The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1829-04-01
FOREIGN NEWS.

BRITIsH AFFAIRS. Preparations were
actively making for the meeting of Parlia-
mcnt, the session of which was to commence
Feb. 5th. Very frequent Cabinet meet
ings had been held, and at one Of them the
presence of the Archbishop of Canterbury
had, as it is said, been required. The
Times, of February Cd, says, the public
expectation becomes more intense with re-
gard to the mode in which the great meas
u.e of emancipation will be announced by
His Majesty's Ministers. That emancipa-
ton will be proposed to Parliament by the
Duke of Wellington in the ensuing session,
We have no more doubt than Of our own
existence. When we pen this brief pre-
dlction Of an occurrence whose CONSEQUENT
ces will be benefcially felt by Englishmen
and lrlshmen to the remotest generations, our
readers may be assured that on the coming
event" we do not speak but from convic-
ton"
Burke, the Edinburg murderer, was exc
cuted pursuant to sentence, on the morn
ing of Jan. %, in the presence of about
10000 persons, and in the midst of the most
tremendous shouts of eXecration from the
mob, who frequently demanded Hare. When
the body was taken down violent scram-
bic ensued at the foot of the galows, for
pieces of the rope, shavings from the coffin
and other precious relics. Many windows
in the nei ghborhood were hired at guinea
each for the accommodation of genteel
spectators. 1t was ascertained that this
dlabolcal butcher of his own species had
been concerned in no less than sixteen
murders.
The Duke of Northumberland, the pres
ent Lord Lieutenant Of Ireland, is in his
44th year. He has an income of 100000
or 100000 pounds sterling per annum,
which, in United States currency, amounts
to nearly twelve hundred thousand dollars
per annum.
London, Jan. 81. The Turkish armies
have at length begun to move-and the
immense masses of troops from Asia, for
warded by the Sultan to the frontier, have
so swelled the Turkish ranks, that the
mighty torrent threatens to roll back the
tide Of invasion, and devastate the domin-
ions of the devastator. The reinforcements
received by the commanders of the fortress
es on the Danube, have been so large, that
the number Of troops at Widdin. Nicopoli,
Sunandua, and Rudschuk, amount to 10000
men-and this increase of strength, has
caused the Danube to be passed by the
Turks at every point. The Pacha of Wild
din, with 10000 men at the last advices,
was marching against the Principally and
such was their force, that it was generally
expected, the Russian army would be com
PEELED to repass the Pruth. The only
means of averting this was, by the advance
of the Grand Duke Constantine, with the
Polish army, who had, it is said, received
orders to this effect, and was already on
the advance. If the Emperor Nicholas is
reduced to employ the army of Poland in
active service, it may regarded as a proof
of the dangerous and weakened state OF
the Russian army: for it is notorious, that
the spirit of disaffection exists, to q great
extent among the Poles, and that the Rus
sian yoke becomes more and more calling.
Thus affairs remain at present in the
East and we learn, in addition, that the Sui
tan had turned his attention to the war in
Asia, having directed the various Pachas
to place themselves under the Pacha Of
Erzeroom, and assume offensive operations
In relation to this letter the Editor of the
Commercial Advertiser says-That part
"LiCh lCAulCo W LlIC ulOhClllelISs pIGpuTd-
lions, and prospects Of the Turks on the
line of the Danube, must be taken with
many grains of allowance. 1t is evidently
made up from accounts manufactured on
the continent for effect upon the money
market. The only account we find corro-
borating that part of the letter to which we
refer, is the following, from the Paris Con-
situtionnel:
Hiddin, Jan. 3. Very disadvantageous
reports are atoat respecting the Russians,
which we will repeat, without, however,
giving implicit belief to them. 1t is said
that Gen. PaskeWitch has declared to the
Emperor that, if considerable reinforce
ments are not very promptly sent to him,
himself and his whole army must he made
prisoners by the Turks, inasmuch as the
latter occupy every passage, and have him,
as 1t were, blockaded. 1t is added that the
Emperor has sent to Count Paskewitch, not
troops, but a million of roubles, as a recon-
pense for his conquests in Asia. We are
assured that the two provinces conquered
in Persia by the Russians have rebelled
that the garrison of Varna is struggling,
both against famine and the Turks, who are
in possession of all the defiles, and inter-
cept the conveys; finally, that the Emperor
Nicholas has invited Prince Metternch to
Warsaw to the Congress, to treat of Peace
1t appears certain that Tchapan Oglou has
intercepted the communications between
Wanna and the other fortresses occupied by
the Russians, and, as Varna cannot receive
provisions on any side, people begin to think
that it must certainly revert to the Turks.
French AFFAIRS. The session of the
French Chambers was opened on the 9th
Of January with n speech from the throne
His Majesty says he continues to receive
( assurances of friendship from all the foreign
powers-the Ottoman Porte has been mott
fed that Greece is placed under the pro
lection Of the three Powers-French troop.
had been recalled from Spain He is de-
ternined to punish the Dey of Algers fol
! his cuntumacv Havti has not heen ,Ll.