Star.
London, England, 1821-04-24 00:00:00

CONSTANTINOPLE, MARCII Is.

The following are details .of the insurrection in
Moldavia, and of the consequences which it may be
feared will ensue:

" The first reports, relative to the communions in
Walachia, scarcely appeared of sufficient conse-
quence to engage the attention of the Divan. Hopes
were entertained that this revolt would end like
most of those which but too frequently desolate our
Provinces ; and that the example of about 50 vil-
lages annihilated by fire and massacre, and some
hundred heads of the rebels exposed over the gates
of the Seraglio, would have sufficed to put a term
to the insurrection.
" The news of the revolt in Moldavia has thrown
the Porte into consternation. The instant that the
dispatches were received, which announced that the
sons of an ex-principal Dragoman, and a former
Hospodar of Wallachia, and, finally, Prince Ypsilanti,
were at the head of the insurrection, the Divan was
extraordinarily convoked ; all the Dignitaries of the
State were summoned to attend it, and frequent
Councils were held during several successive days.
In the first moment of alarm, such decisive measures
were adopted as were in the power of a Government,
not in the least prepared for such an event. Tartars
were dispatched in all directions, with orders to the
Pachas of Provinces in Europe and Asia to assemble
and march, without delay, all the troops they could
muster; the expresses, however, which every instant
arrived from quarters bordering on the theatre of
the rebellion, only gave rise to fresh alarm. Intel-
ligence soon succeeded, that the insurrection had
gained Bulgaria ; that from thence it was extending
with the rapidity of lightning to almost all thq Pro-
vinces beyond Mount Baleans, and as far as the %
Me-
diterranean shores. Already, and even before the'
most feeble means of defence could be concentrated,
fear painted the armies of Prince Ypsilanti and Ali
Pacha, descending simultaneously from the moun-
tains, and operating their junction in the centre of
: in a word, such was the general dismay,
that it would have been thought that the enemy had
reached the gates of Constantinople.
" From the topographical situation of the Pro-
vinces in which the insurgents are posted, and the
forces which the Empire can bring against them, we
are far from being reduced to extremities. Although
it must be allowed that we are but ill-prepared to
prosecute a war in the revolted territory, it is at least
happy for us that we have, in the capital alone, suf-
ficient forces to resist any rash enterprize which might
be directed against it. And if (which is not at all
probable) the insurgents were to establish themselves
at Adrianople, and their advanced-guard was posted
half way from that town to our capital, there is a
position which probably they would not he able to
reduce. The angle which is formed from the height
of the Seraglio, and whose base is the tongue of land
which extends from Rodosto, on the Sea of Marmora,
to the Black Sea, presents,a line which it would be
difficult to break through. It may be compared to
the celebrated lines of Torres Vedras before Lisbon,
forming a natural barrier, which would baffle the
best troops, if but tolerably defended. Lastly, should
the Greeks become masters of Constantinople, place
at once their standard in the Seven Towers, and the
'Cross in St. Sophia ; be assured, that without most
powerful foreign aid they would be more easily placed
than kept there ; be assured, that if the Ottomans
could be for a moment forced back to Asia, they
would soon re-appear in Europe, stronger, more
united, endowed with more energy, arising from their
very reverses. As for the present moment, it may,
perhaps, be imagined that the calamities that menace
the Empire, and the cruelties exercised on the Turks
by the Greek insurgents, are the chief sources of
alarm among the faithful servants of the Porte. Far
from it, they are influenced by very different fears ;
they tremble at the possibility of seeing their sump-
tuorrs residences on the Bosphorus occupied before
autumn by new masters, at the idea that they may
be prevented from going in the heat of the dog days
to respire in their Kiosks, the refreshing zephyrs of:the
Entine. Nothing less than such apprehensions were
necessary to rouse our statesmen from their long and
fatal apathy, and if they should happen, on this occa-
sion, to shew more energy, we shall be indebted for it
entirely to their egotism, alarmed for their own inte-
rest, their safety, and their personal enjoyments.
" But if we are not deceived, their danger and ours
is not so great as we had at first treason to fear.—
While all measures for defence and attack are making,
we have received communications from abroad which
have inspired great confidence. The assurance of
the Emperor Alexander, that the rebels have no
countenance whatever to expect from him, deprives
the Greeks of half their strength, by taking away a
support on which they placed great reliance. Yet if
the Porte could not find means last year to reduce a
single revolted province, and one Pacha who had
only a few hundred men left, may it not be feared
that an insurrection which threatens to involve the
wilole Greek population of the erophe, will be the

signal for an endless war, which, after many years
of desolation and excesses, would leave victory un•
certain, and not bring the Greeks any nearer to their
object, of founding an independent empire ? per.
haps this war would only have the poor result of
rendering independent two or three provinces, and
giving the sovereignty of them to some powerful
families, such as that of Ypsilanti, which would still
' pay tribute as vassals, unless, what often happens in
civil cum motions, the authors of the revolution should
not be called upon to reap the fruit, but some much
more powerful hand than that of Ypsilanti should, is
the sequel appear, to seize the fragment of an empire,
the destruction of which this rash youth, in the excess
of his imprudence, would only have begun."

Yesterday the KING gave a Ball at Brighton;
the Princess Auousra left town about twelve o'clock
to be present at it.

A letter from Brighton, dated April 22. says
" His MAJESTY has not appeared in public since our
former report, but has daily taken pedestrian airings
on the Palace Lawn."

His MAJESTY'S birth-day was celebrated yesterday
at Windsor by a grand pubic dinner given, in tk-ue
Town-hall, at which J. ItAmsnoTrom, Esq. pre,ided.
Yesterday was observed by his MAJ E;,TY% trades.
men with the usual demonstrations of respect and
gratitude. About sixty persons partook of the fat
bucks, and other goo i cheer, at the Thatched Home
Tavern. When the cloth was removed, Non ,01,4
Domino was sung. by lessrs. TAYLOR, PYRE,
Then followed the usu I toasts, and the evening can.
chided with hilarity and g humour.—The Italian
Opera-House, the Theatres, the Royal Tradesmen,
and the S.db,cription-rooms in St. James's street,
were illuminated.

MAIL COACHES.—The public curiosity was yester-
day much gratified by the Proces‘ion of the Mail
Coaches, in honour of the KING'S Birth-day. 2v,i
the coaches were new painted, varnished, and oink.
mented, having new hammer-cloths and harness, and
the Drivers and Guards in splendid new liveries. At
one o'clock, eighteen Mail Coaches assembled at the
back of Mr: VIDLER'S, the coach. manufacturer, at
Millbank. Mr. VIDLER gave his annual grand enter-
tainment, in his manufactory, to the different Post-
masters, who came there from a considerable dis-
tance. At five o'clock, the Drivers and Guards mus-
tered in the open air, and, uncovered, drank the
KING'S health, with three cheers, in bumpers of port.
The Procession then proceeded to Charing-cross,
Pall-mall, St. James's-street, Arlington-street. Picca-
dilly, and returned through Piccadilly, down Re.
gent-streetiWaterloo-place, halted opposite the King's
Palace, in Pall-mall, to make their obeisances, and
then proceeded through the Strand to the General
Post-office.—The following was the order of the Pro-
cession :
Mail Ceachm

Inns they go from.
Two 1 lorserren.

Waterhouse, Swan with Two Necks
1' Bristol • • Laa-lane.
A Horseman.
2. Bath . . . . Ditto

3. Exeter .

. . Ditto

linlYbead' by Ditto
Coventry . . 3
5. ilveepo.3 . . Ditto.

6. Manchester . . Ditto
7. Norwich, by
Ditto
Ipswich .•

. ,
( Mr. Willan, Bull and
8. Worcester . . Mouth, Bull and A Horsears.
Mouth-street.
9. Birmingham . Ditto
. __

A }knew'.
10. Leeds . . . Ditto
11. Glasgow . . . Ditto
i 2. Edinburgh by York. Ditto
13. Poole, by South- } . x.r.
Fagg, Bell and Crown, llolbort
ampton . . .
14. Dovtr . .
Mr. Eames, Angel }
A lime=
. .
St. Clement's, Strand
15. Portsmouth . . Ditto

Mr. Home, Golden / A Homes.
16. Gloucester . . Cross Charing-cross-5
17. Norwich by Bury Ditto
18. Chester . . . Ditto
Two Horsemen.

Among the best and most admired were the bays
in the Southampton Mail, which were decorated with
light blue ribbons; the greys in the Dover; the clue
nuts in the Portsmouth ; the bays in the Norwich, by
Newmarket ; and the greys in the Worcester.
The Duchess of GLOUCESTER visited the Duchess
of CLARENCE and the Princess SOPHIA yesterday.
The cards began to be issued yesterday to invite
the company to the grand Ball to be given by the
KING on Thursday se nnight, after the Drawing-roem.
As soon as Parliament meets, a notice of maim
will be given by a distinguished Opposition !Member
of the House of Commons, of the first importance
to the Liberty of the Press; and which, it is said,
will have the support of several Members who air is
the habit of voting with Ministers.
A duel was fought on Saturday morning, 01
Wormwood Scrubs. The opponents were a Mr.
CH—MY and Captain Fo—n—R. This arose froa
a dispute relative to a sister of Mr. C.'s. Two shots
each were exchanged, and in the second fire Captain
F. was wounded in the ear, part of which the ball
took away.
Extract from a letter, dated Sierra Leone, 12th
February, 1821 The rainy season has been most
favourable than usual, but the months of December
and January have been particularly unhealthy: three
or four white residents have died ; the rest of the in-
habitants continue much debilitated, and numbers
intend returning to England before the mains cop
mence. The merchant vessels have suffered severely,
65 men having died out of 85, in two months, and
many are left without a man. Our Chaplain, the
Rev. Mr. GARNSEY, and family, Lieut. °usurers,
of the 2d West Ildia Regiment, and Mr. Moon,
.merchant, have been obliged to return to England.
Our Governor, Lieutenant-Colonel Bum.; Rho at'
rived by the Tartar, on the Ist of February, being
seized with fever the day after his arrival, was forced
to resign on the third day, and with Ensign SPOCII
of the 2d West India Regiment, Lieutenant Wei,
of the Myrmidon, and Lieutenant SPRATT, acting is
the Snapper, sail this day in the Wilding—all mud'
affected by the climate. Mr. Josurx WRIGHT, 10
Admiralty Midshipman of the Tartar, and actio7
Lieutenant of the Myrmidon, died here on the sth a
this month. The following Promotions and Appoint'
ments have taken place here since the arrival of Coo'
modore Sir G. R. COLLIER :—Mr. JAMES IO be Lieu'
tenant of the Pheasant ; Mr. Evarrs, Acting Lieute'
mint, and Mr. Cowzy, Master, to the Snapp.e!i;
Messrs. BINGHAM and Enwira, Lieutenants; )1
AYLEN, Master, and Mr. MITCHELL, SHigeoo/
to
the M) nritio4."

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