Star.
London, England, 1826-08-12 00:00:00

ALEXANDRIA IN EGYPT, NAY 17.

The Greek corsairs carry on piracy to such an extent,
that, without fear or reserve, they plunder and murder
the crews, confiscate ships and their cargoes, whatever
be their destination, their Sag, or their owners. For some
months we have no news of a great number of vessels;
and must believe that, after having been plundered, they
have been sunk, with their crews. The whole Levant
is like a wood filled with robbers. Our Road is corn.
pletely blockaded by five or six Greek vessels, which
,spare nobody, so that they have not even respected au
lonian sup, toming.troni Spa with Greek passengers.
All the hopes of unfartunate Mariners. are now placed
On the energy of Marquis Paulacci, whose arrival is
impatiently expected at Napoli-di Romania. We have
several ships which have been pillaged; the Captains
and crews, without money, without previsions, stripped
even of their shirts on their backs, insulted, abused, mal-
treated, groan under all the horrors of misery and oppres-
sion; An English brig of war,which arrived the day befire
yesterday, relates, that at Napoli and ftydra the Greeks
are daily coming to blows with each other, to snatch
from each other the fruits of their rapine. Such are the
brave actions of those who have met with so many par-
tizans. If the Germans, who feel so much inteiest in
them. were as well acquainted with them as we are, it
is certain that all their enthusiasm would vanish.
Captain Rtdimiri is dead at Napoli of vexation and ill-
treatment. A vessel went to Napoli with the important
gift of uniforms for 10,000 Greeks, and has been re-
ceived with so much civility and gratitude, that it was
ribbed in the port of the goods (French property), which
completed its cargo from Smyrna, and the Captain and
crew were ill treated, and stripped even of their clothes.

UAYENCE, JULY 27.
FROM THL ORSURVER OF TRIRSTF..

The Election in the Grand Duchy of Hesse. for the
thew Chamber of Deputies, which is shortly to meet
proceeds very slowly. In Darmstadt the Magistrates
have issued a circular to the citizens, threatening to
publish the names of those who do not exercise their
political rights by voting for the choice of Deputies. In
some towns the Magistrates have been obliged to send
police officers and soldiers to the houses of the voters, to
fetch the polling papers, which by the Constitution they
should deliver themselves. In other places, where the
Magistrates hesitated to adopt these or similar measures,
no votes have been given ; and in the Upper Hesse the
people have positively refused to have anything to do
with the election for arty Chamber of Deputies. A de-
putation from that province, sent respectfully to intimate
to the Grand Duke the motive of this refusal, was not ad-
mitted to an audience. One chief reason of the dislike of
the people to our representative Constitution is that the
last Diet passed a law on the Finances, which instead of
reducing the very high taxes added new ones, which
have proved very injurious to the general prosperity..—
The real squrce of the dissatisfaction with out Constitu-
tion is, however. partly the defective and complicated
mode of election, shich requires three distinct opera.'
tions ; and partly, perhaps chiefly, in the fact that the
Constitution is not adapted to the manner and customs
of the inhabitants, and of the state of knowledge
among them. The Provincial Assemblies in the
middle ages, which at that time bad so beneficial
an influence on the public prosperity, consisted of
etepoties for the several estates, who received from
coastituentb precise instructions froth which they were
05 allowed to deviate ; and being supported by nume-
rous and powerful Corporations, naturally had great