The National Register.
London, England, 1823-03-16 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL RESISTER

711 E DISTRESSED GREEKS.

The following letter is from a family of Greek
fugitives from Selo, and is one instance, anmng
thousands, of the Turkish atrocities in that island.
It iy for objects of this nature that the subscription
instituted by the benevolent Society of Fsiends has
been principally set on foot :
" TstEsys, Dce. 26.
• ss Dear Brother,—After having.visiting several of the lonian
Islands, where nobody would receive us, we are at last at Trieste,
where we have been about a month, thanks to the obliging care
and compassion which we received from the captain of the ship
in which we railed. After having escaped frOni the knife of the
executioner, we find oursselves on the point of dying, for want,
perhaps, of the means of existence. We have, alas ! no one to
recommend ourselves to; and although we are unwilling to
wound your feelings, knowing yOur sensibility, by informing
you of our situation, wirticularly as you have been at the expense
of the Gymnasse of Seto to prosecute your studies in France, and
that you may find yourself in the same unfortunate situation
with ourselves; yet we have recourse to your brotherly love, and
beg you to join yourself co your unfortunate sister, and to try to
send them mime relief. Out ef the numerous family of Germane*,
our neighbours, the mother only has been saved, six of her chil-
dren are slaves—Alexandre; Marie, Angelique, George, Lucy,
and Nicolas. Stephen is happily her* with his mother s he de-
sires tile to say, thas if you krsilw of any one woo will buy his
brothers and sisters, he will fed himself bound to, repay the
ansount.
. "LOULA, ERENA, AND NICOLAS
FOURMANAKY."

Extract of a letter from Paris, dated March 8 :••••
" Lieutenant C— B—, of the British Hussars,
residing in Paris, metro few weeks since at a gaming
table with a young man named J—n—n, who, not
lung ago, was kicked out of one of the hells at the
west end of London, for tendering a forged 501. note
in payment of his losses. Mr. B—, who is a man of
fortune, indignant at the impudence of in
thrusting himself forward as a gentleman, cautioned
the company against him, and stated what he had
beard of him in England. J--n, foiled in his en-
deavours to raise contributhms upon the credulous
English: who frequent the gaming-tables in Paris,
with difficulty smothered his resentment fur a time
until he could break with effect against the person
who had ruined his expectation of a brilliant har-
vest. A few days after this occurrence, Lieut. B—
was adv:•.:d to be upon his guard against an Italian
teacher named M—, who, it seems, had undertaken,
upon condition of being lire d'enrliarrar (relieved
from pecuniary embalrassment), to assassinate B—
by stabbing him in the back as he should get into
his cabriolet. B— arrested M— in the street, and
conveyed him to the Prefecture of Police in the
charge of tens-i'armes. The Italian confessed his
crime, and avowed that J—s-n was his employer.
The affair rested here for nearly a week, M— being
placed under the surveillance of the police. Yester-
day Mr. Bergner was summoned before the Judge
d'lnstruction to make fresh depositions, and it is
expected the matter will be brought before the tri-
bunal. who has not yet been called upon,
will of course persist in denying all participation in
the intended crime, which not having Wen consum-
mated, will probably only expose M— to be sent
out oldie country."
Lisbon Papers to the Ist inst. have arrived. In
an extraordinary sitting of the Cortes un the 27th ult.
a communication was made trout the King, through
the Portugese Minister, that a serious insurrection,
headed by the Conde d'Antarante, had broken out
in part of the province of Miuho. The avowed
ob-
ject of this tulventurei, with his deluded followers,
was to overthrow the Constitution, to which the in.
habitants of Oporto atkd the rest of the country were
perfectly devoted. General Luce do Rego having
arrived, it was expected that an immediate end would
be put to the insurrection, which it is supposed was
excited by the Agents of France and the Holy Al-
liances supported by some intriguing and restless
Ecclesiastics.

Doves, MARC• 10.—Hie Majesty's steam-packet
Arrow, the Sovereign steam.yaeht, and L' Henri
Quaire French steam-packet, arrived this morning,
bringing near two hundred passengers, principally
opulent English families, who have been residing in
Paris, and have now quitted in consequence of the
unsettled state of affairs in France. Among the ar-
rivals are his Grace the Duke of Devonshire and the
Marquis of Sligo. The Marquis freiglitss the So-
vereign for his family, consisting of upwards of
Twelve or fourteen carriages have arrayed in the
different vessels. Families arc expected by every
vessel, as upwards of fifty have obtained their pass-
ports to quit Paris only within the last few days.—
There has, been no arrival from Boulogne to-day,
but many of the numerous English families who
have been residing there fur some time are on the
move. Two or three express boats from Calais have
been in sight of this port, but have, in consequence
of a strung adverse wind, been obliged to run to the
westward, and will probably land at Folkestone.
The two English vessels on shore near Calais are
perfect wrecks. An English 300-ton ship is on
shore at Boulogne. The French coast is completely
covered with snow to a considerable depth. The
weather on this side of the Channel has been very
stormy, with sno..v, which is last disappearing.

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PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 11,—This morning orders
were received here for the immediate equipment of
the Queen Charlotte, 120 guns ; Rrtmilliev, 74 guns :
and the Albion, 74 guns, the three guard ships.
For a considerable time past these ships have had
masts of inferior rates on board, without any sails;
they are now to receive their proper masts, with
bent sails, &c. and a complement of 300 men each ;
their present number of men is little better than 100.
Information was received at the Admiralty ots
Friday morning of the death of Earl St. Vincent,
G.C.8., in his 89th year, at his seat at Rochetts,
neat Brentwood. Information was also received tat
the same morning of the death of' Admiral Lord
Keith, G.C.8., near Kincardine, North Britain.
It has been erroneously asserted that M. Manuel,
the expelled Member of the Chamber of Deputies,
is the person who, during the trial 'of Louis XVI.
was Procureur Syndic of the Commune of Paris, an
loflice similar to that of Recorder in England. ' M.lO
Procureur Manuel, however, was guillotined. The
present Patriot of that name was a short time in the
French army, but was afterwards called to the Bar,
and exercised the profession of an. Advocate at Aix,
in Provence. It watt there he became acquainted
with the celebrated Fouche, during his banislinteat
from Paris by Napoleon, in 814 and 1812.
Duriug the hundred days M. Manuel *Ls a !tim-
ber of the Chamber of Deputies, and displayed much •
eloquence; but was neither a friend to Napoleon I.
nor to Napoleon 11. 'His object was tt • estublialt a
Repubiia. After the King's restoration, he was
exiled, and went to Brussels, where he resided a
year. When he was permitted to return to France,
he repeatedly but vainly solicited to be received as
an Advocate at Paris.
There are many who arc acquainted with the
abominable trash that is sold in many little shops
for tea, but may be ignorant of the immense extent.
to which the system of adulteration of this now al.
most necessary article of life is carried. A botanical
correspondent informs us, that he examined a por- .
tion of tea purchased at Brighton, which he found
composed of a mixture of leaves, scarcely half a du.- •
sett of which agreed in their botanical description ter
those of the tea shrub.
Extract from the agent at Smyrna, dated January .
15 :—The Flora and Lovely Anis 'have returned
tiom Napoli di Romania, the Greeks not havitg
permitted them to enter. The Faira, in attempting,'
was fired upon from a Greek battery, and the mate
killed. The garrison of Napoli di Romania has
snce surrentlaeil to the Greeks by capitulation.—
His Majesty's frigate was there at the tine, and
Captain Hamilton was applied to%y the Greek. chief ,
to prevent the capitulation being broken by )tis
troops, whom be was.fearful„ from their being ex-
asperated, would massacre all the 'furls, in number
about 4,000. Capt. Hamilton succeeded in saving
the whole, 500 of whom he brought here in ilia
Camblian, and the remainder he catered to be em-
barked in Greek vessels, to be landed at Scalanuva,
and its neighbourhood. The Turks were obliged to
capitulate from want of provisions, about '2,000 had
died in the garrison from let:nine."
A letortrom Marseilles, dated Feb.'?,, at tees,
that some Greeks, who had been driven out of Ras..
sia, had just arrived from Odessa, after an over-land
journey of nine months. Several of their companions
had died on the way. Their ititcntion was to em-
bark fur Leghorn, and thence to proceed to th:ir
native country.
Captain Sabine, who- accompanied Captain Parry
as astronomer in his voyage to Melville Island, pro-
ceeds directly to Spitsbergen, for the purpose of
making observations for determining the true figure
of the earth, similar to those lie has already malts
on the coast of Africa, the West Indies, slid America.
The Griirr gun-brig is fitting out at Deptford for
the conveyance of Captain Sabine.
PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 13.—Last night arrilleir
the Samos transport, Lieutenant Church, R.N., scent, franc
Darbadoes, which she kit on the 13th February. Commodore
Owen's squadron hail been separated in a heavy gale of wind off
Lisbon, in cons.quence of which the Forte. Sir Thos. Cochrane,
Blltctte, Capt. Leith, Ed-n, Capt. Lawrence, and raloromi.
Capt. Murray. arrived at Barbadoes before the Commodore. and
immediately began refitting and watering, On the arrival attic
Commodore, the above slaps, with the Serinam. Captnin Cro:e.
and Icarus, Captain Watkins, on the West India station, were
orderer' instantly to sea, with sealed orders, and at sunset they
were nearly ought of sight. steering different courses. The Cain-
inoilatejn the Gloceater, with the Plioeton,.Captain Start, *sic
relining in Carlisle Day, Barbadoes, and anxiously looking foe
a cutter from England ; they were telegraphing every sairrhaa,
hove in sight. The French squadron had sailed three days pr.or •
from Martinique, consisting of a flush 61, with a round stern..
and nine other sail; destination unknown.
Letters from Monte Video of the 29th of Nov..
announce the arrival of the Imperiahsquadrou from
Rio de Janeiro, consisting of two frigates and a
sloop of war, which are to convoy the troops across
the Line, in order that they might not go' to Bahia. •
Commodore Lobo had joined the Impsrial rq.tatlron.-
The Spanish corvette La Cazelda was launched
at Carthagena on the 16th ult.
Nuts (when they become dry and the kernels shrivel-
led) may, by rooms/ hailing wader is, them, and le -
•hig them reniaitr in it twehe hoot's, I,e made fresh, sad
, t.te acruell full and firm as when first gartered.

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