Star.
London, England, 1825-09-21 00:00:00

PROTEST

Of Messrs. Roche and Washington to Messrs. the
Members of the Provisional Government of Greece:
•• The undersigned Philkidlenic Deputies of France and America,
have learned that individuals in their mere quality of Greek eiti-
sens, have thought fit to place themselves at the head of a faction,
against the Constitution of their country; they have signed and cir-
culated a Declaration extremely injurious to the character of their
Nation and Government, which have always shewn the most lively
interest in the prosperity and indtpendence of Greece.
•• The undersigned know, that the Senate and the Executive
Power, in their Sitting of S'Ed July, have resolved to ask sueisour of
the Government of the lonian Islands, for the preservation of their
political liberty, menaced by the invasion of Ibrahim Paelia.
•' Thoegh it has been very painful for the undersigned to see the
little confidence which the Greek Senate, in these important cir-
cumstances, has placed in the French and American Nations, they
would, nevertheless, respect this determination, and every other
which should have been adopted in a legal manner, and according to
the Constitution of the State.

" Hut they see with grief, that the Senate, instead of executing
its preceding Decrees, does not employ the means of security which
ate in its power, to bring back to order the individual Greeks who
dare to plice themselves above the laws, and endeavour to disturb
the political existence established in Greece. In consequence, they
think it their duty to infant (preratir) the Greek Government of
this illegal attempt which offends the character of two nation%, that
have taken the most lively interest in the independence of the
Greeks, and which may even, us the sequel, prove detrimental to
its interests.

" The Greek Government should know the danger it incurs by
dug itself deliberations of this nature, which are dictated by
spirit of anarchy, and against which we formally protest. The un-
dersigned request the Executive Government to give them the
most clear and precise explanation on so important a subject.
" They expect, with the greatest impatience, a prompt answer
to communicate to their respective Committees, in order to regu-
late their conduct on this occasion.•" _ _

Other individuals also, deeming the same right, have protested
against this Act.
The Senate and the Executive Power have delibe-
rated on the question whether they should attempt to
ask assistance of England, and whether they should send
• This pretended act e submission which does not lotimilly speak
of ►u►mission), is only the work of Mlle private persons, who
Gave signed it iliclivislually as citlans.

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'this request to the Lord Iligh Commissioner of the
lonian Island! at Corfu? Nu farther result of these
proposals was known.

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 182.5. .
STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
ST. liarsolsw—Houny.

nig being a Holiday both at the Bank, Stock Exchange, and
Foreign Market, most of the Brokers have assembled on the Royal
Exchange ; but up to this period scarcely a bargain has been done.
Consols may be quoted at 88j I, and that is only nominal.
In all Foreign Securities nothing u yet is doing.
The general conversation an 'Change is concerning the dissolution
of Parliament, on which various opinions prevail.

EXCHANGE.
HANIIIIIIIII, SErr. 16.—Qa London, 35. 114. 21,5. 35. 84.

We this day insert the Declaration of the Leaders
of the. Greek Nation, dated at Napoli di Romania, on
the 2d of August last. , It is a powerful and eloquent
exposition of the efforts they have already made in the
Causeof Liberty,and of the counteraction of those efforts,
not so much.by their avowed enemy as by the insidious
and covert hostility of other Nations, calling themselves
Christian Poviers. They emphatically declare that
Great Britain is the only Power that has observed a
real neutrality in the course of the four years
during which they have supported this most arduous
struggle; and they, therefore, place the liberties
of Greece under the protection of that Power.
As an anti-climax is this manly and well-written docu-
ment, we insert the joint Protest of General ROCHE and
Mr. WASHINGTOR, agents or missionaries from the
Philhellenic Committees of France and America. The
former carried out to the aid of the Greek cause, trea-
sure to the enormous amount of £4,000 sterling, and
also a far more important subsidy in the military skill
and talent of 65 French Officers, many of them for-
merly bred in the engineer and artillery service of Bo-
NAPARTE. What the contingent of the latter Gentleman
was in money we know not. Any one, without
being an absolute seer, may infer that it could
hardly consist of a supply of military talent—if the
export was from America. How be it, they both as-
sume the language, style, and tone, of Ambassadors.
Not CATHERINE of RUSSIA, when her armies occupied
Poland, could address the Diet in loftier terms, or as-
sume, either in manner or matter, a more insolent in-
terference in their internal affairs, than has been done
in the purely national concerns of Greece, by those
mighty Philhellenists, in their Protest aforesaid.
The real merits of the question are, however, very
easily to be disposed of. If the rulers of Greece had
supposed that the defence of *their liberties were likely,
in sober earnest, to be undertaken by Great Britain, it
is right certain that this their Declaration would have
been preceded by negotiation, and a definition of the
precise character in which the SOVEREIGN of these realms
had agreed to sustain their cause. But as a document
calculated at a moment of distress to rally the drooping
spirits of their own partisans, and to alarm the PACHA
of Egypt by the fears of hostility with England, if he
should persist in sending further supplies to their im-
placable foe, it is just possible that the Declaration in
question may have all the effect thit the framers ex-
pected. Any further comment were needless.

Hamburgh Papers to the 18th instant reached us
this forenoon. They state that, with regard to the three
ships of war bought of the Swedish Government by
Messrs. MICHAELSON and Co. (and supposed to be for
the use of the Greeks or Colombians), the sale will re-
main in force, and that the ships will very soon put to
sea, but the embarkation of Swedish Officers in them is
prohibited.

The Norwegian Bank has reduced the interest paid
to its debtors, from sto 4 per cent. It is positively
stated that this reduction of the interest will not lessen
the dividend paid to the shareholders. The following
are extracts: