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victims of notorious injustice and treachery. They
miglo justly say, England stood forth in the lute war
as the chompiou of the rigliteof ad, sod particularly
the weaker; but io our case she ha. forgot and disree
gsrd.d all these principles. The. Naide Lord then
proceeded to describe the ciresiorstauces of the
Treaties of 1800 and 1815, by the latter of which the
lonian Islands, with which Pargu lied been connected
its goverumeut,had come wider the power of England,
but we regret to say that here, and in several parts
of his speech, the noise in the House was so great
as to render a hat fell from him uniiittliigi hie in the
Gsllery. In the former Treaty, he said, a clause
bed been introduced providing that the civil right.
of the Parganiotes should he secured, and that their
religion should remain unviolated. In that of 1815,
when the lonian Islands were to be given up to
England, tor mention was made of Parga ; and
therefore it was held to be excluded from the be.
nefits of it, and given up to Ali Pacha as the officer
of Turkey. They requited, that if they were still
to continue under the 'miser of Turkey. the new
Treaty should be construed with reference to the
Treaty of 1800, and that the same protection should
be still afforded them which was recognized in
its provisions. But they were told no, that the pro-
visions of that Treaty had long since been abro-
gated. And true it was that they were abrogated.
for they soon found themselves compelled to abandon
their homes and houses, and places of religious ,
worship. As yet he had said nothing of the Me-
morial which lie wished to have laid before the
House. and which related to the species of 'intern.
slily claimed by the natives of [Jorge for their losses,
which prayed a full compensator, for the injury
they had sustained in the necessary abandonment of
the property and rights secured to them unfits the
Treaty of 1800, and which they had never yet been
able to effect. They considered themselves entitled
to about one hundred thousand pounds snore than
they received. The Commissioners appointed by this
country to estimate the valor of the property given
up, had admitted the Turks, the buyers, to assist in
the estimation, hut excluded the Parganiotes, the
owners, from any share. The sum fixed on was at
first considerably reduced; the nest step was, that
the, money was withheld so hog as to subject the
Parganiotes to• the greatest inconvenience and dis-
tress. They wished to obtain a spot on which
to build a new town, but were *hewn a si-
tuation so totally bare and barren, that it
wits impossible a town erected ou it could be
inhabited. The Noble Lord then adverted to the
complaints which had been advanced against Sir
T. Maitland, the governor of the linden !slate's.
He was aware that that officer stood in a very de:i-
care and difficult a situation. Ile was now at the
head of a constitutional government, but he was at
the head of it with a very large armed force, which
was able to put down and crush all symptoms of
popular discontent or dissatisfaction with his go-
vernment, and he was therefore it, the situation of
a constitutional Kin!, without the usual checks
on the conduct of such a ruler. Ile had some
time back given his opinion, that certain local
taxes might he levied without the consent of the
House of Commons, the sanction of the King and
Privy Council having been obtained for the purpose;
lie would now call their attention to the adminis-
tration of the internal affairs of these people. After
enumerating wine, oxen, and other articles which
were the objects of taxation, he called the attention
of the Right Hon. Gentleman opposiie (the Chas:-
cellor of the Excheciti-r) to the ingenuity which
contrived that water should be an article of taxa-
tion.—(Henr.l—The inhabitants were called upon
to pay a tax of a dollar a month on all their wells,
and the same sum on their fountains. The most
flourishing account of the improved state of the
revenue was transmitted by Sir Thomas Maitland,
though it appeared he had cons.oh rahly advanced
the salaries of all public officer'. for the pur;anse,
us he said, of securitee a more efficient performance
of their duties. But it was singular, when this
improved state of reveille was talked of, England
should have to pay a part of the public expenses.
Pans formed a part of an independent republic
which oui4lit to maintain its own establishments,
and yet iti the estimates of last year, as well as
the present, there were several very large items
for the lonian Wands. When he spoke of the
administration of those Islands, he begged to
speak of Sir Thomas 51aitland with the greatest
respect ; he knew him to be a very able mail, and
to have conducted himself as such ; no person
was better fitted for his situation.—(Hear, hear.)
—But lie could not help observing that Sr
Thomas, who was the brother of one of the most
able political economists (the Earl of Lauderdale),
did act contrary to the principle advocated by his
Noble relative ripen such subjects, and take into
his hands a monopoly of the article of corn ia Corfu
—(Hear)—!le made it a Government monopoly.
Ile was aware that previously there was a mono.
poly its the hoods of some merchants at Corfu, butt
Sir Thomas Maitland should rather have broken
down that monopoly, than acted upon it in the
new state of affairs. Sir Thomas had not also ac.
ceded to the wish loudly expressed by the inhabi.
tants fur a reform in their constitution. Ilia an-
swer was, that he would not snake any alteration
of the constitution to suit theoretical opinions,
but would patiently abide practical 'tool's. This
was rather a ringlike declaration, when it was 1111
derstood that the constitution of this government
was new. it being only in existence since 1817.
It was, therefore, quite o new broached theory in
itself, and if refortnettou was necessary, there were
none of the prejudices of old establishments to
prevent its being speedily introduced. The Noble
Lord concluded by ntoviiig—
That, fur the purpose of haring the wholefaets of the ease
before Parliament, ea humble Address be presented to his
Majesty, prayin;„ that by would be graciously pleased to lay
b. fore the House a Copy of the Memorial presented by the
natives of Parga to the Secretary of Stale for the Colonial
Department, together with she accompauying documents.
Mr. Gout.suam said he now rejoiced that after
neatly two years of the grossest misrepresentations
sod misconceptions upon this subyct, an opportu.

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