Star.
London, England, 1821-04-16 00:00:00

PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.

" LEGHORN, APRIL;,.
" An'affair has happened here within the last ten
days, which has excited a great sensation, and created
no inconsiderable alarm among the English residents
in this port. On Saturday week, Mr. Peel (a nephew
of Sir Robert Peel, and a cousin of the late Secretary
for Ireland), who has been established as a Merchant
here since 1814., received an order from the Police,
signed by the Governor, to quit the town of Leghorn
and the Tuscan territory within 21. hours. He told
the Commissary that he was conscious of having done
nothing to excite suspicion, far less to justify such
severity, and begged respectfully to know the nature
of the charge again .t him, and the evidence by which
it was supported. He was merely told in vague and
general terms that he was considered a bad subject,
and that everything going on in his house was not
light. Mr. Peel declares, and his friends vouch for
the fact, that he has always been particularly cautious
in speaking of political subjects.
The Greek Merchants (of whom there are 30 or
40 houses, some of them worth half a million of
piastres) have been thrown into considerable alarm by
teparts of an insurrection of the Greeks in the Morea
and other parts of Turkey, against the Grand Seignor.
The object of the insurgents is said to be the esta-
blishment of a Constitution. Will the Holy Alliance
support the Grand Turk ? The Sovereigns are still
at Lay bach, ready to receive his representations. His
Highness, it is supposed, if the Greeks in the Morea
have rebelled, will make free with the property of
the Greeks in Constantinople and Smyrna, and thus
injure the Merchants at Leghorn."

" GENOA, APRIL 1.
A vessel from Naples, which place she left the
evening of the 27th of March, has anchored in this
port. The Austrians entered that city on the 24th,
as I mentioned in my letter of Saturday. I have
I just seen a letter to the most respectable English

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house here (Mr. Gibbs) from Naples, dated the 26th.
It states 4 that the advance of the Austrians to that
city was to the great surprise of its inhabitants, who
were not deficient in either courage or means to
defend themselves. A complete mystery hangs over
the whole transaction. The indignation of the people
is beginning to manifest itself in a manner which
every humane mind must regret. Last night twenty
Austrians were murdered. There is, lam sorry to',
say, little doubt of the fact.' Another letter of the,
date of the 27th states, that on the unexpected ad-
vance of the 30,000 Austrians, the Parliament retired
to Salerno, as did the army under the comthand of
Pepe. On the evening the vessel sailed, viz. the 27th,
the work of
.carnage was going on, and a promis-
cuous massacre was expected. Such are the Christian
results of the Holy Alliance, if those letters convey'
facts. An express arrived here last night from
Novara, which states that the Prince de Carignan,
being deserted by the few regiments stationed in that
garrison, had withdrawn himself out of Piedmont
and retired to Modena, whet e_ the Duke of Genoa
also remained.

" It is confidently asserted this morning, that the
Rdssian Ambassador at Turin had offered the me-
diation of his Imperial Master to the Provisional Go-
vernment of this kingdom, and that it has been ac-
cepted. This offer, if true, is at least a sacrifice to
the spirit that prevails throughout the whole of Italy,
of those unjustifiable pretensioniwith which the Con-
gress of Laybach began its abominable aggressions
on the rights of independent nations. The Piedmon-
tese I believe to be a reasonable, as well as a brave
people. If Austria, Unchecked by the appearances
which present themselves on every side, shall -drive
them to the necessity of a sanguinary resistance, I
think they are a people of that temperament who
can screw their courage to the sticking place, and
that the aggressor must prepare for a conflict similar
to that which Napoleon experienced in Spain. Offi-
cers of the greatest experience they can have from
France. The Provisional Government, I learn, are
daily receiving tenders of service."

We have, since inserting the preceding, received •
the Paris Papers of Friday. The Gazelle de France
states that an extraordinary courier had arrived in
Paris with the news of the entrance of the Austrians
into Alexandria and Turin. They took possession of
these cities on the 9th, in the name and as the Allies
of the King of SARDINIA. Agreeably to a Conven-
tion entered into, the Piedmontese troops are to divide
service with the Austrians. These operations had
been attended with little opposition. The Ex-King,
VICTOR ExtmANuet, it is added, had left Nice to
return to Turin.

A Mail arrived from Holland this forenoon, with
Papers to the 14th inst. We select some notices from
them which, though they contain no new fact, afford
strong confirmation of the imminent dangers by which
the Ottoman Empire is at present surrounded: