The National Register.
London, England, 1819-09-06 00:00:00

CESSION OF PM(GA.

Extracted from the row kr Paris paper of Tuesday, the tOth
of August :
• It was enough for England to have sacrificed the thrisi to
propitiation of Parga. la coding the territory of 'largo to the
Turks, and in pluming the bannet of the Infidel On the spot
where stood the last cross. on the homier of Christendom en
Greece, England virtrially degrad«l an innocenspeople.
•• Parga never belonged to the Turks. The Pargitinotes are
Greeks, and have ever distinguished themselves by their virtues
and industry. They cultivated dais native soil up to the very
day that tore them from its bosom. They did not alone ',titivate
olives, that furnished then) the means of subsistence ; their fer.
tile territory produces fruits of every sort, with which all Epirus
is supplied, and their cedrata tind their way even to riussia.
" I defy the author of the article in the Journ.i. f': DAate, of
the sib, to produce a single proof in support of the assertion,
that the Parguir.otes are, for the most part, bsaditti and high •
way robbers.' Lord Byron and Mr. Hobhousc never saw Parga;
they never saw a great part of Greece, respecting which they
speak with as little truth. To be convincedpe
of this, it is only ne-
cessary to consult the work of Major Leake, who explores!
Greece with more care, more knowledge. and more observation.
" But why resort to the authority of the English tourists?—
' The Honor the second session of the first Paeliament of the lonian
Islands refutes the caluinsies published against time unhappy
Parguinotes.
•• It the English Government attempted to estimate the pro-
perty of the Parguinotes at sa high a valuation as to oblige Ali
Pula to abandon thearsir. why did rat Sir Thon:as AI aitland.
at lord adhere firmly to the very macerate estimate made by las
own CJIIIIII ssioners specially appointed by him for the purpose.
and announced by proetamation, which esti:nate was stated at
nearly 3,000.000 dollars? Why did he give Ali Pacha the
church property and lands, 'illicit were private donations which
belonged to that community, • whose good alone he consulted S'
Why did he carry his complaisance to the lem6out ts rant of Epi
rue so far, as not to permit the inhabitants to carry. with them
the images and other precious articles belonging to their churches;
thus leaving them exposed to the sacrilegious insults of the infidel?
Why add to this disdainful treatment of men, a contemptuous
disregard of the things which arc held most sacred among Chris•
tient ? Was it, as said by the apologists of the cession, to avoid
the threatened hostility of the I'orte to England's itionemre
commerce in the Levant ? What ! Ersesincl, the mistress of
Malta and Corfu, dread the Porte? W hat a ! or what a
miserable pretext !
•• But England has not fallen so low as to tremble before the
'Pura. 'file passage of the Dardanelles and the bombardment
of Algiers have proclaimed her power, and the English Lion
woula rouse at the first insult to British rights. Not a morning
does the Divan awake without trembling at the idea of again
beholding the flag with which Admiral Duckworth appeared in
the waters of Constantinople under the Sultan's palace-walls.
" With these recollections before us, who shall dare to assert
that to save !large was not in the power of England ?
" In maintaining the settled valoation. and fixing the fatal
term for executing the cession, Ali l'acha, who has deceived the
Divan as to the importance of Parga and the public feeling of the
inhabitantssowards the Porte• would have lost the truer of his
intrigues, and the treaty would have never Leen completed. But
instead of adhering to this wise resolution, General Manhood. as
if he had to do with an Indian Nabob, temporises!, negotiated,
conceded so many natified so much deference, and
paid so many obwiuious visits, that Ali Pasha thought he was
conferring a fasour upon England by receiving Parga on the
terms which be swath:treader to accept,' in compliment to the
High Commissioners of Enalaral.
•• It was not enough fir the representative of that King, whose
noblest title is that of • Defender of the Faith.' to descend to a
men:lieu:lt soli ruction for the degrading friendship of Ali ?ache.
lie could not inspire him with the common confidence among
men in trade. Ere he could touch the proceeds of the sale of
Parga, the haughty Pelaitland, before whom the alaltese and
lonians tremble, was obliged to leave Colonels Hawkey and 1:o-
-bits's, as hostages for the amount of 150,000!., until l'arga
should have been actually crled.
•• The apolmasts for the cession of Parga say, that its
inhabitants will obtain land' in the lonian Isla ; but this
promise is alike illusory and impossible to be realized.—
The statiscal survey of the Seven Island proves, that all
the cultivatable hank arc the propsny tit er of indiviaturls,
of the Church. or of the Exclicapter, property of which no
one has a right to dispose. Of this fact the British govetn-
ment. comprised b) a false trnecesling, is perhaps
rant ; and the consequence will be thi :—the principal inhabi-
tants of Perm). too rear Aii ['Rolla to avoid lii• snares, and not
feeling secure in the islands, will s e's a more remote ash loot ;
those who have a moderate capital will take refuge in Russia;
and the poor, inveigled by the promises of the Satrap. who Isis
his agents among them, will return to their native soil, and tall
victims to his revenge. What will be the result to England?
Sire will know it. when the finds herself called upon to runlince
the garrisons of the Seven Islands."

PROSECUTION Ob' SIR FR.INCIS BURDETT.

Mr. Brooks applied on Thursday Air further
time to give the answer which the Secretary of
State desired with respect to Sir Francis Burdett's
letter, and the time originally granted, and which
was only for two days, was extended until Monday.
Mr. Brooks having written to the worthy Baronet
an account of the above proceedings, the latter bus
come forward in the must candid and manly way,
and :Avowed himself the author. Monday morning
the Secretary of State received the following letter :
64 totteshrook, Amt. 28, 1,19.
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" burr LORD.—ilearinx yntir Lordship 1104 l.ed w the
Gentleman through whose hands in Address to Ibr I.lerim.
of WeAmouster wits thostuitted to the New...purls, to sire
up the author. and haft. at the same time. intimated shut s
refu,al would subject him, as 14141 as the Editors of 11e
Papers, to aM. Tird pr..secut• ; 1 lake Ike liberß. io
order to wise your Lordship fw !her trouble, and also th, gen-
tlemen oho. e 110 flamed an unjust prose. ut hut, to info in
your 1..0.100p, that 1 AM the author of the Address in
goon kin; nod moreover to inform your Lewd hip that
although ;Infarct in it hto rv, and ouster the iuflurarr 111
Mro9,gly ...sated feelings, 1 tau discover nothing he i 1 ou
a re-perusal, unbecoming, the character of au humid man,
aunt alit Lar;lrshutho. _ _

" I remain.
" Your Lord.iiip's molt ob..dient
" Arid very humble M.Twant,
" FRANCIS BURDETT.

" Lord V 6eount Sidmouth."

A copy of the above A-as at the same time trans.
mittvd in the iniFwer of Sir Francis Bur,lett to 31r.
Brookes's letter, and received by pest on on Mow*
moraine.

L0111)011,
SUNDAY, bePTEMBED 6.

The lctigth at which we have given the proceed-
ing, at the Westminster Meeting prevents our
observations on them further than tue expression of
our fervent hope end confident reliance that the sell-
timents there declared wilt be reciprocated ut simi-
her Meetings through every town and county in the
kingdom.

A requisi.ion for a Court of Common Council,
upon till subject of the late proceedin44 at Man-
chester, was presented to the Lord Mayor, about 11
o olock on Thursday, to which his Lordship pro.
ntised an answer on the same day or early the next
morning. Some of the Aldermen were summoned
to his Lordship's councils, and met at the Mansion-
house at two o'clock on Friday, afternoon ; the re-
sult of which was, the transmission of a letter from
his Lordship to one of the gentlemen of the deputa-
tion, about 4 o clock statang that his Lordship, con.
fOrmably with their rt quisition, had directed a Court
of Common Council to be summoned fur Thursday
next, the Bth inst. at the usual hour.—A similar re-
quisition, couched in precisely the same terms, and
signed by nearly 100 Liverymen, was also presented
to his Lordship on Friday morning, for the purpose
of obtaining a meeting of the Livery in Common
to which his Lordship returned for an-
swer, " that he sla.uld take time to consider of it."

The following are extracts from the French Pa.
pers of Tucathey last t
PARIS, AUGUST ,i.—The physicians have declared
that an illitr% al a 15 days Islay yet elapse before the de-
livery of the Duchtbs de Berri netertheless, couriers
have trceit•ed tie rs to hold the nu.. Ives in 'cattiness, to
set ott with the URNS of this hilly event.

on the 7.h just. r frirate of the royal marine sailed
front Naples, hat i,14 ou Loaoil the body of Charles IV.
late King of Spain. This friitaie is 'mond no (3iCia. to
take on l.rwrd the mortal 'villains of ti.e Queen Maria
of Staiia. She still tl, u proceed to Aliean►.
from whence the bodies will he coot e)cd to ibsß al
&men 41 the Evcurial.

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EEPT. 6.

Tbc wolves begin again to exercise their ferocity in the
well-wooded environs of the tots it of Auxonne. lit
the of the '4.3(1 of this month tut() of these carti•
euroit.:!tiiiii:ils ;mit ke4l a little boy at Villiers-ks-pots,
and atwitter at T•llcnay, who were wanlime, their mas-
ters' horses in the pt,tures ul these communes. .1 he
former of these children, who was slcepinz, rolled up in
his cloak, was dra..tged the distance of ahosit 200 liters;
but in consequence of the cries of his comrades, v. ho
were also watchioz, horses, lie escaped with only a s'ighs
wound. The other child, while sleeping in the otitis(
of five or six other children, was seized by a she•wutl,
aild dragzed ion y.(rds, nor did site let hint go until she
(mind herself atticked by dogs and men. The child
wJi severer• wounded.

.1, letter final 1%1.111141 states, that 1)on Louis de Oni.
was expected in that capital about the 1.5i1) or Yuth of
this month.

BATaaurit, AUG. 19.—A private letter states.--." It
is not probable that the public will ever obtain a detailed
)(novel:age of the questions which have been discus:cil
at Carlsbad. 1)) not expect that ally declar.ition
whatever will be made by the Minister: on the of of
their conferences : they only concerted, but with-int any
formal dcliberations or deci.ions."

Extract of a letter from New York, dated 2.4 th
July By letters from Buenos-Ayres; under date
of the 2sa May, w•e learn, that the Minister of
Chili had officially notified to N. W. Strong,Esq act-
ing as American Consul at Boenos•Ayres, that the
coast of Peru was blockaded by t 1 naval force of
his znvernment. This act bears date, St. .logo,
April 20 "

advises from New York it it stated, that Lord
Cochrane has taken an American vessel, the Monte-
-gums schooner, of Baltimore. The cause of this
rapture it nut given, Lot it is supposed for n viola-
tion of .hit blockade of the west coast of South
America. •

The Patriot frigate Cltriatto had sailed from Rue-
nos-Ayres in May to join Lord Cochrane off Lima.
The Horatio vet remained in port under the Ame-
rican flag, and was commanded by Captain Skinner.

Letters have been received from the rape of Good
Hope of ftfith May, with enclosures to a late date
from Ceylon, when• tranquillity was in so groat is
measure restored. that all the troll's which had been
sent there fern holler had returned. The naval
.store-sbip. Dick, Captain flarrison, arrived
rot the Cape of Goinl I ye. from Cork, tie middle of
May, and was to proceed immeoiately to the island
of Ceylon. The free trailers, Langton and Maisters,
were at the Cape tic same time ; these s'aips have
on briard der:whim-tits of t::e 4511, re2im,,at, t,, be
:stationed at the above island. The Dauntless man
of war. ffitii. Clot. Conlon, was at the Cape of
Goal Dope the middle of Mar. having on board
Major-General Sir Falwarr Barnes and suite, far
Ceylon. Limit -Col. Wright. Royal Vngineers, was
also at that i l'ce. on his " ay to assume the command
of the Royal Engineet Department at that colony.
It is stated that Lient -Gen. Sir 11. Brawnrigg, at
present Governor of Ceylon will return to k ngiand
as soon as 'Major-General Sir E. I arnes arrives at
the island. I is also reported ut the Cape of Good
Hope, that Lord Dalhousie. at present Governor of
Nova Scotia, is to succeed Lord Charles Somerset at
the former colohy. :he Prince Frederick, Dutch
ship of war, of 80 guns, is now at Symon's bay,
Cape of Good Hope, with Gen. Antines on board,
from Batavia. and a valuable cargo of spices from
that island. She proceeds shortly to Holland.
By the last Quaker papers it a2pears, that nn the
25th of July :a public meetini, was convened, for the
purpose of establishing a Society. under the title of
the Quebec Emigrant. Society. (in conne%ion and
corresrondence with those alretaly existing,or which
may be formed hereafter in those provinces), for the
purpose of affording employment, information, and
assistance, to destitute settlers in Quebec and its
aeighlsmrhood. Certain resolutions wore immedi-
ately entered into, and the Society was regularly
constituted.

Up to tho St)th July, 9,12.1 settlers had arrived
at Quebec from Great Britain, this year
Extraq of a I. tter dived I.yilmin, near Preston,
Sept. 1 —" This morning I have ‘vitnessetl the
sue arctiolv spect.:cle cf a shipwreck. The vessel is
the Alldon, bnimd from Antigua to London. The
captain of the ship, with five s lbws and three pas
seN:ers, h. ve laa n lirmcned. The latter acre a
Mr. Nicholls. wi•li his two itiouliters. idiom lie was
bringing to Enulmid In receive their •

Letters r:.evirtal in the city frmi Part-att-Prints
state, thpt G, n. M•Gregor had gone away in the
ship !lc. •. belong;p,r to a house in on 'tat : that he
took rulvirt• tve or the captain la irg ton %Imre, and
had Freetd«l to sr.t The eavtaig had departed to
Jimaico, to lay the Whole proceeding bellore Sir 11.
l'opham, and to beg that he would detach a cruiser
in search of Sit Grtzor,