The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1819-03-29 00:00:00

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ARCRDISUOP OF' .IEI SALEM.

Tuesday Net, in the afternoon, nrdved at °Stand the
Bloat Key firegury Prtrr (inure, a maim.. of Damarrios, the
Syrian An clibiehop of J. ramekin. Um pi object
iu
paying a visit to the Universies was that he naught setaneme
the A, attic SISS of the nod Testae'', sat ill the Itailleian
Library, In are whirls *el' rheas contaitio al the version that it
would he hest to paint and cirri:late in Syria. Upon I:cing
,hewn air: MSS. containing the diflereiso vcisions, he: deter-
111111111ed al I. imam distal, thy merits oft alt. It appeared,
however, floc, what he said, that noticing would la .we
itterilltilllie than the verrion pulatialwal at E•anse, with She
Latin, in the year 1871, whirl , t..e anat. that :Me Leen prin•
tinnily in use anal is Haiti 'Assoc 0..1P ihr Art lAi•
more imnyediate object inetoolei taking • jaw, ney to
EIItUIW, was Id procure presses anal Syriac tyre, in ostler
In hate the ntealitt ofprtutinjj editions of the liable soul
' Theological! Treatises at his haw 'Atonable, y of go. Marla
Laticratrlce. on Mount Lakonia. ; • hick could by that
means he more correctly executed Irian Is lietrilpe, and
would certainty contribute most elfectudly to enlighten
Syria in the knowledge of Christianity. Arabic is the
gumming language of kris; but it *mild be peal's-able to
print Arabic in Syriac characters, f. e in Carolina. 'llse
Archbishop entertains hasp. s that the object which he has
in vicar, anal which is so entirely coussmaist wish the frai-
-1 jogs of Etll4llll9lls Clitillll/11111, as has hero more partial-18-
S laity 'bean in England, et ill be warmly siapportrd by the
esmiribution* of Englishmen. A ambit., tpliuti has been al-
ready sae on fool, iis consarqueure of a nit ling held at Mr.
Hatelsard's, P,cesulilly, the Resolutions of ninth have al-
ready kern publishers, and of which many capita Sieve
been distributed in the University. The A.chlitshop :.p.
peers to be about forty; ba pawners the most amiable
and all the milder virtues, united with eaireme
alas gy and animation. He has resided for a runsider,:bu:
tame an Italy, mud for sums lime in Paris, before he came
to England. The only European language lie &peaks, Rini
he speak, it with great fluency, is the Italian. Ile is pro.
tumidly acquainted with Ilse AI attic language, not only
from its being his native language, but front having studied
aurally. He know. also the Syiirec, the language its
%hid, the Liturgy of she Church is m.l. Sias dress
chi. fly animists of a cloak of bine cloth atlsl a gas Ws; oldie
a.atue colour.

DISTRESS IN TIM SULLY ISj.ANDS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE BRITISH PRESS.

&put Terrace, Pensther, Cons**ll,
!third' 23, MIR.

SIR—It has been my loppineit during the treater part of
this winter, to be the sustrisenent of conveying to tbr
w►etebed sufferers on the Isboids of Scilly, the casual
bounty of a few persons who wire anxious to preserve
these poor ereatnres 411111 hritig adulate starved to
death. In ementing the office of almoner to the pee ohing
Wander); (astisteil 1)e a few humane persona, awl a ammo,-
tee of twelve rempectable persona ■t St. Nary'.), it would
he difficult to doom he the successive vicissitudes of tear
and hope in Ile ir behalf, which we have mutually rape.
rtenced. Afflicted hermit inesmre at the sail details of
misery that perp•luslly ii ached its from the isles, mid
doubtful him long intent'. benevohurr would continue, we
still /old on our way, w tering, ace k aft, r sea, at the
fresh Wielding of thorny which a pat ions Providence opened
to et-fresh and sustain the forlorn and eusnlated
people.
lectoilute of employment on the islands in the winter
months, mot 'caret ly any during the lea hummer, to pin.
vide for the. seaeuteorith n pet list failure of their cure and po-
tato crops, the msj ' y attic pour of Sally saw their Minty
soppier. exhausted in I).•• ether, and their weeping (auntie,:
approaching all the 1nn..., offsmine and an untimely grave.
In the spring of 161$, I t,. held them emerging trios a winter

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