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FRANKFORT, DECEMBER Isl.

The last news received from Epirus is to the 15th
November. At that period the Tut ks were surrounded
on all points. The Suliots had taken possession of
Arta, and, seconded by the Albanians, had formed
the blockade of Vcnitza. Prevesa, feebly defended
by the Turks, was on the point of capitulating.
The son of the Schuh of Persia, on entering the
Ottoman Empire, published a Manifesto against the
Grand Signior, in which he treated his Highness as
a heretic, an enemy of the Caliph Ali, the only suc-
cessor of Mahomet. On the 25th of September, the
Kurds, partizans of the Persians, joined by several
bands of Wechabites, were marching against the
principal Turkish towns. The news of this insurrec-
tion had created great alarm in Bagdad.
FROM THE BANKS OF TILE DANUBE, DEC. 6.
The invasion of the Persians is a very serious war.
The last letters from Constantinople announce the
capture of Bagdad. Although this news may be pre-
mature, yet that city cannot oppose a long resistance
to a formidable army.
It is said that the Druses and the Pacha of Da-
mascus have a second time revoked, and that this
insurrection is more violent than the first.
VIENNA, DECEMBER 7.

The attack of the Persians is of greater importance
than was at first believed. It is not an enterprise of
brigands, but a completely organized invasion, which '1
threatens at the same time Erzerum and Bagdad,
and which will give a mortal blow to the Turkish
power in this part of Asia. Several letters, received
by the last courier, state that Bagdad has fallen into
the hands of the Persians.
AUGSBURG, DECEMBER is.

We have received the following news from Odessa,
dated November 19:
It is said that the Grand Seignior Mahmoud, has
twice declared in the Divan, that " The Holy Al-
liance, including England and Austria, had resolved
upon the destruction of the Porte and of Islamism ;
that such was the real purpose of its institution ; and
that if the Ministers of England and of Austria put
on an air of protection towards the Porte, it was but
dissimulation en their parts." This expression of the
Sultan's has reached us from an exceedingly good
quarter; but even should it be forged, it is at least
true that the Divan and all the Turks participate in
that opinion, and that it is on that account that the
Divan has declined the offer made by Lord Strang-
ford in the month of September, to send English
Commissioners into the Morea, to persuade the insur-
gents to throw themselves upon the clemency and
amnesty of the Porte.
All Europe knows the innocence of the Ministers
of Austria and of England of sentiments so evil-dis-
posed towards the Turks as those which are thus ins-
, puled to them ; but those Powers cannot but be af-
flicted on beholding so evil a return for their im-
portant services.

As soon as Lord Strangford heard of the Persian
invasion, he dispatched •to o messengers to Ispahan
and Teheran, to incline the Schah to more pacific
dispositions ; but it remains to be seen whether the
Persians also will not distrust the English.
War against the Porte begins to be considered here

as more probable. The report of an approaching,
prohibition of the exportation of grain is revived.—
The ultimatum of our Sovereign reached Constan-
tinople on the 19th of October. The Reis Effendi
(who has since been displaced) instantly communi-
cated it to Lord Strangford, adding, that the Porte
could not accept it. He alto supported that opinion
in the Divan, which occasioned his fall.
Our news from Constantinople comes down to the
12th of November. It was expected that the Divan
would hold a sitting in a few days, at which the an-
swer to the ultimatum would be finally resolved on.

MADRID, DECEMBER 6.
PROM PARTICULAR CORRESPONDRSCR.

The following is a statement of recent events at
Valladolid :—General Echevarri, Minister of Police
under the old Government, was in prison, accused of
conspiring against the Constitution. As some delay
had taken place in bringing him to trial, a body
of the Liberals and others determined to enter the
prison and kill him. The General procured a few
loaded muskets, and determined to make his life a
dear purchase. Chance made the Insurgents discover
his arms, on which a. report was spread that the Ge-
neral was at the head of a new conspiracy to rescue;
the prisoners, and arming them to put the city to fire
and sword. The clamours of the disaffected became
so violent, that it was found necessary to remove the
prisoner under a strong escort to the fortress of Sego.
via, where he at present remains.
An • extraordinary courier has just arrived from
Valladolid. He is the bearer of a Representation
from all the Authorities of the Province to the King,
demanding the dismissal of the Ministers. It is re-
markable for its harsh expressions and the menaces
with which it is filled. The Bishop was one of the
first who signed the Address. The courier said there
had been offers of men, money, and arms, at Valla-
dolid, for forming a little Army, with which to march
on Madrid, and force the King to yield to the public
voice. It is added, that General Espinosa, who had
a military command in the province, could raise
20,000 men, who wished for nothing better than to
march towards Madrid.
LISBON, DECEMBER 1.
The police has been engaged for some days in en-
deavouring to discover the authors of some pamphlets
which have appeared against the system now in force.,
Manoel, of the Convent of Villa Viciosa, and author
of a brochure entitled, 64 A Preservative against the
Liberal Ideas of the Nindeenth Century," is at this mo-
ment an object of censure with the Government.

A private letter from Paris, dated on Monday last,
states, that the law of the Censorship of the Journals
will certainly not be renewed. It expires on the sth
of February, and will be superseded, it is said, by a
severe repressive measure. The Prefect of Police
of Paris, the Count Angles, it is further stated, re-
tires along with the Directors, to make room for a
friend of the new Cabinet. M. Rayneval has like-
wise retired, and has been offered the embassy to
Berlin, as successor to M. de Chateaubriand. Re-
Torts dispose variously of the latter, but some ap-
Ilpoinunent of importance, it is said, will be found for
him. Amid these changes in the Cabinet, and pro-
motions in the minor offices, the chief of the late Mi-
nistry, the Duke de Richelieu, seems to be the only
person forgotten or overlooked. Against him the
whole force of the Opposition was directed, which
drove himself and his colleagues from the Cabinet
The cry of a Russian influence, and the feeling that
France had not played any part in the events
which happened this Spring at her door, or in
those which are now taking place in the East,
were the real causes of his fall. In this cry all
parties (on other subjects the most opposite) could
join—in that feeling every Frenchman participated.
—The admission of corn from Odessa was a crime,
when viewed as an indication of partiality towards
Russia, which had deprived France direr just weight
in the arrangement of the affairs of Turkey. The
Duke's wavering, uncertain, and timid policy, in the
direction of domestic affairs, coupled with his foreign
political system, increased the unfavourable harms-
sion of his character and talents. He yesterday left
Paris for his estate of Courteil, without being accom-
panied wish so many regrets as his amiable private
character might have been expected to excite. It
is now thought that the Duke de Richelieu will
return to Russia, and resume his station as Governor
of Odessa. Ills manse, indeed, still appears in the
Russian Army List, as a General in the service of
Russia ; and in the imperial Russian Calendir, as

Governor of Odessa, «absent upon leave." The latter
circumstance was emphatically alluded to, by 14.
Donnadieu, in the memorable and stormy debate of

the Secret Sitting upon the Address to the King. The
Duke doCazes, it is said, has still a party.

Harmburgh Papers to the 15th instant arrived this
forenoon. The following are extracts:

FROM THR EMS, DECRMRER e.

On the representation of the Cabinet lernistry, his
Majesty has been pleased to approve of the erection
of a Bank in East Friesland, and the necessary funds
are already formed for this establishment, which will
be of the greatest importance to the merchants, land-
owners, arc. of this province.