Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1825-10-01


vor of the naval officers who followed
Joseph Bonaparte. These officers will
be reinsraed in the ranks and honours
which they possessed before they Joined
him, and will in future enjoy two.thirds
of the pension which they had a, that Pc
Rod"
The Madrid Gazette Of tie lth July,
contains a Royal Decree, by which pen
sions are granted to The widows and or
plans of the officers who fell when fight
ing in the ranks Of the Constilutionalisls
The reasons assigned for this favour in
the preamble are, that the widows being
bound TO obey their husbands, and The or
phans being too young TO aci Tor them
selves, could moi by any acts independent
upon their own will, have forfeited claims
~ such relief
Thirly-one Colombian armed vessels
were on the Spanish coast, between Ca
dz and Barcelona.
ITALY.
The Austrian Observer Of the l4th oil
July, explains the cause oil the late ar
res,s that have taken place al Rome
Il announces that the attention oil the Ia.
pal Government had been for some Tune
drawn 10 an association oil Carbonarl, who
had assumed the name Of " hite Phi
etims, and Of whom the principal locus
was Pesaro. This society bad made a
Rome only few proselytes in an lli'ia-
med class but this first success having
rendered them more daring, they threw
their nets over the upper classes, from
which, however, they were only able to
gain an inexperienced young man. ain
a short time" says the Observer, I" the
brethren assembled together, and their
excuses forced The Government 10 inter
fere. One OF them, after having sound
ed the depth of the abyss into which he
had fallen, experienced remorse lew
DAYS alter he was assassina!ed. .he
drawing of lots destined another OF them
to become the executiontr OF one OF his
brethren; bot although by his oath he
was bound to commit this horrible act, he
declared, nevertheless, That he would
not, and shortly after he also was muir
dered,"
GREECE.
A letter from Trieste, adds the name
of Collett, late Minister OF War, to that
of Mavrocordato, as having been behead-
ed by the order of Colocotroni. II Is
added that Gourra has declared against
Colocotroni
A letter from Corfu, of June 7, reports
that the garrison OF Missolonshl had ask
ed TO capilulate to Reschid Pacha. A
letter from the same place, dated June
%, says, "Toe catas rophe which SEEM
ed 10 threaten the liberty OF Greece has
passed away. Itmay even be hoped that
successes are about to repair the disas
ters, which signal,zed the first month OF
this campaign" --The letter goes on TO
state, that Reschid Pacha must have sui
fered immense loss, as Jussuf hal sud
denly passed over TO Lepanto the greater
par. Of the garrison of Patras, TO oppose
tbe Greeks, who, after the victory oil oa-
lone, had advanced upon that place, and
that Patras was only garrisoned by 500
men. II was hoped the Greeks might lo-
demniIy themselves for the loss OF Ma
varino, by the possession of Patras. Col.
ocotroni, fifteen days before, had assem-
bcd under his command, 10000 Mo-
rio,es, all armed with muske,s. The
Bey of Mania could also bring six or Sc
ven thousand men 10 act in concert with
him.
:. Besides the above, there are accounts
from Napoli dl RomahIa and Missoione
hi, as late as June ls, which state that
ibrahim had met with check, and THAI
Gourra had cut of GOO of the enemy al
5olone, and ii was expected that he wonld
compel Reschid to raise the siege OF An
toico and ssolonghi.
Several German Journals announce,
that vessel from Corfu had brought in-
telligence of a naval action having taken
place of Suda, between the Greek feet
and the Egyptian squadron, in which
the former, consisting of 70 sail, was vic
torious. The Egyptians lost II vessels.
A private letter of the 9th July from
Trieste, says" We are assured that
the Egyptian squadron has returned to
Alexandra for reiniorcements.'
NIX Trieste, July 6.
The news froD, Greece reaches Us ne
cessari'y in a very irregular manner, be-
cause the armies of Reschid and lbrahim
intercept the communications between
Greece and the Ionian Islands. All that
we know since previous intelligence IRON
Napoli di Romsnia, is that the Captain
,t Erote with hiS fleet