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snob after the cession of Mary with • lively sad
painful interest, at;cl the ill-starred people of Prig*
were very generally repriled as the victims of the
impolicy and treachery of the British Government.
This impression wsv unfortunately received with
avidity by our enemies and rival. ors the Continent,
and no event of modern times contributed more
rff.ctuolly to degrade the chronicler of Obi, country
its the estimation of foreigners. No attempt wital-
ever was made by our Government to counteract
this dangerous feeling, although, according to
Mr. Guu LIMON. the Missirters were auxioosly hop-
ing diet some favourable opportunity might present
itself fur offering to the world a justification of their
conduct. ‘l'e are, therefore. to istultrstand, that if
Lord JOHN !lessee'. had rut yesterday ev • g
beers pleased, either in pity to the Ministers of
the Crown, or that he might give expression to his
feelings of virtuosi, indigiott et the OCCOOOIS, SO
lung uncontradicted, of deliberate cruelty and
treachery. our worthy Ministers, to whom the Ins.
'sour rood fair fame of the country are undoulueilly
as much intrusted. even as the preservation of her
iisterertr, would have permitted those calumnies to
rest upon our character, and be transmitted to
posterity as correct nerratives of' what has occurred
at Pero. If Mr. GOU I.IIIU RN were NO extremely
desirous, as Ise declares liiineelf to have been, to
set the world right upon these points, it would not
hove heels very troubleronse to him, nor, co we
conceive, very inconsirtent with his dignity, were
he to have published au official statement of
the facts of the case, and have endeavoured to
exculpate England it. the opiiiism of mankind.
—Lord JOHN It ussELL'a speech was Cianded
upon the memorial of the iiihibitants of [large
to the Secretary of State for the Colonial
pertinent, and also upon the statements con-
nected with floe affairs of l'argn and of the lonian
Island., which have hitherto received credence in
consequence of their having long remained uncotr
!ratcheted ; but to very nearly all the citcurusiances
stated by Lord JOHN It USSELL, respecting the
ireainsesit of the Parganiotee by the British audio.
ritier, and tier itemfficieist mossot of the cognise's-
sailors granted to them for their !mister, Mr.
Gouteense gave a general contradiction. Ile
even took credit to the British Government fur
having obtained any compensation for the Parge.
Motes on the eurresider of their town end territory,
because, forsooth, the British garrison never hav-
ing promised to afford protection to the people.
taught have marched out of the fortress mid left the
irshabitents to their fate. This is a species of gene-
evilly which we find it difficult to comprehend.
AVe know that a British !purism, took possession of
Varga, and made a chew of defending it, and that
Ashen peace was restored, the Brinell authorities,
without consulting the wishes of the people of
Parga, undertook to surrender the town, not to the
people of raw. by whom they had beet. admitted
into it, but to their inveterate enemy, the tyrant
A t.i ; and now, forsooth, the British Government
claim credit for their generosity in having stipulat-
ed that ALI should pay the people for the property
they were about to coolies) to his authority ! Un-
doubtedly the Britirli officers might draw of the
garrison, and leave l'Arga unprotected as it was be.
Pure their arrival ; but they Olinda not, in the net
of departure, leave given notice to the Turkish Go.
verismest ado it intended removal, excited their ova.
rice by holding out the prospect of obtaitaiglg
co valuable a possesrion, and atirlitifited the activity
of the enemy by apprising him of the weakness of
the defence. We frit- that the imputation of
treachery, which is affixed hey piddle opinion to
this dark transact , oaf not be removed by Mr.
GOV LOURN'S eloquence, especially a hen it is
known that the traosfer of I'arga to the Turkish Go-
vernment was the coedition Nano which the Porte
we, at length, and with difficulty, induced to re-
cognize the supremacy of England over the repub-
lic of the Seven We vets readily !believe
that the theatrical account of the departure of the
people from Mugs, *loch appeared bOOll after the
cession was known in England. was altogether
incorrect, but at the rause time we censust doubt
that the Pargnniotes, it. leaving the I es of their
childhood and the wetter of their foodert recollec.
lions, snort have felt tier reparation reverely, and
no equivalent in money for the property relitiquirli.
rd could compensate for the bitterness of national
degradation, and the littiniliAling sense that their
isittrerte lead been sold to necoumiodate some tri-
fling object of English policy.
Sir HON AED FERGUSON postponed his motion
idative to the Nltlaii COMMIsS ttttt 110111 yesterday
evening till Thuisday next.

The Secret Committee of the House of Lords
sit yesterday fron► twelve to live o'clock. The
LORD CHANCELLOR was the only member absent.
It it, ►eptntrd that Parliament will be pro►ogued in.
a fortnight. and that the Secret Committee will
snake their Report on the day brfu►e the prom-.
gation.

A limultorgh &Lail arrived bolt night Rilh Papers
to the '4 in iu•l;rnt. The followmg ale czttactst-...

xiirvarm, awir 15.

Tbr Senate has this day laid before the Assembly of the
Citizens the rushee Act of Congrraa concluded at I..enna on
the ISth May, and inesented l 0 11w Diet on the Is of June.
for Ihr eurspletion and consolidation of the Crietan Volum.
Braun, Jvic 17.
Hit Majesty air Iler Crown Prince, Prince IVillisas,