The Sun. — London, England, 1823-05-15 00:00:00

TIIE LONDON JOURNALS. DAILY Extracts from the Morning Papers, May 15. ['ruE TIMES.] The distresses of what is termed the West India interest have made themselves hard of late. The sugar-growers have, like the English agri culturists, been calling loudly for remunerating prices, and, like our English agriculturists also, are in no ways unwilling to shift the loss from their own shoulders to those of customers. If it should turn out, on a fair discussion of the actual state of the West India islands, that the system of slavery there predominant, is not more hostile to the rights of the negro than it is to the in. terests and immediate prosperity of his master, not only will an additional and powerful argu ment be furnished against the policy now recom mended by the planters, of continuing to favour them at the expense of British India, and thus inflicting commercial slavery upon the rest of the Empire, because personal slavery in a particular spot of it has ceased to be a source of wealth ; but the strongest possible motive will be pro vided for examining anew the whole question of slavery, not with reference to the Abolition of the' African Slave Trade, for that, thank Heaven, is now at rest; but in relation to the effects of the system, modified as it has been by the Legis lature of this country, on the native black popu lation, and on the direct welfare of the whites themselves. We do not mean to alarm prudent men, by starting the experiment of an immediate emancipation of the negroes. Without arguing the point how far such a measure might or might not be equitable towards the planters, we cannot be blind to the infinite mischiefs which might spring from it to unfortunate and untutored slaves : but there is an inquiry, to the benefits of which the latter are well entitled, and for the consequences of which the West India planters must learn betimes to prepare their feelings—we mean by what steps the ultimate emancipation of the negro can be most safely and advantageously secured. To those who exclaim against the frightful project of giving freedom to half a million of our fellow-creatures, we put the question—is their bondage to be perpetual ? Is the vile stain of domestic tyranny to be affixed for ever to. the British name? If you refuse to mediate on tly subject now, what period will you select as more fitting ? But it is not enough that negro slavery should be everlasting in its present form, and to its actual extent : we find that the present amount of human bondage is insufficient to pre serve the dispensers of, it from ruin. The planter cries out that he is 44 a ruined man ;" and yet lie has all that the present amount of slaves and slave laws can effect 'to shield him from destruction : then it follows, that the system must be enforced still further—that the abo mination must be aggravated, for the rescue of these West Indian insolvents-4111a the slave traffic must be renewed, and the Bri tish flag once more degraded into a partner ship in the execrable traffic. If this consequence be not allowed, we say then that the contrary conclusion must—viz. that the Parliament of England must consult upon the means of still further alleviating that condition of the negro which humanity revolts from making worse, and which the planter himself feels to be, as already constituted, unfit for the ends to which it was destined. g If there are those who assert that in no circumstances can it be safe to emancipate the slaves of the \Vest Indies, they are in a grievous error. [MORNING CURONICLE.] Our readers will see in the Report of the proceedings of the House of Commons last night, the reason why, to u'se the technical language, no House was made on the preceding evening . An agent of Ministers interfered to prevent M embers from attending, with a view to get rid of the discussion of Lord Archibald Hamilton's motion on the State of the. County Representation of Scotland. The Noble Lord had postponed his motion from an early part of the Session to - Tuesday, merely to accommodate Ministers, and this is the return he receives for his courtesy.— By similar conduct lust year he had also been prevented from bringing the subject before the House. The way to put a stop to all unworthy manceuvres of this kind, is to bring forward mo. tions without notice ;—those who shew no cour tesy, are themselves entitled to none. What a satire on the Government of this country is the statement by Mr. Hume of the manner in which justice is administered in Newfoundland. A Colony of great importance, with a popula tion of about one hundred thousand,has been left to this day, with respect to its laws, in a state for vv Lich there is no parallel in any civilized country. Ministers, no doubt, promise to re medy the abuses, and say they are now occupied with framing a measure for that purpose ; but their attention ought to have been directed to the evil long ago. It is their business to make themselves acquainted with the condition of the different parts of the Empire, and not to shut their ears to the complaints olf the sufferers, and wait till the subject is forced on their attention by some of the few Members of Parliament, who will charge themselves with any business which requires a little application. EURITISII PRESS.) We stated yesterday, from unquestionable au thority, that Lord Archibald Hamilton's motion was put off* by Ministerial management, and that the Agents of the Treasury Benches had inter fered to prevent a House being formed, and to keep Members away. We find that the Noble Lard rose in his place last night, to complain of the unjustifiable interference. On the last day for bringing forward his motion, he had, he said, consented to postpone it, in consequence of a re quest from a Right lion. Gentleman opposite (Mr. Goulburn). lie acquiesced in the delay, and fixed on Tuesday for the certain discussion of the subject, in the Emile:standing that no thing shonid interpose to prevent it. Lord Archibald tfamilton stated, he was ready to prove that a Gentleman, generally considered as the agent of. Government in such matters, bad used his endeavours to prevent Members coming to the. House. Mr. Canning, Mr. Peel, and Mr. Goulburn, severally disclaimed an interference with the Noble Lord's motion, but they could not deny the acts of the Treasury agent, the manager of the Ministerial influence and numbers in that House. This is a practice which cannot be reprobated too strongly; it is most unconsti tutional and corrupt, and must, while it continues, be productive of the most serious mischiefs to the independence of that House, and the progress of the public business of tke country. [NEW TIMES.] An advance took place yesterday rather unex pectedly in most of the different Funds. Consols for Account advanced from 781 to 79i4, at which they closed; and Spanish Bonds, which opened at 35, closed at 3644. It may be difficult to assign any very distinct reason for this advance ; but it may probably be owing to the idea of negociations between France and the Spanish Government, which begins to gain ground. We need not re mind our readers that we have for some time past asserted our belief that negociations were going forward. The Courier treated the idea with ridicule; but this did not at all shake our opinion ; and we now find other Journals gra dually adopting the same belief. Let us only consider how the different parties stand. The French Government is carrying on a very expen ive contest, which it must naturally wish to ter minate as soon as possible. The revolutionary Spa niards have no resources whatever ; they have no finances•, no army, no support in public opi nion ; if they do not soon make terms, they will most assuredly (and that they know very well) be given up and hanged. Again, the French , have no sort of interest in imposing on-Spain a despotic Government ; their own Government is not, despotic ; they have no inquisition, no absolute Monarch, and none of those institu tions, which it is so absurdly supposed they wish to establish in an adjoining country ; on the other hand, the wildest visionaries must now see that a democracy cannot be adopted in Spain ; that the present Constitution is a mere democracy ; and that to render it practi cable, it must be submitted to alteration. When the obvious interests of two adverse parties so clearly coincide in a middle point, we may be sure that they will come near it at last; and it is nonsense to talk about technical formalities standing in the way of negociations. If one set of men will not negotiate, another will; if San Miguel will not accede to the proposals of the French Agents, they will apply to Calatrava, to Arguelles, or to some other influential person ; and they assuredly will not apply in vain. [MORNING POST.] - We have received all the Frepch Papers to the 13th instant. They contain but little in addition to what we published yesterday. It is admitted by the Gazette de France, that since his junction with Milans, Mina " has a con siderable force under his command," but the report of a battle between his army and that of Marshal Moncey is not men tioned. It is lamented, on the contrary, in the usual boastful language of the French, that the Spanish Commander should have fallen back without waiting the discharge of a can non ; as though it was through dread of the prowess of the invaders that he abandoned his advanced positions, and not because his flanks had been turned, an operation which we are informed had been executed by Donnadieu and the Baron d'Eroles. Private letters, however, continue to speak of a sanguinary engagement in that quarter, and to assert that the victory remained doubtful, which, even if that were the case, would be nearly tantamount to a victory on the part of the Constitutionalists. The Quotidienne . an nounces that a squadron, consisting of the Centaure, 80 guns ; the Colosse, 74 ; the Themis frigate, a brig, _and two sloops, had arrived before Saint ,Sebastian, to blockade that fortress. It adds that a flag of truce, sent by the Admiral to the Governor, had been admitted within 'the walls, and that several other communications had passed between them in the course of the day, which led to a hope that there was a,disposition to surren der. A private letter from Bayonne asserts, on the authority of a British Officer who is said to have come all the way from Se vine, that the Cortes had declared the provinces of Biscay and Navarre out of the pale of the law, and had invested Mina with unlimited powers. The general impression, however, which is in some degree countenanced by the tone of the French Ministerial Papers, and the chagrin of the Ultras, is that ne gociations for peace have been opened with the Cortes, and that some of the chief obstacles to an accommodation have been re moved. It is, indeed, scarcely possible, as we remarked yes. terday, that i f French Government have the least sentiment of consistency, honour, and justice remaining, they should not desist from the prosecution of an unprovoked war, after the declaration made by the President of the Cortes, that Spain knows, and is willing to correct the imperfections existing in her Constitution (but not at the dictate of a Foreign Power, or at the point of the bayonet) has annihilated the vain pretence on which it was attempted to ,justify that war of aggression and iniquity. In this case there is no doubt that our good offices will be cheerfully employed to restore that peace which they could not prevent from being infringed, and that we shall take care, that whilst the perils of war are removed from the Penin sula, its independence shall not be impaired, or its Constitution destroyed. [MORNING HERALD.] The continuance 'of the Irish Insurrection Act seems to encounter no serious resistance • the Irish Member s give a more or less sincerely or affectedly reluctant consent ; and it is admitted by all, that the state of the country is despe rate. The real question, we have reason to think, has been (felt rather than expressed), not whether the Insurrection Act 'should or should not be continued, but whether a preference should be given to it over the Proclamation of Martial Law. The Irish Government has the merit of deciding for the more lenient— or more properly speaking, the less terrible course, and un doubtedly Acme measure of strong coercion is indispensable. The debate on this subject was peculiar. Instead of speeches for and against, it presented rather a consultation upon a given case, in which each delivered a thesis of his parti cular opinions. Never was there a case, in which the dis ease has been so confidently and so frequently discovered— the diagnosis described--the cure pointed out—the doctors so numerous, including a succession of Chief Secretaries, of va rious schools of practice, with tho amateur services of Joseph Lencaster, and Mr. Owen of Lanark—yet there is Ireland still in a state of prostrate wretchedness, giving signs of strength only when roused into a convulsion by the potent skill of Captain Rock. This is all very strange, and indeed without a precedent in the annals of civilized Government. We shall only draw .an inference from it-._ ix, that a course totally different from any hitherto followed must be adopted—anti we really believe that there is at present an honest and earnest disposition to do something of the kind. It was frequently observed during the de bate, and it is a gen er a l remar k, t h at t h e con di t i on o f t h e Irish has become worse and wor se since the Union_ The epoch is more cor rectly chosen than the event—it should rattier be said since the rebellion. From the extinction of the hopes, it may be said o# the race itself, of the Heim of Stuare, - sorne years later than die middle of the last century, up to the rebellion, the condition of the mass of the people was rapidly improving. The Catholic peesantry were no longer suspected of a sympathy , with the French, Spaniards, or the Pretender, and there was no longer ex isting an idol of Popish despotism to which their religion could di. rect their hopes. There was more union and cordiality between all classes, and in spite of the tendency of Itomish principles of re ligion to make men bad subjects of a free State, by diain ing their obedience to a foreign power, the Catholics were somewhat nationalized, at the same time that the Protestants became towards them more liberalized. The effect, no doubt, was greatly promoted by the conquest of its independence by the Irish Parliament; and by the extension of the elective franchise to Catholics. It was during this progressive improve. ment that the French Revolution broke out most disastrously for Ireland. It was undoubtedly front France that Ireland caught the flame which lighted up the rebellion. LAW INTELLFGNCE. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, MAY 14. BREACH OF THEATRICAL CONTRACT. It. W. ELLISTON, ESQ. V. WEBSTER. Mr. Serjeant TADDY stated that this was an action brought by the plaintiff, not with a view to obtain damages from the defendant, but merely to shew the persons connected with his establishment, that whenever they entered into' engagements they must perform those engagements or take the consequences of their infraction. The plaintiff was the lessee of Drury-lane Theatre, and the defendant, one of the performers engaged on that establishment. After having played some time, he took it into his head to play the walking gentleman, by walking of in the middle of the season. The letters of the defendant in Augus and September, 1820, and in July, 1821, soliciting an e ngagement , were put i n an d proved. James Winston, Acting Manager of Drury-lane Theatre, saw the defendant after the receipt of the letters in the course of August 1821; witness then told him Mr. Elliston acquiesced in re-engaging him for the next season at a small advance; the salary for him and his wife would then be V. bs. a week, it had previously been only 24 that was for the season of 1821 and 1822; the salary was playhouse pay, that was paying only when the house was open. Plaintiffand his wife attended part of that sea son. On the 18th of May, 1822, after having received his salary, he absented himself; he then sent a note, declaring that busi ness obliged him to leave town ; he played on that night, but not afterwards. Witness told the defendant to meet him in Mr. Elliston's room, which he did. Mr. Elliston then advised him not to break his engagement, and threatened to enforce it in a Court of Law. Defendant said he would go, and from that time to the end of the season he absented himself. Cross-examined—Did not recollect that the defendant com plained of Mr. Elliston's treatment of Mrs. Webster ; was sure he did not say Mr. E. had taken improper liberties with her; the season did not usually end in Passion Week ; none of the actors were at liberty to go at the end of Passion Week, except those engaged by articles. [A bill was here put into the witness' hands, dated March 30, and in which that day was stated to be the end of the season]. The witness said if the performers went on after that day, they were considered as engaged for the next season ; the plaintiff continued after that time, and played until the 18th of the following May. Mr. Serjeant VAUGHAN, for the defendant, interrupted the witness, and observed that every count of the declaration stated the agreement to be a hiring in October for the then next thea trical season. By the evidence the season closed in March, and that agreement, according to the words of the declaration, was clearly proved. Mr. Serjeant TADDY contended that October, as laid in the declaration, was immaterial, and did not bin d the plaintiff to prove this breach of the engagement during the season then commencing. Mr. Justice Bintnounn thought not, but said he would reserve the point. Mr. Serjeant VAUGHAN' requested that his Lordship would also reserve an objection he had made against the admission of the letters (to prove the agreement) being stamped. His Lordship acceded to the Learner} Serjeant's request.— The plaintiff then called— Mr. Wilmot, who had lodged in the same house with the plaintiff in May 1822, to prove that the latter had quitted Drury lane Theatre in consequence of entering into an engagement witn.Mr. Bunn, the Manager of the Birmingham Theatre. The case for the plaintiff closed here; and Mr. Justice Bu RO unit having again expressed his opinion on the objection to the declaration, a verdict was taken for the plaintiff with nominal damages, subject to a motion on the two points reserved. CHARGE OF HOUSE BURNING. Bow-STREET.—,Yestertiay the Sitting Magis trate, G. It. MtlrsnuLt., Esq. was occupied nearly the whole of the morning in the investigation of an extraordinary case of ' arson. The person accused was John Collie, the man whose house in New -street, Covent-garden, was burnt down on Mon day night last, upon which occasion an elderly lady, who lodged there, unfortunately perished in the flames. The present charge was preferred by Mrs. Anne Gibbs, the wife of one of the C o nductors of Patrol of this Office, and from her testimony and that of other witnesses the following circumstances were conected In September, 1811, Gibbs, who was at that time a cabinet maker, in a respectable way of business, had occasion to change his residence for,premises more convenient, and Airs. Gibbs, when passing through Nirhitecross-street, Cripplegate, saw a bill in a window announcing that the greeter part of the house was to be let. She found the prisoner was the oc cupier ; that he carried on a small business as a pastry-cook in the lower apartments ,• anti that lie and an apprentice were the only inhabitants. She hired the rest of the house, and re moved her furniture, of which she had a very considerable stock, nearly new ; but they had not been many days there be fore she expressed to her husband a strong dislike to remain, on account of the singular habits of the prisoner ; he had not more than 31. worth of furniture in the whole house ; he seemed to do little or no business, and was morose and distant in his man ners and behaviour. When they had been there about a week he requested her leave to put three sacks of shavings, which lie said he had bought cheap, in one of her rooms up stairs (he occupied the lower part) and she consented. On the follow ing Saturday, Gibbs told the prisoner he was going to St. Alban's on Sunday to see his aged father and mother. The pri soner asked if Mrs. Gibbs was not going also ? and being told that her health would not permit he to go, he said it was non sense, the journey would do her good. She did not go to St. Alban's but went out on Sunday afternoon, and on her return at an early hour, she found the prisoner had removed the hearth stone of the room immediately over his oven, and was engaged when she entered the room, which she did rather suddenly, in stuffing shavings with a chissel into the crevices between the boards, and also spreading them over the place whence he had removed the hearth-stone. She asked him why . he was doing this, and he said lie only wanted to dry the shavings. On Mon day night, just before bed time, lie conversed with her and her husband, and when they wished hint good night, he said he should go to the top of the house to l o ok at - t h e C ome t, which was visible at that time. They heard him ascend the stairs, and went to bed themselves. About one o'clock in the morning Mrs. G. was awakened by the scratching of a dog at the chamber door; and the animal whining at the same time, she called her husband, and said she was sure there were thieves in the house by the noise Pincher was making at the door. By the time lie awoke, however, the room was filled with black smoke, and Gibbs jumped out of bed, and on opening the door the flames burst into the room. He closed it again, and exclaimed in despair, " we are lost !" but at the same moment he recollect ed having a small working bench in the room, and forcing out one of its legs, he wrenched away an iron-bar which secured the window and opened it. He then took his wife naked as she was under his arm, and dropped her from the window on a wall belonging to a brewery adjoining. He followed in the same con dition, and they were rescued from their still perilous situa tion just as a stack of chimnies fell, which must have crushed them to death. The house was on fire in every part, and in ten minutes was burnt to ashes, not a thing being saved ; even the faithful Pincher perished.— [Mrs. Gibbs, when she related this fact, burst into tears.l—When the fire was first seen in the street, the prisoner w as observed standing opposite the house with his arms folded, and being recognized by a young girl, end asked where his lodgers were, he said they were safe ; they had escaped, and gone away. This was before' Gibbs and his wife were getting from the window. The prisoner a few days before the fire, efl'ected a policy of insurance upon " house and furniture" for 6001. at the Eagle Insurance Office. He, however, absconded on the morning of the fire, and never claimed the amount for which he had insured. He was seen no more by the Gibbs' until about eight yeiirs ago, when Mrs. Gibbs saw him in Holborn, anti imme diately seized him by the collar, but he threw her from him and ran away. On Tuesday Avis, one of the patrol, was describ ing the person of the nine who had his house burnt down in New-street, in her presence, and she said it must be the same man. She was taken yesterday morning to a place where he was appointed to meat other persons, and she gave him in charge to Davis, another officer. Davis said, that when he apprehended the prisoner there was another man with him 'with a tin box, containing a policy of insurance with the Sun Fire-office, eire.cted some weeks ago for 800/. for the house and furniture in New-street. James Briulley,one of the principal firemen of the Sun-office, was sworn to the last-mentioned fact. It was further stated, that the entire house in New-street, with the exception of the shop, and a small back room, were let out to ledgers, and the prisoner had scarcely any furniture in the house. 'the tinder-box was almost tile only article saved. It was added, also, that the prisoner had been burnt out from another house at Shadwell. The prisoner said nothing in his defence. Mr. J. Isaacs, who, in the absence of the Solicitor to the Fire-office, volunteered his services to conduct the prosecution, requested that the prisoner might be remanded to give time to procure further evidence. _ _ . The prisoner was remanded for further examination on a future day. Gobbett's Norfolk Yeoman's Gazette, and an other Paper of the same stamp, have fallen into decay, and died a natural death within these ten days. Who can doubt that Radicalism is fallen into contempt?--(Bury Gazette.) THE GREEK COMMITTEE. At this monment, when the public meeting an nounced for this day, by the Greek Committee, will, we trust, by calling forth the deep though dormant feelings of the English public on the sacred struggle of Greece, remove the obloquy which foreigners have invidiously cast upon an apathy, which we are convinced is but apparent, we devote with pleasure an unusually large space in our columns to the publication of the following long letter from an intelligent Greek. It contains so masterly an exposition of what the Greeks have already done, and so irresistible an appeal to our national generosity for that pe cuniary aid, which double the velocity of their progress towards independence, that we feel we should wrong both the cause and the writer, we were to present it otherwise than at full lengt to our readers : 4 ‘ Leghorn, Feb. 22, 1823. " I have not answered your letter of the 6th of December, that I might give you a detailed account of the events which have occurred in our country during the year (1822) which has just closed ; a narration which will at once satisfy your cu riosity, and enable gold to instruct those who arc anxious about our affairs. " After the tragical fate of the famous Ali Pasha of Yanina, a part of his treasures and the other resources which he had left were employed against the Greek& Chourschid Pasha, by the advice of some strangers, wished first to make himself master of Suli with the force which he had at Yanina, and with the as. sistance of the neighbouring Tzanic, in order to leave his rear unmolested. The Suliotes were at that time about 4,000 in number, including . the neighbouring Christians in their alli ance. Their enemies amounted to about 211,000. Several com bats were fought at different points, always to the disadvantage of the Turks, of whom a third Tian left their bones on the field. But the want of provisions and of ammunition forced the Su liotes to advise their allies to make some agreement with Chours chid Pasha, and return to their homes. This was done, and the Suliotes remained alone besieged in the fortress of Kiapha, where Mavrocordato, at the head of the troops of the Western Greece, endeavoured to succour them, and raise the siege, but from the attempt not being judiciously made, failed, with some loss. At length, destitute of all resources, the Suliotes yielded to neces sity and agreed on honourable terms to retire into Cefallonia.— Wh s ile these things were passing at Suli, the Governors and Pashas of Rumelia were assembling with their troops at La rissa, and as the besieged Suliotes could no longer oppose the movements of the Turks, Chourschid Pasha thought the mo. ment favourable for advancing to Larissa, where, on his arri val, he ordered the following disposition of troops : 32,000 men, mostly cavalry, and well appointed, set out for the Pei°. ponnesus, under the command of three Paellas with the title of Viziers; and finding no resistance in Eastern Greece on account of the misunderstanding between Ulysses and the Senate, nor on the Isthmus, where there was but a small garrison, they entered the Morea without • difficulty, and so rapidly as to occupy Corinth before their approach was even known in the country. After possessing themselves of Acro ('orinthus which the garrison had abandoned, either from terror at the vast number of the assailants, or because the for tress was unprovided with the necessary means of sustaining a siege, a large part of the cavalry set off for Napoli di Roma nia, with provisions, and under the command of a Pasha, who entered it at the head of 300 horsemen, with a view merely to supply the wants of the garrison ; which rescued the place then on the point of surrendering. The rest of the army remained. at Argos, where, on being attacked by the Greeks, it com menced a disastrous retreat, leaving on the road Topal, Ali Pasha its:General, and the whole of its baggage, and bringing back to Corinth but a small number of soldiers in a most wretched condition. Meanwhile the Greeks, in order to intercept all other succours, had occupied the Isthmus, and the neighbour. ing points, an d were besieging Corinth, in which one-fourth of this Turkish army is still inclosed, the rest having perished from sickness, or in partial engagements. In the mean time, Chourschid Pasha sent another Pasha, .with 7,000 men by Agrapha to Acarnania, with orders to suc cour the troops atArta and Prevesa. This manoeuvre was punc tually executed, but the Greeks attacked and dispersed all the three bodies. Chourschid Pasha having learned the bad suc cess of the expedition against the I'eloponnesus, endeavoured to send thither some other reinforcements., and marched three corps d'arrrice successively; but Uly sses did not,like Achilles be fore Troy, remain this time inactive ; but attacked and routed all the three bodies. The Turkish ,fleet . received orders to leave Scio, and to enter the Gulf of Lepanto, in order to assist the operations by land ; and it came accordingly, composed of ' Turkish, African, and Egyptian ships. It made several un successful debarkations on the Acarnanian anti Etolian coasts, but succeeded in throwing i n t o C or i nt h some prov i s i ons and soldiers, which it had brought from Patras. Nothing having been effectect in the Gulf of Lepanto, and the winter approach ing, it received on board the new Capitan Pasha, who was then at nitres, and sailed for Nauplia with a reinforcement of pro. visions and troops. There the Spezzio Hydriotes,,were on the watch, with the double object of protecting their islands, and of preventing any succours being thrown into Napliau ; and in this they completely succeeded ; for the enemy, in three at tempts to approach Nauplia, was thrice attacked and repulsed with loss. The Spezziotes passed over to Hydra, their own island being too weak to resist, while Hydra being well forti fied, the enemy durst not approach it, but was forced to ac knowledge his weakness, and after doing nothing, retreat.— On his passage he attempted a descent on the Isle of Myconos, but four hundred men, who garrisoned the island, attacked the vessels as they approached, from behind the rocks, and forced them to retire with loss. The Psariots were moored before their own island, which, like Hydra, is well fortified, and this prevented the enemy from approaching it. At length the Turkish fleet cast anchor In the port of 'Penedos to await the Sultan's orders for entering the Dardanelles ; but the Psariots, who had taken no part in the engagements in the Argolis Gulf, unwilling to appear inferior to their brethren in arms, prepared two fire-ships, and sent them, accompanied by three other ships of war, in the hope of blowing up the new Admiral, and thus preventing the return of the enemy's fleet to Constaninoplc unpunished. The boldness of this idea was re fwr i a r g a d teeds bye became the m a os p t r l e i y ap t p a y the res flames,ul ts. Th a e n a A t h d e m r i r w a a l ' a s s p h a i r p d a al n l d y t d w a o . mated, the rest slipped their cables and escapeed in the midst of a violent storm, by which some were wrecked, and some dis persed, while the few which were saved entered the Dardanelles in a wretched condition ; to remedy which, as far as possible, workmen andall other necessaries were sent from Constantinople, after which the Africans and Egyptians set sail for their own country, and the Turks for the capital. " 'While the Greeks were triumphing so completely by sea, and though the Moreotes had frustrated all the enemy's move ments, 'Western Greece was so weakened by the fall of Suli, as almost to succumb, and to let the enemy re-establish himself in the territory of Missolonghi and •Anatolicon. Omer Pasha . Brione, a skilful General and a good soldier—his troops all chosen Albanians—the English consul at Preveso, Mr. Meyer, devoted to the Turks, all these unfavourable circumstances were combined against Greece. Mr. Meyer, after materially contri buting to the fall of Sull, succeeded in drawing over to the Turkish party the Chiefs Varnakiota, Karaisco, and several others ; so that treachery was all-powerful where force had hitherto failed. But the brave Bozzaris and the wise Mayrocor dato shut themselves up in Missolonghi with 400 soldiers, and prolonged th eirres Wan ce till they received succours from the Pe. loponnesus, and then repulsed the enemy with great loss, as we know by letters froin the spot itself. They were, moreover, in hopes of pursuing him, and not only of driving him out of Etolia and Acarnania, but of even entering Arta, if they received the ne cessary warlike supplies, without which they could not advance. God grant that the conduct of Mr. Meyer may have resulted sole ly from the instructions of the late minister, and that the policy of England may now be changed ! for hitherto it has done great harm to the Greeks. _ " Nattplia violated its conventions in the hope of receiving succour by sea or land ; but on the 30th of November the ad vanced guard of the Greeks having learned that the citadel was no longer guarded, threw into it, by means of scaling lad ders 200 men,. who, having seized the strong points, op ene d a gate for the others. "Thus was this formidable fortress taken without any other effusion of blood than that caused by the resistance of some of those who were shut in it. What was said about Tripolitza cannot be asserted here, for all those who had laid down their arms were spared and conducted to Smyrna or Ephesus; and this is enough to stop any further accusation of Greece, except from the Spectateur Oriental, which finds fault with every thing. " such was the end of the year 1022, and thus, I trust, will finish, next March, the second year of the Independence of Grcece. Already have the troops which were besieging Nauplia, departed for Corinth and Patras, where there are 12 Greek vessels to support the operations by land; and it is pro-' htbble that these fortresses will experience the fete of Nauplia, Unless they yield upon terms. The caues of Greece would have prospered still more, if Europe was not aga i nst h er , an d if cer tain small agents had been contented With 'executing their Ministers' orders, and had not, of their own heads, done many thins which it was impossible for any Christian Government to foresee, but which are not unusual among men of little minds, and who, unfortunately, feel a personal enmity towards a whole nation. " You understand better than we can the affairs of Europe; we know nothing but that the Congress of Verona has renewed the anathema it launched against us last year, that the Northern Powers views us as rebels, and are determined never to listen to our justification ; the Turk used to be always considered as an unlawful usurper, and such was he declared to be by the Christian Powers as often as they declared war against him and his Christian subjects were called warms to expel their oppressor. —Now the Turk is become the most legitimate monarch in Europe, and the Christians are rebels ! And by whom are they called so ? By the Holy Alliance ! a tribunal which is the mighty and venerable representative of Christianity, and of. European civilization ! AVithout presuming to examine the justice of its resolves, the Greeks are thankful that there still remains in Europe, one Christian Power unshackled by these holy bonds. It is to the approval of the British public that they look for justification during ages to come. Should they be bf all others condemned and abandoned--should they be divined to fail, and fall to a man—they trust that their memory at least will be consecrated by the suffrage of England. They do not pretend to advance any ' claim to her protection.-- When they were persecu by her at the commencement of the struggle, on the mere ground of one common religion, they had a right to complain ; but now they feel towards her a gratitude without bounds, and from England, they deem the mere ab. ' sence of that prosecution, which assails them from every quer• ter, a sort of protection. " Russia, by her last year's proclamation of Laybach, pars. lysed the operationslf 1 psilanti in Wallachia, and nearly pro duced the same effect throughout Greece. If the Greeks hare Turks only to deal with, and can but borrow some money, they will not only maintain the ground they hare gained, but ad. vance ; for it is not courage they want. " The weakness of the Greek government does not proceed from idefective organization, or from a deficiency of soldiene but from the want of money ; and till that is procured the Greek government cannot be strengthened. " Our communications and our correspondence with Greece are not yet well established, which delays the arrival of news. Only the news of the taking of Nauplia reached us in time, from the vessel which brought it accidentally making a quicker passage into our port. All commerce is carried on under the Austrian flag, and the Captains of Austrian vessels will neither carry letters nor repeat news. were conveyed otooo to T " Nauplia was taken by assault ; yet, though the b esieged Turks had twice broken their compact, non e were killed bu t those who resisted w ith ar m s i n their hands : all who wer e un armed, or who l a id d own th e i r ar ms, were, as I said before, spared. Four hundred and fifty old men, women, and ch ildren, Smyrna, Yrn i a 'so o l n di h° er: rd we an ves sels to Scala Nova. These ar e undeniable facts ; and the Sive!: tateur Oriental, contrary to his custom, and in spite of himself , admits it, while he, at the sa me time, announces the ma ssacre of four Greeks by the Turks, at the very mome nt that they We their countrymen arr i v i ng f rom N a uplia unhurt. rest " Speaking of the w ar w hich threatens Spain, You ex P r re English earried in corvette;cirecian a nd upwardsar some apprehension of the projects of Russia against Twig'. What is it you fear ? Do you think Russia could so easti_lly seize on our country ? IV ll hia and Moldavia, once )_ . e .. magazines of the Russians, now furnish nothing; the w w. r ,, tresses on the Danube are well provided and fortified, an d when i' not fall in a hurry, for the Turks can fight well , i they are sheltered by ramparts. Mount hermits is not eto1 y . crossed, and, suppose it were crossed, where will be thFp ro , visions ? Besides, th e R uss i a ns have never shown quite; owing to their want of means, and they have fewer _ is throughout Europe, war is not thus essily.lnade ; now than they had even before. In short, supposinAVN er desirous of making war, which is, you tell me, the gel a d m it but ,____. that there will be a war, if Turkey persists in her I t n ies anun Otherwise, Russia is now gaining by lter ancient treoa_,..,_Er; will, up to a certain time, monopolize the commerce 3 of T u rkey (which will be confined to provisions, for the Turk s no more money to make the same purchases without diffi- When the Ottoman Empire expires, Russia will, her heir; culty, and in spite of all the other Powers, becometco navy to so that you see even the ruin of the Greeks is p in what to the interest of Russia, and hence springs her extend ever what is passing in Greece. But if England w ou ld will have a so little a helping hand to the Greeks, no Russian I enforce world he eas l Y f right to set his foot upon Greece, nor wou and troopso such a claim, for our country is by nature strong, the line can hardly advance without roads. . i . ev, ,„, t h e d wish for " It remains for me to notice the commonheildi _1•11" Greeks Irish for the Russians ; It is true that t d become a n or them once, but now that they can be free, f a.n sh for the Rio with as before). t° broken every bond *lens? The present conduct ofl ttssia has tion, what earthly reason can thef have 1 that not only . I , lu the y unlit! Greek people or the Greek clergy. ' which gi% es eq cept the fourth article of the Constitution, of a ff ection, and so little bigotry is there atn_oug , .. e , ite acthe what neither by acclamation. Since the Greeks then have of' rights in Greece to all a ho are Christiana, d h o u n t e the y ithout the slighest the Spaniards nor the Portuguese did, and w o le, the dine is appearance of discontent in either clergy or people, oPindependence far distant when they will prefer any thing t it is indifferent and liberty. As to their system of Governmen I L __ ‘ ,.,, i , s h e ll to them ; the Greeks will accept any system, wnok'''' ""' be independence. '• ir this is our vie " This, my friend, is all that we know, a nd v. . - ge We of the state of things here ; and from our ("In kn° reek say that such are the predominent feelings of the Gre_ . __.,_ May Heaven assist them, till they cease to be the onl,. Re° .. 4; voted t on earth who cannot boast of a country ! Otherwise, tu" .a 9 w row ed been a little softened down by their indolence, ere u° r i s i ea abli again into fury, and will be more cruel, amiss irre falls, she will be changed into Africa ; for the Turk who he barbarous in their morals and policy as before. A „ it , !MP " I think it right to inclose you a copy of the news L"'„, place which we shortly expect o receive, and which colon hi ; it is official, and you may without hesitau ° :l l ;, er e, a perfect reliance ppon it.. This glorious intelligence , s° s tall which be 01 1 • I brilliant, inspires us with the conviction that our o f es assume a m cheerful appearance in S 'n The ree ks now g' d haw now know wh y they are fighting, and have learned 110 they should fight. But they are in the utmost distress forr e , ney, and this distress rrevents the display of th, e a iri l u m Pe a t ki ° llg zeal, and retards the progress which they would be - e nt if th -sr had but the means. Bitterly do we feel In our Pres condition the truth of Caesar's remark, `Even soldiers 111,1tooboe tress of the Greeks, these supplies created by money.' Letters from Zante assert, that '• lt t ea s muskets, a great number of cannons, and plenty of prey' ~_. resent CDS and ammunition, were found in Nauplia. In th e P r i. you tell me that the subscription of the Society of Friends, h t”an captive and the fugitive Greeks, already a mounts ta,,..ltr e i n te 1.0001. sterling. It is a noble act, and worthy of 11411 " 1 pplies will be most usefu for the down without uttering a word, F swwssmsossiss• rancis..street: ssessossassww Tothill.sehis, I. 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