The Sun.
London, England, 1824-02-13 00:00:00

LONDON VACCINE INSTITUTION.

Yesterday the Governor and Members o this
Institution net at the City of London Tavern,
for the purpose of niceiving the Annual Report.

to have taken the Chair, but in
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consequence obliged to preside at the Court of
Common Council, the Chair was taken by W. D. CORDELL,
Esq.
The ut N said, in addressing the Meeting, that the
reporitmCZAdglivAegreatsatisfaction to the friends of humanity,
although prejudice still continued to be the means, unfortunate-
ly, of sacrificing the lives of thousands.
Dr. WALx ER read the report. It stated that the benefits of
vaccination were diffused to theinhabitants of every land, but in
this metropolis the.fonlites of the small-pox still lurked amongst
the
i ignorant prejudiced part of the population-774 per-
sols fell
ivie andtho
victims to
tothe dreadful disease in the course of the
last year within the hills of mortality, and the deaths of many
are not included in those annual registers of departure from
life. The Managers continued to watch the departure of ves-
sels to foreign nations as well as to all the British colonies, and
continued to afibrd supplies of the vaccine ichor for the pro-
tecting the colonies from the 'small-pox. During the last year
there had been vaccinated by Dr. Walker 3,236 persons ; by
the appointed innoculators in the metropolis and its environs,
18,987; by the appointed innoculators in the country, 21,664;
from the beginning, by Dr. Walker, 52,116 ; from the begin-
ning, by the town innoculators, 185,235 ;•• from the beginning,
by the country innoculators, 4114,893. Dr. Walker has supplied
from the beginning 98,850 applicants. The receipts of the in-
stitution since the last year's report amounted to 857/. 16s. ;
the disbursements to 1,0671. 198. 3d. ; balance against the In-
stitution, 2001. 3s. 3d. The receipts of the Institution since
its formation, in 1806, amounted to 11,830/., the disbursement
to 11,9171. ss. 3d.
Dr. WALKER stated, that the Prussian Minister of State,
Count Hertsberg, had observed, that in times when, from causes
without example, the numbers of the human race were dimi-
nished, the consideration of greatest importance was, that the
more general the adoption of vaccine inoculation became, the
more practicable would it be to keep up the complement of the
necessary armies. Dr. Huhn laid before the Minister of the In-
terior of Russia, Count Kotschuby, a plan whereby, through
a more general extension of vaccination,the ravages of the small-
pox in Russia might finally be exterminated, and be the means
• of preserving half a million of men to combat the enemy. A 15th
of the population of Russia, amounting to 2,200,000,were suscep-
tible of the small-pox : the mortality of 1-sth of those from the
small-pox amounted to 440,000. If the loss of a child in Russia
be estimated as it was at 25 roubles, the State lost by the dis-
ease 11,000,000 of roubles vaccination assured this sum to the
state, or 440,000 effective men. Dr. Walker read extracts from
several medical men in other countries, descriptive of the never-
failing efficacy of vaccination, who stated that for many years
they were in the habit of testing the efficacy of the vaccine
virus by exposing their patients to the variolous matter, and in
no case was the small-pox commucated to the constitution.
The report was then unanimously approved and adopted.
The CHAIRMAM, in proposing the thanks to Dr. 'Walker,
complimented the venerable Doctor upon his. perseverance,
zeal, and skill, and observed that the system had immensely
benefitted by his exertions.
Thanks were then voted to the President, Vice-Presidents,
and Managers of the Institution ; and the Meeting separated,.

THE GREEKS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN•

Sut—As a diligent, though insignificant la-
bourer is constructing that glorious edifice, the
Independence of Greece, r beg to request the
insertion of some remarks on the furious, not to
say frantic, tirade against the Greek Patriots,
which formed the leading article in an Evening
Paper of yesterday. The little I have to observe
will at least be the protest of one individual
against a most unwarrantable conclusion drawn
from some suspicious assertions.
The Reasoner's discourse, like a weapon in
Otaheite, consists of two ponderous arguments
intended to give weight to a flimsy string of corn-
moi place verbiage.
aYs'far as I can reduce his meaning to any thing
like logical precision, one stone which he whirls
about our ears is this :—Some Greek individuals
are said to have displayed ferocity, therefore the
whole nation consists of savages, who ought to be
exterminated. The other stone tied to his ropy
texture, is this :—The wickedness of the whole
-Greek nation being thus proved ; he is willing
to concede, that it is owing to the long oppres-
sion of Turkey, and thence triumphantly argues,
that it is both right and expedient to perpetuate
the cause of the evil.

So much for the Evening Paper's judicious
defence of the Porte. I now conic to his eulo-
gism of Sir Thomas Maitland. I shall not pay
the customary tribute of palaver about " not
warring with the ashes of the dead." A public
character is immortal in his responsibility, and
his being no longer able to feel pain from re-
marks, which public justice requires, is a very
refined reason for withholding them. But I do
feel the reluctance springing from private ac-
quaintance, in assailing his memory., sas I have
felt it in attacking his conduct ; and ate. there-
fore, doubly provoked at the officious blunderer,
who will not suffer his name to be embabned in
the remembrance of the many services he ren-
dered his country ; but must needs taint it with
the perpetuated recollection of one great political
error. Mine is not a pen dipped in that gall
which an ill-timed defence may perhaps call
forth from others ; and I will therefore willingly
suppose that Sir T.'S hostility to the Greek cause
was prompted solely by a paradoxical view of our
national interest, by miscalculation in not fore-
seeing the success of the Greeks, and perhaps by
personal pique, rather than political steadiness,
lly
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people c tti
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language
to e aw itirtt
winch he ephaedn dent
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matized those early efforts which he regarded as
a hopeless revolt.
I turn my reprehension with pleasure to the
Evening, Paper's Logician, who denies the phrase
attributed to the Proclamation, " a man called M.
gives as the true reading, "a
''h'imself Prince Mauro-Cordato ;"
drawing a distinction without a
difference.--The essi I:: I:1 Xittis:tineYr.di—l'ilit''';;ltl el twotriumphantly
phrases seem equally con-
et mptuous, and either of them might pass for a
pretty close translation of the original passage ;
but if there is a shade of difference, the paper's
version is the most offensive, for it implies that
Mauro-Cordato is the impostor, not entitled to
the rank he assumes ; whereas, that given in the
Morning Chronicle,_ might be explained away as
mere verbal ankwardness ; an excuse which the
lumbering language of the whole Proclamation
would, perhaps, render credible. From the
Evening paper I MD naturally led to The Corfu
Gazette, and to its words The Turks, on the
other hand, have been much more honourable
ith us," &c. I have in my hands the means
of proving the utter falsehood of this assertion,
and I shall soon use them, where there shall be
sufficient space to detail them. -
I admit " the violation of neutrality"—por-
tentous wc:rds 1 which, however, mean only the
neglect of one of the technicalities of interna-
tional law, which " the savages" and " demons"
should have doubtless studied in Gronovius
and Puffendorf ; but I deny its having been
I " gross and unprovoked." The Greeks say
that they were first fired on by the Turks
from the shore ; and thus far it is only asser-
tion met by assertion. The public will soon
learn the almost incredible forbearance with
which the Greeks have repeatedly treated En-
glishmen who violated neutrality, and in so doing
inflicted deadly evil on Greece, and perhaps
they will then look with indulgence on this illegal
act of the Greeks. But the Evening Paper talks
of scenes " which, had they not been sent us by
an eye-witness, we could not, for the credit of
Christianity, have believed."
It is not the possibilit3 of the scenes, but the
credit of the v-itness which I should doubt. The
Spanish campaigns have taught us what a perse-
cuted peasantry will do ; and alas', how unavail-
ing are the efforts of our own humane officers to
restrain every ruffian who may disgrace the ranks
of even a British army.
The consistent Cortlote correspondent, who is
" minute in the details," but yet " will not dwell
upon all the circumstances," lest " he should
strike the reader with horror," (mark the sly
a 2 crOCCI:7Tic of better sophists) has a most sus-
piciously accurate eye-sight, seeing " the bodies
on the decks of the Turkish vessel trampled not
on—but into" which, as the Greeks sunk their
prize as soon as they had plundered her, he must
have seen from the shore and probably through
the bulwark. •
When I daily see on all sides the exaggeration
of domestic murders, merely for the sake of mak-
' ing horrors more horrible; when I remember
• the misrepresentation of which the Greeks have
been the sicarns, I am warranted in suspecting
exaggeration from the English Commercial Agents

in the Levant, because they, and they. only,
have an interest in the destruction of Grecian

Freedom.

But, admitting for a moment that these details
are true, they exhibit rather fury than cruelty.
Are the Greeks charged with perfidy, with lor-
turing, or with murdering prisoners ? The dead
bodies are stated to have been " mangled and
trampled on," and the eye-witness ‘vonders.that
" hatred and revenge can be carried to such a
height," &c. Let him lament that there. should
be two human passions, but cease to wonder
that such hideous inmates of the heart have Peen
roused in this fearful struggle. "It is impossi-
ble (says the correspondent) to palliate for a
moment such atrocious cruelties, such barefaced.
open defiance of the lawS of an established Go-
vernment."

The cruelties I believe exaggerated, the
46 barefaced defiance" I consider as a inert ques-
tion of trespass.

The indignant eloquence of the Coijiote Cou-
rier filially dies away in the sweet small strains
of eulogium on 4' the zeal and attention of the
Commandant of the Island of Ithaca, assisted by
the officers of Sainta and Polici, and by a military
guard ;" who by appearing at the right time,
when the combat began, would hv re stopped the,
source, instead of checking the swoln torrent of
bloodshed ; finally, after we are informed that
nearly 50, being two-thirds of the Turks, are
now safe in the Lazzarett of Ithaca. Every
reader must shudder over the sufferings of every
war, but is not the proposed extermination of a
whole people a more appalling picture tha❑ the
slaughter of one-third of a crew ? To the mind's
eye there is no moral object more disgusting
than selfishness, endeavouring to skulk behind.
cast.

Thank Heaven, the very paper which will al-
most break the bruised hearts of the Patriots
with this annunciation of our ill-wishes, will cheer
them with the reported appointment of the Mar-.
quis of Hastings to the commands of Sir Thomas
Maitland. May he, in conducting that delicate
charge, as in working the vast and complicated
machinery of our Indian Empire, still combine
the generous patriotism of early Greece with the
political sagacity of the middle ages of Italy !.
May he heal the wounds inflicted on the hopes of
Greece and the honour of England! May he re-'
trieve an occasion, perhaps not wholly lost, for
virtuously extending our influence, and founding
a moral Empire in the Levant! In the language
of the land for which I plead—

El'Z'Srcot ,&EO•F".:ZY T•a6s MOIP A rapao-zoi.

I have trespassed, Sir, on your columns far
beyond what I intended, and must send you
my observations in this rough disjointed state,
that the antidote may be applied before the pub-
lic mind is saturated with calumny; before the
object of this pretended zeal for humanity and
for the memory of Sir Thomas Maitland, the de-
crying the Greek credit in the money market, is
gained. The raw-head-and-bloody-bones about
Tripolitza was before played off for this purpose,
and answered ; and when such a floorer is hit,
as (to judge from his italics and capitalists)
your literary pugilist deems his yesterday's ar-
ticle, it is but fair that the friends of Greece
should endeavour to break the force of the blow.
I am, Sir, your obedient humble servant,
A MEMBER of the GREEK COMMITTEE.
February 11, 1824.

* We have reason to believe that the fore-
going letter was witten by the son of a late dis-
tinguished ornament of literature, and the Bri-
tish Senate, and who obviously appears to possess
hereditary talents,. as well as to be animated by
au hereditary zeal for the liberties of mankind.

TO THE EDITOR.

No. 9, Essex street, Strand, Feb. 12.

SIR—I am sorry to say that your report of
this day is a gross perversion of what was done
and said at the Mary lebone Police-office, were
1 attended yesterday, with four respectable per-
sons, to prove that I did not nor ever had re-
fused to pay the four shillings per week for the
maintenance of a bastard child of Hannah
White's. lon the contrary, when Thorpe, the
messenger or parish constable, not an assistant-
overseer as you state, came with a bill for
the amount, I told him it was my wish to
see the child, which had never been shown to
me, that I might be assured that such a thing was,
really in existence, and that it was taken care of
in a manner suitable to the sum levied upon me
—4 shillings per week for its maintenance. This
said Thorpe hummed arid haed,and made four dif-
ferent appointments to produce the child, none of
which he ever kept. It therefore excited a sus-
picion, which still remains on my mind, of some
foul play to the existence of the child, which had
never been regularly produced to me, either ati
Mary-le•bone Police-office or any where else, not
even when the impudent hussey swore at Hick's-
hall that she was a modest and virtuous woman!
though in her modesty and virtue she allowed me,
a stranger, whom she did not even know by
name, to become the father of a child by her,
as she swore. I understand the woman brought
a child to Hicks's-hall, and that it was as•
dark as a mulatto, which she very warily, or
advisedly by Thorpe, left in charge of some one.
else, whilst she was examined by those wise-
acres, to whom, had the child been produced, it
would have proved to ocular demonstration,
from its complexion, &c., that it was not of my
breed.

J. W. PARKINS.

VAR IS PAP EUS.

'From the Etoik of Feb. 11.1

MA DM n, FEB. 2.—it is affirmed that the De-
cree of Amnesty will suoti be published, with the
modification§ proposed by the Council of State,
and the Council of Castile, whom his Majesty
consulted on the subject. We doubt not but
the wisdom of those respectable bodies will
'homy how to class the individuals concerned
with j.sstice 'and firmness. We have always said
that it was 'ttecet,ary to distinguish the Revolu-
tenl,ts sho elitiPti the Revolution from those who
were Mild*. by the Revolution. There is also a
distinction to be made in this last class. We
know some of those men do ho in the provinces
loudly declared against the insurrection in the
isle of Leon, who in the Municipalities opposed
certain individuals who favoured the revolt (some
of these have since slide(' into the ranks of the
Royalists), and who did not yield till the Revo-
lutionary Government was established, after the
extorted oath of the King.

It is affirmed, that by his Majesty's order the
proceedings commenced against persons confined
for political misdemeanours will be discontinued
in a fortnight.
Letters from Lisbon, of the 26th of January,
say, that the Constitutional party continues- to
intrigue against the heroic Charlotte of Bourbon,
whom this party abhors, because that courageous
Queen was the chief cause of the destrurtion of

that infamous faction in Portugal. They have
gouc so far as to pretend that she covered with
her credit and protection projects too odious to
be even expressed.
The Marquess de Talaru will set out in a few
days to return to France.
(From the Journal des D42t8.)
The Spanish Government has it fact just re-
cognised a debt of 34 millions to France ; but it
-is not true that it has appropriated to the pry-'
nest of this debt any public products or revenues
of Spain. It is a simple recognition without secu-
rity, and even without any indication of future
means of payment. When all the details of our
interference in the affairs of Spain shall be known,
and the convention for the stay of the French
troops in Spain shall have been signed and
brought under public notice, it will be seen on
what a generous principle France has acted in
this memorable enterprise.
ZAN T Jay. B.—( Private correspondence.)—The Philhel-
lenists of England and Germany, the venerable Clergy of both
countries, as well as a multitude of persons of distinction in
both countries, have just sent such succours to the Greeks as
they, never before received since they combated for their inde-
pendence with so much glory. Besides considerable sums of
money and ammunition, clothing, &c. we have seen here

people both wise and enlightened who were going to offer their

assistance to establish a proper administration, and a system
of economy in puhlic affairs, so as to regulate them in all
their branches. Two printing-presses have been established at
Missolongo to print the Acts of the Government ; and on the

let of January (old style) a Journal will be commenced, to be
called the Hellenic Chronicle. Thus Europe will no longer be
supplied with news only by the. Spectateur Oriental, and the
Austrian (Thscrver, which have hitherto obscured the affairs of
henceforward, every one may know what passes in
these countries, now and for ever rescued from the domination
of the Sultan. Odysseus has► made himself master of Carystos,
in the Island of Enka, and he is now besieging Erythrea. The

&ratarclues, Diainantis and Gouras, after having taken pos-

session of the fortresa of Cara Baba, which forms a tete-du-pont,
by which persons reach the island of Eubea from the Conti-
nent, have established a close blockade of Negropont. The
castle of Patras is so closely pressed that several Turkish fa-
milies hare obtained leave to retreat to Gastouni, and the
Greeks, prisoners, who were there, have been released-by the
besieged. Maurocordato has begun the siege of Lepanto and
the Castle of Cape Autirrhion, so that the whole of that part
of Western Greece will be subjected to the Cross before the
opening of the next campaign. Afterwards, if it is found con-
venient, the Greeks may act against Epirus, for the plague
which desolates Arta and Janina is so terrible, that our light
troops, who now cover the banks of the Ambracian Gulf, do
not dare to venture bepond the Mactinoros.
(From the Constitutionnet)

liAnis, FEB. lo.—The world has now before it two great
lessons in what is passing in Spain and Turkey, and the con-
formity between these two political ruins is quite exact. Turkey
is as powerless against Greece as Spain is against America, and
Spain hag no more money nor credit than Turkey. The Imans
of
.Constantinople resemble the Monks of Spain, and the
world may learn something by seeing both countries equally
destitute of power, credit and money. These two examples
are more conclusive against absolute power than a hundred
volumes. While this is the state of Spain and Turkey, England,
with her liberty and civilization, sees her Three per Cents. up
to 22, and France, with a less perfect liberty, sees her Five per
Cents. up to IN. Who, then, can cry out against liberty and
admire absolute power ? Here we see it in its native purity,
with all its elf acts.

(From the Conritr Francais.)

URUSSELS, FEB. 6.—The official translation has just been
published of the Report which the Mini:iter of Public Instruc-
tion annually makes, according to law, to the two Chambers of
the. States General. The most interesting part of this Report
is that relative to the flourishing state of the Universities. The
following is what is said:--`t At Louvainc the most laudable
efforts are made to form good philologists, who may one day be
the ornament of the At fences and Colleges in which they may

be placed. The clinical department of midwifery has received
a very useful extension. At Liege they apply themselves par-
ticularly modern history under a political point of view.
The study of the law also, as well as other branches of science,
Ate very flourishing. The legal part of medical education is
attended to with great care. At Ghent nothing is neglected,
which can tend to unite the cultivation of the fine arts and
the sciences. Mathematical instruction is excellent; several
excellent scholars have already left the schools. At Leyden,
the instruction preserves its ancient reputation, and Oriental
literature is there making great progress. At Utrecht the study
of Greek and Latin is the favourite pursuit ; and at Gronin-
gen, no expence is;,-pared to improve the . Clinical Hospital,
and to form a brilliant Academy.' At the end of the Report,
the number of Students in the 6 Universities of the Kingdom
is given, and in November they amounted to 2,127; 1;058 be-
longing to the Southern Provinces, and 14069 to the Northern.
From the developement which all sorts of instruction receives
here, it may be perceived, happily for us, that there is neither
an Beclesiastic, nor any person connected with the Jesuits, to
.preside over public instruction.
fnExcit FUNDS,'Varis, Feb. 10.—Fire per Cents opened
st !7. 40. closed at- 97.20. ; Loan of 1123,0*; Bank Stock"
171,5 ; Neapolitan Rentes, V* • Spanish Rentes, 24. Ex-
change on Load. a, 1 month, 25:45. ; 1 ditto, 25. 35.—( Cure

PARLIAMENT,

HOUSE OF COMMONS, FED. 12.

Mr. GOSSETT presented..a Petition from Truro, against,
the Coasting Coal Du ties.,
Mr. Alderman C. SMITH presented a similar Petition from
the Cordwainers' Ward, and Mr. WODEHOUSE from Norfolk.
Admiral SOTHERON presented a Petition from certain
victuallers in Newark, against the Licensing Duty Act.
Mr. JONES gave notice of a Motion fir 'Wednesday next,
on the subject of the appointment of Welsh Judges.