The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-12-06 00:00:00

THE GREEKS.

IRISH CATHOLIC ASSOCIATION.

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(From the Austrian Obaerver,k N0v.22.1 At the meeting of this body on il's dnesday last, Sir Thor
VIEN NA, N0e.21. mas Eilmonde, Kart. in the ('hair, it was reported that the
subscription to the Catholic
The is,,,,,warioartel or the 10th November cote; tenon; to rent ihtes
Rent for the last week
„ewer at the late nave, tenons between the Govonine et of i
An Address to the P • i sop.e
1.,,,,,„141"-- an Is and the Greek Authorities, upon the Austrian amounted to 1,032). I's. aid.
--„,.., I,llwhich, an ir,soletwe that only its ignorance can ex. of Ireland was agreed to on the motion of Mr. O'Connell.
,i'1.,,,::;'. isesof falsehood. It allirnts that the lireeks did no: I The following is the commencement of the Address; the
14i he arrival of a British squadion to revoke their Inutile remainder is not given in the Dublin Papers of Thilits
tat„...„,-- the arrival
neutral ships; that their resolution appeared ten day :
et,..,.`117-I'n proclamation of (Intro, of Rth September, and this
Fexeow.eott MMMMM EX,We are your Mendes your linear*
;It; ‘...rot-e.p-lethee refutation of the fables of the Atrurion Glo.errer. friends, desirous to protect and to save you. We address you from
--Tase following short statement will show how these tables are to
motives of pure kindness and disinterested affection.
g iuderd of:— Listen to us, because we are your friends—attend to us, because
On the tint declaration of the British Government respecting wear, most desirous to he of use to you. Weigh well and dtli.
it• rot manifesto of the 27:11 May, against net ships having
ion. Consider it carefully.
'.e_'.wd • suns, alit 1111 l nition, or provieiunv fur Turkish t; mheee-e
appeal woue "rif.'mv
..ti; Lter consider_ at
•so troop..
and your reason—make use of that
[:tack itloubtless an error of the pees+, for Egyetian) no-noel, • common sensey which Providence toe in its bounty given you, in a
;rent it; s issued at Napoli di Ittimania, on the Ire h lull) August,
degree equal, and perhaps superior, to any people on the tees of the
is ss clearly and pr invely stated in the iin,r,io% 04serrer,
'globe.Tina celily and dis,ts.innately upon the advice which
rhCil iirevlv "'ad' some "'wit' modifications in the ellanifeete, we give Too anti .ii will find iiciinaistent with good sense and ha-
y; •ed ret revoke it, to this decree it was said, that the G reek
air.eidityb,yalidi
thestrongly recommended by every principle of morality ;
e.,„etnent was now cor.vioced du t the neutral ships outset ed ...)
red dictates of religion.
, „,, ter then nem'', a c,*nvi"k"' the °antral, of which was an- We advise you te ferrate toteliy from all secret societies—from
,":,Scril in r jourrale daily, and in the bittereet term. a and.
*ll private combinatmas—from eery species of Whiseboyitim or
'eociere, only neutral ship., trtighted with ann., horses. million
It:bboniein. or by wit .teirrr other name any secret or private a.m.
oil
on,, &c.„ should be treated according to the usual elation may la. called. %re wottlit oat attempt to d-ceive or delude
1,.-i of the law of nations' rou--wc could not obtain your confidence, if we were to state Estee.
this half revocation, because the wort,
r-eot much was gaieed be hoods—and it we could, we would not purchase confidence at the
• • hex to the 'lewd role of the law of nations," admitted I expense of trot le
,„,,,te, inter retetions, and especially because the authors of the
We do not coin . to tell you that you hare no grievances to cons.
ism revoke! only in appearance their pretesting ordinance, ac-
„. plain of, or that there are no oppressions to be redress :11. {{'cc are
sk to illet. ',vitro' ships, having "11°Ps on harm(, were to i—
lorry to be oblig el to atleiit, that you have just cause of complaint,
(,hocethately sunk ; Mr they alleged, as a pretext. that they had
ii and that thee. raise inan• and bitter grievances, which ought to be
o misinformed, and conwlljenilY Still tacitly avowed the me redrms4d. We know this three grievances anti °passions are the
-ref treating neu'rsl ships that really bad troop* on bout. ac. ,
es, which too many of the uneducated clauses of our otuntre.
jime to the torso of the first decree. men hare given for turbulence, violence, and the firming of secret
e T decree of the 27th, which the Ontsfitafkunel triumphantly
of the rero... asenciat tone ; but we a's • know that proceedings of that kind only
.:yip to its readers, wan however only the lint act aggravate the oti.chicf, and increase the quantity of suffering which
-sa• fif the "owed act, the Aasirita Observer of I Ith Ocether
I positive and authentic int."l"""'n* The French journalist ibly t Yisretteondthcis' rethlietrlc"Le call our partieular attention. It is to this
tuber run unit 's'uod thin article, or W. chosen wunder.
that we request you deliberate: and foil consideration.
it, because it displeased him.
%Ye most a hem ily a...tire you, that secret and illegal societies--
.Ideitral Neale appeared before. Napoli di Romania, the that Rib
bonism an I Whitehoyism, and violence, and outrage, and
the e7th August was shown him, as a proof that the de.
crime—have always increased the quantity of misery anti oppression of the British Governeent were already complied with.
in It:land, and have never produced any relief or mitigation of the
the Al 'lira! declared, that nothing but an unconditional
suffering of the peiple. Every one of you have heard of, and many
onto of the manifesto tit the Ileh May could be coal:tiered
, f you are old enough to have seen, the effects of several secret so.
seisfarory; and in a few limo after this categorical dal 'tones,
and of venous descriptions of Whitebnyism, and of much
~,,,,,l derv, sppeared, dated the 3413th) of nepteint er, which. I coi'"i"'
the better intermation of the Constientiumnrl, and to
pat an end ! ile„Rneslavndiolienntrirde,
zna ul many minor crimes, as well as horrible out.
et ember dodos and MVPs. See asnowed in the original Greek s
?Now,
,et No. :e2 of the Etrend of the Las of the 12th (241thl Septem.
ask yo setting unite, for the present, all other objections, we will
u whether any good has been ever produced by such pro-
this year).
tTamistertow. ceetlings or atrocities e You must answer in the negative. and you
ig posivIsIONAI, GOVERNMINT OF GREECE. must perceive that the people have never derived. any. hi:or& from
The Pe oil e of the Executive Power promulgates—
thein. Mary intlivaduale have sufTereel long titynsonment by
- The Week Government revokes and annuls to-day, then oncs
•e reason of them—tliey here caused multitudes to he severed front
their families and nrtireat connexions—ther have crowded the decks
~.rh it published on the 27th May this year, relative to the wen. their
the transport easels—ache they have thronged the gallows with
trial ships of neutral powers.
-The present shall be printed also in a French translation, and victims.
There are other evils which have attended M'hiteboy and gibbon
clamed to all Vice-Consuls and Agents in the Archipelago
disturbances, anal, in particular, the innocent frequently !toffee for
- Napoli, 3d ((s:h) September, Int
(Sinned, in the Unworn of the President) the guilty. ‘Viten Tourerty is burned, or otherwise destroyed, the
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"P. BOTOL Vice-President, value is 1,...,4 or the parish. botany, or county. The person in.
to he iejitrol gets as high, and frequently a higher price fee
" P.G. It 1101/10S, Provisional Seetteary.OenuaL" le" dell
his property then he probably wruld otherwise obtain for it. But
e cannot omit, on this occasion, a eircurostieme which has I who are they who pay for it ? ‘Vhy, nine-tenths of them must he
to long disputes between the English and French journal. persons who had no share in the crime. And who is it can make
Tae Engli.li Courier, which has, however, justified the restitution to die i eneent people who are tit,s obliged to pay their
rot i.. Government by irrrtragable arguments, would not I money? %list a load of guilt does this not bring home to the per-
lit that the land High Commiseioner of Corfu had taken an sons who commit the crime? They can never make adequate res-
eelote part in the eterociations which led to the unconditio I nal titration, and how can they ever expect to obtain mercy from the
elm wade on the 15th September. Yet the feet is beyond All-just Providence, while they arc the means of uncompensated
doubt. We have not said, and we do not now say, that injustice?
lord High Commissinner neitatisted immediately anti in per- Again, whenever Nrhitebny or Ribbon offences are committed,
: with tie Authorities in Napoli di komattia; the business was, many innocuit persons will inevitably be convicted of crimes which
6es:tottery, nisinag.sl by ,Sdniiral Neale, or under his direr. they never committed. (low many innocent persona have we
r. Out that Sir F. Adam embarked on the &h of September known to suffer transnortation—and how many have we seen suffer
• Corfu on board the Sybil frdeate, then went, together with the des+. by cease tof Whitebov crimes ? Some may blame the ad.
'tetrads ship and another frigate, before Nstedi di stemanie, ministration of the laws for sheer frightful results, but good sense
rut in is vicinity. ash did not return to Corfu till after the will soon convince every dispassionate man that they are the net-es.
revocation of the decree of the nth May_this is a feet ear! results tenni the passions which are raturally excited by
• can dispute with us. Whiteboy and Ribbon outrages and crimes--and, Song the rewards,
rFturn the Brussels Creek.l which at such period% are justifiably offered to informers, amongst
Swims*, OCT. R. whom will be found the very basest of mankind.
.of the t:uropean transports are so tired of the rain. Fellow.countrymen, we tell you nothing but the truth. No
. tliat they have presented a petition to Ibrahim Pacha, beg- good. no advantage, no benefit, hoe ever been produced in Ireland
:they way lie stnloaded at lioutiroun and discharged; on this by tniiteLstrisoi or Ribbouisni, or any other softies of Secret As.
AIN) they will give up their freight. There fa every appear- soc:ation. snrh asanciatious are forbidden by the law of man ; and
:that Ibrahim Puha s ill not accede to this pmpened, the cot_ as they arc necessarily productive of crimes, they ate more power-
s...rot which would be the br eking up of his army, and that fully forbidden by the command of God.
Slang continue to drag in his train these impudent captains, By the law of slw land, any man who joins a secret association,
'avidity merits punishment. bound together by any oath, or any engagement, or protease what.
ne from Alexandria of the 10th of this month say, that sweet, is habie to be transposed. Any person who joins such a
of Mehemet Ali'e truths are going to embark, to reinforce meeting by day is liable to fine, imprisonment, and whipping. Any
;of his son against the Greeks. poem' who ones them by right is liable to transportation. Any
Ti go. SEPT. 29. prom, who j .ina them at night in rapping at a door, or even Yee.
it sill that the English Government, which, directs the Sellate, belly demanding arms, mw ammunition, or horses, or use any threats
otereol in geld' of a decree paused, by which no French sir or menecee a,,oa. tet the inhabitame of the dwelling-houses, is liable
1 tesesul, or Vice-C.o:nd, shall but recognietel, who is nut to be exec tiea quite as much as if he had ommiitted a robbery, or
IV:. decree will be exuuted at Nasal first; the other mode,. Aril It.e.ities all three punishments b the regular course
iiitstl.hrs, of the law. there is the Insurrection Act, which can be applied by
mil that et etc isle of Pams eon or 400 have taken arms, the Government to any disturbed district, anti by means of that Act
trade theroMes masters, of two villages, where they bold Out any prone who is out of his dwelling-house from sun-set to sun.
1 the rest of the inhabitants. Preparations are making here rise may be transported without judge or jury.
, she ass:btar.v.: of the Greeks in Paros. We hove given you this brief 'helmet of the legal punishments
that nwett the disturbances produeed by secret societies. Every act
done by them is illegal, and liable to punialiment. We deem it a
duty we owe you, to put you on your guard against incurring either
the guilt or punishment.
' '!'here is ntrother and a far more important object. These Secret
Societies, and the outrages which they generate, are forbidden by
the awful voice of religion. your religion directs you to be sub-
nti.eive to the law,. It orders you not to do an injury to any man
elitism-re?. It tells you that you are not to commit any crime
whatsoever, however snail, even though such crime were to produce
the greatest possible good. Your religion informs you that if you
take or injure the property of any man, you cannot Ando for-
giveness of the odimce, without making restitution, to the full
extent. of all the property you are possessed of. M'e need sot tell
you h ott year religion abhor' every thing that approaches to
robbery, n tinter, or blood. You cannot really be Catholieti--you
cannot really he ('hrissians--if you do not feel and know what we
WI 14 yeti ie literally end erictly true.
flare are other natter which equally deserve your attention.
These disturbances have not only never produced any good effect,
but they can never possibly be successful. l'hey usually ',mince
some robbery of arms—some plundering of houses—the dement-nen
of corn, cattle, and other pmperty—and they also cause many
murders, but no human being ever 11111 A. or is, benefited by them,
and hr.) twd these contra it is not passible that any success can
attend the perpetrators. They are totally unable to face the con.
stahulary in open conteet. The policemen are lithe sufficient to
put mitten the strongest Whiteboy force in any thing like a regular
stack; and • F they were not, the police are eeinforceil by the
yomotery corps, and these again by the regular army. The Go-
verument has at its cot 1111 l and upwards of one hundred thousand
itif:ertry, cavalry, and artillery, and if it wanted foreign aid against
thettestic disturbancen, it could easily procure one huitdod
theneand more, so that all notion of being successful I y moms
of tVhiteboyissu or Secret Societies, is as ridiculous and absurd as
i. is wiekeel and criminal.
I.et it be recollected too, that in all these disturbance, and Secret
Societies, no person of education. character, or property. takes a
part ; they are condemned by every honeet and every intelligent
lwrom; and above all, they are reprobatol by your truly amiable.
intelligent, laborious, pious, and beloved clergy. How is it poseitde
that tint can forget the admonitions and advice of that clog,- '
Ito not yeti know that they have no other interest but yours, aid
no other object but your temporal as well ne eternal welfire?
I... Hew-countrymen, attend to out advice; we advise you to eh-
stain from all such surrey combinations. If you engage in them,
)iill not only meet our decided dieapprobstion in ceejelictien with
th.it of your I Chrge, but you gratify and delight the hum st
and bloodiest faction that ever polluted a country- the Orange fac-
tion. l'he Orangemen anxiously .I,lre that you ebouid form
IVliitelmy and Ribbon, and other secret eocieties; they not only
deeire it, but they take an active part in Immuning the formation
of such societies. They send amongst you attics and informers.
tiro to instigate you to crime, and then to herruy you to punish_
went. They eupply their esnieeariee with iimecy, and they seed
them to difl.erent parts of the country. hob byg unit in the people
the pretence of being friends and fellew-eoli••rees. The ineteects
arc not few or remote of such inetigeticns; and it ie mate natural
that the 0 trangenten seattld adopt such measures when the country
is disturbed; it is the f trangenien'e hill 'Ms!. II: is then employed
in the coneuthulary force, and in the police, and he cirain . perma-
nent pay in the yeomanry cores. alt' shorts the rewards with the
infermer, and often keeps him to mere out his victim. lie is ;deo
able to traduce the people and the relit:ten of the lend. Tile :di-
sence of constitutional law fllitlileit Ili,: I lramreitien t.• tort ruliian
v•e.leneet with impuney, and thus by moans of secret and 11'11110mi
Societies aid tattra;; 4, the fell Orangeman is able to gratify his
pet lom•nati• pae..i.e.s of avarice, ottioresai,m, and critel•y.
Yeti coal not rhea, the 1 /ea:molten nitire than it. embarking in
secret societies. %I'll eeltoyisin. and outrage.
On the (Wier lewd, yrat rwlth not 11,) em:y thing that triad more
affi.ct your etecere friend.; you could 41., liothtrg that could give
greater grief to the Catholic .lseeeiatier, th.l. linty titreciiiiiiattly
!Mit anxiously a !ems.: roe. We arc stract:!ing to obtain your
riehte by conetitto.onal and feed! nicer.. We are endeavourieg to
obtain redress through the proper arid legal chaste. fur the °mires.
sions which aggrieve ',to.

:a.—The following is an extract from a letter m-
on Saturday:—

." MALTA, o•. 8. 1112.1..

metal months pave 7e have been enntloyed in the
•• • .

Ardirela7o, and have •isited a number of those scrres ant
of ancient Greece which must ever awaken in the

the most lively emotions of pleasure; yet it is impows
the present state of public affairs in Greece. to enjoy the
4-tee-able associations, nr to indulge the many brilliant illii-
Aseeted with the heroes, poets, and sages of antiquity,
fled with the strongest feelings of pity and compassion for
suCsings, and degradation of their present descendants.
emerived to what a height these sympathetic
.vm tainted by .he sp:ctacle of friars, which we visited
allo its destruction by t:ie Turks, and found reduced to a
:heap of fairs; the atniosphenr, for a considerable distance
r.',are, was leaded with the most offensive and nauseous
,w.sing from the mangled human carcases, which, on land_
rico) scattered in every direction, in various stages of
..m.; troops if lean ferocious looking dogs seemed tube
is ells that had esesined the general carnar. and they
•• held O.Cf the dead their carniv4'." E‘e-y
p:blic or private, lad bren demolished with the num.
.7.ilustry ; even the remains of the dead hail met with no

!tan the semi-merges; there was not a single tomb in
;tr tensteries that ha I not been broken open and ransacked.
the chain t tsit.tic indolence of the Turks seems liw o .ce
Leta IMCf..O,IIC by tbeir litre of pillage, and they hire cum.
, Itvek of destruction in a manner truly worthy of the
cn of tr,rim limes was valuable to the Greeks, princ.pally
who hate always hen distingui•hel fur etude
btovery, and who, luckily tie themseltet and for
r.ra;.ea the melancholy fate of their isl ted, by beirg
r the tire. They have obtained fresh honours front theme
aid ent:ronsing conduct this gumtree: for the wholz.
Ley hung round and harassed the gins of the Turkish
racteetled in destroying three frigates and several
rts,eb."
.ris l'a ;Hot is INTOLERANCE.—We are confi-

on the tnos: respectable authority, that, at
r!n1111n h, id, not very long since, in a Roman Ca-
lp•l, not otrz• hundred miles front Passage, in the
Watt r ord, a Roman Catholic lii:hop addressed
(rOPEiSr.ing of many thousands), and in
47. vratit turilln (Aliened every Ull2 who I call him
'rn for the: future as much as possine from holding
!Laatnication with their heretic neighbours. He
'4ll, that for many years they had been obliged
a compliment to the Protestant clergy, for per-
:o bury in their church-yards ; hut that, thank
14a Airs were now in progn ss which would secure
places of their own, without their king
aituin;le the ashes of their relatives with those
t,"l--/ri.di Timex.
11131:1A1.17r•-13.1d as the English provincial
all of them r.r.: not calumniating and malignant
••nNtr tNC ES.-1,1 th:: year !POI two poor women
td were hi a reca_mizanc..• of each to
give evidence on a trial at the Assizes there.
%.,i,!:•A with the conditions and retorted to their
A few weeks hince. wizen twenty-tlitee years had
ti"-y W.bre both arrc Stu d, on the ground that, after
101 l Ito: al•p!i...d to the t'ourt for a formal
%.! km their ob;:....atim:s. The one was hailed and
; both have since be"
I by uuar.s of a petition to the Porous of the
of which, amounting to nearly 61. each,
"' ~nsed I y silbseription• Since this time, four
"r b .en committed to 11 ereford pm ison
With ill,: nu re differ( nee that

of this le;:al form took place vren years
"I'elltence, the visiting Magistrates of the
qatt tl their ease to the holds of the Treasury.
71 the lseereta.y State, and their Lordships have
Iv sent to (sell of them a discharge free of all tx-
limier the royal hien manual, but have also most
~arlr.caohled the sum of Su/. from the royal bounty,
it:bo-11, at the discretion of the visiting Magis-
.4
tal tie: unfortunate individuals who have been ex-
"lnch distress in their persons and eirennistanees
against o:ctn.—Wier wrLuey Chruiside,

It is understood that after the fracas on thn 9.7t1t ult.
lyiween the Bench of the Common Ph:Aland Mr. S Tgeatit
'Faddy, the Learned S.:recant felt that lie had gone too far,
and sent a letter of apology to Mr. Justice Buirough, to
who:n he hail more particularly addremel himself in the
course of the altercation. The Court have since expressed
theinselvf s sati:ithrl with the apology.—Mors big raper.
Tits FAENCII Mossrea.—Leger, not having appealed
to the Court of Cassation, was executed at Versailles on
Tuesday at noon. The multitude to witness the execution
of this no:aster was immense. In his Lit moments he Ile-
trayed great fear, and it was necessary almost to carry kiln
to the cafteld.

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