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Vhronohgy of the Month. 



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This advantage is very important, from the ceeded in drawing from inaction those of 



consequences resulting from it. Already 

 two districts Ijetween Selina and the for- 

 tress of Candifi, which from their situation 

 remained inactive, liave taken up arms im- 

 mediately after this event. On the other 

 hand, the Greeks, vvho were iiitiierto com- 

 pelled to divide their forces between 

 Selina, in the south of the island, and the 

 •three fortresses in the north, have now 

 concentrated all their troops in tlie latter 

 point, and blockaded the enemy more 

 strictly than ever. The Canee even has 

 oomnienced parleys. 



For some time past the Greeks have 



the islanders, who, residing in the environs 

 of the fortress of Negropout, had not hi- 

 therto taken an active part. This fortress, 

 wliich had not before been seriously be- 

 sieged, is now strictly blockaded. As it is 

 not well provisioned, and as the numerous 

 Turks who inhabit it consume much, it is 

 hoped that its resistance will not be long. 

 Trieste, May 9. — We hove accounts from 

 the Morea to the '2<5lh April. They state 

 that the functions of the provisional 

 government of Greece have ceased, and 

 that a Congress has assumed the reins of 

 government. After the installation of it, 



paid paiticnlar attention to the island of which took place at Napoli di Romana, 



Eubea or Negropont, which is, in several 

 respects, worthy of attention. The island 

 is one of the seven largest in the Mediter- 

 ranean ; and, by its position, it commands 

 on one side the greater part of the 

 Cyclades ; and, on the other, tite whole 

 coast of Greece, from Cape Suniiuu iu 

 Attica, to the south of Thessaly. 



The Greek government has declared a 

 separate province the island of Eubea, 

 ■which hitherto formed an integral i)art of 

 Eastern Greece. A local junta has been 

 in consequence installed to administer im- 

 mediately to its particular wants. Theo- 

 clitus Pliarmacide, who has been placed at 

 the head of the jnnta, is an ecclesiastic, 

 distinguished by his intelligence and his 

 energy ; he resided a long time at Vienna, as 

 archimandrite of the Greek church of that 

 city, and managed the Literary Jonrnal, 



Maurocordate was elected President of 

 the Congress, in the midst of the acclama- 

 tions of the people. Colocotrone has been 

 charged by the congress with the defeuce 

 of the Morea. Odysseus has been ap- 

 pointed Commandant-General of Thessaly, 

 Bozzaris, Epirus, and Acarnania. 



MEXICO. 



Advices received from Havannah, 

 referringtorecputconimunicationsfrom 

 Mexico, mention that the Mexican 

 congress had met, subsequent to Itur- 

 bide's evacuating the capital with his 

 few followers, and declared that he 

 had no right to the throne; in order, 

 however, to stop the eflusiou of blood 

 and civil war, they had thought it ex- 

 pedient to offer him a pension for life, 

 and passports, if he would quietly quit 



eelled the Greek Mercury. Two of the the country, and go and reside in tlie 



most enterprising chiefs have also been sent United States, or any other foreign 



to regulate the military organization of the territory lie might prefer, 

 island. By their activity they have snc 



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

 With Biographical Memoirs of distinguished Characters recently deceased. 



CHRONOLOGY OF THE MONTH. 



MAY 1. — The merchants and bankers 

 of London met at the London Tavern, 

 and resolved to petition Parliament so to 

 alter the law, as to give greater security to 

 persons advancing money upon goods and 

 merchandize. 



2. — Mr. Feel's Cnrrency Bill came into 

 full operation, but without any sensible 

 effect cither on ciiculation or money trans- 

 actions. 



5. — The foundation-stone of the London 

 Orphan Asylum laid by the Duke of York, 

 attended by numerous distinguished cha- 

 racters. 'I he sciitloldiiig on which the 

 Duke and other personages were assembled 

 gave way, anri one man was killed. 



IV. — Lord Allhorpe moved for an cn- 

 quiiy into the state of Ireland pievious to 

 the introduction of the Insurrection Act: 

 M was negatived by 162 to 82. 



— . — Atafir*, believed to ba wilfully 



occasioned, in New-street, Covent-garden', 

 ad elderly female lost her life. The tenant 

 of the house is in custody on this, and an- 

 other charge of a like kind. 



15. — A meeting of the friends of liberty 

 and national independence took place at 

 the Crown-and-Aflchor Tavern, when the 

 following principal resolution was unani- 

 mously agreed to: — "'that it is expedient 

 that a general pidjlic meeting be held in 

 the metropolis, in order to express the 

 opinion of the British public on the un- 

 principled invasion of the Peninsula." 



— . — Upwards of iJOOO Journeymen silk- 

 weavers asseml)led at Evans's Chapel, near 

 ISaker'srow, Mile-end, to consult on the 

 b<'»t means to be adopted to prevent a 

 Bdl, in progress through the Honse of 

 Commons,— introduced by the master 

 weavers, for removing the regulation by 

 which the prices to be charged by the 

 jonrneynmn arc fixed,— frojii pawing Into 



a taw. 



