Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1823-09-13


only conSrms what has been stated of the
new order of things in Greece, but de-
cides the question, most uuaccountably
debated, whether or not, the Greeks are
resolved on obtaing their liberty
Letter from the President ofthe Greek
Government Petro6eys, TO his son,
LAT .dncona.
ASTROS, APRIL ID.
My Dearest Son-I nave before writ
Ten to you on the affairs of our country.
To-day announce to you, that the Ma
tional Congress assembled on the OH OF
March, has been occupied in disposing
matters to the satisfaction Of all. Hav-
ing constituted itself, and elected me
President OF the Executive Body; the
Bishop of Varstena, Vice President of
the Congress; Theodorus Negris, Chan
cellor OF State, and our learned friend,
Stamatius, Vice Chancellor its first ope-
ration has been TO sanction as inmuta-
BILE, from conviction of their Utility, the
principles Of the organic law of E2idau-
rus, and decree merely that committee,
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perfect it by The requisite additions and
alterations. It's second transaction has
been to annul the insulated govern
ments throughout the country, and to
decree 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.
1t has thirdly determined, that the IT,
ties of General in-chief Of the Army
and of the Navy are inadmissiblc in the
constitution, except in cases of an expe-
dition, at the conclusion of which the
Archistrategi and Navarchi are to re-
turn to their former rank. The COM
mand Of the. land and sea forces belongs
solely to National Government. The
army is to be governed by the French
military code, with the notifications
necessary to the present state of Greece.
The fourth decree of the National Con-
gress has been, that a committe COM
posed of nine members, be appointed to
select out OF the statutes of the Greek
emperors the necessary criminal laws
Ecclesiastical regulations have been pro.
posed, and resolution passed, that the
minister Of public worship should, after
the consolidation Of the National Gov
ernmentslay before it project de Ioi, re-
Eating to the land and sea Iorces.
1t being now decreed that The second
period of the Government should be &C
cording to the law of Epidaurus, no.
thing remains to the National Congress,
before it breaks up, and leaves to the
Government to discharge its importan,
duties, but to proclaim,in the name OF the
Greek nation, whose full powers it bears,
as it does proclaim anew, before God
and man, the political existence and in
dependence of Greece,for the recovery of
which the nation has shed, and is she'd
ding torrents of blood, with the fixed de-
termination Of all OF US, either to win it
back from the ravisher, and be acknow.
lodged free nation, for the glory oil our
holy Father, and for the happiness OF
mankind, or, with arms in our hands, all
ALI, to descend TO the grave, but to de-
scend Christians and free, as it becomes
people struggling for the enjoyment Of
such blessings as political existence and
independence as il becomes people
living in heroic land, where every thing
yecals 10 our minds the glory and the
virtues Of our ancestors; as becomes
people who know how to repel barba-
rians, and conquer liberty.
The declaration Of the National Con-
gress is charged by the free Greek ma
fjon - p,ske 70 the world, upon the pre-.