The Sun. — 1846-11-06 (London, England)

GREEK GENERAL  LONDOS. The papers lately received from Greece announce the melancholy death of General Londos, one of the most celebrated men of the Greek revolution. He was born in JEgeum, in the Peloponnesus, of opulent parents, and early evinced that he was destined to be a great man, and a saviour of his suffering country. Scarcely had the flag of liberty been raised, than the intrepid Londos willingly espoused the cause, and devoted his life and bis all to the independence of his country. He lived to see that hope realised, and since the restoration of peace took a prominent part in the affairs of the country. But what enhances the glory of this man is his co-operation with General Kalergi and the rest of the Septembrians, for the Greeks obtaining their constitution. The bloodless revolution of the 3d of September must be fresh in the memories of every lover of Greece. Ingratitude on the part of those, however, who benefited by the change, is the fruit that they who risked their lives obtained, but the generous Londos never so much as opened his mouth against the ungrateful. "We have done our duty to our country," said he. " Ingratitude is frequently the reward of those who risk their lives. But the nation is not ungrateful, 'tis the enemies of the nation who are so ; and of such I do not wish to have even the gratitude." When Minister-of-War, Londos committed a few political errors, but they were not of such a magnitude as to deserve the exaggeration of his enemies, and since the accession of the Coletti Administration, when injustice and every atrocity were committed, and the constitution unheeded, both Londos and his co-operators were justified. Such was this valuable man, for whom all Greece mourns, and for whom all the Hellenic tribe will mourn when informed of his death which took place on the 24th.- of September, accidentally, by the firing of a pistol which he was placing in a box after having loaded it for the purpose of taking it with him on the morrow, being invited by his brother to go and dine with him at the monastery of the Pontelicum. As to his arming himself, when going out of Athens, he was perfectly justified in consequence of the present circumstances. His accidental death, however, was construed into voluntary suicide by his ,enemies, and Coletti, and the President of the Synod, a flatterer of the Administration, denied sepulchral rites to this benefactor of Greece. The latter bases his denial on the 14th canon of Timothy, the Alexandrian ; but without examining strictly, as the canon demanded of him, in order to be convinced whether the suicide was voluntary or accidental, M. Coletti screens himself behind his responsibility, and dares even to deny military honours to the deceased General. In vain the report of doctors, to prove that they cannot confidently say whether the suicide was voluntary or accidental. In vain the statement of the advocates, to show that, according to Timothy's cause, the synod cannot deny ecclesiastical rites ; in vain did they prove that if the Synod pertinaciously persist, military honours could not be denied ; nothing can bring them to a sense of their duty. His relations have resolved to embalm the body, and wait for a period of decency and public morality in order to pay due honours to one of the first martyrs of the Greek revolution. What a state of things are these in Greece ! Let Coletti take example from Mehemet Ali, who, on the decease of the Greek Patriarch, ordered his troops and the military bands at Cairo to accompany him to his last abode. Such unheard of conduct is a disgrace to the name of man. But Coletti cares not a straw ; winds may blow and rains may fall, he still reposes on the bed of roses prepared for him by France. Strange, it will seem, why Greece, with the co-operation of nearly all civilised nations, does not prosper. But how can she when she has such miscreants for her rulers, who are seconded by France, and whose system of government is identified with such outrages against every law and feeling of nature? A strange coincidence must not be omitted here. When Sir Edmund Lyons placed under General Kalergi's order the steamer Geyser, to convey him to the lonian Islands, in consequence of the persecution of the Coletti Administration towards all the Septembrians, General Londos accompanied him to the Finns, and on taking leave of him, as if forseeing that he would be persecuted after death, addressed him in these emphatic words:—" I am afraid, General, that not only whilst living will they persecute us without a cause, but that even after death they will deny us the sepulchral rites." This has been related by General Kalergi himself, who is now in London, far from his country, in consequence of the ingratitude of those who are reaping the fruits of his labours, and who think that, by persecuting the Septembrians, and in particular General Kalergi, they do service to the monarchy, and will thus secure for themselves those high offices in the state of which they aro totally unworthy. is