The Wheeling Repository

VIENNA, June 21.

Our court has received a courier from Constantinople, with dispatches, announcing a revolution to have taken place in that capital—but nothing has yet been published in the Gazette. The following are the contents of two private letters:

The emperor Selim is no more—the discontents occasioned among the people by the scarcity of provisions, and among the Janissaries by the European exercise and discipline, furnished the enemies of the government with an occasion to excite an insurrection, which cost the unhappy Sultan his throne and life. On the 24th May, the Mufti, at the head of the malcontents, repaired with three hundred Janissaries to the Seraglio, and read to him a list of his pretended offences, recited passages from the Koran, which declared him, on account of those offences, unworthy of the throne, and ordered him to sign a renunciation of it. Selim, seeing no means of resistance, signed the deed of renunciation, and begged his life. The Mufti promised to intercede for him. His person was then secured, and fourteen of his principal ministers were put to death. Couriers were sent to the camp and the Dardanelles, to arrest and strangle the Grand Vizier and the Captain Pacha. On the 25th May, a proclamation was published in Constantinople, to announce to the people that the Sultan had been dethroned, and to make known his offences, and the passages of the Koran which condemned those offences. The people were invited to remain tranquil, and mind their affairs. On the 26th, Mustapha, the son of Achmet, was proclaimed Grand Seignior. On the 27th he sent an order to Selim to take poison. Selim obeyed, and died in a short time. During the whole of this revolution, but few disorders were committed. The mass of the people took no part at all: so that we attribute this catastrophe to some chiefs of parties yet unknown to the Janissaries. All foreigners have been ordered to be respected. We are assured that the Grand Vizier made no resistance to the order sent him, and was strangled. Of the captain Pacha we know nothing. The Grand Vizier had gained some successes before he died: he passed the Danube at Ismail, and forced general Michelson to retire from Wallachia, to Foksany and Rimnick. The new administration is entirely composed of persons devoted to the Janissaries; we know not the disposition it will show towards foreign powers. Yet some think the revolution will have no influence upon our foreign politicks, because the insurgents strongly censure the adherents of the Russian system.