Star.
London, England, 1829-10-05 00:00:00

REPORTED FALL OF SHUMLA.

[FROM THE HAMPSHIRE TELEGRAPH.]
PORTSMOUTH. 0113. 5.
IMPORTANT INTELLIGENCE FROM CONSTAN-
TINOPL&

The following communication from an officer of the
British squadron we received this morning. The strong
tbrtress of Mamie: has been taken by. storm, after an
obstinate resistance by the Turks:
" Off Tacapb, in the Bosphorus, Aug. Ilk 1545.
" Authentic accounts have just reached us, stadia' that Sbum-
la, the strong and almost immovable fortress commanding the
passegeame the Balkan, has at length fallen into the hands of
the Russia's. We have ant, as yet, heard the particulars of the
battle; but I apprehend that the slaughter on both sides must
have bees truly dreadful, particularly amongst the Turks, who
appear to have defended that important fortress with the great-
est obstinacy, under' the direction of the Grand Vizier. Shunda
was carried by assault ; and the Vizier, the hope of the Turkish
army. with all his Staff, is now a prisonet in the hands of the
Russians. Ae4 thus Russia is now in possession of a gads=
which may be considered as the muter-key that opens the doer
or high road to the destruction of the Turkish doenisions in
Europe, should the be inclined to fellow up the splendid suc-
cesses which have hitherto attended her arms. The vanguard of
the Russian army advanced upon Adrianople, and summoned it
to surrender. This city. the most regular and beautiful in all
the Turkish empire, was defended by Omar Paths, who, at the
head of 25,000 men, marched out to give the bold invaders battle ;
but stack is the broken spirit of the Turkish soldiers, that they
no sooner received the first Are of their powerful foe, than they
threw down their arms and fled precipitately in every direction.
In consequence of the general defection of the army of Omar
Pacha, be monied to the Sultan's amp at Rands Chits. near
Constantinople, nod submitted his hopeless car to the mad-
fel consideration of his Royal Master. The Sultan was about
to follow the custom of his predecessors, by ordering the bead
of the forlorn General to be taken off ; but after a few seconds'
(minutes would be fatal) redo:dee, his Majesty, in spite of Sul.
tank pride, let fall some tears, and pardoned the defeated
Pacha. On Monday, the Mosques were opened, and the empire
pronounced, by the mouths of the Priests or Demises, to be in
danger ; after which a Firma or Decree was published, calling
upon every fifth man to take up arms in defence of his holy re-
ligion; but such is the state of baled indifference into which the
Miassebsen have fallen, that net were Mehemet to rise from the
dead, it is a question if they would draw the sword of vengeance rut
him. The Grand Seignior can make no stand against the Russians;
be cannot new, out of his hundreds of thousands of fighting men,
collect more round his person than from Is to 20.000. In consequence
of this the invaders are advancing with con&leoce, and have pushed
on two heavy columns, ens to seise the bodes en the European
side of the Hellespont, and the other to seise those upon the same
side• of the Bosphorus. The advanced-guard of the Cossacks
are within twenty miles of this place; the first column baa
reached, by forced marches, the Castle of Gallipoli. on the
Marmon side of• the Hellespont or Dardanelles. Tr this piacx
we have sent the Elkton, is company with a lurid* steamer,
who has Commissioners on board. for the purpose of actin
terms of peace to Russia ; and we have also dispatched the
Hind cutter to Sir Pulteney Malcolm, who is now lying off
Tondos. 'Thus we have no ether European companies. in the.
Bosphorus new but the French frigate l'Annido. Gemini Die'
Weds, the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian invading army.
is now within SO hours' march of Constantinople. The Ambas-
sadors of all the European Powers at this place have sent a depu-
tation to him, calling upon him to halt; and strongly protest-
ing against his approaching any neater is Constantinople, wider
the certain pain of incurring the displeasure of all the Courts
of Europe. In consequence of this it is expected that the Rus-
sians will not enter the city, and hence that as immediate peace
will be the concluding scene. The Sultan must yield to the terms
which Russia proposes, and which indeed are no more than the
fulfilment of the Treaty of Akermann—vis. the free occupation of
the provinces of Moldavia and Walischi, and the free navigation
of the Bosphorus and Dardanelles. It is thought that the Russian
will new insist, particularly after having bad such a series of splen-
did successes, on the right of their ships of war passing the Dar-
danelles, and of thus opening an unqualified communication be-
tween the seas of the &mine and the Mediterranean."

NEW YORK PAPERS.

IMPORTANT FROM COLOMBIA AND MEXICO.

Captain Bpissiere. of the brig Seraphim, arrived at Baltimore, in
sliteeri days, IWM Mires, informs that on the I its of August, a
Government vessel arrived from Guayaquil at Panama, the Capt.
of which came down bearing dispatches from Bolivar. Nothing
°facial had 'transpired ; but the verbal report of the Hikers and
others on board was, that Bolivar had just entered Guyaquil when
they sailed—the Peesvian army had abandoned it some days pre-
trions, after destroying or carrying off every thing likeamitinnitiea
or articles of war, and were then at Piers.
There had been * revolution In Bolivia. General Omans
had sent the Pleoldent of Bolivia, General Lerner, an booed a
vessel selling for Chili, with private orders to *Luta him on the
passage. General Santa Cruz bad been elected President of
Bolivia. and bad dissuived the Congress. It was. the general
opinion at Panama that tiers was much important information
suppressed by the alms and others who arrived in the iframel
at Panama. Captain IL canto into the Capes with the. schooner
Spartan. from Havana. whose Captain informed him that pre-
viola to having left Havana, paw of the men of war and trans-
yportsof theespedition against 'lexica bed rammed from Tam-
pico after landing and taking powesslun of that place--he further
stated, that the Mexican troops had immediately Joined the Spatial
army, and the Spaniards had met no resistance in landing.
New OrleanLPapers to the 25th ult. inclusive, state that the
Corporation had appointed a Committee to each Ward tar the
rialefof the indigent sick. Private subscriptions were MAWS for
the indigent enlarge; and the poor refugees from Mesico.
Zambians aidererfaer disapproves ut the liberal treatment which has
bran adapted towards the Spanish twangs destined for the invasion
of Mexico, which had arrived there in distress, on board the
Bingham.
HWAV or New Omaams.-.-Accoanto from New Orle.ins. give
the most walling acconnts .f the destructiveness ut the yellow W-
irer in that place. The Natchez Golan of the 13th ultimo gives a
knee albs Ilds. which Haire that there werosizip-ten inttrrstrots
the preceding day. A gentleman who arrived at Pcii.acola, from
New Orleans, on the 14th, stated that the number of deaths on
the Oboes eighty, and that-theta" had beeps Iron► Soy to satiny
daily tsar several days previous." The New Orreams Courie► of the
14th admits the dreadful v:uiesee with which the pestilence rags•.
sad say% " itehrsatrss entire de•olati•ts to thecity." it adds,
the•h•ts of mortality have been frightfully swelled th. se few day s
past.••

The OtireasJostrosel of the 12th says,—" We have just receigea
news from Countentinople of the 3d instant. Nobody in that city,
entertained any doubt of the muciusion of peace as military ope-
rations are suspended both by sea and lad. The eaecutioes are
M (regimen, that the number of at victims that b.ee already
fallen Is thought to be greater then It was in inert, whys the corps
of the Janissaries was abolished. It is said that many distinguished
pence:tare in danger of the fate which the Sultan has allotted to
those who are so unfortunate as to tacite his suspicior.."—Prossion
Some Queue. &PLUS.
J ASSY. Sam 12.

We learn by private letters from the theatre of war that Ito.
dons was occupied by the Russians at the end of last mouth, and
that they insmodsately took measures to make themselves masters
of the forts of the Dardanelles. Rodosto is said to have made nu
resistance. as all the Asiatic troops from the army of the
ffalketis that bad led thither, had been conveyed to Asia by
order of the Sultan, to prev.mt a renewal of the excesses
cessmitted by these barbarians. Nothing was spared in the
wasp-which Aar- andludidlemmt hordes took upon their Sight.—
linbberr• calutiove and rape. marked their steps; and the (tars.
art troops we e• may where received by the defenceless Juba-
bitasts as their deli from the excesses of their own
countrymen. The highest commendations are bestowed on the
discipline of the Russian army, sad on the humanity of Count
Daebitecb, who has gained the general esteem at Adrianople.
In general the conduct of the Russians appears to have made a
great impemaia, on the Mossulasen, many of whom wish for a
chew. It Is eves said that several pachas have proposed to
Essen& Diehitsck and Paskewitsch to join the Retain%
standard, if a suitable rank in the army were given to them;
but the Comnsapders-in-Chief are said to have rejected all such
offers as would look like an insurrection. The Turkish
Commissioners at Adrianople have obtained a delay of twelve days
to snake a report to the Sultan and the Divan, and to base the
• pease accepted. The general levy is at a stand, and all the inha-
bitants of Romelia remain tranquil spectators. In fact, the Sultan
is surrounded on all sides by treachery, and the most distingui.beti
blussuinsen abandon his cause. The Commander of the rust. on
4 the Bosphorus was beheaded. because he was accused of being con-
nected with the discontented in the capital, and of having spoiled
the ammunition intended fat the defence of the forte by wetting it.
The whole empire la in a melancholy state, and a nod of the Rue-
deo Emperor would entice to overthrow it.
VIENNA Servastess

Mercantile letters from fiermanstadt Interims the taking of
Shenk by the Russians. Though there is no particular reason
to doubt this event, which is not improbable, and, a 4 things now
wand, would be of secondary importance, entire credit is not given
to the news, because, if true, we should most likely have karnt it
ollicially either by Adrianople or Bucharest
BUCHAREST, Bert. 14.
_ _ _

It Is said that General Diebitsch left Adriaoople on the 10th,
and followed the army on the road to Coostantimmk, and that the
Russian and Turkish Plenipotentiaries followed him. Hence it is
inferred that every thing is prepared is the Russian army to take
possession of the Capital, if the Sultan should nut sign the condi-
tions of peace within the time fixed ; but it is supposed that he
will hasten to do it, in order to scup the march of the Russian
army and save his capital. Peace may, therefore. probably be
concluded ender the walls of Cuostantinople, and the world be
convinced that it depended solely on the will of the cookuerur to
take possession of it.
FRONTIERS OF WALLACHIA, Sm.
By accounts from the right hank of the Danube, the Parka of
Scutari was disposed to leave Widdin and march to Sophia to rally
all the Turkish troops on the way and make a diversloo w the rear
of the Russian army in favour of Cuostantinapie. Ulm could join
the Grand Vizier, who can still detach 16.000 men without hazard-
ing the safety of the piscei suc► an undertaking might have been
important, and dangerous to the Russian communications if it had
been executed at the beginning of the month. Yet it would hardly
have escaped the vigilance of General Geismar, who would have
found means to balk it. If carried into effect at a later period. it
would only kad in the destruction of the capital, and the violent
overthrow of the Ottoman Empire.—ifllgeincine &gong. 27th and
284 A Sept.
VIENNA, Sire. 211.

PeleedUquee, 1001; Beek Shares. 119113.
Sur. SM.— hletalligoes. 104 ; Bank Shares. 11 28.—.1astrien
Mawr, bhp& 24.
The Amities Observer his Do recent news from the theatre of war.

BRUSSELS, SEPT 30.

We are assured that the King of Prussia will arrive in this city
In a few days. A British Cabinet Messenger passed through here
yesterday evening, on his way from &rani to Louden, with dis-
patches.
A division of 1400 men is assembled at Harderwyk, to be em-
barked for the Batt Indies.

The &assets Papers mania long accounts-of the isorney of the
Princeof Orange through the provinces, to review the Hereon'
Guards, of which be is Colonel.

The Brussels Papers, to the 5d Oct. inclusive, contaht an news
front the theatreaf war.