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London, England, 1829-07-21 00:00:00

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The people of Sidon laughed at me when I talked
"letting Lady H-•—e. 11-11—; the greatest Lards, they said. had
been refewd admittance, and latterly every steamier bad in ”In
mlielted an interview. I wrote a note to her I,adyskip. requite-
Its.the favour of an audience, and stating my preleseke aod pur-
ls the evening, to the surprise of all Shket. a of bones
arrived lot nut, and a polite note from her Ladyship, asating she
would be happy to see am, but without a single servant. Her
Ladyship is mow living about eight mike from Sides, in the inlet
vier of the mountains, at; villa of her ewe construction, called
U'Joan. There le ma village in its vicinity; hemmed In on all
skies by arid mountain., this residence is shut out from the world,
and is at the mercy of the Bedouins, if they had the audacity to
attack*. But g( this there is little fear • they regard her as a
Queen of the desert, though I never heardher receive any other
tale from them that; Slues hada, or the English Lady. Witco I
was scab's out front Sidon, all the merchant. and Jews of the
plea gathered round me; use kissed my hand, another invoked
Morelos' up beard, and all this couitesy arose from a report that I
was her Ladyship's English acent, coming out with a yessel of
specie for ber use. I protested that I was not the bearer of a
single purge j and when I tailed to convince them. I proceedei on
my ropte. Fur abopt two hoors the scenery became wilder at
every step, and at last, on the peak of a solitary mountain, sepa-
rated irons every human habitation, the bumble abode of Lady
lima-. buret on my eight. I approached the house with a
feeling as awe I could not overcome j the high walls that surrounded
the building, the massive bars that closed the gates, the gloomy
windows that overlooked the entrance, all cant:Owed to inspire a
stranger with ideas that were likely to unit him for as immediate
interview with the celebrated owner of the mansion. After the
'Pi,' wets Wows. spun I was surprised to observe • thousand
El* siellancies in the dietributioa ot the walks, and the adjutants,'
of the sower-pots in the courts through which I paned. Every
Wagwithout war wild and barbarous, and all within confessed the
bswil of testa. I was led from the cows into a little garden, at
the eatreatity of which there was a sort ot kiosk, etedating of two
room., a sitting room, and a bedroom, furnished is the Euro-
pean style, with chairs and tables. Every thing seemed to have
bon prepared for my arrival; and in it short dine. an excellent
jiver eves served up, and various sorts of the choicest wines of
Libman were laid as the table. It seemed to me as if I was in
▪ nofleanted palace; the servants came and west, but never
opened their tips; I spoke to them, but they answered me with
bows end nods. I week! have given the world to have bad emu.
body to talk to; in the reeving, however, I received a note froM
her Ladyship, stating that busbies* prevented her from gulag me
Ode megre• or snout; end in the event of my wanting any
thing, that I was to write it down on piper and commit it to the
seepont. The formidable moment for the interview arrived at
Imeg I decked myself out is my Smelt Mann-hike apparel, and yule
the servant who brought her Ladyship's message, The room
Into which I was sabered was ip the Arab style; e keg divan was
raised at the end, about a foot and a ball from the ground ; and,
at the farther corner, as well ea a glimmering lamp would allow
me to disdngobb, I perceived a tall figure in the mate attire orate
tawdry, which was no other they Lady H— bereelf, She re-
ceived one In the Woe gracious manner, arose at my entrance, and
said my visit afforded her great pleasure. In the worm 4 one
boor we were up the best of term,, we conversed tilFr people who
had been acquainted for years ; an& 0.00, her Lady,* was os,
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The capture of Silistria gives the Russians many ad-
vantages of which they have been in great want—it is an
important station for their magazines, their stores, and
hospitals, and when Rudschak is taken on the same bank,
and Ghurgievo on the opposite bank, the Russians will
then command a secure basis of operations, and perpendi-
cular lines of communication with their camps at Shumla,
and in front of the different passes of the Balkan. But
the Russians have in preceding wars taken all those fifes
de pont, and have not yet been able to force the Shumla
bulwark, or the mountain lines. The fact is, the far-
ther the Russians advance from the Danube, the
greater is the demand on their Corps d'Annee to preserve
its connexion with it,—the more formidable are all the

physical impediments to progress, and the greater the

means of resistance which the Ottomans can oppose.—
They cannot penetrate through the defiles of the Balkan,
and leave Shumla behind. They cannot turn Shumla
till they have takenWiddin, Sophia, and other entrenched
places, which the Turks, by their peculiar aptitude for
defence of works, make fortresses. They cannot take
Shumla, without regular siege, and they must finish the
siege before the rainy season begins. Even the hot weather
which precedes would render the siege almost too costly,
from disease alone. In the mean time, it is not to be
presumed that the Ottoman force at Adrianople, or the
army commanded by the SULTAN himself at Constanti-
nople, would be passive spectators of its fall. At pre-
sent Russia has not sent forth half the amount of the
force requisite to garrison the different poets that
must be occupied, to form corps of observation, and
attempt a lodgement at Adrianople, in strength enough to
resist the swarm of enemies by which the cantonment
would be surrounded and harassed, if not stormed, during
the winter. The attack of Constantinople itself is, for

this campaign at least, out of the question.
Some persons may think the Russians will evade the
Balkan difficulties by a maritime descent near the Bos-
phorus, but that operation is not contemplated this year,
and may be said to be adjourned, ad Gracas Kalendas,
for too many reasons to expatiate on here.
Whatever valour and constancy can execute, that will
be done to the fullest extent by the Russian army—but
there are limits to its powers, and its limited amount in
Turkey is an incipient restriction. Peace will part the

combatants—or we are much mistaken—very soon, and
we hope each Empire will, after resuming its respective
boundaries, emulously endeavour to rival the other, in a
contest of internal improvement.

The Times of this morning, after announcing the ar-
rival of Mr. GORDON at Constantinople, and alluding to
the object of his mission, observes—" If Russia be satis-
fied with successes which heal her wounded honour, and
Turkey be taught moderation by her reverses, there can
be no reason why the affairs of the East should not be
speedily arranged. It ought to lower the pretensions of
Greece to know and feel, that she has achieved nothing
by her own arms. She ought to be content to accept
her future destiny from those to whom she owes her
preservation."

It meet be confessed that the above is a fit climax
to the article which called forth the reply we made on
Wednesday last. Having on that occasion asserted that
the Portuguese patriots had done nothing to rescue their
country from the tyranny of Don MIGUEL, it is now
said that " Greece has achieved nothing by her own
arms." We are really quite at a loos how to treat this
assertion, opposed as it is to every thing in the shape of
truth and reason. After a contest of more than eight
years, in which not leas than three hundred thousand
seals have either fallen in battle or been massacred by the
Thrh.6, we should like to know on what principle sech a
monstrous assertion could be advanced or maintained ? If,
as every impartial man must admit, so far from not having
achieved any thing, the. Greek people have made a stand
which la without any example in history, when their limited
means and the formidable power, as well as hostile
foreign influence, with which they have had to contend.
is, considered, surely it will be both cruel and unjust
to' orce a destiny on them, which might render their tin-
es:Spied sacrifices abortive. As to the principle thus
recommended, and to which the interests of Europe were
so wantonly, sacrificed at the Congress of Vienna, and on
subsequent occasions, it is most atrocious. We defy the
writer in the Times, either to justify his assertion relative
to the Greek people, or convince the most -ignorant .of
the commuaity, that such. a policy towards Greece
wetild not be one of the most gross violations of justiCe
and „httaianity, since the pertition of Poland and camion
of Varga.

'Waal/. heard. that Ministers intend to change thSir
poiicy.. towards Glieece, and we wait with impatient
auaicty for the confirmation of
,the rumour. Should our
hope, bo.dinappointed,snd the system hitherto pursuant.


not only towards Greece but Portugal, be unhappily per-
severed in, our feeble voice will not be wanting to rescue
England from a degradation which will place her on tlit
lowest scale of nations, and greatly accelerate her final
degeneracy !

The last Packet from Lisbon has brought us the fol-
lowing picture of the state of affairs in Portugal, from a
Correspondent on whom we can rely :
" LISBON, Jinx S.

" The system of persecution continues unabated, and

new victims are daily sacrificed. The Ministers of the
tyrant, as hypocritical as they are ferocious, wish to make
the world believe that some measures of relaxation have
taken place. For this purpose, a few prisoners, chosen
from the lowest classes of the people, have been liberated
from the prisons—men who had been incarcerated during
the first days of the usurpation, in consequence of private
denunciations through the vengeance of personal ene-
mies. These measures of apparent, lenity, have however
been confined to the capital and Oporto. In the provinces
a totally different spectacle presents itself : here the vic•
time are marched about in chains, from place to place,
escorted by a fanatical rabble, which inflicts every species
of ill-treatment, frequently attended with assassination.
A body of these unfortunate victims, amounting to nearly
five hundred, while recently on their march from Masao-
[ frio to Villa Real, was assailed on the road by a band of
fanatics, whom the apostolicals had collected, and a great
I number perished on the spot. Scarcely one of them
escaped being severely wounded ; and the like treatment
is experienced by all who are suspected of attachment to
the constitutional system. As to the state of the interior,
nothing can be more deplorable. Large bands of the
unemployed peasantry are ranging through the country,
and live by plundering the traveller who ventures to stir
from his home. Others enter the towns and villages, on
which large contributions are levied, and every species of
violence committed. The fields are deserted, most of the
rich proprietors being shut up in the prisons, or con-
cealing themselves from the faction. There is no employ-
ment for the poor and industrious. All confidence is
destroyed ; there is no commerce, and the poverty of
all classes is hourly increasing. Nothing indeed is more
common than to see persons who but lately enjoyed all
the luxuries of life, reduced to beggary, and soliciting the
casual charity of their friends. The state of those who
are immured in the prisons and subterranean dungeons is
so intolerable, that petitions are daily forwarded to the
Ministers, imploring death as a relief from bodily suf-
fering. This is not haphazard assertion. I have seen
two of these victims—one, a Colonel highly distinguished
in the army ; the other, a member of a noble family.
The latter having complained of being robbed and ill
treated, the Commandant of Fort St. Julian brought him
out into the court-yard of the prison, and would have
shot him on the spot, had not some of the inferior
keepers interfered. Suicide has become exceedingly pre-
valent. The lofty arches of our city aqueduct are gene-
rally the scene of this terrible alternative. It was only
two days ago that a mother, with an infant at the breast,
was in the point of throwing herself from the highest of
these arches, when she was prevented by two soldiers
who happened to be passing by the spot. Turning to
them, the poor creature exclaimed- Do not interrupt
me ; you have murdered my husband and father, why
prevent me from killing myself ?'
" The populace has at length begun to recover from the
illusions which prevailed last year. The people now per-
ceive that there is no hope of peace or prosperity under
the present despotism. When the brig of war Sebastian
arrived in the Tagus to repair a mast that she had
sprung at sea, MIGUEL went on board. As he was on
the point of stepping into the boat, a crowd of men
and women who had collected near the river, filled the
air with their cries, exclaiming ;—" It is to you we owe
our present sufferings and misfortunes." -On hearing
this, the usurper—who is as remarkable for his cowardice,
as for his cruelty—hurried off in a great fright ; but
orders were soon after given to seize on a number of those
who formed the crowd, and the armed police, which is con-
stantly parading our streets, never permit more than two
or three persons to converse with each other. This police,
to which MIGUEL is indebted for his ephemeral power, is
the only corps which continues to be well paid. Indisci-
pline and disorder is fast spreading in the army ; this has
not been a little increased by the fact of several soldiers of
the eighth light infantry having been lately poisoned by
order of the General of the Province in which it is sta-
tioned. Twenty victims are said to have perished.
" It is now positively asserted that a cordon sanitaire is
forming on the Spanish frontier. This fact causes great
embarrassment to the Ministers, who are divided among
themselves, and frequent councils are held at the house of
the Duke de CADAVAL. It is even said that a new ad-
ministration is about to be formed, under the auspices of
the notorious Ac LT RCio daj N v ES, who is to be Minister
of the Interior and Justice. Senhor SAN LORENZO also
notorious for his servile devotion to tyranny, is to have the
War and Marine Department; Da COSTA, formerly"
Master of the Horse, is to be Minister of Finance.
" Lieutenant-Colonel M—, who was acquitted by the
Military Commission which tried him, cannot obtain his
liberty—notwithstanding a positive order from the Minis-
ter at War—because the Home Minister has given a
counter order ! Three hundred Officers, whom the same
Commission called on to recant their political opinions,
have preferred remaining in prison, with the exception of
ten, who accepted the terms and were liberated.

" The new Conde de Pov oA , of whom you have
doubtless heard as the contractor to Lord WELLINGTON'S
army, aware of the poverty of the treasury, has come
forward and offered to advance the fund necessary for
paying the pensions of the Noble Duke and Lord BE-
itzsioaD. Ido not know whether the offer has been
sceetpted ; bat I can tell you as a positive fact; that the
diamond buttons, and ialuabla sword of the King Jos Er a,'
hoe beast sent to• the principal Emissary• of bircutz..
.in: Lmdon, where the jewels previously sent were io
-41 disposed of.
,I shall in my next communicate some


facts on this subject, which can hardly fail to afford you
some amusement."

' -41 Is well known that the Duke of CUMBERLAND
only goes abroad to meet the Duchess and Prince
GEORGE, who are expected to reach St. James's on the
Bth of August.
Parliament will be assembled in November.

The Viscount ITA an YANA left town on Sunday for
Laleham, to fill the place of Guardian to her Majesty
the Queen of PORTUGAL, 111 the room of the Marquis of
BARBACENA, who proceeded last night to the Continent

to escort the Empress of BRA ZI L to a port in this country,
where she will embark on board one of the Brazilian
frigates, prepared to receive her Imperial Majesty.

By the Hamburgh Mail this day we have news of the
greatest moment from Constantinople to the 22d of last
month.—All prospects of peace, for the present, are at
an end.—The SULTAN is too highly incensed to listen
to the soothings of our English and French Ambassadors,
and continues to be most active in his preparations for
opposing the progress of the Russians beyond the
Balkan. Every man capable of bearing arms must now
march from the interior ; and while we find that General
DIERITSCH is preparing to pass the Balkan, he is likely
to meet with very formidable resistance.—But what is of
still greater interest is, that the OTTOMAN PORTE--110
far as has yet transpired- -is deaf to the voice of those
Ambassadors from whom such great things have been
expected.—" The PORTE will not negotiate on the
terms of the Protocol signed at London,--and especially
the article which requires the extension of the boundaries
of Greece to the Gulf of Volo and Arta."

CONSTANTINOPLE, Jolts sis.

The Ambassadors of Ragland and France have not yet bad ant
formal conference wit► the Reis Effendi, bat have endeavoured
through a confidential channel to come to an understanding with
him respecting the object of their mithion. They are said to ►ave
karoed by this means that the Porte will net orgettiale en the basis
of the protocol magnet! at London,—and especially the article which
requires the extension of the boundaries of Greece to the gulph of
Volt) and Arta : they accordingly expect to meet wit► great din-
cultics in their mission. The Sultan persists in the system w►ich
he has adopted. No recent account; have been received
from Schumla. The Grand Vizier is collecting there u many
troops as he can, and hopes to get forty thousand men toge-
ther, wit►out weakening the garrisons. AU men capable of
bearing arms are now to march from the interior to the Balkan.
the loss of the Turks in the battle on the 11th Julie was, according
to their own account, very great. All Pacha is said to have fallen
on that day. Meantime, many persons Satter themselves that
peace will soon be restored, and speak of deputies that were to be
sent to the head-quarters. This report, however, is generally
looked upon as improbable. The Capitan Pacha has not yet re-
turned from his expedition into the Black Sea.

BUCHAREST. Just if.

The reserve under General Toistoy has received orders to join
the army ea the Danube. It consists of 50,000 men, of all arena.
Geo. Diebitsch is said to be preparing to pass the Balkan.
Vienna, JOLT 9.-11fetalliques, 99; Bank Skarn, 1,114i.—.41p.
meine &it'll's, lady 14.

BRANDENBURGH, itn.r 11.

A commission of the highest importance is reported to have been
entrusted to General Baron Misfiling, who is gone to Gastrin ; but
whose ultimate destination is supposed to be Vienna and Constan-
tinople. As far as we can learn, Prussia will intervene with great
energy, bat at first only as mediator. The Cabinet Minister Cosset
Besotted! is also gone to Gastrin.
Couriers arrive daily from the theatre of war, but nothing
positive transpires respecting their dispatches. It is reported, in
I general, that the garrison of Schuntia has been very considerably
reinforced since the battle of Kulawtscka.

It Is said that the Emperor of Russia, before be set out for Tole-
syn, Invited General Roder, commander of the Ist Regiment of
the Guards, to accompany him.
STOCKHOLM, Jo& 5.

It is said that the coronation of her Majesty the Queen will take
place at the end of August.

The paper mill at Tombs, belonging to the bank. was lately
destroyed by Ire. The bank is said to lose double the sum ot
38,000 dollars, for which it is insured. It is aid that the whole
stock of paper intended for the manufacture at new bank notes
was consumed.—Hamborsh Papers, July 14.

HAMBURGH, JULY 14.

Borsen Hall, Four o'Cloek.

In consequence of the the that has taken place simultaneously
in London and Berlin. Funds have risen here also, and extensive
transactions have been effected in the course of to-day. Bills es
London and Amsterdam in demand.
Discount 4 per cent. Bad of July.

Anglo Danish Loan 2 per Cent.
84j
Anglo Russian Loan
Hamburgh do.
Polish Bonds
Austrian Bank Shares ll2l
Austrian Metalliques ...... 99
—llaignargh ileprier,Jaly 14.

ZICILUICIOS ON LOXIIOI4
HADOUSON, JILT 140-13 10.; 2 M. 13 91i.
Balms, Jour 11.-4 91.6 231.
VISIONAL, JULY 4.-3 M. 9 53.
Cusirnmua. JULY I.—S M. 6 16.

CITY, Twzi.vs o'CLoca.
• The Consol Market has a more firm appearance this morning
than yesterday ; and on the improvement Console opened at 1191,
foe the account, the same price they left off yesterday, and at pre.
sent may be quoted ani‘, and for account 89Ui.
" The rise, no doubt. is owing to a Arm belief that negodatioas
will soon take place in the. East."
CITY. HALF-PAST ONZ O'CLOCK.

Con►ols have been done in the course of the morning at 891 for
the Account, and 191 for August. Some considerable business has
been doing, owing to the near approach of the Account. The
Commissioners purchased at 891. and Consols may be quoted at
present at 891 1, and 891 j for next time.
In the Foreign Market Russian Stock has advanced to 100—in
other Stocks little doing.

The French Papers state, that the Revenue during the
six moths of this year is at length .known—it presents an aolitnee•
tattoo of 8,542,000 francs, compared with the six brit mouths In
1827, and there is a diminution of 9,516,000 francs compared with
tho last year.

• The City gossip at two o'clock this day was to the
effect that " the negotiations between this country and
DON MIGUEL, in regard to the fate of DON NA MA ILIA, I
are nearly come to a conclusion !
THE AMERICAN CAPITOL.-The Washington papers
announce that the Capitol is finished. They praise it highly m a
magnificent structure, and we believe it deserves the epithet. A
rich shrubbery is distributed over the spacious enclosure annexed
to it,. and there is an admirable prospect from the north terrace,
on the west side, including the greater part of Washingtowand its
lofty and pictoresque environs, with the rim Newmark flowing
through the mese for some miles.
WICKLOW ELECTION.--The High Sheriff,. William
T. 4coo.ke, Rs+ bas axed Wednesday, the Med inst. for.the
pt,a.Membin• of Parlialiedelbe the desoney of Wkitiovb—
M°1440“ mei RA*. uolvard sari Robert Gets Comedy(-
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