Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1825-10-27
AFFAIRS OF GREECE.
From the Paris Efoile.

From, the Paris Etoiie.
IF certain reports may be believed
which were yesterday circulated, Eng
land has granite its protectorship to the
Greeks; the Anglo Greek Government
| in the norea, and the Islands OF the
Archipelago, will be assimilated to that
! of the Ionian Islands.
The above news, which is from the
| Duotidi enne. is wholly destitute of truth.
The circumstances which have given
rise to this report are given with more
| accuracy in another Journal, which
| says
Authentic letters from Napoli di Ro-
| mania. dated the lst August, announce
that on the morning of that day, the
Provisional Government OF Greece pub
Iished an of submission to England
invoking its protectorship on the same
conditions as belonged TO that of the
Ionian Islands. This appeal to the Bri-
fannie Government was succeeded by
conferences between the Greek Chief
tains and Commodore Hamilton, who
! commands the English station in the
| Levant
TT most be remarked that this reso-
luton was taken previous to the rails
ing of the siege Of Missolonghi, which is
| now certain, and the defeat oft the Turks
before that place; and that if the Greeks
at Napoli had no other means of esca-
ping the frightful dangers which mena-
ced them, the Greeks at other places
not being urged by the same necessity,
have not initiated the same example.
Move shall not see Lord High
Commissioner govern all the Island of
the Egean Sea and the Peninsula OF
Peloponnesus. England which has pro-
claimed the principle of neutrality,
knows too we'll that she cannot release
herself from it, and act upon her own
policy, without uniting against her the
whole of Europe.
"This act of the Greeks of Napol di
Romania may be considered, therefore,
as an act of despair--the act of men
who. when drowning attempt to save
their lives by seizing hold of burning
iron; but it cannot, IN any way, change
the relative situation of England with
respect to the Greeks.
| From The Journal des De6ats.
"Documents have been communics-
ted to us, which informs us that the Pro-
visional Government OF Greece, has
nut the whole of Greece under the pro-
Election Of Great Britain. The negocia-
ton was conducted by Mavrocordato. &
Commodore Hamilton. A letter from
General Roche, announcing this impor-
tant news to the Greek Committee at
Paris, has not reached its destination"
| SrArS.-It is impossible, We should think
that, in these days, and in Europe. govern.
ment can long exist, by which. under political
pretences, such acts of barbarous murder are
perpetrated as that which is disclosed in the
following decree and its consequences. What
revolving blasphemy against mercitul Deity
to associate with religious motives such une-
qualled cruelty!
The following Decree was issued by the King
of SPAIN, and published in the Madrid Gazette
about the time of its date:-.Aas Int.
"Royal decree, ordering the Freema
sons taken in fiagrante, to he pun.
ished within the Sd day coniormably
to the laws
A lodge OF Freemasons having been
seized in the city of Grenada, through
the activity and zeal of the police, in
the act of holding their dark meeting,
clothed in their ridiculous garments,
and surrounded by the instruments and
emblems used by the REpRoBATE
SECT, the enemy OF the altar and OF
the throne; and ii being proper TO pun
ish, in an exemplary manner, and in
conformity 10 the laws and my Royal
DEGREES, so shameless an audacily on
the part OF these CRIMINALS, which has
scandalised my faithful and religious
subjects, l have thought fit TO decree
as follows:
Art lst. All the persons seized in
the fragrant act aforesaid, in the Free
masons' Lodge of Grenada, shall
within the peremptory term Of three
days after the publication of this my
Royal Decree, in the said city, under
| 60 the punisLments imposed by the