The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-04-11 00:00:00

core Of • LETTER 'ROM PIIIL. SUMER IVEHU, E$

TO uLosti;i: Holm": AumstA. Esq.
Dated Masa, Feb. Y 3.

MY DEAR beg leave to intiodare to your
actputintance, Mr. Constantin,. Volterra a i I
native of Zante, and of one of the most illustrious
fatuities of the lonian States. The present object of
his journey to England is, to reclaim against certain
arbitrary acts of the government of that country, of
which you will probably have heard, and in sorb an.
undertaking, as a stranger, and unversed in our laws
and customs, he has the greatest need of uprialst and
jnJiri~ ,r counsel. I knnw of no one who, by facts as
well as words, has shewn himself a more decided
enemy of injustice. Will the abuse of power than your-
self, or a inure strenuous and successful ad‘ocate of a
good cause. Without however pretending to prejudge
the case, as an ee witness I tau aver that the sub-
jects of those States have numerous and jost
grounds of complaints, which, (ruin the want
of nip:ins, they have not been able to blintz before the
notice of the slovernment of the British Empire, aad
that the subject is not unworthy of the consideration
of Parliament. Should yon, in any way, team it ill
your power to aid this gentleman, yon will give me
infinite pleasure, and enable me in stone nay to show
my gratitmle not only fur the cordial reception %%hid'
. I received id the islands themselves, but front the
whole Greek nation in every part of the Levant. I
' will not apologize to yon fur the liberty I take, but
he of you to retaliate Alld prove, at all times, and uts
' every occasion, that I ant, most truly and faithfully,
t Tune's, &c. ice.

MASS .ICR Ig AT M. 4 N I 1., 1.
fothasritut extract throws some little light on
the curers of the shocking catastrophe annuntived
in
one later impressions of yesterday :
sx.rn.\Cr of' A LETIEit DATED IN THE CONVENT OP
AcLsTIN. MANILLA,II(I% 19, 19210.
" I address yon from this convent in the tleepe,t
state of Alliction and distress. The horrible and
afflicting events which have passed in Manilla since
the toth of the current month, have thrown me into a
state tof delirious, and %wpm% which ithisost deprives
me of the faculty of communicating what l soak! $%*1.1)

to relate.
On the Ist of this month a tremendous gale of
westerly wind, accompanied by a heavy fall of rain.
occasioned a rise in the waters of the lake far shove
its lima, level, inundating all the low lands of
On the 241 the water began to subside ; and in conse-
quence of the dreadful commotion in tlw lake, pro-
ceeding front the torrents whirls poured into it from
the %nrronoling mountains, as well as from the mass
of tittle ohielt had been left on its banks, sent tot!' an
infection in the airs which has produced an 4pidensic
disease to which thousands have Idlest victims.
" 'lite native population, either from blind igno-
rance or induenced in their opinions by those who du
not wish the foreigners well, imagined that the French
residents had poisoned the lake and river which runs
from it tin arils making this a pretence to as-
sassinate and plunder nut only the French, but all
strangers without discrimination.
.1 The horrible design was carried into effect un the
9th of the eurreut month, its Dimond°. the suburbs to
comment:in,: first with the French, and ulti-
mately with all strangers, without distinction •f
nation.
Twenty-lae gentlemen, captains. and sarsecar-
goes of the foreign ships now in Covent-, including, 1
deeply regret to say, my pyrtners. Messrs.Shatralitzky
and Dent/lett, fell a sacrifice to the vessel knife of
these barbarians, and on the following day sizteen
Chinese, who, as they supposed, were concerned in the

poi.son plot.
" Eery thing' which they could find in time houses
of tlse unfortunate people who had fallen victims se
the fury of these barbarous wretches WAS 'WWI

or Carried off.
" The loss is estimated at 400,000 dolly,. and the
different residences of the pOor innocents who hare
been so cruelly massacred, peseta the most dreary
aspect of rapine, sander sad devastation. not to hr do-
sc.ihed, and urVer„ serer to be forgotten.