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onage ; stained Ly men amend- The ake the• y in the the dis vas free sugges l I saving £44,76$ 60,193 i reduced': ws, and' eceiving, ified by foreign Enlist s if they the Bill. holding foreign English 'France. i Officer oxy ser ,y under pastier+, the Go mer the- tion was t Officer le would nt prove , hey cer entioned officers Legion mipense different gulation ion than milar to to him; neffeetu he rule. egion re. service ? they re :warding idered as rvices. ble Lord to called cting the officers. cers, He con ing upon that they half pay :dye and e Return as Pay r not he the ques lity such :ech at a inserted tration in ;lit so he ?.claration act. It ' hout any would be a Bill to is no law :he army. ILEURN', to. hout any ioners of rspital :- 0001. for Military r of chil- consi ervices of AL ME R- viz..— those of Compas. ny inten : believed ation that be a Re informa- informa- tnd would IERSTON 'I. for the elution ? . paid into .nd the re- d Palmer :quer, the h Veteran l'ommittee lIEQUER, llli resolve he should of ; and at WCASTLr Colonel Sir Geo. ilderrnsn Sir R. tERS. Hon. H. G. I, J. U. sty's IIon• , the Ludy treet, Port- Henry e of Robert nas Ilinck- t the SlJ2(' RS. . - 7 ) _y /c /I I 7 ‘a NUMBER 92291 CON2'R4CIT FOR BLACK SILK ,HANDKER- CHIEFS. Nary-Office, March eO, 1822. THE PRINCIPAL OFFICERS_ and CO.ll - HIS MAJESTY'S N.ll/Y do hereby give Notice, that on Thursday, .the 4th April next, at One o'C loch, they/ will be ready to treat with such Per son . as may be willing to Contract for supplying His Max jesty's Yard at Deptford with BLACK SILK HANDKERCHIEFS, for the use of the Seamen of the Rocut Navy. A Form of the Tender 2nay be seen at this Office. No Tender will be received after One o'Clack on the Day of Treaty, nor any noticed unless the Party, or an Agent for him, -attends. Every Tender must be accompanied by a Letter ad dressed to the ,Navy Board, and signed by a responsible Person, engaging to become bound with' the Person tender ing, in the Sum of 4001. for the due performance of the Contract. AT a MEETING of the COMMITTEE for MANAGING the SUBSCRIPTION for such of the MILITARY as Suffered Bodily Injury, by the-Attack of the Populace on the 14th of August, 1821, held on the 16th of March, 1822. JOHN BLADES,•Esq. in the Chair., Resolved—That a st a t emen t o f th e disposition of the Money subscribed be Published, and the Balance paid over to the Treasurer of the Royal Military Asylum. That the following letters in reply to the offer made by the Committee to the Governors of the Royal Military Aeylunt, in Pursuance of their Resolution of the 18th of September last, be Published for the satisfaction of the Subscribers. GEORGE STEPHEN, Hon. Sec. Horse Guards, 30th Jan. 1822. St n—l have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 28th inst. which I have submitted to the Com mander-in-Chief, who requests you will thank the Committee for Managing the Subscription for the Military who suffered on the 14th of August last, for their attention, and acquaint them, that Utley will have the goodness t o direct the money al luded to in their Resolution of the 18th of September, to be paid into the hands of Mr. Greenwood, the Treasurer of the Royal Military Asylum, it will be held at the disposal of the Board, and invested for annual purposes. I am at the same time to request you will acquaint theCornmittee,that his Royal High ness will have great pleasurein sanctioning the Donation,being so recorded as to preserve a lasting Memorial of the circum• stances that gave rise to it.—l have the Honour to be, &c. (Signed) H. TAYLOR. To George Stephen, Esq. ' Horse-Guards, 9th March, 1822. SlR—Referring to my letter of the 30th of January last, I have nbw the Comniander-in-Chief 's directions to transmit to you, for the information of the Committee for Managing the Subscription for the Military Who suffered on the i4th of Au gust, the copy of a letter from Lieut. Colonel Williamson, the Commandant of the Royal Military Asylum, upon the subject of the Donation which the Committee have made to the In stitution of the amount of that subscription. I have the Honour to be, &c. (Signed) H. TAYLOR. To George Stephen, Esq. &c. &c. oyal Military Asylum, 7th March, 1822. SIR-1 have laid before the Commissioners for managing the affairs of this Institution you': letter of the 30th of Janu ary last, with its enclosures relative to tke sum which was subscribed for the Military who suffered on the 14th of Au gust last, and which is to be paid to Mr. Greenwood, for the use of this Institution. I am directed to acquaint you, that the Commissioners wil give the necessary directions that this Donation may be re. ceived and recorded in the manner recommended by the Corn, mittee, as set forth in your letter, and approved by his Roya Highness the Commander-in-Chief. I have the honour to he, &c. (Signed) J. WILLIAMSON, Curia. and Lt.-Cal. To Major-General Sir H. Taylor. The Committee for Managing the Subscription for the Mi litary. £. s. d Cr. .E. B. d To amount of Sub- - scriptionsrcceivedl423 10 G By amount of Sub- scriptions recalled 278 3 6 Ads% rtisements,sta tionary, and post ages 208 16 3 Balance paid to Mr Greenwood, on the 22d day of March, 1822.... 936 10 9 £1493 10 G VICTUdLLING-OFFICE; Merck 13, 1822. THE COMMISSIONERS for VICTUAL ' ILVG His IILeLTESTY'S 2V4/ 7 1' do hereby give No tice; That on Tuesday, the 26M instant, they will be read✓ to revoive Thiders in writing (sealed up), and treat for One Hundred Thousand Gallons of WEST INDIA RUM, of the strength of 5 per cent. under ,»-Rqf by Sikes's Hydroincter. One Thousand Sacks of BISKET MEAL; Fifty Tons of OATMEAL; Forty Tons of CHEESE; And Twenty Tons of BUTTER; To be delivered into His Majesty's natiollinff Stores at Deptford, in the .spare of One Month (the Bisket!erg by equal weekly proportions); and also for the supply of what TALLOW CANDLES may be demanded frr the service of the Steres aforesaid, fur One Year from the date of the Contract. The whole to be paid for by Bills, payable, without in terest, sixty days after date. • .. . The.ConditionS of the 'Contract may be seen at this Ofice. No regard will be had to any Tender in which the Price shell not be inserted in words at length,. or that shall not he delivered to the Board before Our o'ClOck on the said Tuesday, the RUth instant; nor unless the Person who makes the Tender, or some Person on his behalf, attends to answer when called for. THE PETITIONS ad o pt e d a t a G enera l . Meeting of WEST INDIA PLANTERS and MER CHANTS, held at the City of London,Tavern this Day, will remain for SIGNATURE at ray Office. No. 23; New City Chaio hers, Bishopsgate-street, until 12 o'Clock on TUESDAY next, the 26th inst. London, 23d March, 1822. W. HOLDEN, Sec. BRITISH FIRE OFFICE, STRAND and CORNIIILL. JST.A_BLISITED in 1799 for Insurance o f CA Houses, Buildings, Manufactories, Goods, and Men chamlize, Ships, Vessels, and. other Property, on the most equitable terms, and on principles affording solid and per• roanent security to those insured. DIRECTORS, &C. JOSEPH WARNER, ESQ. Chairman. Hon. DOUGLAS KINNAIRD, Deputy Chairman. ,Rt. Hon. the Vice Chancellor William Marsh,,Esq. Sir John Cox Hippisley, Bart. Thomas Maude, Esq. .Sir Robert Wigram, Bart. ' George G. Mills, Esq. William Agnew, Esq., Richard C. Plowden, Esq. J. P. Auriol, Esq. - John Soane, Esq. John Bebh, Esq. G. H. Sumner, Esq. M.P., S. P. Cock e rel!, Esq, R o b ert T ay l or, Esq. ' James Henry Deacon, Esq. John Varuham . Esq. Charles Freeman, Esq. Jam es W es t, Esq. Neill Malcolm, Esq. Rd. Williams, Esq. Solicitor, RICHARD BARNES, Sec. 'THE DISSOLUTION of the NORWICH 1 UNION SOCIETY for mutual Insurance, occasioning a number of Persons to look around for'an establishment, to which they may commit their protection, without fear of liti gation and disappointment—the undersigned recommend the plan and char/we i r of the COUNTY FIRE-OFFICE to their notice and inquiry. A large original Capital, in addition to the Funds drawn from Insurance, afford the amplest means of indemnity to sufferers. The disposition of the Managers has kept pace with their means. Sixty-Four Thousand Per sons have sought protection_in the County Office, and have found it. Claims hare been paid to One Thousand Three Hundred and Fifty Claimants, and not a single Litigation has occurred with any Claimant. Expnipt from the Expences of Lawsuits, and also from the sacrifices tg which some Offices submit to procure business, great accumulations have been made. In these, persons who now Insure p ar ti c ip a t e equa ll y with the original Members.—Returns of 25 and 20 per cent. in consequence, have been Invariably paid to all persons who have continued Insured seven years, upon Annual as well as upon Septennial Policies.-36,0001. have been returned in this way to about 20,000 persons Insured, within the last eight Years—an important advantage which no other Insurance Office affords. Acting on these principles so many years, in uninterrupted harmony and unrivalled success, it is not sur prising that the business of the County Fire-Office should augment in a degree altogether unprecedented —an enlighten ed public naturally preferring approved conduct and solid advantages to .endless delusions, larmits, and disappoint -Merits. Thomas Webb Agent at Brentford Brixton Purcell & Nicholls George Lever Greig John Johnson Joseph Rawlins Thomas Single Camden-Town City Road Newington-Butts Pentonsille Stepney. THREE of £20,000 ! AND ONLY TWO DAYS TO DRAW. A and J. SIVEWRIGHT inform the Pub "q -F- • lic that, with only Two Days to Draw, the Wheel (=antains 3 1 , 3 uesides the full proportion of minor Prizes of £lOO, £5O, &c. making LESS than TWO BLANKS to a PRIZE. NEXT THURSDAY, Is the Next Day of Drawing, when the very First Prize will r eceive 420,000 more; and the Ninth-drawn Prize above X2OO will likewise have £20,000 in addition. TICKETS and SHARES are Selling at J. and J. SIVE WRIGHTS' truly Fortunate Offices, 37, Cbrnbill ; I 38, Haymarket, ,„ 1i , Holborn ; Corner of Coventry-str ee t ; v here they Sold the Last Day 'of the Last Lottery, and in their Last Contract, 4,421 18,051 And a great many smaller Capitals. .......__ TWENTY THOUSAND POUNDS ! • EYTON, Stock-broker, respectfully a c qua i n t s the Public, that the next Day of Drawing will be a .l- ' 4 l , URSDAY. the 28th Instant, when the First-drawn Prize rzvrne.ceive pQ,OOO over and above whatever it may he Z II CKETS and SHARES, wa rr a n t e d un d rawn, cont i nue o Sale at the lucky Office of EYTON, 2, CORNHILL and thee c9d DayBA RD-STRof Draw i ng , was s here No. 715, a Prize of £2OOO, on S - Id. • Bout -less in the Public Funds transacted with fidelity and dispatch. On the Ist of April will be Published, price Gs. ed, FJ LECTORS' REMEMBRANCER ; or ,' a GUIDE to the VOTES of each ,MEMBER of the HOUSE of COMMONS, in the PRESENT PARLIAMENT. Giving an account of the particular conduct of each Mem ber ; with general Observations, &c. &c. A similar work h as been published in Fra nc e, an d bas been found of great utility. 11. The Exposé of the Present Administration-; in a,Pant phlet entitled THE STATE of the NATION in 1822. Under the Four Departments—Finance, Foreign RelatiotTs, Home Department, Colonies, &c. _ , 111. Mr. MAINWARING'S PAMPHLET on the present State-of the Police. IV. A DEFENCE of VEGETABLE REGIMEN, shewing that we were not born to eat Animal Food, &c. V. Mr. HEATH FIELD'S Observations on the Debt, Agri culture, Trade, &c. VI. Sir H. PARNELL'S HISTORY of the PENAL LAWS against the CATHOLICS to the UNION.=—(Now out of Print.) VII: On the CONTROVERSY between Lord BYRON and Mr. BOWLES, relative to Pope and Poetry. All the above are printed in the PAMPHLETEER, No. XXXIX. which is published Quarterly, and records the best Pamphlets of the Day, at about 6d. each.—The Work is par ticularly adapted for Clubs, Societies, ancelnstitutions. Sold by Longman and Co.; Sherwood and Co.; Simpkin and Co.; Black, Parbury, Allen, and Co. • W. Carpenter; and all other Booksellers, by a general order,--where may be had sets in boards, or in number. £1423 10 G - \ s\ i • c/'• -11 9 'Off 41S 110 )4- - 0 riffilA‘‘\ lONIAN ISLANDS. MONDAY, MARCH 25, 1822. ADDRESS OF HIS EXCELLENCY THE LORD HIGH COMMISSIONER, On the 4th of March, 1822, to the Legislative Assembly of the United lonian States ; published' by permission of his Excellency, and at the unanimous request of the Assembly. MR. PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN—The extraordinary occurrences which have taken place subsequent •to your last constitutional adjournment, have made me far more anxious on the present occasion to meet the Representatives of the lonian People than at the opening of 'any former Session of the Par liament of these States. The period I allude to has indeed been one of a most event ful nature; and your executive Government, placed in a situa tion perfectly novel, had to adopt such measures as were cal culated to obviate the difficulties with which it was surrounded. On the nature of those measures, and on the necessity which dictated them, it will now be my duty to enter into an expla. nation, with the same openness and candour which I have ever used in all my communications with this assembly. At the commencement of the last session, I congratulated you on the internal quiet we enjoyed, whilst on the one side the kingdom of Naples was in a state of complete revolutionary convulsion, and on the other the whole of Epirus in that of re bellion against its established Government. I strongly,incul cated, then, the absolute necessity of the strictest neutrality, as the only line of conduct on the part of the lonian Govern ment that could preserve the people from a participation in those horrors which desolated the immediate vicinity. Now, however, the spirit of revolution has extended itself far beyond the boundaries of Epirus ; and it is known to you all, that it thoroughly pervades the whole of Acarnania, and generally every part of Greece ; whilst the Morea in particular has•become the theatre of barbarities, at which human nature shudders ! • Under these circumstances, your Executive Government con tinued strictly and religiously to adhere to that principle of neu trality of which it had already felt the benefit ; and to this wise and salutary line of conduct is to be attributed the perfect tran quillity now reigning in every part of the lonian States ; though the measures necessary to enforce it unavoidably became of a stronger nature, in proportion as .a dispositi on a pp eare d to con travene the system laid down by the Government. On the nature and progress of these measures, 1 shall not now enter into a verynnnute detail. They were all open and avowed ; and are well known to every member of the assem bly ; but I have ordered the different proclamations issued to be laid upon your table, which will give you an opportunity o f examining each individually, and of instituting such inquiries as you may deem expedient ; to assist which, the Executive Government will readily furnish every document or paper con nected with the subject which the assembly may wish to have before it: Neither is it my intention to detain you by a precise detail of those numberless acts of violation of the neutrality which the Government was called on to restrain and repress. I shall how ever advert to some of the most prominent ; and particularly to that unfortunate transaction at Zante, which forced the Exe cutive Government to adopt the most decisive steps at once to crush the tumultuous and rebellious spirit which had thus shewn itself in these States. However deeply I may lament the irritation which has ex isted, I am willing to allow that it admits of greal palliation under all the circumstances of the ease. It did not surprise the Executive Government, when the spirit of revolt against the Turkish yoke reached the continent immediately adjacent to the southern part of these states, that the people should display the strongest sympathy in favour of the insurgents, who were of the same religious persuasion as thems e l ves , with similar habits, language, and manners : on the contrary, the circumstances of the case naturally gave rise to the belief that enthusiasm would prevail for the emancipation of those who had long suffered un der a rule of great severity. These considerations were sensibly felt by the Government ; and it was therefore not only desirous of overlooking trifling deviations from its orders, but of passing under silence many acts, which, abstractedly considered, must have been held of a most culpable nature. Determined, however, as-the Govern ment was to save the lonian peopl e from the consequences of their infatuation, it could not abstain from adopting measures absolutely necessary for the support of the principle it had de clared, when it found that the p eo pl e were disposed to act so as to endanger the internal tranquillity of the islands, and to de stroy the whole public, character of the Government. As a proof that these measures were forced on the Execu tive Government, I shall call to your recollection the numerous emigrations (particularly from the islands of Cephalonia and Zante) of the people of these States ; they did not individually withdraw themselves, without ostentation or tumult, to follow their own particular fancies and inclination s ; b a t t h row i ng o ff their allegiance, they quitted the lonian shoreS in the face of day, with arms in their hands, openly braving the orders and the authority of the Government, to wage war against a Power in profound amity and peace with their Own country, against which they at least had no,ground of complaint. I shall beg to remind you, that the proclamations against clandestine departures from the Islands were not issued till scenes such as these had passed; nor till a regular manifesto had been published in the Morea, signed by natives of Cepha lonia and Zante, declaring themselves the Chiefs and Generals of the united forces of those Islands. The conduct of the Parganots is also to be noticed, as ex hibiting a scene which it.was impossible for the Government ro pass over, unless it tamely consented to be considered as a party to a transaction the m3st lawless and unprincipled. I al lude to the regular military expedition from these islands against Para by its former inhabitants who had found an asylum in these States ; and to the positive refusal on the part of this Government again to receive them after the defeat they had suffered in their pred a t or y ex p e di t i on . I will not dwell on the horritile massacre of the unfortunate Turks in the island of Cerigo, for i wish for ever to throw a veil over that transaction. But I cannot pass over the unhap py affair of Zante, with which is immediately connected the declaration of martial law, and.the decisive measure of disarm ing the population of the lonian States ; for, without entering into any long . detail of what took pl ace o n thi s me l anc h o l y oc casion, a brief statement of the case appears to me to be necessary. A Turkish brig of war surrounded by Greek cruisers, after resisting their attack, anchored in a bay at the back of the islands, in the vicinity of the town ; the population of which, and of the neighbouring villages, had assembled to witness the naval engagement. A small detachment of an officer. and twenty men were sent to ensure the observance of the Sanitary laws on the part of the Turks, when the people commenced an attack upon his Majesty's troops, wounding an officer, killing a soldier, and wounding two others, before they could retreat into a house from which they might defend themselves ; and when a reinforcement arrived, the people retired for the time. Gentlemen, I call this an act of open and flagrant rebellion without *vocation, for there was not the slightest ; and the troops in fact were employed at the moment in the 'service of the people, to prevent the danger of the introduction of the plague into the island. But it has been said that this was merely the ebullition of the moment. lam as ready . as any man to allow for the feelings, excited by the contest existing between the Turks and the Greeks ; and in consequence of what was then passing between the squadrons of the contending parties before the eyes of the assembled people, the ebullition of the moment may be pleaded as some palliation for the first attack on this small detachment ; but how is such an excuse to lA admitted as any extenuation for the subsequent attackactually made by the same people on his Majesty's troops in the middle of the night ? or as any apology for the Morean horrors practised on the dead 'body of the unfortunate soldier, which fell into their hands in the un happy business of the morning. Having now, then, shortly narrated those promi nen t trans actions which drove the Executive Government to the adoption of strong measures, it is necessary that I should explain my self more at length in regard to the strongest of those mea sures—the disarming the population of these states, and the - declaration of martial law. It is certain that the Government was originally urged to this proceeding by what had occurred at Zant e . I n t h at is l an d there appease to me to be a most obvious necessity for it, resting on grounds of common military precaution, arising from no suspicion of treason against the state that required proof, but from downright unprovoked hostile attacks on hiS Majesty's forces. In considering then all that had passed, the Executive Go vernment felt that it had no other course to pursue, but that of PUBLICATIONS. THE, QUARTERLY REVIEW, No. LII. will be published_on SATURDAY NEXT. CONTENTS. I. DOBRIZHOFFER—Accouat of the ABIPONES.— ll.' 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Price Is. 6d. bound, and fine, Paper 2s. 81 - .-kJ: . :-,..., v.!, ~ A ....A... al promptly punishing those who had been guilty of rebellion; taking at the same time steps to prevent the population from further committing themselves. in the event of vessels of the belligerents again coming, as might be daily expected, within the waters of the island. But it may be asked, on what grounds that measure of ap parent severity has been carried into effect in Cephalonia, in Santa Maura, and even in this Wand ? It is true that the people of Cephalonia had never committed outrages such as those exhibited at Zante ; although, as I have already shewn, they had acted in a manner highly culpable, contrary to the declared neutrality of .the Government, in sup port of the insurrection in the Morea. This island was, how ever, as, liable , as Zante to the approach of the contending squadrons; and it was impossible, after what had passed at Zante, that in the event of a contest occurring between these vessels near the shores of Cephalonia, for the Executive Go vernment not to anticipate a similar scene of disgraceful tumult. In short, the question relative to Cephalonia was, whether it did not become the duty of the Executive Government, with its eyes open to the danger in which it was placed, to endeavour at once to secure the peace of the island from that risk to which accident daily exposed it ? In Santa Maura the case was somewhat different : here the disarming was no new measure, it having been carried into execution three years ago. The declaration of martial law for the time was however necessary on. Other grounds. This island is separated from the continent of Greece by a narrow channel nearly fordable, and exposed on that account to the constant incursions of banditti. In the present situation of the continent these incursions had been so frequent, and were attended with such daring acts of outrage anti murder, that the Magistrates were exposed to danger in the execution of their functions ; so much so, that they dared not leave the town, and the civil law was in fact virtually at an end. In respect to Corfu, I refer you to the proclamation issued by me with the consent of his Highness the President and the Senate, as explanatory of the reasons why no exception could be made in favour of that island, notwithstanding the perfect tranquillity that prevailed in it, and the'invariable submission and obedience of the people to the orders of Government. Independent, however, of the reasons which induced the Exe cutive Government to adopt this measure in any island in par ticular, in consequence of the present surrounding disturbances, ,it also thought it advisable, on grounds which may be consi dered, in a great degree, unconnected with those disturbances. It is well known that the principle on which the lonian peo ple were indiscriminately armed was to enable them to repel foreign and piratical aggressors; but in process of time, when these aggressionssbe,came no longer formidable, tjie arms were employed in civil broils, in personal hostility, and too frequently in secret revenge ;, and this state of timings, whilst it generally demoralized the people, has tended much to retard the civiliza tion of the inhabitants. This is the view I entertain of the system which has pre vailed, for the vices of which the present measure will prove a salutary remedy. 1 am by no means, however, disposed to agree that the po pulation of these islands should remain totally unarmed ; but I am anxious that arms should alone be retained by those, in whose hands they may contribut e to th e d ue support o f civ il order and government. With this view, regulations have been established for the moment under martial law, by which arms will be issued un der license to a considerable extent in each island ; and I shall direct these regulations`to be laid upon the table of the Assem bly, In order that legislative enactments may be made on this important subject, to have effect at the expiration of martial law,• which it is the intention of the Executive Government immediately to annul. You have now, then, before you the motives which have guided the Executive Government in the conduct it has pur sued—to preserve the people themselves from the dreadful effects of the plague—to vindicate its own political integrity—. and to support that neutrality it had proclaimed, which the King my master, the protecting Sovereign, had approved of in the most decisive manner. The Executive Government would have been well content, indeed, not to have been driven to measures of a harsh nature. It uniformly waited till necessity obliged it to act.. Its con duct has been the natural result of the infatuation which pre- vailed ; but when this infatuation broke otit into open acts of rebellion, it had no choice left but that of making use of the power lodged in its hands, to save the peopl e an d th e coun t ry from those furious demagogues, who, to serve their own pur poses, were on the watch to plunge these islands into that state of utter ruin and desolation which now pervades the neighbour ing provinces. There can be no doubt thht the system of neutrality observed by the lonian Government has frustrated the plans of those factious individuals to whom I allude ; who looked to the pre sent opportunity of accomplishing those designs which they have never laid aside. Hence, not only a false colouring has been attempted to be given to all the acts of the lonian Govern ment since the revolution first broke out in Greece, but the neu trality itself has been assailed by every spe c i es of misrepresen tation and abuse. It has been stated that the corm - notions which have taken place in the islands to the southward are not the result of the revolutionary spirit which has shewn itself in Greece, but that they are solely to be ascribed to the oppressive rule of your present Constitutional Government. The greatest in dustry has been' used . to represent the natural disposition in favour of the revolutionists as arising from feelings of hostility against the Government, by means of the basest insinuations against its conduct and principles; but, to prove the grossness of these misrepresentations, it is only ne cessary to reflect on the nature of the disobedience. evinced by the people to the orders of Government, which were alone de monstrated by acts directly connected with, and in support of, the revolution itself ; for in no instance has the Government to complain of the conduct of the people in any thing uncon nected with that revolution. It has also been falsely stated that the neutrality has not been equally observed towards both parties, insinuating that the Ottoman Government has been favoured in the manner in which 'it has been carried into effect. But the fact is, that this very complaint has been made by the Porte, which alleged that this Government had violated every principle of neutrality in favour of the Greeks. I confess the allegations do not surprise me; although both are equally without foundation. The temper of mind of both the contending parties fits them but little to be judges in their own cause ; and it is impossible that either can duly appreciate the motives and conduct of a third party, who, looking with a calm and reflecting eye merely to the benefit of the people under its Govermnent, and anxious to shield them from impending ruin, pursued a steady line of neutrality, which it deemed absolutely necessary for the main tenance of its own internal welfare and tranquillity. For my own parti i i conceive that the neutrality , has been ob served with the utmost steadiness and impartiality ; and that in refusing to permit armed vessels of either of the contending parties to anchor within the lonian ports, the Government has given a pledge not to be mistaken of the fairness of its intentions. Stich, Mr. President and Gentlemen, is the statement I have deemed it fitting to make to you in regard to the political situation of these States, since the close of the last Session of Parliament. The measures which have been adopted are referred to the judgment of the Assembly, with the confidence jnspired by a long experience of the moderation and equity of its principles ; and it will certainly , afford me the highest gratification, should you concur in thinking p that the Executive Government of th e country, placed in a, situation both delicate ,and arduous, , has acted throughout with prudence, energy, and honour. I shall now, Mr. President and Gentlemeh, lay before you a short but plain statement of the financial transactions of the year, which I am most happy to say are highly satisfactory. It will be in the recollection of the Assembly, that the actual cash in the 'Treasury on the 31st of Jan. 1821, together with advances made for the purchase Dollars. of corn, &c. was - - - - - 535,480 The actual cash in the Treasury on the 31st of Jan. 1822, in which is also included advances for purchase of corn, &c., was - - - - - 644,206 The increase, therefore, in the balance of the last financial year, ending the 31st of Jan. 1822, is 108,726 doll ars , a nd ar i ses as follows, viz. Dollars. Surplus revenue within the year - - - 98,419 Repayment of part of some advances made in pre vious years - - 10,307 108,726 A full and detailed statement of the whole receipt and ex penditure for the past year, the latter dividedi nto ordinary and extraordinary, and enumerating every item, Will be laid upon your table by the general treasurer. I recommend that a committee, as usual, should examine these statements with all their relative details ; and on their PRICE SEVEN PENC report to the assembly such a resolution may . be pass result of the investigation may appear to require. The State of your financial affairs presents a favent pent, notwithstanding the expenditure within the year considerable ; but it is fitting that I should apprit sembly that the Government will be immediately cal to defray some heavy charges. I allude to the Maa necessity of erecting public prisons in the several Isla Of making roads, particularly in the island of Corfu. also a balance (I mentioned to you on a fornier occas to the Malta Government, which must be immediatel' In respect to the receipt, the substantial benefit thi trued from abolishing the farming of the revenues, cor display itself in the most striking colours ; and to t great measure, is to be attrib u t e d the progressive in the receipt, as in fact no tax whatever has been IA people since the establishment of the Constitutional ment of 1817: for I continue to maintain _that the re, of 1818 were nothing more than a general modificati then existing taxes, and cannot be considered in th additional burdens on the people. The acts of the Executive Government, during your ment, of a legislative nature, are already laid on youi the Secretary of the General Department of the Senate that they may become the law of the land, if confirme Assembly. • The Civil List will also be submitted to you six i your meeting, according to the provisions of the Cons Charter. Towards the close of the last Session, a resolution p Assembly for the erection of a college in the island o authorising the Executive Government to expend sue in this object as might be necessary; and in consequer gineer was employed to fix,the site, and prepare ti estimates. The Government, however, has thought fi for the eine in the prosecution of this useful uni The object in view was as much for the benefit of t men of the neighbouring countries, as for those belt the lonian Islands ; and in the present unfortunate si' the whole of Greece, it becomes a question what coos be prudent to pursue. During the present Session th five Government will make a detailed communicatic subjeCt to the Assembly, with the view to the adoptio definite resolution in regard to it. In the mean tin be seen in the detail of the expenditure, that considera have been expended in the last year in the eneourag the establishment of primary schools in the various isl It will also be my duty in the present • Sessi6n to communication to the Assembly on the important the religious establishment of the States. It is h, pedient that the nomination of the Archbishops ant should take place in the several islands immediately : impossible that they can be allowed longer to rents provisional heads of the church, instead of dignitas larly appointed to superintend the interests of religion whom the people might look up as their -permanen This is a measure equally necessary to the decorum s lily of the Government, and has been only delayed' difficulties that presented themselves in ,strictly full article in the Constitutional chart on this subject, whir have been considerably increased from the repeated vie change to which the Patriarch at Constantinople t exposed. _ _ _ At the same time that the arrangements relative-6 t nitaries of the Dominant Church are carried into efFtw be proper to come to a definitive settlement in _respo heads of the Roman - Catholic church, which undeithe , tion is in these States specially protected. - 1 It would be of no avail to particularize the cirati which have•prevented even to this day the substitutid civil and criminal codes, with their relative procedm room of those now existing,' and which were declirs constitutional charter - to be generally deficient and ina to-the lonian people ; but I may be allowed to express regret at the delay which has taken place in a point of i importance to the country. . . ~ The formation of a new criminal code was the mini so/1 of my visit to England in the early part cif list companied by one of the lonian members of the Council of Justice ; but at the time when I- dutorta' guine hopes of completing it, I was obliged suddenly 1 in consequence of the extensive revolution in the n€ hood of these islands. It is therefore not at-prose shape in which I think it Might to stand ; but it gives culiar satisfaction to think (and I say it after due r: that I am most thoroughly convinced that the late measure of prohibiting the bearing of arms in these Ste out license, making a careful selection of those to s )icenses are giver, will of itself do more to annihin melancholy scenes of violence, homicide, and murde have at all times unfortunately prevailed, than any of sure which the legislature could devise ; and on this s is my intention forthwith to bring in a Bill to be subi your consideration : in the mean time, the procedr undergo further revision on some material points in . lately has been found defective; for which purpose ' laid on your table. We are now, Mr. President and Gentlemen, - arrivt opening of the fifth and last session of' the first Parham under the constitutional charter of 1817 ; and I slit close the observations I have thought it necessary to ty, not the unfortunate state of my health render it but bable that I shall be obliged to seek relief by a tempt sence from the states,- antecedent to the end of tbt session.' - . I cannot therefore delay executing a religious dut owe to you, to the Senate, and to tir people at lar, lonian States, by avowing in the most open and in the manner, the deep sense I entertain, not only of the pt of the moderation and temper, of this Assembly; whic sentially contributed to the attainment of the progress perity which these States now enjoy. The uniform harmony and good understanding co maintained between you and the Senate, evinces the pt which has guided you throughout, whilst it affords substantial proof of the wisdom of that illustrious bo Nor can I persuade myself that the unfortunate ab of the people in some of the islands, already detailed the preceding part of this address, were groundea slightest dissatisfaction towards their own Governor though an enthusiasm, much to be lamented, in an equally rash and unfortunate, led them to despise its tions, and violate its orders, calculated, as every one must confess, for their own benefit and salvation. It is the fact, of your having now-lived for the fir since the fall of the Venetian rule, for a considerabL under a regular Government; and the experience I rived of the general character and feeling of your Po) that leads me to express, in the most unequivocal my thorough belief that you - will see, at the clost present year, what never happened in this country the whole of the Government of these • States constit , lapsed, and then - re-established under the provision:. charter itself, without the slightest difficulty of any sort w: In respect to that charter, it is the basis to which ever look as the life and support of our constitutions On the whole, it has been found as perfect as reasonah be desired, and to answer in practice, so as to gratify guine well-wishers but should some partial changes be advisable in its provisions, such modifications as the Par may agree to will be constitutionally laid for ratificatic the protecting Sovereign, my gracious King and M whose benign intentions towards this people it is super: speak, after the repeated proofs that the universal bent which in such an extraordinary degree distinguishes the mind of that most august Monarch, has ever been direr the most earnest manner, to the promotion of the welfar United lonian States, happily placed under his sole,anr sive protection. By command of his Excellency, FREDERICK HANKI Secretary to the Lord High Comm) A boy in Cupar, between four and five years of age, in the constant practice, ever since he could weak, of common earth. Nor does his health seem impaired extraordinary kind of food ; to which he feels so invi' temptation, that whenever the vigilance of his parents s? he hastens out to obtain it, and a - ppears to devour it keen a relish as ever an epicure did the most delicate It is conjectured that the child is much afflicted with w Dundee Advertiser. Mrs. Luther, who died a short time ago, at her resW the Marine-parade, in this town, had, at the time of cease, six servants, who had lived with her for the fi periods :—the first, 44 years ; the second 35 ; the tit' the fourth, 16 ; the fifth, 14 ; and the sixth, eight ( Brighton Herald,)