Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Mass.) 1828-1830, 1828-08-12

! gers from tne Island OfIyree TO Mall, struck
against rock and sunk, by which 81 per-
sons out of the 26 persisted. The remain
ing hive chung to the rock, from which they
were taken off on the following day.
LONDON, JUNE 90. Ministers have, it is
understood, resolved to send Mr.. Stratford
Canning on special mission to the Greeks.
The measure, it is said, is undertaken con-
jointly with France, in consequence of the
hopes entertained of bringing the question
of Grecian independence to an issue. Mr..
c. it is expected, will proceed instantly on
his mission, and will leave town in one or
. two days at the latest.
The crops will be unusually large and if
the weather should be seasonable for secur-
ing them, hay will be cheap in the ensuing
winter. The country wears at this time an
appearance of the most luxuriant fertility,
every kind of produce being in a healthy
and promising state.
We have the melancholy task to state,
that at fire which took place in Red Lion
street, on Saturday morning, whole family,
consisting Of mother, father, and five
children, persisted in the flames.
Paris papers of the.2 stated, that it
was rumored there that the Porte had come
to the conclusion to accede to the treaty of
the 9th of July, and her quarrel with Rus
STA would come to speedy termination.
RUSSIA, TURKEY, AND GREECE.
Extraordinary Supplement to the Journal Of
81. Petersburg, June 4.
CAMP BEFORE sBRAHILow, MAY %. This
morning his Majesty the Emperor mounted
his horse to visit the environs the fortress.
He proceeded to hill occupied by picket
of Cessacks, which overlooks the town and
the whole plain. Thence his Majesty went
to the camp Of the 18th division, which is
backed by the Danube. The brigade of
Chasseurs, which is on thes first line, was
up before its tents to receive his Majesty.
On the right were the soldiers who had
principally distinguished themselves by
| their intrepidity. His Majesty named them
Knights of st George, and addressing the
oldest, who wore three medals, himself fas-
tened the cross to his button hole and en-
braced him. 1t may be conceived what an
effect must have been made on the men by
this mode of bestowing reward. His Ma
jesty then went to the camp of the Hulans of
the Bey, when he gave the cross in the
same manner 10 two Hulans who had engag-
ed, hand to hand, and taken prisoners in
sally, two officers of the enemy's cavalry.
The materials for opening the trenches are
preparing with all the activity and zeal
which his Maiesty's presence inspires.
MAY %. During the night there has
been pretty brisk canonade on both sides
upon the left Of our position; the object was
to draw away attention from our extreme
right, where we had begun to erect great
battery. This morning the Emperor rode
to this point to examine the works that had
been raised in the night The Turks who
had hitherto seemed to respect the promen-
AIDES of his Majesty, saluted him with can
non balls from their ramparrs. Thence his
Majesty went on to the camp of the Hulans,
and visited the wounded, whose number
amounts to sixty. Ayoung gentleman, who
had been dismissed the service for miscon-
duct, and who, to repair his faults had
entered it again as private soldier, and
had had leg shot off in one of the first
actions. was presented to the Emperor
by the Grand Duke Michael. As he had
given proofs of zeal and intrepidity, his
Majesty was pleased to given him the SOL
diers' cross of st. George, and to appoint
him officer This unexpected favour filled
him with Joy, and the expressions of his
gratitude were worthy of the sentiments of
gentleman who prizes honour above all
things.
MAY "a Early this morning his Males
| ty mounted his horse, and alighted on a hill
at the advanced post whence he could bet
ter Judge of the effects of the mortars
placed in a battery on the extreme left of
the position. He had scarcely arrived there
when a number of Turks, proceeded by
white flag, appeared at the out posts. 1t
was a flag of truce, who came to return
thanks from the Pacha, through the Marshal
! for the generosity with which his Majesty
/ had been pleased to set the prisoners at lib
erty. When the officer bearing the flag of
! truce was dismissed, he was desired to de-
clare to the Pacha, that the longest delay
allowed him was till three o'clock in the
next morning, after which the garrison could
not expect any terms,
| A battery of "a cannons having been
erected in the night of the 9th on the ex-
IRENE right, opened its fire on the fortresses
at day break. The Emperor hearing the
cannonade, went to the battery to see the
effect it produced. It fully answered his
Maiesty's expectations. At the end of an
hour, the bastiUn against which the fire had
been particularly directed, was reduced to
silence. The~enemy had remarked, howev-
er, from the number of officers on this spot,
that the Emperor must be among Them
They accordingly began to cannonade with
their largest guns the hill on which our
august Sovereign was, and several 24-pound
balls struck the foot of the hill. Having
seen the fire ofthe ve-mentioned bastion
silenced, and convinced that the siege was
making all the progress that circumstances
permitted, the Emperor, summoned back to
the frontiers of his dominions by other i'm
portant affairs, left the blockade, and on the
road received, from the GOVERNOR of Ismail,
news that the Hetnan Cossaek had declared