Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Mass.) 1828-1830, 1828-10-07


stated, that the Turks were driven into
the fortress in great disorder, and with
much loss. But it is added, as they " had
taken in front of Lieutenant General
Uszakow, favourable position, the latter
would not expose his corps to any danger,
and he retired behind the village of
Drewent to join the First Brigade of the
10th Division of Infantry, under Adjutant-
General Benkendroff, as that Brigade was
on its march to reinforce the corps besieg-
ing Varna. Courier.
The report that the Russians have re-
ceived severe check at Shumla appears
to have obtained general credit, and the
assertion that Government has advices Of
this event is reiterated with increased con-
6dence. 1t is said, that after several days
severe fighting, the Russians were COM
PEELED to fall back, with loss of 10000
men in killed and wounded.
The STANDARD, Aug. 90.
LONDON, SUNDAY, AUG. 81. TO the
great surprise and disappointment of the
publick, another week has passed without
bringing any intelligence of the battle
which was expected to be sanguinary and
decisive of the fate of Turkey. We can
account for this delay only on the suppo-
sition that the Russians find the Turks
too formidable to be attacked for had the
Russians met with any success they would
have been active in circulating the news,
and had they met with any severe check
the Austrians would have circulated it for
them. The last bulletin is dated the 2Sth
of July from the camp round Shumla, and
as the army broke up from before Bazaar
gik on the 10th July, it had been twelve
days in making so short progress. There
is report that Varna has been captured,
but we do not think it true.
PORTUGAL. The Marquis de Resende,
and Viscount Itabayana, as Plenipotentia-
ries of the Emperour of Brazil, published
in London on the 9Th of August, protest
against the assumption of the Crown of
Portugal, by Don Miguel. They declare
the pretended Three Estates, who assem-
bled at Lisbon on the Odd of June, and
decided that Don Miguel was the lawful
successor of his brother John VI, to be
no more than an assembly of the authori-
ties of an execrable faction, which had
previously contrived the work of usurpa-
ton. This assembly had sustained the
right of Don Miguel to the Crown on the
ground that by the law of the Cortes of
Lamego, it was provided that if the daugh-
ter of the King should marry foreign
Prince, she should not be Queen, for the
Crown should not GO out of the possession
of the Portuguese, and by another law,
made by King John w., in I642, by de-
sire of tho Throo Eetatos, it was declared
that the successor to the Crown, must be
Prince born in Portugal The protest
denies that the Three Estates have any
right to interfere in case like the pre-
sent, where there is no extinction of the
direct line of succession, and no question
can be raised, the Emperour Don Pedro
being the eldest son of the late King.
They proceed to argue that the two laws
on which the Three Estates rest the right
of Don Miguel are entirely inapplicable to
the present case. They conclude by pro-.
testing loudly and before the world, against
the usurpation of the Crown of Portugal
which has taken place, in behalf of the
Emperour Of Brazils, and the legitimate
King of the said kingdom, as we'll as of
his well beloved daughter, Donna Maria
de Gloria-Bost. ID. Ado.
ST.. JOHN, (N.B.) SEPT. 20. On We'd
nesday last, about O'Clock in the morn
ing, as number of persons were waiting
above the Falls for an opportunity of pass
ing down through, young man of the
name Of Keenen, being in boat alone,
attempted to cross to one of the Islands,
at the entrance of the Falls, but finding
the stream running very hard, and never
having been through the Falls before, be-
came alarmed his terrour increased to
such degree as to render him unable to
extricate himself from inevitable destruc-
ton; the boat glided into the whirlpools of
the Falls, and was Immediately sucked
under water in sight of his agonized COM
panions, who could not render him the
least assistance. The unfortunate youth
sunk to rise no more. We understand
that he was the only child of his aged pa
rents, who are respectable, and long set
tied on the Kenebeckacis.
On the evening of the same day, a CO.
Toured man of the name of Banks had
been ferrying two persons from the Indian
Dock, to Robinson's lime-kiln about sun
set he hoisted the sail of his skiff to re-
turn the breeze was gentle, and the boat
glided imperceptibly along; it was at the
first rush of the ebb tide, from what cir
cumstance is not known but the boat drift