Star.
London, England, 1821-10-20 00:00:00

THE GREEKS AND TURKS.

FROM TIIE FRONTIERS OF MOLDAVIA, SEPT. 20.
The cause of the Greeks in Moldavia seems for the
present to be nearly ksperate; GOO Turks having
advanced on the 17th towards the mountains, three
hundred Hetaiists, with their chief leaders, Jordaki
and Farmaki, threw themselves into the Convent of
Sika, situated to the N.W. of Nyamz, at the foot of
the mountains, which is provided with ammunition and
provisions for some months. The rest of the Hetarists
dispersed among the mountains; 130 of them are to-
day hefsne the Austrian Quarantine Office at Bujas-
cheskie, and desire to be admitted into the Bukowina,
which will not be granted as long as they are armed.
The Convent of Sika has been formally besieged by
the Turks since the evening of the 17th ; but as they
have only light artillery, and the walls are very strong,
they have hitherto done nothing, and have lost many
men by the skill of the marksmen of the Hetaiists.
In a sally which this handful of men made, they
took from the Turks two bad cannon. The Turks
amuse themselves from time to time with attempting
to storm the place, in which they get only broken
heads.. According to the assurance of some Caloyers
(Greek Monks) who have fled hither, they have al-
ready lost above one thousand men. The night
before last we clearly saw a large fire near Sika.
—lt was said die Turks had burnt a barn before the
Convent, and erected a battery there. The Hetarists
would have dispersed long ago, had not Miadin, who
is well known by die Sex mit insurrection, constantly
deceived them. Even in August he affirmed that the
Russians would certainly come, and that they ‘N ould
only have to hold out four weeks longer. It seems,
however, that the Russians will not come this year.
I lately saw, on a journey in Transylvania, above
300 Hetarists going to Bessarabia, who understood
nothing but Russian. A Greek, who lately escaped
from Constantinople, affirms, that within these five
months not fewer than 90,000 Greeks had been put
to death in that capital.
ODESS.%, SEPTEMBER 18.
After a momentary interruption, a convoy of thirty
vessels has arrived, which left Constantinople on the
11th September. They had many Christian families
on board. The letters which they bring, state, that
the Turkish fleet, united with the squadron of Egypt
and Algiers, has gained, near Santarino, some ad-
vantage over the Greeks, and has sailed for the
blot ea. Though' the Courlam Banam has passed over
quietly, and no fresh outrages have been committed
against the Greeks, the greater part of the shops in
the Bazaar remained closed, and the answer from St.
Petersburgh was daily expected with great anxiety.
This evening a report is in circulation, which ori-
ginates with a Captain of a ship who left Constanti-
nople on the 15th (that is, only three days ago), and
which states, that the Sultan had issued a Hatti Scha-
riff, commanding all Mussulmen to take up arms.—
If this report should be confirmed, it must be sup-
posed that the Poi te had already received the answer
of our Court, and did not find it satisfactory.—A
Hatti Schariff, calling the Mussulmen to arms, does
not take place in Turkey except on the greatest occa-
sions, when the life of the Sultan or the Mahometan
religion is in danger.
FROM THE BANKS OF THE MAINE, OCT. 1.
The result of the operations of the Commercial
Committee of Darmstadt do not allow us to entertain
any well-founded hopes of seeing the wishes addressed
to it by the Society of Merchants and Manufacturers
realised. However well disposed the Govern:rents
may be to comply with them, they meet with one ob-
stacle which it is not easy to remove. Their revenues
arc partly calculated on the amount of the duties le-
vied on their frontiers, and the receipts would cer-'
tainly diminish if there were no duties levied except
on the external frontier of the Confederated States.
In Bavaria, for instance, the net revenue of the
dirties is estimated at two millions and a half. If the
duties hitherto levied on goods, the produce of the
several Confederated States, were abolished, and only
those articles taxed.which came from States not be-
longing to the Confederation, it would be necessary, to
cover the deficit, to tax those last much higher. But
the result would be, that the consumption of these
articles would greatly diminish, which would accord
with the wishes of the manufacturers of the country,
but would not cover the decrease of the receipts on
%shish. the State has hitherto Calculated.

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, IS2I.
TILE FUNDS.
PRICES OF STOCKS TIIIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK
Bank Stock 239 23914 ex. div.
3 per Cent. Reduced 771 h % ex. div.
3 per Cent. Consols 78%} 3/3 14
sit: per Ct. 87% ex. div.-4 per Ct. 963/4 1/2 ex. d.
5 per Ct. 111 1111/2—Lg. Ans.l9l/2 9-16 ex. div.
India Bonds 745. pr.—Exch. Bills ss. 6s. pr.
Exchequer Bills (Small) 6s. 7s. prem.
for Account 781/4 5%.

Paris Papers of Wednesday last arrived this morn.
ing. The following are extracts:
Tuesday, being the anniversary of the death of the
unfortunate Queen MARIE ANTOINETTE, a solemn
Funeral Service was performed in the apartments of
the KING, and in the principal Churches in Paris.
It is stated in the Gazette de France, on the autho-
rity of private letters, that the fever had manifested
itself at Leghorn.
It is said to be in contemplation to form an esta-
blishment in Paris which will render great services
to cnrninerce. It is to form a telegraphic correspond-
ence between Paris and all the sea-ports along the
coast, and which may be carried on during the night
as well as in the day. By the experiments already
made, it is calculated that in five minutes they can
correspond from Paris to Bourdeaux. It is added,
that a Company have offered to make all the neces-
sary advances 1,4- this establishment.
A letter from Augsburg states, that the Emperor
of RussiA, accompanied by Count CAP° DISTRIA,
had arrived at Witepsk, where he was met by Baron
STROGONOFF, who was well received by the Emperor.
The new Constitution of the Duchy of Coburg
was published with great solemnity on the 6th inst.
An article from ZAnte, of the Bth of September,
gives the following account of the sufferings of a
Turkish garrison in Monembaisia :
" This town, situated at the extremity of the Gulf
of Argos, was invested by tht Greeks in the early
part of April, and the Turks, taken by surprise, had
but a small stock or provisions for their families.—
They dispatched vessels to Constantinople, to Smyrna,
and to Candia, to inform the Government and the
neighbouring Pachas of their situation, and to solicit
assistance ; but all these were intercepted by the
Greeks. The Turkish Commander then limited the
rations of provisions to three ounces of bread daily for
each individual. They also drank the oil that was
found in some of the cellars in the town.

"No succours an lying, the inhabitants resorted to
the flesh of horses, mules, asses, and even rats, be-
came an object much sought after; at length, some
men who were perishing of hunger resolved to eat
human flesh.

" The besiegers, unable to reduce the place, con-
ducted each day some Mahometan prisoners to the
ramparts, where they put them to a thousand tor-
tures. This did not, however, make the besieged
capitulate, and they must all have perished of want
if the soi-disant Prince CAUTACUZENE had not ar-
rived before the town.

ig On the 15th July, Monembaisia was taken, and
the unfortunate Turks who remained, after so obsti-
nate a defence, were abandoned on one of the desert
Islands of the Cyclades. M. de BouFonr, the French
Agent at Scala Nuova, in Asia Minor, being in-
formed of their distress, hastened to their relief with
a vessel laden with provisions, and saved them from
perishing."
Letters from Calamatta, in the Morea, confirm the
news of the surrender of Monembaisia; and add,
that the Greeks found 120 pieces of artillery, 10,000
muskets, and a large quantity of ammunition in
the place.
On the 25th of August. Novarin, one of the most
important towns in the Morea, surrendered to Prince
DEMETRIUS YPSILANTI. The Greeks found in the
place 60 pieces of cannon, eight mortars, 2,000 mus-
kets, and a large quantity of ammunition. The princi-
pal mosque was immediately converted into a church.
A private letter front Vienna, of the 6th October,
in the Journal de Pais, states, that one of the ancient
Servian Chiefs, General MLADEN Mmortanowastt,
has for some time back bad agents in Servia endea-
vouring to excite an insurrection in favour of the
Greeks. The General has long been proscribed by
the Turks, who have set a price upon his head.
They write from Warsaw, that the Minister Secre-
tary of State, 13 igadier-General Kosreccar, has
written a military work on a plan for attacking
Turkey. It is dedicated, by permission, to the Em-
peror ALEXANDER. •
Mention is made of a victory gained by some Al-
banians over the Turks, commanded by COURCHILD
PASHA; and the death of ALI PASHA is announced
f,:r the tenth time.
Tuesday being a holiday, the Paris Journals do
not contain any statement of the Funds on that day.

Amid the conflicting statements which the foreign
Journals contain relative to the cause of the creeks,
it becomes difficult to ascertain the real state of the
warfare. It long since became evident, that unless
the Greeks gained a considerable accession of force,
that they would not be enabled to contend with the

armies of the Porte, but it was still expected that
they might maintain the dominion of the sea ; and,
if they could not conquer, at least obtain favourable
terms from their enemies. The latest accounts from
Turkey have, however, overturned that expectation.
The intelligence from Constantinople up to the
15th ult. and which is confirned by an article in the
Austrian Observer, prove the superiority of the
Turkish fleet, since it is now reinforcing and provi-
sioning the Tut kish fortresses along the coasts of the
Morea, a service which it certainly would not be per-
mitted to execute were the Greeks sufficiently strong
to prevent it.
Towards the middle of last month the Turkish
fleet, consisting of thirty-six sail, was at Novatine,
a port on the South-western coast of the Alm ea, and
was preparing to sail northwards, in order to convey
supplies to the different garrisons in that direction.

It is further stated in the Austrian Observer, that a
report was current at Corfu on the 23d ult. that the
Greeks had been beaten at sea, in the neighbourhood
of Candia, and th..t their fleet had been dispersed.
GOLJRSIIID PASIIA, who commands in chief the
Turkish forces in Livadia and the Morea, is said to
have reduced the different bands of Insurgents in
those two Provinces, which enabled him to open a
communication with the Turkish army employed in
the siege of Janina. ' In effecting this service, he was,
though at the head of 15,000 men, opposed by a large
body of Greeks, who were defeated after an obstinate
action, and lost their artillery.

A body of Greeks, who were marching to the sac.
cout of Au PASIIA, had halted on receiving int:lli-
gence of the defeat of their brethren in arms by the
Turks, and had determined to wait for reinforcements
before they ventured to proceed. In the meantime,
GOURSHID PA SII A, having subsequently been rein-
forced from Bosnia, is said to have resumed offensive
operations on every point.
Au PA snA,the most formidable enemy with whom
the Turks have now to cope, is devoting the ma.
sures which he amassed in more fortunate times, to
secure all the assistance he can procure in the last
stage of his fortunes; and as he possesses great ta-
lents and much cunning, the conflict may be long
and severe before he submits, or is defeated.
This daring Chief, whose hair-breadth escapes have
been innumerable, is, in a letter from Vienna, again
reported to be dead.
The French Papers of this morning bring intelli-
gence of some fortresses which have surrendered to
the Greeks, and it is even rumoured that 'the Alba-
nians have gained a victory over GOURSIIID PASHA.
But these are not advantages of sufficient importance
to give much hopes of a consummation so devoutly
to be wished as the triumph of the Greeks.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Yonic is enjoying
the amusement of the turf at Newmarket.. _ _ _

Yesterday, the Marquis of CAMDEN arrived at his
house in Arlington-street, from Bath; • his Lordship
being Recorder of the above city, gave a grand ding
ner to the Corporation previous to his departure. This
day his Lordship left town to join the Marchioness
and family at Bayham Abbey, in Sussex.
Yesterday, the Marquis of WORCESTER left Strath.
fieldsay for Bodminton, the seat of the Duke of BEAU-
FORT, in Gloucestershire.
COVENT GARDEN.—The Coronation of the Em-
press Elizabeth of Russia attracted a very full au-
dience last night. FARREN and YOUNG performed
their parts with their usual excellence.
WEST LONDON THEATRE.—This brilliant, though
unobtrusive little House, is drawing large audiences
every night, by the variety of performances, and
the spirit with which they are produced. An Opera,
founded on the romantic adventures of Rob Roy and
the Osbaldestoncs; seems a decided favourite the: e. It'
was performed last night with great success ; and,
though only an abstract and brief chronicle of the
original story, it gives an admirably characteristic
development of the principal events in it.—A very
pretty Afterpiece, called The Orphan of France, was
the other performance of the evening ; and the asto-
nishineconvolutions of 11 Diavolo Antonio formed
admirable interlude for the lovers of the wonderful.