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alsnost immediate commencement of hostilities'
Austria h putting her troops in motion in a manner
which induces a suspicion that she will not stoma
aloof from the contest. While these two Powers are
in an probability concerting plans for erasing one
part of Turkey from the map of Europe, their Per-
sian allies are rapidly advancing into the Asiatic
portion of that country. Trebisond is said to hays'
fallen, and that the Persians had penetrated to Er-
serum, which is one hundred miles distant, and near
which place the Turkish army was completely routed.
The Greeks,after having nearly liberated the whole
of the Morea, appear to be forming a Constitutional
Government, an act of daring which will certainly incur
the indignation of the Holy Alliance, and, probably,
afford a pretext for visiting them with the same pie-
tediox as they recently gave to the Neapolitans and
Piedmontese, when they were rash enough to attempt
to reform the abuses of their Governments.

Great atrocities are said, on what authority we
know not, to have been committed by the Greeks on
the taking of Tripolizsa, and that three thousand
inhabitants were put to death after the town had
capitulated. If such excesses have been committed,
every one must regret that so good a cause has been
stained by such a crime; but the war between the
Greeks and the Turks has from its commencement
been a war of extermination ; and the indignation of
the Greeks has not only been provoked by ages of the
most debasing tyranny, but by massacres of a recent
date the most revolting to human nature. All the
French Papers are silent as to this affair at Tripolitsa:
and one of them, the Conditutionnel, of Monday last,
asserts, in an article from Corfu, that, urged by the,
genius of destruction, the Turkish Government bad,
given orders to pit the whole of Greece to fire
and sword. But who will contend that the Turks can
be outstripped in ferocity by the Greeks?
The following are additional extracts from the.
French Papers :

PARIS, DECEMBER u. •
Yesterday, after Mass, the King received the Mi-
nisters, Prince TalleyrAnd, several Marshals, and
Peers of France ; among whom were, Count Si-
meon, late Minister of the Interior ; M. de Lavan,
Prefect of Police; M. Angles, Minister of State; a
great number of Deputies, the Papal Nuncio, and
Officers of all ranks.
The report circulated at Frankfort, and repeated in
several French journals, that the house of Rothschild
had taken a share in the Spanish loan, is without
foundation.
It is stated in the Laiuunne Gentile, that a species
of typhus has raged in the Canton of Berne and the
neighbouring Communes, since September last. It
was the poor classes that principally suffered from it.
Great preparations are making in the Hotel, rue
d'Artois, for an English personage of the highest
L distinction.
Funds, December 22—Five per Cents. 87 fr. 15 c.
December 24-85 fr. 65 c.
MADRID, DECEMBER 13.

Government has received a dispatch from Sara-
gossa, dated the Bth inst. by which it appears that a
rencontre had taken place in that city between a
party of soldiers and some of the populace, in which
an Officer and a corporal were wounded.
Some disorders have taken place in Pampeluna,
but they were not of a serious nature.
In the sitting of the Cortes of the 11th, the discus-
sion upon the Report of the Committee appointed to
examine into the state of the country was commenced.
Several Members claimed to be heard, but Count
Flores Estrada was the first who spoke on the ques-
tion. He was opposed to this Report, and justified
his opposition en the following dilemma :—" Are the
prerogatives of the Crown (said he) attacked or not ?
In the first ease, the authors of so great a crime de-
serve the severest punishment. If they have not been
attacked, why have the Commission proclaimed that
disobedience exists? In sanctioning this Report, we
prove to the whole of Europe that we neither know
how to value the liberties of the people, nor to respect
the dignity of the Throne. The enemies of the Con-
stitutional system will say thatthe Cortes is composed
of Jacobins, who countenance anarchy, since they
only stigmatize with the epithet disobedient those who
compromise entire provinces, by inspiring them with
distrust of the Government."
Quiroga (who spoke on this question) said, that
" if the people of Cadiz had wandered from the Con-
stitutional path, the dangers they had suffered in the
cause of liberty should be allowed in palliation of
their offense." The Sitting being declared permanent
until its object should be attained, several Members
' were heard. The first part of the Report was ap-
proved by 140 voices against 48. The Sitting was
not terminated till a quarter past eight in the even.
ins. A discussion on the second part of the Report
would take place immediately. -
BAYONNE, DECEMBER 18.

Intelligence from Navarre and Arragon announce
that these Provinces are in a state of great agitation.
In Navarre, a corps of Guerillas had been formed,
amounting, it is said, to 900 armed men. The garri-
sons of St. Sebastian and Vittoria had been instantly
dispatched to Navarre.
At Saragossa the people had thrown down the
monuments erected to perpetuate the revolution. The
troops took up arms to defend them, when a tumult
took place, in which several were killed and wounded.
Gallicia is at this time in a state of.complete anarchy.
'molten from Barcelona give gratifying intelligence