The Sun.
London, England, 1824-09-06 00:00:00

support of that most distinguished, liberal, and
patriotic. Statesman, the late Duke of PORTLAND.
•If these remarks are inserted in your Paper,
I shall most probably send .you in a few days
some observations on JOHN BULL'S attack on Mr.
LUSUINUTON, 'Master of the Grown Office, and
Chairman of the Colonial 'Audit Board. To this
latter I3oard it is well known that the Editor of
John Bull bears no affection : it was, however, to
be expected that he would in his Editorial capacity
have recollected, " that the lip of truth shall- be
established for ever, but that a lying tongue is
" only for a moment," before he ventured to
insinuate to the • world that the fines for libels
for which he had paid were withheld either by
the Master of the Crown Office or the Senior
Clerks in it ; when he must of his own know-
ledge have been aware, that fines and money paid
into Court are alwayS paid over, and that the
same is entered in a book kept at the office for
public inspection.

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British Col Fe-house, sepAty6,liliiP2o4.TTEß, the Younger.

SIR THOMAS MAITLAND.

.• (From the John Hullof yesterday.)
ccThe following we copy from a MattaGazette,
of June the 2d ; it has been published already in the London
Papers,, but we were not aware that it was attributed to
Lord Belo-sr—we have received 170Siiire itfibrnianini that it
was actually the production of his Lordship, and when his poli-
tical connexion with the Greeks and his strenuous adVocacy of
their cause are considered, such a tribute to the merits and vir-
tues of Sir TitoSIAS MAITLAND cannot fail to be highly satis-
factory to his surviving friends and admireri:—
" It had been suited in the Frankfort Gazette, that when the
news of the death of Sir THOMAS MAITLAND reached Misso-
longhi the town was illuminated for two days. The Teleg.ralo
Grecio of the 17th of April last, published at Missolonght,
in
noticing this report, gives the following article, which we un-
derstand is from the pen of the late lamented Lord BYTtorr
Not only is it false that there were public rejoicings at
Missolonghi on the death of Sir THOMAS MAITLAND, the
Lord High Commissioner"of his Britannic Majesty, but the
idea of such a thing never entered into the head of any one.
" If the Greeks suared in some things from his conduct
during the first years of their glorious struggle, they are sen-
sible of the difficult and arduous nature of the situation he
filled as the Chief British Authority in the lonian Islands, and
of the necessity under which he was orregulating his proceed-
ings agreeable to the policy and instructions of his own Govern-
ment.
" But the Greeks too arc ready to;confess, that no sooner did
a favourable change appear in the British Cabinet in respect to
them, than the conduct of Sir Thomas MAITLAND on the
spot was free front all hostility to their cause; and even sup-
posing they bad reason to complain of Sir THOMAS Al Arr.
LAND, when lie was gone, they had nothing to do but
observe silence, and last of all would they have indulged in
whit can only be considered as low and infamous revenge ;
and if there' be any persons who suppose that the Greeks could
be actuated by other sentiments than these, and at the same
time give themselves out as friends of the Greek cause, all that
they can say is, that they blush for such friends.
" It is true that some persons were found, through ignorance
or some more unworthy motive, to raise a cry against the Go-
vernment of the late Sir THOMAS MAITLAND. We are, how.
ever, authorized by a distinguished person who visited the
lonian. Islands, as strongly prepossessed as possible against that
Goren:trent, to declare that the whole qf the accusations to its
prejudice rested on nu for whatever—that UNDER THE
AUSPICES OF SIR THOMAS MAITLAND THOSE ISLANDS
WERE FAIL MORE FLOURISHING 'THAN OTHER COUN-
TRIES WHICH ARE SAID TO UR IN A MOST PROSPEROWS
STATE, AND TnAT HIS sYsTErt OF GOVERNMENT WAS
PERHAPS THE BEST THAT COULD BE IMAGINED FOR
UR lONIANS."