Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1829-04-14
SEAT OF WAR.


of terrible defeat sustained by the Turks be.
fore Varna on the 22nd Of Jan, III which they
were said to have lost $4,000 men and one
hundred pieces of-cannon; in consequence OF
which they were enabled 10 surprise lournoul,
five days afterwards. But this news was con-
sidered apocryphal.
The papers contain Bulletin from Count
Laneeron. Commander in Chief of the Russian
troops in Wallachia. dated Bucharest the 26th
ull which contains the details OF an attack on
Kali and Tourloul, With event has already
been mentioned in this paper, though no par
ticulars were given. The former is described
as an impot ant fortress, the capture OF which
would have required regular siege IN sum-
mer, and which appears on the present occa.
sion TO have made brave iho Intellectual
resistance What rendered its capture more
easy in winter than in summer is neither NEIL
toned or limited at; bnt according TO the Rus
sian account which, however, must be taken
with some exceptions, il was scaled and taken
in less than an hour. Thirty Cannon, hive stan.
dards, and great quantity OF amunilion. Tell
into the hands Of lthe conquerors; anS Pa
cha, along with 60 officers, and $50 soldiers,
are said To have been taken prisoners. The
number of The killed on The Turkish side is STA
ted al $50, while, according 20 the same
version Of the matter, the Russians had only
two officers and eighty men killed, and $50
wounded. The Turks performed such Ptodi'
eies Of valor, as have not been realised since
! the days Of chivalry. They were all put 10 the
sword.
Private advices from Bucharest Of the third
Feb. announced the death of Cen. Count Sack,
I to be Immediately attacked.
On The 10th February the nuptials were cell
ebra,rd at Wemiar Of The Princess Augusta
third daughter of The Grand Duke. with Prince
William, second son of the King Of Prussia.
Under Constantinople date OF Jan. 25,h as
d scl-oF to The foregoing rumors Of Russian
success, there is Ole Of an attack made on the
18Th, by Turkish detachment commanded by
Ibrahim Pacha, on the Russian environments st
Kousidcha, al the foot Of the Balkan, in which
il was said the Russians were driven from their
entrenchments into the mosque, which was sr-
ed by the Turks. There was another vague
rumor Of an attack made by The latter on Pa
ravadi. The former account made the Rus.
slams lose 900 men, and seven pieces Of cannon
The reception Of The news exhilarared The spi-
riis Of the Caravan, which was selling gu, for
Mexico, and Offering up enthusiastic petitions
tor the success Of the Turkish arms.
News was received at Jassy, on the 9Th Feb.
that Gen. Zoltucbin, civil governor of Kieff,
had been named provisional president Of the
two principali,ies, in the room Of Count Pah
len.
II is said at Jassy, that the Russians will adj
vance towards he Danube, about the beginning
Of March, and that the Imperial Court will ar
rive about the same time at Jassy. The cam
paign will be opened by the siege OF Siistria.
Four divisions OF the first army were to enter
Moldavia in fifteen days, and 10 be followed by
the others Several detachmen.s Of troops and
transports with recruits from Bessarabia, had
already begun TO cross The Pruth.
A lie Deum was chaupted al ST. Petersbureh
on the S;n, in pr sence of the Court, for the
capture Of the fol ress Of Kali.
PARIS, MARCH ..
1t is understood by the last letters from Con
slantinople that the Porte has not yet consent
ed 10 declare a cessation of hosliiities in the
Levant, although upon this declaration depends
the return 10 that Capital Of the Ambas sad ors
OF England and France. The Sultan has said
he will not send troops to the Morea, but this
is not considered sufficiently explicit.
CoNsTASTrNoPLE, Jan. 25.-The Porte:has re-
piled 10 The overlures Of England and France in
relation to the 2acihcation Of Greece, that she
was ready to open at Consian:inople or any
place near the Capital negotiations upon the
principles established in The invitation Of Nov.
addressed by the Refs EHendi to the Ambassa-
doris. That the Porte has promised that no.
thing shall be undertaken curing the negocia-
ton against the Morea, and that the Isles tax.
en- should be under the protection of these
powers.
The Capital was calm, the inquie,ude which
the Russian blockade had al first occa.ioned
had vanished; there were plenty Of provisions,
and II is even said that orders had been sent
to smyrna not to discharge the vessels which
had arrived with grain.
PORTUGAL LIN the Lisbon accounts Of the
18th Feh'y, il was said thar Viscoupt SEGA at
London, and Count da Popte at Paris, declared
that though unoficialiy recognized in public,
they had privately negotiated as the accredited
Representatives Of Don Miguel. A similar
commune alton had been received from the
Marquis OF Lavrado, Portuguese minister at