Litchfield enquirer., 1829-12-31
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by tue ATTVNt Nt NeW"IOTN VI tue P"S"~s George Canning, London and Liverpool pa pers to the 24th Nov. arc received. The fol- lowing articles are extracted.
 Destructive fire Gt GlGsgOw.-On the night of the goth November. the extensive cotton stores belonging to MT. Donaldson, were des- trOyed by fire. The quantity of cotton burnt is estimated at five thousand bales. The total loss at ftty thousand pounds sterling. It isl said that Mr. Donaldson had an insurance of S42,OOO.
 4he Col0ni0L Ir0de.-On the 10th of No Ve'nber. the London Morning Herald publish. ed an article respecting negotiations supposed to be pending between Mir. McLane, the American Minister, and the President of the Board of Trade, touching the Colonial trade of the British West India Islands. The Her aId intimated that project was on foot to open the ports of those islands to American ships. upon condition that greater facilities should be given for the introduction of arti- ticIes of British Manufacture into the United States. The Herald is opposed to the arrangement, and censures MT. Vaughan, though not by name.
 The two Siamess Boys, who were exhib tied in the principal cities of the United | States, short time since, arrived in London on the 29th of November, in good health. Bucharest, Oct. SS.-We have nothing new from Giurgevo. The Pacha still refuses to l give up the place, and Gen. Luskaroff has not received any further instructions, in cOnse- Quence of his report to Count Diebitsch.- The force of the Russians before that fortress is 5000 men, one third of whom are unfit for service, in consequence of levers and other diseases.
 ] London, Nov. 5.-(Private Correspond ence. 1.-The state of our country becomes worse every day; arrests and executions cease not; paper money is without value, and the Bank, which is an establishment of great public utility, is soon about to cease its Ope- rations. The salaries of those in office are in arrest, and the pay of the troops is no better liquidated, although two thirds of the reg- tnents are dlsbanded.
 Merico.-Mr. Poinsett.-A gentleman of Boston informs the Editors of the Massachu- setts Journal that he met at New-YOrk a few days ago with gentleman who had just ar rived diect from Mexico, at New York, by way of Vera Cruz. The Mexican was a merchant of responsibility, and he gave the following interesting and extraordinary ac- count.
 A few days before he departed from the city of Mexico, Mir. POinsett. our Minister, was waited upon in the dusk of the evening by person, who delivered at the door mes sage from the Minister of Foreign Affairs, re- , qnesting his MT. Poinsett's immediate at- , tendance at the Bureau of Foreign Affairs. } This messenger was not admitted within the , door. the precautiOn having been taken for some time, SO to conine the door by chain as not to permit it to open so far as to admit the passage of man. unless the chain were
 unlocked for that purpose, but only to admit l oTr Mw nnkf tod CnA AHNaA sinister design from the unprecedented hour at which this request was made. and returned for answer, that he should call On the Minister ! in the morning. This answer was delivered,
 sixty men about ms st aeG t9s T"%ow
 and bludgeons. The Mexican had no doubt that the intention was to obtain admission by stratagem, nurderthe Minister. and rife his house
 But this is not the only. or most extraOrdi- nary part of the gentleman's narrative While he was on the road between Mexico and Vera Cruz, travelling with company in the stage, they were arrested by band of ruff ians, to see if Mir. Poinsett was among them. 1 it having been reported that he was to leave 1 Mexico at this time. The narrator of these facts being closely mufird in a cloak, was a particular object of scrutiny. His cloak was roughly thrown open. and his features closely examined; and when ni i-ng;m ,ne as-ai;~";s became satisfied of their mistake, one of them drew the back of his knife across his throat with decisive action, saying, cit is lucky for him that it is not he."
 Egqpt.-There are reports, in our late Flu rOpean papers. of indications of disposition, on the part of the Pacha of Egypt, to re- nounce his allegiance to the Porte. and to de- clare his own independence. Similar reports have been often repeated bef0r. but circum- stances are such at the present time as great ly to favor such a design, and add mI"h plansibility to the iumor. The strength of the Turks in war. both moral and physical. has now been tested. without any exertiOn, loss or exposure on the part of the Pacha and the result has probably been such as to surprise us all. Nothing that we can easily conceive, it seems to us, would have been so likely to disgust man of the active. enter prising and warlike character of the Viceroy of Egypt, as such feeble, undecided, unman- ly conduct as the Turks have shown in the last campaign, and the insignificant condition to which its results have reduced them. TOj remain the servant of the slaves Of Russia, as the Turks must now appear to MahOmet Ali Pacha. can hardly be tOlerabIe to him. His natural ambition must impel him tO aim at independence, claims to which he might found on the unpaid services he has rendered the Porte against Greece in n1onev troons sh;ns