The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-10-13 00:00:00

THE GREEKS.

The followin; proclamation has been issued by Sir
Frederick Adam, the Lard rommiss'.oner of the-
lonian Islamb., in consequnce of a late order from the
Provisional Government of Greece to its mariners, to burn
and destroy the hips and their crews belonging to neutral
Powers, but employed in the service of the Turkish Go-
lrernment

." His Excellency I.ient..4encral Sir Frederick Adds, Lord
Cognmissiontr of his !Unless, the Kin„, of Great lleiuda, to
the hiked States or the lonian Ales.
" The Frovisiogial Government of Greece havingpnblished and a&
Armed to his 3/sjesty's Consul at ConstantMopht, and to the 01117
Consuls and Vice-Consuls of the European Powers in the Archipe-
lago. • Proclantstioo. in which is sct forth
As the masters of seers! European vessels have dr-tiered their
ships to the Turkish Government. for the transport of Tenors am-
munition, aid proviiigios, in ilespit.• of the represents:ens of tkrr
Consuls, and in violation of the principles of neutrality prohms.l
by their respective Sovereigns. during the strurgle In whieb Greece
is new angsg.gl, those ships cannot be rexgried as
_neutrals, but
shall be 10-isel upon es enemies, and as seat :I bestdseked, bueht,
nedesonyed, by the Greek fleet, or by any Greek easel that NW
meet them.

"And his 14„f;,if-cry, in easier to maintain the rights of neutrality
dur!ne would !aotiiitien with vigour and itnpartiality, and to p.m-
ted the IT, as well as the lie-• of his subjects and of the
lonian people. plated under his exclusive protection, having esso-
mended the Lord Fligh Commissioner to intimate to the Pt ovi-
sional (Mvernitient the propriety of revoking immediately this Pro.
clamation, which is so contrary to the tights of the people. and to
all the principles of I unianity and relations between civilised
lions: And the Lord High t'onimissioner having, in consequence,
demanded, in the name a his Majesty, the revocation of the said
Proclamation, and the said Provisipturtovernetens having refes,4
to comply with that demand. and this refusal having been notitlt.l
in form to thet:ornmantler of the naval forces of bin Majesty s
" It is made known by these presents, that the aWil Commander-
in-Chief, conformable to the ir.structbros given by the Lords Co.mmireionern of the Admiralty, will capture ant destroy ell emu!,
armed, or containing armed num. equipped with or without the
authority of the Provisional Government of Greece. or recognisin,:
its authority; and dose instructions are to be in full force until the
said Proclamation be fully and authentically revoked by the Pro-
visional finvernment, and that revocation bo formally 'bodged to
the Lord High Commissioner, or to the Command:l-in-Chief of
his Majesty's naval forces. -
" Thin shall be printed in three lanencges, English, Greek,
and Italian, and published and communicated to the Authorities
whutu it CllllCer.lll.

" By ostler of his I:scellener,
" .1. 111:1,SDELL,
"Secretary to the I,ord Iligh Commissioner.
" Corfu, Sept. A."

THE C'HURCIf lA'

(From the Caknit,' Jclem

PROTEsTANT EMCC,PA I, VISITATION ANT) OM-
NATIoN THE CATO KIMA CALCUTTA, UN
ASCENSION-DAV, TIII7IIIMAY, MAY 27.

After the morning service for the day, which was rcal
by the Reverend T. Thomason. Junior, Chaphi.) at the
Presidency. the Visitation Sermon was preached by the
Rev. Dr. Parish, the Garrison Chaplain of Fort WiHirt!,
from Ltd:. xxxiv. 23—" And I will stet up one shepherd ;
and he shall feed them ; be shall feed them, and he shall
be their shepherd." After explaining the words 'pokers
as referring to God, and the shepherd sent as his son. he
enlarged on the duties of spiritual shepherds, and add!ess 1
the Clergy present ; then adverted to the Miie.;onaries who
were sent by the Society for Promoting Chririan Knew-
ledge, and the Society for I'ropaating the Gospel—to the
zeal neci scary to bring such 111.ssionaries here, and the ar-
dour and importance of the duties in which they hail en-
gaged ; concluiLtig an appropriate and inipresaiverertnon
with a suitable application to the new candidate for ordi-
nation this day.
. _ _ _

After the sermon, the Lnrd Bishop of Calcutta took 117-;
seat at the altar, and the rh.rgy, being aasombleil near the
altar, were dice' address d by the Lord Bishop, seated in
his chair, and we trust our r: adzes will feel intervated in
the following brief and imperfect abstract of his Lordship's
discourse.

Ills Lordship commenced his charge by congratulating
the Clerity on the probable increase r.f their number from
twenty-eight to thirty-one ; and expressed his sincere gra-
titotle for the munificent and parental care which prompted
so beneficial a measure ; a plain statement of the spiritual
wants of India, his Lordship conceived, would so far ex-
cite the seal of our brethren at home, as not to iliaappint
and render vain the benevilent and Christian solicitude of
our rulers ; while it would serve to show the reason we
have to be grateful fur the measures they have already
adopted.
Ilia Lordship then entered into some detail of the cc.
establishment in India. in oriLr to point out
where the deficiency was principally oLsavable, and the
causes from which it had proceeded.
Those (cmitinued his Lordship, whilz speaking of t'me
backwardm ss of the English Clergy to enter into t!:e
vice in question), those, indeed, would be much mistak -n,
who should anticipate in the brtuncs of an Indian Clri—
lain a life of indolence, of opidenel, of luxury. An Indies
chaplain must come pre pared for hard I:.h,ur, in a clinrte
b l where aour is often death ; be must pre pared ter
. . .

rigid r.elCtletiial in situations where all around him ineiiel
to sensual indulgence ; he must be content with an i -
come, liberal indeed in itself, but altogether disproportier.:d
to the charities, the Licl'halides, the unavoidable c> -
pelves to which his I,Auation renders hint liable. /I
must he content to hear his life in his hand, r.:•Li

to leave, very often, those dearer than life itself, to b;i,
care alone who feeds the ravens and who never or
rarely suttl•rs the seed of the ritrhteous to beg their brud.
Nor are the qualifications which he will need, nor th,
tholes which will be imposed on him, legs arduous than tha
perils of his situation. Ile mint be no uncoutly

or he will lose all influence over the higher clasies of
wangregation : Le must be no man of ph-astir:., or he wil
elolanger their souls and his own : he must be a setio:,c
anal a man of cultivated mind, and at th,. same time con-
d. solid to simi•le men, for lure, as elsewhere, the cf
his congregation most be ignorant awl poor ; nor it. his in.
terceurse with the htattib!er classes of hi:. hearers I:v.,
always the same cheering circumstances, which make t!:e
house of the English parocLial ministrr a school and te:::t••:
of religion, and his morning and evening wa:ke: a
source of blessing and of blessedness. Ii .5 servs:its wii
of a different creel from his own. His i:iterorirs.• riil
lie with the happy bitrink,,s p a ant. iiis f ct Milf pet • •
found at the wieLer-gate of ro;t3:e; I. -
neat!' the venerable :ree, in the grey church pi,r.h. •?.
side of the hop-ground or the core-re•Zd. hut hu •• • I..•••
by the bed of infection or despair, in tiCllarrark, tae re

or the hospital.
But to the well-tetnpere.l, thew:l-educator!. t.:!e
and p;ous c;er,tytnan—w•hn can undt-ar himself to the pt ..?r
without vulgarity, ant! to the rich without invo`.vitn.,,ltr