Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1825-02-01
the thre,teued expedition ofthe Greeks

the threatened expedition ofthe Greeks
against Crete, need not occasion the
least uneasiness, yet it is evident that
the Ottoman authorities there, are UNI
der great alarm on that account.
The Observer Of the 5th states, that
three CabinetC Councils had been conven-
ed within the preceding week. These
meetings, says the Chronicle, were, we
understand, on the subject Of the war
between the Greeks and the Turks, as
to the policy to be observed, respecting
which there is, we learn, a serious dif-
ference Of opinion amongst Ministers.
Mr.. Stratford Canning, who was pre-
sent at all these deliberations, will con-
vey the result of them to the Emperor
of Russia in person.
The Greek Chronicle, published at
Missolonghi, has published two de-
crees of the Government, the first be-
ing an amnesty, after the fall OF a par
ty which had attempted to seize upon
the supreme authority. The second
relates to the commerce of neutrals,
and some complaints which have been
made against the Greek privateers.-
While the Government maintains the
necessity which exists, to employ that
means of warfare, yet measures will be
adopted to prevent abuses.
The Hon. Straford Canning left
London on the 9th Of December, on his
mission to St. Petersburgh, and Sir
Charles Bagothad set out on his embas-
sy to the King of the Netherlands.
Letters from Corunna of Nov. %
state, says the Globe and Traveller,
that great exertions are making to re-
cruit the army, and that the royalist
authorities continue to exercise the
greatest possible rigor against the con-
stitutionalists. The prince of Angola,
and the son of the Marquis Of Beneven-
to are imprisoned at Corunna, with the
most atrocious criminals, in dungeons,
which, at high tide, are nearly filled
with water
The Senate of Vienna is discussing
a plan relative to the establishment OF a
Bank. The capital is fixed at five mil.
lions of forms to be raised by shares OF
500 forms each-the fund to be increa-
sed in the sequel to ten millions.
The floods i'm Holland were gradual
ly subsiding.
The Asiatic Company of Copenhagen
have decided, after warm debate, not
to send ship to China in the Spring.
A French paper says that M. Baron
Rothschild has been accredited to the
Court of France as Minister of a great
German power.
An article dated Madrid, Nov. 2sth,
states, that at one time the evacuation
of Spain, by the French troops, had
been finally determined on, and as evil
dence of this, mentions the marching
of two regiments from that capitol, to
be followed by others with their bag
gage, hospitals, equipage, sc. and that
similar movements taking place
in other parts of the Peninsula. All
these arrangements, however, it is adj
ded, had been suspended, in conse-
auence of the arrival of courier from
France, with dispatches, containing
new treaty, by which it appeared that
10000 men, also the garrisons OF San
tona and Saragossa, the evacuation OF
which had been stipulated in former
treaty, were to remain in the country.
The suspension of the march of the
French troops is also mentioned in let
tiers of the same date, received at Pa
ris from Madrid and it would seem
that this new arrangement had been en-
tered into at the special request of Fer
dinand, who was afraid of confiding in
the loyalty of his subjects.
The London Courier compliments
the French government on the course
it is pursuing respecting St. Domingo,
which, it observes, "will obtain for
France an advantageous treaty of COM
merce, and the necessary capital to in
demnify those colonists for their losses,
who have taken refuge in France, and
are now supported by the French 60
vernment." From this it would ap-
pear there was no foundation for the
report that all negotiations had been
broken off between the two countries,
and that there is reasonable ground to
expect the recognition of the indepen-
dence of St. Domingo by the present
French government.
Lord Sidmouth had resigned his
seat in the British Cabinet. He has
long been in the public service.
South American and Greek stock
was rapidly improving in London; the
former in consequence of belief that
the independence of those countries
would be speedily recognized by the
British government; and the latter
from a conviction that the cause OF
Greece was now beyond the controul OF
its former oppressors. Austrian funds
had as rapidly declined.