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of arbitrary aepotism, accountable for its acts
to no human tribunal ? No ; it was punishment
inflicted by constitutional authority,_and advised
by responsible Ministers. It. was punishment,
therefore, hich, impartial minds, would
have created no oter presumption than that it
could neither be .wanton nor unmerited. It is
butler these circumstances 'that Sir Robert Wil-
son is to be indetiOfied,! As a matter of cha-
rity, if the gallant Knight be really in want of
such humiliating 'relief, far be it from us to
object to the proposed - subscription. But than
let it be .represented• as it reallx,.if, ati act of
humanity and not-one of Whilst we
are upon. this sabject,we cannot refrain from
adverting to the stai‹e .inconsistency displayed
by no less a Jor.n than the ~ present Lord Mayor
of Lone› ..1. .1t few days since this Civic Monarch
rev;.-ved an almost forgotten. branch of his Prero-
'gative, for the express pUrpose of geanting the
use of the Southwark. Town' Halt to the Friends
of Sir Robert Wilson, in opposition to all the
Borough Authorities by whom it has been de-
nied.• Yesterday, an. application Was confidently
made to his Lordship for the use of the Egyp-
tian Hall to hold a City meeting on the merits
of the gallant Knight. How astonished must
the applicants'have been to find•their suit firmly
liutd properly rejected ! They had 'no doubt
that he who could strain a- point to dispose
of the localities.--of-others against their will, was
too utnn in the cause not to grant the use of his
--owwWith-gladness when required. They have
been taught a different lesson, and his Lordship
hidisfelf will, .We 'trust, profit by the example
which he has given,. and will in future, suffer
others to act:within theiroWn districts and juri‘
dictions, as he thinkS proper to do in his ow n.

• [NEW TIMES.]
Letters-from Odessa to the 4th September have
leached. town. At-that period Baron Strogonoff
had not taketrhis departure., It- seems that some
sensation was created 1.4 the arrival of .an ex-
traordinary courier from St. :Petersburgb, on
his way to the Turkish_ capital. As this, is the
same courier who was entrusted with the delivery
of the note-of the Reis Effendifin-answer to the
demands of the Russian Cabinet, it was pretty
generally conjectured that he Was -also 'the
bearer of some answer to that -note. From-
the necessarily
.imporCant ; and confidential
nature.-of the 'which the courier
was charged, it was not to be expected that
any thing beyond surmise should reach the public
ear.; .but it was understood, that previously to
:his departure from St. PeterAurgh, several in-
iervien s had
..taken. place between the British
Minister and 'Emperor A-lexander, the sub-
ject of which was supposed to be the dispatch of
the .Reis. Effendi—and it „was whispered_ at
Odessa ; that .the..contents of that dispatch had
produced a very material alteration in the .mind
of the Emperor. respecting the conduct of .his
Minister. No recent accounts had been received
.at Odessa from Constantinople_ up to
.the dept.*
tare of these letters.

[5-top.xiso crtaoNke,r.,g.]
There SR o -rk.s.sou for dotbling.thel
correctness of the accounts of successes gained by'
the Greeks. An extract of a letter from Leg-.
born of 'the' 18th September,. states, that vessels!'
had left Constantinople -the 16th, 18th,
and 22d August, and reached Genoa and Leg
horn at different times, all agreed in their ac-,
counts of a-somplbte naval victory having .been •
gained by the _Greeks, • over the combined
Turkish. and Egyptian fleet: Letters from tl,e
Peloponnesus, Of the. 23d..August, 'and from_
Zante -of the •26th, confirm- the accounts -of
the taking of 111a1Vasia-Cor _Monembasia, in which
were found .abundance of 'warlike stores, of
'Which the= Greeks. are in much want. The sur-
render of Neocastro is 'considered certain, and
.the siege of Patras is . said to -be carried on
vigorously. The idea alinoSt universallyenter-
,tained. in- the commencement of-Ptis contest was,
that the Greeks could do nothing of themselves,
,and that . ve hid' merely 'to chooge bet Ween
Turkish and -Itttsstan ,ascendancy.-- suc-
cesses, however, by- sea and /and; prove that both
the power and the spirit of the Greeks' are
greater than they are imagined to be. If they
can_once drive their enemies.out the„Atorea,-
with their -superiority at•sea,,they may be enabled
at all events to secure that important pro,vince
from the. Muasultn.en.-
,When the Greeks show
that they can defend
_themselves, they will
soon _obtain -friends in this -country. We are
not certainly iu love with the Turks, though
we. may have been afraid of the Russians.
One of our contemporaries observeS, /C we lament
the, sufferings of those unhappy people (the
,Greeks) ; but what_ are they, compared to the
miseries of the most gallant, accomplished, and
amiable body of people on the Continent." 'We
could say much with respect to this gallant, ac-
complished,
_and amiable body, namely, the
french Nobility ; but the contempt of Europe,
which their follies and their vices so richly.
merited, revilers it unnecessary. To them
the character given
.of the Spanish k Nobility
by Lord Byron, might truly be applied, that
they were the only part of 04 nation not
noble. But what a piece of impudence, to
compare the, cruel persecutions which the un-
happy Greeks have suffered for four centuries,
with any thing which has happened to the
French emigrants. This Ultra writer would
have us-believe that " the excesses. of a few Ja-
nizaries at Constantinople and Smyrna " are all
that the Greeks can comphiin of. 'What does
he think of the destrustion of whole cities, such
as kydonias? But we would refer him to the
Pineraire of the Ultra Champion, Clrateau-
briand, for information respecting. the nature of
Turkish persecution.

MURDER IN 1818..—0 n Monday, the 24th
Adam Ache and William knight were fUlly com-
mitted to Nottingham town gaol by J. 11. BAR-
BER, Esq., Deputy Mayor, for trial at• the next
Assizes, on the charge of feloniously and Nvil-
fully killing. and murdering JOHN Timms,
on the I,9th Sept. 18.18. This is the case .of
murder to which we made reference a few weeks
back. .