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London, England, 1824-07-23 00:00:00

LONDON, FRIDAY, JCL% 23, 1824.

Letters and Papers were yesterday received from Greece
to the 10th instant, conveying intelligence highly favour-
able to the mew of Greek independence. The Taegrerfo
Greco gives the funeral oration pronounced over the body
of Lord Byron. This Paper also states, that union ani-
mated tbetouneils and operations of the Greeks. Among
the leading puragraphs of recent news it is affirmed, that
" the accounts front all parts of the Morel arc of the most
coneuLetcry- description, and that all the dissentions seem
ending in concord, and in a general re-organization." In
confirmation of this information, a private letter, dated
title Jenne, from a very respectable quarter at Tripolitza,
announces that Colueotroni bad sent positive orders to his
son, who had the command of Napoli di Ramania, to
deliver up that fortress to the Greek Government; and
that Colocotroni himself, Pietro Bay, and some others,
were to leave Tripolitza on the Fah, to make their
peace with the Government, and give their cordial co-ore -
ration for the benefit of the common cause. The arrival
or part of the loan at Zante had raised the most sanguine
expectations. No portion had been paid over to the Go-
vernment. The Commissioners were waiting for instruc-
tions ftomEngland. Arrangements had been made for the
ratification of the lean, and for securing the payment of
the interest. A letter front Prince Nlavrocordato, the Greek
President, to Mr. Eowring, dated idissolonghi, June 4, re-
prevents the Greeks to be in a state of confidence and seen-
ety. The preparations of die Turks excited no alarm among li
die North the attempted incursions hail been
re:re'led, and the E,'ytian expedition was not dreaded in
fee Sor:11. At Zeituni, in Thessaly, the Turkish en-
eatnpment did not exceed 4,000 men, and Omer Paella
had not titivated inward.' the coast of Livailia. In Sea-
firs, to which the Turks had looked for great aid, none
hid been given. Upon the whole, the Prince speaks with
setisfaction of the prospects of his countrymen. The late-
ness
of the season, and the termination of the dissentions
.mong the military chiefs, undoubtedly augur well for
Greete. The resources of the Ottoman Government are,
drying rip, and itspower is withering. The very insurree-
fern they have to suppress takes from them the means of
so eleitr!!. The Turkish revenue was, in a great measure,
drawn front the Greeks. The wider, therefore, the scope
of Greek independence, the more diminished must be the
ability to chtumscribe it.

We have, since writing the above, received advices from
l'lrfu to the 21st of Juuc, bringing us important intelli-
gence with respect to the lodgement of the Greek Loan at
Zante. On the l9tji instant a proclamation was issued by
fire loniantlennte„-deelaringshat sheds:cresol the (heeLGo-
•etnmeut, for depositing money within the lonian territory,
t be a violation of the neutrality which it was their de-
termination to maintain. The lonian Government will not
soillir its shores to be used as a depot for money or warlike
..ores by either of the cmtentling parties, and it denounces
the full penalty of the existing law: against such of its
subjeets as shill allow the loan to be deposited with them.
lithe ofibnders be aliens, they will be banished. This
Proclamation is, to say the least, founded on a very strict
construction of the principles of neutrality. If the lonian
Sznate are right, the British Government must have given
the Porte just cause of-war in suffering the loan to be raised
iu this country ; for surely it will not be argued, that it is
more criminal to take care that the money was properly
applied, than it was, in the first instance, to raise the loan.
During the late Spanish war, the tortes openly raised
looney in England, and no one dicained that it was a
violation of the strict neutrality his Aiajesty's Ministers
professed. Why, then, should this objection be now taken'
against.the.Greeka? The attempt to confound "money',
and warlike stores" will ant avail the lonian Senate; not'
that we know of any international law which pro-
hibits the supply of warlike stores by neutrals, to con-
tending parties, who may choosJ to purchase tlwm.—
But if money is now to be declared contraband, it
will be necessary to inquire into the character of every
bill of exchange drawn for or upon the subjects of every
belligerent power, and ofered for payment in the neutral

territory. Besides, as yet the loan has got become the pro-
perty of the Greeks. It belongs to British subjects ; and
it is only while it remains their property that it is to be
deposited at Zante or Cerigo. We are afraid that this
hasty and over scrupulous interference of the lonian
Senate will have the effect of putting the Greeks and
their creditors to considerable inconvenience. The de-
cree of the legislative body, which we annex below,
will give the utmost satisfaction, as to the disposition
of the Greeks themselves, with respect to the loan. Not
a shilling is to be applied to cover former expenses.
The whole is to be dedicated to the future charges
of the struggle. The care which Colonel Stanhope as-
cribes to the Greek Legislature, respecting the appropria-
tion of public money, is strikingly exemplified in the ful-
ness of the terms of the law, and in the obvious anxiety to
prevent the smallest portion of the money from being ap-
plied to any purposes different from those for which it was
borrowed. The following is the Proclamation of the
lonian Senate:—

his If ighness, the President, and the Senators of the United
States of the lonian Wands :

Ilia Excellency, the Lord High Commissioner of his Majesty the
Supreme Protector, ha., by a note, dated this day, communicated
to the Senate a printed document, drawn up in the form of a Pro-
clamation or Decree, superscribed, " The Provincial Government
,of Greece ;" dated from " Argos, 27th April, lat," and signed
biseveral individuals, who appear to be invested with a public or
olSeial character, in which document, besides the notice that a loan
has been contracted, and that the proceeds are to be employed in
military operations, there is the following article :—" The numey
shall remain deposited in Zamie or Cerlo."
The Government of these States cannot for a moment allow a
' declaration of this kind to remain uknoticed, from whatever foreign
power or authority it may come.
It can never acknowledge, by Its silence, that any foreign antho.
why is entitled, or shall presume, to dispose of any par: of its
territory, for ar.y purpose whatever, without the knowledge and
consent of the loman Government, and still less an it sutler an act
to yams unnoticed and lintel:roved when it implies a positive viola-
tion of the principles maintained by the Innen Government
The lonian Government has repeatedly, and even very lately,
declared its neutrality in the war which is carrying on upon the
neighbouring Continent, and in the Islands of the Archipelogo ;
and it would be a direct violation of that neutrality to allow its
territory to be used as a depot, for money, or warlike stores, by
either of the contending patties.
The Government of these States therefore ordains as follows t—
" Art. 1. Neither the Island of Zante, nor Cerigo, nor any
other place belonging to Ilk: territory of the lonian Islands, shall
serve as a plate of deposit for the above lean.
" 2. It after this declaration, one or more persons should allow
such a loan to be deposited with them, they shall, if subjects of the
lonian States, he liable to all the penalties pronounced by the ex-
isting laws and ordinances against the violation of neutrality ;
sad if they are foreigners, to the penalty threatened I.y the prod&
minion of April 13, 11%21; i. e. banishment from the lonian
Islands.

" 3. The present proclamation shall be printed in the English,
Greek, and Italian languages, published and referred fur execution
to the respective Authorities.
" Corfu, June 19, 1ir2.1.
" By command of the Senate,
" PONSONBY.
" Secretary of the Senate the thorn! Department."
The decree to which the preceding proclamation refers to, is as
I Worn :

" Lemaidering that the legislative body has resolved to contract a
lows for tour millions of Spanish dollars (nuo.oout. stirling), and a
part of this loan contracted in London has alrvady arrived at %ante:
considering that under the present circumstances it is highly neces-
sary to take all possible measures that the money may be properly
applied, as the contrary would be attended with the worst conse-
quences. the I.egislative Body decrees as follows:
" I. Not a shilling of the said money shall be employed to cover
former expenses or accounts, of whatever nature they may be.
2. The amount of the loan is exclusively dedicated to the ad-
varcetnent of the nation, and shall be employed with the strictest
economy. partly for other future wants oftl.e State.
" 9. The money shall remain in depot in 'Latta or Cerign.
" 4. The Comniitice which received its appointment from I.on•
don shall make the payments &melding as the Government dispose,
receiving each time a certidcate, signed by the President of the
gislait‘e Body, accompanied by the Protocul of the Sitting, which
certiltext.:. the Executive Council shall give through the Munster of
finance.

" 5. This law shall be Inviolably observed.. both urea/ding to its
letter and spirit, till the whale loan shall be disposed of.
" The President of the Executive Council.

" Argos, April 27, 1821."

" GEORGE CONDLRIOTE.

Flanders papers to the 21st inst. have reached our Office.
The following are the only articles of importance, relating
to Germany, contained in them :
VIENNA, JULY 10.

His Royal Highness Prince Gustavus, sun of the King of Swe.
den, arrived here on the 7th, on his return from Italy, travelling
under the title of Count IttteAug.
FRANKFORT, JULY 14.

Letters from Prague, of July .5, any, that a fall of rain of 16
hours duration, which eummenced on the 25:11 of June, caused the
waters of the .31oldan, and other rivers, to rise to an extraordinary
height. Sevcral streets in the city were inundated. Entire floats
of timber, above al) boats laden with wood, a great quantity of
furniture, beams, even entire roofs, covered with people, carriages,
with osen and horses yoked to them, flowed under the bridges of
the city. A small part warn stopped unda the arches: the rest was
carried farther, broken to pieces, or vinlertly thrown upon the bank
in the adjacent fields atid roads. An empty boat was carried by
the waves to the sop of a roof, which it beat in. Unhappily several
persons have perished.

Prince Leopold arrived at Marlborough House yeataday
afternoon from Claremont.

Yesterday afternoon, at two o'clock, a Cabinet Council
was held at the Foreign °Rice, Downing-street, which did
not break op till half-past four. There were present the
Cliancalor, the Duke of Wellington, the Earls of
Liverpool, Harrowby, ll'estmorland, and Battuurst, Mr.
Secretary Peel, Mr. Secretary Canning, the Chancellor of
the Exchequer, Viscounts Melville and Sidmouth, Mr.
Wynn, Mr. Huskisson, &c.
Mr. Smrctary Canning gave a grand dinner at Gloucester
Lodge yesterday, to Prince Leopold and a numerous party
of persons of distinction.

Mr. Bailey, the King's Messenger, arrived at the Seers
Lary of State's Office for Foreign Affairs, Downing♦treet,
yestrrday morning, with despatches for Mr. Canning, from
Sir Charka Bagot, our Ambassador at St. Petessburgh,
dated up to the 7th inst.

PA 11111.—Erratum.—In the extract of a letter from a
Pails correspondent in our paper of yesterday, instead of
" if Villele continues in power, and the King lives, you
trill, ere long, hurt war," rein, " If Villele dues nut cols-
there in power, &c."
Yesterday accounts reached Lloyd's of the capture of the
Vigie loam, French ship, from Guit)aquil (Colombia) to
Botwdeaux, by a Spanish privateer from Chiloc.
Lord Egremont ts not gone to Ireland, alit has been re-
potted, but is still residing at Petworth.
The immense estates of the late Marquis of Ormond,
onwof the largest es in this kfirgdosn,'are, next
season, to he browgrirtvforrtthle hammer.

We are happy to hear that the son of the Bishop of
Chichester, who has beer. reriously ill at Eton, is fast re-
covering.

11'e are happy to state, that the answer given to the nu-
merous inquiries yesterday at Admiral Tollahache's, after
the health of Mr. John Eest, was, that be was in a fair
way of doing w.• 1!. His aunt, Lady Elizabeth Tollamache,
is unremitting in her attentions to him.

The sale of books by public auction, (hiring the present
year, has been unexampled in the amount they have pre-
duced. Those sold by Evans alone have realised nearly
50.000/.

The silver bool given by the Royal Company of
Archers, King's Body Guard, was shot fur on Saturday,'
the 17th, and gained by William Napier, 1.7.1. W. S.—
Caledonian Mercury.

We insertul a short time ago a statcmt nt, on the autho-
rity of an Evening Cotemporary—that Mr. l'lunkcu had
been engaged for some days in canvassing the College.
This was a mistake; Mr. 1 zc,Kerr canvass..a the newly
elected Scholars—this has been always the practice. The
College Member, on the election of a Scholar, pays his
visit of respect, and solicits his vote, whenever the election
may take place. Mr. Plunkett but followed this long-
established usage.—Dahthe Morning ronl.
Qt. t sLt, Je:vE B.—" The Provincial Parliament is fur-
ther prorogued, by proclamation, to the 20th July next."
The following is frotn a late Roston newspaper:—
" Wanted, at this office, Iwo Deeds, of good mold clta-
rarl.•r."

A circumstance of a rery unpleasant nature, affecting
the character of the brother of a newly-created Noble
Lord, has rectally taken place in the King's ILnch
prison.