Star.
London, England, 1828-01-19 00:00:00

FRENCH•PAPERS.

FROM THY GAZETTit DE FRANCE, DATED JAN. 17.
PARIS, JAL 16.

We find the following in the Austrian Observer:-
4, Yesterday dispatches from Coiltantinople, dated
the 16th, were received at Vienna by express. On that
day M. de ltibeaupierre, she was still hindered by the
contrary w inds from proceeding to the Black Sea, form.
ed and executed the resolution to take advantage of the
wind, which blows constantly horn the north, to sail
by the Dardanelles for the isiediterranean. His inten-
tion is to go to Trieste With his Nit* and the Fe, sons
of the embassy who had enrbirktd with bim. Some
persons in the service of the Rossi n Legation have re-
' mained at Constantincple. The litissian Ambassador
did not meet with any obstacle horn the Porte in exe-
cution of his design,. Toe greatest tranquillity still
prevails in that canker
CONSTANTINOPLE, Die. It.
So fat back as the 29th of November, Ni. Guillen.i•
not had written the following note to Boon Ottenfeis:
" S'r,—Your Exceneixy knoo s circumstances
which cause my departure from Constantinop'e. In
the ab,ence of the French ertibav-y, the cep: esentative
orhis Imperial Apostolic Majesty is called to protect
the interests of religion in the Levant; and I find that
this proceeding agrees with w!i-it has been done before
in similar cases, arid with the stipuhtions of the treaties
with the Porte.

din trinseqeetice. I have the honour to confide to
your good ohs, the French Missions. and other reli-
gious institbtitins which generally enjoy the Ft each
protection, and T Hatter myself that you will not hesi-
tate to grant my request.
e, I shall be very grateful for every thing that you
may have ti e goodness to do in favour of these institu-
:io is. I doubt not that you will succeed, and I hive
the great r confidence in your favourable sentiments
towards these establishments. I beg you to accept be-
forehand the assurance of the gratitude of my Govern-
ment and my own. (Signed) M. GUILLEDII NOT."
On the sth of December M. D'Ottenfels stilt the fol-
lowing answer:
" Stn--I would have immediaiely answered the note
which your Excellency did me the honour to write to
me oh the 29th of last Month, had not a long indispo
sition hindered me, to My great regret, from thanking
)ou for the new proof of confidence which you have
given me, by recommending to me the French missions,
And other religious establishments, during the absence
of the emSa,sy of the Kit* of France. In order to be
Able to make your Excellency easY on this important
subject, I lost no time in iitfoiming the Iteis Effendi of
it ; but I saw with regret, from the first answer of that
Minister, that the-resolution% bf the last Divan do not
permit, under present circumstances, the admission of a
toretgn protection, either for the subjects of the three
Powers, or for the establishments which depend on those
three legations.
4‘ Far from being discouraged by this first refusal, I
yesterday applied to the Reis ,Effendi on this. subject,
and made representations, accompanied by remarks cal-
ci,dszed to induce him to coosint to my request. That
Minister gave me the eruireks assurance, that neither'
die ecereirk'Ot the Chas/ilia religion,.tibr iii seriints,
were in any danger t that *1) the religions anddirarebes,
should be duly respected; sib& this% tbeaitais intended
to .1: roTe by faqs *At 114 subitteta* diet IllreAr9vMs,
alter the departure pf their Ambassadors, liskito seed
hatevei or .seekiiiilokeign protection.
_
Under these cncuinitnticer; I hive Otily tbnc/ttaiii
you, Sir, that I will neglect nothing to keep the Divan.
in these favourable dispositions to protect against every.
violation the missions and religious institutions iribust!,
ed to my care, and to answer ni this manner, as far as
depends on me, to the deifies ,Tiarit Excellency, which
are completely in titiiirin trritlf die sentiments of my
heart. Accept, Sta. (Signed)

" OTTENFELS."

BUCHAREST, Dec. 25. .
We are lost in conjectutes respecting the change of
M. de Ribeaupierre's route, especially as, by his order,
art dispatchoi addressed to him, are to be sent hencektv

The Grand Council of the Canton of Valais has de-
creed the abolition of the punishment of death.

TURKEY.

I ';

The Austrian' Observer of the 6th of January con-
tains the following details of the diplomatic rela-
tions between the Porte and the Allied Ambassadors,
from the time when the news of the battle of Navarra
reached Constantinople down to the period of their de-
parture fi om that capital :
Though the declarations of the Bth-and 10th of.M.
vember had not produced any appeosimation, the nest .
ciations weree nevertheless, contiftiretl ttirkogh7rhe
lowing days, even in the perionel ; interviews which
took place between the Reis Effendi:eagle-Officers
separately.
For this purpose, M. de Guilletniriot Mftlie h di; Mt.
Stratford Canning on the 15.h;und M. de Rigeiropiesre
on the 17th. went, withriitt iiey,Cerernohiet.ttolfichouse
of the Turki.k Minister. waif thimengtheitol dorffteon of
these familiar co..fer races, bite ,3eats Eepffsted sff their
amicable and pcifi chaeacret;‘and mole, the re.
moval of the embargo which hadbeetislaii Enrepeen
vessels, awakened hopes of peace iniltiio)kital, which
were spread abro id thrilugh'all'Euroise.•
On the 180, Taliir Pacha, who had Commanded the
Turkish division at Naealin, arrived in the capital; and
the Poi to was informed by him of the details• of that
event, which it had previously bur insperectly known.
The deep impressions twee by his report on the
Porte, and on its Ministers, could n t long remain a
secret; and the Envoys of tae thiee f owers, as well as
the Austrian Internuocio, *lib, with indefatigable' zeal
had continued hi, efforts to allay resentments, were con.
winced that from that moment the diflicultiesln the way
of an amicable adjustment were increased.
On the '2'2d, the three Ministers derninskd a simul-
taneous interview with the ReisEffericli. This demand
was contrary to die lum.itic precedent, for the Porte had
never received a number of Envoys at the same confe-
rence. Ancient usages, however, were passed offer on
this occasion; and ,on the 24th, this interview took
plac2 at the office of the Reis Effendi. '1 he Ambassa-
dors were accompanied by their secretaries of legation
and their interpreters. The Reis Effendi had with him
the Amedschi Effendi (Cabinet Secretary) and the dra-
goman cl the Porte. He was ro take notes, in a de-
tailed protocol, of the declarations and counter-declara-
tions of the Ministers present.
In this intsrview, whichlasted See hours, the Minis-
ters were wholly occupied with the three following
points :-
Ist. The reestablament of diplomatic relations de-
manded by the Porte, the suspension of which had
been announced on the Bth of November, by the Reis
Effendi (unless the Porte received the satisfaction
Which it had demanded on account of the battle of
Nevarino).
2. Tne consent of the Porte to an armistice with the
insurgents.
3. The arrangement of the terms of the amnesty to
be granted by the Grand Seignior, with re spect to which
both parties always supposed a previous submission.
According to witnesses entitled to credit, during the
whole of this conference, in no one single instance was
the battle of Navarin mentioned, nor was the demand.
so ohjectionoble to the Porte, of a mediation, touched
ththeitconthfeete;icineister Tsh should
Reisuld
upon. The two first points were already conditionally
granted in the first half of
Effendi particularly insisted
renounce their' design ofleaving Constantinople, aid
Arruld first instruct their Courts of the state of things,
and wait for their decision. He stated himself to be
authorised on this condition, not only to reestablish
diplomatic 'dation:, bist still further to promise a tem-
porary suspension of hostilities on the past of the Porte,
declaring at the same time, that an armistice, Or the
true sense of the word, could only'beestablishedite
Wee% belligerents legally ecognited.-
It was on the third point than ell- tlsefi* tffoste
failed to effect an approsimmion, • which had' ape
pealed en the eve of being accomplished. What the
Reis Effendi promised in the name of the Sultan, was
•an amnesty without restriction—a restoration of all

aonfiscated property—the retAwal'itacient rightson,
and immon:ties—a just and riuterna administrati
and other favours which the Sulterivould judge him-
self in state to grants kitbsetitsently ; which were de-
clared by the Ambassadors to be insufficient, looking
at the t noes and pretensions of the insurgents, and in-
compatible with the stipulations of the treaty of Landon.
After many attempts to obtain a pacific declaration
from the Reis Effendi—attempts which he met by po.
litical reasons, or by arguments drawn from the reli-
gious code of the Turks, or by urging the impossibility
~f acceding to such demands without exposing the em-
pire to complete dissolution, whether or not he was
restrained by the necessity of exceeding the limits of
his instructions—the conference terminated without the
negoctators being enable to attain the end desired.
On the next morning the three Ministers took mea-
sures for announcing their intended departure. and on
.ihe 28th they demanded from the Reis Effendi the
firmans which lace necessary for that purpose. The
Reis Effendi positively refused to second by any melt.'
sure on his part the execution of a design so little in
unison with the wishes of the Porte, and he merely
added in the declaration, that if the departure of the
• three Ambassadors was irrevocably resolved upon, the
Porte would throw no obstacles in their way.
On renewing this refusal on the next day (the 20th),
he declared to the interpreters that, on the evening be-
fore, the Sultan, oil the pressing representatien of the
Grand Vizier, and from respect to the mediation of the
three powers, had consented to remit to the Greeks all
claim to an indemnity for the injuries which their insur-
rection had brought on the empire, as well as the ar-
rears of taxes for the last sir years ; and even not to re-
Ore any contributions from them 'during the first
'year that should follow the re-establishment of tran-
quillity.
On the 2d of December the clime Ambassadors trans-
mitted by their dragomans to the Reis Effendi a mes-
sage, by which they declared the substance of the
proposition of the Grand Seignor to be inadmissible,
insisting on the immediate acceptation of the armistice
and intervention, and the acknowledgment of the pre-
rogatives stipulated in favour of the Greeks in the Treaty
of London, and they demanded, in case their proposi-
tions should be, as they had been previously, tejected,
their firmans forthwith.
The Reis Effendi received this message just as the
Divan convoked for that day was to open, and laid it
before that body. This a-.sembly was composed of more
than 150 individuals of all classes and of all ra..ks,
while some thousands of persons surrounded the hall
and the palace of the Grand Vizier. The Sultan was
present from the commencement to the close of the
sitting, in a chamber contiguous. It was eventually
resolved, that the demands of the three Courts, with
respect to_ the future constitution of Greece, could not
be admitted.
From the 3.1 to the Gth the negotiations were coati
nued for the expediting of the passports. The Reis
Effendi demanded from the Envoys a written and offi•
cial declaration, setting forth, " that they were, or
conceived themselves to be, authorised by their Courts
to quit their posts. without any further expmition of
the motives of their resoluti.on." As this declaration
was not givvn, the ILis Effendi persisted in his previous
course c t actiou, as the Porte wished to guard against
any appearance of participation in that resolution, and
had received no official notification of it.
The three Ministers had announced in their message
dictated on the '2d of December, that, in anticipation of
their departure, they had intended to recommend the
subjects of their nations who might remain there to the
. protection of the Minister ,'f the Netherlands. But as
the Divan had decided that, in case of the departure of
. the Ambassadors, the Porte would reserve to itself the
tight of protecting the individuals who might continue
there, no attention was paid to this announcement. The
French and English Ambassadors actually embarked
on the Bth of December, and having arrived, without
hindrance at the Dardanelles, in consequence of orders
issued by the Porte, and the Russian envoy being only
. waiting at Bojukdere for a favourable wind to leave,
tne abovementioned resolution of the Divan was re-
newed on the 10th, and it was ordered that the subjects
nt the three Powers, whose Ambassadors had quitted
Constantinople, should be placed under the immediate
protection of the Porte; that everything which regarded
their persons should be exclusively confided to the Reis
Effendi, but that their pecuniary affairs and their
liti-
gations should be left to a Special Commission under
the Presidency of the Administrator General of the
Customs.
At the tame time the embargo was taken off gene-
rally, and the Capitan Paella was authorised to adopt
these steps to secure the free entrance and departure of
French, English, and Russian ships.
The most considerable individuals of the thee nations
accepted from that moment the protection which was
offered them by the Ottoman Government, and put
themselves in communication with the Dragoman of
the Porte.

JAMAICA.

HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY, Nov. 13, 1827.
The Members of Assembly being met. according to
Proclamation, Mr. Lunan and Mr. Atkinson waited on
his Honour the Lieutenant Governor, and acquainted
• him therewith. •

'A Message from his Honour •qie Lieutenant Gover•
nor, in Council, by the Provost Marshal General, coin•
mending, in the King's name, the attelidance of the
House in the Council Chamber immediately : where-
upon Mr. Speaker, and the whole House, went up, and
being returned,
Mr. &MAZER acquainted the House that a new writ
had been issued, during the recess, for the election of a
Member to serve in the Assembly for the parish of
Trelawny, in the room of George Reid, Ehq. deceased.
A Message from (iis Honour the Lieutenant Go-
vernor, in Council, by the Clerk of the Council, who
brought down the Writ of Erection for Trelawny, by
which it appeared that Robert Haldane Scott, Esq. was
:mined a Representative for that parish, in the room
of George Reid, Esq. deceased.
The Rules of the House read, and agreed to.
Mr. Speaker laid before the House a letter from Isaac
Esq. requesting leave to vacate his sear ; and a
Member acquainted the House that Robert Haldane
Scott, Esq. who had been returned a Representative for
Trelawny, was absent from the island, and did not in-
tend immediately to return thereto, and was desirous
that his seat should be vacated.
The seats of Mr. Higgin and Mr. Scott vacated ac-
-corclingly.
Leave of absence for twelve months granted to Mt.
Y. Dick, Mr. Rennalls, and Mr. Hollingsworth.
. Mr. SPIAKIR reported that the House had attended
:.his Humor the Lieutenant Governor, in the Council
chamber, when his Honour was pleased to make a
ihitecls, of which Mr. Speaker said he had, to prevent