The National Register. — London, England, 1822-06-30 00:00:00

_.._Or. ~: CO4 M.4BfidlettE 11 GREEKS A T CONSTANTI NOPLE AND SCR): The following affecting appeal from the Greeks at Constantinople to their brethren and countrymen here, wai received by the last mail from Turkey. o Constantinople, May V, 1622. " Dear and beloved Brethren and Countryinen.—We doubt not that the news contained herein must have already reached you, Bud Pullen like a thunder-bolt on your hearts. W hat more dreadful than the knowledge that our illustrious and innocent countrymen—ten of Otto in prison her:, ai..l those in the castle of Seio, 94 is all —uni rereally esteemed and respected, chosen red held as hostages for inure than a year past, have at hist, without a single motive, without eveu the shadow of n personal accusation against them, been barbarously executed? We al first deeply lamented the uumerited restraint put upoii the per- IMO* of those now no more ; their death, ignominious and cruel, in the that burst of grief nearly paralysed our faculties ; but theta we look upon now as enjoying eternal and immutable felicity ; our pity is no longer their due, but it (tows for those unfictitirstes who have survived, and who henceforth are doomed to ty rauny uitexampled in histoty, and twit atione of every kind. 'ho cue, without shuddering , read of the total ruin, the uni versal desolation of oar fame d and once !nippy isle (Seim) ; the tiest tiztion of all its inhabit:l its, nearly one hundred thousand. who, except a very few who almost miraculously escaped froiu those ill-fated shores, have fallen victim* to the *word, to lire, to hunger, and slavery—the :twist of all et ils ho can, without feelings of indignation, without execrating the perpe tiators of these horrid acts, behold a whole city lately so ilsaurishing, DOW one heap of ruins; whole villages, innumera ble country seats, a prey to the flames, our celebrated school, !direly, bospitel for the sick, hundreds of chUrches richly mierned—all, all one confused MASS of 6nuoaking ruhhisli!— Our island lately so much frequented by Eoropenne, and more especially by English families of the filet rank, will now have oily her ashes to show the passing strauger. For is this so dreadful its kself, the most dire of our calamities. The slivery of so many respectable women, young people, and childien of Belli sexes, sent Off to dilleretit parts or Asia—the markets of this city and Smyrna tilled with women and young people of the brat rank, and who bate received the best education! What man he more dreadful thou this! happy, thrice happy those wheel the steel of the assassin has stanched from scenes so lurrowing to the ketings ; how miseitilde those still suffered to exist, who see the sufferings, bear the cries, and piteous accents of their wives, children, and relatives, and are wit neeses to the barbarous treatment this devoted and innocent people receive from the wretches who have them is their power. list can tie Lid to our charge ? We poor Sciots, who, front the beginning, have remained faithful, are rewarded with death and slavery. It is well known, as soon as the Porte heard of the insurrection in the Mores, and sundry islands of the Archi pelago, it sent here a Paella having with him about a three tbousaail troops ; the whole of the expenses of this garrison was ilefrayekby our island, which,, in the course of about It months, more than 2,700,000 piasters, each according to his means. Besides that, the Sultan ordered a choice to be made of silty of the most considerable and respectable from afar countrymen, beginning by our Archbishop Plato, the elder, and other pi ineipal in/Woe:As. When the news of the inva Mon of the imprudent Sawiotes &rat spread in Scio, the pritsci- pal inhabitants seabed on the Paella to apprise him of it. What was his answer !—to send hit° the castle, as hostages, some snore of these innocent men, and to transport all the provisions oat of tit city into the citadel, not leaving any whatever fn.' the poor inhabitants 'of the city, who were so numerous. A month afterwards, when the Samiotes landed, the Paella sent T: ,,„„ ; of the Mist .ges, with several Turks, to prevail on the SA ,riot,, t o t .....actiate the island ; but they imprudently resulted t o advance, Rot ) these ministers of peace that they would sootier put them to deal.] !ban do so. The Pasha then shut biniself up in the castle with ati the military, taking with him all the kismet. It was understood rie.l a great number of the peasantry had joined die Sr:Motes ; they were la a manner forced to it, being apprehensive of the Samiotea and they were only armed with slicks and staves. Elevendays after, the Turkish fleet arrived at the island, anti landed 1,300 soldiers, who joined by the 3,0011 in the castle, being unable to 7. tack and defeat the 3,000 Samiotes, used their weapons against the iinocent and disarmed inhabitants, and turned their fury against women std children, killing, burning, and taking in slits en, all the inhabibutts of the place; their:ell they cruelly slaughtered, the women and children they brutally treated and huddled together in one of the large minares, which contained several bemired of flee most respectable fainilies ; they have net left a stone upon a stone—all destroyed, all reified ! It would till volumes to record the different scenes of horror that the ruffians were guilty of—humanity shudders at it. But this miasmal desolation had not y et satisfied the blood-thirsty fol lowers of 31aliammed ; they bail heaped upon their treinblitig and tender victims all the bitterness of theit fanaticism-03 hien, the first of their nation, both as to chat:inter and property —men who had always followed the paths of rectitude in their e•aniterniftl dealings—whose relations were established in aluinst et ery known commercial city in the known woehl - 1/101 illlloerllt of any nischinations against the Turkish govern ment, and who could not, if even they would, have been par ti itiators in the rising of the island, since they had been 14 months under the grasp of the Turkish satrap. Ten of these were at Constantioople, the remainder at Scio. Lord Sttatig lord made strenuous efforts to save then—neglected no re trionstrances---es inced the greatest ardour in the cause of suf fering innocence, and thought lie had nanceeded its sheltering them front their impending fate, having obtained a promise from the Porte that no harm should be done them, alien it suddenly gate orders for their execution. The ten in Constantinople were beheaded, and the 65 in Selo were hung outside of the tattle, in that very square where so many of the slaves were placed, in sight of the Turkialt fleet, who had their decks cot eted with Greek slaves. OL ' how the heart sickens at such refinement of cruelty, and turns with horror from the malice that could take delight in deriding the mental agony of the innocent sufferers in this tragical scene! NN Sat a number of wises were foteed to be spectators of the cruel death of the landmark of their affections—to see at the same time their suckling babes, torn from their hremsts, thus at once bereft of their support and their hopea! Many driven to despair by this barbarous usage threw theniselves toorthe sea, others stabbed themselves to prevent the loss of honour, in them worse than death, to which they were every moment exposed from the barbarians : but, alas ; let us draw a veil upon thole who hate tha• sunk untimely into the grave ; let us not harrow up your Wads with the recital of their atrocities; their sufferings are over, mid their felicity, let us hope begun ! It is now time to tuna your sympathy towards the uirfurtunate survivors of the f!elierml wreck—to call, dear countrymen, your attention to the miserable naked state of thonsands of our Sciots, with which the aim-Leta here, at Smyrna, and Scio, are glutted. You, 14: vtlmt., friend* and couatuuten, are in the capital of England, ;•. - ..J1t..M- . . . TILE NATIONAL REGISTER the centre of philosophy . ; you live amongst a people always famed for their generous feelings tow,lrds the mow Innate, for their dislike to tyranny . , and their sopport of the oppressed. Beg, pray, entreat, appeal, to their feelings, call upon them 134 Britons, as men, as fellow beiugs : it is in the cause of hu• inanity and of seligien : they cannot, will nut be deaf to your prayers. They will afford us, as far us lies in their power. the means of redeeming the captive, of aiding those families that are in a state of moldy and starvation, who will soon arrive in almost every part of the 'Mediterranean, when they have been enabled to fly from a yoke worse than death. e rely oral your euileavours, and still more upon the high climacter of the nation among whom you inhabit : thousands of hands tire raised to you to claim ynur iaterrerenee in behalf of tour op pressed countrymen; thousands of hearts will feel grateful fur your assistance. Brethren and countrymen, exert yourselves in the cause of humanity. • With tcsrful eye we cordially salute you, and beg you will pray to Cod for cur safety. .• YOUR BROTHERS AND COUNTRYMEN," FROM LAST 217G117"S GAZETTE. ---• BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED. R. Brooke, Waleot, Somerset, common brewer. W. Camel], Cotton End, near Warwick, madman. Solicitor, Mr. Richardson, Lincoln's Inn Kehl& W. Ileydon, South Audley Street, plumber. Sol. Mr. Greeßwood, Manchester Street, Mimelaster Square. I'. Farquharton, Lime Sueet, merchant. Sol. Mr. Score, Tokenhouse Yard. Cragg, Whiteharen, Cumberland, ironmonger. Sol. Mr. Clennell, Staple Inn. S. Mendham, Bryanstone Street, Portman Square, merchant. Sol. Mr. Eicke, Cornhill. T. Deighton, Davies Street, lkrkeley Square, saddler. Sol. Mr. ',tint. Surrey Street. Strand. D. Griffin, Walworth, linen draper. Sol. Mr. Jones, Size Lane. J. C. Ridgway, Old Kent road, linen draper. Sols. Messrs. SlikpUerd and Co. llartkes Buildings, llolborn. J. Harris, Bristol , lithographer. it.jls. Messrs. Bridges and Co. Red Lion square. B. Ellis, Leinuiter, woolstapler. Sots. Messrs. IliAine and Co. New Inn. DIVIDENDS. July 20, J. and H. Watson, Friday Street, warehousemen -10, T. Sissell, Jewin Street, Cripplegate, tailor-20, H. F. llorneman, Queen Street, Cheapsitle,nierchant-17, J. Lippard, Deptford, cheeseinonger-510, .1. Newman, Clerkenwell, brewer —22, 11. Norfolk, Alountsorrel, Leicestershire, worsted makers --20, P., P., J., and B. Dixie, Falcon Square, iron founders -22, D. Adcock, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, druggist-27 s S. Simons, 11 ilperton, Wiltshire. hawker-25, T. Baker, York, linen draper— , a. W. Wornell, Dowilton, Wilts, linen draper -23, W. and H. Webb, Bristol, linen drapers-23, E. Phillip, Norherth, Pembrokeshire, linen draper-244 T. P. Jones, Car marthen, linen draper-25, J. 'l'. Thorn, Plymouth, currier -25, .1. Buckland, Chard, Somersetaliire, miller-50, J. Riley, Leicester, grocer-27, A. J. 31ackenzie and H. Roper, Cross Street, Finsbury Square, merchants-20, T. Hipkins and C. C. Sumner, Hillingdon, Middlesex. plate glass manufacturers-22, J. Carter, jun. Liverpool, uierchant-20, R. arid T. Jameson, Ironmonger Lane, merchants. CERTIFICATES to be granted July 20. T. Griffith, of llormilion, ‘Varwiekshire, Moysc, Sexinundhara, Sunik, flour merchant—J. Steeie, Li verpool, map and chart seller—l. Child, St. lees, Huntingdon shire. boatwright—J. Coales, Earith, Huntingdonshire, liquor merchant—J. Hawkins, jun. Cia.stonhary, Somersetshire, horse dealer—R. B Raxby, Arboursquare, Commercial road, mer chant—T. Ward, Seamer. York, maltster—J. Luxton, Poole, linen ch - tiper—W. Purkis, Portsmouth. cabinet maker—E. I/u Bois, 01411311 Court, merchant--J. Vorter,Watlington. Norfolk, dealer—P. Sowerbv, sun., Liverpool, provision merchant—G. Shakespear. full 3luil, blacking manufacturer. COURSE OF EXCI Amsterdam, 12 10 C.F. Ditio,at siglrt, 12 7 ii.:!tesdain, 12 H Antwerp, 12 6 Hanintirgli, 3S 2 AlEnne, 33 3 Paris, 3 days' sight, 25 70 Ditto, 16 0 Roindeanx, S 6 0 Franking t on the Maine,ls7i Peteisbargh, 9f 3 U. Vienna, I. Flu. 10 21 Trieste, Ef. Flo. 10 21 Madrid, 36 —Cadiz, 35i —llareelana, .51 PRICE U, Bank Stock 2 t2i It per Cent. Red. EMI t per Cent. Con4ols Si per Cent. 91i percent. tri New fours, 97i Lour Ann. WI MANGE, JusE 28. Seville, 351—tiinrallar,2111 Leghorn, 4'74—Genoa, 4:34 Malta,4s—Veniee,27 60 Naples, 391—Lisbon, VII Oporto, 511-13dbiad0 Rio Janen o, 46 Palernio, 118 Loirliii, 91 per cent. Cork, 91 per cent. Foreign gold in bars,3l. 17s. Gil. per oz. New I)ociblJons,3l. I3s. Oil, New Dollars, 4s. 9tl. Silver in barb.standurd, 4s, lid. STOCKS. (Minium U. Imp. 3 per Cent. 79b India Bonds -411 India Stock Ev.cileitiier Bills 33. prem. Cons. ior Ac. Si Louecy licketr. 621 ISs. THE NATIONAL REGISTER. LONDON, SLNDAY, J 1 E, 30. The question of the interference with, and the countenance afforded to, " The Beacon," and other infamous periodical publications in Scotland on the part of the Lord Advocate, came before the House of Commons on Tuesday evening, on the motion of r.Abercrombie, for a Committee of I nquiry—in our political experience we have seldom seen a stronger case made out, nor ever witnessed so feeble, so incf- fectual an attempt at defence, or even palliation, of a line of conduct which is calculated to pollute the very sources whence Justice ought to flow—so far as a public character was the Lord Advocate's con- duet highly censurable—we meddle not beyond that point, and therefore pause not to enquire how far a man's private character for honesty and gentlemanly feeling may be affated, by incontrovertible proofs 401 ,11111111 1 11 1 1 1 11. being adduced .that he had lent his influence and hi; purse to forward a publication which was, from its commencement to its end, devoted to falsehood, ca lumny, and misrepresentation. The House of Com mons, however, by majority of 25, decided that no inquiry should take place—a decision which we regret, because, in the estimation of the rational and thinking part of society, one such vote will degrade and sink the House of Commons more than all that j the writings of the Radical Press could have achieved in an age—one such vote declares louder than a million of voices that the House of Commons wants reform, and must be reformed by some means or other—by force or by argument—by concession ur compulsion. The motion for the repeal of the Ministerial Pen sion Bill gave rise to as warm a debate as we re member.—The Marquis of Londonderry seemed to have forgotten that he was not in the Irish House of Commons, that theatre of his fame, and shewel a little of his ability for the part of Bubadil—Mr. Brougham, however, administered a portion of seve rity to him which doubtless restored him, and con vinced him that the English House of Commons will not receive bullying in place of argument—., groat deal was said upon the indelicacy of alluding to the shameful pension of Lord Sidraouth, and the infamous sinecures held by his family ; in rep'•y to which we beg to quote some observations made by a very able writer, alludirg at once to a time of dis tress and to the disgraceful pensionings of Mr. Can ning's mother and sisters and other " near and dear relativa"—" If some better remedy than the jocu larity of Mr. Canning is not applied, an end will soon be put to his pension, and to the pension of those near and dear relatives,' for whose eating, drinking, washing, and clothing, every man in the United Kingdom now pays his two-pence a year.— You may call these observarions coarse if you please; but I have no idea that the Sophias, and the Caro lina of any man breathing are to eat national ve:1;, to drink public tea, to wear treasury ribbons, anl then, that we are to be told that it is coarse to ani madvert upon this pitiful, and eleemosynary sph.i:- 1-ur. If this is right, why not mention it ? If it wrong why should not he who enjoys the ease et supporting his sisters in this manner bear the shame of it? Every body seems hitherto to have spared a man, who never spares any body." If meu will pauperize their children and themselves on the cata logs of a distressed, oppressed, and suffering peorle, they surely cannot be too much upbraided with it— tenderness towards Lord Siamouth's son has been invoked, because he is either an idiot or a lunatic— his father should have ceased to take 7501. evLry quarter of a year out of the public purse for his :.on and this his calamity might have remained unknown The carriage and horses belonging to the Duke of York were seized under an execution for dat, they were leaving the Palace on the late Court-lay. The carriage and harness were sold on Wednesday last for 991.—the horses have been redeemed by one of his sisters. On Wednesday, the purser of the Kent East In. diaman landed at Lymington, with despatches for the Company. These state, we understand, that the differences which have existed between the Chi nese Government and the British interests have been amicably settled. The Mandarin who went on board the Tupaze frigate to see the wounded mu, as we suspected, was the precursor to the arrangL • mcnt. It was not likely that a quarrel would long continue, when it was to the advantage of kith parties to be at peaue. The Kent sailed from China on the 26th of February. • The election of a member to represent King's Lynn, in Norfolk, in consequence of Lord Orford having succeeded the Peerage, commenced on Thurs day last—a serious row took place, and the mayor, afte having adjourne poll d the to Friday morn ing,r sent oil to Norwich for the military to keep the peace. The immense bronze statute of Achilles reached its destination on Friday in Hyde Park, and is to be placed there to commemorate the battle of Waterloo. We cannot conceive how Achilles is applicable to that victory. The Bank of Ireland will, it is said, follow the example of the Bank of England, and reduce the discounts to Four per cent.