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reset of Prdtectien, hid bees laid upon than.-- That tyreitive was ever the fame creel Stied tune renting which fell on a people by irietilat liner coe *Mated form. The drat *et of the assentor ass that of attempting to interfere with the choree of the Smote, when he appointed, contrary tai the Treety of Pais, a moo of very doubtful therefor as a member of It. Attempts were then mute to fneee the senators or resign, who, by the Treaty of Paris, were to remain unchanged till the arrimgetnent of the Couetitation was completed. Four of •thein were disniimeed by the Goveveree.-who sebeeterently proclaimed them se perares of. inept avid ens rupt precticee.—(,Snell langhtte.) —The words were inepti and teserrieti. This conduct wee antic you'd epos ad appeal by on Order in Coyote!. The inhabstante were terror 'tomtit and eahnilteeil. The Governor affected that there woe a enosplAsey on foot. TM drones beet end the plenum wee drawn oat in arms, the Spoleto.' and the Togore frigate, wore brought closer its t. servo In me of ' ' esteem!. tt was very antra*, that this conspiracy 1' was talked of at Malta as •erebething likely t hop. pen two months before. A formal tnettery • teak lAlffr and seeerel petsees were pot molter *vest, who were subsequently liberated es httettig been detained under improper preteneee. Lord Eathsret found it neceeosey to write a letter of conciliation to ewe of them ; so greet was the ferment this conds'et excited, that the MAI* . Secretory- wag educed to make the antende ketones abbe, in order in appease the Plaided feehner of the inhabitants. From that dui (Janeary 1817) no wee ventured to give his opinion on public affairs; ell miens of turtling fartior were re ; • sorted to; addreirses were got up, whith, had the emelienery of them been untlennood. would Irmo edited little strength or credit to the . Government. Each Mend vied with the others to testimonies of adulation : Corfu erect ed a triumphal arch of the simple lonic order; Cephalonia could not content itself without a large bronze statute of Ste T. Maitland; Zente'ovrterett is boss of him to be executed by Corpora; - Santa • Maura, a poor and barren spot, voted untie ether trophy. Had the Heine bee got the hied the Knights of the Grand" Genes of the Order of St. Michael, it would "Me wonderfully useful eion as to the reality of these loyal professions. The object and result were to • pleee the whole !poorer of the cottony in the hands of ode indiei• ideal. He nominated end appointed to every office in - else Stare—a Scotch burgh was nothing •to it. There the rottenness wee avowed, met the close•cer porstion wet the opinion of the neighbourhood at defiance. A Senate was summoned to arrange the ildinstitution. The Lord High Commissioner no• urinated ten es a matter of course ; del of the re ' mriuder (there were to be forty-nice in all), he sent down lists of fourteen to each of the islands, out of which they were to choose seven. This they re fused to do, earl their negat'. ► wee taken in the Arniative sense. One or other of his teen bring thus returned out el each list, and the Semite einem bled, they hod next to proceed with the settle. mint of the Constitution. The Howse had been seven chi,* tegaged in disessering the Agri. talteral Report, tied yet they mere erlebrated for their dispiiith in kgislating. Whet • wee Otis to •the• Senate of the Inman Isles? The represeutetives esseestiled an the geth April, they were then .word hot to divelste soy pert of the proceedings till the Femereipet dumb' *section the Constitution. The felletessig day the new Conetiintiou was Ise& to 'Agin, but before it was raid all discussion was dr iest,. One indovidool who resisted this coarse of ptoceeding was violently put down. On the 15th the Constitution ass signed and sealed, and the whole prmeedeepo at, this famous document—this Magna Chases of the lonian Isles, were closed.—.a Croweitistioo ;meowed, ederited.and signed, without discussion, its U hours ! A deputation was sent to Engleed to pet the unction for it. Haul these pen. ceedings been known. the case would have been alarming. They had subsequently conveyed hatred and reocour to every part of Europe. Let the No ble Lord ask say Minister at soy foreign Court— let hint interrogate any intelligent traveller el to what opinion they had giver' rise to in any or every part of Europe. There was nothing in all our guilty animals equal to it, 'accept perhaps the root. tog trot the most ancient Christians of Europe from Perri —a trimseciion which would remain as a blot upon our history through all coming time. 1k would recal the attention of the House to the insurrection which had takes place in one of the islands from the executive imposts laid *a for the 'spumes of a coml. and the eseeti. Woo of the military is enforcing wiyment. In coneequence of those disturbauces there were *eve. n) of the parties tried by emit martiel and hanged. two priests, iu their c 0,,,,, le, being *mime the remise,. This was oat the ally contempt w hick bud beers sheen fur the religiose officerr of the colony. The whole of the church property, and the peironsi t e appertsiniogdood been put seder the direction ofCul. Robinson, of the manner, who held live or six situ shoes altogether; so that they had a Colonel of marines let the bead of the church. lie was em. powered to reclaim ell church property, and no pewee or authority in the State was allowed to in terkre with its proceedings. He appointed to linage. elected Abbots end Abbesses, and Stewards of convents. Ali power end profit i• the chastely or the religious houses were at his disposal. It was tenons to as. his Guests orders for the execution of his ecclesiestieui duties. An iedividual, neraid Eattregba, posansed hinds which had been in the family for one Modred years. Inquiry was mode tote his title • sod upon a decree of tits Venetian Doge 41 1416, which prohibited the alienation of lands from monasteries, he was, *fief so appeal to the Load Hugh Commis. stoner, arrested. A isisodred years possession could not protect him from a decree of absolute beggary, to which aim stolen°, doomed liim. Another tttdt vtdaals figeetineogo, was dragged from his bed on feet ..:it had Petition hod beets drwaiireil rroto Zante, signed by thirty.two of trial Milo Contfiderable inhabitants against this con freet —i-le then proceeded to read the Petitionl— A mat WArtortmit anif constitutional Petition was flOVer smith ; and what hart heel, the consequence ? The permit's *he/ subscrthed to it were thrown into i prison for being concerned in on rebellions a mei. Mt. If there Wee any deficiency of information tut the ehhi s et In this country, it was because the Government of those Islands had closed every ave. t MA 110 which information mold be traiirmitted oSemire to the iudivichrais who were in power there. Itly a paper kid before the Colonist Office, by Sig . not Root [• copy of which the lion. Memlter read], it alarieatttl that, Pot havingsigned that Petition, mit tWltte.tabttitig his milt at a Magistrate and Ment fier of the Legislative Assembly, lie had keen arrested in the Public street by the keeper of the prom), and twice* fo t h at person'. office, where en officer of the police ordered him. iii the name of the Lord High ConsMisitioner, to give up all his papers, and upon his afterwards atnroting Ininitelf to avoid the perm. cotton that awaited tom, his house was forcibly en. fete4 and tratcherl, hit papers seized, and a reward of one thousand dollars ()tiered for his apprehension. Another Membet of the L.gniatitive Assembly was degraded by ontAct of the Senate, fur having sign.. ell the some Petition. The answer of the Colonial OctS to the oppitcotioo of Senor Rossi. stated that " the perreeedlnei to which he referred had some time previenzoly herr, made known to his 111 jetty's Government. find that inatrechon• had been mot to the Lord HiO•Cerromistioner on the soh. jeel, is whom he sae directed to apply." His subsequent opplicetiene fur redress to the Govern ment of this coueiry beteg atilt more pereinptbrtly rejected, Signor Rene fattened to Venice. where hr met with ussinbeirs of his eiountrymem flying from the cnaina in which their country was bound, their only hope of relief now, trete,. that they rose noon share with theft. ereatitrysnew in Greece the blessing of being restored to their long-led librrer. The ad dress of the Lord High Ceriimeisioeree brae Serrate sod Legislature, In Itleicli of the present year, coo grill:hoed the Assembly on the peer.. and quietuses of the Lelands being restored. Rut whet was !heated of peers and qinetnese of which lie berated ? Mor tisl law bad beers proclaimed—the whole popula tion hail been 'trio of their sus". The attach meat of those people to their arms was very great ; every man wore arms, and to be without them was looked spon•se a mark of degradation, and ereu of slavery. And what was the reason of their being subjected to that degradation? Simply their having sympathised with their countrymen of the Maria struggling fee. their freedom. What Christian was-flare who meld view with indsfference the exertions of thine people to shake off the Otto. man yoke? And wee it to be treated as criminal in the Greeks oldie nilimde, who were of one fu. lolly with those, of the continerd, that they felt strongly in fernier of ouch a cause 2 And was it to be barite, that betsure a few individual* chose to leave the island* for the purpose of embarking in that cause. martial law should be proclaimed, and those that remained should be,strippectef their arms Hr himself rheold Owes . ' approve of our Goren'. meat aboteinisg from aU interference in the broils of oilier Dalton" ; he thought we had always bee, too ready to interfere se (Imago quarrels, mud be depre. mad all ouch infereiace. Dot what yes the ease lure 1 It was notueioun es the sun at noeti-day that the Brinell authorities ahroed Vied their 411116 °St oier tions in favour of the Teti.. He could prove such .jeperfereace of these euthorities in two inatences et Uste and at Potreo.. One Turkish vowel being vtpged by two Greeks in sight of the 'eland of Zsote, run for the shore. A feeling having been earned awi n g the itiliabitanisth4 the Government of the latitude wars fevoureble to Ilse Turks and foss. tile to the Greek', they tralstrally thought that the Turkish weer' was seeking refuge i• that island host the Greeks. and, is etiosequence, • crowd as. sembled nn the beach. who cheered the Greeks during' the engagement. A body of troops was seat down to clear the beach; the result wail a tiring from the inhabitants pod the troops sprit .artch other, by which several lives were lost. At Pores the Greeks were besieging the Turks in the citadel ; and during that Sege. es well as on other occasions, Mr. Green, the Euglirls Consul there, went so far in violation of neutrality tuwatils the Greeks, as to 'occasion en address on the subject to be forwarded to him from the Greek !elders in the Peloponnese', in which they charge him with violnting hie proreme of neutrality in the contest. being neutral iii words 'dew, and ebmey. lug intelligence to the Tucks which enabled them tw counieinet the operations of the Greeks. He would ask. whether, after the facts which lie had stated, it was too much that the idanders should show a strove feeling in favour of their countrymen on the contimest ? The eareutious which followed, sod the saitssOrs which were made, erre .rely • sufficient atonement for the crime, if any had bet, committed. But, au the 13th October, martial law was proclaimed ; and not content with puoishang the guilty who were confined to Corfu. Cephalonia, Zinte, and even Santa Moors, were included in the decree, although it was @duet. ted by the Lord Hugh Commissioner that not a man in those islands appeared to have been con. corned is any of the attempts to take up arms. The Haimorable Member proceeded to contend that the Bestiality of Sir T. Maitland was all on one side. A qmantity of powder and abet, sold from die pulpitq stores on the 40th May, 1890, lie (Mr. H.) had a-remained to have been furaralied to All riche, who, though be had since been in re. helliaw against the Titekish Govertimeot, was then io its service, shwa was an enemy to the Greeks. Sir l'..Maitlisad had prohibited the sale of gonpow. der at Malta on the pretence of anotrality ; bat it was well known that the Turks had never sent thither esy supplies. bet the Greeks use eseetseit eu.. Seiseee Aria, the Bishop of Cephsloo till. because he altered up prayers es fewer of the ()mks, slthsege tie sass had bete 4issie is the Prot:sous Chortles - beside, the personal allowances, forge for horses, I suspicion of having clone something against the and the other expenses before !Worried to. It was Otreorroment—tried by on iereerilat and uoconsti. to vein for the country gentlemen to look for perni- timatioomii.diceded for two Yeats, anti set- to their dusts/saes *bile these expenses were Its OMta tewim years troprimotereult in the fortress of none. lie next came to the treavikerat "to ra.s lime were trisulearettee4 which were lonian ivies iu pursualice of the Treaty of rbiusetbleMost indoltnt to oppoilition.Whet There were several members of the house who frame woold-but be anxiono to throw ..ti so galling were there at the time he wss,and would oritnas and dcgnistoug e yoke? tic wee hapi'y that he had ' 64:44 it r ilenity were then dirdrei by rififOrlittrn. t tiefo - re linT on record his opinions as to the rffrct That feeling was now destroyed, and they only of these transactions ; he was sorry that events. had looked fot the moment when they might be ru- tbs . he true . A Petunia had been aDit fri Elf The pike *tick under fre dre- krona - 4 r m . Zinte, signed by thirty-two of ;nice of bratectim. hod bets hid noon them.-- th7e tailist teinihsterable isafrahitssite ugainit this con- of Switzerland and Germany, *at -by o►der of Sir T. Maitland, is his proetainutisos, considered it a• abhorrent to the feeling. of a peaceable and good petiole to offer up such prefers...lAM on hoard an English frigate to COrruj whence he wit ofteronrds banisl►ed to Zante. and was now *soder ing its an outcast in Italy. He did think that it behoved his Mdirrely's Government to iimoilltie easels , an inquiry into the circumstances he had stated. as •ould ascertain the truth of those statements; but no inquiry in the lonian bland* could be effectual while the Lord flitch Commissioner retained the power which he now posarsted ; for no units would dere to risk his displea sure by telling the truth. No mess hid tit done so who had not been punished fat, it by imprisonment. buoishment. or hanging. It hi. for. mar motion for inquiry had been acceded to, Iligeh of the obloquy sod disgrace which had fallen on the English name and character would have been avoided. He concluded by rooting the following Reanhations:—. Ist. That it appears by documents upon the Isble of this House, that the lonise lelauda were, by • Treaty ►igned a' Paris, am the bib of November, 1815, between the Courts of Plealna, St. Petersbures, Lumium and Verbs, declared to be • ~ale, free, sod isdepeotteut Male,' sod were placed under tb. immediate sod exeloaive protrelioid of she tiny of Great Britsin ; and that, by Article 0, of the mid Treaty, ' His Britaaas• 111114rsty etiosimea Oust • parti. . color Convention with the Goireeitmeal of the mid United Stales shall settle, secarrdiog to the Mate remises% all matters relative to the amino. moor of the hirtrestos slaw existing, as well as to the supreme aid pay of the fMi. bob garrisons, sad to the *amber of stem who Me to ...m -oues them to lime of pram. The said Coavesttioin shall also niahlMh the relation, which are to lake slier bete erti the armed force and the lunisn Govermweist."rhat b 7 Article lt, at the id mistime of the 7th chapter of the eon. stitistiomal elt•rl of the U•ued States of the loots*. Islamis, agreed to by the Legislative Assembly on the 2.1 of Nay, 11117, sad sanctioned by his M.•jesly, the -1‘ log of Great Kellam, it Is settled 'that ■ll expense of q•arsevi*M the regular troops of his 51-pity; the proterttag Soymeign, ' and, generally speaking, all military expense of every kind to be incurred by the States (a. far as relates to the three Maimed oleo obromolimmett), shell he paid out 6f Megrims! treasury of the same.' Bd. That it appears by returns on dig tattle of this House (ride Pa►liamentary Paper, No. 87, of 18211) that Its itxradoure of Great Britain fur the toilstimy emabbstiosnit in the lonian Glands, automated to the sum of 145,023/. in the year 1817; sod to 129045 f. in 1818, exclusive of the ex pense for transpewts, relief of troops. passage money, sod other charges which have not been laid before the House. . 1 341. That it Is expedient, i• the protest state 4 dm invites of the United Kingdom, that this military expense irseurred fur the lonian latitude, shall be psid from the revs. sues of those Islands, and regulated agreeably to the shoo. lotions of the Treaty of Paris, bib November, 1816, cod site Convection of the United lonian &idea, agreed to uo the 2d May, 1917, and s•ietiosed by his Majesty. " 41b.That so humble Addles* he prevented to his Majesty, that he would be graciously pleased to direct an inquiry into r the state of the Government of the 'maims Islands, the causes of the general disaffection, and of the numerous arrests sod bentsbments which have takers plate there; sod for what reasons the lobabitaats were disarmed, and mama' law pro claimed.' Mr. WILMOT said, the Hon. Member had taken. by far the most considettible part of his speech verhaties from documents which were &itemised last Session, and had repeated seriatim the arguments which he then urged, and u *lnch he supporter/ the motion which was then negatived.—(" Hear e hear, leer," from the Opposition.)--fir would re peat, that throats,. documents End the sums ergs merits had hero used on the former occeriens, and he said, therefore, that it 4as not to he etpected that he should go at length into topics which had beta repeated owl di•esissed before, and which had been satisfactorily refuted.— (Hear.)—ln the first place he (tattered - with the Hon. Member to the coastruetton of the reticle irr. the Treaty of Paris relative to the foment lalundS, and also of the article of the,Conatitu. Coital Charter to• which he had referred, both of which he (%ir. W.) maintained had been strictly fulfilled. The Hon. Member had referred' to the state of the Islands when under the Vetirefian Go vernment; he biped the Hun. Member woafti not enotrtid tkot they enjoyed a greet., stave of liberty under that• Government than et present for it would be so endless task to go into • historstal narrative to disprove that portal° • The Constitution given to them when ander lii Russian Government in 1903, wet out founded o the representative system, end yet comp:mitts ward made by the Kusstsn Governors that it was not fie fur se turbulent and uneducated a people, and id was accordingly ' c h anged in 1806. When milled the dominion of the French, the Governinent wee purely military. There was th.refore iio ground for agreeing with the Hunotirehle Member, that those islands fortnerly enjoyed a degree of liberty which had since been taken from them, o n the contrary, it appeared that they possessed move liberty now than at ally former period. Al though the nominal expense of the civil govern ment was increased, the Hon. Member could aliew no increase of taxation on the inhabitants. He challenged him to thew a single new ire that had been imposed. If he referred to the duty on oil, it was necessary to mention dud that tax was laid on in exchange for several otherr, much more oppressive and vexatious to the people, which were repealed. It might be true, us the Hon. Member had stated, that the total charge fir salaries and sitowstices to the civil officers of the Government in ISIS emnunted only to 68,000 dollars ; and p hut in '1919 it wee 241,000 ; but he (Mr. Wilmot) denied that the people paid one iota less in tales at the former period. and the difference was intercepted in its passage to the treasury by the persons who farmed the taxer , . Under those cir. eunestancts, he was justified in considering the dis position of the,revenue at present as infinitely more advantageous than at the former period. for he contrived that the introduction of - larger fixed sale. • ries for services performed. instead rif .a system of low salaries with an endless private appmpriation of the revenue of the Woods, we. a more salutary change than any that could have been adopted. Theelterge for passage-moury, of which the Hon. Member had said No much, would no Imager exist, a brig having been built to convey Ste Thomas Maitland to and fro. The Cunstitu. banal Charter was got up with reference to the existing condition of the people. and was the beat adapted to the eitemmitances in which they here placed. A system like ours would not work either to their advantage or to our own. Rut if that Charter were such as it hint been described by the Hoc. Member, bow did it hoppers that it hail lain us the table of that House. and hem parsed without airy dissent eiren fray Ints ? No statue us .. • Ana. bust by CifIMPS had been erected, es chat iall bit the Ron. Messier, on grstify . Sri T. Maiehtellielbt nity; the St•ttote had voted one, bet he *44'o to etkot to the vote. With respeet to the °Ails Of St. Michael an 4 st. Jo;in, they had been bestowed, as such hem - ours Morays were, 011 those persons who appeared to the Government to be deserving of them. WWI ' , repro let *See% Sheenier de•evipsion er per follB were now employed as under the Russian Go ...eminent ; and it was wholly untrue that they were filled with the creatures of Sir I'. Maitland. With respect to the double list in the election of Sena tors--under the Russian Government the vetes were given by bullet, and the neenbers cast upby the officers in private; but antler the present ays tem the votes were peptone!. rood the numbers were hcost up in the presence of the people. The Moan reclivo was not on account of the taxes, bat in cos- 1111 - 40e041e of erroneous notion that it was intend. ad to transport the militia when embodied, purer'. ant to proclamation, to other parts of the world, for the venire of Great Britain. Welk* ()rile°, whose, case the Hon. Member merit d, had been ed, because as in executive officer he had been guilty of a dereliction of duty; and it surely would nut be denied that diamond was a necessary act of power on the part of • Governor in such a ease. He Cagle now to the Church Establishment. The law for the protection and regulation of church property had given great satisfaction to the people, on at . count of its having remedied many &boom Tke . erre of Alesandro Battaglia. presented no ground *)r supposing him to have been unfairly treated. The property had been leased to Ins family for three generations, but tkat did not divest the ori ginal owner of his claim ; and it was necessary to itoinpvl the restitution of what was attempted to be held under an unfounded claim of ownership. The individual himrelf, it was satisfactory. to .know, slid not at present entertain any feeling of having been unjustly dealt with. [ln con firmation of this asaertion. the Honourable Goalie man read a letter from Battaglia to Sir Thomas Maitland, dated Corfu, March 23, 1922. full of expressions of gratitude, respect, and esteem, and ' concluding with • wish on the part of himself and family, that Sir T. Maithoil might be blessed with a long, glorious. and hippy life.) He denied that Martmerigo hail been tried by on improper tribn nal. High tressdn, the offence with which he iris ehargeef, was, by an act of Assembly, put under the High Police. at the head of which eissSir Thomas Mari/and, who had therefore acted very properly in delegating a tribunal of competent frown. to try the case. The punish. merit, Monet severe, was conformable to the laws of the islands, sad us undue severity had been exercised in its infliction. IVith respect to .the Petition reed by the Ho*. Member, it was not to be considered as at all analogous to the case of en ordinary Petition. It was illegal, an Act of Assembly having directed that all Petitionoto the Government of this country should be transmitted throsigb the Lord High Commirsiotter, and that Petition hawing never been offered to him for trensthisoon. It moreover asserted the constitu tional Charter to he a disgrace to those by whom it was composed, and intruded to .vest erbium), power in one hand. Its lasg.uage wet disrespectral to the Lord Coinnaissioner, to the Legidatarre of the }onion [strode, mid to the Government of the coati try under whose protection tbey were placed. It was . moreover never intended to he respslarty fuowarded to this Government, bot to be eireulated and made use of in another way. Was it to be grunted, un-. dee seek cirevrmitancer, that the parties signing it . . should be comillierd dang,erene person.. The cam should be considered in conueition with the pint characters of the parties said supposed ob jects ; and in thole circuit - unwires the conduct of Ste T. Maitland *held Or • very afferent character front thes *biota she Hon. Member h.ori assigned it. • The chow wbout'the proclamation of martial law, and the dimming of the people, had been mixed up with other considerations which did not belong to it. fie (Mr. W.) rigid that wastrel law was the • perwimiewt eonalittori of the people previouo to the governinent of Sir T. Pdantertd, and the disarming of the inhabits/its was a perfectly legal Measure, sail (night be prudent ur orherwiee, according to the eirennisteuere ender which it was executed. A 'soot that it had not been so repugliesit to the fori m p of the inhabilauts or the Hon. Member re *merited, was, that it load, been carried iota effect cbuipletely Ind peaceably, without resistance, although there wen ifey ilsourand armed men in the Islands, and our troops were so scat tered so not to have had it in their power to op., pose with effect any general movement of the armed inhabitants Uguinst them. Under the martial law not it single iastonce of severity of puuishment had occurred except whipping, which had been indicted, the number of hrohr; nut exceeding fifty in any iliarfailte. The parties who were executed le f the attack on the troops bed all acknowledged their guilt after conviction. But the martial law now no totiger existed there. By the last dispatches he was niformed that perfect troaquillity prevailed throughout the islands. and that an Act was about to pass to pot an end to martial law. With rersieret to the conduct of the Consul tat Patrol. the Hon. Gentleman read a long extract from a French paper, denying the whole of the charges oganist him, denying also that the document con taining those charges bud emanated From the Pro visional Government iu the Peloronnesus, and at tributitg it to same person unknowir. desigoing to injure has character. That piper he (Mr. W.) be lieved to be written by Green, the Consul, in his own vindication. He war not at all surprised that such a sympathy with the Greeks of the Con tinent as had . replesented should exi.t in the lotitau Isluuds ; but he maist confess that he was eurprisett. under the ecinsideratiow of all the cur cunistances which encoded the conduct of the war, Outs* powerful a feeling for them shisold be felt by persons in this country. It was to be expected that the funiems should sympathise with the Greek.; but it was the duty of Sir T. Nlaitianil to support at strict neutrality. It was to he expected !bat the measuras which he adopted for that purpose should displease ono or other, if not both. of the pestles. Aud it fins soniewbat satisfactory. sea proof of' his impartiality, that many compliant, had been made on that head by the Turks. He complained of the systematic attempts on the part of the pub. lic press to prejudge this case. Front the mouth of Jautury Lou, up to the day precediug, Oast vu whivb he was speaking. cultism alkilnifrii MINI of deliberate falsehood had been pub. nos wittli no other end in view. An aceuration bad b. made, and often repeated, that by the pormuto if 115 per cent, ally person under the Geenerafttint might po•seas Inat•elf of the properly of airyindividual in the lonian Islands. The fact on which that p ted statement was founded ,4 11 . 11Dperts on the Paine principle as t hal fifth's country and A me rice. whereby, in order to check fraud, upon the revenue, by perorates undervaluing thaw goads, it was mode !airfoil fur the officers of the reverse t o rear any goads enterer) for the dory, on psym eel to the °water of 13 pee ceut. above the value pot upon thrua by the.owuer, rod only oust atn*ie instance had or. coned of that law toeing acted on iii those iplandr. Another subject of Kruse nsisrrpreseretattas rod falsehood was the monopoly :n corn, which, it was Prated, Iwd tern eatebliclied by list► T. S 1 iiMund, in order to raise the prices of grain io Corfu airovr thn,e of the other tslsuds cud the neighhuariugcoutiuru t . some time taken off, UM' and the censegen t a r suchtl'hloi e tads r de lo si p fi o t e r l e i y ene wt w a y li at e pe l l 'o t r ; sit the supply of grtnn, that it vets deemed expedient to revive i y t A ; sf a ot n t,i : ritd at :: l ff, h ,, e .ce t t i a n en te :, • e s f um it i s itio r 7o rw f a c i t:in th iu efe the iv i e sl r a e nd ° . lll prices; the fact was, that on the nein age of the lot lour years, the price had been lower in Corfu tloici in the other !shuts, and. these islands Iran dertscil pert of their 'applies from the store in Curia:— He mentioned those iiistancra to oliew that t o ur was tat one measure of the Government of those ietandi that was not hhareprevehte4l and made the pretest of a charge against the Governor. When the adminirtratieni of SirT. fllaitland came to be fairly and diepestiouutely considered, he was satisfied that the impression of tyranny which had been produced in this country, as cramectest with it. would he gradually lone away, and a true estimate would be formed of the relit" and tendon' of his government. He thought stronger grouuds thanauy of those which had been prod ucer) ought tebesheen before that House 'hoe 'd content to call lot inquiry into the conduct of a high and distnignished of as he thought the motion of the Hon. Member on necesetry. and pertieularly oriel . ' the *auger which had been given last year by an Hon. Friend alto; and he thought the Hoare wtneW concur with him in pitting the previous queetiou oft site two first Resolution'', and the two following Heeolotions lie should meet with a direet negaitter. The previous question will dams pet by the SIPBANER, as. which— Mr../. Lefton rose; he Mei dia rist heel tate to think that the Hod. Geotlenti o (Ire. W i t_ mot) had been somewhat iticausistent iu'the remarks Ate lied made on the course adopts, by hie Hon. Friessel (Hr. Hume), for he hod bees hy obeern rrg that for an hour and forty minutes hie Hon. Friend had gone in a beaten track. without introducing coy new fact or argument, and hito concluded by de daring himself not 'peOgnit ) ed to eider imo the die ciission. It it were time float lee Hon. Fnessd had said nothing bat what the goo. Gentleman could have seen to print, he .was thO MOM IlUtpetbe# teat the main parts of she slotossacet load beets left so completely onanswered, foe he had stet mode. reended to go into a single Rent of the expendi ture, or to give a single contradiction to his Hos. Friend's stistente.ut ; but he. heal adopted moiler dnode, and hid recourse 1 2 .c4 chtsitite, imisgining (bat on the article respecting, tbe teem)* he could found setae larghaht4l4 drawn brew the len t /mem at . it ; but if there could be any expresemos free kom doube, it was titer of the remand article. ',Melt pre scribed that all the expenses +Mould be pet.? by the Wends, and yet there bad beets paid by thee (KW try above one million. The Wit. Gewilemaa de precated remit use discussion. end the persorsiest of facts industriontlyc irculated ; yet he afterwards admitted that his Iron. Friend had not retied on any one of them. The floOonrable Gentleman had told the Hosier that the lonian Lahroslo soma not encumbered with soy Dew presseve under the pre ge+tt Government ; but the argument of go Run. Friend ors. that the people of Engtaud bad' been subjected to a pressure, from which„ by UM bin guage of the charter. they ought te We twat exempt. He bed said that the 6teekt were Rei fied with the management of ecetiihistrett affairs, and were particularly gratified eith the nomination of abbots and abbesses by a gallants oirseer. Non he did not pretend to base what the religious feel logs of the Greeks might be, but he thought that, recording . to eeminete experience. it asst "shock their pnjudicee, if not their piety, to see religonts offices tilled up by the directions of those whir know more (derma than of religious orders,. The Hoe. Gentleman had said there was no etatement or rerometrence from any individotil cempleming of Amy grievence; but that was in truth the com plaint made by his Hon. Friend, that no indisidual dared to complain, Ituwever gross the oppression might he which wall practised on limo He (Mn. Il'illisms) coutended that much had arisen to call tor a reconaleretion of the question. The Honour able Member contended, that till the arrival of the gallant General the Greeks knew 'milting of liberty, and were so accustomed to martial low. stowed to it, to MeOreets s th k a m t, ne, li i k fr %: n he be e in t• g ls.. c siho thought eu little of being of m weLe tial bu ia t e ;litytelet did hold out to them sonic reversimitiry licipeoul tut alt..- i t iffi lie le t t io d ria t u l rohle the cre i t:t ifi k ee rs t un i°° v zs t, t o, , , h , :ot h, n eh u .. ,, t i o w, b , : y. cun i s: o tteut with t why tiou been pressed upon them, slid why hid t , iev suffered the indignity of being disarmed ? Whet . d h ttis w i l i f itt• h e: was the complaint against them ? That they had dared to st inpathire with their brethren the Greek*. who had ritett in terms optima their oppremoss. Was it not a new circumstance that England wee now to. beseeti sidlig with the infidels of Europe against their Chnsttau brethren ? Hr ores qureed that againot this imputation the Hon. Gentleman had said nothing— P.lelti lore opprubri a Nubia not tiiri potteme aut Non potuitoe refelli. It must be conndered as a fact that at this I'M nine the [onion Wands were kept down front jesa. Mg their countrymen, the Greeks, by the freemen of England. Tnere were two grounds on which • his Hon. Friend's motion rested : one regarded the expenditure, to which no reply shzitirerr had bee,' given ; the other ground was as it atfeeted , the honor's of this ei tttttt ry. mid for the sake 4 1 that honour he would only sac he wished s sicic particularly k iraiiaeti wnu soar ...... end abbesses by a l e/Mani Ant. blew t pretend V. k.ow what the religious feel- he Greeds might tie, bet be thooglit ovitieg to eentivert eeperiencei it crust •ir prejudice., if not their piety, to see offices filled up by the dire:intone of those more of Mein. thin of religious order*. The dleman hod said there ass no statement .trance from any lathy/Wind ciernplaming evince; but thy wee in truth the corn- de by his Hon. Friend, that no inchildual complain, huwever gross the oppression which was practised on him. He (Mr. oontended that much had arisen to call iividemtion of the ques'ino. The Honour- nber contended. dist till the arrival of It General the Meeks knew, nothing of nd were so accustomed to mottled I.w, • the eels, who thought Wilt of brit% rom being accustomed to it, in MeGreets t little efflicted by the infliction of • so; yet the Honourable Gentleman id :o them some reversineery hives of on all. - +irk to be centirtelit with himself, h- k eirrnecesoury. But why had this nate- pressed upon them, amid why hid t•iev lie iiidignity of being disarined ? %I lute implaint against them ? That they had )inpsthise with their brethren the Garekv, izien rn orms against their opprrmots. Ws, :* circumstance that England 0,1111 110* to. 14 1 c with the infidels of Europe sgainat their hr. t turn ? He **ll geleved that sgaiort 'tuition the Hon. Gentleman hod said --raetet ere opprubris obis sat Mei potable nut on rennin& reftilli. e considered as s fact that at this very kminu Wands were kept down frees join- countrymen, the Greek., by the 'mewl , There were two ground. on "filch Friend's motion rested : one repotted the ire, to which no reply whatever had been he other gronsid was 1111 it affected the f this country, mid for the sake 4 1 nir lie would only say he wished a mu'