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OFFICE OF THE GAS LIGHT Ain CORE COMPANY, BRIDGE-STREET, BLACYFRIARS. Aran 23, 1825. IDO beseby give Notice, That the following Pro ps ten . vis. WILLIAM BATEMAN and WILLIAM II RY PORTER, Esquires, have, pursuant to the Eighth Bye-Law of this Company, severally given me notice of their in teatime to stand for the tote of a DIRECTOR, d the Elec tion which will take place on the 7th day of May next. • By Order, RICHARD GUDE, Secretary. This day was published. price 21s. boards, VALPERGA ; or, The LIFE and ADVEN TURES of CASTRUCCI°, PRINCE of LUCCA. By the Author of FRANKENSTEIN. In Three Voluines,l2mo. Printed for G. and W. B. Whittaker, Ave-Maria-lane. 0 We shall leave the wide stream of the Author's Narrative pure and untouched, for the refreshment of those whose thirst it ought to be our business to excite, not to assuage. By far the finest part of the book is that in w hich the loves of Castrucci° and Euthanasia are broken and disturbed by those of Castrucci° and a certain Beatrice of Ferrara. The soul of this Heaven devoted maiden is bathed in the good of a new and over-master ing passion, and boldly indeed are her feelings and actions de. scribed. The chapter in particular, entitled, " Beatrice, her creed, and her love," it is impossi ble to read without admira tion of the eloquence with which it is written."—Backwood's Magazine, April, 1823. CAUSE OF THE GREEKS. The Committee of the Society of Friends for the relief of the Greek Refugees has received the following statement of facts relative 'to the Greek Revolution, from one of the most re spectable inhabitants of Scio, who escaped the massacre, and is now at Leghorn. The Letter is dated Bth of March, 1823. The revolution of Greece, contrary to what the friends of the Turks are endeavouring to prove to Europe, had no relation at all with what has hap pened nth Spain t at Naples, in Portugal, and Pied mont. This revolution, which has been - so much censnred by the partisans of the Tut ks, however just, and although the Turkish Government itself had long been paving the way for it, and it might be said to have been the effect of necessity, would not have taken place, if the Turk, had not fomented it by measures which were as violent as they were in human. The Greeks sheaved unexampled patience daring forty years, under the iron sceptre of the most cruel of tyrants, I f that Ali Pacha of Janina and his sons, who never knew how to respect the life, ho nour, or property of the inhabitants of those beauti ful countries. Our holy religion was their only con solation in their sufferings, and all their hopes were centred in that Atutannt BEING who is a supreme arbitrator of the fate of nations. Feeble, poor, dis armed, dispersed among the Turks, who were supe rior to them in numbers and strength, the Greeks would still have preferred suffering to running the risk of everything, if an unforeseen and unexpected accident had not precipitated them into that unhappy war, which they were forced to continue under the terrible alternative of being exterminated, if they abandoned their arms. Some emigrant Greeks in Europe, who possessed nothing in Greece, and who consequently had nothing to lose in a revolution, formed a secret society, and determined on the pro. ject of attacking by their feeble means such a colos sal government as that of the Turks, which has re ' sisted so many repeated shocks from the great Powers of Europe. We cannot conkcatre whether these guilty contrivers expected the protection of some fo reign Power or not, but it is certain that the Prince Ypsilanti, who was the chief of these adventurers, had only a handful of .men when he entered the territory I of Moldavia, and that romantic proclamations were his sole resource; and it is certain further, that by such means, and the a;;ents without credit who were sent by the society among the Greeks to induce them to revolt, they would have done nothing, and the tranquillity of the Turkish empire would not have been disturbed, if that Government had paid atten tion to the formal and sincere protestations of the Pa triarch of Constantinople, a Prelate respectable both for his virtues and his knowledge, and to those of the Holy College of . Archbishops, and the Nobility of Constantinople, who unanimously disapproved of this revolution, formed and undertaken without the knowled e of the nation which was to support it. 1 But the surkish Government, deaf to the voice of truth, a opted violent and impolitic measures, the offspring of its blindness. The ignominious death of the Patriarch, that of many of the Archbishops, Pre lates, and of a great number of persons of Constan tinople, distinguished both by their rank and fortune, WAi the consequence of its fanaticism, and a proof to the Greeks that their safety depended solely on their resistance. The Islanders were the first to hear of these disas ters, and it was the islanders who first raised the standard of the Cross in their merchant vessels, which were all_ at once, as if by enchantment, transformed into ships of war. At the same time, the Pelopon nesians, who were endeavouring to stop the revolu tion in their peninsula, and to drive out of their coun try the agents of Ypsilanti, hearing with astonish ment that fourteen Bishops and twenty-four Primates, who were come to 'fripolitza, the capital of the Morea, to concert with the Lieutenant of the Pacha and the principal Turks upon the measures to be taken to maintain tranquillity in these countries, aseie thrown into dismal prisons, and that hostilities were begun at Patras by the Turks, the Peloponne sians had no other alternative than that of taking up arms, or of running the risk of being exterminated if they remained in a state of inaetivity, The Greeks of the continent hesitated for a long time to imitate their neighbours the • Peloponnesians; but the. bad faith of the Turkish Government, and the infamous machinations which they employed to disarm and surprise them, forced ahem also to. have recourse to arms, and to unite in the common cause with their countrymen, who had already besieged the Turks in the fortresses of the Morea. Hence it is plain that the revolution which has been attributed to the Greeks, was in effect brought about by the Tut ks themselves, and that nothing remained for the Greeks but to take up arms, or submit to be massacred, or reduced to slavery and sold into Asia, as has lately been the case with the unfortunate inhabitants of the island of Scio, those of Cassandra and Aivaly, as well as with those of Cyprus and Niagousta in Macedonia. The Greeks, after having protested their innocence and called upon GOD as a witness of their declara tion, took up arms to defend their lives, those of their wives add children, as well as their altars and the tombs of their fathers ; and as their cause was . juo and holy, GOD has protected them n all their unaertakings by sea and by land, notwithstanding the superiority of the Turkish forces, and the assist ; ance which Christian Europe has given to the fol lowers of Mahomet, in thus subjecting justice, religion, the morality of the Gospel, and honour, to a policy as false as it is criminal. • The soi dismal neutrality declared at.Layhach never took place, and it was only used to deceive the eyes of the Public, for orders were given at the same time that all the sea-ports of &tripe should be dosed to the Greeks, and opened - to the Turks, mer chant-vessels were sent with provisions; and escorted by ships of war to Mussulmen, the blockade of the Greeks was forced, and they were treated as rebels. But what is the object of the European Cabinets ? Is it to make of the most beautiful country of Europe a new Africa? And how is it possible to reconcile this idea with the pains that are taken to abolish the Slave Trade, and to propagate elsewhere that same Chris tian religion which has been attacked in Europe ? Is it from a fear that Russia would become mistress of those countries that Europe has acted in this incon ceivable manner? But it is more easy for Russia to take possession of a desert country, than of a coun try well peopled, from whose inhabitants she might expect resistance. The Sea and the Danube furnih her with facilities for supplying her armies with pro visions ; the Asiatic Turks would pass into Asia, their country ; and thus Russia, mistress of a country with out inhabitants, would unite it to her dominions; she would call the subjects of those very Powers who now resist her, to people that country in spite of themselves; and in giving them her laws, she would make this part of the Turkish Empire a new Russia. This is not improbable, for Russia entirely agrees, with respect to the Greeks, with the Sovereigns, her allies, and contemplates the ruin of the Greeks, her fellow-professors in religion,, with the greatest in difference. Such is the origin of the misfortunes of the Greeks, and such is the conduct of Christian Europe towards them. If war be a scourge, if the glory which is attached to it be false, the war of the Greeks is so just, that every Christian might promote it, persuaded that he will find another hlelchisedec to bless him, in the name of the NIOST [twit, as the Patriarch Abraham did, when he was returning vic torious to his own house, after he had attacked the aggressors of his nephew, Lot. If any one should feel interested respecting the affairs of the Greeks ' we can assure them that they begin to wear a most favourable aspect. The Turkish fleet has returned to the Dardanelles in very bad con dition, after having lost two Admital ships, and many others of the second rank. The army of the enemy which had entered Peloponnc-ms, reduced to a mere trifle, is besieged at Corinth, and, perhaps, at this moment in the power of the Greeks. Two expeditions, which were undertaken to succour it, have failed, owing to the resistance they rnet avith horn the troops of Eastern Greece, and been obliged to return, after having suffered considerable loss. In ‘Vestern Greece, the great Albana-Turkish expedi tion, the object of which was to take possession of two cities of Etolia, Missolongi and Anatolia, has been defeated, and can only save itself by a capitulation. Napoli di Romania must have yielded to the bravery of the Peloponnesian besiegers, who took the citadel by main force, and who, shewing a praise-worthy and Christian moderation, left the Turks at liheity to go where they pleased.. After all, the projects of the Greeks are confined to remain upon the defensive at home, and to repulse the enemy as often as he comes to attack them. • Pecuniary assistance is absolutely necessary. Happy would the Greeks be, could they obtain a loan, it Europe would listen to the voice of justice and huma nity, and change her conduct towards them, as the British Government has begun to do; to whom the Greek nation, when rendered free and independent, will shew her gratitude, as to -all the English nation. TRIAL BY JURY, ONE 01 THE GLORIES OF THE BRI TISH EMPlRE.—Friday last, 'a party of Ladies and Gentlemen were assembled at Yard House, in the pa rish of Godshill, the residence of BARNABAS BULL, Esq. In the afternoon a tionap came to the house and managed to steal from the generous host a bottle of old crusted port wine; but not being sufficiently pri; vate about it, was unfortunately detected. The whole party became acquainted with the circumstance im mediately; and, as a motion was made by Mr. BANKES last Wednesday evening in the House of Commons, that Mr. CANNING and Mr. BROUGHAM be taken into the custody of the Serjeant at Arms, so this gentlemen was taken into custody and confined for four hours in an attic. A Jury was then kn. pannelled, and the prisoner brought down before ; them ; and, on being asked if he were Grii/Iy or Not I , Guilty? he pleaded Not Guilty. Witnesses were un media:ely called, and gave their evidence with so much consistency, that the Jury, after a protraetel and grave deliberation, pronounced him Guilty. Sen tence was then passed on him ; and after - they had sufficiently punished him, he was discharged, and the party proceeded to their former entertainments.— Southampton County Chronicle: APPEALS, TOM DECISION IN THE Helps OF Loans. —Flom documents published by order of the Lords, it appears that there is now business enough before that House to occupy it for the next tea years, even sup posing another Appeal should not be lodged. In ten years 570 Appeals had been presented, of which-867 had been decided ; 2 4 25 remained for bearing--of which 151 were Scotch Appeals, to be decided ac cording to the Scotch law. Besides those Appeals, limit were 24 writs of error, several Peerages, &c. to be dispatched—this is a " delaying," if not a 44 de nying of justice," and it is requisite that some step should be adopted to secure the administration of jus tice to parties in Appeal and other causes. This busi ness is to be brought before the House on an early day, by Lord Livsarooc, who is to move for a Committee. They are to consider a plan that is to be submitted to them, of appointing Commissioners to hear the Ap peals, one of them being selected from Scotland ; and those Commissioners are to assemble, notwithstanding any adjournment or sitting of the House of Lords. The Scotch Appeals occasion the accumulatida .of business, but, according to the Act of Union, they must be heard in. England ; by the appoiotaseot of Scotch and other Commissioners the bunions may be diminished. The subject will b brought tweed in a week or tea days— . TO THE EDITOR OF 711 E STAR. shit,—ln your paper of this day, lam reported to lave mien a put the debate of last night, advirse to the cane bf tßeform, on the presentation of the Yorkshire Pythias i t i tr ia t il lae7louse of Commons. I shall be obliged to you to coal* diet this erroneous statement, which I coaceise to have in the circumstance of Mr. William Duni:ooe hating Vl= the House, for whose name mine has been substituted. I remain, Sir, your obedient Servant, ROBERT CHA LON ER. April 23. THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. THURSDAY, APRIL 24. 1823. TIIR FUNDS. STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The Funds have considerably improved this morning. Con• sots opened at 77i, and got up to I, 1. This rise is supposed to be chit.fly owing to a great scarcity of Money Stock, as well as a great Bear Account. , FOREIGN FUNDS. Spanish Bonds are on the rise this morning; they opened at 321, and went up to 33j, 1 1 , with the Market looking up. Current Price—Chilian 681 New Spanish 331, 1,1, Old 40/, New Prussian 82, Old 821, Russian 76, Danish 86, Co lombian 651, Neapolitan 711. Vltava, Aran 9.—Metalliques 79 9-16—Bank Shares 8751• Aran. 10.—MetaWipes 791—Bank Shares 874 .1 . -10. PRICE OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock '212 1 , '213% • 3 per lent. Reduced 76 1 / 4 7 / 8 % 3 per Cent. Cons. 77 77%'A 3 1 ,6 per Cents. Wish 34 4 per Cents. Old; 94% 95 1 / 4 95 4 per Cents. New, 97 % • Bank Long Annuities 19 11-16 13-16 India Stock 244 1 h—India Bonds 38s. South Sea Stock 87% Exchequer Bills of 1:1,000, 17s. 19s. IGs. 17s. Ditto Small 17s. 19s. Bank for Payment 212 1 ,4 213 Consols for Account 77 1 / 4 77 77 S 4 1 ,4 %. We have great pleasure in laying before our Readers the following favourable Bulletin, which was issued this day at the Kixc's Palace, Pall-Mall: " CA R LTON PALACE; APRIL 24, 1823. ." The gout under which the Kitio laboured yes terday is much mitigated. (Signed) " HENRY HALFORD. " MATTHEW JOHN TIERNEY." We have received this forenoon the following letter from our Correspondent at Calais: CALAIS, WEDNESDAY, Su P.M. TELEGRAPHIC DISPATCH. The Telegraph has just announced the capture, by the French, of some place in Spain, the name of which I have not time, befoie dispatching this, to ascertain. Some cannon, and a number of prisoners, among whom is a General of note, have been taken. Time is a great reveals of secrets, aad in its dis• l cloiures frequently does justice to States as well as to individuals. A singular proof of this has lately been exhibited across the Atlantic, which has refuted one of the many calumnies heaped on this country during the last war with the United States. It will be in the recollection of some of our Readers, that during this unhappy contest, the Americans burnt the town of Newark, an act so wanton and so incon sistent with the acknowledged laws of civilized war fare, that the British Commander, unable to get any, satisfaction for the outrage, was compelled to resort to the law of retaliation on the town of Buffalo. —This took place in December, 1813, and from that ' time to the present the Americans have bees loud in their denunciations against the British army, for what they called a savage and unprovoked outrage, Ju vain was it pleaded as an act of retaliation; for the Government of the United States, in a correspon dence with Sir GEORGE Prtzvosr, disavowed the burning of Newark, the only provocation which could have justified the retaliatory. The truth has at length come out, and we give the statement in the precise terms in which in appears in one of the United States pipers, the New York Spectator of March 11 : " The Burning of Newark.—A very singular de• bate has taken place in the House of Assembly at Albany, which may have the effect of exposing some secrets worth knowing. While discussing the Bill for the relief of the Niagara sufferers, whose property win destroyed in December, 1813, by the British, .who burnt Buffalo and laid waste the frontier in re taliation for the burning of Newark, General MdClure, who commanded the Militia on the American side, and the torcbmen on the British, went into a full his tory of the campaign. It may be remarked that our Government at first disavowed the burning of Newark, in a communication tq Sir George Prevost. But du- ring his speech, General M'Clure produCed an order from General Armstrong, dated October - 4, 1813, under which he acted when he applied the torch to the. houses of the unoffending citizens. The order is as follows: 44 Wu Department, 4th October, lel& $1 Sir—Understending that the defence of the poet committed to yaw charge may render it proper to destroy the town of N. A. you are hereby desired to apprise its inhabitants of this circumstance, and to invite them to remove themselves and their effects to some place of greater safety. I am, Sr, very re spettsity, your most obedient servant, " JOHN ARMSTRONG. raa 011c.cr winmandlag at Fat Gawp, Upper Canada." 44 This order is not positive, and looks to Ili rather equivocal. But Gen. *Clore states that he called council of war, consisting of thirty officers, and they were unanimous, with one exception, - as to the course that must be pursued under the orde r . Gen: MClure says, 'some oyie ortwo years- aftet- the ,war t I had occasion to 'visit Washington, with the acting Secretary - no such order had been he know chit any such 'stated that the other memi binet were alike ignorant then asked Mr. Graham Armstrong, had not disal pondence with Governor ark to be burnt? He to the copy of his letter dared that it was the in manding Officer; that of ci►ilized warfare; ment from having given Again, the General say' , was not instituted at counted for. I should facts in relation to this not that I do not wish to Gentlemen in this House• tion is thrown out agai give an unpleasant history, incontrovertible facts ; and vestigation, I invite it, where.' Now we say to facts, by all means. lb crets. Let us know the where it may. Gen. NM: under a load of obloquy, we think it high time for the disclosures already thing from the ready pen likes dearly to apply the Frankfort and other inst. reached us this forenoon. the Austriax Observer Turkey ur Greece, and lish, French, and Spani: the English and French the following extracts, some further important SEMLI According to positive the 13th of March, the Greek! masters of the important trance of the gulf of Contessa, procured for the arsenal expedition has landed at and spread terror in the and Salonichi. The occ; is - enthely inhabited by cause from this point landings on all these coasts, CANIA. (IN CR The plague continues . to forty persons are carried tion is much more considerable the insurrection of The G environs have taken refs their greater security. dia and Rettimo. Ui crowded for want of suL which favours the progress The four Pachas who united at Candia, and to make a free comr two cities. Prom time to time corps walls. endeavour to carry and then retire again. MUNICH, Prince Eugene, whose ar i f happy to state, considered His disorder is attributed ' self at a grand chase on presence of the King of killed 137 wild boars, besides pheasants, &c. Among a great mass gave yesterday exolusivels, of the French Army of ' Telegraphic Dispatch from contemporaries, with the the source from which they to quote them as from the are not in the Pilate of paper which was in town formed chroniclers penned We thought that the fined to matters of filthy almost appear, from the Paper of this morning, 'highest walks of intellectual isteeessary, however, to suggest the Noble Lord and Honourable iNmded speeches are here , • lossagy have had anything show method of anticipating Public. A little of the this kind, would have made geneous in appearance as *Public atoned= b directed this evening in the House of " and tendency is to be brought day by M. klacnouata. The thanks far tie communication regret at the complete failure tempts, we should say, of which by the revalt)—and to put forth f takes with that view were net ;of success. Mob sat cane • ington, and in a coaversati te Lary at War, he told tae•th • uni , : put on reco r d t h ere, nor sld an . y t I order had been issued, and 0 i umbers of the Executive C.„, • int of that important fact. I • " m if the late Secretary,. G ee , isavowed the act - h: a -cam- am or Prevoa, of ordering N ew : told me he had. and tO toe 'd e Cr in a book, wherein be de. .ig unauthorized act of the•Coa;; at it was contrary to the n t h, and exonerated the Govern., . n any orders on the subje ct ; -PI r 3 :...1 Why a court of inqui r y Ih iT e my solicitation, is easily ae. o n , 1 give a further expositioa e t ~ c s unpleasant business, we re f t i Th to wound the feelings of w oe , u se—but if the slightest mi te . 2 D v l inst me, I shall most certainly 1; ory. for lam in possesaisa at e and instead of shunning.'ipi 'f, •, either on this floor orelo. to the General, out with ag Republics should have no les std e worst of this business, oh bl 'Clure has been long labounat .1 .01 y, and since he has the power s i, o e r s for him to shake it off. Free ~.. • at y made, we anticipate some. ... t : • , ~_ pen of the Ex-Se cretary . li e .‘ u se caustic." • . .. a German Papers, to th e ifo i . %:; renown. The late numbers of . ' e .• contain no accounts from :. ri LI are nearly filled with Ent , '• aish news, all translated float a i Journals. It will be seen by '' •tr that the Greeks have gained r nc t advantages • ri' s 1 IN, APRIL 4. , e accounts from Salouichi, of I tit Greeks have made themsehM se int island of Thaso, at the ea '.2 1 ontessa, from which timbals •! e dof Constantinople. Another ~1 1 e d at the foot of Mo u nt Athos, c ei e whole country between Seta ' o :c up at ion of this island, whils e r Christians, is important, be el the Greeks may easily effect Q 1 . r oasts, and alarm Macedonia. ' ... ii: RETE). JANUARY 4. • Ti 1 its ravages here: from thirty t tried off daily. The papilla a rc ' o siderable than it wa s -I*km Greeks. The Turks f r om toe , e fuge here in great numbers fee en The same is the case at Can- or Infortunately, we are rather ' a u ' :fficient room within the walls, al dress of the distemper. of ) command in this island ban el are on the march to Rettime, inication by land between de corps of Greeks approach ar .4 • u Ty off cattle and other dip $ rc t :11, APRIL 111. I se life was despaired of, ic, el isidered nearly out of dilltia ...' ' ed to having overheated him. •S a his estates, h o noured by the of Bavas ia. In one day th e y °I mides an immense qoant:itref e a ..„ . x • ti.t : T. . ass of intelligence • ethitkale ; oelp, were the Third We& ai ▪ the Pyrennees, and the lomat . ,g i ionfiL Some of our Mossdep. • e candid purpose of conga* . h they derived them, arepleefi the Piloie of Tuesday. liar' • 1 r Tuesday, nor in any Pail • . rn at the time these well4llP - - - i med this mistake. • a t puff prelusive had bees 0 0 1 P y lucre merely; but it erelli lie subjoined parer:ol.i* -I/ . e that it extends into the ear ~_ e 'cum! exertion. It is scare* Isougest no g urabl w e Gentleman, entle ßea mer wh°#dia . ere made so free with, C* 'thing to do with this 1131 g. e I p e a r t pin the ktitr , usualjudgmentin caaco ef iW t ' t e r made the paragraph ashner• d as it is in substance : ....4; , , t 1 ed to•Lisrd Essaaposoossb Makei ' I Peers : and one of •• . . , C t forward in the Commiew t og. / isi 'be substance of the Illetlem ' . . • n • of the Paters), will be le ell* ;of die attempt tea temp Mel the feebbeal has *, . ''' S I th • atm eplaietithist ibis aro of such as could warms fwd will** bi et i eragte ot ihi f n : ' . t • . -r..