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THE LONDON JOURNALS. DAILY 'bifaces from the Morning Papers,. May 16. 4110 fiNING POST.I We received last night by Express French Papers to the 15th instant. Their contents are highly important. " Decisive operations" have indeed commenced in Catalonia, but not in the mode or with the success boastfully announced by the enemy. The retreat, or as it was even termed, the flight of Mina, turns out to have been a skilful manoeuvre, which it is admitted has completely deceived his opponents, and has enabled him to throw himself into their rear and to march straight towards France ! By this bold movement, which we long since anticipated, the whole character of the contest in that Province is changed, for the little progress made by the in vaders is not only effectually arrested, but they are hastening back by forced marches to en deavour to overtake the Spanish Commanderbe fore lie can reach the frontier and transfer the seat of war to the French territory. If such be his intention, however, it does not appear possible for them to prevent its execution, for he was a day's march in advance of their nearest division (Eroles'), and there was not a single French soldier between himself 'and the frontier ; whilst 7 according to private ad vices, Guerilla forces are already, acting in the rear of the enemy. It is also possible that his plan is'to possess himself of the mountain passes in the rear and on the right flank of his opponents, so As to cut off 01 their communications with France and with the Duke of Angoulerne's army, whilst the divisions of Milans and Llobera postpd at Ilostahich, or supported by the vast and strongly fortified city of Barcelona, would prevent fur ther odvance, if under such circumstances they should be imprudent enough to attempt it. Nei ther would he find as much difficulty as it may be supposed, in maintaining himself in those impor tant positions ; for, besides his experience as a Guerilla Leader, and the natural difficulties of the country, it must not be forgotten that he possesses two efficient points d'appui for his ope rations, the fortresses of Figueras and the Seo d'Urgel. Within these he would lodge the pri soners and convoys which his skill and activity in partizan warfare would not fail to take from' the enemy ; . whilst, if he were hard pressed by superior numbers, they would always afford him a place of refuge 'Whither to collect his scattered forces, and to re-organize them into an army. [MORNING otttoxict.E.] The Paris Papers of Wednesday have brought intelligence from the Rrench army of great im portance. Mina has contrived to place himself and a detachment of his force between the French and their own frontier, his main body taking the direction of Rastairieh. Re has passed along the line of the Ter towards the mountains on the frontier. Time will show what his object is in this movement. It can hardly be to enter the French territory. It is more likely that he means to avail himself of the nature of the coun try to interrupt the French commutdcations. A Telegraphic Dispatch, which we have also re ePived,states that the Report of Marshal Moncey is dated the Bth. [TIIE TIMES.] It may easily be judged with what wicked exultation and insolent sneers any advantages over the Spaniards would have been greeted by the Bourbons and their adherents, when they endeavour to pluck a boast out of such meagre materials as our present day's Journal contains. Stocks somewhat declining in Paris, and certain sinister rumours being afloat, the Finance Minis ter thought it necessary to correct the mischief, by a message to the Syndicate of the Exchange, " that Mina" was (doing what he always had done, and what it was his duty to do, namely) 64 retiring ; and that if he were pressed, as there " was every' reason to believe he must he, he 64 must fight desperately, or epe retire further " into the Cerdagne."—The rumours of peace still continue hut from whom do they spring ? Not from the Spaniards, but from the French! This is a pretty plain proof that the latter have had enough of the war. Their wish was father to the thought ; but they are not out of it yet ! The Catholics of Ireland are in full activity. We do not wonder at, and cannot blame them, feeling themselves disappointed or aggrieved, for trying all means not in their nature criminal to obtain redress and satisfaction. On Saturday last they held their Aggregate Meeting in Dublin, attended by what one of the Papers calls a " per " feet Representation of the Counties." Let the Cabinet look to this language, and consider what it actually imports. A long Address to the King w a s vo t e d—many lung speeches were delivered —and in one ftmu Mr. O'Connel, an Oxpla-1 nation was given of the . means through which the far famed Letter of Mr. Suurin, suggesting certain modes of getting round the Grand Juries, by Lord Norbury's closet lectures on the Catholic question, had been made public. The letter was picked up in the street—deposited with a priest—by him banded Over to Mr. O'Connell, who wished Mr. Plunkett to act upon it, but the Right Honour able Gentleman, through considerations of deli cacy, declined is then got into time newspapers. A permanent committee is to be formed of Catholic Noblemen an'l Gentlemen, for managing the affairs of their bedy.----(Ibill.) [ N 1 V The subject of Celonial slavery, a subject in which all the fiiemls of humanity take a deep interest, occupi d Cy> attention of the House of Common -3 brit Resolutions were moved by Mr. Buxton, etubm;ing the main features of the trwa:;tres Illicit he proposed to effect the -gradual Ema! elation of the Slaves. Other Resolutions were brought forward by Mr. Call. Mug, hrs. specific in their character, and more go. mend itt 'Feir langca,;r. They went to pledge the Hou-,e tc promote the Abolition of Slavery by such means 45; upon mature deliberation they might consider best calculated to secure at once the interests or the Proprietors, and the future welfare of the Slaves themselves. After a de bate,Mr.-Buxton withdrew his Resolutions, and those of Mr. Canning were carried without a di vision. The supporters of the Abolition may now congratulate themselves on having made one great step towards the accomplishment of their honourable object. That the question is embar rassed by some serious practical difficulties can not be denied ; but it seems now to be admitted on all hands, that slavery cannot be regarded as interminable ; and surely it is wise to make de liberate preparation for the important change, rather than leave it to the operation of time and chance. [BRITISH PRESS.] The extreme press of matter in our Payer pre vents our making this morning any comment on the most important debate of last night, on the presentation of the numerous Petitions, and Mr. Fowell Buxton's motion grounded on them, for the Abolition of Slavery in the Foreign Depen dencies of Great Britain. Mr. Canning moved three resolutions as an amendment to that of Mr. Buxton, which, we confess, we think the House were right in calmly adopting. They em braced the great principle of ultimate abolition of slavery, giving freedom to the rising generation, and liberty to the sable bondsman himself, at a period consistent with his own provision and hap piness, and the safely and property of the num bers who have millions embarked in the concerns to which the African population are attached.— The gradurat — emancipation of these devoted behgs will be a soured of inestimable happiness to themselves, and a foul and dark stain re moved from tIT character of Great Britain ; but until the accursed slave trade itself is utterly abolished—until the whole influence and force of Great Britain are exerted to extinguish for ever this infernal traffic in the tears and, blood of thousands of human beings—all other exertions are hopeless and almost vain. This abominable trade is still carried on to a dreadful extent, on the coast of Calabar and elsewhere, by France, and even by Constitutional l'ortugal. If Great Britain has not lost all her influence with the first, it ought to be exerted to extinguish this nefarious barter in human blood and misery ; that she has the power, purchased both with money, by ancient services, and recent protection given to Portugal, to exact its extinction pe remptorily from her, until all vessels of whatever nation so trading are subject to be treated as pirates, and the right of unlimited search on every sea conceded. For that purpose nothing effectual will be done, let Parliament resolve as it may. We trust that both Mr. Wilberforce and Mr. Buxton will be unceasing in their efforts until this great measure is accomplished. SCOTCH APPEALS. The cause of Sir J AMES DUFF v. the Earl of FIVE, which is now pending in the House of Lords, is of a na ture to awaken a lively interest in the community. It Is the first serious example that has been brought into discussion of the practical effects in Scotland, of the new institution of a trial by Jury in civil cases. In Ibis point of view; it has already been received with a degree of attention to which its claim it not diminished from the peculiarity of its cir cumstances. Considered altogether, and with relation to the magnitude of the interests involved, it is not often that our highest Court of Judicature- is called upon to sit in re. view of a case, embracing questions. of more difficulty, whether of law or fact, or pregnant with graver consequences, whether immediate or remote. The late James Earl of Fife, effected great improvements during his life time, of the plo perty to which he succeeded. Ile showed by a variety of deeds, from the year 1793 to 1807 inclusive, that he did not mean these to descend in entail to his heir-at-law. The personal attention he paid to his own afthirs, was far beyond what is usually ma nifested by individuals of his rank. He made many skilful purchases of land, and received some large accessions by mar riage. His habits of business were diligent, and his acquaint. ..tince with its forms of long standing. He was likewise in the i constant practice of employing and consulting, in all its trans , actions, agents of high professional repute, with whom he maintained a regular correspondence. At length, in the year 1807, he directed a trust deed to be drawn up, by which he dis , posed of a largo portion of his estates, to the value of 20,000 d. per annum, to the appellant, in discharge of his debts, and for other specific purposes. The validity of this deed, and its legal execution, are two of the chief points in this nu.' portant question. At the period adverted to, Lord Fife's powers of action were much impaired, and it was matter of doubt whether any deed could be operative that was signed or subscribed by him, ;without the ceremonies prescribed by Scotch law in eases of total blindness. One of those firms was the presence of a notary, which was overlooked in this case. Ilut the great difficulty experienced in the trial of the question in Scotland was, to determine on which side the burden of proof ought to be cast, and whether it was for the pursuer or defender to bring forward evidence that the papers were or were not read over to the late Earl previous to his subscribing them. In the end, however, a majority of the Court of Ses sion having decided in favour of the actions, six or seven is. sues of fact were framed and twice laid before a Jury, who, by their verdicts, had made it necessary to urge the present ap peal. It was remarked by the Lord Chancellor, that in Eng. land the whole matter would have been comprehended' in one issue, and much of the perplexity now experienced would have been avoided. It was somewhat new to him to find the proof of a negative laid upon either party; but at all events this was a question of very high importance, and demanded the fullest consideration. SETTLEMENT AT KILTARLITYo-011 Thursday the Presbytery of Inverness, in pursuance of this sentence of the General Assembly, and the sub.. seiuent decision of the Synod of Moray, fixing the Bth May for the day of settlement, pro ceeded to the inducting the Rev. Mr. CoLIN FILAFiEtt to the•parisl► of Kilterlity. Agreeably to notice, Mr. GIL MAN, Sheriff-substitute, with some peace officers from Inverness, attended, but happily their interference was not required ; a respectable proportion of the parishioners were present, and the conduct of the congregation was orderly and commend able.—(Edinburgh Courant, May 12.) Mr. llcArt, farmer at Claremont, near St. Andrew's, Scotland, found a beautiful wedge of agate upon his farm, on Saturday the 3d Instant, embedded between the soil and the clay, about' three feet under the natural sur face of the ground: It is finely polished, and in the highest preservation. It is nearly a foot long, varying from two to three inches broad, and from a sharp edge to an inch thick ; it is chiefly of a pale greyish or dove colour, hut partly veined, black and white, and is wedged at each end. Mr. II LAN 'delivered it to his landlord, Mr. NA (LINE, Picardy Place, who has already submitted it to several eminent antiquarians, and means to lay it before the Royal and Antiqurian Societies, in the• hope of procuring some satisfac tory theory as to its original use and its probable antiquity. FOR THE SUN. Mn. EDITOR—If you have not already admit ted in your Paper the following extract from a late American Paper, perhaps you will now think it worth insertion. You and your readers will of course give what credit you may think fit, to the liberality and freedom from prejudice or na tional lies, that may excite the 64 sneers" of the " virtuous Republican." In the rest of what he says, I think our feeling will agree with his. I am, &c. May 10, 1823. AN ENGLISHMAN. [From etc Charkstan Couricr.] " LORD BYRON, " Lord Byron, it is said, is coming to this country. We are sorry for it. He will not be pleased with the United States ; neither their climate nor their manners are sensualiz. ed, as in Italy. He will find that his mind has travelled in advance of this person, and withered the flowers that he hopes for in his path. He will behold the pious recoiling from apostate genius ; the beautiful sudilering at the profaner of innocence ; and the virtuous republican sneering at the vices of peerage. if he comes he will write of us ; America is a poetical subject, at least as much so as Don Juan. Campbell writes doggrel about us, and little Moore wrote slander. If Lord Byron would praise us, the proper account to charge it to would be, his disaffection to the Ministry. But if he should abuse ut i we ought not to complain • * *" • FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FURTHER EXTRACTS FROM THE PARIS PAPERS OF TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY. ' (From L'Etoile.) PARIS, MAY 14.—The advanced posts from Gerona, where Marshal Moncey is, occupy Santa Colona, and our hussars carry their re connoissances even under the very walls of Hos talrich. General Donnadieu entered Vich at 10 o'clock on the morning of the 6th. M. Machado, Spanish Consul General, receiv ed his passports on Monday, and was to set out last night for London. All Spaniards at Paris have received orders to quit it without a mo ment's delay. BAYONNE, MAY 4.—Private letters assert that the inhabitants of Seville have,seized upon the person of King Ferdinand, and are taking him back to Madrid, where it it: expected his Ma jesty will arrive at the same time as his Royal Highness the Duke d' Angoule,th. It is also reported that the Count del Abishal is disposed to submit, with the five or six thou sand men he has at Madrid. MAY 6 —An Officer on the Stall' of General Charles O'Donnell writes from Burgos, that the Portuguese General, Count d'Amarante, had ar rived there with his Aides-de-Camp, to present himself before his Royal Highness the Duke d'Angouleme. The Count had left his artny . between Sanabria and A storga, consisting of 5,000 infantry, 500 cavalry, and 6 pieces of ar ►illery. It is currently reported, and generally believ e,d, that the Cortes have sent a message to his Royal Highness, who has refused, it is said, to listen to any proposition which does not emanate from the King. (Prom Me Journal des Debuts. ) Private letters received at 'Vittoria announce that the Count del Abisbal has quitted Madrid very suddenly with only one Aide-de-Camp, and that it is not known whither he is gone. N. B. This article is inserted word for word, in all the other French Ministerial papers. [From the Pilote.l PARIS, MAY 14.—We learn from Perpignan, under date the sth instant, that Mina has de tached 3000 of his old soldiers into various quar ters to act as Guerillas. An engagement is daily expected. The i lleat is so excessive that many of our young soldiers have been attacked by fever, and are daily taken to the hospital of Perpignan. A courier from Catalonia passed through Pau on the 6th, proceeding in haste to the head-quar ters of the Duke d'Angouleme. Letters from Oleron, of the Sth, account in this manner for the surprise of the fort of Jaca : Whilst the garrison, composed of 800 men, was exercising on the glacis, Miranda (the Governor) ordered the draw-bridge to he raised, and then admitted the soldiers of the Faith. l'he garrison being shut out, were obliged to retire. N. B. Our previous accounts state, that they marched to join Balasteros by cross-roads. [From the Echo do Midi.] BELVER, MAY 2.--One of the spies of Mina, said to be a Frenchman, was arrested on the 24th of April at Guissonna, between Calaf and Car vera, by the troops of D. Pablo Alkalies. lie was the bearer of an enormous packet, contain ing a correspondence for the brothers and friends of France (pour les freres et arms de Prancej— It is said he came from the head-quarters of Mina, and was conducted to the prison at Calaf. This correspond ence , so opportunely discovered, will defeat the dark and miserable intrigues of t he enemies of peace and of their country. SPAIN. Letters from Valladolid bring tl n following copy of a Proclamation issued by El Empeci• r►ado " Spaniards !—The French have presumed, treacherously and basely, to invade our holy soil, and are advancing to the Ebro. Ever a Spaniard and a freeman, lam determined to war on them again to destruction. During the invasion of 1008, I fought for independence, and now I will fight for the sante blessing, and for the public liberties. Castilians ! -4 am duly authorized to form constitutional troops to attack the enemy —come and join me in this city, or at Aranda de Duero. Fly to arms ! and wherever I shall lead, you will find duty and glory. Let us take the field again ; let us be Viria. tuses ; and the enemy being destitute of that genius which make soldiers of them, we will fight and annihilate these hordes of bondmen. Listen not to the wretches who want to enslave us. Let the Constitution and virtue ever be the word, and no power on earth shall.be able to seduce freemen to servi tude. The Constitution, Religion, and Liberty for ever ! (Signed) "EL EMPECINADO. " Valladolid, April 16, 1022." INDEPENDENCE OF THE GREEKS. A Meeting assembled yesterday at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, pursuant to advertisement, to take into consideration the most effectual measure for assisting the Greek Patriots in their struggle with the Ottoman Power for a free and constitutional Government. At about one o'clock Lord MILTON entered the room, accompanied by the very nu merous and highly respectable Gentlemen of the Committee. Mr. IticauDo proposed that Lord Milton be requested to take the chair ;, which, being received with great applause, was immediately carried into effect. Lord A. Hamilton supported the Chairman on the right, and J. Smith, Esq. M.P. on the left. Lord MILTON rose and observed, that as the Meeting had done him the honour to place him in the chair, he would pro ceed to call the attention of the assembly to the noble cause for the promotion of which they had met. That a desire of peace should exist to a considerable extent in the population of a commercial nation was not surprising; but the people of Great Britain ' could not view with apathy the arduous struggle of the Greek nation. It had been said that this great contest was merely a series of cruel and barbarous ac tions, both on one side and the other; but if the Greeks were now so barbarous, we could not forget what they once were ; and there could not be a doubt but that their de gradation in the 19th century was attributable to the Turks themselves—the greatest barbarians of the eastern part of the world. The Turk was not only barbarous but it followed, almost of necessity, that all who were under the Ottoman - yoke must imbibe much of the barbarity of their oppressori. Meet ings had been frequently held in this great metropolis for the purpose of giving pecuniary assistance to the distressed of other nations ; but had there ever been any case before the public that presented a greater or more just claim upon the sympathy and aid of a free people than the regenerating Greeks ? It might not be generally known, that it was too true, that meet ings had been held in almost every country, save our own, for raising contributions for the promotion of Greek independence. Was there an Englishman deserving of that name who could rest content with being tamely quiescent in the enslavipg of a great and noble population, when the German, Swiss, and Ame rican people had come forward, and actively assisted the advo cates of a free and constitutional government against despotic ; and tyrannic power ? The Noble ',ord then took a lengthened review of the inhuman barbarities committed by the Turks at Scio, Oardiki, and other places ; and then detailed a variety of less notorious, but equally revolting instances of the barbarous , and unnatural conduct of the Ottoman nation. Did it not then necessarily follow, that the Greeks would attempt to retaliate upon their oppressors ? It was the inevitable consequence of the war which was waged against them ; and the assertions ot: those who contended for the fact of Grecian barbarity, would be therefore only an additional reason for the people of this country to come forward on the present occasion, and enable the Greeks to secure tiler independence and territory as early as. possible. The Noble CHAIRMAN then apologized for the absence of Lord Erskine, from indisposition ; and of Mr. Wilberforce, who, in a letter which was read to the meeting, expressed his earnest hope, founded on religious principles, of the eventual success of the Greek cause. J. 6AlITII; Esq. M.P. wits most happy in being the channel through which the meeting would be called upon to pledge itself to aid the cause of Grecian independence. It could not but be allowed, that to a certain extent at least, this country was indebted fbr its liberty'and glory to the noble example of the ancient Greeks. The founder of the Mahometan faith, with all his bigotry and art, when his enemies were prostrate at his feet, his language was, " Destroy them not l"—but was such, he would ask, the conduct of the Turks ? No. Extirpa tion was the policy of that Government; they would „destroy the political existence of the Greeks—nay their vremem brance of the deeds of days gone by: The meeting this day might trun the contest now waging, and to those npw present the patriots of modern Greece might owe-their liberty, their lives, their property, and all that to freemen was valuable. The Hon. Speaker concluded by moving the firstresolution. " That the present situation of Greece is highly interesting to the friends of humanity and independence." Sir JamEs Maxxiwrosir seconded the Resolution which had been proposed. Literature and art, civilisation ofmankind, and the freedom of nations, were with him the causes of the warmest emotions and th e deepest commiseration, and he there fore could not be lukewarm in the great cause of Grecian inde pendence; and knowingois he did, the natural tendency of Englishmen to press forward in aid of the liberty of the oppress ed, itnd in support of thtise who were engaged in the sacred warfare.of freedom, stniggling to cast off their chains and manacles, he feared that all he might say would rather damp than encourage that laudable feeling. He did not speak in ignorance when he applied harsh terms to the cruelty and barbarity of the Mahemetan governments; be had witnessed the results of their tyranny, and he knew that it was in the nature of Mahometan governments to be tyrannical ; their laws were so interwoven with their religious tenets, that it was im possible to remove or ameliorate the re su lt s of their oppression to the struggling advocates of freedom. How had the,Christian Powers of the Continent acted towards the few unfortunate Greek refugees ? The eloquent speaker then alluded to the expulsion of some Greeks who hail escaped from the massacre of their countrymen to Russia, Austria, France, and Genoa; the charitable reception afforded them by Switzerland, and the subsequent remonstrance of the Holy Alliance to the,Diet of that country, and concluded amidst loud applause. Lord J. RUSSELL rose, and was received with great appro bation. After paying a just tribute to the display of patriotic eloquence which the meeting had just heard, the Noble Lord alluded briefly, to the presumed barbarity of the Greeks, which having proved inevitable, if not justifiable, he proceeded to draw the attention of those present to the necessity of the in habitants of the free European nations to show by their con duct that they were not parties to the tyrannic conduct of the members of the Holy Alliance, and concluded by moving— " That the liberation of iat unhappy country . affords the most pleasing prospect of the promotion of Christianity and civilization." Lord W. BENTINCK most warmly seconded the resolution just read. He the more readily did so, from the obvious neces sity which existed for every advocate of the constitutional li berty of nations to come forward in its support, when so many wars were threatened and carrying on by the tyrannic Monarchs of oppressed States.—(Applause.) Mr. IlonirousE said, lie hail been honoured by those who managed the present meeting with the requeSt to move the ad resolution ; he called -it an honour, because no man could re ceive a greater than to be allowed to take a prominent part in such a cause, which, notwitlistandiug the seeming apathy with Which it was regarded, would, he trusted, kindle a spirit of sym pathy in this country worthy of Englishmen, worthy of Greece, and the great cause of liberty. The Honourable Gentleman concluded an able speech by moving a resolution, expressive of the sense of the Meeting, that immediate aid should be given to the Greeks. _ _ _ Mr. TAYLOR, the Barrister, seconded the motion in an elo quent speech, which he concluded by reading a letter from a friend who had been an eye-Witness, describing the attrocities committed by the Turks at Scio. Lord A. HAMILTo4r, in a speech of considerable length, moved a Resolution for entering into a subscription. 4 Mr. SHERIDAN, who was announced to the meeting as the son of Mr. Sheridan, was received with applause, and was listened to with attention. He began by urging that the object of the Turks now was the utter extermination of the Greeks as a nation. The Divan had three times met to deliberate, whether they should order the extermination of the whole of the Greeks now in power, in order to .prevent future 'disturbances, and had only been prevented from executing the project, by the consideration that they would thereby destroy the tariff, or the tax, which they received for permitting the the Greeks to live.—(Hear, hear o—There were now two mil. lons of human beings who were doomed to be exterminated should the Turks succeed. That this was their doom, there could not be the slightest doubt. It was manifested by th e mas sacre at Scio. The Pacha who executed that atrocity, left Con stantinople with express orders to cut off' the whole people of Scio as he would cut off one head, and he executed the order with inhinuan fidelity. Of 100,000 Greeks who inhabited the island, not one now remained upon it; anti that place, which was but a short time since so prosperous anti beautiful, was now in ruins. He appealed to the tribunal of public opinion in favour of the cause; he appealed' to the friends of humanity, to come forward with effectual aid in favour of the Greeks, who had been so often betrayed by Europeans. Three times had the Russians tempted them to revolt, anil then forsaken them. The Austrians had insisted once on their observance of an amnesty with the Turks, and no sooner had the Greeks accepted this am nesty than the Turks had turned in upon them the Albanians, who hunted them down like blood hounds. Tht present revolu tion was one of the most undivided character : he would not admit assistance to the Greeks to be a matter of debate or opi. nion, for he held that to question whether they had a right to resist such horrible oppression as they had suffered, a species of blasphemy, not only against English feeling, but against the true feeling of man.—kApplainid)—That which determined the Greeks on rising some time before the measure was generally prepared for, was the murder of their patriarch, who was looked up to by all as their father anti highest dignitary, and who had succeeded in gaining the respect even of the Turks. The Patriarch was hung before his own church on their most sacred day, on the false charge of having aided in the escape of a persecuted family, and his body was afterwards given to the Jews to be dragged about the streets with 'insult. There was not a Greek that did not feelas if lie had die murdered patriarch before his eyes. If it was not in the power of 'the meeting to give extensive aid to those filo were carrying on the war for freedom, yet the manifestation of their opinion would cheer the Greeks ; he owned he calculated greatly upon the moral effects of the meeting, for he knew the effect of the feeling shewn must be great. He enforced that the people of this country, leaving all moral feeling out of the question, had a strong interest in the contest. It was not the intention f Russia to aid in the free. dom of Greece, but it would be the object of her ruler to keep aloof or hover over like a vulture until Greece and Turkey had exhausted each other, and then to pouffe upon and dismember the carcases.—(Applause.)—If Russia permitted Greece, under such circumstances, to be any thing or to bear the name of any thing, it would give it a Russian Prince, as it had done Poland, and call it independent. Some had argued against our interfering to aid the Greeks, on the ground that they were fond of the Russians ; but this was not the fact ; they disliked the Russians ; for no nation ever forgave being betrayed, and it was only recently that the Greeks had sent one of their Chiefs in chains to Candia, to be tried for treason, in having offered to submit an island to the Russians. It was incumbent upon us now to come fiirward on another account, namely, to spew that the national feeling was not in unison with the conduct of the Government. It was alleged abroad that our reason for not interfering was the hold which we had obtained in the lonian Isles, where the semblance of freedom which was given to the inhabitants, and was now endurable only by the contrast of the tyranny of the Turks on shores a mile distant, would no longer be endured when real freedom existed in the same neighbourhood. He concluded by expressing, in language which received much applause, that a heavy responsibility lay upon England in this contest, as she had the " Police" of the 3lediterranean, and had it in her power to check the barbarians, as she had shewn at Algiers. She had be sides deprived the Greeks of some powerful natural allies. She had possessed herself of Malta by a very questionable act, and drove out the order of Knights, who, had they been in exist ence, would have shed their last blood in aid of the Greeks.-- Much might be done by the loud expression of national sym pathy; and he contended they were bound to disclaim what G lie termed the " ambiguous feeling and shu ff ling policy" of o vernment towards the Greeks. Mr. J. Sawrit, M.P. notwithstanding his respect for the eloquence of the young man who had just addre ssed them, and which had reminded him of what he (Mr. S.) had often heard from the mouth of the father, he must say that this qu estion ought not to be discussed as a political question , but as a great moral question, and in that point of view only it ought to be considered. After some speeches from 31r..Ha n To P and Mr. 31,1%1 1 TELL , it was moved that a Subscription should be entered into. The following Subscriptions were then commenced : Mr. Lake, 25/. ; J. C. Ilobhouse, 251. ; Mr. Maxwell, 2 0 /. ; Mr. Hume, 10/. • the Duke of Bedford, 10 01 . ; Lord 31ilton, 50/. ; J. Smith, 1 . 00/.; two Greeks, who had escaped, 401. each. had a few words to say. He had, • Every thing was going on smoothly, when, to the surprise Of every body, anti the particular discomposure of many about the table, up started HuieT from behind some persons, anti said,lie for intruding ; but he felt the cause of liberty was at stake, and there he was to resist it, and to fill up somethin, a which bad been omitted. Many men of talent anti abilitylad that day spoken with great eloquence, and much effect; but there was one thing which they had omitted. They had described how atrociously. the Russians had behaved, and how hardly others had treated he said, perhaps to apologize the Greeks ; but they had forgotten to say h ow badly the repre sentative of the British Government, Sir Th om as 31aid a nd, had behaved to them. We had behaved utmost as infamously to the Greeks as any of these Turkish infidela.—(liisses)—lie was extremely sorry to see so miserably thin a meeting great a cause. Here were little more perhaps than a thousana l people present from the whole metropolia, atter the Greeks ?La e been fighting for their independenc.e these two years. 11 .lamented it exceedingly ; he did not wish to throw cold water upon the thing. He came there, not only to open his moi_ i l 4 and his hand in the cause of independence but to refs °ll :c i d pocket. lie said, the sufferings of some independence ; as but he by one of the speakers, were, to be sure, atrocious; to support s t o at .Manchester. The orator went on his usual strain f . ,_. greater WO long time, magnifying his own sufferings as much , . any thing the Greeks had endured, contended that they were not to be compared to-the. do_nintgss ing the conductors of the meeting for not having -hieddeli properly with him or his fellow-sufferers. Be was den sh to see the contrast which sonic of those about the table es_ army. to their former behaviour, and that they were now not a o h l.sera (l .. to call themselves Reforms. lie was sorry to so such a i d It was ble list of subscriptions as that which had been rea 1 here were enough to throw cold water upon the cause. WIT 1• r, iv! , and obliquely r? . , .fl i the men who possessed their forty or sixty thousands a i -y a e n a . _ ._ subscribed for oneman, and their the most injure n d d n five l n 111 ' hun. world (Sir Robert Wilson), one thousand a Or tens.-- only with their poor one hundreds, 11 ti i e s; twenties,_ rel tatent and coo ' (lllsses.)--Hunable as he was„. there was su . rot e . y .--( Yes and cha. rage here to pat him down, it he w as w- )-. 'he came racter ! said one in the crowd.) — Humble as lie was, d for as Bred each, now came forward in the great cause of the Greeks there with a determination et putting hiss ame own thousands much as the rich Duke of Bedford with his tens of tor had subscribed. —(A lause.)—lle came there, said the ora tor in a sneering tone, been than a sacrifice to the cause.—(ApPla use.)eth ll n bee n than this was necessary to animate people. Why what i the Care' subscribed was hardly enough to pay the expences of tei C have mittee as Committees were usually conducted. lie shou l d lie's felt ashamed of himself if he had been so rich and subsc ribe d so poorly. The orator, after some further reproaches to tho 7, about him for their want of patriotiSm, concluded t . 1 _ his own sufferings at Ilellester, the mention of whichexcited tar lau_ghter of the naeeting. . ge t 11 P The motion for the Comniittee was put; when Hunt b e the to make a speech and a shew, but to particular ones should be nominated to dispose again and insisted on the names being read that it !nigh' seen who and what they were. r five Tim names were read, when he demanded that four 0 .. r the public !satisfaction. He had no objecu ls 'on e fo the great ft r of names, but how many of those would at ; and how o ri c a ! t wos_ it that two or three sharp intriguing fellows got i"::i n t he iced amongst some fair looking names, _ and man: d on money as suited them, whilst those whom the public re ie never attended ? After a lon • e squabble, the list of names originally Prel'esed held who was carried against the orator; who was the only one up a hand against it. imam , laord GLENWICIIir s in moo he hanks to the Cllal ing le c e all a rated Hunt for obtruding his grievances upon a ineetinar to consider a question with which they had nothing to do !. ?eon, HUNT took these observations upon him in high d" e lt t h e said he did not come there to be " tried, and detnaidetitec. speaker's name ! He got hissed again; but he told the ap ing' that be expected to be hissed at a meeting ' for if the peered at one without being hissed, be should mink ~,,,e age was advancing at too quick a rate, rapidly as ,i 1 has al e a theinse v • already since Lord 31ilton and others had declare ( ' Ito be Reformers. of the monea LAW INTELLIGENCE. desire for m h oftniqed, h EAR SS thi T . h_e Loa: from r ee accurate Lc O rG F LamLo C i I nr:N N :OO C RT e E n tat, ' 86 : i t njor When t ,hh . et r eu:s rp:e Mr. Si/ATWELL said , . that in complian c°4l.- - ' 3 wa. ui Committee of thheadrinoouwsetoofsttredst.hat it was ct nturaittet u,uary j u t. the bench when 3 W" mentioned—therefore nothing further took pia specting it. orn ing His Lora --"P was occupied ne ar ly the whole of the P I with a Partly-heard mo 'and lock to agent a non, roic at two o c COURT OF KING'S BENCH', MO 15. • bl of :I,eas Th val i e bttel Co u u te rt ly w as occupied A pearl I' y wholenthYemEn BY en th tr i a l this cause, in which the question was, whether a bill 0 ertly ter with hashlifnfoVawspaecpiefircs°plui r il no an s i c ed . S ain t je ll ve bellive'idi t b -11°I pl ili s l i o: . 11_ 0 public interest. The Jury found a verdict for e " amages, 1.788 1 . 18s. On Wednesday, the 14t1131 i i n ß st ir ., i a l t . his house in Nevi S dl felirk: street, the Lady or Wm. Carty a i g ht, Esq., of a son In MARRIED. 1 , Al old, Vs e k'' Yesterday, at Shepp-rton, Middlesex, .T 11 0" --°0(1, Nest of Lincoln's Inn-fields, son of the late Jacob Is lo . n, Governor of Cape (*oast Castle, in Africa to IllarY IlL eo t, daughter of Wm. Oakley, Esq., late of Africa, -P. DIED. li‘oornpar94 On the 1:1di inst., on board the lion. East Itu - sari ship the Marquis oflS'ellington, John Woolcott, r4s ( l. e a v o f ids in the Company's establishment. Ile died on - th e passage out to resume his official duties in India. „adopt, Within the last month, in the parish of libipdhsTliitz ; 0 1 Francis Clemenee, aged 101 ; Ann Maidwell, OP' Elizabeth Payne aged 103. 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