Star.
London, England, 1825-01-25 00:00:00

GREECE.

By the last accounts from Corfu, we learn that the
defection of Colocotroni, Londo, and the other Greek'
Chiefs, arose out of the following circumstances :--Co-'
locotroni presented a memorial to the Greek Executive,
complaining that they had usurped power, by remain-
ing in office beyond the period assigned by the Consti-
tution, and that they had applied some of the proceeds
a the loan to the liquidation of their own claims con-
trary to an article of the Constitution, which de.
dared that the entire loan should be applied to.pnesent•
and future exigencies of the State, and in ao way be
applied to repay advances, however patriotically made
by the Executive. Colocotroni also demanded the di.-
missal Ufa Bishop and two other persons from the Go-
vernment, on the ground of their being traitors to the
Constitution ; these demands being refused, Pann
Colo-
cotroni marched to Tripolitza to pr event the collection
of the local taxes, and was there defeated and-slain:
Colocotroni himself then issued a Proclamation, de-
nouncing the Executive as traitors, and marched to
Tripolitza, which he threatened to burn to the ground.
Extract of a private letter, from a Greek Patriot, re-
sident at Corfu, dated December 21 This year's
campaign could not have terminated more prosperously
for Greece, considering the force brought against .her
by sea and land during the last nine months, in which
our seamen and soldiers have fully justified the hope. of
the nation. You will have heard of the recent affair
off Candia, in which a number of the Egyptian fleet
were destroyed, and several transports full of troops
captured, by the brave Miaulis. Captain Clifford, of
the Euryalus, witnessed the battle that took place near
Cos, and has spoken in the highest terms of the talents
and intrepidity displayed by the Greeks. The con•
duct of our land forces has not been less praiseworthy ;
beaten in a variety of rencontres, and unable to main-
tain his position at Gravia, Dervish Pacha has re-
treated in the greatest disorder, and after an im-
mense loss, to Zeitouni and Larissa. The fate of
Omer Vrione's corps is not less disastrous. This
Chief, after being blocked up in his camp at iirarvasi.
sara for nearly four months, in a state of the utmost
inactivity, has effected his retreat to Arta, where he is
again shut up by the Generals Ranger and Stornaris,
who are in po,session of 'all the adjacent districts. While
the Provisional Government continues determined to
prosecute the wi►nter's campaign with vigour, the at-
tempt of Colocotroni, stimulated by Delegiani, the
Primate of Caritena, to enter Tripolitza, contrary to the
orders of the Executive, has led to a new triumph on
the part of the latter; Pano, his son, having been put
to death by the people, together with several of his
accomplices, the father, who was in the neighbourhood,
fled precipitately, and has not been heard of since. This
last effort of the anti-patriotic faction to interrupt public
tranquillity, is attributed to their being dissatisfied with
the late measure of the Legislative Body, by which
Conduriottis and his colleagues were confirmed in their
situations during the fourth period. One of these,
Botasi, Vice President of the Executive, having died,
since the elections, it is not yet known who succeeds
him. Prince Mavrocordato has left Missolonghi, and
proceeded to Napoli di Romania, to assume the functions
~f Secretary-General to the Government. His conduct
during the late operations in Acarnaula, is a subject of
universal praise and commendation."

LAW REPORT.

COURT OF CHANCERY, JANUARY 24.

BA tali V. CHILD.

The defendant is the widow of a Gentleman of that
name, of a considerable family in Salop. The plaintiff,
his executor, had obtained an injunction ex parte, to
restrain her from publishing letters, odes, and vatious
other treatises—amorous, scientific, horticultural, and
what not which, from the reputed genius of the author,
were likely to prove available to the enhanc'ement of
her settlement.
The SOLICITOR•GENERAL and Mr. HORNE shewed
cause against allowing the injunction, contending that
these epistolary communications, which were directed
to her before and after the marriage of the testator,
were, as the Lady expressed it in her affidavit," freewill-
offe of his natural love and affection"—diat there
was no qualification of the. rightof ownership conveyed
in the nature cr the manner of these communications to
bring diem within the rule of those cases where the
publication of letters his been prohibited—and that the
publication of them was essentially necessary to core
the effects of sundry slanders and calumnies urged against
her, through hostility to their union, by the relations of
the deceased.—Mr. HEALD was about to reply.
The L')RD CHANCELLOR said, that the general pre-
sumption in all these cases was, that the party to whom
a letter was addressed had every right in the property
Hof that letter, save and except publication. That had.
been the settled rule for too long a time now to admit
of alteration. As to anything special in this particular
ease, in which the letters were assumed to be " freewill.
offerings of natural love," as far as his. time of life
would allow him to judge of the circumstance of natural
-!}eve, it would make no difference which could at all
take away the qualification of property. It H ould
scarcely b..: assumed th.it a fteewill•offering of natural
love from A to Ls was designed. for all the world to
enjoy it as well as B. Ha had therefore all alongguid
himself by that proposition of Lord Northington, men.
cloned in Mr. Eiden s.excellent book on injunctions,—
eamelw that unless a direct accession in writing can be
shewn of the right of publishing by the author of the
lettei ~the presumption must be taken against that right.
—The injunction abides.
His LORDSHIP made some. indirect allusion to the
cases of Lord pylon's Letters, and the publication of
Mr. Abernethy's Lectures, respecting which last case,
his Lordship wished it to be clearly understood, that
although he.had refused the motion, he did not assert
that his judgment would apply to a cast such cease,
Shoula come before him, and be made out, of contract On
breach of trust.

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COURFt OF SING'S BENCH, JANUARY 24.
This beiag.the &rat day of Fliiary Term, the Jt