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the Nobility of their positessions. We always
thought that, our, Government would not assist
the Spanish people under such a fortri Of Govern-
ment. indeed, we should have thought both the
King, the Lords, the rich Commons, and the
Clergy of England, little short of crazy bad they
supported a Oovertunent in Spain that would
have set such an example of revolution. The '
Spanish American question is quite another
thing. In this, King, Lords, rich Commons, and
the Clergy of England, have a material interest ;
for the more England prospers in trade, either with
South America or any part of the world, the
more are the revenues of those Estates likely to
increase as a consequence. As to the justice of
our helping these colonies to maintain themselves
against the mother country, that is out of the
question. It is our interest to help them, and
there can be little doubt we shall help them.—
For when interest is at stake, we almost alitays
see that, whetlier nationally or individually, it
gets the upper hand of abstract justice—and in-
deed our education leads to it.

PRESS. j
ACCOUnt3 from Smyrna to the Sth of Septem.

ber (contained in the Spectateur Oriental, pub-
lished in that city under the sabre of the Turkish
Government, and therefore always to be received
with great distrust), state that domestic trea-
son had tainted the Greek cause, and that
thirteen Members of that Government were
arrested, and lying is dungeous, convicted of
treason ; among whom were the hitherto valiant
Colocotroni and his son. They were betrayed, it
is alleged, by their spies, who were, recognised,
and forced to confess the treason. A secret cm,

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respondence, it adds, was fOund on the parties ar,
rested, which leaves no doubt of their treason.—
What it object was, whether a secret treaty, by
which the Moroi was to be opened to the
Turkish bands, or domestic intrigues of a less
dangerous description, to change the Govern-
ment, this paper does'not think proper to state;
it merely mentions that the Greek. Government,
in the absence of Colocotroni, had appointed
Prince ,Maurocordato Vice-PreSident ; that the
farmer resisted the appointmeht, and threatened
the Senate with force, unless it was rescinded
that the Prince, feeling his life in danger, fled in
disguise to Hydra ; but Colocotroni, not satisfied
with his absence, followed up his threats, by enter-
ing with menace the Hall of the Senate, where he
was instantly arrested. It appears, according to
the Turkish Paper (a bad authority, however),
that the fallen Chief was equally unpopular
with the Senate. ,and People. lie is charged, it
adds, with, having embezzled the public trea-
sures taken at Tripolizza, Napolia di Romania,
and other places, to the ,monstrous amount of
thirteen millions—a most improbable acconnt,
where the Greeks were in such want of resources,
and' would naturally keep a jealous eye on
such treasure. In one part of this Paper it is
stated that Missolonghi was closely blockaded
by the.; Turks by sea, and .by 15,00 Q Alba-
uians by land ; and that it wassprobable it W'ould
not bold out lung. En another perai;raphit 'sub-
sequently states that the place was not taken,
and was so well fortified and defended, that it
would not easily be subdued by force. Does the
Turkish paper hint it might by treachery ? It
adds that the: plague was then raging on board
the Turkish fleet, which had set sail in dismay
for
,Constantinople, ,and it then, quotes a letter
from Corfu, of the 18th September,' which states
that the plague bad also obliged. the Turks to
raise the. siege of Missolonghi, and that the army
of the mercenary, Albanians of Jussuf Paella, was
almost entirely in a rout, and dishat4ded. A
part of the fleet of the barbarians, it appears, was
seen on the. coast ,of Samos. by .an Austrian
captain, followed by the G reek fleet ; a
heavy carmouae,e was also heard for Sere..
rat hours, which probability ended in the
capture and destruction of severalof.the Turkish
vessels ; but, the *ccfateur Orientol I±4ll not give
that intelligence, and closes the paragtapli by
saying the result was not knoWn. is well for
the Greeks that they have such an enemy. as
the brutal , Ottomaa, whom even fatal expe-
rience cannot teach, and whose etforts they
are every day rising superior. We should be
sorry to see domoslic discoid and treason taint the
great and interesting cause of the Greeks : united
they now must eventually triumph; The dis-
jointed fabric of Ottoman despotism' is .tumbling
to the earth, and the Doric Tetitple of Grecian
Liberty is rising fast in its place, and its
worshippers and supporters daily Increasing.---
The 'furl( has strnck, his last blow. at
Greece and failed, aed he will attempt it,
we think, no [mire. Ills last expedition has
closed as disastrously as the former. It would
be melancholy to see the rising freedorn of
Greece, which resisted the force of its barbarian
foe, fall before the dagger of domestic treason ;
but we hope a far different fate is, under the be-
hest orPrevidence, in sfore.•for that fine and in-
teresting people, the history of whose great an-
se is so immortal.

A chapel of that sect known in the provinces qs
the ft.inters, was opened last Sunday,in the Broad-
way, Westminster ; the only instance of the kind
in London, though by no means uncommon in the
north of &gland. These people receive their
designation from uttering the most piercing
shrieks and screams in their devotions, similar to
the Neapolitans at the exposure of the blood of
St. Jattuarius, when, upon a certain day annually,
it changes from a solid to a liquid state. A great
number of people had aisembled the Sunday pre-
vious but were disappointed in the opening, on
account of the license not having been procured.
The preacher stood upon a tub turned upside
down, and rested his hands upon the back of a
chair, which contained the necessary vniume. He
delivered a discourse of some merit, and after..
wards stated that the characteristics of their sect
was an epdeavour at the most scrupulous confor-
mity with the manners and practices of the ear-
liest Christians ; for that purpose: they
ltleyhis aries
litatl:e;
fPre assembled in the open air, but
and im'prisonment prevented a repetition of this,
and caused the opening of this chapel. The pre-
sent Meeting passed off with decorum. A lady
' preached in the afternoon.