The Hillsborough Recorder

TURKEY.

Frankfort, February 15.

The last letters from Constantinople say, that there is every reason to be satisfied with the present state of things. It is now evident, they say, that the fall of Haleb Effendi was an event as fortunate for the Turkish empire as it was important. It becomes more and more evident how many causes of discord, suspicions, secret persecution, cabals and hindrance of public business, have expired with him. The affairs of the government are observed to proceed since his death in a more simple, quiet, and firm manner. There is no appearance of dangerous pretensions from the Janissaries, which were at first feared by many persons who were not acquainted with the real cause of the fate of the favourite. On the contrary, it is remarked as something extraordinary that the great assemblies of the council, formerly so frequent, have ceased. The Grand Vizier Abdallah Pacha, the Kiaja Bey, the Reis Effendi, and Dschaned Effendi, discuss the affairs of state among themselves, or immediately with the sultan. No military chief is consulted. The Grand Vizier and the High Admiral possess so much personal influence, that it will be easy for them to maintain order in the capital.—A chief point is the perfect security which the Greeks now enjoy.

For several months past, no Raja has been accused, prosecuted, or arrested at Constantinople. Those that were in prison, have been released, among them were several Chiots, who received money to take them to their own island. The same system is to be enforced in the whole empire, and the porte has given the strictest injunctions, stating it to be the earnest will of the sultan, that all his christian subjects shall be treated with mildness.