The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-07-18 00:00:00

that no pretence sbould be afforded en the present'
*cession of disturbing the public tranquillity. The
man who at this crisis would, on any pretext, attempt
to create disorder, must be the greatest enemy to the
QUEEN and to the country.

We noticed on Monday an invitation which had
been given to all persons who were anxious to pre-
serve public tranquillity, to meet at the Horn's Ta-
vern, Kennington, on Saturday, for the purpose of
addressing the KING to appoint an early day for the
Coronation of the QUEEN. The invitation, we
observed, was, from certain circumstances seep'.
cioes; but in conseqdence of a circular we received
with the particulars we stated, and with a sig
nature annexed, of • person who was believed to
be worthy of credit, we were, contrary to our pre-
vious opinion, led to think that a meeting of some
sort had actually taken place, and that the Address
proposed, was about to be presented. Another cites-
hr, which we forbore to insert, was handed to us yes-
terday, for the purpose of informing the public where
the Address was lying for signature. This morning,
however, a letter bas appeared in one of the papers
from Mr. WHITTEMORE, 62. Paternoster-row, at whose
holm tide was said to be, amain the BALM
'Mast no such*Adarme was there ; aqd to complete the
exposure of the imposition, Mr. BEIANT, the
landlord of the Horns Tavern, Kennington. has in a
letter to another Rditor, stated that no such meet-
ing as that motioned in the circular had ever
taken place at his house. Had the meeting actually
taken place, sod beets open and public, we should
have deemed its iseerfersoce unseasonable and rash.
A bole and comer meeting, however, for such a pur-
pose es it palmed, we should have reckoned most
inconsistent sod contemptible ; but a meeting which,
if held any where, weasel held at the place announced,
and may have been imposed only of two or three
people who met to entrap the heedless, and to throw
discredit on the cause they professed to have in view,
is an object that deserves to be most seriously repiss,
bated. IVhatever may have bees the aim of those
who thus had recourse to ceoceahnent and falsehood,
their purpose never could be good. The announce-
ment of a meeting to be held at Kennington, which if
it had been large, as may have been hoped by its pro-
jectors, might have rashly been proposed to be ad-
journed to the Common, waid thereby at once have
been rendered illegal, and punished as a breach of the
peace, under the pretence of " preserving public tran-
quillity." it was well that, in the first stage of the
proceedings, this occurrence did not take place; and
it is fortunate that the imposition is now thoroughly
exposed. It will tend, it is to be hoped, during the
ensuing day, to put the unwary *a their guard against
all mischievous machinations.

Tb diet which the Captain at she Aims. u we
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stated yesterday, saw eneering the Tagus, on the 30th
ult. turned out, as was supposed, to be the Royal
Squadron, from Rio Janeiro. A Madrid Oaxette Es.
traordinary, dated the 7th instant has been received
which contains the following official article :
An Esti tordinary Courier, dispatched from Lir
bon, by the King's Charge d'Affaires to the Portu-
guese Uovernment, has brought to the Spanish Go-
vernment the following communication, dated the 4th

instant :
Yesterday, very early in the morning, a signal was
made that the Portuguese squadron was in sight, and
at eleven a. in. the ship of the line John VI. anchored
in the port of Belem, and the other ships of the con-
voy in succession. To-day, at noon, his Majesty and
the Royal Family landed with great pomp, and pro-
ceeded to the Cathedral, where a Te Demos was sung.
The King and his amily afterwards entered the Hall
of the Cortes, w Elise King took the oath to main-
tain and obse he constitutional bases decreed by
Congress on t 9th
of May last.
' During this august and solemn ceremonial, the
most perfect tranquillity and good order prevailed.'
The forms that had been delivered by the Cortes to
be observed on this occasion, were stated yesterday in
our pbper, exclusively.
Theippinion spreads in various quarters that war
bet! rte Russia and the Porte is inevitable. An ar-
tich from Vienna, dated July 3, says, it is affirmed
that the Reis Effendi no longer returns an answer to
the applications of the Russian Minister. The repeated
provocations of the Turkish Government and people
have induced the Ambassador to retire from Constan-
tinople, and since his Excellency left it, further
massacres have taken place in that capital, where
it seems resolved to exterminate the Greeks. The
Post which arrived yesterday from Turkey confirms
the apprehensions that prevail. The letters it brings
from Constantinople are to the 12th, and those from
Smyrna to the Ist of June. The Russian Ambassador
had contrived, it appears, to bring two ships of war,
under the disguised name of " Packets," to Constanti-
nople ; and the Turkish Government had determined
to send them away. In consequence of the charac-
ter which the ships had assumed, the latter in-
sisted upon searching them as they have a right to do
all merchant vessels. Strogonoff resisted this right,
and yet at the same time he could only do so by call-
lug them vessels of tear, which he could not state them

to be, without scknowleging the infrisgentent of ex-
isting treaties, which forbid in the most positive terms

any such coming into the waters of tile Bosphorus.
—At Smyrna the Franks were in • great state of alarm,
from an apprehension that some of the most infuriated
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Turks liaeditatod a general massacre of the Christians