quiet, ‘except at Coristantinople, ‘where the 
flag of rebellion is yet unfurled: the Sultan, 
who ‘appears’ to be’a monarch of infinite 
vigour and strength of mind, daily strangles 
— Or catisesto'be strangled—a few refractory 
hundreds, ‘so that the’ city presents the ap- 
pearancé of 4 vast tnsanguined slaughter- 
house. A curious anecdote is told of this 
Turkish despot. During the late insurrection 
of the Janissaries, it happened that the sa- 
eréedness of the seraglio was invaded, and 
some of the ladies exposed to public gaze ; 
this by the laws of the country was con- 
sidered so heinous a degradation, that the 
females thus exposed were instantly sewed 
up in saeks and thrown headlong into the 
Propontis, after which the court went into 
general’ mourning for them, the Sultan 
himself setting the example of affliction. 
In’ Greece; affairs seem to have taken of 
Jate a rather more favourable turn than 
heretofore. - Ibrahim Pacha,  notwith- 
‘standing the gloomy anticipations excited 
in ‘the breasts of ‘all lovers of liberty by 
the’ siege and capture of Missolonghi, has 
suffered the season to pass by without any 
’ further attack on his part; which interval 
"has, we hear, been spent by the Greeks 
in active preparations for the ensuing 
campaign. May they be finally suecess- 
ful. ‘With respect to Russia, all is at pre- 
sent tranquil: the coronation of the Em- 
peror Nicholas (at which his elder brother 
Constantine attended) has taken place at 
the’ Kremlin in Moscow, and entirely 
“Political Occurrences. 
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banished’ all’ thoughts: of \theotecent state 
executions, On this occasion the Duke: of 
Devonshire’ distinguished ‘himself by the 
pomp and magnificence of his embassy, 
fully worthy of ‘the great» nation whom’ he 
represented. ‘Throughout France, and 
more - especially in the’ diplomatic circles 
of Paris, the visit of ‘Mr: Canning; to 
Paris has created great sensation. Some 
say that he has merely gone on a private 
visit to his friend Lord Granville, others 
that he is: engaged in. some important 
transactions with M. de Villele, relative 
to the Portuguese affairs’: while the ma- 
jority of the journals English as well as 
French, honestly confess that they. know 
nothing at allabout the matter. Portugal, 
indeed, requires ‘little or'no assistance’;\ for 
she has satisfactorily established a regency, 
under whose auspices the: kingdom -ex- 
hibits’ every proof of prosperity. «But 
with respect to Spain, the case is totally 
different: that unhappy country is. still 
tossed to and fro, like a foundering vessel, 
on the waves of anarchy, without either the 
hope or the prospect of escape. A few 
weeks since, a man was taken up at mid- 
day in the street of Saragosa, for smiling ; 
as if laughter were as seditious as it is 
novel in Spain. The sole remedy for this 
afflicted country must be in the decapitation 
of the fiend Ferdinand ;, tillthat event takes 
place, ‘‘a consummation devoutly to be 
wished for,’ nothing ean be done. 
BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF EMINENT PERSONS. 
G. A, LEE, ESQ. 
Tuis gentleman, distinguished by the 
superior qualities of his mind, by the force 
_ and’ excellence of his character, and by the 
high place which may be justly assigned to 
him amongst those who have contributed to 
‘the prosperity of our national manufactures, 
‘was the! brother of Mrs. Sophia and Mrs. 
‘Harriet Lee, two ladies well known to the 
public by ‘many literary productions of a 
high class’ of merit. 
‘Mr, Lee was'born in the year 176]. With 
a mind trained to, and highly susceptible 
‘of the délights and elegancies of literature, 
he became early imbued with a love of the 
sciences, and was afterwards remarkable 
for the extent and precision of his acquire- 
ments. Initiated, while a youth, in the 
art of cotton-spinning, whicli was ‘then 
beginning to feel the impulse of Sir Richard 
‘Arkwright’s grand ‘mventions, he gave to 
‘those inventions, in machinery. constructed 
- under his inspection, all‘the advantages of , 
correct and excellent workmanship. © Not- 
“withstanding his partiality'to the use of 
“water as a moving’ power, he became fully 
sensible of the superiority of the steam 
‘engine soon after it“had received the im- 
poveee a of Mr. Watt; and, assisted by 
-Shat gentleman and his partner Mr. Boul- 
ton, he caused to be, constructed, under.the 
firm of Philips’ and ;Lee,..at; Manchester, 
engines which exhibited,,the finest speci- 
mens of mechanism, conducted. upon a 
well arranged system, and combining the 
essential requisites of regularity and con- 
stancy of motion, with a studied and. wisely 
directed economy. 
Mr. Lee was the first to improve upon 
the fire-proof mills of his friend Mr.. Wm. 
Strutt, by. the employment of. cast-iron 
beams, and-he, was also amongst the first 
to/render the \security/still. more. complete 
‘by employing steam for warming the: mills 
in winter.’ . By his recommendation,. the 
workmen raised amongst themselves afund 
for mutual relief during, sickness;,and, as 
‘appeared in evidence before the,House of 
‘Commons, such -was the. benefit, derived 
from) the plan, that, amongst a thousand 
work-people whom the establishment;com- 
prized, not more than five pounds had been 
distributed throughout one Ippee oF ‘the form 
of ‘poor-rates. Pix 
When. the, experiments, of. his sical 
-Mr., Murdock on, the illuminating , ypower 
of. gas, from. coal, .,were made. known to 
Mr. Lee, he was instantly struck, with their 
importance; and, at the expense of several 
thousand pounds, he lighted es, the new 
principle the large building which-he -had 
