Star.
London, England, 1823-08-25 00:00:00

THE GREEKS.

By the Brussels Mail, receivel this morning, we
have the following intelligen.:e relating to the war
between the Greeks and the Turks :
TRIESTE, AUGUST 4.
Several vessels from the Archipelago bring news
that the Greek Admiralty is at present engaged in
preparing for the execution of a very bold project,
which may be productive of the greatest advantage
to their cause, if it succeeds; but may also be very
fatal to the Greeks. It is nothing less than to trans-
fer the theatre of war to Asia Minor, and to make
themselves masters of Smyrna. It is affirmed, that
for the execution of this project, the Greeks have as.
semblea a flotilla, with a body of 12,000 troops, col-
lected from the several islands of the Archipelago
which have shewn the greatest eagerness in the cause
of independence. We expect with great impatience
the further details of this plan, the execution of which
must now have commenced.

The Greek Admiralty has chosen the moment when
the Captain Pacha is in the lonian Sea, and on the
Coast of Candia, where the Greeks do not think he
can undertake anything important, because they
have been able to prepare for a vigorous defence on
all the points that are threatened.
The Divan had received positive information of
this expedition, and it is for this reason that it sent
Ibrahim Pacha with some thousand chosen troops to
Natolia. He is to take the chief command of a new
army that is organizing there, of which the troops
he has taken from Constantinople will form the
vanguard.
The success of the expedition will principally de-
pend on the part that the numerous Greeks of Asia
take. If they do not come to assist the landed troops,
the latter may be considered as lost, for we must ex-
pect that the Turks will do their utmost to expel the
Greeks from that important province.
A report is likewise spread that the Captain Pacha
has received orders from Constantinople to return,
with all his fleet, to the coast of Asia Minor, to attack
the Greek fleet. The expedition projected by the Ad-
miralty will thus far, at least, have the advantage of
acting as a powerful diversion to induce the Captain
Pasha to leave the lonian Sea and the coasts of Greece.
He had not yet, however, quitted the neighbourhood
of Patras. It is not known what he thought to do on
that coast, for there is no opportunity to strike a
great bow there, and his land force is besides too
small to attempt it.
It is certain that the Egyptian squadron is still at
Alexandia. The plague, it is said, has ceased, but
the Pacha of Egypt does not think it prudent to let
his fleet depart.--Brussels Paper.

Extract of a letter dated St. Thomas, 10th July
" It is openly and universally avowed in the island of
Porto Rico, from the Governor of the island down
to the lowest class of the inhabitants, that should
the lynch succeed in the present attempt on Spain,
they will immediately declare themselves indepen-
dent. The spirit in Porto Rico is highly Constitu-
tional; and the same disposition is said to exist in
Cuba, and it is reported to be the intention to form
those islands into one State. The intelligence re-
specting Porto Rico may be relied on, as I had it
from the mouths of the most distinguished inhabitants."
ATTEMPT AT ASSASbINATION.--.Sunday se'nnight
as Captain MIDDLETON, of the 71st regiment, was re-
turning from Fermoy to his quarters at Castletown-
roche, he was fired at by some ruffian from behind a
wall of a place called Kilcummer, within a mile and
a half of the latter town, and was providentially
missed. The horse was startied by the shot, and as soon
as he recovered, the gallant officer returned the fire,
and then rode quickly into Castletownroche, and took
a party out with him, and patrolled the country—
and we understand one man has been taken up under
suspicious circumstances.
SosaNOLENCY.—A most extraordinary circumstance
occurred in the town of Arklow a few days back; a
woman fell asleep, and continued so for the space of
fourteen days without intermission. During that
period she breathed most freely; she awoke for
short time on the 14th day, but relapsed into an ever-1
litAing sleep.— Wexford Inta!ligencer.
Thomas Bradley, a post-boy, in the employ of Mr.
HtePzitaos, of Hampton Court, was found dead on
Wimbledon Common on Friday night last. The de-
ceased was returning from London with a pair of
horses, and it is supposed that,
.in descending the
hill, which leads to the Baldf;ced Stag, the horse
on which he rode fell, and, falling on its rider,
killed him on the spot. One of the horses, which were
found near him, had its knees broken, its head very
much lacerated, and bore other marks of having had
a violent fall.
A patent or privilege has been granted at St. Pe-
tersbursh for a press for making bricks, which is not
only to diminish the labour, but to perfect the form
of the brick. By means of this machine, not only
bricks, both solid and hollow, can be made, but tubes,
straight or crooked, cornices, flutes for columns, and
other architectural ornaments. The patentee is a Mr.
Thomas, who proposes to establish a model brick-
yard, with improved ovens for baking the bricks.
Three pr lour men can produce, it is said, with his
machine, from 10 to 12,000 bricks daily, of differ-
ent forms.

SATIN BEAVER HATS.—uentiemeo's Satin Beaver
Hats at %h.: low price of 17s. Superfine Peaver Hats, from 20s.
upwards, with an extensive andryfashionable assortment of la-
dies and Cnildren's Beaver Hats and Bonnets, to be had of T. F.
Sattaa, Hat-Manufacturer, No. 22, 'Aldgate Within (opposite
Jewry-street). Merchants and Captains supplied on the most
reasonable terms, and with the utmost dispatch. Hats covered
with Siik, and made equal to new, for !U.—N.B. Forage and
Travelling Cips in gregt va,riety.—(No conuec,ion with any
other House> • •
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NORTH POLAR EXPEDIFION.

EXETER, AUG UST 23.
FROM WOOIMER'S EXETER AND PLYMOUTH GAZETTE.
We have been favoured with the copy of a letter
received yesterday from Captain BENNETT, of the
Fame merchant vessel, dated " St. Andrew's New
Brunswick, July 4, 1823," which states, that on the
Ist of June last, he fell in with the Lord Exmouth,
Captain BARRETT, bound to Quebec, and parted from
her on the sth. While in company with the Lord
Exmouth, on the 4th of that month, in lat. 44. 2. N.
long 27. W. Captain BARRETT, picked up a bottle.
covered with barnacles, in which was a piece of paper,
with the following words written.on it:

NOITU POLAR EXTIDITION, JANUARY, 7, 1822.—This bqttle
was sent adrift in the North Polar Sea by the Officers of the
North Polar Expedition, being then frozen up, five degrees west
of Melville Island.—All