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COSTANTINOPLE, JAL to.
The moderation which the Porte had proinised to
observe, and which had even given great reason-I°44e
that it desired to effect the pacification 'by its own mea-
sures, has wholly vanished, or rather it owes only a
mask which4had served to conceal itt true 'designs.
A Proclamation, addressed to all the Functionaries of
the Empire, and conceived in terms the most offensive
to the Cabinets and all Chrittendom, declares that it
was a sacred duty to coMbit them ; calls•the Mussel-
mans to arms, and even declares plainly
.tbat the Porte
wanted to gain time in. order to prepare for
,a san-
guinary struggle; andlbat having obtained 614 object,
,it will brave every dangeriaild _will ratheileTrestr-
Owered than content to recognise: the independence of
the Greeks in the Morea and the Wands, whichWoild
encourage the other. Raps tO..reeolt, and 'seen redice
Islamism under the dominion of the .Infidelst*ThePtilte
has not been content with this PrbcrimArin'n, but, lies
also drawn out a list of prOscriptioni, whips !Mutes
1,500 French, English, and Russian subjects, and makes
all the, individuals of the three nations who Aemain here
apprehensive of a similar or a worse fates
These measures have obliged the Charges cßAffaires
of the Neutral Powers to interfere; and to observe to
the Porte that this conduct was not conformOle.ter the
promise which it had made, to take under its Own:pro-
tection all the Franks who had no immediate repre-
sentative. That it was only preparing for itself the
most dreidfnl catastrophe; thatit was even' acting
contrary to the Treaty of Akerrnan ; and that it was
going to throw all Europe into alarm. Their remon-
strances seem to have made no impression, and the
oideti oft peoscription have been executed notwith-
standing, under the pretext that the indiiiduals on the
list could. not account, for the means of subsistence,
though most of them belong to the most respectable
commertialibinses. The evil disposition which seems
to guide the Councils of the Porte, and which, as well
as, a . terrible fatality, extinguishes every favotirable
prospect in its affair's, has been augmented by the spirit
of persecution, and has struck a blow against all the
united Armenians. The Porte appears to have taken
offence in particular at the proofs of attachinent which
the people of this nation 'in Georgia and Persia have
shewn to Russia, and intends ..to -banish them without
distinction of age,or sex; orders have already been. gives
in the capital enjoining them to suit the countrrimme•
diately; and it is fearer:Ltbat a similar mike Will be
sent to the.provinces::n is itso believed that the Franks
will be sent away; not only from the capital,`buffrom
`all the other cities.•Thi Bosphorus is clesed ; tro vessel
undet's foreign flag can -leave the port with'ia ono,
but must unload at the great enstern House. , .
Many changes have take* plactt. in the Administra-
tion. Chanpellor of the Chamber of
CoMmeree, has. Geendismvsed,' and Tahir Paifia-
'Sotne per soni affiina-that the latter baidliken
beheaded.—Augsburg Verdi?.
117L0M Tilt 110N1111611.0/ MOMDAY.
s•-• •PARIB, FIBILUART 14. t
The Official Part contains the Address of the Clxam-
,ber of Peers to Ahe King and die King's Answer. The
,latter is as follows; .
ict ieteiTe 'With 'rehl.pleamite the e'ipcisVorts of the
sentiments anti elglag,ellimber3ef Pcie rs. I. see
with &aft:faction that., vegriLlaserbeen attended to,