The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1821-1823, 1821-08-01
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From the New-YOfk Advertiser, July 27.l
Latest Foreign Nezps.

Rodgers, arrived yesterday in the short
passage of 25 days from Liverpool, hav-
ing left that port on the lst of July
The ]. M. was announced yesterday
morning at 6 o'clock by the Telegraph.
BY this vessel the editors Of the Daily
Advertiser have received regular files
of London papers to the Goth, London
shipping and Lloyd's lists of the same
date, and Liverpool papers TO Saturday
the 30th Of June, all inclusive.
A sullen ferment prevails in Sicily.
Party spirit daily increases. Gen. Fri
mont, with the consent of the King of
Naples, has sent body of troops to
that island.
At Nisa, in Servia, the Turkish
Pacha having been suspected of favour
ing the Greeks, was beheaded on the
10th of May, and the Archbishop
Athanasns, together with three noble
Servians, were hanged by order of the
Porte. The Archbishop was hanged
before the church, and after his body
hadbeen dragged through all the streets,
was torn to pirScs end cast to tue dogs.
The intelligence of battle between
the Turks and Greeks, at Galatz, on the
18th of May, is confirmed. The Turks
entered the town and murdered the in
habitants, without distinction of age or
sex, and afterwards set it on fire. The
number of killed is reported to be 5000.
The Austrian Observer, of June s.,
says, the Russian troops on their way to
the frontiers of Moldavia, had received
orders to accelerate their march.
A corps of 800 Greeks, flying from
Yassy, came to take refuge at Skoleni,
within the Russian territory, but en-
trance was vigorously denied them.
The London papers mention, that
places in private houses in the neigh
bourhood of Palace Yard, commanding
view of the line of procession of the
coronation, are sought after with extra
ordinary avidity From 10 to 40 gum
cas- are demanded fora seat. The pro-
prietor of one house in George-stFeet
expected to clear f7,oOO 1t appears
that in most cases the landlord is enti-
tied to divide the profits equally with
the tenants.
A number of Resolutions have been
moved in the British House of Com
mons, in relation to the Slave Trade.
BY Mr.. Wilberforce. After noticing the
conduct of nations who still continue
this bloody trafick, he says
"That we contemplate with far different feel
ings the conduct of the United States of Amer
lea. Not only have their cruizers been ac-
lively employed in cooperation with our own
in.suppressing the Slave Trade on the coast of
Africa; but an act has been passed by Con-
gress, which places the Slave Trade in the
list of piracies, and subjects to capital punish
ment all citizens of the United States who
shall be found to engage in it. That in wit
Messing the conduct of the Legislature of the
United States, on fhis- occasion, we are led to
reflect with grateful exultation on our COM
mon origin, and on those common laws and
institutions, whose liberal spirit has prompted
our American brethren to be among the very
foremost in thus stamping on a trafhck in the
persons of our fellow creatures its just char
acter and designation and we cannot but
express our earnest hopes that not only we
ourselves shall speedily follow so honorable
an example, but that the day is not far dis
tant, when, by the general concurrence of all
civilized nations, this detestable trafick shall
be pronounced to be piratical, to be an offence
against all human kind, which all are entitled
and bound by duty to suppress.
$ That from the gratifying contemplation of
the zeal manifested by the United States to
promote the cause of humanity, we turn with
feelings of the most painful disappointment to
France, by some Of whose subjects the Slave
Trade has been for some time carried on to an
unprecedented extent, along the whole range
Of the western coast of Africa, and whose flag
not only protects their own subjects in their
criminal enterprises, but serves to protect the
subjects also, Of other powers, who engage in
this commerce. but who are prevented by the
vigilance of British cruizers from finding any
shelter under the flags of their own Counties
TURKEY.
The advices from Turkey are still contra
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