2808 LE MONITEUR UNIVERSEL

LE MONITEUR UNIVERSEL

No. 204. Lundi, 23 Juillet 1827. Odessa, July 3. Orders have arrived from St. Petersburg ordering the Black Sea Fleet to be ready to depart as soon as possible. Accordingly, work is being done day and night to equip three ships of the first line, several frigates, and it is expected that these ships will be ready in a few days. These preparations have given new hopes to the Greeks. Trieste, July 11. Private letters from Ancona speak of a massacre of Greeks and Franks who were in Smyrna last month. We must consider these news as false, the details of which are also very different from each other. We have just received the last issue of the Impartial Observer of Smyrna, dated June 16, in which we can discover no indication of the trouble said to have broken out there. This diary contains a detailed account by Major Corner, commanding the Austrian brig Veneto, of the events leading up to and following the capitulation of the Acropolis. It is noted that the garrison troops had five days' food left, and also that oats were their only food for two months. London, July 19. We read a series of letters from the ports of Italy and Naples, announcing recent arrivals from Alexandria, without saying a word about the Pasha of Egypt's declaration of independence. One of his letters mentions a dispute between the Pasha of Egypt and the English consul-general. It is even said that the matter is so serious that the consul asked the admiral of the Malta station for protection. 2nd, p. 2. In French.