1824. 
the usual sincerity. The king had re- 
peatedly urged the storthing to add the 
power of an absolute veto to the royal 
authority ; but this encroachment was 
steadily resisted. Another desire, ex- 
pressed by Charles John for the institu- 
tion of orders of nobility in Norway, 
met with no less opposition. It is 
a matter for remark, but not for sur- 
prize, that all kings will encroach upon 
the liberties of their people, as far as 
they are suffered by the cowardice or 
the imbecility of the governed. 
GREECE. 
The attempt upon Samos, so long 
threatened, has been made at last, and 
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has ended in the total destruction of the 
Turkish forces. The Capitan Pacha 
was allowed to land his troops; when 
the Grecian fleet, under Miaulis, who 
had watched all his movements since 
the capture of Ipsara, attacked him in 
the rear, before he had recovered from 
the confusion of the landing. One ship 
of the line, three frigates, and thirty 
gun-boats were destroyed by the Greek 
fire-ships. The only stain on this glo- 
rious victory is the barbarous cruelty of 
the Greeks, in immolating the poor 
wretches, who eseaped from the fury of 
the flames, and sought a refuge on 
shore. 
INCIDENTS, MARRIAGES, anp DEATHS, rn anv NEAR LONDON, 
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CHRONOLOGY OF THE MONTH. 
- UG. 21.—A fire broke out at the saw- 
mills of Messrs. Tiner and Co., 
Gravel-lane, Houndsditch. In two hours 
seven or eight houses were reduced to 
ruins. At this fire (and it ought to be 
mentioned), as well as at several others that 
haye recently happened in the metropolis, 
the engines were without water, through 
some neglect or want of management of the 
Water Companies. 
31.—The extensive factory of Mr. Dal- 
lett, wax and tallow chandler, Putney, de- 
stroyed by fire. The damage estimated at 
'10,13000. 
Sept. 2.-A numerous and» respectable 
meeting of the inhabitants of St. Botolph, 
Aldgate, took place, to adopt measures to 
resist the claims of the lay impropriators of 
2s. 9d. in the pound on the rack-rents of 
the parishioners. The following resolution 
was put and carried :—‘‘ That the repeated 
attempts on the part of the lay impropria- 
tors and clergy in the city of London and 
its liberties, to enforce the statute of 
Henry VIII. and the decree thereon re- 
ferred to, by producing disunion and litiga- 
tion, are alike destructive of the interests of 
the Church Establishment, and of the peace 
and happiness of the parish.” 
3.—The first stone of a spacious stone 
bridge laid at Brentford. It will be of one 
arch, cased with granite, and when finished, 
will give the great western entrance of the 
metropolis a noble and imposing appear- 
ance. 
10.—Part of a new building belonging 
to Mr. Galloway, Chick-lane, Smithfield, 
gave way, and with the scaffolding, on 
which were nearly twenty men, fell to the 
ground. Light of them were carried to St. 
Bartholomew’s Hospital dreadfully bruised, 
two of them soon after died. 
13th.—Twenty Irish labourers returning 
from England after the harvest, in the St. 
George Steam Packet, from Liverpool, 
washed overboard and drowned. 
16.—Louis XVIII. of France died,— 
succeeded by Charles - Philippe, Count 
d Artois, under the title of Charles X. 
18.—Intelligence received that Iturbide, 
Ex-Emperor of Mexico had been shot by 
order of the Mexican Congress in that 
city, for attempting to regain the sove- 
reignty. 
The New River Company have erected 
a steam-engine of 120 horse-power, at 
Queenhithe, for raising water from the 
Thames. ’ 
22.—A meeting of the committee for 
commencing a steam navigation to India 
took place. Several scientific gentlemen in 
the service of the East-India Company, 
who had been appointed to investigate the 
plan, were present, and they reported 
favourably of the undertaking. It was 
finally determined to carry it into immediate 
execution. The route is intended to be 
round the Cape of Good Hope, and not by 
the Red Sea as was intended. 
— A fire broke out in the warehouse of 
Mr. Mills, an extensive dealer in Leather, 
Whalebone, &c., occupying the houses 14, 
15, and 16, in Silver-street, Wood-street, 
Cheapside, and which soon communicated to 
the whole front of the three houses, which 
were destroyed. The two houses adjoin- 
ing also much damaged. The property 
consumed belonging to Mr. Mills alone, is 
estimated at about 10,0002. 
— The premises of Mr. Lowder, Timber- 
merchant, in Tabernacle-walk, near the 
City-road, accidentally burnt down.—There 
was nearly 10,0001. worth of property 
destroyed or damaged. 
MARRIED. 
Mr. Charles Hodgson, of the Grange- 
road, to Miss Hester Mary Lewis, of Ken- 
sington. 
At Lambeth, E. Biddell, esq. to Miss 
‘ Jane Colchester, of Chatham. 
J. Nelson, esq. of Doctors’ Commons, 
to Caroline, daughter of Dr. Burrowes, of 
Gower-street. 
W. W. 
