The accounts from Constantinople have once more assumed a warlike
character. The Sultan was fitting out an armament, very superior in every respect to any which of late years has been seen in Turkey. Six sail of the line and five frigates had left the arse- nal to proceed to Gallipoli, there to remain till joined by the rest of the squadron. On board of this fleet there would be 10,000 marines besides seamen, and it was fully supplied with mu- nitions of war. The universal belief was, that the Sultan medi- tated an early attack upon MEIIEMET ALI.
The state of commerce in Turkey and the Levant is represented as deplorable. Not a sale of any consequence had been effected by a firm in Constantinople during the spring ; while the markets were glutted with English merchandise, of which an incredible quantity had been sent out, in the hope of reaping the first fruits of the new commercial treaty with Turkey and Austria.
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