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■KsesMmgsBws LATE FOREIGN NEWS. LONDON, JULY 10, The intelligence in the Paris Papers of Sunday is of more importance than it has been for some time past. The partizans of Bonaparte have not utterly abandoned all hope of destroying the, present Go vernment; and though he is no more, they form projects, and make his name, Vive I’Empefeur, their watch word and rallying cry. There has been an attempt in the department of the Upper Rhine, to seduce three regiments; the principal person concerned was a Lieut. Colonel ^aron, “ already implicated in the con spiracy of the 19th of August, 1820, and a veteran named Roger.55 The account in the Moniteur is a very lame one. They “had previously made,55 says that paper, 14 large distributions of money, and were continually giving out that they were act ing by virtue of orders from a Central Committee established in the capital.55 We have no doubt they were—and in all these revolutionary attempts, we find that the conspirators are never in want of funds.'—Whence, and by whom, are they furnished? However, the conspiracy broke out on the 2d July, as had been concerted. One squadron left Colmar, and another Neuf Brissach, to meet at a central point—Roussach. Caron had at first announced his intention of releas ing the prisoners at Belfort, but postpon ed it until he had received reinforcement. Now, as this intention was so publicly known to the troops, they could not have supposed that his designs were friendly to the existing government. When he arrived at Roussach, he cried out “Vive FEmpereur,55 and led the squadron to Mavenheim, where he found another squadron of chasseurs.—He announced to them also, that he came to command them in the name of the Emperor. He then shaped his course to Ensisheim, which he wished to enter, but was oppos ed by two quarter masters, who remind ed him that he had promised to conduct them to the rendezvous of his associates. The Moniteur then closes its account abruptly with saying that Caron and Ro ger now took the alarm, endeavoured to effect their escape, were arrested and car ried to Colmar.—Now as the conspiracy was known beforehand, five or six offi ce! s faithful to the king having marched in the ranks ol the two squadrons as pri vates, we do not see why the two leaders were not ariested at once, without suffer ing the troops to march from place to place, and to follow a man who had an nounced his treasonable intentions by cal ling out Vive FEmpereur 1 The Moni teur account affords us sufficient grounds for suspecting that the conspiracy was snore serious than it was willing to allow. LATE FROM SPAIN. By the arrival of the brig Cuba, at Boston, in 36 days from Gibraltar, advi ces have been received from that place to the 14th ultimo. “ The intelligence from Madrid is to July 4th. Disturbances of a serious as pect had taken place in Madrid. The populace had been fired upon by the king’s guards, and in consequence had evinced a disposition to attack him in his palace ; but, by the intervention of the Cortes, any more serious affray was pre vented. “ On the following day, a report hav ing prevailed that the guards would be disarmed, a large portion of them, 4000, marched out of Madrid, and bent their course towards a province where the malcontents were reported to have gained some considerable successes. Most of their officers deserted them, when this measure was resolved upon. “Another account of the mutiny a mongst the king’s guards, states, that they had proceeded no further than to one of the king’s palaces in the vicinity of Mad rid, where they had an interview with the king, who in vain endeavored to persuade them to return to Madrid. “ A private letter ot the 5th ult. men tions that some strange reports were a broad that a regency was talked of\ that an extraordinary Cortes would be con voked, and that the king might be consi dered in a state of captivity. The same letter adds, that the accounts from the provinces were unfavorable, the malcon tents increasing in strength, and in Cata lonia represented as having large forces on foot. “ A plan has been laid before the Cortes for an entire new division of the kingdom of Portugal into circles, districts, and pa rishes. Another account represents that four battalions of the guards, comprising about 1800 men, marched out of Madrid on the 1st, and on the 4th were at the Prado.— Their object was to enforce the royal au thority in Navarre, 8tc. The government had sent Gen. Morillo to prevail upon them to return and submit to the consti tuted authorities. He had made several offers to them to come back, but without success. “ The town council of Cadiz made known to the inhabitants on the 6th, that a committee had been appointed to in spect the fortifications of their island, In order to render that; strong hold of liber ty’impregnable under any circumstan ces.” . LATEST FROM ENGLAND. NEW-YORK, AUG. 19. The ship Magnet, capt. Mount, arrived here yesterday, in 34 days from Liverpool. Russia and Turkey.—In the London Courier of the 11th there is a letter from Constantinople, dated as far back as June 10th, in which it is stated that despatches had been received from Odessa, “ of a highly satisfactory nature,” and that “the ! evacuation of the provinces is gradually taking place, and it is expected the princes will be named soon after the Byram.”— A Vienna article, dated June 22d, adds, “ We expect a declaration from the Em peror of Russia, by which he will entirely detach himself from the Greek cause.” From the date of these articles, it seems pretty evident that the pacific rumours they contain are a mere repetition of statements which were made previous to the recent massacres of the Turks having come to the knowledge of the Russian cabinet. All accounts agree in stating, that since these horrible occurrences had transpired, the views of Alexander had undergone an entire change as to the Greeks. In the Liverpool Mercury of the 12th July, it is stated, that letters from Odessa positively affirm, “ that Russia has retracted her demand that Wallachia and Moldavia should be entirely evacua ted, in consequence of a representation made by the Divan, that if all the Otto man troops were withdrawn, new insur rections would break out in those princi palities. Advices from Bucharest, dated the 8th ult, contained in these journals, are confirmatory of the above intelligence. They state, that not only has the retro gade march of the Turkish troops been stayed, but that the RajaPacha had caus ed to be proclaimed in all public places that Wallachia should continue to be oc cupied by an armed force.” The Greeks.—The hostile fleets of Greece and Turkey are stated to have been in statu quo when the last advices came away. It was thought that the Captain Pacha was only waiting the arri val of a reinforcement from Egypt, to proceed in attacking the Greek islands, and reducing them to the same condition as Scio. We trust, however, that the presence of the Patriot fleet will be suffici ent to prevent the carrying this sanguin ary measure into effect. Despatches had been received at Trieste from Sir Robert Maitland, giving an account of a battle of three days continuance, which had been fought between the Turks and Suliots, in which the followers of Mahomet were de feated with considerable loss. Six hun dred Musselmen, among whom were 50 eminent Turks, were taken prisoners: and the ransom of the latter fixed at 500 purses. Such perseverance and bravery deserve a better fate than that which the “ legitimates” of s Europe seem disposed to assign to the Greek patriots. Great-Britain,'—In the British House of Lords the Corn Importation Bill was read a third time, and passed. Mr. Wes ton’s resolutions, relating to Agriculture, See. were negatived in the House of Com mons without a division. The 3d of Au gust was fixed as the day for proroguing Parliament, when the King was to attend in person. No abatement had taken place in the distresses which afflicted Ireland. Some had died of starvation, and the fever hos pitals in certain districts were bad. In one county, Mayo,, 155,000 persons were soliciting public charity. A new Prussian loan had been contract ed in London of three millions and a half. The price of grain had risen considerably in the North ol Europe. The vessels employed this season in the Whale Fish ery had proved very successful. The harvest in all parts of Great Bri tain promised to be of the most produc tive nature, and much earlier than usual. The wheat began to be cut on the 14th of July, and grain of all kinds was expected to be housed before the end of August. Another of Carlisle’s shop-keepers, a female, had been tried and convicted of selling blasphemous libels, and is stated to have conducted her own defence. Communicated for tke jYational Gazette. Extract from a letter of an American gen tleman to a friend in this city, dated “ Smyrna, 27th May, 1822. “ You will probably have a variety of accounts of the murders committed upon Greeks here, after the insurrection at Scio. As far as I can ascertain, about one hundred have been killed in the streets, all in cold blood, without the least provocation, or shadow of resistance, and (although the government pretend to discourage it) with impunity to the as sassins. The reports which may reach you of the disturbances here may possi bly be exaggerated; but from the infor mation we have from Scio, and from what I have been told by persons of veracity who have witnessed the transactions there, an exaggeration of the barbarities com mitted by the Turks on the population of that island is almost beyond human inge nuity, the males have been destroyed, '~(ffiany by the most cruel torments) and the females and children made slaves to the barbarians., Great numbers have been brought to this place, and upon an at tempt of the Franks to rescue some of them, a crier was sent round the town forbidding any sales of them to Chris tians, and many who were formerly in affluence, remain slaves to the worst of the human race. I have seen such sights during my stay here, that make humanity recoil at the idea.” FROM SOUTH AMERICA. NORFOLK?AUG. 16. A letter received by the Only Daugh ter, Wilkinson, from Curacoa, dated July 26, says, “Coro is evacuated by the Span iards. Gen. Morales and his army, 1200 strong, arrived here 2 days ago, in a fleet of 10 schooners, one 44 gun ship, and an 18 gun brig. A few hours after their arrival a Patriot squadron, of three 18 gun brigs and one small schooner, under com ' mand of admiral Balluche, hove to off | this harbor, and challenged the Spaniards I to combat. The frigate and brig got un i der way and proceeded to meet them.— | The hills around this city were thronged j with people to view the fight. The Pat | riots continued their hostile position | most gallantly, but the Spanish ship and brig, after approaching within gun shot of them, hauled their wind, and, like cow ards, declined the contest. They return ed to their anchorage, and will sail for Porto Cabello in a day or two.5* The above 44 gun ship, two days pre vious to her arrival at Curacoa, had cap tured the schooner Antelope of New York, bound to that Island, and, in sight of the town, robbed her of her whole cargo, books, charts, See. NEW-YORK, AUG. 17. The Siege of Puerto Cavello abandoned ! By the schr. Endymion, Captain Hath away, which arrived here yesterday after noon, the Editor of the New YorkAmeri can has received, bom his attentive cor respondent at Laguira, a file of the Iris de Venezuela and Anglo-Colombiano to the 22d ultimo, and also a letter, from which we give the following extract:— “Laguira, August 1, 1822.—Our ar my has raised the siege of Puerto Cavello, owing to the sickly season having com menced, and the troops one half sick. Our squadron has also raised the block ade, and part of them—-viz. the brigs In dependence, Bolivar, and Voluntario, and the schr. Centilla—returned here to day. The foregoing intelligence gives reason to apprehend that the Royalists will re tain a foot-hold in Colombia for a con siderable time to come—very possibly until the arrival of fresh troops from Spain, by means of which the war may be protracted for another year. However unwilling the mother country may be to acknowledge the independence of her' revolted colonies, it must ultimately be done; and a continuance of the struggle can only be regarded as an unnecessary waste of blood and treasure. Our correspondent confirms the ac count received by Captain Bass, of the brig^ame, and published in the Ameri can of Thursday, in relation to the aban donment of Coro by General Morales, and his conjectured designs upon Puerto Ca vello. Despatches had been received from General Soublette, dated Coro, July 17, stating that he had entered that place the day before. A ship and brig of war, formerly the Sapphire and Mosquito of his British Ma jesty’s service, were hourly expected from London, completely armed and equipped for the service of Colombia, and a frigate of 44 guns was also expected from the same place in a few months. The contents of the papers had been principally anticipated by previous arri vals. The reported nominations of Col. Todd upon the mission to Colombia, and Gen. Winder to Buenos Ayres, are notic ed in the Colombian of the 20th. It is also erroneously stated in that paper, that Gen. Dearborn had been nominated as minister to Peru. A member of the Tennessee legislature, in speaking of the qualifications of Gen. Jackson for the Presidency, makes use of the following expression: “ If this globe were enveloped in fire, who, in this wide world, was so well qua lified to war with and extinguish it as General Jackson ?,s If this is the evil to be provided against by the election of General Jackson to the Presidency, we shall tremble when the trial comes round, and look in anticipa tion of a comet.—\_Morning Chronicle. The Pensacola Floridian states that there is not a minister of the gospel with il^ the province of Florida. desperadoes of London.-—Mr. Main waring, a magistrate of the city, not long ago asserted in print that there were up wards of five thousand persons in London, who could murder a man with only a re mote prospect of gaining a shilling. ATTEMPTS TO ROB THE MATlUPi CHARLESTON, AUG. 17. The Savannah Georgian of the lOtl'a inst. says ^ a We understand that, on Saturday night last, the mail carrier be tween Charleston and Savannah was pursued, near the Saltketchers, by twelve armed negroes, from whom, however, he escaped.” Mr. T. W. Bacot, our Post-Master, yesterday received a letter from the Post Master at Coosawhalchie, informing him of an attempt that was made by eight armed Negroes, on the 3d inst. near Salt ketcher Bridge, to take the Southern Mail from the driver, but they were pre vented from doing so by the sudden ap pearance of three other persons, who at that moment joined the post rider. Information being immediately given to Mr. W, Patterson, at the bridge, he very promptly (and much to his credit) had a portion of the Combahee troop of horse, and the nearest best company sent out into the swamp in pursuit of them, who, though they discovered the track of the Negroes, failed in coming tip with them. This is the second or third time, with in a few weeks, that’an attempt has been made upon the mail. ’Tis lime that-the roads should be cleared of these petty banditti; their number is generally few, and one good hunting-match might, we presume, bring the rogues to justice. The Proclamation of the Governor, in our paper, (offering a reward of $200,) will, we hope, lead to some research and a final apprehension of these fellows. CHARLESTON, AUG. 15. A company of U. S. troops, under the command of Capt. Paine, intended to strengthen the garrisons in the harbor, arrived this morning from St. Augustine, and landed at Fort Moultrie. ELIZABETH CITY, AUG. 17. Capt. William Drown, who arrived here two or three weeks ago, from the West Indies, a native of Portsmouth, N, H. had been missing six days, when, search being made, he was found suspend ed from a tree by the neck; he had taken his silk handkerchief for this horrid pur pose, and with a bowling knot round his neck, and the other end fast to the tree, he forced his passage to an unknown* world. Munificence.—-President Adams has re cently given in immediate possession to his native town, Quincy, nearly two hun dred acres of land, containing in a part of it an inexhaustible quarry of stone for building houses, the whole proceeds to be appropriated to religious and literary purposes from generation to generation. He has also given to the town his whole library, consisting of highly valuable books, in various languages. It appears by the following article that the naval events of the late war between the U. S. and England, are not yet forgot ten in Ireland. An Irish writer, in call ing the attention of the British Govern ment to the employment of his country^ men, proposes that they should be occu pied in fortifying two harbors in that kingdom.'—•“ These two harbors,” conti nues the writer,approach to within 100© feet of each other, which may be matter of consideration at a future day. The whole of this place must be of peculiar consequence hereafter, particularly Black sod, in which an efficient fleet must be stationed by a provident administration^ to guard against the invasions andjjflfl gressions oi our transatlantic enei who, veil it as they may, regard ur^ the most rancorous ho sty-"* will repeat, that a very i must and will be staj as one of the most fence in any future Brandy imported into t1 twenty-three thousaij nineteen gallons of BrtP conci quarter oi the pres^B larger quantity than has^B be imported for years in tn time.—[^Boston Statesmans ——“***» (VSCi'Cf maJ Rcfiartee.—M. Lalande I at the house of Recamier 1 was seatea oetween the ceiebrarWP Madam Recamier, and Madam deStaS, equally distinguished for her wit. Wish ing to say something to please the ladies? the astronomer exclaimed—“ How hap py I am to be thus placed between wit and beauty!” “ Yes, M. Lalande,” sar - castically replied Madam de Stael, « and without possessing either.” WEEKLY ALMANAC, AUG. Sc SEPT. 1822. 29 Thursday 30 Friday 31 Saturday 1 Sunday 2 Monday 3 Tuesday 4 Wednesday SUN RISES. SUN SETS. 6 30j 6 291 6 28! 6 28; 6 6 6 MOON S PHASES. 3. a 4 27 25| 24! First24 11 29 m Full 1 7 16m Last S 5 18 m