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RUSSIA FEATHERS.

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20111TIAMPTON, 0rr02211 1. 1.04.
VIFTY BAGS OF RUSSIA FEATHERS will
be expo( d to i'ublie Sate. try Wm. Dace, on Tuefday next
the pth Milan; at eleven o'clock iu the forenooo, at the Store-
book in Weft:ate-Rivet. Southampton. which, for the corm.
nluice of porchafers, will be put :a Lou of me bag, weighing
about t corr. 3 qrs. *lbs.

DUTCH P,IPE.RS.

Pasts. Seer. x6—We have received the Londrn '
Papers to the Bth of September. Tut key is now tl:e
chief objea of the attention of politicians in England,
as well as in France; but the Englith writer, aired •
to look upon the Porte as the centre of the intrigues
of tome Foreign Courts, and to confound Fiance
with Powers more interefted in the fubvet lion of the
Ottoman Empire ; that is to lay, Raja and Eng•
land : nay, even the latter lhould be excepted, if its I
Government could call a lo A: into futurity, and had
the fagacity to forefee the inevitable dtfafters which it
prepares for the commerce of its country, by lending
a hand to defigns which are fcarcely any longer a fe.
ctet, although the Courts of Petet (burgh and Turkey
fill preferve the femblance of concord. The conduit
of the Ruffians id the Seven Muds, throughout the
Morea. upon the frontiers of Servia, and even that
oftheir Ambaffador at the Porte, fufficiently reveal
the intentions which they would wills to diffemble,
until they are ftrong enough to overawe Europe, in
cafe they fhould not be able to redact Come of its
great Powers.
In thefe circumftancee, it is eked, what can be
the intentions of the Court of Vienna ? That Court
can no longer mi(lake its real interells, fo far as di.
redly or inthrealy to favour this vat ufurpation ; to
give itfelf, in the place of a quiet ally, more intent
upon preferving than upon aggrandiiiing itfelf, tur-
bulent neighbours, an empire tuft in the dreadful vor-
tex of its aggrandifemenr, a people in the vigour of
youth, and who, hemming in Germany on all fides,
would Softly leave her without refotirces for her
commerce, or Amity for her exiftenee.
Costa, Juev 12.—Though the political flare of
the former Venetian poffeffions, bordering on the
Ottoman Empire, Teems to be allured by inviolable
conventions, thole who onght to conform to them
do not all teem to rerpat them, in an equal manner.
A Convention concluded in doo. and guaranteed
by the Allied Powers, fecured particular privileges
to four towns, on the Adriatic waft. Parr, Preveza,
Butrinto, and Vollitza. This convention has not
been °braved, and the whole inhabitants of that di-
Aria bave teen with allonithrnent, the attempts made
In violation of it, by ALT PACHA• This reales and
enterptifing Governor, in defiance of the engage-
anent above mentioned, has canted the territory of
there four towns to be occupied by a military force.
which bas excited great alarm. and occafioned no
little confterna ion along the whole coal). The inha-
bitants made application to Count de /simile too, the
imperial plenipotentiary, who reticles in our Wand,
fat he did not think proper to 'matte any meal-tires
which have the leaf appearance of hoftility to the
nave, being defirons, moll fcrupulottfly, to refpea
a power with which Ruffia is in perfett friendffiip.—
AU the intervention he granted in this affair, is con-
fined merely to exerting his influence with the Divan,
in favour of the oppreffed towns. At Corfu, and in
the whole Republic of the Seven Wands we are
happy to live under the new cosaitution, ;Nth we
have formed ; it procures to us perfeß tranquillity:
which is bead's enfured by the pretence of the Ruf-
fian troops By refraining the efforts of the turbulent
and obftinate, the latter contribute to revive cireula-
*Ott our Wand, by the money they expend. There
are tome people indeed, who have endeavoured to
fpread bete, and to foment principles of anarchy.
and to kindle the flames of difewd by means of their
prejudicies, but they will not fueceed in their views,
and thefe prejudices will, by experience, daily become
weaker.

Tatum. Sere. 3.—Althnugh it is obvinufly the
intention of the .RufGan Cabinet to retain the whole of
the Seven Bland% it not for ever, at haft for a coo.
rnient time, the duration of which is only to be de-
termined by circumfk.rnces, it appears neverthelefs
that the greater part of the forces have been lent to
the ifiand of Corfu, certainly the molt important, not
only on azenunt of its commerce and population, but,
what is of much greater confequence, on account of
ha military lituattnn, and the formidable Rate of de-
fence in which it is capable of being pit in cafe of a
warwith ihe adjacent countries. The city of Corfu has
always been confidered as one of the firongeft places
in the Adriatic Gulf, and its harbour is univerfally
admitted to be one of the WA and molt frequented.
Its contiguity to the cm( of Albania, which on that
fide niers no point of eg,aoal refillance. gives it a
dangerous faperiority over that province, and parti-
cularly fence it has been Rrengt hermit by an unlimited
garrifon, which is Rill liable to be augmented.
Though Albania has been long regarded as a pro-
vince of the Ottoman Empire, its inhabitants have
never forgotten that they are the lineal defcendants
of the ancient Elyria. Such of them a, inhabit the
mountains flill ret sin the language of their ancellors ;
and all o(them, under the appellation t.f Arnants, are
conSderedlefs in the light of 'ireful fubjeas, than as
independent Republicans, whole Cervices are purchaf-
ed at a high rate by the Ottoman Government.—
They are excellent 'oldie's; their reputation for in-
trepidity caufes them to be much faught for in vari-
ous provinces of the Tui kills Empire. They never
enrol themfelves for more than one crimpaign, or for.
rive d-
ve months. This enrolment is made under a fin
& agreement which they renew, if neceffary, but for
the mutation of which thnfe independent men will
fometimes not w..it, but they retire from the army
and difband themfelves, if the lealt delay occur in
paying them the price for which they have en-
gaged their perfonal Cervices. They are armed in
the fame manner the janilfaties are, although they
do not belong to that body ; and they are generally
employed by the Turks to prntea the flanks of their
armies, and to annoy thole of the enemy. Subjeas
nt that defeription, belonging to the Porte, who have
fometimes the hardihood to wage war againit her,
would be of tl. greatell ad►anugetn Ruffle, fuppof-
iOg that Power not to have yet loft fight ofthe plans
attach the is long to have meditated splint;
the Syst.ins S . The pr•ffeilion of Corfu would
• -. n that cafe, n 4 the greateti advantar;e, and the
f•• n would nod, *ouch rather too late, its Ily
.ndifferenae to c ,E.li4 .ctizes, alien e:Agented

to open the Bofphorns to the ;mirage of each convoy
of the Ruffian troops, which, though feverally infig-
nificant, may, when•united on a weak point of the
Empire, become molt alarming and dangerous.
If we are to form an idea of the advantage that
the poireffion of the Seven Iflands is to Ruffia, and
of the danger ttat it is pregnant with to the Ottoman
Porte, we have only to take into our view the Hate
of thole provinces which border upon the recent at-
quifitions of Ruffia.
Eschtfive of Albania. fo dangerous to the perma-
Ise Ice of all legitimate authority, from the chanties-
of the people who inhabit it, there is a (mothered
fpirit of infurreftion in Bofnia and Sepia, which in.
creafes every day ; and. as if the germs of revolt
were not lufficiently powerful in themfelves, they
have difpatehed their emiffarks in all direftions, to
propagate thofe deftt waive principles among a people
who have hitherto prefervest tranquillity and obe-
dience. We Gonad not be furpriled, therefore. to
find that the port ani city of Corfu Gould become,
much boner than is imagined, the focus of thole
e. t e tterptizes which, if fuccefsful, may totally
etange the face of Europe. The other Muds, which
compote part of the new Republic, afford great con-
veniences fur any attempts that it may be thought
neceffary to make upon Macedonia or the Morea ;
but none of them offer fuch advantages as the illand
of Corfu for thofe purpofes.
It formerly ferved as a rampart to Italy again* the
defigna of the Turk,. Henceforth it is not improba-
ble but it may be converted into an arfenal and a
rallyiag point again* the Ottoman Power. There
has been a material alteration in the relative polition
of thole countries. Enrope bas no longer any Deter-
fity to el ea barriers again* the Turkilb Power; on
the contrary, Tnrkey is reduced to the neceffity of
defending herfelf. It is not above a century fit ce
the Turks came. with a formidable fleet, to attack
this bulwark of Chrillianity.; but the valour of the
Venetian General, Count Suutusuao, effigies' by
the Marquis De Matt, the Spanifh Admiral, whore
fleet *ruck a panic into the Turks, preferved this
important place for the Republic• of Venice. and
flatue was ended to Scot:Luaus°, in the very city
that be had to gloriouOy defended. In tytB. up-
wards of soon inhabitants, and fume of the fineft
buildings in the city of Corfu, were dettroyed by the
blowing up of a magazine. Had Inch an accident
happened an age before, the Turks would not have
neglected to profit by the difatier, as they had been
then engaged upwards of two years in the liege of
the town ; but the power and energy of that nation,
formerly fa dreaded, was then upon the decline,
while, from that period, the Chriflian power, of which
it formerly was the tenor. has trebled its means and
hs fpirit of encroachment.

BUNS, Ave. 3t.—At a time when Europe is co-
vered with military camps, it is natural that the Came
fpirit fbould be awakened in a nation fo ellentially
warlike, as the Helvetic. The preform Landamman
therefore, M. de WA rT A svm., is making particular
exertions to revive it by exercifing the people, and
making them good militia ; with this view he canted
to be ellablifhed, towards the end r f fummer, feve•
ral camps in the great Cantons. All the corps have
fucceffively maneuvered in it. The troops, free corps
and militia, of the canton of Zurich, have alto form-
ed a camp near Kloten, fume leagues from Zurich,
under the command of Colonel Zieexaa. M. HA US.
see, the Landamman's Adjutant General, adllled
I there in his name.

rit •It CY VOLT, S FT. t9.—The mifundettlanding
between the Court and the States of Wurtembergi
Rill remains nnadjufted. The public attention has
again been recently direaed to it, on account of the
fupport publicly held out to the States by the Here-
ditary Prince, and that even after he had abfented
himfelf from the country. The following letter, of
the slit of July ult. is addreffed by him from Paris
to the Privy council and Chamber of Finance at
Stutgardt :

TO THE PILIIIIDINT, TICA•PIttiIDINTS, AND TROTT

COUNCILLORS. &c.

The etrunuftances in which our country 4 placed, atoll have
en:raged the whole of your attention. We think it incumbent
upon us to lay afide every thing perfonal to Macias; bad got
an erdigktened and impartial public been long Ante convinced of
that necafity, and the jußtee of the Reps which, In confequence
of an unfortunate mifunderttanding with the Prince our Father,
we have ban compelled to adopt, they would no doubt find our
JulUfication in the nature of the preterit mina. Though we feel
no lodination to Jaen the starlets that have led to that Rep, we
cannot, however,furhear from a. public declaration of our opinion
refpcdting the relent Rate of things:
At a moment when the interpofitions of the Freneh Govern-
ment (which for the hall& gratitude on our put) had brought
about the long reported convocation of a Diet of the country; at
a moment when the French Government entertained with us the
pleafing expedatlon, that by th 4 means would be re.ettablifhed
that confidence between the Prince and his dorninioos, fo effen.
tial to the welf_re of the country; that the rights of the Prince
and the privileges of the tubjcet would be confirmed and the:
legitimate matures would, with one common content and Co.
qinutlon, be adopted, Es order to heal the wounds inaidted by
the maR &farms of wars; its at that very moment that a nwR
Peens pretext ie refereed to, for the purpote of tapping the very
foundations of the Coottitotion ; and a kind of proceeding has
been adopted, of which tie Unary of Wunemberg furniikes no
example. The College of the Privy Council, whole p.culiar duty
it is to watch over the privileges c.; the States, not only attempt,
to Jultify all theft ads of violence, but even tome of its Members
place thendrives at the head of thole who allow themfelves to be
made the lediruments of that oppreffino, in contempt of thote du-
ties, to the performance of wbkh they arc bound by the folemnity
of an oath. _ _ - .

" It Is meads, on our part, to proteft azalea all that has hi-
theno beat done and may be dace hereafter. The nullity of the
whole of that corded abfolves us from fuck a duty. But uwe
fully adhere to the patriotic fentiments of the States, and of t►ofe
Members of the Privy Council who afcountenance the
of individuals. we declare. in the moll folemn manner, out only
that we do smite wit► thaw in their endeavours for the re (flab-
ailment of the legitimate and conititutonal order of things, but
that ado, when it (hall pleat PROVIDLA‘L to tab us to the Go-
vernment of there damndest/. of which we are by birth the inhe-
ritor, we tail ezaa the moil rigorous account at the hands of all
thole who have proved rega►dkfs c f the* oath to maintain the Con-
Mimi= I and that we tall permit Mike to take its orasary
enerfe. We are the more convinced of the propriety of seta►:•ig
this decimation, berade we cannot by a..y pollibility whistle out-
faces that the Prince our Father could have et r been induced to
adopt (itch mer.furra, through any other Inftigukm, than the fug-
mftione o perverfe Counfeikes, of mm who have wholly forget-
tab. and difrmarded the facredoefs of their darks.
We embrace t►u occafina alfo to nualfeft publicly 09f decided
opinion refine:ling the fittution dour finances •Ttle well.ground-
cd apprehei,fions which on this fobica we meats* for the future,
are of a nature to oblige us to declare, that we la® acknowledge
as binding only thole debts, of whatever &atm they may be,
that ►ave not been cootradted agreeably to the ufual abode pre-
krilictl by coaftitution."

COPIKHAOiII, Sipa. s.—On the loth another
fleet of Englilh merchantmen failed through the
Sound for the North Sea. The (hip of war convoy-
ing it kited a vegel in the Cattegat, fatting nada

Pruffian colours, which appeared to be attended with
fapicious circumflanees. The crew were made pri.
toners.
SCHIEDAM, SEPT. 26.—SPYPT21 of the Diplomatic
Corps, who have hitherto been abfent from the
Hague, are fhortly expeited to return thither.
The following is copied from the 141rtmentalt
dirfibe Courant, of Sept. ay—.. A private letter from
Hamburgh Pays, we are bufily employed here in dif-
patching all Englifh merchandises to the German
territory; fince it is generally thought that the Ruf-
fian troops will effea a landing in that E .pire much
fooner than had been espeded. From the fide of
England, we are alto led to eve& an alliance be-
tween Great Britain, Ruffia, and Sweden, and pro
',ably Denmark."
On the 18th, about two o'clock in the afternoon,
divifion of the national fchooners of war, conliffinz
of O. each mounted with threerpounders, four 8.
pounders, and one s4-pound owitzer, and 555
funds, French and Dutch, failed from Flufhing for
Oflendt where it fafely arrived at twelve o'clock the
fame night. During their whole ;mirage they kept
out of the reach of the Englifis divifion, which was
much Rronger- Much praife is given to the officers
commanding this divifion, for the nautical (kill which
the/ difplayed on this hazardous occalion.
KOTTEIDAM, SEPT. z9.—The King of Sweden is
arrived at Stroalfand, on his way to Stockholm. after
having (pent more than a year in Germany.
In tome of the Italian newfpapers it is affected,
that the long contelledifland of tUlta is to be given
to Raffia, in purfuance of an alliance concluded be•
tween England and that Power. if this be confirmed,
we !hall no longer be at a lots to account for the ope-
rations carrying on in the Seven Iflaruls, by order of
the Emperor of Ruffle.
On the sods of September the French Emperor
and Emprefs arrived at Mentz. The Emprefs went
thither by water, and was received with great cere-
mony; the Emperor difappointed the populace, by
arriving at the fame time by land, and proceeding to
his palace through an unfrequented greet, accompa-
nied only by his guards, and two regiments of ca-
valry.

LONDON.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4•

PRICE OP STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK:
Coatsls, sham 561--tar sec. 57-omalam 6 prdo.

PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY.
Bank Stock Oita Own Ann. Out
s pa Cent. Red Ana. Out frith 5 per C. 35 831 es. die.
3pa One. CossL 561 S 7 561 Exchcq. BIlls;par as as. slit
4 pa Can. Oat Osmium 6 5/ pram
5 per Cent. Navy 8431/H En3lith 'Tickets. ESL rrs.
5 pa Ca:m.snm Out . Confols for ace. 551 561
Lens Ann. Oat
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In on Landon i st.

We have this day received the following letters
from Gibraltar, Cadiz, and Malaga. Our Cadiz
Correfpondent confirms the fad, Rated fome time
ago in this Paper, that the remittances of bullion
from Spain to France are tranfmitted through
the medium of &idl6 men of war—a circumilance
which, in the prefent Rate of affairs, furely calls
loudly for the interference of his Majelly's Minn:hrs.