The Sun. — London, England, 1824-02-13 00:00:00

Elz" //1 4 1 ,11 1i , ‘: • S U N. w ~+~:ifi ~~~~~ t ~ t ~tY, %5✓ G. 3,7,.1,Ttrt 0 Z4!G ~~,~~~~~ FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1824. PRICE SEVENPENCE: N UMBER 9821. VICTUALLING-OFFICE, Fe',. 10, 1844. Til E COMMISSIONERS for VICTUAL LING His MAIESTrs NAVY, 4c. do hereby give Notice, that on Tuesday, the 17th Instant, thew will be reedy to receive Tenders in writing (sealed up), and treat far _ . Twelve Hundred Sacks of BISCUIT MEAL; to be deli vered into His Majesty's Victualling Stores at Deptford, one-half by Me 24th February instant, and the other half by the 9th March following. And fur Fifty Quarters of SPLIT PEASE ; to be delivered at Deptford in a fortnight from the day of Contract, ac_ cording - to Samples to be produced with. the Tenders of not less Man one quart each. The Conditions of the Contracts may be seen at this Office. Each Tender must specify the price in words at length, and be delivered before One o'Clock on the day appointed : and the Person who makes the Tender, or some Person on his behalf, must attend to answer when called for. 31. WALLER CLIFTON. EAST INDIA HOUSE, Feb. 11, 1 Si 4. TUB COURT of DIRECTORS of the UNITED COMPANY of MERCHANTS of ENG LAND TRADING to the EAST INDIES, do hereby give Notice, That, by a Deed dated this day, a FUND has been pro- Tided out of the Revenues of Tanjore, for LIQUIDATION `' f the DEBTS of his late Highness AMEER SING, for- Ine dY RAJAH of TAN.IORE, upon certain terms therein Provided. The Claims of the Creditors are to be investigated arid decided upon by Commissioners appointed for that pur- P :". The Claimants may avail themselves o f the benefit of t it tqrangetnent proposed in their favour , by be comin g Par ti's to th e D ee d, which lies ready for their executi on at the Offi ce of Messrs. Smith and Lawford , D ra p er's Hall, Throw morton.street, any Tuesday or Friday, between the hours of °l lt and Three o'clock. JOSEPH DART, Secretary. EAST INDIA HOUSE, Feb. 1 t, 1814. THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the UNITED COMPANY of MERCHANTS of ENG LAND TRADING to the EAST INDIES, do hereby give N o c e . , That a GENERAL COURT of the said Company will be held, by adjournment, at their House in Leadenhall-street, on WEDNESDAY, the 25th Instant, at Eleven o'Clock in the Forenoon, for the purpose of taking into consideration the p ro position contained in the following Letter, viz. : "To the CHAIRMAN, DEPUTY CHAIRMAN, and DI- RECTORS of the EAST INDIA COMPANY. " London, Jan. 16, 1324. " GENTLEMEN—We, the undersigned, Proprietors of East India Stock, request you will summon a Court of Proprietors for the purpose of submitting to them the following Resolu tion, namely, " That application he made to Parliament in the ensuing Session for the Repeal of the Atoth Clause of the Act of the 53cl of Geo. 111. cap. 155, by which the Court of Directors is pro- hibited from sending to India, in the capacity of a Writer, any person who shall not have resided during Four Terms at the Ilaileybury College, and for introducing into the said Act a Clause appointing a Public Examination, at such times, and lindet such Regulations, as the Court of Directors, with the approbation of the Board of Cant roul, may direct; to which Examination all persons shall submit their acquirements and qualifications for approval, previous to their being permitted to proceed in the capacity of Writers, to either of the Presi dencies of Fort William, Fort Sr. George, or Bombay. " Douglas Kinnaird Cl Joseph Hume R. F. Beauchamp John Morgan William Morgan Richard Williams Charles Wright John Addinell Randle Jackson Samuel Dixon." JOSEPH DART, Secretary. 1.4-" V LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, forgranting ASSURANCES upon LIVES of all Persons, whether in the Army, the Navy, the Church, the Law, or in any other station of Life. OFFICE—LINCOLN'S INN FIELDS. The subscribed Capital of this Society is One Million Sterling, TRUSTEES. Atitheson, Nathaniel, Esq. Pepvs, Charles C. Esq. Atkinson, 'l'hon►as, Esq. Scarlett, James, Esq. M.P. Bicknell, Charles, E.g. Williams, William, Esq. NI.P. Green, William, Esq. DI It El —.TO RS. Amory, Samuel, Esq. Macqueen,Thos. P. Esq. M.P, bickersteth, Henry, Esq. Oldham, Adam, Esq. Brougham, Henry, Esq. M.P. Peake, Mr. Serjeant, Brundrett, Jonathan, Esq. Pollen, Richard, Esq. Cardale, William, Esq. Preston, Richard, Esq. Courtenav, Philip, Esq. Reardon, Daniel, Esq. Farrer, Oliver, Esq. Scott, John F. Esq. Moline, Bryan. Esq. Stigden, Edward B. Esq. Jones, John, Esq. Vizard, William, Esq. Kaye, Charles, Esq. White, Richard, Esq. Knight, William Young, Esq. Williams, Charles F. Esq, Lowe, William, Esq. Wright, William, Esq. A GENERAL MEETING of the PROPRIETORS will be held at the SOCIETY'S OFFICE, in LINCOLN'S INN F IELDS, on SATURDAY, the 21st day of February instant, at Twelve for One o'Clock at Noon, for the purpose of con firming a Resolution passed at the last General Meeting, on the 2d instant, to empower the Directors to effect Assurances 1° the amount of £5,000 upon the same sole or joint Life or Lives. 4nlogernents hare been made, under which Assurances may vffeeted upon the Lives of Persons resident at consi -4 fur distances bum London, without the payment of a ne non- appearance at the Office. o Clock The General Board Day is every Wednesday, at Two ; but Assurances may (if necessary) be effected on Any other day, upon application at the Office. JAMES ANDERTON, Sec. CREss.—The London Chess Club have re- Thed e„ive an invitation to play two games with the aris Club.— challen ge has been accepted, and on Tuesday last the P l aYers here we re a pp o i n t e d. Th ey cons i st o f a C omm itt ee , ._l3i which five are a quorum , w h o are to ma k e th e m oves, and ' i ntrismit them. Amateurs, no doubt, will be gratified in wit- Ile ssing this scientific contest, which will display the skill of; proba ea bl c h y, game the first players in Europe. The stakes are 50 gui. me4ll . WEST INDIES. We extract the following from a Pamphlet. just published, entitled, " NEGRO EMANCIPA TION ; a Dialogue between Mr. Ebenezer East love and Giles Homespun :" HoltEsrtrx.—l understand, from our members, that one of the King's Ministers, in the House of Commons,* admitted all you can ask regarding the rights of all men, black and white, to be free. He gave a pledge to the House that it should be the anxious care of Ministers to urge the West Indian go vernments to such measures as would best contribute to the present comfort of the negroes, and also to their religious and moral instruction, so as gradually to fit them for the full en joyment of freedom ; and he declared that in conceding free dom to the slaves, the rights of property should be considered and respected. Now it seems to me, Master Eastlove, that this was getting as much by our petitions as we had any right to expect; and that it is a little unreasonable to be again so soon wishing to hurry on measures, which you yourself have just granted, must be done with great discretion and caution to be done well. tASTLOVE.—GiIes, thou hast touched the sore place : those West Indian legislatures have do-w nothing, will do nothing! HOMESPUN.—Why that's what you said last year, and what all your printed books say ; but I have been reading something on the other side ; j and there I find facts asserted, upon good authority, which prove quite the contrary,—that a great deal has been done and is doing,—that negroes are well clothed and fed, nursed when sick, sod supported when old and helpless, ay, and kindly used and instructed,—besides, now that Parlia ment has spoken so plainly, one may expect that, if you'll give those peppery gentlemen in the West Indies a little time to cool, they will follow up what they have done already with new spirit and activity. I'll tell you fairly, Master Eastlove, I'm inclined to meddle no more in the matter, at least fur the present. EasmovE.—Art thou then so hardened as to look patiently on and suffer thy poor black fellow subjects to be driven like brute beasts, by the scourge of the cart whip, to hard labour ? Canat thou endure that the oppressive, cruel, and immoral acts, of which our books show thee numerous instances, shall continue to be practised with impunity? Oh, Giles, Giles ! where are those humane feelings which only a few months ago animated thy exertions in our cause? HOMESPUN. — Master Eastlove, I feel as I did—lliave just the same horror of cruelty and detestation of slavery,—tile evil is great enough, though not, as I now think, quite so great as you have represented it. I find that you have picked out and puttogether all the horrid tales, whether old or new, that suited your purpose ; but were the case ever so bad, still we must not aim to cure it by doing what will only make it worse. One would wish, to be sure, that there was no flogging either of negroes, or sailors, or soldiers; but we agree that the negroes are not to be made free all at once and immediately, and I'm afraid they cannot be managed well, even as respects them selves, so long as they continue slaves, without corporal punish ment. lint tell me, however, honestly,—there are in Jamaica, I hear, almost 409,000 people, black, brown, and white, and nine-tenths of them, or thereabouts, are slaves,—do you think that, in any year you can name, there are more horrid crimes committed in that Island than in many portions of Great Bri tain and Ireland, containing just the same number of inhabi tants ? You read our newspapers, I dare say, and mind a little what is passing both here and in Ireland. EASTLOVE.—Friend Giles, thou forgettest that in Jamaica nine-tenths of the population are, as thou hest just admitted, subjected to the oppressive power of the slave-master—almost without protection from law, since laws, which profess to pro tect the slave, are not executed. Here, and in Ireland too, horrid acts occasionally occur; but mark the difference, they are prosecuted and punished. HoatEsPux.—Why, in my thinking, the use of punish ment is to prevent crimes; and if it be found out that here, in this country, with all our laws and tribunals, we are growing worse and worse, and that in the West Indies they are, though it be but by slow steps, becoming better and bet t e r, I can't but conclude that we might find other matters nearer home that deserve our looking after quite as well as what is passing in the Colonies. But there's another objection in my mind to our fur ther meddling at present : there's danger, I think, of stirring up the negroes to risings and rebellions, which can only end in the destruction both of them and of their masters. EasTLoVE.—Friend Giles, I thought thee too wise to be caught in that snare. Did we not predict that these terrors would be artfully excited, and that plots would be got up for the purpose ? Ho stEsruaZ.—For one that is going about on an errand of charity, is that charge quite consistent, Master Eastlove ? Do people get up plots, which are to destroy their own property and endanger their own lives ? Rasa' Loy E.—lnsurrections, Giles, must and will occur, where oppression is the spirit that rules. They are the inevi table results of that detestable system. HOMESPUN.—Ay, are they so? These late risings, then, in Barbadoes and Demerara, have been caused, as you think, by oppression and cruelty to the slaves ? EASTLOVE.—Perhaps not, but— Ho sir.srux.—Pardon me, Master Eastlove—just hear what it is I want to know—you see they can rise if they have a suf ficient motive ? EAST LOVE.—Doubtless ; but, alas! poor deluded sufferers-- HostEsrusr.—Now, why, if the oppression on them be so severe and so constant as you say it is, have they not been rising here and therein some parts of the West Indies from that cause only ? I cannot find that they have done so—but let them only be told that something is going on at home that is to overrule their masters, and up they are in arms in one colony or another. EAST LoVE.—Oppression, Giles—long continued oppression, stupifies the man and extinguishes hope ; but let a ray of hope break in upon the gloom in which these wretched beings are plunged, and they are suddenly animated to exertions for the recovery of their rights. HOMESPUN.—But you have admitted that they are not themselves able to judge at what time, and by what degrees, their rights ought to be put into their possession. You profess in many of your writings, that sudden and unprepared eman cipation would be their destruction. How then can you, Master Eastlove, reconcile it with true humanity, to be holding out to them such hopes and rays of light as you call them, which have been found to be the surest means of rousing them into rebellion, and to end in their de struction ? Would it not be better to let instruction go on, and that they should. step by step, advance in their fitness for li berty ? Such, I must tell you, is my opinion ; and, as 1 feel satisfied that the good work is going on, I will have nothing to do with your petitions this year. EAsTLOVE.—I have done with thee, Giles.—l will strike thy name out of our society. HOMESPUN.—With all my heart, do so. I have under stood, Master Eastlove, that if the worst come to the worst with the West Indies, you may find some consolation in other quarters and other concerns—as for me, I have no such pro spects. 1 hope the Colonies will be saved from ruin—l know many places and persons that will grievously suffer if it be not so—and as it is plain enough that the Colonists have Acts of Parliament on their side for all they have clone, I feel certain, that, if we injure their property, we must indemnify them for it—and God forbid that we should be doing that which will at once add to our taxes, and take away from our means of paying them !—Exit Homespun. * See speech of the Right Honourable George Canning, on the 15th of May, 1823. t See List of Pamphlets appended to this Tract. " Report of Debate on Buxton's Motion." Sec Note x. Page 227, LITERARY NOTICE. The SWEEPINGS of my STUDY, by the Author of The HUNDRED WONDERS of the WORLD. This is one of those books which are invalu able to the general reader, as the miscellaneous nature of its contents proves a source of uninter rupted amusement. With the former publica tion of the Author " The Hundred Wonders of the World" we are unacquainted, but his pre sent volume stamps him as a man of;consider,- able attainments, arid as an intelligent and ob serving traveller. The work commences with a dialogue between the author and his' heuse keeper Sukey, whom he observes to be carefully arranging certain papers, which she acknowledges to be the "Sweepings of his Study," which she had scrupulously collected and preserved for her particular gratification. Thanking Sukey for her friendly interposition, which has re scued his manuscripts_ from oblivion, he pro ceeds to arrange them for the amusement of the public. The sweepings now consist of a variety of anecdotes, some of them historical, and some referring to the travels of the author. We shill extract one of them relating to the famous Gene ral MIRANDA, in order to give our readers a spe cimen of the style in which the work is written, and then dismiss it with the assurance that they will derive much amusement from a perusal of it. " Those may talk as they please of fine actors, and consum mate acting, who have not seen General Miranda engaged in this, which was one of his favourite topics ; but never, I think, even in the days of Garrick, was such acting displayed on the boards of a public theatre. By his powerful eloquence, he car ried you into the very presence of the miscreants by whom he was to be judged. You saw them seated at the table where the death-warrants of so many thousands had been signed, while he stood before them, stripped to his shirt, his arms and neck bared, his hair turned up, and every formality observed that would precede the fatal blow of the axe. With this prepara tion he hurled at them the boldest defiance, and pointed to the windows, intimating, by a master-stroke of policy, what he knew not to be true, but which they, in the panic he bad in. spired, were led to apprehend, that many were assembled with outside to avenge his death. Of the principal personages who had acted under Dumourier, at the time of his defection, he alone escaped. " Professor Pauw had described the provinces of South Ame rica as being overrun with barbarism, and the natives inca pable of culture and moral improvement. When a very young man, General Miranda quitted his native place, the Caraccas, and visited most of the countries of Europe. He did not ne glect, when an opportunity presented itself, to call on the Professor ; who received him very graciously, and was so charmed with his intelli ence, and the general information he had collected, at an early time of life, on subjects of science, that he expressed a wish to know some particulars of his his tory. " I am," said the General, " one of the South American savages whom you have honoured with a particular notice in a recent publication." The Professor was abashed, but tried to excuse himself by remarking, that he must have acquired his accomplishment s in some one of the learned Seminaries of Europe. " Not at all," replied the General. " What you now see me, that I was when." left, for the first and only time, South America and the Caraccas." Th e General rarely stirred abroad in the day-time, but con fined himself to his study, where he had every facility afforded hi m to add to his extensive and well selected library. It was understood that the foreign puilications imported for his use were liberated from the custom-house duties ; and ample means were otherwise provided to him to gratify his taste in li terature. H e was then in concert with the late Mr. Windham, the War Minister, maturin g hi s plan of liberating t h e Spanish possessions in South America, and was promised the powerful aid of Great Britain, in th e event of a ;lai AU , — With Spain. As be knew that he was closely watched by spice the pay of the Spanish Ambassador, and felt the necessity of taking a great deal of exercise in a little time, when he could do it with appa rent safety, he used to sally tbrth withsecrecy, in the dusk of the evening, and math: such powerful all werfulsirides in his rambles in the fields leading to ll ampstead, that a young' Scotchman, who acted as his Secretary, and had to accompany him, found it very difficult to keep pacz with hi s sturdy patron." LONDON VACCINE INSTITUTION. Yesterday the Governor and Members o this Institution net at the City of London Tavern, for the purpose of niceiving the Annual Report. to have taken the Chair, but in o L e n o c i n It h y b lt e lL in , a gs consequence obliged to preside at the Court of Common Council, the Chair was taken by W. D. CORDELL, Esq. The ut N said, in addressing the Meeting, that the repor i tm C Z A dgl i v A egreatsatisfaction to the friends of humanity, although prejudice still continued to be the means, unfortunate ly, of sacrificing the lives of thousands. Dr. WALx ER read the report. It stated that the benefits of vaccination were diffused to theinhabitants of every land, but in this metropolis the.fonlite s of the small-pox still lurked amongst the i ignorant prejudiced part of the population-774 per sols fell ivie andtho victims to tothe dreadful disease in the course of the last year within the hills of mortality, and the deaths of many are not included in those annual registers of departure from life. The Managers continued to watch the departure of ves sels to foreign nations as well as to all the British colonies, and continued to afibrd supplies of the vaccine ichor for the pro tecting the colonies from the 'small-pox. During the last year there had been vaccinated by Dr. Walker 3,236 persons ; by the appointed innoculators in the metropolis and its environs, 18,987; by the appointed innoculators in the country, 21,664; from the beginning, by Dr. Walker, 52,116 ; from the begin ning, by the town innoculators, 185,235 ;•• from the beginning, by the country innoculators, 4114,893. Dr. Walker has supplied from the beginning 98,850 applicants. The receipts of the in stitution since the last year's report amounted to 857/. 16s. ; the disbursements to 1,0671. 198. 3d. ; balance against the In stitution, 2001. 3s. 3d. The receipts of the Institution since its formation, in 1806, amounted to 11,830/., the disbursement to 11,9171. ss. 3d. Dr. WALKER stated, that the Prussian Minister of State, Count Hertsberg, had observed, that in times when, from causes without example, the numbers of the human race were dimi nished, the consideration of greatest importance was, that the more general the adoption of vaccine inoculation became, the more practicable would it be to keep up the complement of the necessary armies. Dr. Huhn laid before the Minister of the In terior of Russia, Count Kotschuby, a plan whereby, through a more general extension of vaccination,the ravages of the small pox in Russia might finally be exterminated, and be the means • of preserving half a million of men to combat the enemy. A 15th of the population of Russia, amounting to 2,200,000,were suscep tible of the small-pox : the mortality of 1-sth of those from the small-pox amounted to 440,000. If the loss of a child in Russia be estimated as it was at 25 roubles, the State lost by the dis ease 11,000,000 of roubles vaccination assured this sum to the state, or 440,000 effective men. Dr. Walker read extracts from several medical men in other countries, descriptive of the never failing efficacy of vaccination, who stated that for many years they were in the habit of testing the efficacy of the vaccine virus by exposing their patients to the variolous matter, and in no case was the small-pox commucated to the constitution. The report was then unanimously approved and adopted. The CHAIRMAM, in proposing the thanks to Dr. 'Walker, complimented the venerable Doctor upon his. perseverance, zeal, and skill, and observed that the system had immensely benefitted by his exertions. Thanks were then voted to the President, Vice-Presidents, and Managers of the Institution ; and the Meeting separated,. THE GREEKS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN• Sut—As a diligent, though insignificant la bourer is constructing that glorious edifice, the Independence of Greece, r beg to request the insertion of some remarks on the furious, not to say frantic, tirade against the Greek Patriots, which formed the leading article in an Evening Paper of yesterday. The little I have to observe will at least be the protest of one individual against a most unwarrantable conclusion drawn from some suspicious assertions. The Reasoner's discourse, like a weapon in Otaheite, consists of two ponderous arguments intended to give weight to a flimsy string of corn moi place verbiage. aYs'far as I can reduce his meaning to any thing like logical precision, one stone which he whirls about our ears is this :—Some Greek individuals are said to have displayed ferocity, therefore the whole nation consists of savages, who ought to be exterminated. The other stone tied to his ropy texture, is this :—The wickedness of the whole - Greek nation being thus proved ; he is willing to concede, that it is owing to the long oppres sion of Turkey, and thence triumphantly argues, that it is both right and expedient to perpetuate the cause of the evil. So much for the Evening Paper's judicious defence of the Porte. I now conic to his eulo gism of Sir Thomas Maitland. I shall not pay the customary tribute of palaver about " not warring with the ashes of the dead." A public character is immortal in his responsibility, and his being no longer able to feel pain from re marks, which public justice requires, is a very refined reason for withholding them. But I do feel the reluctance springing from private ac quaintance, in assailing his memory., sas I have felt it in attacking his conduct ; and a te. there fore, doubly provoked at the officious blunderer, who will not suffer his name to be embabned in the remembrance of the many services he ren dered his country ; but must needs taint it with the perpetuated recollection of one great political error. Mine is not a pen dipped in that gall which an ill-timed defence may perhaps call forth from others ; and I will therefore willingly suppose that Sir T.'S hostility to the Greek cause was prompted solely by a paradoxical view of our national interest, by miscalculation in not fore seeing the success of the Greeks, and perhaps by personal pique, rather than political steadiness, lly in people c t t i e i n s g a m t o e a l applyu language to e a w itirtt winch he ep ha e d n dent s ti matized those early efforts which he regarded as a hopeless revolt. I turn my reprehension with pleasure to the Evening, Paper's Logician, who denies the phrase attributed to the Proclamation, " a man called M. gives as the true reading, "a '' h ' imself Prince Mauro-Cordato ;" drawing a distinction without a difference.--The e ssi I : : I : 1 X ittis : tin e Yr . di — l'ilit'''; ;l t l el twotriumphantly phrases seem equally con et m ptuous, and either of them might pass for a pretty close translation of the original passage ; but if there is a shade of difference, the paper's version is the most offensive, for it implies that Mauro-Cordato is the impostor, not entitled to the rank he assumes ; whereas, that given in the Morning Chronicle,_ might be explained away as mere verbal ankwardness ; an excuse which the lumbering language of the whole Proclamation would, perhaps, render credible. From the Evening paper I MD naturally led to The Corfu Gazette, and to its words The Turks, on the other hand, have been much more honourable ith us," &c. I have in my hands the means of proving the utter falsehood of this assertion, and I shall soon use them, where there shall be sufficient space to detail them. - I admit " the violation of neutrality"—por tentous wc:rds 1 which, however, mean only the neglect of one of the technicalities of interna tional law, which " the savages" and " demons" should have doubtless studied in Gronovius and Puffendorf ; but I deny its having been I " gross and unprovoked." The Greeks say that they were first fired on by the Turks from the shore ; and thus far it is only asser tion met by assertion. The public will soon learn the almost incredible forbearance with which the Greeks have repeatedly treated En glishmen who violated neutrality, and in so doing inflicted deadly evil on Greece, and perhaps they will then look with indulgence on this illegal act of the Greeks. But the Evenin g Paper talks of scenes " which, had they not been sent us by an eye-witness, we could not, for the credit of Christianity, have believed." It is not the possibilit3 of the scenes, but the credit of the v-itness which I should doubt. The Spanish campaigns have taught us what a perse cuted peasantry will do ; and alas', how unavail ing are the efforts of our own humane officers to restrain every ruffian who may disgrace the ranks of even a British army. The consistent Cortlote correspondent, who is " minute in the details," but yet " will not dwell upon all the circumstances," lest " he should strike the reader with horror," (mark the sly a 2 crOCCI:7Tic of better sophists) has a most sus piciously accurate eye-sight, seeing " the bodies on the decks of the Turkish vessel trampled not on—but into" which, as the Greeks sunk their prize as soon as they had plundered her, he must have seen from the shore and probably through the bulwark. • When I daily see on all sides the exaggeration of domestic murders, merely for the sake of mak ' ing horrors more horrible; when I remember • the misrepresentation of which the Greeks have been the sicarns, I am warranted in suspecting exaggeration from the English Commercial Agents in the Levant, because they, and they . only, have an interest in the destruction of Grecian Freedom. But, admitting for a moment that these details are true, they exhibit rather fury than cruelty. Are the Greeks charged with perfidy, with lor turing, or with murdering prisoners ? The dead bodies are stated to have been " mangled and trampled on," and the eye-witness ‘vonders.that " hatred and revenge can be carried to such a height," &c. Let him lament that there. should be two human passions, but cease to wonder that such hideous inmates of the heart have Peen roused in this fearful struggle. "It is impossi ble (says the correspondent) to palliate for a moment such atrocious cruelties, such barefaced. open defiance of the lawS of an established Go vernment." The cruelties I believe exaggerated, the 46 barefaced defiance" I consider as a inert ques tion of trespass. The indignant eloquence of the Coijiote Cou rier filially dies away in the sweet small strains of eulogium on 4 ' the zeal and attention of the Commandant of the Island of Ithaca, assisted by the officers of Sainta and Polici, and by a military guard ;" who by appearing at the right time, when the combat began, would hv re stopped the, source, instead of checking the swoln torrent of bloodshed ; finally, after we are informed that nearly 50, being two-thirds of the Turks, are now safe in the Lazzarett of Ithaca. Every reader must shudder over the sufferings of every war, but is not the proposed extermination of a whole people a more appalling picture tha❑ the slaughter of one-third of a crew ? To the mind's eye there is no moral object more disgusting than selfishness, endeavouring to skulk behind. cast. Thank Heaven, the very paper which will al most break the bruised hearts of the Patriots with this annunciation of our ill-wishes, will cheer them with the reported appointment of the Mar-. quis of Hastings to the commands of Sir Thomas Maitland. May he, in conducting that delicate charge, as in working the vast and complicated machinery of our Indian Empire, still combine the generous patriotism of early Greece with the political sagacity of the middl e ages of Italy !. May he heal the wounds inflicted on the hopes of Greece and the honour of England! May he re-' trieve an occasion, perhaps not wholly lost, for virtuously extending our influence, and founding a moral Empire in the Levant! In the language of the land for which I plead— El ' Z'Srcot , &EO•F".:ZY T•a6s MOIP A rapao-zoi. I have trespassed, Sir, on your columns far beyond what I intended, and must send you my observations in this rough disjointed state, that the antidote may be applied before the pub lic mind is saturated with calumny; before the object of this pretended zeal for humanity and for the memory of Sir Thomas Maitland, the de crying the Greek credit in the money market, is gained. The raw-head-and-bloody-bones about Tripolitza was before played off for this purpose, and answered ; and when such a floorer is hit, as (to judge from his italics and capitalists) your literary pugilist deems his yesterday's ar ticle, it is but fair that the friends of Greece should endeavour to break the force of the blow. I am, Sir, your obedient humble servant, A MEMBER of the GREEK COMMITTEE. February 11, 1824. * We have reason to believe that the fore going letter was witten by the son of a late dis tinguished ornament of literature, and the Bri tish Senate, and who obviously appears to possess hereditary talents,. as well as to be animated by au hereditary zeal for the liberties of mankind. TO THE EDITOR. No. 9, Essex street, Strand, Feb. 12. SIR—I am sorry to say that your report of this day is a gross perversion of what was done and said at the Mary lebone Police-office, were 1 attended yesterday, with four respectable per sons, to prove that I did not nor ever had re fused to pay the four shillings per week for the maintenance of a bastard child of Hannah White's. lon the contrary, when Thorpe, the messenger or parish constable, not an assistant overseer as you state, came with a bill for the amount, I told him it was my wish to see the child, which had never been shown to me, that I might be assured that such a thing was, really in existence, and that it was taken care of in a manner suitable to the sum levied upon me —4 shillings per week for its maintenance. This said Thorpe hummed arid haed,and made four dif ferent appointments to produce the child, none of which he ever kept. It therefore excited a sus picion, which still remains on my mind, of some foul play to the existence of the child, which had never been regularly produced to me, either ati Mary-le•bone Police-office or any where else, not even when the impudent hussey swore at Hick's hall that she was a modest and virtuous woman! though in her modesty and virtue she allowed me, a stranger, whom she did not even know by name, to become the father of a child by her, as she swore. I understand the woman brought a child to Hicks's-hall, and that it was as• dark as a mulatto, which she very warily, or advisedly by Thorpe, left in charge of some one. else, whilst she was examined by those wise acres, to whom, had the child been produced, it would have proved to ocular demonstration, from its complexion, &c., that it was not of my breed. J. W. PARKINS. i i« I 4r. tc; d.- lt