Star.
London, England, 1822-09-24 00:00:00

TRIESTE, SEPTEMBER 6.

We have letters from the Morea to the 29th of
August, and the accounts are rather favourable to the
cause of the Greeks. They assert that the Greeks,
abandoned Corinth voluntarily, and laid waste the
country as far as Argos. The Turks, commanded by li
Mahomed Ali Paella, advanced as far as Argolitsa,
but they were there repulsed by Colocotroni and
Nicetas, on the 13th, 11th, and 17th of August, with
the loss of 8,000 men, 2,000 horses, and 260 camels.
They retreated towards Corinth, whither they were
pursued by the Greeks.
SECT. 7.—The following is the copy of a letter

from Argos, dated the 20th of August, which is cir-
culated here :
64 We completely defeated the Turks on the 15th,
16th, and 17th, near Argolitza. The head of the
Seraskier and Pacha of Salonichi is now being pre-
sented to the Senators charged with the government
of the interior. We have taken 5,000 prisoners. Those
who escaped fled towards Corinth to join Chourschid
Pacha. On the 18th the Turks proposed to nego-
tiate for the surrender of Corinth, dnd, as a proof of
the sincerity of their professions, they have evacuated
the citadel. We are indebted for the victory to Cola
cotroni and Nicetak who had laid waste the country
as fir as Argos. The Senate has renounced all influ-
'pence in military affairs, and lias recognized a Dicta-
torship for the War; but many traitors were pre-
viously decapitated by its orders. Our fleet, consist-
ing of 60 sail and SO fire-ships, is on its way to Patras.
We expect SO sail more from Spezia."
The letter from Trieste states that full credit may
be given to the above intelligence, which is transmit-
ted by a Senatbr.
It is stated, under the head of Nuremberg, that or-
ders have been issued by the Aulic Council at Vienna,
to raise immediately all the regiments of infantry in
the Austrian service to their fullest complement. No
reason is given for this sudden order.
The following are further extracts: '
PARTS. SEPTEMBER U. _

The Duke of Wellington, finding himself indis-.
posed near Beauvais, stopped there on Thursday, and
was bled. It appears that this indisposition is a con-
tinuation of that which his Grace experienced before
his departure from London.
A letter from Vienna, dated the 10th, states, that
part of the Emperor's suite would in the course of
a week proceed to Verona.
Two police officers have searched the residence of
M. Benjamin Constant ; they were furnished with a
mandate, authorising them to examine his papers, and
to seize any copies they might find of his letter to M.
the Procureur-General, Maugin,
M. Benjamin Constant has been cited to appear this
day before the Judge d'lnstruction, This mandate
does not give him the title of Deputy, although six
weeks have not elapsed since the last Session closed.
It was yesterday evening reported, that the four
Sous Officers who are under sentence of death for the
Rochelle conspiracy, would be transferred, in the
course of the night, from the Bicetre to the Concier-
gerie. The Eteile states, that the Prefect de Police
has already examined several persons accused of being
implicated in the project of effecting their escape.

M. Mauduit, Ditector of the Colonial Administra-
tion, has just received his dismissal.
The Sieurs Lamort, Editor and Proprietor of
Abeille de la Moselle, and Bouquillon, Publisher of
that Paper, were cited to a pear on the 19tf. instant
beft,re the Preliminary Tribunal of Metz, for having
published an article under the head of •• His:orical
Narrative of the Events which have taken place at
Colmar," &c. having in view to excite hatred and
contempt towards the King's Government, and to de-
fame and injure the Authorities of the Upper Rhine,

Foos AT Pam, Strrocua 21.—Five per Cents. opened at
92f. 25c. closed at 921.3.5 c.

Some of the Continental journals contain specula-
tions as to the business of the approaching Congress,
but they are either observations dictated by autho-
rity, or such as are written by individuals who dare
not freely express their sentiments. But although they
state the objects of the Royal deliberations, they speak
very vaguely as to the probable results of this Coun-
cil of Scvereigns. An article from Nuremberg says,
The deliberations of the future Congress may be
probably directed to general affairs and special affairs.
In the general deliberations, in which only the five
great Powers of Europe will take part, the state of
Europe as a whole will be considered. The other de-
' liberations will relate particularly to Italy, and the
Princes of the Peninsula have been invited to take part
in these discussions, either personally or ky their
Plenipotentiaries."

The waiter then proceeds to observe, that the ut-
most harmony prevails among the five Powers, and
that k may therefore be foreseen " that the results of
Congress will be the consolidation of the monarchical
pt inci ple."
That the " monarchical principle" requires conso-
lidating, or something done to rescue it from the
obloquy into which it is sinking in some countries, is
evident enough, but we suspect that the Holy Al•
liance Junto have not hit on the very best means of
retrieving its character. ie Let every one reform one"
is an old adage strictly applicable on the present oc-
casion, and before the Emperors of RUSSIA or Aus-
TRIA attempt to interfere with other States, it would
be well for them to satisfy their own subjects at
home. Let Russia relinquish her usurpation of Po-
land, which she nominally recognises as a distinct
kingdom but treats as a conquered Province. And
if the Emperor of AUSTRIA wishes to preserve his
Empire from continued discontent and distraction,
let him relinquish the iron rod as well as the Iron
Crown of Italy; and though he may wish that all
his subjects should be as ignorant as himself, let him
rest assured that he can never reduce them to that
state of degradation.
Another of the five great Powers, who are repre-
sented as so unanimous in their resolves, is Prussia—
a nation of importance only in time of war.—
, Every law and every act of the Government has a

military cast, and the whole nation represents but one
camp, where the KING is President, and his Council-
lors members of a Court-Martial. In time of war,
when almost every man was a soldier, such a state of
society was.easily tolerated ; but peace, and the pro-
gress of liberal opiniOns, have taught the Prussians
that a military despotism is not the best government.
Besides, the KING, in order to urge them to make
every sacrifice during the war, promised them some-
thing better worth fighting for in future—namely, a
Representative Government. Peace came, and with
it—not the new Constitution certainly, but—new
promises and new evasions, which have proved what
folly it is to put trust in Princes. But, though the
Government of Prussia is a despotism, and although
the KING has not kept faith with his subjects, yet he
is a prudent man, and is very cautions of not com-
mitting himself too far in the measures of his brothers-
of the Holy Alliance. Prussia, therefore, stands
rather aloof at present; and, though the KING dreads
liberal principles as much as the hydrophobia, yet he
fears to join in a crusade against them.
France is the fourth of the• great Powers; but the
nation which, under a more powerful genius, ba-,
lanced the destinies of Europe in the scales of her
own will, is, by the weakness of the present Govern-
ment, rendered incapable of holding any decisive
tone, even as to her own affairs, much less those of
her neighbours. France possesses all the elements of
a great and powerful kingdom, but it is a kingdom
divided against itself; the seeds of disaffection to the
BotntioNs can never be eradicated; the race of
Bourbonites is as nearly extinct as that of the Boua-
sous themselves. The present generation have been
taught only to hate and despise them ; and to their
inherent antipathy has been added what they con-
ceive the unpardonable insult of having the old dy-
nasty, with all its errors, thrust upon them.
A firm and moderate Government, acting in ac-
cordance with the principles of the age, might have
reconciled the discordant factions into which France
was divided ; but a succession of weak and intempe-
rate Administrations have driven it to the very verge
of a new revolution.

In the worst period of NAPOLEON'S absolute reign
the personal freedom of the subject was never so
violated, nor the Press more enslaved, than it is at
this moment in France; while there were redeeming
qualities in his character and government, which re-
conciled the people to their privations. The British
public has not the slightest ideatif the state of society
and public feeling in France, where law, justice, and
honour are contemned, by an arbitrary, fanatical,
and monk-ridden Government.
The trials in the Criminal Courts are a mere
mockery. The Juries are all regularly prepared ;
the prosecutors indulge in the utmost latitude of cri-
minating not only the persons before them, but men
of the most honourable character, because they hap-
pen to be in opposition to the Ministers. The Judge
sits there only to record a verdict of guilty, or, if he
interferes, it is to make more sure of his victim, by
depriving him of every means of defence.
It is not, however, against the accused only that
the power, or rather the vengeance, of the Govern-
ment is directed ; it exercises an inquisitorial power,
which is still more oppressive. If any worthless or
hired spy chooses to give information to the police that
he suspects an indiviidual of having a plaster figure
of NAPOLEON, an eagle, a bit of riband of three co-
lours, or a song, in which the word Liberty, Empe-
ror, or Napoleon, occurs, the gendarmerie will break
into his house at midnight, force open his bureau,
and seizing all his papers, viaduct the unconscious
individual before the Prefect of Police, where he
may think himself fortunate if he escapes fine and
imprisonment,
The agents of police hesitate at nothing in execut-
ing the wishes of their employers, even though it
should be the death of the individual. An instance of
this occurred lately in Paris : A tailor who had gone
out of the barriers to one of the guingettes to take
his wine, was followed by an individual whom he did
not know, and at length arrested. He was then handed
to a gendarme, who took him immediately into Cus-
tody on being shewn a medal or card by the mouchitrd.
The gendarme conducted his prisoner to the first
corps de garde, and charged two soldiers to conduct
him to the Prefecture de Police. Oa his passage, the
poor fellow, arrested he knew not why, nor by whom,
took advantage of a favourable spot, and endeavoured
to escape—the soldiers pursued him, and he was
killed in the street. The soldiers made their report,
and as they were the only witnesses, they took care
not to criminate themselves. However, there was the
fact of homicide, and it was necessary to have the
formality of a Council of War. The men made their
statement, and were acquitted. The Officers desired
to have further information, and solicited the at-
tendance of the etouchord who first arrested the de-
ceased ; but they solicited in vain—the Prefect said
that was his business, and he should attend to it ; but
that the tnouchard eould not be produced.
Thus was a father of a family, of good reputation,
murdered, in consequence of an arrest made nobody
knows why or by whom; and, instead of the villains
being brought to justice, authority endeavours to
shelter them. Such is the " monarchical principle"
in France, which the Congress at Verona will have
to " consolidate."
England is the last of the five great Powers that
are to settle the destinies of Europe. What share she

will take in the consolidating process of the Holy
Allstate, we know not; her duty we hive more than
once pointed out.—that of preserving the integrity of
all free States, and entering II solemn protest against
all interference between the Sovereign and his subjects
in every country.

The affaits of the Drains ate rapidly drawing.to a
the animosity between the native and the Ew
ropean troops increases, and they are every day et.
petted to come in contact, The absolute and uncon-
ditional independence of the Si arils alone'can restore
tranquillity, and every attempt to keep this Country
subject to Portugal must prove abortive. 13) the fo/•
lowing extract of a letter from the Agent to Lcovo's,
at Rio Janeiro, it would appear that the opposition
to the Portuguese is better organized than we had
been prepared to expect: