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II To the EDITOR of The BRITISII PRESS. Stit—The inclosed short sketch was written about twenty months ago, since which period events have taken place, which add to the importance of the subject, and enhance its political interest. The foundation of the 11lyrion provinces by Bonaparte, in consequence of the treaty of Vienna, appears to be the first step to the restoration• of the Grecian empire, therein contemplated ; and after the lapse of an long ■ space of time, as has occurred since this essay was written, it is even now scarcely pos sible to advert to a point more vi►ally affecting the British empire, than that upon which it treats. w. J. HINTS ON GREECE. Whoever has marked, with an attentive eye, the progress of Bonaparte, must have observed; that be sides pursuing that ordinary course of conquest and acquisition, which inordinate ambition never fails to inspire, he is actuated by a romantic passion for the restoration of ancient names at, states, and an ardent desire to link his name to these, as their second founder. The new-formed kingdoms of Etruria sn Westphalia; the Irou Ctown of Char lemagne, and the Sword of Francis the First, are 'all proofs of his devotion to this ruling 'passion, and we may fairly conjecture, that the iufluence which has hitherto governed this Comet, in its course, will still continue to direct its progress. Belie ving, then, that Bonaparte would even- overstep the bounds of sound discretion, for the glory of resus citating, iu name and boundaries, any famous em pire of antiquity; how much more are we to sup'. pose be weald be world in the accomplishment of such an object, when it is reconcilable with the dictates-of the best policy, and accordant with all his other designs and wishes. When not only the fame of restoring the most celebrated portion of the world, to its former dignity, but the benefit of ex tending his maritime power, are centred in the same object, we cannot doubt of its being enhanced in value, and by many degrees recommended to his meet unremitting attention. Such is the state of Greece, which, in the ap pronehing partition of Turkey, offers a fair field for all that the chivalry sr ambition of Nikpoleoo could suggest. Here be at one sweep may embrace the wholocircle of the coasts of Europe, and reign sole master, from the Baltic to the Dardauelles. By thistthe route I. India is more open than by any other accession of territory. In the numberless islands that form the Archipelago, as well as the cluster called the Seven Islands, in the lonian step, he will find thousands of seamen", and vast quanti ties of naval stores and materials. for ship-building. And, independent of an these groat advantages for present political purposes, when we consider that he will also have it in his power to gratify his utmost vanity in the restoration ofGreece,we cannot hesitate, for a moment, in supposing that this is an event, for the fulfilment of which he would ran any risk, and make any sacrifice. Austria may be gratified with Bosnia and pert of Wallachia. Russia, with the other half of Wallachia and Moldavia, to in duce them to acquiesce in the transfer of Dalinatia and Greece to Frattee. Servia will for some time be permitted to exist as an independent state ; and • the race of Or °unmans may, perhaps. be allowed Y to *risk] a slorteard sceptre over Bulgaria, Ronielia surd the Asiatic provinces. Casting our eye upon the map, it immediately strikes us, that France is the only yes' gainer by this partition of the Turkish empire. She alone acquires an effective popula tion mid physical strength, while Russia only adds asi unproductive territory to her already overgrown empire ; and Atietrii is extending her boundaries towards the eaat of Europe, merely to make room for the encroachments of France on the western and most valuable side of her hereditary states. These considerations, in the present stitt, of in certitotle in which we are with respect to the French aid Spanish fleets, ought to call for the earnest atteuttou of Government. It may be thought hy pothetical to journey is search of the danger all the way to the Archipelago, while the more osten sible objcet of the enemy's designs can be found in Sicily. We acknowledge that Sicily is a fair and iru l iortant ground on winch to rest our conjectures as to the intentions of Bonaparte ; lout we ought nc‘er to forget, that, in his crooked politics, the most apparently direct object is in general the one where we are least to expect the bolt to fall. How easy would it .be, while our Commanders are etnii,itig theinsels:es with the security and defence of S.eily, for the squadrons of the enemy in the Mediter ranean to hold on their coarse to the ancient Cy clades, destroy all that is left of our Levant trade, mud make a diversion iu the South, while Turkey is winking under the complicated attacks of her other foes in the North? These hints are thrown together wire for the purpose of coiling attention to this object, than as watering fully upou its investigation. It is of vast importance, wad .eems to Fs overlooked in the anxiety of the public concerning the No►th of Europe—which, however, it of very inferior con• si,leration, whcu outstrosted with oar dangers from the South. P.S.—liciug ,amicable tenon trlthl'ulkey, read»rs the prevent mouteut more auspicious thsio any other. " Tfineetlis doe, sad saw the Use." I. r • • • TILE BRITISH PRESS. LONDON, THURSDAY, NOV6bIII3I 23. Dispatches from Lord Cot.umcwpon are hourly expected at the Admiralty, but none had arrived when this paper was put to press. So strong, how. ever is the presumption thata battle has been fought, tao ships of the line, the Rrpalse, of 74 guns, the lion. Capt. LEatIF, and the Mc/or:ions, of 74 guns, Capt. 11AMON D, have been ordered to the Mediter r,..ilean to reinforce his Lordship, and sailed onTues day from Portsmouth for that destination. The nulet, Capt. DARE, arrived at Plymouth, in ballast, On Monday last, from Boston, in Ame rica, not b ing permitted to load a cargo for England, it consequence of the enforcement of the Non-Intercourse Act. Dispatches were received last morning from the Ceesar flag-ship at Flushing, Outing, we under stand, the preparations made for the immediate abandonment of the Wand. It will be seen, ou reference to our report of the proceedings in the Court of King's Bench, yeal. r• day, that nine men received sentence in a case of a unit a;id rescue at Liverpool. From the affidavits made in tuite,.ition of punishment, it appears that they are all journeymen ropetstakers, with large fatuities, depending for subsistence on their industry and labour. Sir Sinop! LE 111.ssic, in passing judgment, observed, id that a spirit of riot had gone abroad, and a disposition to carry every thing by force and tumult, which left it not in the power of the Court to shew any lenity," and the Prisonels were aecordingly sentenced to TWELVE MONTHS . imprisonment. The scandalous proceedings which have so long disgraced this metropolis, are here evidently meant ; and to them it is owing that these nine men are, with their families, doomed to misery for a whole year, who would otherwise Mtve probably escaped with three months, or, at the most, six months' imprisonment. Those miser able intriguers, who seek to excite these riots, and care nut what misery they cause, provided they can force themselves into notice, are deeply re sponsible to the government and the country. In continuing our review of the individuals who constitute the present. Cabinet, we ore stopped at every step, not only by the inanity and want of po litical talent, which avowedly characterise many of them fur who can seize, or who can descrbe, that which is not tangible, or which has not any existence ?--We are likewise averse to enter into the examination of the aptitude of men to till em ployments, which it is known, or generally be lieved, they are to relinquish, at any moment, to others. Such is commonly understood to be the tenure and the situation of the actual Secretary of State fur the Foreign Department. The Minis ters, from the. turrets of St. James's Palace, with outstretched necks, are looking towards the Atlan tic, iayatiently utiticipating the .t.ris al of that great Asiatic, no less than European Statesman, who is on his way from Seville, to their aid. Anxious to receive the tvenctit of his vigorous, prompt, and ardent counsels, they deprecate every wind that can prolong Ins voyage, mid invoke the western breezes to !pet 41 his course. " 01)atractis alias procerJapyga." In the at”.ence, lonacver, of this illustrious pa son, the Foreivit (Me is lichl by Lord liaTituas . r. His 'Janie naturally awakens ina.iy classic recollec tions, and carries u• back to the Arguslan Age of English Poetry, as well as Literature. It WAS of his grandfather. the first Lord lisTituftsT, under Queen Atora. that Pori olP.erves, as of the cele brated Earl of BUKEINGTON ; u tt ho thee rtieud, or who improve the sail ho plsots like Bathurst, ur who builds like Boyle ?", Box xratui r, it must be °word, has greatly cur tailed the patronage, diminished the tamers, and contracted the sphere, of the Secretaryship for the 'Foreign Department, within the last ten years.— Listrin.l of a place of 4.4. i first., if is become a spe cies of sinecure. In 1792, the person who tilled it often saw it his levee near twenty foreign Envoys ; and he named to more than that number of foreign li ~ ions ; from the embassy at Paris, down to the Agent to the Haase Towns, and to the Circle of Lower Saxony. But these transitory glories are nos dwindled down to fire or his, including Ame rica. Portugal, indeed. Its been divided into two distinct nominations; one to the PRINCE Reamer, in the Ilniails—the other, to the deported Mo narchy, at Lisbon. Seville and Palermo have re placed l'lbulrid and Naples. Constantinople still receives, and, we believe. ventures to retain, our Ainhetwador. But the few surviving diplomatic appointments here enumerated, evidently hang by • slender thread, and may be extinguished on the shortest notice. It may, indeed, be asserted of the Secretary for Foreign affairs, in litso9, IS JUVCN AI. does of the Roman People. under nomitiati-- MOM dalsat Olila " Imperials, fasces, Irgioses, aania ;..ores " C.Hitinro ; akin, duns tastes res amiss optatt " Palma et cireenses." The *entice of plate. the salary, and tb• Calimit alsoorm are Dearly all that remain now of the vo. rions and important fanct;ons once annexed to the i office. • ' Not that we mean, on that account' to underva lue its importance, or to imply that it may be, with safety and propriety, committed to weak and in capable hands; on the contrary, the greatest, most perplexed. and most weighty questions of state pos hey, which the present convulsed state of the globe can originate or can 'present, are about to arise in that very political quarter. To their discussion, agitation, and the final determination upon them, .the experience, caution, and abilities, of Lord GRENVILLE, or of Lord GIIEY, are, assuredly, not more than equal. The present Secretary, however estimable and respectable in his private character. and however competent he might have been, at certain periods of; this reign, to hold his office, will be, we are persuaded, universally pronounced un equal to its duties, in the present awful crisis. Na !GLUON, we may be assured, as soon as the state of his health will admit, or the objects of his imme diate policy, ambition, and gratification, are accom plished, will instantly attempt to complete the subjection of the Continent at its two extremities. The Ottoman Empire, un this side the Bosphorus, and the Peninsula. beyond the Pyrenees are the only portions of the ancient Europe, which can be justly considered as opposing any obstacle to his unlimited power. That either of these tottering fabrics, attacked from without, and undermined within, can maintain the struggle more thus a very limited time, it is difficult to believe. That they must ultimately succumb, is too probable; we had almost said certain. But, out of the ruinsof those gigantic masses, what awful chauges may arise I what new situations, and questions for a British Cabinet to weigh, to discuss, and on which to de cide ! In the East, the More*, the Archipelago, Candi*, Cyprus, Egypt, Rhodes, besides the pro vinces of European Turkey ! In the West, the city and harbour of Cadiz, Gibraltar, Major ca, Minorca, Ivies, end the Cauaries ! What is• to he the fate of the Philippine Islands ? What the destiny cf the immense possessions of Spain in the New World ? By whom, and under what form, are they to be governed ? I-low are we to meet, anti to counteract the plaint of the fierce and subtle tyrant, who, after nearly subjecting Europe, looks forward to coerce Asia and America ? Can we sub mit to abandon the vital interests, and the last re sources of Great Eltituni, to the conduct of men, whore incapacity, we might say imbecility, is re cognized ? to the men who sent Lord CHATIIAIS to attack Autwerp; and who, up u, this hour, after losing an army in iVulchcren, neither know how to retain. or how to abandon it ? To the Ministers, who, when they mi6ltt have attack^ci lioNatraitTE at Trieste or in the Elbe, and wilco they might have attacked Josmau is; Catatonia or in Biscay, sent one army to perish in Castile, and another to moulder away in Ischia. and at Procida ? The proposition is absurd, and will be found impossi ble in fact. Such an Administration tiay be en dured from October till January, but will dissolve as soon as the sense of I'arliameut laud of the na tion can be heard and expreised. An account iv said to have been received from Ca diz, that 11.trq. 1Vi.1.1.1.51.EY lies prevailed ispou the Supreme Junta to allow Cents to be garrisowed by i s britisli force. Ceuta is a seaport • promontory, on the coast of Africa, opposite to (.ibraltar, trout .which it is not distant above live leagues. A cartel arrived at Plymouth on Moods) , front Ntorlait--while there, a brig was brought in. called the Wiiliaat aad Jame; worth bow/. with earthen ware, Etc. for Plymouth, belonging to several trades. men of that tawn arid Dock., Who will be great suf ferers by her capture; she wet taken by a famous brig privateer, of 1G guns and 170 men, command ed by the celebrated Capt. SERCAU e; slit .awls like the wind. The letters by the last Gottenburgh Mail con tain some satistactory information -respecting the disposition of the Swedish Goveronieut towards this country. Notwithstanding the article in the Treaty with Russia, which• stipulates the ex clusion of British vessels from the Swedish ports, the packets, we understand, will be allowed to en ter Gottestburgh as before. As there was every ap pearance of au early winter, the trade was preparing to leave the Baltic as soon us possible. Sir JAMES SAYSIAREM was expected to sail about the begin tiiitg of December with the last convoy, Mr. PIIRCLIVAL has granted the Chiltern Finn dreds to Sir Yeoman Bost( en. to enable him to stand for-A bingdou, in the room of G tin RUE K N APP. E.g. because Sir Tneorutuus MeTcat.rc, being Sheriff of the County, could not stand. Sir Tinto- . rut Los is to stand for Malniesbury. Lord CASTI.ERFAGH,it is Mid, means personally to institute a Parliamentary liigniry into the con duct of the late expedition to the Low Countries. as the most direct and effectual means of rindicat-• ing the state pone) , or that unfortunate measure. Yesterday, the Archbishop of CANTaKIIVILIrs after attending His MaJeirre, went to his seat, at Addington, to dinner,. On IVednesday last, the executors of his Gram, the late Archbishop of Dublin, paid into the Stamp-Olnee, 1,7331. 6s. Al. for duty upon the lest %sinful(' testament of his Grace. Ile is said to have worth nearly 400,0001. The hulk of his proprety-sleeeendis to Ins son, the Earl of Nott- NANT•II, - • Toting Nobleman of great talent, sad who has visited ever 7 part of F.nrope not within , the influence of the I , retteh'Monstrch. Some irks of the extent of Norfolk farms may be formed, when it is known that woe occupier, in ' the Western district, last year, expended - mere than 11001. for only oils sort of numare, (brought many miles) notwithstanding the immense quantity made at house, and the great number of *beep antionlly &Idea so the greowde. On another farm, 45 awes are consumed is roads across the lauds. . ekk l4 c . ' - ; jr,l 'e•Nr;;V - V"..,` THE COURT. ~~ Yesterday, about half pest twelve o'clock, H. MAJESTY arrived, in his travelling carriage, front Windsor, escorted by • party of Light Horse, irt the Quayle% Palace, where he was received by the Dukes of Yost, CU MRERLAXD, and CAMBRIDOIR. --- Soon after two o'clock Ills MAJESTY held a Pri vate Levee, which was attended by— The Arrtiblabnp of Canterbury. the Lord Chastain, the Lord Privy Seal, the First Lard of the Treasury .ad Chum relive of the Exchequer, the three Secretaries of State, Om First Lord of the Admiralty, the Conimander.ia-Ch'sc tkc Judge Aiirucate, the Duke af Muutruse, Earl of Harman% Lards Sninervilie toil :leathbeld, (gold stick) Sirs S. CO trill, C. liamiliou, I'. Williams, J. Homfray, sad R. SOO ; Generals Orr,. Macleod, and De Wattmilie; Captain Parker, It. Si., and Mr. Villiers. . . The fulto;iing had the honour of being preientel to His AIAJESTY : I..Humfray, of Landoll' House, Sheriff of the elms/ of Glamorgan, by Al r. Ityam; upon which occasion he reCCITIA the honour of Knighthood. Sir Robert IViMutospon his return fres Spain. Sir Charles Hamilton, upon his appointment to a Cols• nelcy of Marines. . Capt. Peter Parker, Royal Navy, by Lard klialgrave. Rear-Adages' Sir Thomas Williams , lipase bis prisaitittaa. Major• General Orr, .span Lis promotion. Major-General Maclad, spot; his pmnistion. figsjor-Gslarsl Watteville, ups* his pronistios. His IHSJ Errs. gave audiences to'Mr. PERCEVAT, the test of the Cabinet Ministers present, and Mi. M. SUTTON, the Judge Advocate, who laid betnie ills MAJESTY the proceedings of several Courts Martial. - . A lade before sit o'clock, Nis MAJUIN set of on his eeturu w Windsor. OIUGINAL POETRY. ACROSTIC. II Me Le the Maid, who blooms in Natures.clsarvaa, ach art deapisisyr, while Ler generous heart L mires the .1611 maxim that tha miser arm*, L ifc7is charities to deal, where sorrows smart 0 b ! blest is she, who, rimed in Natures-atheist, N atom has taught to feel without w rule. C. R. SHERIDAN. The Earl and Countess Citocsionottsx will give • grand dinner on Monday at their house ia The Marquis of LANSDOWN'S funeral will take place at eleven o'clock this morning. His Royal Highness the Duke of CLattanct is expected in town this day from Bushy. Viscount and Viscountess Mat.notiam will- lease town. on Sunday, for 13rocket Hall, Herts. The Marquis of litre's travelling carriage,whiels is fitted up with a bed, has nude:guile a thorough repair, and gas sent mi . yesterday to Portsmouth, to be embarked fur Sicily. The Countess of ARRAN hail a card party, hat night, at lid hoofs in Dover-street. which was twitted by the Duchess Dowager of M•PICHESTES. Mrs. EL Dassxl, and several other Fashion ables. Admiral Sir login Corn's% is at preweet on a vier at Chelsea-fawn. the sent or Viscount Cast• immix. His Lordship sad family are expected. next week, at their house. iu Stauhope-street. Ma)- fair, for the season. . . Cady Vl'sse arrived yesterday at the house of her daughter, Mrs. Itofirrs, in Upper Grosyeaor buret, from her seat, Pheasaut-grove. Kent. Miss Tar sus thinks it very hard that she is to have only rl. per cent., while her bankers may Lit making lu/. per cent. of her money. The Reverend Mr. CANIMILNa returned to town yesterday from Ireland. The Marquis of 5i.;,00 accompanied by H. CHAD, Esq. is expected to town this day from lib. laud. The Duchess Dowager of MAYCHESTIti returned yesterday to her house in Berkeley-square. for the season. Spine persons express surprise that Mr. Witi Dove should woke such a fuss @bout his Aar, but they forget that it is a capital offence. in the garden of Mr. Ricasan MAIOII, of Strengewa!e. Lancashire. a rasinrry-tree is at this tune bent down by the ripe fruit which loads its houghs. hying the second crop it has furnished the owner this y rur. NATIONAL RMA& 1111111T.-.Mr. TURNIUICLLI is now, end has been for souse time, at Windsor, modelling the National Bust.nf His MAJESTY. ar size life. Time original Bust, so much approved uf, fur which the Kt NU sat to this favoured Artist, was done on a smaller scale, and. consequently, was not so fit to be placed in public halls See. as the larger one now modelling. copies of Ail+. is marble, hvve already been ordered by avveral Cur prate Bodies. We have no doubt but that dam example will be generally followed throughout tie kingdom, as every loyal body must he anxious t► leave to their posterity some memorial of the re markable yrs of the Jubilee, than which none can be so appropriate as a Bust universally acknow ledged to be a most exquisite Iskeneas of our re spected Sovereign. On the t3th instant, at Selkirk, an elegant din ner was given by the Magistiates and Council of that borough, to the Earl of Da LINIFITit, as an NV" propriate testimony of •the esteem and resent which are entertained, by the torso, of Selkirk. lve the noble family of Bccce.auen. The meeting we attended by several gentlemen of the county, r`f high respectability. sad the evening passed over with a degree of cordiality and festivity, suited tom happy en occasion. On Monday sight. Capt. Dißtl.l:4 nountis threw off at Ilellardou Bridge, Norfolk, where they ware joined by Mr. %tomes puck. They son" found a here iu the meadows, and she afforded 0 very v. line burst" for six miles, running to the fur ther part of St. Faith's pariah ; a burst which tried the speed of some of the best bones in the tee hunts. After a little check, the dogs regained the scent. and ran ° breast high," doubling round by Drayton, to liellesslon. and Caen a circuitous course again to Drajton. back to the meatlews , i bat being hard praised, puss ant "straight sway. aud was killed near St. Austin's gate, basins 14 0 " 1 a twu hymn. and tarty istuatai chase. ___ _