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" Most faithful Patriarch and Greek Synod, we an.
trounce to you what follows :
" In the note sealed with the Patriarchal seal which
you lately presented to the Sublime Porte, you set forth
that according to the justice and good faith with which
PRoVlDEticit has endowed the Sublime Porte, it has
always, in wha:ever concerns the defence and the ho-
nour of-fortune and of life, placed on the same rank as
Mussulmans the tributary It ryas subject to its abject
authority ; that under the Imperial Throne they have
obtained all sorts of favours ; that in particular the
Greeks of the Morea and the Archipelago enjoyed
greater privileges than any other; that nevertheless, led
Away by vain ideas, they had forgotten the gratitude
due for so many benefits, and had rebelled; that thel
Sublime Porte, on its part, engaged in the puniihmeat I
pith the sole view of banishing the spirit of disorder
which had inflamed their heads, and restoring them tot
the tranquillity and welfare of which their ignorance
had deprived them; that hitherto those among them
who bays, mist,ted of their enterprise and have im-
plored parson, have experienced grace and compassion
on the pan of his Highness ; that according to the
pronsiies it was to be presumed that all would eagerly'
resort to the lmperial clemency; but that some so dis-;
posed to ahjure their errors, and ask pardon, appear to.
feel that they will he puni.hed for their perseverance
and insurrection ; that however, the pathof intercession
being always open to favour the guilty, and the pardon.
of tho.e who snbinit.. being one- bf the attributes of
Royalty, it being welt understood that no foreigner has
any iigl t to motes fere for the said- Itay.rs; yOn hope that
his Highnesi would deign to lend'aiilnerCirril ear to the
'prays.: andintercession of the-Patriateh, whols the re-
Aeons chief. By the aforesaid note you have asked'
that sit ben the Greeks-have once submitted, they should,
be secured from all punishments for their revolt, mutt
that in cotiaderation .of .what they h ive,suffered during!
their troubles, they shook! be excused the c Titration'
and other trrbutei which remain due since the insurrec-
lion. that their hearti, fillet with consternat!on, should
be tranquillize d by concessions calculated to secure their
repose and welfare, under the auspice. of hi. Highness,
.0 long as they-shell continue faithful; and that in the
case of your intercession being acce, ted, you may be
I authorised to communicate to them th.t good n ws.
" The contents of vitt note have been communicated
to his Highness. In tact, as the Patriarch has sincerely.
-acknowledged, all the world knows the generosity VI ith
which the Rayas, who are established in the Imperial
'provinces, and who are faithful in the observance of the
duties as subjects, have been treated. The Greeks of
the Morea and the Archipelago, who enjoyed more fa-
vour than others, and who, under. the shade of the im-
perial throne, had More perfect tranquillity, whose
commerce was freely carried on by land and sea—those
Greeks, I say. -far from being sensible . of such advan-
tages, allowed themselves to be carried-away by vain
ideas, and revolted against the Sublime Porte, who had
been their parent and benefactor from generation to
generation. They withdrew themselves from the peace
which they enjoyed, and seemed by their obstinacy to
call down upon themselves the severest- penalties.—
Nevertheless, the•Stililitne Porte, following the prits•
ciples of clemency 'arid humanity by which it has at all
times been.gui4ed, has always been slow to punibh,
and has never renounced i;s system of mercy while
chastising those who per;it in meek, in order to litim.!
back the othets to their duty. It is'phyoeally and morally
proved, that it has exerted every taint for the welfare
of those who submit, by regarding their past conduct
as if it had. 'never taken place. If the other Greeks
return to their duty, recognizing that they never can
succeed in their enterprise; that having hitherto ex-
perienced only troubles •and misfortunes, they must,
if they proceed, it.II uselessly sacrifice themselves,
their fortune.; and their lives, and be lost for ever ;
If they repent of their former conduct, and im-
'plore the pardon of his .Hrghnes., he, on his part, IA ill
treat them With all the clemency which the H •ly Law
i 1 eltifips• As Wag as these shall ob.erve faithfully their
duty as Itayas. they shall . never be troubled or ques-
tioned- respecting their past offences; their property,
lands, and domains, which, according t., the law, are
forfeited, And which are at the disposal of his Highness,
shall be, out of pure generosity, restored to the living
proprietors, or to the heirs of dead proprietors ; so the
lands and territory which they inhabit be-the hereditary
and absolute property of the :Sublime Porte, and so his
Highness has the right of governing and administering
•hem according to iris pleasure, the ancient regulations
relative to the -administration of the Aimee, and of
other places, and t> the welfare of the inhabitants, shall
be confirmed on the same footing, and their strict and
constant observance shall be secured. The Mussulmans
shall inhabit places and fortresses which they formerly
occupied; the Greeks, in their character of Itayas, shall
deliver up to the officers of the Sublime Porte the fort-
resses,
cannon, and other arms or ammunition which are
in their possession. They shall remain in their ancient
`territory; their churches shall be restored to them, and
'in the same manner as heretofore they shall experience
ino interruption in the exercise of their wor-hip. Though
them might be demanded from them the capita-
ties and other tributes, which have been owing fur cx
'or seven years past, as well as the reimbursement, and -r-
-the title of indemnity, of v!ir considerable /Alms espeu J.
by the public treasury on accoont of their iasurrec.l
tiow,nevertheless, out of regard fur the intetcessionl
made in their favorer, these debts shall also be for-
givers them. kbteover, to manifest his clemency to.

Balance in band, 31st January, MIS . 53,297 3 •
The diminution of the Revenot was chiefly occasione4
by the failure of the crop of olives in 1826 (the amount
of which' is estimated in 1827), and from the reduced
-receipt of the customs, which may be ascribed in a
peg measure to the interruption of commerce, caused
by the excesses of the. Greek .pirates. The expen-
diture, though considerable, was •Oluch les; than in
18;16, and a large portion-of it (nearly 25,0004 must
be placed to the account of the steam boat purchased
for the Government, and to expenses in the island of
Calamo (for the relief of the destitute fugitives
From Greece). In the course of the present Session
the Government will propose considerable reductions
in various departments, and also essential alterations
in the mode of levying the taxes,. chiefly for the promo-
tion of commercial intercourse. With respect to the ad-
ministration of justice, the principle sanctioned by the
last Parliament, and partly carried into effect, to fill
the places of Judges in the several islands with men not
born in the island in which they exercise their office,
had been found greatly to contribute to the impartial
administration of justice. The Government will now
propose to diminish the present number of the Courts
of Justice, and to give them a new and less expensive
organizition. For this purpose some details of tire Con-
stitution must be altered in the manner prescribed by
that document itself.

The following is posted lip at tl'e Inisalem C'fF e-
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house :—" Bat-avid—The war contlnues, and the Javtitege are ten
strung for the Dutch. put of 3,000 troops from the Nether! tut!.,
I ,000.11 ave diedand at least as many more are sick In the hospital.
The Dutch are still acting on the defensive.'

When the Lord High Commissioner came to speak
of public instruction, he mentioned the great loss which
the lonians have sustained by the death of the illustrious
Chancellor of the University, Lord Guilford, whi,se
active zeal in promoting the education of youth, had ore
been confined to the Islands, but had extended over all
Greece. Deprived of his enl.ghteired support, the Go.
vei nment and the Parliament must now endeavour to
prosecute the work now began; with those'rrrodifications
and reductiotus in the expenditure which the present
state of things and the finances required. .Etpecial
tention must be paid to the Elementary .lostructioa ift
the Lower Schools, which has made much. progress in
the Island of Cerigo in particulars through-- the exertions
of the Bishop.
With regard to eccle,iastical, affairs, his Excellency
remarked, that since the last Session of Parliament, two
Sees, those of Corfu and Zaote; had become vacant by
death, and it had not been yet.praCticable to fill them
up, because, after the departure. of
.4is 111..jesty's Am-
bassador, the necessary communications with Pa-
triarch at Constantinople could not take place.' &wild
this state i f things be protracted, it wilk be neeestiry to
fill up the vacant Sees according to the provisrpps,ef
the Act passed in 1825. • •1 .
Count Demettius Foscardi iv President'of the irate
for this SesSidn', and Briton Emenuel.`Tbeotsiti for
Corfu; Cay.-Matillo2Vlga for Cephitorda, DACGaeta
'for Zante, Caw. A. Cirodari, for Br. htietscandldae. J.
Mosichr for Vaztrandthrfsmaller islands,pereappointed
Members of tire Senate,• and, confirmedby the, Lord
High Commissioner. Lord Sidney Godolphin Osborne
is appointed; by Sir F. Adam, Secretary. General to the.
Serrate, who has also confirmed the Gsv.. S. Calicho.
pou Io; chosen by the Leg ial at iv.. Assembly...lo • its Pre*
sident.— Astari.:n Observers, March 81.6 • •
Vriunra, MA RCN. 31:.--Metalliques,. 8$ 11-101 13aak
1014; (In the evening,loo9).-4terstrine Seining, Ara 5.

DUELLING LAWS OF Niw YORIC.-A sup.
press duelling has passed the House of Assembly of New York, 61
to 7.7. It provides, that the infliction of a wound in a duel, beyond
the bounds of the State, from which death ensues, sh:.ll he punished
as murder; and that seconds in a duel -shall be punisht.l .s Jefenss
whether death ensues or. not. In its progress, the bill sick-ash/4.rd
warm and animated debates, which eventually took a political turn.
Thoee.whis supported the Bill contended that the pUbllc voice re-
c. ntly and loudly expressed, called for stroug and extraotdinary
measures to suppress luelling, and that it was the ineutn6eut duty
of Christian Legislators .TD discountenance the murderous pracr!ce
Of persOnal cionibatrin every quarter. The 'Bill was: opposed nut
only,.as a •o:4atioqcof the Constitution of -the Utnted States, as
Creatil): questions of conflicting jurisdiction between New Yolk
andkeearister•Srafes ; but that it would tend to increase the evil
which it hypodr)tically pretended to resttain, as it would deter
seconds from attending their friends in those reacontres, which
would therefore become more savage and destructive thin they now
ate; as it is well known that seconds frequently not only effected
reconciliation, but more frequently prevented the destruction of
human life on the held.

The Swedish squadron, under the command of Ce nue
Admient,Nonounsirocn, which is shortly expected at
Portsmouth, is ordered to proceed forthwith to the Me-
diterranean, for the protection of the Sue:fish and Nor-
wegian
.commerce. The squadron consists of one
frigate, one corvette, and three brigs of war.
Pipers hive been received from Bombay to the 2kh
'November. Sir JOHN MALCOLM, the new Governor of
that Presidency, ;Strived on the 26th Octoter, alid was
feeeiere.l wilAsevery.demonstration of respect. T i same
pipers also coc.run particulars of the demise of his
Noriesty Safest 4atann, the King ufOude. This evellr,
which Wa.s,f.istisett by fever, took place at Lucknow on
the 20th Oclober, ih the 59'th year of his Miljesty's age.
He hied been succeeded by his son, SOLYMAN Jett
NITSSUR•OOIY-MILSNairDER.. The other accounts, with
the exception of the assisted at Calcutta of a Burmese
Woogdock, to beg a short extension of time for the pay-
ment 9f the third instalment due by the Government of
Ava, are unimportant.