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London, England, 1823-08-29 00:00:00

OLDENBURGII, AUGUST 11.

His Serene Highness the Duke has, by letters pa-
tent of the Bth inst. annexed to the Duchy of Olden-
burgh the Principality of Jever, ceded by the Em-
peror Alexander on the 18th of April, 1818 ; and the
letters patent of this latter date, signed at Warsaw,
are also published, by which the Emperor Alexander
cedes this principality to the younger branch of the
house of Holstein Oldenburgh.

AUGSBURG, kUGUST 19.
According to a letter from Constantinople of the
•23d July, in the Allgesteine Zeitung, the late fire at
Constantinople destroyed several hundred houses, an
old ship of the line, and two corvettes, which were.
dismantled in the dock, but did no further damage'
to the arsenal, which was saved by great exertions;
directed by the Grand Vizier, though the fire had
broken out in several places at once. The incen-
diaries suffered for their crime: several soldiers taken
,on the spot when the fire broke out, have been executed.

Accounts from Constantinople of the 25th ult. state
that a treaty of peace with Persia was considered as
all but concluded, intelligence having been received
by the Porte that all the main points of a pacification
were arranged, owing, it is said, to the skill and tem-
per of RAOUF FAUNA, who conducts the negociations
on the part of Turkey. He was formerly Grand
Vizier, and has the reputation of being the ablest
statesman in the Ottoman Empire.
These advices mention that the Turks have ob-
tained some advantages in the neighbourhood of
Thermopylm, and that the preparations for attacking
the Morea at two points, by the Isthmus and in the
direction of Missolonghi, were nearly completed.
They are said to be on a very large scale, and suc-
cess is anticipated as usual. But the Greeks are bet-
ter prepared in every sense, and have more experience
in war than they had when invaded last year; and
the season is also so far advanced, that we should not
be surprised if the same fate were to attend. the pre-
sent preparations as befel the former, which, it is
well known, ended in the utter failure of the Turkish

expedition.
The late massacre of the Greeks in Asia is noticed

in these advices in a manner which does not at all in-
volve the Officers of the Porte in a participation of
the outrage. It was the act of an unauthorised per-
son, who had fled from the post he held at Constan-
tinople, and signalised his arrival in Asia, by working
on the prejudices of the Turkish rabble, excessively
inflamed too at the time by a hostile visit of the
Greeks. However this sanguinary act has been ppb-
licly disowned by the Porte ; and in addition to this
formal disavowal, it has caused several of the perpe-
trators to be capitally punished.

The affairs of Spain have so often appeared on the
eve of an important crisis, and the Public so often
been disappointed, that comparatively little interest
is attaches to any intelligence from the Peninsula;
pat ticularly as the advocates of the French consider
the war as terminated, and the friends of the Consti-
tutionalius despair of any further effective resistance
being made. The contest has now, however, reached
a point when intelligence is looked forward to with
anxiety. The Duc d'Ancotamtz has arrived before
Cadiz, and it remains to be seen whether he Fill seek
to terminate the struggle by offering to enter into an
amicable arrangement, or, relying on his means of
reducing Cadiz, he will attempt to force the Cortes
and Government into an unconditional submission,
that is, an act of self-dissolution. It is also doubtful,
even if such a demand is made, whether the Govern-
ment has the means of successfully resisting it. We
are aware that Cadiz is strongly fortified, and we
doubt not well victualled. We are also aware that
during the last war it held out for nearly three years
against the French, who were compelled to raise the
siege; but Cadiz had then an united garrison, and a
population undivided by faction ; it had a vigorous
Government, and its harbour was protected by a
British fleet. Far different is the case at present.
Cadiz, it is true, is still the last refuge of the Govern-
ment ; but it is a Government that has shewn itself
totally incompetent so meet the difficulties into which
the country has been plunged—a Government on the
merits of which Spain is divided.
The defections that have taken place among the
Spanish Generals, must have tended to shake con-
fidence in the leaders, however honest those of Cadiz
may be; the city is blockaded by a French Squadron,
and a vigorous or even a successful resistance offers
no very encouraging prospect of turning the tide of I
affairs, and rescuing Spain from invasion. Whether,
a Government that has been more remarkable for
obstinacy than talent may yet be convinced that public
opinion in Spain is not so decidedly with them as they
imagined, or whether they will have the alternative
of a liberal negotiation, a few days will, perhaps, de-
termine ; as it is now thirteen days since the Duc
d'AnnouLzme reached Port St. Marie, it is probable)
that the next arrival will bring some decisive intelli-1
sence as to his operations.
Catalonia is now the only place in Spain where the
French have an enemy to contend with ; but had the
I armies of Gallicia, Andalusia, and La Mancha, had
such Generals as MINA, LLOBERAS, and MiLans, Ca-
talonia would not thus have been left to maintain a
hopeless struggle single-handed. It Would appear that
the last engagement between the army of Micans
and that of Baron d'ErtoLes has been more important
than it at first seemed, if the following statement,
from one of the minor Paris Journals of Wednesday,
is to be relied on:

', PUYCERDA, AUGUST 19.

" The enemy, to the number of ,8,000 men, were
making their way along the heights with 400 horses
and about the same number uf bullocks. It was
thought their intention by this movement was to
provision Hostairich or if igueias. When they had
arrived at the bridge of Cabrianos, his Excellency
the Baron d'Eroles, though at the head of a force
very inferiot in number, advanced flout Mantesa to
meet them: the alarm-bells were rung, which pros

tared hisa.st.reinforcement of from two to *valiant
sand of the peasantry.
"The action commienoed pd was maintained with
ouch fury, that, accordipg to a letter from. Via), in
' are assured Baron d'Ereles said, that, in the whole
Course of his military career, he bad never witnessed
sanguinary an action."
[The same letter announces, that we had two hundred men
killed and wounded ; that Milans had more than six hundred
men killed, besides many wounded and prisoners ; ..nd that we
remained masters of the tieid of battle. His Excellency the
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Baron had his horse twice wounded under him, and one of his
orderlies was killed by hlq side. Amongst several Militia Officers
who were killed on the field was found one Colonel.

We have received the Gazette of the Regency of
Spain, dated the 19th. It contains nothing under
the Madrid head, except a notification that FERDi•
N AND, his QUEEN, and the other members of the
Royal Family, were in good health on the 11th and
12th of the present month. There are in this Ga.
zette several official articles, none of which al e of
much importance. One, from the Regency's Cap..l
tain-General of Old Castile, gives an account of an'
attack upon a party of 42 Constitutional cavalry,
commanded by Don A LoNso MARTIN, Lieutenant-1
Colonel of the Regiment of Algarve, and brother t:sl
the Empecinado. The men of the Faith state, that
they took 36, killed two, and that the remaining four,
one of whom was Colonel MARTIN, fled into Portu--
gal, where they were arrested and given up. It aii•
.pears that a remonstrance has lately been made by
the French Ambassador against the practice of infe-
rior officers and magistrates giving passports, by
which " even persons the most noted for their revolu-
tionary ideas," have been enabled to enter France.
The Regency, in obedience to this hint, ordered that
passports for foreign countries shall only be given by
the highest provincial authorities; but that on no ac-
count whatever, shall they be given to persons noted
for their revolutionary ideas, and attachment to
" what is called the Constitutional Government."
The Memorial Bordelais details the particulars of
the disturbances at Bilboa, to which we alluded yes-
terday. Three men, it is stated, were arrested for
insulting the Constitutionalists, by a French patrol
who wished to convey the offenders to the city
prison. This was opposed by a mob composed of
friends of the Faith, who insisted upon taking them to
the post of St. Antonio, which was occupied by a party
of the Regency's troops. The mob succeeded in res-
cuing the prisoners ; two were set at liberty, and
the third was carried to the post of St. Antonio.
A French detachment soon arrived before the post.

The mob and the Royalist troops flew to arms on their
part, and a fatal result was expected, but the inter-
ference of the civil and military authorities is stated to
have prevented the effusion of blood. It was determined
that the French should return to their quarters, and
that in future the patrols should be made by the
Royalist militia. Such is the account which is given
of this affair. It is also stated by the Constituti-
onnd, that the.correspondent of a Ministerial journal
printed at Bourdeaux writes that the execution of the
Andujar Decree ispreviously suspended, and further
adds, that the members of the diplomatic corps have
signified their intention to withdraw, if the decree be
not revoked."
PRISONER AT LARGE-.—A most extraordinary as-
sault and robbery was committed a few evenings ago
upon the person of a messenger at arms, when in
theexecution of his duty. A person who had been con-
fined in the Canongate Tolbooth, Ediburgh, for debt,
obtained a conditional liberation upon what is called
a bill of health ; but, in place of returning to the
bosom of his family, he formed a connection with a
landlady upon the South Bridge. This house natu-
rally appeared to his friends a very singular place for
his performing quarantine ; and they consequently
resolved to restore him to the less impure atmosphere
and somewhat wholesome discipline of a prison..
With this view they confederated with the creditor;
and having got np the caption, they put it into the
hands of a messenger, with directions to put it in
force. Accordingly, he collected a party, and pro-
ceeded, under the cloud of night, to the house, where
the debtor, at the very moment, was officiating as
master of the revels at a grand ball given by the
landlady to her customers. The messenger demanded
admission ; this was refused ; be insisted upon making
a search ; the landlady demanded to see his warrant;
—he produced it ; the landlady uneeremoniopsly
snatched the royal rescript from his hands, and fled
with it into the penetrant' of her dwelling ; he pur-
sued her, when the debtor himself rushed out of an
apartment, and made a savage attack upon the mes-
senger. The watchmen were sent for, who took both
delinquents into custody ; but still the caption' was
not forthcoming. Next day both were presented at
the bar of the Police Court, when the landlady, ob-
stinately denying all knowledge of the caption, was
fined in two guineas. The messenger engaged to
forego proceedings against the debtor, provided he
would voluntarily put himself into the keeping of the
Canongate Bailies, which the debtor having consented
to, he was suffered to retire from the bar.
CULTURE OF TOBACCO IN CANADA.—(From the
Quebec Gazette.)—The culture of tobacco is a sub-
ject which has of late very much engrossed the at-
tention of the agriculturists in the western districts of
Upper Canada. At a period when agricultural pro-
duce in general is reduced to so low a value, and in
a country whose foreign and domestic markets for
such produce are so unsettled, so distant, and so pre-
carious, we know not an object more highly deserving
of encoufagement than the rearing of an article, the
universal use of which must ever secure to it a remu-
neration adequate, at least, to the expense of its cul-
ture and exportation. Indeed, so far has the truth of
this observation forced itself upon the minds of the
farmers of Upper Canada, that many of them have
already spared neither pains 'nor expense to arrive at
a state of more perfect acquaintance: with the culti-
vation of tobacco ; and the fruits of their industrious
perseverance was importation last year into this city
of upwards of a hundred casks of tobiceo. It is this
year expected, not only that this quantity will be
doubled, but that a' very large exportation will be
made to Europe. It would be unpardonable to ex-
pect that the quality of so large a lot of tobacco,
thus for the first time brought into our market for
immediate consumption, would reach in general to a
competition with what bad been brought from more
favoured climates and through the hands of more
experienced manufacturers ; yet we are informed,
upon very respectable +iuthority, that much of what
was sold in Montreal was fully of as good a quality
as that which is imported from Europe.

COM.VERCE OF THE, NETHERLANDS.

In the Brussels Papers received this morninz we
'filid the following Decree for regulating the cormner.
aid intercourse between France and the Netherlands;

GHENT, AUGUST 24.

His Majesty has issued a Decree, dated the 2Or
of August, in consequence of repeated representa-
tions addressed to him by the Chamber of Com-
merce and Provincial Assemblies, requesting hint
to make use of the prerogative reserve:! to him,
to impose higher duties upon, or wholly to prohibit,
certain articles the produce of Fiance; various
ordonnances, successively issued in France. having
imposed gicat restraints on the commercial rela-
tions with this Kingdom, though .they are favoured
by the laws of the Nether hinds, being charged with ex-
cessive ditties or wholly lircrliP,iited in France, and all
• his Majesty's entkayout s to make an arrangement
equitah'e to both patties having failed, his Na.
jest y Or
Art. 1. The following articles, so far as they areal'
or' n, or imported from France, into our king-
dom, shall he liable to•the following import duties.
Perctlain, svh;te cr painted, per 1001bs. •)0 fr. Fart-nee of al
kinds, ‘...f0 fr. Narthenviare, 15 per cent. Stockings, Caps, ths.
tells, anti other articles of wcaring apparel, of carton, watt, fie
thread, either knit ,it..wove, 20 per cent. Siates per 1000,3 E
2. The fo-lowing are:ides of French origin, or im-
pot ted from France, are pr Ihibizr%l
Glasses and Glass ware of al ':rinds, exctpt Leoking-Glasses;
Cloths and Casintirs, Murizitic Acid, Nitric Acid, VittioUt
Acid, and Brandy distilled tram Grain.
3. The following .articles coining front France shall
not be imported, except by -e.t :
Distilled Liquors, Vinegar (of wine, beer, and artificial slaw
gar), and Wine.