The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-04-05 00:00:00

TIIE PATRIOT'S ROOK OF MARTYRS.

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This Day ispubllshed,. No I, price 6d. fib b• continued
weekty:cof •
AHISTORY of the PERSECUTIONS of deo.P.i R-
-4.lltAfitlef4; FAUX aiirobtMEll3;7rolii Vie Ems
of the French Revolution in 170, to the present time. To
which is prefixed a brief sketch of the persecution of other
advocates of the liberties of England, from the commence-
ment of the reign of Charles I. to IiSEI
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Ily WILLIAM GREATIIEED LEWIS.
Author of • New •nd Popular Grammar of the English
Language.
" Men on whom late time a kindling eye
" Shall turn, and tyrants tremble while they read,
" Wise, strenuous, firm of unsubmitting souls."

tHomsox.

This Work, upon which no expense has been spared, will
be completed in about twenty ouinbers ; each number will
be embellished with the Portrait of a Persecuted Reformer,
or with an Engraving, by Cruickshank. illustrative of some
curious and interesting fact, related in the course of the
Work.

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lONIAN ISLANDS.

The following is given by the Courier of last night,
as the substance of the Speech of his Majesty's Com-
mis•ior.er, Lieu .6eneral Sir Thornal Maitland, to the
new lonian Parliament, which met at Corfu on the Ist of
last month, and some extracts:—

Speakiag of the conviction that the members of the new
Parliament will be guided by the genuine principles of
patriotism, Sir Thomas Maitland says, " of this, the cite-
racier, ti,e known talent, and the property in the country
of the persons whom I have the honour of addressing, are
the amplest guarantees."
Ile then enters at length into the diTerenee of the present
situatiorof the islands from that in which they stood at the
period of the promulgation of the Constitution of ISI7, and
congratulates the Assembly "on the gradual increase of the
prosperity of every part of the population ;" which he at-
tributes to the good general demeanour of the people, un-
der circumstances of a trying nature.
lie declines entering into the misrepresentations of the
transactions in the lonian Islands, " which have been spread
over Europe, and no where more industriously circulated
than within the dominions of the protecting Sovereign ; for
it is sufficient (says the General) for you to feel, and for his
' Majesty's Government to know, that you actually enjoy
more of the blessisigs of civilized life, more liberty, and a
grey er degree of prosperity and affinence, than many of
those countries, in which tltere is an affectation of lamenting
the tyranny and oppression under which they falsely say-
you live.'
In regent to the neighbouring warfare in Greece, he ob-
serves, " These unfortunate hostilities are, as usual, at-
tended with the greatest horrors and atrocities. The loni-
an Government, however, will continue to seize on every•
opportunity of exercising the duties of hospitality and hu-
manity, in favour o: the unhappy victims of that wide deso-
' lation, which forms the peculiar character of this cruel and
bloody warfare."
In regard to the internal quiet of the Islair's themselves,
Ile feels confident of the continuation " of the present calm
and unruffled traikquillity," and recommends in consequence
to the lonian Ex.mutive Gbvernment, " the recall to their
native Island Zante. of those turbulent individuals, being
Ave in number, whose hrlisviow (hiring the late crisis in the
More*. forced the Govern sent to remove them from the
Island for a time. They comprise the waste of the indivi-
duals treated iu this manner t nor is there a si,tele person
within the States lea state of arrest or tia,:ution on this ac-
count."

Speeci then adverts to the Finance of the Islands.
Tie public accounts are up to the 3lst Jan. 1:923, the close
of the last anancial year. •
Spanish Dollars.
The receipt during the year was 707,1;7.5
The expenditure was 59a.31S

Leasing* surplus Revenue of I 17.357
"your financial (stye the lienerll.) eoutime to
Wear a promising. ave 4 t. Certain it k, this is no!
the result of frrsh taxation, for you well know, that no
a ti.litio•,al imports have been laid ou the p.nspi., ,inee the
e.taloi4hment of the present Conatitutottal tiov,rmuent
of : unless the modification of the then existing

in regard to the expenditure, the Civil list is laid oa
the table for the considerntion of the Assembly ; also ap
account enumerating every item of the whole eixpendie
thre, the chief heads of which are alluded to, Oa as the
Government new buildings at Corfa. he new market end
lazgaretto in Cephalonia, and the new ithii•ary hospital
in Zente; the money expertic I in all ..71:t Is ands in the
making of roads, and in paying, during the lust year, ea
extra body of the militia to uuard the Coss's, as tut
plague had shown itself on the opposite eltures.
'rite new CoPege is to (yen in Vie current year, bat
not in Ithaca, as bisrmerly proposal, !intim Corfu.
' In respect to the administration of jas iterthe
expresses his regret Vise the progress has not been grease
er in remedvi nit the defects; hot it Itieii he ascribes to the
difficulties in the way. Ile considers, however, that rTv,:t
substantial amelioration has been effected. and adverts to
an Act of Parliament of the list year from whichlbe
greatest benefit has bean derived, sad. from tit • effect of
which be expects the certain reformation of the IMP, and
of ihejudicial sesvice of the Stati s. • '
T6is Address concludes With the foilowing observa-
tions on the late general elections.
" At the time (says Sir Thomas Maitland), that the pee.
sent chaiter was framed, it must he known tettiose I am
now addressing, that the greatest difliculties were supposed
to exist in iiitroeuciag the system of rim core, instead of
the one in practice of halls and balloting haws ; and, it
was even coutentied, that this !nit summer oleo:lug was ne-
cessary, for the peace and harmony of society.
" It appeared to me then. as it does now, that the Intro-
duction of the system of voting viva rare on all eccasi!,eir,
would of itself tend to form the character, ant correct the
morals of the people more than any ether measure that enuid
be.pdopted ; and its success has, I owe, exceeded my masa
sanguine expectations, and I apprehend, has alas surpassed
those of every well-wisher to hbi coultry. Foc whetnee we
look at the number of electose asho4tasepthiehl,..and their
seal and sunray to eitlniss; their elective franchise, or
whether we consider the quality and description or the per-
sons they returned as their Representative,. it must be ob-
vious, that every thing, that has been Said by a few tartletse
individuals, is proved by the act and deed of the whole of
the Nobility. and of every person of respectability or proa
petty in the country, to be utterly false.
" The conduct, in fact, observed by ail ranks of sqciety,
seems to me to be exalted,the one best calculated to ensued,
and at the earliest period, an extensio of the liberties nal
franchises possessed by the people.
Let me net, however, be understood as holding out the
moo distant idea, that his Majesty will ever permit the
troduction into these Islands of those wild and destructive
principles which can only tend. to say the wealth and hap-
piness of nations. Whet I mean to say is, that yos Hill al-
ways find me disposed to propose to his Majesty's Goveru-
ment such further extension of the privileges of the people,
as a conviction of their moral insproleraent, end of their iu-
creased attachment and contidence In their Government may
warrant—and any recommendation on this head, wheu limit-
ed within the bounds of any real practical view of the case,
will certainly meet the sanction of hia Majestr, from that
anxious solicitude ever displayed in favour of these Sletes
by your august Protector, my magnaiiimous and gracious
Sovereign."