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JAIUICArAPERS. -- Jamaica Papers to the 4th alt. have reached ma. It sp ,rs front them that tranquillity was generally restored t arm vlitrot the Island; but some person. still entertained fens that it would not he long before fresh disturbmices would br:rk fend*. The %lagistrates and Vestry of the pal ish of 11 - estmorelatiel having passed a vote of thanka to Sir John licane, for his late services, and accompanied that vote with a request that he would accept a sword, in further testimony of their sense of thosz serviet a, the gal lant thfle:T thus modestly declined the intended honour:— It c annot but aftwd me very sincere pleasure that the measures I shred were atteoded with so desirable effects, it &tern! g nom ineeelaritits any who might have been face disposes!, and re to.irrig confideoce and order by the prompt 3)4sec-owe of a wall. ,ey fare. Vet. with a strong feeling of oblencen to those who kine.v wished to present me With to GIOGIII.NIit a testlmu idol of OW VOA will. I coneider the service I was enabled to roller at and untie-siring any reward, beyond the conscientiousness of haring discharged my duty, that a sense of propriety prescribes y ilerlining its acceptance. In ding so. I oust the same favoitrable sentiments which per 1-,dc the electing of Magistrates. whose venom yin have made k !own to Cl:, will protect nip motive from misermeeption. " It is at al times gratifying to I:4ISWAS the conli.lence and esteem of those we caper:, aed in this light the thanks coovvytd to me I are twist valuable, but beyond that I Gil 1 have no claim ; and with this rooriction I mum beg to decline, with much respect fur ! *hoer who otTer it, the sword it was wished to present me with. " The kaloning ate exit:re:a from these Papers KING3TON. JULY 31. 1, hart lately received the following communicating from a rew sewsraLle and Intelligent Correspondent at the Nortbside, and, as caution aid vigilance, which can do no harm, seem to be neon.; mended by it. we wilily give it a place : Livi.-g in the country, and upon the high road of commtmlets• in ruffle! the island, I have an opportunity of observing negroes, prri and comers from all parts; and., notwithstanding the outward sane of civility 'hide:hey pot forward, I can discern deceit in the tan round. Just as you ma) hare cbsen;tl ants upon a floor, passing and musing. and (they one seeming to have something to common:. one to the next ore they meet, so is it now with the negroes t and l ey belief is. that they are genenilly informed of every occurrence, al:hough„ were yen to inquire-. .hey would pretext ignorance. A few weeks alto 1 mettemold negro , who said he was from Saint G erre:* with sham I bad the follow ing dialogiee :— • r so, old nian, where do you come from?—From St. Chores, " Haw every thing do theril—So, so, mama, berry well, ma no yore noting. ▪ I ant glad of that. and type the negroes won't tun fool i.,lSii3.-I • es, masts. Here was a sort of plisse, when he ra sa tied—but, mama. nega nu the mat—dens face no tan good.— This I urdersmod to imply, that the examples made had not hod the &wired effect. fin parting he said--bye Cyr, mans, and shortly turning ,auntl—but, maw,' ;.erre, you muse look, sharp this now." Negroes. you know, most commonly speak by inuendo„ arid I think there is touch to be coojertured from t!iis conversation. But there are many persons who would treat such things with contempt. (from die Postscript to the Mowtego Conroe of July WI As eve ry rircumstarce relative to - the cond.-et of the unfiirtunate victims of Mann. WO:trona and Buittoo'e thraticisra, previous to their execution, must be intereetirg to all Tenons, we give the following further particulars which have come to our knowklige, front the most reepectable authority. One of the Argyle negroes on leaving the gaol. at Lucca, looked imp to the wiadowa, at which were some prisoners, and said " good bye: I lay my death to Mr. Wilberforce. 1 wish 1 hal never bard of his name." John Nesbit, who had, as we before stated, remained sulky until be WY about to leave Lucca, at the feat of the gallows, leoking up to the Heavens, said in an air:Pile voice " I thank the A: nighty that I hare not taken the life of any Bitekta, I thank Min a lso that I have not taken the life of a negeo—l know that me punish ment is just, I am sorry for what I have done, I hope Ood Al mighty sell forgive me for it." 11• e understand, one cf the Chester Castle negroes, implicated it tote late nbellious conspiracies, has been apprehended and sent to Lucca to take his unit. We are happy to add, that John Clarke, of Haddo, who had been instrumental in the destruction of Mr. Maim:lnes boon, has been also taken and secured. THE GREEKS. Wc yesterday rceuivoil the NotLic di Gi,,rao of the 19th ult., a Paper published at Hain; from which we make the following txtracts relating to the late successes of the Greeks:— 110 XE, AUGr3T O. We have received the following accounts of the late eron•gements between the Tulin' and the Oreeks, at Ipasee, front torte, dated Au L ust I, contained in extracts from an authentic letter:— •• On the 21st June, O.S. the 'Turkish fivt, strived of fours, land +l from twelve todfteen thousand troops in that part whic h was thuight the most difficult of tercels, and where constantly a land ing was least expected. DPW parties foaght with equal ardour and perseverance :.,Obi Turks diete times attacked a Greek battery. and were constantly repulsed. At length they carried it : bat while they fancied thanselves victorious, and drew their sabres, tbey met with death. A tireek soldier, erlin saw that ail was lost, met trey, the powder_ CM: bmied lender the ruins all tha Turks, with eighty Greeks who defeadcal the battery. " Notwithstanding this, superior nut:there at length prerailca, and dos city and the fortresses remained in the power of the Turks, who look rich booty, and made slaves of ..0 who had not escaped witlutheir families to Hydra and Spezia. On the following day • ' fresh breeze obligee' the Ottoman get, to quit the coast of the island, and stand nut to sea. The troupe who had been landed reeing this, and fearing that the flet woniel abandon thou, most of them left the town and went down to the shore. •• The few Greeks remaining in the island took advantages( this cirettoistance, fell on those who remained in the city, killed GOO of them, and succeeded in relming all the slaves and reroverieg the bony. Meantime the other Greeks from the neighbouring islands beamed, with eighty ships, to the aid of lissom, and on the ?5,h ad engagement tooth place between the two fleets, in which the Greeks set fire to that of the Tears. and took four of their large easels and many smaller ones, without losing one of their own. A few diys after the principal fort and the town were already in the kiwis of the Greeks. and the Turks held only two betimes and sane small forts scattered about the island. Due on the &I July tllth) the batteries were ant caked by two Greek °merlin, who male themselves mtriters of them. killing 509 of the erieni v. On the attack of ::.e island the women fought along with the men. Filen Greeks, codunanded by D. Calimeri, who had posted the twelves in &grotto cm the sea, attacked a Turkish ship, which they tank. and killed the crew, consisti ig of forty men. 'Thus 'pars is again in possession of Cie Greets, with incxdible loss on the pert of the Teaks." SPANINII REFUGEES. The number of Spanith teiugees in this country at the prev.nt moment, includine, their wives and children. amounts, as nearly as possible, to about 4.50 persons. ()I' these nearly 400 received pecuniary assistance front Govern men last month ; each married person receiving an addi tional allowance for his wife and children. The total sum so disbursed was 1 goo 1 it never was fora moment contemplated by his Ma- J Government to enter into an engagement or promise opsy these Spaniards a regular pension. When the ques tion of assisting them was first agitated (against the policy of which, however, a strong, opinion was delivered by per anis of high authority), it was determined to place in the haals oft Duke of Wellington the arrangemmt, as to what mount of weekly allowance should be granted, the *el eon of the individuals with regard to character, and all the other details of the measure. Ills Grace, after soaking the am vary inquiries, admitted about one hundred on 1111 4 list. Thom who remained excluded amounted to out souther hundred, alt they received a weekly al lowance from the Spanish Committee. , The funds of thi s Cr mrnitt however, becoming re run d, and the plthlic feeling having ceased to be excited favour of those Spaniards, an application was made to lionorrent, by a respectable individual, a Alember .4 Parliament, for some pecuniary aid, and the immediate r .olt of this application was, the remittance of `.:001. to • the charitable carts of the gentlemen who meatt the S: Thf!Cominittee d.dnot dissolve itself, as h3/1 been et3tfli' on the strength of representatioua from the For. ion Of few, that the Spanish patriots would be supported by tlo "hramt." The fact is, the Committee dissolved itself locanse it had no longer any funds to go on. &re that period the Government has gradually exteruled tezPozary monthly relief to stout four In:mired persons; at':! to those who wi s h e d to return home, further pecuniary 1;d has been given to a ss i s t th em i n doing so. D.,fore the I . l *.holged article appeared en Tr slay, orders bad been 414 by Government for the present continuance of the slaw relief. iVith respect to the article itself, does the *,:ittr of it mean to my ;I:ctwe are hound to support every patch Constitutionalist, with his wife and family, wbo ;77 Choose to p resent h imse lf i n L an d on , w i t hout any ,'"• 11 t, or with o u t any re f erence to c h aracter ? Hi t h er to th e ku)veznonnt has nu been very scrupulous in their in9uiries al to character: and we can confidently assert, that if rho nty and humanil alone had not prevailed over every other very many of dies.: who are now receiving tee Eaunty of Government would not be deemed, eve:. try thetexoectable class of Spanish refugees themselves, worthi cf it As it is, however, we Can freely af.irm that every rritlual employed i n t hi s wor k of charity ges zealously cn `tuvourid to promote the humane intentions and wishes t the Scretary for Foreign ACkirse—Couri.T. GREEK POLITICS. [From the Third Numb:r of T.',^ Eyre; ,•,:n !I.•riew.l Perham; no political event ever bapisencil of a more re- markable nature, end on witich she world has more steadily fixed its attention. than the late revolution ;,1 the Greeks. For a people oppressed for F 3 many age beneath the gall ing yoke of tvrr.nny—cut off from all participation in the influence of tote arts and sciences—nlli.g.dher deprived of political security, aril even of personal liberty—and, on .the contrary, perpetually exposed to the insults and indig nities heaped upon them by their barbarous oppressors— for a people so circumstance. d to arise suddenly, and at once, and display that gigantic and umbouttedspitit of freedom which has characterised the Greeks since the com mencement of their revolution, is a spectacle calculated to attract the united wonder and sympathy of surrounding nations. Mane persons, no less celebrated for learning than poll deal wlselont. have demonstrated, that the barbarous hordes of the Turks have not only no pretensions any longer to pollute the sacred soil of Greece, but that the Greeks themselves are fully entitled to bo admitted into the rank of civilized and Christian nations. In order, however, to ' place the political as well as moral rights of the Greek nation in a clearer point of view, it isproposed, in these papers, to I lay 'perste the public, facts and events, of which therelater Its either himself been an eye-tritium', cr las received from the most ungee s:ionable sources of authority. Pee lviously to doing which, however, it will be necessary to trespass on the reader's attention by a slight retrospective glance at the annals of Greece. i The local situation of thyeee has not only tended toren : der her people healthful end vigorous, but it has inspired ' them with that inextinguishable Spirit of freedom, which is invariably observed to belong to the inhabitants of mountainous districts. exeept where peculiar circumstances have contributed to check that spirit for a time. From this innate spirit of freedom have tirouestienally resultei dm= many intlepemlent states which were established in Greece in ancient times, the power and influence of which, coin pared with the space of territory which they immediately occupied, have been the wonder and admiration of all mu : elan historians. Switzerland herself may strve as an example, in our own times, of the tact of a mountainous country in preserving in the peop:e a free republican spirit ; • and the .Montenegrins, a people who inhabit the most mon: •ainons pans of Illy ria, have never, to this day, sub ' militted to the yoke of the Sultan, but have always rc -1 , mained under the government of their own Bishop. It was, in fact, this very spirit of freedom, carried to a blamable and impolitic excess among the Greeks (and in reference to which Aristotle says of them, that they were horn to be masters as other nati.ms were born tole slaves,) 1 that caused those calamitie s soul destructive wars which at length entiel in the total subjection and political death of their country. Philip of Macedon, a monarch at once I ambitious and cunning, having Seel that the 43retks were already weakened among, themselves by means of ' their constant struggles for s:lative superiority, set on 1 foot numerous intrigues, in which he was very skilful, and' at length succeeded in placing himself at the bead of all the states ; an event which they prolAbly the less strenuously opposed, as it contributed, in a cer tain degree, to unite theirs into one political body. No doubt many other causes contributed to bring about this event ; but these, for the sake of brevity, we pass over, as it is not cur wish to touch upon the history of ancient r Creece any farther than is necessary, in order the better to t e develop the present condition and prospects of the modern nation. Suffice it therefore to observe, that the political horizon of the ancient republican states of Greece, first be gan to be darkened Tinder the dominion of Philip ; and that the glory which had been achieved, not only by Mil tiaeles, Leonidas, and Thernistocles, but by the illustrious comitiests of Alexander the Great, began to le tarnished by the destructive wars among the successors of this latter monarch. While, too, on the one hand, the Greeks were becoming exhausted by bardshirs and sufferings, and their free and patriotic spirit was sinking beneath the untoward circumstances which oppressed them, the Romans were ra pidly growfng up into that vigour and power which were shortly to render them masters and monarchs of the uni verse. This gigentic nation, which was now every day advancing towards perfection, not only by means of its arms and military science but by the influence of those wise laws which protected and secured the life, honour, and property of the governed no less than of the go vernors, having perceived the feeble and decrepit ems- Idition of the Grecian republics, proceeded to subdue them, and effected its purpose with great ease; since, which period Greece has never once been able to lift , I her head and assert her indt pentlence. When, how ever, the seat of government of the Roman empire was' I 1 removed from Rome to Byzantium, by Constantine the Great, the first Christian Emperor, :he Greeks once more fancied themselves an independent people; and the Byzam e tiue Emperors were even for a time called the Emperors of the Greeks. The Greek tongue, toe, was cultivated at Constantinople, and even became the language which was in use at Court, and in which laws were enacted, and histories written ; and when, during the middle a ges, Europe was lying in a state of darkness and barbarism, Constantinople was the scat of light and learning, and en joyed that prosperity. which results from a liberal use of the arts rd sciences. _ _ ._ . . The &Term nations of Europe, which, under the gene ral title of Crusaders, acre now marching to deliver Jeru salem from the hands of the Mussulmans, were astonished at the degree, not only of riches and splendour, but of re finement and civilization, which prevailed at Constantinople. Min) , years, however, before the times of the. Crusades, the din:au:it barbarous tribes of Asia, inspired with religious enthusiasm by the laws aid tenets of Mshomet, rushed with eagerness to the coragtest of all the countries within their reach ; and the Byzantine Emperors soon perceived that it was impossible wholly to cheek the impetuous pro gress of these birlarians, who brut and laid %race every country that they subdued, and slaught. red all, without distinction of age or sex, who resisted their attempts at mingled plunder and proselytism. In short, all who bad the inisfortue to fall under the yoke of the se marauders, were compelled either to accept the Koran as their creed, or par a tribute to be exempt from it; those who were unable or unwilling to accept either of these alternatives being, without distinction, put to the sword. It is true the Byzantine Emperors frequently obtained victories or, r these barbarous tribes, but these victories only for a while checked the progress of the invaders; and at length the internal vices and political anomalies existing in the Court of Byzantium, added to the insensibility and indolence into whie!t the people were plungrel by the fatal conse quences of arbitrary power and fad government, caused the whole Byzan•ine empire to yield before the continu ally repeated invasions of the Asiatic tribes ; teal the last struggle ended with the taking of Constantiuple, under Consuntine Palwolagus, by Malcom. t 11. in 11S& The evils which followed the capture of the metropolis of the Byzantine empire, were such as are necessarily at tendant on the succcsa of a barbarous and predatory con quctor. Fire, massacre, and rapine, were the immediate followers of this calamity ; and abject subjection and slavery were all that the surviving inhabitants of Greece were entitled to hope for. But, besides the Asiatic tribes, many other barbarous nations from the north invaded the west of Europe from time to time; and shortly after the above event, the partial amalgamation of laws, customs, and religions, which took place, added to intermarriages. &c. produced the effect of the conquerors and the con quered being regarded no longer as two nations, but as one and the same. _ _ _ As the stereo, if not the ostensible cause, which induced the Alussubrtr.c to rush like a resistless torrent froin the heart of Asia, was plunder ' under the mask of religious enthusiasm, it necessarily follows, that all who did net join in their views would be treated with indignity, and considered as slaves. And tints it happened with the ill fated inhabitants of Greece. The Greeks being by tutu-, an intelligent and thinking people, were so convinced of the origin of the Christian religion, end so deeply and sincerely attached to it, that after the subjection of their country by the Turks, and having witnes.sed the ab surdity of the new faith, they chose rather to wabmit to the cruel tyranny of their comptcrors than abandon the sacred doctrine" of the Gospel. The Government, there fore. of the '11::':., in its relation to the subject Greeks, became, of course, that which necessarily subsists between a predatory tribe and its unfortunate victi :a. No Consti tution was given, in accordance lT!th which the subdued sw:ar allr-ziance to their subduers; no code of laws was established for the maintenance of order or the adjust ment of tlidi"enees ; nor was any other political measure re sortzd to, whieu was calculated to ensure the tranquillity, safety, or prosperity. of either the governors or the go verned. On the contrary, the administration of affairs was left entirely to ule arbitrary will and caprice of ignorant, headstrong, and sensual tyrants, who parsed their whole time in the company of eunuchs and concubines, and had net only no idea or experience of the nature of political science, but wire unacquainted even with the geographical situation of the country of which they had acquired the poeseasion. Their swords, therefcre, were perpetually tt sheathed, and suspended over the heads of their unhappy victims; and hence alone they drew the power of un posiog taxes, without discrimination, and without limit. Besides the capitation tax (which all Greeks pay without exception, as a tribute of acktionledgment to tfic Sultan for his clemency in granting them their lives), there is a tax of one-tenth in the bnudred on the agrienhurist and labourer, besides on additional tax of one-ilfth on the produce. But, if it should he urged that this is no more than is paid by other civilized rations of Europe, we reply, that, in addition, the roor oppressed inhabitants of Chris tian Greece were compelled to provide for all the Turkish tro pa that passed through the towns or villages in which they resided, thiring the whole time that they remained there; and not only so, but they were forced to supply all the necessary rovisions on their departure for another station. And this th'y s.vere not unfrequently called upon to do, in consequence of the internal s. (Udell and anarchy that are constantly prevailing among the different Paellas. To th(s may be added, the almost total want of any coin asercial intercourse with other nations, as well as the non existence of manufactures, and of any other of those vari ous sources by which the precious metals are attracted to a country. This, eviller with the total absence of good faith in the Turkish government in reprd to the changes in the value of the currency. isce. rendered the yoke of the unfortunate Greeks still histvicr, and their sufferings still less endurable. • But does the reader suxese that we have now summed up the whole list of the sufferircs of the Christian sub jects of the Sults) ?—A 'as, no !—They had also to bear without a murmur the nut:noon's impositions of the different • satrap. of the prov!nets; not to mention that every Gres • was compe'led to maintain a 'fuck in his house, or to pay, according to his means, for his maintenance elsewhere. Having explained the rnanneoin which the unhappy sub jects of the 'fluke were taxed, and having shown, that in consequence of these unjust and monstrous es:talons, either of the great Sultan himself, or of the several Paellas who acted as petty tyrants under him, it wars scarcely possible for the nnfortunate . husbandman to gain his daily bread ; we now procetsl to notice some other of those causes which mainly contributed to reduce our ifi-fated country to a state of the utmost poverty and wretchedness. And, first, we shall speak of the mode of athninistering justice, and of settling the civil differences that arose among tl:c people. In Turkey, as in all urnolished and barbarous nations, no etspect is paid to the social compact which exists among citilixed people, and which allows tlum the privilege of enapting their own TAws, by means of their repres•Attativ,s, anti permits the Prince or GcNeruor to be tnerely the ad ministrator and enforcer of those laws. Hence it follows, that in Turkey no distinctions of rank can exist. T he Grand Sultan alone is master : and all others are with out exception slaves untler him, and alarms over whose life and• death be possesva obsolete and uncontrollable power—even from the Grand Visits hit :self, who is the second preen in the empire, down to the meanest peasant. In such a state of things, the laws, if they can be called such, are sufficiently simple. A judge is appointed to sett:e all the civil differences of a certain district ; and he, upon the evidence of two witnesses, (whether•true or false ours is of little import—and there is no deficiency of the latter), assigns the punishment of the accused. There aze no laws to determine the nature and extent of that punishment. and no advocates per mitted to plead the cause of either party, or examine the witntestre on whose evidence the judgment should be grounded. The Cali is at liberty tither to acquit the ac cused, or to assign him whatever punishment his own ca price, interests, or passions, may direct. There is not even any cocrt to which en appeal can be made, unless the a:- cuss' climes to refer the case to the Governor of the place; in which latter event the remedy would inevitably tie worse than the disease, and the unfortunate staler, in escaping. from the fangs of the wolf, would fall into the jaws of the lion. GREENWICH VLSTRY. It would seem as if a serious misurdcestandirg was likely to arise between the Governors and I/Mee:ors of the parish of Green wich and the parishioners. Early in last March the parishioners appointed a Committee to report on the proceedings under the Act of Parliament for lighting and watching this town. The Report suggests several Risme* of mismanagement against the Governors and Directors, of which the principal is the. contract into which they entered with Mr. 'Jostling for lighting the town. This con. tract has been fomted.as the parishioners allege, to the prejudice of a tender made by a ,Mr. 1 ledley, and is to continue ter fourteen years. From the calculations contained in the Report (tor the acco racy of which we cannot vouch), it appears that, by the preference thus given to Mr. (icntlirg. the excess of that gentleman's contract over the one proposed by Mr. liedley, is i;e2l. a-vear,•wldch, fur fourteen veers, amounts to 2.13GL By the calculation of tile Gam ruittce, the total loss is estimated at u flol. If this statement be correct, when it is considered the humble classes that are sub. ject to the payment of this tan, a prima facie ease of hard. ship M made out by the parish, and one involving Mine re 'glect, or a less creditable detcription of Marge, -against the managers of the parish. It was at first intended, by these whose characters were impugned, to convene a vestry for the purpose of disproviog the charges contained in the Report; but this in. tention has been abandoned, and as it is conceived some libellous' matter is contained in the Report, the subject is to ntulert,m dis cussion before the King's Bench. A thousend copiat of the Report were primed; let the I Tinter, after having disposed of some of diem was threatened with being a party to the furthcoming prosecution If he did not coshian t'te rest. Ile accordingly did so. Our state ment of the ostisnated loss by the parish is taken front one of these eushi.mcd Reports wr ich we procured yesterday at Greenwich. The following is the placard which was circulated through the town, and sired by J. Bicknell, the late Vestry Clint, reictire to the Report of the Committee :— •' The Report, as far as it relates to myself, is utterly false; and as the persons signing the same, arid publishin. , the vote of censure on me, shall have to answer for so doing before a jury of their country, the Requisition for a Vestry on the ',object is for the present withdrawn. " J. BICKNELL." This Requisition refers to • Vestry which was railed for tire pur pose of refuting the charges logic:soli against the late Ihrrernois anti Directors of the Parish, by the Committee appointed in March, 1321. In regard to the laws which regulate the inheritance of pro perty, they ore as follows: When the perces die withont, male issue, the whsle property, moveable and immoveable, fulls into the hands of the Sultan. Nothing can be disposed of according to the will of the parent, and the female children are considered as if they did not exist. It is entirely at the caprice of the tyrant, whether they shall be allowed to re tain the mall, at portion or not. So that the female sex are frequently reduced from afluencc to the lowest state of po v:rty sed wretlekluces. In the vise of great crimes, the proceedings are %Mr I suimeary. The Governor of the ylace has the full miler ' of life and death in his hands ; and the wretched cuiffit is not even allowed to make any representations ti .noble the truth or falsehood of the accusations against Litn. In fact, the Pacha has absolute authority to dispose of the lite, or confiscate the property, of thine under his rule, under any pretext whatever that he may chute to assign. Let us adduce a few examples which have come under our own immediate cognizance. During the time of the late deli Pacha there resided at Joanuina a person of family and, education, who by his industry (which is a quality natural to the Greeks) had acquired considerable property. 'This person had a son, who was a remarkably hairlsome youth : which coining to the cars o: Ali, he sent for the father to attend him at is palace, and made a request to him that his sun should he allowed to form a part of his seraglio, as the custom is with the Turks ; and lie assured him that he (Ali) would watch over the welfare of the youth. The father, on hi :wing this request, was struck with terror and astonishment; but being a tran of no Ices courage and in trepidity than integrity and honour, he replied, that his head and those of his family were at the command of the Pacha, but that while he remained alive, lie never would consent to the proposal respecting his son. Ali, observing his determination, dismissed him for the moment, engine, that as be objected so strenuouely to his proposal, he would not prim him further on the subject. lint scarcely , had the father arrived at his home before an orier reached him, commanding his departure from Joannina within three days, and appointing Argyrocastro as the place of his exile. Im mediately on his leaving Joannina, in pursuance of this order, the whole of Ins prrperty was confiscated, and he was thus reduced from affluence to a state of the utmost poverty and distress. It'llat follows is another example of the niatiner in which Turkish tyranny is exercised. A young man, who had formerly been a favourite in Ali's seraglio, demanded in marriage the daughter of one of the Primates of Agraeha ; but the father, attaching a due value to the habits of life contrackel in a Turkish seraglio, refused the person in question, as an unworthy and unfit husband for his child. The young man, on meeting with this repulse, went and complained of it to Ali Paella, who immediately commanded the father to appear before him at Joannina ; and tinkling that his determination was in- flexible, not to give his daughter to the person in question, he issued an order that none of his subjects should dare, on pain of death, to wed with any of the daughters of the I of reviling party; while lie obliged the father himself to remain at Jeannine, absent from his family, fcr fifteen years, during the whole of which tin.e he could not once obtain permission to go and visit them. At seven o'clock last evening, a Meeting of the Parishioners took place, to consider the propriety of regulating the poor's-rate, the ap pointment of collectors, and otter parochial business of local interest. As soon as the appointed hear of meeting arrived, the Vestry was crowded to excess, and on the mo:ion of one of the parishioners, the meeting adjourned to the Lody of the Church. Nr, RITCHIE, Churchwarden, in the ('hair. After the Vestry Clerk, (51r. Sutor) read the object for which the parishioners asaembhal, kir. Illismown addressed the meeting, avid entered into a detail of the amount of the several parochial rates during the last and pre.. writ year. &c. By the estimate which he held in his hand. it ap peared that under the late Directors and Governors of the parish tl:e expenditure was 16,0211. The new Governors and Directors bad been appointed only on the 25th of March, from which to the preen. time (the 9th of Sept.) was a retied short only by two weeks of six months. D u ring that period they expended 4,10111. which, with an allowance of 539/. for the expenditure of the craning two weeks, would make a total of 4,6201. Thus in one half year they had saved an expenditure of at least 3,000/.; and he pledged himself by their persevering exertions, this saying to the par:sh should inerrant' and not diminish. (Hear bear.) The Report which they published exposed what under the late management had been done with respect to the lighting of the town. For this Report. which he (Mr. H.) and others had made upon that subject, and which he could pledge himself contained nothing hut facts, they had been placarded over the town, and threatened with prosecution. (Hear, hear.) lie ro , d those with whom lie acted cared not for retch threat--it did not intimidate him, but he should feel degraded if he saw such abuses in existence and made no effort to correct them. (Hear, hear.) He and others WO! called Radicals fur their con. duet--he was not a Radleal. 1 The preceding examples will probably be considered as sufficient to 'hew forth the Inhuman tyranny which was exercised by 62 Turkish Governors of Greece over their unhappy Christian subjects, who could not be considered as possessing the slightest security either for their property, their honour, or their lives. In fact, he who was to-slay living in comfort and ahluerce, might to-morrow be de priv.el of the means of procuring his daily bread, or even of preserving his life. And let it net he supposed that these acts of tyranny were practised by one Pacha alone : this state of things existed thr.m7hout the whole Turkish empire. That the lives of the ("reek subjects of Turkey were considered as of little or 110 value, ar.cl the beheading of a human being was looked upon as a mere trifle of no import, has been proved, during the present revolution, especially•in the case of the un happy Sciots ; who were not codv all extertninated on the L.king of their island, but some of them, who were residing at Constantinople for mercantile purposes, were executed on a mere suspicion (which was altorwart4 proved to have been unfounded) that thee wore leagued with their brother i rYPerVerlee to be derived from seen inlanders in the rebellion. int* pay. Such flagrant oppressions as the above , which the Greeks I 'l he seve r al who would and who sou is candidateswere then prt;:e: bt ed, when the number of / votes yoti ar t as s i o tie . by! spew . of c ha nd s were undergoing every day, were sorely truf9cient to rouse j Mr. Jeri; an . . - 45 a people, however degraded and debased by a stopifying Mr. illurfird - .50 I slr. Tailor . . - 9 slavery, and to once them on to a desperate resirtance This mode of taking the sense of the Vestry was • very Mae.. against these who ceuld set the most sacred rights of hu tt at this hoar k at g ht a.clack)llW4 ver y dark • and the show of hands warily at defiance. And, in f ac t, th e pl an o f eira i i . quote way of aecortaining the opinion of the Meeting. as the Chords i was with di acuity discernible. During the election we noticed an paling Greece was at first set on f o ot, n o t so muc h fro m a effort which wee made hr a person who had his beck to the majority desire to govern, as • on a principle of pure self-dzfellee I --• of the Meeting (and took no notice of the chew of hands whatev) principle le Melt God has instillt tl not only into man, bit to tura the election against Mr. Suter. by excleiming a wrong numberof votes in favour of hie opponent. The Vt-ury Clerk very into every the meanest member o f th e animal crea ti on . It may here be remarked, that Greece was in fact neiter entirely cotiqut rid, or totally s u bj ec t e d t o th e y o k e o f the' g . retteil to observe some leadin , mower, at the Xleethig. wtsooo ae properly resisted this shamdbl attempt at delusion. to which we re. Turks; for the latt:r haw always, ev e r sin ce th e y fi rs t ; tenance . twit' , appeared others oe laneoble, were disposed to lend a pennon invaded Europe, been at war with some district or other of A poll was demarded in Career of Me. Taylor. but after a&- Epirus and the Morca. And undoubtedly it was the noble tultory convenortion the demand wan withdrawn. and the cm and heroic resistance which the Suliotes sustained for 18 ' Inver' were appointed at the rate of 41. in the pound for due edits.. years against ell the intrigues and all the forces of the it.on. ce -with a t n mono: r atan that it would be probably increases! to six formit table Ali, togeth e r with th e co ntinu e d w a rf are of th e 1 A Parishtner remarked on the impropriety of several reeneettiblo Man'ootes, which at last induct d the Greeks to believe that and solvent permits being returned ato . r3oers on the Collectors' '. whildit: not par the rite. the barbarous hordes by which they hod been so long !ts'eks. and mentioned the name of an individual of respeetahiltty oppressed were not so formidable as they had hitherto ezi e r c ed ause intg e th w e. as er a e of Old person, end w:s been reckoned, if they could but be opposed by courage t ar that he , Pli ee n e . e — c !,,,, u 'e jolly feliew (s laugh). and perseverance. It is scarcely needful to do more than Mr. Ilasiortn, after a variety of twee bueuseFs lint been di.- refer, in passing, to the instance of Parga, an important !euesed and disposed of. celled the attention of the Vesery, to the rum seaport town of Epirus. The courage and watchfulness which wan; collected for briefs ;It was a fund f u r the humane put , . cf the free-minded inhabitants o f this town preserved' P °se pn ef g e :l l l i t e u r r i! o: l 4 Pe w7L e l s o mire br d e e ee st " T il yt e hbey I;luternediti e orttiotriee.- them from ever being conq uere d by th e T ur k s ; arid had circus of petet . ol; Ati er rut-Mons o to the uurchwavolen . (Mr.l . 'oolint not Varga been surrendered by treaty to Ali Pacha it'ettut on the subject of :his tits, and sr: the manlier in whieb the money four years ago, Gr eece wou ld st ill h ave t o b oas t o f one ?Tot collected for fl w a s dispos e d o f. luny' Mr. letarosu.—ls there not a sum f o r briefscolleaed in this at least of her sacred soil, whi c h h a d r e mained for , parish ? centuries unpolluted by the foot of the Mussulinans. I Ai TOOLTN.-I'oo know there is. The general bad policy then of the Turkish government, 1 Mr. is r. ..A1 , 10111).—‘W ill you 01 the amount of that Tate collected? and their rooted hostility to all improvement, added to the ' Mr. Tooerw.—No. rot here! natural industry of the Greeks, and their desire to culti- Mr. Heatosn—Win you tell how it has been ffspoted of? votethe .trts and sci e nc e s, an d through them the civiliza- Mr. TeatlN —I w ill no t. tion which they were jnstified in believing to have been !t 31 i r ei H re e l at uct os a T t O tn ien ct ref ss .ored to 11r. Creel , worod, w ho, though et. almost native to their sacred mil; —these causes Were all ' Mr. rloolin admitted that m there n ttas : s oon on 4rt al subject dimmerat tree sure, one day or other, to come into action. In fact, the : linen Man, net of the charity, which he attempted to justify by Greeks never ceast il to desire a change from the state of t long usage. As he (Mr. 'lemma) coedit not procure intOrmmiui: comparative barbarism in which they found themselves; - from these gentlemen, he could we alai be more successful by ap / i t.s or t i o t t ion to the n ß t fale d n s i n t e nt the Ecclesiastical Court. It wes shame but unhappily they were never, until - lately, able to meet din e th e s exp en se er o t f o a sterr il ng h r u i m ty in , which y with a ft kador to aid aid enceurage them its this desire, was instituted ay for Riga, a tnatt full of a patriotic love of his country, and ' (Hear, hoer.}-IVhat would the parish think Wet sixteen or seven moreover gifted with considerable talents and leaning, teen pounds collected for this charity, two or three pounds only was the fire. who began to contemplate the means of , were appropriated to the purposes of tile charity. oo . tAl the Templed- , emineipating the Greeks lien) their unhappy condition ; s w it , i ,,, :u e ittc , d he f r or wou a ri ., iiiner t at a t t t r e ctin nt in ? ste d i ' i r i i s e s e :t e s t' . s tv et t i , ei ns i e by pe.tone l end he even organized a plan for this purpose, and brought I Mr. Toot's (soh warmth)—What is it to yea bow I dire at matters so near to the wished-for point, that there can be' home? little dbubt Greece would at that time (in I; 99) have ae- 1 Mr. 11A1401 , 711—1 Oen% care hew yoo dine at 1101 WC : but it in a Ferret( and maintained her freedom, if unfortunately his I matter of concern to Vie public to know how you dine at their ev piens had not been prematurely discovered, and he tim rireoel"Celdibedmiotheavteri'lluttKihtlticre n an un d ib ar Vf a f l r e ; ) T li be h w w en" "en rl ien' T . self given up by Austria as a sacrifice to the Parba of returned, and pledged himeelf, ee that ee iw wit h w th l e e sesieta eee r e .ce et I : e freal e t Belgrade. But it should seem that that was not the ap- Collectors, and she persevering support of the ('erish, he would ef.. pointed period, and that R;ga only served to lay the form- foct a ralnetion to the extent he had canoe, or would pledge hin i otelf to pay it to the parish. (Hair.) dation file that Grecian regeneration which was to be effected through the 'imtnediatc efforts of Al..xantler er;i iens Ir. G to . e lt!TC et a llt s e to con:plained of a a n d individnal, w: d to, for ttis . et - Ypsilanti ; who, though he was himself unsuccessful in of plate by le parish . p aro ch ia l e ( e s f rr m l ) . iitbchieirgliseeennotled with I P a lrit i l : It alkali& ed in rousing the spirit of the whole to that effect . That individual (whose name we forbear Its men. Greek popura c t .d to that great enterprise, o f w hi c h wc non) had, since he got the plate. beceone writhe, and no further if any person NI la our wit paper more particularly to speak. exerted himself in .their SCTriCe. -would row second tos motton, Inc would move that thee riven be now called upon to refund the novae). paid for that plate. This prrpowtion was reneived with an estar.-eiion of surprix snot with bloomer by the Aleeting. It was not sammted. The thanks of the Vestry were returned to :he gerdenien whose exertions mad effected the rettuctiOns in the parochial rates; and also to the Churchwarden, who eesureil time that no exertion should be wanting on his part to procure the interests of the pariah. The Vestry then disposed of local bushwes, of no public inte. nest, after which it separated se half-plat nine o'clock. MEETING of :I.e LONDON' noc-ir PROPRIETORS A Court of Proprietors of the Landau Docks assembled at ors o'clock pursuant to advertisement., r.t their house, in l'eirre's-s , rert, for the puepose of mastic:in the esprdleacy of colarging the trorbs?f the Cammaux. _ 3lr. SULLY hi . the Chair. When the advertisemett, by which.qac Court had been convene& was read, The CIIAIn3rAN stated, ant thcioirretors conceiving it nears sir> to enlarge the works of the Conyaey, had testi% cei to tali a Court of Pr.:meters, in older to snitant to them their ideas upon the subject. The Company was in 'on some waste round, ut the east end of the Doeks, and Ase proposal to be aohnittfti was-. that that ground should be appropriated to the excavation if vaults. and the erre:ion of warehouses. Au estimate of the expenses at :toiling the proposed iniprovernents, had been given by Daniel Alexander nod George Chapman, Esqrs. t these gentlemen were of o p inion that the ectiensca wonld not exceed 3011.01 , 01. A I%room ETOII asked If there were not r.-tunily some vacant warelmorcs at that moment; and also, if the Docks had been found inadequate to the reception of thar numbs of vessels apply. ing,for admittance. The Ctiata max allot:ea that the de . .:ks were capable of at. csmodating more vessels than were (Ter at any one time within them, and also that they had vacant warehouses. In fact, altbougt. their trade was in a flourishing condition, yet it did not keep pace with the improvements of the Company's works. There was. nevertheless. a scarcity of room for wi.rehousing wine; and pull. tical circumstances remitted it probable that that want of 10017. would be more seriously felt, unless the twesent plan was adopted. In he present state of South America, Pirtugal was cautious cf rending her produce thither, .and its this state of things might con. tinue for some time, the probability was that warehouse room lot 1300 pipes of wine would In required. A PROPRIETOR inquired i(this measure was not caused by tts intended erection of the St. riatherine's and the South Lontisa Docks. A DINTCTOIt. obserrod, that tl - e rrercnt enla►getne't o: t!e Docks would better enable them to coati:etc with these totrpan•e-. which as yet were only in embryo. A PnoentErou asked if it would tot be better to wait a 'ex months, to ascertain whether Parliament would sanction the bi.l far t;:st erzetion of St. liatharineo Docks. The CITAIEMAX repliod, that it would then be too late, as ' their charter would expire in January. 1t26. Ile had also to men tion that the Directors proposed raising the money by loan, and did not contemplate increasing the capital of the Company. A PROPILIETOR asked if no commpnication had been 11.1t1 wig Government on a subiect so vitally important to the interests of :he Company as the erection of the St. Katherine's Dock ? A Lltarerba replied. that when the subject was first broached, the Directors applied to the lim•crnment, and sued how injtiiim.s the proposed plan most prove to the interests of the Company : stating also that no individuals would embark a capitalof:l,:kaketit:. in the erection of eatentire works for the imprvvement of :he trade of London upon a charter for the limitrit tern* of 21 years, IatICIS they had an expectation of its renewal. The t'omparty did not wart a monopoly. but they did think they had a right to the exclusive patronage of Government. A Matt:von observed upon the probability of the gentle-flea about forming the St. Katherine's Dock Company, giving up tt v‘r project, if the present meeting should concur in the views of the Directors. A conversation ensued amongst several of the Proprietor*. af!zr which the re:lowing Itesolutioa was carried by a considerable jority " That the M.:aeons be empowered to erthrpt the Doi ss a-. 1 Warehouses of the Company, as to them mi.:ltt seem proper, r.•. tided the expeaccs did MA exceed ,",Ott.0001.'• Mr. U. R — ITCHIE.-1 int - ve bccn called a rebel this mcming for the same thing. (A laugh.) A voice in the croad exclaimed--" lie person so addressed me I'd knock him down." (Applause and laughter.) Mr. liamovn resumed. After having detailed to them what had been done under the new management which they appointed, he would propose, as a further step felVards the parochial reform and correction of abuses, in which they had been hithetto so suentes. fuL that en alinternent take place in the poor's-rates from Is. Rd. to Li. A resolution to this effect was, after a brief desultory eon. venation, carried unanimously. 1 The next resolution was one of course, referring to the cleaning 1 Tne Aamv.—The First Division of the .57tb (Wed: of the streets, &e. and was carried unanimowly. Middlesex) regiment of Foot sailed on the 3d instant tea Mr. HARIORD, in proposing the next resolution, which " hied i hoard the Blade Merchant, transport, from Cork for to the appointment of Collector , raid, that it was his inienieon to follow it up with a resolution, that whoever might be appointed !Chatham. The Depot of the Itoval African Colonial should he only paid 4d. in the pound instead of sixpence. Taking 1 Corps is stationed at the Isle of Wigbt. Into consideration how the value of money had fallen from five the Macadamization of the Strand too; I We are surprised that among the improvements in the i f po, and 3i percent. lie thought this a Trey fair payment for of fi cers an. streets of the metro lis ployai l the discharge of this duty. Iv the mode of collection a very , . coositizr.ble saving might he effected, and it wu the dal in ,d i n . l ot neglected. No thoroughfare would more statisCacteri:y krest of the parishioners to regulate the collection at an riui. I try the experiment, nor would ha success be any whete table Tate. Considerable antics had hitherto prevailed in thcnscde I more complete. of cofieetion Ihe particularly alluded to. the case where one col- I From thn Calcutta papers it appears that the Tread-iriil has been applied, b an in h a bi tant of Surat, to the pr.. lector had , cecra! houses, and erased his own name from the books without substituting that of any of these renting who tenanted his ~,. . I houses. lie hoped that those on whomsoever the appointnaent PL,,"lng of boat!. might fall woubt perform th e duty more effectively than it had LaTIiNSITL liorneay.—Jnfeernatien was yesterday te - hitherto been done. There was at present on the ravish books at. ceived at the Police Office, Bow-:trot, of the following uncollected rats of 7,1391. lie %scold net himself impose any daring robbery : Between the hours of twelve and ono pawn, as he was of no party, and had no interest beyond the wet. o'clock, as Mr. James, a collecting clerk in the bankin. - - fare lied - s ief of the pariah. , Mr. TOOLIM (Churchwarden) proposal that Mr. T 302, an d horse of Messrs. Snow and Co., Strand, wad returuiti Mr. Some, the present Collectors, should continue in edfi:c. from the City, he was hustled near Shot-lane, Flee t-st-, et, Another parishioner proposed the name of Mr. Burford, and a an I robbed of bis note-ease, which contained about lin , ‘,..'. iri third that of Mr. bigot. . &ink paper, two of which were for .5.!0!. ; the numbers are Mr. Su ron hoped that before they deprived him of a siting:on ail known and every means have been taken to prey( ::t from which he derived his bread, they would consider the 1.01/ef • ' • i • their being put into eneulatum. A reward of .Soo.. ie o'.. he possessed of doing his dun ;he had always acted up to that power coracientiously art' ditigently.—dier.r. hear.)-1( they ap. fend for the apprehension of the person or pc:sons coio. pointed new Collectors, with new and augmented powent, that w. - 41 c med. not giving a fair trial to the present racers. as those newly ap. Ex EC VTION or JAMF% RES' Notre, FOR M nenva.— pointed would possess greater mama and fraitties of discharging This wretched young man was executed at Delwin:v. on their duty. A. to the amount of rams, which appeared frau his . ast, pursuant to his sentence, at the last W e :Is book was uncollected, he begged to say, that many of the palms M on day l whose rames were these vs thwn, were now receiving the henetit I ASIIIZCS. tic was only 19 years of age, of short stature, of the poor's rates of the pnri.h. The debts were pod and bad, florid campkxion, and Wick hair. The prisoner's te. and it was not easy to ascertain the exact amount of these which haviour sir •:e his condemnation was quite changed ; he an would or would not be paid. , eared anothcr man , ear.° wledgi el the justness of hi t Mr. 1111310110 1 , aid, tiat the collector should elliiiingaida tam p , , s. ntence, and became vi: penit:nt, .slot, and resicied debts which were lived from those which were not se. I • Mr. Seto' sepiiel, that, ti'ey ccuhl orly be ascertained h 7 the t., his fate. Same Proprietors, who were diesaMtfled with the Chamnan't..!•!.. (+don in favour of the Ayes upon the %hew of hsnus , reqoired ballot, but it appearing from a by-law of the Company that no ballot could take plate unlr +s a paper to that erect was howled to the eiriirrnan, signed by nine of the Proprietors, they riecoiescxi is the original ileci.ion. It appt;ted to us that the majority was uneteatiot.able. 4,; i I • ; 0 A, : tt i I I "VI