The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1820-12-01 00:00:00

IId4ERRFORDWEST RACES.

The Hunt Week and Races at Haverfordwest went off last
mouth with i. • .1 eclat. On the 7th the cup, given by
N. Phillips, E,q. was nun by Mr. Furlong's b. g. Jack's
Alive, treatise: three others ; and the Rev-guinea sweep.
stakes by Captain Arktantrs h. in. Sall, beatiss4 eight others,
after a sharp contest of four hears. On the 9th, Mr. Peers
Is m. Bloc Bssits heat Mr. Phillipps's b. F. (heel, 60 guineas ;
bnt in a memo! match Orarl was the winner. Two Milne
matches were run, one beivo•en Mr. inured It. m. Irish Lass
and Mr. Puweller b in. in which the former was suereasful;
and in the either Mr. Peers Seger hi At Mr. Seuiscrufee g. in.
Masi*. On the 11th, • sweepstakes of live guineas each
was won by Mr. Waters'. ch. us. beating three others. And,
on she 14th, Sir L '.O Owen's els. g. Killarney otunined SO es.
in a match a ith Mr. Philtipps's Oriel. The Hunt, at well its
the Races, afforded capital sport, and the Balls acre ulna
respectably attended.

STATE OF GREECE.

RENAMES ON THIrPIIIIIIIIIIrT OVATE OP CIVILI-
ZATION IN moult MIMIC&

It was in the year 1769 that Minis declared war
ageism Turkry. This lest power, although for a
longtime mach declined fowl lhat fre.16.118 "erg/
Whirl' hid otter rendered her as formidable to the
kuropean State, as terrible to her own &ponder,
tie,. mill preverved en appearance of grandeur
whirls ciused her to he viewed with respect. By

turans hf a kind of prestige. the etiatence of whorls
it i 4 net ea.), to reconcile with the proipeas of in.
seiligenee, !OW, •11, wish the wonderful imprure.
omits in the tavtics of Europe. the Etsiopeass
lions .till inhigniesl Turkey so be the acme wispy
power *lmike terrors had chased she Vents's:sus frt.!'

Camila and the Pr lopoonesos. and penetrating int,►
the heart of Germany, dared to besiege, and al licst
succeeded in taking, the capital of the empir:i.
Russia has for ever dissipated this superstit:u-,
and demonstrated to all Europe, that that its.
metise volume of power which the regarded as the
inowitiolar bulk of • vigoniu* constitution, is, in
truth, only un unwieldy dropsy. which moat, sootier
or later, conduct the Ottoman empire to its destruc-
tion. (;tut the effects of this gloriens war were by uo
melons confined to undeceiving the Europese stations_
anxious at that time to gain the farrow of
a taboo winch she hoped oue day to reckon among
her subjects, employed a few Greeks is her war
with the Porte. mod attached them to herself by
honours nail rewards of every kind. These new
anxittiries embraced, with a youthful ardour, the
c.iuse of the Court of St. Petersborgli, and the
sucervi of its armies was, indeed, ye ditg rent
grounds, the object of the wishes and prayers of their
whole motion. Some thought of nothing but re-
•engtti4 tl.e:lt•elvts on their oppressors; to others
the cootie of Itift•ia appeared to be the same with that
of Itrlt~t:m, and in the Russians they saw with pious
swisfactiiiii, the future restorers of their ruined or
poll wed tkluitles. A third party (And throe were those
taro et. frit- good aegis., of whom so few Call be
futioil in any e,itintry, or indeed iu any age) look.ett
upon the Itus•iatis in no other light than that of •
nation ite,titieil to prepare the Creeks fur libesty.
In the neon tine, in consequence of the pewee Coll
ClUdell between the belligerent powers, the Greeks
were spin obiiged to submit themselves to their
aileient yoke; but they did so with sentiment* very
different lams those which they had entertained be.
lute (hitting it. Persuaded thenceforth that their
npvrersri.s were ern who could he beaten. soy,
that tiny themselves hail beaten them at
the riot, of the Must:is-ars, and thinking it by no
means impul•sible, that under the goidatice of able
coriiinsinlers, they might beat them stone—they
felt within them, for tie first time, the %masks of
priile, which has bet n prevented Irons some hadad
explosion only, by the unexampled moderation
with which, from this tiler, the 'forks began to
conduct themselves. For the Turks become hunt-
file and discouraged exactly in proportion as the
Greeks plucked up spirit, in so much, that they
felt themselves absolutely compelled so treat, with
an appearance of respect, those whotis hitherto they
had irgarded as mere beams of burden. Other cir-
curnstainies combined to sink their spirits. The
usii iti Consids, wider the influence of the moat
gloailus peace which the Empress had just CllO.
cl toted with the Porte, exerted a species of dictato.
nal authority all over the Lev.uit. More than once
they rescued Greeks front the vengeance of the
Guicrionent, on pretence that they bad become
Ikussiati satinets, in had served with the mars of
Ciithatior.

Oil the other hand, the Bashaws nod Governer,
of provitto.s, who. tinder the sway of religions
fs—
fit:ui+nt, hall hitherto been accustomed to receive
the echuts of ti:e Porte as so many decrees of
perce.re, in consequence of the
very vv.ir to wit.ch they bad been engoged, that the
statue flinch they adored rested only upon feet of
day. raey now began to receive tie orders of the
Etnrtor with Inunglitinetts, nod with the pia of
bein4 parturro. tathe r than finlike:a, of his throne.
Not a fey of thee baNhaws even the standard
of telt, Ilion, and there are several at this moment.
over worn the 1' to retsithi no more than s shadowy
and preearioui Egrecier of superiorty. This di..
ohednitee, anoi her result of the saute collie which,
had itolined the Creeks with cour9:4-e and conti.
drove, lie contra:uteri, in a collater.l manner, to
fortify and perpetuate these sentiments its their
boanina.

'flie inhabitants of the Archipelago carried two
all their comm.:roe preiions to thin tiate in vessell,
or very oico"okrable size; chiefly accustomed' t
the petty tn. f c hetween one island rod another, the
ur mon ex trot of their soyagea was urver beyond the
Mack S. aof Egypt. But at this epoch, the new
direction of coin:tierce, of which we have IstresdY
spoken, the now riches diffused among the maims,
roil not tunprobJbly the diminution in the authority-
ol the Guvrrnittemt, suggested to mine perms, of
superior closecluthca the idea of building large
inerelinnt ships, iii imitation of the western Euro.
perils. The first %wads of the new construction pre-
clucA a striking rftect on all ryes, excepting those
of the Govu riiiiielit. tVliether from ignorance tr
from disdain, or, in fine, froth the iieeessity and the
conventeoce rt. seeking. among the Greeks, those
sailors for the Turkish ships of war, which it could
out find among its own sistiore, she Porte. althoogli
by nature abundantly suspicions, paid no attention
whatever to this ;Want marine of the Greets. Noy
more. it is turd that this marine was to Wilke mea-
sure favoured by the Govertinteut at its erilablbellef...
ment—orie of tileise uointelligsble blenders which
we 6110 U Iti lie•Cf be astonished to meet with in the
annals of llepigiiilllll. Most certainly had the Turk-
ish rulers been abie to foresee that the Greeks weak,
one dry chine to possess a mercantile fieet of several
I lied %%slid+, the greater part of them famished
with ortlnaisce, they would hair stifled this dagger-
tins marine at It. birth.
(Ts M sauenmed.)