Star.
London, England, 1829-09-11 00:00:00

same date.

" Your Excellency will hive been pleased to observe in my
report of the SW (August 4), the dispositions I hail made for the
reduction of the fortified town of Agathopolis. t In consequence
of the arrival of the Meteor steamer yesterday evening, I have re-
ceived reports from Lieutenant-Colonel Burno, of the Engineers,
and Lieutenant-Captain Baskakov, commander of the Flora fri-
gate, from which I learn that this enterprise was successfully ac-
complished in the following manner :
" On the 23d (Aug. 4.) the Flora cast anchor of Vassiliko. and
on the same day landed the battalion of the Kursk regiment of
infantry. It was imniviiately determined by the Commanders
of the frigates and Lieutenant Colonel Sumo, to attack Agaiho-
polls ant the following day. Accordingly, at nine in the mottling,
the Flora and Posspeslinny frigates gut under weigh, and, not-
withstanding a strong North-East wind, attacked the town on
the sea-side. still keeping under sail. On the approach of our
ships, the Turks opened a heavy cannonade from their shore
batteries, which, iu spite of the well-directed and effectual fire of
our artillery, they kept up Unlit they became suddenly aware of
the position of our troops, who bad in the meantime taken posses-
sion of the heights that commanded the town. Immediately
right hundred cavalry made • rapid sally from the town
towards Lieutenant-Colonel Ilsmo's position. However, on
the advance of the Lieutenant-Colonel with his detachment,
the Turks wheeled round, and fled. After the enemy had
thus been dispersed, Lieutenant-Colonel Burno having observed
that the fire against our ships from the Turkish batteries was
discontinued, he ordered the Pallors of the Posspeshnoy placed
under his command to march direct against the principal battery.
—This enterprise, notwithstanding the extraordinary difficulties
which the rocks they had to climb over presented, was executed.
When the enemy perceived this advance, he fled in the greatest
disorder out of the town. Lieut.-Colonel Burno now detached
• Lieut.-Captain Baron Ditkins, with two companies of the Kamts.
chatka Regiment, under the command of Major Kamrer, to take
possession of the Convent of St. John the Baptist, situated on the
other aisle of the bay, which was surrounded by a hedge and de-
I fended by some cannon. Here the Turks also abandoned their
camp which surrounded the convent, and fled in the greatest terror.
A. we had no cavalry, the enemy could nut be pursued, and there-
fore only five prisoners were taken, among whom was the coma
lmander of the Delis:

i After the taking of Agathopolis, Lieut. Co'onel Burno was
enabled to perceive the great importance of the result of that sue-
(
Icese; for the Turks had in the town a garrison of nearly 1,200
men, and might have the more readily withstood a numerous
ettensy, as they 'expected in the course of that night a reinforcement
of 2.0u0 men from Piady, and as our ships, in consequence of the
high wind, could not come to anchor in the road 60 as to co-
operate vigorously against them.
.4 We lound in the town seven pieces of cannon, five of which
Were of broil, a great quantity of powder. cartridges, various
other kinds of warlike stores, and abliot fifty thousand oks of
dour. The detachment under rite command of Lieuteitaist-
Ci.lonel Burns) consisted of a battal on sat Kursk's, two comoanies
• To the south •f Sisebulis.
t (Jr Agtalitaii, to the souls of Vasailiko.

of the Kamesebatka Infiniery, twenty-eight sailors belonging to the
Posepeshooy, and *teen of the gaud crew, forming alturttbet.
abate SOO Mena Thy detachment bad with it two pieces of light
clam, fitted for a boding, and which were under the charge of
volunteers from the guard crew. Not one of our land troops Was
killed or wounded. Sews of the dub; of the frigates was ds.
imaged by the cannonade from the enemy's batteries, and a sailor
on hard the Flora was wounded. The Fampeshoey had two abets
in Wester'. one of than between wind sad water.
" In conclusion the Continander of the detachment reports. that,
en the Sikh (August 6) Motet two companies of the Kanter:baths
Relearns' to Viselliko, where a redoubt, monde' three guns,
has been constructed, to protege that town against any unforeseen
n 004164 that be will forthwith. pigr Agalborolitithb
%21:0011eatioeis.. Though accoe to thee. stinentents. el the
and our prisoners. the manlier the Torks on the dfireeerit
rabbinates! Agatha/silk:iv about 6,000 men, cavalry iid infantry.
yet that town le, In consequence of the dread wkh which our daring
entetrise has impressed. the miry, ptetectly_secute."
FRENCH • PAPERS.
• .
Front the Journal du Del o,
It is stated that the ligki de 'Wei. bah been apPolated, Aram-
sada at Know ; that tho•Diketb Levalvilt nob"' Print' Po- •
knee at Landon; asid•that N. de Raysieval•will wafted the flute
de'Laval at Vienna. The nomination of Count de la Ferroosys
as Ambassador at Naples is also spoken of. To give credit to this
Dews, wtmlest wait till we see k announced officially, and above
all, before we believe that N. de le Perrone's, who had left such
besottrable recollectioos of his Ministry, has accepted a favour from
those who a year ago voted in the oppositiou against himself and
hie colleagneb, .
The Ministry has teniporarily Isceambed to the vigorous god
Mee of the press. It has done nothing great since the nomination
of N. Mangle. It balances and temporises, but it still eziets,and
its existence gives promise of State mawrivresend of a flagrant and
continued attack upon the prineiptei of a tepresentidie government.
As they intruded themselves Into • power in the absence of the
Chambers, against the acts and the wishes of the majority. their
last resource must be vinkoce... Either It must 14.0 r they must
succeed in inscribing on the door of the Chamber of Deputies "house
to be let," as was said by 111. de Is iourdonnaye, the plagiarist of
Cromwell. It must fall, or goiter our generous and pacific prince
France must submit to a more degrading yoke than it suffered from
the victories of the empire. It mug fall, or it must exercise a ty-
ranny, the more violent as the tyrants would he the more despised.
Let as endeavour calmly to trace iriroete. Let it take What road
It will, it must cross certain defile*. and arrive at a certain abyss.
It nily be wierturned on the road, but if it continues, this will be
its inevitable term.
Supposing, thanks to the tottering foundation of the Chamber,
that it may have a respite of six months to look for a new habit.-
tiou—that during this time, if it be possible a temporary peace
should be declared between N. de la Bourdon:nye and M. de Po-
ligeac, betweelithe violent and devout party of the Itlinf.try,—
that the Jesuits should then protect us against 'securing.
against the Jesuits—that we should have nothing to subsist upon
but actions against the press, and a frw dismissals of prefects—
the month of February and the convocation of the Chambers
mint come.
Well, there we are!—in a room at the Louvre, at the Exchange,
or wherever you like, it matters not. Those deputies who for
seven months may hive lived in the Indignant atmosphere of
France, witnesses of the thousand petty acts of despotism emanat-
ing trim the prefecture and the sacristy, uneasy themselves, and
wounded in their dearest intercom there they are assembled: Very
few, without doubt, will fall.* le oil, for sever will a session
bevy. hero more important. Op one side will be the men called
to the King by the Charter or to the Charter by the King;
the Constitutionalists. the MOriereles, the Royillsts, like Mews.
Royer Collard, Sebastiai, Caslnier Perrier, anthon, Hyde
de NeuvUle, Lafitte, ./ce.. On the other side will appear the
old faithful friends of N. de la Deurdonnaye, and those whom di.
de Polignac could not vanquids,—that small number of men who
' give themselves up to every body, but who for this time will
hesitate. What lustre will M. de Bourmont throw upon the bench
of Ministers when be goes to take his best there! and what an ims
pecsaion of favour and confidante will M. de la Bourdongaye pro-
duce upon that centre right, and that moderate right, which still
has an instinctive aversion to him, end which never lege., upon
him bet as a brawler of absolute power ! How the majority. before
which M. de Villele was obliged. to timid, and which twice voted
a solemn censure upon his ministry,oviU be flattered to gee it re-
suscitated in the person of 11. de Montbel!
At this first aspect of the Member, who can doubt of the first
results? Can it be doubted that it will announce itself by the choice
of candidates for the Presidency—that it will show itself on the
terms of the address—aid that a significant declaration will place
the Bourdonnaye Minister lower than the Viacie Ministry? What
mist be done, then? Not resign! Cling to the steps of the
Throne ! Cry out that we belong to the Monarchy—that we fonts
part of the King!—that we are the King himself! Out they will
mock you : a new and respectful address will call, fur your din.
missal Strengthened by a legal support, public opinion will
overwhelm you. Your perverse obstinacy will be denounced
in the palace of the Monarch, and at his Court fear w U spread
through your ranks. M. Courvolder will lose his head. 11. de
Chabrol will preserve it, and will occupy himself by burying it
gently, when you are half dead. No, we shall be strong—we shall
be united—we have the King with us (for su the insolent. say), we
will attack the revolution body to body; we will destroy the most.
arms power of the electors • • we • • • Thus you will
remain Minister,, and thus the served act of the Session will have
commenced. But could a Ministry, maintained with difficulty by
lettres de cachet, against ,h- formal demand of the Chamber, come
and propse to it to change the Electoral Law, to establish a
second representation by double vote, or Foote other fully? No.
no—we will take good care not to do it, the only law we will pre-
sent will be the budget. Rut the budget is a vote of confidence.
" Complaints and subsidies go hand in hand." said the old rno.
natchy, and the Charter said no less. If the public coo.
plaints of France are de.pised.—if your presence is a menace and
an insult to her...if you do not and cannot frame the laws which
are espreted of you,—if you retain Mitiisters, clinging to your
benches under the anathema. of th.- majority,—well, then, as a last
argument, we will refuse you the budget. There is nothing fac-
tious in this measure. The public service will not be immediately
interrupted, we shall have several months before us to lorm a new
Ministry, and have time to vote the taxes. Here the third act will
commence Nlonsieur de la llourdosinaye will dissolve the Cham
ber. He will send terrible orders to the Prefects, and will ful.
minute in the Moniker. He will make members vote,
under a fear of the gendarmerie. nut do you count for
nothing the intervention of des tiers, consecrated by the late law,
and the jurisdiction of the Royal Courts, wh:ch the electors have
acquired? Even if fraud and violence were it'll possible (and they
are so), the electoral colleges will send back the constitutional de.
putles In greater numbers than you w:ll have sent them away. The
d faculty will retorts entire and with increased force. If you take
a cross cut—if you join a State manoeuvre to a dissolution—if you
make a law of election by ordinance, look at the consequences.—
Decree, let us suppose, by an arbitrary act. that the election shall
be confided to the great colleges; let the whole Chamber be elect-
ed by them, and fix the age of the deputies at 30 years, fot the saki
of popularity. Even from the very midst of a Chamber thus con-
stituted would poceed a terrible resistance which would overthrow
your power. Suppose then, in t' a creatures of your illegality, you
find persons bold enough to accept the conbecaticps of the public
rights of France. lie it an ; there will yet be foetid in her bosom,
men who will aim a blow at yogi. success in the very height of its
power, 'by declaring the Chamber to be altogether Metal, and that
they only attend themselves for the purpose of protesting in per-
son against their own attendance. The same cry of reprobation
will arise from the Chamber of Peers, and will advertise the throne
of the enormity and the danger of the attempt.
What will happen next ? People will cease to pay an impost
voted by a Chamber radically illegal. You will voluntarily and
with your own hinds rroduce a revolution by the refusal tit sub-
mitting to taxation. Do you understand the meaning of this ter-
rible worst? The payment of taxes refused, and refused in the
name of the Charter—the Tribunals compelled to choose between
the letter of an Ordinance and the fundamental law of the land—
resistance every where multiplied—prosecutions useless, in miwy
places signal acquittals ! Beware—taxation is at present the very
key-stone of your edifice. In incoming so expensive, Govern-
ment, are given up to tyialiny ; the least confusion cast among the
public revenue strikes the Stste to the heart ; every thing is shaken,
and were you even nailed to the throne, you would fall in its
overthrow.
But let us push your criminal dream to the very extremity—let

From the Journal des Deka:.
The Council-General for the department f Loiret, which as-
sembled on the vlth of August, under the presidency of the Due
de Lorges. closed its sittings op the sth of this month.
Before the closing of the sittings, the President presented un
espectedly. if not an address, at least a draught of a late; to
the Minister of the Interim. which ►e read. It contained
many complaints of the unbridled limatiousness of the Press
of the periodical pamphlets, in which the ft.** authors had
not feared to publish that the appointment of the new Ministry
bad once more broken the ties which united the nation to its King.
It called for the enactment of new laws regarding the press, and
liar the establishment of measures of which the principal object
was to be the stopping of subscriptions in favour of persons found
guilty, as such subscriptions render the sentence of the Courts at
no avail ; and it concluded with protestatioas of the devo-
tion, and attachment which she Council-General felt for the person
of the King and for his dynasty.
Lamm de Vellevesqur, at two consecutive sittings, exposed,
with his usual characteristic energy. the itscosivenience auel danger
of the proposed address. lie represented that fines, which amounted
to from 40,000 to 60,000 francs, and imprisonment which lasted fur
from 5 to 10 yearsovere a sufficient proof of the severity of the laws
regarding the press;—that punishments of greater severity would
bsu no proportion to Use offences, and that atrlcious and viol, of
laws produced complete impunity. as might he seem every day
at the assizes, in the working of the law of sacrilege ;—that
the Courts could not be accused of either carelessness or cowar-
dice;—that in a letter to the Minister destined to be sublnived to
the perusal of the King. to present as culpable a paragraph from a
lemma! of which the author was summoned to appear hauls the
(bur Royale of Paris. indicated a desire to exercise an undue in-
fluence over the magistrates whose duty it would he to deckle
upon,it ;—that such conduct on the part of a Council-General was
any thing but generous;—that it was even contrary to all the rules
of decorum, inasmuch as upon this occasion the Council-Ge-
neral was ail but the expositor of the sentiments of the depart-
ment. He declared that be opposed himself the more strenuously
to this proposal, which was neither required nor asked fur, at least
papilla*, because it might induce the guys rnment to take a false
direction, and to depart from the principles of the constitution in
matters which affected the liberty of the press, the nu- palladium
of the charter, and of our privileges. In short, he declared alma I.
that his name should never be signed to any resolution which might
be taken to that effect.

These sentiments were also the sentiments of MM. Alexandre
Perier, Crignon de Montipay, and de Guercheville' who supported
them with a &morn that dews them honour ; and what is more
surprising and extraordinary is, that five oth-r members of the
council, who declared the proposed address useless and is-timed
base nevertheless voted In favour of ft. It was that adopted by
a majority of nine to tour, two eithtr members of the coon. it not
having thought fit to attend at the last si twig.
Time will show whether the proposel letter or address, was or
was not demanded l here is reason to think that the Cusigregation
is not unacquainted with this measure,and tee shall not he surrrised
if the example thus set be followed in every other dept. meat
Besides, we must raise our voices to protest that the great major.ty
of the inhabitants of the department of the Loire, never di. awed of
placing before his Majesty any such wishes as are rapt. tsed sn
the letter proposed to the Council by the Duke de Lorgra.—
if it were possibk to consult them, eserybody would be convinced
of their attachment to the cause of pubiic liberty, and of their tie-
cotton to the King and to the Constitutional Charter, which they
never separate from each other; and it it were yermi, ted tbs.'s to
eapress a single wish, it would be th :t the offences of the press
should be submitted to the Jury, and not to Judges. who, it y
are irremoveable in law, are not so in fact, since all of term m
be elevated to higher posts in the niag4tracy.