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London, England, 1829-01-21 00:00:00

GERMAN PAPERS.

CONSTA.V:.'INOPLE,DEC.IB.—We have news from
Stryrea, stating that an European man-of-war had
dete'ned a Greek ship, the papers of which are said,
to have been regular, but whica chased fo-
reij off the Dardanelles, and in spite of the
rernouetrences of the Captain has taken it to Smyrna.
The ;eek Captain continued his complaints there,
and .he affair is reported to the Minister of the Ne-
therlands in this city, in consequence of which it
excite, some attention. By the death of Husney
Bey, who was so high in the Sultan's favour, the
pacific party think they have been rid of one of their
chief opponents; but it is not likely that a change
will rake place in the Sultan's way of thinking. All
the appointmeete since the deposition of the late
Grant Vizier have a warlike tendency, and leave but
little hope that the Porte will consent to concessions or
negociatioee for peace which do not seem honourable
for the Divan. Meantime the discontented party do
not fail to spread all kinds of unfavourable reports re-
specting the state of affairs. Thus they gave out
that Hussein Pacha had vanished, but better in-
formed persons know that he had marched to Sills-
tria. Others, equally unfavourable, succeeded each
other. It seems certain, however, that the Grand
Vizier is prevented by the severity of the winter
from undertaking any operation, and that the typhus
has also broken out in his camp, and carries off nu-
merous victims. It is also observed that Asiatic
troops pass the capital by circuitous routes, and le-
tunn to the coast of Asia. These circumstances had
probably some influence on the more energetic war-
like prepaiatione ordered by the late &m an.
The negociations respecting Greece are still the
object of diplomacy in that city, and elmoet all the
communications to the Porte refer to them. Little as
the latter is disposed to ascent to the views of the
Powers, it has adopted a eyeneee. which, without
making concessions, promises to maintain amicable
relations with all, so long as they do not of them-
selves break with it, and, like Russia, declare war.
Europe has had opportnnitiee So be convinced of
this. The French expedition to the Mores
has produced no more change in the senti-
ments of the Porte than the bettle of „Nava-
rin and the departure of the Ambassadors did
before; and notwithstanding these events, it
considers Count Guilleminot and Mr. Stratford
Canning as Ambassadors accredited to it.—
The prudent conduct of the latter, and the con-
tinued endeavours of the English and French Ad-
mirals in the Archipelago to convince the Porte how
much these Governments des:re to avoid a formal
breach with it, have contributed to confirm this system,
and may perhaps in the end overcome all difficulties,
and lead to an arrangement of affairs. The arrival of
Admiral de Rigny at Smyrna, who is ~.id to have
gone thither at the request of Baron Von Zuylen, it
at this moment important, and the confidence with
which he is honoured by his Government, and which
he was justified by his prudent conduct in the most
trying circumstances, as well es the esteem he has
acquired its the e:titnation of the Porte, make hint
peculiarly qualified to act with effect on this occasion.
It is probable, too, that the Russian blockade of the
Dardanelles may have induced the French Admiral
to appear in those seas to protect the interests of his
nation. The negociatiotte with Mr. (Miley, the
American Cori 1, proceed favourably, and a com-
mercial treaty, advantageous to bath parties, will
soon be concluded. The acha of Egypt, of whose
judgmestt a high opinion is entertained here, is said
to have advised the Porte to grant ell possible faci-
li to the American commerce.
We have no recent news IEOIII the 41Diy. &we

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LONDON,
WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 21, 1899.

The most important information in the French
Papers is the following document, which has
been extracted from the Augsburg Gazette. But
the Messager des Chambre; doubts its officia-
lity—and this doubt receives some importance
from the Augsburg Paper, which dates the de-
claration of M. DE JAUBERT under the head of

DECLAR kTION CARRIED TO CONSTAI4TINOPLB BY

W. JA BERT.

" The declaration of the 11th of August last,
which was delivered to the Reis Effendi by his Ex-
cellency the Ambassador of the Netherlands, in the
name of France, Great Britain, and Russia, has
male known to the Porte the motives and the ob-
ject of the expedition to the Morea. The imme-
diate result which the three Powers proposed to
effect by that expedition have fortunately been
attained. The departure of Ibraliam, and the eva-
cuation of the fortresses by the Turkish and Egyp-
tian troops have put an end to the effusion of
human blood in the Morea, and extended tran-
quillity to that country ; but the work of the
Powers would be incomplete, if, by the depar-
ture of their troops, the inhabitants of the Mores
were 'exposed to new invasions. The Powers,
therefore, owe it to their own dignity to prevent it.
It is with this view that, at the moment when the
allied forces are disposed to retire from the Morea,
after having accomplished their pacific mission, th.
three Courts declare to the Sublime Porte that, till
a definitive arrangement, made in common with
them, has regulated the lot of the provinces which
the alliance has caused to be occupied by their
troops, they place Me Morea and the isles of Me
Cyclades under their provisional guarantee, and that
in virtue of this declaration they will view, as an
aggreazion against themselves, the entrance of any
military foree into that country.
" In bringing to the knowledge of the Sublime
Porte this resolution, the Courts of Great Britain,
France, and Russia, are pleased in acknowledging
the wisdom with which the Porte has avoided a
prolongation of the calamities of war in the Morea.
They hope that, guided by the same spirit, it will
be animated with a desire to terminate those ques-
tions which fur eight years have held Europe in a
state of anxiety and agitation ; and that it will
enter with tha three Courts on an amicable nego-
tion to regulate the lot, and thus secure the defini-
tive pacification of Greece.
" London, Nev. 16. (Signed) " ABERDEEN.
POLIGNAC.
LIEVEN."

It would be idle to make any observations
upon the above document till we learn whether
it is official or not•

The Port Letter from Falmouth, received
this morning, mentions the arrival of his Majes-
ty's brig .P/tcmper, Lietitenalt MgDLLY, frpra

Sierra Leone in 54 days, having on board 40
prisoners, taken out of a schooner under Buenos
Ayrean colours, by one of his MAJESTY'S
cruizers, for acts of piracy committed on that
coast.

The contents of the German Papers are ono
day for peace, and the next day the very re-
verse. The accounts are altogether so contra-
dictory as to defy people to know what they
would be at. An article from Vienna of tha
Bth inst. says:—

" We know, from a good source, that the
corps of General GEISMAR, which is before
Widdin, has been considerably augmented, and
that the Russians intend, at the opening of
the next campaign, to pass the fortresses of the
Danube and the defiles of Shumla, and
to penetrate Turkey by Servia. This new
plan is attributed to General DIEBITSCH,
This plan occasions great uneasiness to Prince
METTERNICH, because he knows that Servia
and Bosnia are not well disposed towards the
PORTE, and that tH inhabitants might easily
profit by this circumstance to throw off the heavy
yoke which has so long weighed them down,
and perhaps follow the example of the Greeks.
He knows that such a propinquity would have
an effect on Hungary and Transylrapia
ANCONA, DEC. 9,13.

We are daily more and more convinced that an
arrangement between the Cabinets of London and
Paris and the Porte is preparing, and that the affairs
of Greece will be shortly settled. It is affirmed that
every facility is afforded to the Porte to enable it to
come to a decision, and that a way will be opened
for negociationa, and the return of Messrs. Stratford
Canning and Guilleminot to Constantinople.—
Couriers hastening from London and Paris to Poro3
are said to have conveyed most important instruc-
tions to the Ambassadors. The Admirals toe, and
the Lord I-ligh Commissioner at Corfu, are said to
hare received new orders, accompanied with the
strictest injunctions to avoid every thing that
might afford the Porte grounds for complaint. It is
even affirmed in letters from Corfu, that Sir Pulte-
ney Malcolm has been blamed by the English Go-
vernment for the indifference with which he tolerates
the new piracies of the Greeks, as well as for his
conduct on other occasions. General Maison has
stopped the works which had been commenced for
the defence of the Peninsula, and seems to have left
the completion of them to the Greek Government.
The French soldiers, who, on their arrival, were en-
thusiastic in favour of the Greek cause, ara reported
to be now much less so, and long for orders to return
home. It is even said that General Maison has ex-
pressed such a wish in one of his despatches, but
this does not seem to be suitable to the General's
character. Frequent remittances arrive for the Rus-
sian fleet is the Mediterranean, and the large amount
of the sums chews how great the expences are which
Russia is put to by the war with the Porte.

FRONTIERS OP SRRVIA, DIX. 28.

There is a great deal of ice in the Danube, by
which the navigation is wholly interrupted. The
conveyance of provisions to the Turkish fortresses is
thereby rendered impossible, for the deep snow hin-
ders supply by land. Some embarrassment is felt at
Belgrade respecting the immediate execution of the
orders received from Constantinople, for the supply
of the troops and the formation of magazines in
those fortresses. The contractors, in particular,
appear to have forgotten one stipulation in the con-
trecs, eioption from responzibiflty, if
they were hindered by had weather from fulfilling
their engagements. This imprudence may cost
them dear, for the Turk adheres strictly to the letter
and admits of no excuse. Since the last mail, and
the arrival of a courier at the lazaretto, we have no
news from Constantinople, nor have we any thing
worth notice from other parts. The report of an
attack made by the Turks on Bazardjik, which I
mentioned in a former communication as needing
confirmation, seems to be wholly unfounded. The
contagion in Wallachia is said to have greatly
abated in consequence of the very severe cold that
has set in.

VIENNA, JAN. 9.—Metalliques, 196 i ; Bank
Shares, 1,1121.

The Port Letter, from Lynn this morning
notices the arrival of the Maria, Capt. PAUL,
from Kell. What renders this worth notice is
the fact, that this vessel has been nearly two
years on her voyage, laden with wheat, having
put into Jutland and Mandahl, wl-►re she had
received damage, repaired, and sold part of her
cargo. This must have been a very profitable
voyage both for owners and cargo.

We have received, this morning, the limn-
lurgh Reporter, of the 13th inst., and other
Papers of the same date. Their tone is par-
ticularly warlike. The Russians are indefatigable
to repair the losses of the last campaign for 000
pieces of cannon, and 150,000 irregular Cos-
sacks, and other troops are on their way to the
Danube :

IiAIIBURGII, JAN. 9.

In consequence of the slight frost and snow which
we have had for some time past there is a good
deal of floating ice, particularly lower down the
river, in consequence of which several ships both
going down and coming up' have been obliged
to lie to. The passage to and from Hamburgh is still
open.
PROM TIIE VISTULA, DEC. 26.

The commercial letters :received from St. Peters-
burgh give no hope whatever that the war with the
Porte will be terminated during the winter by diplo-
matic negociations, bi:t speak only of the incredible
activity which is employed to open the campaign
with an army twice as numerous as before. Re-
cruits are pouring in from all parts of the immense
empire ; 900 cannon have been rent from the arsenal
at Moscow to the Danube, and the cavalry depots
are all emptied to supply without delay the loss of
horses.

One hundred and fifty thousand irregular Cossacks
and other troops are on their march to the Danube.
The Emperor, it is said, will command the army in
person, and go to join it in the month of
March. General Diebitsch remains at the head
of the staff, and Count Wittgenstein will
command the van of the Emperor's army. Ge-
nerals Roth, Geismar, and Rudiger, w►ll have se-
parate corps, to act on the Banks of the main army,

and the Duke of Wurternburg :will command the
reserve. An unauthenticated report says that the
Polish army is to be increased by 10,000 men, but
in no ease to be employed against the Turks. It
seems, however, that a division of it is to be in gar-
rison at St. Petersburgh, during the war with the
Turks. There are many reports about notes said to
have been presented by the great Powers, and even
of an ultimatum delivered by the English Ambassa-
dor Extraordinary. We nun, however, afiSrm, on
good authority, that all these reports are wholly
unfounded.. The most perfect understanding pre-
vails between the Allied Cabinets, sad will not be
interrupted.

P.ORSEN HALLE, FOUR O'CLOCK.
Funds arc firm with little business doing.

Anglo-Danizti Lean, 3 per cent
Anglo- Russian Loan
Ilanburgb-Russitn Loan •• E 411,4
Anglo-Pr:nil 'an..., Lean of ISIS ...... -..... ..... 4-1194
Austrian Hull( 51:ares llll
Auittian Iletalliques 93%
lixelianAe upon Londcn, at two roontll9 IB 64

ut 7 h

A letter from Vienna says, that Prince Leven,
the Russian Ambassador, at London, had declined
ratifyirg the Protocol, fixing the new boundaries of
Greece, until he should have received further in-
structions from his Court.

Gibraltar Chroniclei, of the lst inst., have
been received, which fully confirm the favour-
able intelligence of the di2appearance of contagi-
ous fever. Business wag reviving, and every-
thing betokened a continuance of health.

Charleston Papers have been received to the
19th ult. at th 3 North and South American
Coffee-house, but their contents are uninterest
ing ; the only article worth extracting is the
following:—

" STATE OF COLUMBIA, DRc. 12.—The Report of
the Committee of the whole House, recommending the
impeachment of Chancellor Thompson, was this day
agreed to in the House ; Ayes, 94, Noes, 22; and
the Committee appointed to conduct the impeach-
ment are—Messrs. Legere, Pressly, Bull, Holmes,
and Nixon. Mr. Bull moved to be excused, but the
House refused; the eause for this proceeding is not
stated."

We have received Newfoundland Papers, of
the 23d ult. inclusive. They contain the par-
ticulars of a dreadful fire at Port de Grain, Con-
ception Bay, on the 16th, which commenced in
the house of a Mr. J. JAcoßs. The premises
were destroyed, and the unfortunate inmates,
consisting of Mrs. JAcoßs, her three children,
and two servants, fell a sacrifice to the devouring
clement. Mr. JAcoßs was absent, at St. John's.

We wish that Mr. PERL, while he is busily
engaged in pruning the redundancies, rectifying
the blunders, and making sense of the absurdi-
ties of our Criminal Code, would direct his
attention to the wretched farco—the relic of a
barbarous age, and therefore a disgrace to a
civilised one—of drawing prisoners eouvicted of
coining, on a hurdle, to the place of execution.
The worse than folly of such a custom, was this
morning practically exemplified. A poor creature
who had taken his last farewell of life, and was

awaiting with a sort of desperate anxiety the
awful moment of death, who had bidden adieu

to his friends and relativ4s, and was silently

breathing his last invocation to his MAKER—a

poor criminal thus happily abstracted, was called
back, as it were, to life, and, consequently, to
wretchedness, by the ridiculous delay attendant
on his being placed on a hurdle ; which had,
,some how or other, been forgotten. Of course,
such a farce could not fail to divert thought from
its proper channel, and disturb the equanimity of
a mind which had been previously resigned to
the worst. We hope for the honour of common
sense, if not of humanity, that it will never be
repeated.

THE FUNDS.--(THIS DAY.)

CITY, T►►azrN o'CLocr.

The Brokers and Jobbers are all extremely busy
in the Settlement, this being Account day at the
Stock Exchange ; and, from the appearances, the
dealers have all been what is termed caught Bears.
Consols opened both for money and February Ac-
count at 87i have been buyers at 87i !, but are at
present at the first price ; the contango has all gone
off, and the Funds are the same for money as time.
With the exception of one defaulter of no import..
ance, every thing seems to be going on smoothly in
the Settlement; the Commissioners paid 86/ for
Consols. India Bonds are 67 9, and Exchequer
Bills 66 7 pm.
In the Foreign Funds there is literally no business,
and not a bargain has yet been marked ; the follow-
ing are the nominal prices. In Shares the prices
are the same as for the last few days, with no busi-
ness

Three per Cent. Consols, 874 Ditto, for February,
87i ; India Bonds, 67 68 pm. ; Exchequer Bills, 66
67 pal.

TWO O'CLOCK.

Consols are now quoted without the dividend
and are 861} both money and February, and the
3f per Cent. Reduced 96, Four per Cents. (1826)
10.514. Scarcely any brisittess.
The accounts from Vienna, of the 12th instant,
represent the news as pacific, and the Metalliques
have ris©n to 961 71. It is understood that the
purport of the visit of the French Ambassador to
Paris is to take his seat in the House of Peera on its
opening.

TERRE 0' CL 0 Cif.
Consols fc•r money S6i, and for February Ac-
count 86i buyers.

FOUR O'CLOCK.—CLOSING PRICES.
Consols 86i I Danish 63
Do. for Ac. 86i Greek, 1825 15}
Beazilian Bonds 63 Mexican, 182.5
Buenos Ayres Peruvian 16i
Chilian Do. 23 Russian 96
Columbian, 1824 221 Spanish 94

MR. ABERNETHY'Ii STATE OF HEALTH)
.._.Yesterday afternoon, from two till four o'clock) no ox-
pectstion whatever was entertained that Mr. Abernethy
could have seen the close of the day. He however rallied
in the evening, and the answer given to inquiries at his
door, at twelve o'clock this morning, was, that he had
passed a good might, and felt considerably recovered. HIS
C,:trilt3 of a severe aathratticalattodc.

SUIPPIN6 INTELLIOtNOE-(T HIS DAY.)

FROM LLOYD'S.

DEAL, JAN.2O.--Wind N.W.—Arrived horn
London, the Forester, for Tobago.
PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 20.—Wind N.W. to N.N.E.
—Sailed his Majesty's ship Onyx, for Gibraltar.
FALMOUTH, JAN. 19.—Wind
the London packet, from Philadelphia; Hunterliffe,
Stafford, from Honduras ; and hie Majesty's brig
Plumper, from Sierra Leone, iu fifty days, having
40 -pirates on board, taken out of a schooner by one
of his Majesty's cruizers for committing acts of piracy.
DARTMOUTH, JAN. 19.—Arrived the Swallow,
Grills, from Brazil ; Dart, Silly, from St. Michael's;
and John Kelson, Roberts, from Newfoundland.
PLYmoe'rx, JAN. 19.--Arrived the Harriet,
Ford, from the South Seas; Pearl, Michtl, from the
River Plate; and Eliza, Edwards, from St. Michael's.

The Duke of Bedford, from Bombay, has arrived
off Weymouth.
he Mary, Harrison, from Keil to London, was
driven on shore, near Copenhagen, previous to the
6th inst., but is expected to be got off.

LAW INTILLLIGENCI?..-(THIS DAY.)

COURT OF CHANCERY.
BEDDALL V. PACill.

Mr. BARBER opened the pleadings in this ease
yesterday. The plaintiff was the brother of a Mr.
James Lambert Beddall, who occupied a farm neur
Braintree. This gentleman wns of dissipated habits,
and unable to manage his farm himself, and there-
fore the defendant (Mr. Page) was appointed his
bailiff. At the death of Mr. J. L. Beddall, the
plaintiff became entitled to his property. On
coming into possession, he thought he ought to hare
got more, and being dissatisfied with the defendant's
conduct, filed a bill against him for an account. The
answer having been put in in consequence of a pend-
ing indictment for perjury against Mr. Page, and
on which he was afterwards acquitted, the
decree was taken pro confers°. Aggrieved by that
decree, which, in point offset, went further than the
bill had prayed, he filed the present petition to have
that decree set aside.

Mr. Norne and Mr. Barker appeared for the ap-
pellant, and Messrs. Sugden, Pepys, and Patterson,
for Mr. Beddall.
Mr. HORNE addressed the Court at cont:derable
length.
Mr. BARBER followed on the same side, and was
speaking when we left.

COURT OP KING'S BENCH.
NAUTINI3.IO V. SMITU.

Mr. GURNEY stated, that this was an action on a
promissory note. The plaintiff was a partner in a
banking house at St. Albans, and the defendant an
opulent farmer in the same county. The action was
brought to recover 8471. 14s. being the amount of
three instalments, which remained unpaid from a
prosnissory note for 1,9001. accepted jointly by de-
fendant and George Edwards, his son-in-law, in
August, 1827. It was to be paid by instalments,
and some of them were paid, but upon the plaintiff's
clerk applying for those in arrear some demur was
made to paying by Mr. Smith.
Several respectable witnesses were then called,
and proved to their belief that the signature was in
the hand-writing of the defendant, who attempted
to prove by cross-examination that being 70 years
of age, he had been imposed on, and induced to sign
on the supposition that he was signing a notice to
quit, for one of his tenants.
Sir .J. SC./31121r for the defence contended, that
the signature was not the defendant's, and called ae-
veral witnesses to that effect. He also insinuated,
that George Edwards had written the note over the
blank signature of his father-in-law, which lie had
fraudulently obtained. Verdict for the plaintiff—
Damages, 8471. 14s.