Star.
London, England, 1822-01-05 00:00:00

TtlE EVENING STAII.

LONDON.
SATURDAY, JANUARY 5. 1R22.
STOCK RXCHA NG K, ONE O'CLOCK.

Consols opened this morning at 77% and de-
elined to 77%, but have since recovered to 78A.--
Little business is doing.—Current prices:
3 per Cent. Reduced 76 78 % 77 1/8
31/2 per Cent. 87 %-4 per Cent. 95% 96
Bank Long Annuities 19 3/8 7.16

Etcheq. Bills. ss. 4s. Ss. pr.—Small ss. 4s. ss. pr.
Cons. for Account 77% 71 5/8 781/2.

There is something in the national character and
feelings of Englishmen that indisposes them to listen
ith patience to tales of wanton barbarity and blood-
shed ; and vain will be the attempts of individuals,
who are a disgrace to us as a people, to work upon
the public mind, by forged lies so as to bring the
country to acquiesce in a line of policy calculated to
i:-.erease the miseries of a people, who have no earthly
protection, at present, but what arises from their own
moral and physical powers, called into actual by ages
of oppression and suffering. What Believe it pos-
sible to induce Englishmen to fall in love with maim_
ntetan superstitions and Turkish brutality ! and per-
suade them that the domination of the Porte is to be
ranked with the regular ruk of the Legitimates of
Ezir,,pe ! There is a possibility of carrying arguments
cf this kind too far. If men are to judge of the secret
r.cli!.-es of action and ultimate objects of the measures
et" those who call themselves Legitimates, by the open
an,l avowed aim of the Turks with respect to tl e
Greeks, the conclusion must prove highly to their
tiis:rivar.tage. But soihe individuals think themselves
rlivile:ed to impose upon mankind, and, like the
Chinese, believe that they alone have two eyes, atd

c:ller inen only one.
Let the willing tools of these self-conceited meo
c(in:inne their labours and they will reap not merely
c!!•aploilltrrietit in their object, but execration from
erei friend c f humanity. Let, them magnify the
cr::el:ies of retributive justice—let them continue
c::,.11s• to recommend the extirpation of au entire people,
;.o o:.cr crime than that of attempting to break
aains of the oppt essF,r—let them attempt to Ws-.
11:)e the tcal facts, and to give them a false coin.;
i:exicn, yet tLc truth will come to light in spite if,
a t! eir labours.

Gentleman, who left Smyrna about
tic ‘20:11 Oct:l)er, states that, five weeks before, he
sr.,w one of the principal Greek inhabitants, who had
c, ncealed himself and thus escaped being murdered,
vho infor me.l him that he and his friends had a
rot!tilar li,t of 1,972 Greeks who had then been
b:.tch.eieU in Smyrna alone, by the Turks. Of the
ournber murdered afterwards he could obtain no
:count, but it was very considerable. The Gentle-
;nail who states these particulars had before quitted
Constantinople, where he happened to be when the
rcassaere began in that city, and was the first to carry
the intelligence to Smyrna—where it was hardly pro.
rnulgated when the butchery of the Greeks began
there ; in consequence of which he himself, fur per-
sonal safety, took refuge on board an English vessel,
from which it was no unusual thing to see from 20
to 30 mutilated dead bodies floating by in one day.
To the foregoing kt us add the fact admitted, by
even the Coyricr, that when the Turkish fleet re-
turned to the Archirlago with about X) Greek,ves-
sels (small merchantmen) as prizes, they hung each
to the yard-arm three or four Greeks as trophies of
victory ! and that the crews when allowed to go on
shore were guilty of the greatest cruelties—(that is
on Christians). But then we are told, forsooth, that
his Excellency Lord STRAXOFORD has remonstrated
strongly with the Porte; and we trust his influence
will be as successful upon this as upon former occa-
sions !!" Indeed! Has the Courier never heard
t:'en of the answer of the CRANE, VIZIER when de-
si•ed by the Minister of Loots XIV. to inform the
XeLTAN of the marriage of his Royal Master ?-
44 The Sultan never troubles himself about such trifles
as the coupling together of dogs or of swine." Listen'
to Lord STRANGFORD, indeed F No, the Turks never
listen to anything but their fears, in their intercourse
with "Christian dogs."

A file of New York papers, to the 11th December,
has been received ; but their contents are of little im-
portance. General JACKSON had returned from Pen-
sacola to Nashville, where he received a congratula-
tory address from the citizens, inviting him to a din-
ner and ball, which he attended.
The accounts from llavannah confirm the medi-,
tated insurrection of the Negroes, thirty of whom had
been arrested, and among them were kfven females.
It is said they had gone so far in organising their plan,
al to mann:lw Lords and Ladies infalaro.
—Extract of a letter fioni Columbia, dated Nonni-
_
ler '27 :—" Several Petitions having been already
inesented for leave to emancipate slaves, the Senate
/As appointed a Special Committee on the subject,
Insisting of five, with authority to Report by Bill.--
his Committee will probably be joined by one of the
Ilouse on the same subject."

Wednesday Mr. PHENISEY, Messenger to the Bri-
tish Embassy to the Court of Vienna, arrived in town.
with dispatches for the Marquis of LoNDONDERRY
WAS likes ke the bearer of dispatches for Prince
YsTentr AZY.
llavN~nt:r.i Tiff 411LIC.—Mr. GOODArIiZ delivered his second
14truze tin A:Aryl:only at this /louse last night. his grand
gt•tcry met wiih much approbation, particularly when it dis-
iiiyed the whole of the Planets, witb their satellites, in their
:.arses round the 411a5 %Aida wen tztabite4 With singular rre•
and acct.