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Political Affairs in August. 
accounts of the momentous and tragical 
occurrences in these countries have in¬ 
duced us to forbear the intrusion of them. 
But as the results now enable us to state 
that nearly the whole of Greece has been 
emancipated from the horrid Turkish 
yoke, we submit beneath some of the 
last accounts : — 
44 Vienna, Aug. 13.—The ordinary 
mail from Constantinople arrived to¬ 
day with letters to the 25th of July. 
The ultimatum of Russia had been de¬ 
livered on the 18th ; and the time fixed 
by the Emperor Alexander for (lie an¬ 
swer expires on the 28th. All the 
subjects of Russia had quitted Con¬ 
stantinople : the few Russian vessels 
which remained in the harbour with 
corn had just hoisted the French flag. 
Baron Strogonoff, the Russian ambas¬ 
sador, strictly guarded by the Janis¬ 
saries, was expecting at Bujukdere the 
resolution which the Porte would take 
on the 26th, and the categorical answer 
of the divan.” 
44 Zante, July 20. — The sailors of 
Galaxidi, a town in Doris, situated at 
the entrance of the Gulf of Crissa, who 
are not pirates, as they have been called, 
cruize with so much success from the 
Dardanelles of Lepante to Corinth, that 
this place, which is blockaded by land, 
and can secure no succour by sea, must 
soon fall. Athens has just constituted 
itself a provisional republic , under the 
standard of the cross. Livadea, Salona, 
(Amphissa,) Coda, (Platea,) all the 
villages of Phocis, Bedia, and Megaris, 
have adhered to the compact of union 
of the Athenians. Hydra, Egina, Sa- 
lamis, and Zea, have sent their ad¬ 
herence to the acts of the senate of the 
city of Minerva; and every thing al¬ 
lows us to hope that the destinies of 
Greece are going to change. The ind ig- 
n at ion of the lonians against the Eng¬ 
lish is at its height, since the}^ see that 
the merchants of a free people furnish 
provisions to the Turks in the fortresses 
in the Morea, which, but for this aid, 
would have been long since reduced. 
[Sept. 1, 
44 Marseilles, August 15.—The 
squadron of Tripoli, consisting of a 
corvette, three polacres, a brig, and a 
xebeck, have fallen into the hands of 
the Greeks. 
All the accounts from the Morea re¬ 
present the affairs of Greece as flourish¬ 
ing. The Greek vessel which came to 
Marseilles for arms sailed some time 
ago. She took on board, besides the 
young men and mechanics who had been 
waiting for her departure, thirty French 
officers who have gone to support the 
cause of Greek independence. On the 
eve of her departure the Greek arch¬ 
bishop, Maximus Mazlum, who has 
been for some time at Marseilles, went 
on board to give his blessing to the 
crew, and to communicate the news of 
the naval victory. He concluded with 
a pathetic exhortation, recommending 
to them to render themselves worthy of 
their ancestors, and the cause they were 
going to defend. 
Tlie Bishop of Ac.haia, in an address, 
dated Calvaryta. July 2d, announces 
that the whole of the Peloponnesus is in 
possession of the Greeks, so that the co¬ 
lours of the cross float in nearly one 
thousand villages, which have been 
liberated from the yoke of the Turks. 
The intelligence of the defeat of the Ot¬ 
toman fleet is confirmed in letters from 
Cephalonia of the 19th ult. and it is 
added, that an insurrection had broken 
out in Cyprus, in which the patriots 
had a decided advantage. Accounts 
from Odessa state, that the divan was 
disposed to accept the mediation of Aus¬ 
tria and England, and to give Russia 
the satisfaction required; but it was 
doubted if the Grand Seignior could 
succeed in inducing the insubordinate 
Asiatic hordes to return to their terri¬ 
tory without the expected spoil, or 
bring the inhabitants of the Porte to 
witness patiently the re-construction 
of the Christian churches which the 
ferocious infidels had dilapidated in 
their blind and infuriated zeal in sup¬ 
port of the crescent. 
INCIDENTS, MARP1AGES, and DEATHS in and near LONDON. 
JVith Biographical Memoirs of distinguished Characters recently deceased. 
July 16. 
ESSES. Waitliman and Wil¬ 
liams, Sheriffs, addressed 
a notice to the headboroughs of hundreds, 
of Middlesex, enforcing attention to the 
statutes respecting jurors, as in numerous 
instances, persons duly entitled have been 
excluded from serving on special juries. 
— 18. The committee of Lloyds, in 
concert with the society of ship-owners, 
addressed a circular to their agents, re¬ 
commending that vessels be provided with 
rockets and blue lights. 
— 21. From a rigid enquiry set on foot 
by Mr. Sheriff Waithman, three police offi ¬ 
cers 
