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would be coneideeed as a party in the various acs of and slaughter which were so often committed by both parties in the war. Here it was clear that these words had reference to the Greeks as well as to the Turks ; and if so, more than a fair share of blame was thrown upon the former • and if, after the affair at Ithaca, such epithets were deserved, t he Greeks should not be blamed, for the Turks were the origin and muse of all ; and so far was Prince Mau rocordato not guilty, that he had done every thing in his power to prevent it ; he made rery exertion to restrain his men, and he had suite made repeated ap agies far what had occurred. The facts were, that a Greek vessel pursued a Turkish, the later approached Ithaca, and her master and crew consisting of from fi fty to a hun dred, reached the islands in bails ; here they commenced a men damn fire upon the Greeks, who landed and put their enemies to death In fair fight. He hoped that similar measures would be taken to prevent the Turks in future front actin as they had donein the case of theOreeks. He was sorry to find Sir T. Maitland saying, that when men were fighting in the awed liberty, all the dreadful atrocities wee charged as the crimes of the Greeks. In truth they had origi nated with the Turks. There were two or three instances of the Turks violating the neuntality of the island of Prevesa, when the examined some vessels, and finding five or six Greeks on board, they took them ashore and beheaded them and it was upon oc dem* such as thine that Sir T. Maitland had thought proper to give epigrammatic turns. He was sure that the Right Hon. Gentleman was not acquainted with these circumstances ; and his object in stating them was, that they should be communicated to the House, and, he need not add, to the public. The charge of the grievous atrocities, which had been made upon the Greeks, had spread great alarm amongst them. Prince Maurocoedato had sent two messengers, one to Corfu and one to this country, lest the character of the Greek cause should be injured with the public hue, and those who did not know them should imagine that every great atrocity proceeded from the Greeks. This country had perhaps no right to give direct assistance to the Greeks ; it might as well assist the • Italians against the Austrians, or the Iftthiards against the French. He, for his part, liked the Turks much better than he did the Austrians. He had seen both. He was glad to have it in his power to say, that no obstructions' wareigiven to the Greeks by the Government at home. Nothing was done in this country to prejudice their cause. Sir Thomas Maitland had spoken, in his proclamation, of the unfortunate struggle in which all parties were engaced. What right bad he to call It unfortunate ? (Hear, hear.) Inst right had he to de- WIZ= as unfortunate the struggle of men who had as good a tight to be free as himself / (Hear, beat.) The Honourable .rober concluded by expressing his conviction that the Greek cause would not be injured with the public, and that Sir Thomas Maitland would he able to shew good and convincing reasons for the proclamation he bad issued, and for the part he had seemed to take in the struggle. Mr. CANNING said he was perfectly ready to give either the Honourable Gentleman who had just sat down, or any other Ho nourable Member, any information In his power respecting the important matters to which he had alluded. He would, however, state that he would not snake any allusion whatever to the Speech which had been delivered on the preceding night. As to the first question which the Honourable Member had put to him, it was most uncertain in its purport ; and the Honourable Member had, as it appeared to him, fallen into misapprehension, from confound ing a question of principle with a question of fact. He had main. tamed, and he would still maintain, that it was the undoubted right of the mother country, if her power were equal to the right, to at tempt the rxovery of her colonies ; but he did not carry his prop°. sition tothe extent that any other powers were to interfere under the mask of giving her aid ; and he had affirmed, that England would not suffer the interference of any other power whatever. This was the principle upon which he had acted, and he was satisfied that the Government should be tried by this principle, and by it he was ready to stand and to be judged. The Honourable Member had tneutioned no events ; he had not brought forward any Mel, accord ing to which he would try the me Lures of the Government. lie would assert, that under the presentcircutnstances, we had no right to interfere between Old Spain and her colonies ; and as to the tin ture, with regard to those events which are not in our power, there can be neither debate nor discussion. The lionourable Member had barred against him all the channels of assurance and informa tion. lie was not to believe the King of France,—he was not to believe his Minister. He would refer the Honourable 3lentber to that which he would believe—the despatch read by him in that House during the last session, in which he stated his opinion re . specting the occupation, which he too credulously, perhaps, had expected would be of short duration : and in that document he had dressed, in the strongest manner, his views of the subject. lie . still retained these same views respecting the aggression against Spain ; but considering it as separated from its injustice, reflecting upon it as not charged with the vice of the originalysion, he would affirm, that history could not produce an exam e of allies, whose aitl was solicited by one of the parties which finally pre. dominated. who had given such little cause of quarrel as the French. As to the other question which he had put to him, he did not know if he could give it a distinct answer ; it was a case purely imaginary ; and by putting it, he was not tried upon the principle which he had laid down. As to the point, if there was no danger to be apprehended from the occupation of France, and what was to be the term of this occupation, he would make this answer :—from his knowledge of the state of Spain, and the situation in which she was at present placed, that if the limit of the occupation were to be fixed for to-morrow, the would, as a friend to humanity, exclaim " No". As to the other question respecting the Proclamation issued by Sir Thomas Maitland, he wonld communicate that information which he had received himself upon the subject. With respect to the :node of styling nlaurocordato as the person called Prince, it wax not done with any intent to disparage him. He had no right to the title, and therefore it was not given him. The Honourable Member asked what outrage had been committed by the Greeks ? He would state the circumstances as they came to his own knowledge. A Grecian squadron had pursued two Turkish vessels ; one of them succeeded in reaching the island of Ithaca, a spot sacred to neutra. lity ; the Greeks pursued them on shore, and out of about one hundred and twenty who landed, ninety were butchered in cold blood. Sir Thomas Maitland was the guardian of the neutrality, and under the circumstances he thought it his duty to take notice of what had occurred. Sir Thomas Maitland had maintained the strictest neutrality with an even and impartial hand ; outrages had been committed on both sides: this was to him a subject of regret, but it was impossible to prevent them, and he was sure that the British Clove nment had not received the slightest stain. Mr. WESTF.I C commenced in so low a tone as to be almost Mandible in the gallery. Ile said he felt it necessary to state that he did not coincide in the measures of foreign policy pursued and acted upon by Ministers. lie valued peace; n 9 person appreciated its blessings more fully. But to maintain this peace, he would not go the length of, the Right Honourable Gentleman. He would not go to lengths which were, in fact, an abandonment of all principle, a sanction of the grossest violation of right, and an utter infraction of the laws of nations. He would not go so far as the Right lion. Gentleman, in asserting that this country should not interfere for the preservation of the weaker States. The principle may perhaps be right, but it was a different thing to remonstrate in their favour ; and if England had remonstrated as she ought, Spain would be safe, and the invasion would not have taken place. These were the prin ciples dangerous to the liberties of the people, which owed their ori gin to the Congress; ant - he remembered, when the lion. Member for! Yarn moved for the production of parts respecting that l'ongress ; and their principles, Lord Castlereagh opposed the motion, on the ground that these principles were merely promulgated and had no practical application whatever. He would now, however, appeal ; to the blouse, and ask it' they did not all witness the practical ap. phcation cf these principles. lie must therefore enter his protest against the system of crooked policy which had been pursued by Ministers. Colonel PALMER stated, that heroine under feelings of shame I and indignation at the conduct of the Ministers • he had nut I opposed the Address against the general sense of the House, but, impressed with the conviction that not only Europe, but the world ' at large, had never yet been reduced to such s state of actual and prospective misery as at the present moment, and that such state was to be imputed solely to the conduct of the British Go vernment, he considered it. as a duty to God and to his country, as a member of that House. to declare I is opinion upon the subject. If it were true, as the Ministers had told us both in and out of Parliament, arid more especially in a late speech of the Right Honourable_ Secretary, that the country had been so long prepared for war, they had sacrificed its honour and most vital inter its by suffering France to conquer Spain; if it were false, they had equally betrayed their duty, by deceiving the country to sun. port the system of their Government. But whatever the real rate of the nation, the conduct of the 3linisters towards Spain had been I wholly indefensible ; as looking to the avowed intentions of France and the Holly Alliante, neutrality on the part of England was impossible, and could not be maintained t for what had been I the late measure of the niininers in sending Consuls to South , America, but an act of hostility to those Powers, which, if not resented, was but a further proof, if any were wanting, that if England had acted with firmaess at the Congress, and declared herself the ally of Spain, France would not have dared to in. wade her? If, on the other band, after abandoning Spain, the country was to be involved in war for the independence of her colonies, what excuse was to be made for the 31inis'ers who might have secured the liberties of both at a less expense to the nation, than had already been incurred by the active measures to which their crooked and inconsistent policy had ' at last compelled them ? The Ministers, in the last Session, to ' cool the ardour of the people in the cause of Spain. declared that any interference an her behalf would involve all the ex. penses of the former contest ; but lie then stated to the Right Mon. Gentleman. what he now repeated, that no such expense was necessary. All that honour and policy required of Eng land, was to render Spain the assistance which her mine af forded, and those means were more than adequate to the ob ject : for to have sent but half die force of our Naval Peace Es tablishment, lying ready in our ports, to the defence of Cadiz, would have prevented all the disasters to the cause of Spanish liberty which the consummate folly or treachery of the British Government necessarily had led to. Vet tbie straight and pru. dent policy, which every consideration for the htmour and in. terests of the nation demanded, had been termed Quixotism by the Right lion. Gentleinan. Would that his conduct as Minister could bear the same comparison ! but, unfortunately, it had be. ?rayed all the insanity of the character. without a spark of that chivalrous feeling, which, however romantic in its origin, or thauk. has in the end to the mind of the Right lion. Gentleman, was, in the opinion of the lion. Member, the hat foundation of a great, a good name, either for States or individuals. The Right lien. Gentleman, too, in his late speech, farther to mark the distinction between his Quixotic opponents and himself. had openly declared, as the 31inisvr of England, that its the conduct of political affairs, the grand object of his contemplation was the interest of his own country ; and what had been the result of this most wise and ames' policy, but to combine the whole world against her ? For where was the nation wherein, both with the Government and the people, the name of England was not .iunty held in detestation? She was necessarily hated by all the Governments of Europe, as the only nation wherein thstliberty dif the press existed, which, if not des strayed itself, must eventually destroy their tyranny ; and she was equally hated by all other nations, because in every instance of a struggle for liberty, whether in France since the commencement of her revolution, or latterly in South America, in Greece, in Italy, or in Spain, the British Government had invariably opposed it. Thus England, through the system of iu Ministers, was the enemy of the whole human race; and whilst the Right Honour able Gentleman had been exhibiting himself about the kingdom, trumpeting in all directions the praises of himself and colleagues, there was net a nation but abhorred them, nor a power in Europe that was not pledged to destroy the libe rties of the country committed to their hands. And after all his fine speeches, what in fact had been the measures of the Right Honourable Gentleman to oppose France and the Holy Alliance, up to the total destruction of Spanish liberty be the fall of Cadiz ? Nothing whatever but in temperate abuse of their conduct, and a positive declaration of strict neutrality. This was not quixotism certainly, nor did he know a parallel to such conduct in history or romance; the only re-, semblance the Honourable Member could find to it was in the case of the late atrocious murder, wherein the Holy Alliance was the bold villain who went straight to his purpose, whilst the Hight Honourable Gentleman was the humane and consistent accum plice, who, after furnishing the ropeand sack, resolved, "come what might," to have no share in the transaction ; for precisely with the same feelings that this miscreant hung back whilst the deed was I perpetrating, so the Ministers of England, who had gone hand-in hand with their accomplices, in their plots against liberty, for the last thirty years, now stood aloof whilst their victim was expiring under the blows of its assassins. As to their accomplices, corn with themselves, they were F honourable, upright characters, car their conduct had been consistent throug hout; and whilst he detested their policy, in justice to their private characters, and what he believed and knew upon the subject, he could not agree to the odium cast on persons, to whom every allowance was to be made for those prejudices and ingireseions which, however hostile to the liberties of mankind, were inseparable from human nature, and would be felt equably by others, under similar circumstances. Foe the same reason he could excuse the Ministers of those despotic powers, who were, in fact, Oar slaves; but he could find no excuse for the Ministers of England, who were not the slaves but the tyrants of the Crown and people, and of all others the most base and cruel that ever infested the earth. Even the King of Spain, madman or monster that he was, had been less base and in human, for his conduct had been coneistent with the feeling of bigotry and Divine sight ; but where had been the consistency or humanity of Ministers ? For, at once to have declared against Spain would have prevented a struggle equally disgraceful and deplorable in its consequences to the victors and the van- Mquished. But what had been the re fi tted policy of England's Minister, and of that heart, which, by its own account, beat so high for the interests of humanity, but to create this contusion of horrors in Spain, by means of a treacherous neutrality ? and having so far succeeded, it was now to perpetuate the miseries of that wretched country, to prevent France front reaping the fruits of her victory. So much fur the humanity of the Right Ilonourable Gentleman. As for consistency, let him reconcile his prayers for the Spanish Constitution, and his contemptuous answers to the Regency. with his subsequent congratulations to Ferdinand on his success, and the treatment of the Patriots who sought refuge in Gibraltar; and when he had answered that charge of apostacy from Radicalism to Divine Right, let him answer the charge of ultrampostacy from Divine Right back to Radicalism, in now declaring for the Patriots of South America, in the teeth of the Foreign Enlistment Bill, expressly enacted against them : let but the Right Hon. Gentleman reply to these questions, and the lion . Member would spare him many others, which the course of his political life, and his late speech at Plymouth, had fairly called for. And now, continued the lion. Member, as to the real situation of the country ; he remembered long since, upon a quesion of the same nature in the House, they were told by an Hon. and Learned Member of the landed interest, that it was time to speak out, and look the danger in the face. If that was his opinion then, what did he think now, when during eight years of a peace establishment no reduction whatever had been made of the burthen of the public debt; when, in spite of all the retrenchment which Session after Session had be en force,. upon the Ministers, the load of taxation still pressed too heavily upon all ! classes to admit of a increase; when , such was our state of real weakness, that the Ministers, who in the last war expended mil lions upon millions to deliver Spain from the power of France, had ' I now suffered her to fall without even an attempt to save her ; when I France herself, whom so lately, in conjunction with our allies, we had humbled to the dust, was now again on foot, more great, more powerful, and more inveterately our enemy than ever ; and lastly, when those same allies, who first combined with us against her li beetles, were now com bined with France against the liberties of England • and the storm so long gathering around us, was now l et last ready at any moment to burst upon its head? If in such a state of things,so humble an individual of that House as him• self might venture to speak out, and look the danger in the face, he believed he could state the cause and the oily means to remove it ; but having already trespassed too long upon the time of the House, he would avail himself of other opportunities of declaring his sentiments upon the su'.:ect. hir. H U3IE said he was anxious to my a word or two in reply to the Right Hon. Secretary of State, respecting the subject intro. duced by the lion. Member toe Westminster. ue had also re ceived another communication from the lonian Islands ; and from that he was enabled to state that, so far from any blame being justly attached to the Greeks, they had waited to be the ling AM upon. Both parties had been equally guilty of tbe violation of the neutral territory, and he lamented, therefore, to see this Proclama tion hold up the Greeks as the only violators, and without stating the particulars of the atrocities which it characterized by such strong epithets. His information induced him to protest against the general statement, that the ,Turks had been murdered in cold blood. It was, unhappily, too true, that in the course of the hostilities, std in pursuance of their noble and L.et attempt to recover their liberties, the Greeks had undoubtedly committed some atrocities. The guilt of these deeds, however, rested not with the Greeks but with the Turks, with whom they had originated ; and if they were now not so frequent as formerly, it had been found that the retaliation of the Greeks had been the only means to put an end to then. In the person of Sir Thomas Maitland, he saw only one more instance of the danger of entrusting power to those who had changed their principles ; for there never had been a man within the walls of that House who had been a greater friend !to revolutionary principles than Sir Thomas Staitland. (Hear, I hear). If any difference was to be made in the treatment of the belligerents, he (Mr. Hume) did not wish to see the scale turned against the Greeks, and he believed that his Majesty's Ministers wished the scales to be held even. lie hoped, therefore, that they would lay before the public an official statement of the atrocities which had been falsely designated as confined to the Greeks. The Greek Government had declared its readiness to compensate every sufferer by this infringement of the neutral territory. Again, therefore, he could not help expressing his regret that Sir Thomas .Maitland had not withheld his proclaniation till the particulars had I been fully in his possession. Sir T. LETH BR 11)11 E said he should not have risen but for some renlinks of his lion. Friend (Mr. Western). He was aware that his lion. Friend alluded to a declaration he had formerly made respecting the state of the agricultural interest, when he said , that he considered it the duty of the Ileum to look the dangers of the country in the face, anti meet them manfully. At that time he undoubtedly felt, as strong as any man could, the severe ths- tresses that were then pressing on the agricultural interest. lie was, however, happy now to state that there was a east change in ! its condition, which had been very properly alluded to in the Speech from the Throne. lie could himself -perceive ti.at there was a permanent amendment in that great interest, and lie be lieved confidently that its improvement was neither accidental nor likely to be of temporary duration. He did not dread its cessation, because it proceeded, he had no doubt, from causes that would Per- I manently operate. Ile did not join with the Hon. Member under the gallery (Col. Palmer), in his view of the state of our foreign ' alumina, fur lie believed that this country mood high in the opinion of the other nations of Europe and the world at large. Instead of the British character being divested of any portion ut its greatness, Royer, or renown, he was convinced that at no period did the British name stand higher than at present;—( Hear, hear)—and he must pay his Majesty's Ministers the tribute of his applause for keeping the country out of any engagement arising Inn.' the Spanish cause. It would have been a fatal determination to have interfered in the war between Spain and France. The result had proved that, fortunately for themselves, and for the country whose interests they had thereby best consulted, they bad adopted the comae of stria neutrality ; and, whatever might be the opinion of a small party in that House or in .he country (for he was sure it was very small indeed), the general voice of the people applauded Ministers fur the wise (entracte they had given to their Sovereign. Mr. W. SM ITII said he had only a few words to address to the house. lie was sorry that neither in the Speech nor in the Address iaisters had said nothing, or at least almost nothing, respect leg the negotiation now pending in the east of Europe ; and he was desirous to take the earliest opportunity of expressing his anxious hope and wish that no negociatton for the termination of the differ ences between Russia and the Porte would be successful, that should not leave the affairs of Greece better than it found them. He owned that he should have felt glad if the Right lion. Secretary of State had felt it consistent with his duty, as he was aura it would have been with his inclination, to have assured the House that no such termination would take place as would leave the Greeks ex. posed to the barbarian revenge of the one power, or to the insati ableantbition of the other. The report was then benught up and agreed to. EXPORTATION OF 31ApHINERY._ Mr. II lliiirgaZ7Zi;;il3ii insta n t ,;!,"thi2lK i;;;Isould mote, that the laws respecting the exportation of machinery, and respect ing the emigration of artisans and mechanics, be laid before the House. IMPRES3MENT OF SEAMEN. ..... Mr. HUME also gave notice, that on the 19th instant he should bring before the llouse the s ubject of impresamelit fur the navy, and at the same time move for returns of the number of IA:WWII impressed. WINE. Mr. WARRE moved fora return of the 9nantity of wine im. ported into etc several ports of the United Kingdom, during the year totting the 11th of January, and a similar return of the plain. iny exported, and remaining in bond, distinguishing the several ' sonnet of wine, and a return of the amount of net revenue on wine during the same period, distinguishing the amount received in England, Scotland, and Ireland.—thdavd. IRISH CONSTABULARY ACT. Mr. GRAITA N gave notice that to-morrow he should move • fur a return of the nu.nber of constables appointed under the late Act, and of the parishes in which it had been brought into opera. tion. INSURRECTION ACT. I Mr. (RATTAN also gave notice that he should move to-mor row for n return of the committals of parsons to gaol, under the In surrection Act. Mr. WESTERN moved fur s return of the number of persons The BRITISH Pees. commenced publishing yesterday morning at five o'clock. LONDON, THURSDAY, FYCHL'•!Y s , 1821. Monday's French Papers reached our office last night. Extracts of any thing of interest will be found in our co lumns. They contain nothing worth dwelling upon. We give below the leading contents, official and otherwise, of the Mundt-ter:— committed Webs several gaols in England and Wales. and remain ing for trial, se or before the 20th of December last, distinguishing those committed for felony, and for misdemeanour.--Ordered. NEN'Ft /LINDLAND. Mr. HUME moved for a return of the total amount of the re. venue of Newfoundland He believed the papers were now arrived. and there would be no difficulty in renewing the order io the same words to which it had passed last Session—Ordered. srEcrAr, JURIES. Mr. lIUME gave notice of his intention to move for a return of the persons summoned by the Sheriff of Middlesex, to serve on juries during the three last year., distinguishing those summoned to verve on special juries, and specifying their qualification, and the number of times each person had served. Adjourned. PRICES OF BRITISH Bank Stock 2311 e 3 per Cent. Reduced. 911 ftoj 3 per Cent. Cons. 98j 4 89j 3j per Cent. 1001 14 ' 4 per Cent. 1021 lj New 4 per Cents. 1124 4 6 hong Annuities, 22 9-16 j Imperial 3 per Cents. Rank for Account Cons. for Acct. 99j 18 91 STOCKS YESTEKDA 1. India Stuck, 374 India Bonds,B3 84 India fur Account, South Sea Stock. 103 South Sea Old Annuities South Sea New Annuities Ex. Bill.. 1,0001. 54 57 65 Ditto, 5001. 84 57 55 pr. Ditto. Smull, 51 57 55 pr. Lottery Tickets,l9l. 111%. PRICES OF FOREIGN 11ustrizm Scrip, 54 S 44 4 pr. Ditto Bonds, Chinon Bonds, 784 Ditto for Am. Colomat. 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An Ordin.ince, ordering to be received and published in the kingdom, in the usual form, seven Papal Bulls, five issued at Rome on the 15th of the calends of December, 18:l3, and two on the sth of the calends of the same month, ordering the canonical insti tutions-- ht. Of Gustave' Maximilian Justus, Prince of Croy and Bishoy of Spasburg, Grand Almoner and Peer of France, for the Arch bishopric of Rouen. 2d. Of Gilbert Paul Aragonnes Doual, for the Bishopric of Langres. 3d. Of Muria Joseph Francais Victor 3lonyer and Prilly, for the Bishopric of Chalons sur-Mnme. 4th. Of Jean Fnutouis de Saunhac Belcastel, for the Bishopric of Perpignan. Of Jacques Alexis Jaqucmin, fur the Bishopric of St. Die. Ilth. Of Jacques Francois BVSSOn, for the Bishopric of Metz. 7th. Of Claude Marla Paul Tharim, for the Bishoptic of Stras burg. The second Ordinance relates to the publication of a number of Bulls for the Canocical lostitution of Louis Sileestre de la Chains as Bishop of Imelda is itart;bus. Art. second of each of these Ordinances says, " The said Bulls of Canonical Institutimis ate received without approbation of the clauses, forms, or expressions which they contain, and which are and may be contrary to the Constitutional Charter, to the laws of the kingdom, or the franchises, liberties, and maxims of the Gal lic= Church." The third article orders the Bulls to be transcribed, and regis tered in French and Latin ; and the fourth charges the Keeper of the Seals, and the Minister of the Interior, with execution of Or dinances, each u fir u he is concerned. The third Ordinance relates to the Meeting of the Electoral Col lege at 111subeuge. The fourth Ordinance orders the appointment of an Inspector of the Arsenals for the Construction of the Artillery, to be chosen by the War Minister among the Major-Generals of that arm who are in active service. The fifth Ordinance orders that Seamen, taken Prisoners of War, shall have the time of thsir captivity counted as actual service. The Non-Official Part contains ■ very long report (above two pages of the Mauilens) on the affairs of the Bank of France, by the Governor the Duke of Gaeta, and the Report of Censors in the General Meeting of the Proprietors on the 29th January. PAMPELUNA, JAN. M. We enjoy great tranquillity here, owing as much to the harmony which exists between the Spaniards and the French, as the excel lent discipline of the allied troops. As our Government is engaged in the re-organization of the army, the battalions of Navarre Luse been discharged. FnEwch Ft: whs.—Pants, FEB. 2.—Five per Cent& opened at 961. 40e.; cloud at 971. Mk. Bank Stock, 11,660 f. Neapolitan ltentes, 82. Spanish Rentes, 23. Exchange on London—one month, 231. 43e. ; three months, 251. 34c. The House of Commons, last night, rose early. There was no discussion in the Len's. Mr. Hobhouse took an early opportunity to allude, markedly and indignantly, to Sir Thomas Maitland's proclamation on his return from Malta, issued by him from Corfu, on the 20th of Decem ber, imposing on the islands of Santa Maura and Ithaca an expiatory quarantine of thirty days. The Member for iVestminster read part of the High Commissioner's proclamation in the original Italian, and condemned it unqualifiedly, as most wanton and uncalled for. The transaction on the shores of Ithaca had, the Ilonourable Member said, bectigrix.sly tm•isrepresented. The fact was, that during the conteattetween a part of Prince Maurocor ditto's fleet (accompanying him to the relief of Misso longhi) and a Turkish ship of force, the crew of the latter, when pressed by the Greeks, took to their boats, and from the shore of Ithaca opened a murderous fire on their antagonists, who then landed, and succeeded in destroying the greater number of the barbarians. The Gr:Tics, Mr. Hobhouse contended, were justified in their conduct, by self-defence and all the rules of civilized war. Mr. Hume said he had received, from the lonian Isles, almost the same account of the transaction. It was stated to him, that the Greeks were first fired upon, and did not land until provoked by the murderous hostility of their opponents. There had been, he said, at one period of his life, no warmer friend to revolutionary senti ments than Sir Thomas Maitland ; and his late ar bitrary career only spewed the danger of entrusting power to individuals who changed their principles so utterly as the High Commissioner had done. Mr. Hume re probated, in almost as strong terms as Mr. llobliouse, the despotic mandate of Sir Thomas Maitland. Mr. Canning, in opposition to the Members for Westminster and Mont raw, gave a different account of the circumstance : he asserted that, during the contest between the Turkish ship and Maurocorilato's squadron, the crew of the former took refuge from their boats on the island of Ithaca, as neu tral and sacred territory, and that they were pursued by the Greeks, who violated the principle of neutrality, and sacrificed ninety out of one hundred and twenty of the ITurks. For ourselves, we regret most deeply the sanguin ary spirit in which the present contest is carried on in that fine portion of Eastern Europe; but the Greeks were not the aggressors ; the sabre of extermination was lifted over their heads, and they were the objects of the most horrible massacres. Who can forget the tragedy of Scio, that beauteous island, where all was peace and happiness until the fell murderers printed it with their footsteps ? There, during successive days, the shrieks of murder and violation were ceaselessly heard, while the moon, for nights together, slept on rivers of blood. The day was found too short for the work of destruction, and tue bands of assassins were directed to their shrinking victims by the red gleams of universal conflagration. No honors recorded of Zengliis, Timour, or the fell Attila, ever exceeded those dreadful scenes. It is true the Greeks were enabled to retaliate on the murderers ; the hand of Providence interposed, and gave them a just revenge: the light of their burning vessels was, within a few days, re flected on the smoking dwellings of the Sciotes, and the scorched corpse of the barbarian who directed the atroci ties floated on the morning wave. But was not Constan tinople also filled with murder and sacrilege? The Greek Prelates were hanged, " like dogs, in clusters ;" the bodies of their clergy blackened on stakes in the mid-day sun. Smyrna was the scene of massacre also: every where the Greeks saw tortures and extermination around them ; —and were they calmly to yield their throats to their butchers, and not retaliate on them when within their power ? The Turk can learn nothing but from his fears; and, to preserve the thousands of their nation yet within the (dutch of their oppressor from de struction, these acts of merited retaliation became in dispensably necessary. They have had the effect; and the Greeks have, in many instances, latterly, displayed great moderation. But their history is not to be learned from the prejudices and misrepresentations of Sir Thomas Maitland : during the entire period of his government he has been a ceaseless and unvarying enemy to Greek liberty ; it formed too strong a contrast to his own despotic acts, and he did not relish the comparison. Mr. William Smith, in alluding to this interesting subject last night, expressed his hope that no nego ciation for the termination of the differences between Russia and the Porte would be successful, that should not leave the affairs of Greece better than it found them, or place its people at the mercy of the barbarian revenge of one Power and the insatiable ambition of the other. In these sentiments we most cordially agree: an, other policy would be a deep degradation to this country, and a just reproach to the Minister who could sanction it. Mr. Can ning will not, we are sure, do so; his sentiments are too favourable to the freedom of the gallant Christians. Nothing can protect the Greeks from their oppressors but complete independence, with arms in their bands. The designs of Russia on Greece and the Turkish provinces are notorious and ill concealed; if dissembled now, they are only husbanded for a future opportunity, when she will strike with her whole strength. Mr. Hume has already commenced his campaign for this Session, and opened his reform battery of heavy shot. Ile gave notice last night of no less than four motions : why not a fifth ?—" Deus gauche impari numero." The first was on the subject of the exportation of inachinery and the etnigratiot. of artisans, to come on the Itth. The second, on the 19th, on the impressment of seamen, and for a return of the numbers impressed. The third was a repe tition of his motion last year, on the subject of Newfound land. The fourth was on the important subject of Special Juries. The Honourable Gentleman moved for a return of the individuals summoned on these paid inquests, by the Sheriff of Middlesex, with their respective qualifica tions. We are glad his industry will be devoted to this important subject : it might fall, perhaps, into abler hands; but he will be aided by the suggestions of a gentleman not far from Chariug-cross, who has paid great attention to the investigation. The abuse is one which calls loudly for reform. These Special Jurors are, in fact, fee'd retainers of the Crown ; they derive a regular profit from their attendance; they go into the jury-box with the glittering bribe from the Crown Solicitor always in prospect, and with all their feelings prejudiced against the defendant. We hope the subject will be brought strongly before the Ilouse, and receive the fullest discus sion. Mr. Hume, we regret to say, does not appear to be in high favour with those around him this Session. Economy is getting out of fashion, as the nation is growing rich ; and lie wants energy and language to in.erest attention as a public speaker. Cocker's Arithmetic is a bad manual of eloquence. We were sorry to see the impatience mani fested when he rose, the first night of the Session ; the munnnr of tongues became general and loud. Fortu nately he is not easily dismayed, and has a perseverance that is unconquerable. The truth is, he stands too much alone i❑ his opinions to be popular in the Ilouse, and cuts too deep with his reform-knife, even for the feelings of the Opposition. Ile has been, however, most useful; and we should be sorry to see him cease his labours. Sir Thomas Lethbridge, last night, in one of his discur sive sallies of eloquence on the affairs of Spain, gave a tine example of the " obscure sublime." It would puzzle Mr. Martin himself to discover his meaning, though he went to Connemara for the purpose ; his harangue beat the orations of even Sir Isaac Coffin all to pieces ; the Somerset Baronet might speak treason in such language, and do so without fear of conviction. Yet it was not that Sir Thomas did not talk sufficiently loudly ; in strength of lungs he had no rival but the !ma'am and liberal Colo nel Barry. But it would foil a bar of lawyers to know, after all, what lie meant. His oration realised completely the description of Tony Lumpl; in," What's that which goes round the house and round the house, and never touches the house ?" But this delicious murerau of intelligible oratory must speak for itself !—" I can now perceive (said the liberal and consistent Baronet) a permanent amendment in that " great interest ; and I hope and trust, and I believe I " may hope, and trust with confidence, that this improve- ! " tnent does not proceed from any accidental cause, nor " from any cause that I dread the cessation of; but from "causes that will permanently last." Did George Alex ander Stevens ever address to his wig-blocks a more con vincing or intelligible oration than thus? The pleading of Brother Bother'em and Brother Borc'em, in the celebrated cause of Bulletin verses Boatutn, was nothing to it. Sir Thomas, by this brilliant ension, bas consummated his fame. Sergeant Onslow's motion on the subject of the Usury Laws comes on to-night. We think it a bad period to agitate the question. The interest of money is now very low ; and it is much better to let the demand and supply regulate the rate of interest, than again disturb the subject by legislative enactments. So many evasions of these laws already take place, by redeemable annuities, and in other ways, that the repeal of the Usury Laws is in fact unneces sary.—The state of Ireland, on this evening, will also be partially discussed. Mr. Grattan moved last night for a return of the number of constables appointed under the Constabulary Act of last Session, and of the parishes where that Act had been put in execution. H e also moved for a return of the number of perm s committed under the Insurrection Act. We are afraid that this latter statute, however arbitrary the powers it gives to Magistrates, and hardly as it presses on the un fortunate peasant, is yet but too necessary in many p aw of the South of Ireland, under the system by which that hapless country is at present governed. We know, how ever, that its powers have been most leniently exercised, and that, though many arrests have taken place, very few convictions have followed. We should be happy to see the state of Ireland such, as that this obnoxious statute could be altogether dispensed with. Lord Wellesley, we are sure, feels in the same way, and will not suffer it to be put in force but in cases of the most imperative necessity. We are afraid there is little disposition at present in the Cabinet to do any thing for Ireland. With general peace and in creasing prosperity, the day of alann has passed away. the support of the Irish people might be wanted, or their discontents be dangerous, conciliation might be granted from fear, but nothing will be conceded to justice. The Duke of York has, within these few days, accept s ' the ofGce of Vice-President to the Choral Fund. The Duke of Clarence arrived in town yesterday want ing, about half-past eleven o'clock, from Bushy. Ri s Royal Highness returned to Bushy to dinner in the after.. noon. Yesterday the Earl of Harrowby gave a Cabinet Dinner at his house in Grosvenor-square. His Excellency the Marquis Wellesley had a select dinner party at the Castle, on Friday, the 30th inst. The following were among the distinguished guests:—Load Darnley, Sir Henry Parnell, Sir Colin Campbell, Colonel Shawe, Captain Cosby, Captain Vignoles, Mr. Taylor, Mr. Cosby, Mr. Mitchell, Mr. Daxon, Mr. Johnston, Mr. Can sadine. Mr. Broadhead, &c. Ike.—lrish Times. We undeistand that an affair of a peculiar description has recently taken place at an illustrious mansion. A most noble lady, who has heretofore been a favoured visitor at the splendid dwelling alluded to, was, a short time since, so says rumour, found in a particular situation with a knighted favourite in the mansion. The two individuals, we believe, did not long continue under the roof of their Patron, but removed, shortly after the above unpleasant discovery, to the metropolis. Some changes are likely to result from this unlucky affair. Government is said to have purchased the late Mr. An- Jrerstein's pictures for 7.5,0001. This is probably more than double what they cost their late owner; but at the same time not more than their value, if it be true that Mr. Beckford (whose judgment will not be disputed) offered 1.5,0001. for only one of them—The Railing of Lozano. Near 20,0001. have been expended in altering and fitting up the new Hell in St. Janns's-street. Tne princip a l drawing-room is one of the most superb, and certainly the largest carpeted room in London. For the present the entree is confined to the members of four or five of the principal club-houses, who enjoy the enviable distinction of being the first to be pigeoned.—Daily Paper. Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the Eut India House, when Robert Fullartcn, Esq., was appointed Governor of Prince of Wales Island. The following Com manders took leave of the Court previous to departing for their respective destinations, viz.—Captain Peter Cameron, of the Earl of Balcarras ; and Captain John Arman Tween, of the Sir David Scott, for Bengal and China. Captain Marquis was sworn into the command of the ship Rose, consigned to Madras and Bengal. The East lulia Company's ship Scaleby Castle was at Bombay on the 4th August, and was to sail for China on the following morning. The ship Wilmington arrived at New Bedford on the 27th inst. with 2,800 barrels sperm oil, the grettest quantity ever brought into the United States at a time by any one ship.—Nete York l'aper. The city of New Orleans now contains upwards of 40,000 persons, and employ? about 200,000 tons of ship ping. In the year 1761, it contained only one hundr(tl miseralle barracks, and three or four atone houses. What a great improvement in the comparatively short space of sixty years !—An.erican Paper. A PROSPEROUS S f ATE.--A late Gerrg'a paper stated that the amount of actual cash then in the Treasury of tlnt State was 425,775 dollars ; besides which, the State owns, in bank and other stocks, the amount of 1,005,000 dollars: making a awn total of 1,430,775 dollars—a condition in which there are few public treasuries probably in the storld. The interest of this sum, at six per cent., would be 85,846 dollars—sufficient, it is believed, to bear all the expenses of the State, and relieve its citizens altogether from taxes.—. New York Patriot. The Etoile of Tuesday gives a letter from Trieste, dated the 20th of January, which observe-a, that accounts had been received from Constantinople, stating, that Lied Strangford had intimated to the Turkish Government the intention of Great Britain to aveni!e the insult offered by the Bey of Tunis, and that the Sultan had offered his toe. (nation. It is added, the British Ambassador observed, that lie hail no authority to receive this ores, but that the Sultan had, nevertheless, sent orders to the Bey to Eire satisfaction to the English. (hi Tuesday the 13th ult. the foundation stone of a new-church, to be built at Sharow, in the parish of Ripon. was laid by the Right Honourable Lord Grantham, on the part of his Lordship's son, the Honourable Frederick Wen. %Verldall Robinson, ho was prevented from attending. The Church is to ;ford accommodation for 400 persom, half of which are to be free a.'d open sittings. THL LATE COUNTESS OF CARLISLE.—We %indents's , thut the remains of this distinguished Lady will be removed from Castle Howard, for interment in York Cathedral, on Thursday next. The funeral, which will be what is termed a private one, but which must of necessity midst of a numerous cavalcade, is expected to arrive in this city be tween eleven and twelve o clock.—York Coward. 1)r. Al II 11l T!IE COUNTLLS (11 11A1111111GTON.—The Countess of Harrirgton died at her residence in the King's Palace, St. James's, on Tuesday night, at a quarter before ten, after a few days' illness. - ' ADVANCE OF Post E s.—The public brewers of the metropolis, at their 'notably meeting of consultation, all have unanimously resolved that the people shall pay es. a barrel more for porter, and a proportionate rise has already taken place in the retail trade. This resolution is founded on the advance which has taken place in the value of hops and barley. Many ask whether it be legal for a tra is to enter into a resolution only to sell their property at a cer tain price, as the English distirsrs and London brewers are in the regular habit of doing? No doubt every man has a right to hold his property at whatever price he pleases to place on it: but it may be doubted whether the lan, which is so frequently applied to the Newcastle colliers, journeymen, and generally to all the operative classes, when they meet to compel an rlvance in wages, might not, with great propriety, be extended to combinations, which, being of a higher description, are of greater detrir:ent to the in terests of the nation. The Empire is now reaping much benefit from the freedom of trade enjoyed with America and some parts of Asia, and it is an anomaly to tint! two or three of the greatest articles of internal consumption mono polised by certain descriptions of people. Bread, beer, coals, and British spirits are, under the present system, perfect monopolies, and stand much in the way of general improvement. The Corn Bill should be repealed • the coal trade should be inquired into and improved ; iseer and British spirits must also come under very different laws, else great injustice will be done to agriculture and com merce.—York Coteraml. NIONMOUTHSIIIRE, &c.—We are sorry to hear that considerable discontents prevail amongst some of the col liers in the western part of this county. It is but a short time since similar symptoms manifested themselves in one of the largest iron-works in the neighbourhood. but which have been suppressed by firmness and resolution. Soule of the workmen at one of the collieries have left their em ploy, and it is reported that the rest have given notic:• l'he present rapid increase in the price of provisions is stilt posed to have bad considerable influence in producing these threatened occurrences ; and under these and all other cir cumstances, whatever may be necessary to the landed and t agricultural interest, we hope the markets will not om tinue to rise as they have done of late.--Gloswester Prraht