The Statesman. — London, England, 1821-01-18 00:00:00

PARGA. We have great pleasure in calling the attention of our Readers to the interesting publication of Lieut.• Colonel Bosse, entitled Par -a and the lonian Mande. The public are already acquainted with the work in its original form ; but it now appears accompanied with various documents, confirming several statements that had in some meatasee been di regarded or doubted: It also contains a number of testimonials of the meri torious conduct of the Author, who has at different periods highly distinguished himself in the English service. According to the Colnners own account, the present edition has been published principally with a view to refute the misrepresentations of The Quarterly Reriew, and remove the impressions made by its un fair criticism upon the work. Independent of this, the production is entitled to much consideration on account of the important facts it discloses relative to the disgraceful cession of Parga to Ali Pasha, and the consequent sufferings of an expatriated and in 'salted people. We select one of the paragraphs, which the Quar terly Reviewers have thought proper to notice ; we give their comment, and the reply of Colonel Russet; leaving to the reader to judge how far in point of correctness and candour the Reviewers can he relied upon. We need not add, that most of the political articles which appear in their periodical work partake of the same spirit and bias. " 1 he foreign garrisons" (says Colonel Bosset, in yeainitig of the people of Parga) " which have occu pied Parga at different periods, have had little lutist core on the manners of the inhabitants. hey are attar bed to their ancient nsages. Their mode of life is simple; their women are chaste, though thry enjoy the 7reatest degree of social freedom°. • The Quarterly Reviewer says, " Had Mr. de Bonet been disposed to tell the whole truth, be might have re horn his own knowledge, that any Parganotte girl was to he purchased /4r that; and that the daugh ter of one of the first families in Parga, so beautiful as to be known by the mime of the Queen of Parga, was li terally transferred by her father to an officer, who, after a certain period, returned her to his care, with the sate of WI dollars for the usufruct." Now, from te.,timony entitled to the fullest credit, it appears, that in the whole period of the occupation of Par , a bv the British forces ( fi ve vearsl only two Par nby goino girls were known to have been seduced by, •r to have lived publicly with, persons attached to the gar rison. One of these persons was a surgeon, and the otl.er a commissary : but the conduct of the latter. who was afterwards appointed, by Sir Thomas Maitland, a e,enther of the( 'onimission for distributing the purehase tome). of the Pargitinote property, was so far from !R -eef; sanctioned by the connivanre of the girl's parents, East it was on the point of occasioning disturbance, and of leading to acts of violence. As to the story of the NI/dollars, if the fact be true, it is ass isolated one, and not by auy means in conformity with either their laws or customs. - It is curious to observe how studiously the Quarterly Coilit, emphatically as he calls on me for the whole trrth, avoids speaking of the conduct of those Lo, by the bigli station they hold in that coun... try, ought to furnish the hest example ; of the facts to I ajlude, fi ion his :ipparently intimate acipiaio. with every thing telating to the lonian Islands, Le could not possibly he ignorant. As he has, however, f. roved himself's° conveniently forgetful of certain cir et:instances necessary fur the completion of the ‘. whole t: oh," I must be allowed to remind him, that his pen have been employed much more to the benefit of those %%hum lie so strenuously defends, if he bad used it f.. enforce the respect due to the conjugal laws of every t i rtlizeti community : Worming us en imsani, whether any thing can be alleged in justification of the seduction of women from their husbands and children, and of t:i.irrviog those woven, though they profess a religion Ly %%hidh divorce is prohibited. The reviewer might also have taken occasion to show, from the splendid examples afforded hint at Malta and Corfu, how well the virtues of temperance and sobriety Leeome exulted station; and he might have illustrated • Lis doctrine by an exhihition of the conseiptences, in %stip'', instances, of acts decided on in moments of inariety. Delicacy, and no other consideration, prevents Inv bring 1111 l re explicit; but I am ready on the first chat l. , nge to pittance ample explanation. P.1110c111.11, ANTlyl 4RI.I.NS' , , TO THE EDITOR (W TIIE ST.VI'ES3I IN. Sta—This moment a matter of very interesting. import his been communicated to me, by a person of undoubted veracity, and who resides 'war the spat where that matter arose. Soule days ago, workmen digging for the founda tion of a wall intended to enclose some addition to St. Workhouse, discos eyed a number of decayed coffins, from which it is evident that that ground had beeu heretofore a church-yard. One coffin, from its sppearance, attracted their particular attention. It looked as fresh as if it were but recently interred, al though by the date on the mounting it uas oaf hex drrd and thirty years old, and it was curiously orna mented, not with silver, bat with iunumerable iIIIAIS nails. Upon opening it, the hotly it contained was in as fresh and as perfect a condition as its va,bet. The coffin was, as it has been described to we, ‘• stutrd with herbs and flowers,"--which were quite dry and in such a state of preservation, that their respective classes were at once discoverable. More I could not learn, becalm I was told " the thing" was kept a pro fniutd secret. by the overseers and " Officers of State" belonging ta the establishment. Cpon inq tiring what could be the reason of this see,eep, it came out in confidence, and with a little stammering, that some of those parochial antifilarians—those humane and ihteiligcnt dispensers of chirity—had taken out and sold the brasa nails ! tio doubt to distribute in alias ; u Ishi, with due mo desty and discretion, they did not wish to be known. lest sonic censorious—some " blasphemous and dis loyal " parishioner should accuse or suspect them of attfishnew or pecttlation!—things quite unktiown to their fraternity. wonder if those humane and intelligent gentle men or ladies have yet gotten a customer for their al herbs and spices." P. S. Perhaps the silly Aiatoriam and the inqui sitive geotticittes of the jacerlty, way imagine may had a right to inspect that discovery, and to rob parish - those brim voila. An ounce of •Baas all the inforairtioN of a century. • ..~,__ ,4 4 * the parish of th, *ails is worth all CORPUI " Nob peel's. Notre erede. " That which makes the clergy - glorious is to be kenwiag rn their professions, unspotted in their tires, active anti labo rious in their charges. bold soil resolute in oppossiat enlis ters, and daring to look rice is Ike fate ; and, lastly, to be eatirttous, and compasaiongle to all."—Sous SIR--At is elvering to every well-wisher of his country, to see the privileged corporation, in their servile effusious, every where discomfited by the sound 'ease of the very great majority of the people. These bodies, from the ease with which they rally, show an admirable alacrity at being beaten. Driven to holes and corners, they notwithstanding continoe, from their ambush, like American riflemen, to dis charge their ultra-loyal calumnies at the great hulk of their fellow-subjects; with this differeece, how ever, that their shot does no mischief but to them selves. The ire6tie way say to these kilt and corner I men, as Mr. Fox said oiler to his antaltenist in a duel, upon finding hinoelf •I's - lit!y grazed in the erns; " it is fortunote for use, Mr. Adoni, that you only tired with Treasury powder." The proreeilings rf these persons are become truly I ridiculous, and are every day itiereasinziu absurdity, so that they will have I..ft folly o r extrava g ance', uncommitted by the lime their friends, the Ministers, are doomed to show their faces in Parliament. In Hants they have Leen disgracefully defeated, or ra-; their durst lint skew their Gees, notwithstanding the pains taken by the 'sigh Pontiff, Buckingham, and • the minor Canons, to marshal their troops. At theS. Chester Meeting, the nutareuvres of the Choluoretle leys' and the Cusitherneeres' could only, by the most unprecedented conduct of time person who so unworthily presided, binder the appearance of a direct defeat. They were, in reality, most completely worsted. The most extraordinary thing is, that these persons should think their connections, costive:, or expectations, can; remain concealed; or that they are nut so obvious to the nation, as the seat-selling is the Douse of Com mons, or the sun at noon slay. In Bedfordshire, the bolsterer; did not at all dare to shew theinselsos ; and only tw.t voices were heard against the resolutions of the nwetiog, which 11.1.1 the rare quality 1.1 appewing to be ttabiAs..ed by any un due means, although the eirrernstaece was ;looked by this singularity, that one of the parties is an Here.,' sional preacher. It is ritriairs, and well worthy of remark, that wher.oor the IGO; Sheriffs have dime ; their duty, as it; Hants am! Bedfordshire, the hole anal corner men have not dared to appear. It has ! only been where tie se ...livers were previously drilled, 1 like the witnesses ..f Cotton-- 4 .ar.lett, that these enclu sionists have shown their I . a. es. The Sheriff of Chester, coutrery to all usage, mat only refused to pot the amendment, hut ref.t rd a division sot the original address. Ile adopted also the novel taroks of direct ing the assembly to hold up their hats, lustros( of their hands. On retiring from the room, be signed the address Ay his own antho• it/ ; and this, we shall no doubt be told, is the eonstitution as by lee esta blished, not the constitution os l.y Calif/erg ivrA and C o . sii6verted. This disinterested and 1;61- Statesman, or his colleague, Sill th, ei.iiitot possibly be supposed to have any share in the discipline of those Sheriffs, who take upon themselves to substitute their own will and opinions fur those of their respective commies. That pure and inmearolste person eau have nu interest i• the support of a corrupt and profligate s y s t em . It cannot be wholly indifferent Is bin., whether se venty thousand pounds annually go into his own office, for passports at the foreign office, or are re tained in the pockets of those who travel into fro-sign parts. This is part of that most rascally system of Continental police, whirl; great liaises have of late been takeu to naturalize in this utrfortunate conntrv. It is one of the signs of a tree country, that every man is allowed to arrive, 1.• rojourn, or depart, un molested, and without requi:ing the permission of any individual or government, whilst be conforms to the laws. Where this is not the ease, the country is not free. I may at some time enter into details to show you, that by %him. of the s me system of po lice whirl gii.es a prcaliuto etervictioas, innocent museum must sometimes lar banged, or official murder committed. Vet these are the p..rts of our instita lives, their excrescences, or cancers, which oar virtual statesmen are so fiiglitencil to lose ; and with good reason, if the rest of his colleagues benefit as largely in their departments, as the foreign secretary is raid to do, for graciously permittieg the world to travel. Is it for do presersation of these sources of emolu ment to the 3linisters of the Crown, that our ambassa dors are permitted to oneddle with the internal ;dirks of other nations, and that our ships of au are infamously stofered to act as transports fur removing the poor King of the Two Sicilies, and conveying him so tar on his way into the safe custody of the Holy brotherhood at Troppau ? Is it fur these sacrili geous purposes that the labouring classes of this community are obliged to mod, flour twelve to six teen hours, in the twenty-four, its order to pay their taxes, awl to present their fansilies from starving? But, to return to the Corporations and the Clergy, the chief boisterers el the weak and o ickedadministra tion, who are the tools of the system by which all oar calamities are produced : the faculty of physic iron aid surgeons of Glasgow, after a most ridiculous display. and the presbytery of Edinburgh, after a lensinuus speech in opposition, by Dr.'f ballroom voted addresses, which, in servility, yield to few of the hole and corner effusions of this side of the Tweed. But, wherever the public meet, eves; in Scotland, the expression of 1 opinion against the destroyers of the nation, and of the peace of mankind is decisive. lo 4 1 / a sgow, the triumph of public opinion WAS complete; and even at the Lanark County Meeting, although the number of freeholders were not quite two hundred, the servile ! herd were thrown into a minority. In the north of England, the priesthood bestirred themselves in a body. They separated from their docks, but not be fore they had shorn them, ..nd issued their special manifesto, from *1 my house at the College of Dar ! ham." Earl Grey characterises the conduct of this conclave, u it merits: and gives an able and a trot I deuription of the busy and meddling priest, As the _,~ - diiiall A. r lilLe. nutty MI Sheriff, tl ity, and A vote . Sheriff acted by prosy; but his ig :master of his part, whispered the Lord Lieutenant, to know *kat Ile should - do. He did that which was diametrically opposite to his duty : he refused a division. This comp d'cril of the workings of the system, I have thought, might be, at Ibis time, useful to those of your readers who have not themselves leimiris to pursue it, in its tortuosities and ramifications. If the public any tenger allow themselves to he deluded by tl►e trickery of its partisans, it must he their own faults, and there can be no help for these. ARISTIDES. FOR THE iSTATES.VAN. TO SIR ROBERT WIGRAM, BART. ANTI THS OTHER GENTLEMEN 110 t (13 , trusEro THE 871fra MIMING A r THE criv or LONDON TAVERN, ON THE I ITH .1%,41:A5Y. "The crea:ure's at his dirty work ARLIN." GaxnemeN—lt now a little more than a year, since I took the liberty, through the medium of The Stalegman, to expostulate with you upon the subject of a LOYAL net L 'RATION, which you had then r"erntly pet forth. The subject: of complaint u itlo you, were the same at that time as at present; which is, in itself, a Sinew; preyounptive proof that your former effort was uuavailing. flat great poet observes that " true nugaraming poiztles mere than wit" (sense). The truth of this I have experienced, en reading your late loyal declaration. You set out by declaring that you earnestly and anxiou‘ly hope, di it, " a,.drr Ificine Proridenre," the evils which tlitealen us will be averted. What those evils are, con do not mention, unlesswe are to consider them as compreheuded in the phrase "fac tions and, 61arpheingus proceedings," the authors whereof "Kid' to &prier. the Mr RJEcrt of this ; Treat w aft er e,w h irl l - of the "Mc:dim/We Idessings which our and happy 0,114,611,6 , g5, sod nor holy and reneged religion" are calculated to impart. If this he your lose: thing, gentlemen, I riartlially agree with you, in praying to God that the ant/sors of those measures which have impaired our " rear, a/de and happy Coaxal at tray be stopped jutheir Caren:anti that they may no lun7er be permitted to use the cloak of oar hot ! , mod a , red td irli:!iun," to cover proceed ings which are contrary to every dictate of justice, of honour, and of -aiity. Leaving yon to decide whether your &sr' iption of those fronts whom, or n louse proceedings, you antici pate evils to the Country, is noire applicable to your employers thass to those against whom you level them, allow' me to ask you, Gentlemen (far you are leery shy of going into particulars) allow toe to ask cost, why yogi make this appeal to 01 IN K Paovtneves. " Thus shalt out take the name the toed thy God in Polio," is a commandment which cannot he too strictly observed. And I bold it to he blasphemy of the darkest kind to mix up the sacred name of deuce, in the sPyisil and party discussious on worldly affairs. You know, perfectly well, what is the r.trst of those " measas s felsieh 'gonad lo di tray the sources al'prrs,r,l rnjayntenl, *WI 1 . 1,1 if re em it', lotion: lint yon darn out aria allnde to it ; you know perfectly well it is nut the hand of God but the hand of man, has produced the stale of things to hick you lament ; and, as you know equally well, as yam have " the most assared coneirtiun," that you have had ma inconsiderable share in the directing and supporting of that banal, you feel a proportionate dread of the eunscymencer. lienik iiien , you talk a great deal about blessings ; I beg pardon, I mean "lateleingide biriii/c:41:" now I much regret that yue have not been a little explicit ; that ram have not tostoicroted Some of the blessings of the eacseNT at a I Lai : because it is possi ble that, usstwithstanilieog your expertness at calce listing the 'Aura cmoimudstics, oilier, - might have been found to surpass you iu estimating the value of 'pea sgres apetiatf th• droies 1 ! 1* 0 ',gnus,. J amt o f o pini o n with Dr. Paley, that nightly rest and daily breed. and the ordinary use „/'our lital,x and fitewhi,s," are, in relation to this u odd, the only " blessings . ' which man ought to ask of his Maker. You will think this sufficiently moderate, no doubt; and yet, genilemen. allow we to ad( )1111, at e Misr " 1.1, arise s " enjoyed by the people of this once if and avidly happy country! Let the notorious:UM/1111i of the purr -rates, and your own off rof shelter to the ',ousels -3s, answer the question for yon. Gentlemen, it jots been a matter of surprise with ate, at timer when 1 have forgotten, for a moment, how deeply you are involves' in the preltrtrt previous systf ni; at these times it has been a matter of surprise with me, that you du not see the danger of any longer de laying to come ro the cause of lbform, and the safety with uhich you could do it ; seeing that every accession frcns tiutrr hotly is hailed by the Itrfiotaftrs with transports of joy ; and precedence "crud our lor e*, dote" are given, under such circumstances, to boo bies, who, in ray other case nook! be objects of con tempt. Cheer up, then, gentlemen ; we are not such a desperate set as you imagine us to be ; cad if . :;orr would onlyjust try Ni by joinimg in a rtpresentatiou to His Majesty of the actual state of the Culliiirv, amt of the ON 1.1" measure which can give us relief, %"u would spectlilv find that, if there Its any who wish to disturb the "hft.r.liNgs of rhomertic pcaef," they are, indeed. " degiadcol ert tr." tletatlemen, I asi happily that amidst your gloomy and dismal forebodings. you give us, at least use consolation. You say that the blessings handed down to us by our ancestor*, are suited to the generations " which are top, /ow us, - from which I conclude that you do not apprehend Tile DISTRUCIION OP Tile WORLD.--I am, gentlemen, your most obedient Servant, London. nth Jau. A POOR CITIZEN: His brace the Duke of Roxburghe sent a letter of apology, expressing in strong terms, his regret that indisposition, which caul/tied him to the Immo; pre vented his attending the dinner at Edinburgh, held in celebration of the principles of Mr. Fox. His Orate's letter was, by an accident, not received in time to be read to the meeting. Tvi..E sTvT • : . • _ ~, ~ ifr vilt l e n , . cot / 2 0•• w itrt 1 R ili e tin .e S wit .. ler pi aril ‘Ip' S BIICO. : R • .I.lllliitrit' VI. uniphantty . Hied. - epen tin Ptetwis ne emit pin sweetens vs% people pence, pails, paste credulite fait trade %rut hcience." . In Shropstitte the Stisnisn's Lets or Vatting. F. list. rubstitnte, hot being 175 11 1reeti .o it ndi IGI re ji • bli the bus s as mita pate • :iviolutivans • i nticl of censure was very pro' 1 Hank I therfff oh flak occasion. 1 3 per t Marc.. fl WATER AT LONDON RRIDGE TO-MAROI* laming, 6 mho. after S —Eteuing, Itirain. after S. :E• OF STOCKS AT . Stock 222 e 23 sse per Cent. Red. (1911 3 per Cent. Con. 60 89 se per Cent. 7Sfall 4 rowdiest). it 1 itt 6 pr Ct. !Vary 103 fit 5 per Cent. Script Los. Ass. 18 1-18 WE O'CLOCK THIS DAy . Irish 5 per Cent. India Stock Ditto Bonds —s. Sonth-Sea Old Ann st.wmesvos: 417 6 1r.7 1. ()maims to. Mosey Bank for Account 60f1. for Arai /Oti Ispril_ mu ForClE L...v.d._ Lou. Tickets 21f. 39. ERA Wrin..-4111 OR Letter of Vietnams, in our p er , r o , yesterday. for " celebrity" reed " celerity ;" for ... It. ries" read " enemies ;" for " best" read " lass ; sad " preamble" reed " principle." . . Qat ktattgittati.--- " TVS IRITISiI STATISM ‘141 .• If mcnitvoit4Ta i win " II 81 AT LYS! N." LONDON: IIIUI:SDAY EVENING, Jvcsuas lA, Dot. STOCK EXCHANGE, ONE O'CLOCK. The Stock Market has continued rather strifirtitta morning ; fur the Account, via. to-in wrew , have been 70el ; the greater part of the morning thie has been little doing except in making up. Paris papers to the ltith iust. have arrived this morning. Accounts from Insprurk slate, that a division of dse Austrian army has recently occupied the cavirinisof Pavia, and another has he; n stationed near the Li of Como. It has been expected for soak time that a portion of the Austrian army would hare passed 4 Po. No preparations to this effect have, however, been ►wade. The Emperors of Austria and Reinitiate expected in a short time at Treviso, to review de Austrian troops. It is the general expectation at Milan, that an immediate expedition against Naple s is contemplated : it is, notwithstanding, supposed that the Papal Court will iuterpose, if possible, to pretreat hostilities. Letters frotu Vienna of the 4th inst., state ths the Emperor of RUSSIA set out the preceding day O a his jowney to Laybach. The two Ministers, Cu** na NESSELROPE and Ca ro D'ISTRIA, were expected to depart on the sth. The Allied Sovereigns hare gives a fresh proof of the resolution they have taken not to recognise any of the arts extorted from the King al NAPLES by the rerolmliwotry fa , ti cm. Prince RI ere, who was deprived of his embassy at Vienna, and re called by a Decree of the Neapolitan Parliament, %in vited to repair to Layhath, under the title of Matas, sailor to his Majesty the King df the Two Skillet. Letters from Madrid, dated Jan. 4, mention that several ilisinrbanres have taken place at Sarragosi and Oviedo. A conspiracy Las recently ►ern diem. vcre4 at Sarragossa. Fit Fs( n Ft N vs.—Five per Celts. 80 f. 45c. Bank Actions, 14521. 511 c. New York Papers arrived this morning to the llt lti of December, of which the following are extracts:— VALUABLE ARRIVAL.--The Revenue Futter, Alert, cause up yesterday morning with upwards of *AM dollars in specie, from the British 46 gun frigate, Spartan, which vessel arrived off Sandyhook. She sailed from Port Royal, Jamaica, 26th of October, am limes Ilavannals, 19th of November. She proceeds heats to England. (r.vritAcr 'SE A LETTER FROM CAPS HENRY, SOY. 2.) I inclose you papers to the 29th ult. The remits passing here will be found interesting. At the same time I must mention to you, that it is expected this go vernment will, in the course of next year, adopt ■ea seres that will have a tendeucy to cnrtail American commerce, that is, to prevent vessels from coming to this island from any state or place where negroes and people of colour ate held in slavery. There are several of the Chiefs herr who stuck to the King, bet iii have but a poor chance to live. I'll inform you more in my next. I consider myself and property perfectly safe. ABSTRACT OF THE TREASURY REPORT OP TILE REVENUE. The Nett Itevenue arising front imports 4.1 tonnage, internal duties, direct taxes, public lands, postage, &c. during the yea►, Isl 7, amounted to 24,365,227 dollars. 31 cents. That which accrued from the 61101 e SOSITtio during tl:e year 1818, anionnted to 26,095,200 dollars, 65 cents. That which accrued from the rase sources during the year 1819, amounted to 21,435,700 dollarf, 69 cents. It is ascertained that the gm/4 amount of duties or nwrchandize and tonnage which accrued during the three first quarters of the present year exceeds 13,340,0(0 dollars ; and the .ales of the public land during the vas first quarters of the year. exceed 1,240,000 dollars. The payments in the treasury during the three first quarters of the year, are estiotated to atuount tr 16,31037 ; and the monists into the treasury, during the fourth quarter of the year, from the same source•. are estimated at 3,430,000, making the total amount re ceived into the treasury, daring the year 1t. 0 21t. 20.219, 6 37 dollars, 49 cents, which, added to the balance in the treasury, on the first day of January last, amount ing to 2,0;6,607 dollars, 14 rents, make the aggrego4 amount 22,36,244 dollars, 63 rents. Of the sum of 3,000,000 dollars, authorised by the art oldie 13th May last, to be raised by loan, 2.1'90 0 dollars have been obtained at a prettiiitru ut 2 per cent, upon stockbearing interest, at the tate of 6 percept. redeemable at the will of government, ;old I,o9o,tifitt at par upon stockbearing interest, az the rate el S per cent. There is no just reason to doubt. that any slim that may be necessary to he raised by loan, can he obtained upon terms not leis favourable, but as it is possible that the surplus of the revenue, after satisfying all deinan is upon the treasury. will be equal to the redenirioa of ally debt which ~)