Star.
London, England, 1824-10-13 00:00:00

GKESCE.

A vessel under the Grecian flag arrived on Monday,
off Dover, on board of which Mr. Blaquiere is under.
stood to be a passenger. The following is an extract of
a letter from that Gentleman, to the Secretary of the
Greek Committee : is We sailed from Napoli di Ro-
mania on the 29th of August, touched at Zsnte on the
31st, and left it on the following day ; put into Malaga
for water, and have been seventeen days on our pas-
sage thence. With respect to the state of affairs in the
Confederations when we left, I am justified in represent-
leg it as very prosperous. You have, of course, received
the account and details of Admiral Sactuvi's gallant
exploit in destroying a Turkish line-of-battle ship, a
frigate, and a corvette, together with a number of
transports, in the vicinity of Samos, on the 20th of
August, and without any greater force than a squadron
of eighteen Greek ships.
fhe total failure of Mehemet Ali's focmidable ex-
pedetion must also be known to the friends of Greece in,
England. At Salon* and its neighbourhood the, suc-
cesses have been most brilliant, the army of Dervish
Pacha having been beaten and dispersed some days in-
fo:, my departure from Napoli di Romania.- The Prince
Usurocordato, from whom I found letters at &ate, had
advanced into. Acarnania, and established his head-
quarters at Lidourike, where a large force was collected
to attack the Pacha of Scutarrs troops, but that Chief'
had been enabled to collect only 2,500 men, and there
was consequently no appearance of any attack on the
side of Valtos and Xenomavis. You must also have
heard that the division which had advanced towards
Athens has been driven back to Negropont. I hope
that the fiat letters you receive will bring an account
of the destruction of Mehemet Ali's *armament. The
whole Greek fleet, to the number of 100 sail, was des-
tined for this grand object, and was on its way to Rhodes
for the puipose of attacking the enemy."
- SMYRNA, AUGUST 21.
Letters from Athens announce that actions of no great
importance are almost daily fought in Attica, to the ad-
vantage of the Greeks. A Pacha at the head of several
thousand men was 'deli' attacked at Thermopylc, and
was obliged-to tetireinrefh loss. A more important en-
gagement lately took place at Marathon, and the
Mossulmans were defeated. The artillery, baggage,
eta military chest, fell into the bands of the victors.--
The number of killed and wounded on both sides is not,
precisely known; but it is stated that Omer-Pacha, the
Bey of Caristo, is among the prisoners taken by the
Greeks... Dela.

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- SAXONY: •
DRESDEN, serriemetlivano:
The prokct of law concerning 3)*. a between
the Protestants and the Catholics in the kingdom of
Saxony was presented to the Assembly of the States in
their last Session, that it might make a declaration on
this subject. (Our Readers know that in Saxony the
greater part of the inhabitants are Lutherans, and that
but a small proportion professes the Catholic Religion,
which is that of the Royal Family). This declaration
was given by the States at the end of the Session.
The States, in a memorial of considerable length, and
drawn up with equal moderation and frankness, de-
tailed the reasons for which this law is incompatible
with the principles of a real equality between the two
Confessions, as it really gives the advantage to the
Catholic community over the Protestant, and would
endanger the well-founded liberty of the latter, and
even the rights of the Sovereign. The Assembly pro.
poses inconsequence that the King may be pleased to
have this project of law revised, paying attention to the
observations which have been made upon it, and have
it presented to the next Assembly, that it may give a
new declaration.

Relatively to the important question, in which reli-
gion the children born of mised marriages shall be edu-
cated, the States have expressed their conviction, that
to prevent all inconvenience and all violation of tights
on this subject, and even to make the minds of fathers
and mothers easy, such pf whom by a concession

on this point would depart from what they owe to their
Church, the solution of the question ought not to be left
to an agreement between the parents, but should be de-
cided by a law which would exclude all tusceaminty.—
Among the different measures adopted in other States
on this subject, the best seems to be, that in mixed mar.
riages, the sons should follow the religion of their
father. and the daughters that of their mother.
The States, after having adduced arguments in sup-
port of this proposal, request, that, in case the King
should approve of it, his Majesty would be pleased to
give it the form of a lavias soon as possible, even before
the next Session of the State.

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