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systems." the Colonel adds, « the principles of a wild
liberty have all along prevailed in Greece ; but those
of civil liberty are only beginning to be duly appreciated
followed."

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Of the Legislative Body, Colonel STANHOPE says, it
is composed of persons selected by the civil and mili-
tary oligarchs arid the people. They naturally lean to
the interests of their electors. They are respectable in
character, but, like most other public functionaries in
Greece, are deficient in intellectual aptitude, and have
but little knowledge of business. They are friends to
order, and enemies to all extortion ; and they ate care-
ful of the people's money."
The administration of justice is in its lowest state ;
but this the Colonel considers as an advantage to Greece,
since " she has no lawyer bribed to teaze, impoverish,
and enslave her, to the end of time; she has no old pre-
judices, and sacred mountains of parchment to get rid
of, and she is ready to accept the best code of laws that
can be offered."

The inference the lion. %ether draws is, that Greece,
left to herself, will form a code founded on the " scru-
tinizing principles of BACON:* We confess we doubt it.
The police, which is supported by the military chiefs,
is good, and " with the exception of Nlissolonghi,
personal security prevails to a much greater extent than
under the Turkish Government." Colonel STANHOPE
thinks a Government of Prefects necessary, but says
they are ill selected, and " instead of having a leading
influence in their districts, they are generally the tools
of the principal Primates or Captains;" and he adds,
that the former " are addicted to Turkish habits and
pr inciples of goverqment."
Of the state of society in Greece, the Colonel does
not give a very flattering picture; he says, " The
peasantry of Greece possess a large share of rustic
virtue. They were within the sphere of Turkey's op-
pression, but without the sphere of her corruption. Not
so pith the people of the towns, who consequently par-
take of her vices."

Among the vices enumerated are avarice, intrigue, and
plundering. The exactions of the Turks drove the cul-
tivators and shepherds to the mountains, and they be-
came warlike plunderers. " Such," he adds, " was the
origin of must of the Captains. It must not, however,
he supposed that the Captains are the only plunderers.
Many of the Primates possessed power and wealth under
the Ottoman rule, and they are as grasping as the
soldiery."

Agriculture is described as in its lowest state, and
commerce as stagnant. The taxes are not in themselves',
oppressive, but the people " are ruined by the manner
in which the Captain and the Primates collect them ;
by the revenues entering the pockets of these indivi-
duals; instead of being sent to the Exchequer ; by their
being appropriated to private purposes, instead of being
devoted to the protection of their lands and country
from the Tut ks, many parts of which are yearly over-
run and destroyed ; and by the occasional unlawful ex-
actions, and system of free quasters pursued by the
Captains."
Education is at a low ebb, and the want of educated
men " is felt in the representative body, in the admi-
nistration of justice, in the prefectures, in the army and
navy—in short, in every department of the State." Yet
with all these untoward circumstances, which the Hon.
Colonel so candidly states, he is so far from despairing
of the independence of Greece, that he declares it as his
opinion that " the struggle, however protracted, must
succeed, and must lead to an improvement in the con-
dition, not only of Greece, but of Asia."
The British Public, w e are sure, will feel much
indebted to Colonel STANHOPE for the honest expoal he
has given of the real state of Greece, whose resources,
he says, are great, but unexplored; and as his narrative,
contains many useful hints by which the Greeks may
profit, we trust it will be translated and published in
their own journals.

This morning we received the Austrian Observer to
the 7th instant, and Frankfurt Papers to the 13th, con-
taining the following intelligence from Greece:

SYRA, MAY I.
We have various accounts from the Islands of the
Archipelago. A letter from Hydra says, "The poor
Island of Candia is ruined. Tombasi has returned to
the Government, to solicit, it is said, assistance for that
unfortunate country. Above 30,000 persons have emi-
grated, or rather lied from the rage of the Turks, who
commit horrible cruelties."

There are two parties at Samos, so inflamed against
each other, that they came to blows on Easter Sunday,
when above 200 persons were killed. Above 1500 of
the peaceable inhabitants have fled to Ipsara.
MAT 7.-A letter from Canea (in Candia) of 20th
April says, the whole province of Abocorona has sub-
mitted. The Greeks go in and out of Canea without
fear. Stiict orders have been given by Hussein Bey,
commanding the Egyptian troops, that no insult shall
be offered to the Greeks who have submitted, under
the severest penalties.
The Sphackiots ate disposed to. submit, but on con•
dition that they %sill' not recognize any Pacha of the
Porte, but only one sent by the Viceroy of Egypt,
whose humanity is known to them. They have sent
several of their Chiefs to Hussein Bey to treat on this
subject, but the result is not known.

MAT 11:—We have received the news of the arrival
of the Turkish squadron off Negropont: three Iptariot
vessels that were blocka.iing the island, were taken by
burprise; the crews escaped on shore, after setting fire
to_ their ships. •
MAT 12.—A letter from Scopola says, that the
Turkish fleet, of seventy sail, was off that island ; the
inhabitants were resolved to defend.ittemselves if they

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