Star.
London, England, 1822-01-11 00:00:00

TRIESTE, DECEMBER 23.

The news from Smyrna is disastrous ; the massa-
cres have continued from the 20th to the 28th of No-
vember. The conduct of the'English, such as it is
described, has caused great indignation. When the
massacres commenced, the Christians wished to take
refuge on board the vessels in the p6rt ; but the Eng-
lish left the harbour, in order not to displease their
good friends the Turks, by peiferming an act of hu-
manity. The French and Austrians acted with more
generosity._ Their vessels are incambered with Greek
families who have succeeded in escaping from the
sabres of the Turks.-- (Extract of a letter in the All-
gemeine Zeitstng.)

The French Papers of Tuesday last reached our
Office this morning. They are very barren of intel-
ligence, almost every article of foreign new shaving
been anticipated by the German and Flanderi Mails.
On Monday the KING transacted business with the
I►linisters of the Marine and the Interior. Several
Committees of the Chamber of Deputies met, when
the Committee charged with the examination of the
Law which had been presented by M. de SERRE, for
repressing Offences of the Press, nominated M. CHU..
FLET the Reporter. The Report was expected to be
presented in the ensuing week. No day was fixed
for a public sitting.
These Papers contain afflicting accounts of the
injury done to shipping along the French, Spanish,
and other coasts, during the late tempestuous weather,
and particularly on Christmas-day.
An article from Milan gives an account of the
sentence of the Special Commission, in the Lombardo-
Venetian kingdom, against thirty-four of the Cube-
nari who had been arrested, among whom are seve-
ral Noblemen. Thirteen persons were declared guilty
of High Treason, and condemned to death ; and seve-
ral others condemned to imprisonment for various
periods. The sentence had been submitted to the
EMPEROR, who, in his clemency, bad remitted the
punishment of death, and substituted rigorous con-
finement for periods of ten, fifteen, and twenty years.
The Journal des Debats, in an article which has
been mutilated by the scissors of the Censor, notices
the studied refutation of tumults in Constantinople,
printed in the Austrian Observer, which it views in
the same light that we have done.
An article from Vienna, dated 27th December,
says, that a letter from Brody, in Gallicia, states that
the subscription in Russia in favour of the Greeks had
been sanctioned by Prince GALLITZIN, in a circular
which he had issued, calling on the principal per-
sonages of the State to subscribe ; and urging it on
the score of religion as well as humanity, that each
individual may thus second the general interest.
The Gazette de France contains a private letter,
from Madrid, dated the 30th December, which says,
" The Spanish Ministry struggles with success against
the threats of the Jacobins. The Provincial Deputa-
tion of Cadiz had made a new representation to the
Cortes, dated the 21st of December, in which they
declare, that when the Ministers are dismissed, and
confidence re-established, they will justify their con-
duct, by sheaving obedience to the Constituted Go-
vernment."

The Cortes, in the Sitting of the 27th ult. conti-
nued the discussion (in the Report of the Committee
on the Administration in the Provinces. On the fol-
lowing day the re-election of the President and Se-
cretaries, came on, when M. Ray was called to the
Presidency of the Congress, by 71 votes out of 122.
M. Vtr.LA was named Vice-President.

In the Sitting of the 19th, the Cortes was engaged
in discussing the project for fixing the limits of the
Provinces, and on the subject of Juries, which it was
agreed upon should be admitted and regulated by
laws enacted for the purpose.
French Funds, Monday, Five per Cents. 86f. 56c

A mass of private intelligence has been received
from Spain, which contains accounts of the state of
that country. At Madrid everything was tranquil on
the 27th of December, when the retirement of two or
three of the Ministers was still talked of. The news
from Cadiz and Seville was said to be favourable.—
At Cadiz, two Regiments had made a declaration, by
which they renewed their profession of respect for
the Constitution, and for the decision of the Cortes,
whatever it might be.
A letter from St. Sebastian, dated the 314 of De-
cember, says—" The insurgents of Navarre have
been attacked a second time by Clucliaga. On the
26th be completely routed than, killing fifty, and

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makilig slay prisondet.- ITU altar in the night fiT
the' 26th and on the 47th, itt Ben, betwten %Ida%
men and the Custom-house raids, *as veo wirm;
they were totally rooted. Fifty ofotir horse chassetws
charged a far mote considerable body of the insurt
Reny They gave no quarter, and a great number
of horses have fallen into their hands. The factious
ace everywhere disconcerted and dispersed."
Some affairs had taken place, at the close of last
month, on the frontiers of France, between the Spa-
nish troops and the insurgents, which had been entirely
to the disadvantage of the latter.

• A Dutch Mani bringing Papers to the 9th instant,
reached us this forenoon. The first article, relating
to the'lonian Islands, also appears in the Constitu-
tiontrei, under date of Nuremberg, December 81.—
The following are extracts :

FRONTIERS OF ITALY, DECEMBER 27.
The report is renewed that Para: has been taken'
by the Greeks by storm. It is certain that, an English
vessel has brought the news of the taking of Canea
(in the district of the same name in the Island of
Candia) by the Greeks. The fall of the capital, which
is also blockaded on the sea side by Hydtiot vessels,
is inevitable.