Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1826-11-18


lists. 1t is hoped that the worst has passed over,
and that the disorder has been at its height
| It is indeed time that some ameliora,ion should
| take place, as the city has become a complete
lcharnel-house. Hundreds Of children have to
deplore the loss OF their parents, and scarcely
a mother but has to weep for beloved offspring,
AZ this moment there are 1000 persons more
or less ill.,
RussA.-The St. Petersburgh Journal of
September 4, is filled with an account of the
Coronation of the Emperor and Empress at
Moscow. A supplement describes at great
length the fetes, Nominations, SC. &c. at ST. Pc
tersburgh, on the happy occasion.
The Nuremberg Correspondent says, the En-
peror Nicholas and the Empress were expect
ed at St. Petersburgh by the beginning of Oct.
His Majesty's coronation at Warsaw is post
poned till the spring, at which time he will
open the Diet IN person. 1t is the Archduke
Michael, and not the Emperor, who is to visit
the army in Bessarabia.
The account Of hostilities between Persia and
Russia, is confirmed. 1t is stated from Mos
COW, Sept. %, that Gen. Paskewilsch with two
divisions OF infantry and Gen. IIowaisky, with
10000 Cossacks, are ordered to the frontiers
of Persia.
A letter from Moscow Of September IA, says,
doubts were some time entertained at the Court
Of ST. Petersburgh, whether the hostilities COM
mltted upon the frontiers of Persia were to be
attributed 10 the restless and turbulent spirit Of
the hordes which dwell in those countries, or,to
a positive intention on the part of the Sehah;
but intelligence brought by a courier that
rived here yesterday, has set the question at
rest, and our Cabinet considers itself decidedly
in state Of formal war with Persia" Ano-
ther letter, from the frontiers Of Russia, con-
firms the intelligence of formal declaration Of
war by Russia, in consequence of The incur
sions Of the Persians; the march of troops TO
reinforce the Russian army in Georgia; and the
revolt Of some of the frontier provinces.
letter, under the date of St. Petersburgh, the
2lst Sept states, in reference to this Persian
irruption, that numerous bodies Of troops have
received orders to the Caucasus TO reinforce
the army of Georgia. The Persians, on their
side are said not to be idle. They have advanc-
ed still further and in greater force, into the
Russian territory, and have excited rebellion
in two out Of the three Mussleman provinces
belonging to Russia. According 10 the barba-
rous custom Of the Orientals, Prince Menzikof
and his officers, who composed the Russian
Embassy at the Court of Sehah, have been re-
tanned as prisoners. 1t is not however, suppos-
ed that hoslii,ies can be commenced with any
yigor on either side before the winter.
Accounts from Odessa Of Sept. l9, state that
the Eruption Of the Persians has been signal
for an almost general insurrection in their ia
vor. Among the Tarlars are Carabat, Schir-
wan, Chests, and Elisabethpol The Russians
have evacuated these provinces, as well as
par, Of Sounketre. The people of the noun
tains are acting with violence. On the side of
the Caspian Sea, the enemy has penetrated as
far as Coubla, in the neighborhoed of Derbont,
which he is blockading. The Russians will
not act on the offensive, as il appears, till after
the arrival of the reinforcements, but in the
me time the country is ravaged. The con-
sternation amongst the Armenian merchants is
very great; they have suspended all their ousl-
ness and all payments. Tells the entrepot for
the merchandise consumed in Georgia, or sent
into Persia, loses its most importan, market by
the Eruption Of the Persians into the frontier
provinces.
The Pilote speaks Of Manifesto of The En-
peror Nicholas, issued at Moscow on The 4th of
Sept as having "produced a powerful effect;"
and asks, ''What would there be extraordinary
In treaty between Nicholas and Constantine,
by which the empire Of the Crescent should be-
come the patrimony Of the latter, on condition
that the latter should never be united in the
same person?'
Turkey -Advices from Constantinople are
10 the 18th of September. Since the dreadful
FIRE which consumed part of this capital,
kind of tranquility prevails, but the distress of
the Turks and Armenians, who wander about
without an asylum, is beyond description. II
now out of all doubt, that the fire was the act OF
the Jannissaries and their party. 1t may be re-
membered, that at the time Of their suppression
they covered the walls Of Constartinople with
placards, in which they threatened the Sultan
tina, they would return, even from the bottom OF
the sea, TO avenge their wrongs. For some
time past the Divan, and even the Sultan him
self, appear more uneasy than ever. This may
be inferred from the new measures which have
lust been adopted. In order not to reduce the
inferior classes of the population to despair the
Government is obliged 10 keep provisions at
lower price than they were twenty years ago.
The prospect of the future is, nevertheless,
gloomy and threatening. Since the delivery OF
the Russian ul,imaium, Mr.. Stratford Canning,
the English Ambassador, has also presented
to the Divan note, in which he enforces the
claims of British subjects who suffered IN their
property at the beginning Of the troubles, and
particularly at Scio i, is supposed that these
demands will tend TO render the Porte still more