The National Register.
London, England, 1816-01-21 00:00:00

PROTESTA N 1 S IN I•RANCE.

(FROM A GLASGOW pAPEs.)
We have been requested to publish the following Letters ea
this subject :
" MY LORD—As Chairman of the Glasgow Public Meeting ib
behalf of the Protestants of France,'l have the honour, by they
direction, to iftelose a copy of their Resolutions; and by theit
desire and for their information, respectively to request to know)
whether any farther and more favourable practical result has
followed the efflirts of his Majesty Government to arrest the pro:.
Kress of those evils which have- 6een so much deplored lity you,
Lordship and every thinking person in the nation.,
" I have the honour to be, my Lord,
" Your Lordship's very obedient.Servarit,
" Glasgow, Jan. 4. 1816." ,` WILLIAM MUIR!'

" ?tic Ifouse,llth January, 1916.
" Sin—l have received your letter,of the dth inst..together with
a copy of the resolutions passed at a Public Meeting at Glasgow,
in behalf of the Protestants of France-
" lo answer to your inquiries, 1 have only to observe, that recent
and authentic information has most fully confirmed the truth of the
opinion, that the disturbances in qnestion were never protnoted or
encouraged by any acts of the French Government, and that they
were using the full weight of their authority and induence to put a
stop to them, and to prevent, as far as possible. their recurrence.
"' I have the honour to he, Sir,
" your very obedient humble Servant,
" LIVERPOOL."

THE IOSIAN ISLANDS.
A German Journal has the loliowing remarks upon the
lonian Wands :
'• The century which saw Venice, Genoa, Rap" and Poglizs.
cease to be independent States, Las presented as. for the second
time, with a Repnblic of the lonian Islands. Tll4ll Luse, as tilt' first,
Russia comes forward as the father of Ike child, but now Eullaio

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takes upon herself the al.(' it will lididty sap out of
her hands. Corfu is indeed a sterile rock, but in streugth it held
ly yields to the impregnable Malta ; and Cephalonia and Zante
yield in abundance the finest fruits of the South. Besides this, the
opposite coast, the native country of PYRUCTS and CASTIUOT, is in-.
Whited by the boldest and most warlike people of the East (of
Europe). There England will recruit ber armies, if the market in
Germany should become too limited.
" From this point she van act with energy, if, at some future time,
a peighbour should have a mind to transplant into Greece the-be-
nefits of our civilization, our financial systems, our conscriptions.
In a kw-days' sail froW Corfu an English fleet may be before the
Dirdanel:es, and a co-operating army requires at most 14 days to
dress Mount llwnins. Considerations of this kind have probably
induced Austria to recognize the new Republic ; for it certainly
has not escaped her counsellors that the sovereignty of the Adria-
tic is transferred from Venice to Corfu, and that a few armed boats
will suffice to ruin the whole commerce of the Littorale. These
seven islands lie on the coast of Albania, Lavadia, and the Morea,
about 13 (German) square miles, and contain 200,000 inhabitants.
They art-1. Corfu, by far the largest ; 2. Pero ; S. Santa Maura ;
4, Cephalonia; 5. Theali (the ancient Ithaca) ; 6. Zante ; 7. Cercigo.
From the end of the 14th century to the Treaty of Campo Formic)
(17th October, 1797), they belonged to the Republic of Venice,
treated liko a cruel step-mother these countries, formerly a
part of Greece. In the year 1799, they were conquereu by the
Russians and the Turks, and formed into an Independent State,
under the title of Republic of the Seven Islands. But they soon
tell into the hands of the French, in which they remained till the
tall of 13( ONAPARTE, when the Treaty of Paris has at last deter-
mined their fate. For the future happiness, for the natural im-
provement of the Islands, extraordinary advantages may be expec-
ted, and encourage the unhappy brethren sighing under the Turkish
yoke at length to rise to the dignity of men. It almost seems as if the
Mich A dies had expressly contrived this arrangement to bring about
the Resurrection of Greece."