Phenix Gazette

A SPECK OF WAR!!

An arrival at Boston brings Havre dates to the 26th of Feb. and French papers contain advices from Constantinople to the 20th.

The Moniteur contains letters from that place as late as the 11th of January, which state that Count Capo d'Istria had arrived in the Morea, and had been proclaimed Chief of the Greek Government, and that a new allied squadron, including some vessels of the Netherlands, had entered the Archipelago, and was advancing towards the Dardanelles.

This, it is said, has had forced the Sultan from his attitude of firmness, to measures of an opposite character. He had given orders for closing the Bosphorus. Several vessels of war had been sent to reinforce those which were at anchor in the channel.

Paris. The Journal des Debats not being able to publish the whole [of] the new manifesto of the Porte in the paper of the 20th, gives the following extract:

"It is evident that the pretence of liberty [for] the Greeks tends to nothing less than to make all the Christians of the Ottoman empire revolt (Heaven preserve us!) and to put the Russians insensibly in the place of the Ottomans, and the Ottomans in the place of the Rajabs; and to make bells resound from them, and in a short time to convert our mosques into churches by force; neither law nor reason, nor policy permit us easily and promptly to annihilate Islamism; [but] the acceptance of such propositions."

Preparations were making for a vigorous resistance. The proclamation enjoins upon all the public functionaries, a general arming, and calls upon the subjects to resistance. A hundred thousand Kurds are said to be already on their march, and would arrive in Europe by the end of March.

Another letter from Constantinople states that the Grand Seignor caused to be arrested several Sciote Greeks, among whom was the banker Realli, charged with having communications with the insurgents, and had caused them to be cast into the Bostandji Baschi. The rich Greek merchants were alarmed and fled, among whom was Denesi, banker of the Russian embassy, who has already been once exiled to Russia. An order was issued for all subjects of France, England and Russia to depart for the Archipelago. The government will tolerate them no longer. Some only of the most respectable remain under the immediate protection of the Porte, to liquidate their affairs, but beyond this no exception is admitted, no foreign protection is admitted.

A letter from Odessa, dated Jan. 27, gives information from Constantinople to the 14th. It was reported that Realli, who had been imprisoned, had been strangled, after two days of torture. It was inferred from this, he being astute of Scio, that the castle of Scio had fallen into the hands of the Greeks.

A letter from Smyrna of Jan. 4, states that the city was much agitated in consequence of information from Constantinople, and the most considerable merchants had embarked, and had put their property in a place of safety. The proprietor editor of the Oriental Spectator, Mr. Blaquiere, had been arrested by order of the French consul, and with his presses put on board a French sloop, to be transported to Toulon for having inserted in the 30th number of his journal, a very offensive article against the French government. The banishment of M. Blaque is much regretted, as he was a man much esteemed, and as his trust of president of French commerce caused him to be much respected by the local authorities. The second editor had fled.

The Gazette de France gives the following statement of the comparative strength of parties in the Chamber of Deputies. In eight sessions the right side has counted from 86 to 140 members. The right centre 80 to 99. The left centre 66 to 86. The left side 61 to 80. The whole number of members ought to be 430, but there are about 50 double elections, two have been made Peers, one has died, and near 40 were absent.

The report which we have given from the latest Paris papers of the arrival of Count Capo d'Istria, in the Morea, is probably not true, as it was previously stated on the authority of Mr. Eynard, that he was at Malta, Jan. 3, and was to sail thence on the 13th.

CONSTANTINOPLE, Jan. 11.

Merchant vessels under the European flag are obliged to obtain facilities for leaving by abandoning their cargo.

The system of persecution has again begun, and it is principally directed against the Armenian Catholics. The Patriarch of that nation who resides at Constantinople has refused his protection, because he considers them as heretics. The Porte [has ordered] that they [should] have no communications with the Franks and particularly with the Russians. These Armenians carried away by thousands into the attempts of Asia. All the envoys [and] the intercessions of the powers and Constantinople even of Mr. Ottenfels has now only the appearance of a vast commercial camp. Nothing [of] affairs now is done. All the grain have been seized to provision the capital [and] God knows when they will be paid.

[An] order enjoining the capital subjects [of] the effect [of] three nations to [such an] order on people, several of whom have resided [a] number here to remain for [the] here [for] fifty [the] here years houses to may which finish have the eulement of their affairs, does not amount to more than 10 or 12.