Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1807-06-17

/ sUrlenss Viii dol assist nsto Hnderstsnd.
/ The Baron de Tote, informsd US ID his
| time that the Turks had begun to put 9
/ higher value apon military arr spggs men.s
! than. al any former period and Mr. Wis.
B man, late traveller assures Us that their
marine sfaIrs were 10 Improvement and
1 thar Swedish and other European artlGcsrs
] had ALREADY furnishes many valuable ships
| Of The line. "A ps~er walch would aci be
formidable TO Europe nlghs appear inn.
portans 10 he Turks, who could MT tail
10, observe with how weak hand the Rus
slams held the reigns Of the empire uPon
the Caspian. Abssci, who was long 10 the
Tork,sh service. has examined the policy
, oil this court in regard 10 Russla IN the
times Of Catherine He says that the
] Turks had a contempt for the European
/ powers and admttsd tksir ministers from
pride or interest Bur since the adsanc.
! mens Of the empire Of Russia, they have
concealed their apPrehenslons, BY paying
! the same regard 10 other European minis.
tiers which they had fels themselves oblig
ed to pay to Russia. After the death OF
Peter the Great they SO tar contemplated
the conquest of Russia, as TO dominate
i the governors Of the provinces. The Sui
tan who mopntcd the chrome after The peace
of 1873 would never have signed II. .------
His jealou.ies discovered themselves on
every occasion. Time has increased the
tffrars which have long been INDUCED The,
Tartars who formerly made incursions up
ON the Russians, aud sold .hem as slaves
to The Turks, appear better disPoseehto-
wards the Russians than Turks. Forner.
ly toe Tsrtars supplied twenty thousand
slavesin year. lit well known tia. no.
thing was nore earnestly wished by Ca.
tharne than TO expect the Turks from Eu-
rope, aud that she contemplated TO find a
Ca pitai ia Cons,ansinople.
Wild, s.ch dispositions We eannet be sur
priced tina, upon the first hopes OF sup
port in Europe the arms Of Russia should
be employed in those countries, which can
promise the greatest aestandlsemert TO
the empire, an1 it will no, be conceived
that French jealousy orly suggested the
ssntmes,. which appear fer present pur.
poses in the report of the French minister
upon the affairs OF Russia. 1t 10 TO be
expected FROM the present hostilities, thar
lac Turks will prohibit the navigation OF
the Black Sea TO the Russians and their
allies, and the situation Of Austria would
be so squivocal after the conquess OF the
Turkish prov.nces in Europe, that We may
we'll expect that they will avoid any pre-.
sent embarrassment ffom war OF which
the consequences must on all accounts be
70 them uncertain. Bur if she Russians
have discovered disposition to encfoach
upon the European provinces OF Turkey,
! he French by THAR achievmsnt 10 Egypt,
have explained their wishes 10 that eeun.
Try. And the political interest they take
n the fate Of the Jews, seems torefer to
some future enterprises, which are com.
preheaded in he.plans of the French em,
peror.
The ex'rae. lately published from gen.
Vial's Journal, will afford some knowledge
Of the present commercial state of those
parts of Syria best known in the ancien.
Coth5RcICS VI tHS Wo5Ius 1aS aau OIdeTS iu
the sprihg of the year in which the expcdi>
,ion was carried into Syria. te take possessi.
on of Sour, known as the ancient Tyre ard
to establish garrison of the friendly ma.
,ives. The governor Nassau had orders 10
appesr in the vslley Of Beecaa with TWO
hundred men The inhabitants ba. Parti
eularly the Christians, aed at his approach
butwsre encouraged to return by general
| Vial. The troops under Nasssr were TO.
bust. we'll cloashed Blu, badly armed. Pro-
vided for in Tyre The general observed
,hat many houses belonging TO the chris
tians were the bes. in the place. Sour or
| Tyre had from twelve to fifteen hundred
inhabitants. of,which three 6fihs were Ma.
honoA,ane ord ,hr ,tbera mere chrjsfiana