Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1825-05-12
FOREIGN.
FROM FRANCE.

FROM \
NEW YoaK, ArRiL s0-The packet
ship Edt0ar! Quesnsi, from Havre, has
brought letters from that place ofthe Ist
instant, and Paris papers to the 3lst
March. There contents are uninapor-
tanf.
The accounts from Constantinople
was contradictory. In one it is said that
tranquility had been restored, in mo-
ther, that the alarm and disquietude
vas so general as to induce the Grand
Seignor 10 remove his treasures from
The capital. Intelligence had reached
the Turkish government that the Greeks
had got possession of the outworks of Pa
t;as. There can be no doubt that gar
rison capitulated on the 9Th February.
The Emperor Alexander, was expec-
Ted in Bessarabia in the month of April,
10 review his troops on the frontiers of
Turkey.
1t was again reported that Russia
continued opposed to allowing the
Greeks to form a constitution for them
selves, and, contrary to the wishes of
Great Britain, had renewed the propo-
sal to choose a sovereign for this gal.
liant people among the princes of Eu-
:tpe.
A number of families in Spain were
about to embark for England and
France, to avoid the oppressive mea.
'sures Of the government. According
to the report, 6 regiments of infantry, 2
of cavalry, and 2 battaiions OF artillery.
were TO leave Corunna. Saragossa, and
Vittoria, on the lst of April, on their
return to France. 1t is said that two
Swiss regiments at Madrid were to re-
turn. An account wa in the Madrid
Gazette, said to have been derived from
Capt. Smitb,of the schr. Gen. jackson,
at st. Sebastians, from Baltimore, ,tbat
Bolivar was surrounded in Peru by Co.
900 Royalist troops-Capt. S. afterwards
publicly denied that he ever communi-
catedany such a report. Spain was infes-
ted in many places by bands of robbers,
who committed great excuses.
The Pope had declined the honor Of
browning the King of France, unless
Charles agreed to restore the ancientci-
ty of Avignon to the Church The
Rothschilds are said TO have negotiated
for the monopoly of salt in France. The
Marquis de Bonnay, Peer of France,
and Governor OF the Castle Of Fontain-
sbieae, recently died in France. The
Theatre at Weimar was burnt down on
the 21st March. The village near Dole
had been destroyed by fire l 10 houses
were burnt. IheNeapolitan government
had published a decree of amnesty,
with a few political exceptions.
From the Paris Journ0i deS Debates, March %.
The state Of Europe is remarkable.
A short time ago, a word from England
shook 1t to its centre; now, it is alarm
cd by the silence of Russia. The ALI
ance of crowned heads, which the revo-
luton of Spain had cemented, seems TO
dissolve before those powerful opposing
inte rests which follow subdusd reyolu-
tons. The independence of Greece,
the independence of Brazil, the indie
~pendence of all the world, is the subject
of debates inthe councils of Kings, and
NAV soon be contested on the field of
battle. Different interests and the diff
ierent Powers seem, aitera truce of ten
years preparing for a new contest. The
universe is in labor; when will it bring
forth? The future will soon show. We
have not, hitherto, endeavoured TO pry
into its mysteries. 1t is enough to re-
collect that Lord Liverpool lately said,
peace will not be eternal. One thing
is plain, that every state is fortifyiDg
its frontiers, or strengthening its institu-
TONS, to enable it to influence the de-
.cisions Of fortune.