Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1828-07-24
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New YoRK, July n.
GREAT BATTLE BE TWEEN THE RUS
SLAMS AND TURkS-CoUNTER-R
yOLUTIoN IN PORTUGAL

BY the packet ship Britannia, Capt
Marshall, arrived yesterday from Liver
pool, we have received Liverpool dates
to the 9Th, and London to the 9Th in-
elusive. The news is too explicit to e.
quire any comment.
On Friday the 3Oth May, at , o'clock,
P VI. the King held a court at bis palace
in ST James, which was attended by
most of the Privy CounselIors
Ills Majesty gave an audience to Earl
Dudley, when the noble earl resigned
the seals Of the office of Secretary OF
State for Foreign Affairs
Mr. Huskisson had an audience ofthe
King. and resigned the seals OF Office as
Secretary of State for the Colonial De-
partmeut.
His Majesty gave closet audience
10 the Earl OF Aberdeen, when the no
bic earl kissed hands upon his being ap
pointed Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs, and the King delivered to him
the seals OF Office.
Sir George Murray had closet au-
dience of the King who presented Sir
George with the seals of office OF Score
tary of State for the Colonial Depart
ment Sir George kissed hands on his
appointment.
VisesuGi Lowther was presented TO
his Majesty, and kissed hands upon his
being appointed Chief Commissioner of
Woods and Forests.
MIR. Peregrine CourtenH was presen.
ii L. - Il H..
appointed Vice President of the Board
OF Trade.
Mr.. Arbuthnot kissed hands upon his
being appointed Chancellor OF the Duchy
OF Lancaster.
Sir Henry dardinge kissed hands up
on his being appointed Secretary Of War.
His Majesty held Privy Council, at
which Vscount Lowther, Sir George
Murray, Mr.. Peregrine Courtenay, and
Sir Henry Hardinge were introduced,
sworn in Privy Counsellors, and took
their seats al the Board accordingly.
HIS Majesty gave audiences to the Duke
of Wellington, Earl Bathurst, and Mr..
Secretary Peel The Court broke up
soon after o'clock.
House OF COMMONS On the Qnd
june, Mr.. Husklsson entered into an
explanation OF his conduct in retiring
from the Miuistry. His remarks and lhe
spondence which he brought for
ward, justify the suspicious which we
mentioned the other day, viz: tina, he
bad written letter to the Noble Pre-
mier, Informing him that he was at Ii
berry to receive his resignation e he
thought il necessary, and that the Duke
very cavalisrly turned him over to the
king and insisted that his letter was a
formal resignation.
Sir Edward Codring,on, it is said, is
to be superseded in bis nflice, by Sir
PuIteney Malcolm.
The Courier of The 7th says "some
alarm was excited in the city in The NOR
ming. in consequence of statement, put
forth with great confidence That a
GOODNESS had taken place between this
country and France, upon the affairs OF
Greece,-that our efforts to prevent
France from interfering dire city in be.
half of Greece had failed that Charles
X. had resolved to actby himself and for
himself, to deliver. organize, and occupy
Greece, that the army collected in the
vicinity of Foulton was intended for the
Morea, that this intention was viewed
with alarm by our Ministers, who had
used every means of persuasion to in
duce France to relinquish a plan, the
execution Of which might hasten the dis
solution OF the present order of thiags
in Europe-that she avaled herself of
the present crisis, and Of the difficulties
in which she inagnes it has involved US,
to carry her intention into effect final
y, that she had determined to adopt a
course of policy different from that
which she had bound herself to pursue.
THE FIRST GREAT BATTLE.
The .Ntwemburg Correspondent of the
26th May furnishes US with an account
Of the first great battle fought between
the Russians and Turks, in Which the
latter have been completely defeated
with the loss OF nine or ten thousand men
killed. for no wounded are mentioned.
besides $500 prisoners: The Turks also
lost 43 new brass cannon, 90 mortars,
and one hundred and seven standards,
The loss of the Russians amounted to
1850 killed, and about 5000 wounded
Thus has the ntide of tho TurEs haen