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Minor Notes.
_Russia and Turkey._--The following paragraph from an old newspaper
reads with a strange significance at the present time:
"The last advices from Leghorn describe the genius of discord
still prevailing in the unfortunate city of Constantinople, the
people clamouring against their rulers, and the janissaries ripe
for insurrection, in consequence of the backwardness of the
Porte to commence hostilities with Russia."--_English Chronicle,
or Universal Evening Post_, February 6th to 8th, 1783.