The Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1818-1824, 1822-06-04
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TURKEY.

The arm OF The Government. The people i'm
bibe the spirit Of their sovereign and we have
every indication Of sangunsry contest.
The Turks seem determined 10 strike the FIRST,
blow. II is long time since Europe has
had a war in which the combatants have met
with as much fury, as the Russians and Greeks
will meet the Turks. and vice versa.
Odessa, March Is.
The Sultan, depending on the 10000
Asiaiic troops in the environs Of Constantine
pie, seems resolved 10 attempt reform among
the JsDisaries This is formidable undertak
ing, which has hitherto proved fatal to all
those who have attempted it.
.Sen,lin, March 90.
We have advices from Constan,inople TO
lie 20ih of this month. Every thing was in
The greatest fermentation, and an Instruction
Of The Jsnisaries has excited the greatest con-
sternation. The Sultan had ordered press Of
sailors for the navy-lhose of the Janisaries
opposed the officers, and several of the chiefs
have lost their heads. Constantinople re-
sembles vast camp, the musselmen are full
Of enthusiasm with The hope Of making war
and pillaging the Russians
Paris, .aprd L.
Letters from Vienna, Of the Sd instant say,
" All the accounts continue TO indicate war
Great trouble threatens Turkey. A kind Of
civil war has broken out in Bosnia Servia is
in fermentation, The inhabitants waiting only
favorable opportunity to throw off the Turkish
yoke. 10 Albania and Epines. the contest
has recommended with great fury
Letters from Trieste say the pretended
naval victory Of The Greeks is not confirmed,
and that the whole story is probably fiction.
In commenting on the news from Turkey,
the London Courier remarks Where SO much
depends upon The Turkish government it is
not possible for any man TO come 10 a deci,
sive conclusion, or 10 pronounce even a strong
opinion. But very little sagacty is necessa-
~ 10 enable any man 10 state that il is not for
The well understood interest Of any Of the
other Powers, not even Russia, 10 provoke
war al present.
RUSSIA.
Rnssldn Literature seems 10 make a rapid
progress since the commencement Of the cen
tury.-From 100 TO 1900 only about 5000
works were printed 10 that empire. and YET
in The last twenty years 5000 volumes have
appeared. Three hundred and fifty living
authors exist there !; the greater part of whom
are not known, even in name, in the rest Of
Europe.
The Emperor Alexander has given orders
10 purchase 5000 copies of the New Tesla
nent in the Scalvonian language, for The Pc
tersburgh Bible Society, 10 be distributed
among bis troops The Bell and Lancaster
system of education begins 10 fad friends at
ST. Petersburgh on the other hand, the sys-
tenn Of Pestalozzi is known but 10 very few.
The Courier says. that accounts from Rus
Ella, via. Hamburg, are of warlike character
that The second Russian army was TO assem-
bic Immediately at Paolia-that the Emperor
was preparing TO join them, and relays OF
horses posted at all the stations for his Jour-
ney. considerable fleet was fitting out at
Nicolsjew.
The FIRST Russian army assembled on The
Pruth, consisted of $50, 900 men.
SIBERIA.
The Emperor Of Russia having instituted
an inquiry into the abuses committed in The
government OF Siberia, report has been made
on the subject, in consequence Of which 670
civil officers in that country have been remov-
ed, punished or reprimsnded, including the
governors Of Siberia, Of Irkruiz and Tomsk
RUSSIA 8, TURKEY.
The London Courier Of the evening Of he
25ib April states, that the negotiations at Con
siantinople continued TO be carried on with
grea, vigour down to the 23d Of March, from
which il was inferred that il was probable
there would be an amicabie adjustment Of all
differences. On the Goth March, the English
Consul at Odessa, forwarded an important
despatch from Lord Strsngford TO Peters
burgh; and on the 23d The merchants at Con-
stantinople were informed that the Austrian
Minister had dispatches TO forward, and that
the post would be sent off at eight o'clock in
the evening, IN place OF midnight, the usual
post hour. Previous accounts say that the
Turkish government had agreed 10 withdraw
lis troops from Wallschia and Moldavia but
the value of this concession was lessened in
some degree by new difficulties which bad
arisen in determining the treatment Of the
Greeks, point on which ibe Dvsn is ex-
tremely irritable, and The demands Of Russia
difficult to satisfy. The Austrian government
in lis character of mediator, had applied il,
self actively TO heal the breach threatened