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London, England, 1823-10-30 00:00:00

APPEAL

FROM THE GREEK COMMITTEE TO THE BRITISH PUBLIC
IN GENERAL, AND ESPECIALLY TO THE FRIENDS OF
RELIGION.

The Greek Committee having from time to time
communicated to the Public the various details which
have reached them relative to the progress of the inte-
resting catue they a4vocate, feel themselves compelled
to renew their appeal to their Christian brethren, to the
iends of Greece, to the civilised world.
The valour and the virtue of the heroic descendants
of the great masters of art and science ; their extraordi-
nary successes in the midst of incredible privation and
active sufferings ; the cairn and steady progress of their
emancipation towards a regularly organised and national
Government, cannot but have excited the admiration
and the sympathy of the generous and the good.
By sure though slow degrees, the classic land of
Greece has been nearly freed of those usurping barba-
rians whose tyranny had for centuries degraded and de-
secrated the soil. Oppression had become intolerable
from its excesses ; and the poor and despised Greeki, the
inheritors of the language, though not the possessors of
the land, of their illtistrious progenitors, rose as a man
upon their savage and unchristian lords. They rose un-
armecl and un rrovided, unorganised, and alone. To the
GREAT and thINIPOTENT BEING, to whom they so so-
lemnly referred their righteous cause, they did not ap-
peal in vain ; but they went forth .g conquering and to
conquer." Immense armies and terrible fleets have been
sent against them, only to be scattered and subdued.
Yet they have stood alone—almost alone in their heroic
devotion—with scarcely a hand stretched out to help or
to encourage them. And yet no holier, no purer claim
was ever made upon the oublic generosity and compas,
sion. Recollections the dearest to us as Christians, an-
ticipations the most inviting to us as philanthropists,
and associations the most impressive as intelligent and
civilised men, grow around and decorate the thoughts
of emancipated Greece.
Can those who with active and benevolent zeal are
engaged in propagating thsdivine principles of Chris-
tianity, look with indifference on the struggle of a
Christian nation against the opprobrium of oppressing
infidelity and the degradation of intolerable chains? If
we are told that the Greeks are barbarous, let us elevate
them from their barbarism to light and knowledge.—
We will answer the reproaches of those who insult
them, by pointing to the proud march of their acknow-
ledged victories; to their longfsuffering patience, and
to their fortitude; to their establishment of schools ; to
their immediate attention to the administration of jus-
tice, and to the numerous projects of improvement with
which they have been occupied. But we cannot look
forward without trembling solicitude, not for the ulti-
mate independence of Greece, for we believe that inde-
pendence is firmly and finally established against the
Porte: but, unless the Greeks possess the means of com-
pletely consolidating their pnwPr, vine; of c..cur;,l6,
beyond the chances of interruption, the land of their
fathers, we anticipate a long-enduring and bloody and
demoralising struggle, leading to ti:e extermination of
the one, and the exhaustion of both ; and we suppli-
cate—in the name of the Greek people stretching out
their hand, and demanding our charitable succours—
we supplicate that generous and effective assistance
which may honour the British nation, to which they have
imploringly turned, and which may throw its hafpy
influences over all future time.

We have watched with the most eager interest the
events which have taken place in the Morea, since the
formation of the Greek Committee, and the growing
favour which the cause of Greece has obtair2d in the
public mind. The Greeks have now truly established
their title to universal sympathy. The .struggle has
been humanised, and everything the Greek Committee
have seen and heard has served to stimulate their exer-
tions and to confirm their confidence in so holy a cause.
To the Reports they have published, from observations
made by their own Agent, Mr. Blaquiere, and collected
on the spot, they would refer without distrust ; and they
call on their countrymen, by the love they bear to their
fellow Christians, and by all they hold dear, to come for-
ward and support the cause of Greece. In their exer-
tions no party-politics have place ; they have disclaimed,
and. they must again disclaim, all other views than to
co-operate in raising Greece from her political and moral
thraldom, to a place among the nations worthy of her
illustrious name: and he who agrees with them only in
this, they consider as their friend and fellow-labourer.
Limited as have been their means hitherto, the Corn-
mittee congratulate themselves that their Association
has already had a considerable influence in encou•
raging and strengthening the bands of the patriot conic-
del ates ; the evidence is in a correspondence open to
their subscribers ; and as regards the future, they have
good grounds for affirming, that from the peculiar state
of she conflict at the present time, the assistance of a few
thousand pounds would put the must important r,:stilts
within their reach ; turn, according to human probabi-
lities, the suspended scale on the right side, and thus
produce incalculable benefits both to the present gene-
ration and to generations yet to come.
On the ground, therefore, of the highest huma-
nity, and most Christian duty—if the protection of
innocent villagers against merciless marauders ; if
the saving of thousands of fellow-Christians from
death, and from captivity worse than death ; if the in-
troduction of peace and order in the place of the rapine,
ruin, and turbulence of war, and the thug
,preparing a
whole people for the extension of the blessings of Chris-
tian institutions and Christian instruction, be charac-
teristics of humanity and Christian obligation, they call
on their countrymen, both as men and Christians, to
come forward with their assistance.
The Committee, who have witnessed the admirable
effects produced by the efforts of an extensive co-opera-
tion, even %erten the amount of individual contribution
has been very inconsiderable, would fain awaken through
the cities, towns, and even the villages of Great Britain,
that feeling of benevolent sympathy which has on so
many occasions produced such extraordinary results.

A person named Davidson, employed in the saw.
mill at Chatham, whilst at work at the circular saw,
had the misfortune to have three of his fingers cut off
instantly by that sharp instrument.