The Express.
London, England, 1850-06-18 00:00:00

appear to render them most worthy of British prearotiou,hest
or all do they appear to be persons for this sake of the utahater-
mom of wham rights England, and pleiss_pe Deropi, should be
plaided in war. (Rase, hear.) Tao 1 est perms to whoa
ems I will direct attention is that of Steno SuraselL In
the year 1816 this sae, a bisettsmith by trade, wu arrested
at Lamas on suspicion of a burglary sad robbery. lannerli-
silly ea bring arrested he writes to moo Bridal cabal. Mr.
Crowe, sad that isatiemen traasmitted his petition to Sir
B. Lyons; end be ado :
I ham: sent to the Paraareh to reqoadthat hewn' outer the mother
to be inquired tato, and proper atteaMa to be paid to to. saffirriago
of the primmer. Ent in a erre of so great enermity, furl so rmaklng
so hannuity, 1 fad it to is ray tidy in boa so thus la krwarding
tr=as of this abloom TietAss se official bratality to your
Is the weathers, while that 'smithy was piss sm, whet
did Sir B. Lyons dot He addressed the teliowiap seta to
M. Cohort :-
1 bonen eammeraisMe yens Gm ef a ham widda I him pest
reseed her hid INlOlekoonsal at Patron tathadind a
from an imam sallgeor, IMMO Ommodl sago rompiains of VI:
bees mushy tortured by the gam dam at Paulo.
Wilmslow say dormant was srmismitutd to the mama
doolainhtd reedy oireasim espremforte, it was s at is lull,
without the smallest mod nation of the 'amnions or tech.
cation that they might be onapperated, • merquently Sir E.
Lyons forwarded the peaked this man to M. Colotti, speak-
ing of thew es the wohappy vitas of official brutality.
He transmitted to Lead Palmettos as arcouut of what had
been done, and it ever their lordships had hr own a sass of
eastigaris asseityss Mat, this was or.. Now, what said
Lord Poisoners what this saes is.. to his knowledge--
Her Majesty's gonarsonsUt love brut with equal regret sad our.
prim the imbrues memo mommilled dm pads diverg
at Patna
mina themper of OWN, floniashiossi bobs elSidests elm MAIM
hum ansmsd is easeisina of Ms hodog beta seemened in mire. wee
bentaby tortmed wigs lo as to asiort hien Ms a an.
Maim of deft. Bar oesermant bed hoped blot sash
ermabsessame, vbisb wmanibrind by the tow ead
at tams awl are merebnid by the poem serest 2=
mod to Mums ie eissotiv• pogrom* of armee.
got bur Mopem's ornernessot tenest permit soh *bps m be deism
with impumity lemma Orhisher loran sunjame; you see thee
trotembil to thwessi hem the Greek emerummt OM*, piles
oilers who Moe berm somesed In this maw should be hue&
and thetsimpsembry tomesmetim be emit
toll.rad= he the he bosun& dee end the Weeks
which hays Ism Wald Ton will also Mato to the
Greek segment Mot her
snag
bop sod gust
that you sill he added se report by mid eashst, atter remise
tai. despatch, that these Nit mod molten* demands have Min am-
plied witL
In the meantime inquiry was naiad on at Athens or the
subjec., end the result was that there was at ery mem to
bairns that no torture had been indicted at all The *vi-
deos' was very contradictory as the aubleot. All the papers
were sent by M. Colstti to the British 'sinister, and by bin
to the British governs' mt. Lord Palmerston, however, was
net wished. On the 23rd Quebec he wrote-
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With regard be IL Colston' sole to you of the 20th ulthu which
wag Inehmed Is your &mut& or that date, I have to genre that you
will Mahe to Y. Catgut that her Majesty's government cannot be
..Dint with wwwive regain la a sea ores& gravity at the torture ot
a venom under Britl.h pruluodes; and I hove at the aune time to
lartruet you to interews upon N. Ooletti that thiv i. a very oniony
matter, and that her Maj.vtre tlwersaret cannot dou ht %oat of Co.
letti will, upon mature refiectios, ese tatrieney or not delaying
au7 Whirr to rump!, with their just
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The punishment of dims for unproved offences—com
pintail en to a man accused of burglary, and upon his own
approved assertion that he had been subjected to torture—
and all this time the local tribunals were passed over. There
were specide penalties attached to the maipractices of police
officers and accordingly a trial took plus and the police were
acquitted, and the c nut declered that the story of this men
was a pure and absolute fiction from the commencement to
the end. (User, hear.) Well, one would think that would
be a staggerer even fee a secretary of foreign affoirs—(•t hear"
and a latsgh)—sot a bit or it—he droprd his tons • little
when an inquiry and trial had taken plans. but he wrote :
I bane to instruct you to state to the Greek prernotent, that the
aterte in whirls that inquiry was curled on is highly ri +satisfactory
to her flefeety's groverninent, and that her Majesty's government
dern.ind lb 4an thee ereirostances at tiensaeltl's treatment in prima
*ball be evenly and isspartislly ineestkeated at Pawse, awl teed the
British semi and also Sum WU Ishasel4 together with such persons
so he may regime to assist pin, may be present, and may be allowed
to produce endenee. awl to aussexamine the witness!s who may be
brought leftward on behalf of use Alms of police.
K. Culett ,i in reply, declined to compliWb—tre—rie-
quest upon the 'viand that when a person had once been
legilly tried and acquitted he coati not again by law be put
on b*s trial for the same offence. And, unsortunately 11.
the noble lord, the secretary of state fru foreign affairs, Sr
E. Lyons was compelled to inform him that he hod con-
sulted the Greek lawyer, whose opinion he was in the habit
of taking, and be bad advised teat no further steps could
be taken, and thereupon the cuss of Sumachi
dropped out of the papers cltogether. But this was the
emote of menace in which thus claims had been made, in
she most offensive terms, without waiting for explanations.
(Count) When such • cue was premed, in such a spirit,

and temper, It would naturally indi,octee the government. of
Grasse, or any other government, to lend a favourable ear tie
resumes and demands which might be better founded in '
justice. gal meet with gr. star success. (Chests) Having
dealt with this cap, he would now proceed with thos which
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were made the subject of correspondence and complaint ;
and he w cold commence with that which appeared to be
the most carious, because it was the only one at national
interest, and in which we national honour was concerned,
and with regard to which reparation ought to have been de-
mewled, and promptly and immediately enforced. He
alluded to the outrage offered to a boat's crew of her Ma.
j cry's e'tip Spitfire. lei the commencement of the year 1848
I the province ..f Ore. SS opposite to tie 1013111 Islands,
waste &stet-, as it frequently bad been before, of disturbance,
of • revolutionary character. A short time before the period
et which the *yenta ensure( to which he was shout to refit,
her Majesty', ship Spitfire, in pursuinte of the benevolent
policy which had influenced her Majesty's government
tnrowebout the Mediterranean, bad galled at the port of
Patna and rec teed on b end a notorious rebel against the
Greek government who had been protected seder the Bri-
tish filo. A short time after the Spitfire sena appeared on
the coast of P , and in the course of the evening of the
day on whielt she arriad—thiere be tog strict orders that no
boat should land except at a recognised landing plan—a
boat from this vessel leaded at • remote place in tee fame-
eV its seienhourhted of the house from . blab this reb.l kad
b a startled off. The attention of the guard was called to
the fact—two p-rsons left the Aar, one with • lan
ten, the other without one, and one on them ran
away. The guard took possession of the boat with
the formidable force of three Greek soldiers, a proof
th it no great violence could have been used, far if it
had bees attempted upon a boase mamma with a porti .a of
a nun-of-war's crew, and they had only been armed wieh
their Nue and etrtechers, the enact/uncles west heed been
serious. Tel found a midshipman in the bout. but not in
uniform ; the crew wen taken before the authorities, and
suns party speakieg no Ore-k and the other nothing but
Greek, some time elapse.% before they were relessod, but the
moment it was ascertained that they were • British crew,
the chief officer himself, who had them in charge, saw them
down to the boat and relented them. Toe following morn.
big C tpt Le Hardy, of the Fenton', di minded r. ',nation
for the insult. that had been offered, and also reparation for
th' robbery of the boat's gear, for it appear. d that in push.
leg off the hoar, • boat-hook fell overboard and wan lost.
(A laugh.) The party appeared before the Nomarch the
nut morning, and the matter was placed in the bawls of
the Proeureur du lin, who requested the attendance of :he
officer and boat's crew, but the Fantome sailed on the
evening of the day after the charge had been made.
That was evidently •matter of very easy explanation ; but the
following day, the annul, not being sari fi.d, a further cor-
respondence took place, which was all communicated to the
minister at Aquas. Together with that correspondence
there was a letter from Lieut. Macdonald, of the Spitfire, a
ratleman who wrote very much in character with the name
which his vessel bore. (Lauehter.) H. said—
The governor of this town hr taken upon himself not only to dis-
play • hostile feeling towerda the British 'government, but alko to
permit • trait najtiediabie outer, to be committed on an officer and
boat's aew of her Majesty's sloop Fantome, and whin ratiefuition tar
that insult ems desaantkdof tem in my presence byeaptaln Le Hardy
of that ship, be declined, in the most positiee manner, to give anti*.
factory answer, or to cause reparation to be made by the parties guilty
of that outrage. Yon are quite aware that Captain Le Hardy has re-
presented the affair to the commander inehief by her Matesty'e ship
Ardent, which left thin port yesterday evening fur Malta; I neverthe-
lees ronsider it my duty, r the weir officer permit at Tetras, to pre-
vail all communication between her Majesty's chip Spitfire, under
my command, and the town of Pater, except for the purpose of
receiving the necessary supplies fur the ship, through the
medium of a bout belonging to the chore. I have further
to request that you will be rod enough distinctly to state to
the governor that I have represented to my own government thin state
of affair., the more experall when I bear in mind the abominable
falsehoods eireteated by his authority, and terouelt a letter to your-
sett reusing the officers and men of thin ship of landing strangers
tender cover of the night. It is quite imposeable under thew circum-
minces that I can hold say communication for the (inure with en
authority who sets al. integuational law at defiance. I rail continue
at arbor in Ibis landeuted ibr the protection of 'Withal property and
interests, end firer yes hove may convene' all®o to make to me I
request than it mg be by MINTS at your own bet, ea I have strictly
prohibited say eraser sr ems •• red from this ship, end my reasons
be dames mast ewer evillest, be la the event of a repetition of
the dreametanse that treavred to the boat of the Piercer the even-
ing hdere lane a ere Winn mad inevitably ease, whim! it Is my wish
ts amid as bras bee In my power. My ponies orders bung been
nerd test be all Ware ententudeatiose brown this ship's tests
tad the ism the spitfire's bats are to be fully armed and
equipped, and feny prepared ti !e.t.a say insult that may be offered
to them.
Thus, a boat landed in the dark at a prohibited place ; the
officer wee arrested; but the moment be was discovered to
be a British officer, he was released; the mistake bad eel
dent', been made between the two ships, both lying off the
port; and thereupon came the officer of the Spitfire, with his
**sib ,minable falsehoods," his "violations of all interna-
tional law ;" and thee. ;nista were officially transmitted by
the authority of her Mei. sty'e government as a serious
eatse of international quarrel. How did the minister of
Greece answer? He said be was extras. ly sorry for the
affair—he was sorry to see such fustian evidently existing ie
the mind of a British effieer, and &Tired that he hod no
unfriendly feelings towards any one in the service. He added
—"I send you all the papers I lave received bearing
es the muter; if you are not satisfied with them I will
make further iequi.ia; bat I geed these to show you that
we have received a different account from yours," There
the correspondence cio.ed ; and although the affront had bets
offered of 'nail's to accept the declaration of two officers as
proof of a setter of feet, ft was somewhat singular that
though the e instil and the minister were I xeeedingly active
from first to last, there was an demand for en paration or se-
tiefectios on the part nth. Secretary of State for Foreign
Affair', and the whole matter rested from 1848 down to
1840, when this and other claims were revived. (Hear,
hear.) The next cue wan one In which some boats' caws
were plundered at the port of Sabine A hand of armed
nen took possesslon of the Ore, k custom bowie, bound the
officers, and availing themiel wee of the evident house, di toyed
I a certain number of lonian beats there and plundered this
to the amount of some 1,2001. It was not denied that the
Greek authorities were overpowered by the armed men, the
leader of whom was not a Greek at all, but a refugee
lonian, perfectly well keowa, who ermrsanded • leen body
of brigands living on an adjoining island. Sir Edmund
LVOSS of c .une reported the facto, which were very slat
with mud to them tiara was so doubt whatever.