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Political Affairs in May. 



[Jane 1, 



trian invasion, by the overthiow of 

 the Neapolitan Constitution, and by 

 treachery in the executive, forced open 

 a prison, and put a conspirinjf priest to 

 death ; and altliougii we lament such an 

 act of butchery, yet we are glad to be 

 thus able to determiine that the people 

 at large are on the right side, and con- 

 sequently if the Cortes do their duty, 

 the Spanish Constitution is secure. 



We cannot help noticing one extra- 

 ordinary fact, the appointment of the 

 bloody MoRliiLO to the captainship of 

 New Castile on the credit of his horrid 

 achievements against liberty in South 

 America. 



TURKEY. 



The hopes of all Europe in regard to 

 the exertions of the Greeks in European 

 Turkey to emancipate themselves from 

 the vassalage of the Turkish despotism, 

 are, we fear, frustrated, and with a 

 dreadful sacrifice of human life. It was 

 to be expected that in Moldavia and 

 Wallaehia, theseunhappy people would 

 liavebcen aided by Russia, but popular 

 interests are not to the taste of that go- 

 vernment ! A Russian Proclamation 

 orders all its subjects who had taken 

 part to return, and has done every 

 thing to satisfy the Porte of its neu- 

 trality, and to discourage the exertions 

 of the Greeks. In the mean time the 

 Turks in many towns and districts in 

 Europe and Asia have risen on the 

 Greeks and murdered them indiscri- 

 minately ! 



The accounts are contradictory ; but 

 if the last advices can be relied on, the 

 Greeks have been successful in the 

 Morea, and the Turkish power totters 

 to its foundation. 



HAYTI. 



This island has been dreadfully con- 

 vulsed since the death of Christophe 

 and his ministers ; but the following 

 proclamation of Jean Pierre Boyer, 

 president of Ilayti, indicates returning 

 tranquillity. 



Ha3tiuns! — The reign of (en'or is just ex- 

 tinguished: the dominion of justice difluses 

 peace and joj- in the north, and with the ex- 

 ception of a few perverse individuals, through- 

 out (lie whole mass of the people of Ha3-ti, 

 henceforth forming one family, united by the 

 bonds of sweet IVaternitj-. 



The slaves of Christophe, men who con- 

 soled themselves for the degrading humiliation 

 i)i which they were themselves held, by crush- 

 ing their too unlbrtunate fell(iw-citizens mider 

 the weight of the most shameful oppression — 

 these men beheld with a sort of horror the 

 happy change which was to amiihilate their 

 titles and privileges, and put a period to their 



feudal despotism. They regarded with repug- 

 nance and disdain that benevolent sj'stem of 

 eciuality which |)laced them, in the eye of the 

 law, on a level with those whom they had 

 been accustomed to look upon as their inte- 

 riors. 



Their jilan was extensive ; the movement 

 agreed upon by tlie conspirators, was to set 

 fire to the Cap-Haiticn, the Gonaives, Saint 

 JWarc, and the quarter of the Artabonite. To 

 create an apparent motive for the insurrection 

 which they wished to excite, the conspirators 

 adroitl}- circulated reports tending to alarm the 

 citizens respecting the intentions of the govern- 

 ment, and to diminish the confidence it was 

 calculated to inspire. 



But tlie fate of Hajli was irrevocably fixed ! 

 .... A protecting genius watched over her, 

 and warned the government of the dark deeds 

 of those who meditated her ruin !. . . .Their 

 plots have vanished before the prudent mea- 

 sures which were adopted to trustrate them. 



Like tlie rock against which the howling 

 waves break, the republic, ever firm and 

 stead}', has resisted the shock of the factious. 

 On evei'}' point the sacred cause which we de- 

 fend has triumphed : every where the eflbrts of 

 malevolence have btien rendered unavailing, 

 and have served onl)' to unmask and expose 

 the [lerturbators and enemies of order. 



Haj-tians I you have witnessed the gene- 

 rosity and moderation of the government : you 

 shall also witness its justice and its firmness. 

 It is time to cast from us and to banish all the 

 elements of anarchy and disorder which have 

 threatened our tranquilhty. The wish not to 

 coid'ound the misled man with his instigator 

 has hitherto withlield the arm of the govern- 

 ment : but indulgence further prolonged 

 would be imprudence. When revolution dares 

 openly to shew her hideous head, we must 

 hasten to strike and to crush her ! 



SOUTH AMERICA. 



The Chilian Army had not, by the 

 last accounts, taken Lima, though the 

 event was daily expected. 



The Brazillian provinces under the 

 King of Portugal have one after another 

 declared for the free constitution of the 

 mother country. The king, after some 

 coquetry submitted to imperious cir- 

 cumstances, and has sworn to accord 

 with the new arrangements. Hence 

 liberty and constitutional governments 

 now prevail over nearly the whole of 

 the new world, and the oppressed in 

 Europe have asylums^pen to them in 

 every A-ariety of climate. 



Venezuela still demands inde- 

 pendence ; but the other Spanish Pro- 

 vinces have accepted the noble con- 

 stitution of Old Spain. 



EAST INDIES. 



In the Manillas, one of the horrid 

 consequences on record lately occurr- 

 ed of the effects of popular ignorance. 

 A French 



