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riiglit onlcr Hic polaoc under their pro- 

 k'L'tioii ; ami tiiiit lie now came to 

 receive his ncijcsty's eomriiands. The 

 troops relurncil to their quarters at the 

 ci)inin;iml of his miijcsty : the ccr])s di- 

 ploi)tati(/ue did not retire till night. On 

 the next day, May 1, tiiey reiiuned to 

 his majesly, and afterwards \isited 

 Count Pahnela, minister for foreiijn 

 yll'aiis, will) liad just heen set at lil)crly. 

 ■ Tliis Piinee i^iij^uel is understood to 

 lie iialf an ideot, and on tliis occasion 

 had hecoiue th« tool of his mother, an 

 inlui'iated hijrot, who seeks vengennce 

 aiiaiiist tlic I'orlusuese liherals. They 

 liad contrived to seduce some rej;imcnts, 

 and for some days made the king and 

 his niiiiisiers close prisoners. The 

 fore ign anihassadors, however, took jiart 

 with the kin^, wlio was conveyed on- 

 board the British Windsor-Castle, for 

 securily ; and liis rebel son has since 

 made his submission. All the old mo- 

 ri:irchics tolter to their foundalion, and 

 arc prop])cd merely by the influence of 

 Kussia and the greater lc;;itiniates. 



GllEF.CE. 



.Accounts from Odessa, of the 14tli of 

 April, state that the last lellers from 

 Constantinople had hrought llie intelli- 

 gence, that the Turkish governmenf, 

 being in great want of men to man the 

 ilecl, had caused all the vagabonds that 

 could be found in thecoiree-houses, and 

 oilier places <f public resort, to be seized 

 and put on-hoard the ships destined 

 against the Greeks. It is said there are 

 some Franks among them. Il may 

 <"asily be sui)|)osed, that no very heroic 

 c\])l(iils can be expected from a fleet 

 matmed in such a manner. It ap- 

 peared that the Capilan Pacha would 

 sail shortly. 



For some time past the Pacha of 

 Egypt has been forming lar^e maga- 

 zines of gunpowder, and of all descrip- 

 tions (jf military stores, at Grand Cairo, 

 avowedly for the purpose of equipping 

 an army to act against (he Christians in 

 the Morea. 'Jhc ad^ ices lately received 

 from Alexandria stale, that these maga- 

 zines had been destrojed by (ire, and 

 J hat 3000 Egyptian soldiers had jierished 

 in tlie explosion. The value of the 

 property destroyed was estimated at 

 no less than ten millions of Spanish 

 dollars. 



WEST INDIES. 



Letters from iJerinuda give a satis- 

 factory account of the eoinicts that 

 have lately been sent there from this 

 countiy. They wok daily at theUock- 



[JwitJ I, 



yard, and the break-water w'hicli is being 

 constructed there, at present. 



Tiie Eur! of Huntingdon, who dis- 

 solved tiie House of Assembly of Domi- 

 nica a short time ago, has refused to 

 issue any new writs for the re-election 

 of menii)eri', initil his m.ijesly's pleasure 

 be known regarding the issue between 



tllCfll. 



'I'hc proceedings of the Court-martial 

 at Demerara, on (he trial of Mr. Smitli, 

 the missionary, have been printed by 

 order of the House of Commons. 'I'he 

 proceedings oecujjy ninety two closely- 

 jiriritcd folio pages. IMr. Sinilh, it ap- 

 pears, had lesided bet « ecu six and 

 seven years in the colony, and there was 

 found in his f)osscssion a written book, 

 cnliljcil "A .T(tnrn:d conlainiiig various 

 occurrences at Le Resonvenir, Deme- 

 rara, coiiimenceil in March 1817, by 

 John Smith, missionary." The journal 

 appears to have been continued down to 

 August i8'33. Erom this long journal 

 of six years and a half, the judge-advo- 

 cate produced on the trial about seven- 

 teen entries, making about two pages, 

 to prove that tiie missionary interfered 

 in siich a way with the negroes, as to 

 produce discontent on their parts 

 against their masters and the govern- 

 ment. The meie fact of the smallness 

 of the niunber of passages, selected in a 

 jiiiirnal of such a l(n!;th of busy life, is a 

 strong |iresumption in favour of Mr. 

 Smith; and, in reality, the passages 

 which are proiliiced prove nothing 

 against him, — unless it be a crinic to 

 be zealous and humane, and to feel 

 sense degree ol' horror at the oppression 

 of one's fi;llow-beings. IJut these pas- 

 sages, though they prove nothing against 

 Mr. Sniilh, are valuable, as throwing 

 light on llie slavc-s\stem of the colo- 

 nies. We quote, as an instance, the 

 follov^ing [lassage: — 



Nov. 16, 1821. — Yc.ctorday evening we 

 had not more than fif'ry at the chapel ; in- 

 deed, I cannot expf et more till the cotTee 

 and coctoii are paihcred in. The people 

 have scarcely any tiiiie to eat ll>eir food ; 

 they have none to cook it, — eating, for 

 the most pan, raw yellow plantains. This 

 would be beaiahle for a time; but to work 

 at that rate, and to be perpetually flogged, 

 astonishes me that lliey submit to if. 



Sept. IS, 1817, page 17. — This evening, 



a negro, belonging to , came to me, 



■saying ihe manager was so cruel to him, 

 fli.il he could not bear it. According to 

 this man's account, some time hack (two 

 or tlirte yeai.s) he, with a few others, 

 made cuinplaiuts of the same thing to tiie 



Fiscal, 



