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THE GREEKS.
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The intelligence from Corfu, contained in the"innexed
ct of a letter, appears to be of a More impartial
Teeter than the great majority of the accoutits which
lira
ch us on the subject of the contest between the Greeks
aid the Turks :
4 caant, MARCH la.'
" His Majesty's ship the Naiad, Captain Spencer, ar-
rived here on Thursday last, from a cruise on the west
and southern coasts of the Morea. Her news from
Patras stias rather unfavourable. A few days since a
btleairsaprovisions had been procured by the blockaded
Tufka;purchased, as there is every reason to imagine,
With annnOy supplied by a French frigate. This is sur-
.,,, from the circumstance of a vessel laden with pro.
visions having entered the harbour, and again put to
sea with her entire cargo, the Turks not having the
means to purchase it. Shortly after a French frigate
arrived, and having conferred with the besieged, de-
parttd, when another ship, likewise laden with stores,
entered, and again put to sea, having discharged her
freight, and received payment for the entire in specie:
From this it may be supposed the garrison will now be
enabled to hold out for some time longer.
" A vessel has arrived this evening (18th) from Zante,
and confirms the report of 5,00 Q Spptians having made
a landing at Modon, and a few flays alterwirds, having
proceeded to attack Navarina, were completely routed
by a portion of the army proceeding to the siege of
Patras, and forced to fly to their ships and put to sea.
" It is confidently reported, that the most active pre.
parations are going forward at Constantinople for the
ensuing campaign. Ninety ships, including a power-
ful reinforcement from the Algerines, are in a state of
readiness. The latter are the most to be dreaded, from
their intrepidity and naval skill; but there is little doubt
that the Greek sailors, equally expert and in a state of
feverish animation from their continued successes, will
consign them to the fate of their predecessors.
" The si hole of the Morea, with the exception of
Patras, is now in a state of peace. Colocotroni, the
brothers Velijani, Londo, Lech.i, and his son, and some
others, twelve in all, who have surrendered themselves
a- Napoli, are now prisoners at Hydra. N.ketas, with,
Z 'inn and his son, ate still wandering about the islands,
aecking a refuge.
" The boa's of his Majesty's ships, the CAMBRIAN and
SERINGAPATAM, have had a smart action ssi.h the
p rates, off Negropont, in which three of the CAM-
BRIAN'S men and three of the SERINGAPATAM'S have
been kilted, and upwards of 15 wounded. They have,
however, succeeded in making 15 prisoners, who are
now lodged in M Ita ; but nothing clec'sive can be
proved against them as to piracy, as they merely re-
fused to shew their papers when demanded, and when-
attacked by his Majesty's boats, Returned the assault by
a fire so deadly and well-Directed as to occasion the
gni-chief which I have mentioned. The boats were
decidedly no part of the Greek fl et."
FROM THE CONSTITUTIONNEL OF APRIL 20.
&SANTE MARCH 13.
Ibrahim Paella, sailing at the end of Feb. nary
with his whole fleet for, Candia, was overtaken by a
tempest, which dispersed his vessels, so that only
twenty reached Alexandrias: the majority wee driven
oil ele coasts of Asia and Africa ;and thirty, carried
by the winds-towards the Morca, landed 3,L00-Egyp.
ti tia on the coast of Modon and Coron ; but a corps of
Peloponnesian troops, chiefly Arcadians, attacked th-em
before they had time t , form; all petished in this ac-
tion ; the Turkish garrison of Coron and Modon, re-
fusing to admit the fugitives into the fortress, for fear
of adding to the distress which begins to be felt there
for wart of provisions. On the other hand, forty Grcek
vessels arrived in time to cut off the Egyptian division
from the sea, and to block it up in a bay between
Modon and Neocastroa ConJurictti, the President,
commands in person the troops besieging Patras : they
are estimated at ten or tw.lve thousand men.
A corps of Pelopcnnesians, destined for Eubtea,
commenced their march in February. It is generally
_thought that the fate of that important island will be
soon decided.
Co!ocotroni has been lately removed to the convent
of St. Elias, on one of the steepest rocks of Hydra.
The proceedings preparatory to his trial, and that of
the otter rebels, are continued.

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PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS

HOUSE OF LORDS, APRIL 22. •
'Lord HOLLAND presented a Petition from an individual of
the name of William Thorne, who complained of the manner in
Which his name had been used the printed Minutes of Evidence
of the Committee on the State of Ireland, and prayed that their
Lordships would allow him td be heard by Counsel at their liar to
refute the unfounded and injurious stnements which had been
made against his character.—Read, and ordered to be referred to
the Committee on the State of Ireland.
Dlr. &amount, Lord STA /MKT, and others, from the Commons,
brought up several private Bills, which were read a first time.
Lord HOLLAND presented a Petition from certain Protestant
• Dissenters residing near the Town and Borough of IVarebani, in
the County of Dorset, who were anxious to vindicate themselves
front what they considered au aspersion thrown on the whole body
of Dissenters, that they were inimical to the Catholic Claims. In-
deed, from what he knew of the Independents, he should have
thought them the last persons in the country who would petition
their Lordships to continue so severe a punishment as the restric-
tions to which the Catholics, and themselves to a certain extent, were
subje:ted. The present Petitioners, he was glad to find, enter-
tained the feelings which he had always expected from them on
this great question, and in which he heartily concurred. They were
-r. very surly that any Petitlbns had been presented by Dissenters
against the Catholic Claims, and trusted that the few Petitions of
that kind would not be Considered as expressing the sentiments of
she'great body or Dissenters, which they certainly did not. They
prayed their Lordships to grant the Catholics the boon which they
desired, and to remove from .them also (the Protestant Dissenters)
tbe disabilities under which they still laboured.—The l'etition was
' • then read and laid on the table.
Lord COMBERMERE presented a Petition against the Catho-
lic Claims from the Parish of Aldring, in the County of Chester.—
Laid on the table.
The Marquis of CAMDEN, in presenting a similar Petition
from the Parish of Sandhurst and Newington, in the County of
..E.ent, stated that he did not concur in its prayer. He now thought
that the restrictions on the Catholics ought to be continued no
linger, and was sorry that he should have ever possessed a dif-
ferent opinion.—The Petition was then read, and laid on the table.
• ;Petitions of a similar nature were presented :—By the Bishop of
Lawn, from the Archdeacons and the Clergy of the Archdta-
modes of Essex, Middlesex St. Alban's, and from the Inhabitants
of ebe Parish ofDeadhans, in the County of Essex ; by the Wallop
cling. Davies, from two Parishes in the Counties of Cardigan and
Poasbrolkii by the Bishop of Cuanza, from the Clergy of an
Anlideassfary in his Diocese, and from the Inhabitants of Oldham-
The latter bad boas signed in the short space of two days by 2174
inilyOuals ;by Lord Arany, from the Parishes of St. Giles, Wel-
lim,biemita, and Western Feral, in the County of Northampton.
An tame Petitions were read, aud laid on the table.
• :Leed 110bLA ND rose pursuant to his notice, to submit to their
lordships fur a first reading, a Bib, entitled " An Act to prevent'
Asenotbers foe certain Criniss front extending farther than to the
Persso. Preposty,ind Titles of the Offenders themselves." It was
nut a*"hl Wank* to eater into any arguments ea the law 'of
forfeiture a" "(blood. nor into the history of that law
le the lees"' . hot ladtsced him to propose the present Bid.
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