The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — 1826-07-19 (London, England)

TIDE BRITISH PRESS.  Russian Ministers themselves, to soften down as much 'as possible the degree of complaisance which necessity hes compelled the Ottoman Power to display on this occasion. The struggle between ancient pride and modern feebleness, between the wish to preserve its own dignity and the desire of conciliating Russia by submission, exhibits a once formidable Power in so melancholy a point of view, that, detesting as we do the principles which have actuated its councils, we cannot help regretting such a document as one of the most deplorable mon umentsof human vicissitudes. It is not necessary to go far back into history to recollect a time, Then Russia weal as soon have thought of conquering England as of sending a soldier within sight of the Turkish frontier. They have deserved this chastisement, however, and we hope that its effects will be salutary—that they will see wherein lies the difference between the Russian and the Turk, and will take advantage of the physical capabilities of a country and a people which present better materials of prosperity, perhaps, than any on the face of the earth. If such should be the result of the recent humiliations of Turkey, we have great reason to rejoice; and we have so much the more reason to rejoice that the 'triumph which will thus be achieved will nut be the mere expulsion of a barbarous people from Europe, but the entire destruction of barbarism in one of the fairest portions of the globe. The accounts from Constantinople arc still of a doubtful character. The city presented a scene of devastation. all the palaces of the grandees having been pillaged. The Sultan was encamped under the protection of the banner of the Prophet, surrounded by his partisan". The firm conduct of the Sultan has induced many of his former opponents to make common cause with him • but it is idmitted, even by thaw most anxious for his success, that no certain opinion can as yet be formed concerning the ultimate result of the bold measures which he has taken. In the commencement of the struggle, none of the foreign, but the English Ambassador, could procure a courier to convey the intelligence of the insurrection to their respective Govertnnents. It is added that .5,000 Janissaries have fallen by the hands of the boataqilgis. In the mean time, it appears by the accounts from Corfu that the insurrectionary spirit has extended itself to Albania, anti even to the 111-Ithennetan inhabitants occupying the lofty chain of Piniles, &c.; but this revolt could hare no connexion with that of Constantinople. The Turks of Castoria, it appears, were so enraged at the intelligence, that they murdered the Archbishop and a great number of peaceable Christians, demolished and burnt the churches, attacked and destroyed San Marina, and, after being defeated by the Christians. they turned their rage against the town of Anaselitzas, which they burnt, as well as several Turkish villages in that country. Similar accounts are given from Ochritla anti Scodra.  The accounts from Manchester, received in town at a late hour last night, state that all was tranquil in the evening of the preceding day. No tumult was then anticipated. The people were occasionally observed in small parties about the streets, anxiously discussing those topics which may be supposed to occupy the attention of men without employment and without subsistence ; but the good sense of the people, guided by the sober and rational course which has been pursued by the provincial press, seems in general to have triumphed over the propensity to turbulence which want, if it hai no hopes of relief, would undoubtedly generate in their minds—a propensity which would long since have burst out in a instiller as destructive ultimately to the agents of the mischief as to those who would have been its first victims, if the success of a few ill-dispased but shallow-minded agents had kept pace, u they had hoped, with their intentions.  CITI, Trr.