Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1823-12-04
TIE GREcHs

ced in ealtimore.--C kron
From The Commercial .3drertiser.
The Cresks.--Two or three weeks
ago, we received the following commu-
nicatioh from friend who signs himself
"anti-Turk.n
suppose, gentlemen, collection fer
the Greeks were to be made through the
United States, and let every man, wo-
man and child be subscriber, and lei
the subscription be only one cent, the
rich giving no more, AID the poor no
| less.
"Rich men may, indeed, assist many
poor families herein, or those &c any
there be- who have no souls in their
bodies, or, (what is tantamount) have NO
feeling for the miseries of their fellow
men-thus sum of about one hundred
and twenty thousand dollars would be
raised fer these people, who are strus-
cling for liberty and lie; and every per-
son breathing in the United States have
their feelings interested in their behalf
the person who commences this work OF
Christian benevolence, will deserve well
of his country of the world"
We are free 10 confess that the pro
position oil our correspondent struck
Us iavorably at frss, and our opinion
has been strengthened by the perusal
OF an able and eloquent article ia
late number of the London Mornins
Herald, in which similar projec:
i, recommended We raise money
to make converts to Christianity a
midst the burning sanas of India, and
The far distant islands of the Pacific;
and shall we look quietly on, and suf-
fer nation OF CHRISTIANS TO be siaugh
tered like sheep in the SHAMELESS, "a hen
a'e have the power OF rescuing them
from the scymetar? The writer in the
tloln ing hcraid says, the Quakers,
the mid, tie unpretending Quakers,
have long been employed in this cha
fi.abie work, SO far as contributing to
the wants & necessities Of the Greeks
and have raised and expended lar
ger sum for their relief, than has Eecn
furnished irem the rest of the Chris
tan world in the United Kingdoms.
On the Continent, where we suppose
nothing to exist but slave and bigots.
aud nothing remain but rags and III
ms, they pu: the contributions in Eng
land, to the blush. In Germany, ~
Switzerland, the Greeks have found
sympathy, and their committees are
III active cooperation with our own,
| with larger means and a more en-
| lightened policy. Aud how, he asks,
is all this? Have you read the reports
which have been published by those
lately returned from Greece? Do you
know that they have q regular and a
virtuous Government? That they want
and solicits your schools, your teach
ers; that the territories which they
have re conquered they hold sacred
that no division has taken place; that
even the conquerors, who might lay
calm TO what they have won by the
sword, hold it Tor settlement oil bet
ter day, and for a just distribution un-
der more settled Governmental
rather undcr one longer established:
The individual acts OF heroism & self
devotion are like romances; and the
cross blazes like a constellation amidst
the smoke of the Turkish cannon.
| The expenditures of the city OF
Philadelphia and the districts of South
wark and the Northern Liberties for
| the year ending in ksy last, amour
ted to $1A3,493; viz: for the cut door
poor $83,430, and for the Alms House
| $60,o63
! Spanish Wool.--ft is stated in q
London paper that in consequence OF
the Spanish flocks Of Merino sheep
having been prevented from being
sent to the Pyrenees the last summer,
| by the events OF the war, the trade in
wool for this season has taken new
direction The sheep were kept the
whole sommer in Estrens dufa, here
they found sufficient pas.ufage, and the
wool instead OF being sold in Rilboa
land Santander as usual, it has been
sent to Lisbon and Oporto, al account
of the English merchants.
| PIRACY.-.On her passage from
Barbados for Turks Island, the schr.
Charles Sidney Of Newburyport was
boarded, off Porto Rico, by piratical
schooner OF about sixty tens and full oil
men-she was robbed ofali her specie,