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London, England, 1825-08-19 00:00:00

TilE LONDON JOURNALS.

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Extracts from Vie ?turning Papers, Aug. 19, 1525.

['MORNING POST.]
.P.e report which we noticed yesterday has
since been so strongly confirmed, that scarcely
any doubt is now entertaioed of an arrangement
having been made between some Gentlemen
friendly to the Greeks and Lord Cochrane, by
which the services of his Lordship have been se-
cured to the noblest cause in which it is possible
for a man to triumph or to fall. It is said, but
less confidently, that Sir Robert Wilson is also
engaged in the same cause ; and whilst two
steam-vessels, and eventually two ships of the•
line, to be purchased of a Northern Power, are
mentioned as the means to be placed at the dis-
posal of the former, it is rumoured that the latter
will have the command of a corps of 3 or 4,000
volunteers of different nations, who are ready to
enlist under an experienced Chief. The expence,
it is added, will be covered by a sum of 300,0001.
which is already raised ; and some accounts go
so far as to say that Lord Cochrane is going to
Scotland to settle his affairs, and will sail imme-
diately on his return. The expedition is to be
called the Auxiliary Expedition,and the condition
on which his Lordship is said to have accepted
its command is, that his operations will be
unrestricted. The whole plan and the means
for carrying it into effect, were developed,
we are told, at the house of Sir Francis Bur-
dett; and the confidence which it has pro-
duced is so great that the discount on Greek
Scrip is rapidly diminishing. It is remarkable that
in this instance, all parties unite in expressing
the same opinion of Lord Cochrane's courage and
abilities, and' the same exultation at the idea of
seeing them displayed against the Ravagers of
Greece. This is equally honourable to his Lord-
ship, and to the nation which sends him forth as
the delegated 'Minister of its sympathy towards
Patriots and Christians, and of its wrath and in-
dignation against Barbarians and Destroyers.

ETHE PUBLIC LEDGEICI
The news from Greece in the French Papers
is, as usual, wholly unworthy of credit; and we
are often surprised how and where they pick up
the palpable absurdities, which they almost uni-
formly furnish under this Dame. However, we
possess intelligence, through other channels,
which clears away the obscurity in which the af-
fairs of that country have been involved of late.
In the first place, we have advices by the way of
Ancona, from Corfu and Zante, the fromer to the
List, and the latter to the 17th, neither of which
contains the least allusion to the pretended cap-
ture of Ibrahim Paella. The German Paper in
which they appear, infers, from this omission,
that the report of his capture, is " wholly unde-
serving of credit ;" and as the Paper is remark-
able for its partiality to the Greeks, which
it has often carried to tin excess that dis-
tinguished the blind partiian more than the
judicious frierd, its opinion in this instance
is the more remarkable. However, The Aus-
trian Observer of the 6th contains posi-
tive information of the falsehood of a rumour,
which has made so many dupes in this country,
notwithstanding the warning voice which we
raised more than once. After the repulse whiCh
the Pacha sustained at Napoli, which appears
to have been greatly exaggerated, he retreated
on Argos.) which he reached with very little loss,
and then made good his retreat as far as Tripo-
lizza, by the same defiles through which he had
passed a few days before. As the Greeks did
not occupy these defiles, it chews, either the
roost culpable remissness, or an alarming want
of military means, on their part; and, if Colo-
cotroni had really any force worth speaking of
under his command, he must stand convicted
either of cowardice or treachery. Whilst Ibra-
him Pasha was at Tripolizza in the centre of
his resources, the expedition of 6,000. Arnauts,
which arrived at Nayarit, ors the sth ult. lost no
time, it would appear,at that place, but proceded
immediately to join him. As he would thus re-
ceive, besides a powerfel reinforcement of troops,
the stores be might stand in need of, there was
nothing to prevent him from renewing the
attack on Napoli, and with the probability of a
result vary different from that of the former at-
tempt. In the menu time, the fleet of the Cap-
tain Pasha, which had conveyed the 6,000 Ar-
nauts to Navarin, sailed, unmolestod by the
Greek fleet which was in sight, for Patras and
Missolonghi, where it arrived on tit,- 10th ; and
this, there is every reason to fear, was the signal
for the surrender of that important place, as it
was _ascertained that the garrison had been re-
dated before to a state of the greatest difficulty.
Under tl►ese circumstances, it is extremely doubt-
ful whether Lord Cochrane will be able to reach
the scene of action in sufficient time to be able to
repair the disasters,, and ruise the fainting spirits
of the Greek:.

:HORNING HERALD.]
It wag probably a fortunate 'circumstance that
in the order of events the recognition of the in-
dependence of St. Domingo by France did not
actor at the moment when ferment and insurrec-
tion prevailed in our West India Colonies. Even
now it is not without its danger, especially to the
neighbouring island of Jamaica, the largest by
far, and most important of our West India
Islands.• It is not to be supposed that the African
slaves in Jamaica are not fully aware, by the
earliest occasion, of a transaction so important,
and to them so interesting, among their brethren
of the same race in iin island, the opposite shore
of which is almost within their horizon; They

form absurd notions of the more distant and com-
plex Parliamentary Government of England ;
but they will have correct and practical notions of
whatis Tossing in St. Domingo. The late attempt
of the slaves in Jamaica was even traced, in a
greater or less degree, to emissaries from St. Do-
mingo. The proud superiority of Negro freedom
and independence is a dangerous neighbour to
Negro bondage. A new commonwealth of free
and independent Africans in the midst of our
Slave Colonies—actuated, no doubt, like other