Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1823-08-23
GREECE.

NF0Nl
: n NAV perhaps be called the ali.
a,cny OF atoms, arose tbis mihihcent uni-
,,orss. Greece OesIn' 10 present sucn d
'o,r,l speclacle. The hefce AMI unru'y
nna.;ons have been rocked TO repose, by
70 end. hand of Ottoman oppression
Nv refreshing are the clear bright repuh-
I'm beams OF light, that CLEAN upon US
:" ,he extract published below They
re refreshing and inyigorsting. Ihous-
Snds of {reemen on this side OF the Allan
q" reyeI in the blaze. There seems a
Ind OF friendship already a bond OF bro-
,hsrbovd-ireedom is the tallsman by
,sSicb the friends of liberty are bound to-
s~Tbe Grs, principle, the alphabet o:iree.
dom. il may be called, is to ibe government
q our own passions. Where the tyran-
nc ~ that formerly held these hery
tents in restraint, is itself Frustrated IN
, ,5s dust. revenge. hatred and anarchy,
r,oe with uncomfortable violence. But
,he hour of carnage must Dol pass away
death can conquer bis victiDe but once.
The softer passions then succeed-mutu-
slity of distress, renders mutuaiity OF as
S;s,,oce necessary, aud this combined
Rith the common danger Of external Slo-
I,nce that threatens the whole body. rem.
Is,s This union indissoluble. Greece now
6sg;ns to provide against domestic as we'll
=. foreign danger While ,her enemies
are repealed by her bayonets, she forms a
constitution and government Tor the pro-
lection OF her citizens.
(Bat. Morn. Gron.
Is,,er from the President of the Greek
Government, Petrobeys, 20 his son (al
AnaOna.N)
AsTRos, April Is.
Nv Dearest Som have before written
IN YOU on the affairs of our country. To-
dsy | announce to you, that the National
Congress assembled on the 18th Of March
mas been occupied IL disposing matters to
The satisfaction OF all. Having coDstitut.
ed itself, add elected me President OF the
executive body the Bishop OF Vrastena,
Vice President OF the Congress; Theodo-
rus Negris, Chancellor of State, and our
learned friend, Stanatius, Vice Chancel-
lor; its first operation has been 10 sanction
IS immuisble, from a conviction OF their
utility. the principles of the organic law
nj E~pidsurUs, and decree merely that a
committee, composed of seven members,
should perfect it by the requisite additions
and alterations. Its second transactions
has been TO anGul the insulated govern
ments Throughout the country, and TO de-
cree that all the provinces of Greece
should depend solely on the national go
vernment, and shall be administered by
such Governors as it may send. Ii has
tairdly determined, that the titles of Gen
pral in Chief Of the Army and of the Ma
w are inadmissable in the constitution,
except in case oil an expedition, at the
conclusion OF which the Archistrategi and
Navatcbi are to return to their former
ranks. The command of the land and sea
forces belongs solely TO the National Go
Yernment. The army is to be governed
by the French military code, with the mo-
dIhcatioIs necessary to the present state
OF Greece. The fourth decree of the
National Congress, has been, that a COM
mittee, composed OF nine members, be
appointed TO select out OF The Statutes Of
the Greek ETperors the necessary crini.
nal laws. Ecclesiastical regulations have
been proposed, and a resolution PASSED,
that the Minister OF public worsbips,
should alter the consolidation OF the Ma
tional Government, lay before il a project
lie ioi, relating TO the land and sea forces.
1t being now decreed thai the second Pc
Rod OF The Government should b. accord
In 10 the law Of ~Epidaurus. Nothing re.
mains to he National Congress. before it
breaks up, and leaves to The government
10 discharge us important duties. tut 10
proclaim, in the name of the Greek ma
ION whose Toll powers il bears, as il does
proclaim anew. before God aud man, the
political existence and independence of
Greece, tor the recovery OF which The Da-
ton has shed and - shedding torrents Of
blood, with the fixed determination OF all
Ill OF Us, either to win il back from the
ravisher, and be acknowledged as a Tree
nation, for the glory of our Holy faith and
iCr the happiness OF mankind; or, with
arus ~ our han1s, sll-sll,l 10 descend 10
the grave. but to descend Christians and
Tree, as become a people struggling for
the enjoyment OF such blessings as politi-
cal existence and independence; as it be.
comes a people living in a heroic land,
where every thing recalls to our minds The
glory and the virtues CT our ancestors; as
becomes a people which know how to re-
pei barbarlans, and conquer liberty.
his declaration the National Congress
Is charged by the free Greek nation to
make to the world, upon the present ma.
tlonal war for independence, as we'll as
Gpon the intention Of the nation 10 regain
he knowledge it has lost, and to follow
The example OF the enlightened natious OF
Europe, IRON whose humanity Greece still
hOpes tor assistance. The Congress is also
charged by the whole nation to thank the
army and navy who, during sixteen months
have fought with glory and shed the blood
o. aboye ninety thousand of their enemies.
hs hnally charged TO thank the last Ma
ional Government for the great tolls they
endured The FIRST period Of Is months; as