368 Political Affairs in April. [May I, 



Such a monopoly can never Ltpaiito has fallfii into (lie power of 



nieiits 



again exist: but sometliing resemiiling 

 it may be establislied, and tl)e Frcncli 

 government, by granting diplomas to 

 Kiich persons only as arc distinguislied 

 fur their ultra-rojaiism, may succeed in 

 filling with strong prejudices a large 

 j)art of the rising population of the 

 country. That the government will 

 dispense tiieir diplomas in tiiis manner, 

 is rendered highly probable, by the bold 

 and successfuj ciiorts recently made on 

 the part of the ultras to aj proximate 

 louards the system of the ancien 

 regime. 



'Yhc English workmen, to the number 

 of fifty, at the iron-foundry of Mr. Wil- 

 son, at Charcnlon, lately armed them- 

 selves will) sticks, and, ranging through 

 the conimune of Cairieres, attacked and 

 ill-treated the inhabitants, who threw 

 Ihemsclvcs upon the English, and seve- 

 ral were wounded. The authorities of 

 Paris sent a corps of gendarmerie to 

 Charcntoi;, to restore order. 



HOLLAND. 



The mania for new projects prevails 

 in Holland to an extent nearly equal to 

 lliat in this country. Eooks have been 

 opened at Amsterdam, for subscriptions 

 to the company for increasing the com- 

 ineree and improving the agriculture of 

 the Netherlands ; and on the same day 

 tin re were entered in that city alone 

 names to the amount of 2,500,0001. 

 steiliiig. The sum required to be sub- 

 scribed, iu order to commence the un- 

 dertaking, and for which proposals were 

 circulated in all the priueij)al (owns in 

 Holland, was only half. At Antwerp 

 and at Rotterdam the subscriptions were 

 as much more ! 



At Hamburgh Hie Senate has decreed 

 that the Catholics shall henceforward 

 be eligible to all ofiSces as well as the 

 Frutcstauts. 



GEKMANY. 



The Grand Duke of Baden has 

 granted full liberty to the Catholics: 

 hitherto their religion was only tole- 

 rated. Other Protestant princes also 

 show dispositions favourable to the Ca- 

 tholics. 



A congress of the despots in Holy 

 Alliance is threatened. 



GREECE. 



A letter from Zante announces the 

 capture of the important place of Coron, 

 ihe last bulwark of the Turks in the 

 south of the Morea. This town was 

 carried by storm by the Greeks under 

 the command of an ecclesiastic, Zcr- 

 bino, who took it by surprise. 



the Greeks. A breach having been 

 made by the artillery of the Philhellcnes, 

 commanded by Colonel Stanhope, and 

 Jussouf Pacha rejecting any sort of ca- 

 pitulation, on the morning of the 14th of 

 March, a little before sun-rise, Constan- 

 tin, Jlozzaris, and Niectas the turho' 

 phage, led the advanced guard, and at 

 seven in the morning the standard of 

 the Cross floated upon the walls of the 

 Lepanto. 



Considerable bodies of troops have 

 begun to march in Macedonia, who arc 

 to move on to Thessaly by Betoglia, 

 imder the Pacha of Widdin. They are 

 stated at 30,000 men. 



According to the most recent news 

 from the Ionian Islands, the Egyptian 

 squadron, under the command of Ismae! 

 Gibialtar, has re-appeared in the Archi- 

 pelago, and has attacked some Greek 

 vessels. — Mauro Micheli, Bey of Maina, 

 and Ex-President of the Executive 

 Council, who had for some time been 

 in opposition to the views of some of 

 the best friends of independence, has at 

 length made a sacrifice of all his private 

 interests, and accepted the command- 

 in-eliicf of the army of Livadia. The 

 Greeks, on hearing of the preparations 

 at Constantinople for the invasion of 

 the Morea, immediately dispatched 

 European engineers to the north of the 

 Isthmus of Corinth, to form anentreach- 

 ed camp, for the purpose of otl'ering an 

 elTectual resistance. Engineers are 

 also occupied in raising fortifications o» 

 the side of Thebes, and on all the prin- 

 cipal mountHins. 



A vessel was lately taken by the 

 Turks, having on-board a large sum of 

 money, a quantity of baggage, &c. be- 

 longing to Lord Byron ; but, on an 

 application from Lord Strangford, claim- 

 ing it as English property, the whole 

 was given up. 



EGYPT. 



The Pacha has gone to Upper Egypt 

 to inspect his new raised corps, accom- 

 panied by Mr. Salt, the British Consul, 

 and Mens. Droxctti. He has raised 

 and disciplined about 25,000 men, and 

 is about forming a regiment of cavalry, 

 with European otiicers. Osman Effendi 

 is at the head of the college, and is 

 doing all in his power to promote the 

 arts and sciences. He has travelled 

 into Italy and France, and is well in- 

 formed. Several young men (Copts) 

 from Egypt are in Italy, pursuing their 

 studies at the expense of the Pacha. 

 So far from the Pacha having any idea 



of 



