Star.
London, England, 1826-04-14 00:00:00

• Mr. DENIcAN thought there was quite etilicieut beibto the
House to, enable it to come to a judgment upon the question.
The House then divided, when the numbers were—For the
motion, 37--Agallist it, 6A—Nlajority,St.
Mr. HU 31 K said, he would withdraw his other intended motions;
but it was. his intrntion to propose, on a future day, a motion ex-
pressive of the sense of the House on the extraordinary conduct of
the Dean and Chapter.
Lora PA LM ERSTON moved for leave to bring in a Hill to
amend the .Ict for 'granting retired allowances to quartermasters
of catairy and infantry. The present Bill was merely intended to
place quattermastereon retired,allowances, who Wereincapable of
service, although they had served only 20, instead of SO years, as
i•equired by the Act.
The Bill was afterwards breitight in, read a first time, and ordered
'to be read a second time on Monday, and to be printed.
The other at ders of the Jay were then disposed of, and the House
hdjourned at Tvrat.vs o'CLoce.

THE FALL OF MISSOLONGHT.

PROM THE THE 4TOILE OP WEDNESDAY, APRIL n.

The heroic defenders of Missolonghi have ceased to
live! Eeduced to 1400 nien, who were reduced to
four ounces of biscuit, they saw till the 17th of Fe-
bruary the storm-gathering which was to swallow them
up. The Egypiians,directeo by Europeans. among whom
there were unhappily some Frenchmen, having at that
time comoleted the pontoons, by means of which they
were to cross the shallows to attack Missolonghi, on the
side of Mavri Aliki, at which point there were no forti-
fications, because the Lagoon defended the town on that
side. On the 18th, the enemy examined the ground,
and the Tui Irish Bret having re-appeared at Procopa
nistros, at the entrance of the Gulf of Missolonghi,
there was every reason to expect an attempt to storm.
From that day every individual prepared himself for
death, and from the 19th to the 21st of February all
the Christians celebrated their obsequies. The Bishop
Joseph administered the sacraments to them, and the
service for the dead having been recited, every one
repaired to his post.
From the 22d to the 25!h all was tsanquil in the camp
. of Ibrahim, and the enemy began in the night to place
his pontoons. Two hours after sunrise, the European
Engineers succeeded in approaching within a hundred
toises of the town, and shouts announced the attack.
Two lines of pontoons, ending at the same point, joined;
the cannon of the Christians began to roar, the firing of
musketry commenced, and at eleven o'clock, two pon-
toons having been destroyed, the barbarians retired in
disorder. Acclamations and cries of joy announced to
the in • abitants of M ssolonghi the triumph of the Cross.
The 28th February, Ibrahim having united ail his
forces, made a second attack, but without success. On
the 2d March, in a third attack, the barbarians made
themselves masters of the bead of a causeway, and from
that moment, the pontoons having been united at that
point, the destruction of the Christians, who had only
four handed and twenty-seven men able to fight, was
considered as inevitable. Yet no thought of surrender
entered anybody's mind, and no mouth pronounced
the word capitulation ; every one seemed to think only
of selling his life dear. At length, on the Bth March
(20th Mar,h, new style), the last hour of the C;iristians
sounded. At ten o'clock, the Talks had taken *sus-
longht by swim, the Bishop Joseph bad been burnt by
a slow tire, all the men had been put to the sword, and
the number of corpses of drowned womi n and children
choaked up the Lagoons. Eleven thousand Christians
have ceased to live, are before the tribunal of GOD. the
Judge of Kings, where they accuse apostate cabinets.