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LATEST FROM EUROPE.
NEW-YORK5 OCT. 24.
By the Hercules, capt. Cobb, which ar
rived late last evening, in 35 days from
Liverpool, the editors of the Commercial
Advertiser have received English papers
to the 16th September.
The harvest in Great Britain had been
much injured by a succession of heavy
rains, and a great advance had taken
place in the price of Flour. The owners
of the ship, we understand, received the
intelligence yesterday morning, and im
mediately dispatched expresses in every
direction. During the day large quanti
ties of flour were purchased for shipment.
Thirty-five shillings had been offered in
Liverpool for a cargo of Philadelphia
flour, and refused.
It is affirmed, by several editors of con
tinental journals, that the Emperor Alex
ander has positively made his last ar
rangements for an immediate attack on
the Turks, and that he is only waiting
for the assent of the other great powers
of the Holy Alliance, to whom, as well
as to Great Britain, he has specially com
municated the nature of his plans, and
the principles of his policy.
The Paris Moniteur, the French official
journal, says, it is affirmed that the Em
peror Alexander, faithful to the principle
which forms the basis of the Holy Alli
ance, will take no decisive step without
the previous consent of his high allies ;
and, on this account, couriers had been
sent off to the European courts.
i ne iviomieur contains an article irom
Frankfort, dated the 5th inst. stating that
the Russians had passed the Fruth; but
their presence on the Turkish territory
would be no interruption to the existing
amicable relations between the continen
tal powers. “ A Declaration,” adds this
article, “ is shortly expected on the part
of the Russian Cabinet, declaring that
the operations of the Russian army in
Turkey have the same object in view as1
the occupation of Naples by the Austrian
army.”
The London Courier of the 14th Sep
tember says : u With respect to the pro
babilities of war at the present moment,
we have, from the first, seen no sufficient
grounds to justify a strong belief that it
would take place.”
The Russian Ambassador had left Con
stantinople, and arrived in safety at Odes
sa, on the evening of August 13th.
It was reported in London, on ’Change,
that the Turkish go vernment had offered
a free pardon to all the Greeks that would
return tq^lheir allegiance within three
■months njm the date of the proclama
tion.
The plague had made its appearance
at Algiers and Morocco. Barcelona re
mained nearly in its former state.
A naval action took place between the
Greek and Turkish fleets on the 25th of
July, in the channel between Samos and
Chios, which lasted three days, and ter
minated in the destruction of the latter,
consisting of 17 ships of w^ar and 32 trans
ports with 13,000 troops on board.
In the Morea, the Greeks had been re
duced to submission.
A desperate battle had been fought, in
which the insurgents had been defeated
with a loss of 3,000 men. Tripalitza has
been reduced by the army of Ypsilanti.
The people of Madrid were in daily ex
pectation of disastrous events in that ca
pital. Those who had any thing to lose
were leaving the city. Gen. Morillo was
said to be at the head of a counter revolu
tionary project; he had been put on his
trial. The Minister of War had been
dismissed, to satisfy the club Fontana
d’Or j and all his colleagues had threat
ened to give in their resignations in con
sequence.
me King ox n,ngiana was on nis pas
sage from Ireland, having been detained
by, contrary winds.
The squadron having the king on board
had been obliged to put into Milford Ha
ven, whence they departed on the 11th.
A part of the vessels belonging to the
royal squadron arrived at Plymouth on
the 12th. The arrival of the other ships
with the king was momently expected.
The widow of General Moreau died in
Bordeaux in August last.
The Duke of Wellington had returned
to England. A report was published in
a London paper, that a son of Marshal
Ney had challenged the Duke, which, in
a note from the Duke, under his own sig
nature, is contradicted, in which he says,
u the whole statement is false.”
LIVERPOOL, (market,) SEPT. 15.
We have experienced during this week
much unsettled and wet weather, and
there has, consequently, been much acti
vity in our corn market. Large sales
have been made, both to speculators and
dealers in wheat, at an advance of Is. 3d.
to Is. 6d. per bushel; some purchases
have also been made in Canada wrheat, in
bond, at 8s. 9d. to 9s. per bushel. Oats
ha^e advanced 6d. and barley 6d. to 9d.
per bushel on our former quotations. In
fresh American flour some extensive sales
ha\ e been made at and above 30s. per
barrel, and 2000 to 3000 bids, sour (free
for home use) have changed hands at an
advance of 4s. to 5s. per bbl. Canada
sour flour, in bond, has latterly brought
35s. and free 40s.
Rice, in consequence of the bad state
of the weather, and the advance in the
corn market, has been in great request,
and about 800 tierces Carolina have been
sold; ordinary at 15s to 16s. 6d. and good
at 17s. to 20s. for fine.
We have experienced this week a very
animated demand for cotton from the
dealers and spinners, who, being much
out of stocks, have come into the market
with great confidence. The holders ge
nerally have met this demand freely ; con
siderable business has been done, and an
advance of ^d per lb. realized upon Sea
Islands, and ^d upon most other descrip
tions. The total sales amount to 15,500
bags, of which about 1500 have been ta
ken on speculation.
Extract of a letter dated Sept. 16.
Referring to what we have already
written to you by this conveyance, we
have now to state that at our corn mar
ket to-day the prices again advanced con
siderably: English wheats 12s. a 13s.;
Irish, 11s a 12s.; Canada, in bond, are
now held at 10s. and foreign at 7s. a 7s.
9d. per 70 lbs. Fresh American flour
sold at 35s. in bond, and is now held at
36s. a 38s.; Canada, in bond, held at 38s.
a 40s. and sour flour, free, has been sold
at 42s. per barrel. The buyers from the
distant parts of the country all acknow
ledge that the injury doing to such part
of the crops as remain in the fields is ir
remediable, the grain being; sprouted
very much, and becoming of little or no
value. In this immediate neighborhood
it has become very bad within the last
few days, and, if the weather continues
damp and warm much longer, it will be
worth nothing.
P. S. Letters from London this morn
ing advise a further advance on wheat of
6s. per quarter.
.LUiNJLMJft 5 i^.
j We have received this morning the
! Paris papers of Sunday last. They speak
with great confidence of the fact, that the
! Emperor Alexander will not take any
j steps, with respect to Turkey, but in con
l cert with all his allies, and England is
j particularly mentioned, though she is not
] a formal member of the Holy Alliance.
The following is the answer which, it
is said, the Reis Effendi have despatched
direct to St. Petersburg^ :
1. That all the measures which have
been put in force by order of the Porte, in
the various provinces of Turkey, have
been directed against rebels, without any
intention of attacking the Christian Reli
gion.
2. That the execution of the Greek Pa
triarch, far from being an assassination
of the Chief of the Greek Church, can
only be regarded as the just punishment
of a traitor. With respect to the outrage
offered to his remains, it can only be the
I subject of accusation against the fanatic
I populace. It gave great regret to the
Porte.
3. That, doubtless, a just distinction
ought to be made between the guilty and
the innocent, in the sanguinary executions
which have taken place; but, in civil
commotions, it happens too often that
guilty excesses cannot be prevented.
4. That the Porte engages to re-con
struct the churches and chapels that have
been destroyed or despoiled ; and to make
reparation, as far as it shall be in its pow
er, for the disorders which, to its deep
regret, have taken place.
5. That, finally, the principalities of
W'allachia and Moldavia would be imme
diately evacuated by the Ottoman forces,
and the former order of things re-estab
lished, when the rebels shall have been
expelled thence, and peace and tranquil
lity restored.”
j
LONDON, SEPT. 13. I
The accounts from Smyrna state that I
an engagement between the Turkish and !
Greek fleets was daily expected. Some
Turkish troops were embarking at Sea- i
lanova, but were prevented by the Greek ;
fleet appearing off* that place. The last
accounts mention that both squadrons
were in sight of each other, off Stanchio,
and neither appeared inclined to com- i
mence the engagement. The Greek fleet ■
is represented to be from 100 to 110 sail; ;
the Turkish squadron not so numerous,
but reinforcements were daily expected :
from Algiers.
PARIS, sept. 9.
Prince Demetrius Gomnene, who, ac
cording to the Journal of Lyons, resided
in Piedmont, and was there offered the
Crown of the Greek Empire by a solemn
deputation, died on Saturday in Paris.
He was a Major General, and a Knight of ;
St. Louis.
Letters have been received from Odes- !
sa, dated the 15th of August, which con
firm the news of the arrival of Baron
Strogonoff at Odessa, and that of the de
parture of three Turkish couriers, which
were despatched to the chief of the army
in Bessarabia, to the admiral of the fleet
at Sebastopol, and to his Majesty the Em
peror at St. Petersburg. •
Extract of a letter from Paris.
u You are no doubt aware that the ob
ject of Lord Wellington’s visit to Paris i
was for the express purpose of urging
the French government to join us in a
league,offensive and defensive,for prompt
ly opposing the projects of Alexander.—
You are aware of his having had confer
ences with most of the foreign ministers
at Paris; his interviews with the King
are said to have been of the most inter
esting description. My informant asserts
that we have offered to restore the old li
mits of France to the Rhine, Savoy, the
Isle of France, and one or two of the
West India colonies, on condition that an
army should be pat in motion towards
Austria, while our naval and military
forces should co-operate in the Baltic and
Mediterranean. Louis is said to have
entered into the project, and referred
Lord Wellington to the Minister of War.
The latter was equally well disposed ; but
he proved, by official documents and pri
vate information, that there would be no
possibility of forming an army to act
with effect in such a scheme, -while, if put
together as constituted by Napoleon, the
present dynasty must be sacrificed as a j
matter of course. The Duke’s confer
ence with Pozzi di Borgo had for its ob
ject a remonstrance against any addition ;
of territory, or, indeed, a declaration of I
war on the part of Russia, with a threat, !
that if Alexander’s views were followed 1
up, a general war in Europe must be the :
consequence. Having failed in our ef
forts here, it is supposed we shall look to
Spain, and those other means of creating !
a party in our favor to which we have of
ten resorted on former occasions. With
respect to the actual state of things be
tween Russia and the Porte, no one here
believes peace can be preserved, or that
the autocrat will forego the golden oppor
tunity. Nothing can be more popular
than the projected war amongst all clas
ses in Russia; and the best informed per
sons here say that Alexander is urged on
every side to commence hostilities. No
thing, therefore, but unconditional sub
mission on the side of the Turks will lead
to a pacification. In this latter case, will
the cabinets of London and Paris acqui
esce in the new arrangements ?”
ODESSA, AUG. 14.
No person here has any doubt that hos
tilities will speedily commence ; it is even
thought that the couriers which have
been despatched to the fleet and head
quarters were bearers of the necessary
instructions. A formal declaration by
our august sovereign is now looked for.
Extract of a private letter.
AUGSBURG, SEPT. 5.
The courier of Vienna, which arrived
to-day, has brought the important news,
that the two Russian armies, commanded
by Gens. Sacken and Wittgenstein, have
been in full movement since the arrival
of an extraordinary estafette from St. Pe
tersburg.
On the 30th ult. the Aulic Council of j
War despatched several messengers to j
the generals commanding the Austrian |
troops cantoned in Transylvania, and in
the Bannat of Temeswar.
LONDON, SEPT. 14.
City, one o’clocl:.—The funds have fall
en this morning nearly a half per cent.
The decline is ascribed to the very unfa- j
vorable weather. The jobbers are specu
lating on the probability of the ports
opening for the admission of foreign corn,
and that large sums will be required,
which will affect the Exchangealso,
that the gold coin must, in some mea
sure, leave the country. The contradic
tory accounts respecting Turkey and Rus
sia have likewise an unfavorable effect
upon the funds.
We will venture to assert that no dan
ger of a war menaces the Porte. The •
speculations and conjectures of the Paris
papers, contained in private letters, as
they are termed, from Vienna, Frankfort,
&c. are entitled to very little confidence.
The disturbed state of the Greek provin
ces is sufficient to justify, as a matter of
mere precaution, the concentration of a
considerable force along the frontiers of
Russia and Austria, though we do not
mean to say that nothing more than mere
precaution was from the first contempla
ted.
An article of intelligence from Frank
fort, dated the 5th Sept, asserts that the
Russians have actually passed the Pruth,
and that the declared purpose of the in
vasion is to restore the tranquillity of the
Turkish dominions, by bringing the
Greeks back to their duty, and compell
ing the Turks to secure to them the safe
ty of persons and property. The Athe
nians are said to have sent a deputation
to Odessa, for the purpose of conveying
to the Emperor Alexander the expression
of their hopes that he will extend to them
his favor and protection.
The inquest on Richard Honey termi
nated on Wednesday. The jury, having
met on the forenoon of that day, proceed
ed to deliberate in private on the evi
dence. They continued in consultation
until six o’clock, when the coroner read
the verdict returned, viz: “Verdict of
Manslaughter against the officers and
men of the first regiment of Life Guards,
who were on duty between Tyburn Gate
and Park-lane at the time Richard Honey
was shot,onTuesday 14th August, 1821.” ,
The jury then signed the inquisition. J
INTERESTING REF OUT.
BALTIMORE, OCT. 22.
A respectable merchant of Baltimore
has received, by a recent arrival, a letter
from his German correspondent, stating
that Alexander, with an army of 200,000
men, had already taken the field against
the Turks, and that the Emperor of Ger
many was preparing to follow with 90,000
more. This is the amount of the intelli
gence communicated; in fine, the Rus
sian overtures to the Ottoman Porte were
but war in disguise; they amounted of
themselves to a full and explicit declara
tion of war oil the part of Alexander.
We shall not be at all surprized if this in
telligence should prove to be correct.
[<Chronicle.
DISTURBANCES IN MADRID*
MADRID, AUG. 23.
During the last three days, we have
been in a continual state of commotion
and alarm. The events which have trans
pired are of such importance, that reflect
ing people view them as the commence
ment of a civil war.
On the 20th inst. at 9 in the evening,
an assemblage in front of the prison, in
which are confined several of the Royal
Body Guards, who dispersed the popu
lace on their offering insults to the king
about a month ago, began singing the
popular obnoxious Tragala Perro. As
their conduct became more violent, the
officer commanding the post interfered,
upon which he and his men were grossly
assailed, and the populace refused to de
part. Some blows were now struck by
the soldiers, but not in a manner to hurt
any one much. The news of the affray
soon reached the Club de la Fontana;
from whence 400 persons proceeded to
reinforce their confederates, and more da
ring outrages were committed. The Po
litical Chief repaired to the spot; he was
told the officer of the guard and his men
had, unprovoked, commence^an attack
upon the people. He et;
lay the ferment by bla
and almost flattering
the tumult. Gener
at the head of a mill
the spot; he was as
unseeming invectiv
perate among the
arrest his progress,
thority was thus opp1
he determined to
and promptitude which
ed to al
soldiers,
thors of
paired,
ent, to
most
.t des
'red to
is au
spised,
energy
impe
riously demanded, and, with his cane in
his hand, forced his way through the
dense and clamorous crowd, and com
From thence they proceeded in groups
to the Club de la Fontana, where the most
notorious orators inflamed their rage by
perverted narratives of the affair, and
falsely declaring that Morillo, with his
drawn sabre, had grievously wounded ma
ny citizens. Cries of “ Death to Moril
lo,” “ the head of Morillo,” followed
these inflammatory speeches.
On the following day, (the 21st) croAvds
assembled in the streets early in the morn
ing, and the populace opposite the club
amounted to 10,000. Cries for the head
of Morillo and the ministers were re
echoed in every quarter. The Political
Chief issued a notification that the Minis
ter of War had accepted the resignation
of Gen. Morillo ; whose functions would
be executed, par enterim, by Gen. Monte
mayor. This had the effect of calming
the violent spirit which had been mani
fested by the populace.
The Minister of the Ultra-Marine Pos-^
sessions set off express to the King at St.
Udefonso, to inform his Majesty of what
had transpired.
On the 22d much agitation prevailed.
The trial of Morillo was vehemently de
manded, and much impatience manifest
ed for the King’s ansAver to the commu
nication which it was known had been
addressed to him by the ministers.
General Morillo issued a proclamation
on the night of the 21st, in which he de
nounces the malignant aspersions Avhich
designing men had cast upon his reputa
tion, by falsely representing that he had
used his sabre against the assembled peo
ple. After giving an account of his ef
forts to restore order, he says: “ My
sword, which I Avill never use but against
the enemies of our country, remained in
the scabbard. I spoke Avith moderation
to all, and only endeavored to suppress
outrage, and enforce that respect Avhich is
due to the laAvs and the government.”
The Journal de Paris adds, in a post
script, dated 10 o’clock on the evening of
the 25th, “The King’s, answer is just ar
rived. Flis majesty will not accept the
resignation of gen. Morillo, but orders
that he shall be tried by a court martial,.
This answer is not yet known by the pub-',
lie. An immense populace occupy theA
streets. An explosion is expected.”
NEW-YO&K, OCT. 27.
Col. Callava, the late Spanish Govern
or of West Florida, who had been in this^
city several days, sailed hence on Sunday
last, with his aids, servants, &x. in the
Robert Fulton, for Pensacola, as the pa
pers friendly to his proceeding’s say, tcv:>
fight Gen. Jackson 1!—[Re/uib. ■Srrt.^