Star.
London, England, 1829-08-27 00:00:00

Bras'Bar, Imperial
Unieed Alexleas

We are yet without any official confirmation of the fall
of Turkey ; but it is not the less morally certain, be-
cause the documentary intelligence lingers. With PAs-
K rwiTscit on one side of his empire, and DIEBITSCII
on the other—both devastating, and both bearing upon
the capital—it is impossible for the SULTAN to make a
stand. He is not only abandoned by*those, whom he
counted upon as effective auxiliaries in the contingency of
t he actual crisis, but a panic has also disorganised his own
population, and scatters them like sheep before the inva-
ders. Constantinople—it may be safely affirmed—cannot
at this hour belong to MA lIMOU D: only whether he has
perished in defending it, or escaped a fugitive into Asiatic
fistnesses, we shall know by the next arrivals. The de-
termination of the people in the capital—a determination
which the SULTAN would fear to brave—favours the
former hypothesis. Our Ministers are cutting a pretty ,
ti!zure! There is talk of an immediate Parliament.

From an article which we read lately in one of the
Plymouth Journals, we perceive that a very deserving
Naval Officer has been dismissed from his MAJESTY'S
service, through the influence or representations of the
tyrannical Usurper MIGUEL. We do not pretend, as
vet, to be acquainted with all the circumstances of this
extraordinary dismissal ; but we know that a more
gallant and meritorious Officer than Lieutenant Jos Es
does not exist in the KING'S navy, and that the
zeal and ability with which he has not ceased to
discharge his duty through a long period of service, have
created for him a correspondent interest in the public
mind. We know, too, that the Government of the Noble
Earl has carried its Miguelite partialities far ; but we are
not yet prepared to see the servants of the country
cashiered from its employ, and deprived of their honour-
able rank as well as just emoluments, at the instigation
of a rascal outlaw. That the Board of Admiralty
should have taken this extreme step, without re-
presentation officially made, is a thing itnpossi-
ble ; and that this representation, whatever it was,
originated in the same quarter, and travelled
through the same channels as the celebrated letter of
denegation concerning the Lonach outrage—which after
all recoiled with infamy upon its own authors—is most
fair to imagine : for it is plain, now, how these cases
are got up. We have adverted often to the under-
hand dealings of the Foreign Secretary with his
friend ASSECA, and the dismissal on which we
are now commenting is, no doubt, an emanation from
one of these transactions: indeed, if the Noble Earl's
conduct should he subjected hereafter—as it ought to
be—to a Parliamentary investigation, we shrewdly sus-
pect that more cause of impeachment would be found
against the Noble Earl, than there would for suspending
or depriving the King's Officers, to gratify the animosity
of such a wretch as MIGUEL. It is time that Lord
ABERDEEN should cease to vaunt that he can order
things as he pleases in Lisbon, when such influence can
be obtained only by his derogatory connexion with
conspirators there, against the acknowledged and right-
foil Heiress of the Kingdom. No; this is carrying
matters too far. Hitherto, the Noble Earl had confined
—as to their proper sphere—his intrigues and ma-
namvres, generally within the precincts of his own
department; but now he has passed beyond his bounds,
and it is no longer Consuls without the means of justi-
fication whom the Noble Earl attacks, but officers of his
Majesty's navy, who have a right to demand a Court-
martial upon their conduct: and when Lieutenant Jos ES
shall do this, he will not want the sympathy and sup-
port of his countrymen, nor a friend in this Journal to
sustain him in his righteous requisition. It is not our
design, nor is it our desire, to prejudge this case ;
but in so far as it has transpired before the public,
e do not hesitate to say, that if Lieutenant JONES
should call for an inquiry, the issue must be triumphant
for him. Carrying money on freight is coeval with the
navy itself; it is one of the employments which gives
occupation to his Majesty's ships, equally in peace and
war ; and the freight so carried belongs in part to the
Admiral of the station—partly to Greenwich Hospital-•-
and the remainder to the Commander of the vessel for his
trouble and responsibility. It is objected against Lieu-
tenant JONES, that he represented the money as his
own : but who can call in question the propriety
of this course, after he had signed a bill of
lading for the property, and rendered by. this act his
personal and private fortune amenable for the full
remount? For money is received on ship-board, not as a
bale of merchandize, where the master of the vessel signs
to the package, contents unknown ; but the person re-
ceiving such money is both obliged to take charge of
it, and deliver it according to the quantity—and
not by the specific bale or package—entnu►ted to
him. To steal from a bale of goods is the awful
crime of barratry : but a Captain receiving money

can only be sued at law for the quantity received
by him, and for which he has—by his signature—made
himself responsible. It is clear, therefore, that from the
moment Lieutenant JON Es received the property in ques-
tion, it was incontestably his, to dispose of it as he
pleased, provided he delivered the quantity received agree-
ably to his bill of lading.

By the Flanders Mail this day, we have Hamburgh
and other Continental Papers to the 22d instant. By
these it will be seen that the news given by us two days
ago about Trebisonde is correct. That great commercial
city—only second in importance to Constantinople in all
the East—is half destroyed by the Russian fleet. The
Turks—the poor, miserable, wretched, fallen Turks,—
still talk of resistance. The following are our selections
BRUSSELS, Avo. 22.
His Majesty has been pleased to make a very extensive promo-
tion in the army.
Avower 23.—Her Majesty the Empress of Brazil having re•
crived a courier trom Ostend, was to leave Ghent to-day.
Ammar 25.—Since the Empress of Brazil has been at Ghent,
the Marquis de Rezende has bad the honour to present to her
several persons of distinction, both of Brazil and Portugal. Her
Majesty received them with her usual affability. To the Conde de
Sampayo she said. " I am happy to see the decendant of a Minister
who is justly celebrated for the eminent services which be rendered
to Portugal and Brazil, and' who has himself. in the course of a
long career, given the most honourable proofs of his loyalty to the
house or Bragann, and his attachment to the country." • The Conde
Je Sampayo, who is 84 years of age, was deeply affected by her
Majesty's kind expressions.
Her Majesty passed through Bruges on the 23d, without stop-

ping, on her way to Ostend.
Yesterday, the 44th, being his Majesty's birth-day was We.
breed with the usual solemnities; and the general joy with which
the return of this day is always welcomed, was checked only by
the bad weather, which spoiled the illuminations, and prevented
the intended display of fire works.—Brussels Papers. Aug. 46.
ODESSA, Au°. 4.

General Win, who commands the reserve of 80,000 men be-
longing to the grand arniy in the field, has arrived here, where be
has his head-quarters.

BUCHAREST, Alto. 7.
By way of Silistria, we have received direct accounts from the
army of General Diebitsch, according to which the light troops
were already within twelve hours march of Adrianople. We,
therefore, expect shortly very important intelligence.
TURKISH FRONTIERS. Auc. S.
At Widdin the Turks have spread the unauthenticated news that
the Pacha of Adrianople, and Hussein Pacha, united, had bad a
most sanguinary battle with the Russians near Bourgas, in which
the latter sustained considerable loss. As the Pacts sof Scutari is
on the point of commencing operations against Gen. Geismar, it
is conjectured that he circulates such reports in order to encourage
his Albanians. Gen. Geismar is gone from Krajoa to his en-
trenched camp at Saduvan, in order to begin his operations with
vigour.

CONSTANTINOPLE, Aun. I.

Since the 26th ult. one piece of bad news has followed another.
The Pacha of Sinope has sent word that Trebbond is half destroyed
by a bombardment by the Russian fleet, and will hardly be able to
defend itself. On this side of the Balkan, however, measures are
taken to make the most vigorous resistance. The Pacha of Adria-
nople, who has 12,000 men, is gone towards Bourgas, to join
Hussein Pacha.

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