The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1822-08-31 00:00:00

LORD ERSKINE.

A very interesting letter from Lord Elt•IIIKI to
the Earl of LIVICIRPOOL, oti the subject of the
Greeks (apse. has just made its appearance. On
the question of the batharous character of the con-
te.t. the Noble Author thee expresses himself :--
" It is objected that lb. Greats are nut less savagely creel
than the Tenka. I will not bear mach a charge.. The gentlest
seismal, which Providence has *objected li ea, ;patient of
labour, and lie kiag the biraevolrut hand that feeds them,
whew maddened with terror and goaded by barbarous op-
presidoes, will chalice on • soddee all the eharacteristies
of their origami, natures, and overthrow every thing in
their course. To judge of what the Greeks, under good
government, am capable of being, we have only to look hack
to whet they have beets. Their perherees, in which we as
trace so many great men, who should have died, ought
tu proterl them from Me 84111CtilL, who eaxnot show ten all
their escutcheons • single mar who should have lived.

" Well, thew, may we classes to such miscreants, io the
Isogesee of Milton—
" • La's woe thy spear mildest the Muses• hewer—.
The great Emashi■o eeeq bid spare
The House or Plotters's, when temple aud lower
Wesst to she erased:

" Bat although I bare thin endeavoured, preheat my moat
predominant (ceilings, to expel front my indignant view cruel.
ties by whomsoever committed, and, in proteetiow of the un.
futttinate Greeks, have coveted them with the veil which
our imperfect matures entitled me to throw over them ; yet
let it be remembered, that what I have written concern.
lag them, applies only to uop►emeelitated inhomsaity,
such as, wheu bunted like wild beams, they have termed upon
their prauere, bat that barbarous retaliation• earn receive
oo prinks if eisatiourd when they are contending u a
nation for their religion and freedom. I rejoice that titsy
are advanced to that condition, that they are menballiug
armies, that they are laying the torrodsriona of a civil
government, and I feel untliteat that they will henceforth
remember sisal they are soldiers and Christians.
" That nor indorser could fail, if f.itbfully exerted, 1 ea.-
eel bring my mad to believe. I might ask those vibe were
the warmest advocates for the war, and who hold the highest
its happy teissiostioa, and the eminence oa which it has
placed us, what they unsold think if It could be doebtad that
if we spoke the word we should be obeyed. •
" The olefin taw is, my Lord, that ma did sot speak it at

a time when many of the enormiti•. a li,rh have take• place,
sari fora lung It:memos, follow, might have been averted ; sod
fete that we may now be under en,' emha►raas•neat Is
holding a different comm. I am must've,' that it ban bees, es-
Sorely cwiag to the system whirl, the G.,a.mitsteata of Europe
have too loos hern pursuing, that the meat wink of buntal,lif
and justire bas not tong ago been complete; and the Doty
difficulty I can f t o its inttint acconsplishineut is, that,
PstsilaPs, we onnielves must retrace some or our step. is taking
the lead to give it effect. Our alliance with the Porte ought to
have been I•"( ago removed out of the way, as hem( on.
worthy of the British Goversmeut and people ; and without
conteadieg that we shonld at "nee have rerienteri by hostility
their moostroas inimittiec, yet, if not a man in England mete
peepared to woad my op Mau, I ►huuld assert that it would
have become us to withdraw oar Ambassador from Censtan•
fiat:Tie, sail to reject sorb ■ banditti as our The
Bing of Great Britain ought not In be styled the Brother
of the Sultan, whilst the desolation of Sri° and the butchery
of the haulages see untamed (a. These eathoris.d
murders are not the seta of a civiletel nation. • The moire
Of their ►loo4 lilt► that of the Arm victim of violimOe,
s cries auto God out of the ground.' mad the juirltrment
of Gad ought to be no example to the milieus who worship
him. s Let them he fugitives mad vagabonds upoa the
eatth'."

FOREIGN IN7ELLIGINCE.

PARIS PAPERS,

PARIS, AVOUVr 26.

iVe have received recent letters from Smyrna, by
the fiigate Jeanne d'Art% Captain M. de Lamed.
who arrived a few days since at Toulon. The
following is an extract ;---" It is unfortunately too
certain that the Greek+, in taking 'possession of
Athens, have violated the capitulation by virtue 4.f
which the lives of the garrison were to be saved.
On this occasion the flag of the King of France was
the signal of safety for the unfortunate men who
escaped the carnage. The French vessels rAclive
aoi r kslnfette arrived yesterday in this port, hav-
ing on hoard three hundred individuals (many of
them women and children), the remnant of
this unfortunate garrison of Athens. Upwards of
600 men were put to the sword by the Greeks on
the 10tIt of this month, in spite of the promise they
had made to give a safeguard to the Musselinen.
This town was a prey to mas4acre for three day.,
when M. fforgono, commanding the Estufette,
arrived at Athens. M de Reversesu, who com-
manded the Active, arrived shortly after ; these
two Commanders had nerd of much firmness and
energy to rescue the victims from an infuriated
populace. They were well seconded by the officers
and crews, who went up to the gates of the town to
cover the operation.
" M. Fauvel, Consul of France, has proceeded on
hoard the Active. The unfortunate men who have
bent rescued have been sent to the Panto of Smyrna.
" According to the rep arts brought by the Este-
feete and the Active, a Turkish army lu►d beaten
the Greeks at Titermopylte, taken possession of
Thebes. and approached Athens. The intelligence
of this check seems to have been made a pretext
by the Greeks to massacre the Turkish garrison,
which they had promised to spare."—(Qaoridienne.)
An Evening Paper announces that the Marquis
de Casa Irujo, Spanish Minister at this Court, lass
beets recalled, and replaced by the Duke de Son
Lorenzo, nephew of the Duke del Parque. This
morning a courier from the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs set off (or 'tidy. _

On the east August, in the Court of Correc-
tional Police at Nantes, a young man, a clerk in
considerable mercantile house, was tried for having
called out at the theatre " Down wish the Moat.
chards!" (police spier). and of having insulted Ge-
tiers! Despinois (who has been brought into notice
in the trial. pending at Paris), by writing on she
sand the word Espiouides. The Counsel for the
prisoner applied himself chiefly to this last Get, And
asserted that thi. word which General Despinois had
taken as an insult, was not i correct anagram
of the General's name, and as it was a word void
of meaning, and if no language, the Generel had no
right to interpret it as an offence. The Counsel,
in illustrating this point, cited some happy ana-
grams, which had been made the means of convey-
ing satire or censure, ex. gr. that an Father Proust
par sot (absolute foul); rood that as Frere .I..eques
Clement, e'est retsfrr que m'a rth (it is hell that
has created mej ; but he was agonished that the
Public Prosecutor should have tried to *hew that
the first syllable of the word written by the de-
fendant (espion, spy) were applicable to a person
holding the high station of General Deritiuois !
The young man was condemned to a mouth's
imprisonment and a flue of YOO francs.

[Despinois is ■ Prefect, and has been very busy
in finding or making plots. An article, it appear..
had been published in the Mini?. • periodical work.
giving an account of him under the title of hspio.
sides —a word which, from its near resemblance to
au anagram of his name. and its indication of his
employment, was very offensive to the Generdl.]