London, Thursday, October...
Otur readers will see, uindler the head of Frencl papers, a report copied from the Journal (les Debats respectinig a victory sai(d to have been gained on the 19th and 20th of August by the Greeks over the Tuiks, at Saimios. The re- port mnay be true, because, by undoubted account., the 'l'urkish fleet was in the position describedl at the date spe- cifietd, and likely to be attacked by the Greek naval force but it rests on uncertain authority, and is (letailed with none of those peculiar circunmstances which give cre(libility to such statemeents. WVe need only quote the following c.x- pressions in italics, to slhow the very g,eneral, vague, anti in(lefinite character of the intelligenc :-" Tlen thousand(i Turks diseimbarked at Samios on the 19th of August and "uere dest:oyedl by tlhc Greeks. (What, all ?) T'lhey couhl "not be relieved in time by the CA PtCANPACL A.' (lVhy? because lee could not relieve himself.) " He founld himnself attackedI at that moment" (how particular!) " by the Greek squadrons" (what squadrons?), " wiliich e't- "jployedl every means of des/rtueti'on in their poter." (To be sure they did; but what were those means ?) T'rle battle en(led with the loss of their fire-ships " on the part of the Greeks" (so a loss is confessed), b but no! till afer th1ey hd produeed the eflecds ex- "peectedjro7n them." Theni how were they lost ? A state- ment like this, thouglh it may be true (and we hope in Gxnl) it is so), caniot stand criticismn, anid iherefoie cannot be believedl without corrmboration. 'l'ie Journal des De- hats, ii6 a letter.from Madrid, dated the 22d nit., informs that a miniisterial revolutioni is expected from the first audience with wli;ChI M.' ZFA will be honiouredI by the KING. The ex-Minister CRUZ is still kept in close confinement, and every tlay is said to add to the discovery of his accomplicei. That celebrated Royalist fahatic, Locno, is saidl to have been foundl amnorng the number. The Madrid and provincial police continues its fierce wvarfare against the childlren, \vives, aned widows o. the Constitutionalists who have taken refuge in fbreign countries, or perished in defence of their principles. 'I[hc troops aid the civil servants of the Croivzn are clamouring for pay round an empty treasury ;'police-officers and ma- their fidelity; and the universitius are ordered to be shtit till further orders, from a fear that professors or stu(lents, in meeting to improve tlheir minds, might begin to talk of their riahts and suffrings. The news from France lhas, perlhaps, onie inifusioin myore of spirit and interest than thie last, but is still extremely diIl. The n1ew KING courts popularity more even than his predecessor, and like himn attempts to puitchase it by bon mots and bappy turns of expression. To EXCELMANS, a quondamn stanclh Buonapartist, who hias been at Court, His ;%IAJS5TY is reported to have said, " Gencral, I forget all that is past. The only thing I wish to remember is, that when BUONiPAARTE gave you orders to puursue mc, " you took the wrong road." WVe Iopc Hlis AIAJESTY iS taking the riglht road to tho hearts of his subjects. 'rhe news that important reductions are;nakihg by the K'ing of PRUSSIA is confirmed. From an expenditure of fifty millions, he takes away four-that is, nearly oiee- twelfth of the whole. A tenth would have been better still. Whoever has seen the Ithenish provinces newly attached to the Prussian kingdom, must bc convinced that they stanid in need of much relief. However, we trust the cxamnple will be followed. The inhlabitants of Cologne, Bon, and Treves, are in Eden and Paradise compared to those of Connaught and Ulster. The economy of a Go- vernment is always beneficially felt by the remotest of its subJects ; and that state which is most frugal imtits ex- penditure,. and retrenches the most, will become the arbiter of peace or war. L.ONArD)ON, TIIITRSD,AE, OCTOBER 7, 1824.