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London, England, 1819-05-27 00:00:00

OCCUPATION OF PAROA.

Sir C. Alnivca rose to inure for certain papers
regarding the military occupation of P.rga ia the
year 1814. Ilie object in bringing kreard the
present motion wee to etcore to a free and indepen-
dent town. which had pot itself wider our woke.-
tun, iu reliauce on our honour and g 1 faith,
the ehj,lsnents of those rights which are the in. sr
dear to Civilized men liberty, the security of
property, the poiweesioti of the rod they had brew
110111 iu, and the right of obverting the religima
professed by their for. fstliers—rights iu defence
of which the people of this coullity would, If
necessary, shed the lust drop of their blood. 11.
hoped the people of ?Area were still iu ihsosegNi
0,1 them ; he believed 1 L. 1.1 were; but, if th-y
Were, it ties ou such a precarious tenure, that they
;41 /if t N°t be mmoitletoLeolr'id" intllilet:iin,,gltdatlolll,, lll'for, b, the • v..
were every day exposed to the dreadful aloo:h
bang slaughtered iu cold blood by their iovete. ,ie
enemy, if they wished to retain pOSPV*IIIOII
homes, or of tl-eing and taking a rompenss.ini.
uuy thine could compensate them) fur abandonneg
the land that gave them birth, :Ind cohttohr.l the
Wire of their aocestors—the houses where 1;:ey hid
spent their early years—the temples where Ill,y ;.;iii
performed their devotions, and Leirtierl the C oi
religion. Such war the case. lie war C4111.11,,UtS
his inability to do justice to it; but though he shool.i
fail to adduce all the motives a loch should boi,l he.
Majesty's Minietere to act with pieties. towaoe all
stab-Nand especially weak ones, yet if lie iroliol ex-
press a few only of there sentiments which
every lover of freedom, lie trusted the II nisc
would supply his deficiencies, and that the cause
would not suffer by the weakness of his advocacy.—
( Heite.)—He thought there was no generous heart
that would not compassionete the struggle of brave
men for freedom.—( Hear.)—His motion would be.
fur papers, shewing under what impression Parrs had.
been yielded up to the Commander of the lirit.sli
forces in 1814, and on what terms military occup:rs
lion had been taken of it—sed under hopes held
out to the inhabitants. the Governor of the lani-o;
Islands had given protectioo to that towu. lie did
nut affect to dirguise that his ultimate object
ass to tare the cession of Parga. His mono
did not originate in party spirit. He wit ti
~,Itte alteration were made in the terms of
Treaty by which Pares was left to its fee,
h,r wished to arm the Noble Lord with the at, •1*

Pao li.tmeut upon thug quell ttttt , to runitle
reirnce his iltrus. The lionotifdbe

then emceed iota an able awl iiiitoricJl
of the state and condition of Raga. A
which in the page of Ili•lury mould he fw I
to ha" Contaiurd many illn.trious t•r.
in tu•ieuce and in arms. It was, he
that the war waged by the Tiirks aping Greece
was a war of extermioation. It w,is a War to soli.

plant the cross and rear the crescent in its 'dace.
The people of the Greek Islands, in, this crisis ot
their fate, sought and obtained protection front the
Venetian Republic, and ultimately fell lido the
bands of France on the Tread• made at Cauipii
Formio. The acts of General Bonaparte (fir th:t
was the rank of that iadividual at that timr) were
matter of history. The formation of those Islands
into what was called " the lonian Republic,'!

also upon record. The Turkish Government hid
subverted this evstem, and the people of PArgit
justly complained of the want of frith which h id
characterised the conduct of the Etiropesu l'oweis
towards them. The Hon. Bart. read an extract
from a letter of the authorities of pima to the
Turkish General at the time when the Ottourin
Power attacked their independence, and long he.
fore they thought of bring under British jurisdic-
tion. In that letter they avowed their determina-
tion to stand or fall with their liberties. and used
the emphatic phrase, " the conquerors will be g 4.-
now, so fare you well." This answer to the TU-ki
'hewed them a brave people, and entitled to ple
symp-ithy of a nation which had a proper ser,•-
of its own lilwrties.—(Hear, kenr.)—When t..t14
usionled by the Tnrks, the people of Paige applicd
to the English fleet for protection-rthey at toe
time offered to surrender themselves to the mote,-
tion of the British flag. They were, however, I.Y
tae policy of that day reared into what was caliei
the Septensular Republic, and France consi2,e.l
thtm over to Russia. hi the Treaty of 1800 they M, :e
again transferred to the Ottoman Porte, but wits' i
solemn reservation that the people ithoulii be t.
cured in the exercise of their Christian worship,l owl
the possession, of course, of their churches ,i. ,•
civil rights; but in defiance of this Treaty. 11., .r
churches were converted into mosques, and ..,. i
civil rights trampled upon. When General 11.,:.-
. parte consigned theta to Russia, ha stipulated ts;ut
Ali Poch% that the rights and religion of the l‘eo•
pie should remain is stair quo, and Cesar pleas ,'r
would not surrender the fort until this stipol,,:l ti
was agreed tp. hi the years 1809 and 1810, t.:
arras of Great Britain had been eticcessfufy v:--• -
ed in the loriediternmeau, and the French Or'''
sons were regained. Lord Collitigetiod and :",.‘
J‘slin Stuart, seeing the progress of the Fret,"
arms, determined to impede them. They redortil
five of the seven islands, restored the native riti;le -
rides, and avowed that they came, to use do ir ova
words, is not for contpaest, but for the eso"l'''"
of the French." The lion. Baionet re ,l existitie
from the oispetehev of those 'gallant Officer*, i"
'hew that they avowed their orders to be to sect:, e
tlie..independeuce or thp people. rare .*P.4 t"

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