The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-12-27 00:00:00

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alone between-wirtm and black, but was confined
half bloods..or the -offspring of, a Olt, I.ld black,
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that such had been the decisions of the Courts of this
'state ; and that, as a consequence, this defendant, not
being a black or mulatto, was to be considered as
;white, and estitied to all the privileges of a white. It
was also claimed, that the isterniediste grades be-
tween black and mulatto were to be considered as black.
It was admitted on the part of the State, that it bad
,Men decided that the term malatto extended. only to.
I.balf bloods. But it was claimed. that in putting a
construction upon the statute law in queatioa, two
questions arose-
-Ist. Who were included in the terms black and sati-
latto, and thereby disabled from testifying ?
2d. Who were included in the term white person, and,
therefore entitled to the privilege of excluding blacks'
and mulattoes from testifying against them 11
It was admiited by the Counsel for the State, that'
whet) the Legislature excluded blacks and nsulattnes
from testifying, it might he a fair construction of the
statute, to suppose that they intended also to exclude'
the intermediate grades between blacks and mulatoes:'
because there would be the same reason for exelilding
those who were more than half black, as there *'veld
be for excluding mulattoes.
But it wai urged, that the Legislature, in descsib•
ing the cases where the disability was to operate,
had made use of the term white person alone; that,
the term white person. in common parlance. meant
one who bad no mixture of black blood. and, wet used
in contradistinction to persons of colour, or.those who
were wholly or in any other part black. There was
no instants in any dictionaryof the English language.
or in any other book, where the term." white person"
was not limited to those who were pure white :Abet
the distinctions which exist in society, and which
were the occasion of passing this law, did not autho-
rise the pl4'cing of quadroons in the same class with
the whites; that if the Legislature had said. that
blacks should not testify where mulattoes and whites
were parties, it would have been a just construction
of the law to have included the intermediate grades,
but not otherwise.

The Court supported the objection to the witness,
and the prisoner was acquitted, there being no other
testimony against her.
This decision ►s important : because it settles the
principle, that quadroons, and others of an interme-
diate grade between whites and mulattoes, are entitled
to all the rights and privileges, and subject to all the
liabilities of white persons; or, in other words, ire,
is law, to be considered as white. They are liable
to be called upon to do militia duty, and work upon
the highways ; and have a right to vote at all elec-
tions, equally with whites; and may be appointed to,
and bold any office in the state.

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by, an Express from,Paris. In that capital it appears a
'report prevailed that the' brand Seignor had been deca-
pitated, or otherwise assassinated, at Constantinople.
The following article, however, which indicates the
'prigin of the rumour, serves at the same time as Its
6sstradiction:--
1 ytarsral, Duc. M.—Yesterday, after the arrival of
tpcourier, from the Turkish frontiers, a report was
read concerning a revolt of the Janissaries at Con-
utantiimple. It was said, according to some, that this
',volt had cost the Grand Seignor and his eldest son
heir lives; *ad, according to others, had only caused
he death of Hsieh Effendi, the favourite of the Sultan.
this report was founded on private letters from Setn-
lie. from Belgrade, and from Peterwaradin,
Letters from Pest speak also of a courier, the bearer
of the same sews, having passed through that city.
But the silence of our journals this day on an event of
so much importance, requires that it should he doubted
until it is fully lot:Armed. If this silence should con-
tinue three slats. the news can only be eonsidered as
la pionswish of the Greeks. The next post from Coo-
itaatinople can bring nothing on this subject, as the
letters will not be later than the 26th of November.

--(Gazette llniserited.) .
. It is certain sew, says the Courier Francais, that
lithe regular Government which the Greeks propose to
establish, will soon receive a definitive organization.
The Derides will immediately assemble at Tripolissa,
where will be proclaimed the federative Greek rep -
lie, formed of theyorea, Livadia, Meanly, Macedo-
nia, Epirus and (ie islands of the Archipelago. It
is generally belteved that Demetrios Ypsilanti will be
nominated President of the New Republic.

Letters from Candia by way of Trieste, bring
reports that the Greeks are making astonishing
progress in the former place. They keep the Paella
,aild all the Turkish authorities closely blockaded in
the capital, and are on the point of becoming masters
of Canby" one of the most important points in the
'island. The Ottomans whs. till lately, received as-
sistance from their fleet, stationed near them, are
now in a most deplorable condition, as all communi-
cation is cut off. Fresh re-ioforcements arrive daily
to the Greeks. The districts of Canea round the
city (properly so called) of Candia, have declared for
the Greeks. The news from the blorea comes down
to the 14th ult. The expectation that the Turks
would undertake nothing more in the Peloponnesus
this season is fully confirmed. TM Greek Captains
flatter themselves that with assistalitfe from the join-
bitaate of Coron. Patras and Arta,. they will succeed
4094pelpag the Turks from the Morn before the
end of December.

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Letters from the frontiers of Italy of the 12th inst.
that the recent successes of the Greeks have greatly
augmented the seal of speculators to furnish Am*
with arms and ammunition.
We are informed, says the Courier Francais, that
the pretended Greek Corsairs are Algerine Pirates,
who have manned their vessels with Greek slaves, com-
manded by English deserters.
The following decisions of the Greek Council of
the Mores will tend to place the vilified Greeks in a
much more favourable point of view than the Ultras
of this country would wish them to be considered.
1. The obligation to abstain from meat on meagre
days is much less rigorous during the war for liberty
tisn on ordinary occasions.
2. Such women as have, during the horrors of war,
been compelled to submit to the brutality of barbarians
shall not be regarded as impure. They shall rather he
considered according to the ancient usage of the Greek
Church, as martyrs, who have suffered for the cause
in the deliverance of their country.
S. Prayers shall be offored for the repose of the
souls of all the Greeks, of whatever nation, who
have lost their lives since the commencement of the
Sacred War.
4. All the faithful shall venerate as a martyred
Saint, the Patriarch, who has been murdered. He who
has been appointed his successor is impious and an
leretic. No Greek shall lend an ear to his exhorta-
tions, or conform to his orders.
The Nonileer of Monday also contains advises
from Madrid.of the 13th. In the sitting of the Cortes.
of the 11th, the discussion upon the report of the
Committee appointed to examine into the state of the
',Wry was commenced. Several Members claimed
to be beard, but Count Flores Estrada was the first
who spoke en the question. He was opposed to this
report, and justified his opposition on the following
dileams s----" Are the prerogatives of the Crown (said
he) attacked or not? is the first case, the authors of
so great a crime deserve the severest punishment. If
they have not been attacked, why have the commission
proclaimed that disobedience exists ? In sanctioning
this report, we prove to the whole of Europe that we
of the Throne. The cue-
. system will say that the
Jacobins, who countenance
stigmatise with the epithet
compromise entire provinces, by
distrust of the Government."
_ t eople hatWindered from the eon-,
'dm path, the dvitigueeenrethetibiliiiibeylbrutadeisinsouff)therseedaidPildshat
can (liberty should lie allowed in palliation of their
stilt
o " The sitting being declared permanent until
i 'ect should be attained, several members were
holed. The first part oi the report was approved by
140 voices against 48. The sitting was net termi-
nated till a quarter put eight in the evening. A dis-
cussion on the second part of the report would take
place llama*

eggie, ~ Prince &Imolh, a great amnberoi
Peers, Members of the Chamber of Deputies, the pre.
intents of the Cohn of Cesiation, Court of &cola. •
the Prefect of Police, and several Generals hui.the
honour of paying their court to the King.
M. Simeon and M. Angles were among the apjoie
who attended. Y 11
Fazerco FUNDS.—FIve per cents. 85 f. 60e;
A Ministerial paper, not an advocate of the Gre4
nor of any other people who struggle for their ei
cipatioo, took occasion, yesterday evening, to pttt
a statement of atrocities committed by the Wood* '
,party at Navorin and Tripolizza, upon the pawns si
their conquered adversaries. What thew*** uti,
stay may be, or the channel through whishlk fona,4'
we have no means to ascertain. In the'mpAt opt
former, it is alleged, after the town had, triciagoko
capitulation, been ceded to the Greeks, tilailkumi
of the inhabitants were put to death ; aid at Trips
lizza, eubsequent to Its formal surrender 'a* ten')
eight thousand are said to have perished. ilk Galls;
who bad assisted at the conquest of the Wei, itia
added, had in coseequenee quitted the GreekAriee
with disgust. If this report should be cosi=
shall deeply deplore the blot with which the
have stained their cause. At tb e same time we meisine;el;
ilea the provocations and examples they bad previ,
holy received from their merciless oppressors., 'lt
fts understood that prior to the seige three hea.
Fired Greek hostages bad been shut up is
lTripollixsa, and among them a Greek Bishop'
and that their countrymen, after getting posse:eke if
the tows, discovered that all these hostages had bete
'murdered. Such cruelty was most likely to pree,4l
.retaliation. In more improved society, and Mils
our native land, a state of civil warfare hes sheep
been distinguished by peculiar ferocity. What Oita
can we expect from a people, like the Greeks, at tide
.crisis of their struggle, when we reflect on the his:
Wising influent,e of the bondage under which they
have been made to groan by their ferocious tyrants),

Agricultural meetings have taken place ;n Smog
Kent, and Bath, and, lastly, in Norfolk, fur the)*
pose of petitioning Parliament for relief, under e itlee
sure of distress unheard of among the AgrirultanWp;el
the country. At the latter meeting. the fumes
appear to have talked a little more to the 'Pei-
pose than they did with their unmeaning nonsense
at the others. They say they have petitioned Par-
liament loot Session to no purpose. They pray fees
revision of the Report of the Cominittegiii order :to
arrest the progress of dissatisfaction and despair.
The Consmittmof the House, they allege, toads the
most confused. contradictory, and unsatisfactory re-
port that ever came under their notice. They rower
to the old Bugaboo, the importation of foreign earn;
but they have sense enough at last to acknowledge
the principal cause of the national distress is
oppressive and overwhelming taxation. The Nor-
folk gentlemen have, at last, ventured to let oat,
that taxation was the real cause, and the may.
lion of Cash Payments but a part of the system....
Nothing but a partial relief from taxation, and glower-
ing of the rents, to what they were before the war,can
relieve the farmers or the country ; and taxes east
ultimately come from property whether landed or
funded. As to Petitions to Parliament for say
amelioration. these are of no use except they be to A-
tain a real and radical reform in the Representative
System. All other Petitions are but giving caste-
nano to that humbug with which the people bare
been so often deluded. To try to get over this See
sion in the old way. by a budget of the old tam.
and by new loans, will be only making bad worse, sad
the issue to be dreaded.

The Mails from Dublin and Waterford arrived Ibis
morning, and, we are happy to find, bring no accost
of any fresh disorder. In other respects, however,
the intelligence is sufficiently melancholy. All the
low lands appear to be inundated, and the poor irnik
bitants to suffer to the extremity of misery. We bare
received no farther report of the proceedings wider
the Special Commission at Limerick, except a detail
of the trials which took place on Thursday, and of
which We gave a brief account from the Dublin Eve
Mg Post, in our paper of Today. In that limiest,
the verdict on Marti* Grady and John Grady, yid
fur taking a sword from EDWARD NIORGAN, bad WI
omitted. By the papers received to-day, we less Ikal
both the prisoners were found guilty. In ems of the
cases does there appear any thing extraordisary.
the trial of Carton and others, when the fact 'rewired
that a subscription purse had been °posed at Newest'
tle, for the defence of such men as might be take"
and betentibt to trial for crimes connected with tbs
disturbances of that part of the country, Bilwi
M.Clelland spoke in terms of the strongest repack
sion of such a proceeding.

By the American papers received yesterJay, we
learn, that the first meeting of the Congress was to
take place on the 311 instant, so that in a day
we may expect to receive the President's message,
was expected that it would notice the distr
Agriculturists, which have been as pest
the United States this year, as those exi
this country and on the continent. But
hoped that any measure could be adopted '
,effectual relief, The other important

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