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It appears that the Greeks and Turks are still skirmishing

in the Morea. In one of the skirmishes, the Greeks made some prisoners, whom they took to Egina, and "branded them in the forehead with a red-hot iron." Mr. Stratford Canning remonstrated to the Greek President ; who reported that he had taken measures to prevent a repetition of such cruelties.

A letter from Toulon mentions, that the embarkation of the French troops, on their return home, began on the 22d December, and was to be continued occasionally as transports arrived. The French have established a newspaper at Patras. That district had been visited by a pestilential disease.

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