The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — 1822-01-03 (London, England)

LON DON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1822.  The letters brought by the Turkey mail yesterday, the latest of which from Constantinople were of the 26th of November, concur generally in the chtracter of their intelligence with that which we had previously collected from the Paris Papers. It is certain that the Janissaries had been guilty of great cruelties towards the Christian inhabitants of •Coustaotiuople for some days previous to the drimmure of the latest advice.; but it is equally cer. tutu that they had to that period evinced no hostility towards the Government of the SULTAN, although there is some intimation of a jealousy to. wards HALED EFFENDI, the chief favourite of their Sovereign. No doubt, however, can be entertained, that if on the 27th or 28th of November, a, was first reported, the SuLTAN had been murdered by Lis guard*, authentic intelligence of so important an trent must hate reached us some days since. The original statement is now universally believed to have been altogether unfounded, but in the room of it we ale now favoured by another report, that ear has been actually declared between Russia and the Porte, and that the official account of the passage of the Pruth by the Russian army may be hourly expected.  J. The probability of this report will find it ready faith in every political circle. AU accouois, private and public, concur in saying that the Porte has rejected the Ituaniars ultimatum, notwithtrratoding the earnest remosistrances of Lord STRANGFORD Bud of the Austrian Nuncio, and that so armious are the military and the mob of Constantinople for a war, that they insulted these mediators, who sought to presence them from the overwhelming torrent of the Russian forces. The ferocious cruelty of the barbarians towards the Greeks, whether es fellow-citizens or as captives, is exercised us freely as if the murder of Christians formed a part 4.f the moral, religious, and civil coda 4.f the Mosso!mans ; and, if we may judge front the indifference ur silent approbation of the Sut.Tati, it seems to be in his ej es as meritorious all act us a pilgrimage to the sacred shrine of Altcca, which 11,cKursti declares to be essential to the salvation of a tine believer. The Paris Papers have told us, and plicate accolints repeat the statewent, that the di.couifited fleet of the Capitan Preira, in returning to the Dardanelles, happened to seize thirty iiirichilut ship. of the Greek nation, which they took with them that they iii,ght deceve their countrymen with a spew of success. To mark their triumph in u manlier most coupfind to the feelings of the barbarians, the Captains of the several ships of wa, as they  pasted the point of the Seraglio, 'hoisted to the yards the bodice of their wretched Greek cap. lives, and the sight was received with shouts of exultation. The Turkish sailors were then permitted to land, and as to their minds no difference was perceptible between the murder ill;reeits in the city of Constantinople and on the water, iliey in.  dulKed themselves freely in the blood of their victims, and it probably SIAM the confusion occasioned by this massacre that the rumour originated of an insurrection against the Government, and of the murder of the