The Alexandria herald. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1811-1826, 1822-11-27

q feet, which, according 10 the historian
was the greatest then known in the histo.
~ Of mankind, yet BY such inadequate
means overthrown.- Nam hari modo
ahsd Salsmfna nsrvo numero navinm,
martina hoss hominHn nsensorism eiassis
ess devicso.''
Marathon also IS now directly within
their view, only ten miles before them.
where Miltiades, instead of intrenching
himself behind walls now in tho dust,
combattec on the open plain with tho cap
tain of Darius.and visA only a Aandfu, Of
.Ashenisnss the fafIevs Of :he present
Greeks, obtained that immortal victory o.
liver an hundred thousand men, QUO
aIgna nulla enim unquam tam exigua
manus tantas opes prostravit
Signal successes in war, under distin.
guished commanders, are as likely to o.
verthrow the barbarians Of the present
day IS the barbarians of former times, e
the rather, because examples have such
a powerful influence on all the exertions
Of mankind.
Ny observations, my lord, upon this
affecting subject are drawing fast to
their close. 1t has been for some time
no secret that a congress is to be held up.
on the continent, where tho subject Of the
Greeks cannot but come under considera
ton, and that we are to be represented
at it by some minister Of state. II was
this which determined me, without mo-
ment's delay, to write and to publish this
letter; because it would have been too
late to make any useful appeal to your
iordship, or the public, after we had ia
ken our part, and perhaps concurred in
measures which could then only use
iessiy dissent from.
| Ifthis congress Of sovereigns and their
ministers is only to have for its object the
renewed support of principles and pro-
ljects already too notorious, and il, to a.
void any incongruity or departure from
the system hitherto acted upon, Turkey
70 to be sanctimonionsiy upheld as le-
ultimate son ereignty, and the Greeks are
10 be sacrificed, or in any manner COM
Promised on the ground that they are the
subjects Of the forte aud bound by thei,
allegiance, though against their univer-
sat will, to obedience and feare, desire
hereby to express my adherence OIL
compromising this country in such ar
odious combination, and am confident
that the great mass ofthe British people
will join me in my protest.-My alarm ais
to the future. my lord, is justified by
what is fasr. The conduct of Russia is
quite inexplicable upon any other ground
than that she has been recently at leas,
acting in concert with the continental
powers, and that the continental powers
and ourselves perhaps along with Them
had taken no steps for any establishment
for the Greeks, nor were preparing to
provide for them any security whatsoever
I Russia, my lord, in tho early part o.
the spring collected an immense army,
| and as the season advanced, marched
large divisions Of it in the direction of the
Turkish frontier; yet, although the afro
cities multiplied every hour, and with
accumulated horrors, she took no step tc
prevent them, and, although she knew
that the Greeks we're in arms for their
independence, and making glorious
struggle against their oppresscrs, she
proceeded no farther, but published an
uisimasun, most inadequate to their pro.
lection or support. Since how could the
evacuation of Moldavia and Wallachia
put a stop to the barbarous outrages or
the unhappy Greeks, then at their por'
tentous height! and what demand for
their benefit could be more useless thar
that OF rebuilding the churches which
had been demolished; since what defence
less christian, unless he aspired to the
fame OF myrtyr, would venture to Sc