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"To the Defenders of the Country, in the Years 1813, 1814, and 1815.

"Now that monuments to the fallen heroes have been erected on the remarkable fields of battle, it is my wish to erect also a monument of iron, in the capital of the kingdom, to my faithful people, and in particular to all those who shared in the struggle for liberty and right, as a common acknowledgment of generous devotion to their King and country. The first stone of the foundation has been this day laid. The solemnity of this act was heightened by the presence of my august friend and ally, his Majesty the emperor of Russia. In the space of a year this monument will be completed, an honourable recollection for the valiant combatants of the memorable period, and a serious warning to the youth of the kingdom to emulate them in valour, and in true attachment to their king and country.

"FREDERICK WILLIAM." "Berlin, Sept. 19."

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were raised to the highest pitch by the late events in Siwas (Sebasti), by which some families of the Janissaries had suffered; and by the late promotion of the Aga, who was hated by that dangerous soldiery; and the citizens were already living in anxious terror of the near explosion of acts of violence, which was announced by several placards; when early in the morning of that day a fire broke out in the house of the former Kuscha Baschi, Lieutenant of the Police, and spreading with the rapidity of lightning, turned the gloomy expectations into certainty. The fire raged the whole day through, and till past midnight, and presented a most dreadful spectacle of the destruction of several quarters of the city. Some thousand houses, two Christian churches, and two small mosques, were laid in ashes. The presence of the Sultan and of all the Ministers, indeed, animated the zeal of the persons employed in extinguishing the flames; but the narrowness of the streets in that closely-built quarter of the city, the heat and fatigues of the day, increased by the smoke, impeded the attempts to save the houses, and delayed assistance. Meantime the commotion among the people became more and more alarming, and the fears of the tumult increased.

It is affirmed, that in the placards the instigators demanded the deposition of the Grand Vizier, of the High Admiral, the removal of the favourite, Halet Effendi, of the Dharabhana Emini, Abdurrahman Bey, and

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of some others. 'Fears were entertained for the lives of these and several other persons.

The whole of the following day passed in anxious expectation, till at length towards the evening it was announced that the Siek Itsch-Ili-Ahmed Pacha (hitherto Captain Pacha) was removed to Brussa, and Hassan Pacha, Governor of that Place, sent for to fill the office of High Admiral.

During these events the Government doubled its vigilance, to which alone we owe the most perfect tranquillity and safety, especially in the quarter of the Franks, where not only the guards were augmented and ordered to patrol without interruption both night and day, but several suspicious persons were arrested and put into prison. It was in vain that some malicious persons endeavoured to terrify the public by fresh alarms of fire, and to delay the re-opening of the public market, which had been cleared of the goods on account of the threatening danger. All foreign legations were requested by the Porte strictly to enjoin all persons of their respective nations not to go out after dark without lanterns, in order to prevent unpleasant consequences.

On the 17th of August there was a great extraordinary meeting of the Council of State, in the house of the Mufti. After it broke up, an Imperial Firman was published, in which the people were exhorted to keep peace and order, and to re-open the shops that remained shut in the public markets; and the assurance was added, that the Govern

ment, fully relying on the zeal and support of the well-disposed inhabitants of the capital and of the empire, had no apprehension from the intrigues of some disturbers of the public peace, and would know how to punish them with all the rigour of the laws.

The Chiefs of the several regiments of Janissaries also appeared, to exculpate those under their command from the accusation of having been concerned in causing the fire. They were dismissed, with injunctions to look after all such persons among their body as were suspicious and capable of incendiary plots, and in case of detection to punish them with all the rigour of the statute of the corps. Lastly, to indulge the prejudices of the people, who are accustomed to regard the elephant as an animal of ill omen, and to attribute all fires to the presence of these animals in Constantinople, it was resolved to banish all the elephants from the metropolis, which resolution has been already carried into effect.

That in all these troubles, over which the Government has with equal dexterity and prudence thrown a veil, the hand of a seditious party was at work, appears from the execution (on the 18th) of a public officer equally distinguished by his immoral character and his remarkable talent for legal subtleties, by name Kaubur Suleimann Effendi, of the Court of Justice at Galati. He had been several times exiled from Constantinople for his licentiousness, and had obtained towards the end of the Ramadan, as it is affirmed, on the intercession

intercession of the Janissaries, tents, and how secure he feels leave to return to Constantinople. himself in the midst of his faithful He was suddenly summoned, subjects. under the pretence of reading a Firman, before the Bostangi Pacha and the Topdshi Pacha, delivered to the executioners, and strangled, and his body cast into the sea. The account of the quieting of the troubles in Siwas, and of the general pardon granted to the inhabitants of that important province, seem equally to have contributed to allay the ferment of the people's minds. The happy result is ascribed to the happy intervention of Tscheapan Ogla.

The new Captain Pacha arrived at Constantinople on the 19th of August, and was received and invested with his new dignity in the usual form.

On Aug. 20 there was a splendid entertainment given by the late Director of the Customs, now chief inspector of the kitchen, in honour of the Sultan, on his admission among the archers, who hit a mark at the distance of 1,100 paces. All the Ministers and Grandees of the empire, who prefer this gymnastic exercise to every other, were present, and were sumptuously entertained; a countless multitude surrounded the kitchens, where 160 cooks were employed. The Sultan remained till the evening, and presented Osman Aga, the giver of the feast, with a sable pelisse, and a dagger adorned with diamonds. The greatest order prevailed among the people, and the Monarch clearly showed, by this public and ceremonious appearance, how little he fears the traitorous plots of some malcon

After the inhabitants of the capital had enjoyed for some weeks a good state of health, they were suddenly alarmed at the end of last month by some cases of plague. It appears among the Armenians and Islanders from the Archipelago, and it is to be feared that it will spread. (Austrian Observer, Sept. 22.) (From the Manchester Herald, Sept. 22.)

"Although we this week have to record a circumstance which arose out of the discontents of the weavers at Burnley, in this county, yet it is coupled with the satisfaction, that all is now quiet and peaceable in that district.

"Plain cotton fabrics, which require the least personal skill in weaving, are chiefly made in that neighbourhood; and when it is considered that three weeks are always deemed a sufficient length of time to teach a mere labourer, when committed for any offence to the New Bailey Prison, to weave calico, it cannot be wondered that competition is excessive, or that the price paid for weaving the article should be small, compared with that paid for goods which require superior skill. The weavers of Burnley, it appears, were not satisfied with the advance they had actually obtained on the price of their labour; and on Tuesday last they employed the bellman to give public notice of a meeting to enforce their claim for more. The Civil Authority, however,

very properly interfered, and took the bellman into custody, as the active agent of the combination. This his employers, in great numbers, resented; and by the help of iron crows, pickaxes, &c. they forced open the prisondoor, and liberated the prisoner. Their success in this instance made them still more irregular, and their numbers on Wednesday became so great, and their menaces so violent, that the Magistrates did not deem it prudent to persist in the exercise of their duty, till they had more military assistance than six dragoons (all that could be spared from other duty within a day's march of Burnley) could afford.

"Informed of this circumstance, the Manchester and Salford Yeomanry Cavalry, in the handsomest manner, volunteered their services; and about twelve o'clock on Thursday, whilst the rain poured down in torrents, they marched under the command of Captain Hindley. The rain continued during the whole of the march, which was accomplished in six hours. The influence of their presence at Burnley was immediately felt, without their being reduced to the disagreeable alternative of applying force in order to disperse their fellow countrymen.

"During the whole of the day, a great number of most turbulent characters had possession of the streets, in which all business was suspended. Placards, referring to the outrage of Tuesday, had been prepared by the proper authorities, but no one had dared

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post them, till the cavalry were descried approaching the town, when they were immediately made public; and on the arrival of the yeomanry, with a promptitude and vigour which did honour to the gentlemen who composed it, the civil power began to act, and in little more than an hour seven of the most violently active of the insurgents were taken into custody, without any resistance on the part of the crowd, which dispersed immediately on the approach of the patriotic corps; and at a very early hour that evening the town was perfectly at peace, and the prisoners conducted (through Padiham) to Blackburn prison, under the escort of the six dragoons already mentioned.

"The next day the yeomanry accompanied the Magistrates to Padiham, where a meeting had been announced; but the presence of the force broke the spirits of the refractory; and, instead of attending an unlawful meeting, the quiet, peaceable, and industrious weavers, who had been forcibly driven from their looms by threats of vengeance by the leaders, had resumed their daily labours, and the click of the flyshuttle was heard in every loomhouse. After a stay of two hours at Padiham, the cavalry returned to their hospitable quarters at Burnley, which on invitations so hearty that it was impossible to evade them, were in the private houses of the principal inhabitants, where they and their horses were treated in a manner which did honour both to the town and the individuals who so very handsomely per

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formed the rites of hospitality to the gentlemen who had, in so patriotic a manner, left their accustomary pursuits, and has tened to rescue them from the danger with which they were threatened by a body of men labouring under erroneous, but strongly excited impressions.

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"On Saturday morning, order being perfectly restored, the proper authorities again respect ed, and the 6 dragoons increased to a sergeant's guard by a detachment which had arrived to support the magistracy, the gentlemen of the yeomanry corps prepared to march homewards, when, immediately before they left the town, a testimonial of the estimation in which their valuable services were held, was hastily drawn up on the spur of the occasion, and signed by as many of the principal inhabitants of Burnley and its vicinity as were immediately on the spot.'

On Thursday afternoon last, the 23rd, about four o'clock, an alarming fire broke out in Hexham-abbey, the seat of T. R. Beaumont, Esq. The fire raged with the greatest fury, and spread with great rapidity through the front and north wing of the building. About 7 o'clock, the roofs of those parts fell in with a tremendous crash, and by our latest accounts, they are literally burnt to the ground; and though the flames were still raging, yet it was hoped that the great and praise-worthy exertions of the populace had succeeded in preventing their further progress, and that the remaining parts of the building would be saved. About 8 o'clock, an express

arrived in this town, requesting the assistance of the engines belonging to the Newcastle Fireoffice, which were consequently despatched with the greatest expedition. The fire broke out in a part which had lately been added to the house, and was, indeed, but just finished; and we understand it originated in the flues, which had been lighted for the first time, for the purpose of trying their effect. That part of the building which has been consumed formed the principal part of the house, and being nearly all the modern built part of it, was of course that which was

most in use, and the most elegant in its furniture and decorations, the greatest part of which, we are sorry to add, has been also consumed, and as is generally the case in calamities of this nature, that which has been saved from the fire is so much damaged as to be of comparatively little value. The family were from home at the time. Since writing the above, we have learnt that the engines arrived at Hexham between one and two o'clock, when the ruins were still in flames, but a plentiful supply of water being at hand, the engines were immediately set to work, and soon succeeded in extinguishing them. Fortunately the night was very calm; had it been otherwise, the consequences would have been most dreadful. -Newcastle Chronicle.

BANK-NOTES.-Wexford, Sept. 24.-The Governors and Company of the Bank of Ireland have judiciously despatched agents through the kingdom, for the purpose of distributing fac-similes

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