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GREECE. <From the Etoik, dated Monday, Sept. 19.) NAPOLI DI ROMANIA, AUG. 2. MANIFESTO OF THE GREEK NATION. The Clergy, the Representatives of the People, the Civil Officers and the Military Officers, both of the Navy and Army, of the Greek Nation,— Considering, that authorized by the inalienable rights of na tionality, and on those of private property, as well as on the ruling principles of religion and the independence of nations, and moved by the sentiments implanted in man for the preser vation and safety of his own existence, the Greeks have taken arms to appeal to the justice of their case ; that during the space of more than four years they have struggled with persever ance against the combined land and naval forces which have come from Europe, Asia, and Africa ; that in the midst of th e most imminent danger, they have sometimes destroyed the very superior forces of their enemy, and sometimes even entirely an nihilated them ; and that though destitute of the resources ne cessary for this great enterprise, they have at length succeeded in sealing their rights at the expence of the most precious blood of the nation, and in convincing the civilized world what can be effected by a people truly resolved to re-conquer its inde pendence ; Considering that the very results of this unequal struggle have only confirmed, in the mind of the nation, the resolution which it has irrevocably adopted to establish its political ex. istence ; Considering that .the agents of some of the Continental Powers, in spite even of the principles of Christianity which they profess, have not observed a conduct conformable to the rules laid down and established by themselves, and that this illegal conduct has given rise to a variety of political disputes divergent in their nature and character; Considering that some of these agents endeavour, by the intrigues of emissaries, whom they send into the interior of Greece, to excite among the Greeks sentiments con trary to the spirit and the forms of Government--sentiments which suit only the intentions and interests of these agents ; Considering that the commanders of the naval forces of some bovernments oppose a number of unjust persecutions and obstacles to the regular proceedings of the Greek Ma xine, and to its movements, though conformable to the rules of the Laws of Nations, all in violation of the neutrality de clared by the Sovereigns, at the Congresses of Laybach and Verona ; Considering with lively grief that tile Christians themselves arm against the disciples of the Gospel, to succour the fol lowers of the Koran, and that a multitude of European officers, contrary to all principles of peace and all sound morality, hasten from distant countries to instruct the latter, and lead in person the armies of the-barbarians, who come to lay waste with tire and sword the land which covers the mangled bones of a Citnon and a Saruado, of Leonidas and i3ozzari, of Philopoemen and Nicelas ; Considering that the Government of Great Britain, happy . in guiding a free people, is the only one which observes a -strict neutrality, without deigning to follow the manifest vio iations, and of those distinctions so contrary to reason, which • others have practised in Greece, at Constantinople, and in Egypt Considering that the indifference of the British Government is not sufficient to counterbalance the persecutions which others .exercise against the Greeks, and to which they daily give a greater extension ; Considering that if Greece has not hitherto been able to pre vent the enterprises of its enemies, or to take offensive mea sures, it is not in consequence of a diminution of its strength, or of a relaxation of its first resolution, but arises from the reasons above-mentioned, and because the Government has not yet been able entirely to prevail over and to subdue all private passions; Considering that in tl t iis extraordinary contest the Greeks must either prove victorious or bury themselves under the ruins of their ,country on account of the deplorable consequences which the:nature of the contest has brought with it, and its long duration—two . causes which have rendered this alternative inevitable ; Considering,'lastly, that since a special favour of Providence has placed the forces of Great Britain so near us, Greece ought to take advantage of it in time, and founding its hopes on the justice and humanity which animate that great Power: For these reasons, and in the intention of placing in safety the sacred rights of the liberty of the state and of our political existence, which is sugciently consolidated, the Greek nation prescribes, resolves, decrees, and approves, as follows : " Art. l . By virtue of the present act, it voluntarily places the sacred deposit of its liberty, its national independence, and ite political existence, under the absolute defence of Great Britain. " Art. 2. This 'fundamental act of the Greek nation shall he accompanied by an explanatory memorial, addressed in du plicate to the Governmett of His Britannic Majesty." ,;PROTEST OF MESSRS. ROCHE AND WASHINGTON TO MESSRS. THE MEMBERS OF THE PROVISIONAL GO VERNMENT OF GREECE. " The undersigned Philhellenic Deputies of France and America have learned that individuals, in their mere quality of Greek citizens, have theught fit to place themselves at the head of a faction against the constitution of their cauntry ; they have signed and circulated a declaration extremely injurious to the character of their nation and Government, which have always shown the most lively interest in the prosperity and indepen dence of Greece. " The undersigned know that the Senate and the Executive Powee, in their sitting of the 22d of July, have resolved to ask succour of the Government of the lonian lalands, for the pre. Nervation of their political liberty, menaced by the invasion of Ibrahim Pacha. " Though it has been very painful for the tindersigned to see the little confidence which the Greek Senate in these im portant circumstances has placed in the French and American nations, they would nevertheless respect this determination, arid every other ‘which should have been adopted in a legal manner, and according tn the constitution of the State. " But they see with grief that the Senate, instead of execut. ins its preceding.decrees, does not employ the means of secu rity which are in its power to bring back to order the individual 'Greeks who dare to place themselves abeive the laws, and en deavour to .disturb the political existence established in Greece. In consequence, they think it their duty to inform (yrevenir) the Greek Government of this illegal attempt, which offends the character of two nations that have taken the most lively interest in the independence of the Greeks, and which may even in sequel prove detrimental to its interests. The Greek Government should know the danger it incurs by allowing itself deliberations of this nature, which are dic tated by a spirit of anarchy, and against which we formally protest. " The undersigned request the Executive Government to give them the most clear and precise explanation on so important a subject. " They expect, with the greatest impatience, a prompt an swer to communicate to their respective Committees, in order to regulate their conduct on ehis occgeion."` • This pretended act of submission (which does not formally speak of submission) is only the work of some private persons who have signed it individually aacitizens. Other individuals, also seeing the same right, have protested against this act. The Senate and the Executive Power have deliberated on the ques tion whether they should send this request to the Lord High Oommissioner of the lonian Islands at Corfu. No further re. suit of these proposals was known. The letters of the 7th of August say nothing of either deliberations or proposals. The cause of this silence is evident. The victory of Missolonghi, of the 2d of August, must have been known at Corinth on the 4th at the latest, and the day following at Napoli. • {The above note is copied, but without acknowledging it, .from the Journal ri‘!: Debuts of Sunday, which does not contain either the Manifesto or the Protest.] HAMBURGH PAPERS to Sept. 18. HANOVER, SEPT.lo.—Several Journals state, that the Government has farmed a part of the mines of the Hartz to a Mining Company in Eng land, for a certain number of years, on payment of a certain sum. There is no foundation fort his news ; but what is true is, that a Company, which has been formed in England for mining speculations, i. to be permitted to pick a shaft in a part of the Hartz where no mine has yet been opened, its order to see whether, at a depth not yet sounded, there is any ore which is worth the trouble of working. This Company has not yet. declared its intentions in this respect ; but should it make the experiment, and the result prove fa vourable, a new source of industry would he opened to the inhabitants of the Hartz, who re tain besides, the working of the present mines. STOCKHOLM, SEPT. 9.—His Royal Highness the Crown Prince came from Drottingen the day before yesterday to preside in the Commission of Government. With respect to the three ships of war purchased by Messrs. Michaelson and Co. from the Government, it is now understood that the sale remains in force, and that the ships will very soon put to sea, but the embarkation of Swedish officers in them is prohibited. The Rajah of Orede has also presented to our Go vernment his great Persian Lexicon, in seven volumes. COPENHAGEN, SEPT. 3.—The Ministers of State have gone to-day and yesterday to Roes kilde, to be present at the removal of several Royal coffins in the cathedral of Roeskilde to the new chapel lately erected ; other persons of rank, whose presence is revired at the ceremony, have also gone thither. Several musicians be longing to the Royal chapel have been ordered to attend. The Norwegian bank has reduced the interest paid by its debtors, from sto 4 per cent. It is positively stated that this reduction of the inte rest will not lessen the dividend paid to the shareholders. MAYENCE, SEPT. 7.—ln the last sitting of the Central Committee for the navigation of the Rhine, it is said that the Members gave their votes on the first paragraph of the defini tive regulations which treats of free naviga tion. Prussia, Bavaria, and Hesse declared, that, by the liberty given by the Congress of Vienna, the unobstructed navigation into the open sea was to be understood ; and Baden and Nassau are said to have declared for France and Holland. But, as according to act of Congress the decisions are rather the opinion of the majority of the Central Committee, they are not binding on the minority. The ques tion of the free navigation will probably be shortly decided by a higher tribunal, and thus, after nine years fruitless deliberation, the chief obstacle will be removed which has hitherto im peded the proceedings of the Central Committee. The stagnation in the negociations at Stuttgard is also ascribed to the influence of France and Holland, which endeavour to render a union abortive which would be very detrimental to their commercial interest. HAMBUTIGH, SEPT. 16...-EXCIIMIS4II on London.-35. 11A• —2 Us. 35. BA. From the LONDON GAZETTE, Sept. .20 Whitehall, Sept. 16, ]825. The King has been pleased to constitute and appoint 'Wil liam Brent Brent, Esq., Barrister at baw, Steward and one of the Judges of his Majesty's Palace Court of Westminster, in the room of Burton Morice, Esq., deceased. BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED. G. Donia, J. Pook, and T. Sardy, Colonnade, Haymarket, tavern-keepers, from Sept. 24 to Qet. 29. BA NKRUPTS. W. Low, Mrood-street, Cheaisside s haberdasher, to surrender Sept. 24, Oct. 1, Nov. 1, at the Bankrupts' Court, Basing. hall-street. Solicitors, Messrs. Van Sendai* -and Tindale, Dow. S. Ferry, High-street, Shoreditch, tripeman, Sept. 24, Oct. 1, Nov. 1, at the Bankrupts' Court, Basinghall-street. Soli citor, , Mr. Brough, Shoreditch. IV.Atlams,.Wallingford, Berkshire, innkeeper, Sept. 30, Oct. 1, Nov. 1, at the Lamb Inn, SVallingford. Solicitors, Messrs. Williams anti White, Lincoln -s -inn. G. Lynam, Stoke-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, flint and colour grinder, Oct. 4,4, Nov. 1, at the Talbot Inn, Stoke-upon. Trent. Solicitor, Mr. Edmunds, Chancery-lane; . D. Creswell, Nottingham; twist-machine-maker, Sept. 5, 30, Nov. 1, at the George the Fourth Inn, Nottingham. Soli. citors, Messrs. bong and Austen, Gray's:inn. W. Wheelhouse, Norwich, linen-draper, Oct. 6,7, Nov. 1, at the Norfolk H otel, Norwich. Solicitors, Messrs. Taylor, Featherstone-buildings, Holborit. DIVIDEND. Oct. 11, W. Lacon, Oswestry, Shropshire, ironmonger. CERTIFICATES. OCT. 11. R. J. Greetilan;, Liverpool, 81;1p-chandler—J. and S. Waldie, Dalton, Cumberland, manufacturers—H. Congrave, Chapel-street, Edgeware-read, tailor—E. Willington, Bir mingham, cabinet case-maker—F. Nicholson, Manchester, corn-dealer. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. J. Stevenson and J. Otley, Sheffield, merchants—T. Evans, H. Christie, and F. Ball, Ilkeston, Derbyshire, bobbin net machine-manufacturers—lt. Dix and C. Edwards, Three Hammer-alley, Broadway, Southwark, brewers—.l. Edleston and G. Lowe, Manchester, manufacturers—E. Place and E. ilJallett, Bond -street,Hanover-square, dressmakers—E. Farber and W. Makinson, Liverpool, timber-measurers—J. Brown, W. Harwood, and J. W. Brumby, Nottingham, lace-manu facturers—J. M'Crum and E. Ainsworth, Liverpool, brewers -7 H. Lovett and F. Moore, Nottingham, lace-manufacturers 0. Trafford and H. Towers, Lincoln, maltsters—J. Kelly and W. Neilson, Leicester, drapers—J. Osmond and J. Brett, Smithfield, beast salesmen—J. Andrews and J. ; Buckley, Sal ford, Lancashire, woollen-printers—J. Thomas and W. Lloyd, Liverpool, ship2brokers--W. D. Moore and T. Hastings, Clement's-lane, dealers in hams. DREADFUL FIRE.-This morning, about half past two o'clock, a dreadful fire broke out at the house of Messrs. KAY and Co., Linen-drapers, King-street, Covent-garden, which soon commu nicated to the adjoining house, a wollen-manu facturer's. ANCIENT IRISH GOLD CROWN.-The workmen employed in quarrying on the strand near HA heny, for Mr. Mitchell, of Ilenry-street, disco vered yesterday an Irish Gold Crown, seemingly of the greatest antiquity. As a claim has been laid to it on the part of the Lord of the Manor, this valuable relic has been deposited with Mr. Rorke, publican, of Dollymount, until the ownership shall be decided.—(Dublin Evening Yost of Saturday.) On Monday night, about half-past eight o'clock, a most brilliant meteor was seen at Weston-super- Mare ; it was of a bright blue colour ; took a direction from east to west, and was visible for several seconds.—(Gloucester Journal) COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE. TRINIDAD. • WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29. ( Biforc his Honour the Chief Judge.) TN THE MATTER OF JUDY nnusti, CLAIMING HER Vern the appraisers in her valuation ? Lord Bathurst had de cided in answer to the inquiries of the Committee of the inha bitants, that the moral qualities and attainments of a slave were to be taken always into consideration, anti this Court had in its decrees recognized that principle. Nothing could be more just and beneficial; it would naturally lead the owners of slaves to take every pains to instruct and improve them, when assured of remuneration for their trouble. But how would that principle operate in the present case ? Were the apprai sers to consider this woman as depreciated in value on account of her artful duplicity and unparalleled audacity ? Was she to learn, and the rest of the slaves in the colony by her example, that they had only to make themselves utterly worthless to enable them to procure their freedom for nothing, and that the shortest road to it was by plunging into immorality and vice? Vet such must be the result, if the Court listened to the sug gestions of the Protector of Slaves; but by refusing freedom to the dishonest and depraved, the appraisers would be in volved in no such dilemma, every step of their proceedings would be in unison with the preamble of the Bill, with the wishes of his Majesty's linisters, and tend to the certain improvement of the condition and morality of the slave po pulation. The Protector and Guardian of Slaves referred to the 29th and 30th clauses of the Order in Council of the 10th of March, 1824, which he contended was peremptory, and left no discre tion to his Honour the Chief Judge. His Honour the Chief Judge said, that in consequence of the important objections urged by Mr. Barnley, he should post pone giving his sentence until another day. WEDNESDAY, JULY 15. _ _ _ . _ This day his Honour the CHIEF JUDGE delivered the fol lowing sentence in the matter of Judy Brush, clainting"her freedom.—" I have considered the objections urged by Mr. Burnley to the application of the slave Judy Brush for per mission to purchase her freedom, under the provisions of the 29th, 30th, and 31st clauses of the Order in Council of the 10th of March, 1824, and the answers given by the Protector of Slaves to those objections. The grounds upon which the petition presented on behalf of this slave has been opposed by Mr. Burnley, are, that she is a runaway from the estate to which she is attached, having absented herself therefrom, without permission, since the first day of May last ; and that when arrested, and on her way back to the estate, she escaped from the person who had charge of her, and has ever since been absent. On the part of the slave, it has been contended, that I have no authority to entertain the objections urged ; that in case of refusal by the party in possession of the slave applying to be manumit ted, my authority is limited to calling upon that party and the Protector to name appraisers, and to the nomination of an umpire: and that upon return of the appraisement, I am bound to grant the certificate required by the 31st clause. It does appear a little extraordinary that in those clauses of the order which provide for the cases of marriages of slaves, and of deposits by them of money in the savings' banks, the slaves requesting permission to be married, or to make de posits, are expressly directed, in the first instance, to obtain the permission of their master to give effect to their wishes ; and It is only in cases of refusal, that recourse is directed to be had to the commandant of the quarter, or to the protector of slaves, who are expressly empowered to inquire into, and de termine upon the causes of such refusal ; while in those clauses providing for manumissions, and upon which the application of the slave Judy Brush is grounded, no such pro vision is contained, as is truly alleged by the Protector of Slaves, nor is any express authority given to me to reject any applica tion made to me for manumission, upon_ any ground whatever. Although, however, no such authority is expressly given, I cannot believe that it could have been the intention of the order to confine my authority within narrower limits than those given to the other magistrates of the country ; and under this impres sion I consider myself justified in entertaining the objections urged by Mr. Burnley, considering these objections to be fully established—that this slave has absented herself from the service of her owner for the period stated by that gentleman, and with out any permission or authority whatever. I am of opinion that the slave Judy Brush cannot, while in a state of disobedience, claim the protection of those laws whose provisions she has vio lated ; and that the application of the Protector of slaves in her behalf cannot, therefore, be attended to, until she shall have re turned to the service of her master, and by due submission to his authority, expiated the offence which has been so fully established against her; after which it will be competent for the Protector of Slaves to make such further application in her behalf, under the provisions of the Order in Council, as he may think proper." IE3RAZILIAN LOAN of R 2,000,000 Ster ling, Negociated by Mr. N. M. ROTHSCHILD in London, in 1825.—The HALF-YEARLY DIVIDEND on the above LOAN, which becomes Due on SA TURDA V, the Ist of OCTOBER next, will be paid by Mr. N. M. ROTHS CHILD on that and every succeeding Day (Sundays excepted), between the hours of Ten and Two, at his Counting-house, No.'2, New-court, St. Swithin's-lane. The Dividend-War rants, with a list thereof in numerical order, must be left one day previous, for examination. ST. BIATTHEW.—HoIiday at the Bank, Exchequer, East India and South Sea Houses. FOREIGN MAILS. ARRIVED. DUE. Ilamburgh . i 0 HIGH WATER A T rioN Dori BRllltili TO-MORROW. Morning, 22 minutes after 10. j Evening, 51 minutes after 10. FR EEDO M. The Protector and Guardian of Slaves rose, and with refer ence to a notice that had been inserted in the Gazette on the 18th of June, applied to his Honour the Chief Judge, on be half of the slave Judy Brush, of the Phoenix-park estate, stat ing that she was prepared to pay the amount of her appraised value for the purchase of her freedom. Mr. Burnley, as administrator of the Phcenixepark estate, opposed the motion of the Protector of Slaves. When before his Honour on a similar occasion to oppose the manumission of Gregory M'Gregor, a slave belonging to the same property, the l'rotector had urged that the Court could not-enter into the consideration of any previous circumstances, nor inquire into the character or conduct of any slave wishing to purchase his i freedom ; and that under the 29th clause of the Order in Council, die Court possessed no discretionary power, but was bound to order the manumission of any slave, with reference to no oilier circumstance than the mere ability of the slave to lay down a sum of money equal to his appraised value.— This doctrine contained principles so monstrous, and led to results so ruinous to every class in the colony—to the slaves as well as to their masters--would be so subversive of all the meliorating effects, contemplated by the Order in Council— that he felt himself imperatively called upon to oppose it. Ile hoped the Learned Protector of Slaves was not prepared : to assert, that any single clause in an Order in Council was to be decided upon without reference to the connecting clauses in the same Act, or to the objects and principles hid down in its preamble; for in such case it might not unfrequently occur, that a single clause might bear a construction hostile to the spirit and meaning of the whole Bill, and produce results never contemplated or intended by the Legislature which enacted it. He begged the Court to remark the peculiar manner in which the Trinidad Order in Council had been framed ; it was divided into sections, embracing va rious circumstances supposed to have an influence upon the welfare of slaves. Now, although the 29th clause might not be connected with every clause in this order, yet it was directly connected with the other clauses in the section to which it be longed, and without reference to them could nothe correctly ihterpreted. This section commenced at the 24th clause, and he begged the Court to observe how closely each succeeding clause, to the 29th inclusive were connected : they rose step by step on each other u ntil they arrived at the object contem plated by the Legislature—namely, the manuniision of an honest and industrious slave. The 24th secured to him the right of holding and disposing of his property ; this was to give the first impulse to his industry. The With and 2fith clauses establish and regulate the savings' banks, in which his honest earnings may be safely deposited, and bear interest until he has accumulated a sufficient fund to purchase his freedom : and the 28th, 29th, and succeeding clauses regulate the mode in which that manumission may be obtained. The 29th clause certainly did not particularly describe the character of the persons who were to be permitted to purchase their freedom, because that clause only contemplated the individuals referred to in the preceding five clauses, who were supposed to have acquired their money by honest industry. This was clear by the read ing of the 27th clause, which authorized a Court of Inquiry, as it might be termed, to be held on every slave wishing to deposit twenty dollars in the savings' hank, if his master suspected only that he had come unfairly by it; and would the Protector now pretend to assert that the same act which directed this inquisitorial process into the conduct of the petty pilferer, intended that the wholesale robber should escape all investigation ; that twenty dollars dishonestly ob tained might be rejected at the savings' bank, and that 300 or 400 dollars obtained by similar practices could not be re fused admission into this Court? What was the language of the preamble of the order? It was short, but decisive : "Whereas it is necessary that provision should be made for the religious instruction of the slaves in the island of Trinidad, and for the improvement of their condition." He contended that the objects recited in this preamble were only to be se cured by the scrutiny into the character of every slave who claimed his freedom in that tribunal ; and should he not suc cessfully pass through the ordeal of such inquiry, the benefi cial results were obvious should his honour say to him, " Go, return to the estate whence you came, you are unfit to move in a higher sphere, amend your life, and at some future pe riod you may obtain the rank you aspire to." This lan guage would come home to the feelings of slaves, it would furnish the best practic a l pl a n o f religious instruction which could be devised ; but the doctrine urged by the Protector of Slaves was totally inexplicable ; to patronize the admission of slaves generally into the ranks of freedom without reference to the mode in which they had acquired the means of pur chasing the privilege, would only be an incentive to immo. rality and vice. What was the language held by Mr. Can ning on this particular subject, when he laid the Trinid a d Order in Council before Parliament ? He begged to be per mitted to read an extract froM his speech, as published in The Times newspaper of the 17th March, 1824 : 4 By the course which Government had prescribed, freedom when it did come, would come as every good thing in this world did come to human nature—by endeavours, honest and successful, and by laborious exertions, hated facilern ease viam • the difficulty with which great object: were attained was the best corrective of ambitious desires." Such were the sentiments of his Ma jesty's Ministers ; they were in unison with the preamble of the Bill, and they spoke the same language as the 2,4'h and succeeding clauses, which pointed out that freedom was to come by endeavours honest and successful, through the me. dium of the savings' bank. The labour and the difficulty which would accompany- it had enhanced, in the eyes of the Honourable Secretary, the value of the process ; but what would be his feelines, were he to hear that in Trini dad this difficulty resol ve d itself into one bold push at suc cessful crime, and that in this. Court the swindler, the rob ber, and possibly the murderer, were permitted, without inquiry, to enjoy that boon which the Legislature intended to reserve as the reward of laborious exertion and ho nest industry ? And he begged to assert that many slaves, more than the Court was aware of, had already purchased their freedom by money procured in the most unjustifiable manner; it was notorious in the community, although the Court might be unacquainted with the fact, that a slave of Mr. de Harvey Soters had lately purchased his manumis sion with a fund raised by splitting staves and shingles, whilst a fugitive in the woods; such was the course of his honest endeavours—he had gained his freedom by robbing his mas ter of his services, and the crown of its timber. The case of the slave Gregory was still stronger ; lie had absconded from the Pheenix Park estate to accuse his manager of ill-treatment.— The falsehood of this charge being established, to escape pu nishment, he offered to purchase his freedom, but his means being far short of his real value, he endeavoured to reduce his physique to the state of his purse ; and so great an adept was lie in the art of dissimulation, that he imposed upon an eminent medical practitioner in this town, and procured from him a cer tificate, that he was labouring under a disease so inveterate, as to afford little chance of recovery ; yet in a few weeks afterwards, when his freedom was obtained, and dissimulation no longer necessary, he appeared before Mr. H. Murray, requesting em ployment, and exhibiting such an athletic form and appearance of robust health, that he was hired by him without hesitation, as an axenian to tell forest timber, at the highest rate of wages given to that laborious class • nor was his roguery confined to this single act ; h e never could have made up the suns required for the purchase of his manumission, hut by a loan from a poor cultivator in the neighbourhood of the town, which he engaged .to refund by working for a fixed period on his estate; but the moment he found himself free, he brake his contract, and thus was his outset in the career of freedom marked by gross swindling, and the blackest ingratitude towards his benefac tor; he (Mr. Burnley) was in possession of full proof with re. spect to every thin,, lie had stated, which he was prepared, if required, to lay before the Court. He now begged to recall to the recollection of the Court a recent criminal trial, in which a slave named I'itt Minister had been convicted of robbing Captain Ruse, of the 9th regiment, at St. Joseph, of a large sum of money ; he had been sentenced by the Court to be flogged for the offence, but the money stolen he would give no satisfactory account of. Now suppose this same slave were to appear shortly in the tribunal, and offer to purchase his freedom could the Court listen for a moment to his petition ? Yet, ac ' cording to the arguments urged by the Protector of Slaves, the Court possessed no discretionary power to prevent a convicted robber from coming into Court and carrying off' triumphantly that prize his Majesty's Ministers had destined only for honest industry, it was impossible—it outraged common sense. The Court must possess a discretionary power ; if to be exercised in one case, to be exercised in all, and in none would it be found more requisite than in the case now before the Court. He op posed himself to the manumission of the slave now claiming her freedom, because she stood before the court at that mo ment as a crithinal and an offender against the laws. She was a runnaway and a deserter from the estate to which she belong. ed since the lit of May ; shortly afterwards she had been appre hended, but on her return had given her conductor the slip, and, again absconded. He, Mr. Burnley, had been unable to dis cover her retreat, yet she had managed during that period to have frequent communications with the Protector of Slaves, and to lodge her money in the Colonial Treasury ; and it was most extraordinary, but most true, that an offender against the laws, whilst she successfully avoided the sop ant eye of the police, could safely hold communicat i o n with public men and public offices. He had but one more argu ment to urge ; suppose this woman were declared competent by the Court to purchase her freedom, what principles wer e t o go. THE SUN. SOLEM GUIS DICEItE FALSUM AUDLAT ? LONDON, • WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 21, 1825. The French Papers of Sunday, which arrived last night, are filled with details of the solemnity which was observed on Friday in honour of the memory of Louts XVIII. The Duchess of ANGOULEME, the Duke of ORLEANS and his family, together with the great Officers of the Household, the most distinguished persons about the Court, and the Diplomatic Corps, headed by the POPE'S Nuncio, attended divine service in the Abbey of St. Denis, which was on this occasion hung with black. The Moniteur contains, in the official part, a very long Royal Ordinance relative to the forming of the Salt Mines ; and another relative to the Veterinary Schools at Alfort, Lyons, and Toulouse. The Constitutionnel contains a copy of the Manifesto of the Greek Government, offering to place the nation under the protection of this country. This document, together with the pro test of the soi disant Philhellenic Deputies of France and America, will be found in another column. The officious intermed d ling of these gentle e n in this transaction casts a shadow upon the act of the Greek Government, which would make us doubt the sincerity with which they submitted to England, and we entirely agree with a Morning Paper that " nothing was wanted to throw ridi cule on the whole transaction but the protest of two foreigners, a Frenchman and an American, to this free, unclaimed, and unaccepted deed of sub mission." The Hamburgh Papers to the 18th of Sep tember have been received. They do not con tain any political news, except, indeed, an ar ticle from Mayence, dated Sept. 7, concerning the free navigation of the Rhine. This question has been some time under discussion 1a the Central Committee for the navigation „ of the Rhin e , F rance , an d H o ll an d, seeking restrain it, and Prussia, Bavaria, and nesse' wishing to leave it open. The question it seems will be referr e d t o a hi g h er tr ib una l. E xtracts from these Papers will be found in another column. The Journal de Frankfort to the 14th SePte r " ber has been received. It contains extracts from the Trieste Observer, complaining of the faisitY of the news given in the French and Ger man Papers as coming from Trieste, upon the subje ce of the war in Greece. We subjoin the article TRINSTE, Auo. 29.—The Observer of Triote publishes t he following article : " We often see in foreign journals, both French and German' articles dated from T r i este , w hi c h conta i n the most fal se an d absurd news relative to the affairs of Greece. These journalists, knowing that this city receives the first news from th e theatre of war, conceal under the date of Trieste the fables which they desire to circulate, and even if they do come front Trieste, they can only be ascribed to corrupted individuals, or to unfaithful correspondents. We therefore think it our Of to caution the public against giving any credit to their Pr e ; tended news from Trieste, but what they merit of the:lod ge and from the impure sources from which they come." (It has long been notorious that there is a manufactoll J e w news at Trieste, but it must be owned that it has grea tl Y dined since the establishment of that at Zante takes a much bold er fli g h t; w ith r a re assurance it p ats circulation the most impudent falsehoods.) this lot; The Allgemeine Zeitung of the 14th of S e p t. came to hand this day. The news it has from s Greece is highly satisfactory, as it confir m every respect the defeat of the SERASKIEft on . 10 retreat after the unsuccessful attack upon Ali ss°' longhi. 'We subjoin a paragraph, detailing affair between GOUItA and the Sceasfosit Carvassara „ I , o f TRIESTE, SEPT. s.—Letters from Corfu of th e August confirm the defeat, of which we have already l'°//en; a of the army of the Seraskier Redschid Pacha, on its set he after the unsuccessful attack on Missolonghi. It was (111 7th August that Goura with three Greek Capitani, hastenilo from Salons, attacked at Carvassara the rear of the Turks their retreat, and captured a considerable quantity of artilleri; Since then Redschid has remained at Carvassara, where he assembling fresh troops. Our Gazette mentions this skl.to the following terms :—According to accounts given by caP T; $ of ships, a few days after the' fruitless attack on allissolongopii" corps of 3,000 Greeks under Goura appeared, com ing fr .A ' t be Salons, and together with part of the garrison 4tte7 -into Turkish camp. They succeeded in throwing the besieger:l. confusion, and in spiking some of their cannon and °GrI3 t al. hat s Charleston Papers to the 16th Ang I been receiv e d, but they do not contain 110 OW ‘ information. ASan t a u t r l ( v ii t: y rti l s a y s m t advertisement inserted in the Deily rol'.err: of must have ve :for informed t h e cot° l ' that the turbulent spirit of the Shipwrights let the river Thames has not y e t subsided. 131 01: advertisement it would be seen that the direr owes which existed between the ShiP wrigb f and their Masters had been placed in the 04 I°, adjustment by the active interference of t ' l 1 l workmen in the Royal Yard at Portsrnottth , oi the principle that the price book o f each Ilhis should be settled between the owner litlcivi workpeople, without any reference t o the Pri given by ally other yard. t ' 4ll The principle upon which this adjust ~111-11 r 9 io made received the sanction of the Shipbuilje.osl a general meeting held upon the 10th of Mgje. last, and the Shipwrights also considering tilts f g r ' cision as a triumph, did, at the instance e er s Jolts CAST, ratify the agreement he had e st er th e into upon their behalf. The settlement 0{ jr Price Book, however, was, from time to th lie l t he layed by the workmen themselves u ntil, I. l l )c) rost i , Sth instant, the masters, weary of this P s°c lr eo nation, issued a notice, calling on their w °r ,, r ice to appoint a deputation to consider the icecto book of the different yards where that not jo , •t Wog given. In consequence of this n otice 1- it , w her e titnated to the proprietors of the yards ,4 OP ive ti was given that the Shipwrights had es ca p/ make no alteration in the price book .a s 5 ,10 0 s tl e t t at fo l by themselves, and that no fresh contract:op 0 he taken by the people of ally Dock Vo l : ' of 0 13 'l tiel declaration had been signed by the r ic l4 r ) t o l lc Dock Yard, tii e equitable. ard whio. of ( pe n A I • 'IL St 6b" 1p considered as a triumph, and vv.1 14, Do t fus l e . t i l lu t s o , fulfil‘'vith without atellryllrlSeausfontl:eta'a: ti:cse.r7le'lltl::; the w ho f, hi l l: a l,: ri t g i 11 the t y s price 'II,: 1:11.le°' I:: '' 'lla met with the 64 rail:neat/On" Of . ,0 1 1 13 We are sorry to hear that an eminent vr'oly.4l, d dec iaoi j a se n t: i ed % : ,, :l, su an i i ) d po a s c e q s u i i g e n sc e e d d t i l l i t e th r e e ,arty may to qiitiolir,teitleolt: ov , tr u e ji o e o' If this is fact, trust the par 3 .1 n ode AderS, ' "" 11, e, by the rest of the ship-but p ossi btful "'"? duct' understand, in the least doo , such co n _ the opinion they must entertain ot '" 1.01, of t i , leit t ' id iot] fr° are to° expecte°, this op por . cause was hardly to be ( 1 ) i: 1 , i I s ] e g r t v l i u n s t s,fa such u vv c l i: f a ts tdoeorde. the :il c : : ja i l o,i :el r Jl 5 , we find t hat more astonished when