The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-22 00:00:00

lONIAN ISLANDS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sia,—My attention has been directed to a or'
respondence between Lord C. Fitzroy and Mr. All'
Villetta Calichiopulo, which appeared in the Morn-
ing Herald of the 7th of last month. Upon the quer
Lion therein raised respecting Mr. Valetta's character,
I have no wish to intrude myself farther than by
serving that Mr. Valetta's concluding lettL'r to Let,
Fitzroy will, of course, be treated with the centempl
deserves ; but I cannot, as an lonian, aDd
tba
not allow to piss without anitnadvcrsion
charge of " faction, and an anti-British feeling," 1119,1'
nuated in this letter against mycountrymen, by "%sty;
ever persons, however noble or however unwo,-tbY, t"a
charge may be made. For myself and my countrYlo6/
(and I speak the sentiments of the first and most in"'
ential men) I fearlessly and solemnly declare, that theta
exists not in our breasts one thought inimical to the
teres of Greot Britain, of whose protection We Ar:
proud, and of whose government, when well direcOul
we arc always ready gratefully to acknowledge tile
benefits. We, the " factious," as we are called br,
Mr. Valetta, complain that we have been deltic'
a participation in the liberal institutions of furf
protectors ;—that from us the light of learning and °
a free press has been shut out ; that our religioall
rites have been interfered with ; that we have been de
nied the use of eur language in public proceedingt:
and that, owing to injurious misrepresentations,
most enlightened, veocrable, and virtuous, of our
zees have been officially persecuted or banished, 14°
men of damaged character, to speak in the least der
sive terms, have been promoted to offices of boll
and allowed to degrade us in the eyes of England ap
of Europe, as the " public functionaries" of the loo°
Islands.
Such have been our complaints ; and that its Willi!
them we have not been " factious " is proved hY, tA";
success of our remonstrances. Lord John Russell u,"
Glares, in his despatch of Dec. 21, 1839, " That we 'ir-r
entitled to the consideration of a more liberal pawl '°,,f
our government. The want of this is the sottice
our grievances, which have been urged more strangil
-on the attention of the Home Government by the eg,;
traordinary arbitrarily system of policy pursued by
' Howard Douglas.
For myself, Mr. Editor, humble individual as I
I find that I have not been sufficiently so to escape t";
indignation of those who have sought to oppress
country, in the person of the best and most enlighte3(.
of her citizens—and calumnies the most atrocious, 'II
manner the most mischievously insidious, have be%
launched against me far my disinterested interference
lonian matters. To me, from long residence among Y°o
an Englishman in feeling and in habits, such attacks are
ridiculous as they would be:contemptible and hartnliSliw's
ti;; not to my extreme surprise and regret, had imPal,t:i,
to then, somewhat of an official character by the b.iles
station of the personages who, I speak it to their 513„dild
have made use of the delegated dignity of their ?P`,.°o
rank, to strengthen the force of an expersian of
personal enmity to myself fur having, in my celll)tligli
cause, and from no private motives, crossed thCtr r

and opposed their machinations.
I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your obedient humble servant,
Colonial Club, Jan. 18, 1841. AN lONIArb-