Virginia statesman. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1828-1829, 1828-06-25

CATHOLIC CLAIMS. The feso-
luton of Sir Francis Burdett, which we
gave on Saturday, was adopted on the 18th
in the House of Commons, by a majority
Of6, after very long and animated de-
bate.
IMPORTANT FROM PORTUGAL.
A Geographic despatch from BayOnne, an
nounced, on the 10 ult. that Don Miguel
had been proclaimed King without oPPosl-
ton in Coimbra and several other towns.
The Courier remarks that he is now trail
or to his neice, the legitimate Queen, Don
Pedro having ABDICATED on March 9th,
in favor of his daughter, Donna Maria,
charging Don Miguel, as his lieutenant q
Regent ofthe Kingdom, with the execution
of the decree.
An ARMISTICE was concluded on
the 18th between Don Fedro and the Bue-
nosAyrean government, through the medl-
tatiOn of the English government, by the
agents of the two powers in London.
RUSSIAN DECLARATION OF WAR
The long threatened crisis has at length
arrived; The die is cast: and the Musco-
yite advances upon the Ottoman.
The Russian Declaration of War is re-
ceiyeG; and the Manifesto by which it is
accompanied, will be found below. We
have not time to give the Declaration, ex-
tending to more than two columns, this e
yening. 1t will appear to morrow. Witt
gonstein's army crossed the Pruth on the
/ Doth or 9th of April, and is in full march
towards Costantinople While the large ma
| val armament of SebastOpOl co-operates Oh
the side of Varna, the corps of General
/ Pascovich, flushed with its recent triumphs
/ in Persia, is to advance through the south
ern frontier of Turkey But this is not the
only important operation with which the
war is expected to commence. The Rus
slams, It is said, would cross the Danube
about the same time into Bulgaria, and
push forward as rapidly as possible, sup
porting their main army by landing neal
the Gulf of Verona. The State Papers
issued on this occasion possesses all that
diplomatic tact for which the Russian Cab
met, under Count Nesselrode, has always
been distinguished.
Extraordinary Supplement to the Russial
State Gazette.
We have received to day from st. Pc
tersburgh the following official documents
MANIFESTO OF HIS MAJESTY
THE EMPEROR.
'By the Grace food, we, Nicholas l
| Emperor and Autocrat of all the Russians
| sc. &c. The Treaty of Bucharest, con
I cluded in the year 1912 with the Ottoman
Porte, after having been for sixteen year;
the subject of reiterated disputes, now nc
longer subsists, in spite Of all Of our exer
Itions to maintain it, and to preserve it from
all attacks. The Porte, not satisfied witt
having destroyed the basis of that Treaty,
fnow de6es Russia, and prepares to wage
against it a Beilam Ond iaterRacOia@2; Il
| it summon its people in a mass to arms
accuses Russia of being its irreconcilable
! enemy, & tramples under foot the COnven-
ton of Akerman, and with that all proceed
ing Treaties.
Lastly, the Porte does not hesitate to
declare that it accepted the conditions OF
this peace only as 4 mask to conceal It's in
tentions and its preparations for new war.
| Scarcely is this remarkable confession
made, when the rights of the Russian flag
are violated, the vessels which it covers de
tanned, and the cargOes made prey to a
rapacious and arbitrary government. Our
subjects found themselves compelled to
break their oath, or to leave without delay
a hostile country. The Bosphorus is clos
1ed-our southern provinces deprived of the
only channel for the expectation of their
produce, are threated with incalculable IN
Jury. Nay morel At the moment when
the negotiations between Russia and Persia
are nearly concluded, sudden change on
the part of the Persian government, checks
the course of them. 1t soon appears that
the Ottoman Porte exerts itself to make
Persia waver, by promising powerful aid;
arming in haste the troops in the adjoining
provinces, and preparing to support, by a
threatening attack, this treacherous hostile
I language. This is the series of injuries
of which Turkey has been guilty, from the
conclusion of the treaty of Alderman up TO
this day, and this is unhappily the fruit Of
the sacrifices and the generous exertons
/ by which Russia has necessarily endeav-
CURED to maintain peace with a neighbour
! ing nation.
"But all patience has its limits. The
honour of the Russian name-the dignity
ofthe empire-the inviola5ility of its rights,