1822. ] 
His bold and unexpected proclama- 
tion greatly astonished his audience 
and excited their alarm for his safety ; 
accordingly when he left the pulpit, he 
convinced them of his security by 
relating what happened in Smith- 
field. Mr. Bradbury ever afterwards 
gloried in being the first man who pro- 
claimed king George the First. And, 
consequently, Fetter-lane, and the site 
of the meeting-house then occupied by 
the church of which the respected se- 
cretary to the London Missionary So- 
ciety, the Rev. George Burder, is now 
pastor, is an object of the greatest 
interest to the dissenters, who have 
ever since enjoyed the protection of the 
illustrious house of Hanover. 
So much in consequence of Mr. 
Reid’s account of Mr. Bradbury ; his 
next bolt is shot against a Mr. Gunn, 
not the late Rev. Alphonsus Gunn, he 
is particularly cautious to explain, but 
a Mr. Gunn, who ‘“‘afterwards preached 
in this meeting in Zoar-street. He 
was a man of warm passions, &c.”’ As 
nothing could be learned on inquiry, 
either of the person or conduct of this 
individual, ke must of necessity be left 
in the hands of the “ liberal’? Mr. 
Reid, whio is here recommended for the 
future, to authenticate his statements 
before he submits them to the public. 
Thus, Sir, I have discharged a duty 
which I considered owing to truth and 
to the public. B. HANBURY. 
_ 8, Temple-place, 
Blackfriars’ -road, Jan. 23, 1822. 
—aponee 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
ACCOUNT of the PLAGUE tn ARTA, in 
the Southern purt of BPIRUS, in the 
territory of ALY, PASHA of JANINA, 
in 1816. 
RTA, in its present state contains 
a palace belonging to Aly, a resi- 
dence for the Freuch consul, erected at 
the expence of the French government ; 
but the property was lately disputed 
by Aly, on the intermission of the cus- 
tomary gratifications. Arta is the see 
of a Greek Archbishop, and possesses 
twenty-six churches, seven synagogues 
and five mosques; to accommodate a 
population of about seven thousand 
Greek Christians, eight hundred Ma- 
hometans, and a thousand Jews, who 
removed thither from the south of 
Italy, when forced to leave their homes 
in the fifteenth century. Such was the 
state of Arta, when the plague broke 
out in May, 1816. The French consul, 
Account of the Plague in Arta. 
211 
established in the town, instead of 
withdrawing from danger, nobly com- 
plied with the request of the Turkish 
ipeaee to remain in the place; that 
y his presence and influence he might 
in some measure restrain the disorder 
of the inhabitants threatened with the 
pestilence, and suffering from famine. 
For the stock of flour in the town was 
exhausted, and the aqueducts which 
supplied the mills had been, (purposely 
as it is believed) interrupted. The 
real nature of the distemper which 
showed itself in different parts of the 
town was kept secret; and as the 
French consul continued in the place, 
the fears of the public were abated, and. 
the houses of the rich, which were 
supposed to contain stores of provisions, 
were saved from plunder. The water- 
courses were repaired, and the mills 
began to furnish flour: but the places: 
of worship were closed, to prevent the 
promiscuous intercourse of the healthy 
and those probably infected. The 
Greek clergy visited the sick, the go- 
vernor distributed gratuitously provi- 
sions, and the consul daily repaired to- 
those places in which the infected were 
confined. All this passed on for some 
time: but one morning the consul met 
in the street a young girl with her dress 
and hair in disorder, her body covered 
with pustules, from which the scales 
fell off like those of a fish in a state of 
decay. Longer to conceal the presence 
of the plague was now impossible: fif- 
teen or twenty persons were daily cut 
off by it, and it was judged necessary 
to announce the truth to the public. 
Then a suffragan bishep, in his sacer- 
dotal dress, his head covered with a 
long black. veil, passed through the 
streets, attended by a number of infe- 
rior clergy, carrying funeral torches, 
distributing holy water around him, 
and proclaiming that the destroying 
angel was now present in the city. The 
dismal silence of the ceremony was 
only interrupted by the single voice of 
the bishop chanting the ancient funeral 
hymn, which commences with these 
words: “At the banquet of life we 
appear but fora day.” The principal 
inhabitants now sought safety in the 
surrounding towns and villages, the 
consul repaired to his brother, esta- 
blished in Patras in the Morea, In the 
course of three months, above two thou- 
sand persons fell under the scourge; and 
in thespring of the ensuing year, (1817) 
two-thirds of the population of Arta 
were: 
