Star.
London, England, 1829-01-02 00:00:00

GIBBALTAR, DEC. 20.

EXTRACT OF A PRIVATE LATTER.
The cases of yellow fever ate now so far diminished
in number as to encourage the hope of a speedy release
(nom the inconveniences of living so long from home.
le three weeks I thit,k we shall be able to return with
safety. You cannot easily imagine how tired we are of
.our quarters hete; I mean the neutral pound, a small
territory between Spain and Gibraltar, which, from its
being level with the sea, is always thoroughly ventilated,
snit fee from the prevailing malady r f the garrison.—
put accommodation is poor in the extreme ; and when
I inform you that I bleep and mess in what was, before
its occupation by me, a stable, you will be readily
convinced that it is so. Many a•e less sheltered and
lucre cvlifined in their accotnniotlation. The prima
them, who have fled from the slaughter in thegarrison
ate encamped, to the number of 'bite or tour thousand
people, and base only a coveting of canvass ovet their
heads to protect them from the weather.
'All cbmmunicatton with Spain is shut our, except
t y letters, which undergo mail put ificat ions before they
ate seer on their was, and this system well be adhereu
nitro finty days atter the last case of fever. making a
stagnation in ou• trade fist a pet Ind of ab• we five months„
which, besides, is ui.t the extent of injury see receive.
a; from ptecautiol.aiy meautr ev, we shill have a cor-
don of obtei ration Oa• ed em next season, and perhaps
the f.llowit,g, so that it is a blow to• In trade of nr
consequence.
This fiver has carried riff six Pt ic ,ts out of ten, oni
two Rabbis, tl e gat rison Cheplaut and his succe.ot,
one Methodist Pat son, eight medical men, ihcludini.
die chief medical e ificer. No place of wot ship has beet
open since the begthnitig of September, and the funeral
*trice ovet the dead of the Protestant persuasion i
peritirmed by a Captain in the army, for the want e:
another better endowed.
Aihriut '1 100 of the inhabitants have died, besid
fit 0 of the military. Sixteen grave-2.iggers were at t:t..

The pacific party in the Divan continues its efforts to
increase the number ot its partisans; but the Sultan
'emains immoveable in his resolutions. A Moll.th of
the Ulemas had ventured to present a memorial to him
on the pres-Nit state of the empire, advising him to enter
into negociations for peace. The Sultan, after having
real the memorial, banished the Mollah to Asia, but
sent the document to a committee of the Divan to
exam ne it. Since that time several assemblies of the
Divan have been held upon this subject. It is remark•
able that the Sultan, whose intentions do not appear to
change, should yet have honoured the opiniJa of the
pacific party with such a distinctio.i.
The ex-tii and Vizier Galeb Nam, who has endea-
voured to justify himself from the accusations made
against him by Omer Vrioni, and by the new Grand
Vizier, has excited the pity of the Sultan, after h 45.
ing been Vie object cf his anger. lie has sent him
50,000 piastres for his subsistence. It is supposed now
that his head is in no danger.
Besides the ves,els laden with corn, which have ar-
rived from Alexandria, two have arrived from the
Crimea. Two others from Odessa had only a small
quantityof merchandise and wool. A fifth has brought
ion from Taganrog.

FROM THE CONSTITUTIONNEL.
EXTRACT or A PRIVATE LETTER.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. '29.
Every h-fe of accommodation is at An ens. Pro-
jects of armistice, of recognition, of the enfranchise-
ment t.f Greece, even on the conditions of suzerainte
and political dependence; nothing can i•iduce the lofty
head of the Sultan to agree to. El‘s device is all or no-
thing. " Let the Fie. ch quit the Mo;ea, the Muscovite,
Capo d'lstria, depart ; let the chiefs of the insurre:tion
against my Sublime Parte be delivered up to me; and
than I shall see whether there be room to bestow upon
the Frank' those conditions which they held from the
favour and the mercy of my glorious ancestors. Let
their Kings stnd as many Ambassadors as they please
to ask favours, my will that I shall re-enter upon the
plenitude of my empire such as it was more than a
century ago." This is the strict meaning of the Sultan's
answer to all the negoci4tars who wish to ii.terfere in
his concerns.

In spite of this stupid hauteur, far it proceeds more
from obstinacy than strength of character, the Divan
would wish to break up the coalition and procure itself
alliances, except with that Power which it looks upon
as having wished to make a diversion in favour of Rus-
sia, by the operation of the Morea. It is, meanwhile,
attempted to convince them that this was a combination
apart from the general question; but the sons of bars
barism are not easily to be hoodwinked, more especially'
when the Smyrna Paper exclaims against France. The
yet nded zeal of this writer, who is a hireling of
Austria, was so great that he wanted lately to nave
jest.: de joie on account of the reverses experienced by
the Russians, and of the fevers which have afflicted the
Fresich army since its landing in Messenia ; he would
oish that every thing which could injure the holy
Turkish empire should be annihilated; and this man
yet dares t.s call himself a Frenchman. In truth, there
appears a total perver ion in the ideas of these people of
theLevant,who believe themselves called upon to trumpet
forth despotism as the beau ideal of filmset nments.
The Sultan is anxiously desirous
that Ibrahim PACha
shosld repair with all his force to the Danube. It is
probable that he will do nothing ; and the Viceroy of
Egypt, his father, knaws too well his own equivocal
position to wish that the Grand Seignior should regain
the plenitude of his power.
It is said that, by way of a commencement towards
the satisfaction of the Porte, Count Guilleminot, who
was at Port's, will depart from Greece. He is by this
time embarked on beard the Breslau, for Naples, where,
if it please Pnovionoce, the negotiations will be re-
newd during the Carnival. This kind of eclipse will
explain itself without any comment; f,,r it is pretty well
politiect that great diplomatic s, who have always pro
phesied the reverse of what has happened, have need to
return to obscurity ; there it is that they may restore
themselves.

Notwithstanding the boldness of the Divan, it is not
at all at ease reputing the tranquillity of the capital.
His Highness has already granted remission to the in-
habitants of Constantinople to leave off the military uni-
, form which he had commanded them to wear. The
Nlufti, who is the Turkish Pope, no longer wears the
sabre and the dagger ; the bt Ea' or sacristans of the
Mosques are relieved from being exercised in the,
Austrian manner. W4it but a short time, and there
ell he a re-action against the new institutions. Already
'it is found that the conficatiqns of the good old times
are profitable. Taking other people's property is a
matter so conren;enr, that a heavy hand is again lad
u, on the goods of the Armenians and the Jews.
There is some talk of a Congrese, ti, assemble at An-
cona or some other city, under this specific erudition
that it be nut in a country where the press is fife, in no-
to avoid indiscriminste disclosures; tut It is al Aay ft
lith dosed doors that the tate of nations is to be deli-
berated on.

Fatacn FUNDSPAIUS, Dtcrstssa 30.—Five per Cents. 106 f
ofse. Three per Cents. 731. 90c. Hank Stock. 1,8106 Roue,.
'e Nayks, 771. 65c. Royal Spanish Loan, 79E. Spanish Rene
t petuelle, 4811. Ilaytian Loan, 49,11. Esch.tuie ou London, one
,south, 251. 25c.; three months, 251. luc.