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FRENCH PAPERS.

!ROM THE GAZETTE DE FRANCE, MILT 21. .
CONSTANTINOPLE, Mil IS.
The Goveinm at is informed cf Vie entrance and
progress of the Russians in the territory of the Empire,
and seems to er.ttitain much fear for 'the tranquillity of
the capital, the population of which does not yet know
the danger which threatens them. It is certain that
they no longer show any warlike seotimenti ; and that
in case of the approach of the enemy; they would rather
turn Against their own superiors. The Sultan, notwith-
standing his energy, has probably not sufficient means
to cisme the tranquillity of the capital, in case he
should be obliged to leave it to take the field. He ap-
pears to be sensible of this; and though he has declared
that after having seen with indifference the occupation
of the Principalities, be would mount his hone, and,
followed by the whole nation, go and offer battle to'the
enemy if they cross the Danube. it is certain that Oere
is as little appearance of his deParture as that of the
land Vizier, aid of the heisting of tlli jraad stand-
ard. The troops sent to the army march in small di-'
eitions of twelve or fifteen hundred men. after having
been renewed by the Sultan, and are quickly sent
towards Adrianople, there it is said that Hussein Pa-
cha has not above 15,000 men ender his command.

BUCHAREST. Jinx 1.
All the accounts from the Russian army agree that
all the places and puns along the Black Sea will soon
be taken, and that the supply of the army will thus be
secured. Nevertheless, as the army approaches the chain
of mountains, the operations mutt be computed to be
more slow. The corps of General Roth has passed the
Danube to Hirsova, of which the Russians are masters,
and will join the grand army, with which it will act
against Scbumla. The reserve, under General Witt,
is advancing in Wallachia, and will, in a few days, take
up the position left by General Roth.
The garrison of Brailow, apprehending the fate which
may await it at Salmis, had asked to remain prisoners
of war among the Russians ; but the Russian Com-
mander who accompanied them, did net think himself
.autheriied to grant their request. All that has been re-
ported in foreign countries of extraordinary contribu-
tions in the Principalities, is entirely false.
PARIS. Jam, 20.
Lord Stuart. the Ambassador from his Britannic
Majesty to the Court of France, arrived at Paris last
night. Letters from Bayonne of the 13th July say,
" the Marquis de Chaves left this city the day before
yesterday, to return to Portugal. His passport., how.
ever, were given him only to Madrid, where he will,
doubtless. End others."
The Augsburg Gazette says, that it is ascertained that
General Paskewitsth has already made himself matter
of Btjesid, Kars, and Ackalsicke, in Asiatic Turkey.

If4tract of a letter from Sierra Leone, received to•
dal', brought by the Huskisson to Portsmouth. and
dated May 28th —" The last dry season has been much
pore healthy than any remembered by the oldest colo-
nist. and it is the universal opinion that the climate is
rapidly improving, owing no doubt to the increasing
cultivation of the county y, when we formerly had nothing
is view but a continued mass of bosh and wood. We
have now small plantations, and there is little reason to
doubt, that if proper measures were taken on the part
of the Government, this place might in a short time vie
with many of our West India Colonies."
In the Superior Court of Brussels, the Archbishop of
Malacca and the Dean of Wavre were recently acquitted
in an action brought against them for calumnious insi-
nuations on the character of a poor woman of the name
ofhticheire. This case had been brought up from the
Court of Nivelles, on the apßeal of the defendants. It
,appeared that an old Priest had resided in the house of
the, complainant for several years. and the Dean had for-
,bidden him to continue to live there, without assigning
any reason, but in such a manner as to injure the ch...
racier of tie poor woman to such a degree that no one
would hold any communication with her in her village.,
She applied to the Archbiahlip, and he refused to listen
to bet ; she in consequence brought her complaint
•Against.botb belorethe Court of Nivelles, which gave a
'ertilict in hcr favour, with 6 QUO florins damages. The
defendants appealed from this. and stated that the Tri-
bunals wets incompetent to decide in ecclesiastical al-
kairs. This was assented by the. Court of Appeal at
Bross*, and the esamplaioant was sentenced tp ask
Pardon of the Archbishop and Dean, and to pay the,
costs of this proceedings.

It may be interesting to our Readers to be inforMed,
that Admiral Greig, of whom honourable mention is
made itt the Russian Bulletin, which we published on
Monday, received his first knowledge of naval tactics in
the British Navy, in the Mediterranean, when a very
young Officer in the Russian Navy. Doing the reign of
Paul, Greig, like many other worthy men, fell under hi,
displeasure, and was ordered into the interior under mi-
veillance, because he offered his resignation when the
infatuation of Paul led him to a breach with England ;
and young Greig, from a high sense of honour, and
gratitude to the country of his forefathers, and to the
attention received in the British Service, preferred
offering to resign his rank (then Captain in the Russian
Navy) than to serve against Britain. He is said to be
the perfect model of his father—brave, considerate,
entirely void of ostentation, and disinterested. His age,
we believe, is about 58. He had the happiness of being
In high faireur with the late Emperor Alexander. Like
,his father, the late Admiral Greig, his ambition lies in
performing his ditties, mid the lose of lucre he consi.
doss beneath his notice. le this be resembles ear ten.
;Mortal Nelson, and in another trait the resemblance
[between their characters is trtarkedi as was also the case
with hi, father, perfect co loess in action, and adored
by persons serving tinier him. Greig, when a youth,
ieceived his education at the High School of Edinburgh.
The tether r f Admiral Greig was born at Inverkeith.
'lag, North nein, eoteied into she British Nave,. and
attained rank of Lit utenant ; was actively employed
in 176.1 at the siege of Havannah. The Empress Ca-
therine wished some British Officers to enter her service,
and amongst them were two Lieutenants from the same
place, and connected by relationship, Greig and Rox-
burgh, the latter died an Admiral. In the war in
which Catherinp shoitly after became engaged against
the Turks, a fleet was sent to the Mediterranean. The
nominal command was bestowed on her frvotirile,Count
Alexis Orloff, but he not being experienced in naval
matters, had the judgment, in a great measure, to trust
Greig, and other British Officers, under whose direc-
tion the planning and destruction of' the Turkish fleet
was accomplished, in the Bay of Tchesma. (The present
Admiral Greig is named Alexis Orloff, after the friend
of his father). Admiral Samuel Greig was promoted to
*nations of the greatest trust and importance by the
Empress Catherine,was Governor of Cronstadt, and after
*5 success against the Swedish fleet, be was taken du-
gerously ill, but could not be prevailed upon to enter
port. He was then blockading the Swedish fleet. At
last the Officer next in command ordered the Admiral's
ship into Revel. The Empress, on learning his danger-
ons state, immediately ordered her own body physician
from Petersburigh, Dr. Rogerson, to attend Greig, but
all availed nothing ; he died, in a great measure, a mar-
,tyr to his duty, and his Spvereign caused a handioine
marble monument to be erected to his memory, in
Revel Church, where his remains ate deposited.
mommsmememe
STATE PAPERS.—SLAVE TRADE.

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The following are extracts from two VOIOOIiOOII2 sets
of Papers, that have just been submitted, pursuant to
Sessional custom, before both Houses of Parliament,
as to the progress made to suppress the Slave Trade of
Foreign Powers.
MR. BECItZTART CANNING TO TISCOMIT ORANTILLII.
Foreign Ogee, Fib. sit, ism
MT Loan—The accompanying copy of a communi-
cation, from the Admiralty gives an account of the Slave
Trade now openly carried- on upon the Western Coast of
Africa under the French flag. It there appears that 11
French vessels, having on board 2,577 slaves, have been
suet with by the squadron under Commodore Buffett
on die coast above mentioned, between the 3d day of
August and the 23d day of November, 1826, com-
prising a period of little more than three months. The
tact of the many gross instances if French Slave Trade
thus met with in so short a period of time, and within
so narrow a space, corroborates the statement of Capt.
Ulm, that the flag of France now absorbs nearly the
whole of this disgraceful traffic.
The Captains of these French traders, it appears, as
if sec• nre of indemnity under the cover of their flag, do
not scruple openly to avow their undertakings.
Surely if the Government of his Most Christian Ma-
jesty continue to have at bean, as they have so often
declared, the rutting down of this nefarious traffic, they
will not omit this opportunity of proving the sincerity
of their professions, by institutiag the most severe in
quit y into the transactions, by inflicting due and public
punishment upon the offenders, atc.
(Signed) GEORGE CANNING.
ICITAACTS PROM CoMmODORZ 111/I.l.la'S LalTift.

H. M.S. Maidstutse,laud St. Thomas, Nov. 26.
Being completed on the 28th, I weighed in chase of
the French schooner Le Daniel, with 200 slaves. This
Wang was in a most horrid crowded state, her slave•
dielaseing only two feet five inches in height, and,
ilthotigh only too days out from the Old Calnbar, was
very sickly. The dating miscreant refused to heave-to,
atheist,: my colours were flying, until my shot fell a
considerable distance over him. He had also the audacity,
four days afterwards, to stand into West Bay, Pances
Island, where I was lying with two of the squadroi,
wooding and watering. I again dispatched a boat out
to board him, and found that the night I first inter.
cepted him off the river Cameron, in consequence of the
heavy rain which commenced shortly after I brought
him to, the slaves quanelled among themselves, re.
garding the right of precedence of those below to get
on deck for fresh air, and those who had already the
possession of it, when, shocking to relate, .19 fell victims.
The North Star shortly after this boarded the Victor,
with 497 slaves from the Bonny, in a very crowded,
sickly state, and, although but out a few days, twenty
hid died, and two mote were expected that. evening ;
on the 2d, sth, and 15th instant, L'Heniter with 20$.
L'Henriette with 427, and La Feltcie with 848 slaves.
were successively boarded; the latter, upon Lieutenant
Tucker's arriving on board anti requesting the pattecu7
lars of her cargo, the. Master assisted him he bad nothing
in bat palm oil, ivory, Btc. and bound csk.Alobille; but,
upon my Lieutenant looking into• her hold. and per.
miring the slaves he smiled, and calmly Vtld him he
bad $4B on board, was out two days from Rimeti Gabon,
and thitt his vessel was in such a leaky celedition as
scarcely able to be kept free.

In the Bonny, four French brigs alone west waiting
the completion of their cargoe.. - One of them, the
Confidence. of Name, tended 41.0 on Lieutenant
Wakefield's arrival. Since 11th Sierra Leone, on th

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