Star.
London, England, 1822-06-10 00:00:00

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At Krajolat, in Little Wallachik the TM,
likewisee piettating to Tara away. •
• MAY it:
'• affirmed that, according to accaants Whlti
bevebean received, the English have tauten the-most
active part in the expedition of the Captain N4a,
and chiefly contributed to the reduction of, the iland
of Scio by the Turks. The occupation of that island
by the English seems to be 'part of the play which
that nation means to follow for the•miattenance, of
its
.Levint trade. ? •
We have no news of the great Turkish fleet, andt.it
is-feared that the Turks will take Vengeance on the
Island of Samos also, which would be a great :stir
faction to those who consider the deliverance of the
lonropptessed unhappy Greeks as a political crime.
Exsmct of a letter from Bogota, dated the 25th of
February The President left Popayan on the 2d
instant, endeavouring, through the means he deemed
snitible, to gain the people and troops of the enemy.
,Neir:reinforcements have arrived at Guayaquil, and
b,al requested their incorporation with Colombia.—
Th Isthmus goes on well. Colonel Carreno has the
eivit.agd military command till General Sucre leaves
Giiiyaquil. 1 think that the Isthmus in the hands
of StOteirwill• sea ;ibii reel-Ole difference between him
pictiSalesap." , •
Ezteact ore rattir from Curacoa, dated March l•
sOt length the siege of Porto Cabello is laid, and
the blockade by sea is closed. We have already three
fine schooners, and expect daily four vessels more.
The schooneeCantella, captUred from the Spaniards,
is among tile blockading squadron. There is a re-
port here that Churuca had won over half the garri-
son to rise in our favour; but the plot was diseovered,
and it- is said he was executed with others of the

:onspirators:'

In another part of our Paper will be found a copy
of the Second Report of the Agricultural Committee,
which is better than the first only because it is
shorter; The principal point on which this sage
Committee hai been so long occupied is with respect
to the storing foreign grain in warehouses. Great
lapfirehension had been expressed by some of the
Petitioners, lest large quantities of that grain should
be surreptitiously taken out, and brought into the
supply of the home market, contrary to law. It was
also stated by some of the Petitioners, that a consi-
derable portion had been so use& The Committee,

Aiowever, after receiving evidence on the subject, de-
clare the laws already in force quite sufficient, and
that they have nothing to offer either in the way of
precaution or remedy. The distillery laws have also
occupied their attention, with a view to making such
alterations as may afford a probable extension of the
consumption of barley ; but, after considering the
subject, the only decision they come to is, that it is
a question which• does not strictly belong to them.

Among the Parliamentary Papers just printed.
there are some relating to the lonian Islands, which,
although they do not plate our Government there in
moan), new light, they confirm the general character
which has been ascribed to it, and call loudly for a
Parliamentary inquiry into the subject. It appears
that in March, 1821, a Petition to his MAJESTY was
privately circulated in the island of Zante for signa-
ture. Sir PATRICK Ross, the representative of the
LORD Ilion .Coxtutssrowas there, being informed of
the circumstance, immediately seized the Petition on
the person of AI. de Rossi, the Judge of the Island,
and this step was followed by dismissing M. de
Rossi from his 'situation, as well as Count FLAII•
lIVRIARI, the Advocate Fiscal of the island of Zante,
who had also signed it. From the adoption of mea-
sures of such severity it will no doubt be concluded
that the Petition must have been what Sir THOMAS
MAITLAND in his dispatch calls it, " extremely
li-
bellous and seditious." How far this is the case our.
Readers shall judge. It is is follows:

Stan—lf your great mind, on which depends the fate of
many, will condescend to take into consideration common things,
the undersigned citizens of Zante, entreat you to listen to a few
words, in the expressing which they feel the same confident hopes
which animated them when the treaty of 1815 committed them
to the care of your Majesty.
" To that care they now anxiously apply, since the power of
one person has rendered vain those expectations which had been
raised by the magnanimous intentions of the high Powers who
evade that treaty.
gi That the intentions of those who fixed the destiny of these
islands, in placing them under the exclusive protection of your
Majesty, were that they should enjoys liberal Government, there
can be no doubt ; and that under it their prosperity, which their
lfl fortune had destroyed, should return; but it is not to be pre-
stuntithat a Consdtution which places every power in the abso-
lute wino( a single person can be the fitting means of bringing
about those august intentions.
m Nevertheless, such is the nature of the Constitution which
the Lord High Cenuniutorier caused to be signed by the Pri-
.nary depos, sisa y a Constituent Assembly created by him-
self abbe. .

▪ Is is pebitill, Sire; to think on the vile conduct of those wbo
lent their heads to mcb e work, and on the univerml sorrow
peemiled m thie country en the occasion.
• It was hoped, *however, that as soon as the bad effects to
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the nation arising ftoin this circumstance should be known, some
alterations would take plaice, which the benevolence of your Ma-
jesty, always well disposed to the protected people, would not
fail to &ppm, and from this we expected safety ; but the too
fatal preponderance which vested every power in one single per-
m*, costumed to fetter everything, and left no read open for
oberades.

" Bet while persons were found who, preferring their pirate
interests to those of their country, violated the sanctity of their
feactions, the greater /tad the asunder part of their fellow-dd.
nee ti sleeted with aushattiosens disdain, and were excited to
pada regret. This murmurs, Am without tenths, preilLicti


Within the walls of the house of private imllvlduah, sine. met:
ten were so contrived that the voice of the citizens could zct
spread further than was permitted by the will of him who ear--
*landed everything. Those fruitful murmurs now open for them-
selves a way to be heard by your Majesty, to whom they 10,,k
,up for relief.

" Thasindersigned address your Majesty in the name of their
country. If they appear few to represent that country, consider
0 Sitel that but few are the penis= who dare to declare their
frank opinions upon matters which are patsing, and who rnivais
hat free mind which neither hopes nor fears can force front

its resolves.
" If many have been Induced, on some other occasion, to sign
Addresses expressive of the content of the people under the pee.
sent system of Government, it is easy to believe this to he the
effect of the Power of hlm who rules to bend to his will the
weak-minded and we are certain that, in the face of those 46... i
dresses, the major paif of the inhabitants would be found heze
registered, if they were not rendered cautious by the nec:ss:y
of acting with secret prudence.
" It Is, therefore, the whole country that throws itself io
at the foot of your Majesty's throne, imploring you to raise it
front the depth of misery into which it has been cast, by giving
yoUr powerful orders that a Legislative Assembly, freely chosen
'from the Notables of the Islands, should make those changes and
modifications necessary to define, accordfrg to the spirit and
letter of the Treaty of Paris, the authority and the pow ri of
the Lord High Commissioner, as well as those of the lo..izn
Government, so that the first shall net exceed a salutary and
benevolent superintendence; and the second enjoy a rational
liberty and moderate independence.
" This reform, 0 Sire,would not fail to produce the most salu-
tary effects, and would restore to dignity a nation placed ;index
your exclusive protection.
" Posterity,while recurring to the misfortunes of our courr7i
Lthe tender offspring of an illustrious mother,will inquire to whom
she was indebted for becoming brilliant and free, and history will
reply, she owed it to George the Fourth. (Signed)
"Count FLAMBU RI A RI, Advocate Fiscal of &tits.
"Dr. GEORGE DE ROSSI, Judge.
" And thirty•two others.'
Now we will appeal to our Rea iers if the siffer-
ings of an oppressed People were ever detailed is
more respectful language to a Sovereign, than tliis
Petition which Sir THOMAS 'MAITLAND and Sir PA.
TRICK Ross declare to be " libellous, sediticm, and
treasonable !" The Petitioners, on the behalf of their
enslaved fellow countrymen, throw their griefs at the
feet of their Sovereign, and ask—what? Why no•
thing more than " a Legislative. Assembly, fiee'w
chosen from the Notables of the Island, which shall
maki such changes and modifications that the tut-
thority of the Lord High Commissioner shall net ex-
ceed a salutary and benevolent superin!endence, and
that the People shall enjoy a rational liberty and
moderate independence." Surely no request could
be more reasonable, nor couched in language more
temperate and respectful, and yet sach is the per-
version of human intellect, created by the posse+sion
of absolute power, that it brands a wish for rr.t:on.:l
liberty and moderate independence, as "
seditious, and even trea•onable."
But one word as to the individuals,_ and the rna-.-
.ner in which this Petition was got up. Both de
Rossi, 'and Count FLAMBCRIARI, held offices titi:7
Government, and unlike most persons in similar
situations, were not insensible to the severity with
which their fellow-countrymen were ruled. They
did not in consequence secretly excite or abet a Peti-
tion or Remonstrance, but they drew up a Petition,
and boldly placing their names the first on the list rt'
the signatures, brave every danger in order to mate
their Sovereign and avowed Protector acquainted
with the system of misgovernment pursued in tiie:e
Islands. This is " the head and front of their offen:-
ing," and for this they are dismissed from office, tle
Count expelled the Legislative Assembly, of wh:i
he was a Member, and both branded as libe:lets
and traitors !

The reports in circulation respecting some advan-
tages having been gained by the Grecian over t:,e
Turkish fleet, are strengthened by a private letter ft orn
Vienna, dated the 25th of May. In that capitA the
accounts of a naval action off Scio, on the Ist May,
had been received from two distinct qua) tern. On the
IGth May a vessel arrived atVienna from Corfu, in Eve
days, which brought the information that the Greeks
had gained such success over the Turks, that the fleet
of the latter had been compelled to retire to the Dal-
danelks. These news were brought to Corfu, on the
11th May, by an English ship. A letter received at
Vienna from Odessa, dated the 10th of May, mention
that a ship had arrived in three days from Constar. -
tinople, where it was known that their fleet had been
beatea on the Ist of May, off Scio, by that of the
Greeks, and that the SULTAN had ordered the Sciot
hostages to be strangled as soon as the information
was received.

His MAJESTY has been pleased to have ordered
the issuing of cards for a grand Dress Ball on Friday
evening next, at his Royal Palace in Pall-Mall.

Yesterday the Rev. Dr.W. F. BLOMBERG perfornieJ
Divine Service to the King's Household, at the Palace
in Pall-Mall.

The report (says the Edinburgh Star of Fri.lar\.
revived, that his MAJESTY intends to visit Scotia)
in the course of the present summer. The month or
August is stated as the period. Dalkeith i louse is
mentioned as the probable Royal abode in Scotland ;
and state apartments, for holding Levees, Ste. to be
furnished in Holyrood Palace. The above has been
very confidently communicated to us by a Gentle-
man who seems to " speak with authority.' His MA-
JESTY, however, is by no means expected by the ge-
nerality orwell-informecl persons.
The SCCOUCheMeltt of the Duchess of CAMBRIDGE is
expected to take place the latter end of this itimit!,.
Wi understand that the trial of. Mr. Bonny:tot.
which was to have come on before the High Court
of Justiciary, Edinburgh, this day, is put oir till Mon-
'day? the 17th instant.