The National Register.
London, England, 1819-10-11 00:00:00

lONIA2V ISLANDS.

A statue is to be erected at Corfu, in honour of
his Excellency Sir Thomas Maitland. Monuments
of a eirnilar kind are to be erected in honour of that
General in the islands of Cephalonia, Zante, and
Ithaca. They are all raised by subscription, and at
the expence of the natives, as a demonstration of
their gratitude for the advantages they expected to
derive from the new constitution which his Excel-
lency was to give them. The subscription was thus
managed :—About 10 months after the arrival of
Sir Thomas Maitland in the Innian.lslands, and be-
fore the constitution was even known to exist, Sir
Thomas Maitland, on his return from a visit he
had paid in England, made a tour in the respective
islands, with the view to select the ten individuals
who were to form his privy-council. Sir Thomas
Maitland was preceded by some emissaries, who,
no doubt, without the knowledge or sanction of his
Excellency, prevented to the principal inhabitants
n project for erecting busts and statues in his honour,
giving to understand, that signatures would bo con-
sidered as a proof of their attachment to Great Bri-
tain, and of their respect for the Lord High Com-
missioner, who, besides the power attached to his
appointment, possessed the greatest pajama inf.:i-
t:nee is his own country. In const.qtwitce of these
representations, numbers hastened to subscribe large
sums, and thus secure the good-will of a person
to whom the future destinies of their country were
intrusted.

It is a vcry singular coincidence, that when his
Excellency had filled up the appointments to the lu-
crative posts in the lonian Status, and nominated
the Knights of the Order of St. George and St.
'Alit:had, it was fiend that few, if any, among the
Island( rs, but such as hail contributed towards the
erection of his statues, busts, and triumphal aithes,
had obiliiiied any of those advantages and distinc-
tions..

From amorg the various addresses wlikh were
presented to Sir Thomas Maitland on this occasion,
the following is selected as a /Specimen:—

" fu 6ir LutTic,ley Sir: bow:,, lmril inAlt Cum-

11146zioilel, lirlmlUvr of 4I:111.6,

"The nndrta wd, pLia.t.atvd Nis II ersitlittents or grati-
tude mid Niucll th-y utt t• to your hotcrilt•iicy,
and desirous to ot IebrIMCIVCe of tinr hum, tiu :Auer,.
in which your Excellency re attic to this rnuwry, to pro-
mute Ihr ftlitity of thane rising stal..P. 11:1110 ploplow,l Iu
tiller math a 1,1,11.1104;W as IMICC trturey • Intl it ell
homage to your Lturtllestry, owl tot histui eoliths.' to
posititity.
. . . . .

he undersigned, being cleirui d by their colleagues
Mich tin honour of inalsoig knonu to your EarelkncV the
washy, el' their hearts, venture to entreat that pros Le
pleases. to accept this feeble tribute of their respect red
%its it di vution.

• N'itb the MOM profound IN Nil et,
4‘ Your most humble and obedient servints
" Nov. V, 1n16." ( litre follow the s• guatuies )

On Tuosd iv e‘eniliz List, as his Excellency the Spa-
nish A iinass.iii:ir and attendants were (wining the Co-
burg Theatre, a:iil doling the time they, were in the
salrin, im their way to their carriages, the gas with
which the wain is lit, s‘ith some illalktrit'llee was
iunird oil, when his Excellency and ruiliputry were
Jell in darkness. This uindeasant dilemma, however,
was of• short duratitina as w a few mewls the li6hts
were reftyucti,

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Rank Stock
3 per Crap.
3 per Cent. Conc. 691
.11 per Cent. lif
4 per lent.
5 per Cent. Navy L:3f
Lung Auu.