The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-08-02 00:00:00

ADDRESS
OF THE
COMMISSION OF THE NATIONAL. ASSF.MRLY OF
GREECE TO ALL THEIR COUNTRYMEN.

II ELLENISTS !—Justice is necessary and indispensable for the
establishment and preservation of society, and the tribunals are the
true soul of the State. This is what reason alone evidently demon•
strates. The will of the nation, whose Commissioners at Astral
gave directions for drawing tip penal laws, has required it in a man-
ner still more peremptorily ; but this, the third National Assembly,
has resolved no longer to neglect this point, the execution of which
the urgent necessities of the war have hitherto prevented. Accord-
ingly, by virtue of the Decree, in its lath Article, we have insti-
tuted the Tribitual fin C, imea, composed of five members—St.
Antonopoulo, C. Del.janni, 0. Plano, A. Calmoydartes, and
A. Loucopoulo. All crimes shall be amenable to this tribu-
nal without appeal. The Commission of the National Assem-
bly was aware of the necessity for this tribunal ; and accord.
ingly, as soon as It was assembled at Nauplia, it took care, before
every thing else, to have it appointed. The Greeks owe respect
I and obedience to it. Without subordination to the laws, to the
tri-
bunals, and to the Government, good order cannot be introduced
into states. Without good order political administration is absolute
confusion ; without political administration pecuniary resources are
impossible—and in that case private riches fail and t'.i.sppcar with
the Government. In a word, where obedience to the Government
and subordination to the laws are wanting, there justice is without
force. History shows that there never have been, in that case, any
thing but aeditions, avarice, and blind interest:struggling to enrich
themselves to-day, in order to enrich their enemies to morrow.
Hellenists ! six years' experience, our reason, and our danger,
teach us our duties. It is time to put them in Trictice. If we do not
wish to do so, the time will soon come when we shall wish to do it,
but shall no longer be able to do so ; then repen.ance becomes so
much the more bitter, that it was in our power to avert the irrepa.
rade misfortunes of our natio', and we have not (lone it.
PATRON GERWEANOS. President.
Cu. CLONARES, See. Gen.
Nauplia, Gth June, 1826.

MOST EX7'RAORDINARY COINCIDENCE.

DEATH OF PRESIDENTS ADAMS & JEFFERSON.
IF ml the New York Daily Advertiser:l
NEW YORE, SATURDAY, 31:LY 8.
We yesterday received news of the death of John Adams,
which occurred at his residence in Quincy, Massachusetts,
on the afternoon of Tuesday last. The death of a man
who performed so conspicuous a part in the trying scenes
preceding, attending, and following the Revolutionary war,
could not fail, in any circumstances, to awaken many so-
lemn and interesting reflections. Ile was one of the earliest
and most active promoters of that spirit of opposition in
the Colonies which terminated in their final separation
from Great Britain; he was one of the Committee of three
who drew the Declaration of Independence ; and he subse-
quently occupied various important offices, par,ieularly that
of President of the United States, after the resignation of
Washington.
The interest which the decease of such a man must na-
turally produce, is greatly increased by the remarkable
fact that it occurred in the year, on the day, and nearly at
the hour in which, precisely half a century before, he had
performed the most important action of his life, and ore of
incalculable value to his country. The mind irresistibly
recurs to the period when the power of England was defied
by the colonies, whose weakness and poverty were so great
as to make the contest appear desperate, if not hopeless.
We recal the trials and sufferings of the war, the new em-
barrassments and perils which succeeded with peace, and
the contrast presented by the present aspect of things is so
great, that language seems inadequate to describe it.
(From the Roston Courier of Thuraday.l
DEATH OF MR. ADAMS.
Among the incidents which will for ever render the
Fiftieth Anniversary of the 4th of July 1776, memorable,
is the decease of John Adams, who 'died at his seat in
Quincy, on that day, at about six o'clock in the afternoon,
in the ninety-second year of his age. It was known itt
the city, during the clay, that his physical faculties were
failing, and that his life could hardly be protracted to any
considerable length of time.
COM3IONWEALTB OF MASSACHUSETTS.
In Council, July 5,1526. His Excellency the Governor
having announced to the Council that he has this morning
received the melancholy intelligence of the decease of the
venerable John Adams, former President of the United
Sates, and one of the three last surviving signers of the
Declaration of Independence, who departed this life yester-
day afternoon, at his residence in Quince,
*solved—That the Supreme Executive of the Commonwealth,
in testimony of the deep sense entertain:al by them of the eminent
public usefulnew and private worth of the deceased, one of the most
distinged-hed patriots of the Revolution, and Freinders of American
Liberty, will, in their official capacity, attend the funeral obsequies
of the late Mr. John Adams, on Frit.ay next, at three o'clock, p.m.
(A true copy of record. A tte•ot.)
EDWAED R. BANOS, Secretary.
Head. Quarters, Boiton, July 5, 1826.
OF.NERAL ORDERS.
His Excellency the Commander in Chief haying been
informed that John Adams, one of the signers of the De-
claration of American Independence, and former Presi-
dent of the United States, departed this life yesterday af-
ternoon, while his fellow-citiams were commemorating
the Jubilee of that glorious event, deeply impressed with the
obligation which the long and distinguished services of the
deceased have imposed on all posterity to honour his me-
mory, emulate his pattiotism, imitate his virtues, orders
that minute guns be tired in front of the State House in
Boston, from twelve to one o'clock, this day; and at Quincy,
on Friday afternoon, during the performance of the funeral
obsequies.
Major-General Crane is charged with the execution of
this order. By his Excellency's Command.
CITY OF BOSTON.
At a meeting of the Board of Aldermen, on Wednesday,
July .5, at six o'clock, a.m.
This Board having received notice of the afflictive dia.
pensation of Divine Providence, in the death of the Hon.
John Adams—thereupon
Resolved, That Aldermen Bellows, Marshall, Welsh, Oliver,
and Loring, with such as the Common Council may join, be a
Committee to consider and adopt such measures as they may deem
expedient to express the sense of the eminent worth and public
services of the deceased eutertsined by the citizens of Boston, in
common with their fellow-citizens of the United States ; and also
their sorrow at this bereavement, which has deprived this State of
one of its most honoured and cherished sons, and the American
nation of a most ancient patriot and distinguished Statesman.
Resolved, Tlt.ot the Mayor be requested to call a Mceing of the
Common Cosuseil, for a easseureassw in the above vote, as soon atter
communication with the family of the dc.cessed as may be deemed
expedient.
Resolved. That on account of this melancholy event the bells of
the city be forthwith tolled one hour. (A true copy from Record.)
Attest. S. F. M'CLEanv. City Clerk.
(From the New York Albimt 1
DEATH OF JOHN ADAMS. LA
STATTESE PRESIDENT OF
THE UNITED .
The news of this event reached town yesterday morn-
ing. Mr. Adams was the second President of the United
States, and the first Minister sent by this country to Great
Britain after the acknowledgment of its independence. We
copy the following from the Commercial Advertiser:—
' DEATH OF TUE LATE PRESIDENT ADAMS.—The follow-
ing painful intelligence we have received in a slip this waning,
from Roston :
"rhe late President Adams Is no more ! Ile departed this
life, full of years and full of honours, on the evening of the 4th in.
vont, as the bells were ringing for the conclu'ion or the celebration
of the auspicious day. We learn that the venerable patriot rose on
the morning of the 4th, In his usual health and spirits, rejoicing that
he had been spared to witness the Jubilee of his country's freedom.
Towards noon he became ill, grew gradually worse, and at six
o'clock, ' fell asleep!' He was one of the earliest, and ablest, and
most tearless, champions of hie country's freedom,
and his name
fills a wide space In its hbory. But we leave his deeds for the re-
cords of the biographer and historian. Only two of the signers of
the Declaration of Independence now survive, and Me course
of human events,' they will shortly descend to the tomb.'"
DEATH OF MR. JEFFERSON.
Just as our paper was golly, to press, we learnt that Mr.
Jefferson, late President of the United States, died at his
residence in Virginia, on thd 4th of July, at ten minutes
before one o'clock in the afternoon. It is certainly a most
singular coincidence, that those two venerable personages
should have paid the debt of nature on the same day, and
that day the 50th anniversary of that independence which
they so essentially contributed to achieve.

One hundred and fifty carpenters were on Saturday
night discharged from an eminent buildet's in Gray's
luu-
lailt , in COWL (1111::-:C': Of die present stagnitiun of trade.