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LONDON,
MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 21, 1829.

The Allgemeine Zeitung, which arrived yes-
terday by the Flanders Mail, is full of interesting
intelligence from the theatre of war. A Russian
corps of 12,000 men, it states, has been landed
at Sizeboli, and united itself to the main army,
which has crossed the Balkan mountains.
Erzeroutn too has been taken by the Russians,
the whole army of the SERASKIER has been
dispersed, and the Armenians—whom the SUL-
TAN by his very ill-judged policy alienated from
his interests a year or two since—every where
unite themselves to the Russians as they ad-
vance. The loss of these men, whose relations
with the Turkish empire is not very generally
understood in England, is of itself an irreparable
disaster. They are the " thews and sinews" of
commerce throughout the East, are wealthy,
peaceable, and industrious, and until lately en-
riched the SULTAN'S Exchequer to an almost
incredible extent. Disgusted, however, by the
rapacity and contempt of MAHMOUD, and won
over by the subtle policy of the Russians, who
prevailed on their High Patriarch to put him-
self and his establishment some three or four
years back under their protection, the Arme-
nians have now turned against the Turks, and
with them has broken down one of the
latter's strongest Constitutional bulwarks.
In addition to this disaster, the Sublime
PORTE has lost a battle at Kirki-Ki-
lissa, within twenty leagues of Constantinople,
so that nothing, it seems, can now stop the pro-
gress of the Russians to the capital. The same
Journal states that the SULTAN'S troops are
losing their confidence, that a spirit of mutiny is
every where showing itself, yet that notwithstand-
ing this, the Divan still " persists in its refusal
to come to any arrangement."
The Prussian
_State Gazette gives at full

length the Bulletin of the Russian army, dated
Aidos—our readers will find it in another ee'
lumn—which details with great minuteness all
the particulars of its victorious progress after
passing the Balkan. According to this doetl"
meat, Mesembria was taken, with 2,000 prisoners
and ten standards, and the Grand VIZIER a/
Shumla was not aware of the march of the
Russian detachment before that place, till four
days after it had taken place. In a word, the
denouement of the campaign is now rapidly
approaching.

The liberal Parisian Journals are still fi
with the most inveterate attacks on the nevi
Ministry. Monsieur DE LA BOURDONNAYE
honoured with as especial share of abuse. It
seems, that in the stormy Session of 1815, this
statesman was one of the most intemperate and
sanguinary denouncers of those who figured
during the memorable hundred days. " He I°o'
posed," says a Morning Cotemporary, " lists of
proscription which would have given Louis
XVIII. the heads of all the civil and military
functionaries of the hundred days, especially
of all the marshals, ministers, and high
dignitaries of France." This speech the
Journal des Debats of Thursday now clo°tes
against him, and contrasts-in a forcible pungent
manner with the present temper of his
professions. The contrast is certainly striking'
being neither more nor less than the differeoc°
between black and white, but different times,
should be borne in mind, call for different rner
sures ; and for a Statesman to make his optnions, at one particular period of his life, the
model of his opinions for ever, is for him to sal
that he has derived no benefit from experience,
and that the world, not himself, is wrong in COw
seining to a change. It is said that the number
of resignations is increasing, among others the
Marquis of CAMBON, a staunch loyalist, i 5
mentioned as having declined any official con'
nection with the new Government. political

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The following are extracts from the German
Papers, received this morning :--
BUCHAREST, AUG. 4.—According to letters frail
Odessa, the plague has again manifested itself, and severs
families are said to have left the town with permission of thl
authorities. The theatres and all the magazines are sal
to have been closed on the 30th of July. The first esPe‘
ditiott which sailed from Seb ,stopol on the 14th ult., tora"
inform the garrison of Sizeboli, is stated in letters f
Varna to have reached its destination without accidentl
The second, which is stronger, being 8,000 men, ail'in
on the 27th. The service for the supply of the army
tact
perfect order, and 100 transports are constantly employ
in carrying provisions from Odessa to Sizeboli.
The Odessa Journal of July 29 has a long notice froM
the Magistrates, respecting the symptoms of plague tha:
have appeared in the village of Uesatovy-Khutors, sib
wersts from the town.
A division of 50 Cossacks and 400 infantry has been
placed as a cordon round the village, and every precautiosa
taken. Up to the 29th, seven persons had died, and
there are five sick, two with symptoms of plague, 80
three suspicious. The health of the town is such as not
to,
give any ground for alarm. The state of the harbour 01
quarantine is quite satisfactory. There has been no cast;
of plague there for this week past. Four persons, ill
ordinary disorders, have been removed from the quarter ei
the passengers to a separate apartment. Two other Pt'
tients are recovering.
(From the Courrier de Smyrne.)
CA N D lA, Jut.Y 11.—Our town has recovered its forsteir
appearance. All the European Consuls have rewrite";
and there is no blockade of any kind. The tranquillity a'
the island will soon be restored, when a spirit of prudence
and moderation shall appreciate the real wants of the 1
habitants of Crete, and reduce to its true value the t,i,ns°et
of philanthropy in which the language of the Frew
of Greece is enveloped. To effect this the Allied Pourel
have only to submit the state of affairs to a ainstPle sitner
decisive trial—namely, to oblige Count Capo d'lstria, a
recalling his agents, to issue a general invitation to
he
inhabitants to retire to the Morea, as they cannot live Utlarn
the Turkish dominion, and at the same time to offer a
indemnity to those land-owners who should lose their Pt:,
perty. The small number of persons who would profit by
this offer, would be the most conclusive proof Nark
the late insurrection in Crete was not the Warg
of the inhabitants, and also chew that the 6re:t
Government, in order to give a certain ex ire
and permanency to the insurrection, was obliged to
°
with all the wretches of Carabusa anti the banditti of,
Sfakia, and that these auxiliaries used the most 1410,
means to compel the peaceable inhabitants to take sr ye
The Commanders of the European squadrons who Po
put into Suda have long since advised the Tutks to son
the Greeks unmolested in their quarters. The 'Prop
agreed, but the Greeks cannot be so easily persuaded.
the 26th June 1,500 Greeks suddenly attacked 100 persuaded..
bitants of Rettino, who were busy hay-making, haese
league front the town. The Turk., among
wwho'llhere Wei
fifty women and children, retired to a house, '
defended themselves the whole day. The inhabitants %
Rettino hastened to their assistance, and succeeded lar
releasing them. The number of victims on both side. is
known, but it. is unhappily certain that several wool,
and children, who could not escape in time, were crued
murdered by the Greeks. •

We have received Gibraltar Chronicles, this
morning to the 4th inst. It appears that t 1
e.
number of vessels which have arrived at Cadiz
during the month of June from other Spanich
ports was 263. The Austrian frigate Afedeft
arrived at Gibraltar on the Ist, and sailed the
same day to join the squadron to the westwardi
con Fisting of the Caroline and Adra corvettes'
and the brig Veneto.

A Mr. SCALES, of Whitechapel, who some,
time since was convicted in the Common pleas
of striking a man in a church, has, it seems) 119 r
that same offence, been excommunicated by til°
Ecclesiastical Court. By this sentence of elc'
communication he has been put out of the Pie
of the law altogether. He may be slandered,'
assaulted, robbed, and knocked on the head with
impunity; be burnt out of house and Wl°
in Ireland, be Burked and doctored in Sc°t*.
°ut
land, and Stephensoned in England, with
the most distant prospect of relief. Nay' Ise
is not even entitled to Christian burial, all I
should he perchance be found one fine autulT°.
morning, lying with his throat cut, and 1'1!
is
pockets turned inside-out, in Whitechapel,
corpse will be refused the complimentary con:
sideration of a Coroner's Inquest! Surely it
is
high time to dispense with this absurd process °I
at
excommunication. It has no force in the present
day, scarcely even a meaning, and can ansvi,
no earthly end, except that of perpetuating

legislative (4 wisdom of our ancestors." Mr.
PEEL, we trust, will look to it.

we extract from a Morning Paper the follow-
ing paragraph, the substance of which appeared in
our columns a few days since Dr. IRELAND
has refused the friends of the late Mr. SHIELD
permission to erect a tablet to his memory in West-
minster Abbey. The ground of this denial is
stated to be an objection to the word gentleman'
introduced in the inscription." This refusal, if
the facts be correct, comes with peculiar
gra" and propriety from an individual who was
I.hiruself, not many years since, the son of an
iituuble mechanic in Devonshire. Yes, Dr.
IREL4NI), the present influential Dean of
Westminster, the protege of that Ultra.crepe-
darian critic, the late WILLIAM GIFFORD,
once I
thought it a signal honour to be taught his
letters, in company with the peasants of the neigh-
bourhood, at the little village-school o Ashburton !
We state
not this to his disparagement ; it is the
most creditable anecdote we know of him ; but
We do think that foaie lingering sentiment of
delicacy should have prevented him from object-
Ing to the word " gentleman " as applied to one
of the most celebrated composers of the past
century, knowing with what amazing difficulty
he himself earned his title to that appellation.
The Dean of Westminster, we humbly conceive,
should have been the very last man on earth to
object to Mr. SHIELD that he was no gentle-
tuall• But the Reverend Dean is peculiarly ex-
clusive and hypercritical in his notions of genius
and
gentility. He refused, we remember, to
permit Lord BYRON to be buried in Westminster
Abbey, thinking, no doubt, that the author of
Childe Harold"—he who has filled the uni-
verse with his fame, he, who will be remem-
bered
when all the Deans that Westminster ever
Yet Produced, or ever will, are forgotten—was not
moral, or intellectual,
or genteel enough, for so
honourable a burial place. As the Dean is so
very
refined in his notions of gentility, it is really
a thousand pities that he cannot be prevailed on
`° carry
it a little further, and open that grand
national cenotaph, the Abbey, unreservedly to all
visltnrs, instead of turning it into a sort of
Menagerie
of dead authors, in order that his
Chapter, like showmen at a fair, may gain money
by the exhibition. This would redound in-
finitely more to his credit than objecting to Mr.
s ItQLD—and we comment on the circumstance,
be it understood, not as a decided fact, but simply
as one of the on dits of the day—that he was no
gentleman, and therefore, unworthy of a statue
lii Westminster Abbey. " But few people"—
SaYB SWIFT, who though a severe, was an un-
er r•
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judge of human nature—" are so bigotted
or aristocratic .in their ideas, as those who have
worked their way up from the lower to the higher
classes of
society. They canvass men's preten-
sions to
r„
gentility, with more jealousy than the
Proudest crowned heads in Europe."