Litchfield enquirer., 1829-02-05
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 to the 94th ut. The Erstitem tsf intclligenc, is, that the Russian forces had bren' compel led by the severity of the weafher-c -cOntinu ed snow fDr several days-and the state . destitution in which they were, t0 raise tn siege Of SIlistria, and to recrOss tue Danube It is not indeed certain thatth sirgesMas no raised after hattie witil a portion Uf th' Turkish army advanced 4t0m 7ChOumla. Al any rate, the retrogade movement of the Russians was so hurried. that much artillery was sacrificed. The Turks, on the Othr' hand, under their new and spirited vizier' are said to be intent upon continuing the cam paign, and doubts are expressed whether even Varna can. now that the Danube is between it's garrison andthe Russian armies, he held by it's captOrs.
 The reports of change in the British minis. try, seem qnile unftNinded. The Times rIdi- cHles the idea of MT. Huskisson being about to take place again "
 The condition of affairs in Ireland seems to occupy the chief interest in England. The power of the Catholic Association daily iD- creases--and it indeed is the controlling pow CT of that counfPy. At a recent meeting, nine Delegates were chosen to proceed tO England, to explain and defend before the people of England the claims Of the Catho- lies. Mir. OConnell and MT. Shiel. were ai { the head ofthis Delegation.
 Lord Liverpool died early in December His faculties had never recovered from the paralysis which in 1927 drove him. from the ministry.
 HuntOn, whose conviction for forgery and sentence of death had excited deep and gene ral sympathy, and who was taken out of the Leeds packet; ship. after she had left1Liver- pool for New York, was, notwithstanding the xtraordinary2e 2efforts made to induce change in the sentence, executed on the 9th Decem- Der. He was a Quaker, of more than fifty years If age, possessed of Handsome proper ty: but. tempted by commercial embarTass- r,ents, had forged and uttered some bills of exchange-and for that crime he suffered.
 Constaptinople dates ofNovember 1O,state that there is now no idea of accepting the proposals sent by the three Ambassadors from PorOs. The fall of Varna had produ- ced no change in that respect. The Turks Gatter themselves that the blOckadessOf the Dardarlelles will have the effect, sooner or la- ter, of dissnlving the alliance of the 9th July, because they say it exposes too much the in terests of the maritime powers. Since the raising of the siege of Silistria. Bulgaria is now as free as it was at the begin ming of the campaign, with the exception of Varna, which is cut off from the Principali- ties, and lelt to it's own resources. The Grand Vizier has received orders to take Var m at any price.
 ]. The Sultan has called upon all men abie to bear arfns to rally round the standard. Mus sulmen are commanded not to ,giAe. quarters, or suffer themselves to he taken prisoners.
 k1ll.n NosNstan DoNha gas.ssv pA SrrF3sAPo fra sail 10 the Dardanelles to watch the move. nients of the Russian blockading sqnadIon.
 fnteIligence reached London On Friday. by a mercantile express from Paris, Of the prOhi- bitiop of the export of wheat from France.- Although the price of wheat has ever since, {, the last harvest been high in France, accord ing to the ordinary prices in that country. yet it has been considerably lower than in Eng land, and large quantities have lately been shipped for this country. The intelligence of inc prohibition bad an immediate effect on our corn market London Courier.
 PORTUGAL.-The is still nnthing from this wretched country but accounts of new arrests, impris0nlmeuts, cOnfiscatiOns, and ex- iles. Nothing is improving hut the health of Don Miguel who still lives tOsdo what harm he eau. Hisscareef; however, we are confi- dent. must be rapidly drawing to close. II the PoFtuguese themselves should not be aroused to resistance by the outrages he is committing, foreign powers cannot long re- main idle spectators of the insults with which he treats thems II Don Pedro delays. we cannot think England willlong remain indif- ferent, as Miguel has late.y. as is declared.ar- rested one tt her vice eonsnls, among several others from different European pOwers.- Some i0f Onr last papers mention the arrival of lngiiives from that country, in which SO few can consider, themselves safe.
 Ten private gentlemen, twelve officers, and fourteen priyates, arrived in the last packet from LisbOn, besides some Portuguese ladies.
 The Goyefntnent have, indeed, issued or. ders to bring English subjects who have been arresfed tO speedy trial; hut it is easy fO, . them t0 make ialf professions. Private les, . ters state, that ir consequence Of permission granted to the Royalist Volunteers to suspect and arrest whom they please, they have pro. caeded to great length, ,and,at St. Ubes,s seized and ill treated several of the Vice Consnls.-- The following are extracts from letter, fol the whole of which we have not room. It is dated at St. Ubes, Nov. 24, and is from one . offh most respectable mercantile houses O that place. It says, that after the Royalisl Volunteers had long threatened it, they ar rested s.in the street the Vice Consul of the Tfanse, Towns, tNfr. BarbOsc,) partner of the respectablehuuse ofWidow Bereus and Com- pally, as we'll as the administrator for the Royal Snuff Contractors, and Clerk af the English and Hanoverian Vice Consul, with whom he. was conversing ahont business al the time of his arrest. The Volunteers to.,k