Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1826-11-23

Shp WV AOEh. dEflteu AT 4NeW- Ofk
on Tuesday, we have received our re
gular files OF London papers to the 4th,
and Liverpool TO the 9th OF October. from
which we select the following articles:
Great Britain --ltis gratifying 10 learn
by the report of the state of trade at
Manchester aod other places that bust
ness is reviving. The demand for the
most extensive article of the cotton
manufacture is generally good, and
though all have not partaken of the i'm
provement in an equal degree, there is
now no difference as tothe opinion, that
we are steadily on the mendng order.
Calicoes, both hand and power loom,
are in demand and scarce; shirtinss are
plenty; heavy fustians, for the country
trade, are also brisk: cambrics and mus
Inns have improved, perhaps less than
almos. any sort of goods. but the stock,
we believe, are not accommodating. Twist
is brisk, particularly for shipping, and
M Saturday many of the spinners asked
a further advance. Cotlons are gradu-
ally hardening in Liverpool, but the
stocks are too heavy, and the new crop
too near at hand, we should think, for
any material advance to be maintain
ed.
Injia.-Accoupts from the East In
dies bring rumors of Burmese infrac.
ton Of the peace already, and the de-
parture of Sir A. Campbell from Calcut.
la, to rejoin the army, gives some
countenance to the report The Bur-
mese had, however completed their Sc.
cond compensatiDg instalment, but it is
said they had been ingenious enough to
pay il in coin debased to halfits nominal
yalue.-Ihe cheat was discovered upon
the coin being assaysd at the Mint.
Latest ners from Captain Eaakiin--
Letters were received from Capt. Frank
lin and DIR. Richardson, on soth sept.
all well. They were on The Great Bear
Lake on the 26th of January, and no
thing TO impede the successful progress
IT tins interesting expedition.
Accounts have been received frsm
Captain Clapperton up 10 the lth of
March, 1926, dated Ego lilo, or Kat
ungo, at which date it appears that he
was quite well, although he had had
setions attack
Turkey aud Greece.--lt is stated by
way Of Ancoua, Sept Sd that Lord
Cochrane had arrived in the Archipela-
go with squadron Of 20 vessels
A Turkish squadron of ships of the
line, 8 frigates corvettes, and Is brigs
anchored before Mytelene, Sept 9th, s.
sailed again next day, The intention of
lbrahim Pacha is said TO be to attack
Hydra with The fleet of Egyptians, ioi-
ned by 90 Turkish vessels; while the
Captain Pacha effects descent on Sa-
mos. The capture of Athens by Red
schd Pacha seem confirmed.
Letters from Odessa mention a report
that during the late fire at Constantine
pie, conspiracy was discovered among
the new troops ehcamped at the Serag-
Ito aud dreadful contest took place be-
fore they were subdued.
Athens is stated to have been taken
on the 9Th of August, after an obstinate
resistance on the part OF the garrison,
most of whom have been massacred.
Gouras has shut bimselfin the Acropo-
lis which is provisioned for some time.
The Porte attaches less importance to
this than to the voluntary submission of
thirty villages of Aitica, which have
sent deputies to the Seiaskier, and have
promised to remain tranquil.
Constantinople. lit will be recollect-
ed that according to our last advices,
dreadful fire broke out in Constantine
pie on the 3Ist,Augusi, which was ra-
ging on the Sd of September. 1t broke
out just before the sacred stamford of
The Prophet was about to he taken with
great ceremony from the Seraglio and
replaced in the Khasne, or imperial
treasury, whence it was taken on the
occasion OF the late suppression of the
Janisaries. 1t began in bakers shop,
and such was its fury that in Pera il was
thonshtto have hundred beginnings.
The palace of the yizier was consumed.
1t is supposed that the number of houses
burned is not less than seven thousand.
The fire had been extinguished in sew
eral places, but il broke out again afresh,
and the people being irritated neglected
those measures, they ought to have a.
dopted with energy. II is said that the
astrologers have predicted, that, on the
eth day of the moon, the day for the
return of the Sandjak Sheriff, great
fire would break out, and be the precur-
SCR of a political reaction. The des-