The Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1822-1829, 1822-11-01
From the Liverpool Mercury
GREECE.

Lord Erskine, whose early career was
distinguished by an attachment to the liher-
ties of his own country, IL "a genuine cos
mopollte, whose motto appears tob be, "the
world my home, and doing good my reli-
gion." TO his immortal honor, the lively
interest he has manifested TO the cause Of
regenerated Greece presents a striking con-
trast to the sla, ish and criminal apathy with
which we blush to own our countrymen
have Witnessed the fate of a struggling and
gallant people, towards whom our national
habits and earliest predictions ought TO
have inspired the deepest sympathy. His
lordship's appeal, from which we suhloin IA
few passages, is addressed to the earl ofLi-
'erpool and il it in any degree operate ia
vorahly upon the approaching congress, we
shall greatly reloce.--For our own parts,
we have very little hope that lihrral spirit
will ever fnd its way into the deliberations
of the holy aIIial ce.
We hail ,he appearance of this produc-
ton Says the .iiorning Chronicle as the
harbinger Of better fortune TO the cause of
that unfortunate people. Religion and hu-
manity have hele guided the pen of this
amiable and venerable nobleman, whose
voice has 50 often and so successfully been
already raised in behall'of the oppressed /;
and the heart that can read his powerful
appeal unmoved must be torpid indeed
On the religious part of TIN, community we
| are warranted in believing that it will pro-
duce strong and durable impression"
His lordship commences with informing
lord Liverpool that he is eolemnly and
Indispensable forced, by duty paramount
to that of statesman, to make an instant
effort 10 engage the nations in alliance with
this country To overthrow the cruel domin-
ion of unprincipled, lncorrigible barbarians
over christianpeople, struggling for hber-
Tty and independence"
The noble writer then proceeds as fol-
lows:
The freehold of the Greeks, if may
SO describe the possessions of that nation,
tomprehended Thrace, Macedonia, Thes-
sally, Epirus, Acbaia, Pelopcnnesus, and
NegropOnt, SC. with most of the islands in
the Archipelago, the lonian islands amongst
the number, they being sometimes called
lonians on that account They were mas
tiers of the celebrated cities, with their dis
tricts, of Athens, Sparta, Thebes, Coriuth,
and MycGne, &c. aud were Almost refined
and celebrated people. Classical learning,
so Justly encouraged in all countries as in
dIspensable, derives its principal sources
from their sublime superiority in poetry
and eIoqnence, which in the lapse of SO ma
ny ages, have found no competition and
even at this hour to inspire those who are
to live after us with the most exalted senti-
ments, with contempt of danger and the sa-
cred love OF their country, We make them
stOop al their desks, in their earliest wears,
over the histories of their illustrious fore
fathers, in periods when the neblrst of our
own We're in the woods. The-clai,n, there.
fore, of the Greeks, with the aid of all
Chrstendom, To irer and undisturbed ter
ritory, CONNIE nsurdte at least .nitA the present
population, is the clearest in human annals,
whilst the dominion of the Turks, who over
power and Cypress them, is the most au-
dacious usurpatlon,-They began, extend
ed, and completed their ravages under the
mask ofimposture, impiously pretending to
a commission from Heaven for the desola-
ton ofthe earth.
" All that ask ofthe British government,
through your iordship, is an instant, faith
FIJI and strenuous trertion, to engage our al
lies in this great cause of humanity without
giving rise las assert II could mott to any
probable or rather possible contest which
could deserve the name ofwar.
" IL cannot be questioned, that by thus
taking the lead for the deliverance of the
Greeks, we should lay the foundation of an
endless gratitude, he advantSged by their
returning power and commerce, While We