The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1831-01-05

garrisons, evacuated by the troops sent to I
The frontiers. Should this army enter into
it will be commanded by Count /
Diebitsch. 1t was announced at Paris, I
Nov. IN that Gen. Schneider, who is now 1
in the Lazaretto at Toulon, was 10 be APP
pointed. Chief of the army which is going to |
be assembled in the department of the Mo- !
selle, under the command of Gen. Gerard /
Besides these forces, it is said that three t
camps, of 100000 men each, are going to |
be formed at Lille, Metz, and Strasburgh 7
the movable National Guard are to form
part of them. Gen. Schneider is said to be
perfectly we'll acquainted with the banks Of
the Rhine, and the military geography of
those countries.
London, Nor. 80. The warlke rumors
from France together with the alleged
movements of the Russian troops, engross
nearly all the conversation of the City poll
ticians; but people cannot bring themselves
to believe that there is an immediate dan
ger of actual hostilities. 1t is impossible,
however, to say what despots may do, par
ticularly when they are trembling with fear
lest their thrones should pass away from
them. The movements of the troops in
Russia and Prussia are probably for the pur-
pose of overawing the Belgians, though some
persons will have it that France is to be at
tackled. In support ofthis opinion we are told
of the great preparations which the French
are making in order to raise n powerful
army /: but the wonder is, considering the
complete state of DISCRIMINATION IN which
Nthat army was left by the Revolution, that
| tue preparations were not commenced long
| ago. The French are merely putting into eff
feet decree which was issued aboit three
months since. The complement of the
! French army in time of peace, is 100000
men. In the month of Septembe', what
with the troops sent to Africa, the dismissal
of the Swiss and the GaTde Reyale togeth-
err with the change of officers in tie regi-
ments of the line, there were PROBABLY not
more than $4,000 organized nrn in all
France, exclusive of the National Guard.
Is is said that the five great Euppean pow
ers are contemplating the proprrty OF max
ing certain proposals to the Belgans with re-
gard to the settlement of1heiriovernment,
which ifthey accede to, of couse there will
! be no need Of any farther Interference, but
which if they do not accede 20, Prussia will
be authorized to invade thecountry. 1t is
not, however, very likely tlat France will
accede to any such meWure; and az for
England the Ministry have pledged them
selves TO the principle o. non-interference
with foreign States. BIZ it lis possible that
France and England nay agree to leave
| Russia. Prussia, and austria to settle with
the Belgians upon cerbin terms, they eng
land and France) agreeing not to interfere
as long as those terms are not exceeded.
RUSSIA. II is reported that the dreadful dis
case now so prevalcn. in Russia is not, as is
F. llV kala N oh hpf
species of the plague We have seen letters
from ST Petersburg, lated the l7th of October,
ono of which states that " it is feared the dis
order now raging in the Russian empire Is not
cholera, but something worse meaning The
| plaque. We understand that the choleta NOR
bus raged.In a presidential manner IN Siberia,
last winter, at the time the thermometer was
| 10 or 20 degrees below Zero Of Fahrenheit
From this circumstance it is to be apprehend-
ed that cold weather has no effect in checking
the disease, as is generally believed Letters
state that the com munioation with the South
particularly with Moscow, is becoming ex-
tremey rare and difficult, on account Of the
public force employed in keeping the GORDON
and preventing, if possible, The spread north
wards of the dreadful disorder now ravaging
Moscow and the Southern parts of Russia
The inhabitants of st. Petersburg were laying
1 in stocks of provision for six months, anticipa-
ting that the stoppage of communications would
last for length of time, and also with a view of
keeping as much as possible out ofthe daily mar
kets, if the disorder should unhappily reach ST.
Petersburg. The emperor had returned from
Moscow, and also laid in stock of provisions
and supplies at the Imperial residence OF Ears
kozel about % miles from St. Peterburg, on
the road to Moscow, and had taken measures
for cutting oft all the usual communications be-
tween the Palace and the people, for fear of
contagion.
The Paris Journal des Debats of Nov. 8,
has the following letter from the British Am.
bassador, at St. Petersburg, to the Court of ST.
James -
/ 81, Potersburg, Sept. 1G any Lord,-Tho
accounts of the progress of the cholera morbus
are becoming rather alarming. 1t is making
rapid advances towards Moscow it is already
at Sinebiask, Tyaritzigur, Sagetaff, and Pewza.
At Astrackhnn, the Governor (Nisson) and al
most every officer of police have pershed, and
the other deaths are at the rate of about a hun
dred daily. If the disease once reaches Mos
COW, there can be little doubt that it will spread
to st. Petersburg, Warsaw, and from thence
into Germany This will be much less extra
ordinary than its regular progress from India
| TO the Caucasus, and from thence into the
southern provinces of the Russian Empire. 1t
I ppears to be of very deadly nature, and to
have all the character of the Indian cholera.
| We learn from Bucharest that a contagious
| disease has broken out in Lower Wallacha
| bearing all the characteristics of the plague.
| Communication with the infected place has
been cut off,
I SITUATION OF SPArS. The refugees contin-
ne to prowl along the Spanish frontiers, and
sometimes to enter the Spanish territory, with
a view to stir up Instructions With respect
to these matters, the papers before us contain
the ordinary share Of contradictory, and no
doubt, fabricated accounts. One description Of
| intelligence represents the cause of the refn-
gees as utterly hopeless, whilst another afTirms
that the leaders are but waiting for the return
of spring, when, having concentrated all their
forces, they propose to make fresh ncursions
into Spain 1t is said that the French Govern.
mcnt are taking serious offence at the repeated
incursions of the Spanish Royalists into France
and camp of 10000 or 10000 men is talked
of as about to be formed in that quarter.
The London Atlas saYs-and we have no
doubt correcty-the cause of liberty in Spoin
may now be pronounced hopeless. The people
lack energy and union. The government is
absolute by the agency of fear, and that kind Of
moral apathy which is produced by the habits
of slavery Nina pecnnad bv ,rt;6oo - a.