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time, that they have no solid assistance to 
expect from the. impracticable theories 
and bubbles of financial projectors. .The 
gtadnal return of things to their nateral 
course, and the stern requisitions of the 
people, whose labour is the great fund of 
the national treasury, for the repeal of all 
corrupt and unnecessary taxation, are tie 
only possible remedies, 
Smithficld:,— Beet, 2s. 8d. to 4s.— 
Mutton, 2s, 8d. to 4s.—Veal, 2s. 8d. to 
Political Affairs in November. 
[Dec. 1, 
5s. — Pork, 2s. 4d. to 5s. 8d. — Bacon: 
Bath, 4s. 6d. to 4s. 8d ; Irish, 4s. to 4s, 4d. 
—Raw fat, ——, perstone. 
Corn Exchange :—Old wheat, 42s, to 68s. 
—New, 42s. to 59s.—Barley, 25s. to 42s. 
—Oats, 20s. to 32s.—London price of 
‘best bread; 4lb. for 9d.—Hay, 60s. to 
115s.—Clover, do. 80s. to 150s.—Straw, 
31s. 64. to 45s, 
Coals in the pool, 43s. to 50s. 
Middlesex; Nov. 25, 
POLITICAL AFFAIRS IN NOVEMBER.” 
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GREECE. 
HE absence of authentic details has 
hitherto obliged us to abridge our no- 
tices relative 10 what has been passing 
in Greece; but an excellent pamphiet, 
on, the Provisional Constitution of 
Greece, published by Murray, enables 
us to supply former deficiencies. 
For many ages, there has been neither 
properly, nor safety, nor industry, 
throughout Greeee. The most fertile 
Jand was possessed hy the Turks. A 
devouring swarm of great and small 
imperial farmers, and rich proprietors, 
inflicted upon the Greeks; mere labour- 
ers, as it were, ticd down to the soil, all 
the rigours of an insatiable tyranny. 
Perpetual compulsory labours, inexora- 
bly enforced, exhausted whole families. 
No man was master of his own plough, 
or his team, or hismule. If he madea 
piece of poor soil produce, or succeeded 
in rearing a wretched flock, in the hope 
of thus supporting his family, he was 
compelled to share with his tyrants all 
the fruits of bis labours. If the taxes 
proved too heavy for his means, he was 
forced to borrow from these very farm- 
ers, at an usurious interest of from 
twenty to thirty per cent. If, on the 
day fixed for repayment, he was found 
in default, he gave up bis property, if he 
had any, or be pledged all, even to his 
wile and his children, or clse he was 
thrown into a dungeon to rot there. As 
an addition to the horrors of such a sys- 
tem, an appeal to justice was a measure 
completely illusory. The Turks were 
all firmly united against those whom 
they denominated infidel dogs. The 
inferior collector, the governor of the 
spot, and the pasha, had but one year 
to accumulate riches, '[he pashas, in 
their progresses, after having all the ex- 
penses of their suiie completely paid by 
the country, received in addition a con- 
siderable present of money, called “the 
remuneration for teeth,” on the pretence 
that their teeth bad been fatigued by 
masticating the provfions.of the whole 
province. 
A Turk might strike,. or even kill, a 
Greek, without his violence occasioning 
any Serious judicial proceeding, . In 
Candia, fathers have been stabbed. for 
hiding their children from the, brutak 
passions of rayishers. And elsewhere 
the most cruel persecution was the chas-~ 
lisement of a noble. resistance. |, In 
other places, a Greek, suspected of 
being‘in easy circumstances, was forced, 
by the threat of losing his, life, 10 lend 
to the first comer an appointed sum, 
which he was sure of never receiving 
again. When seated in his shop, he 
was obliged to rise with folded hands 
before any armed Turk who might pass, 
and respectfully salute. him. wiih, the 
title of “master.” If on horseback, he 
had to dismount on any similar, meet- 
ing. Even the form and, colour, of 
their clothes were the object, or rather 
the pretext, of prohibitions, of fines, and 
of severe penalties, The most innocent 
actions of life were shackled with end- 
less restraints. In short, they groaned 
under a thousand humiliations, equally 
absurd, tyrannical, and disgusting. 
At length the advances of their mari- 
time commerce, the habit of travelling, 
the adoption of new methods of educa- 
tion, and the extraordinary. events 
which have suececded each other for the 
last forty years, have given to Grecian 
intellect and sensibility an, electric — 
shock, calculated to make them more 
keenly taste all ihe blessings of civiliza- 
tion. The writings of Coray, while 
they enlightencd manhood, threw. open 
ihe paths of real science to youth; bute 
this salutary impulse; checked by a 
thousand impediments, was far)from 
embracing that great mass of the nation, 
which can alone determine events. 
It appears that Alexander Hypsi- 
lanti, eldest son of the prince of that 
name, having served in the Russian 
armies, was placed at the head of the 
enterprise 
