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tlie Spanish government, which exjjoses 

 the falsehood of the imputations cast on 

 the nation, and expresses its determination 

 to maintain its rights." After some further 

 ©hservations on tliese points, tiie mcssa<;e 

 conchides by declaring to his majesty, 

 that the Cortes are prepared to maintain 

 at every risk the dignity and splendour of 

 the constitutional llirone, and of the king 

 of the Spains, and the independence, the 

 liberties, and the honour, of the Spanish 

 nation, and to decree whatever sacrifice 

 nay be necessary for the preservation of 

 interests so invaluable. 



GREECE. 



The campaign in Thessaly is termi- 

 nated. Since the death of Chonrschid, 

 tiie remnant of liis troops in that pro- 

 ■vince has gone into winter qnarters. 

 The Greeks, on their side, are also 

 quiet in their cantonments. On tJie 

 12th of December the Morea enjoyed 

 a degree of tranquillity. The Greeks 

 had collected all their forces in the 

 neiglihoiirhood of Corinth. The mili- 

 tary movements bad closed ill Epirus 

 and Acarnania, as well as in Etolia. 

 The Greeks have resolved to take 

 advantage of the cessation of hostili- 

 ties, to work during the winter at the 

 fortifications of JVIissolonghi, in order 

 to add as much as possible to the 

 strength of that important place. 



In a letter from the Rev. H. D. 

 Leeves, agent to the British and Fo- 



[Feb. U 



reign Bible Sociely, dated October 8, 

 1822, he says, — "We proceeded to 

 Scio, where we had an ojiportunity of 

 witnessing the melancholy and utter 

 desolation which has befallen this 

 beautiful and once-flourishing island. 

 I could not have conceived, without 

 being an eye-witness, that destruction 

 could have been rendered so com- 

 plete. We walked through the town, 

 which was handsome, and built en- 

 tirely of stone ; and found the houses, 

 the churches, the hospital, the exten- 

 sive college, where, a few months ago, 

 6 or 700 youths were receiving their 

 education, — one mass of ruins. On 

 every side were strewed fragments of 

 half-burnt books, manuscripts, clothes, 

 and furniture; and, what was most 

 shocking to the feelings, numerous 

 human bodies mouldering on the spot 

 where they fell. Nothing that had 

 life Mas to be seen but a few miserable 

 half-sfarved dogs and cats. The vil- 

 lages have shared the same fate, and 

 of a population of 130,000 Greeks 

 there remain, perhaps, 800 or 1000 

 individuals, scattered through the 

 most distant villages. In the town 

 nothing has escaped but the Consuls' 

 houses, and a very few immediately 

 adjoining them, which could not be 

 burnt without burning the Consu- 

 lates." 



INCIDENTS, MARRIAGES, and DEATHS, in and near LONDON, 

 With Jiiographical Memoirs of distinguished Characters recently deceased. 



ClinONOI.OGY OF THE MONTH. 



TAN. V. — A merchant-ship, called the 

 *^ Weare of Kristol, lost off Ballycot- 

 tou, Ireland ; when, out of thirty-six per- 

 sons of the crew and passengers, thirteen 

 only were saved. 



— o. — The reduction of the salt-tax 

 took place. 



— 8. — An insurrection of the negroes 

 at Martinique delected : several plan- 

 ters had died by poison. Two hundred 

 nes^roes were ordered for execution. 



12. — The Society of Friends set on foot 

 a subscription tor the relief of the 

 Greeks. 



16.— A meetint; of the merchants and 

 gentlemen of London took place, to con- 

 sider of the fittest mode in which relief 

 conld be afforded to the unfortunate suf- 

 ferers of Antioch, and its vicinity : the 

 Lord Mayor in the chair. Mr. G. Liddell 

 (secretary to the Levant Company,) read 

 Mr. Barker's printed report of the earth- 

 quake at Antioch, dated the iSth of Sep- 

 tember, 1822, The result of the meeting 



was, the appointment of a committee to 

 receive subscriptions. 



— 2fi. — A destraclivo fire in Watling- 

 strect, which broke out at the iiouse of 

 Mr. I'enny, and consumed several adjoin- 

 ing premises of considerable magnitude. 

 MARRIED. 



James Allan, eldest son of Mr. Justice 

 Park, to Mary, daughter of the late W. 

 Dickins. 



The Rev. J. P. Malleson, a.b. of Leeds, 

 to IMiss Anne Sophia Taylor, of Frede- 

 rick-place, Hampstead-road. 



John Piigh, esq. barrister, of Gray's-inn, 

 to Miss Christian Jane Singer, of Beck- 

 ington, Somersetshire. 



C. VVm. Phillips, esq. of Sutton, Surrey, 

 to Miss S. Jamison, of Newington. 



At Kingston, Surrey, Lieut. H. J. C. 

 Minardiere, of the 1.5th Madras Native 

 Infantry, to Elizabeth Ann, daughter of 

 Dr. Harcourt, of Kingston. 



S. Pratt, esq. of Totter.ham-court road, 

 to Miss S. J\L Hodgson, of Upper Bedford- 

 place. 



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