Massachusetts spy and Worcester advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1823-1825, 1825-03-16
Greeks and Turks.

vessels, having on board 5000 negro SOL
diers, disciplined la Europeene, 400
Arabian stations, and such quantity of
provisions, that an ocque GA ounces) of
coffee may be bought for SO paras e l.
cay and an ocque of rice for five paras.
Our fleet pursued the Egyptian vessel,
till in sight of Alexandria, Public re-
joicings have sgnalized the issue o; one
of our most glorious campaigns. We
have the certainty that in the late action,
besides the twelve transports captured,
the Egyptians had fifteen vessels and
their finest frigate burned.
Letters from Constantinople state that
resolution had been adopted by the
Divan, in a meeting, at which the Grand
Seignior presided, to listen to no pro-
position whatever which is not founded
on the return of the Greeks under the
Ottoman domination.
LONDON, FEB. 7.
All the Portuguese ministry is chang
ed. This event is announced in the
Paris papers of the 9Th of February.
The Lisbon papers of the 22d confirm
the intelligence. A letter from that
city of the 29d, says, "the influence of
the British Cabinet has obtained com
plete triumph"
FER
An extract from a private letter from
Paris, dated Feb. 4, SAYS" have seen
the postscript to a private letter from
good authority at Madrid, to the follow
ing effect -" The declaration of the
British Government as to the colonies,
has caused the greatest CONSERVATION at
Court, and disconnected all the plans of
ministers. They are alarmed for the
fate Of the last expedition. The King
has announced his determination to hold
no diplomatic relations with any power
which shall make treaties of alliance
with his insurgent colonies, and will even
treat them as enemies. Let England
therefore look TO herself"
Pew.-President Bolivar's Account Of
the decisive victory i'll Peru, concludes
as follows:
"Our loss has been-1 General, 8 Off
GERS, and 800 men killed-and Gene
rails, 81 officers. and $50 men wounded ::
THAT of the enemy-the vice-king
wounded-6 Generals dead, and $500
men dead and wounded.
"The rest o. the Spanish army, under
Gen. Canterac, capitulated with General
Sucre on the same day. By this capitu-
lation, all the possessions of the Span
iards in Peru, are given up to this Re-
publlc,-All the Spanish army and fifteen
Generals are in our power.''
The restoration of Peru having been
effected, Bolivar has renounced the die
tatorshiP, convened the Congress, and
appeared abroad in citizens dress.
The agents of France and Spain at Ii
ma, are said to have advised Bolivar to
declare himself King Of S. America, and
promised him support-but he rejected
and exposed these overtures.
More Pirates.-Capt. Morrison, arriv-
ed at Philadelphia, from Maracaibo,
states, that on the 4th nit. he landed at
Fort St. Carlos, and was informed by the
Commandant, that the captain of a
Dutch schr. from Curacao, had report
ed that two days before sailing, Feb. /,
a suspicious looking schr. in company
with brig, had been seen passing the
harbour, and that on the next day, Ia
dead bodies, with their heads cut off,
were picked up on the beach. The
Commandant had no doubt the schr. was
a pirate. o..
James Borne for the murder of James
Watt, was executed at Chesterfield
Court house, S. c. on the 21st of Jan.
He declared on the gallows that intox-
ication had caused all his transgressions,
and importuned his friends to profit by
his untimely end.
A""tu" Lo"SeOH9'-NHu ih uIese ia9t
eight years, says the Canada Spectator,
there have died in the village of Cosga-
aawaga, ten Indians, each of them past
an hundred years of age. Some days
ago, the curate buried woman aged
LOG. There is now living squaw,
who has her descendants to the fifth
generation {; in other words, the child
has now living, her mother, grandnoth-
err, grandmother's mother, and grand
mothers grandmother.
II is stated in letter from Kentucky,
that Desha, the murderer of Baker, had
broke Jail and made his escape.