Alexandria Daily Gazette, Commercial & Political

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, December 9.

The court gazette contains the following intelligence from Constantinople.

"On the 14th, 15th, and 16th November there was a revolution at Constantinople accompanied with some bloody scenes: a superior number of the Janissaries attacked the Seimens. When the Grand Vizier Bayraktar saw that his enemies were triumphing, he set fire to his magazine of gunpowder and blew himself up. The deposed Sultan must also have been killed.

The 16th of November a great part of Constantinople, the ships of the Porte and the Hippodrome, were a prey to the flames.

Selim III was murdered and Mustapha IV. on the 29th of July last, the day on which Bayraktar is terminated. Selim on the 10th--The part of the new grand vizier his successor was dethroned and shut up in the seraglio, Mustapha enjoyed an unbounded power, and governed the Ottoman empire under the name of, Mahmoud II. whom he had raised to the throne.

His intrepidity and the measures which he took, re-established order and tranquility throughout all the provinces.

He kept the Pachas in obedience, wrested from the Janissaries, who had so often arrogated to themselves the right of deposing the Sultans at their pleasure, their ancient privileges; and he was firmly resolved upon putting the whole Turkish army by degrees upon the footing of European troops, by draughting them into the new regiments) of the part of reformer among a people who detest Nizam gedid.

The difficult and dangerous task of introducing all novelty and every thing foreign, has cost him his life.

A courier who arrived here on the 8th from Constantinople, has brought the following news.

"On the 14th November, all the corps (re-inforced by those which were encamped in the environs of Constantinople, regiments) of the Janissaries, rose and fell upon the Seimens and partisans of the Grand Vizir.

They fought in all the streets of Constantinople. The Seimens for a long time, made a vigorous resistance but were at length overpowered.

The next day the Janissaries scaled the high walls of the Seraglio.

Grand Vizir caused Mustapha IV. who was confined in it, to be strangled; and in the hands of his enemies, he blew himself up with gunpowder, of which he always kept a large provision not to fall alive into the

"The 13th, when the courier set off from in his palace.

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Constantinople, every thing was in the greatest confusion through the city as hasty as he.

Violent conflagration was perceived in the horizon a light, from evening night.

By this time the fire was not yet extinguished, which it might be concluded that even at that hour.

It is not positively known what is become of the Sultan Mahmud; on the 16th, different rumors were afloat concerning him.

This news immediately raised the price of cotton, because it is possible, and even likely, that under the present circumstances, merchants will no longer enjoy the same liberty as formerly for the conveyance of goods.

Journal de l'Empire.