14 DECEMBER 1839, Page 9

The Ottoman Government has prohibited the exportation of wheat, and

of every sort of grain, from every port dependent on the empire.

Upwards of 1,000 sailors of the Ottoman fleet had been carried off by dysentery.

On the 14th ultimo, the Foreign Ambassadors sent into the Porte nn official note, in answer to the communication made to them -With the translation of the Haul Scheriff of the 3d of November. Their EX- cellencies assured the Sultan, by anticipation, of the high satisfaction which that important document would cause to their respective Bove. reigns. The King of Holland had notified to the Sultan his intention to conclude a treaty with him, similar to that entered into last year be- tween Turkey, Great Britain, and France.