The Hawk-eye and Iowa patriot. (Burlington, Iowa) 1839-1843, 1840-10-08
From, the Boston Atlas Extra, Sept. H.
OF THE BRITANNIA


ARRIVAL OF THE BRITANNl A.
The ROYAL Steamer Britannia arrived
a, this port this morning, in a days from
Liverpool. She brings no intelligence'of
any c,eat public importance.
;rhe Britannia has Sc passengers.
azs-sFHe Great Western arrived at Bristol
ons.l,e night Of the Slst plt. in l3a days
from New York. s...,...,.ss.
'Ike British Queen sailed from Ports.
mouth for New Y ork on the Isl with $50
passengers. e@s-'ssss 4 = 81 &c. s
FRANCE AND Tn Z ALLIED pow
s' s. a9sasa Frs, -
~ A letter Of Lord Palmerston''s to NJ.
Gnizo,, inrefarcl,ce to- the affairs Of the
East, ihas been published, and is . docu--
meni of gTeatsimportance, ash complete
~ refu,es the notion Of any insult having
been offered to France iii the progress Of
the M EQUATIONS. The following extract
will fully prove this
1.-The four Powers. in signing this con-
sention, could no. but feel the greatest re-
greet TO find themselves thus momentarily
separated from France in an affair SO es-
senfisiiy European; but this regret is d.
minfsiled by the reiterated declarations
which the French Government has made
to them, ,hat'il has nothing to object to
the arrangements which the four Powers
desire to make Mchemet Ali accept, pro-
vidcd Mehemet Ali consents to them; that
in no case will France oppose the meas
ures which the four Courts, in concert
with the Sultan, ightjudge necessary to
obtain the assent Of the Pacha Of Egypt;
and that the only motive which has pre-.
vented France from uniting with the 9TH
er powers OH this occasion, is derived
from considerations Of various kinds,
which rendered i, impossible for the
French Government to take part in CO.
erciye measures against Alehemet Ali
The fnH Courts entertain, then, the well
grounded hope that their separation from
France on this subject will be only OF
short duration, and will not in any man
ner interfere with The relations Of sincere
friendship which they SO earnestly desire
to preserve with France; and moreover,
they anxiously address themselves TO the
French Government in order to obtain It's
moral support, Notwithstanding they can
not hope for lis material corporation
The influence Of the French Government
is powerful in Alexandria; and may not
the four Courts hope, and even demand,
of the French Government, that this in
tiuence be exercised with Mehemet Ali,
with the view of inducing the Pacfa IL
give. his adhesion to the arrangement.
which are about 10 be proposed TO him
by the Sultan!'' s- sEasne Il
The London Times has the following
commemorative above. = r 2. 80. 49,
During q period Of len years million
ofyoung Frenchmen, the eldestof whom
have scarcely attained their thirtietll year.
have been enrolled in tile active army, or
haye been Incorporated in the reserve
Independently Of officers now serving, Of
those on the retired listand at the schools
there IRE $4,000 non commissioned off
GERS. whose promotion 10 the rank of Off
GERS has been alone prevented by the re.
duction of the army. "A credit of / $780,.
600 (78, 600, had been opened to place
Port Royal, Martinique, and the other
fortifcations in a proper state of defence.
The. Policy Of the Four Powers already
battles the control of human statesman
ship, and we are borne irresistibly on
wards in a course in which the worst mis-.
fortunes. are possible, and the peace of
tho world is staked against the obstinacy
Of a Mnssulman, and that Alassulman. Me.
hemet Ali. We presume that all expec-
sations of the Pacha's immediate and will
ing submission to the conditions of the
Four Powers are already dissipated, even
IN The sanguine minds Of the Foreign. of
fee. Meheinet Ali, abandoning Arabia
to the w ahabees, is bent on concentrating
lis forces in Syria, where, according to
his own most recent declarations they
will not amount TO much less than $50, 900
men, Times.
5ts.s4 CHINA.
Accounts have been received from Ma
Goa eighteen days later than the last intel
1igence. No event Of importance had oc-
Cured. The Chinese continued busy in
making preparations for receiving the
English expedition. They amused them
selves by throwing rockets among the
English shipping at Macao. As much tea
had been brought to Macoa as would load
all the ships. ,ses To- e: IS! s.
The Liverpool papers say
In a recent Calcutta paper we find the
following extract from letter from Man
lila, descriptive Of :Old Lin's'' maritime
armaments and the alledged econfederacy
of the Americans with the Chinese. A
Yankee Celestial navy will be a formida.
bic affair! .Old Lin going on as usual;
the English vessels tina. he bought up
some time ago have been turned into men.
of-war; they are 10 be manned partly by
Chinese and partly Kankees!i Three
Americans captains have accepted the
command at SIP. DIS. 1000 month, and
one-ffih Of the prize money. The Amer
lean merchants are indignant at this, and
the American vice-consnl has sent in a re-
monstrance. However, the renegade Yam
KEGS have sent in answer to the effect
that one consideration alone will induce
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