The Massachusetts Spy

BOSTON, MAY 10.

WAR NEWS.

By the ship Jasper, Capt. Crooker, from Liverpool, papers to the 9th ult. have been received. Turkey has rejected the ultimatum of Russia, reproached, and bid defiance to her. The hostile appearance of the last news had depressed the price of stocks in Vienna, Paris and London. The spirit of the Porte was supposed to have been raised to its late tone by the success over the Pacha of Janina. WAR APPEARS NEARLY CERTAIN.

From the London Courier of the evening of April 6.

"Accounts from Constantinople are to the 6th ult. The Grand Divan, convened to deliberate on the communications of Russia, have UNANIMOUSLY RESOLVED 'That the propositions contained in the Russian Ultimatum were of a nature which never could be accepted.' In consequence, the Reis Effendi went to take the orders of the Sultan on the mode in which a notification should be made to the ambassadors of England and Austria of the inutility of continuing to importune His Highness with propositions which the dignitaries of the empire and the monarch himself deemed inadmissible."

Repeated interviews took place between Lord Strangford and the Reis Effendi which terminated abruptly; and, on the 3d ult. a note was delivered to the English and Austrian Ambassadors, of which the following has been given as the substance:

"The Divan witnesses with pleasure the efforts which its friends, the Ambassadors of England and the Austrian Internuncio, make to adjust the differences which have arisen between the Porte and the Czar; but the Divan views as useless to the proposed object, all further discussion of the propositions contained in the Russian ultimatum—propositions which are incompatible with the Sovereignty of His Highness.

"It would be desirable that the above mentioned Ambassadors would make known to their Courts, the subjects of complaint which the Porte has against the Muscovites, viz:—That the Russian Consuls, chosen from the Greek nation, have openly taken part in the plots which have been concerted at Smyrna, and in the Isles of the Archipelago, to insurrectionize the Rayahs; that a Russian ship, laden with arms and ammunition, has been seized in the Gulf of Smyrna, when on the point of sailing for Ipsara; that the merchants of Odessa sent to the Greek Insurgents money and corn; that Ypsilanti, styling himself the Agent of Russia, and attired in Russian uniform, came to Bucharest, at the head of a troop, composed of Greeks and Russians, seized on the public coffers, put to death the Mussulmen merchants established in Wallachia, and posted proclamations, exciting the subjects of the Porte to insurrection, and promising them the aid of Russia; that although Russia disavowed this, yet Suzzo, after having opened the gates of Jassy to Ypsilanti, and after having decapitated several Turks who resided there, fled to Russia, where he was hospitably received, and supplied with money, as were also other Greek refugees; while the Emperor of Austria, faithful to treaties caused those to be arrested who fled into his Dominions, and even confined Ypsilanti in a State Prison.

"From these acts, the Courts of England and Austria will judge whether it is Russia or Turkey which has provoked war.

"The Porte demanded no satisfaction whatever for these hostile circumventions on the part of Russia, the result of which only disturbed the peace of the Ottoman Empire for an instant.

"But the Porte will not suffer that a foreign Court, a known supporter of all the rebellious against the authority of His Highness, should come and interfere in the domestick affairs of the Empire.

"If some Christian Temple has been unlawfully demolished, it shall be restored after tranquillity shall have been completely re-established.

"His Highness will grant an amnesty to his Greek subjects of the Morea, when they shall have laid down their arms.

"The Ottoman troops shall continue to occupy Wallachia and Moldavia, so long as the Divan shall consider those provinces as menaced by the Cossacks and Hetarists, assembled on the eastern branch of the Pruth.

"With respect to the nomination of the Hospodar, the Porte acknowledges treaties prescribe it; only Russia, having violated the treaty of Bucharest, has no right to claim the execution of that article. His Highness has decided that no Greek can, in future, be, Hospodar of Wallachia or Moldavia, for the Greek Princes, elevated to that post for a century, instead of showing themselves grateful and faithful, have accepted the pay of Russia, and have formed conspiracies, without reckoning that several of them, after having pillaged the people of Wallachia and Moldavia, have fled into the Christian countries with their unjust treasures, the fruit of their rapacity and tyranny.

"Finally it is not for the Porte to send Commissioners to the frontiers to negotiate peace. She is not at war with Russia, notwithstanding all the provocations—and if the Muscovite armies shall begin hostilities, she has taken measures to repel them."

"I can assure you," adds a private letter, "that, on receiving this note, M. de Lutzow let it fall from his hands; so incredible did its contents and its tone appear. He could not believe his eyes, and re-perused it several times previously to dispatching it for Vienna. It is also said Lord Strangford (the British ambassador) endeavoured to delay the courier, with the hope of obtaining some modification of its character."

Russia was doing away some of the causes of complaint, when the Turkish manifesto was delivered.

From the True Briton, April 6—evening.

The RESULT' and not the PROBABILITY, of a war between Russia and the Turks, must now be the subject of speculation. The Moslems, from the Sultan to the slave, are both infatuated and infuriated. They seem to exult over the severed and ghastly head of Ali, as if, when it ceased to plot mischief, the spirit of the Greeks and the ambition of Alexander had been annihilated. Under those circumstances, we doubt not but the Turks will fight desperately, but in them appears also a pretty certain presage of their final overthrow.

It is not extravagant to anticipate that a Russian Governour will ere long take up his abode in St. Sophia—and that a power, whose dominions already girdle half the globe, and 'are washed by nearly twenty seas, and inhabited by almost a hundred different nations, will push her domination into that fair peninsula, to which every friend of liberty, and every admirer of art and science, looks with such fond adoration. With regard to the mere change in temporal matters, we know not whether Russian subjugation would do any thing for the Greeks; but we are sure that it would relieve them from a monstrous load of religious oppression.

This is all that the fondest dreamer of human happiness can indulge, as resulting to Greece from the expulsion of the Turks by Russia; for we must not hope that Greece is immediately to become a free country, or that when she becomes free, she will be restored to her pristine grandeur. It is not in the nature of Russia to conquer for other nations. She has already come, not as an eagle to rend the prey, but as a vulture to feed upon the dead carcass. She clutched Finland through the rise of Napoleon, and grasped Poland a second time at his fall.

From the London Observer, April 7.

The Turks, elated by their success over Ali Pacha, appear to have thrown off all prudential care, and it is said have refused the Russian ultimatum. That this is exactly what the Muscovites wish, no one, we think, will doubt.

The great leader of the "tribe of Israel" in the city, who, in general. from pecuniary wants of the continental States, contrives to get early intelligence of what is going on, is understood to be preparing his golden forces for a campaign, and has sold out largely from the English funds, which, together with many other corroborating circumstances, induce a very general belief that the Russian troops will soon appear in Wallachia and Moldavia.

In the north, little interest is excited. Denmark is said to join with this country in remonstrating with Russia against her aggrandizement—Prussia is a mere vassal of the Autocrat, and the King of the Netherlands much under his control.

HERMANSTADT, MARCH 30.

The news from Moldavia and Wallachia inspire horrour. The Asiatick troops lay waste every thing with fire and sword. Even the city of Jassy was on fire in several places on the 12th of March; whole streets were reduced to ashes. We tremble for Bucharest. The Kiaja Bey has published, that if he was forced to evacuate the country, he would carry every male inhabitant into slavery, and that he would not leave a village standing. The fugitives reach our frontiers almost naked. The Turkish soldiers strip them of all their clothes.