Kentucky Gazette

The last letters which have reached Vienna from Constantinople, state, that war with Russia is considered as decided. The Porte has given orders to 40,000 Janissaries, and all the troops lately arrived in Constantinople, from Asia, to proceed immediately to the banks of the Danube.

The Turks are concentrating in the environs of Bucharest. They have committed horrible cruelties in Wallachia, cutting off the noses and ears of the inhabitants.

It is said that the Austrian cabinet has received an official notification of the declaration of war between Russia and Turkey.

It is affirmed that the Porte has received from Great Britain very encouraging assurances in the event of war.

Information has been received that the Porte will immediately close the Dardanelles.

It is affirmed that the emperor Alexander has quitted his capital to proceed to his army of Volhynia. It is said that the Porte has not only refused to give the satisfaction demanded by the Cabinet of St. Petersburgh, but that it requires that all the Greeks who have entered the Russian territories shall be given up.

It is said, that the Grand Seignior will place himself at the head of his Army.

It has been a question about solemnly unfurling the standard of the Prophet to summon all Musselmen to the defence of the Crescent.

A squadron composed of Algerine ships and some vessels belonging to the Pacha of Egypt, which were on their way to join the Ottoman squadron, have been defeated and most of them captured by the Greek fleet which is cruising between the Isle of Candia and that of Cyprus. The Ottoman squadron, consisting of 9 ships of war, has left the Dardanelles.

Adrianople, the second town in European Turkey, situated 55 leagues from Constantinople, has fallen into the power of the Greeks, after a bloody battle.

On the authority of commercial letters, it is reported that the Russian Plenipotentiary at Constantinople has fallen a victim to the fury of the Turks.

The combined forces of Russia and Austria, on the frontiers of Turkey, amount to 300,000 men.

Letters from Constantinople give the following details respecting the death of Prince Morusi, first dragoman to the Porte. The Austrian Internuncio was on the day of that event in conference with the Reis Effendi: the Prince was present. On a sudden two Capidgi bacha came to fetch Morusi, pretending that a person wished to speak to him. The Prince immediately quitted the room, and the Internuncio remained. Tired of waiting for the dragoman, the Internuncio went out, and beheld the body of Morusi lying on the ground near the door, with the head severed from the body.

A private letter from Tunis, of the 24th of June, states, that the greatest activity prevails here in equipping ships of war which are supposed to be intended to cooperate with the Turks against the Greeks of the Archipelago.