Star.
London, England, 1825-09-12 00:00:00

FRANKFORT, SEPT. 4.

The Oriental Spectator, of Ist August, contains the
conclusion of the private letter relative to the affair near
the Mills before Napoli di Romania, the first part of
which was inserted in our journals of the 20th August.
Having described the deplorable condition of the
unhappy country people, whose cattle were carried Off
by the Arabs, while their crops were burnt by order of
their Government, lest they should prove a resource to
the enemy, the writer speaks of the endeavours made
by Colocotroni, after the retreat of the Egyptians, on the
27th June, to assemble a few hundred men; and he
then continues : 4, But what will be the result of
these last efforts of the Greeks to defend them-
selves? What can they hope from so unequal a
contest, especially in the deplorable state to. which
the Peloponnesus is reduced? 1 have been told by
well-informed Greeks, that there are scarcely five
thousand men belonging to the country under arms ;
the remainder is a dangerous assemblage of strangers,
without public spirit, without a country, without any
object but thai of plunder, and of running away in case
of a reverse. Liberty here is only extreme licentious-
ness; the Greek Government has no kind of strength, no
means of repressing disorders. Everything is subject
to the will of the strongest. The Chiefs present them-
selves to the Government to demand the pay of their
soldiers. The Captain who ought to have two or tbr,ee
hundred men, has in reality sixty or eighty. When the
pay-day arrives,- he has recourse to the kindness of other
captains, who, with en tutderstansting that he is to do
them the same service, lend him, for that day only, the
number of men sufficient to complete his band. 'Fbe
Government pays, but the money finds its way into the
purse of the Captain, and the soldiers receive hardly
anything. From this sordid avarice, which is the ruling
passion, the greatest inconveniences arise. The soldiers
are continually changing from one Captain to another,
to try who pays the best. If the enemy ventures to make
his appearance at any point,the Greek Government orders
a Captain who has received pay for 300 men to pro-
ceed to that point. The Captain takes care not to
refuse, but he goes with 40 men, and the next day he
is back again. It is especially in the places where the
troops are encamped that. the country people suffer the
most terrible distress; they have lost their cattle, and
the G reeks themselves carry off from the peasant his only
remaining horse, on the pretext of the public service.
Everywhere there is general uneasiness, brutality, thirst
for pillage,and complete insubordination. The Moteotes,
entirely disgusted with this state of things, refuse to
march, and fly into the mountains, rather than expose
themselves,• without object and without' hope, to an
enemy who has inspired them with such terror."

New York Papers, to the 17th of August, have been
received at the New England Coffee-house. We in-
sert in another column an extract from one of them,
giving an account of the circumstances under which
the Asia and the Constante Spanish ships were given
up to Mexico.
Mr. VAUGHAN, his Majesty's Envoy to the United
States, arrived on the 9th ult. in the Chesapeake, on
board the PHAETON frigate, Captain STURT. The
French fleet, consisting of nine sail, is also stated to
have arrived in the Chesapeake, from the Havannah:—
The Brandywine, American frigate, ordered to be fitted
up for the accommodation of General LAFAYETTE, .on
his return to Europe, was nearly ready for sea, and is
said to exhibit an excellent specimen of American ship-
building. A vessel which arrived on the 13th of Au-
gust from Rio Grande, brought a report that at the
time of her sailing, Monte Video was closely blockaded,
and that -in some actions which had taken place
between the insurgents and the outposts, the
former had been successful. The Court-Martial
sitting on Commodote PORTER, had come to a
decision on the 11th of August, but the sentence
was not to be known till approved by the Presi-
dent. The deaths at New York had diminished to 109 a
week. This number, which is enommusythen it is considered that

it was not produced by any regular disorder like the Yellow Fever,
is said to be nearly one hundred less than the week preceding.

Saturday evening, M. COTINE, an Italian Messengers
left town with dispatches for Sir Faunae= ADAK, Lord High Com-
missioner of the Itinian Isles.
Monday, the Duke of LZINSTBIL arrived "at the Bli-
da Hotel, Edinburgh. •
A French frigate has been ordered.4o proceed to the
Frith of Forth, for the purpose of conveying to France the re-
mains of the late Duchess de GRAMMOWT, now lying in the Chapel
Royal, Holyrood-bouse.
Private utters trom Madrid state, that at the exe-
cution of Dun. Nato Ictumas and Colonel SUMO; on the 15th
Olt- fur their Constitutional opinions, the executioner jumped on
their shoultient and beat out their brains in the air. Ile Royalist
Volunteers wished to cut them up, and 'drag their limbs shoot the
.treets, and the irritated populace seconded the ides, but the Itrayal
Guard charged upon them, and dispersed thew to their homes,
with strokes of their sabres.