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PROM THE GAZETTE DE FRANCE, MAUCH 17.
TRIESTE, FRB. 28...
Our accounts Isom the Archipelago are to the 12th.
Count Capo d]stria, entering on his functions as Pre-
sident of the Government, took the following oath :
" 1 swear to attend conscientiously, and to the best of
my judgment, to all the interests of the Greek nation
which are confided to .me. I' swear by the holy and

indivisible Trinity. to maintain the Statutes of the State
as they have been decreed by the National Assembly,
and to govern according to the letter and the spirit of
the laws passed at Epidaursts. Astro, and. Trezene.
swear not to lose sight of the safety and happinessbf.
Greece, and to labour without ceasing toAccelerate its
regeneration, in order
.that-it may anyny 44. advantages'
resulting from the Treaty of London of •thafith July,.
1827. I promise 10 submit my resolutions to the Na•
tional Convention, which I wilt convoke in April."
This oath was taken almost in the same terms by the
members of the Committee of Government, after which

Count Capo d'lstria was installed as President o►
Greece amidst acclamations of joy. The next day ap-
peared the proclamation of the Senate, convoking the
National Assembly for the Ist of April. Count Capo
d'lstria has invited the Assembly to assist him with all
its power, and to take such measures that the. army.and
navy may, above all things, subenie to discipline.- At
the same time he announced that a trench and a Rus-
sian frigate will shortly appear at Egina, to discipline
the Greek marine, and to teach the mancauvres of the
naval service.
The Greeks who were in prison at Na poll di Romania,
as accused of the crime of piracy, have been set at li-
berty, with the exception of those who are liable to ac-
cusations for murder. The President published at the
same time a proclamation, to invite the Greeks to ab-
stain Iron this crime, which will henceforth be pu-
Inished Kith all the rigour of the laws. Small vessels
have been fitted out to examine the most secluded bays,
and to destroy the retreats of the pirates.
Convinced of the necessity of meeting the calls of the
State by extraordinary expenses, the President and the
Government have agreed on the urgency of a new loan,
which 'is to be negcciated in England by Count Vial()
Capo d'lstria, brother of the President, who is now at
Corfu. The Ipsiriot brig, the Hector, which accom-
panied the from Malta to Egina, is said to
have sailed to Smyrna with a Commissioner of the
Government on board, who is the bearer of dispatches
to Admiral de Itigny. It is said that the combined
squadrons are going to assemble in the Archipelago,
where they will be at the disposal of the three
Ambassadors, who are going to commence new nese-
ciations at Corfu.
The persecuted Armenians of Constantinople have
applied to their Chiefs at Venice, „requesting to interest
the Holy See in their favour.--Augsburg Gazette.
FROM Tit* MESSAGEtt DR; CHAMBRES, MARCH 16.
CRACOW, ISlAacki 2.
A division of the Itussian corps stationed at Lublin
is gone to Cbelm, to replace the troops who have been
sent to Bessarabia. All the depots have received orders
to equip, Wain, and send immediately to the regiments
the recruits in proportion as they are enrolled. At
Warsaw, where the hatti-scheriff of the 18th of Septem-
ber was made known by the Augsburg Gazette, there is
only one opinion—a cry of war; and the signal is im-
patiently expected prom St. Petersburgh. The return
of the Grand Duke Constantine, whose presence will
decide the question, is looked for almost with equal
impatience.
The Senators appointed to examine into the affair of
the Polish conspirators are now engaged in drawing up
the report to be presented to his Imperial Majesty. Se-
veral of these unfortunate persons will be removed to
St. Petersburgh, and it is presumed that in a few weeks
sentence will be passed upon them. It is asserted that
the answer of the Courts of Prussia and Austria yeas
received yesterday, respecting the disputes that have
arisen in our Legislative Body, which were submitted
to the three Sovereigns for their decision, who are said
to have declared that the composition of the present
elective Chamber by no means answered the views of
the three Powers who, at the Congress at Vienna, had
stipulated the integrity of the free state at Cracow—
that the resolutions taken by that Chamber were repre-
hensible, and consequently its dissolution was indis-
pensable. The old order of things is therefore going
to be reestablished, and the President, Woodcialci.who
had been removed from his seat, is re-instated in it. It
is said that a deputation from our city is lining to
Vienna, to express the public gratitude to his Imre-
fiat Majesty.

BrCIETY FOR PROPAGATION OF Tllit CONNIE..
Lord KING brought forward his Petition against any
further grant of money to the Society for the further
Propagation of the Gospel in North America. The
Petition was signed by a Clergyman of the name of
Griffin, who had been to the United States. The
grounds on which it was presented, were the inefficiency
of the Society, the misinformation given to those who
directed it, and likewise considerable abuses that ex-
isted in the distribution of its funds. Against the pe-
titioner's moral' character nothing whatever could be
said, and the Noble Lord believed him to be a person fit
to be accredited, in as much as an offer had been made
to him by a person coming from the Society—first of
fifty pounds, then of one hundred pounds, if he would no.
bring the subject before the public. The Society fur
the Propagation of the Gospel was incorporated in
1701; and existed for more than a century on voluntary
subscriptions. In about 1814, grants from the Ciowa
towards its support first began. Those grants increased
until, in the Estimates of the present year, the sum for
it appeited to be 16,1501. and there was reason to be•
'imam Society intended to call. for a considerable deal
more. It Was ineurporated by Royal Charter, and
was Lir the purpOse of•providing learned and orthodox
Clergymen for the admini tratiou of Goes word
and the &mania in the llorth• American Colonies,
and for instructing his Majesty's subjects against
Atheism, superstition, and idolatry. But the object
s;emed to have been almost neglected.. The grants
had been applied to the orthodox Clergy only, leav-
ing the Dis enters, who formed the greater propor-
tion of his Majesty's subjects in the Colonies, with-
out aid. This the Noble Lord considered • a :mit
application of the funds of the Society. The Clergy
of every denomination, whether Episcopalians or
others, were entitlei by the Charter of the Society
to the advantage of their funds. In the North Ame-
rican Colonies the Protestant Clergy had been pro-
vided for in the most ample way. That Clergy,
which he called ultra orthodox and pluralists, de-
rived all the advantage of the funds of the Society.—
This was an unfair distribution of the money in the
hands of the Society. Bishop Stanley, who did not find
it convenient to reside in North America, had come to
reside in this country upon a pension of 1,0001. a year.
He found that several assistant missionaries v. ere residing
in London upon salaries or pensions of 2001. a year. The
greatest part of the allowances were made to the clergy
of Canada, who already had a tenth of the lands laid
out for their maintenance. These allowances were
unfair. The petitioner stated, that in the last 14 years
the Society had drawn 131,8121. from the pubic, and
10,0001. had been, collected, in addition, under the
royal letter. Having adverted to all the points in the
petition, the Noble Lard concluded by moving it do li:
on the table.
The Bishop of LONDON was unwilling to follow the
Noble Lord through all his details. He should, however,
observe, that the Noble Lord had not read the reports
of the Sociey, or he would have seen that the funds in
their hands had been properly applied. More than 100
Churches had been completed in Canada and Nova
Scotia. Other Churches were building, and it would
appear from the correspondence, that there had been
no lavish expenditure. The Right Rev. Diocesan
did not wish. to speak with harshness of the petitioner,
but a letter he had received described that gentleman
to be a person of violent temper. Having read the.
letter, in which the petitioner was mentioned in strong
terms, the Right Reverend Prelate cited passages from
the correspondence received from Canada on the sub-
ject of the Church Establishment, and concluded by
observing, that he bad stated enough to defend the
Society against the charges made by the petitioner.
Lord Kum explained.
Earl BATHURST said, that from every opportunity
he had had of noticing the conduct of the Society, he
must award it the praise of great attention to the objects
for which it was instituted, and of the strictest probity
in the application of its funds. From the multiplicity
of duties devolving upon the Society, it was improbable
that any of its members should be prepared to speak on
the instant to the particular outlay for any particular
district. It was not true that the grant of public money
was progressively increased. The only considerable
increase which had really taken place, arose from the
determination to increase the stipend of those Mis-
sionaries, who had only sixty pounds a year, to seventy
pounds. This took place when be had the honour
of being Colonial Secretary. When the North Ame•
rican Colonies established the religion of the Church of
England, they unfortunately forgot to make any pro.
vision for the Ministers of the Church of England,
and it was only through this Society that the defect

Lord HOLLAND, in presenting several of the Pea•
tions, was not disposed to anticipate the discussion upon the question
of the Repeal, but he could not avoid saying, that he bad for the
'last twenty years been in the habit of presenting similar Petitions,
under some doubt as to the ultimate success of the 'Petitioners;
these doubts were now removed, far when he- looked at the votes
of the CoMmons of England which lay upon she table of the
House, he had no doubt that the voice and opinions of the people
of England would at length be heard. lie therefore eontentitrecti
the present moment as one of satisfaction and exultation. The other
house was now employed in considering the details of the **wadi&
of relief; and he thought the people ought to accept any Mug for
the present, which would promote the object titer bad in
that object recommended by Locke, which would produce absolute
liberty, just and true liberty, equal and impartial liberty.

CONSOLIDATION OF sTATUTEI. • ,
The Marquis of LANSITOWN rase,. pursoint-to
notice, to move the second' mailing of 'his two Bills to:
consolidate the Laws. One applies to all offences against
the person; the other is to regulate evidence in criminal
cases. TficNoble Marquis said he had been induced to
turn his mind to the improvement of the law„ during
the time he occupied his late office of Secretary of
State 'for the Home Department. The assistance
received from learned 'persons bad enabled him to
bring forward the measures then before the House.
One of hit Bills comprised the substance of no less
than fifty•six Acts of. Parliament. commencing in
the reign of Henry the Third. He did not con:fair
it necessary to state the effect of. those statutei, :brit
should reserve himself for explanation on any of the,
provisions of the said Acts. The Noble Marquis them.
poirite4eut the alterations his Bill would, mike is Via •
law or petty. treason, murder, Manslanghter,
Elleriborough's Act, concealing pregnancy, and :wing.,
means to procure abortion.. In Lord Etlenboroogh%
Acr, the Nr.blt Marquis's Bill 'made' the attempt to ins ,
joie or murder with a blunt instrument liable la
the same punishment as the attempt with a Cutting'
instrument. By. another section it was proposed to•
extend the protection -to the buyers and•sellers
corn, by the punishment of those 'who' attempted' to
impede them, as was the case in some parts of the couns.
try. The thirty-first clause of the Act would give a
discretionary power of imprisonment to the Judges„•in
cases where seamen were abandoned on foreign coasts.
According to the law, as it at present stood, the Captain
of a vessel who so alloved a seaman to be left.behind
was liable to a short imprisonment only. By the Bill
which he was now supporting, it was proposed to;
grant an unlimited discretion in the Judges—and this
was the more necessary, because it was impossible be-
forehand to define the extent of the crime. Men might
be left on foreign coasts, under such circumstances' as
would actually amount, in a moral point of siewoe
murder—for if left on a desert island, or roct;• it
would be little short of murder—and yet the punish-
mean would be no gre der, by 'the law as it now
stood, than if they had been left behind on the coast
of France or Portugal. He had now gone through
the leading features of the Bill relative to the law of
persons, and he would therefore proceeJ to say a for
words on the second Bill which lay before him, the
amendments proposed to be effected by which were of
a miscellaneous nature. In the first place, he proposed 10'
-admit the-affirmation of Quakers as evidence in erinti4l.,
as it was already received in civil cases. Ile could quitte
a very high authority to show that this was an alters-
tion which should long since have been effected—an
authority no less than that of the great Lord Mansfield,
who was perhaps the fittest person `that could he
found to improve the. law,. both from his knowledge
of general principles and. from the experience..• no. •
cessarily resulting from the time he had so ably -
dispensed it. The law, as it at- present stand, 2
had been attended with great evils—trials had not taken
place, and crimes had not been prosecuted, beeau*
the evidence of Quakers could not be. received. •Me •
(Lord Lansdown) was aware that depredatinnsrtad
been carried on to a great extent at Manchestei upon ,
Quakers, who were selected as objects of plunder,
because it might be done almost with impunity... 4
He knew also that notes, the property of Quakers,'.'
had been abstracted from coaches and banking house. 4
the parties taking such property knowing the difficulties ,
under which the owners must labour if they attempted
either to recover their property, or prosecute the:of:is_
fenders. He should go still limber, and remind tlitiC
,Lordships, that in Hoddesdon a murder had been
committed, and in the presence of no less then 100
[persons, and yet the murderer escaped punishment,
because those four persons being Quakers, their evidence
could not be received. He knew a more recent instance
in which the ends of justice were defeated: he alluded
to a forgery committed upon a bank, ape of the part-
nets in which was a Quaker, and he. being the only
person who could depose. to the handwriting, it became.
impossible to bring the criminUl le punishment: it •
should be remembered, that the 'Quaker' so giving his
affirmation would be equally as liable to punishment
for perjury, if he spoke falsely, as if be•ivent through ,
the ceremony of an oath. It seas' .indeed, somewhat
inconsistent that one species of iffitination ihoold be to-
lerated and another. xejected,.,:, If • a-murder were cons•
initted on the Thamesgthe et ideace of the lowest Chiba/