The Sun. — 1846-11-10 (London, England)

GREEK GENERAL LONDOS-ORATION OF ANASTASIUS LONDOS OVER THE DEAD BODY OF HIS BROTHER, THE GENERAL.  —ince the embalming of Londos' corpse, and when about to be conveyed to the place of his nativity, Agiurn, his surviving brother Anastasius Londos made the following oration, which is a multum in parvo exemplification of the reasons of the Ministry's behaviour. " Dearest Brother,—l solicit of thy shade as much tolerance as I felt grief for the forgiveness of thine enemies. Petty intrigue of base passions will never be capable of obscuring St. Laura, Missolonghi, Cerasobus, other places of thy glory, and the 3d of September. They wish, my dearest brother! to deprive thee even of a tomb, but for thy tomb thou wilt have the hearts of the Greeks, and the whole of Greece, which will eventually render thee thy natural tomb with due honours. Thou hest left me a mortal wound, but I find consolation in the feeling of thy friends, of thy numerous relations, of all the literati, of every feeling Greek, and of the whole of the nation. " Rendering thee, sweetest brother, the last salutation* I crave thy blessing, which, guiding me in this mournful and brief stadium of my life, will make me a worthy imitator of thy political and other virtues of thy firm character, and a friend of thy friends. And ye, my brother's friends, assist me with your counsels, and grant me that friendship you always evinced towards my dearest brother, of which I hope I shall prove myself a worthy partaker." The worthy editor of the Age, Mr. Philemon, in giving insertion to the above oration, makes the following remarks :—" It is impossible for us to depict the indignation, the just indignation, which has been infused in the hearts of all. It is impossible for us to write a single word upon the subject. Let the Greeks both at home and abroad, and all the world besides, form a clear notion of this savage and unheard-of inhumanity, which guided the conduct of the Ministry, or rather that of Coletti, in this scandalous affair. How otherwise will the Premier be looked upon in this melancholy case, but as the most pitiless and inhuman organ of the revengeful spirit of Anti-Septenibrianism? This revengeful spirit against the men of September has achieved the banishment of some out of Greece—others it has sent far out of the metropolis, and has endeavoured to turn out of the service both of the nation and of the Chambers all those who have a spark of patriotism in their breasts, and has denied even the enforcement of the first article of the constitution. What more can it achieve against the Septembrians than to deprive them even of their tombs? " Thinking ourselves incompetent, we do not undertake to support the voluntary or involuntary suicide of the ever-memorable Andreas Londos. But as in this case, however, the ecclesiastical authority simply denied, without making previously the necessary examination, which the canons enforce, and as the Faculty and the members of the legal profession of our metropolis declared doubtful the voluntary suicide, it follows that from the copulation of these circumstances, with the a priori arguments, and from the moral and gentle character of the deceased general, the canon ought to be interpreted with a degree of clemency in his favour, and that the Ministry has no reason whatever to deny military honour being paid to his rank as a general. Yes we are not the only ones who partake of this idea; the whole of Athens, replete with grief, has partaken with us in deploring this inhuman reproach against one of the greatest benefactors of our country: both senators and duputies of every shade and degree of politics have indeed partaken of this idea, as appears from their petition to the ministerial counsel, a translation of which has appeared in the Morning Chronicle of Saturday the 7th instant."  * It is the prevailing custom in Greece for the relations, friends, and others who are present at a funeral, to kiss the forehead of the departed, and say, " May thou rest in peace, departed brother !"