Star.
London, England, 1826-10-02 00:00:00

a party, which, though overawed for the moment, was
still dangerous.
The arrival of Fabvier and Karaiskaki with a Greek
army, to relieve Athens, was known at Con,tantinnple,
as well as the battle of the 17th of August, of which we
have published the Greek official account, but which
was, of course, represented by the Porte as favourable
in its results to its arms. The Christians are said to
have lost on this occasion two pieces of cannon ano.l
three standards, and the Philhellenes who were in the
action, and whose bravery the Greek account praises so
highly, are described as deserting the cause, and re-
turning to their respective countries. Ne err, however,
has the Porte clamed so little advantage in a contest,
so that it may be inferred from this unwonted modesty
that it had really no advantage to claim.
The most extraordinary piece of intelligence in these
Parrs, if it could be considered as intelligence, is an
assertion copied by the Etude from another Journal,
that Lord Cochrane eluding that the Greeks did not
receive him properly, had entered into the service of
the P.i.zha of Egypt ! It is not true that the Greeks
did not receive him properly, for he has n it yet gone
to Greece. Hire his been disapp hued in his just ex
pectations, and has been compelled to remain inactive
at Malta or Messina, the fault lies with tho-e who under-
took to supply hint with steam vessels a year ago, which
even at this moment are n t ready to depart, and not
with tie Greeks, who are the sole party injured (perhaps
beyond redemption), by the delay. Trere is, however,
one case in which Lord Cochrane might enter into the
service of the Paella of Egypt without deserting the
sacred cause in which he is engaged. It is the pn.sible
hut improbable contingency of the I'aclra having fol-
lowed the advice given him by his Lordship, in a letter
or manifesto communicated to him some months ago.
In this document Lord Cochrane strongly urged him to
declare himself the ally and protector of Greece, and
the independent sovereign of Egypt,..and then promised
him the aid of his naval experience and enterpriz-. In
no case short of the adoption of such a course, would
his Lordship, we are convinced, become the agent of
a Barbarian.

The intelligence from L'sbon in these Papers comes
down to the 14th, and that from Madrid to the 19th of
September. The Princess Regent had appointed a
Special Commission of Nine Portuguese Peers, to inquire
and report as to the for ms with which the Cones were
to be installated, as well as the principles on w hich their
internal regulations should be founded. Tire leitt,:rs
from Madrid express much apprehension lest the troops
which had passed over into Portugal should re-enter
Spanish Estramidura, collect partisans, and march
against the capital. Symptoms of fevesi.h agitation
began to display themselves in various parts of the
country? and in the town of Murcia, some disturbance
had taken place between the Civil Authorities acid the
Royalist Volunteers.

Accounts from Vienna state, that one of the Imperial
Archdukes hAd proposed a total change of policy with
respect to the Porte. He recommended th..t the Otto-
mans should be abandoned co their late; and that a
strong army should be sent into Servia, in order to
secure .a portion for Austria out of the dismemberment
ofthe Turkish empire. The return of Prince Metter-
nich to Vienna will probably have prevented any change
of system, however wise or beneficial.
We have received Austrian 06seivers to the 20,h, and
;the Allgeindiie Zest.' ung to the 24th ult., together with
Foriklott•Pltpsfp mil tie, sa,fne
.doe. It is said in the
formef.. Ibis; 8,1. ~.. atclyafte '{he conclusion of the
ceremonies a..tr - '.ll.tenti LIM his toreoatiot: the
EmperorSk . t.. ,', id r
.1c •610: the. "rmy.,,in Bel-
i
' sarabia, i:Vhit•sintelligen,ct' h:ick kten • ttnnoluniCatetl
.to 'OlO. .isilli4; :Tim*.
~47.1144 k. 010.4.1 .041• inTi. as. 1117
belie7.o4. "at ihi 4.womAJ : . owl. : cptii. 4 rig; nag* ...thein.
to put •hithsalf •at their head, outd: not oat. occur)!
tiit! Plinilt filitilsolitic thtfitcb to Coottaiscitloplec .They
'ixtiCrOVlikazif
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ebtkkoth*itsolvii,- Ai ,Gotik. ti
`.tv,llo qhti rv,lAjhigii:tia 4 The. proitfir 45104 .'44fitde4 atli
oppOttaiiiiiit
.. saiite'r.goJsesvorintiti-4 ape oat fppiat,
f.....4h...becc0nt....,..4. 4% 441.. i'doombotgA Obatsitetf.

had yet been al*fiAting in the,.inveded peovittfieue,
Irlle Pie siangl:yoOV tosK ;Jo te kaa ; tipadik
instead them at once berayid 4101
frontiek, leas ;tattling' troffpi.to4prose tjtetit.• '
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tit4iii ht. alkisfatd Lettit
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the Bombay Arpipt, • • • ,
" Viqi. se,
—et sia you say you like tii.kpow All aboUt she winners,,
Of-4.01e natives, kc. I send it description of a Sutteeior
JiikSiintOf a wonian,lbat -I•wriste'd.iwo the month*,
4ticr, I syriitneslea it. 12 is anfthitibm'aplejessit
,bus as I:ttsink all the,siescriptioaso Arsily lure 'eaok
of such have lanstsoftieli people, the following willgilite
7,04 -an idea how' it it conducted when the poor are thg,
.4ragnitii, lig** . As'yie,were strolliog aUlit !n ,Abel
evening, our attention was attracted to a ptoCesssaq;l
preceded by Tonnages, am, then passing through Ihr,
gate of the wail; Ottingairy we ,were'Old thatt4g6tteri
was about to take plice,or a woman: going tb biro
,herself with the body of her child. We joined the proce‘.
/ion, far two mums, first, to endeavour .to prevent ilk
shiackin_g a sacrifice taking:place,. and secondly,if Oink
shouldlail,swe were prompted by curiosity to witness so
extrairdinary a circumstance. once in our byes. The
woman.was seated on a suttoo, or small pony, holding a
branch in.each hancLand sit rounded by men and wo
men crying Ram Ram, and Other Words of approbation
and respect. On arriving at the\place, where sne was to
.sacrifice herself, she dismounted from the suttoo, and a
circle being formed around her by the nor-- friends

pad spectators,
want, through
logrj, whilst
deltd, to
situation,
durin,
slated of th?

top, like a
livge logs-,

women
I, which

him if it was his wish that his wife should burn herself,
and why he allowed it? He said, G Yes, his wife wished
it herself, and that was sufficient, besides that, he had
two wives, and his family would gain great ebro, or
character by it. We then went up to the woman, and
asked her if it was optional on her part, as, if it was
not, th st our Government would protect her (as she wcul d
have been turned out of her caste, and family, and left
to starve if she had refused to burn herself, after having
expressed her intention so to do)? She answered, that
4 she wished to burn herself, that it was not forced on
her, and that she would do it.' This she repeated even
after she had seated herself on the rile. After she had
given away all the rice, &c. she made a sign rl to the
surrounding crowd, who opened the way fur her, and
she moved on and sewed herself on the logs of wo 'd at
the bottom of the pile, her son, about six years old,
being laid on her lap; she kept fanning him with the
branches, and singing, or rasher crying out, some unin-
telligible words, and moving backwards and forwards,
evidently in a state of the greatest excitement, from a
great quantity of bony, or opium, that she had been eat.
tug all the time. Large logs of wood were then piled
round her up to her chin, just leaving sufficient space for
her to sit in, and a kind of dry thorn bush was thickly
laid on the out.ide of the pile; two pieces of cotton steep-
ed in glue being given to her, she threw them up amongst
the dry thorn,which immediately ignited, and at the same
time it was lighted in several places by the attendants.
As a very strong wind bless at the time, it burned most
rapidly, and the poor creature must have beets
cased almost directly. She made not the slightest
struggle, nor was even a cry or groan heard. When
the thorns had burned away a little, we could plainly
see her, with her head hanging back, of course perfectly
dead. She had not moved her situation in the least. It
is, perhaps, doubtful whether she could have done so,
on account of the he ivy wood which was placed on Eer
knees, and piled round her. One of our party' went
close to, and looked into the pile, after she had lighted
it, but the expression of her face was not in the least de-
gree changed ; at that time she quict'y drew a cloth
over her face. From the quantity of opium she had
eaten, added, perhaps, to the pitch to which her feeling's
had been worked up, she had a very wild appearance,
and was most likely prevented horn giving a thought
to si hat she was about to do, by the continued crie, of
her friends around. Tae natives appeared really to go
about it with as little concern as school-boys burn Guy
Fawkes. Not a single expression of pity or horror was
heard, and the poor infatuated woman appeared more
like an animate 4 piece of mechanism than a human
being. The Titalt, or great man of Mandura, had of-
fend her considerable sums of money not to burn her-
self, but with no effect."

PORTSMOUTH, SEPTEMBER 30.

Wednesday his Majosty's frigate the Naiad, Captain
the Hon. Itobert.C. Spencer, arrived here from the Me-
diterranean station (where she had been three years) to
be paid off. -She was released from quarantine yester-
day, and came into harbour. The Naiad had latterly
been employed at Trieste, V -n-ce, and Anemia, which
last named place she left the 15014 August, and Malta
the 27th of that month. It was understood (but not
actually known) that Lard Cochrane was waiting at
Messina for the assembling of his ships. Athens had
not surrendered on the 17th of August, but it was so
closely invested by the Seraskier (late lteJschiJ Pacha)
with about 7,000 men, that though ably dtle:ided by
General GaUyA, it must IPVCI3II.IIi7 fall. Napoli di
¶tovnania was not invested, Ibrahim Pacha having ex-
acted his erwgies• all the Season, in strengthening aqd
.pgovipiooing, .I:ripolizas. The Turks would' haverit- ' -
tacked Hydra, bin the fear of an insurrection at Von-
stantino?le had isdirced the Grand Seignor to detain
the Carritan PachaS fleet above the Dardanelles ; con-
seipientlf the only 'Turkish ships at- sea were on the
coast of the Morea,, consisting of two sail of the lige, •
sittcininetteo smaller vessel; of war, which were at an-
of.ailflairarino on the 17th of August. Slight symp-
toimi cif, Plague had manifested themselves in, the island
of Calamos (a small island near the coast of Albat4a)
late* Isecome a place of refuge foi the:Greeks...and
•thcirkiistressed families. Ti se pcoctuiszrable fog,iiives,
.skssproluch crowded, and ring in a itery•(ikhz stop,
catitte sevat:ndisf as, d ; ut precauti6ns. ketrig.tortely
tit, o to preve4 cosita,..iorr sickness hid since col 4,.fer.
ably:abated. The Weasel sluop of war, hick bad
litouglit'ilown some of Cr, se people ftom 'hid
bad stniproms Of typhus i but the seamen Inth."4ll,:te.
litiverftd. Sir Harty Neale bad le.fxMalta, in eb.e4te-
vepge,74, with provisions and supplieviari-14trpartioif
`he squadron . employed in tie Archipelago; :sail 4e
bbhille, for the coast of Syt in. The Gtirsgokairral-
t•thid arrived from England ; the- hitter' •ind the
frfacnet, Weasel, and Mastiff, were lit'AttitZ when the
)14.4 Sailed. Captain.;G:rdon klete-Ftret, Lit-umlaut
OfkkeSybille, who a asseverely wounded ,joat‘i.attack
on.thecneek pirates) came passenger :)O i•gre.-;.-.. -
Wednesday, the A4chne, 18, Captain Aleitlid‘r
.s
; trd, arrived (torn Rangoon, whence she sailed on
',. ilit- of May ; arrive at Madtationetiliialickaireinted, •
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kersefled again on thi 29th; learrintlelbet roadstead
e Boadcea, 46 (Conimedpre Sir James Brisbane), 1./s-
-oar, Athol, Slaney, and the Fly. The Rainbow, Chtic.
ion, and Pandora, were at Rangoon; the Larue'whs
daily expected from Madras.. The Martin, 19, Caiiitin
i omas Wilson, which left the Cape of- GOod.Hope
some time since, had not been heard of in any part of
India. The arrival of the Warspite (Flair Atilmiral
Gage), Volage, Hind, and Cyrene, from England, to
relieve the Boadicea, Alligator, Slaney, and Tamar,
wete diily expected: these ships left the Cape of Good
11, bet- the 12th and 18th of June. The loss of
in the expedition to:Ranglott, by sick.
great; but we are happy to bear that the
\ow perfectly healtby, 409).at Sit Janos
rite well. The terns', AI 4)wetteatyOf
with the Itornsese vkgreintirifing into
.000 of our steeps hadsbBen-embatked,
i,OOO- were waltitik at-Raiffttncr means
back to then leipeatisak . 7 idtg.;..—
that reatainedifxbeAtis nienashilmay' sent
!vas coast, with itheexeeptiot of the De.
~usl the lBsb Naive Infantry, which
4by tandflEarSebbguen to &ratan, /
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ng tousled around her by the numerous friends Elope between th
ators, she continued giving_rice, Sec. (or rather British seamen it
ough the form of doing's°, as she was very ness, was vary gi
lilst the peoplelept up .tbeirt-Eratisi.caiestesi stkuadrou iya3 no'
prevent skiver creature Ito s Brisbane was qui
belteepiog bat tn.tl it ate ioncluded
ringthittistertkapiie wits- loadez,iit•e4, ete. About 2,
three or fear" sticks, fatnitat4 of *Wait and:about 10,00 C
in diAnsdterat bottom- "-polar sit of conveyance bi
a cone, at the 'bottom of ihals, o thegiouat Theseiwere all th
s-of wood AueFer.placed, sores solos* is 'to that. pestiferou
san's hosbandmas-watchindrilits, of. :the' phaot Brigade,
ich ciMbe bier eloselby. Welikl. force bad proceii
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