Star.
London, England, 1828-04-02 00:00:00

CONSTANTINOPLE, Fn. 25.

Little or no change has taken place here. The per-
secution of the Armenians is still the order of the day ;
And the United Armenian Clergy have already left the
city : most of them have embarked in the most dis-
tressed circumstances for Venice. Many of them who
withed to smigrite for Russia, and were Dot allowed to

great sensation."

go by sea, were obliged to take way by Bucharest.—
Though the execution of these deplorable measures is
enforced with great rigour, and Pere and Galata, seem
to be almost depopulated,tbe Porte still affirm that it is
merely as a precautionary measure, reducing
the Chris-
tian population of the Capital within certain limits,that it
has issued the firman to the Armenian Patriarch, which
most strictly enjoins all Catholic Armenians to leave
their present residence without delay. This firman
declares that all Reyes ate forbidden to dwell in the
capital without an express permission from the Sultan,
and that if they have been allowed to increase in Pere,
Galata, and Scutari, the increase has exceeded all due
limits, and such abuse can no longer be tolerated without
endangering the public tranquillity. The military pre-
parations are prosecuted with great diligence, and
many thousand hands are employed day and night in
the arsenal, in the equipment of the men of war destined
for the Hellespont. The Capitan Pacha will go in a few
days to the Dardanelles, whither many troops have al-
ready been sent, who are trained partly for tke land and
partly for the sea service, under the direction of Amery
can and French Officers. The Government directs its
chief attention to the defence of the Dardanelles, and
spares nothing to make this naturallystrong point impreg-
nable. Several attempts which three American engineers
had made to close the Dardanelles by chains, had indeed
failed, but it is intended to place, at a spot where the
channel makes a bend, a kind of floating battery, to be
fastened to four ships lying at anchor. The castles are
also strengthened by new outworks on the land side,
and the coasts provided with new batteries, to make a
landing impossible. Tahir Pacha is to have the chief
command in the Dardanelles; and that part of the
Turkish fleet which escaped from the battle of Navarin,
and has hitherto cruised off Mitylene, has already ar-
rived in the Dardanelles.

Great armaments are alsb making on the land side:
the Seraskier Hussein Pacha is to go in the course of
the month to Adrianople, to take the chief command
of the regular troops and the militia assembled
there. All the artisans that are wanted in an army are
pressed, and the Schismatic Armenians employed chiefly
as bakers, smiths, &c. A Hatti Scher iff, of 23d February,
summons the whole population of Constantinople and
the environs to arm against the infidels, so as to be
ready to combat at the first signal. A considerable
corps of troops is also assembling near Erzerum, to
oppose any attempt that might be made by the Russian
army in Persia against the Asiatic provinces.

Some Austrian vessels have obtained firmans for the
Black Sea ; but the Swediab Charge d'Affaires has
applied in vain for a Erman for his flag. though the
Porte is bound by Treaty to give it.—Algenteine
Zeitung. March 26.

Aciounts from Curacoa, via America, state that a
French frigate arrived off there on the 17th of February,
from Lagnira, the officers of which reports that Com-
modore Laßoane,with a fleet of nine sail, was at anchor
off Cape Cuda, and had two millions of dollars on
board : it was expected he would attack the latter place.

At a late hour this day we received by Express the
Gazette de France, dated yesterday. The following are
extracts :

CRACOW, MAacn 16.

We learn from Warsaw, that the Grand Duke Con-
stantine will leave in a few days for Lublin, where his
Officers of the Etat-Major are already arrived ; they also
write that most of the guards, who were still at St.
Petersburgh, had received orders to depart for Berea•
rabia. An Order of the Day appoints General Die-
bitsch Quarter.master of the Army of Bessarabia, and
General Wittgenstein Commander in Chief.--Gazette
of Augsburg.

The 06seroaleur announces that the persecutions still
continue against the Armenian Catholics.

CONSTANTINOPLE, Fia. 25.

The 16th being the birthday of the Emperor, M.
Ottenfelds made on that occasion a speech to all the
subjects under the protection of Austria, in which be
told them not to be in the least fear, but to conide in
the protection of the Imperial Court, and the good
undestanding that still prevailed with the Ottoman

Porte.—Austriax Observer.
CONSTANTINOPLE. FIBSTIMIT 26.

The news from Greece, relative to Capo dlstria, has
made a bad impression on the Sultan, and he is now
less disposed to yield ; and the news from Egypt has
also augmented his displeasure. Since the arrival of
these dispatches the Sultan bas been so enraged, that
no person can speak to him of any conciliatory mea-
sures. Preparations for war are continued by day and
night, and three ships of war have sailed this morning
for the Dardanelles.—Augsburg Gazette.
We have received the following letter from Vienna:

4, It appears that the news of the Duke of Wellington
being Prime Minister has produced a good effect here
at least. Concessions are about to take place, and the
Reis Effendi has granted an armistice of three months
to the Greeks for their submission. This news has caused

The post from Constantinople of the 25th February
has arrived, but the letters will not be delivered till to-
-111011 Tow.

News has been received from St. Petersburgh, stating
that the Imperial Guards have received orderato march
to the Southern Provinces. A report prevailed cn
'Change that the Grand Signor had granted an armis-
tice to the Greeks for three months, and it was thought
the Porte would make further concessions.--Gasette
do France.

The Gazette de Fume states, thee is no truth in the
e
report that an Envoy had *trivia from the Del' ofl
Acotans, for the purpose of entering into a treaty of
peace.
Our Correspondent writes from Frankfort, 26th
March—" We just kern that a commercial house has,
received a courier, announcing the passage of the Pruth
ity the Russians." •
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