOUTII, JULY 10.—Wind S.W.—Sailed the
Duke of Marlborough packet, for Lisbon ; and Mar-
quis of Queensbury packet, for the Mediterranean.
Sailed the Fiinsbury, Walker, for Quebec.

The Captain Cook, Armstrong, from Wyburg,
ran on shore on Chally Sound, near Reval, the 2d
ult., and filled with water.

THE FUNDS.--(THIS DAY.)

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Consols opened this morning at the same price
they left off at on Saturday, 891 for the account,
with scarce a bargain doing as yet. The speculators
are waiting the arrival of an Express from Paris
with die result of the new French financial affairs,
which, it is expected, will have some effect on our
market.

-----
From a Philadelphia Paper of the 19th June, at
the North and South American Coffee-house :---
INCREASE OF THE TARIFF.—We must remind our
commercial readers that after the 30th of the present
month, June, additional duties will be levied on
some imported goods.
All manufactures of Wool, of which Wool is a
component part, will be charged with a duty of 50
per cent.
On unmanufactured Hemp the duty will be, on the
Ist July, 55 dollars a ton; and on the Ist July,
1831, it will be 60 dollars a ton.
Cotton bagging will be increased to five cents per
square yard.
In the duty on unmanufactured -Flax additions to
be made of five dollars per annum till the duty shall
amount to 60 dollars per ton.
On all manufactures of Silk coming from beyond
the Cape of Good Hope, an additional duty of 5 per
cent. takes effect from 30th June next.
On Indigo an additional duty of five cents a
pound till the 30th June, 1830, and from that time
a duty of 10 cents a year, until the whole duty shall
amount to 50 cents a pound.
Quebec Papers have also been received to the
14th June, but they are void of interest.
They write from Bucharest of the 17th June that
the fall of Silistria is soon expected, and that Gene-
ral Diebitsch, after having dispersed the army of the
Grand Vizier, will leave a reinforcement before that
fortress, and proceed with the rest to invest Shumla.
TWO O'CLOCK.

Consols have continued the whole of the morning
at 89f to 1 for the account, and 891 f for next time,
with little or no business doing.
The Hamburgh and Dutch steamers have not as
yet arrived.
By the Dutch Mail received this morning, the
prices of the Foreign' Funds in Amsterdam comes
higher. Although we have had so much rain about
London, we understand from persons who have
arrived from distant parts of the country, that the
rain has been only partial, and they give a favourable
description at present of the crops.
Up to the present hour, we do not hear of any
express from Paris. The Foreign Market is in a
state of complete stagnation. Exchequer Bills, 73
74 ; Brazil 571 ; Buenos Ayres, 221 231 ; Chilian,
17 18 ; Danish, 671 ; Greek, 14 15 ; Mexican,
211 ; Peruvian, 111 12; Portuguese, 421 1;
Russian, 981 i; Spanish, 91; Brazil Shares, 42 44.
THREE O' CL CK.
Consols for account, 891 1. •

LAW INTELLIGENCE.--(THIS DAY.)

ROLLS COURT.
NEGLECT OF COUNSEL—PRACTICE OF THE COURT. larg
Upon Mr. MyNuo mentioning the case of Healey qua
v. Ilealey this morning to the Court, for the pur- The
pose of altering the minutes, to
The MASTER of the ROLLS inquired at what pe- goo,
riod the case had been heard, and upon being in- le a
formed in the course of the last term, his Honour ter:
observed that he would entertain no such motion. are
At the hearing of the case it was the duty of Coun- ri(
sel to be prepared with the minutes of the order 'nom
they intended to take. alvt
Mr. MUNRO observed, that the present minutes not
were not made in a cause but upon petition. Var
The MASTER of the ROLLS stated, that made the
case still worse. The practice into which Counsel, "
had got must be put a stop to. The Court was --
asked for an order, certain minutes were drawn up,
and then Counsel came and occupied the time of the --.
Court, by asking for the variation of those minutes,
Mr.
Mr. MUNRO and Mr. PASSMORE were proceeding --
to address the Court, when
The MASTER of the Rotas, with some warmth, --
observed that he would entertain no such applies. Ate
tion, he would make no alteration whatever in the --
minutes as they at present stood, arid his Honour cP.*:
desired the Registrar to call the next case.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH.
PENFOLD v. COPELAND.

This action► was brought by the brother and exv
tutor of a Mr. Penfold, deceased, to recover from the
defendant, an Attorney of this Court, the sum of 181.
The claim arose from the following facts :—The late
Mr. Penfold was trustee of a certain Charity, and
employed the defendant to present a petition to the,
Court of Chancery. He afterwards wished to
employ another attorney, and applied to the de
fendant for the papers relating to the cause. The
defendant gave up the papers on receiving the,
amount of his bill of costs, and undertaking at the
same time, that if, on the bill being taxed by the
Master, any of the charges should be disallowed, be
would refund the money. The Master disallowed
181., the defendant refused to pay it, and this action
was brought to recover it.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL, after the cause had
occupied a considerable time, objected that no report
of the taxation had been obtained from the Master,
and that therefore the taxation was not complete.
Lord TENTERDEN considered the objection fatal,
and directed the plaintiff to be nonsuited.
After two other trials of no public interest, the
Court proceeded to dispose of the undefended
causes.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS-(THIS DAY.)

These Sessions commenced this morning.
CONSTRUCTION OF THE COURT.

Since the last Sessions the Court has undergone
considerable alterations (improvements we suppose
they will be called), but if all the ingenuity of moo
had been called forth to make the place more in-
convenient than was previously, it could not have
been more successful. Counsel learned in the law
are no longer allowed to sit together, there being no
less than seven different seats (or styes) for them ;
and were it not for the wig and gown, we should
almost have been led to suppose some of the Learned
Gentlemen had been " placed on their trial," the
bar where the prisoners stand being placed exactly
in the centre of some of the seats appropriated to
Counsel, whilst on each side sits a gentleman with
a wig, in a little box just sufficient to hold one, as if
placed there for the safe custody of the prisoners.
In short, the whole appearance of the Court pre'
sents as complete a specimen of confusion as Ws
have ever witnessed.

Mr. James Shoolbred, au extensive linen-drapero
residing in Tottenham-court-road, was charged with
assaulting a gentleman named Puckett, a lace-mane'
facturer, in Goswell-street-road. The Jury returned
a verdict of Not Guilty.